Chapter Eight: The Request

"Caitlin?" The Doctor said. "How did you--?"

"Doctor, that's not Caitlin."

"Help us!" she said again. "These creatures are relentless!"

"Am I talking to the Speed Force?" Barry asked.

"They are too powerful. There are too many of them. Save us!"

She disappeared in front of their eyes.

"Doctor, the Speed Force is very much in danger. How many of these creatures are in existence?" Barry asked.

"Too many," The Doctor growled. "If they are causing that much trouble in here, what are they doing out in the real world?! Oh, right, we're outside of time."

Barry nodded. "But that doesn't mean we shouldn't get out there and help. I just, I can't leave now. If I leave, while the Speed Force is already in danger, I fear it would collapse, as well as the Earth, and maybe even the entire universe! Who do the Daleks work for?"

"They work for themselves as far as I know," The Doctor said. "I don't see any team up ending well for the other party involved."

"Maybe you should go back to our reality," Barry said.

The Doctor interrupted him. "SHHHH. Do you hear that?!"

They walked a little ways, toward a noise. Something was in pain. But it wasn't the Speed Force.

They looked closer and saw busted up metal along the ground. It looked like pieces of a Dalek. And next to the shell was a squid like creature.

"That, is the true form of a Dalek," The Doctor said to Barry. "I think this one has been defeated."

"Doctor." It called them close. "Doctor, come look at me. Look at defeat. Because you will be defeated by us. You will be exterminated!" It tried to yell, "EXTERMINATE!"

"Is that all you've got?" The Doctor laughed. "You have been defeated, like you always have been, always will be. Defeat looks good on you, Dalek!"

"It looks better on the Timelords."

The Doctor looked at the Dalek, and sternly said, "Are you working for someone? How did you get in here?"

"Yes, I'll tell you how you're going to be defeated. Back on Earth, you tried defeating us. We always get away. Last time, when we stole the Earth, and the other planets, you thought you and all of your companions had 'saved the day'. I knew we faced defeat. So I slipped away while you all were talking. I slipped away. You did not defeat us, Doctor, neither of you did. None of your friends. You thought you had won, but that is as it should be. I found my way back to Earth with the help of my new friend with the red eyes."

The Doctor sneered. "You lost your leader in that fight so you immediately look for another one. If Davros could see you now!"

"Do not speak his name. I no longer report to him."

"Good. Because he is, in fact, gone," The Doctor said.

"Enough!" the Dalek tried to scream. "The man with the red eyes. He spoke to me. He saved me. And the hatred in his eyes was so beautiful. So I told him about the Daleks. And our plan to exterminate!" He looked at Barry, and said, "He looked like you."

Barry gasped.

"What is it, Barry?" The Doctor asked. "Who is he talking about?"

"Doctor, I have a request," the Dalek laughed, as only a Dalek could. "I request that, when you die, you stay dead this time. The Daleks are superior, and we... will... prevail... forever..."

With that, the Dalek died.

Barry, troubled, looked at The Doctor. "Doctor, your Daleks have teamed up with my most dangerous enemy. We are in more danger now than either of us have ever been in before. Doctor, the man he described, who the Daleks have teamed up with, is Eobard Thawne. The Reverse Flash!"