A/N: Hi, been a bit of a while, I know. In all honest, things haven't been great in my life, but I won't bore you with all of that rubbish. This next chapter has been hard for me to write, it's really been hard for me to write anything really. I know it's not the best, and at some point in the future I may consider rewriting parts of it. But for now, this is it. The next chapter for Kari. Please excuse any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors you may find (or just pm me telling me where they are and I can knock them out as soon as I can). Enjoy.
Kari was pottering around in the kitchen, like she did so often after one of their adventures, making a nice pot of tea for herself and the Doctor. Clara was back in her own time, having only been gone for a matter of minutes, while the Doctor was tidying a few things up, apparently. There were so many questions that were floating around in her head, she needed him to answer them, she needed to know what had really been going on while they were in Sherwood.
The whole thing had bothered her, she knew something was wrong, and it didn't matter how many times he told her otherwise, she just knew. Something wasn't right, the dizziness, the feeling sick, the passing out, it was all completely wrong. Kari only wanted to know the truth, she wanted him to be honest with her and tell her the truth. She was certain that he was avoiding it by taking as much time as he could to make his way to the kitchen, hoping that she would forget all about it and just move on. She, however, was not going to forget.
Just as Kari was about to give up hope and head back to her own room to take a little nap, the Doctor finally slipped into the room. "Sorry, had to take care of a few things." He said, apologetically. "How are you feeling now?"
Kari quickly flicked the kettle on and began gathering everything to make a nice pot of tea. "Yeah, fine. A little tired, but apart from that I am absolutely fine." She was far from fine, however there was something telling her that there was no point whatsoever trying to get answers from the man that was in the room with her.
"You know, you're rubbish at lying. Especially to me." The Doctor replied, looking at her and frowning. "You want to know what was happening to you while we were there with Robin Hood and his idiot band of merry men." Of course she did, but she wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of asking. She knew for a fact that this regeneration of him could sometimes let his ego inflate, and she was not going to let him have that.
Instead, she poured the boiling water into the pot, keeping herself completely focused on that. "Nope. You said it was nothing to worry about, and that I was fine. Why would I bother wanting to know what it was all about now when it's all over?" Kari hoped that she sounded convincing, but she very much doubted that she did. "Doesn't matter really, does it?"
The Doctor didn't really know what to say. He had expected her to start bombarding him with questions the moment he set foot in the kitchen, and yet she hadn't. "Oh, okay then." He finally replied, sitting down and watching as she continued to make the tea, pretty much ignoring that he was still there.
It didn't take long for her to make two mugs of tea and place one down in front of the Doctor. "So, what's the plan now then?" She asked him, slipping at the scalding hot liquid. Kari had to just keep pretending that she wasn't bothered by what had happened, that it was just something else she could add to her list of strangeness, even though it was at the front of her mind.
"I'm not sure." He replied, sitting there and watching her with a frown on his face. "Why don't you want to know? You wanted to know earlier. Why is it that you don't want to know now?" It was bothering him, and it was going to keep on bothering him.
Kari shrugged her shoulders at him slightly. "I just don't." She did, she really did want to know what it was all about. Instead of just getting on with it all, she was making things more difficult for both herself and the Doctor by deciding to have an extremely stubborn moment.
There was silence around the table. Kari was simply focusing on drinking her tea and avoiding the Doctor's gaze, while he was staring at her, trying to figure out what was going on inside her head. "Bubble universe." He announced suddenly, which caused Kari to finally look at him. "It was a bubble universe. That's why it all felt so wrong to you, even though you knew it was real. That place we were in, it was just a bubble universe, like the time…" The Doctor trailed off, knowing that it was a hard thing not just for himself to talk about, but for Kari as well.
"Like the time House tried to kill us and Sexy?" There was no emotion in Kari's voice, there was nothing in it at all as she spoke. "Doesn't really explain everything now, does it. I felt weird that time because the TARDIS matrix had been ripped out, this was something completely different." She was actually very doubtful of his reason, the fact that they had been in a bubble universe. It just didn't make any sense to her, it hadn't felt the same as when House had lured them to that planet. Back then, she had felt empty, like a part of her was missing, she hadn't felt that this time, it was something different entirely.
