Attack of the Pepperpots - The Suicide Game


I blinked gaping at them, then glanced back at the Doctor,

"PROCEED",

"Wait, wait, wait, just..just hang on!", the Doctor exclaimed, "Look, there's only...what...a dozen of you..on board. How are you meant to rebuild an entire Dalek crucible with just 12, I mean last time I saw you there were six, have you...just doubled?", he asked, frantically trying to bring the heat off me.

"WE HAVE COME DIRECTLY FROM A SPACE-TIME EVENT", one Dalek explained,

"What was that?".

The Dalek swiveled and looked at me then back at the Doctor who nodded, "Gotcha, but why here, why Earth, why now?",

"THE DESTINATION WAS UNINTENTIONAL AND ACCIDENTAL",

"WE ARRIVED DEEP WITHIN THE EARTHS CRUST AND HAVE BEEN REBUILDING OURSELVES SINCE THE SECOND MILENIA",

"A thousand years? In a thousand years you've built 12 of you off a thousands years worth of suicidal people?", I asked, "Why would you do it for so long, what's the point?",

"WE MUST TAKE TIME IN REBUILDING",

"Why?", the Doctor asked. They paused,

"You're scared", Rory spoke up, quite timidly, but he was right. They were scared,

"You are", the Doctor agreed, glancing at me,

"Why are you scared of me?", I asked, hesitantly,

"WE MUST BE CAUTIOUS AROUND YOU...IT IS NECESSARY",

"Why, what could I have possibly done..to scare off such a heartless, mercyless race?", I demanded, and as soon as I'd asked that the people around started shaking, as if they were having a seizure and the liquid around them turned crimson.

I frowned, as confused as the Daleks were, so much so that the ones restraining the Ponds and the Doctor let go of them to investigate,

"What...what's happening? What are you doing to them?", Amy questioned,

"THIS IS NOT OF OUR DOING",

"Well...of course it is", the Doctor called, scanning the tube with his sonic, "You're the only one in control of this whole thing, you must have something to do with this", he said, running up to the computers and scans.

He peered for a moment then chuckled, shaking his head,

"Stupid Daleks, you've forgotten to take account, the humans you first took you scanned for virus. Thousand years later they're off plugging in the drugs and upgrade, you forgot to scan. System needs an upgrade or you'll all fail", he explained, for our benefit and the Daleks.

One Dalek aimed it's gun at the Doctor, "YOU WILL FIX IT",

"Of course, just one thing before I do", he said, then belted out of there, grabbing my hand as Amy grabbed Rory's and ran out of the room, ducking out of the way of the Daleks shots.


We paused by a corner wall and panted, looking back and forth and around,

"Everyone ok?", the Doctor asked, giving me a look. I nodded, then smiled,

"Yeah..thanks", I cleared my throat, "And..you know...I'm sorry, for not appreciating you and stuff".

He beamed at me and I chuckled and shook my head before he pulled me into a bear hug that I was only too happy to reciprocate,

"Back to the situation", Rory groaned,

"Right yes", the Doctor said, "Those people are still alive, the Daleks are draining their life support, there a way to override and reroute the entire system, bang and done",

"That simple?" I asked,

"Of course".

I looked down as he strolled of in search of a room, "No..but Doctor, there's something else...humans would never just kill themselves, not like that. They...we prefer doing these things in private, of course they'll be a few... but all these public suicides. Out in the open. Escalators. I mean, they've interfered somehow".

He nodded and looked down, contemplating it, "This is more than building power. Suicides", he shook his head, "Playing with people like that", he muttered walking off.

I sighed and followed him and the Ponds.

As soon as we walked into a room filled with screens and circular tubes the doors around us closed and locked and the Daleks pooped up on the screens. So they'd been watching us,

"Ah hello again", the Doctor greeted,

"Hello", Amy said,

"Hi", me and Rory waved. ,

"DOCTOR, YOU WILL ASSIST US",

"Yeah, or...how about I don't assist you",

"THEN MEGAN WILL",

"Megan will what?",

"ASSIST US",

"What?", I scoffed, "I don't know anything about that",

"YOU WILL".

