Part Two
The Asher's stared back at the Doctor in disbelief. How did he manage to get a big blue box into their cabin in the middle of the ocean? Was he a ghost? An angel? Or something different and incredibly deadly? "Please, sir, do not harm us! Our daughter was just taken. You can have whatever you want, just please, do not kill us!" Andrew Asher was completely terrified. This was something new to the Doctor, normally his enemies asked for mercy, not ordinary people he just met. Humans usually received the Time Lord warmly or with certain wonderment. The Doctor began to wonder if there was something different about these people. Did he just say their daughter was missing?
"Please, stay calm. I said I was here to help and I will help. I will find your daughter. First, let me look at the surroundings. Ah, yes the lovely Titanic!" he sniffed the walls. "Oh, the real one." His mood quickly changed. "What did is it?" The Asher stared at each other for a minute, because of the stress of the day they had totally forgotten what day it was.
"I believe it to be the 14th of April, sir. Nineteen hundred and twelve." Mr. Asher said.
"I should of never had come here. I'm so sorry." The Doctor had just about turned to stone; he turned slowly and made a few steps back to the TARDIS. Georgia Asher was in tears, the man who had just said he would find her daughter was leaving.
"Oh, please, sir. Please, please help me find her. Help me find my daughter. She had been gone all day and I don't know where she is. If she is dead I don't…" she began to cry hysterically. Mr. Asher rushed toward her and guided her to one of the armchairs. The Doctor grim face turned to sympathy. He tightened his bow tie and said, "From the bottom of both of my hearts, I will find your daughter." He then ran out of the room.
Cargo Hold, RMS Titanic
"SCANNER ANALAYSIS COMPLETE. THE DOCTOR IS ON BOARD THE HUMAN VESSEL." The yellow Dalek was informing his fellow Dalek's who were aboard a Dalek saucer.
"STAY ON HIGHEST ALERT PROTOCOL. THE DOCTOR IS DANGEROUS AND IS THE DALEK'S GREATEST ADVERSARY." The eyestalk of the yellow Dalek almost made a bowing gesture once he heard his orders from his superiors. The Dalek's knew they could find the Doctor aboard should a historically significant ship. And this time, they would do whatever means necessary to lure the Doctor into their trap and to kill him once and for all.
Captain's Quarters
A knock came on the captain's door. He was taking a little bit of a break before getting back on the decks. He got up and answered, "Yes, what is it?" It was an officer who looked a little bit nervous. "Reports icebergs, sir." He said and handed the captain a note, the captain nodded and took it. The officer cleared his throat, "You have a visitor." From behind the officer, the Doctor put his hand in the arm and waved. "Hello! Captain Edward John Smith, it is an extreme pleasure." The Doctor showed himself in, "Lovely ship really. I absolutely love it and it is almost as good as my first time here." The captain and the officer looked at the Doctor with inquisitive eyes, "I think he is drunk, Captain." The officer said, "He said he just had to see you. It was very important and that he was a big admirer of you, sir." The Doctor smiled at Captain Smith.
"You a sailing man, Mr.…?" The captain extended his hand.
"Doctor, just call me the Doctor. I sail, well sort of in a ship of my own really. A captain's life for me, ah?" The Doctor winked at Captain Smith but he showed no emotion.
"I'm here because of the missing girl." The Doctor said getting down to business.
"It's being taken care of, Doctor." The Captain quickly replied hoping to avoid an investigation.
"It's nine o'clock at night and there is a missing girl aboard the Titanic, the best and most famous ship in the world. And you tell me it's being taken care of. Her mother is crying, Captain Smith, crying because she needs her little girl. Tonight is a night to have a family, Captain. I'm just want to help put this family together. It wouldn't look right in the press that the Titanic lost a little girl on its maiden voyage. You wouldn't want its memory to be that."
"Are you threatening me, Doctor?" The Captain and the Doctor were eyeball to eyeball, almost touching noses.
"You don't want to see me make a threat, Captain." The Doctor backed off after saying this; he didn't want to be locked up especially in a few more hours. Captain Smith gulped and replied plainly, "Good luck to you. We found this…" he held out a gold locket in his hand. "It was on the third class deck. The picture inside is of Georgia Asher, her mother. The girl's name is Penelope." The Doctor took it and smiled at the Captain, "I still admire you, brave Captain Smith." The Doctor tipped his fez to him and took off, out of the cabin and down the deck. As he ran and felt the cold wind on his face he reached out his hand. He then remembered that they weren't there...Amy, Rose, Martha, Donna, Ace, Tegan, Peri, Romana, and Susuan. So many others as well that could have been there at that time holding the Doctor's hand.
The companions come and go but the Doctor remains; the wanderer and the last of the Time Lords. He so desperately wanted to find this girl and reunite her with her family. For a night like tonight, everyone needed someone to hang onto. Who would the Doctor hang onto tonight?
Cargo Hold
It must be so late and she was going to be in so much trouble with her parents when she got back to the cabin; if she was ever going to get back to her cabin. The yellow monster as she now called it had followed her and trapped her in a wooden crate. She couldn't get out even after kicking and screaming. The strange thing was that the yellow monster did not try to kill her; it only tried to get her out of the cargo hold. But when the door was locked from the inside, so the yellow monster had stunned her and put her in this wooden crate. No food and no water, she was a prisoner in this crate. Aboard a ship she thought she going to be safe in. Why had no one come to get her? Where were her parents? The officers? Was she ever going to get out of here?
