TRTSS2: The Trek of Ranma Who! – By DS Wynne

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Note: This is a multi-genre story.


Part 52: Interlude- "Genesis of the Daleks" (II)


For a moment, Ranma and Sarah stood there with an embarrassed expression, as Harry and the Doctor took off their safety helmets as well.

"Really, now," the Doctor said, as he gives Ranma and Sarah a look. "Can't you control yourself for once?"

"Doctor, is not what you think!" Sarah said. "We were…caught in the moment."

"I concur," Ranma said.

"Well, you two do look like caught school children," Harry said.

"…"

BLIP!

"Hmm?" Usagi said, as she took out her PADD, in order to take a look at it. It had been linked to the Thal security grid.

"Doctor, more Thal guards are on their way," Usagi said, as she looked up from her scans.

"Then we can't delay much longer," the Doctor said. He then turns to address everyone.

"All of you, clear out…except for you, Ranma."

"Aw!" Ranma complained.

"What are you going to do, Doctor?" Sarah asked.

"We need to destroy this missile, so that Davros' plans of mutually-assured destruction does NOT succeed."

"Follow me," Harry said, as he motions all the slave labor to leave with him. He then turns towards the Doctor and Ranma.

"Good luck, you two," Harry said, before he turns to leave.

"And DON'T get into any more trouble," Usagi said, as she eyes Ranma.

"What are you looking at ME for…like THAT," Ranma said with a perturbed look.

"Feh, you know why…"

"Let's just go, okay?" Sarah said, as she runs off with the rest of the escapees.

"Right," Usagi said, as she turns to be the last one to leave the silo…

"Right, now, let's shut this contraption down," the Doctor said, as he turns to the work at hand. "Now, you and Sarah were here…?"

"Yes," Ranma said, as he careened his neck. "The shut off valve should be on the dorsal section of the rocket."

"We can start from there, then," the Doctor said, as he follows Ranma to the switch. "I overheard Davros giving the way the secret to penetrate the dome of the Kaleds. "We have to prevent the deaths of innocent people."

"But it's not our war, Doc."

"No, but if the civilian government is killed, it could allow Davros to push his Dalek program even further."

"And if he does succeed?"

"Then we find out how to stop them, and thus prevent them from destroying all life in the Universe."

"How about if I just kill Davros NOW?" Ranma asked. "I could make it look like an accident."

"No, Ranma," the Doctor said grimly. "Knowingly ending another sentient being's life is against everything we believe in."

"Fine, but tell that to the Dalek's victims," Ranma said. "But…I'll play it your way this time…"

Meanwhile, the Thals learn of the escape. They use remote surveillance to examine the silo site…

"There are two me left in the missile silo, sir," said an aide. "What shall we do?"

"Use the grid to send a quick impulse of electricity," said the administrator. "One giga-watts will do, so as to not damage our missile."

"Yes, sir," said the aide. "Initiating counter-measures…"

Back at the missile silo, Ranma suddenly looks up while the Doctor attempts to reconfigure the wiring sequence, after sensing great danger.

"Doc!" Ranma yells, as he suddenly grabs the Doctor. "We need to get out here."

"What-?" the Doctor said, before electricity is sent through the coils of the wiring.

ZAAARK!

Unprepared, both men are knocked out. Although Ranma could have used his body to channel the energy, he would have to know what type of attack would be utilized in order for him to arrange the counter-measures.

BAMF!

With both men down, guards then swarmed the silo.

"Doc-!" Ranma struggled to say, before consciousness took hold of him…

The next thing Ranma knew, he was tied up. He saw that he and the Doctor was in the midst of several Thals within the confines of a control room.

"Where-?"

"Five, four, three, two, one-!" said one of the Thals.

"NO-!" the Doctor said, as the Thal missile was launched. He desperately turns towards Ranma.

"Ranma-!"

Ranma struggled in his bonds, but found himself weakened.

"I can't…move," Ranma stammered.

"You shouldn't, since I had both of you drugged," said the administrator. "You Kaleds will have to sit there and watch the Thals end this war…"

Helpless, Ranma and the Doctor watch as the Kaled Dome is successfully destroyed while the Thals cheered.

BOOM!

"Oh, no," the Doctor said quietly. He then turns towards Ranma.

"Are they-?"

"I don't know," Ranma said, as he shook his head. "The drugs are still in my system…"

"Well, that's THAT," the administrator said. "Now that the war is essentially over, let's celebrate-"

"'Celebrate'?" the Doctor said. "You call the death of an entire people something to celebrate?"

"That is the unfortunate outcome of warfare, Doctor," the administrator said. "But, in keeping with the spirit that is the ending of the war, I will call for a general amnesty, as well as seek survivors—including Mutos—for medical treatment. Good day."

And, with that, the administrator and his entourage leave the command center, leaving a female aide behind to attend to the needs of the Doctor and Ranma.

"Did you have friends in the dome, sirs?" the girl asked.

"I hope not," Ranma said.

"We can only hope that our friends did not get caught in the blast," the Doctor said. "Now, the only thing we can do is to prevent the deployment of the Daleks."

"'Daleks', sir?" asked the girl.

"Davros killing machines," Ranma said.

"I'm afraid that your leaders have just accelerated their deaths…"

As the Doctor and Ranma leave the administration hub of the Thal bunker, they heard a familiar warping sound, followed by terrified screams.

"Doc, you don't think-?" Ranma began say.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

"Ahhhhhhh-!"

