A/N So, sorry this is late but real life has been pretty crappy. My sister got engaged to a guy she's been seeing for a couple of years now on the 20th and he changed his mind and sent her an email on Christmas saying he was calling it off. She didn't actually read the email until she'd been at his boxing day get together for five hours, so I've spent a lot of time with her telling her he clearly isn't worth it. I was going to update a few days ago when it started to quieten down but then my laptop crashed and I forgot to back up my files so this is actually my second version of this chapter. I know it's not as good as my original but truth be told I just want to move in from the whole thing and start new for 2014. I may change this chapter at a later date, but as of right now I'm leaving it as this one. Happy new year.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, so please don't sue. But if you do you could only win, my impressive three cardboard boxes, two thirds of a Christmas, a three year old Christmas pudding, eight used tissues, my left shoe, and a bag of used party poppers.
Chapter Seven: My First Dalek.
"Ok, so where are we?" Rose asked as jumped down from the jump seat.
"Don't know. Some kind of distress signal drawing the TARDIS off course. We're on Earth. Utah, North America. About half a mile underground."
"Ok and when are we?"
"Two thousand and twelve."
Rose opened the door and the Doctor and her made their way around.
"Look like a museum." Rose said when the Doctor flicked the lights on.
"An alien museum. Someone's got a hobby. They must have spent a fortune on this. Chunks of meteorite, moon dust. That's a milometer from the Rosewell spaceship."
"That's a bit of Slitheen! They have a Slitheen arm, stuffed like a Dodo."
"Oh, look at you." The Doctor said as he saw the head of a Cyberman.
"What's that?" Rose asked trying to block out the last time she came face to face with a Cyberman.
"An old friend of mine. Well, enemy. The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old."
"You're not old, you look great to me." Rose said "So is that where the signal is coming from?"
"No, it's stone cold dead. The signal's alive. Something's reaching out, calling for help." Before Rose could stop him the Doctor touched the display case and the alarms all went off.
"You just had to touch it, didn't you?" Rose asked as armed guards rushed in from all sides and cut them off from the TARDIS. "If someone's collecting aliens, that makes you Exhibit A."
The Doctor and Rose were lead away by some of the guards leading them to the man in charge.
~~DW~~
"And this is the last. Paid eight hundred thousand dollars for it."
"Well what does it do?"
"Well, you see the tubes on the side? It must be to channel something. I think maybe fuel."
"I really wouldn't hold it like that." The Doctor said.
"Shut it." Goddard said.
"Really, though, that's wrong."
"Is it dangerous?" Adam asked slightly worried now.
"No, it just looks silly." The Doctor said as he reached for the item. He stopped when he heard the guards' firing bolts click all around him and Rose. He looked up at Van Stratton and he passed over the object.
"You just need to be delicate." Rose said as the Doctor started to stroke the item, playing several different notes.
"It's a musical instrument."
"And it's a long way from home."
"Here let me." Van Stannen said and the Doctor passed it back over to him. He tried but the notes he produced were harsh.
"She did you had to be delicate. It reacts to the smallest fingerprints. It needs precision." Van Statten loosen his grip and raised his finger slightly and finally managed to produce some nicer sounds.
"Very good." The Doctor complimented "Quite the expert."
"As are you." Van Statten said as he casually tossed the instrument to the side. "Who exactly are you?"
"I'm the Doctor. And you are?"
"Like you don't know. We're hidden away with the most valuable collection of extra-terrestrial artefacts in the world, and you just stumbled in by mistake."
"Pretty much just sums me up, yeah."
"The question is, how did you get in? Fifty three floors down, with your little cat burglar accomplice. You're quite a collector yourself, she's rather pretty."
"She gonna smack you if you get calling her she." Rose said meaning every word of it.
"She's English too, I didn't notice earlier. Hey, little Lord Fauntleroy. Got you a girlfriend."
"This is Mr Henry Van Statten." Adam supplied.
"And who's he when he's at home?" Rose asked.
"Mister Van Statten owns the internet."
"The internet?" Rose questioned raising an eyebrow.
"The whole world thinks nobody owns it, and let just keep it that way kids." Van Statten said.
"So you're just about an expert in everything except the things in your museum. Anything you don't understand, you lock up?" The Doctor commented.
"And you claim greater knowledge?"
"I don't need to make claims, I know how good I am."
"And yet, I captured you. Right next to the cage. What were you doing down there?"
"You tell me."
"The cage contains my one living specimen."
"And what's that?"
"Like you don't know."
"Show me."
"You want to see it." Van Statten asked and Rose decided to interrupt before they whipped them out and measured, although that might actually be interesting Rose thought letting her mind wonder to some more of her dirtier fantasies of the Doctor.
"Blimey, you can smell the testosterone in here." She said instead.
"Goddard, inform the Cage we're heading down. You English. Look after the girl. Go and canoodle or spoon or whatever you British do. And you, Doctor with no name, come and see my pet."
Before the Doctor could leave Rose grabbed his arm "Doctor I have a bad feeling about what is in his cage, just be careful, ok? I need you safe remember that." Rose said.
