Watch the Cracks

by Kurisetina

The cracks are every where in The Doctor's universe and if you get sucked up by it you get erased from all of time and space. But the cracks aren't only in his universe and if you don't look out you could be erased as well. T to be safe. Rating may go up.

4. Victory of the Daleks

Disclamer: I do not own Doctor Who.

Thank you Even angles cry, and Stark kid potter for your reviews!

I had a question for my readers about Jane. I was wondering if you thought she might be a bit Mary-Sueish 'cause I really don't want that and I was wondering if anyone thinks I should pair Jane off with anyone and if so who? Either put it in your review or pm me please! And I'm really sorry about the wait I've been nusy with school and stuff like that so I haven't had much time to write but I'll try to get on the ball more! Thanks!

The TARDIS stilled. Jane gripped her hands together. She was resisting the urge to just jump around. The Doctor peeked at her and grinned to himself. She looked so excited to be here that the Doctor figured that she must have been a big history buff.

The Doctor walked over to the doors. He felt Jane come up behind him, squealing quietly. His grin widened as he stepped out, only to see soldiers pointing guns at him. The soldiers parted for Churchill. "Amy, Jane…" He held out his arm for introduction. "Winston Churchill."

"Doctor?" Winston asked. "Is that you?" Jane stepped out and felt a smlie spread across her face. She stared at Winston Churchill, the Winston Churchill, with wide, excited eyes. Amy stepped out next to her and stared at Winston in amazement.

"Oh, Winston, my old friend!" The Doctor went to shake Winston's hand but he motioned with his hand that he wanted something. "Ah, every time."

"What does he want?" Amy asked.

"TARDIS key, of course." The Doctor answered.

"Think of what I could achieve with your remarkable machine, Doctor." Winston said. "The lives that could be saved."

"Ah, doesn't work like that." The Doctor turned and closed his TARDIS.

"Must I take it by force?" Winston asked seriously.

"Would you really?" Jane asked with a slight smile. She felt a bit uneasy with him saying that and steped a little closeer to the Doctor just to be safe.

Winston broke all seriousness with a smile. "At ease." The soldiers lowered their rifles.

"You rang?" The Doctor asked.

The Doctor, Jane, Amy and Winston strode through the corridor as an air raid happened above. The Doctor had Winston's cane. "So you've changed your face, again."

"Changed faces?" Jane asked curiously.

"Yeah, well, had a bit of work done." The Doctor answered ignoring Jane. Jane smirked, shaking her head and looked at the Doctor.

"Got it, got it, got it!" Amy suddenly said. "Cabinet War Rooms, right?"

"Yup." The Doctor answered. "Top secret heart of the War Office, right under London."

"You're late, by the way." Winston commented.

A woman came up to him with a pen and a clipboard. "Requisitions, sir."

"Excellent."

"Late?" The Doctor asked.

"I rang you a month ago." Jane laughed. Winston signed the papers.

"That's very you, Doctor." He doesn't seem to make it on time for a lot of things. The Doctor gave her a look.

"Really? Sorry. Sorry, it's a Type 40 TARDIS." The Doctor explained. "I'm just running her in."

Winston handed the clipboard back to the woman. "Something the matter, Breen?" He asked. "You look a little down in the dumps." Jane looked at the woman seeing that she look sad and nodded to herself wondering what was wrong with her.

Breen hung the clipboard. "No, sir. Fine, sir." She answered.

"Action this day, Breen!" Winston said. "Action this day."

"Yes, sir." She nodded and forced a smile. Jane caught a glance Breen sent them before leaving.

"Excuse me, sir," another officer came up to Winston. "Got another formation coming in, Prime Minister. Stukas, by the look of them."

"We shall go up top then, Group Captain!" Winston answered. "We'll give 'em what for! Coming, Doctor?"

"Why?" The Doctor was never one for fighting.

Winston snatched his cane back. "I have something to show you." He walked off. The Doctor turned to Jane and Amy and mouthed 'ooh'. The girls giggled.

Winston started the lift and puffed his cigar in the direction of the Time Lord. He waved the smoke away. Amy and Jane were smart to stay in the back away from the smoke. "We stand at a crossroads, Doctor." Winston explained. "Quite alone, with our backs to the wall. Invasion is expected daily. So, I will grasp with both hands anything that will give us advantage over the Nazi menace."

"Such as?" The Doctor questioned. The lift stopped and Winston opened the gate.

"Follow me."

Amidst the sandbags on the roof, a man in a white coat was watching the sky with binoculars. The Doctor, Jane, and Amy followed Winston. "Wow!" Amy gasped.

Jane looked across at the sight before her. She looked around; this was what Britain looked like in World War II. "Doctor," Winston brought her attention back to him. "This is Professor Edwin Bracewell, head of our Ironsides Project."

The Doctor held up a hand with a 'V for Victory'. "How d'you do?" He waved at them then looked through his binoculars again. Jane looked at the sky and just barely saw a formation of German planes approaching. The Doctor, Jane, and Amy walked toward the edge and look out over London and its barrage balloons as the bombs dropped.

"Oh, Doctor… Doctor, it's…" Amy was at a loss for words.

"History." The Doctor finished.

"Amazing." Jane said. "Reading history in a book is one thing, but seeing it, hearing it." Jane shook her head, smiling. "This must never gets old for you." The Doctor smiled.

"Never." He confirmed.

"Ready, Bracewell?" Winston asked.

"Aye-aye sir!" Bracewell gave a thumbs up. "On my order! Fire!" From within the sandbag area on the roof, laser beams are fired at the German planes and they were destroyed. Jane's face dropped drastically. She stumbled back, recognizing those beams. The Doctor grabbed her shoulders, apparently having similar thoughts. Jane's eyes were as wide as saucers and she put her hands up to her mouth, and swallowed back any noise.

