Episode 5

The Doctor casually swung open the doors to the TARDIS and strolled out.
"Hm." He pondered. "This doesn't look right." Adam walked out behind him, followed by Rose.

"I don't believe it." Groaned Adam angrily. "You're useless!"

"You're one to talk!" The Doctor shot back.

"I don't understand." Rose muttered. "Why does this floor of the tower look like it's under construction."

"Because it still is." Adam grumbled.

"I don't understand." Rose repeated.

"Why don't you tell her, Doctor?" Adam asked, barely able to hide his glee at the fact the Doctor had made a mistake.

"Well, the good news is we are on floor sixty." The Doctor told her. "The bad news is we're on floor sixty in the past."

"Your fancy time machine time travelled when it wasn't supposed to." Adam said confidently, grinning at the Doctor. "And you had the guts to criticise me."

"It was a simple hiccup in the behaviour of the TARDIS." The Doctor stated. "It was probably you who did it when you went off across time to download all that information."

"Me?" Adam protested. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression a Timelord's TARDIS could only be used by that Timelord. Yet I could use your TARDIS."

"Yes, well-" The Doctor began. Adam walked back inside the police box.

"And," He began, interrupting the Doctor, "Isn't it supposed to be in a 'state of harmony'?" He quoted the words with a cocky grin, seeing that the Doctor was surprised at his knowledge. He pulled the trigger on his gun and it fired, bullets thudding into the TARDIS floor. "Yet it seems it isn't." He smiled. "You're useless. I bet you're not even a real Timelord."

"Look. The TARDIS has had a few malfunctions over the years." The Doctor said reassuringly, re-entering the TARDIS. "A few of the old systems no longer work. But I can fix it and get us back to the right year."

"Glad to hear it." Adam was enjoying his advantage over the Doctor. "Be a shame if the Daleks conquered Earth because you couldn't work your precious machine."

"Or because a moron decided to resurrect them!" The Doctor shot, banging some buttons on the TARDIS control panel. "Something seems to be influencing the time drive. With a bit of correction-" The Doctor paused as he hit a few more buttons and the TARDIS began to disappear with its familiar whine. "-and we'll arrive exactly when we were supposed to." The Doctor confidently swung open the doors, revealing a desert. "Ah." He turned around. "I forgot to carry the three." Adam rolled his eyes and Rose groaned.

"Doctor, what's wrong?" Rose asked. "Even I know the TARDIS shouldn't be doing this."

"We don't have time to worry about that now." The Doctor replied confidently.

"It's a time machine." Adam groaned. "We have all the time we need." He was seriously contemplating shooting the Doctor and stealing the TARDIS for himself. He had had enough of working with his mortal enemy.

"Not any more." The Doctor told him as he hit a button and once more the TARDIS vanished. There was an awkward pause before the Doctor swung open the door, shutting his eyes and stepping out in the hope that they had succeeded.

"TARDIS materialising!" Screamed a Dalek as the police box began to appear. There were two in the huge war room, both looking somewhat like Rose imagined prototype Daleks to look like. A gigantic window overlooked the city, which seemed to be silent.

"Exterminate!" Cried another, firing. The Doctor dove aside as the laser blast slammed against the metal wall behind him that proudly declared 'floor 60' in massive letters.

"Oh, he's done it." Smiled Adam wryly.

"Exterminate!" Cried another Dalek, firing on the Doctor, who was hiding behind a computer panel.

"Do something!" Rose protested. The Dalek's were too distracted trying to eliminate the Doctor to notice Adam or Rose.

"I don't know. I might just watch him die." Adam grinned sadistically. "After all, I don't need him anymore."

"How could you?" Rose gasped in disbelief.

"Little help here!" The Doctor called, the computer panel exploding behind him.

"He betrayed me and left me with nothing!" Adam said bitterly. "Nothing!"

"Oh, never trust an ape to do a Timelord's job." Sighed the Doctor, getting up and running to another computer panel, timing his run between Dalek blasts perfectly.

"Elevate!" One Dalek announced, floating into the air so that it could blast down on the Doctor. The Doctor was working quickly, stripping off a computer panel and using his sonic screwdriver on the components within. An automated defence turret suddenly fell down from the ceiling and fired on the Dalek, destroying it. The second Dalek blasted the turret before it could sweep around to destroy it.

"Ah. Now I'm out of ideas." The Doctor admitted.

"Exterminate!" Screamed the second Dalek.

