Bad Wolf

Willow Tyler gasped as she jerked awake, as there was somebody shaking her shoulder a bit roughly. She couldn't open her eyes at first, as she felt very dizzy and disoriented.
What was happening? Where was she? Who was she?

"Wake up!" a voice hissed near her ear. It was a voice that she had never heard before and Willow was very wary of it.

"Who're you, then?" Willow slurred out, not fully functioning yet.

"Name's Nick. Who're you?" the man asked.

"I'm Willow, I think" Willow said. She sat up very slowly, feeling very nauseous. She held her head, feeling a huge headache coming on. When she was fully sitting up, she felt like she was going to throw up, and then actually did.

"Easy, there, tiger," Nick said, wrinkling his nose in distaste. "Can we get some staff over here?"

"What happened?" Willow asked, looking around the still slightly spinning room. "Last thing I remember was Raxacoricofallapatorius, and then...bright light...then...nothing."

"That was probably the transmat. Messes with your head and makes you sick. I was sick for about three days," Nick said, looking at her in pity.

"I don't have three days! I've got to find my friends!" Willow said, as she started panicking, still feeling sick. She scrambled to her feet, feeling ready to throw up again, but she forced herself not to. Her friends. She had to find her friends. Who were her friends? She couldn't remember their names or what they looked like.

"Hold on there, sweetheart," Nick said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "You can't leave. The game's about to start in a few minutes and besides, they'd never let you just leave."

Willow then looked around again, wondering where she was. She honestly couldn't remember anything about what had happened. She remembered staying in the Tardis after the Doctor telling her that he loved her…the Doctor! Rose! Jack! Those were her friends! It was all coming back to her now.

"Where am I?" she asked, letting her panic take over. "Where's the Doctor? What did you do to him?"

"You're on Deal or No Deal," Nick said. "Doctor who?"

"What, the game show?" Willow asked with a hysterical laugh. She started whipping around, looking for an exit. She had to get out of there as soon as she could.

"Yup," Nick said, nodding, noticing the wild and panicking look in her eyes.

"Well, how'd I end up here?" Willow asked him, as if it were some sort of joke or scam. She was very tense, prepared to take off running in a split second if things started going bad.

"I told you, transmat," Nick said, shrugging his shoulders.

"So what about my friends, then?" she snarled at him. "Where are the Doctor, Rose, and Jack?"

"Probably transmatted into different games," Nick said. "Come on, the game's ready to start. You don't want to upset the host. Just remember, do your best. Don't pick anything over £100,000, and you'll probably live."

"What?" Willow asked, confused at what he was saying. She ran his words over in her mind, but they still didn't make any sense to her.

"Right, you're on next. Good luck, and don't die," Nick said with a small smile, starting to walk off.

"What?" Willow asked again, with confusion. She started to unconsciously rub her scar on her chin, like she did whenever she was nervous.

"And don't forget, this is live," Nick said.

"Live?" Willow asked, her eyebrows furrowed in bewilderment.

"On television," Nick clarified.

A couple of technicians came out then and dragged Willow out to the main floor with her struggling against them the whole way. Her eyes widened in horror and realization when she spotted her name above where the banker was. Over on the board were all the amounts, ranging from 1p to £250,000. Willow swallowed, still wondering what was going on. Thankfully, there was no audience, but there was one other person in the studio with her. Well, not a person, but a robot. Willow blinked in surprise as she actually recognized who the robot was supposed to be: a replica of Noel Edmonds.

"I'm sorry, but what's going on?" Willow asked, grabbing the arm of one of the technicians as she walked past.

"The game is about to start. Good luck," the technicians said, before the pair of them walked off, leaving Willow by herself. She was still dizzy from the transmat and felt like throwing up and passing out at the same time. A minute later, a bunch of women wearing skimpy dresses came out. They were carrying the usual briefcases with numbers on them. Willow noticed something odd, though: the briefcases were handcuffed to each woman's wrists. That was something that wasn't on the show, neither was a robot. She knew 'cos Aunt Jackie used to watch the show all the time when she was little.

"Pick a case," the Noel robot said in a metallic voice.

Willow grinned at the stupidity of all this before glancing through the cases that were numbered one through twenty-two.

