Episode 3

"You're going to destroy the entire human race and replace them with Daleks?" The Doctor cried.

"Yes." Adam answered bluntly. "Think of it. Perfect obedience. Ultimate power. And best of all, you'd absolutely hate it."

"I didn't destroy the Daleks so some delusional school boy could bring them back!" The Doctor cried.

"Exterminate!" Adam's new Dalek cried.

"Oh, switch off." The Doctor snapped at it.

"Exterminate!" It cried again, firing and killing one of Adam's guards.

"What?" Adam yelled. "Stop! Now! That's an order!"

"Exterminate!" The Dalek yelled, blasting another guard.

"Stop! Shut down!" Adam cried. The Dalek turned to him.

"Exterminate!" It cried.

"Oh, I'm going to regret this." Mumbled the Doctor, flinging himself at Adam and forcing the two to the ground as the Dalek's blast shot over their head and exploded against a metal control panel. "Get behind here!" The Doctor ordered, and the two scrambled behind a computer panel, followed by Rose.

"Why did you save me?" Adam asked, confused.

"I wanted my sonic screwdriver. Had that thing for ages. Didn't want to see it destroyed. " The Doctor answered bluntly. Adam rolled his eyes.

"You will be exterminated!" Continued a cry.

"Destroy it!" Adam ordered, and the three could hear bullets firing, and the blasts of the Dalek taking out the guards.

"What's going on, Doctor?" Rose asked. "Why is it going crazy?"

"Davros." The Doctor stated. "He created the Daleks and Adam followed a plan he left behind. There's no way he'd of let somebody else rule his creations. So here we're seeing a failsafe. Its backup plan starts running and it follows its primary system."

"Exterminate." Muttered Rose.

"Exactly." The Doctor said grimly.

"I didn't know!" Adam protested.

"Save it." The Doctor spat. They paused, noticing the machine gun fire had stopped. "Looks like we're next."
"What can we do?" Rose cried frantically.

"Screwdriver. Now." The Doctor snapped. Adam handed over the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. "And the TARDIS key." He warned. Adam sighed, handing it over.

"What do you need the key for?" Rose asked.

"Just wanted to get it back." The Doctor grinned.

"You don't have a plan?" Adam cried.

"I'm working on it." The Doctor explained. There was a shattering noise and the computer panels around them began to flicker.

"It's downloading information!" Rose guessed after what she saw in Van Staan's base.

"That makes no sense." Adam shook his head. "It's programmed with all the available information I have."

"What's on floor 42?" The Doctor asked.

"What? Why?" Adam shot back in confusion. The Doctor glared up at one of the screens, and Adam followed his stare. The words 'all primary power rerouted to floor 42' glowed on the screen.

"What's on floor 42?" He asked again.

"Urm, research and development." Adam tried to explain.

"What could it want there?" Rose cried.

"Nothing. All that's up there is all of our failed Dalek projects." Adam told her. The Doctor glared at him.

"I don't think they're failed anymore." He stated. "I think you're pet project has just repaired them."

"What?" Adam cried.

"It's rewritten the faulty code. All of your failed Daleks are coming online." A loud siren started blaring out.

"Warning! Warning!" A computer announced. "Hostile action on floor 42. All military personal to report immediately."

"Can you override that?" The Doctor quickly asked Adam.

"Why would I stop them?" Adam asked. "They can take down the Daleks."

"No chance. They're marching to their death." The Doctor explained. They all froze as the Dalek rolled around the corner of their hiding place.

"Exterminate!" It announced. The Doctor moved quickly, leaping over the computer panel. The midsection of the Dalek swivelled after him. He ran around behind the Dalek, and it spun in a circle, trying to follow him. Again the midsection rotated until it was facing him. The Doctor held his sonic screwdriver to the gun and activated it. The Dalek faced him, but nothing happened.

"You're not quite what Davros was." The Doctor grinned to Adam.

"Exterminate!" The Dalek cried, but nothing came from its gun. "Malfunction! Malfunction!" It started to scream.

"You see, a good Dalek wouldn't be affected by my sonic screwdriver like that. Not quite a genius yet." He shot to Adam.

"Now what are we going to do?" Rose asked as the Dalek moved its gun frantically up and down, trying to fix it.

"Switching weapon systems." The Dalek stated, and its plunger lunged forwards for the Doctor. The Doctor stumbled back, away from it.

"This old trick never fails." He smiled, taking off his jacket and throwing it over the Dalek's visual stalk.

"Error! Error! Visual sensors obscured!" The Dalek screamed, spinning its head in circles, trying to shake the jacket off.

