CHAPTER 36
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This chapter takes place right after the events in Lily and Robin Chapter 44.
The Silence slowly sat up their newest weapon on the surface of Florana. If this weapon worked, then they would be able to deal a crippling blow to their enemy by taking away his greatest asset. By doing that they would not only take away much of his effectiveness, but they would also strike at the very heart of him as well. This made the Silence feel very, very good inside to picture how this would affect him. They hoped that it would leave him a broken shell of a man that would not bother to put up much of a fight when they came for him next.
"Unleash the device. We will see how effective it is in dealing with the various forms of life here on Florana. If it can completely destroy each and every one of them, then we can be assured that it will be successful in accomplishing our primary goal," Madame Kovarian ordered.
"The device is powering up. It will activate within ten minutes. Then all forms of life on this planet except for us will be destroyed in an instant if all goes according to plan," one of the Silence said.
"You're sure that it will not affect our DNA?" Kovarian asked.
"Yes. It will not affect the DNA of any of the races belonging to the Silence," the same member of the Silence answered.
"So the primitive that we found will not be affected either then? What a pity! I would have so loved to have watched her burn!" Kovarian said with a chuckle.
"The primitive will be dealt with eventually. Do not worry," the voice of Davros said from behind her.
Kovarian turned to look at her new ally in distrust as she said, "Why shouldn't I worry? She has so far evaded all of my best people. She appears to be only human but unlike any human that I've ever met. She can remember the Silence. No one should be able to do that without one of our special eye patches. No one!"
"Apparently this one can. She's not your usual human though. She was one of the Doctor's companions. Her name is Leela according to our records," Davros said.
"It won't matter what her name is once I find her. I won't even leave enough of her behind to bury! I want her totally destroyed!" Kovarian yelled at all of the Silence around her.
"You know I feel a certain kinship to you, Madame Kovarian. We are a lot alike in many ways especially our ability to let nothing get in our way, especially needless emotions like pity and sentimentality," Davros said.
"Was that an insult?" Kovarian asked angered.
"No, my dear. It was the greatest of compliments, believe me!" Davros said.
"I don't believe anything that you say. Your sudden conversion to our side seems very quick and convenient to me," Kovarian said suspiciously.
"It helps if your creations turn on you and try to kill you. Besides, we both have the same goal in mind," Davros said with a wicked smile.
"Kill the Doctor," Kovarian said with an evil smile of her own.
"Exactly. You can always trust that I will do anything and work with anyone in order to accomplish that. I have waited for hundreds of years to kill that man, and I will not rest until I finally see him kneeling and groveling before me. Then and only then will I even think about putting him out of his misery and ending his pathetic existence!" Davros said in a hate filled voice.
Kovarian just stared at him in appreciation. She had finally found someone who hated the Doctor even more than she did. She didn't believe that was possible, but here was the proof. Maybe when it came to killing the Doctor, she could trust Davros to help her accomplish that after all without betraying her first.
Now in case you're wondering if you've stumbled into a new story about Davros and Kovarian (not a bad idea) instead of a chapter of Jenny Tyler, here is where our lovable heroine and her allies enter into the picture. Jenny, Amy, Rory, Patrick, and Leela had all been silently watching this entire exchange the whole time from a few feet away while hidden amongst all of the foliage of the planet. Jenny motioned for them all to move away so that they could discuss what was happening.
"What are we going to do about this new weapon of theirs? It sounds terrible if it's going to wipe out all life on the planet. I think I may have to go in there and try to take it out by myself," Jenny said.
"What weapon? What are you talking about?" Patrick asked.
"The weapon that we just heard that woman with the eye patch talking about with Davros," Leela said as she looked at him like he was stupid.
"What? Oh, no. We forgot because of the Silence, didn't we?" Amy realized.
"What woman are you talking about? That never happened," Patrick said.
"Yes, it did. We just don't remember it. The Silence were there, and they wiped out our memories of them and everyone around them as soon as we stopped watching them," Rory explained.
"They can do that?" Patrick asked with fear.
"Yes. They're very insidious. They can be all around people and manipulating them through their powers of suggestion and no one would even know it," Jenny said.
"Wait a minute. You can remember them!" Amy realized.
"Yes. One of the perks of having Vortex abilities it seems," Jenny said with a wicked grin.
"I do not have powers like yours and yet I remember them too. Why?" Leela asked.
"That's a question that we desperately need the answer to. If we could find out what it is about you that makes you remember them when no one else does, then maybe we could use that against them somehow," Jenny said.
"You mean maybe we could give that ability to others?" Amy asked hopefully.
