Both Rory and his granddaughter's eyes widened. Rory dropped the small metal orb that he was holding out to the Dalek.
"EX-TER-MIN-ATE!" The Dalek repeated. Now other Daleks woke up and started chanting along with the first. A Dalek shot a laser right between Rory and Jenny. Thank god the Daleks targeting system was still rebooting or they would've already been dead. Jenny grabbed Rory's hand and together, they took off running through Daleks and dodging lasers. Another Dalek shot at them and in one synchronized movement, they dive rolled out of the way.
"Run!," Oswin's voice came over the intercom, "The door at the end, run for it! They're waking up, but they're slow. The door at the end, just run!" Daleks fired at them as Jenny and Rory made for the closing door. Rory slid under it with a run, then Jenny did the same.
Rory sat hyperventilating at the opposite end of the door. Personally, Jenny and him were just happy to have a barrier between them and a horde of insane Daleks.
"So what do you call you," came Oswin's voice echoing through the speakers.
"Umm, I can't remember," said Rory still breathing heavily.
"Rory," answered Jenny rolling her eyes, "and I'm Jenny."
"Lovely name, Rory. First boy I ever fancied was called Rory. Actually she was called Nina. I was going through a phase. Just flirting to keep you cheerful."
Jenny, couldn't help but to laugh at that. Whoever this Oswin girl was, Jenny knew that they were going to be great friends. Maybe, her dad would let Oswin travel with them.
Jenny and Rory could still hear the Dalek's raspy hateful voice through the metal door.
"Anytime you want to start flirting again is fine by me," said Rory to Oswin.
Oswin directed Jenny and Rory through systems of hallways, till finally decided to break the silence.
"Hey there beaky boy," said Oswin in a flirtatious voice.
Jenny smirked, "He does have a big nose, doesn't he?"
Rory rolled his eyes, "If its a straight choice i prefer Nina."
"Loving this," exclaimed Oswin mildly, "The Nose and the Chin. You two could fence."
Jenny laughed again, "You know granddad, I'm really getting to like her."
"There's a door behind you," said Oswin as a door slid open, "In there, quickly. Ok your safe now. Pop your shirts off quick as you can."
"Why?," asked Rory who was already taking off his jacket. Jenny knew it was just another joke.
"Does there have to be a reason?"
Rory rolled his eyes. They were safe from the looks of it. In the middle of the room sat a transmat.
"Oswin, there's a transmat in here," Jenny said, "why haven't you came in here and teleported yourself out?"
"Too many Daleks. And even if did get there its a short range transmat, where would I go?"
A large quake shook the ground.
"Did you feel that Oswin," asked Jenny.
"Ya, I felt it."
"What was that," asked Rory, "that was close."
"I don't know."
Jenny ran out of the room down a corridor to see the bottom halves of Daleks all around. Their tops had all been disintegrated. Out of the smoke and ashes, emerged the Doctor carrying an unconscious Amy.
"Who killed all the Dalek's," asked Rory, who had just enter entered the room.
"Guess," said Jenny pointing to her father.
Jenny's father and grandfather sat over her grandmother comforting her as he got up. Jenny herself was making sure the transmat was all in good condition for their escape.
"It's me," said Rory, "do you remember me?"
Amy's hand swept through the air with speed and connected with Rory's face with a loud clap.
"She remembers me," said Rory who was still partially stunned from the blow.
"Same old Amy," said the Doctor relieved.
"Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek?," asked Oswin concerned, "Subtract love, add anger. Doesn't she seem a bit too angry to you?"
"Well," said Amy getting off the floor, "somebody has never been to Scotland."
"What about you, Oswin," asked the Doctor at an 2000 word per minute pace, "how come your okay? Why hasn't the nano-cloud converted you?"
"I mentioned the genius thing, yeah? Shielded in here."
"Clever of you," said the Doctor.
"This place," Jenny input now looking up from her work on the transmat, "the Daleks said that it was fully-automated. Look at it though, it's a wreck."
"Well, I've had nearly a year to mess with them and, well not a lot else to do."
"A junior entertainment manager, hiding out in a wrecked ship, Hacking the security systems of the most advanced warrior race the universe has ever seen. But you know what really gets me about you Oswin?" The Doctor was now face to with the security camera, "The soufflés, where do you get the milk? Seriously is no one else wondering?"
"No," said Rory still checking on his ex-wife, "no, frankly, no. Twice."
Jenny got what the Doctor was getting at, but they had much bigger problems right now.
"So Doctor," said Oswin mildly, "I've been looking you up. You're all over the database. Why do the Daleks call you the "Predator"?"
"I'm not a predator, just a man with a plan?"
"You've got a plan?"
"We're all ears," said Rory skeptically.
It was then that Jenny and Amy had some sort of psychic episode and said the same thing at the same time, "There's a nose joke going, if someone wants to pick that one off." Jenny and her granddaughter laughed a little bit but were forced to stop due to the magnitude of the situation.
