I want to apologize for not updating this in such a long time, some personal stuff happened and I was no longer in the mood to write but I'm over it now and here this is, I no longer know what's going to happen with Kes and Led as far as the story line is concerned but I see that its somewhat liked so I'll do my best to continue writing it. Thanks for putting up with me.
Led felt everything start back up, light entered his eyestalk and was registered by his brain, he was completely awake, he hovered back up and stood in front of the bed, he looked at his partner and watched as he too rose.
"LED WE MUST DO THE NEXT HUMAN ACTIVITY."
"GOOD MORNING TO YOU TOO."
"COME WE MUST SHOP."
The daleks left the room, Led was glad that they didn't close the door yesterday, he pushed it open and walked out, Kes looked at the door as he left, it was completely open, we're going to have to stop by the android first.
They went down the elevator and left the hotel, Kes made sure to glare at the receptionist with disdain, they slid out of the door and stepped outside into a sunny vibrant city, which was obviously but unfortunately teeming with humans. Led followed Kes as they walked down the sidewalk, Kes led him into a nearby parking lot, most likely used by the residents of the hotel. Kes made sure no one was looking, he walked over to a car of what looked to be a recent model and looked inside, sure enough there was a g.p.s. strapped inside. Led looked around, not really sure was Kes was about to do, he watched as his partner put his plungers suction cup on the glass window and started to make his plunger spin, he stepped back and let the circular piece of glass fall out, he stuck his plunger into the car and suctioned the g.p.s. Kes was able to download the software into him and let go, he retreated back and looked at Led.
"COME I KNOW WHERE TO GO."
The walk was short, now that Kes knew where to go, which turns to take, and how long it would take, the trips would be easy. They arrived at the building, they walked up to the doorbell and ringed it, immediately a middle aged man opened the door.
"Yes, I was expecting you two, come come."
The two daleks walked in the disheveled building and noticed that inside wasn't much better, an array of wires, metallic pieces, and parts of robots laid strewn across the room, Kes figured that they must serve some purpose beside being atrocious decor.
"The great one says you two need to fix some problems?"
"WE NEED HANDS."
"Hands… I can do hands… you'll have to be temporarily shut down, hibernation if you will, I can do it very quick, now in fact… that would be best… do I have right equipment? Yes, come come we mustn't dilly dally, you two have an important task ahead of you."
They followed him into the back room, which was surprisingly clean, in comparison to everywhere else, the android pointed them where to stand and face, and left the room. Led saw the android leave, he quickly remembered and followed the android. Kes watched as Led left the designated spot and followed the android, he considered following or even asking but decided against it. He waited for Leds return, finally he saw the android walk in with an alien looking toolbox, behind him followed Led, he went back to his spot and averted Kes's glance.
The android opened the alien toolbox and pulled out a series of tools, he carefully set them next to each other neatly and walked over to the daleks, he typed in something on a hand held device, Kes felt everything start slowing down, he turned one more time to look at Led, Led felt his self-activity starting to dwindle, he looked over at Kes who was staring at him, he was the last thing he saw before he succumbed to the dark.
When they came too, they were surprised to see that they were still looking at each other.
"LED WHAT DID YOU TALK TO THE ANDRIOD ABOUT?"
Remembering himself, Led looked down at his first center hemisphere, sure enough it was no longer black but clear and filled with water.
"THIS."
Kes looked at the glass hemisphere that was located on Leds body, he didn't know what to think, weird fashion statement? An attempt at being different? Pure stupidity? Will I ever know the true reasons behind Leds motivation? He looked back up at Led and looked at where his plunger once was.
"LED LOOK AT YOUR PLUNGER."
Led looked down, but instead of a plunger he saw a black hand, he moved the fingers, each one at a time, trying to get use too the new feeling.
"Yes, you like it, huh? I had planned for this, I always wondered why the plunger, why not a hand, but then I thought… WHY NOT BOTH?!"
