Wanderer of Time: Darkness Within

by Tinker16

The powers within have been steadily growing, buying time until the moment of remembrance. The moment swiftly approaches. Wanda's fears are coming to a head as she realizes what has been living inside her has only one purpose in the universe. And it holds no qualms in destroying any who gets in its way, even those who Wanda loves. (Part Three of the Wanderer of Time trilogy)

31. Ch 31: A Twisted Mind

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Chapter 31: A Twisted Mind

Then, after a few moments of Alpha being gone, everyone sort of erupted into worried babbling.

"That's it. I'm sorry, but we need to get back to our world," Pete said to the others, trying to get everyone turned around and back to a safer place. "This world was already sunk, and clearly it was going down even more with that girl on the loose. God forbid if she tried getting back through the Breach."

"I agree. Time to abandon ship," Jake added in, beginning to follow his fellows back towards the inner building of Torchwood.

"I don't understand, what happened to Wanda? What's going on?" Jackie spoke up, completely baffled and lost to what was happening to the Time Lady.

"I think she lost it," Mickey muttered to the mother. "The Daleks and Cybermen made her snap."

"She hasn't lost it, Mickey," Rose argued in defense of Wanda. "That wasn't even her. You heard what happened. That was that . . . that thing that took over Wanda." Pete suddenly walked over to Jackie who had been about to question Rose on the circumstances that had occurred down in the lower levels of Torchwood. He grabbed the mother's hand, placing a yellow disc into her palm.

"Jacks, take this. You're coming with us," Pete instructed the woman. Jackie blinked in shock and surprise.

"What? I can't leave now," Jackie argued, pointing out towards the city. "Those Cybermen are hurting people, and I need to be here for my daughter and her friends. What if they get hurt, too?"

"I'd forgotten you could argue," Pete responded, giving the woman a fond smile. He grabbed the yellow disc back and placed the long chain it had around Jackie's neck. "Look, we tried the best we could in stopping the Cybermen, and now with that raging girl on the loose, this world's going to crash and burn. There's nothing we can do. But there's another world just waiting for you, Jacks. And it's safe as long as the Doctor closes the Breach."

"You're not taking my mother anywhere," Rose suddenly argued, reaching forward and yanking off the device from her mother. She then shoved the yellow disc back into Pete's hand, giving him a stern look. "You're not leaving, either. Not until we've gotten Wanda back."

"We found the girl like the Doctor wanted, but you heard what she said. She doesn't want to be found," Pete retorted. "She's a raving lunatic."

"Don't you say that about her!" snapped Rose. "And I know the Doctor. He won't do anything for you as long as Wanda is in danger. Right, Doctor?" She turned, blinking when seeing the Time Lord was now crouching on the ground, gripping at his head. "Doctor?"

The Doctor did not hear any of them as he merely felt almost panicked. Like someone had forced him to become greatly unbalanced and unnerved. Similar emotions that he had experienced and fought against after the Time War swept over him. It was his Ninth self all over again as he did not see his surroundings at all. Only the visions in his head. The images of seeing Wanda staring at him in fear played through his mind over and over again. He watched himself reaching out to her, only wishing to comfort her and hold her close. But then she would turn and flee, leaving him there screaming her name in desperation. Pleading for her to come back and not be afraid of him. But she was too far away. He could not reach her. She vanished from his life . . . forever.

"Doctor, snap out of it!"

He blinked when he felt someone giving his face a sharp smack. Staring to see Rose crouched down right in front of him and pulling his hands away from his head. He could only wonder when he had gotten on the ground.

"Come on. Pull yourself together," Rose ordered, pulling him up to stand next to her.

"Sorry," muttered the Doctor, rubbing a hand over his face as he tired riding himself of those damn images. Slowly moving his hand face his face, he saw how edgy everyone was. Each of them held an expression of high anxiety and worriment.

"Doctor, we need to figure out what to do," Rose said to him, chewing on her bottom lip slightly as her anxiety was running on a rampage through her. "How are we going to get Wanda back?"

"We're not. There's no stopping that thing," Pete spoke up. He turned his gaze fully to the Time Lord. "Doctor, we're going back to our world. We need you to close the Breach." The Doctor shot the man a look of annoyance. Of course, leave when others are in need while saving themselves instead. Typical human behaviour.

"We had a deal, Pete," the Doctor spoke in a curt and strict voice. "I'm not closing the Breach until I get Wanda back. And besides, I can't close it without her. I need her help if I'm going to be able to put a stop to it and the Cybermen." Pete and the others tried to argue against this, but the Doctor held up his finger, shushing them. "Ssh, I need to think." He began pacing, letting his mind rapidly form ideas on the situation, going over what he had witnessed with Alpha. Her behaviour, her actions, her words, everything. "Rose, I need you to tell me what exactly happened when Alpha was brought up from the Daleks. What did she do or say?"

"Well, she was pretty livid at the Daleks," Rose began to explain. "She . . . kept going on about something they did to her. I'm not sure I understood most of it. She and they kept saying that . . . they created her as a weapon for war or something. Then she turned the Genesis Ark into dust, and then Rajesh when he touched her. She acted like . . . he was beneath her and someone that should never touch her. When I tried calming her down, she basically pushed me away and said to stay away from her, too." Rose's eyes dimmed as she shivered. "I kept seeing Wanda in pain the more Alpha grew angry, so I backed off, hoping that she wouldn't hurt Wanda." The Doctor hummed at this mentioning, looking at Mickey.

"What about you, Mickey? You see anything strange running through your head?" asked the Time Lord.

"Yeah. I saw Rose dying if I let her get near Alpha, so I kept us back. Just in case," replied Mickey. The Doctor frowned in thought, looking at the others.

"And what about the rest of you? Any strange visions going through your heads?" he questioned them.

"My world falling apart if I don't retreat," Pete muttered.

"Same as him," Jake nodded at the older man next to him.

"Rose dying if I don't stay here," Jackie mumbled, wishing to have Rose in her arms this very second. Observing the humans, seeing how they reacted to the visions the spoke of, it sparked a thought of interest through the Time Lord's mind.

"We're all feeling pretty frightened and panicked now, aren't we?" the Doctor said, raising a brow as he found it highly interesting how similar all of their visions were. Like a warning had been pushed through their minds. Either they stay back, or face the consequences of their deepest fears from Alpha. It was not unusual for people during troubling and frightening times to have thoughts of their fears going through their minds. But for them all to have visions going through their heads all at once?

"Well, yeah. Anyone would when the world's falling to pieces," grumbled Pete.

The Doctor shook his head, replying, "No, but it's more than that. Think about it. Those emotions bubbling away. They didn't really start until—."