The Doctor started to recite his plan, "In no particular order: Neutralize all the Daleks in this asylum, rescue Oswin, escape from this planet, and fix Amy and Rory's marriage."
"Ok, I'm counting three lost causes, anyone else?"
Jenny was about to interfere, but then thought better of it. Amy and Rory obviously were great for each other, you could see it in their eyes that they cared for each other. Why couldn't they see it? Then Jenny had another psychic moment, but this time with her dad.
"Oswin, there's a Dalek ship in orbit," the two said frantically and at the exact same time.
"Yes, got it on the sensors. And seriously, Jenny, you really need to stop doing that. It's sort of creepy."
Jenny didn't even take note of Oswin's statement, but kept on speaking directly along with her father in perfect sync, "the asylum has a force field. The Daleks upstairs are waiting for us to turn it off. Soon as we do, they will burn this whole world and us with it. So Oswin, my question is this: How fast can you drop the force field?"
"Pretty fast. But why would I?"
"Because this, which my daughter has been so kindly working on for me..."
"Ummm...," Rory interrupted, "I didn't hear you ask her to work on the teleport."
"Neither did I," this time Amy joining in.
"Nor I," this time Oswin.
The Doctor grew a huge childish smile and hit his Sonic screwdriver on the side of his head, "I did it in my noodle!"
"Low psychic link," Oswin guessed, "but I didn't think humans could gain that kind of link."
"Humans can't," Informed Jenny.
"Oh right you guys are Time-Lords. I forgot."
Jenny put her face close up to the Dalek security camera, "how did you know..."
"All here in the database. But seriously why would I disable the force field?"
"Because as I was explaining before I was so RUDELY INTERRUPTED," he shouted over his shoulder to Amy and Rory, "This is a teleport, right?"
"Ya internal use only."
The Doctor snapped his fingers, turned to his daughter and hugged her tight "Oh we are brilliant! Jenny has been boosting the power for me! Now once the force field is down, we can use this to beam us right off this planet!"
"But when you said that when the force field is down the Daleks will blow us up."
"We'll have to be quick, yes," the Doctor responded.
"Fine we'll be quick," Amy complained, "but where do we beam to?"
This time Jenny cut in, "They only place within range, the Dalek ship."
"So this is the kind of escape where we survive about four seconds longer?"
"All you guys do is complain. You are starting to remind me of actual grandparents."
"Watch your tone, missy," Amy scorned playfully.
"Oswin, how fast can you drop the forcefield?," the Doctor asked.
"I can do it from here," Oswin responded, "as soon as you come and get me."
"Why don't you just drop the forcefield and come to us?" Asked Jenny.
"You don't trust us," the Doctor added.
"There's enough power in that teleport for one go why would you wait for me?"
"Why wouldn't we?"
"No idea never met you. Sending you a map so you can come get me."
"This place is crawling with Daleks," Rory reminded.
"Yeah, kinda why I'm anxious to leave. You should come up and see me sometime."
Oswin leaned back in her chair. She was going to leave this place finally. No more Daleks, no more soufflés, just the Doctor and Jenny, in the TARDIS, and of course the Ponds.
The Doctor crept around the corner, holding Jenny's hand tight. The angry roar of Daleks echoed off the rusted metal walls.
Jenny concentrated hard, if she concentrated enough she could send a psychic message to her father, "Why didn't you just tell the Ponds that we don't need our bracelet things?"
"Because that wouldn't have fixed their marriage."
They crept up the small eery corridors and turned the corner to see a another hallway followed by two more. Finally, after following the maze of creepy dark tunnels, they contacted Oswin.
"Oswin, I think we are close," the Doctor said cautious not to be heard by any Daleks.
"You are!" Came a mildly cheery voice over the intercom, "less than twenty feet away. Which is the good news."
"What about the bad," Jenny asked hoping it wasn't that bad of news.
"You're about to pass through intensive care."
A metal cage like door slowly lid open to reveal a destroyed room filled by blue-green lighting. Slowly, gripping her fathers hand for dear life, Jenny crept into the room. Filling the room were Daleks, all trapped in cages and chained up. Their disabled eyestalks bathed in a blue green glow.
"What are they all doing here?," whispered Jenny trying not to wake the monsters.
"Survivors of particular wars: Spiridon, Kanval, Aridius, Vulcan, Exxilon. Ring any bells."
"All of them," the Doctor answered solemnly. He had a deep look in his eye, like years of sadness and sorrow and hurt were all flooding back.
"Yeah, how?" Oswin asked.
"These are the Daleks that survived me."
"DOC-TOR!," one Dalek rang out breaking the silence. Soon every Dalek in intensive care was chanting the same thing, "DOCTOR!"
"Thats weird," said Oswin startled, "those ones don't usually wake up for anything."
