Zuri's back!
Zuri spent another month in that time period, and she and the Doctor spent a lot of that time in the TARDIS. Watching the entire original Star Trek series in the theater room, racing in the swimming pool, she even convinced him to read aloud in Greek.
But the day finally came when she jumped again and was surprised to find herself back in the room where Dalek Sec and Diagoras had fused together. It was like she had never left.
The Daleks were too distracted with the transformation to notice her jumping through time it seemed, but the Doctor did. His eyes widened as she reappeared, but she waved a hand to show she was fine. He nodded and ducked behind some machinery.
"Prepare them for hybridization," Sec spoke, drawing her eyes back to the scene before her.
The pig slaves began to converge on Zuri, Martha, Frank, and the other prisoners deemed intelligent enough for hybridization.
"Leave me alone! Don't you dare!" Martha was shouting as the ring of humans squished as close together as possible.
Then music began to play, and everyone froze.
"Is that... Happy Days are Here Again?" Zuri asked, but everyone was too busy looking for the source to answer her.
"What is that sound?" Sec asked the room.
The Doctor stepped out, a radio in hand. "That would be me."
He set down the radio. "Hello, surprise, boo, et cetera..."
"Doctor." The Daleks aimed their laser arms at him.
"The enemy of the Daleks."
"Exterminate."
"Wait." Sec held up his hand.
"Well then." The Doctor stepped forward. "A new form of Dalek. Fascinating and very clever."
Zuri shifted her weight and angled her body to keep an eye on the pigmen.
"The Cult of Skaro escaped your slaughter." Sec continued.
"How did you end up in nineteen thirty?"
"Emergency Temporal Shift."
The Doctor scoffed. "Oh, that must have roasted up your power cells, yeah?" He wandered around the room. "Time was, four Daleks could have conquered the world, but instead you're skulking away, hidden in the dark, experimenting. All of which results in you."
"I am Dalek in human form," Sec stated.
Zuri pushed through the crowd then. "What does it feel like?"
The Daleks turned to her and began to scream.
"Alert! Alert! The Rebel is here!"
The Doctor fought for their attention. "No no no! Talk to me, talk to me Dalek Sec. Cause that's your name isn't it? You've got a name and mind of your own. Tell me what you're thinking right now."
"We will deal with the Rebel later," Sec ordered the three remaining Daleks, turning back to the Doctor. "I feel- humanity."
"Good, that's good." The Doctor nodded.
"I feel- everything we wanted from mankind. Ambition, hatred, aggression, and war. Such... a genius for war."
"Got the wrong idea of humanity." Zuri sighed.
"No," the Doctor agreed. "That's not what humanity means."
"I think it does," Sec argued. "At it's heart, this species is so very... Dalek."
"Alright," the Doctor moved the conversation along. "So what have you achieved then? With this Final Experiment, eh? Nothing! 'Cause I can show you what you're missing with this thing."
He pointed to the radio and patted it. "Simple little radio."
One of the Daleks turned. "What is the purpose of this device?"
"Well exactly. It plays music. What's the point of that? Oh, with music, you can dance to it, sing to it, fall in love with it. Unless you're a Dalek of course. Then it's just noise." He pointed the sonic screwdriver at the radio and a loud high pitched wail came from it.
Dalek Sec grabbed his head as the other Daleks twitched erratically.
The prisoners all followed the Doctor as he shouted to run, grabbing Zuri's hand and dragging her close behind him.
She could hear the Daleks recovering behind them as they ran, screeching for the pigmen to protect the Hybrid, and to find the Doctor and Rebel.
They eventually made it out of the sewers and returned to Hooverville to warn Solomon and the others.
"These Daleks," Solomon scratched his chin. "They sound like the stuff of nightmares. And they wanna breed?"
Zuri shivered. "They are blending with human bodies, taking over them."
"If I'm right," the Doctor nodded in agreement. "They've got a farm of stock right here in Hooverville. We've got to get everyone out."
"Hooverville is the lowest place a man can fall. There's nowhere else to go."
"I'm sorry Solomon, you've got to scatter. Go anywhere. Down to the railroads, travel across the state, just get out of New York."
"There's got to be a way to reason with these things." Solomon insisted.
"There's not a chance." Martha informed him.
"You ain't seen 'em, boss," Frank added.
All conversation was interrupted by shouts. "They're coming! They're coming!"
There was a flurry of activity as men grabbed for weapons; guns, sticks, anything they could swing to defend themselves. Zuri knew it would be for nothing, and was trying to convince the scared not to run. They would only be caught by the pig slaves surrounding the camp.
Soon the survivors were circled up in the center of camp, guns pointed outward at the pig men.
"If we can just hold them off until daylight." Martha hoped.
Zuri patted her arm. "They aren't the problem." She pointed up in the sky where a Dalek was hovering closer by the second.
Frank fired on the Dalek, but his bullets did nothing. The Dalek returned fire, strafing the camp and starting multiple fires and explosions.
"Leave them alone! They've done nothing to you!" The Doctor shouted.
"We have located the Doctor!" the Dalek screamed.
Zuri was frantically putting out a fire with one of the townsmen when she saw Solomon trying to reason with the Dalek. She turned to try and push him out of the way, but was too slow, and the Dalek shot him.
The Doctor was pissed. "Daleks!"
He marched forward, arms held open wide. "All right, so it's my turn then! Kill me! Kill me if it will stop you attacking these people!"
The Dalek turned. "I will be the destroyer of our greatest enemy!" It seemed to take morbid delight in the idea.
"Then do it!" The Doctor shouted in return. "Do it!"
"Extermina-" The Dalek cut itself off. "I do not understand. It is the Doctor?...The urge to kill is too strong...I- obey."
"What's going on?" The Doctor questioned.
"It is arguing with Dalek Sec," Zuri whispered. "He wants you alive."
"You will follow. The Rebel will follow." The Dalek commanded.
The Doctor stepped forwards, then had a brief argument with Martha, slipping the psychic paper in her hand, before demanding that the townspeople be spared or he would not follow.
"The humans will be spared. Follow."
Zuri caught the Doctors hand as they were escorted out of camp.
"You're explaining this whole Rebel business later."
"Yes, Ma'am."