"Until Alpha came out, lashing at us," Rose finished his statement, eyes widening as she realized her earlier sensation of fear and terror had died down somewhat now that Alpha was gone. Sure, there was still the fears of the day with the Cybermen on the large. But that was normal in the light of things.

"Exactly," the Doctor nodded. He began pacing in front of them while rambling on. "She likes to think of herself as a wolf 'cause maybe she is in a way. She's like a wild animal acting on primal needs. And what do wild animals do when they feel threatened? They make themselves into a bigger threat. They puff up, lash out, get anything else to back off as they retreat."

"Remember, on that Sanctuary Base, the Beast did the same thing," Rose spoke up, gaining the Doctor's attention. "He pushed fear onto us all."

"But that was his way on working to control us," the Doctor countered, shaking his head. "No, this is different. She's not trying to gain power like the Beast was. She's using our fears for making us back down and leave her be. She doesn't want to have power and control. She already has that. It seems now she only wants to be left alone."

"So you're saying she's sort of implanting those fears into us or something?" questioned Mickey. "Well, she doesn't exactly need to do that. She's plenty threatening on her own with those powers of hers."

"But that's just it. She has all that power, why not just use it to scare us? Why implant our own personal fears?" the Doctor muttered, stopping in his pacing to think. Then, it dawned on him. "Unless . . . it's not enough. She knows something that we don't. But what?" Rose frowned as she tried thinking that over as well.

"You know, when I had gotten close to her, she could have just killed me," commented the companion. "But instead she pushed me and said that I needed to stay away from her. For my own good, basically. Then she didn't kill my Mum when she had the chance. She even saved Mum from the Cybermen." Rose gasped when a thought occurred to her. "Doctor, this is like when Cassandra took over Wanda. What if Wanda is still aware like she was then? She might even be trying to fight Alpha's control." Thinking over on what Rose had said, it seemed almost logical to the Doctor. It was a similar situation to that of what happened on New Earth. But at the same time . . . Something was not quite right with this particular situation at hand.

"She might be. We won't know until we find her again," the Doctor replied in a mutter. Turning around, he began marching onward towards the screaming city. "Pete: you, Jackie, and the rest of your lot stay here. Guard the place and make sure no more Cybermen get into the building. Rose and Mickey, you're with me." As the rest lingered behind, Rose and Mickey jogged after the Time Lord, catching up with him.

"What's the plan, boss?" Mickey asked.

"The plan is to get Wanda back," the Doctor replied easily. "How? No clue. But I have a theory and that's as good as we need right now."

"But how can we find her in the panicking city? She could be anywhere by now," Rose pointed out. The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver, adjusting it to the right setting.

"Alpha still has Wanda's screwdriver on her. That means I can track her," the Doctor explained, giving Rose a meek side glance when seeing the suspicious gaze of the companion. "I might have, sort of, placed in a tracking ability on Wanda's sonic after that Christmas dinner when she wasn't looking. Didn't want another . . . Second Wanda incidence to occur. Just—Just in case she might be hurt somewhere and I needed to find her quick." He saw the disproving look from Rose in the corner of his eye.

"You know she isn't going to like that once she finds out," scolded the companion sternly.

"It was just for emergencies like this," the Doctor countered in a grumble. The sonic in his hand began rapidly beeping, alerting them to Alpha's location. "Quick. We need to catch up with her." They then took off running.

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They ended up having to sneak around as they came across more and more Cybermen. As well as more and more destruction of the city. It seemed that the Cybermen had done a number on the city. Buildings were crumbling in places, sidewalks were cracked all over, trees had been ripped up from their roots. There was even a tower from a large church that had fallen over onto the street, blocking much of the pathway. It made it somewhat difficult to sneak around all the rubble.

Not that the Cybermen made travelling across the city any easier. The metal men were everywhere. Grabbing people, lining them up in the streets or on the walkways. Friends, families, children, they were all there and being pushed around by the Cybermen. The trio hid behind a corner of a building, watching cautiously of the large scene of the Cybermen and the terrified people.

"Do you see her?" Rose asked the Doctor, keeping her voice hushed in case of the Cybermen hearing.

"Why would she in the middle of all this?" questioned Mickey, keeping his voice low as well.

"I don't know. And I don't see her yet. The sonic says she's nearby," whispered the Doctor in response. He glanced down at his screwdriver, hearing it beep in an indication that it was sensing the tracker on Wanda's sonic right down the street.

"Unless she ditched Wanda's sonic somewhere in that mess," grumbled Mickey. The Doctor felt a fearful twinge go through him at that thought. He could only hope that Alpha did not think that far ahead as to dropping off the sonic screwdriver somewhere, leaving them unable to find her or Wanda ever again.

The trio was alerted when a commotion broke out down the street. They watched as a little girl had broken away from the crowd and was trying to run back across the street to where her mother was in a separate group of people the Cybermen had gathered. The child then tripped and fell onto the blacktop of the street. Two Cybermen stomped towards the girl, pointing their weapons at her. The girl began to cry in fear.

"No! Please, don't hurt her! She's just a child!" screamed the mother on the other side of the road, pleading to the Cybermen. The trio down the street, still hiding behind the corner, watched as some men held the hysterical mother back from the advancing Cybermen.

"Mummy!" the girl yelled as the Cybermen began to chant 'delete.' The Doctor was about to step around and order the Cybermen to back down, knowing that he would have to possibly fight the metal beings off once they realized he was there, but he halted in his step at what he saw next.

It was either a quick white flash or a blur of blonde. He was not sure, but it was a very quick movement of Alpha suddenly appearing next to the girl. In fact, Alpha was standing in front of the girl at a low crouch, giving off a vicious snarl as she snapped her teeth at the Cybermen. The metal men fired their weapons at her, but the beams only seemed to go around her and fire into the ground as if there was some sort of bubble protecting her and the child. Then, Alpha was on them in a flash. More Cybermen began firing and some people ran screaming as Alpha began literally ripping one Cyberman apart with her bare hands. Even using her teeth as she ripped into its throat. The Cyberman was heard screaming as if in pain. After that one was done for, Alpha leaped onto the next and the next in a rapid blurry motion, tearing them to pieces.

Soon all Cybermen were finished, lying scattered around in broken parts. Alpha was seen breathing in and out in huffing pants with different liquids dripping on her from the fluids that had been inside the robotic beings. She turned to the child, staring down at the little girl, her eyes glowing white and a metal piece still clenched in her teeth tightly. The little girl whimpered, flinching away at the frightening sight of Alpha. The mother across the street, one of the only people who remained behind, began running to her child. But she yelled in dismay when Alpha swiftly picked up the child and took off with the girl in her arms. The Doctor, Rose, and Mickey then hurriedly ran after the retreating blonde, hoping to catch up.