All the Doctor could do was let out a sigh. "No, but it's the best that I have." He admitted in defeat. Now he knew that there was nothing that he could do that would get her to listen to him, to get Kari to believe anything that he was telling her at that moment in time. "I guess you're right, it doesn't really matter now, does it."
"No, it really doesn't." Kari ended up whispering, whilst looking down at her slightly glowing hands. "But that's just my life. It either doesn't matter or doesn't make sense." While Kari had been enjoying her time there with that Doctor, she was actually glad that she was about to head off. She still wasn't feeling completely herself and in all honesty, all she wanted was to go to sleep for a while. That was never going to happen.
The Doctor was looking at her, noticing her hands and the way she was looking down. Instinctively he reached out a took a tight hold of her glowing hands. "Everything will be okay, Kari. You'll be fine now, I promise." He knew that deep down she still didn't believe him, his explanation didn't really explain anything.
By now her head was pounding as well, signalling that her time with that Doctor was almost up. "I know. I'll see you later, yeah? And do me a favour, behave. If that is even possible." Of course it wasn't possible, he was the Doctor and she knew just how much trouble he could get into whether she was there or not.
A few moments later and everything around her had changed. There was a slight breeze rushing across her cheeks which made her realise that she hadn't appeared back in the TARDIS somewhere. Kari really hated it when that happened, being dragged to somewhere that isn't the TARDIS, it meant that she had to try and work out exactly where she was and why.
When Kari opened her eyes she found herself outside in the street, some rather grand houses all around her. "Great, now where the hell am I?" She wasn't really in the mood for running around and trying to work everything out.
It wasn't an area that she recognised, she didn't feel like she had been there before, which only made things even harder for her. If she could recognise something then she would have a much better chance of working out where she was and why, like the time she had appeared in Bannerman Road, she knew it must have been for Sarah Jane. There was no clue around to help her at all, and Kari let out a long, loud sigh.
Instead of just standing there and waiting for something to happen, she began to stroll down the street, looking around carefully, still trying to work it all out. The houses that surrounded her were very grand, grander than her own home in Bricker Lane, they were certainly expensive and most likely owned by some rather rich people. The fronts were a bright white, and the window all glistened in the sunlight.
After a few more minutes of walk, Kari was just about ready to give up, when she spotted a familiar figure leaving one of the buildings, a rolled up wad of paper in his hands. "Rory!" Kari shouted, jogging to catch up to him. "Oi, Rory!" She wasn't sure she could hear him, he hadn't turned to look at her. "Oi, Mr Pond!" She tried to call him one last time, before forcing herself to run a little quicker.
Unfortunately, Kari was too late. Before she could reach him the bus pulled up to where he was standing and he stepped onboard. A minute later and he was gone, the bus zooming down the street, leaving Kari standing there on her own once more. At least now she had some kind of idea as to what was going on.
"Okay, Kari, think. Rory and Amy. Where was Amy?" She spun around on the spot and tried to figure it all out. When she looked back at the bus she saw a bright light engulf it, before it just vanished completely. "Oh… oh this is not good." She ended up muttering to herself, finally starting to work it all out. "They've got the Doctor, they've got Amy and Rory."
Her nerves were starting to build now, because she knew exactly who had them all, and it made her wonder if they were going to come for her as well. That was really the last thing that she needed, to be kidnapped. If they asked her, she'd go with them without any fuss at all.
"Excuse me, do you have the time?" Kari turned to look at the owner of the voice and saw a young man jogging on the spot, wearing full workout gear. She found it a little suspicious that he was asking her for the time when she could see a watch on his wrist.
She had to be brave, she had to just get on with it. "I do believe it's time to go and meet the Prime Minister." Kari replied, letting out a long breath. Less than a second later and she heard a terrible cracking sound as the man's head jerked while something began to poke out from his forehead. Soon enough, Kari was staring down the eye stalk of a Dalek.
