Chapter 10: The Rescue on Eta Prime – Part 3

"Lord Davros…we have intruders!" shouted an incoming Dalek.

"What intruders? How can that be?" asked Davros, stunned by the news.

"It's the Doctor and his assistant!" replied the Dalek.

"The Doctor is here! I knew he would come!" shouted a nearly exhausted Romana, trying to fight off the extraction of her thoughts and memories.

"No matter, just exterminate them. Increase the extraction speed, we need all the information we can get from this impotent Time Lord," said Davros, looking very slyly at his precious pet.

Back in the tunnel…

As Oslin and the Doctor fell through the hatchway, they continued to travel down the tunnel of the black abyss with no end in sight. Then, finally they appeared at the end of the tunnel, where they fell out the tunnel and landed themselves in a black-colored pool of deceased metallic and organic Dalek parts and bodies.

"Ahhhh…." reacted Doctor and Oslin as they both splashed into the pool.

Oslin and Doctor, all wet, stood up and have a look around.

"Eww…nice choice of a landing, don't you think, Doctor?" asked Oslin, looking around on how wet she was as she used her hands to wipe off the gunk that is on her medieval-looking Gallifreyan clothing.

"Sorry, Oslin, but I do agree that we are in a nasty predicament. Good thing my sonic screwdriver is still in good use. Let's see where we are," said the Doctor.

The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to determine their current location. He noticed that they are inside what appears a waste area of damaged Dalek machinery and dead Dalek parts.

"Hmm…it appears to be a flesh vat storage area where they store all of these dead Dalek bodies," observing the Doctor.

"That's pretty disgusting. Do you have any idea on we get out of here and rescue Romana?" asked Oslin.

"Well, that's what I am about to figure out," replied the Doctor.

Meanwhile…

"Lord Davros, we have lost the Doctor and his assistant," said an incoming Dalek soldier.

"What? How is this possible? Search every corridor, every ventilation shaft, every inch of this ship! We do not want to have two Time Lords running around undetected and planning to sabotage this vessel!" ordered Davros, expressing his angry face despite how emaciated and dead looking his face was especially with the lack of eyes to see with the exception of an artificial blue eye on top of his forehead.

"As you command, Lord Davros," responded the Dalek.

"What's wrong, Davros? Time caught your tongue," said an enduring Romana, despite how much her energy is drained in resisting a full transfer of her knowledge to the cerebral data extractor.

"Don't mock me, Time Lord. For everything is in motion and soon your knowledge will be mine. No matter how much you resist the extraction, bits and pieces of your knowledge is coming out through my marvelous machine and once it's finished…I'll help end the pain by ending your life in great agony! Ha ha ha ha!"

"You'll never win! I'll rather die than have my people succumb to your wickedness," said Romana, as she wished in her mind for the Doctor and Oslin to rescue her from this misery.

Back in the Dalek Flesh Vats…

"Hey Doctor, I found something," said Oslin as the Doctor turned around and head towards Oslin.

"What is it?" the Doctor questioned.

"It looks like a completely intact Dalek laser weapon. Do you think so?" inquired Oslin, picking up on what appears to be a complete, intact component.

"You're right. It is," said the Doctor as he moved his head down to have his eyes closely examining the Dalek laser weaponry.

"Can't believe it's in great shape and not the ones we had in the damaged Daleks that we drove in. Not that you're Dalek driving is kind of bad," said the Doctor as Oslin gave him a dirty look and slapped him.

"Oww…don't hit me like that. I was only kidding," said the Doctor as he looked closely at the device.

"Doctor…That's not even funny. I'll pay you back next time about that on who has bad driving skills," said Oslin as she turned around, walked a few steps, and taking a deep breath.

"Hmmm…Oslin, you said you're an engineer, right?" asked Doctor as Oslin turned around to face him.

"Yes, I am. Why?" Oslin responded.