"Don't worry, we'll get your daughter back," Rose assured the mother as they ran past her. The trio continued on, going down a back alleyway which Alpha had retreated. The blonde had managed to sort of corner herself within a dead end. She turned, glaring at the trio as they stopped a few feet away, warily staring at her.

"Alpha, let her go," the Doctor said evenly, trying to keep Alpha from hurting the little girl.

He found it odd how the blonde seemed so . . . protective of the child. Was it some kind of instinct or something? He knew how defensive Wanda was of children. Maybe some of that leaked over to Alpha? He watched Alpha glare darkly at him, spitting out the metal piece that had been clenched in her mouth. He noticed how cut up her body was now from tearing into the Cybermen. Why had she attacked them in such a way? It had been an unnecessary use of strength. Had Alpha merely acted upon instinct and did not let herself think on another, much simpler, form of attack? With such power of turning others to dust, why even use such brute force?

"No. She's safer with me," retorted the blonde to the Doctor's statement, holding the child tighter. The little girl began to squirm within Alpha's grasp, tearing up in pure fear from the blonde woman.

"I want my mummy," cried the child in terror.

"Shut up!" Alpha yelled at her. The child whimpered, struggling even more to get away. Alpha growled deeply in anger. "Fine! Go to your stupid and pathetic life!" She threw the child onto the ground and watched as the little girl ran off to go find her mother. Mickey went with the child to make certain she arrived back to her mother safely while Rose and the Doctor remained behind to stare cautiously at Alpha. She rolled her eyes at them. "You other creatures and your need to keep everyone 'alive.' Don't you realize everything will be better off dead. And didn't I tell you to not follow me! You never listen! You never SHUT UP!"

They watched as she began banging on her own head, muttering in rapid pace under her breath as she rocked on her feet in an unsteady manner. Both Rose and the Doctor glanced at each other, beginning to wonder if something were wrong with Alpha. Well, more wrong than they had already seen first-hand. Mickey came jogging back over to join them having finished reuniting the mother and daughter together. He was about to open his mouth to question on what was happening when he was interrupted.

"SHUT UP! Why do none of you ever SHUT UP?!" screamed Alpha in rage. She panted heavily through her teeth as she glared at them. The Doctor raised a brow, eyeing her calmly.

"We didn't say anything," he remarked, his voice soft and thoughtful.

"Of course you did. None of you ever shut the hell up," Alpha retorted bitterly. "There's always the babbling, the muttering, the screaming, the pleading, begging, bleeding, torturing, mourning, misery—it never stops!" There was a white flash as she suddenly seemed to teleport closer to the dead end behind her, banging against the brick wall with her fists as she screamed in rage. "Why can't I ever leave this stupid place!" She fell to her knees, gripping at her head and rocking back and forth as she muttered 'shut up' in a rapid pace.

"Doctor?" Rose seemed to question on Alpha's strange words and actions. Clearly both Rose and Mickey were beyond baffled and confused. On the other hand, the Doctor felt realization dawn on him.

"Stay here and don't say anything. Let me do the talking," the Time Lord muttered to the two as he slowly edged closer to the muttering Alpha. He stopped a few feet away from her, making certain to keep his distance just in case his thoughts on her actions might be wrong. "Are you trying to use Wanda's . . . wanderings to leave?"

"'Wanderings,'" repeated Alpha with a snort, looking up at him but still staying at a crouch. "Is that what you call it? Sure, whatever. Yes, I'm trying to leave. What does it look like I'm trying to do? I've been trying to get us back home since arriving back to this horrid universe."

"What, you mean that's been you? All this time with Wanda leaping around through my timeline, that's been you?" the Doctor questioned, surprised to hear this. That would actually explain a lot of why Wanda always seemed unable to stay in one place in time for too long.

"Some of it, most of it, yes. But really neither of us can control it. It controls us. So there's nothing I can do about it. Even though I do try," grumbled Alpha, sounding angered by the fact that she had no say on where Wanda wandered to.

"Then are you the reason Wanda is connected to my timeline?" he wondered aloud.

Alpha gave a loud and disgusted scoff. "Please. I hate you. Why the hell would I purposely attach us to your life?"

The Doctor hummed, wondering then how she and Wanda had been attached to his life if it were not Alpha's doing. But that did not matter now. A question for another time. At the moment, he had many more questions that needed answers to. "Why did you kill the Cybermen like that? You're able to turn anything you want into dust. Why act like an animal and rip them apart?"

"Why ask stupid questions? Why talk calmly to a wolf and act like you're not going to try to trick me into letting you get Wanda back? Why even talk to me to begin with when you know I could kill you in an instant?" Alpha shot a glare at him as she stood up. "There you go in acting like you're in control of the situation and that you have everything all figured out. Typical Time Lord behaviour in believing no harm could ever come to them. Well, look at where the rest of them are now. Burnt to a crisp on a barren wasteland."

Gritting his teeth for a moment, he saw the small smirk on her face, knowing she was trying to toy with him. It was a simple tactic of making him lose his cool. A childish way of getting what she wants. But he knew not to let her get to him. They were bitter words coming from someone who had been hurt and corrupted by the Time War. Something which he knew had been him not too long ago during his Ninth incarnation.

"Your tactics won't work on me," he retorted bitterly, keeping his hands firmly in his pockets as he stared her down. "Whether to try to scare me off or make me angry so you can hurt me again. I know your game now."

"Do you? Really?" Alpha disputed in spite. "Don't lie to yourself, omega. I can smell the fear on you. And that goes for you two as well." She jabbed her finger at Rose and Mickey as she saw them still staring hesitantly at her. "I can always smell the truth beneath the lies."

"What do you mean you can smell fear? No one can smell emotions. At least, not Time Lords," the Doctor countered, frowning as he tried understanding the logic behind her strange statement.

"I can," she replied easily. "Just as I know what you're thinking or feeling or, going to do or will do or have done. I sense all."

The Doctor's frown merely deepened. "What . . . you mean Wanda's possibilities?"

Alpha rolled her eyes. "Sure. Whatever you want to think of it by." She turned around, beginning to mutter under her breath as if they could not hear what she was saying. Like they were invisible or nothing to her. "Why am I even talking to these simpletons? I shouldn't be here skulking with them. I should be getting us away from the city. Stupid Time Lord. Stupid humans. Stupid curiosity of mine."

The Doctor sort of shared a side glance with Rose and Mickey before looking back at Alpha. He was about to speak when she suddenly turned around, eyes flaring wildly with a manic look and hissing as she gripped at her head.

