When the TARDIS materialized, Martha was the first to step out followed by the Doctor and myself. Martha had tried to be nicer to me after we'd told her the story of our home in New New York, but she was still trying to be the sole person the Doctor looked at when he smiled his smile.
"Where are we?" Martha asked her.
"Ah, smell that Atlantic breeze. Nice and cold. Lovely. Martha, have you met my friend?" the Doctor asked her and I smiled as we looked up to see the Statue of Liberty.
"Is that-? Oh my God! That's the Statue of Liberty!" she said shocked.
"Gateway to the New World. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to break free…"" the Doctor quoted and I smiled up at him.
"That's so brilliant. I've always wanted to go to New York. I mean the real New York, not the new, new, new, new, new…" she said before we started walking to the edge of the island with a view of the Manhattan skyline.
"Well, there's the genuine article. So good, they named it twice. Mind you, it was New Amsterdam originally. Harder to say twice. Now wonder it didn't catch on. New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam." The Doctor said.
"I wonder what year it is 'cause look, the Empire State Building's not even finished yet." Martha said pointing out the large building under consctruction.
"Work in progress. Still got a couple floors to go, and if I know my history, that makes the date somewhere around—" the Doctor thought to himself for a moment trying to figure out when we were.
"November 1, 1930." Martha said and I looked confused for a moment.
"You're getting good at this." The Doctor told her looking at her.
"Or a cheat." I said seeing her holding an old paper.
"Eighty years ago." Martha said as the Doctor took the paper from her. "It's funny 'cause you see all those old newsreels in black and white like it's so far away, but here we are. It's real. It's now." She laughed before looking up at him. "Come on, you. Where do we go first?"
"I think our detour just got longer." He said before showing us the headlines in the paper.
""Hooverville Mystery Deepens". What's Hooverville?" she asked us.
"We'll tell you on the way." I said before we caught the ferry to the main land. The Doctor was giving her a small history lesson. We made our way to Central Park and strolled around looking for Hooverville.
"Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the USA, came to power a year ago. Up till then New York was a boom town, the Roaring Twenties, and then…" the Doctor started explaining.
"The Wall Street Crash, yeah? When was that, 1929?" Martha asked.
"Yeah. Whole economy wiped out overnight. Thousands of people unemployed. Suddenly the huddled masses doubled in number with nowhere to go. So they ended up here in Central Park." He told her.
"What? They actually live in the park? In the middle of the city?" she asked in disbelief.
"When you have nowhere else to go, what do you do?" I asked her as we arrived at Hooverville. The large campsite was merely a collection of quickly put together shacks and tents with random fir barrels place throughout.
"Ordinary people. Lost their jobs. Couldn't pay the rent and they lost everything. There are places like this all over America. You only come to Hooverville when there's nowhere else to go." The Doctor told her. As we made our way through Hooverville we saw two men fighting over something.
"You thievin' lowlife!" the first man said before punching the second man. Two bystanders jumped in and tried breaking up the fight. "… loaf!" was all I understood the first man said.
"I didn't touch it!" the second man said. An older man stepped out of a tent and got between the two fighting men.
"Cut that out!" he ordered. The two men ignored him and kept fighting. "Cut that out! Right now!" he ordered again before pushing them apart.
"He stole my bread!" the first man told him.
"That's enough!" the older man shouted before looking at the second man. "Did you take it?"
"I don't know what happened. He just went crazy." The second man told him. The first man lunged at the second man but was held back.
"That's enough!" the older man demanded again as other residents of Hooverville wandered over to see what was happening. "Now think real careful before you lie to me."
"I'm starvin', Solomon." The second man said. The older man held out his hand and the man reached under his coat and pulled out a loaf of bread before handing it to the older man.
"We're all starvin'." He reminded them before braking the bread in half. "We all got families somewhere." He handed each half of the bread to both men. "No stealin' and no fightin'. You know the rules. Thirteen years ago I fought in the Great War. A lot of us did. And the only reason we got through was because we stuck together! No matter how bad things get, we still act like human beings. It's all we got." The men went their own way and we stood watching them separate.
"Come on." The Doctor said and we walked to the older man as he tried to warm up. "I suppose that makes you the boss around here."
"And, uh, who might you be?" he asked us.
"He's the Doctor. I'm Martha. She's the Hunter." Martha introduced us.
"A doctor and a hunter." He scoffed. "Well, we got, uh, stockbrokers, we got a lawyer, but you're the first doctor. Neighbourhood gets classier by the day and hunters are always welcome." He said.