"What was that?" Amy asked. She looked at Jane. "Jane, what's wrong?" Jane was shaking. If that was what she thought it was then was going to come face to face with one of the very few things that terrify her and she didn't want to do that. "Jane?"

"That wasn't human." The Doctor said. "That was never human technology. That sounded like… Show me! Show me what that was!" He climbed the ladder to stand next to Bracewell.

"Advance." Bracewell commanded.

"Our new secret weapon!" Winston said proudly. A Dalek trundled out. It was painted in Army khaki, a utility belt around it, a small Union Flag under the eyestalk and the lights on the top of the dome are covered. The Doctor watched, horrified. Jane covered her hands tightly and backed up to her sister quickly grasping her hand for comfort. She remembered every instance the Daleks invasion of Earth she had nearly been one of the subjects to the 'Reality bome' that they had built and it terrified her to see them again. "What do you think? Quite something, eh?"

"What are you doing here?" The Doctor demanded the Daleks.

"I am your soldier." The Dalek answered.

"What?" Jane whispered. The Doctor echoed it.

"I am your soldier." The Dalek repeated.

"Stop this!" The Doctor snapped. "Stop now! You know who I am, you always know."

"Your identity is unknown." The Dalek answered.

"Perhaps I can clarify things here," Bracewell stepped up. "This is one of my Ironsides."

Jane shook her head and ran her hands through her hair. "Your what?" The Doctor asked. They were Daleks. They had to be Daleks they looked and sounded the exact same!

Bracewell turned the Dalek. "You will help the Allied cause in any way you can?"

"Yes." The Dalek answered.

"Until the Germans have been utterly smashed?"

"Yes."

"And what is your ultimate aim?"

"To win the war!"

The Doctor looked at the diagram and blueprints that clearly showed a Dalek. "They're Daleks! They're called Daleks!" The Doctor insisted.

"They are Bracewell's Ironsides, Doctor!" Winston contradicted. "Look! Blueprints, statistics, field-tests, photographs. He invented them!"

"What?" Jane snapped. "No, no, no, no! He did not invent them!" If he invented though's damn things then she would shoot him here and now for such a crime agains every living thing!

"Yes!" Winston shot back. "He approached one of our brass hats a few months ago. Fella's a genius."

"A Scottish genius," Amy added. "Maybe you should listen to…"

The Doctor cut her off. "Shh!" He snapped. "He didn't invent them! They're alien."

"Alien?" Winston asked.

Jane heard a Dalek coming to the open doorway. The Doctor sensed it. Jane and the Doctor shared a look, they were the only ones who knew about what the Daleks have done, what they are. They looked over their shoulder to see the Dalek. It viewed the action in the room before continuing on. "And they're a completely dangerous." Jane added.

"Precisely." Winston answered. "They will win me the war." He turned over a blueprint to show a propaganda poster with a large Dalek. Jane shuddered her thoughts reaturning to when she was on the Daleks ship. She resisted the urge to snatch that paper and rip it to pieces before she she grabbed something to beat the Daleks to death.

"Why won't you listen?" The Doctor asked. "Why call me in if you won't listen to me?"

"When I rang a month ago, I must admit, I had my doubts." Winston said. "The Ironsides seemed too good to be true."

"Yes!" The Doctor intervened. "Right! So destroy them! Exterminate them!"

"But imagine what I could do with a hundred! A thousand!"

"I am imagining." The Doctor said bitterly.

"If you were to have a hundred or a thousand, Prime Minister, than you know what? You will lose this war! You will lose everything, because they would completely destroy everything on this planet if you give them a chance." Jane said.

"Amy, tell him." The Doctor said.

"Tell him what?"

"The Daleks, Amy." Jane insisted. "Tell him about the Daleks."

"What would I know about the Daleks?" Amy asked. Jane just stared at her, how could she not remember when they had stolen Earth and kidnapped her sister! Jane remember how absolutely distraught Amy had been when she had gotten home.

"Everything." The Doctor answered. "They invaded your world, remember? Planets in the sky, you don't forget that, Amy! Amy… Tell me your remember the Daleks."

"Nope, sorry." Amy answered. The Doctor and Jane looked at each other for a moment.

"That's not possible."

Women were maintaining the radios and moving figures on the map as required. "And 6… 2357, over! 2357, over!" A Dalek pasted the time travelers as they entered. Jane flinched away from it, not wanting to be even close to it. The Doctor put an arm around her shoulders to comfort her since he could see that she clearly remembered the Daleks. Jane smiled at the Doctor grateful but moved away from him over next to Amy scared that the Daleks might try something.

"So, they're up to something…" The Doctor muttered. "But what is it? What are they after?"

"Well, let's just talk, shall we?" Amy slipped out of Jane's grip and walked over to a Dalek.

"Amy!" The Doctor hissed quickly grabbing a hold of Jane as she made a move to retrieve her sister. "Amelia!" Jane gripped the Doctor's jacket tightly. He rubbed her back to try and soothe her.

Amy tapped on the Dalek's casing and it swiveled to focus its eyestalk on her. "How can I be of assistance?"

"Oh. Yes. Yes. See, my friends reckon you're dangerous." Amy explained. "That you're an alien. Is it true?"

"I am your soldier." The Dalek answered.

The Doctor watched thoughtfully. "Yeah. Got that bit. Love a good squaddie. What else, though?"

"Please excuse me. I have duties to perform." The Dalek glided by.

The Doctor went over to Winston and took the cigar from the Prime Minister's mouth. "Please, Winston, please." he begged.

"We are wagging total war, Doctor." Winston answered stubbornly. "Day after day, the Luffwaffe pound this great city like an iron fist."

