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Solar Prison

The Doctor stood immobile a moment, his brain unable to accept what he saw before him. They had killed the Daleks, their race ended in a swirl of gold dust. How could they survive? Would he always be fated to fight them? Was this the universes personification of evil that could never be vanquished?

He hoped not, for if that was the case evil truly outnumbered the good. With the Cybermen and various other races falling under that dark banner. Rose was now quivering beside him; he did not have time to tell if it was either from fear or rage. The Doctor ran down the hallway to the kitchen, seeing Johnson was already taking the shotgun from its place on the wall.

"Don't!" The Doctor yelled at him,

"But what if they are after our food?" Johnson argued trying to push the Doctor from his path.

"Trust me that is the least of our problems. That," He indicated the gun "Will not stop them"

"What are they?"

"Daleks" Rose replied from the doorway, Kate ran up to her. Rose placed her arms around the young one so they were crossed over the child's chest. Kate's back was to Rose's stomach.

"And just what is a Da-leck?" Johnson tried to pronounce the name.

"Dalek" the Doctor corrected automatically "They are a race that believe anything that is different to them must be wiped from the universe. They will not stop, they will have no mercy, no compassion."

"Then what can we do?"

"I don't know…with just one of them maybe….but a whole taskforce" The Doctor turned his gaze to Rose. She could not see the swirling emotion in his brown gaze. But she could feel it. Could see it in her mind. She had seen it twice before, blazing across blue eyes before the same enemy. She had hoped never to see that look again in brown.

She could see it there in her mind, to others it would look as though he was thinking. His youthful face hiding the terror he felt. But she could see it, the swirls of darkness in his gaze as his hearts raced in fear.

"Doctor" she walked uncertainly forward to his blurry shape. Rose placed her hand on his, he turned is palm up so their fingers could intertwine. He gave a shaky smile, which she could not see, but she was returning anyway. He could not fathom the fear she must be feeling. For her vision to be impaired and the knowledge that Daleks were close.

"It's no use fighting them, not yet, they will have scanned the building and found our life signs." As if on cue the grating robotic voice of the Dalek called out to them.

"ALL-HUMINOIDS-WILL-EXIT-THE-BUILDING-OR –YOU-WILL-BE-EXTER-MIN-ATED!"

The Doctor led them from the farmhouse. Kate was by Rose's right side while the Doctor was holding her left. To the Doctors left came Johnson. The Daleks task force of three hovered above the grey snow, the glow from the levitators at the base of their frame casting a strange blue/white glow upon it.

"YOU-WILL-COME-WITH-US. TO-SERVE-THE-DALEK-EMPIRE!" As they spoke their plunger like arms moved in menace, as did their guns.

"And how can we serve the Dalek Empire?" The Doctor asked, his face dark. No smiles before this enemy. Only the oncoming storm.

"YOU-WILL-BECOME-SLAVES-TO-BUILD-THE-FACTORIES. SOME-MAY-BE-HARVESTED. NOW-YOU-WILL-MOVE-MOOOVE!" The Daleks pointed to the truck with the cage on the back. Some people were already inside. Sick wretches that either cried or just sat despondently there rocking back and forth.

All four climbed inside, the Doctor guiding Rose. They all grabbed onto the wire mesh as the hover-truck began to move. It angled itself to the fields in the distance; now that the snow clouds had cleared all could see the black smoke rising to the dark sky. As they came closer to their obvious destination those inside began to wail and moan, demanding to be set free. The Doctor, Rose, Kate and Johnson were in one corner. The two males protecting Rose and Kate.

The ground was rent in two as the silver wound gleamed in the light from the hover-truck. From it came numerous Daleks. The Doctors face if possible became darker. He looked to Rose as she squeezed his hand.

"We're in big trouble this time aren't we?" she asked half in fun, half in fear.

"Trouble? This is nothing. Home in time for tea" he joked, all fake smiles.

"Liar" Rose poked him in his side, then place her arm round his waist to rest her head on his shoulder as she felt his arm copy the action. So it was round the back of her waist. He gave a lingering squeeze as he rested his head against hers. "We don't know where home is right now. So the TARDIS can't very well provide the tea to be in time for"

The Doctor gave a snort of laughter at her argument. Rose always managed to calm him, so he could think of a way out of this. The hover-truck went into the bowels of this silver wound in the earth. The truck stopped in a large chamber. In the back they could see cells. Recesses in the wall with glowing blue shields to keep the people inside, they seemed to be separated into the healthy and those with radiation sickness.

