Chapter Eleven

Penny's mouth nearly hit the floor the moment she entered the TARDIS. Sheldon and the clone entered ahead of her and the clone turned to see her standing at the bottom of the ramp in complete shock. Sighing, he walked over to her and patted her on the shoulder condescendingly.

"Yes, yes, bigger on the inside and all that," he said to her. "Now close the door before you let the flies in and let me pilot my ship back to the Crucible."

Penny shook off the disbelief and closed the doors while the clone jogged back to the console. He gave Sheldon a wary look when he noticed he was scrutinizing the doodads on the console.

"Tell me again how you intend to fly this thing with a bicycle pump?" Sheldon said, pointing to bicycle pump.

Penny came up beside Sheldon and stared at the console.

"What the hell is this? You said this was a time machine. Where'd you get the parts from, a landfill?" she said to the clone.

"No, I did not and yes, I can fly the thing with a bicycle pump. I can do many things that are beyond the range of your limited ape mind. Now step back before you press something and we explode. I will fly us to the Crucible. You apes just step back and observe."

"Excuse me?" Penny said, putting her hands on her hips while the clone began to power up the TARDIS. "Look buddy, I don't know who you are but I don't appreciate the ape comment and…"

"Step back, Penny," Sheldon said, grabbing her arms and walking her backwards.

"But he just insulted me," Penny said to Sheldon.

"It's not the first time and it won't be the last," Sheldon said. "Someone with your limited mental capacity has to get used to scorn so step back and let those of more superior intellect pilot the time machine, okay?"

Penny looked at the smug look on Sheldon's face, debated whether to put her fist into it and then decided it wasn't worth it. She walked around the console to the jump seat and sighed at she sank down on it.

"NOOOOOO!"

Penny jumped up when the clone raced around the console towards her.

"No! That's my spot! Don't sit there!" the clone screamed as he pointed to the jump seat.

Penny gave him an exasperated look and sat down on the other side of the jump seat. She noticed the clone looked relieved at that before he turned and walked back to the console. Sheldon walked around the console towards Penny. Penny gave him a withering look.

"He was made from your DNA, huh? It certainly shows," she said to him.

Meanwhile, the others were imprisoned in the vault on the Crucible.

"I gotta pee," Howard said. "Hey…um…blind pruny guy, can we have a bathroom break now?"

Davros didn't answer him and glided over to a Dalek that had just come into the room.

"My guess is the answer is no," Leonard said to Howard.

Howard tentatively reached his hand up and sighed when he saw the forcefield shimmer in front of him for a moment.

"Well, he needs to give us bathroom breaks or I'm peeing on the floor. I can't hold it much longer. Hey, Prune Guy, let us out so we can pee!"

"He's not listening to ya, ya git," Donna said. "And would you mind not making him angry so he kills us all? I would like to live long enough to get off this thing."

"I can't help it if my bladder is about to explode," Howard said with a shrug.

"At least you still have a bladder and a body to go with it. Sheldon has neither now," Leonard said.

"Yes, but I'm sure his soul is having fun touring the cosmos now and he's probably mocking us and our inability to escape these forcefields and getting angry because we can't hear his ghost," Howard said.

Donna shook her head and muttered under her breath, wondering where Rose found these weirdos. She looked at Raj who was standing across from her. He was shuffling around his prison, hands in his pockets.

"What about you? You don't have anything witty to say?" Donna asked Raj.

Raj froze with a deer in the headlights look. Donna's eyebrow rose when his mouth opened and closed but no sounds came out.

"He can't talk to women," Rose said to Donna. "Trust me; I've tried speaking to him as well."

"Whatever," Donna muttered, turning towards the Doctor. "What about you? Do you have a plan?"

"No yet," the Doctor said, shrugging his shoulders.

"Do you have a way we can get out so we can go to the bathroom?" Howard asked hopefully.

The Doctor stared at him for a moment and then turned towards Davros.

"Would you let my friend use the toilet so he'll stop whinging about wetting himself?" he yelled at Davros. "In fact, we could all use the loo right about now."

"And let you escape? I think not, Doctor," Davros said, gliding back towards him.

"I promise I won't escape if you let me drain the lizard, Prune Person," Howard yelled at him.

The Doctor bit back a smile when Davros turned towards him.

"Prune Person?" Davros said to Howard.

"Yeah, Pruny, Blind Pruny Person, Wrinkles, let me use the john!" Howard said, crossing his legs.

"My name is Davros, lord and creator of the Dalek race, not….Blind Pruny Person," Davros said, gliding over to him.

"Okay, okay…Davros, can I drain the lizard? I'm about to piss my pants, give me a break!" Howard said to him.

"Come on, give the man a break," Donna said. "I'm also getting tired of hearing about his bladder."

Davros studied him for a moment and then he began to chuckle.

"What's so funny?" Howard said.

"Daleks have no need for a lavatory and neither do I. My chair takes care of that so there are no lavatories on this ship. Now shut up before I jettison you into deep space!"

"Does deep space have a toilet?" Howard yelled as Davros glided away from him.