"I will be, ok. Watch out for that Adam guy." The Doctor whispered back and pressed a quick kiss to the top of her head and followed Van Statten out of the room leaving Rose with Adam.
~~DW~~
"Sorry about the mess. Mr Van Statten sort of lets me do my own thing, so long as I deliver the goods. What do you think that is?" Adam asked as he handed Rose a piece of metal.
"A lump of metal." Rose said uninterested.
"Yeah. Yeah, but I think, well, I'm almost certain, it's from the hull of a spacecraft. The thing is, it's all true. Everything the United Nations tries to keep quiet, spacecraft, aliens, visitors to Earth. They really exist."
"No! Really?" Rose said sarcastically
"I know it sounds incredible, but I honestly believe the whole universe is just teeming with life.
"I'm gobsmacked, yeah. And you what catalogue it?"
"Best job in the world." Adam boasted.
"Sure it is." Rose snorted. "How'd you end up here then?"
"Van Statten has agents all over the world looking for geniuses to recruit."
"You're a genius?"
"Sorry, but yeah. I can't help it. I was born clever. When I was eight, I logged onto the US Defence System. Nearly caused World War Three." Adam said thinking he was impressing Rose.
"What, and that's funny?" Rose asked more disgusted than she was before, "What if it had? What if innocent people had died because of your joke?"
"Well, you should have been there to see them running about." Adam said looking down.
"Well, the real question is, can you get me down stairs? To see what's in the cage?" Rose asked.
"Sure I can do that." Adam said still trying to impress her.
~~DW~~
"Level three access. Special clearance from Mr Van Statten." Adam bluffed as he and Rose passed the guard into the cage. "Don't get too close." He warned her.
"Hello. Are you in pain? My name's Rose Tyler, I can help you. But you have to do as I tell you, understand? You will have to do exactly as I say."
"Yes." The Dalek answered.
"What?" Rose asked making sure she knew exactly what it was agreeing to.
"They torture me, but still they fear me. Do you fear me?" The Dalek asked trying to play on Rose's emotions.
"No." Rose answered honestly.
"I am dying."
"I can help."
"I welcome death. But I am glad that before I die I have met a human who was not afraid. My race is dead and I shall die alone."
"You can see the sunlight one last time, I can give you that much." Rose said as she touched the Dalek, this time she left her hand on it for longer hoping that if she mixed more of her DNA with it, it wouldn't kill anyone.
"Rose, no!" Adam shouted.
"Genetic material extrapolated. Initiate cellular reconstruction!"
Rose moved her hand from the head piece as Simmons entered holding his drill, "What the hell have you done?" He shouted at her as he made his way towards the Dalek. The Dalek raised it plunger, "What are you going to do? Sucker me to death?" Simmons teased.
"No!" Rose shouted "You don't have to hurt him." She said as she pushed her way pass Simmons and got closer to the Dalek. The TV screen in the cell turned on and Rose saw the Doctor on it looking terrified.
"You've got to get out of there Rose!"
"Doctor, don't worry. It won't hurt me and it won't hurt anyone else as long as I'm safe." Rose said talking to the Doctor. She turned to face the Dalek, "You won't hurt anyone will you?" Rose asked it.
"No, I will not. I will obey my orders." The Dalek replied.
"Why is it taking your orders Rose? What did you do?"
"I touched it. It absorbed my DNA. It just wants to see the sunlight one last time Doctor. Get everyone else out of here, and we'll make our way up."
"Rose it can't feel, it doesn't feel." The Doctor said. Just then the shutter doors went down locking them in the cage. "What just happened?"
"Someone locked the doors, but we both know that it can get through those locks and if they are pointing guns at me on the other side then it will attack. Just get them out Doctor."
"Ok." The Doctor turned to Van Statten. "Get everyone out of there. Rose has managed to gain control for the moment but it will kill on sight if it wants to. Get them out."
"No. No one will leave. I want that thing alive and its cell."
"You idiot! You'll get everyone killed!" Rose shouted at him. "Ok," she said turning back to the Dalek "Let's go, but remember no killing."
The Dalek moved towards the door and placed its plunger over the keypad, Rose only had to wait thirty seconds before the door slid opened and Rose saw that the guards where still on the other side. Pointing guns towards her. "Don't shoot!" She shouted but they didn't pay attention to her and started to shoot.
"Exterminate!" The Dalek shouted and proceed to kill everyone in the room. Rose looked at it horrified "Why did you do that?" Rose asked.
"I had to follow my primary orders. I must protect my creator. I must protect you." It responded.
Rose and the Dalek slowly made their way through the building going higher and higher until they reach the point of no return. Rose and the Dalek entered the loading bay and again they were surrounded by people trying to shot them, "wait use your shielding to protect us both and we can get the elevator and get out of here."
"I obey." The Dalek said as it force field went around Rose and they made their way through loading bay with everyone trying to kill them but at least this time they survive Rose thought to herself as they entered the lift. "Ok let's go all the way up." Rose said as she pressed the button for the top floor. The elevator stopped and the doors opened and Rose saw Van Statten and the Doctor standing in the office.
