The Doctor exchanged a worried glance with Amy. "Yeah. Except she's been here a year."
Amy glanced back at the doctor.
Harvey looked around. "We should have some climbing rope long enough for that hole."
"Harvey, won't you introduce us to your crew?"
"Ah, yes, sorry. Guys, this is the Doctor and Amy." Harvey introduced the crew.
There was no response.
"Um, guys?"
The Doctor slowly walked up to the people in the seats. He reached over to the closest person's white hoodie, and pulled it back.
"Oh, my god." Harvey breathed.
The Doctor scanned the room with his sonic. "They're dead. All of them."
"Th-that's not possible. I just spoke to them. Two hours ago. We were doing engine repairs."
"You're sure about that, are you? Because I'd say they've all been dead for a very long time."
"But they can't have been."
Amy interjected. "Well, they didn't get in this state in two hours."
Harvey thought for a moment. "No, of course. Stupid me."
"Of course what?" Amy quipped.
Harvey paused. "I died outside, and the cold preserved my body. I forgot about dying."
All of a sudden, a Dalek eyepiece popped out through a concealed hole in his forehead. The Doctor grabbed the nearest thing, a CO2 fire extinguisher, and blasted it off in his face.
"Amy, the door!" He shouted.
But, the door wouldn't budge for Amy. "Come on, come on!"
After a struggle, the door finally budged.
"Doctor, come on!" she screamed at him.
After they backed the now-Dalek-puppet Harvey out of the way, they scrambled through the door.
"Explain. That's what you're good at. How'd he get all Daleked?" Amy breathed.
The Doctor leaned against the door, as if that would help. "Because he wasn't wearing one of these," he flashed the wristband in Amy's face. "Oh, ho, ho. That's clever. The nanocloud! Microorganisms that automatically process any organic matter, living or dead, into a Dalek puppet. Anything attacks this place, it automatically becomes part of the on-site security."
"Living or dead?"
"These wristbands protect us. The only thing stopping us going exactly the way he did–"
Amy slapped him. "Doctor, shut up! Living or dead?"
"Ow! And yes, exactly. Living or, or..."
One by one, the dessicated corpses in the chair behind them started to move. A crack of a bone here, a twist of a jaw there, and they got up.
"...Dead. Oh dear."
A few of the Dalekized zombies came closer, close enough for the Doctor to kick a few away. It's fine, they're already dead. They're already dead. They're already dead.
"Doctor! One got my arm!" Amy screeched and slapped the arm away. And with that, the pair scrambled into the cockpit of the escape pod.
A voice came on the PA.
"Unauthorized personnel may not enter the cockpit."
"Oh, shut up!"
Oswin mocked a scoff. "Mister grouch. No sense of humour in that chin!"
Amy looked at the broken screen of the cockpit. "Is that her again, soufflé girl?"
"Yeah, she. Oi, what is wrong with my chin?"
"Careful, dear. You'll poke someone's eye out," Oswin said over the PA. "I'm scanning you. You're in another of the escape pods from the Alaska, right? Same ship I was on."
"How can you hack into everything? It should be impossible. You're in a crashed ship!" The Doctor mused.
"Long story. Is there a word for total screaming genius that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?" Oswin tried to sound matter-of-fact, and was failing miserably.
The Doctor just had to seize that opportunity. "Doctor. You call me the Doctor."
"I see what you did there..." came Oswin's smug reply. "Check the floor. I'm picking up a breach at floor level. There could be a way out. See you later."
Izzy and Rory made it through the door and closed it just as the first of the Dalek laser beams came firing at them.
"So anyway, I'm Oswin. What do I call you two?"
Rory jumped a bit at her voice. "Oh, er-I can't remember...Rory."
"Izzy." Came Izzy's simple reply.
"Lovely name, Rory. First boy I ever fancied was called Rory...well...actually she was called Nina. I was going through a phase."
Rory gaped as he watched Izzy silently mouth the whole conversation. Izzy noticed Rory staring at her and whispered, "What? This is one of my favorite episodes."
Oswin's voice came over the PA again. "Just flirting to keep you cheerful."
The Daleks could be heard banging on the door (however that worked).
Rory anxiously glanced at the door. "Er, okay, anytime you want to start flirting again is fine by me."
Izzy, for the first time, looked up at the Dalek eyepiece-camera. Trying to lighten the situation, she asked "So, soufflé girl, how's life? Spending a year alone in a shipwreck has got to have some effect on you."
Oswin's voice sounded matter-of-fact. "Er, you know, I've been making soufflés, and by the way, how did you know to call me soufflé girl? I didn't hear your voice while I was having a chat with that Doctor."
"Um... you know, I was there. I maaaay or may not have overheard that conversation. I couldn't've not overheard anyway, since it was practically being blasted throughout the entire Dalek Parliament ship."
"Is this conversation really...important right now?" Rory interjected.
"Good point, Rory. Can you show us where the Doctor and Amy are? Do these Dalek eyestalk things have like a hologram projector or...something?"
Oswin responded. "No, but there is a small room with a screen in it to your right. I can show you where the Doctor and Amy are."
The Doctor's voice sounded down the hallway, "No need for that. It looks like we've found you."