Kes looked at the android, he was insane but brilliant, he looked at his hand and retracted it, when it came back out it extended out into its old dome shape. He switched back and forth, hand, plunger, hand, plunger, eventually he settled with the hand, he wanted to try out his new addition.
"THE SUPREME LEADER WILL BE PLEASE WITH YOUR WORK."
"YES, THANKS FOR THE HEMISPHERE! "
"You like it, I fit it with everything you'll need, and I put a little something extra in your hand."
Kes started to head out, instead he returned to the android and he stuck out his hand and waited for the android, the android looked at the dalek, took his hand and shook it.
"Pleasure mate! As for you…"
The android walked over to Led and whispered in a hushed voice.
"THANK YOU!"
They left the building, and noticed that the sun wasn't as strong anymore, Kes remembered passing by a department store, on their way here and headed in the direction. They walked a considerable distance, when Kes turned his eyestalk at Led, he saw Led moving his arm in circles, switching from plunger to hand multiple times, it made him think about his own addition and how many problems this trip solved, that doesn't make sense, the technology to improve the daleks was available but not pursued, why? His train of thought was interrupted by Led who bumped into him.
"WHY DID YOU STOP" Led asked.
"WE PASSED THE STORE"
It was true in Kes's deep thought, he completely missed the turn, he turned around and headed to the store. They arrived pretty quickly, the huge structure stood out from the rest of the buildings being that it had huge glass windows and bright color paint, the two arrived at the doors and were a bit disappointed to find out that they were automatic, regardless they stepped in and looked all the people that were inside. Kes was mesmerized and repulsed at the same time, too see some many humans concentrated in one spot, in harmony with each other, all with one goal; to shop.
Kes didn't know what to look at first, they array of merchandise astounded him. The magnitude of colors, of selection, of people. He watched them teem, all of them he noticed seemed to be in a hurry, why he wondered, he considered asking someone, but decided to do so later, now was not the time for that.
"TYPICAL HUMAN BEHAVIOR IS ALL THAT IS… WHAT SHALL BE MY FIRST PURCHASE"
"MIGHT I RECOMMEND SOAP"
Kes almost didn't resister what happened, Led... made a joke...? He turned to Led and did the only thing he could, bop him on his dome.
"KES YOU HAVE FAILED TO LAUGH"
"I WILL NOT MAKE A GOOD HUMAN"
"AGREED"
With that Led turned around and started to go down an aisle, eye stalk moving looking for a sign, any clue to indicate that he was going the right way, after going down two other aisle he managed to end up in the hardware section, Led walked past all the tools scanning each one and taking notice of the price.
"I CAN BUY THIS, AND THIS, I CAN PURCHASE THAT, I CA-"
"Excuse me may I help you?"
"AFFIRMATIVE I AM LOOKING FOR THE STORE SECTION THAT HANDELS THE CARASSIUS AURATUS AURATUS"
Led gleamed proud inside, he had taken the time to find out the name, but he couldn't help feel a little disappointment in the human's face, which clearly showed a lack of understanding.
"Excuse me?"
Led looked at the man, he looked at his name tag, it read Roger.
"ROGER, DO NOT WORRY YOUR HEAD, LED WILL FIND IT"
The man started to speak but saw that his words would be lost, for Led had already begun to move, instead he closed his mouth and began to mumble,
"carassius auratus… carassius auratus"
while he googled the word on his phone.
Kes walked around the store not looking at all the merchandise but at the people, he watched at a small child pulled on the hand of what he assumed was its mothers, he watched as she pulled and shouted, the tears running down her red face, all while the mother did her shopping, not paying a care to the child. He walked past them and looked for someone else to observe, he noticed two teenagers run past him and go to the candy section, he decided to follow them. Kes watched as the two kids pick up bars of candy and showed each other, he decided to look at the candy himself.
"CHOCOLATE, CAN NOT RESIST PURCHASE"
He took the bar of chocolate and turned to look at the kids once more, he turned just at the same time that one of the smaller kids grabbed a bar and stuffed it down his pants, Kes looked at the child, he saw the fear in his eyes, the sweat gleaming down his forehead, Kes could actually feel the adrenaline radiating from him, it excited him, he looked at the candy bar that rested on his palm, and before he knew it he was retracting it to his secret compartment, he watched until it was completely gone.