"Now what?" Rose cried.

"I'll handle this!" Adam decided confidently, jumping over the control panel and running to the Dalek, shoulder barging into it.

"Error! Malfunction! System failure!" The Dalek screamed as it toppled onto its side where it sat, helplessly screaming. "You will be exterminated! Exterminate! Malfunction! Exterminate!" Adam grabbed a gun off of one of the fallen guards and blasted the Dalek's head until it exploded.

"One down." The Doctor sighed, standing up. Adam lowered the gun to the Doctor's chest with a scowl.

The Doctor paused for a moment, looking down the barrel of the gun to the Doctor's chest.

"Currently there are Lord knows how many Daleks roaming this tower. I may be the only one that can stop them from destroying you and the Earth." He stated. "So choose. Shoot me, and you'll have your petty revenge, but the Earth will die. Or you can let me help. But don't stand there and think about it all day. If you're going to shoot, do it." The Doctor folded his arms confidently. Adam paused for a moment, tempted to pull the trigger just to wipe the smug grin from the Doctor's face. He threw down the gun with a sigh.

"What can we do?" He asked.

"Does this base have a self destruct?" The Doctor asked.

"No." Adam answered incuriously. "Why would I give my own base a self destruct?"

"Point taken." The Doctor sighed. "What about a missile system? So that we could fire on the base?"

"That's possible, but not from here." Adam explained. "Floor 60 is our war room. If we could get there, we could fire the missiles and destroy the base."

"And where are we?" The Doctor asked, examining the shattered remains of the Dalek.

"This is floor 30." Adam answered.

"Great. That means we have to go through Dalek territory." The Doctor mumbled.

"What about the TARDIS?" Rose asked.

"That'll be under research evidence. Floor 41, just below the development." Adam explained.

"If the Daleks get to the TARDIS-" The Doctor gasped.

"What? They can't get in, without the key, can they?" Adam asked frantically.

"They'll destroy it." The Doctor said in horror. "And without the last TARDIS, the Time Lords are destroyed. They'll achieve their final goal!"

"I made no logs of the TARDIS being found." Adam explained. "No time. I've been working on my revenge, no official recordings. It'll take time for the Daleks to figure out where it is."

"Then we need to move." The Doctor bent down and picked up a gun from one of the guards. Rose looked at him, surprised.

"Doctor?" She asked. "I thought you were never violent."

"When you're dealing with Daleks, there's no choice." He answered viciously, cocking his new gun. Rose was slightly taken back by this, never imagining the Doctor to solve a problem with violence.

"I can use the information access port over there." Adam pointed to his chair where he absorbed information through the hole in his head. "I can see every camera in the base."

"Can you reverse the polarity of the neutron flow from the power core?" The Doctor asked.

"I could, but that would destroy every camera in the base, literally blowing them up." Adam said in surprise.

"Exactly." The Doctor smiled. "Destroy every camera, and the Daleks can't track us."

"I'll do it right away." Adam said, jumping into the chair as the beam of light connected to his head. The Doctor bent down and picked up another gun, throwing it to Rose. Rose looked down at it in horror.

"If you see a Dalek, don't stop shooting until its dead." He said. "Aim for the eye. That's their weakest point."

"None have shields." Adam explained. "I couldn't develop them with our limited technology. But they are bullet proof." He paused as he used the system. "Right. The cameras have shorted out. There's no way they can get them back online without rebuilding them."

"Right." The Doctor stated. "Now tell everybody to leave. Anybody else will just get in our way and die." Adam paused, and they could hear a voice on the loud speakers.
"All personal, this is Master Adam speaking, evacuate the base. This is not a drill. The base is under attack by hostile alien forces. All hands are too evacuate."

All through the base workmen and women started screaming and running for the closest exits. Guards ran, trying to organise the masses as they retreated. The people who were unlucky enough to be above floor 42 ended up running directly into the Dalek trap, and were slaughtered. Others made it safely away.

Meanwhile, the Doctor, Rose and Adam, all armed, ran to a stairwell.

"The Dalek's will stop the lifts." The Doctor explained. "We need to walk."

"This doesn't change anything between us." Adam warned.

"Then shoot me in the back when you get the chance." The Doctor told him without caring. "Now come on. We have a world to save." The three shot up the stairs, all three looking out of place wielding guns. The Doctor would never admit how unnatural it felt to him. Rose, on the other hand, was actively terrified by it. Adam was more confident, having destroyed plenty in his years stranded on Earth to get where he was, but at heart he was still the misguided soul the Doctor had taken on. Together, they had to save the planet.