"Shut up! I said SHUT UP!" she screamed at him.

"I didn't say anything," the Doctor said slowly as he watched her back up into a corner, looking unnerved and unhinged.

"I know you didn't!" she barked in return. She moaned as she gripped her head, rocking on her feet in an unstable sway. Muttering again to herself. "It's been quiet for so long I'd forgotten how painful it all was. How loud." She abruptly looked at them all with wide eyes, like she suddenly realized they were there. Almost as though they had not been talking all this time. Then, she narrowed her eyes hatefully. "What did I say about following me?! I warned you! One more step towards me and I'll end Wanda! I'll end you all! I swear!"

Raising a sharp brow, the Doctor could only stare at her in disbelief. She . . . she was insane. Well, of course she was insane, but . . . it was beyond that. Something had twisted her mind around so badly that she was completely unstable. She was hearing voices in her head and seemed to forget on and off on what she was doing or what was going on around her. Like she was stuck in an endless cycle of pain in her mind that she could never escape and that drove her to madness. No wonder she acted like a primal animal. But what had done that to her? Then . . . then he knew that he had to test his theory.

"Go ahead, then. Kill me," he said evenly. Rose and Mickey both looked alarmed by this while Alpha seemed taken back.

"What?" growled Alpha as she looked him up and down as if searching for a trick of some kind.

"Sure. Why not?" the Doctor said casually as if they were discussing the weather. Even shrugging somewhat. "I mean you hate Time Lords anyway. And you're right, I'm not that important in this universe or good enough for Wanda. So go ahead. Kill me and take Wanda away." Keeping their gaze even, he watched Alpha carefully as she seemed to simply take this in. Then she stood up quite abruptly, glaring at him.

"Don't tempt me, omega," she spat at him, her voice changing to that of her echoing tone. "I'll do it. I swear, I'll do it. I'll end you in a heartbeat."

"Then do it," the Doctor retorted, sending her his own glare. He stomped closer towards her, slapping at his chest and holding his arms out. Letting himself become an open target for her. "Come on! What are you waiting for?! Kill me! Put an end to all Time Lords and just kill me! Come on, do it! Just do it! Do it!"

In an instant, she was in front of him. Rose let out a scream while Mickey pulled his gun, ready to save the Doctor as Alpha stood in front of him, right in the Time Lord's face, arm raised high as her eyes glowed furiously and her whole body burned in its white light. The Doctor merely stood there at ease as he stared into those white glowing eyes. Seeing how Alpha's hand began to shake as she kept it in the air, not bringing it down upon him as she had threatened to do. Then she jerked away from him as the glow from her eyes and around her body faded, staring at him in annoyance.

"You're—you're not worth my time," she said in unease as her voice returned to normal, turning around as if to leave but ended up face-to-face with a brick wall. She stood there rigidly as she seemed to wait for them to leave her be or to hope to vanish into nothing after that stunt. The Doctor lowered his arms as he smirked in knowing his theory had paid off.

"You can't do, can you? You can't kill me or anyone else in Wanda's life," he said smoothly, placing his hands back in his pockets as he eyes her coolly. "If you could, you would have. You had all this time to do so. You could have killed Rose down in the basement of Torchwood. Could have killed Jackie when she found you in the stairways. Could have even killed me when I touched you back in the warehouse. Then you had all that time alone with us for years now. All that time in Wanda's mind, able to twist her thoughts around if you wished. I mean, what's stopping you if you really wanted to? 'Cause there's nothing really stopping you. Nothing at all except for one, small, thing." He was right behind her now having walked towards her as he spoke, leaning close to her. "You can't do that because that would be hurting Wanda. And you could never do that could you?"

Alpha did not say a single word. She only continued to hold her arms tightly around herself as she stared the brick wall down in front of her. Fuming in her own way as she refused to meet the Doctor's smug eyes. Both Rose and Mickey stood confused behind the two, completely baffled by what just happened. They glanced at each other then looked back at the Doctor for answers.

"What do you mean, Doctor? Why can't she hurt Wanda?" Rose asked him.

"Is it because Wanda is still in control or something?" Mickey wondered.

"No, I don't think so," the Doctor replied, taking a slight step back from Alpha. "If Wanda was aware, she'd be sending messages to me like she did last time with Casandra. No—Alpha's telling the truth. Wanda's asleep and unaware. It's the best thing for her as a means of protection." He stared intently at Alpha. "Am I right?" She did not give him an answer, so he continued on.

"It was the reason why you implanted those fears onto us," the Doctor said, holding a calm voice of explanation. Though also holding a smug smile in figuring out what Alpha could not do to them. "You knew that you had to scare us off a different way instead of simply using a show of force. If we saw you weren't really trying to hurt us, then we would have figured out your little secret."

"So . . . she cares for Wanda, and that means that she can't hurt us?" Rose questioned as she scooted closer to where the Doctor and Alpha were.

The Doctor nodded, stuffing his hands into his pockets as he rocked on his feet lightly, replying, "Exactly."

"But what is she though? Some kind of sleeper agent or something?" Mickey wondered aloud, now standing closer as well, right beside Rose. "You know, those movies that always had them undercover agents. All waiting right under the enemy's nose and all that."

"Thought about that," the Doctor muttered, shaking his head. "Daleks did have sleeper agents back in the Time War. Used to brainwash some Time Lords and then send them back over, only activating them again with some kind of special code. Had to deal with a few of them myself." The Doctor eyed Alpha, seeing how she still refused to turn around and face him, holding herself tight around her middle.

Addressing her fully, he scooted a little closer to her. "But you don't really fit the profile like the other Dalek agents I had to deal with. If you were some sort of Dalek sleeper agent or weapon, you wouldn't have given a second thought on killing us. In fact, you're not even having the normal behaviour of what a sleeper agent, or even a programmed weapon, would be. You say 'us' all the time as though both you and Wanda are separate yet equal. Normally those controlled or created by the Daleks would not give a care in the world for their other personality, if they had indeed been created with another side to them. Another mind and life. The programmed self would only care about doing what they were created to do. Which I'm guessing the Daleks would have made or trained you to basically be a weapon of destruction for them. But you ignored their orders, fought against them, and have yet to truly do anything that a Dalek normally would. You even saved a few lives. Then there was that comment about me not being good enough for Wanda clearly shows that you think she deserves happiness in some ways with someone or another. By not killing us, and saving that child, shows that you care somewhat. Maybe more because you care about Wanda in some strange way.

"So, the question is now, why exactly do you care about Wanda?" he finally finished speaking, eyeing her carefully as he saw her stiff posture. Eventually, she turned, holding an irritated expression that spoke of her frustration with the Doctor calculating and understanding all of that about her.

