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6 – The Walls of Reality

"Everyone, stay calm." Pete said, grabbing Rose's hand to keep her away from Ms Campbell-Jones.

Several other members of staff had rushed into the lab when they saw the flash of light, but everything else remained still. "See…it's OK" Pete said quietly. "Just a glitch – everyone back to work."
The room cleared slowly with the employees muttering amongst themselves, but Rose wasn't satisfied. She spun around and glared at Pete.

"Nothing? You call that nothing?! She just activated a piece of Time Lord technology that appeared from no-where. How can that be OK?!" Rose had a horrible feeling in her gut. She had never thought herself clever, but she knew to trust her gut instinct…and her gut was screaming at her to go and check the breach. She turned on her heel and ran back down the corridor to Pete's office.

"Rose – where are you going?" Pete and Ms Campbell-Jones chased after her. "Owen – stay and keep an eye on that...thing." He called as he ran out the door.

Owen huffed – he always got the boring jobs.

"Rose, what the hell was that?" Mickey asked, running down the corridor towards her as she approached the office.

"They've got…they've got Gallifreyan technology – some idiot touched it..." Rose didn't stop. She ran into the office and straight to the wall behind Pete's desk. Mickey stood behind her, knowing better than to ask questions.

Rose laid a hand on the wall, trying to calm herself down. It was probably nothing…but she couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong. She reached into her jacket with trembling hands and pulled out a battered pair of kids 3D glasses. She put them on and gasped, backing away from the wall. She didn't know what to feel…first came horror and then came hope.

"Rose – what is it?" Mickey's hand on her shoulder shook her out of her trance.

Rose couldn't speak. She just handed the glasses to Mickey, her hands still shaking. Mickey took them and tentatively put them on, looking at the wall. He could see….

"Oh my God….it can't be…"

"Can't be what?" Pete asked, from the door of the office, sounding irritated.

"It's the breach Pete – there's a hole….there's void stuff leaking through." Rose said, her voice shaking as much as her hands.

"That's impossible…" Pete rushed forward, but then something began to glow at the centre of the wall. Then the one thing Rose had not wanted to see began to appear. First came the eye stalk….and then the tall metal shell…

"Run!" she yelled. Pete and Mickey didn't need telling twice – they ran as fast as they could out the door. Rose followed, but Ms Campbell-Jones was rooted to the spot, staring at the emerging Dalek. Rose tried to pull her but she just won't move, so Rose ran. As she turned the corner she heard the awful screech of: "Exterminate!", but then…nothing. "Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Dalek screeched, but there was still nothing.

Rose gathered her courage and turned back to the office.

"Rose! No!" Mickey yelled from his position near the lift, but Pete dragged him back.

"What's the matter Dalek?" Rose asked, half smiling as she took in the scene in the office. The Dalek turned around and looked at her. Ms Campbell-Jones was sat on the floor near the door, gibbering about 'giant pepper pots', but she was unharmed.

"Who are you? What is your rank?" The Dalek asked, looking at the human before it.

"Oh, I'm no-one you might just want to kill me." Rose shrugged casually, although her hands were shaking.

"I do not understand…Do you mock the supremacy of the Daleks?"

"Yes – I mock the Daleks! I killed your Emperor, I killed his army and I sucked the Cult of Skaro and all the rest of you into that void." She pointed at the wall.

"You are an enemy of the Daleks!" The Dalek moved forwards.

"That's me." Rose said casually. "Get on with it then!" 'I must be mad…' she thought, closing her eyes and hoping for the best.

"Exterminate…exterminate!" The Dalek tried to fire, but nothing happened.

"Oops…" Rose breathed a sigh of relief and put her hand to her mouth, mockingly. "Out of power are we?"

"I do not understand."

"I think I do." Said Rose, circling the Dalek carefully. "You've been in that void so long you've lost your power."

"I need organic material." The Dalek screeched, moving towards Rose. "You are a traveller…I feel your energy! Touch me, save me! I am dying!" it croaked, dropping its eye to look at the floor.

