Chapter 5
"I don't think so Doctor. I rigged the machine to self-destruct its one way, one time only. You can't change back."
"I can and I will," shrieked the Doctor rolling forward. "I'm not one of your creatures. I am the Doc-tor!"
"Listen to yourself you've already changed."
"So have you."
"I am not going to stand here arguing. We are both stuck as we are, accept it."
"No," the Doctor moved further forward raising the sucker arm, and extending it so it grabbed hold of Davros' forehead. "I will not obey."
Rose had soon located the CNC of the station and now the computer seemed to recognize her she had been able to ask questions. But the answers she got didn't do anything to reassure her. This was an unmanned scientific research station. It had been set up to observe the sun and now its task was to record the super nova that would take place in less than an hour. She had no idea how to work the station and there were no escape pods. Her only hope was that the Doctor would return.
The Doctor extracted Davros' mind from its body as he pushed his own into the body. For a moment he floated in the either until scrabbling mentally to reach his intended destination he couldn't be dragged back now…he wouldn't allow it. He couldn't stand being confined in that loathed shell. His mind cried out for mercy, screamed in pain as it passed over the threshold. Finally he was still. He could breathe, move, talk and blink. The Doctor was in his old body once again. He let out a sigh of relief.
"Ah-ha! I'm back!" He rubbed his forehead. "I hope that's not going to leave a mark."
"You made a big mistake Doctor," screeched Davros. "Now I'm the one on the correct end of a deadly weapon."
"Not so fast."
The Dalek shell began to shudder violently.
"W-w-what is happening? I-I-I d-didn't engage the time shift."
"That's because I did, didn't I, before we swapped back. Tarrah!"
He waved as Davros dematerialized. The Doctor had set the co-ordinates for an uninhabited planet on the edge of the universe where Davros wouldn't be able to harm anyone. The time shift generator only had a limited amount of power such a long trip would use up the last of its energy. That was when it hit him like a sledgehammer he felt sick as he recalled how he had exterminated the Daleks and enjoyed it. It appalled him not that he had killed but that he had let himself go and relished the violence. That was not him. That was not what he stood for and the Doctor could not let himself forget that…ever.
Rose tentatively pressed the touch-screen bringing up a series of complicated looking menus. She wasn't sure what it did or whether she had made things worse. Suddenly there was a heavy clunk and the large screen situated at the front of the room like a window lit up. Red and purple numbers flittered across the panel. Rose knew it meant something bad. She noticed one word though that she recognised and it made her shudder. The sun the station was orbiting had started to fall out of orbit. Unless the Doctor rescued her soon she was going to be incinerated.