Katelyn looked between the Doctor and the two tanks. She moved a little closer to look at them, but both Rory and Amy grab one of her arms and pulled her back a safe distance.
"What are the one person tanks? Oh my brother would love that." She looked at Rory who just shook his head, giving her a look that said this was not something to be happy to see. It was after said look, when the ceiling opened and the floor started rise. Katelyn clung to Amy not able to keep her balance. When the floor stopped Katelyn saw they were in a dome like area filled more of the tanks, and a blue Police Box which seemed very out-of-place.
"Where are we, a space ship?" Amy asked the Doctor.
"Not just any spaceship, The Parliament of the Daleks. Be brave." He said taking Katelyn into his arms. "Sorry you have to be here for this." He whispered as he gave a quick peck on her cheek.
"What's a Dalek?" She asked only to have the Doctor step back from her immediately giving her a disappointed look.
"What do we do?" Amy asked bringing the Doctor's attention back to the room filled with Daleks.
"Make them remember you." He turned to the Daleks. "Well, come on then. You've got me. What are you waiting for? At long last, it's Christmas! Here I am." He held his arms out wide, his eyes closed, expecting them to shoot him.
"SAVE US." A metallic voice like the one before said. "YOU WILL SAVE US."
"I'll what." The Doctor opens his eyes spinning on the spot to look at where the voice was coming from.
"YOU WILL SAVE THE DALEKS." Suddenly all the Dalek's started chanting those words, the light on them flashing on and off.
"That's a Dalek. That's what they all look like under their armor?" She asked Amy who only nodded.
"Well this is new." The Doctor stated almost looking cheerful, but then started pacing back and forth.
"So are they the bad guys, like the Minotaur?" Katelyn questioned wanting to know why they looked so horrified at the Daleks.
"Worse, there basically the Doctor's, well anyone's worst enemy." Rory answered her this time. "They think of themselves as the top race so they kill everyone else."
"So space they're Nazis, greaaat," Sarcasm just pouring out her.
"What's he doing?" Rory asked, just noticing the Doctor pacing.
"He's chosen the most defendable area in the room, counted all the Daleks, counted all the exits, and now he's calculating the exact distance we're standing apart and starting to worry. Oh, and look at him frowning now." Amy said giving a play-by-play of the Doctor, as he paced by another ginger woman. "Katelyn doesn't know what a Dalek is. Something's wrong with Amy and Rory, and who's going to fix it?" He then straightens his bow tie. "And he straightens his bow tie." She finishes as just before the white Dalek spoke.
"WE HAVE ARRIVED." It announced, as the Doctor checked his watch.
"Arrived where?" The Doctor asked, sounding annoyed.
"DOCTOR" The blob called to him, and suddenly the ginger woman spoke.
"The Prime Minister will speak with you now." Katelyn saw that the woman had a smaller version of what she guessed to be the Dalek's eye sticking out of her forehead.
"Do you remember who you were before they emptied you out and turned you into their puppet?" The Doctor glowered at her as he moved closer.
"My memories are only reactivated if they are required to facilitate cover or disguise." There was no emotion in her words; it was like she had been stripped of them.
"You had a daughter."
"I know. I've read my file." She gave a wired smile before beckoning him to speak with the Prime Minister Dalek.
"Well?" He question as he stood in front of the Prime Minister.
"WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF THE DALEK ASYLUM?"
"According to legend, you have a dumping ground, a planet where you lock up all the Daleks that go wrong. The battle-scarred, the insane, and the ones even you can't control." The Doctor said with a smile that didn't meet his eyes. "It's never made any sense to me."
"WHY NOT?"
"Because you would just kill them," He started playing with a white podium.
"IT IS OFFENSIVE TO US TO EXTINGUISH SUCH DIVINE HATRED." The Doctor moved back, but this time hunched over to be eye level with the Prime Minister.
"Offensive?" He asked, his breath almost fogging the glass between them.
"DOES IT SURPRISE YOU TO KNOW THE DALEKS HAVE A CONCEPT OF BEAUTY?"
"Yep totally space Nazis." Katelyn mumbled to herself.
"I thought you'd run out of ways to make me sick. Hello again. You think hatred is beautiful." He moved away from the Prime Minster, anger written all over his face.
"PERHAPS THAT IS WHY WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO KILL YOU." The Doctor stops mid-step, but before he had time to react a hole opens up in the floor just where the scarf had been. It was safe to say it was no longer there as Katelyn looked down seeing a planet beneath them.
"The Asylum, it occupies the entire planet, right to the core." The ginger women spoke, walking with the Doctor towards the hole.
"How many Daleks are in there?" The Doctor asked peering down at the planet.
"A count has not been made, millions, certainly."
"Are they alive?" Katelyn asked hoping there was fewer to worry about.
"It has to be assumed. The Asylum is fully automated. Supervision is not required." A yes would have been enough, creepy lady.
"Armed?" Amy questioned.
"The Daleks are always armed." Katelyn seriously did not like this.