"How many people live here?" Martha asked him.
"At any one time, hundreds. No place else to go. But I will say this about Hooverville. We are a truly equal society, black, white, all the same. All starving." He said before laughing. "So you're welcome. Both of you. But tell me, Doctor, you're a man of learning, right? Explain this to me." He told him before pointing to the Empire State Building. "That there's going to be the tallest building in the world. How come they can do that, and we got people starving in the heart of Manhattan?" he asked us before throwing coffee dregs onto the fire.
"So…men are going missing. Is this true?" the Doctor asked him holding up the newspaper we found at the Statue of Liberty.
"It's true all right." He told us before going inside his tent.
"But what does missing mean? Men must come and go here all the time. It's not like anyone's keeping a register." The Doctor said him.
"C'mon in." he told us as he sat on a stool. We entered the tent and sat down. "This is different."
"How so?" I asked him.
"Someone takes them. At night. We hear something. Someone calls out for help. By the time we get there, they're gone. Like they vanish into thin air." He told us.
"And you're sure someone's taking them?" the Doctor asked him.
"Doctor, when you got next to nothing, you hold on to the little you got. Your knife, blanket, you take it with you. You don't leave bread uneaten, fire still burning." He explained to us not knowing that no explanation was needed for us to understand what he meant.
"Have you been to the police?" Martha asked him.
"Yeah, we tried that. Another deadbeat goes missing, big deal." He said.
"So, the question is, who's taking them and what for?" the Doctor asked and looked at me.
"We're going to get involved aren't we?" I asked him and he grinned at me.
"Of course. You know me. Never could resist a goof mystery." He said and I sighed as a young man stuck his head inside the tent.
"Solomon, Mr. Diagoras is here." He told us. We all walked outside to where a man in a suit was talking to the men of Hooverville.
"I need men. Volunteers. I got a little work for you and you sure look like you can use the money." He told them.
"Yeah. What is the money?" the young man asked him.
"A dollar a day." Diagoras told him and the men grumbled around us.
"What's the work?" the older man asked.
"A little trip down the sewers. Got a tunnel that collapsed needs clearing and fixing. Any takers?" Diagoras asked.
"A dollar a day? That's slave wage. Men don't always come back up, do they?" he asked.
"Accidents happen." Diagoras said.
"What do you mean? What sort of accidents?" the Doctor asked him.
"You don't need the work? That's fine. Anybody else?" Diagoras asked looking around and the Doctor raised his hand. "Enough with the questions."
"Oh, n-n-no. I'm volunteering." He said grinning and I rolled my eyes before raising my hand as well.
"I'll kill you for this." Martha told him as she raised her hand.
"I've said that for over 900 years and I still haven't done it." I told her as Solomon and the young man also raised their hands.
"Turn left. Go about half a mile. Follow Tunnel 273. Fall's right ahead of you. You can't miss it." Diagoras told us as we entered the tunnel.
"And when do we get our dollar?" the young man, who we'd learned was named Frank, asked him.
"When you come back up." Diagoras told him.
"And if we don't come back up?" the Doctor asked him.
"Then I got no one to pay." Diagoras told him.
"We'll be back." Solomon told him.
"Let's hope so." Martha said and I gave her a look.
"You need to look on the brighter side of things." I told her before we started down the tunnel.
"We just gotta stick together. It's easy to get lost. It's like a huge rabbit warren. You could hide an army down here." Frank told us.
"So what about you, Frank? You're not from around these parts, are you?" Martha asked him.
"Oh, you could talk. No, no, I'm from Tennessee, born and bred." Frank told her.
"So how come you're here?" Martha asked him.
"Uh, my daddy died. Mama…couldn't afford to feed us all. So, I'm the oldest, up to me to feed myself, so put on my coat, hitched up here on the railroads. There's a whole lot of runaways in camp younger than me. From all over; Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas… Solomon keeps a lookout for us. So, what about you? You're a long way from home." Frank told her.
"Yeah, I'm just a hitcher too." She told him.
"You stick with me, you'll be all right." Frank told her giving her a small smile.
"So this Diagoras bloke, who is he then?" The Doctor asked Solomon behind me.
"A couple of months ago, he was just another foreman. Now it seems like he's running most of Manhattan." Solomon explained.
"How did he manage that, then?" the Doctor asked.
"These are strange times. A man can go from being King of the Hill to the lowest of the low overnight. It's just for some folks it works the other way 'round." Solomon explained.
"Whoa!" the Doctor said suddenly and we saw a blob lying on the ground giving off a sick green light.