"Don't even try it." Rose gritted her teeth. "Now – tell me what is going on! How did you get here? What are your orders?"

"I do not give up my orders…You are an enemy of the Daleks!"

"I have a proposition…Dalek." Rose continued to move around the Dalek, it's eye following her. "If you tell me your orders then…"

"Then we won't kill you…yet." Came a familiar voice from the hall.

Rose turned around and saw a section of Torchwood security, headed by Mickey, standing by office door with guns pointing at the Dalek.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!" it yelled, rolling towards them.

Rose saw Mickey wink and she ran, dragging Ms Campbell-Jones with her. She pulled her behind the desk just in time as Mickey called: "Open fire!"

The fire from Torchwoods alien weaponry had the desired effect. They backed the Dalek into the corner, carefully keeping it away from the void breach. Rose watched as the weapons began to damage the Dalek's outer defences, which were already weak.

"Stop! STOP!" She yelled, managing to get the men to cease firing. "I need to talk to it!"

"Emergency temporal shift! Emergency temporal shift!" The Dalek yelled, but it didn't have enough power to even perform its emergency escape manoeuvre. It was trapped.

"Now…" Rose said, making her way forwards through the armed staff. "Tell me what you know, or we will kill you."

"You cannot! You cannot! The Daleks must survive! You must not exterminate our superior race!"

"Then talk!" Rose went right up close to the Dalek, staring into the eyepiece, with a lot more confidence than she felt. She was terrified inside, but she knew…there was no Doctor there to help. She had to be the Doctor now.

The Dalek's eye dropped, looking at the floor again. "I am just a soldier. I follow the orders of our commander in the void."

"Are you responsible for sending the Time Lord technology through the breach?"

"My commander was in possession of the technology when our unit was captured during the war. We managed to conceal it from our captors but it is powered by the touch of organic life forms and controlled by emotion. We could not use it."

"So…wait – is the Time Lord device what they used to use to travel between parallel worlds?"

"Yes…it was one of their many methods." the Dalek looked around the room, still desperate to find a way out. "Although they had many secret ways of travel that we did know about."

"How did the device end up here? How did it make a tear in the void if Daleks cannot operate it?"

"It had just enough power left in it from its previous operator to create a small tear in the fabric through to one reality. Our commander managed to tap into the power, but only after years of experimentation. We did not know which world it would lead us to but we had to escape the void. We used the last of its power to make a small tear in the void wall and then sent it through. I am just the first – I am the reconnaissance mission. I was sent through upon receiving the signal."

"What signal?"

"We were to wait until something touched the device, regenerating it, then come through, and make an emotional life-form direct the energy of the powered up device to create a larger hole in the void and allow the escape of the Daleks."

"What about the Cybermen? They were sucked into the void with you."

"Cybermen are the enemies of the Daleks - they have been exterminated."

"But in the process you have lost all your power…you've been in that void too long." Rose smiled. "Your commander has failed."

"Our commander will not fail! You activated the device, inferior beings! Its activation in this reality will have caused further tears in the void through to the other reality – the place parallel to this where we were consumed. The commander will be waiting for my return. On my return the Daleks will invade both worlds, and we shall rejoin with our supreme leaders, the cult of Skaro!" The Daleks eye lit up and it looked at Rose.

"That's impossible – the cult of Skaro was sucked into the void with you." She shook her head in disbelief and backed away.

"Our supreme leaders escaped – they initiated an emergency temporal shift to escape the Doctor, they were not in the void with us. The Daleks will be supreme! We shall destroy you all! EXTERMINATE!" It screeched, rolling forwards once again.

"Rose – get out of the way!" Mickey yelled, and instructed the staff concentrate fire on the eye.

"Daleks are supreme! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Dalek screeched as it battled the fire of the alien weaponry, but its weakened armour was failing, and then it burst open, the Dalek inside screeching in agony for a moment before expiring.