Then a searing pain went through my hand and I cried out,

"What the hell is happening to me! Doctor!".

Faintly I could hear the Doctor shouting to stop this but then that became as insignificant as the sweatiness in my shoe. I clamped my hand over my mouth in an attempt to calm myself down but then saw it was glowing. I gasped as the Ponds and the Doctor fussed over me, I threw myself back against the wall and stared and the cut on my hand from earlier that was glowing where the scab would of been,

"AHhhh...relativity", I gasped, then paused, "Whaaaahhhhhh! No! Time and...Dalekanium!".

Then it all fazed away and I almost passed out but caught myself...well...Rory caught me and my head rolled forward onto his shoulder,4

"Megan, Megan, look at me", he said, I blinked and stared into his eyes, focusing only on them. Huh, they were sort of dark brown. I could see a bit of my reflection in them too. Ha!

"NOW SHE HAS THE KNOWLEDGE, SHE WILL HELP US",

"Are you insane, she's in no state to help you!", Amy protested,

"SHE WILL, WE'VE IMPLANTED HER MIND WITH EVERY DALEK FACT, EVERY UNIVERSAL EQUATION, EVERYTHING SHE WILL NEED AND IT ALL CAME FROM US",

"If you had the information why use me?", I asked drowsily,

"WE DO NOT HAVE THE SAME MENTAL CAPACITY AS HUMANS TO CHANNEL THIS KNOWLEDGE",

"You mean she's part of the Hind Mind?", the Doctor asked,

"YES",

"You idiots! Oh can't you see, you've been questioning how she had the knowledge to do what she did, it was you all this time! God! You've just created an endless paradox", he exclaimed,

"Do what, what did I do?",

"Spoilers",

"THIS IS NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW, MEGAN WILL FIX THE PROBLEM",

"Why'd you choose me?",

"ONLY YOU WOULD HAVE THE COMPASSION TO SAY YES, SOMETHING THE DOCTOR WOULD LACK, WHICH IS WHY HE SAID NO",

"Why would I need compassion?"

"BECAUSE IN TRYING TO FIX THE PROBLEM YOU MAY REVIVE ALL THE HUMANS".

I frowned and looked at the Doctor who was looking down, I glanced at the Ponds then back at him, "Did you know this?",

"THE TIME LORD IS ONCE AGAIN SELFISH",

"Stop it", he growled,

"Hang on, hang on, hang on. You're telling me that by saving you he would've also saved all those people", I asked,

"DOCTOR?", the Dalek said, looking at him through the screen,

"No, I asked you for a reason",

"YES",

"Ok, but you're gonna answer something for me. Humans, they would never kill themselves that way, what did you do?",

"TELEPATHIC BRAINWAVE, RELEASED IN SEISMIC PATTERNS ECHOING AROUND THE GLOBE. THEY CONTAIN A LITTLE CONSCIOUSNESS OF A BLACK HOLE. ALL THAT EMPTINESS, BUT JUST A SLIVER, ANY MORE AND THEY GO MAD",

"But why didn't the whole human race kill themselves",

"THE HUMANS NEEDED TO EXPERIENCE GRIEF TO UNLOCK THESE BRAINWAVES",

"So...so, the government knew about this all, all this time?", Rory asked,

"They were holding off invasion from them", Amy explained, side-glancing the Doctor, "They bargained with the Dalek".

I looked down, one more thing was haunting me,

"One more thing", I said slowly, "Who am I, to you, what am I to you?",

It paused then looked me dead in the eye, "YOU ARE OUR NIGHTMARE".

I stared at it for a moment then shut the screen off angrily, "Urgh!", I exclaimed, then looked the Doctor dead in the eye, "You tell me, you tell me what I did", I said, slowly and threateningly,

"Megan-",

"Tell me", I demanded, "Please",

"In your personal future you do something terrible to the Daleks. Something that will make each and every Dalek terrified of you",

"Do what?...Doctor, do what?!".

He just shook his head and went to the computers bringing up a number of screens, I groaned and went to the back of the room, trying to calm myself down.

