Chapter IX

Sweet Embrace

The last of the Dalek ships had been destroyed. There was one left. It was the mothership. Nobody knew where it was, or how it had gone. It was now nowhere to be found. The Allied forces were distracted for the time being, however. They just wanted to go home...

The Doctor sat up. He felt his face, his hands, and his legs.

'Alive? Alive? Am I the same person? Same teeth...still not ginger...phew, I haven't regenerated.'

He looked up. The monolith was glowing green. He ducked as the laser refracted in six different directions.

He realised what was going on. The Death Star and the monoliths were a giant weapons system. He was standing right in the middle of it.

The laser was going off in the directions of Saturn's rings, Jupiter's moons and Mars. Davros had meticulously planned the alignment of everything to create a perfect, regular hexagon...and it was all activated at the touch of a button.

Jake and Neytiri stared up at the sky. It was late afternoon on Pandora, but in the sky was a very clear hexagon.

'What...is it?' asked Neytiri, in awe.

'I don't know,' replied Jake.

Trudy looked at the monitor, and her eyes widened.

'Oh...shit.'

'What is it?' asked Norm, stirred by Trudy's coarse use of language.

'Look at this.' There was a massive green hexagon floating in space. Earth was right in the middle.

Davros' ship had teleported to be on board the Death Star. Davros continued to communicate with the Doctor.

'Well, Doctor, after The Emperor died, I knew something was up. Now, I finally have the upper hand.'

'Why are you doing this?' asked the Doctor. 'What have the Na'vi done to incur your wrath?'

'Nothing. I just want to get you and every ally you have out of the question. The Dalek Empire shall rule this galaxy, after YEARS of toil.'

'This is insanity,' complained Susan.

'What real reason do you have for such unneeded slaughter?' Seldon asked.

'None other than I want this universe to myself. The Daleks shall always rule. Forever rejoice in the Dalek name!'

'You madman!' shouted the Doctor in fury. 'Stop this, right now!'

'NO!' shouted Davros. 'Prepare to see the full force of my weaponry, Doctor...'

Trudy ran over to another panel.

'Trudy, what are you doing?'

'I'm taking us back down to Pandora. We need backup.'

Trudy hit a lever and the spacecraft travelled back to Pandora.

Jake and Neytiri were stirred by the TARDIS materialising in front of them.

'Doctor?' Neytiri asked, excitedly.

''Fraid not, kid,' Trudy replied, marching off into the jungle.

Norm was rather preoccupied, wandering about in a daze.

'Whoa...Norm...are you alright?' Jake asked, helping him to sit.

'Kind of...'

'What's wrong?' asked Neytiri.

'Well, it's two things. First, that thing in the sky. Secondly, that I just realised...Trudy is a freakin' good kisser...do you think we should...you know...'

'Oh dear...' muttered Neytiri. 'Boy things.'

'Um,' Jake replied, trying to counsel him. 'Well...you know, if you think it feels right, then...'

'OK, I w—wait a second! You didn't think I meant...no! I meant hooking up! A relationship!'

'Oh...' Jake replied, his cheeks going a shade of purple.

Trudy entered the TARDIS, grabbed a cable, and ran back out. She then ran off into the forest. A couple of minutes later, she came back.

'Come on, Norm, we're ready.'

'OK...see you on the other side, Jake, Neytiri.' He ran back in, and off they went.

The TARDIS returned after ten seconds.

'We were just messing around,' Norm said. 'Come in.' Jake and Neytiri eagerly walked in after a quick sign of affection. The TARDIS took off, leaving the barren jungle barren once more...

Trudy and Norm had other things on their mind than romance. While now technically an item, this was not the best thing to be considering when a giant ominous green hexagon was floating in space. Trudy was, however, prepared. She had connected to the TARDIS an X-Wing she found parked on Pandora just in case.

Jake and Neytiri got comfortable on the TARDIS sofa. This was going to be a long, long night.

'What do you think?' asked Jake, quietly.

