Rose frowned as she stared forward at all the Dalek bodies. Time was running short with the soldiers gaining ground on her every second. The funny thing was she couldn't help but be preoccupied with these Daleks. They were motionless and had not been given life yet.
Before the blonde had been separated from the Doctor during his previous body, she learned much from the creatures. Her first meeting was with a lone Dalek lost in a bunker of Utah in 2012. She had touched it in sympathy making it absorb the power of the time vortex from her and renew its energy. The Dalek had murdered the countless soldiers protecting the underground bunker, but it had surprisingly refused to kill her. If Rose did it again could it work? It was beyond risky, but it was this or be a sitting duck for the soldiers to get her. Rose was never a sitting duck.
She raced to the Daleks before her in the room and began laying her hand on them one by one, burning herself each time. One by one the Daleks strengthened their wall and came to life.
Rose stared warily at the Daleks she had brought into existence, killing machines birthed by her own hand, as the soldiers came into the room with guns trained on her. And then it all went blue. Almost as a chorus the Daleks announced, "Hu-man-pres-ence-de-tec-ted. Ex-ter-min-ate! Ex-ter-min-ate!"
Rose noticed, eyes terrifyingly wide, that she was surrounded on both ends of the room by the Daleks she birthed on one side and the two soldiers on the other. How could she be so stupid? She'd escaped death just to die. Rose couldn't watch as several blasts filled the room...
Abel materialized on the bridge of the S.S. Bad Wolf with eyes solemn. He had to leave to survive before Martha foolishly destroyed the Hand of Omega. He hated it, but he couldn't stop her. The Hand was gone and after that explosion so was Martha with it. Sure they had no future together, but Martha had one hell of a husband and a rewarding job. He'd been in love because she was so complete and now… now she was gone.
Abel's reverie was broken when he noticed Dalek Caan moving toward him threateningly. He asked it, "What are you doing?"
"The-proj-ect-is-a-fail-ure. You-are-a-fail-ure. You-will-be-ex-ter-min-ate-d."
Rather than debate the Dalek for his life, Abel instead turned to the Doctor more terrified for someone else. "I'm sorry, Doctor. She destroyed the Hand and she died with it."
The Doctor knew it might be too late for Martha, but maybe he could save Abel's life. The Time Agent had been his enemy but nobody else deserved to die.
With a burst of desperate energy, the Doctor jumped forward shouting, "Noooo!" as the Dalek shot the Time Agent with its cannon making him light up and scream before falling to the ground as a pile of ash.
The Doctor had almost reached him, but was too late as he stared at the ashes of his enemy. This was a man that at first looked to be obsessive and revenge minded like any other villain he'd ever faced. What he learned instead was that Abel was just a large risk taker with a large heart for Martha. If there was such a thing as a good war general in his book this Time Agent was it. Now, he was set to follow in the man's footsteps via the same weapon.
"And-now-the-Doc-tor. My-great-est-foe. Dal-ek-Caan-will-be-res-pons-i-ble-for-the-death-of-the-last-Time-Lord."
"Will you kill me as carelessly as you killed your partner, Caan? Yes, you learned how to lie, and cheat, and steal from me, but what about honor? Don't I deserve a fighting chance if I am so mighty?" It was desperate but the words seemed to fall on deaf ears. Was this how the Doctor was going to die, as a fodder for the last true Dalek in the universe?
Suddenly, an explosion happened near them turning both of their attentions to the doorway. A body of a now headless Dalek sat near them.
Caan directed its attention on the Doctor. "What-did-you-do?"
With a shared desperation he answered, "I don't know. It's something else."
Footsteps approached them before they saw the force that destroyed that Dalek. The Doctor looked on in disbelief not believing his eyes as Dalek Caan turned its attention as well to the figure in recognition. The Time Lord properly grinned seeing the sight. It was Rose.
Rose walked in nonchalantly as if she had simply missed a right on the way to the loo. "Dalek Caan. Doctor." She winked suggestively at the later. "Fancy meeting you here like this!"
The Doctor still grinned back at her like an idiot saying nothing. Rose was so alive right now, but so very much in danger. He had to do something. There'd been way too much death today and above all he couldn't lose Rose now. Not after all that had happened. "Rose, run!"
She laughed like the idea was ludicrous. "Not running anymore, Doctor."
The Doctor couldn't comprehend it. For someone who had almost died three times in the past day she looked downright cocky. Save for when she had become the Bad Wolf she had never been this confident. Yet, there were no golden auras this time or miraculous powers about her. Rose was just Rose Tyler, but with a strong presence in the room like their current predicament were only small potatoes.
"The-Bad-Wolf-is-re-spons-ible. I-will-ex-term-in-ate-the a-bom-in-ation-once-and-for-all."
Rose turned and grinned at the Dalek still exuding the still unexplained confidence. "You'd like that, Caan, wouldn't you?"
"Why-do-you-not-fear? I-will-kill-you."
Rose walked closer to the Dalek making it back up just a tad and positioned herself intimidatingly so she could be directly seen by its eyestalk. "Thought you could control it all, aye, Caan? Daleks birthed by the hand of a time traveler, because you can't ever give anything the breath of life in that shell. You thought you could use Abel only planning to kill him in the end." She looked distastefully at the pile of dust assuming her theory was true. "But, know this oh mister big bad Dalek! He hid some Daleks without giving them life until they met another time traveler."
The Doctor interrupted. "Rose, you didn't?"
She nodded. "I so did and there's going to be one more death in this war, and it ain't going to me."
"Ex-ter…"
Dalek Caan suddenly stopped his battle cry seeing three newly created Daleks enter the room in synchronization. Caan realized the fact immediately. These Daleks felt completely wrong, more wrong than the ones birthed by Abel. "Dal-eks-will-kill-the-hum-an."
One of them answered. "No."
"Dal-eks-do-not-know-the-con-cept-of-no. Ex-ter-min-ate."
Rose stepped back away from Dalek Caan as he shot at one of the Daleks, she had birthed, making it explode while the other two fired back. With screams of defeat and agony the last pure Dalek in the universe exploded spectacularly…
