AN: How was everyone's Christmas and New Year?
"Kaleds?" Tallulah asked in complete confusion, "But if that's not a human being…that kinda implies that it's from outta space." She looked up at the roof, then towards the Doctor, with a smile that shown she didn't want to believe. Rose and the Doctor just looked at her with one raised eyebrow.
"Again, a no with the kidding." Now Tallulah was getting scared. "Yesh. Well what's it doing here? In New York?" The Doctor didn't answer just started furiously ahead of him, he was thinking.
"What can we do? The Daleks…here in New York. What do they want? Obviously are taking people for…Slaves?"
"We don't know." Jack answered, his voice was a lot calmer than her felt.
"I'm not scared, well, not for my self, I don't want the Doctor or Rose or Martha dead. But I want the Daleks dead. As painfully and quickly as possible."
"Come on." The Doctor grabbed Tallulah and Rose's arms, "You two are in danger, you're going back up there. Rose, you're going to the TARDIS."
"No Doctor. I'm staying with you." Rose argued. "I want to help destroy or help those bastards."
"Every second you two are in more and more danger, I'm taking you back now."
"Rose's he's right," Jack tried to tell Rose but she just got annoyed.
"Don't you turn on me Harkness!"
But before anymore could be said Tallulah screamed, and in front of them was a pig, when he saw the people he ran but knew he wouldn't get far so just fell by a wall and knelt with his face in his arms. The Doctor let go of the woman's arm and jogged towards the pig, "Where's Martha? What have you done with her?" he asked furiously.
"I didn't take her." The pig answered to the surprise of everyone in the tunnel. It was a man, with an American accent.
"He can talk? He's different."
"Do you remember your name?" the Doctor asked, his voice softer now, but his frustration was still hidden behind it.
"Don't look at me." The pig told them, but no one looked away. Everyone still watched him, all wanting to know where Martha was.
"Do you know where she is?" Tallulah asked gently, she seemed to have calmed down after her initial shock, she took a few steps forwards.
"Stay back!" the pig man shouted, Tallulah stopped in her tracks. "Don't look at me." He repeated.
"What happened to you?" the Doctor asked him, his voice now just displaying concern.
"They made me a monster."
"Who did?"
"The Masters."
"The Daleks, why?"
"They needed slaves. They needed slaves to steal more people so they created us. Part animal, part human. I escaped before they got my mind…but it was still too late." The pig/man explained.
"Just what I thought."
"Do you know what happened to Martha?"
"They took her." The pig/man told him, "It was my fault, she was following me."
"You were in the theatre?" Tallulah asked.
"Yes."
"Why? Why were you there?"
"I never wanted you to see me like this."
"Why me? What I got to do with this?" She walked forwards slowly towards him, "Were you following me, is that why you were there?" the Pig/man turned around and looked right at Tallulah, he was still in the shadows so he's face wasn't seen
"Yes." He told her, she felt silent, eyes wide in astonishment and disbelief.
"Who are you?"
"I was lonely."
"Who are you?" Tallulah repeated, but she obviously knew the answer but needed confirmation. She walked slowly towards him, he stayed silent.
"I needed to see you."
"Who are you?"
She reached him and he turned away, as if he was about to walk away. "I'm sorry."
"No, wait." She reached over and took hold of his arm, stopping him from walking away. "Let me look at ya." He turned back around, she placed her hand on his shoulder and pushed him gently backwards, he walked into the light. It was a man, a man with a pig face and black short hair, small tusks coming out the side of his mouth. "Lazlo?" Tallulah asked, tears filling up her eyes. He nodded, "My Lazlo? What 'ave they done to you?"
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Lazlo apologized.
"Lazlo." The Doctor took a few steps forward, Rose and Jack joined them, "Can you show me where they are?"
"They'll kill you." Lazlo warned, "You and your friends."
"If I don't stop them, they'll kill everyone." With a sigh, Lazlo nodded and looked back at Tallulah who tried to smile for him.
"Then follow me." Lazlo walked past Tallulah down the tunnels, the Doctor, Rose, Jack and Tallulah followed. Rose stuck next to Jack who had his hand in hers, she drew comfort from it.
"The Daleks…not again. I need to stay strong, strong for the Doctor. But they can kill me? No. When has that ever stopped you Rose?"
"You ok?" Jack whispered; bring Rose out of her internal argument.
"I'm fine." She lied.
"Don't lie to me Rose." Jack warned, his eyes no longer held the joke and fun he held in them earlier.
She swallowed, "I'm terrified." She admitted, "What about you?"
