And a few days of real life is done! Hi again, I've had a fun last few days and spent two hours, approximately, in a Minions outfit me and some friends had made from plastic 'pipes', chicken wire and duct tape, so my shoulders currently hurt but here's the new chapter.
Daleks, Could Have Done Without Them
"Wow" Porridge said as they entered the TARDIS and he realised how big the box really was.
"Yes, welcome to the TARDIS, Time And Relative Dimension In Space, best ship in the universe" the Doctor laughed as he moved to the console.
"It's bigger on the inside" Porridge said before turning to the Doctor. "You are not as human as you look, are you?"
"He is not human at all" Vastra said calmly as she closed the door. "I'm closer related to you apes than he is"
"A Silurian and a human, why the old outfits?" Porridge asked curiously as the Doctor started to work on the TARDIS.
"We're from Victorian times, this is the way we dress" Jenny said offering her hand to the man. "I'm Jenny Flint and this is Madame Vastra"
"Call me Porridge" the man said shaking her hand. "It's going to be refreshing to be with people who don't call me emperor"
"Of what more exactly?" Vastra asked approaching her wife and their new companion.
"Humanity" Porridge shrugged. "Not that it would matter to you with where you are from"
"No it certainly won't" Vastra agreed before turning to Jenny. "Are you alright my dear?"
"I'm fine, Madame, I can take care of myself" Jenny said with a smile.
"That's a comment that will never stop anyone who loves you from worrying" the Doctor commented turning his head to look at them just as the ship shook to life.
"Where are we going?" Porridge asked looking at the Doctor, now he was wondering what this man was and not just a better explanation of who.
"Not sure. The TARDIS picked up a signal from one of my companions so I set course for that signal" the Doctor said and then the wheezing started. "We're landing, get ready this could be tricky"
"Where are we?" Jenny asked looking slightly wary at the door, she was not too up for going outside without a clue of what was there.
"Circle, circle and another circle, and some other geometrical forms in the circles" Porridge answered looking at the monitor with a frown. "What language is this?"
"Gallifreyan" the Doctor answered moving over to him to read what it actually said and he paled. "Be careful everyone, this is the Dalek Asylum"
"The Daleks have an Asylum? What do they put in there?" Porridge asked and the Doctor looked darkly on the screen.
"Crazy Daleks" he answered turning to the door and marching towards it.
Porridge paled, from what he knew Daleks were bad enough when they weren't crazy. Vastra and Jenny glanced at each other and the Silurian placed her arm around her wife as they walked for the door. The two women had never met Daleks but both the Doctor and Strax had told them about the monsters so they decided that it was best to keep close together. Porridge swallowed and followed them as the Doctor opened the door and peeked out, the emperor of humanity couldn't be less brave than two women from the 19th century. Granted Porridge had no idea that these women were the inspiration of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, but then, that knowledge would probably have motivated him more.
"We have to hurry, the shorter we're here the better" the Doctor said and even without knowing just how bad it was his friends nodded, this was the kind of place you didn't want to be at for too long. "Porridge, what colour do you have?"
The short man held up his hand to reveal the device on his wrist glowing in a dark silvery colour that almost looked a little black. The Doctor nodded in satisfaction, that was another colour to check of the list.
"This place smell of death" Vastra frowned and the Doctor nodded in agreement after a moment.
"Yes, and I have a sinking feeling that the dead in this place moves" he said pulling them back as a humanoid figure with a Dalek eyestalk coming out from its head came towards them. "Yup the dead move"
"Doctor! The gem-board!" Jenny called staying close to Vastra so they could protect each other if needed.
"Right, one gem-board coming up" the Doctor said activating it and as such stopping the being from approaching. "It's black, it's all yours Vastra"
"It will be my pleasure" the Silurian said and the Dalek puppet soon crumbled to the floor only to be replaced by two more.
"How many of these things are there?" Porridge asked and the Doctor shrugged.
"I never counted last I was here, too busy running from them and with what's going on there could be more of them now than it actually was before reality started to collapse" he answered. "Oh no" he added as a Dalek rolled around the corner when the puppets fell.
"Red, your turn Doctor" Vastra said having understood how this worked and what was strong against what.