"Is it radioactive or something?" Martha asked as the Doctor set down the torch given to him and crouched beside it. "It's gone off, whatever it is." She said covering her mouth. The Doctor slipped his glasses on and carefully picked up the slimly blob. "And you've got to pick it up."
"You lick that thing and I'm shooting you." I told him.
"Why would I lick it?" he asked me before sniffing it.
"Why would you taste blood?" I asked him remembering Christmas on the spaceship.
"Shine your torch through it." He told Martha ignoring my question and she did as she was told. "Composite organic matter. Martha? Medical opinion?"
"It's not human. I know that." She told him.
"Being obvious again." I told her.
"No, it's not. And I'll tell you something else. We must be at least half a mile in and I don't see any sign of a collapse, do you? So why did Mr Diagoras send up down here?" the Doctor asked as we looked around.
"So where are we now? What's above us?" Martha asked looking up.
"Well…we're right underneath Manhattan." The Doctor told her and we all looked up before we continued walking.
"We're way beyond half a mile. There's no collapse, nothing." Solomon said.
"That Diagoras bloke, was he lying?" Martha asked.
"Obviously." I said looking around.
"So why did he want people to come down here?" Frank asked.
"Solomon, I think it's time you took these two back. The Hunter and I'll be much quicker on our own." The Doctor told him before we heard squealing echoing in the tunnels.
"What the hell was that?" Solomon asked.
'Hello?!" Frank called out.
"Shh." Martha said trying to quiet him.
"Frank." Solomon said trying to silence him.
"What if it's one of the folk gone missing? You'd be scared, half-mad down here on your own." Frank told us.
"Do you think they're still alive?" the Doctor asked him.
"Heck, we ain't seen no bodies down here. Maybe they just got lost." Frank offered a pretty solution before we heard more squealing.
"I know I never heard nobody make a sound like that." Solomon said as the Doctor walked a little ahead of us.
"Sounds like there's more than one of 'em." Solomon said as we all looked around for the source of the squealing resonating around us.
"This way." The Doctor said.
"No, that way." Solomon said shinning his light down a different tunnel.
"Doctor. Hunter." The Doctor and I moved to her to see a figure crouching in the tunnel.
"Who are you?" Solomon asked it.
"Are you lost? Can you understand me? I've been thinkin' about folk lost…" Frank said as he started to move forward but the Doctor stopped him.
"It's all right, Frank. Just stay back. Let me have a look." The Doctor said before walking toward the figure. "He's got a point, though, my mate Frank. I'd hate to be stuck down here on my own." More creature squeals sounded around us. "We know the way out. Daylight. If you want to come with us." He squatted and shined a light on the figure's face revealing a pig man. "Oh, but what are you?"
"Is, uh, that some kind of carnival mask?" Solomon asked.
"No, it's real." The Doctor told him before focusing on the pig man. "I'm sorry. Now listen to me. I promise I can help." Shadows fell on the wall behind him. "Now, who did this to you?"
"Doctor, I think you'd better get back here." Martha called to him as I pulled out my gun as more pig men filled the opposite end of the tennel. "Doctor!"
"Time to move!" I told him.
"Good point." He said backing up towards us.
"They're following you." Martha pointed out.
"Yeah, I noticed that, thanks." He told her as he reached us. "Well then, Martha, Frank, Solomon…"
"What?" Martha asked him.
"Um, basically…run!" he ordered but none of us complained as we complied. We raced down the tunnel to a cross-section where Martha stopped in confusion.
"Where are we going?!" Martha asked.
"This way!" the Doctor said turning right with us right on his heels and with the pig men on ours. The Doctor suddenly skidded to a stop and turned back to the mouth of a joining tunnel. "There's a ladder!" the Doctor climbed the ladder and used the sonic on the lid.
"Go up!" I told Martha and Solomon who hesitated when we saw Frank pick up a metal rod to try and hold them off.
"Frank!" Solomon called out before climbing the ladder.
"Frank! Move it!" I called to him before following Solomon up. Eventually, Frank followed me up and Solomon and the Doctor reached down their hands.
"C'mon, Frank! C'mon!" Solomon called after him.
"I've got ya. C'mon!" the Doctor called to him. The pig men grabbed onto Frank as the Doctor and Solomon grabbed his hands and Frank screamed as they pulled him from the men's grasp and down into the sewer.
"Frank!" Solomon called out to him.
"No!" the Doctor shouted as the Pig men ripped Frank from him. Before the Doctor could go after him Solomon shoved him aside and closed the lid before one of the pig men climbed up to us.