"Ok...I can get this door open, we can run to the Escalator and I'll set a self destruct on this place", he announced,

"What?", Amy scoffed, "You're gonna leave them",

"If I do I set the Dalek's free, they are capable of killing way more people",

"We can find a way", Rory argued,

"Oh, really", the Doctor asked, "Ok, tell me a way",

"Doctor", Amy warned,

"No, seriously, if there is a way, tell me. Because I don't want to do this", he said, staring into Amy's eyes. I blinked and fazed out of their argument, feeling slightly more dizzy than before, I could hear their voices and if I tired I could work out what they were saying but I was focusing more on finding the wall behind me so I could slide to the floor easily.

"Doctor, if we're gonna do this we have to think!",

"I've tried Pond, I have",

"There are hundreds of people that we can either save or kill", Rory said firmly, "We are not gonna do the later",

"Then tell us, how else are we going to stop them", the Doctor retorted.

The wall I was resting on wasn't in fact the wall, it was the door, so when it slid open I gasped and fell back onto a hard, cold metal, I spun and stared at the Dalek whose eyestalk was level with my eyes.

"YOU WILL COME", it ordered,

"She will not", the Doctor protested coming up beside me and gripping my arms.

I swayed a bit, off balance, then blinked and shook my head to refocus,

"You've crammed all that information into her head, in what way do you think she is going to help you?", he spat.

I yanked my arm from his grip and stepped to the Daleks side, he frowned at me as the Ponds got to his side, all staring in confusion, "They're not going to kill me", I muttered, mustering up all the concentration I could, "And I can...can save them..those people",

"Look at you, Megan, you're in no state", Amy argued

"If not me, then who?", I asked, regarding the Doctor for a moment, then I looked at the Dalek who regarded me then turned and glided away. I smiled at them and the door closed.

I took in a deep breath and followed on after the Dalek.


I entered the central room with all the dead people and frowned. They weren't red anymore, or shaking. Was it all fine now?

"WE PUT THEM IN A TEMPORARY STASIS. IT WILL NOT LAST LONG",

I nodded and went the computers, noticing the computer had a subtle beeping at the bottom of the screen. Like a webcam light. I glanced at the Daleks who were completely oblivious to it, oblivious to the fact the Doctor was listening in,

"Why did you want me?",

"YOU WILL HELP US ESCAPE EARTH",

"Or...",

"OR THE HUMANS WILL DIE".

I rolled my eyes, "I'm not going to help you escape",

The Dalek paused, "THE HUMANS WILL DIE",

"No they won't, because we're going to save them, because not everything has to ends with mass murders and choices", I told them, "...And because...it doesn't need to take 15,000 people to die to stop you".

All twelve Daleks remained quiet as I speculated on how much I should reveal at this point, I decided to turn to the computer and start typing out theoretical equations and other clever stuff that I can't go into right now,

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?", one Dalek demanded,

"Working out what it takes to unlock that black hole thingymabob you were talking about",

"WHY?",

"Because I am going to do a clever thing, now shut up".

Apparently the Dalek wasn't having that so it rolled up to me and aimed it's gun at me, "YOU WILL EXPLAIN".

I sighed and brought up my hand, which had that slit from earlier that I didn't understand until a couple minutes ago, "What's this?",

"I DO NOT KNOW", it admitted,

"No, of course you don't, you're a computer, you don't see flesh wounds. You don't react to it, you would know what blood was if it slapped you in the face. Because you are metal", I said, tapping it's exterior,

"I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, WHAT IS IT'S SIGNIFICANCE?", it cried,

"This is a catalogue system, it was imprinted by the British-American government. The Escalators have two buttons, exterior and interior, they are both confirmation that this is what you want to do. A signiture, you press the button you accept that you will die courtesy of the Escalators".