"Penelope? Penelope?" A strange voice was calling to her. Was she dreaming or thinking about being rescued. She didn't know what to do but she decided to reply, "I'm in here! I'm in this crate! Help me!"
"Blimey why do these things have to be made of wood?" The man shouted and slapped the crate with his hands.
"I believe I saw a crowbar by the wall, sir." Penelope replied with desperation.
"Oh, yes here it is. I should keep a crowbar handy. Not having a sonic screwdriver with a wood setting is a bit annoying. I told the Time Lords when they made the firsts, make sure you have a wood setting. But they never ever did a thing I said."
"Enough blabbering and get me out of here!" The young girl shouted. Immediately, the crate opened and there was the smile of the Doctor. It was friendly and warm, like that of her Uncle Thomas. He reached his hand out toward her; she took it and crawled out of crate. Penelope was so excited and relieved to be out there. She hugged the Doctor tightly.
"Thank you ever so much. But come on we have to hurry. There is a big yellow monster here. It locked me up in the crate. I was only exploring, I didn't mean to startle it." The Doctor didn't know what to do. If there was in fact an alien aboard then he needed to find it immediately, but he was also in charge of finding this girl and bringing her back to her family.
"What did it look like?" The Doctor asked, while scanning the area with his sonic screwdriver.
"It was big and yellow. Its head was like a helmet. I would call it a fat alien, like a bumblebee." The Doctor thought back to his adventure with Donna when they met Agatha Christie, could it be one of those? The scan was complete on the sonic and the results came back negative, no alien aboard this ship.
"Let's go and get you back to your parents." The Doctor took Penelope by the hand and they ran together to go back to her parents' cabin. From out of the shadows, the Dalek decloaked itself. It became invisible and untraceable; it was new technology the Daleks had been working on ever since the last encounter they had with the Doctor during World War II. "SCAN ANALYSIS. THE DOCTOR HAS TAKEN THE HUMAN AND HAS BEEN SPOTTED." The yellow Dalek reported in.
"IT IS NOT YET TIME. THE HUMAN VESSEL WILL COLLIDE WITH OBSTRUCTION IN TWENTY MINUTES."
Asher's Cabin
"Oh my sweet child! You have returned to us." The Asher's kissed and held their daughter tightly. "Thank you, sir. Thank you so much." Andrew Asher tried to give the Doctor some money but the Doctor refused. "I can't remember the last time I used money." Andrew Asher was confused at what the Doctor said but he shrugged and laid on the bed with his wife and his daughter. The Doctor stood there in the center of the room and smiled at them all.
"It was an extreme pleasure helping you all." The Doctor tipped his fez. "But I have to go now. I can't stay." He didn't want to leave but he had to. This moment in time was fixed and he could not change this. The Doctor turned slowly and walked back into the TARDIS. He stood by the door and through the window he looked back at the Asher's. They were thrilled to be together again and they just laid on the bed holding each other and crying with joy. The Doctor smiled and had a little tear in his eye. He then thought of all of them. All the ones that would be perishing; would the Asher's be perishing? He couldn't stay to find out, he had been there long enough. He saved the girl, was certain there was no alien threat and now it was time to leave.
It was then that the whole night changed into a night to remember.
"DOCTOR!" A low and guttural robotic voice. It was on the big TARDIS screen.
"I know that voice!" He said with utter disdain. "Dalek!" It was the white Dalek along with the other brightly color Daleks. The yellow one was missing though.
"WITNESS, DOCTOR. WITNESS THE POWER OF THE DALEKS. THE STRENGTH AND MIND OF THE DALEKS!"
The whole TARDIS shook and the Doctor tried to hang onto something. He ended up falling down but he quickly got back up and headed back into the Asher's cabin. They too were frightened and looked at the Doctor to do something.
"I should of never had come here. Ever!" It was then that the Doctor received the biggest shock in his whole life.
"It's the monster!" Penelope screamed.
The Doctor turned slowly around, it was the yellow Dalek. It was standing in the doorway of the TARDIS.
"We've hit an iceberg! Everyone needs to get topside. We'll be getting the lifeboats ready!" An officer came in the room and yelled this order at them. The dalek said nothing but killed the man with its ray.
"You can't be here, it's impossible for you to be here. Why are you here?" The Doctor yelled at his arch nemesis.
"A SCERNARIO WAS DEVISIED. THE DOCTOR WOULD NOT INTERFERE WITH THE SINKING OF TITANIC. IT IS FORBIDDEN IN THE ANCIENT LAW OF THE TIME LORDS." The Dalek revealed the plan.
"So that's your plan then? To beat me? To finally be able to have a victory over me?"
The Dalek was silent for a moment, "CORRECT!" The Dalek reveled in this.
The Doctor screamed in hatred and kicked the Dalek into the TARDIS. The door shut quickly and then it disappeared. No sound or noise of flashing lights, it just vanished into thin air. The Asher's did not know what to do. Their hero was taken by the daughter's nightmare. They got out of bed and ran up to the deck. It was an extreme panic as word got around that the Titanic had hit an iceberg. They were all given life vests and they sat on one of the deck chairs together, complete shivering praying that they would survive.
"Help us, Doctor." Mrs. Asher whispered. "Help us."