"Why wouldn't I care about her? You think because I'm unkind that I can't actually find someone to love?" she retorted in a gruff voice. Then Alpha's tone grew soft and solemn as she stared distantly up at the blue sky overhead. "You're right, I can't kill you or the others in her life. If I did . . . she'd be sad. So sad. I don't want her sad. I want her happy. She deserves to be happy. And I can always find a way to bring her happiness. To protect her from the vicious universe we live in." She looked at the Doctor once more, her voice growing stern and strong once again. "In a way, I wish I was her. I wish I still had the outlook she has on life. While I only see the hatred, the evil, the corrupt, the wicked, the cruel, the darkness—she sees the love, the good, the honest, the gentle, the kind, the light. She wants life, while I want death. In the end, I envy her for being able to have her innocence.

"Don't get me wrong," Alpha continued, looking the Doctor and the other two over. "I still want to kill you all. The urge to kill and destroy . . . it's been programmed deep within me and I don't think it will ever go away. But I changed much of my programming around so that instead of my main objection being to kill, it's to protect Wanda and keep her safe. Though that still involves killing I suppose. Have to kill to keep her safe." She gave a heavy sigh and rolled her eyes. "And then, of course, I can't kill you anyway, omega. Even if I could allow myself to make Wanda sad in your death, you have to remain alive."

"Oh? And why's that?" the Doctor asked, raising a brow in interest.

"Three reasons," Alpha began listing off. "One—which I've already explained, it would make Wanda sad. Two—it would basically kill her if you ever died on us, which really ticks me off to no end. And lastly—you being alive is what keeps me from going ahead and getting rid of this stupid universe."

Frowning, the Doctor thought on how strange all this talk of 'ending the universe' was. Why did Alpha keep making comments such as that? "What do you mean?"

Before she could reply, Rose yelped in alarm when they heard stomping steps marching down the alleyway towards them. It was a line of Cybermen, all pointing their weapons on the group, ready to delete them. As Mickey aimed his gun at the metal men, Rose scooted behind her friend, and the Doctor briskly moved forward with screwdriver in hand. Alpha behind the trio gritted her teeth with her eyes beginning to glow in rage.

"Enough!" she barked loudly, her voice echoing with its million pitches. She appeared in a flash in front of the trio, aiming her glowing hand at the Cybermen. "I grow tired of this stupid chase of cat and mouse. You will cease!" The Cybermen froze, shaking in place before turning to dust, letting out their high screams just as they collapsed into piles of nothing. There were similar screams heard echoing throughout the city. Then cheering could be heard coming from the people as they seemed to celebrate something wonderful happening. Alpha turned her cold eyes upon the three behind her, with the white glow gone and her voice normal once more. "There. Now we don't have to worry about any more interruptions. You're welcome, by the way."

"What happened?" Mickey asked her, wonder why they heard people cheering.

"What did you do to the Cybermen?" Rose questioned the blonde girl. Alpha rolled her eyes and waved a hand towards the entrance to the alley.

"See for yourselves," she sighed in exasperation. The trio glanced at each other skeptically before swiftly leaving the area. They reached the opening of the alleyway and saw many people gazing around in a mixture of disbelief and relief. Others seemed to just hug each other in joy while some of the military wiped their brows and seemed to give a collection sigh in knowing the fight was finally over. All the while, the trio in the alley stared around the streets in awe as they saw all the piles of dust scattered about. Indicating to them of the Cybermen's demise.

"They . . . they just . . .," the Doctor said, stunned by this sight. Were the Cybermen all dead? He looked at Alpha in utter shock as she walked up casually behind them. "What did you do?"

"Simple," Alpha responded, giving a superior sniff. "I merely commanded the atoms of the Cybermen to expire. Just as I had done before. Only this time I gave the command to a broader range. All the Cybermen within London have now ceased." She shot the Doctor and the others cold gaze. "As I said before, 'You're welcome.' I made your tasks a little easier."

"'A little'? You only killed the Cybermen in London," Mickey scoffed, eyeing the blonde in irritation. "If you do have that kind of power, why didn't you just 'command' all the other Cybermen to die off, too?"

"Don't want to take all the fun away from the rest of you, now do I?" Alpha replied in a jeering tone. "The rest are your problem. Not mine."

"How—how did you—that's not . . . You can't command atoms to . . .," the Doctor tried saying but felt his mind far too shocked and stunned to get his words together properly. He ran a hand through his hair, gripping at the brown locks as he could only stare at Alpha, seeing how she gazed back in a bored manner. "That's impossible."

"If it was impossible then I wouldn't have been even able to do so in the first place," Alpha replied, rolling her eyes. Suddenly, she gripped her head, hissing. "Damn! I hate this! No wonder I decided to go to sleep all those years ago. No wait—it's not just the normal noise." She let go of her head, looking at the sky in interest. "It's . . . nosier. Hmm. What's causing it?" She began sniffing the air, standing on her tiptoes as she moved around as if trying to find the source of whatever she was smelling.

"Hang on—don't just ignore us," the Doctor spoke up, becoming more and more irritated by her avoiding the questions and not giving any sort of clear answers.

"Ssshhhh," Alpha hissed at him, holding up a finger and not even bothering to look at him as she gazed around the air. "There's something wrong with the universe. There's another trying to creep in."

"Yeah, that'd be the Breach," Mickey replied sarcastically.

"It's the parallel universe to this one," Rose spoke up. "The, um, hole in the universe is sort of leaking into both universes." Alpha slumped in her posture, gritting her teeth together.

"Great. Another corrupted universe trying to poke through into my life. Isn't one bad enough?!" she yelled in anger, kicking at the air. "Do I have to destroy that one, too?!"

"What do you mean destroy the universe?" the Doctor retorted crossly. He stepped towards her, giving her his own look of annoyance. "You keep saying that. Just explain what exactly who, what you are. Why do you think the universe needs ending?"

"Because it does," Alpha growled, tightening her hands into shaking fists. "I'm a weapon, remember?"

"Yeah—weapon of destruction—I get that," replied the Doctor, clearly irritated by getting only repeated information and not gaining any true insight on her true identity and purpose. "But what exactly were the Daleks wanting you to be weaponized for? I know it wasn't for the whole universe. They want the whole universe to themselves, not to destroy it. Only the other life forms that live within the universe."

"Yeah, sure, they want the universe to themselves. But you know what I think?" Alpha stomped closer to the Doctor, jabbing a finger sharply at his chest. "I think that no one deserves to live in this universe. You and every other living life form are corrupt. You're all vile and wicked. Far too past the point of being allowed to make up for your mistakes and given the chance to move on to corrupt even more."