The Dalek paused, still unaware,

"All these people, they haven't got the mark on their hand. I do because I never signed up for the Escalator, I didn't press a button, I didn't want to go down. The mark is a way of identifying who isn't supposed to be there. Right now, in my blood, I've got about a million negative charges going through me to signify I am wrong. I am not supposed to be here. Any scanner will pick me up no time, any blood test taken down here will uncover me",

"I am a walking talking electrical extravaganza", I proclaimed, "Obviously they're unharmful to me, but they do have an enormous amount of influence on electrical things", I said, "Like this",

I place my hands at the base of the computer where the webcam was at, frying the Doctor's connection to the room. I knew he wouldn't approve of me sacrificing myself. Men!

I turned to them, smiling, they were looking at me blankly, "Still don't get it, huh?", I looked around at their naturally blank faces, "You take a person who had been drained of life force, clinging on to the tiniest atom of life, you take a living ticking human furnace. Jump start their systems using me as mass defibrillation. Sorted!", I grinned, fanning my hands out like I'd just done a trick.

"...YOU WOULD DIE", it finally said,

"And you...would live", I retorted,

"...", the Daleks fell silent, looking at each other,

"Why are you so worried, why do you care if I live or...", I stopped, "Die", I sighed, "Of course, I'm in your future, I die now and I can't be there. Paradox", I stated, "But a paradox that saves you..all of you",

"YOU WILL DO IT",

"Yeah, I know", I nodded.

"Megan, don't you dare!", the Doctor cried, running in, sonic blazing, with the Ponds by his side,

"Oh my God", I mouthed, to myself, then turned to him, "You couldn't have chosen a better entrance, like drop from the sky or enter with an explosion", I suggested,

"What the hell do you think you're doing?", he asked, dismissing the Daleks and striding straight to me,

"Saving 15,000 people, I'm sorry, is that wrong?", I questioned,

"You can't sacrifice yourself, you know what that might cause,

"I know, but it's worth it. Of course it is",

"Megan...", he began,

"Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe other people might want to do good", I snapped,

"You are 17 years old, I am not going to let you do this",

"You haven't got a choice, I'm the only one who can pull this off", I stated. Although that was a lie, because there was Rory, but I was hoping neither Amy nor Rory realised this,

"Always, it always ends like this", he muttered to himself,

"Not always", I argued, "But when it's need to",

"I worked it out, without you in the equation", he told me,

"Things have changed, you know that, so do I"

"You know what to do", Rory asked,

"Someone...someones going to die today", I confessed,

"It can't be you", the Doctor growled.

I groaned as the Doctor moved to the computer and restarted it, typing away furiously, I eyed the Daleks who were remaining impartial, because it really didn't matter who was going to die, as long as they got out.

"The only way to stop them is if we give them a life!", I cried, in frustration,

"Doesn't have to be yours", he muttered,

"Right, well while you work out how you're going to stop the inevitable, I'm going to save these humans",

"Can't do that I'm afraid", he said, standing up straight,

"And you're gonna stop me", I challenged, he stared me down and then with out doing anything physical knocked me out. Just by staring me down.


I woke up in the room we were in before with Amy and Rory sprawled out beside me, after a moment out pre-unconcious confusion, I jumped up and scanned the room,

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no", I mumbled, heading for the door and trying to open in, "Urgh...Doctor!", I exclaimed, waking up Amy and Rory,

"What the..", Rory mumbled,

"Where are we?", Amy asked,

"A room", I answered,

"Where?",

"In a place", I replied, accessing the cameras to the room the Doctor was in, I analysed the situation. He was in the center, with the Daleks surrounding him not in a threatening way, just so they could get the best view.

"What does he think he's going to do?", I commented,

"Regeneration energy", Amy answered, "He's a Time Lord, they have tons of it, apparently",

"And what is regeneration energy",

"Life force, pure life force", she answered.

I sighed and looked at the screen, then groaned in annoyance,

"A sacrifice has to be made and of course the Doctor will be the one to go up",

"He won't let anyone else do it", Rory said,

"Really, well... I might have something to say about that",

"I think he knew that", Amy muttered, looking down at my hand, which no longer bore a mark. I gasped and brushed my skin frantically,

"Oh...he is so dead", I growled,

"Yeah, he is", she said, sadly.