"YOU-WILL-DIS-EM-BARK!" one of the Daleks ordered. The leader of he taskforce had gone over to a terminal and seemed to be communicating with its superior. They filed from the truck's cage one by one and were herded into a line heading toward the cells. But to get to them they had to pass through what looked to be an airport metal detector. Its use became apparent as the first person passed through.

"HUMANOID-LIFE-FORM. SEVERE-RADIATION-CONTAMINATION." The Dalek to the side of the detector called out. The man was prodded into the cell of the sick.

"Doctor, if you go through that they'll know what you are" Rose whispered to him urgently.

"We will have to distract them somehow," he whispered back.

"We can't do much, not with this many. Tell you what. I'll go before you and faint or something. See if you can slip past while they tell me to get up."

"Be careful Rose. You know them, they have no compassion. They may just shoot you." The Doctor argued back.

"But what else can we do? I'll be fine" Rose stood before him as they came to the scanner. What happened next neither of them could ever have predicted. As Rose passed through alarms began to sound off. The Daleks becoming agitated and excited at the same time.

"BAD-WOLF-DETECTED! CONTAIN! CONTAIN!" Kate ran to Rose as the Daleks all started to swarm round her, their lights flashing as they asked for orders. The Doctor tried to get to them but he was being pushed into one of the cells. Well she wanted to distract them from the Doctor…but this wasn't quite what she had in mind.

"THE-CHILD-WILL-GO-WITH-THE-OTHERS!" one Dalek ordered of Kate.

"No, you won't take my big sister!" Kate shouted at them, her voice whining.

"THEN-YOU-WILL-BE-EXTER-MIN-ATED!" The Daleks all aimed their guns at Kate.

"No!" Rose stepped in front of her, and the Doctor held his breath. "She'll go"

Rose kneeled down before Kate. Holding her hand, as Kate tried not to cry before the monsters.

"Sweetheart. I need you to go to my best friend okay? But you can't say his name" Rose explained softly.

"But I want to stay with you"

"You can't it's not safe. And it's safer for me if you stay here okay?" Rose reached into her pocket and took out the TARDIS key. No doubt if she kept it the Daleks would figure out what it was. "Will you look after this for me? It's very important"

"Okay big sister."

"Okay. Now go to my best friend. Call him John okay?"

"Okay" Kate hugged Rose quickly then walked between the monsters to the cell. Rose locked eyes with the Doctor, as Kate gave him the TARDIS key. He gave her a quick nod of understanding as Kate clung to him, finally giving in to her tears.

"YOU-WILL-MOVE" A Dalek commanded of her, the plunger poking her in the back.

"I can't." she replied through her teeth. "I can't see"

"THEN-YOU-WILL-BE-GUIDED!" Rose felt the cold metal of the arm of the plunger. She gripped it; she was led by the Dalek this way, hand tight on the plunger arm. It was absurd, a Dalek guiding a blinded woman like a guide dog. Rose disappeared down a one of the hallways, to face the fate the Daleks would make for her.

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The Doctor swore that both his hearts has stopped and plummeted to his stomach when the alarm sounded. He stood stock still s the Daleks surrounded Rose. His shock that they knew of Bad Wolf to the extent to build a device to detect her. Kate had run over to Rose, in a child's misguided conception that they could tell the monsters not to hurt the ones they care about.

The Doctor had been awed once more by Rose's calm before the danger. She told Kate to leave her and to go to him, even thinking to hand Kate the TARDIS key, to give the child something to focus on while keeping the key out of the Daleks hands. No doubt they had the TARDIS here.

He comforted Kate as he watched Rose being taken away, the young one was crying into his jacket, asking why the monsters have to always take her family. He crouched down to her.

"It will be okay Kate. Rose will be fine." He placed the TARDIS key round her neck. "You will have to look after this for her"

"You're not trying to make me feel better by lying are you?" she asked looking at the key around her neck. She picked it up into her hand so she could see it better. "It's warm"

"Is it?" the Doctor fished his key out, it was also slightly warm, and a small glow about it.