"I HAVE… STOLE…."
The two kids looked at Kes and spoke in hushed voices.
"Dude what if he works here?"
"I saw him steal a candy bar too."
"Really? Wow, he must be in his late twenty's, are you sure he stole something?"
"Watch this."
The kid walked up to Kes and held out his hand.
"High five old man."
Kes looked at the kids hand and down to his, he extended it and the kid proceeded to slap it.
With that the two kids ran off, leaving Kes in a confused state, he looked down the aisle and saw that an employee was walking down it, he passed Kes and began to use his radio.
"I just saw them walk out of this aisle, affirmative they are heading towards the entrance, we'll intercept them there."
Kes took off in the opposite direction, not wanting to be in the middle of anything, he decided that he would go to see the décor then go look for Led.
After perusing everything Kes had a mental list of all the things he would want to buy once they owned their own abode, he decided that he would begin looking for one as soon as they got back to the hotel, he looked down at the shopping cart he found and looked at the stuff in it, none of it was necessary but that wasn't the point he argued, the point was to buy stuff, to understand the purpose of buying stuff, and he did, he understood why humans bought things, why they worked and then came and spent their money on useless or useful things. He liked it the power that came with a purchase, he thought how powerful it truly was, he thought if it wasn't for the people buying things this store wouldn't exist, he went over to the checkout and started to put his stuff on the conveyer belt, when he was done and the lady was done ringing everything out he paid for everything, except the chocolate bar which rested safely inside him, this time he extended his palm out for his change, he was surprised to see the pieces of circular metal, he didn't like how they looked so he decided to leave them at the register, he began to push his cart filled with bags when he felt a tap on his back, he turned around and saw Led.
"GOOD I WILL NOT HAVE LOOK FOR YOU ANYMORE"
"WHAT DID YOU BUY KES"
"STUFF"
"AFFIRMATIVE I TOO BOUGHT… STUFF"
"LED WE HAVE FINALLY EXCERCISED THE RITUAL OF SHOPPING"
"CORRECT WE WILL HAVE TO REPEAT LETS GO BACK TO THE HOTEL I HAVE SOMETHING I NEED TO DO"
"AGREED"
They walked towards the entrance where Kes saw the two boys sitting alongside the wall, two police officers and a store employee stood beside them, he looked at the one who gave him a high five, the fear in his eyes was no longer there, it was replaced by something else, terror.
Between sobs the smaller kid shouted.
"I bloody told you he was trouble!"
"You're the one who gave him a stupid high five!"
Watching the two handcuffed boy Kes thought back to his candy bar, he pulled it back out looked at it and threw it away.
"LED I STOLE THAT"
"THE SUPREME LEADER WILL BE PLEASED"
"NO DO NOT MENTION IT I AM NOT PROUD"
By now they had left the store, Led noticed that they were inside there a while because it had gotten dark, they took the bags out of the cart and left it alongside the store, they started to walk down the street.
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU KES"
"I FEEL THE SAM-"
Kes was cut short by a honk, he looked around and saw that a blonde women in casual clothing had run in front of a black car, he watched as she continued to cross the street and walked towards them, she stopped near them and turned back around, he turned back to Led to finish what he was going to say when once more he was interrupted, a nearby building suddenly exploded, he looked up and saw that the roof was in ruins, only a cloud of smoke emitted from it. Just then he watched as a second explosion blew out the windows of the top floor, smoke poured out of them and glass rain down, he was shaken by the event, he watched as people all ran away, cars swerved to avoid hitting them, he witnessed pure chaos. He turned back and saw that the blonde women had started running, Kes and Led started moving in the same direction as her, the two daleks both stopped dead in their tracks, Kes dropped his bags and ran forward, in front on them it stood, tucked between two columns the TARDIS.