"We can't go after him." Solomon told him.
"We gotta go back down! We can't just leave him!" the Doctor insisted.
"No, I'm not losing anybody else! Those creatures were from Hell! From Hell itself!" Solomon told him.
"Been there. Done that." I said to now one in particular and the Doctor gave me a look.
"If we go after them, they'll take us all! There's nothing we can do. I'm sorry." Solomon told us.
"All right then. Put 'em up." We turned to see a woman holding a gun at us. Martha slowly did as she was told. "Hands in the air and no funny business." She ordered waving the gun at us and the three of us did as we were told and I was forced to hand my gun over to her. "Now tell me, you schmucks, what've you done with Lazlo?"
"Uh, who's Lazlo?" Martha asked her.
"Lazlo's my boyfriend," the woman told us in her dressing room my gun on her dressing table while her gun was still pointed at us. "Or was my boyfriend until two weeks ago. No letter, no good-bye, no nothin'. And I'm not stupid." She said waving the gun around as she spoke. "I know some guys are just pigs but not my Lazlo. I mean, what kinda guy asks you to meet his mother before he vamooses?"
"It might, might just help if you put that down." The Doctor told her motioning to the gun in her hand.
"Huh?" she asked him before remembering the gun in her hand. "Oh, sure." She tossed the gun on some clothes and we all tensed. "Oh, c'mon. It's not real. It's just a prop. It was either that or a spear."
"What do you think happened to Lazlo?" Martha asked her.
"I wish I knew. One minute he's there, the next, zip—vanished." She said putting make up on her face.
"Listen, ah—what's your name?" the Doctor asked her.
"Tallulah." She said raising her finger in the air.
"Tallulah." He repeated.
"3 Ls and an H." she told him.
"Right. Um, we can try to find Lazlo, but he's not the only one. There are people disappearing every night." The Doctor explained to her.
"And there are creatures. Such creatures." Solomon said.
"Whaddaya mean "creatures"?" she asked him.
"Look. Listen, just trust me. Everyone is in danger. I need to find out exactly what this is," he removed the blob from his pocket and showed it to her, "because then I'll know exactly what we're fighting."
"Yech!" Tallulah said leaning back from the blob thing.
In the props room, the Doctor, Solomon and I were scavenging for pieces of equipment for the Doctor to use to find out what we were dealing with.
"How about this?" Solomon asked holding up a radio. "I found it backstage."
"Perfect." The Doctor said taking it before ripping it open. "It's the capacitors I need. I'm just rigging up a crude little DNA scan for this beastie. If I can get a chromosomal reading, I'll find out where it's from." The explained before using the sonic on the radio's insides.
"How about you, Doctor? Where are you from? I've been all over. I've never heard anybody talk like you or the Hunter. Just exactly who are you?" he asked looking the two of us over as the Doctor took out a piece from the radio and blew on it.
"Oh, we're just sort of passing by." The Doctor told him.
"I'm not a fool, Doctor." Solomon told him.
"No. Sorry." The Doctor said and I watched as Solomon walked over to the sewer lid and looked down at it.
"I was so scared, Doctor. I let them take Frank 'cause I was just too scared. I gotta get back to Hooverville. With these creatures on the loose, we gotta protect ourselves. Ain't no one else gonna help us."
"Good luck." The Doctor called after him.
"I hope you find what you're looking for. For all our sakes." Solomon told him.
"We always do." I told him and he nodded to us before he left. We gathered the last of our supplies, and my gun, before we made our way to an empty balcony with the blob hooked up to our hand-made scanner. I set the beam from one of the stage lights to shine directly on it.
"That's it." The Doctor told me and I stopped moving the stage light before joining him. "Let's warm you up." He put on his glasses on and we started to examine it.
"This is artificial." He told me as we heard the announcer over the speaker.
"Ladies and gentlemen…"
"Genetically engineered. Whoever this is, oh, you're clever." He said.
"….with Heaven and Hell!" the announcer called out. The Doctor put his stethoscope on the blob and listened for a moment.
"Fundamental DNA type 467-989. 989. Hold on, that means planet of origin." She said thinking about what planet it could mean.
"You have got to be kidding me!" I shouted at no one. "It's Skaro." I told him before we rushed off to find Martha backstage.
"Where is she? Where's Martha?" the Doctor asked Tallulah once we found her.
"I don't know. She ran off the stage." She told us before we heard Martha scream. We ran in the direction she screamed and entered the prop room, but we still couldn't find her.