"Wait 'till the Daleks get started." Jane commented.

"Men, women and children slaughtered." Winston continued. "Families torn apart. Wren's churches in flames."

"Try having the whole Earth in flames." Jane protested fersly.

"I weep for my country," Winston said. "I weep for my empire. It is breaking my heart." He moved around the table.

The Doctor and Jane followed him. "But you're resisting, Winston! The whole world knows you're resisting! You're a beacon of hope!"

Winston signed more papers. "But for how long? Millions of innocent lives will be saved if I use these Ironsides now!"

A Dalek came over. "Can I be of assistance?"

"Shut up!" Jane snapped at it.

"Listen to me." The Doctor said as Jane turned back to Winston. "Just listen! The Daleks have no conscience, no mercy, no pity. They are my oldest and deadliest enemy. You cannot trust them!"

"If Hitler invaded hell, I would give a favorable reference to the Devil!" Winston responded. "These machines are our salvation!" A siren sounded. "Oh, the all-clear." He sighed with relief. "We are safe. For now." He left.

The brunettes turned to watch a Dalek before it, too, turned away to leave. "Doctor, it's the all-clear. Are you okay?" Both were very tense and stressed.

The Doctor twisted an officer's cap in his hands. "What does hate look like, Amy?"

"Hate?" Amy asked.

"It looks like a Dalek. And I'm going to prove it." The Doctor tossed the cap before putting it on a desk as he walked out. Jane turned to Amy looking at her for a moment before jogged after him. She could feel his anger, and she wanted to make sure he didn't do anything that he might regret later.

The Doctor, Jane, and Amy come into Bracewell's lab. He was working at his desk with a few technicians working nearby. The Doctor began to investigate everything. Jane and Amy watched him carefully. "Alright, Prof!" The Doctor said, announcing their arrival. Bracewell turned to face them. "The PM's been filling me in. Amazing things, these Ironsides of yours. Amazing. You must be very proud of them."

"Just doing my bit." Bracewell answered with a smile.

Amy picked up a wrench. "Not bad for a Paisley boy."

The Doctor sat down in a chair and began to read a file. Jane looked at him worried and walked over to him gently placing her hands on his shoulders reading the file over his shoulder. Jane felt how tense he was and gave him a small squeeze trying to reassure him. She felt him untense a small bit before they retensed as he read the file.

"Yes, I thought I detected a familiar cadence, my dear." Bracewell said.

"How did you do it?" The Doctor spoke up. "Come up with the idea?"

"How does the muse of invention come to anyone?" Bracewell answered.

The Doctor tossed file onto the desk behind him. "But you get a lot of these clever notions, do you?"

"Well, ideas just seem to teem from my head." Bracewell said. "Wonderful things! Like… Let me show you." He showed them some other files. The Doctor walked up to them to see them. "Some musings on the potential of hypersonic flight. Gravity bubbles that could sustain life outside of the terrestrial atmosphere! Came to me in the bath!"

"And are these your ideas or theirs?" The Doctor asked.

"No, no, no, no." Bracewell said, confidently. "These robots are entirely under my control, Doctor. They are…" A Dalek brought him some tea. Jane backed up. She hated the idea of being anywhere near one at any point for the rest of her life but she felt that her wish would sadly not come true if she stayed with the Doctor. "Thank you… The perfect servant and the perfect warrior."

"I don't know what you're up to, Professor, but whatever they've promised, you cannot trust them! Call them what you like, the Daleks are death!"

Winston entered with another Dalek. "Yes, Doctor. Death to our enemies! Death to the forces of darkness, and death to the Third Reich!"

"Yeah, Winston," Jane rolled her eyes. "And death to just about everyone else on this planet!"

"Would you like some tea?" A Dalek came over to her. She flinched away from it.

The Doctor didn't like the thought of any Dalek near Jane either. He hit the tray and cup causing them to fall to the floor. "Stop this!" The Doctor snapped. "What are you doing here? What do you want?"

"We seek only to help you." The Dalek answered.

"To do what?" The Doctor asked.

"To win the war."

"Which war?" he asked bitterly.

"I do not understand."

"This war, against the Nazis? Or your war? The war against the rest of the Universe? The war against all life-forms that are not Dalek?" The Doctor asked.

"I do not understand." The Dalek repeated. "I am your soldier."

"Oh, yeah? Okay." The Doctor turned around and picked up a giant wrench. "Okay, soldier, defend yourself!" He picked up the wrench and started to hit the Dalek with it.

"Doctor, what the devil…?" Bracewell gasped.

"You do not require tea." The Doctor ignored it and continued to strike it.

"Stop it!" Bracewell tried to command. "Prime Minister, please!"

"Doctor, please, the machines are precious!" The Doctor ignored them all.

"Come on! Fight back!" The Doctor yelled. "You want to, don't you? You know you do!"

"I must protest!" Bracewell said.

"What are you waiting for?" The Doctor asked. "You hate me. You want to kill me! Well, go on! Kill me. Kill me." He struck at the Dalek again.

"Doctor! Stop it! Stop it!" Jane grabbed him arms and pushed him away from it. She grabbed his shoulders before he could attack it again. The Doctor looked at it. "Stop it." She said much more softly. "Please."

"Please desist from striking me." The Dalek said. "I am your soldier." Jane felt it, even with her here; when the Dalek said that, the Doctor snapped and let everything go. He pushed Jane out of the way.