"I'm scared for you and him, not for myself, 'cause as long as you and he survives, I'll be fine." He half-heartily smiled down at her, she smiled back.
"How far is it?" The Doctor asked Lazlo quietly.
"Not far."
True to his word they walked around a corner and they saw a large group of pigs, keeping people in a line. But the Pigs started squawking a lot and loudly.
"It's like when someone famous and really great walks onto stage and the crowed start screaming, like Britain's Got Talent, Ant and Dec walk on, and it's hard to shut the crowd up."
The Doctor pulled the group back around the corner, and he and Jack poked their heads round, watching, everyone else listening.
A dalek came slowly through an archway, "SILENCE!" It ordered, in its robotic voice that always sounds like a shout.
"I hoped I'd never hear that again!"
"YOU WILL FORM A LINE. MOVE." The pigs started shoving the people, forcing them to form a straight line.
"Alright, every just obey them, do what they say." A female shouted out. She had a London accent.
"Martha! She's alive!"
"Thank any God out there! Martha's alive!"
"THE FE-MALE IS WISE. OBEY."
"RE-PORT." Another Dalek came through an archway. This one's voice was deeper, seemed to hold more authority.
"THESE ARE STRONG SPEC-I-MENS THEY WILL HELP THE DA-LEK CAUSE." The first Dalek said.
"Dalek cause?"
"WHAT IS THE STA-TUS OF THE FI-NAL EX-PERI-MENT?" The first Dalek asked.
"THE DA-LEK-ANIUM IS IN PLACE. THE EN-ERGY CON-DUC-TOR IS NOW COM-PLETE." The second Dalek answered.
"THEN I WILL SELECT PRIS-ONERS FOR SELEC-TION." The first Dalek turned and looked at the prisoner nearest to him. Two pigs moved to either side of him and held him in place to stop him from moving. The sucker extended and lifted so it reached up to the mans face, it covered is mouth. "INTEL-LI-GENCE SCAN INITIATE. READ-ING BRIAN-WAVES, LOW INEL-LI-GENCE." The Dalek pulled the sucker back.
"You calling me stupid?" the man asked, his confidence restored as he was insulted.
"SILENCE. THIS ONE WILL BE-COME A PIG SLAVE. NEXT."
"No! I'm not becoming one of them!" the man argued, trying to fight against the pigs holding him, as they dragged him through the arch the Daleks had came through.
"They divide them into two groups, high intelligence and low intelligence." Lazlo explained as the Daleks moved on down the line. "Low intelligence are taken, they become pig slaves like me." Lazlo sighed and watched more scanned.
"But that's not fair." Tallulah said loudly.
"Shhh!" the Doctor, Jack and Rose all ordered her.
"You're the smartest guy I ever dated." Tallulah whispered this time.
"And the others?" the Doctor changed the subject.
"They're taken to the laboratory."
"Why?" Rose asked at the same time as the Doctor said.
"Why? What for?"
"I don't know." Lazlo answered, "The Masters only call it the finally experiment."
Turning back the Doctor saw the Dalek move to Martha, the plunger only seemed to scan her for a moment before deeming, "SUPER-IOR INTEL-LI-GENCE. THIS ONE WILL BE TA-KEN FOR THE FI-NAL EX-PERI-MENT."
"Experiment? On people?"
"You can't just experiment on people!" Martha shouted at the Dalek, "It's insane! It's in human!"
"WE ARE NOT HU-MAN!" the Dalek told her before moving onto the next prisoner. After he had scanned a couple more taking some of them out to become pig slaves the Dalek moved to the middle of the group, everyone's attention was on the Dalek. "PRIS-ONERS OF HIGH INTEL-LI-GENCE WE BE TAKEN TO THE TRANS-GENIC LAB-ORA-TORY"
"Their moving." The Doctor told Rose and Tallulah, who could not see the DALEKS. He moved into the shadows pulling Jack and Rose with him. Tallulah and Lazlo walked down the corridor.
"Doctor, Rose, Jack. Come on." Lazlo said.
"I'm not coming, Rose go with them." The Doctor told them. "Go to the TARDIS."
"I'm not going." Rose argued.
"No time for an argument, and I couldn't live with myself if I lost you, now go." The Doctor ordered.
"No." Rose maintained. The Doctor sighed, and didn't say anything else.
"She better not die."
"She dies, I'll kill her."
At the same time the Doctor and Rose quarrel was going on, Tallulah and Lazlo were talking as well.
Tallulah went to move but Lazlo stay still. "Lazlo." Tallulah said, taking his hand. "Come on."
"Do you remember the way?" he asked her.