"As if I haven't killed enough Daleks in my days" the Doctor said but he moved the gems all the same.
They were not pleased when the next wave of enemies showed up and revealed two more Daleks. These were luckily not too hard to deal with and Porridge had to wonder what he had expected from a place called the Dalek Asylum, of course there was Daleks there.
"Oh great, more Daleks" the Doctor said as they moved through the corridors and ran into two more Daleks as the Doctor led his friends towards the intensive care part of the complex.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Porridge asked and the Doctor was quick to agree and bring up the gem-board.
"Let's get this done with, whoever it is that is here is close" he said and Vastra's tongue darted out and she tasted the air.
"Doctor, I know that scent from somewhere" she said with a frown.
"Something else than the Daleks?" the Doctor asked firing off an attack at the Daleks which disappeared just to give room for another Dalek and two Dalek puppets in their anoraks.
"Yes, but I can't pinpoint where I know it from" the Silurian frowned as one of the puppets fell while the other somehow terrified Porridge into a stunned mode.
"Oh that is not good" the Doctor said as he noticed the stun, new things for the enemies were going to cause them trouble.
"Keep going, Doctor" Jenny said. "If we get rid of them maybe it lets up"
Feeling it worth a try the Doctor fired away a few shots causing them to realise that the stun was even more temporary than that as they fought their way through the remaining Dalek and puppet and after that another group containing two Daleks and two of their puppets. Then a white Dalek rolled around the corner.
"What is that doing here? There was no new version of the Daleks here last time I was here and then this place was blown up" the Doctor said and his friends looked to him alarmed.
"EXTERMINATE!" the Supreme Dalek called and the Doctor made a quick move to fire at it.
The battle went on for a few rounds which included the Dalek changing their gems to green. This confused the Doctor slightly but he hoped it meant that they would find someone with the ability to make use of those gems soon. As the Dalek died the Doctor looked at the door behind it and swallowed.
"Intensive care" he said. "In there are the Daleks that have survived me"
Porridge looked at him not fully understanding what that meant as they walked towards the door. He turned to the women to ask but stopped as he noticed something else, they were holding hands. He suddenly realised that these women might be more than friends, in Victorian times! What a scandal. Keeping himself from laughing he decided just to wait and see what happened and maybe he could find out just who the Doctor was from observation.
"Watch out!" the Doctor said and they all dived to the side as a red Dalek fired at them just after they had all entered the room.
"Here we go" the Doctor said throwing up the gem-board and making a quick move of his own blue gems and in the same go combining some of Porridge's black ones.
"Let's get through this, find whoever is here and get back to the TARDIS" Jenny said getting to her feet.
"Sounds good to me, I had enough of Daleks in horror stories as a child" Porridge said and with another attack the Dalek was gone.
They all groaned as another Dalek and one of the puppets arrived and started the next part of the fight. The Doctor was getting worried, not about the Daleks, they could beat those. No he was worried about the nano-cloud. He just hoped that they could get out of the Asylum before it turned any of his friends. He was more worried about Porridge than Vastra and Jenny due to the love between the women while Porridge didn't have anything like that. As more Daleks and puppets showed up he started to get annoyed and more and more worried about whoever it was that were somewhere in the area.
"We need to get this done, fast, before we're all converted to Daleks" the Doctor said and his friends turned at him and stared.
"Are you joking?" Porridge said suddenly alarmed.
"Sadly enough not" the Doctor said ripping apart the Dalek puppets with another attack followed by the same thing with the Dalek.
"We need to get out of here" Jenny said grabbing Vastra's hand.
"As soon as we can" the Doctor agreed. "But you two are the ones in least danger, they start with subtracting love and that is harder to do with someone who has the love of their life beside them" Vastra pulled Jenny towards her by putting her arm around her wife's shoulders as the Doctor said this.
"Well here comes the next wave" Porridge said and they got right at it now very keen on getting out of there.
It went quite well at first until the Supreme Dalek reviled that it could rebuild its allies which made things much trickier. However as the Daleks finally fell the Doctor rushed forward and started to search for whoever was there.
"Hallo?! Anyone here?" he called.