"You are my enemy!" He punctuated the sentence with a hit. "And I am yours! You are everything I despise! The worst thing in all creation. I've defeated you time and time again, I've defeated you. I sent you back into the void! I saved the whole of reality from you! I am the Doctor! And you are the Daleks!" He kicked the Dalek and it rolled backwards. Jane looked at the Doctor and the Dalek and she could see how much he had lost threw his eyes and she didn't like it. It looked to sad and angry and torn for the Doctor to have in his eyes and Jane hated that it was. She hated that she could see it so clearly but she knew that she could do nothing about it and shocked her to the core that she could feel so much for a man she didn't even know.

"Correct." The brunettes turned to the Dalek confused. "Review testimony."

"I am the Doctor. And you are the Daleks!"

"Testimony?" The Doctor muttered. "What do you mean testimony?"

"Transmitting testimony now." The second Dalek commented.

"Transmit what, where?" Jane at the same time as the Doctor asked.

After a few moments the Dalek spoke again. "Testimony accepted."

"Get back!" The Doctor commanded. "All of you!"

"Marines! Marines!" Winston called. "Get in here!"

Two marines entered but one of the Daleks easily killed them. "Stop it! Stop it, please! What are you doing? You are my Ironsides." Bracewell said.

"We are Daleks!" A Dalek responded.

"But I created you!"

"No." A Dalek retorted, he shot off Bracewell's hand revealing a stump of wires and circuits. "We created you."

"Victory! Victory! Victory!" The Daleks transported.

"What just happened, Doctor?" Amy asked.

"We wanted to know what they wanted," the Doctor muttered. "What their plan was. I was their plan." He ran out of the room.

Jane and Amy shared a look. "Hey! Doctor!" They followed him.

The Doctor entered the storage room and rushed down the stairs towards the TARDIS. "'Testimony accepted'! That's what they said! My testimony."

Amy and Jane followed close behind him. "Don't beat yourself up. You were right." The Doctor unlocked the TARDIS. "What do we do? Is this what we do now? Chase after them?"

"This is what I do." Jane made a face at his back. This was normal for him? Dealing with Daleks? Jane wasn't sure she would be entirely comfortable with that but then again he could just mean aliens in general... "It's dangerous, so wait here."

Winston came to stand next to Amy. "What, so you mean we've got to stay safe down here in the middle of the London Blitz?" She asked.

"Safe as it gets around me." The Doctor entered the TARDIS.

"I'm going." Jane said quickly. "Someone's got to make sure he doesn't get himself killed." Amy and she shared a look. She entered the TARDIS quickly. She just had enough time to close the doors as the TARDIS started to dematerialize.

The Doctor worked on the controls before checking the monitor. The Dalek ship appeared. "Bingo!" He smiled.

"Found them then?" The smile was gone and he whirled around to see Jane standing there with her arms crossed.

"Jane!" He frowned. "What are you doing here?"

"What you expected me to just stay behind? Sorry not going to happen." Jane said, " Someone has to make sure you don't kill yourself and leave me and poor Amy to deal with these things!" She spat the last part as she refered to the Daleks.

"Jane, it's dangerous." He said.

"Yeah, so someone still needs to hold you back." She waggled a finger at him. "And who's better for the job than me? Anyways, if there was ever a time that I would need to stop you, it's now." The Doctor rubbed her eyes, frustrated.

"Fine. Fine. But," He stressed this. "You are to stay in the TARDIS. Don't come out for anything."

Jane crossed her arms but nodded in agreement. "Yeah fine I'll stay in the TARDIS." The TARDIS materialized and Jane watched the monitor as the three Daleks swiveled their top sections to see the Doctor emerge rubbing his hands. Jane sighed. She wanted to go out, but she didn't want the Doctor to get angry at her, so she stayed put. At least, in the TARDIS, she was somewhat safe… She figured. Jane guessed he probably had some trick up his sleeve that if he needed to, he could send her with the TARDIS back to Earth. She rubbed the TARDIS' console, a bit nervous. "He'll be alright… right?" She asked.

She hadn't expected a response, but she heard the TARDIS hum. She smiled slightly, somehow knowing it was the TARDIS assuring her that the Doctor would be fine. She patted her. "Thanks girl." She felt the TARDIS hum again and giggled, looking back at the monitor.

"How about that cuppa now, then?" The Doctor asked.

"It is the Doctor!" One Dalek said alarmed. "Exterminate!"

"Wait, wait, wait, I wouldn't if I were you." The Doctor pulled out a small round object and held it out in front of him. Jane's eyebrows furrowed. What was that? "TARDIS self-destruct. And you know what that means. My ship goes, you all go with it." Jane looked at the monitor screen of the Doctor like he was insane. What? Where'd he get that? Does the TARDIS even have a self-destruct button?

"You would not use such a device." Another Dalek said.

"Try me." A Dalek moved towards him. "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. No scans. No nothing. One move and I'll destroy us all, you got that? TARDIS bang-bang, Daleks boom!" The Dalek backed up. It was obvious they didn't want to take any sort of chances. "Good boy." The Doctor looked at the Daleks' instrument panels. "This ship's pretty beaten up – running on empty, I'd say, like you. When we last met, you were at the end of your rope. Finished." Jane scrunched her eyes closed as flashes of when the Daleks took over the Earth breifly flash through her mind.

She opened her eyes just as a Dalek spoke. "One ship survived."

"And you fell back through time, yes?" The Doctor questioned. He probably already knew the answer, Jane bet. "Crippled? Dying?"

"We picked up a trace." Another Dalek answered. "One of the Progenitor devices."

"Progenitor?" The Doctor asked. "What's that when it's at home?"

"It is our past." A Dalek answered. Jane honestly couldn't tell one from the other. "And our future."

"Ohhh, that's deep." The Doctor praised sarcastically. "That is deep for a Dalek. What does it mean, though?"

"It contains pure Dalek DNA," A Dalek explained. "Thousands were created; all were lost, save one."