"I can get this laser gun to work. All I need is several parts found around here and turned this into a real rifle for you to use," said the Doctor.

"Really…you want me to carry a gun for you?" asked Oslin, giving off a flirty glint in her eyes as she walked toward the Doctor.

"Well…yes. I am not much of a gun aficionado anyway. Since you are pretty good with a gun back during the attack at the war council, I think you deserve it. Think of it as a gift to you from me since you were the only one that supported my arguments for not executing the fake Davros," said the Doctor.

"Thank you Doctor. That's very nice of you. I'll take back my physical abuse on you and one more thing…I was not the only one who supported you. Don't forget our great mentor, the Hermit, trying to prevent this war. Now, let's get busy shall we,"

In the next ten minutes, Oslin and the Doctor scrimmage around for Dalek parts and pieced together a working Dalek laser gun. After much deliberations and calibrations, the Doctor is finally ready to test their new laser rifle, re-fitted to be carried by a bi-ped, humanoid.

Upon finishing the re-designed Dalek laser gun, the Doctor assembled pieces of broken Dalek armor to create two makeshift target posts for target practice and test their new anti-Dalek weapon.

"Now…let's see if this baby works," said the Doctor as he held the rifle and aimed at one of the makeshift target posts. With one shot, a laser beam pierced through the armor, causing it to explode. It worked.

"Ha ha, it worked…now you give a try," said the Doctor as he lend over the laser rifle.

Oslin fired at the last target post and was amazed by the ingenious of their re-fitted Dalek rifle.

"Now, let's go and rescue the President!" shouted Oslin as she and the Doctor immediately plotted their escape out of the Dalek flesh vat.

As the Doctor continued to use his sonic screwdriver to find the exit, he came to a dead corner.

"Hmm…if the sonic screwdriver is correct, the only we can get out is right here," said the Doctor as he points the sonic screwdriver to a corner.

"I don't see anything, Doctor. No doors. No hatches. Not even a ladder or a rope or anything to get out of this place. Not like that the Daleks need it, since they could just fly their way out of here, I guess," said Oslin.

Within a blink of an eye, an eureka moment appeared in the Doctor's mind. The Doctor finally realized the means to exit their current location.

"Ah ha. That's it, Oslin! You're a genius!" said the Doctor as he turned around and gave Oslin a kiss on her foreword and gave a big hug.

"Whoa! Okay, Doctor the kiss is very nice, but you don't have to hug me so hard!" said Oslin as she's being let go and observe what the Doctor has found.

"Oh sorry, my dear. Anyways, you see, Daleks don't have hands to climb around, so that's why they fly. In the waters below here, there's actually a switch," said the Doctor as he dove himself in the water.

The Doctor held his breathe and exhale just a bit to get much depth in the water to find the switch. The Doctor found it and the switch is nothing more a button that a bottom of a Dalek's tank-like body can simply walk over to step on it.

The Doctor immediately stuck his head out of the water for fresh air and moved his left leg to the button. He told Oslin to grabbed onto him as he is about to step on the button.

"Hold on tight Oslin, this maybe one quick ride," the Doctor slammed his left foot on the button and a bright light shine through on top of them, revealing an entrance out of the vat.

The Doctor and Oslin holding onto to each other felt a gravitational tug in pulling their bodies upward to the circular exit above.

Meanwhile…

"Yes good. More knowledge, more power. There's no use in fighting it my dear Time Lord. I can finally see everything that makes even the Gods, Demons, and legends of the supernatural across various words and dimensions jealous of your species," said Davros as he felt victory is at hand.

"Even with this knowledge you have, Davros. There's more to us than the knowledge in my mind. For I truly understand why you want to conquered the universe. Have all life be gone except only for the Daleks. I can see that you have lost many in your life, those you love, those you care, I know how that feels," said an ever tiring Romana as she tries to use rhetoric to win over Davros.