"Doctor?" a muffled, very familiar, voice said from behind the same door as he had once found Oswin.
"Rory?" he asked knocking on the door.
"Yes it's me, I can't get the door open" Rory called back.
"Tell him to step back, I'll blow the door of its hangings" Porridge said pulling some kind of explosive from his pocket.
"Any idea if you got anyone called Dorothy McShane in your family?" the Doctor asked and Porridge looked at him completely confused. "Never mind. Rory! Get back from the door"
"What are you going to do?" Rory asked.
"Just get back, we don't have time, you remember the nano-cloud?" the Doctor said and Rory grew completely silent.
"Get me out of here" he called after a moment and Porridge attached the bomb to the door and they all moved back.
With a bang the door flew off the hangings and Rory Williams came coughing out of the resulting smoke. The Doctor's face lit up and both Vastra and Jenny smiled as they recognised the man.
"Can we get out of here?" Rory asked as he got out properly.
"Yeah" the Doctor said looking around suddenly frowning. "Where is Amy?"
"I don't know" Rory answered. "We were at home, in 1938, and then suddenly something changed in the air, Amy felt it more than I did, and then suddenly I was here, and no Amy. I hid in there to avoid the Daleks but it locked me in"
"Doctor, we need to leave, you can scan for signs of anyone else from the TARDIS" Vastra said.
"Yes, yes we should –" the Doctor said and Jenny who had been keeping lookout at a corner finished the sentence for him.
"Run" she said rushing back to them. "More of them are coming"
"Let's get out of here" Rory agreed but the Doctor glanced back towards the door where Rory had been. "Doctor, there is no one there. Oswin isn't here"
"How did you…?" the Doctor asked.
"It was her or Amy and I already told you Amy wasn't here so I assumed it was Oswin you wondered about" Rory shrugged.
"Come along then, gang" the Doctor said after getting his confirmation that Clara's echo wasn't there and they took off running through the corridors ducking from a few of the Dalek's lasers.
When Vastra pushed the doors closed after her wife entering last they all breathed out in relief. Rory collapsed against the railing breathing hard, Porridge collapsed on the floor beside him, Vastra leaned against the door prepared to open it again if needed to, Jenny leaned forward with her hands on her knees while the Doctor moved to the console and scanned the Asylum for signs of any other life forms.
"There is no one else here, I'm taking off" he called and they all grabbed onto something while he did. "Glad to be away from there"
"Couldn't agree more" Rory said with a sigh of relief.
Porridge nodded as Vastra stepped away from the door, pulled Jenny to her and kissed her.
"Nice to get that theory confirmed" the short man said getting to his feet as he turned away to give the women some privacy.
"What? Oh" Rory, who had been standing with his back to the women, said before turning to the Doctor. "So what's happening?"
"Time and space is collapsing around us because the Sontarans are messing with history. We're trying to stop it and to gather my allies, many of who is probably as out of their time as you" the Doctor said turning to his friend. "We are going to try and stop them" Rory nodded, he just wanted to get Amy back, whatever that was here or in the thirties. "You remember Vastra and Jenny?" the Doctor added.
"Yeah, Demon's Run" Rory nodded glancing at the women.
"Exactly, and this is Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff the 41st, and this is Rory Pond" the Doctor said gesturing to Porridge.
"Call me Porridge" the emperor said offering his hand.
"Um sure, and its Williams, not Pond. Pond is my wife's maiden name" Rory said shaking the man's hand.
"Then why does he call you that?" Porridge asked with a frown.
"Don't know, he just always has" Rory said with a shrug. "He even called my father Pond"
Suddenly the entire ship shook shaking the kissing women apart and the two men almost off their feet as the Doctor spun to the monitor and tried to get the ship under control.
"Doctor! What's happening?" Rory called.
"Time is collapsing and the TARDIS seems to have locked onto something important. Hold on!" the Doctor called holding on to the console as the ship kept shaking through the time vortex.
And we got Rory! I like Rory. Next up is a paradox and that means… well you'll have to either play the game or wait and see. I got a test on Friday though so school comes first, thanks to reviewers and whoever else that's reading this and I'll see you next time I update this.