I took the time to actually notice, I'd been caught up in the saving I didn't realise he was actually going to die. He was actually going to sacrifice himself and here I was ranting on about how much I was going to kill him the next time I see him. But there was no next time. He was going to die, here and now.

And of course Amy was devestated, so was Rory and so was I deep down, and so, naturally, I had to do something.

I rolled my eyes and went to the computers, typing away,

"What are you doing?", Amy asked

"Audio feed", I replied, as the air filled with the sound coming from the room the Doctor was in, "And...electrical influence. Silly Daleks. Giving me all the information I need, because you see now this, Ponds", I pointed to my head, or more specifically my brain, "Is full of everything Dalek, which means I know what I can do to save them and stop them",

"So what are you planning?", Rory asked,

"Don't actually know yet", I muttered, turning to face them, "Or...better still, I do...yes! Oh that's good", I exclaimed,

"Starting to sound like the Doctor there", Amy commented smirking, I stared at her,

"No..",

"Yep",

"What's the plan?", Rory chuckled, shaking his head,

"Right, so that Daleks emitted small doses of pure black hole consciousness into all humans, but just a sliver", I said,

"Because...any more and they'd mad", Amy guessed,

"Exactly, so what if..I reconstructed whatever it is they used so it would backfire, and regress that power into them", I pondered,

"But they're not humans", Rory pointed out,

"Which is why we need to use all of that black hole energy instead of just the sliver. Full force of a black holes enough to take out a couple Daleks, yeah?",

"Worth a shot", Amy shrugged,

"Love the enthusiasm Pond", I said, turning to the computer, "Any kind of black hole converter would need an insane amount of power,and seeing as there is already a room with near-dead humans I am guessing", I pointed to a room on the schematics, "There is the thingymabob they used to release those waves",

"But how do you reverse it?", Rory asked, as I unlocked the door, it slide open smoothly. I headed for the door and turned on the spot,

"I'll do a thing", I said,

"What thing?",

"I don't know, a clever thing",

"What clever thing?",

"It's a working progress",

"You mean you don't know", Amy questioned,

"Nope", I grinned and headed out, in search of a room in a place with the thingymabob where I would do my thing. Right!


"In here", I said, entering the room.

We emerged in a place with dozens and dozens of generators, I stared around, looking for a main control bit, or manual input. It had to be around here,

"Wow...Daleks got a pay rise this year", Amy muttered.

I located the shroud of computers and strode towards it, I leaned over and accessed the Doctor's footages,

"IS IT READY?", a Dalek asked to the Doctor,

"As it'll ever be",

"YOU WILL REGENERATE?", it asked,

"Err...yeah, yeah I will, which is a shame because I like this face, only just got it to be honest", he muttered, fiddling with some wires, "But hey...times change", he added softly, he was upset apparently.

I sighed and accessed the computers, looking for a surge of energy in the generators recorded history. If I could find the equation of that surge I could reverse it and target it at the Daleks easy, but that'll solve only one problem.

The Doctor still needed to do his thingy and regenerate.

I shook my head and continued typing, searching for that equation, I needed it. Then I could work from there.

"Anything we can do?", Rory asked timidly,

"Could do with a coffee", I muttered, he paused frowning, "I'm joking, Rory",

"Oh, right, it's just you seem..",

"I can sort out the Daleks, can't save the Doctor",

"Just do what you can", Amy said, softly,

"But he's going to die Pond, I need to stop that, I have to",

"I know, I know, just don't beat yourself up if you can't", she reassured.

There! Surge of electrical energy and there is the equation. I ran it through my head and switched it onto the Daleks Hind brain that I had the schematics for. Surge of electrical power.

Oh my...Stupid, stupid Megan.

I was so oblivious, surge of electrical power. A black hole, capable of sucking in light! If that isn't power I don't know what is.

I grinned and worked out the equation so it would leave just a smidge of it's power behind and then plugged in the new equation and let it surge through the Daleks. I did remember to leave me out of the Hind brain though.