"So you keep saying." The Doctor said casually. Adam sighed, opening fire with his machine gun. The bullets thudded into the heavy metal casing of the Dalek, forcing it back. A spark flew out of its eye stalk.

"Error! Error!" The Dalek began to cry. "I cannot see!" It whirled around in circles, backing away under machine gun fire from the advancing Adam. It whirled around backwards and smashed out of a gigantic glass window behind it, plummeting sixty floors to the ground below.

Rose emerged nervously from the TARDIS. Adam stood there, panting and gripping his gun. The Doctor stood up and grinned.

"Took you long enough." The Timelord commented. Adam cocked the gun and turned it on the Doctor.

"I don't need you anymore." Adam warned.

"Then shoot." The Doctor said coldly. "But first, look out behind you." Adam spun around to see the sightless Dalek hovering at the window. It fired, hitting him in the shoulder. He screamed going down. Rose ran to him in shock.
"Sight is offline!" The Dalek announced. "Switching to phonetic measurements."

"Phonetic?" Rose asked.

"Shh!" The Doctor snapped. "It means sound!"

"Target located!" It fired at the Doctor, but he had moved since he spoke and so the Dalek missed. He crept along the edge of the window and activated the sonic screwdriver. "Target located!" The Dalek screamed as soon as it saw the Doctor. "Targ- Hover mode offline!" It managed to say as the engine keeping it hovering cut out and it fell. The Doctor smiled, turning to Rose.

"There isn't a stupid ape alive that has been able to invent something that can resist a sonic screwdriver." He grinned. She was down by Adam's side. The Doctor looked down at him, his face completely lacking compassion.

"You still alive?" He asked coldly.

"Just about." Croaked Adam. "The codes to launch the missiles. They require voice print." The Doctor fiddled with his sonic screwdriver.
"It's set to record." The Doctor told him.

"The code is ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha." Adam groaned. "Set the co-ordinates for this base and then destroy it."

"Are you going to be okay?" Rose asked Adam. Adam smiled.

"Genetic alteration meant I survived one hit." Adam groaned. "Not two." He shut his eyes and leant back. "Shame I never got to kill you Doctor." He whispered. "But at least I got a shot at it. I'm beginning to understand why nobody has ever been able to stop you over the years." The Doctor turned away. "It's that bloody screwdriver." Adam's body went limp. Rose looked at him with tearful eyes. The Doctor got to work at a computer console, and she could hear him replaying Adam's message of the code.

"Rose." The Doctor stated. "I've fired the missiles. They're going to loop around and hit the tower. We have to go." Rose looked up, tears running down her face.

"He's dead." She said. "And it's our fault."
"He did it himself." The Doctor replied coldly. "Now we have to go. The TARDIS materialised us six hours after we left, meaning that the Daleks will easily be around this floor and coming this way to stop the missiles. We have to go now." Rose stood up.

"Goodbye Adam." She said as she walked into the TARDIS. The Doctor looked at the fallen body sadly. He shook his head. It hadn't been his fault. Had it? He could sense Rose waiting for him in the TARDIS, and quickly crushed such feelings to the dark depths of his soul, and walked inside the TARDIS.

He hit some buttons and the TARDIS began to disappear.

Two more of Adam's Daleks entered the war room just in time to see the TARDIS leaving.

"The TARDIS has escaped!" One Dalek announced.

"Incoming missiles!" The second screamed.

"We have insufficient time to redirect them!" The first noticed. The second moved to the window, and looked at the two white rockets flying towards the building.

"Confirmed." It stated just as the building was blown apart.

Rose was slumped against the TARDIS's main column, sadly thinking about Adam.

"I know you feel sorry that he's dead." The Doctor said, trying to be as tactful as he could. "But he was evil. He wasn't the man we had met originally. He was bitter and twisted."

"Because of us." Rose sobbed.

"It was his own mistakes. Not ours." The Doctor told her. "You can't go through life blaming yourself."

"You must be pretty experienced in telling yourself that." Rose said bitterly. The Doctor paused, shutting his eyes as he remembered the Time War. There was a moment of tension between the two. "Sorry." Rose quickly said. "I didn't mean to-" She was cut off as sparks flew from the TARDIS's main controls. She leapt away and the Doctor ran to them. "What is it?" She quickly asked.

"No wonder the TARDIS malfunctioned!" The Doctor cried in shock. "Something's infected the system! And it's taking us off course!"

"Where to?" Rose asked desperately. The Doctor looked up in shock as he read the control panels.

"Skaro." He stated blankly.