"You are correct." The man said, now sounding very much like a Dalek. Kari couldn't help but roll her eyes as the Dalek decided to shoot at her, causing her to squeeze her eyes tightly closed. It was a strange feeling, being shot by a Dalek, but that may have been because it wasn't actually trying to kill her, it was simply transmatting her somewhere else.
When she finally felt a little calmer, and not so queasy, she opened her eyes to see where she had ended up. She knew that Rory would wake up in a white room with Amy standing with her arms folded across her chest, before the Doctor just casually strolled in. Kari just wasn't sure where she was going to fit into it all.
A smile stretched across her face at the sight before her. "Well, fancy meeting you here." She said, smirking at her bow tie wearing Doctor. He was simply standing there, gawping at her, while a Dalek slowly rolled towards her.
"What are you doing here? You shouldn't be here." The Doctor quickly said, whipping out his sonic screwdriver and scanning her with it. There was a rather worried look on his face, one that Kari really didn't like.
"What do you mean, I shouldn't be here?" Kari asked him, trying to whack his screwdriver away from her. "I didn't just magically appear here, you know, I was actually invited." She added, nodding to the Dalek that had been so kind as to 'escort' her to where they now were. "Now will you stop scanning me with that thing!"
With a strange look on the Doctor's face he turned his sonic screwdriver off. "Oh, you've only just got here." The way he said that made Kari feel just a little more concerned. The whole way he was acting, from the moment he saw her there, was all worrying her.
She took a step closer towards him. "Later, we're having a little chat, you got that, mister?" Something was going on, Kari could just sense it. All the Doctor could do was nod at her, a little taken back by her attitude towards him. "Lovely. Now, shall we go and see Mr and Mrs Pond?"
"How do you know they're here?" The Doctor asked her curiously as the Dalek's finally started moving, leading them towards the room which was holding their friends.
"I saw them take Rory." Kari responded, keeping her eyes focused on whatever was in front of her, which just so happened to be the back of a Dalek. "That eye stalk sticking out of the head thing is really freaky." It had always freaked her out, the way the person twitched, the cracking noise that it all made, before the stalk began to poke out, a bright blue light coming from the eye at the end of it.
The walk was a rather short one, and they soon found themselves in front of a white sliding door before a voice drifted out to them. "So, how much trouble are we in?" Rory said, not yet knowing that the Doctor and Kari were there. Both he and his wife had turned around to see just a Dalek rolling in, not the people behind it.
"How much trouble, Mr Pond?" The Doctor said, having now grabbed a tight hold of Kari's hand. "Out of ten?"
"Eleven." Kari answered, at the same time as the Doctor as the both entered the room and came into full view.
Suddenly there came a mechanical whirring noise, and they all looked up to find the source of it. The ceiling was moving, breaking into segments, which quickly dispersed and left a gaping hole in the roof of the room. While the Doctor was looking worried, Kari was standing as still as a statue as the floor also began to move, causing the four of them, and the Daleks that were with them, to rise up.
There was a curious look on the Doctor's face as well as worry. He knew that they were surrounded by Daleks, that had take himself, Kari and both Amy and Rory. Whatever was going on, he knew that it couldn't be good. What he also knew was that something wasn't entirely right with Kari, he could just sense it.
As quickly as the movement started, it stopped, only now they were faced with more than just two Daleks. They were completely and utterly surrounded by them and the Doctor didn't know what to do or even think of the whole thing. It didn't help that they had the TARDIS there, the small, blue wooden box that was so impossible on the inside; the place that Kari called home.
"Where are we?" Amy asked, before jumping in and speaking once more. "A spaceship, right?"
Before Kari had a chance to answer her, the Doctor was speaking. "Not just any spaceship; the Parliament of the Daleks." He had noticed the flesh Dalek sitting in a tank, the only one not to be in a protective casing.
Even the fear and panic was evident on Amy's face. "What do we do?"