"Okay, but there's still one thing I don't get though – if you've got the Progenitor, why build Bracewell?" The Doctor asked.

"It was… necessary." The Dalek admitted reluctantly.

"By why?" The Doctor continued further. Realization dawned on his face. "I get it. Oh, I get it. I get it. Oh, ho, this is rich! The Progenitor wouldn't recognize you, would it? It saw you as impure; the DNA is unrecognizable as Dalek." Jane blinked. That's why they needed the Doctor's testimony the? It was the only thing the Progenitor would accept to activate?

"A solution was devised." A Dalek finished.

"Yes, yes, yes. Me. My testimony. So you set a trap, you knew that the Progenitor would recognize me. The Daleks' greatest enemy! It would accept my word. My recognition of you." The Doctor said, answering Jane's unspoken question. A Dalek turned to the instrument panel behind it. "No, no, no. What are you doing?" He held out the 'TARDIS self-destruction' device again.

"Withdraw now, Doctor, or the city dies in flames." A Dalek warned. Jane started to get a bad feeling.

"Who are you kidding?" The Doctor replied. "This ship is a wreck; you don't have the power to destroy London." Jan's eyes widened as she realized, they didn't, but the Nazis did. Oh Lord… Jane stiffed slightly.

"Watch as the humans destroy themselves." Jane was afraid they'd say that.

"They didn't. Did they?" She heard something turn on and turned. On one of the TARDIS' large screen she saw all of London lit up. The whole city could be seen so clear in the dark. Amy was still down there! She quickly turned back to the console monitor and gripped the TARDIS tightly. "Doctor… You better make sure Amy comes out of this alive." She muttered.

"Turn those lights off now." The Time Lord demanded. "Turn London off or I swear I will use the TARDIS self-destruct!"

"Stalemate, Doctor." A Dalek said. "Leave us, and return to Earth."

"Oh, that's it?" The Doctor asked bitterly. "That's your great victory? You leave?"

"Extinction is not an option." A Dalek responded. "We shall return to our own time and begin again."

"No, no, no!" The Doctor yelled. "I won't let you get away this time! I won't!" There was suddenly a mechanical 'whoosh' and then a soft thrumming.

"We have succeeded." A Dalek announced. "DNA reconstruction is complete." The Daleks glided back from the cubicle which was enveloped in red energy. The doors slid open amidst the sparks.

"Observe, Doctor." Another Dalek said. "A new Dalek paradigm!" The Doctor watched as new, larger Daleks emerged from the smoke and steam, each a different color: white, blue, yellow, orange, and red.

Jane just stared at the 'new' Daleks for a moment. "They're… Skittles?" Jane blinked slowly. She couldn't resist. She laughed right out at how ridicules the Daleks looked now. She shook her head and mentally slapped herself. Now as not the time…

"The Progenitor has fulfilled our new destiny." A Dalek cried. "Behold the restoration of the Daleks! The resurrection of the master race!"

"All hail the new Daleks!" A Dalek praised. "All hail the new Daleks!"

"Yes," The white Dalek responded. "You are inferior!" Well, at least I can tell one from the others now.

"Yes." The Dalek answered.

"Then prepare." The white Dalek said.

"We are ready." One of the old Daleks said.

"Cleanse the unclean!" The white Dalek commanded. "Total obliteration! Disintegrate!" The blue Dalek fired at two of them and the red Dalek shot the other one.

"Blimey," The Doctor muttered. "What do you do to the ones who mess up?"

"You are the Doctor!" The white Dalek stated. "You must be exterminated!"

The Doctor pulled out the 'self-destruct' button again. "Don't mess with me, sweetheart!"

"We are the paradigm of a new Dalek race." The White Dalek spoke. It seemed he was the leader of the new Daleks. "Scientist, strategist, drone, eternal, and the supreme."

"Which would be you, I'm guessing?" The Doctor questioned. "Well, you know, nice paint job. I'd be feeling pretty swish. If I looked like you. Pretty 'supreme'." The Doctor continued on. "Question is, what do we do now? Either you turn off your clever machine or I'll blow you and your new paradigm into eternity." Jane noticed that the blue Dalek was scanning the Doctor.

"And yourself." The white Dalek added.

"Occupational hazard." The Doctor shrugged. Jane shook her head. She honestly didn't know he was stupid enough to really kill himself in something like this, and it wasn't something that comforted her about him at the moment.

"Scan reveals nothing!" The blue Dalek announced. "TARDIS self-destruct button device non-existent!"

"Alright," The Doctor took a bite out of the cookie. Jane smiled slightly; she relived that he really didn't have a self-destruct button for his precious ship. "It's a Jammy Dodger, but I was promised tea!" A siren sounded. The blue Dalek went over to the scanner.

"Alert!" The blue Dalek cried. "Unidentified projectile approaching!" The Doctor looked at a second scanner. "Correction. Multiple projectiles!"

"What have the humans done?" The white Dalek asked.

"I don't know." The Time Lord answered.

"Explain! Explain! Explain!" The white Dalek ordered furious.

"Danny Boy to the Doctor!" A pilot stated over the radio. "Danny Boy to the Doctor! Are you receiving me? Over."

The Doctor stood and looked up. "Oh, Winston! You beauty!" The Doctor cried happy. Jane happily laughed in the TARDIS.

"Danny Boy to the Doctor! Com in. Over."

"Loud and clear, Danny Boy!" The Doctor answered. "Big dish, side of the ship, blow it up! Over!"

"Exterminate the Doctor!" The white Dalek ordered. The Doctor escaped to the TARDIS as the Daleks fired.