"Daleks," the Doctor said in disgust. "Davros must have sent them out to feign justified retaliation-"

"Help!" said the girl Ranma and the Doctor met earlier, as she runs by, only to be grabbed by the Doctor from around the corner. "Eh-?"

"I have you, young lady," the Doctor said.

"What happened?" Ranma asked.

"Machines!" the girl said. "They are going around killing people!"

"Doc, you said that one of the objectives of this mission is to slow them down at least, right?" Ranma asked.

"That is correct."

"Well, we've dealt with them when they are at their prime. Who is to say that their sudden failure can hamper or even dissuade Davros from pursuing the research? At least, for the time being, while the Thals get a chance to retaliate?"

"Fine, but you get to deal with them," the Doctor said.

"But what can you do to those things?" the girl asked Ranma. "They fell an entire squad of men in one fell swoop! And you were hit earlier by our trap and drugs."

"That's because I was caught unawares," Ranma said. "And the Doctor and I have experience in dealing with Daleks-"

"Exterminate!" said the first Dalek, as it passes by. "Exterminate-!"

Ranma quickly steps forth and punches into the first Dalek.

CRACK!

He carries his fist further, and pierces the brain.

Squish!

Now perceived as a threat, the remaining four Daleks turn their sights towards Ranma.

"Exterminate!"

WARP-FLASH!

"Hmmm!" Ranma said, as he took the full brunt of the destabilizing beams. "Not as potent as the Daleks I faced before…"

With a twist of his hands, Ranma cups his hands together in front of him.

"MOKO TAKABISHA," Ranma declares, as he lobs a ki attack.

FWOOM!

The dalekanium within the Daleks armor buckled before crumbling to scarp.

KRISSSH!

"That was easy," Ranma said, as he surveyed the damage. "Normally, it would take me a much stronger attack to defeat just one Dalek…"

"That's because the alloy is not bonded with flidor gold and the sap of the Arkellis flower," the Doctor said, as he surveyed the damage. "At least, not yet…"

"What are we going to do?" asked the shocked girl.

The Doctor reaches over to grab the primary Dalek weapon apparatus from one of the fallen Daleks.

"Get your scientists, and modify these disruptors for hand-held use," the Doctor said, as he places the weapon in the girl's hand. "You don't have much time."

"Right," the girl said, as she immediately run away to her superiors with the weapon…

"We better find Harry and the others," the Doctor said. "We have to makes sure that they are safe."

Ranma places his right and middle index fingers on his right temple…

"They are," Ranma said. "I don't know how, but they are."

"Most likely Harry and the others went back to the Kaled bunker, since it's the only place that is safe," the Doctor said. "We'll have to go through the sewer system where Davros' discarded experiments are."

"Great," Ranma said, as he followed the Doctor out the door. "Just what we need: more mutants…"

Eventually, the Doctor and Ranma meet up with Harry, Sarah Jane, Usagi and Severin, thanks to being accepted by the Mutos. Under advice from the Doctor, Severin begins to round up more Mutos, so that they could ally themselves with the remaining Thals for a final assault on Davros' bunker. Meanwhile, the Doctor and his companion enter the catacombs, while avoiding the monsters below, only to end up captured by Davros and his acolytes. Now, strapped to gurneys, Davros intends to torture information out of the Doctor and company…

"Thanks to your presence, I've accelerated the Dalek program," Davros said.

"What's left of it," Ranma said under his breath.

"What?"

"You destroyed the Daleks?" Sarah Jane asked.

"Just the ones that were roaming the city," Ranma replied.

"What?" Security Commander Nyder (thin, short-cropped hair) yelled. He was obviously alarmed. "That's impossible!"

"I agree," Davros said. "My Daleks are the finest weapons of destruction ever to be created!"

"That's because we know about their weaknesses," Harry said with a smirk.

"Harrry-!" the Doctor yelled.

"So you ARE from the future," Davros said. "Thanks to Nyder's methods, we have managed to piece together the facts."

"And they are…?"

"You are from the future. Even though Kaled science have deemed it impossible for you all to be time travelers, I am more flexible in such thinking."

"Then stop making these Daleks," Usagi said. She then turns towards Nyder.

"And I can't believe that you would sell out your own people just to win a war, when you KNOW that Davros is a jerk!"

"Shut up!" Nyder yelled, as he punches Usagi.

BAM!

"Usagi?" Ranma exclaimed.

"I'm okay," Usagi said, as she licked her lip. "He hits like a girl."

"I just sew your lips shut-"

"Don't let her bait you, Commander," Davros said, as he wheels himself to the fore. "They will soon tell us what we need to know, starting with the apparent leader."

"I am not going to tell you anything, Davros," the Doctor said defiantly. "If I do, I will betray millions of people yet unborn."

"Very well," Davros said, as he turns up the dial to charge the pain receptors in his guests' bodies. "With your knowledge of my Daleks, I will program into them the means to counter them. If you lie or refuse to tell me what I want to know, your friends will feel pain like no other. After all, we have perfected our methods."

Ranma turns towards the Doctor, who sees Ranma. Ranma nods his head, as the Doctor nods back. Ranma then turns towards Usagi, as Usagi turns towards him. They both nod their heads in unison, as they close their eyes…

"I will not," the Doctor said.

"Then, we will begin," Davros said, as he cranked up the pain delivery system. "You WILL TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO KNOW-!"

Tbc.