The Doctor looked at Kari, who shook her head at him. She was not going to let him know that she knew everything that was going to happen. He gazed at her for a few more moments, before dragging himself back to reality. "Well, come on then." He said, dropping Kari's hand and turning to face the mass of Daleks. "You've got me. What are you waiting for?" He ended up shouting, knowing that they all wanted to just kill him. "At long last, it's Christmas! Here I am!" Kari watched him close his eyes tightly, and held in the giggle that were bubbling. He looked like a complete idiot, at least he did to her in that particular moment.
"Save us." A crackling voice suddenly said, resulting with the Doctor carefully opening one of his eyes. "You will save us."
The Doctor dropped his arms and span around the face the flesh Dalek that had been speaking to him. "I'll what?" Even he was confused now, it just didn't make sense as far as he was concerned.
"You will save the Daleks."
There was a brief moment of silence before that metallic, screeching voice that belonged to the Dalek's filled the air. "Save the Daleks! Save the Daleks! Save the Daleks!" They all chanted, while Amy and Rory looked towards the Doctor, not really know what to say or do. Kari was just standing there, her arms folded across her chest and her eyes drifting towards the TARDIS.
"Well… this is new." The Doctor finally said, clearly bemused but pleased that they weren't trying to kill himself or Kari. That had been his biggest concern, that the would just kill him before turning to Kari and killing her as well. He knew just how much the Daleks disliked the pair of them.
Eventually Kari bounced over to the Doctor, seeing that he was starting to go from pleased to stressed. She knew there was a lot that he was now thinking about, and she wanted to help him. "So, what do we do first?" She asked him, lightly resting her hand on his arm, trying to get him to stop pacing so much.
He stopped and turned to look at her. "How much do you know?"
"Not a lot." Kari told him, not wanting him to know that she had a very good insight into what was going on. "I do know that there is something wrong with Amy and Rory, and that you are going to try and fix it."
The Doctor glanced over at the couple before he started pacing again. Kari took that as her chance to wander back of to Amy and Rory, because she really did like hearing Amy explain what the Doctor was doing and thinking.
"What's he doing?" Rory asked, looking between Kari and his wife.
Kari simply looked at Amy and gave her a nod. "He's chosen the most defendable area in the room, counted all the Daleks, counted all the exits, and now he's calculating the exact distance we're standing apart and starting to worry." the Doctor stopped pacing and looked over at them once more. "Oh, and look at him frowning now. Something's wrong with Amy and Rory, and who's going to fix it? And he straightens his bowtie."
"That man his priorities set, Amy." Kari whispered to the red haired woman standing beside her. "The top of his list, working out what's going on with you and Rory."
Before Amy had the chance to reply, to ask her what she knew about what was going on with herself and her husband, one of the Daleks screeching voice filled the air. "We have arrived." The metal creature announced.
"Arrived where?" The Doctor called, focusing his gaze on Kari. There was still something bothering him, in fact everything was bothering him. The whole day was beginning to bother him.
She could see the concern in his eyes and knew that he needed her, the Doctor needed her there to support him, as well as reassure him that everything would all be okay in the end. Kari wandered back over to him, stopping when she was standing next to him and grasping his hand tightly. When he looked down at her, she gave him a soft smile, just to let him know that she was there with him, no matter what happened.
He had been so lost in just looking at her, that he hadn't heard his name being called. "The Prime Minister will speak with you now." A woman with a blue light on her forehead, hidden by her fringe, announced, a woman who Kari and the Doctor knew was actually a Dalek.
The Doctor turned and faced her, taking Kari with him a few steps. "Do you remember who you were before they emptied you out and turned you into their puppet?" There was a hint of anger and annoyance in his voice, he certainly was not impressed with what was going on so far.
"My memories are only reactivated if they are required to facilitate cover or disguise." The woman replied in a monotone voice.
"You had a daughter." The Doctor reminded her, hoping that it would trigger something, make her feel something.
Unfortunately, the response he received was not the one he had been hoping for. "I know. I've read my file." The woman quickly stepped to one side, waiting for the Doctor to proceed to where the Dalek Prime Minister was waiting for him.
Kari gave his hand a slightly tug, before he nodded at her and took the lead up to meet the Dalek Prime Minister. Kari couldn't help but feel a little queasy, seeing the flesh Dalek out of it's casing and in a special tube. Even though it looked different, it was still the same as all the others, full of hatred and anger, wishing to rid the universe of anything that wasn't a Dalek.