'What?' whispered Neytiri.

'Them. You know. Them.'

'Oh. I think it's disgusting and wrong...but who's to say I decide?'

'That's what I thought.'

'I think Na'vi and Na'vi are all that should be. Not sky-man and Na'vi. But, if Eywa deems it fine, then it shall be.'

'Thanks,' said Jake, embracing Neytiri once more.

The Doctor, Seldon, and Susan watched in horror as the monolith got brighter and brighter. It then floated into the air, thus being able to position itself with the world's rotation. It edged a bit to the left.

'Doctor...what are they doing to shoot?' Seldon asked.

'I don't know.'

'Oh, Hari,' Susan uttered, tears rolling down her face, 'I love you.'

'I love you too, sweetheart,' he wept.

The two hugged each other as the bright light got more intense...

The Doctor's hair was blown back, then he himself followed. He didn't know what was happening. Everything moved in slow motion. He tried to get up, but, just like in a dream, he couldn't, he was stuck to the ground. He couldn't move his head. What was going on, he didn't know.

Trudy and Norm looked out of the TARDIS door, as a green light ripped past them.

'No...' Neytiri said, realising what had happened. Trudy checked the screen. Where the mighty Alpha Centauri A had once stood, there was nothing, just a mass of floating space debris. Polyphemus and Pandora had been destroyed.

Norm fell to the ground. His capsule had been destroyed along with everything else.

'NORM! NO!' wailed Trudy, as his limp Avatar lay on the ground. He was dead. She curled into a foetal position and held her head.

'This can't be happening...'

'I'm sorry, Trudy...' Jake tried to comfort.

'Don't touch me!' she shouted, laying on the ground, sobbing deeply.

Contrasting sharply, Neytiri did not cry this time. Crying, she had enough of. She just got angry, hysterically hitting the railings and sofas on the TARDIS and screaming.

'IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED?' she asked Davros. 'YOU HAVE GOT YOUR WISH, MY FRIEND! YOU HAVE GOT YOUR WISH!'

The Doctor, believing Jake and Neytiri to still be on Pandora, was devastated.

'Davros...you just crossed a line no man should ever cross.'

'I'm not a man,' Davros replied, with a slight giggle. 'I'm a new age.'

The Doctor ran screaming at the Monolith, throwing his sonic screwdriver at it.

The Monolith did not react.

'You will pay for this, Davros!' shouted The Doctor. 'Is this what you wanted? You have got your wish, Davros. You have got your wish!'

'Do I care?' asked Davros.

'You should!'

'I don't!'

The Doctor simply collapsed to the ground in anger. Seldon and Susan ran over to him, but the Doctor was intensely angered now.

On board the TARDIS, the situation was terrible. Neytiri was now almost catatonic with anger, performing a special mediation. Norm was still on the ground. Trudy was almost insane with grief.

Jake stood in the midst of all of this.

He looked out at the meteorites from the fateful explosion. Of all the horrors he had experienced in this war, this was the worst.

An atrocity.

A crime.

He had many names for what had happened. Yet, he was powerless now. He had no home any more. Nowhere to go.

He sat down on the sofa and held his head in his hands.

'Screw this,' he thought, yet, he didn't wish to leap from the TARDIS to his doom. He simply sat there.

'Screw this,' he thought again.

The Doctor was almost foaming at the mouth in anger. He shouted to Davros

'What is wrong with you, you mutant, you half-man! What could possess you to think this would win you anything?'

'The fact that it did?'

The Doctor screamed.

It was a primal scream, almost Na'vi in nature. He was almost devolving. He screamed again, picked up his screwdriver, and pocketed it.

'Well, you have me now, Davros! Kill me! Do it! Kill me! I'm right on your platter! Just let me remind you you will not be satisfied with your actions!'

'I'll challenge that!' shouted Davros, charging up the weapon again. The familiar green glow illuminated the Doctor's face as he stood, arms raised, legs apart in a stance, screaming...

'THIS ENDS HERE!'


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