Chapter Eleven

A few minutes of walking passed by and we hadn`t seen any other Daleks.

Sobbing was heard through a door and my hand started to quiver, Derpy noticing it with curiosity in her eyes.

"Follow me," I said, trusting my gut instincts to follow the voice.

Go up some stairs, take three lefts, two rights, go straight, and enter the fourth door to the left.

I opened the door and saw that the young woman about 20 or so years old had begun to dry her tears. Dents were on the wall and some blood made the room revolting. I saw some chalk marks counting upwards in tally marks, 5, 10, 15, 20, all the way to 43 before the 44th tally was dragged along the wall like the person drawing it was grabbed and pulled away. The cement walls were dry and hard, obviously, but not a single inch of these walls had any windows.

I quietly walked to her and cleared my throat, causing her to sit up. "W-w-w-w-w-who are y-y-you?" She stammered, her voice shaking.

"Your ticket out of here," I began. "Just tell me one thing, have you heard anyone say ANYTHING about a little girl named Dinky?"

"Um... Yes, yes I do! In fact, I know where they hold her." A perky attitude (like she could have been a perfect cheerleader in a worldwide competition) rose out of her and she forgot her worries during the moments she talked.

"What do they plan to do to her?" Derpy asked, her voice cutting out and raspy.

"Exactly what they do to everyone here, they turn them into Daleks. But if the rumors ARE true, and she IS the Doctor`s daughter... they just say to expect something more."

"But how is this even possible? How are YOU possible? How long have you been here, and why can I see if there aren`t any windows?" I questioned her. I could have asked more, but Derpy raised her hand.

"You subtract love and replace it with anger. But if you`re really smart, you get turned into an actual, full Dalek. You`d be a puppet if you weren`t smart."

"And how do you know that?" Sparkler asked suspiciously.

"I had to watch it happen," She shuddered. "My son was one of the unlucky, smart ones. I`ve been alone in here ever since,"

"Sorry for your loss but we need to go," I began to turn around for the door.

"WAIT!" She yelled.

I ran back to her. "You idiot, do you want to kill us all?!" I asked her harshly.

"You said you were my ticket out of here. If I show you to Dinky, will you allow me to escape this Hell?" She stepped out of the shadows.

Her dark brown skin tone had cuts and bruises along her arms and legs, but her face was unusually clear with absolutely no damage or makeup. Her white shirt was torn and ripped in some spots but still served its purpose to cover her, and she wore some blue shorts that went down to the middle of her thigh, covering a large scar.

"I don`t know about this," I said quietly to Derpy.

"It`s up to you."

"To be completely honest, I don`t know if that is good or bad right now," I admitted. "Fine, just don`t cause us any trouble."

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" The woman smiled, running up to me and embracing me awkwardly.

I and Derpy looked at each other and shrugged. "Okay, that`s enough," Derpy said.

"Right, right," She said expressionless. "The name is Charlotte Rose. And you are...?"

"Nice to meet you, Charlotte Rose," I smiled. "This is my daughter Sparkler, Stardust, and my fiancé Derpy. And I am the Doctor."

Her eyes opened extremely wide. "Wait, Dinky is YOUR daughter? And YOU'RE THE DOCTOR?! No, that`s impossible. Who are you?"

"I`m not on a first name, or real name, basis right now, Charlotte – just call me the Doctor, because that is me. I am the Doctor."

"You better not draw attention to me," She growled, "Or you won`t see the end of it."

"And who are YOU to threaten HIM?" Derpy yelled back.

"Girls, girls, no time for a fight...! Voices down!" I warned them.

"Fine," Charlotte mumbled. "But if you end up killing me because of your daughter, I`ll come back."

I rolled my eyes and began to slowly turn around. "Alright, let`s go-"

"UNDETECTED LIFE FORMS IN AREA...!" A Dalek cried out from outside of the door. It stared at us. "SCANNING... SCANNING... IT IS THE DOCTOR! WE HAVE THE DOCTOR! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"

"Not good!" I yelled back. "Guys, we gotta run!" I screamed, taking my sonic screwdriver out and pressing the button towards the Dalek. The top half of its body flew off but I heard others coming.

Sparkler pushed Charlotte out of the cell while Derpy held onto Stardust and ran off, following me as I listened to Charlotte`s directions to get to Dinky.

"Daddy..." A soft voice moaned.

"No, not now...!" I screamed at myself.

"Save me..."

"You can do this, Doctor!" I encouraged myself. My vision grew hazy but I blinked it off. "Where to next, Charlotte...?" I asked her when we came across two separate ways.

"Um... um..." She looked frantically between the two. "LEFT...!" She yelled.