"Well?" The Doctor eventually said, his head still full of too much stuff for him to even try and understand why they were all there.
Then the fleshy Dalek answered. "What do you know of the Dalek Asylum?"
Without any hesitation, the Doctor answered, his grip on Kari's hand tightening just a little. "According to legend, you have a dumping ground. A planet where you lock up all the Daleks that go wrong. The battle-scarred, the insane, the ones even you can't control. It's never made any sense to me."
"Why not?"
"Because you'd just kill them." Kari was certainly feeling more than just a little awkward now. While the Doctor knew that she was there, she was starting to feel a little like a third wheel; or the fourth wheel for a Reliant Robin. Either way, the uncomfortable feeling was growing as the second passed by.
"It is offensive to us to extinguish such divine hatred." Actually, the creature sounded offended by what the Doctor had just said as well.
Kari really wanted to say something, she wanted to get passed all of the chatting and the discussion about what was down there and what they wanted to the Doctor to do. All she really wanted was to walk right inside the TARDIS and just curl up in her bed. However, Kari knew that was never going to happen and she let out a small sigh, which was heard by the Doctor.
"Offensive?" She heard the Doctor say, before he tugged at her arm, pulling her with him as he moved closer to the clear glass tube which contained the Dalek Prime Minister.
"Does it surprised you to know the Daleks have a concept of beauty?" Not only did Kari think that was an odd thing to hear from a Dalek, but so did Amy and Rory. She just knew that they were standing back there feeling just as confused as the Doctor was.
By now the Doctor was done with all the silliness from those creatures. He wanted to find out why they were all there, and get out of there as soon as possible. "I thought you'd run out of ways to make me sick. But hello again." The Time Lord said, the tone of his voice showing how unimpressed his was with everything. "You think hatred is beautiful?" He wasn't going to stand there any longer and quickly dragged Kari away from the flesh Dalek in a tube.
"We need to find out why we're all here." Kari quickly told him, trying to get him to focus and to stop herself from feeling so utterly useless. She wasn't scared of the Daleks, and she knew they weren't going to just shoot them all dead, so why was she been so meek?
"Perhaps that is why we have never been able to kill you." The Prime Minister replied, before the bright white platform that Amy and Rory were still standing on began to open slightly. Some of the panels clanked and whizzed and then disappeared, leaving a round hole in the centre.
The Doctor and Kari quickly went back over to them, not only to make sure that their friends were all right, but to also take a look at what was down there. "The Asylum. It occupies the entire planet, right to the core." The woman who had trapped the Doctor and gotten him there announced while they all gazed down the through the hole.
Finally Kari began to find her voice again. "Millions of Daleks, all very much alive and completely armed to the teeth. The whole Asylum is automated, taking care of itself." Now the nerves were starting to get to her, and that wasn't right. She knew what was going to happen, she knew they were all going to be absolutely fine at the end of it all, she just couldn't explain all the strange things she was beginning to feel.
Everyone looked at her, including the human looking Dalek. The Doctor gave her a worried look and was about to ask if she was okay when the human Dalek decided to speak. "This signal is being received from the very heart of the Asylum."
There was silence for a few seconds, before the sound of Carmen by Bizet blasted through some speakers somewhere in the Dalek ship. Everything that was about to happen flashed through Kari's head, all those Dalek's, Amy and Rory and the talk that they had been needing for such a long time. She hadn't actually seen the Ponds in such a long time, so much had happened since then. In all honesty she couldn't actually remember the last time she had been with both Amy and Rory.
"What is the noise?" One of the Dalek's screeched. "Explain. Explain."
The Doctor had actually been too busy gazing at Kari. He could see that she had drifted off into her own little world, she just had that look on her face that told him. "Er, it's me." He finally said, looking around the room once more.
Rory turned and looked at him a confused and shocked expression on his face. "Sorry, what?"