The Doctor blinked, taken back by her angry statement. "What—What are you talking about? I know the universe isn't always the most . . . peaceful place. But a few bad apples isn't a reason to go and destroy the entire universe."

Alpha scoffed, her eyes flashing in outrage at this retort. "'A few bad apples'? The whole damn universe is filled to the brim with horrid creatures. All those who create nothing but misery and chaos in their wake." She snapped her eyes over to the silent Rose and Mickey, jabbing a finger in their direction. "Rose Tyler—you have and will kill many for the sake of 'defense' for Earth. Causing many to lose loved ones caught in the act. Mickey Smith—you will and have already committed similar crimes. Killing off those you assume have no true feelings left within them and not even giving the ones you've killed a decent rest in their dying hours. You've made them suffer." Alpha's eyes then darted to the people who still lingered not that far away down the street from them. She pointed her finger at a rather tall man. "Jacob Wright—he cheated his way through the local computer company, earning promotions that others deserved more. Leading to many to lose their jobs and live poor lives." She then pointed to an elderly woman. "Jessica Young—she abused her daughters but held all her sons in a high esteem. Leading to one daughter to commit suicide and another to run away, lost somewhere within the desert of Asia. That daughter will soon follow in her sister's death."

Alpha turned to face the Doctor again with disgust clearly held within her eyes. "All these people and more are guilty of corruption. All guilty, corrupt, wicked. Even if they haven't done so yet, they will. Even if they will never, they might have. For all I see, I know the true natures in their hearts. Even children are not free from this corruption. Even they too will follow into the path of chaos and wickedness just as those before them have done. It's an endless cycle of hate and cruelty. It never stops!" She suddenly gripped her head, moaning as she seemed to become overwhelmed by whatever was going on within her head. She fell to her knees, shaking, sobbing. "It never stops. Never stops. I have to stop it. I have to end it! No more!"

Slowly, the Doctor crouched down next to her, knowing that whatever she was experiencing must be awfully painful. How insane had the Daleks made her? What exactly what is that they had done to her? "What is it you're hearing?"

"No, no, no, no. Shut up," she muttered, seeming unable to hear him. Trying to be as cautious as he could, he lifted Alpha's chin, making their eyes meet.

"Alpha . . . I know you don't trust me, but please . . . I want to help you," he spoke as calm and even as he could.

With eyes narrowing in suspicion, Alpha slapped his hand away in revulsion. "You don't want to help me. You want to help her and to make sure your precious prize of Wanda's body is still fine. Well, you'll be happy to know that I alone share this torment. So goody for me, and a ease for you."

Holding back a bitter retort, the Doctor let out a small huff of a breath. Keeping his voice even as before and their gazes connected. "You may think of me as heartless, but I've got news for you. Even those who wish harm onto others I still try to help them. For their actions are not always their fault. If you're suffering from some sort of infliction the Daleks placed on you, I can try to find a way to remove it and make your life, and even the universe, be more peaceful for you." Alpha did not reply to him, only continuing to stare back with suspicion and skepticism. Only still holding the same angry, cold eyes from before. The Doctor raised a brow. "Do you want to show me what's happening in your mind?"

"Hmph. You really want to delve into something like that?" Alpha let out a laughing scoff. Then, she raised her own brow. "Fine. Go ahead. Just warning you now, it's not something for the faint of heart."

"I think I'll manage." The Doctor reached forward, going to place his fingers on her temples. He hesitated for a second just as his fingertips brushed her head, uncertain on whether she would try something. When it came to delving into the mind, it allowed each person sharing the link to become vulnerable in some ways. If she wanted to, she could do some serious damage to him. But he knew he had to try. He had to see what was happening to both her and Wanda. Maybe he could stop both it and Alpha as well, to force this . . . thing back to where she had come from and lock her up . . . Maybe.

Finally, the Doctor pushed his fingers firmly onto her temples and focused his mind. Alpha closed her eyes, seeming to let herself relax for the first time that day. The Doctor closed his eyes as well, trying to concentrate. Then . . . it hit him with a force.

He gasped and jerked as an assault rip through his mind. On instinct, he tried pulling away but found his fingers locked against Alpha's skull, unable to let go. Almost as if he were glued to the spot, only clinging on to dear life now as the visions began piercing his mind. It was . . . chaos. It was shouting, crying, weeping, screaming, yelling—terror in its very wake. Voices . . . Millions and millions of voices all echoing loudly out at once. All their emotions were mixed right in, making him feel their pain, suffering, fear—their every waking agony. He felt like he was going to die with his hearts racing, his mind in agonizing pain from the onslaught, and his body feeling weaker by the second. Then, finally, he felt someone yanking him away from the source of woe.

The Doctor lay back on the hard ground, panting like he had been sprinting for miles. He felt a layer of sweat on him, his hearts banged against his chest, and a ringing in his ears slowly faded as he gathered his bearings. He saw Rose hovering over him in worriment, obviously being the one to yank him back from Alpha.

"Doctor, are you all right? What did she do to you?" Rose asked him hurriedly. She shot the calm looking Alpha a glare. "What did you do?"

"Nothing," Alpha said quietly. "He merely saw what truth lies within the universe." The Doctor sat up, patting Rose's arm in reassurance.

"She didn't do anything to me," he told the companion. He stared at Alpha, in pure disbelief on what he had experienced. "You . . . How is that even possible? You hear . . . you sense all of that? You should be dead."

"I should be. I want to be," Alpha agreed. She then a humourless laugh. "And you want to know what funny thing is? The piece I showed you was only this galaxy. Just imagine what else I have to endure." Rose looked at them both, at a loss.

"What is it that you saw, Doctor?" questioned the companion. The Doctor sat up straight, looking at Rose as he realized some of what he had experienced had come from her as well.

"I . . . I heard . . .," he tried explaining, but still felt too unnerved and unsteady to speak much. Or even how to explain what exactly was going through Alpha's mind.

"He felt all the emotions and heard all the thoughts as part of each timeline of every single life form on Earth and of those living within the Milky Way galaxy," Alpha explained coolly. "Just a small piece of what I can feel. As I said before, I sense all. Every single being's timeline within the entirety of the universe. All their thoughts. All their emotions. All their souls that make up their entire life, whether it be in a set timeline or a possible one. I hear it all running through my head, all at once. It never stops. It never grows quiet. It never ceases. The universe itself . . . I hear its call of misery."