"Umm...nine?" she said, as if it was a question, with a small laugh. The woman with the number nine briefcase carried it down. As she approached the table where Willow was standing, Willow noticed that the woman looked terrified and was crying silently. She set the briefcase down on the table (after the handcuff was released from her wrist) and backed away. A laser beam shot out of the Noel robot's mouth and the woman disappeared into a pile of ash right in front of Willow.

Willow gave a small shriek and put her hands over her mouth in horror. She opened her mouth, but was too terrified to speak. What the bloody hell was that? What happened to that woman? Was she dead? Was the same thing gonna happen to her?

"Now, you have your case. You get to pick six cases to start out. If you pick the £250,000 case, you shall leave the game by disintegration. Now, Willow Tyler, pick your cases," the Noel robot said.

At first, Willow is too terrified to speak. She opened and closed her mouth several times, probably resembling a fish, but nothing came out.

"PICK YOUR CASES!" the droid repeated with more volume, making Willow jump and whimper slightly.

"Um...um...number twenty?" Willow whispered out. She noted that the poor girl that carried case twenty looked as terrified as the first one had. The woman opened the case to name the amount.

Willow silently had tears going down her face (and guilt flooding her body) as the girl that had the case was disintegrated like the first one had been. It seemed, once she chose a case, the woman holding it was disintegrated. The game went on and Willow was lucky with her number choices but not so much for the women. Willow was sickened by this whole thing. If the Doctor, Rose, and Jack were in other games, were they already gone? Was this just some plot to kill them? For about the first time since traveling with the Doctor, Willow was properly terrified. She had been scared before, but not to this extent.

She was down to picking single cases. She was still alive, which meant she had the £250,000 case still out there somewhere. She had chosen the eleventh case last, and the woman was about to open it. Suddenly, they went to break again. One of the technicians came out and touched up on her make up, like they had to do every break because Willow kept breaking down in tears. She felt guilt in her stomach (which made her want to throw up again) at the thought of killing all these poor girls.

"This is so wrong," Willow whispered to one of the technicians.

The technician didn't answer and she finished with her make up, hurrying back stage. Willow looked at the back of the technician's jacket and read, 'Bad Wolf Corporation.' She suddenly remembered all the times she had heard the words 'Bad Wolf' recently, the last being in Cardiff.

"Shit," she whispered to herself. "Bad Wolf. It's everywhere. It's all connected. But what does it mean?"

"Alright, and 5...4...3..." a technician yelled out. He held up his fingers to signal the last two seconds, then the game went live again.

"Lisa will now open the case," Noel droid said. The woman was literally trembling in fear as she opened the case with shaking fingers. The woman looked in the case and then looked at Willow in pure fear. Not for herself, but for Willow. The case was open all the way and Willow saw that the number inside read, '£250,000.' She knew it was game over. She was going to die now.

"Willow!" she heard a voice yell out. She knew who it was before she even looked up.

"Doctor!" she yelled back. She looked at him and saw sadness, anger, and fear in his eyes. "Help-" She was cut off as the disintegrate beam shot her in the head, rendering her to a pile of ashes.

The Doctor was pissed off. He had lost both Rose and Willow in the same day, and it was all his fault. His fault that they were both dead. Well, that and the staff's fault. They were running this station, wherever they were. He had gone for Willow and Jack had volunteered to try to get to Rose. After he had failed, the Doctor had been placed under arrest and put into a holding cell, where he had found Jack and Lynda with a 'y'. One look at Jack's face and hanging head told him what he needed to know and answered his question. The Doctor turned unresponsive to anyone and anything. After having his picture taken, the Doctor was led back to the cell with Jack.

"Let's do this," he said to Jack. Jack and the Doctor quickly knocked all of the guards out, snatching the keys and weapons (along with the Doctor's sonic screwdriver), and left, setting off an alarm.

Willow slowly woke up for the second time that day. She was a bit groggy a first, then she took in her surroundings slowly. She didn't recognize the ship she was on and it didn't look like she was still on the station she had been on before. Something suddenly came around the corner of the corridor she was lying in. She pushed herself up off the floor and stared in horror at the alien.

"Shit," she whispered. "You can't be real. I watched you die! It's not possible!"

She scrambled to her feet and away from the alien. Finally, there was no more corridor available to step backwards in and Willow suddenly found her back up against the wall. The creature kept coming at her, not stopping.

"YOU ARE WILLOW TYLER, ASSOSIATE TO THE DOCTOR. YOU WILL COME WITH ME!" the Dalek screamed at her.