"It's me, playing the triangle. Okay, I got buried in the mix. Carmen, lovely show. Kari made me take her to see it twelve times." He said, having whipped out his sonic screwdriver and turned it on. At the mention of her name, Kari came back down to reality and it was her turn to look at him in confusion. "Someone's transmitting this. Have you considered tracking back the signal and talking to them?" The whole time he had been speaking he had been wandering over to a control unit, taking Kari with him. "He asked the Daleks."
"Twelve times?" Kari whispered to the Doctor, knowing that he hadn't even taken her to see it once yet. "I prefer La Traviata."
The Doctor turned his head slightly and smile at her. "I know." Of course he knew, he also knew that she loved reading Gaston Leroux's 'Phantom of the Opera'. "Hello? Hello, Carmen." The Doctor then called, having fiddled with the console he was standing at the Kari and getting to work so that he could try to speak to whoever was playing the music. "Hello?" There was still silence. "Come in, Carmen."
"Hello! Yes, yes, sorry. Do you read me?" A female voice suddenly replied.
The Doctor couldn't help but smile a little. "Yes, reading you loud a clear. Identify yourself and report your statue."
"Hello. Are you real?" The voice asked? "Are you actually, properly, real?" The Doctor, as well as Kari, Amy and Rory, could tell from the voice that there was some confusion.
"Yes, confirmed. Actually, properly, real." There was a hint of amusement in the Doctor's voice as he replied, giving Kari's hand a squeezed as he did. He could sense that something was bothering her, even though he knew she was not going to tell him what it was.
"Oswin Oswald, junior entertainment officer, starship Alaska. Current status, crashed and shipwrecked somewhere… not nice. Been here a year, rest of the crew missing. Provisions good but keen to move on."
Now the Doctor was a little more concerned, how could she have been there for such a long time? "A year? Are you okay? Are you under attack?" He knew what was down there with her, he was surprised that she was still alive.
"Some local lifeforms, been keeping them out."
"Do you know what those lifeforms are?" The Doctor asked her, his concern growing by the second. There was someone trapped down there, with a whole planet full of crazy Daleks. He needed to get her out of there.
"I know a Dalek when I hear one, yeah."
Now the Doctor was completely serious, any hint of amusement was utterly gone. "What have you been doing on your own against the Daleks for a year?" He asked her, noticing that Kari was now close to tears. She had been so quiet and that wasn't like her at all. The whole day was just going from bad to worse as far as he was concerned.
"Making soufflés?" Oswin replied, sounding a little embarrassed about her response. It was the truth, she had been making soufflés, trying to perfect her mother's recipe, to finally get it right.
"Where did she get the milk?" Kari asked, the Doctor surprised at hearing her voice. "Seriously, where did she get the milk for the last year to make a soufflé? Find out where she got the milk."
Before the Doctor was able to ask her, one of Daleks, the white Supreme Dalek, was speaking once more. "This conversation is irrelevant."
"No it isn't." The Doctor told it, turning around to face it. "Because a starliner has crashed into your asylum, and someone's got in. And if someone can get in…"
"Then everything can get out." Kari ended up saying at the exact same time as the Doctor. "A tsunami of insane Daleks." The Doctor had stopped speaking now and was leaving it to Kari. "Even you don't want that."
"The asylum must be cleansed." The Supreme Dalek announced.
Finally, Kari had pulled herself together and was ready to just get on with things. It had taken her far too long, she knew that, but now she had her head in the game and was ready to push forward and help the Doctor. "Yeah, which means blowing it out of the sky, right?" She said, looking at the Supreme Dalek. "Only… there's a bit of a problem with that, isn't there?"
"The asylum forcefield is impenetrable." The woman-turned-Dalek said. "And it can only be turned off from within the asylum." It was as if she knew exactly what the Doctor was going to say next.
A smile stretched across Kari's face. "Yeah, and the whole lot of you are far too scared to go down there yourself and turn it off, aren't you?" By now she was wearing a pretty smug grin.
Even the Doctor was chuckling now, working out exactly what Kari had. "Oh, that is good, brilliant. You're all too scared to go down there yourself. Not one of you will go, so tell me, what do the Daleks do then they're too scared?" He was beaming away inside at the fact that Kari had jumped in and worked it out.