"You have one too? Did you give Rose this?" Kate asked, all fear forgotten in her need to find out more about Rose.

"Yes. I gave it too her a while ago"

"That's why it's important! Because you gave it too her!" she would never know how right she was.

"It's the key to my ship. So she will come back for it. So as long as you look after it Rose will come back" The Doctor wiped the tears from Kate's face.

"Really?" her green eyes looking at the Doctor filled with hope and awe.

"Really" Kate leaned over and gave the Doctor a hug, and then kissing him on the cheek she skipped off to be with Johnson. So she did not see the smile melt from the Doctors face, or the bleak gaze that followed the hallway that Rose had been taken down.

He began to look for ways out, seeing if there was a weakness in the shield of the cell. The smooth walls showing no access to the power systems. Well…he would just have to make his own. The Doctor dug out the sonic screwdriver from his pocket and changed the setting to cut through the aluminium like material. Johnson had come up to shield what he was doing from prying eyes.

The Doctor had never been one to sit around in a cell, well unless it served a purpose. But the only purpose where the Daleks were concerned was death. And he would not leave Rose to face it on her own.

Soon enough he had the panel off and was looking over the wires and components inside. He changed the settings on the sonic screwdriver and the shield flicked then died altogether.

"Doctor..what are you going to do?" Johnson laid a restraining hand on the Doctor's arm. Some of the other prisoners were making a run for it.

"Don't…you can't escape like that. Stop!" the Doctor called to them.

"We're not going to sit around while you rescue your bit of skirt. We're getting out of here" then ran off down one of the numerous hallways.

"Fools, they are going to get killed" The Doctor growled out in exasperation.

"What do you want us to do?" Johnson asked.

"Stay here with the rest until I get back. They won't kill you, as they need you. So don't do anything to anger them. I need to find out what they have planned, I need to know what they are going to do to Rose." he looked around making sure there were no Daleks patrolling the area.

"Okay. Be careful Doctor" Johnson held out his hand, which the Doctor took with a firm shake. Then he set off down the hallways in search for Rose.

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Rose followed where she was led. Her eyes would still not focus, the silver blur of the hallways interspersed by the blurry outlines of the Daleks that surrounded her. As she continued on she became aware of a bright light where the ceiling was, a round orb of light that felt as though in fact it was hovering there. Not actually connected to the ceiling at all. It was a blue/white glow that seemed to pulse through her, her hair standing on end at the power and ozone that came from it.

"Ahhh-the-Bad-wolf" a voice said in relish, the tone almost like a Dalek, but more mortal than robotic.

"Who's there?" Rose asked bravely.

"So-the-weapon-worked-in-disabling-you. Good" the sound of the hover unit of a Dalek as a pure silver blur appeared before her. Brighter than the pale silver walls, this form gleamed as if it sucked all the light from the room to illuminate itself. Though where the dome unit where the eyestalk should be was dark. And something moved within. But she could still not focus so could not discern exactly what she was seeing. But to others they would see this Dalek was different from the others. It almost looked like an eggcup, with a round ball instead of an egg inside it. The base was of normal Dalek design, but the dome unit was larger, and at the moment the dome had opened upwards. The front section folding over the back so you could see the creature within.

All that was inside was a head, which seemed to swivel around on a unit. It had wires leading from various places. In the centre of the beings forehead was what looked to bee a third eye, but you could see it had been placed there and was robotic in nature. The head looked humanoid, but was almost black as if rotting; there was no hair upon its head but a metal frame with more wires running into it. It's own two eyes were shut, seeming as if the eyelids had sealed themselves shut, then had become sunken as though the eyeballs themselves were gone.

"What weapon? Who are you?" Rose demanded, though her voice quivered.

"I-am-the-creator-of-the-Daleks. My-race-WILL-BECOME-THE-SUPREAM-RULERS-OF-THE-UNI-VERRRSE!" The voice changed through mid rant chilling Rose's blood. It became the same as every other Dalek she had known. She remembered a conversation with the Doctor.

"The Daleks were created on the Planet Skaro. By a evil genius called…"

"You're Davros!"

TBC…..