"How dare you speak of such things to me! I see. You're trying to use empathy and the use of emotions as a persuasive weapon to win this fight. What a fascinating specimen you are. It appears that your good friend, Doctor told you much about me and where I come from. Well, too bad. You see for I have no sense of care for those I used to love for I…exterminated them all! YES! YES! I killed every last member of my own people for they are weak. Not weak against our enemies the Thals, but against the universe itself. You see my dear President, Romana, do you know what I learned about the universe and its ways towards all leaving things?" replied Davros as he finished his rant with a question to crush Romana's spirits.

Romana did not give back answer, prompting Davros's final answer.

"The Universe ensures that everything dies! But, we, the Daleks, shall not die! We shall bring the universe to its knees and to do that the only emotion to win this war over the universe is, ANGER! Dalek Lt., increased the extraction speed to 100%," commanded Davros as Romana screams more in mental agony.

Meanwhile…

The Doctor and Oslin escaped through the circular shaft and stepped out into a hallway. Few Daleks spotted and shouted, 'EXTERMINATE!' However, these Daleks quickly met their end as Oslin fired her re-fitted Dalek laser weapon right at them. With each beam hitting the Daleks, each of them exploded, exposing nothing more than empty shell with others exposing a bleeding, organic Dalek moving their tentacle appendages in agony.

"Let's go…I think I have found Romana's location," said the Doctor as he grabbed Oslin's arm and ran.

More Daleks coming in and started to fire at the Doctor and Oslin as the Doctor and Oslin took cover to evade their attack. Oslin immediately fired another round of her laser rifle, rending the attacking Daleks deceased and immobile.

"Oslin, I have a plan," said the Doctor as he pulled out his sonic screwdriver to re-check the distance from their present location to Romana's.

"What is it?" asked Oslin.

"The plan is…aimed for the Daleks at this part of the body and changed to setting on the laser rifle to this mode here. What you are going to do is fire a drill-shot that would pierce right through the Dalek driving their tank-bodies, without exploding them. Then, we'll run to the back of these dead Daleks and move them around like moving shields," explained the Doctor.

"You got it, Doctor," said Oslin enthusiastically as she changed the settings on the rifle and fired at the next incoming Daleks.

After taking out the two income Daleks, the Doctor and Oslin immediately ran to these dead, immobile Daleks and started to push them very fast like shopping carts in a mall on Earth.

The Doctor took lead as he used his sonic screwdriver to close in on Romana's location. Oslin followed behind and fired a few shots behind her as more Daleks came through.

Then, Doctor and Oslin went to a big hexagonal hallway with each point of the corners are hallways of more Daleks piling through. At first, it was the feeling of trapped coming in, however, based on Doctor's past experience in dealing with the Daleks, he gave them what they always wanted, death in battle.

As hordes of these cyber-organisms came in with lasers firing at them, the Doctor immediately with great speed and cunning, moved the dead Dalek in front him, opened the head piece and program the dead Dalek to explode on contact.

With one big kick, the dead Dalek is pushed forward to an incoming horde of Daleks in front of it and explode. Massive explosions rocked the side of the Dalek mother ship, causing the parts of the circuitry to short-circuit.

At Romana's Torture Chamber…

Alarms rocked across the room as Davros barked on what is going on. A Dalek inside the torture chamber responded that explosion occurred inside one of the lower levels inside the Dalek mother ship.

The explosion had a positive effect for Romana: it stalled the extraction for just one moment for Romana to telepathically communicate with the Doctor and her aide, Oslin.

"Doctor, Oslin…"

"Doctor…did you hear that? It's President Romana," said Oslin as she and the Doctor ran through the hallway of Dalek corpses.

"Yes, I hear it too. I'll try to communicate to her," said the Doctor as he focused his psychic ability to have correspondence with Romana.

"Romana, I hear you…we're almost there!"

"You better come quickly…because right now…Davros is getting close in getting the complete knowledge of our Time Lord technologies and abilities…I'll try to hoard off the mental extraction inside my mind…but…I…can't it hold…for much longer…ahhhhh!"