"Door!," exclaimed the Doctor as Jenny and him ran over to it, "but it won't open." The Doctor started scanning over it with the sonic screwdriver.
"Hang on. Uh-" Oswin said.
Daleks started breaking out of their chains and began to move. Towards the Doctor and Jenny.
"Stand back," Jenny yelled stepping in front of her father and pulling out a small... Banana. "Why in gods name do I have a banana in my pocket? where did my gun go?"
"Sorry," the Doctor said handing Jenny her pistol and taking back the banana, "I swapped them out earlier! I don't like guns!" As the Daleks quickly grew closer, Jenny unloaded an entire clip into them. No effect. "Oswin hurry up!,"
"I can't open it!"
"Oswin get this door open!," the Doctor yelled in a panic.
Jenny grabbed on to her fathers hand tighter. They had just found each other, there was no way in hell she was loosing him again. Then something surprising happened, they stopped. The Daleks, only seconds away from exterminating the Doctor and Jenny just froze. Then they all went back to their resting place and powered down.
"Oh, that is cool," said Clara over the intercom, "tell me I'm cool chin boy."
"What?" the Doctor asked confused, "what did you do?"
"Well the Daleks, they have a sort of hive mind. Well, they don't but they have a sort of telepathic web."
"The pathweb yes," confirmed Jenny.
"I hacked into it and did a master delete on any information connected to the Doctor."
"But you made them forget me?"
"Good, huh? And here comes the door."
"I tried hacking into the pathweb even I couldn't do it."
"Neither could I and I tried a lot," added Jenny.
"Well come meet the girl who can."
The Doctor and Jenny turned to see the impossible. No, it couldn't be. "Jenny go back to the transmat and stay with Amy and Rory," her father said telepathically.
"But-"
"Jenny, please. I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do for her now."
Jenny sat there frozen to the spot staring at the Dalek in front of them. Oswin was a Dalek. Somehow, Oswin, the girl with the sweet, soft, caring voice, the girl who saved them, was a Dalek. How was it possible?
"Jenny, please!" Her dad said almost mentally sobbing.
"Ok, dad."
Jenny spun on her heals and returned to the transmat beam.
A huge explosion rung off in the distance as Jenny ran through the door to be greater by her grandparents.
"Where is my son-in-law?," asked Amy.
"He sent me ahead."
"And what about Oswin?," questioned Rory.
Jenny just shook her head somberly. Amy and Rory both understood, they had lost plenty of people before. Amy took up Jenny in her arms and hugged her tight, "I'm so sorry."
"Ya," Jenny said, her legs barely supporting her body weight, "me too."
"How long do we wait for him?," asked Rory who was holding the transmat controller.
"The rest of our lives," responded Amy. She then let go of Jenny, and kissed Rory.
The Doctor ran into the room and was immediately followed by the shout of an explosion.
"Ok we're good lets go," he said hoping on the transmat, "for the love of Raxacoricofallapatorius stop kissing and teleport us out of here!"
Finally, Jenny got tired of waiting and took and pressed the button herself.
"Where are we?," Jenny asked, still disoriented from the teleport.
"The TARDIS it stands for..."
"Time and Relative Dimension in Space. Yeah I know that bit. But Jack described the interior as less," Jenny paused to think of the correct word.
"Fun, exotic, awesome?"
"Colorful."
"Well it was that oh and one sec," the Doctor ran over to the console and pressed in a few buttons, then spoke into the microphone. "You know, you guys really should have seen this coming. The thing about me and teleports is I have really good aim - pinpoint accurate in fact. Or to put it another way," the Doctor ran out of the console room and stuck his head out the door, "suckers."
Jenny could hear a few muffled words from a Dalek an then her dad spoke again, "It's me! You know me, the Doctor, the Oncoming Storm. The Predator." A few more muffled words from the Daleks and then, "DOCTOR WHO?! DOCTOR WHO?! DOCTOR WHO?!" It was chanted by every Dalek in the room. Hundreds, if not thousands all asking the same question, doctor who?
"Oh Oswin. You did it to them all. You beauty," she heard her dad say. He leaned into the TARDIS and then leaned out again, "Fellas, your never going to stop asking." With that he popped back into the control room and dropped Amy and Rory back at there apartment. After they said they're farewells to the Ponds, the Doctor parked the TARDIS in the time vortex.
"So Jenny where do you wanna go first," the Doctor, "Ancient Rome, the planet Midnight? Actually no not planet Midnight, its rubbish. But anywhere else you want to go and I'll take you there?"
"Anywhere?"
"Almost anywhere."
"How about Earth, 2061 I need to tell captain Jack where I am going to be."
"Fair enough. But why do you have to choose a boring place to go first?," the Doctor moaned. Jenny couldn't help but laugh at all the way he resembled a three year old. The Doctor put in the coordinates for Earth 2061, then pulled the final lever. With that Jenny and the Doctor were off on there first adventure.