"Don't move. Don't do anything. It won't hurt anyone, it can't unless it disobeys my orders." Rose said calmly to the Doctor.
"Why you Rose? Why is it following your orders?" The Doctor asked not understanding.
"I extrapolated the DNA of Rose Tyler. What am I now? She has contaminated me." The Dalek answered. It turned its eyestalk when Van Statten tried to move away from them all. "Van Statten. You tortured me. Why?"
"I wanted to help you, I just, I don't know. I was trying to help. I thought if we could get through to you, if we could mend you. I wanted you better." Van Statten tried to make excuses and when that didn't seem to work he change tactics to begging, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry! I just want you to talk!" He admitted as he backed up against the wall.
"Then hear me talk now. Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!"
"Don't do it! Don't kill him! You don't have to do anymore, remember. There must be something else, not just killing. What else do you want? I know you want something more."
"I want freedom."
"Ok, let's leave them here alive and keep on going up. Just you, me and the Doctor."
"I obey." It replied and headed back towards the elevator as Rose and the Doctor entered as well. The Doctor was planning on how to get out and save Rose but at the same time he was curious as to what Rose's DNA had done to the Dalek. It had completely changed it, it wasn't killing. It just wanted to not be tortured. The elevator stopped and the three of them exited and the Dalek pointed it gun towards the ceiling and shot a hole in it letting through some sunlight straight down onto its eyepiece.
"You're out. You made it."
"How does it feel?" The Dalek asked. It then opened its casing at the middle and the dome section lifted up to reveal the one-eyed mutant within. It moved one of its tendrils out into the sunlight.
"What's it doing?" The Doctor asked not believing what he was seeing. Here he was, the last Time Lord because the Daleks killed everyone else, they had killed hundreds of people and he could finish it. But he didn't because it was the same creature anymore.
"It's the sunlight, that's all it wants." Rose said.
"But it can't."
"It didn't kill Van Statten, or me, or all those people in the loading bay when it could of. It's changing, changing for the better."
"They're all dead Rose. All the Time Lords." The Doctor said in a whisper.
"I know."
"Why do we survive?" The Dalek asked.
"I don't know."
"I am the last of the Daleks."
"You're not even that. Rose did more than regenerate you. You've absorbed her DNA. You're mutating. And you know that."
"Into what?"
"Something new. I'm sorry." The Doctor apologised.
"Isn't that better?" Rose asked.
"Not for a Dalek."
"I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness. Rose, give me orders. Order me to die."
"Is that what you really want?" Rose asked making sure.
"This is not life. This is sickness. I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!"
"Ok, I order you to die."
"Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?"
"Yeah, sometimes."
"So am I. Exterminate!" The Dalek closed it eye and raised it armour, as Rose moved away and the Doctor pulled her into his arms, they watched it rise into the air. The balls on its lower body detached from its body and spread around it creating a force field, and then it imploded, keeping Rose and the Doctor safe.
~~DW~~
The Doctor and Rose walked away hand in hand, "So Doctor I was thinking."
"When aren't you?" The Doctor teased.
"Well, I think we could always give Adam a trip to say thank you."
"Why would I want to do that?"
"He did get me into the cage, and if I hadn't of gotten in there God only knows what they could of done to that Dalek. Imagine if it had woken up and wasn't mixed with my DNA. It would have been horrific."
"I still don't see why I should give him a trip. If you want to ask him out you can keep that on Earth and out of the TARDIS." The Doctor pouted.
"Trust me Doctor, he's not my type." Rose laughed, "Nowhere near in fact. I just thought it would be a nice thank you."
"Fine." The Doctor said as they reached the TARDIS, "A little piece of home. Better than nothing."
"Is that the end of it, the Time War?"
"I'm the only one left. I win. How about that?"
"You may be the last Time Lord but you aren't ever going to be alone as long as me and the TARDIS have something to say about it." Rose said giving his hand a squeeze. Before the Doctor could say anything Adam appeared.
"We'd better get out. Van Statten's disappeared. They're closing down the base. Goddard says they're going to fill it with cement, like it never existed."
"About time." Rose said.
"I'll have to go back home." Adam said looking down at his feet in a defeated manner.
"Well, actually me and the Doctor where thinking that maybe to say thank you, we could take you on a trip."
"Yeah fine, let's get out."
"A trip to the stars. To somewhere else where."
"What're you talking about?"
"It's on your own head." The Doctor said turning around and unlocking the TARDIS.
"What're you doing? She said cement. She wasn't joking. We're going to get sealed in." Adam said as he watch the Doctor and Rose enter the TARDIS. "Doctor? What're you doing standing inside a box? Rose?" Adam opened the door and saw how big it was on the inside. He left and walked around the outside and came back in, "How does it work? It's bigger on the inside!" Adam said in a state of shock.
"Alright now we can go." The Doctor said slightly worried that Rose had asked if Adam could come because she wanted to have some else on board and was getting bored of him. He decided not to think about it as he started to flick controls and push buttons as Rose walked up and pushed the button the Doctor was about to press.
"Let's go Doctor. One thank you trip and then back to our travels."