"Oslin, we must haste!" said the Doctor before he got cut off by Oslin's next response.

"I know…I heard. Let's go!" yelled Clara as she and Doctor ran as fast as they could to get to the Romana's location.

The Doctor stared at the mini-map on his sonic screwdriver and saw that they are within proximity of Romana's whereabouts.

As they approach to the door to Romana's torture chamber, two Daleks appeared, but quickly succumb to Oslin's high precision laser shots in rending the Daleks dead on the spot.

With one swoop of his sonic screwdriver, the door immediately opened and Oslin ran in the room first killing three Daleks present in the room.

Oslin ran in front of the control panel where Romana is and flipped off some switches to turn off the data extraction. The Doctor shut the door behind him and used his sonic screwdriver to shut it tight. He then changed the key code combination, making it hard for the Daleks to crack through.

"Romana, are you all right?" asked Oslin as she helped Romana to get off the chair.

"Oslin, you're here!" replied Romana as Oslin and Romana embraced themselves in warmth, caring hug.

"Well, well, well…what have we here? The real Davros in the flesh," said the Doctor as he walked in front of the screen to stare at his mortal enemy.

"How come you are there and not right here, Davros? What's wrong? Too slow to move around in that stroller of yours?" asked the Doctor, insulting the creator of the Daleks.

"Enough of your foolish antics, Doctor. You are nothing more than an annoying pest to my side. But, no matter, despite the incompleteness of the knowledge extracted by your dear President…I have enough to assemble a plan for a full annihilation of the Time Lords, Doctor," said Davros as the screen revealed various images of what Davros have gathered from extracting Romana's mind.

As Davros was making his speech, Oslin look at the control panel and found something that may tip the scales in their favor.

"I won't think so fast, if I was you Davros," replied Oslin as she immediately grabbed the Doctor's sonic screwdriver, ran back to the control panel and manipulate the hardware to send a transmission to Davros' whereabouts.

"Oslin, what you are doing?" asked Doctor and Romana at the same time.

"Just watch me…Doctor. You're going to like this," said Oslin as she pressed the big red button for a big surprise.

"What…what's going on! This can't be! The knowledge, the data…it's all gone! No! No! No!" screamed Davros as the computer terminal on his side burst into flames.

"You'll pay for this, Doctor!" was Davros final response before the screen went dead.

Doctor, Romana, and Oslin laughed with the sense of relief that Davros' extracted knowledge is destroyed.

"What did you do, Oslin?" asked the Doctor.

"It's quite easy, Doctor. This control panel transmits information to Davros' computer and I simply used your Dalek-compatible screwdriver to send a self-destruct transmission to him, destroying every record he may have of our secrets," replied Oslin.

Suddenly, more Daleks are knocking at the door into the torture chamber, shouting exterminate.

"What are we going to do now, Doctor?" asked Romana, "You two better have a plan."

At the very moment Romana said that, a self-destruct sequence appeared on screen.

The Doctor and Romana became shocked by this revelation, with the exception of one Gallifreyan standing there with her face, turning red and blushed.

"What on Gallifrey?" shouted the Doctor as he looked at the screen.

"Ooops," replied Oslin.

"What do you mean oops, Oslin?" inquired the Doctor.

"I forgot to mention earlier that during my hacking of the computer terminal in trying to find Romana's location. I actually pre-programmed an auto-self-destruct sequence in case we died in rescuing Romana in order to ensure any vital information fall into Dalek hands," said Oslin, blushing and holding her chin with her left hand.

"Wait…what?! Are you insane!?" asked a much more frustrated Doctor, "now what are we going to do now?"

"Wait…Doctor…is your TARDIS a type-40 time vehicle?" asked Romana.

"Yes…why?" answered the Doctor with both of his hands on top of his head in complete.

