Doesn't Remind Me of Anything
Tardositous
Thanks for your reviews MontyPythonFan, KITG and Sepik. Thanks for wishing me luck in my exams – just in case you are wondering they seem to be going well and good luck anyone else who is sitting exams at the moment!
Please read and review! Enjoy!
Rose and the Doctor simultaneously swirled around to stare at Stavishm. Stavishms' face changed from one of confusion to one of horror, the Doctor opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by the robot.
'Yes, I know what has happened' the robotic voice declared. The voice wasn't Stavishms' it came from behind him. They all turned to see another robot – incredibly similar to Stavishm leaning on the Tardis control panel. They could have been twins if it wasn't for the mismatch metal of Stavishm and the emotionless voice of the stranger. The Doctor and Rose both stared hard at him; if he hadn't spoken they probably wouldn't have even noticed he was there. He was almost camouflaged into the background – incredibly inconspicuous.
'Hiya! How can I help?' the Doctor asked chattily at the robot.
'I am Crevasse. All I needed was a spaceship – but this is even better. A time machine!' he declared triumphantly.
'Well that's not very friendly!' the Doctor declared. When the robot glared back the Doctor started to take him seriously
'What do you want?' he asked him cautiously
'That, my friend, I have already told you' he replied threateningly
'What have you done to the Tardis?' the Doctor asked his voice dangerous and his eyes harsh.
'Remember that de-harmoniser you found but didn't think was important enough to remove? Well it wasn't a de-harmoniser it was a microbe. It hacked through your systems and firewalls – I am now in control' he declared victoriously. The Doctor furrowed his brow
'That's not possible' the Doctor thought aloud. Crevasse gestured around him.
'You can see that the bits the microbe couldn't deal with – I dealt with' The Doctors' eyes darted around at the smashed consoles and loose wires. Rose glanced around knowing she had missed something.
'Where were you when this happened?' she asked the Doctor. He stopped to think and then froze, knowing where he was. He gently told her
'I was rescuing you'. Roses' face fell
'So this is all my fault!' she exclaimed in disbelief
'No' the Doctor told her harshly and he saw her flinch. He softened his tone as he approached her,
'It wasn't your fault!' he told her. She shook her head with tears forming in her eyes
'It is! If I hadn't wandered off none of this would have happened!' he cupped her cheek and gave her a placating smile.
'Come on, you can't take all the credit. It would have happened anyway! Just because you added some more excitement to this trip doesn't make it your fault!' he told her
'Really?' she whispered, he hugged her and said into her ear
'Yes!' They released each other and smiled. They then turned to focus on the problem at hand.
Crevasse studied the humans in front of him – he did not understand their emotions. He turned to look at Stavishm trying to decide what his position in the situation was.
'You are joining me in my mission brother?' he demanded to know. Stavishm froze – unsure of how to proceed. He had been frozen since he had entered the Tardis and realised he was there, he had hoped that we wouldn't be noticed but it was too late. His teachings taught him to stay by his family, but his sense of loyalty told him to serve his masters.
'What is your mission?' the Doctor demanded to know. Crevasse dismissed him with a glance as he turned to address Stavishm again.
'Brother?' Crevasse called to him. Rose turned to look at Stavishm who appeared very uncomfortable as though he wished the ground would open up beneath him and swallow him whole.
'Brother?' she questioned.
'We are not family' he quietly told her. Crevasse turned on Stavishm
'We are family, don't you deny it. Not after everything we have been through – we came from the same batch – trained together – this makes us family'
'Trained?' she asked. Crevasse turned to look at her
'Yes we trained to worship our leader – to obey orders. Until he left the force!' he stopped as though to calm himself. 'But you've returned'
Rose and the Doctor started at Stavishm.
'No' he stumbled 'I worship my master and mistress' Crevasse turned on him
'I didn't understand when you left the force – but working for humans instead!' he almost spat the word 'humans' out, his voice dripped with contempt.
'You are right – you are no brother of mine' with that he pushed a button on his wrist and a laser shot out of his finger sending Stavishm flying back into a wall – he lay on the floor motionless. Rose and the Doctor started to edge back realising the dangerousness of this robot – he was no friendly robot like Stavishm – he was certainly enemy material.