"We trust you!" Sparkler calls from the back.

"From here we need to go upstairs!" She ordered.

"How do you know where we are going?" Derpy asked, panting alongside me, Sparkler tagging not so far behind (about eight steps away).

"They talk a lot!" She answered with an insane laugh.

"Explains," I muttered to myself. We came to a stop at a large set of doors. I heard Daleks cheering. We all caught our breath. "Girls, are we alright?" I asked.

"I don`t know," Derpy wheezed, bending over and rubbing her sore ankles.

"How did your hearts not pop from doing this every day?" Sparkler asked me, leaning against the wall for support.

"I don`t know," I answered. "Time Lord... stuff...?"

"Lucky you, then," Charlotte concluded.

I drew in a small breath and shut my eyes. "She`s here," I whispered.

"Doctor, are you alright?" Derpy asked cautiously. "I know I keep asking, it`s just... you`ve been acting weird, lately."

"I AM weird, I just make it work," I muttered as I regained my senses. I stood up straight and smiled. "Let`s go, now shall we?"

Derpy smiled, "We shall."

"AllonS-Y...!" I screamed, opening the doors and rushing in, holding hands with Derpy.

"Oh... my... God..." She whimpered, tears on the verge of breaking loose.

"Calm down," I warned her.

"IT IS THE DOCTOR!" One of the thousands (that is an understatement, more like two million) surrounding us yelled.

"EXTERMINATE!" They all chanted. The noise was deafening.

"ENOUGH!" Another screeched, causing them all to stop. A blue Dalek rolled in through the door. "Doctor, what are you doing here? Why have you come back?"

"To rightfully retrieve what`s mine," I growled back. "Now, if I am right here, you have one of my... possessions, and I would like it back," I said, smiling plastically.

"Doctor, what are you-" Sparkler started.

"WRONG ANSWER," I roared. "Let me rephrase! That is an order, Daleks, give me Dinky back right this instant, or there will be HELL to pay for!"

"As the Doctor says...!" The blue Dalek laughed.

The doors opened once more and three Daleks came from behind me, but on the other side an operating table was rolled in.

"Dinky...!" Derpy screamed.

"Mom...?" She asked groggily.

"Hand her over!" I yelled.

"EXTERMINATE!" The crowd chanted as the blue Dalek rolled towards Dinky.

She screamed in protest but before anybody could react I grabbed my sonic screwdriver and aimed, ready for a fight.

"I don`t think so!" Charlotte laughed. She threw the screwdriver across the room and kicked me hard in my midsection making me double over in pain.

"Doctor...!" Derpy yelled before she was quickly slapped across the face. She fell to the floor and Stardust was crying. Sparkler tried to help but Charlotte held her arms behind her back and pinned her against the wall, colliding her fist with Sparkler`s right cheek, making her head crack against the cement.

Still gasping for air, I fell to my knees and saw what they were doing to Dinky.

She screamed and cried and thrashed as fast and violently as possible, but a Dalek had other ideas – he aimed at her forehead and painfully a metal rod made its way out, on its edge a blue vibrant circle.

"Dinky... no..." I gasped, reaching out for her.

Charlotte stomped on my fingers and I cried out in pain, watching as the eye of a Dalek grows from her forehead as well.

"All along you`ve been... a puppet, huh...?" I murmured with a smile. "Knew it..."

"Help me, Daddy, I`m trapped!" Dinky called out.

"Hold on," I exhaled. I began to crawl towards my screwdriver, still panting heavily. The Daleks laughed as Charlotte threw me against the wall. "Why are you doing this?" I asked her as she made me join Derpy.

Derpy sat up and pointed out Dinky was coming, cradling the still crying Stardust in her hands next to me.

"Doctor, species: Time Lord, from the planet of Gallifrey. Nice to see you again," She laughed.

"Dinky, stop it!" I yelled, running to her. My knees buckled halfway and I was stuck crawling. "I know you`re in there!"

"I am!" She screamed. "I`m stuck!

"I`ll get you out, I promise," I told her. "Is there a way you can get me my-"

The sonic screwdriver rolled quickly across the floor and I reached for it.

"How is this possible?" Dinky gasped.

I quickly grabbed it but my fingers made it hard to hold on. Painfully, I allowed my thumb to hover over the button.

"Release my daughter," I demanded.

"You don`t get it, do you, Doctor?" Dinky smiled. "You may be some part of my memory, but I don`t care much for you anymore. But because I know you, I do know one thing – you would never do that your DAUGHTER!" She roared with laughter. The other Daleks chimed in.

"Don`t make me do this," I said tearfully. "I don`t want to."