"Martha!" the Doctor and I called for her, trying to find her before I noticed the sewer lid was crooked.
"Doctor!" I called to him and he quickly joined me. He put his coat back on before we started going down into the sewer.
"Oh, where are you goin'?" Tallulah asked him.
"They've taken her." The Doctor told her as he climbed down.
"Who's taken her?" she asked him as I followed him down. "What're y' doin'? I said, what the hell are ya doin'? Crazy guy."
"No, no, no, no, no way. You're not coming." The Doctor said and I looked back at the ladder to see Tallulah joining us.
"Tell me what's going on." She ordered.
"There's nothing you can do. Go back." He ordered her.
"Look, whoever's taken Martha, they could've taken Lazlo, couldn't they?" she asked him.
"Yes." I answered and the Doctor threw me another look.
"Tallulah, you're not safe down here." He told her.
"Then that's my problem. Come on. Which way?" Tallulah asked walking down a tunnel to the left.
"She's just going to get lost down here if we don't let her come with us." I told him and he sighed.
"This way." He called to her and we heard her following us down the tunnel in front of us.
"When you say "They've taken her", who's they exactly? And who are you anyway? I never asked." Tallulah babbled.
"Shh." The Doctor quieted her, listening to what was going on around us.
"Okay. Okay." She said.
"Shh, shh, shh." He tried again. In the weak light of the tunnel in front of us a shadow was approaching slowly.
"I mean you're handsome and all—" the Doctor put his hand over her mouth and pulled her back down the tunnel into a recess with me right behind them. The Dalek passed by without seeing them quietly.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no. They survived. They always survive while we lose everything." He said and I held his hand trying to force myself not to go after it.
"That metal thing? What was it?" Tallulah asked him.
"It's called a Dalek. And it's not just metal, it's alive." I told her getting my gun ready in case we ran across one again.
"You're kidding me." She laughed at us.
"Does it look like I'm kidding?" I asked her as I placed my gun into its holster.
"Inside that shell is a creature born to hate, whose only thought is to destroy everything and everyone that isn't a Dalek too. It won't stop until it's killed every human being alive." The Doctor told her.
"But if it's not a human being, that kinda implies it's from outer space." Tallulah said and the Doctor and I gave her a look. "Yet again, that's a "no" with the kidding. Boy… Well, what's it doin' here, in New York?" she asked and the Doctor pulled Tallulah by the arm and gave her a stern look.
"Every second you're down here, you're in danger. I'm taking you back right now." He told her and we turned a corner to see a pig man hiding his face from us. Tallulah screamed and the pig man tried to hide even more from us. "Where's Martha?" the Doctor asked approaching the Pig man. "What have you done with her? What have you done with Martha?"
"I didn't take her." The Pig man told us and the Doctor and I gave each other a curious look.
"Can you remember your name?" the Doctor asked him.
"Don't look at me." The Pig man told us.
"Do you know where she is?" Tallulah asked him.
"Stay back! Don't look at me!" the Pig man shouted at her.
"What happened to you?" the Doctor asked him.
"They made me a monster." He told us.
"Who did?" I asked him.
"The masters." He answered.
"The Daleks." I corrected.
"Why?" the Doctor asked.
"They needed slaves. They needed slaves to steal more people so they created us. Part animal, part human. I escaped before they got my mind, but it was still too late." He told us.
"Do you know what happened to Martha?" the Doctor asked him.
"They took her. It's my fault. She was following me." He told us.
"Were you in the theatre?" Tallulah asked him.
"Yes." He answered after a slight pause.
"Why? Why were you there?" she asked him.
"I never wanted you to see me like this." He told her.
"Why me? What do I gotta do with this? Were you following me? Is that why you were there?" she continued to ask him. The Pig man turned to face her.
"Yes." The Pig man said.
"Who are you?" Tallulah asked him.
"I was lonely." He told her.
"Who are you?" she asked him again.
"I needed to see you." He told her.
"Who are you?" she asked coming closer to the three of us.
"I'm sorry." He said before turning away from her.
"No, wait." She grabbed his arm and moved in front of him. "Let me look at you." She placed him under the light and took a good look at his face. He wasn't like the other pig men. His ears and nose were that of a pig as well as two fangs sticking up from his bottom lip but the rest was that of a man. "Lazlo?" she asked and he nodded. "My Lazlo? Oh, what have they done to you?" she asked fixing his collar with her voice breaking.
"I'm sorry. So sorry." Lazlo said to her.