"Yes, if it's something that can be duplicated, and I think it can be. I think it must be something special about her genetic makeup," Jenny theorized.
"That would be a huge blow to them. They wouldn't be so arrogant and cocky anymore if everyone could see them. Maybe it would make them think twice about attacking anyone next time if everyone could remember them," Rory said.
"It would certainly take the wind out of their sails yeah. I'd love that," Amy agreed.
"We have to take out that new weapon of theirs first though before it goes off in less than ten minutes. It's going to kill most forms of life on this planet according to Kovarian," Jenny said.
"Kovarian is here?" Amy asked with undisguised hatred in her voice.
"Yes. Let me show you what happened. I'm going to link minds with all of you except Leela and let you see what I remember. Is that okay?' Jenny asked.
They all nodded, and she began to show them her memories of what she had just seen. She used her power to keep them from forgetting the memory as soon as they stopped watching it.
"Now that everyone is up to speed, I want to make sure that you don't get your memories erased again. I'm going to keep the three of you linked to my mind so that I can keep that from happening any more. As long as you stay linked to me, you'll be able to remember everything that you see from now on whether the Silence are around or not," Jenny said.
"We could have really used you back in 1969,"Amy said with a grin.
"It would have saved us all a lot of trouble," Rory agreed.
"I wish I had been there," Jenny said sadly.
"You're here now, and that's what matters," Amy said in a gentle tone.
Jenny smiled at that. Amy had reminded her of her mother in that moment.
"I'm a mom too so that's probably why," Amy said.
"What?" Jenny asked in surprise.
"You were thinking that I was like Rose after what I just said," Amy said.
"Are my thoughts bleeding through our link together? I'm not reading any of yours," Jenny asked concerned.
"No. I'm just able to read your expressions sometimes because I've gotten to know you pretty well by now. Plus all moms are able to read minds and see behind them with the third eye in the back of their head whether they're Time Ladies or not. You'll find that out one day," Amy said as she winked at her.
The five of them then came back to where the device was now about to go off in less than five minutes. Jenny started to move towards it, but she was quickly blocked by Kovarian.
"Oh, no. It won't be that easy. We anticipated that some of you might come here, Miss Tyler. That's why we brought along some friends," Kovarian said with an evil smile.
Several Daleks suddenly appeared out of nowhere and began to fire on them at once. Joining them were several members of the Silence who began shooting their own deadly bolts of electricity. Several of the Headless Monks appeared also and began to attack them with energy bolts from their hands as they ran at them with swords. Finally to complete this unholy army were several Cybermen who began to fire their wrist blasters at them in unison.
"This is crazy!" Patrick shouted out in fear.
It's going to be alright. Don't worry. Jenny reassured him in his mind.
"Do you really think that this is going to stop me?" Jenny asked Kovarian.
"No, I'm sure it won't. The question is whether or not our little group here can slow you down long enough to keep you from reaching our weapon before it goes off in less than three minutes. I'm betting that they can," Kovarian said with mocking laughter.
"I don't think so. This little invasion of Florana is over as of now," Jenny said confidently.
Amy quickly destroyed all of the Cybermen with her sonic screwdriver in less than half a minute while Jenny disintegrated the Daleks and sent the Monks and Silence back to where they had teleported in from with a wave of her hand in about the same amount of time. Unnoticed by everyone else during this fight, Leela had managed to reach the weapon and stick her large hunting knife into it over and over again in an attempt to tear it apart.
"Oh, how very clever of you, Miss Tyler! Distract us all with your little display of pyrotechnics while the noble savage sneaks around behind all of our backs to attack the weapon directly. Most commendable tactics indeed! I can see your knowledge of combat as a soldier being displayed most effectively here. You would make a most excellent general of our armies. You made one tiny little mistake though. The weapon was rigged to automatically go off if it were ever tampered with!" Kovarian taunted Jenny.
The weapon immediately sprang into action as Leela jumped back from it in alarm. Waves of energy spread outward from it in all directions and quickly covered the entire planet. Jenny watched in horror as all of the once beautiful plant life on the planet started to die all around her.
Then things became worse as she could feel her TARDIS starting to die as well through their link together! She finally realized in horror just what Kovarian had wanted to use the weapon for all along.
"It was most fortunate that you chose to bring your ship here. We were only going to get to observe what it did to the native species of this world. Now though I can get to see if it works against the very life form that it was designed for. I finally get to see if it will be successful in what it was designed to do. Destroy a TARDIS!" Kovarian said with evil cackling laughter.
Next: Will Kovarian's weapon succeed in killing Jenny's TARDIS? If so, will the Doctor's TARDIS be next?