'What is your mission?' the Doctor asked, what he hoped was calmly. Crevasse raised his head high
'I long to re-establish the brotherhood – reunited the Vyborg to their kingdom. Back to when the humans slaved for us not when it was the other way around' The Doctor absorbed what he said.
'How will you do this?' he continued to probe as he scanned his brain, Vyborg – it sounded so familiar to him but he just couldn't place his finger on it.
'Our leader: Divad –' Crevasse began but the Doctor cut him off
'Yeah, he's dead' Crevasse turned to look at the Doctor with a cold smile.
'I know' the tension increased dramatically in the room as the Doctor and Rose realised what he meant.
'I stole his ideas – I have it all: you and the girl to complete the invincibility stage and the time machine to take me back to the Vyborg kingdom' Rose turned to look at the Doctor and Crevasse hit a button on the Tardis. Rose started screaming clutching at her head, the Doctor ran to her and she grasped his hand. She was squeezing it so tightly he feared she would break all the bones in it.
'My head!' she whimpered. The blood readily fell from her wound again increasing he pain – but there was only so much she could take she realised as she hit the floor unconscious. The Doctor picked her up and started to carry her into the medical room but Crevasse blocked his way.
'I need to help her! What use to you is she if she is dead?' the Doctor yelled - his words hitting home Crevasse stepped aside. The Doctor lay her down on a bed and put sterie strips on her head wound. He knew that she needed more – a lot more as in stitches, a drip, and blood transfusions – but he couldn't administer any of this right now. He tucked a blanket around her chin and walked up to Crevasse, he put his hands around his throat and pinned him to the wall.
'What have you done to Rose?' he demanded to know, Crevasse smirked.
'I hacked into the Tardis remember? Well the Tardis is in your minds isn't it? Translating and such, therefore when I hacked into the Tardis I effectively hacked into your minds' The Doctor released him in disbelief and muttered
'Not just a pretty face'. Crevasse changed the settings on his wrist and then he pushed the button again. Pure agony ran through the Doctors' head, he fell to the floor yelping clutching his head as Rose had done.
The pain was so intense but the Doctor knew he had to stay conscious – he had to fight back. Otherwise he could lose the Tardis, lose Rose, lose his life, be trapped in time or even have allowed Crevasse to change history. He knew that he couldn't let any of this happen, but he didn't know how to stop it. The pain that shot through his mind was like nothing he had ever felt before, he couldn't think and red dots blurred his vision. He clutched onto the rail as he tried to pull himself up, Crevasse smirked and pushed the button again causing the Doctor to collapse to the floor and lose the battle of fighting for remaining conscious. Crevasse chained up the Doctor using parts of the Tardis he has ripped apart to prevent anymore incidents and he turned to confront Stavishm who was stirring. Stavishms' eyes frantically searched the room.
'My Master! Mistress!' he called out still on the floor, he turned his head to look up at Crevasse.
'What have you done to them?' he demanded angrily, Crevasse stood over him
'I don't see why you should care' he spat at him.
'I must protect my mistress' he told him as he attempted to sit up. Crevasse slammed his foot down into Stavishms' foot causing him to fall back down.
'You betrayed me!' he bellowed 'We were a team together we were going to return to the old days!' Stavishm was infuriated
'No! I was never going to help you!' he yelled back.
'What do you mean?' Crevasse asked
'I was never a member! I only joined until I knew how to escape! I wanted to be safe from the Emperor and I knew that by joining the brotherhood I would be!' Stavishm shouted. Crevasse was shocked
'You were never going to help? You were a farce – a traitor!' he screamed as he picked up a pole preparing to smash Stavishm to bits.
'No!' came Roses' cry as she stumbled out of the medical room, the pain had gone from her mind but she knew she was still bleeding. She was getting weaker and weaker but knew she had to hold on.
'Leave him alone!' she shouted at Crevasse.
'Why do you care so much?' Crevasse exclaimed
'Because he's my friend!' she shouted at him. Crevasse dropped the pole in shock.
'Your friend?' he spat out.