Me and the Ponds stared at the footage in anticipation, then it happened, the Daleks surrounding the Doctor started spinning and moving uncontrollably, their heads twisting at amazing speeds till they exploded. Quite abruptly, and messily.

The Doctor himself was confused as fuck, he frowned and looked around in wonder then noticed the camera in the corner of the room and shook his head at it,

"Don't you do anything", he warned.

I smiled ans looked at the Ponds before going to the computer and rearranging the black hole energy to something a little safer, I had to get it connected to all the humans biological systems,

"Amy, there is a 7-digit number on the platform the Doctor is working on, tell me what it is", I asked,

"Err...5289912", she answered,

"...912, ok. What's that thing he always says?", I asked as she got to my side,

"Geronimo?",

"Yeah...geronimo".

It's funny which moments your mind chooses to shut down, and why too. Like for example I had never experience the sensation of falling unconscious but nowadays I can't seem to get enough of it. Anyway my body chose to collapse at the best moment.

And now...I don't like the word geronmino.


I groaned and nuzzled into my shoulder. No... hang on you can't nuzzle your own shoulder. Not unless your head was bent down and my head wasn't bent down, I knew that much. I breathed in and looked back to see a certain guilty looking Time Lord prepared for a scolding.

Instead I hugged him with all the energy I had, and that wasn't much. He chuckled and wrapped his arms around me,

"Don't scare me like that again, Doctor",

"You too", he retorted.

I pulled back and frowned,

"What happened to me?",

"Saved my life Meg, destroyed the Daleks and saved the humans, not one life lost. I need you around more", he muttered,

"I can't remember any of the clever things", I said,

"No, you wouldn't, it was draining you. I locked it away, you'll get it back when you need it",

"Which is...?",

"Spoilers...Megan, you really are important to me and Jack, you need to keep yourself safe, if not for me then for Jack".

I sighed lifting out my pinky,

"I solemnly swear to tell you if and when I have a stupid risky plan",

He smiled and wrapped his pinky around mine, "Likwise", he promised.

"Ah, made up then", Rory commented strolling towards us, between them they were carrying 4 cups, "Got you that coffee", he smiled,

"I don't like coffee, it was a joke", I said, apologetically,

"Oh we know, it's hot chocolate", Amy chuckled, as they both sar down either side of us,

"Where are we?", I asked, taking a cup from Rory,

"Trafalgur Street, best place to see it", the Doctor answered,

"See what?", Amy asked,

"Life", he beamed, and then, as if on cue all the Elevators in the park ounged as mire and people began filling up them, and exiting frowning and confused.

"The whole black whole depression's been wiped, they are newly made amnesia patients. But they're happy", he explained,

"All of them?", I asked,

"All of them",

"Government officials are asking citizens to direct these out of the blue lost travellers to the nearest hopitals where they will be admitted. Citizens are helping out as much as they can on request of duty. A new statement from the minister of extraterrestrial allegiance saying that the Elevator program may need to be rethought is said to be linked with these appearances...",

"Megan", Rory said, averting my attention from the big screen, "Look", he pointed to that woman, Angela, who'd lost her baby, sort of wondering about, then I notice the other guy, her huanand who also seemed lost, I smiled at Rpry them jumped up, placing my cup carefully on the bench, Rory did the same,

"Where are you going?", Amy asked,

" To do a thing", Rory answered with a grin.

I ran up to Angela, Rory just beside me and smiled at her,

"Hi, hello can you help me, it's just I'm having trouble remembering-",

"It's okay, if you just go to that fit bloke in the blue shirt, he'll help you out", I said pointing at her husband,

"Him?", she smiled,

"Yep, better go quick, I think she's going to pounce on him any second", Rory warned,

"Am not", I protested,

"Errr...ok thanks", she muttered heading in the direction of the man in question. If he wasn't married.

We watched as the two began talking and laughing in embarrassment at the misguidance. I beamed away at the sight then looked at Amy and the Doctor on the chair, I frowned and looked at Rory,

"Rory? Who's Taylor?".

He tensed up and looked down, "No one, no one you know right now", he answered, I nodded.

Liar.


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