"What color?" Everyone looked at Rory confused, except Katelyn who just giggled at the blonde. "I'm sorry; there weren't any good questions left." He responded hotly.
"This signal is being received from the very heart of the Asylum." The Women says and classical music began to play.
"WHAT IS THE NOISE? EXPLAIN, EXPLAIN!"
"It's me." The Doctor mimed playing a triangle.
"I'm sorry, what?" Rory questioned.
"It's me, playing the triangle. Okay, I got buried in the mix, Carmen lovely show." The Doctor moved back to the white podium buzzing it with his green flashlight this time. "Someone's transmitting this. Have you considered tracking back the signal and talking to them?" They remained silent to the question. "Hello, hello? Carmen. Hello?" He spoke it the podium while pressing buttons. "Come in, come in, Carmen."
"Hello, yes, yes, sorry! Do you read me?" A female voice said cutting off the music.
"Yes, reading you loud and clear. Identify yourself and report your status."
"Hello. Are you real? Are you actually, properly real?" The voice asked sounding shocked.
"Yes, confirmed, actually, properly real." The Doctor chuckled, and gave the ginger woman a snide smirk."
"Oswin Oswald, junior entertainment officer, starship Alaska. Current status crashed and shipwrecked somewhere not nice. I've been here a year, rest of the crew missing. Provisions good but keen to move on." Katelyn could tell she liked this Oswin already.
"A year? Are you okay? Are you under attack?" He asked worried.
"Some local life forms, been keeping them out." Oswin said confidently.
"Do you know what those life forms are?"
"I know a Dalek when I hear one, yeah." Was I the only one that didn't know what a damn Dalek was?
"What have you been doing on your own against the Daleks for a year?"
"Making soufflés."
"Soufflés, against the Daleks," He looked at the white Dalek amused. "Where'd you get the milk?"
"THIS CONVERSATION IS IRRELEVANT!" Katelyn couldn't agree more with the Dalek, but kept that to herself.
"No, it isn't." The signal cut off, as the Doctor argued with the Dalek. "Because a star liner has crashed into your Asylum, and someone's got in. And if someone can get in, then everything can get out. A tsunami of insane Daleks, even you don't want that."
"THE ASYLUM MUST BE CLEANSED!"
"Then why is it still here? You've enough firepower on this ship to blast it out of the sky." The Doctor said and gestured at the hole.
"The Asylum force field is impenetrable." The woman explains.
"Doesn't it have an off switch?" Katelyn asked the woman.
"It can only be turned off from within the Asylum."
"A small task force could sneak through a force field. Send in a couple of Daleks." He walked back to where his companions stood, but stoped, turning on to spot clapping. "Oh, oh, that's good, that's brilliant. You're all too scared to go down there. Not one of you will go, so tell me, what do the Daleks do when they're too scared?"
"THE PREDATOR OF THE DALEKS WILL BE DEPLOYED!" The white Dalek spoke as others like the woman came into the room.
"You don't have a Predator, and even if you did, why would they turn off a force field for you?" The two of the male ones grabbed Katelyn first.
"Let go!" The Doctor's head whipped in her direction ignoring the two who had gotten hold of him as well.
"May I clarify? The Predator is the Dalek's word for you." The ginger woman said as the time lord struggled against the two men.
"Me, me?!" He saw them force a black wristband on his wrist, but he was more concerned with the ones holding Katelyn.
"You will need this. It will protect you from the nanocloud." They put the same wristband on Katelyn.
"The what, the nano what?" They forced him to stand in front of the hole.
"The gravity beam will convey you close to the source of the transmission. You must find a way to deactivate the force field from there."
"You're going to fire me at a planet? That's your plan? I get fired at a planet and expected to fix it."
"In fairness, that is slightly your M O." Rory admitted to the Doctor.
"Don't be fair to the Daleks when they're firing me at a planet. And let go of her now!" They released her, and one of the men let go of the Doctor. The male that had restrained the Doctor, forces a wristband on both Rory and then Amy as well. "What do you want with them?"
"WE KNOW THE DOCTOR REQUIRES COMPANIONS," The white Dalek states.
"Oh, brilliant," Rory groaned.
"But I'm not his companion!" Katelyn argued.
"You are Katelyn Mary Keith; you are known to be the Doctor's most favored companion." The woman says to her. "He will do anything to save you." Katelyn looked to the Doctor who quickly looked away to Amy.
"Don't worry. We'll get through this, I promise. Don't be scared." He told Amy.
"Scared? Who's scared?" She said smirking. "Geronimo." The Doctor chuckled, but stopped as when he was pushed down the gravity beam, the rest of them following suit.
"Wrong way up! Wrong way up," Rory shouts as the travel through the beam. Katelyn grabs his foot trying to help him right himself but couldn't get him to stop squirming.
"Rory!" Amy yelled as both he and Katelyn passed her. The Doctor made to grab Katelyn but missed as they plummeted faster to the asylum. Katelyn covered her eyes, like Rory, not wanting to see where they end up.