Jane watched the screen. She was thankful the TARDIS was being nice to her. She didn't know how to make anything on the TARDIS work, but all she had to do was ask and the TARDIS always replied to turn on something to let her see what was going on. She always said 'thank you' to the ship as she felt that it was the right thing to do. "You heard him Group Captain." Jane heard Winston's voice over the radio. "Target that dish! Send in all we've got!"

"4-4 to Danny Boy, target the dish and stop that signal." The Group Captain ordered.

"Over." 'Danny Boy' answered. "Understood, sir. Over. You can count on us! Over."

"Oh, good luck, lads!" A woman said.

"Come on, men." Jane muttered. "Show those Daleks what we're made of."

"Okay, chaps, let's put London back under the cover of darkness. Tally ho!" The squadron began firing on the Dalek ship and the dish.

"Cover my back, going in close!" The Dalek ship started firing back. "Pull out, pull out." One of the RAF planes was shot down. Jane bit her thumb nervously.

"We've lost Jubilee, sir. Over." The main pilot announced.

"Beam still active, sir. Over." The Group Captain said.

"Then send them in again." Winston answered. The planes regrouped and attacked again.

"Flintlock's down, sir, and the dish seems to be protected. Over."

"Only one plane left." Jane whispered. She was biting her finger hard now.

"Shields intact," The blue Dalek announced. "Pulse still active."

"Danny Boy to the Doctor… Only me left now." Jane heard the doors open and she turned. She saw the Doctor come up. "Anything you can do, sir? Over."

The Doctor picked up a small microphone and spoke into it. "The Doctor to Danny Boy… The Doctor to Danny Boy. I can disrupt the Dalek shields, but not for long. Over."

"Good show, Doctor, go to it. Over." The pilot answered. The Doctor started the TARDIS. "Going in, wish me luck. Over." Jane watched the monitor as 'Danny Boy' made another approach. The Doctor frantically worked the controls.

"Shields de-activated!" A yellow Dalek stated. Jane turned and saw 'Danny Boy' destroyed the beam. Jane cheered and jumped up and down. She clapped for him.

"Energy pulse destroy!" The red Dalek said.

"Direct hit, sir!" The Group Captain announced. Everyone down in the war room cheered. Jane rushed over and hugged the Doctor tightly. He picked her up and twirled her around. He smiled, hearing her laugh into his ear and laughed as continued to hug him; she just couldn't break the hug. There was just something about it that caused her to keep her arms wrapped tightly around the Doctor's neck.

"Danny Boy to the Doctor… going in for another attack." Danny Boy said. They broke and the Doctor looked at Jane for a moment before looking back at the monitor.

The Doctor picked up the microphone again. "The Doctor to Danny Boy. The Doctor to Danny Boy. Destroy that ship! Over."

"What about you, Doctor?" The pilot asked. The TARDIS was still on the Dalek ship.

"I'll be okay." The Doctor grinned. However, the Daleks appeared on the monitor.

"Doctor!" The white Dalek called his attention. "Call off your attack!"

"Ah-ha, what?" the Doctor mocked. "And let you scuttle off to the future? No fear. This is the end for you. The final end." Jane frowned and looked between the Daleks and the Doctor.

"Call off the attack, or we will destroy the Earth." The white Dalek said.

"I'm not stupid, mate!" The Doctor replied. "You've just played your last card!"

"Bracewell is a bomb." Jane's heart skipped a beat or two.

"You're bluffing. Deception's second nature to you. There isn't a sincere bone in your body. There isn't a bone in your body!" The Doctor said.

"His power is derived from an Oblivion Continuum! Call off your attack, or we will detonate the android." The white Dalek said.

"No! This is my best chance ever! The last of the Daleks! I can rid the Universe of you, once and for all!" Jane stepped towards the Doctor.

"Then do it." The white Dalek answered. "But we will shatter the planet below! The Earth will die screaming!"

"And if I let you go, you'll be stronger than ever. A new race of Daleks."

"Then choose, Doctor! Destroy the Daleks or save the Earth. Begin countdown of Oblivion Continuum! Choose, Doctor! Choose! Choose!"

"Doctor… Amy's still down there." Jane said quietly. The Doctor looked at her. "Please."

"Jane…" The Doctor saw the look in her eyes, and knew what she was thinking. "You don't know."

"I know plenty, Doctor." Jane snapped. "Don't you dare act like I'm stupid. Don't you ever act like I'm stupid."

"Jane…" He might not ever get a chance like this again.

Jane could feel the anger inside of her start to boil. "Jane, What!" She snapped. If he chose to destroy the Daleks rather than save the Earth and her sister she would give him every bit of hell she possibly could. "I know what they've done, I know. I've seen it. But would you really? Would you really sacrifice all of the lives of the people bellow us to stop the Daleks? Would you really sacrifice my sister's life just so you could get revenge?"

"Jane…" He didn't want her to think of him like this and he could feel his resolve slowly breaking.

"If you did this, Doctor. If you killed them, what makes you any different from a Dalek?" Jane hissed pushing him with tears brimming in her eyes. "If you did this I'd never forgive you! I'd never, ever forgive you!" She knew it was extreme, but under no circumstance was she going to let him do that. She was not letting him kill all of the people bellow them and there was no way she was letting him kill Amy.

"Jane…" The Doctor's face was contorted in pain. He couldn't stand to hear all of this. Not from his companion. Not from someone who grew up waiting for him.

"You're supposed to be the good guy, Doctor." She whispered, breaking apart. "If you did that… I'd hate you for killing not only the people bellow use but Amy, my sister. I'd never forgive you. I'd never look at you again and I'd never every say one word to you again." She looked the Doctor straight in the eye, and he saw it. How absolutely true everything she was saying was. She would do everything she said she would and that hurt him to think that he would make it happen if he did this.