"Lazlo, can you show me where they are?" the Doctor asked him softly.
"They'll kill you." Lazlo warned.
"If we don't stop them, they'll kill everyone." The Doctor also told him.
"Then follow me." Lazlo led us through the tunnels and took us to where a group of Pig men were holding humans including Martha and Frank. I smiled softly that they were safe and the pig men started squealing nervously.
"What're they doing? What's wrong? What's wrong?" Frank asked before a Dalek glided into the tunnel.
"Silence. Silence." It ordered and Lazlo ducked back out of sight.
"What the hell is that?" Martha asked.
"You will form a line. Move." The Dalek ordered and the Pig men pushed everyone into line.
"Just do what it says, everyone, okay? Just obey." Martha told them.
"The female is wise. Obey!" the Dalek ordered as a second Dalek arrived.
"Report." The second Dalek ordered.
"These are strong specimens. They will help the Dalek cause." The first said. "What is the status of the Final Experiment?"
"Final Experiment?" I asked quietly.
"The Dalekanium is in place. The energy conductor is now complete." The second Dalek told the first.
"Then I will extract prisoners for selection." The first said as a Pig man brought an older black man forward. The Dalek extended his sucker towards the man's face and stopped shortly before engulfing it. "Intelligence scan. Initiate. Reading brain waves. Low intelligence."
"You calling me stupid?" the man asked him.
"This one will become a pig slave." The Dalek said and two Pig men pulled him away.
"No, let go of me! I'm not becoming one of them!" the man called out as the Pig men dragged him away and the Dalek moved to the next in line.
"Intelligence scan. Initiate." The Dalek said.
"They're divided into two groups: high intelligence and low intelligence. The low intelligence are taken to become pig slaves like me." Lazlo told us.
"Well, that's not fair." Tallulah said loudly.
"Shh." The Doctor quieted her so we wouldn't be found.
"You're the smartest guy I ever dated." She whispered to him.
"And the others?" the Doctor asked Lazlo ignoring Tallulah.
"They're taken to the laboratory." He told us.
"But why? What for?" the Doctor asked him.
"I don't know. The masters only call it the Final…Experiment." He told us as we watched the Dalek scanning Frank.
"Superior intelligence." The Dalek turned to Martha. "Intelligence scan. Initiate. Superior intelligence. This one will become part of the Final Experiment."
"You can't just experiment on people! It's insane! It's inhuman!" Martha said struggling against the Pig man holding her.
"We are not human. Prisoners of high intelligence will be taken to the transgenic laboratory." The Dalek ordered.
"Look out, they're moving!" the Doctor said before flattening ourselves against the wall. Lazlo took Tallulah and headed down the tunnel.
"Doctor. Hunter! Quickly!" Lazlo called to the two of us.
"I'm not going. I've got an idea. You go." The Doctor told them and we waited for Martha to come closer to us. Lazlo soon rejoined us as the Daleks passed us by soon followed by Martha and Frank. The Doctor and I acted like prisoners while Lazlo acted like one of our guards.
"Just keep walking." The Doctor told Martha and Frank as we followed behind them.
"I'm so glad to see you two." Martha said while looking at us.
"Yeah, well, you can kiss me later. You too, Frank, if you want." The Doctor told them.
"I wouldn't. I got my gun back." I warned as we were taken to some kind of lab.
"Report." The first Dalek ordered.
"Dalek Sec is in the final stage of evolution." A third Dalek said.
"Scan him. Prepare for birth." The first Dalek ordered.
"Evolution?" the Doctor asked.
"What birth are they talking about?" I asked.
"What's wrong with old Charlie boy over there?" Martha asked us.
"Ask them." The Doctor told her.
"What me? Don't be daft." She told him.
"We don't exactly want to get noticed." He told her.
"We can't be noticed, Martha. Just ask them what's going on." I told her. She took a deep breath and stepped out for them to see her.
"Daleks, I demand to be told. What is this Final Experiment? Report!" she demanded.
"You will bear witness." The Dalek told her.
"To what?" she asked him.
"This is the dawn of a new age." It answered.
"What does that mean?" Martha asked.
"We are the only four Daleks so the species must evolve a life outside the shell. The Children of Skaro must walk again." It said. The black Dalek's shell powered down and the casing opened once again to reveal a human-dalek hybrid. The clothing was unmistakably that of Diagoras. The head was similar to a Dalek body with mouth, one eye, and tentacles. The hands are almost claw-like.
"What is it?" Martha asked.
"I am a human Dalek. I am your future." Dalek Sec said slowly.