The trio stared at her in pure shock. Even Mickey looked beyond stunned by this. The Doctor slowly shook his head, realizing this was more than he could have ever thought possible. Alpha . . . she should be long dead from what was happening within her mind. No creature could ever withstand such an onslaught from the universe. Even he had barely managed to hold up against just the thoughts and feelings she let him sense. But the entire universe? Even Time Lords had their limits. Yes, they could sense many things that others could only dream about. But this? It made him feel sick in thinking anyone would have to deal with such horrible agony of every second in their lives. It seemed . . . unthinkable to him.

The Doctor could only stare at Alpha with his wide eyes. "What . . . What's been done to you?"

Alpha gazed back with her cold eyes, scoffing lightly under her breath. "You know exactly what has been done to me, or what's wrong with me. You've realized the reality of us since the moment I turned those Cybermen to dust. The main point is you just don't wish to believe it. You don't want it to be true. Not until you have the full answer given to you for absolute truth. Therefore, I will not answer any more of your questions. If you want the real truth behind what I and Wanda truly are, then you will have to just work to find that out on your own." She then stood, reaching down to yank the Doctor up as well. "It's time we've managed with this Breach, don't you think?"

With a snap of her fingers, the Doctor, Rose, and Mickey all felt a strange warmth sensation go through their bodies as a white light blinded them. The next thing they knew, they were within the Breach room of Torchwood. Rose and Mickey both sort of stumbled as they felt very unbalanced from what had occurred. The Doctor rocked on his feet, blinking away the white spots from his vision. He could see Pete, Jackie, Jake, and the others standing around the room, all looking shocked in seeing the sudden arrival of the trio and Alpha.

"W-what was that?" Mickey wondered aloud.

"Did . . . did you just make us teleport away like Wanda does?" Rose asked Alpha.

"What else do you call what I did?" Alpha retorted, shooting the companion a look of annoyance.

"Rose! Oh, Rose, I was so worried!" cried Jackie as she ran over to give her daughter a large hug.

"Doctor, what happened out there?" Pete quickly asked, walking towards them. "One minute there was Cybermen everywhere. And the next thing, they're all gone. What did you do?"

"Actually, that was her," Mickey spoke up, pointing at Alpha. "She turned all Cybermen in London to dust." Pete and his crew looked shocked by this. Though, also not entirely surprised from the way they saw the blonde use her powers.

"Well . . . guess we should thank you, then," Pete replied, sounding a bit sarcastic in his statement. Alpha ignored the lot of them as she began sniffing the air, walking over towards where the Breach was. She sniffed the white wall rapidly, tapping the cool surface with her fingers.

"So, this is where the other stupid universe is leaking from," she muttered aloud. "If it isn't one universe I have to destroy, it's another. An alpha's job never rests."

"Uh . . . what she going on about?" Pete mumbled under his breath, whispering to the others close to him.

"She wants to destroy the universe," Rose explained quietly. "She thinks everything within is . . . corrupt and guilty. That no one deserves to live." Pete, his crew, and even Jackie appeared unnerved and shocked by this explanation. Then, Pete scoffed loudly.

"You can't just go and destroy an entire universe," retorted the man, saying this gruffly towards Alpha. "No one has that kind of power." Alpha turned around to face them with her eyes glowing in irritation. She did not say anything. Merely, she raised her hand, snapping her fingers. Suddenly, Jackie and the others within Pete's crew rolled their eyes back and abruptly fell to the floor. Rose and Pete, even Mickey, let out a startled cry.

"Mum!" Rose exclaimed, falling to the floor beside her mother. Pete was next to Jackie as well, shaking the woman's shoulder. Mickey checked over Jake and the others, trying to see what was wrong. All the while, the Doctor stared down at the sight, unnerved as he knew what Alpha had done.

"What did you do?!" Pete yelled at Alpha, his voice filled with outrage.

"Nothing more than commanded them to sleep," Alpha replied smoothly. She snapped her fingers again. With a start, everyone who had fallen to the floor unconscious awoke.

"W-what happened?" Jackie mumbled as she woke up, very sleepy from her short nap.

"I can command anything, anyone, to do whatever I wish," Alpha continued to say, ignoring Jackie's mumble completely. "I can control the atoms, all atoms, and the time of which they live by, within every life form. All I must do is be near enough, and," she made a gesture in the air as if something were exploding, "poof. Everything is gone. The entire basic structure of matter and time that all are alive by, I can see it, sense it, and control it if I please to. If I wish you to sleep, you sleep. If I wish you to age, you age. If I wish you to die, well, ha! I could wipe you all away like that!" She snapped her fingers sharply, making everyone wince as they fear of what else would come at her 'command.'

"And . . . and you're going to do that to my universe as well?" Pete questioned in uncertainty.

Alpha rolled her eyes. "Please. Keep your corrupted universe. I only care about destroying this vile universe. Once the Breach is closed, I won't have to deal with that other universe any longer." She turned, looking at the white wall as there came a collective relief from the group of the parallel universe. Glad to know that Alpha would not be hurting their world. The Doctor, remaining quiet, decided to break his silent observation as he knew he needed one last answer before Alpha decided when enough was enough.

"I have a question for you, Alpha," the Doctor spoke up, watching as Alpha turned her sharp, cold and calculating eyes on him.

"What?" she spat out in return.

The Doctor kept his face as calm as it could be, trying to work out the mystery to her existence. Then, he recalled what she had said earlier. "You said that I keep you from destroying the universe. Why? What do you mean by that? If you really hate me, then why is my life that important to you for not destroying the universe you despise?"

Alpha stared at him for a moment. Seeming to be searching for her answer. Finally, she replied, "I don't know the full reason. All I remember was that a promise was made. A promise between you and I, during the last moments of the Time War, that . . . that the universe must be kept alive so long as you are within it."

Blinking, the Doctor was not sure what exactly to think about this. "What?"

Alpha huffed, crossing her arms as she rolled her eyes. "That's what I want to know. But I can't remember why, or even when, the promise had been made. I even can't recall what had occurred during the moments when you had arrived. And I remember everything!"

The Doctor shook his head, completely baffled and confused now. "But I don't understand. I never met you or even saw you during the Time War. You couldn't have been there with me. And why would you make that kind of promise anyway?"

"I told you, I don't remember. And if I don't remember, then you certainly wouldn't, either." She crossed her arms, eyeing him coolly. "And I may be a murderous weapon of mass destruction, but that doesn't mean I'm not a woman of my word. If I give someone my solemn vow, my word of promise, then I will keep to it. I will not break my vows." Taking this statement in, a nod of the head was all the Doctor could give in response as he felt relieved that at least Alpha had a code of honour in some ways. She was not completely unreasonable.

"Okay . . . That's something at least," the Doctor muttered as he watched Alpha begin walking towards him, holding herself rigidly as she stood before him. "You said you wanted to deal with the Breach earlier. What do you have in mind?"

