Episode 4

Three figures ran through a gigantic metal doorframe to a huge stairwell stretching up as far as they could see.

"How big is this thing?" Rose asked with a gasp, subconsciously fiddling with the gun in her hand.

"The tower?" Adam smirked slightly. "It's been nicknamed Babel. And for a good reason." Suddenly a metal door slammed down with great force behind them. Rose jumped, Adam instantly rose his gun, ready to fight, and the Doctor sighed.

"Exterminate!" Came from above.

"They've hacked into the doors!" Adam cried in realisation. "We're trapped!" Rose pounded on the door.

"It's magnetically sealed, isn't it?" The Doctor checked with Adam. "We can't open it."

"Elevate." Announced a Dalek voice.

"Oh, great." Sighed the Doctor. "You've given them a hover module."

"They're the ultimate killing machines, of course I did." Adam groaned.

"Wait!" The Doctor suddenly cried enthusiastically. "I have a plan!" He pulled out his sonic screwdriver throwing down his gun, and pulled off a panel by the door, starting to work. Adam lifted up his gun, aiming up the stairwell. He could see a Dalek hovering down the stairs, gently coming down towards them. He fired the gun, and watched as the bullets pounded into his armoured hide. The Doctor worked furiously, switching wires and adjusting the settings of the panel with his screwdriver. Rose screamed as she pulled the trigger, and the gun jerked horribly, missing the Dalek.

"Exterminate!" Announced the Dalek.

"Got it!" The Doctor announced, and the guns flew from the hands of the others, sticking to the door. The Dalek too was pulled, slamming into the heavy metal door.

"Error! Error!" It screamed furiously, trying to move its gun, but it was simply pulled against the door. There was a whirling as the magnetic pull overcame the Dalek, and it exploded in sparks, along with the control panel, and it crashed down.

"Well, we're not going to get that open again." Adam sighed, looking at the heavy door, now completely sealed.

"What did you do?" Rose asked the Doctor.

"I just enhanced the magnetic seal. I figured Adam would be too stupid to make the Dalek as a creature that isn't magnetic." The Doctor dismissed Adam's presence completely.

"Hey! That material is strong!" Adam protested. "If it wasn't for the magnetic seal, that Dalek would have killed us!" He scooped up his gun that had clattered to the ground. The Doctor and Rose ignored theirs, decided instead to go on unarmed.

"Sounds like somebody is making excuses for shoddy workmanship." Rose joked to the Doctor.

"Hey! You should be glad!" Adam cried. "At least this way we weren't killed horribly!"

"This way we still have to save the planet from a resurrected Dalek army, so I'd shut it if I was you." The Doctor said viciously, marching up the stairs. Adam angrily cocked his gun, momentarily considering shooting the Doctor, before deciding against it and following him. Rose sighed and followed also.

They ran up the stairs, soon seeing a huge '41' painted on the wall and hurrying through the heavy metal doorway.

"Doesn't look like the Daleks are here." Adam observed.

"Don't be so stupid." The Doctor spat. "If one encountered us on the stairwell, then they know we're coming up."

"But not to floor 41." Adam observed with a cocky grin. "Only up. So they're not here." The Doctor temporarily wished a Dalek would show up and attack them just to prove Adam wrong, but managed to bring himself under some more rational thinking. The Daleks always caused him to act oddly, the anger he had against the species was unparalleled. Although these, of course, weren't true Daleks. And their creator was the idiot stood beside him.

"They'll be here." The Doctor reassured him. "They know I'm here. It's only a logical jump that the TARDIS is as well. They'll be scanning for it. Might of already found it."

"What do we do if they have found it?" Rose asked, sounding nervous.

"Well, I suppose we just sit here and get exterminated." The Doctor answered casually. "So we had better hope they haven't." Rose smiled slightly. She was certain the TARDIS was still in one piece. She knew there was no way the Doctor would be acting so casually if he thought it might have been destroyed. He took out his sonic screwdriver and played around with the door panel, causing the magnetic door to slam shut, sealing them off from the stairway. "There. That should hold off any Daleks for a minute at least."

"There's some pretty advanced weaponry on floor 42." Adam warned. "They'll find a way through."

"Well, we'll just get to the TARDIS first then." The Doctor smiled.

The three ran down the now deserted sterile looking corridors of the tower, passing signs directing them to various departments and heavy metal doors.

"This way!" Adam commanded, leading the others down one passageway. "The TARDIS is just through here." He hit a control panel and one of the magnetic doors slid open.

"Exterminate!" Screamed the Dalek on the other side, blasting Adam with a laser and moving forwards. Adam went down with a scream. The Doctor reacted quickly, slamming the button on the door. It slammed down with incredible force as the Dalek moved under it, preparing to fire again. The Dalek was crushed, smashed beneath the metal door. Rose dove down to Adam.

"Adam? Are you alright?" She quickly asked.

"Been better." Adam croaked. The Doctor turned around curiously.

"You should be dead." He observed. Adam forced a smile.
"Genetic enhancements. Before I played with genetically modifying humans into Daleks, I modified my own body, so I was faster, stronger and tougher than ever." He hauled himself to his feet, hunched over. "I suppose I could take the odd laser blast like this." He winced. The Doctor walked over to the smashed dalek, and looked down at it, seeing the destroyed human remains and red blood mixed in with the rubble. Rose walked over to him, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"We're killing humans, aren't we?" She inquired.

"We have to." He said grimly. "If they escape, they could make every single creature like them. The human race replaced by Daleks!" The Doctor spat, and Adam shifted awkwardly, the pain in his system seemingly blocking out his hatred, and making him realise what he had done. Rose tapped the control panel, and the door slid open again, revealing a large room with the TARDIS. There were no more Daleks.

"Why didn't they destroy the TARDIS?" Adam asked in pain.

"If it had done that then I wouldn't have come. That blast was for me as soon as the door opened." The Doctor explained. "That or because only one had made it here, it didn't have the power to destroy the TARDIS itself."

"So now what, Doctor?" Rose asked as the Doctor unlocked the TARDIS, keeping a weary eye on Adam.

"We use this to get to floor 60, activate the missiles, destroy the tower and wipe out these Daleks before they cause anymore trouble." The Doctor answered. "Just like we planned."

"It'll never work. Not just like we planned." Rose sighed as she followed him into the TARDIS. Adam limped behind. "It never does."

The Doctor hit some switches on the central column and the TARDIS faded from view with its familiar whining noise.

"Floor 60, here we come." The Doctor announced.

"Beats taking the lift." Rose giggled to Adam. Adam just rose an eyebrow, reminding her he was no longer the same man he was when they had met under the sands in Arizona. She was slightly surprised she had even forgotten.

The engines strained once more and the TARDIS materialised on the sixtieth floor.