Shaking in fear, Willow let herself be herded into another corridor that was filled with Daleks. So, she thought. I guess the disintegrate ray wasn't that at all. It was a teleport beam. She gasped as she spotted Rose across the room, surrounded by Daleks. Willow was pushed from behind (she growled at the Dalek under her breath and cursed it) towards Rose's direction.

"MOVE!" the Dalek behind her ordered.

"Alright, alright. I'm moving," Willow said in a shaky voice. She hurried over to her cousin, who was sitting on the floor and knelt down.

"Rose, are you okay?" Willow asked, tightly embracing slash shielding Rose from the Daleks. Rose just gave a slight nod, her eyes wide and frightened.

"ALERT! ALERT! WE ARE DETECTED!" one Dalek to Willow's right yelled.

"IT IS THE DOCTOR! HE HAS LOCATED US!" another one yelled. "OPEN COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL!"

The first Dalek turned to Rose and Willow. Willow placed herself in front of Rose, ready to protect her cousin in any way she could.

"THE FEMALES WILL STAND! STAND!" the Dalek yelled. Willow grabbed Rose's arm and helped her stand up. Both of the girls appeared to be in shock. Willow again made sure that Rose was behind her, against the wall and away from the Daleks.

Suddenly, an image materialized in mid air. The image showed the Doctor, Jack, two woman, and a man. Willow gave a sigh of relief that both the Doctor and Jack were alright.

"I WILL SPEAK TO THE DOCTOR," the second Dalek said.

"Oh, will you? That's nice. Hello!" the Doctor said, waving mockingly. His fake grin that he had gave faded quickly as he looked Willow and Rose over for injuries.

"THE DALEK STRATAGEM NEARS COMPLETION. THE FLEET IS ALMOST READY. YOU WILL NOT INTERVENE," the Dalek said.

"Oh, really? Why's that then?" the Doctor asked.

"WE HAVE YOUR ASSOSIATES. YOU WILL OBEY OR THEY WILL BE EXTERMINATED," the Dalek said in his metallic voice.

Rose was clutching at Willow from behind, both of them frightened, but Willow was determined to put on a brave face for the Doctor to not let him see how terrified she really was. She clenched her jaw tightly, glaring at the Daleks around them.

"No," the Doctor said.

Willow felt her jaw drop. What was the Doctor doing? Was this part of his plan? Her life wasn't worth him dying over, or anyone else for that matter.

"EXPLAIN YOURSELF," the Dalek said.

"I said, 'no,'" the Doctor repeated.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS NEGATIVE?" the Dalek asked.

"It means 'no,'" the Doctor said.

"BUT THEY WILL BE DESTROYED," the Dalek said.

"No!" the Doctor said. "'Cos this is what I'm gonna do—I'm gonna rescue them."

Willow felt the fear leave her body as she started to smile at the Doctor, who gave her a return smile quickly. She knew him and Jack must have a plan up their sleeves, or just Jack since the Doctor didn't really plan, per se.

"I'm gonna save Rose and Willow Tyler form the middle of the Dalek Fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek outta the sky!" the Doctor said.

"BUT YOU HAVE NO WEAPONS! NO DEFENSES! NO PLAN!" the Dalek yelled in its mechanical voice.

"Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death? Rose? Willow?" the Doctor said, looking between the cousins.

"Yes, Doctor?" they both said at the same time, causing Jack to shake his head with a fond smile on his face.

"I'm coming to get both of you," the Doctor said. The communication line closed the image of the Doctor disappeared.

"Hear that, Rosie? It'll be okay. The Doctor's coming to get us," Willow whispered to her blonde cousin, stroking her hair as she held Rose close to her.

"THE DOCTOR IS INITIATING HOSTILE ACTION!" the second Dalek said.

"THE STRATAGEM MUST ADVANCE. BEGIN THE INVASION OF EARTH!" the first one said. The two Daleks started to spin in wild circles. Both Rose and Willow gasped and Willow pulled Rose back, but the Daleks didn't notice them.

"THE DOCTOR WILL BE EXTERMINATED!" a third Dalek said.

"EXTERMINATE!" all the Daleks yelled together.

Willow looked around them as the room lit up as thousands of Daleks yelled, "EXTERMINATE!" at the same time. It was whole army of Daleks just waiting to invade the Earth below them...

TO BE CONTINUED...