The Doctor's arms opened up for her, but her stubbornness prevented her from accepting the gester so the Doctor meekly put his arm down and grabbed the microphone. "The Doctor to Danny Boy. The Doctor to Danny Boy. Withdraw."

"Say again, sir. Over."

"Withdraw!" The Doctor repeated. "Return to Earth. Over and out."

"But sir…!" Danny Boy tried to protest.

"There's no time, you have to return to Earth now! Over!" The Doctor responded. The Doctor set the coordinates for Earth. Danny Boy flew back to Earth.

The TARDIS materialized and the Doctor and Jane exited and ran out of the room. Jane furiously whipped her eyes from the tears threatening to spill over. She still was angry but she pushed it aside and ran alongside the Doctor. They ran into the war room where Bracewell was. The Doctor punched the man, knocking him to the ground. He shook his hand, afterwards, in pain. "Doctor!" Amy said appalled.

"Ow!" The Doctor hissed.

"Sorry, Mr. Bracewell, but the Daleks did something and they said you were a bomb and we can't take the chance if you are." Jane said quickly.

"What?" Bracewell asked, shocked.

"There's an Oblivion Continuum inside you - a captured wormhole that provides perpetual power. Detonate that, and the Earth will bleed through into another dimension!" The Doctor knelt beside him, pulled out his sonic and opened Bracewell's chest. "Now keep down!" He used his sonic to reveal the mechanics underneath skin. There was a circular pad divided into sections glowing blue on Bracewell's chest. One section turned yellow.

"Well?" Amy asked.

"I dunno, I dunno, I dunno!" He shook his screwdriver. "Never seen one up close before!"

"Oh that's comforting." Jane said hotly.

"So, what, they've wired him to detonate?" Amy asked.

"Not wired him up." The Doctor answered. "He is the bomb. Walking, talking," The Doctor made an exploding sound effect. "Exploding! The moment that flashes red."

"There's… a blue wire or something you have to cut, isn't there? There's always a blue wire." The Doctor stood up. "Or a red one."

"Not helping, Amy." Jane said rolling her eyes.

"It's incredible." Winston muttered. "He talked to us about his memories. The Great War…"

The Doctor tossed his screwdriver hand to hand. "Someone else's stolen thoughts, implanted in a positronic brain. Tell me about it, Bracewell. Tell me about your life." The Doctor knelt back down.

"Doctor, I really don't think this is the time."

"Tell me and prove you're human." The Doctor said. It was the perfect time for storytelling. "Tell me everything."

The first section of Bracewell's chest was red and the second was now yellow. "My family ran the Post Office. It's a little place just near the abbey. Just by the ash trees. There used to be eight trees but...but there was a storm."

The Doctor tried to hurry him along. "And your parents? Come on. Tell me."

"Good people." Bracewell answered. "Kind people. They… They died. Scarlet fever."

"What was that like?" The Doctor asked. "How did it feel?"

"Please…" He didn't want to talk about it.

"How did it make you feel, Edwin? Tell me! Tell me now!"

"It hurt. It hurts, Doctor, so badly. Like a wound." The second section turned red and the yellow had now moved onto the third section. "It was worse than a wound. Like I'd been emptied out. There was nothing."

"Good. Remember it now, Edwin! The ash trees by the Post Office and your mum and dad and losing them and men in the trenches you saw die... Remember it! Feel it, because you're human." The third section turned red. "You're not like them. You are not like the Daleks!"

"It hurts! Doctor, it hurts so much!"

"Good! Good! Good! Brilliant! Embrace it." The fourth section turned red and Jane's heart was racing her anger now forgotten. "That means you're alive! They cannot explode that bomb, you're a human being! You are flesh and blood! They cannot explode that bomb! Believe it! You are Professor Edwin Bracewell! And you, my friend, are a human being!" The fifth section turned red. "It's not working! I can't stop it!"

"Hey… Paisley." Amy knelt beside Jane. "Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?"

"W… What?" Bracewell asked.

"Hurts, doesn't it?" The last section remained yellow. "But kind of a good hurt."

"I really shouldn't take about her." Bracewall said.

"Oh, there's a her." Amy said, the last section reverted to blue.

"What was her name?" She asked softly.

"Dorabella." Bracewell finally admitted. Jane smiled.

"Dorabella? It's a lovely name, it's a beautiful name." The Doctor praised.

"What was she like?"

"Oh…" Bracewell's voice turned dreamy. "Such a smile. And her eyes… Her eyes were so blue… Almost violet. Like the last touch of sunset on the edge of the world... Dorabella..." All the sections reverted to blue, disarming the bomb.

"Welcome to the human race." The Doctor congratulated. He smiled at his two time travelers. "You're brilliant." He said to Winston. "You're brilliant." He said to Bracewell. "You're brilliant." He said to Amy and he turned to Jane. She offered him a small smiled and he took it happily. "Oh, and you…" He leaned over and kissed her's and Amy's forehead. "Now, gotta stop them! Stop the Daleks!" He started to run out of the room.

"Wait! Doctor! Wait… Wait." The Doctor stopped as Bracewell sat up. "It's too late. Gone. They've gone."

"No, no, no! They can't! They can't have got away from me again!" The Doctor yelled.

"No, I can feel it, my mind is clear. The Daleks have gone." Bracewall answered. The Doctor leaned against a pole, all energy suddenly drained. Jane stood up.

"Doctor. It's okay! You did it. You stopped the bomb. Doctor?" Amy tried to mend.

"I had a choice. And they knew I'd choose the Earth. The Daleks have won. They beat me. They've won." The Doctor muttered.

"But you saved the Earth." Jane pointed out. "And if you had picked them over us, would that have made you feel better?" The Doctor looked at her. She knew that he knew the answer was no. It wouldn't have. "You disarmed the bomb, and saved the Earth, again. Not too shabby, is it…?"