"The Predator of the Daleks will be deployed."
"You don't have a predator, and even if you did, why would they turn off a forcefield for you?" That just made even less sense than someone being able to make soufflés for a year with no milk.
This time it was the Dalek Prime Minister who replied. "Because you will have no other means of escape."
Now the Doctor was utterly confused and so Kari quickly cleared her throat. "They mean you, it's what they call you, The Predator. Can't even begin to imagine why."
He seemed to be rather shocked at this piece of information. "Me? Me? What Kari? What's she?"
The woman-turned-Dalek, who Kari remembered was named Darla, answered his question. "The Wife of the Predator, of course." Kari was relieved at hearing that, but slightly disappointed as well. She knew that the Doctor was their biggest enemy, but she would have thought that her presence there would have had some kind of impact on them. They knew who she was to put her in the Pandorica, but she wasn't well known enough to be that big of a threat. She couldn't decide if that was a good thing or not. "You will need this." The woman then said, as a few more of the human-turned-Dalek people approached the Doctor and Kari. "It will protect you from the nanocloud."
"The what? The nano what?" He asked as something was attached to his wrist. When he looked over he saw that they had attached the same device to Kari's wrist.
It seemed that he was being completely and utterly ignored. "The gravity beam will convey you close to the source of the transmission." She continued, while both Kari and the Doctor was 'escorted' back to where there was a hole in the floor with the asylum right below while I great beam shot from this hole. "You must find a way to deactivate the forcefield from there."
There was pure shock and horror on the Doctor's face now. "You're going to fire me at a planet?" He asked, not really wanting to believe what was going on. "That's your plan? We get fired at a planet and expected to fix it?" He hadn't forgotten that they planned on sending Kari down there as well. He wasn't exactly pleased with that.
"In fairness, that is slightly your M.O." Rory answered, knowing that it was something that probably happened to the Doctor all the time.
"Don't be fair to the Daleks when they're firing me and Kari at a planet!" The Doctor protested, before noticing that they were also putting those wristbands on Amy and Rory. "What do you want with them?"
"It is known the Doctor and Kari require their companions." The Supreme Dalek replied.
Rory rolled his eyes and let out a bit of a sigh. "Oh, brilliant. Good-O!" It was easy to see that he wasn't impressed with the whole situation.
"Calm down, Rory." Kari called over to him, leaning forward a little so that she could see him. "It's not like it's the end of the world or anything. Well, not this time it isn't. Okay, so technically it is the end of a planet, but not your planet, just a planet full or mental Daleks."
The next thing she knew, she had been pushed into the beam, along with the Doctor, Amy and Rory. She knew what was going to happen down there, and she wasn't looking forward to it all that much. Oswin Oswald, one of the impossible splits from her friend Clara, the impossible woman who had already saved her.
All of them were screaming in the gravity beam, even Kari was having a bit of a scream. "Wrong way up! Wrong way up!" Rory ended up shouting, heading down head first while everyone else was plummeting feet first.
Suddenly the beam split into four, and Kari knew that she was about to be separated from the others.
A/N: Yeah I know, I get it, some of you totally hate it and think Kari is just your bog standard Mary Sue in this chapter. Well, maybe there are reasons for why she isn't being herself, for why she is being a lot quieter than usual. Maybe I have a very valid reason, as the writer of this story, for her current portrayal and action. You have no idea what is going on inside of my head and where I plan on things going.
Anyway, enough of that little rant, or whatever it was. The point is, I know there are some of you out there that are going to leave a review and complain. Fine, you go ahead and do that, everyone is allowed their own opinion. But to the rest of you, all of those that have enjoyed this chapter and all those before it, thank you. Your continued support means a lot to me.
It may seem like I have done a lot of moaning here, but I'm just speaking my mind. Everyone else is allowed to do so, so am I. But honestly, a massive thank you to all who have stuck with me, through thick and thin, you guys are amazing. Never forget that, and never let anyone else tell you otherwise.
Pippa.