"Yeah, yeah I think so."
"Then go please."
"But Lazlo you gotta come with me."
"Where would I go? Tallulah I'm begging you, save yourself and just run." Lazlo directed. Tallulah shook her head, "Just go. Go." He pulled her lightly away and joined the TARDIS trio.
The Daleks went past them, and went around the corner, opposite the Doctor and group. As the people went pasted behind the Daleks the Doctor joined on with Martha. Rose, Jack and Lazlo following him.
Martha turned her head to see what came up behind her, when she caught eyes with the Doctor he told her, "Keep walking."
"Oh, I am so glad to see you three." She said happily.
"Yeah, well... you can kiss me later. You too Frank, if you want." The Doctor said causing Martha to laugh quietly.
"If only I could kiss him later…"
They turned a corner and reached a very large room, with huge square poles reached to the ceiling. Lights behind a Dalek arranged like a honeycomb shapes. One count Rose could see four Daleks, one was black and smoking.
"Dalek Sec, Is that…the Cult of Skaro?" Rose asked the Doctor quietly. He nodded even though she wasn't looking at him, when she glanced around to look at him, he nodded again.
One Dalek rolled passed them, "RE-PORT."
"DA-LEK SEC IS ENTER-ING THE FIN-AL STAGE OF EVO-LU-TION."
"SCAN HIM. PRE-PARE FOR BIRTH."
"Evolution?" The Doctor muttered.
"Scrap that, Daleks can't give birth…" Rose said.
"Ask them." The Doctor told her.
"Maybe Jack should…if they shoot him he'll get back up again…" Before the Doctor could say that out loud Rose began talking.
"Oi." Rose stepped out the line, she was shaking, and terrified, but she had been with these four before and she was alone then, now with the Doctor, Jack and Martha she could defiantly handle it, "What is this final experiment thing?" she felt everyone turn their attention on her. The Daleks seemed to watch her silently for a few moments, as if scanning her.
"They proberly are..."
"They reconigze her. Damnit! I didn't think of that!"
"YOU AE THE DOC-TORS ASSO-CIATE." One of the Daleks stated obviously.
"Well done!" Rose said her voice heavy with sarcasum. "Now answer my-"
The Dalek interupted, "WHERE IS THE DOC-TOR?"
Rose concidered her answer for a momnet, her brain racing trying to think of a sutible answer. "Damn, What can I do? They'll know the Doctors here, but I can't let them no yet, where could he be..."
"He's in England." she answered finally. "He went down there for a social call, I told him I'd be fine in New York. I can handle anything, besides if I can destory the Emperor," she paused for effect, when she was down in Canery Wolf with the Daleks she told them, she said she had killed the Emporer, which is true, the Daleks seemed to remember. "I can destory anything." You cuold cut the atmosphere in the room with a knife, "So...are you going to answer my question?"
"Oh she is good."
"You go Rosie."
"She killed an Emporer? Don't wanna get on her bad side..."
"YOU WILL BARE WIT-NESS." The Dalek answered Rose.
"For what?"
"THIS IN THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE."
"What does that mean?" Rose asked.
"WE ARE THE ONLY FOUR DA-LEKS IN EXIS-TENCE. SO THE SPEICES MUST EVOLVE. A LIFE OUT-SIDE THE SHELL, THE CHIL-DREN OF SKA-RO MUST WALK AGAIN."
The Dalek turned away, but Rose began to speak once more. "Alright then!" she shouted getting the Daleks attention. "How did you four get here? I thought you four and your army got sucked into the Void with the Cybermen that attacked Canary Wolf?"
"Those four were at Canary Wharf?" Martha and Jack both muttered quietly.
"THE CULT OF SKA-RO ES-CAPED EX-TIN-TION VIA EMER-GENCY TEMP-ORAL SHIFT." Before Rose could talk anymore the Dalek turned to Sec, all three of them did. The Light in Dalek Sec's eye stalk went out, and he opened up. And instead of a light octopus like creator, inside a human like thing, curled into a ball, but when Dalek Sec opened up, he came out slow, standing on both legs. Dalek sec closed up behind him. The thing had one eye, you could see its large brain, and besides the brain were 6 tentacles, 3 on each side, wiggling around like little worms. He was wearing a full black suit, but you could see his hands, four fingers and a thumb like normal, but you could see the veins and sharp nails.
When he climbed out he looked up into the air and gasped loudly. Three Daleks moved away from him as he looked towards the group of humans.
"What is it?" Martha whispered.
"I. Am. A Human Dalek. I. Am. You're Future."