The Doctor looked at Winston and all the people in the room who all looked back at him in support. "Is it?" Amy asked.

"No." The Doctor slowly smiled. "It's not too shabby."

"It's a brilliant achievement, my dear friend. Here, have a cigar!" Winston offered him one.

"No…" He waved it off, still hurt from his loss.

"So, what now, then?" Amy asked.

"I still have a war to run, Miss. Pond." Winston answered.

A woman walked over and handed him a communiqué. "Prime Minister."

"Oh, thank you." Winston read the documents. "They hit the Palace and St Paul's again. Fire crews only just saved it." Breen entered crying.

"Is she alright?" Jane and Amy asked, watching her.

"What?" Winston looked up.

"She looks very upset." Amy said.

"Oh, Miss Breen? Her young man didn't make it, I'm afraid. Just got word. Shot down over the Channel." Jane frowned, her heart going out to the woman. She looked around, realizing they were missing a certain Time Lord.

"Where's the Doctor?" She asked.

The Doctor entered. "Tying up loose ends. I've taken out all the alien tech Bracewell put in."

"Won't you reconsider, Doctor? Those Spitfires would win me the war in 24 hours!" Winston insisted.

"Exactly." The Doctor answered, sipping his tea.

"But why not? Why can't we put an end to all this misery?" Winston asked.

"Oh, it doesn't work like that, Winston. It's gonna be tough. There are terrible days to come. The darkest days. But you can do it. You know you can." The Doctor encouraged.

"Stay with us, and help us win through! The world needs you."

"The world doesn't need me."

"No?"

"Of course not," Jane fixed Winston's bowtie. "Not when the world's got a great man like Winston Spencer Churchill." The Doctor grinned, agreeing and gave a Victory sign.

"It's been a pleasure, as always." Winston smiled.

"Too right." The two men hugged.

"Goodbye, Doctor."

"Oh, shall we say adieu?" The Doctor said.

"Indeed." Winston ended the hug. "Goodbye, Miss Pond. Goodbye, Miss Pond."

"It's… It's been amazing, meeting you." Amy said.

"A complete honor." Jane added with a smirk.

"I'm sure it has." Amy kissed Winston on the cheek and Jane gave him a hug. Winston headed for the door. jane and Amy shared a look.

"Hey!" Amy said as both girls held out their hands. "Winston. TARDIS key, now."

"The one you just took from the Doctor." Jane added. The Doctor nearly choked on his tea and patted his pockets.

"Oh, they're good, Doctor. As sharp as a pin!" He handed them the key. "Almost as sharp as me." Winston lit a cigar. "KBO!" After Winston left, the Doctor held out his hand and Amy gave him the key back.

Bracewell stood stoically in his office, waiting for the inevitable. He now had a leather glove over the stump. The Doctor, Jane, and Amy entered. "I've been expecting you, Doctor. I knew this moment had to come."

"Moment?" The Doctor questioned.

"It's time to de-activate me."

"Is it…?" Amy and Jane looked at him. "Oh… Yeah."

"You have no choice. I'm Dalek technology. Can't allow me to go pottering around down here where I have no business."

"No, you're dead right, Professor. 100% right. And by the time I get back here in... what, ten minutes?"

"More like 15." Amy corrected.

"Fifteen minutes, yeah, that's exactly what I'm going to do. You are going to be so de-activated. It's going be like you've never even been... activated." The Doctor said.

"Yeah." Jane said.

"15 minutes?" Bracewell needed to prepare himself then.

"More like 20 minutes, if I'm honest. Once Ponds, and I see to the urgent thing…"

"Yeah." Jane nodded for show.

"…We've got to see too. The... the... See?" The Doctor said.

"Very well, Doctor. I shall wait here and prepare myself."

Jane and Amy looked at each other. "That Dalek tech's a little bit slow on the uptake." Amy muttered and Jane nodded. "That thing we've got to do. Gonna take half an hour, realistically, isn't it, Doctor?"

"Easily! So no running off, that's what I'm saying. Don't go trying to find that little Post Office with the ash trees or that girl... What was her name?"

"Dorabella." Bracewell answered.

"Don't go looking for her." Jane said, fighting back a grin. "I mean, you could get a lot done in half an hour. But don't you try anyways."

Bracewell smiled and laughed as he realized what they were doing. "Thank you, thank you, Doctor!"

"Come along, Ponds." The Doctor, Jane, and Amy left and Bracewell began to pack a suitcase.

The Doctor, Jane, and Amy headed for the TARDIS. "So, you have enemies then?"

"Everyone's got enemies." The Doctor responded.

"Yeah, but mine's the woman outside Budgens with the mental Jack Russell." Amy commented.

"You've got, like, arch-enemies, Doctor." Jane said. They leaned up against the TARDIS.

"Suppose so."

"And here's me thinking we'd just be running through time, being daft and fixing stuff. But no, it's dangerous."

"Oh yeah," the Doctor turned to Amy and Jane. "That's not going to be a problem, is it Miss. Ponds?" Amy smirked at him and Jane grinned.

"We're still here, aren't we?" Amy turned back to the Doctor. "You're worried about the Daleks." Jane looked at the Time Lord too, she knew this.

"I'm always worried about the Daleks."

"It'll take time, though, won't it? There's still not many of them. They'll need a while to build themselves up." Amy tried to comfort.

"It's not that. There's something else. Something we've forgotten. Or rather you have."

"Me?" Jane knew where this was going.

"You didn't know them, Amy." he said. "You didn't remember the Daleks. You've seen the before, we know you have, and yet you didn't remember. You should have." The Doctor entered the TARDIS, leaving a confused Amy and a worried Jane to follow.