"I am quite familiar with Type-40 telepathic circuits. I know that this torture chair is designed to send a feed to another ship. With your sonic-screwdriver that contains the coordinates of the TARDIS's current location, I can have it re-materialized right here," said Romana.

"Of course, how come I have not come up with that," said the Doctor.

As the clock ticks down to destruction, explosions rock across different parts of the shipped as the self-destruct system is designed to have the Dalek mother ship's engines to over load. The timer on the screen determines the exact time when the ship will explode.

Romana instructed Oslin to insert the sonic-screwdriver into an opening on the control panel while in use as Romana placed the dome over her head and used her latent, psychic abilities to connect her mind with the Doctor's TARDIS.

Inside the TARDIS control room, the TARDIS gave out a warmed hum as she felt the presence of a long lost friend, which is Romana. Switches are pressed and levers are turned as the TARDIS began to rematerialize itself inside the torture chamber.

Within only a minute to spare, the TARDIS finally rematerialized itself as the Doctor, Romana, and Clara, ran to the TARDIS with the Doctor carrying the key to open door.

They all entered inside as Clara gave back the sonic screwdriver to the Doctor and placed her laser rifle on the floor. Romana, Doctor, and Clara together punched the coordinates to leave a doomed Dalek shipped.

As the clock on the screen turned to zero, the Dalek mother ship finally exploded, killing every Dalek on board.

Later…

"You reckless, stubborn little girl…you almost got us killed back there! Setting off the initiation of a timed self-destruct sequence before finding the opportunity to escape is really…really a bad idea!" cried an upset Doctor.

"Not only that, you set up it without informing me. That's uttering distasteful!" continued an even angrier Doctor.

"Well…I heard stories that you even lied about things going well even they are not, Doctor," replied Oslin, giving the Doctor a verbal comeback.

"What lie? When is the last time I even lied about everything?" asked a much more frustrated Doctor.

"Well…Doctor. You see, this is something that Romana taught me about you. You see, we Time Ladies need take the lead first in executing all the precautions before you do," replied Oslin.

"What?! Hold on right there! First of all, I am the pilot and owner of this TARDIS, so therefore I am in charge here and your orders come from me," said the Doctor, "and secondly, executing precautions without notifying me for a second opinion could get anyone killed in this rescue operation."

"Doctor…be quiet! Leave Oslin alone on this. At least we get out of this alive, which is the more important than anything else," said Romana as she walked over to Oslin to comfort her.

"But Romana, she nearly get us killed," fire backed the Doctor.

"Just like the many times you got me killed, since you too are a reckless one. This especially the case when you come to a rescue mission without having a weapon on you. On top of that, you have Oslin do all the dirty work in protecting you while you bark orders like General Maxil," said Romana.

"C'mon, Romana…look. I am not that big of a fan in using guns in all my encounters with my enemies. I have no fond of it and besides…what weapons we could've brought since we don't have any standard issued weapon that is capable of killing Daleks for good. As for barking orders, I am not General Maxil, I have no idea where you come up with that. But in any case, Oslin is a resourceful trained soldier who helped me assembled this ingenious anti-Dalek rifle and since she's a soldier, I allowed her to have all the fun in killing Daleks," said the Doctor as he lifted up the laser rifle and hand it to Romana.

"Fair enough, Doctor. If you excuse me, Oslin and I need to have a moment together while you take us home," ordered Romana.

"Sure thing, but before we do, let's take a quick rest…I am very tired," said the Doctor as he set a timer on the TARDIS to arrive in Gallifrey in thirty minutes.

Author's Note: My apologies everyone for updating this late as I am try try to juggle, life, work, and this Doctor Who Time War fanfic. The reason I have posted Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 at the same time, is so my fellow readers like you can have a complete set of text to read through without feeling yourself hanging on when the conclusion to Rescue at Eta Prime chapters is going to come out. But in any case, I would like to thank all my readers for reading, reviews, and requests to keep on continuing this great piece of work.