Derpy shut her eyes and held Stardust close to her chest, Sparkler still passed out on the floor from the blow to the head. Charlotte from behind me hit me in the back of the neck.

My vision went from white to black, all of the images my brain was trying to process being lagged.

"No, you will not kill him!" Dinky shouted.

"Argh, my head...!" Dinky screamed.

Raising the screwdriver again and aiming it at her, I pondered if she was right. Could I do this? Could I potentially harm my daughter just so she comes home?

"Doctor, no!" Derpy cried. "Please, don`t hurt her!"

"What do you suppose I do?" Gritting my teeth through the pain I asked her.

Charlotte saw I was weak and kicked me again in my side multiple times until I could feel one of my hearts stop beating for a split second.

"Daddy, hurry up!"

"You think you`re all... perfect Daleks, don`t you?" I asked, coughing up blood and spitting it on the floor.

"'Perfect Daleks'...?" The red one asked. "There is such thing, we all are!"

Dinky looked at me and smiled. "You think you`re funny, don`t you, Doctor? But really, you`re just – AGH...!" She screeched again.

"Are you really? Or are you just forced to live... like a robotic-" I interrupted myself and quickly shot Charlotte with the screwdriver. She fell to the floor, her forehead returning to normal. The Daleks gasped. "Like I was saying," I coughed, standing up. "Will you live... to see another day? Or will you die, seeing the Devil himself, armed... with a sonic screwdriver?"

"We prefer the first one, like always, and we will be right, like always! Daleks will remain superior! Exterminate the Doctor! EXTERMINATE!" The blue Dalek cried out.

"Derpy, get Sparkler and run!" I demanded.

"But-"

"DO IT!" I screamed.

Derpy stared at me for a second before hauling Sparkler and pulling her arm like she was nothing down the hallway.

"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" The Daleks chanted.

Lasers were flying past me left and right and I ducked behind a lifeless Dalek I had managed to get.

"Dinky, you have to fight her!" I screamed. "I know that you are still there, Dinky! Stay strong, fight it!"

Dinky fell to the floor and looked at me. Her forehead opened and closed like when you turn a camera on and off, the eye zooming in and out.

"It hurts," Dinky sighed painfully.

"That`s right, keep it up! You can do this!" I took out a few Daleks and grabbed Dinky`s hand, pulling her next to me. "Listen, you need to listen to me! Dinky, if you can hear me, do what you need to do! I don`t care what it is! We want OUR Dinky back!" I yelled.

"Daddy...?" Dinky asked, blinking a few times. "No, it is the Doctor! EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR!"

I saw the internal war waging inside of her brain and I shook her shoulders. It stunned her for a moment and I went to –

A large blast shook the entire building. My vision went from white to black and I struggled to remain conscious. "Stay in this Doctor," I said to myself, right before another blast of what seemed to be ninety lasers combining at once nearly chipped my left shoulder. The large cement wall had a huge gaping hole in the middle of it, dust flying into my eyes, ridding me of my vision for several seconds.

When I could see again I saw I had been surprisingly blown backwards somehow without my knowing and I grabbed Dinky. She struggled inside of my tight grasp so I used the sonic screwdriver to make her sleep for a few minutes. That would give me enough time to rush back to the TARDIS.

Then, I started a fire by flinging a nearby torch to a maroon flag. The alarms blaring, the Daleks screeched of the high pitched noise.

"Allons-y," I laughed, holding Dinky in my arms and running out of the building as it exploded from the many Daleks self-destructing behind me. A huge fire ball chased me outside where Daleks flew past me in pieces.

The TARDIS was still there so I opened the door and ran inside.

Derpy was talking to Stardust saying everything was fine. Sparkler held a cloth to her head and looked extremely tired.

"Girls," I cleared my throat. "Guess who just won – and why didn`t the TARDIS just teleport you somewhere?"

"Oh my, Doctor!" Derpy screamed, running to me and embracing me tightly. "I thought you weren`t going to... that you would..." She shook her head and sobbed onto my shirt.

"Did you say you thought that the Doctor, a savior of all words, would lose against Daleks?" I asked her, raising an eyebrow. "But anyways, I have Dinky."

Author`s Note:

My, oh my, was that long. I wanted to save this chapter for tomorrow since it would be like a "birthday extravaganza" but I knew I needed to upload something today.

I am home sick with a cold and I was watching David Tennant over YouTube and lost track of time. Well, time waits for no one, I guess. (Get the reference...?)

So, hope you enjoyed this one! There will be two more chapters I believe. Too lazy to open Microsoft Word again, haha.

- GothicPegasister