'Your friend?' Stavishm whispered smiling. Rose smiled back and nodded
'My friend' she confirmed. Her smile left her as quickly as it came; she turned on Crevasse looking as dark and dangerous as the Doctor.
'Now tell me where he is' she demanded
'Where who is?' Crevasse answered politely.
'Tell me where the Doctor is' she shouted, Crevasse put a finger to his lips and smiled. Stavishm pointed behind Rose, she turned and saw the Doctor unconscious chained to the wall, his head hung forward and his hair plastered to his forehead.
'Doctor!' Rose whispered as she ran to him. She ran a finger down his face and gently put her ear to his mouth checking he was breathing. When she was satisfied that he was she turned to Crevasse
'What have you done to him?' she frantically asked
'The same that I did to you – it just hit him harder' he smirked; Roses' face was distorted with rage. She glared at him unsure of what to do next. She knew that the Doctor was her first priority, ignoring Crevasse Rose went and got a glass of water and gently splashed it in the Doctors' face.
'Doctor?' she called, he started to move
'Doctor?' she called again hitting him with more water. His eyes slowly opened and they focused on Rose.
'Rose?' he whispered.
'Hey' she replied softly. The Doctor tried to move and then he realised he was chained up, his eyes questioned her.
'Crevasse did this' she whispered hoping that Crevasse wouldn't notice he was awake. He studied her face and the blood – fresh blood, which stained her clothes; she gave him a small smile.
'I'm fine' she turned to see Crevasse coming towards them.
'Ah! I see our friend has decided to rejoin us, how charming' The Doctor glared back at him. Still weak from his mental torture he didn't have the energy to speak, he just watched Rose and Crevasse. His twenty twenty vision was fifty percent off; he couldn't see and could barely speak. He looked at Rose hoping she would do the talking.
'Doctor? Are you okay?' Rose asked cautiously. Crevasse laughed startling both of them.
'No, he's not, my darling Rose' Rose grimaced at the address but continued to listen.
'You see a Time Lords' brain is more complex that a puny little human one. So ever time I push this button, another bit of him dies – unlike you whose brain cannot handle it so you just pass out' To demonstrate his point he hit the button causing Rose to scream and clutch her head. Even through the Doctor could barely see he knew that scream anywhere. He gathered all this strength and weakly commanded
'Stop!'
'You want me to stop?' Crevasse asked. The Doctor glared at him
'Okay' he said sweetly releasing the button. Rose gathered her bearings and opened her eyes.
'Doctor' she sobbed. Crevasse turned to Rose
'Now for the second part of the demonstration'
'No!' Rose screamed as he hit the button causing the Doctors' eyes to bulge and sweat to drip off his brow. His hands clenched as he made eye contact with Rose for a moment – next he dropped unconscious. Rose ran towards Crevasse
'Stop it! Stop it!' she yelled hitting him
'You're killing him!'
'I know' was his vicious reply as he flung Rose against the wall as through she were weightless.
'Crevasse, please!' Stavishm begged. Crevasse turned on him next; he pounced on Stavishm as though he was his prey. The sickening sound of metal colliding with metal echoed throughout the Tardis. Rose blinked trying to remain awake, she could feel the blood trickling down her forehead and down the back of her head from her previous wound – but she didn't care she had to save the Doctor. She picked up the pole Crevasse had dropped and ran towards the fighting pair, she lifted the pole above her head and smashed the button on the Tardis control panel – destroying the button.
'No!' shouted Crevasse as Rose ran back to the Doctor.
'Doctor! Doctor!' she shouted at him. He opened his eyes slowly and focused on the screaming blonde girl in front of him.
'Who are you? And whose a doctor?' he asked curiously. Rose stopped where she was.
Next Chapter: 'I'm frightened by what I see but somehow I know that there is much more to come' Rose dropped her head into her hands and let the storm of tears take hold of her body and her soul whilst all Stavishm could do was stand and watch.
Sorry for the shortness of the chapter but the whole five exams thing had to take priority. But the good new is only five more left! This means longer chapters are looming! Yay, if you liked please tell me what you think! Reviews are like presents :-)