"Nothing except letting you take your course in action," Alpha replied smoothly as she stood before him. "You're going to close the Breach, while I go back to sleep and allow Wanda to be in control once more. That way, you get what you want, and I get what I want. Fair enough?"

"Okay . . ." Staring at her cautiously, the Doctor felt as though this were too . . . simple. Alpha was giving him Wanda back? Just like that? He excepted Alpha to put up a fight for control from the way she had been acting earlier. Then again, that could have just been an act of some kind.

"Now, before I take my leave, I have a question for you, omega," Alpha spoke, her voice seeming to echo throughout the room with each word. A tone of power held deeply within. Her eyes flashed their white glow briefly as she eyed the Time Lord up and down. As she stared at him, the Doctor had a funny sensation run through him. As though . . . she was looking far beyond his existence in this universe. Judging him in his very nature of his life.

"You call yourself a man of no fear. That you are not truly afraid of anything," Alpha said as she stood in front of him, crossing her arms tightly as she continued to give her piercing stare to him. "Tell me, omega." The Doctor felt a chill feeling creep ever so slowly down his spine as he stared into those unforgiving, cold emerald eyes. Alpha leaned a hair forward as she stared the Time Lord down, her eyes flashing once more as she held her grim expression. ". . . Do you fear me?"

This question took the Doctor off guard. He was not sure why exactly she wished to know something of that from him. Then, as he continued to feel unsettled, he thought over the events of the day. Alpha's powers, her character, and the thought of her being there within Wanda, just in the back reaches of the Time Lady's mind . . . Alpha was a creature like no other. She was something impossible. Something that he knew should not exist. Nothing in this universe should have the power to control and destroy so much. To see all, hear all, and sense all of that . . . The concept of such a being existing was almost beyond imagining for the Doctor. It was a Time Lord's worst nightmares all bundled together. And yet . . . here she was. Alive and real. A real nightmare. A real monster.

". . . Yes," the Doctor finally answered, his voice soft and quiet as he spoke.

There was no smile on Alpha's face as the Doctor expected there to be. Only a blank stare with a dull expression. As if she had heard this reply many, many times before.

"Good," replied the blonde, her voice gruff in response. Alpha backed away from him but kept her piercing gaze as sharp as ever on him. "Be warned, omega. Be warned to all. One day, you will not be around to stop what is to come. The day you no longer exist, are no longer alive within this universe, I shall not hold back. I will activate my purpose of destruction. You can be sure of that."

With that said, Alpha gave a curt nod, then her eyes rolled up and she collapsed to the ground. Asleep within Wanda once more.

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Welp, that's it for now! Was it good? I hope it was good. :) Let me know what you thought of it all in a review. If you can, that is. I know how life is in how busy it can get. It's just always amazing seeing what you guys have to say. :D

Reviewers:

All The Stories Are True 24601: I'm so happy you enjoyed it! :D I'm studying Psychology, and Child and Family Development. It really is. I wish we had more access to other shows from overseas. Glad you liked that phrase. I thought it was a nice touch. ;) You should totally use it! Until next time! Can't wait to see you in the next chapter. :)

LittleQueenx: So glad you like her! We will definitely see more in the future. Though it might be a while before we really get a good portion of her again. Oh, yes, she most certainly cares about Wanda. Just as we've seen in this chapter. But yes, definitely twisted in her own way. It will also be a while before we learn the absolute full truth behind Alpha and Wanda. So, again, I hope you don't mind the wait. :) Ooh, great theory! I love it! I would say more than this, but I'm afraid to give away any spoilers. So, I'll just say spoilers for now. ;) No worries on long reviews. I absolutely love long reviews. The longer the better. :D I really, really hope that you enjoyed the newest chapter. Love to see your thoughts on it all. Take care and hope to see you in the future!

FictionalBoysAreBetter: Woo! So happy you're loving her. :D I was really worried that she would come off as a little . . . too much. But glad that wasn't the case. With the cases of Ganger Wanda and Clone Wanda is, as the Doctor said before, they were not a complete copy of Wanda. Therefore a little bit more of that animal side that was manic. But this time we get the full fledge Alpha. lol ;) We'll be getting more Alpha later, though it'll be a while before we get to that point. Sorry about that. I feel you there. I have the same bad habit. Questions and theories are always good. ;) Would say more than that, but you know how spoilers go. haha. So can't wait to see you again for the next time! Take care!

Momochan77: I hope this chapter was good for you. ;) I would say more than that, but . . . spoilers. Can't wait to see you in the future!

Nanski33: Yay! Glad it was so great of a surprise for the morning. :) Sorry for the emotional rollercoaster. lol ;) Hope your new year has been a great start, too! Until next time!

grapejuice101: lol Hope it was all a good surprise. ;) It was really a tense moment for them all. Glad things worked out . . . for now, at least. Hopefully, the new chapter is just a good as the last. Take care for the next time! :D

Crystal-star-Tyler: Welp, I hope you enjoyed seeing who 'mummy wolf' really was in these new chapters. ;) See you next time hopefully!

Authora97: She really did, didn't she? lol ;) So happy you enjoyed moments with her. I think it's good to have a character around the Doctor to keep him remembering to watch his ego at times. For when a person does live a life like the Doctor, they sometimes have a hard time holding back during moments where they should have. We've seen this, unfortunately, happen with Clara. :( If that makes any sense. Hope you enjoyed the newest chapter! Until next time!

alwaystherereading: Woo! I'm so, so happy you enjoyed her! Nah, it's always fun to enjoy a good baddie. ;) That's what makes stories and shows fun having a good badass mixed with things. lol Yeah, you'd think they would have asked the more obvious questions. Can't wait to see you in the next time!

Tina and Maxwell: I feel bad for Wanda, too. Hopefully she doesn't take it too hard next time. I have a feeling no real answers will arrive until much later. Sorry about that. :( Really hope you don't mind the wait. I feel you there. I have the worst memory as well. Which luckily I was thoughtful enough to make a timeline of the story to help it along. Haha. Yay! I just can't say this enough, but I'm so happy you're loving it so much. :) Cant wait until the next time!

singingKatelyn: lol So I take it you liked it? ;) Really hope this chapter was just as good. Hope to see you for the next time! Take care!

Shiboah: HAHAHA XD I love that! Have to use that in the future. "You can slay me anytime" That's so awesome. I'm really happy that you're liking Alpha so far. Hope you continue to like her in the future. Take care! :)

funwithstark: Woo! I'm so glad that it didn't disappoint. I was worried about that happening. Sometimes things can be built up a little too much, you know? Glad this wasn't the case here though. :) Don't worry, Wanda will be returning in the next chapter. I promise. ;) See you in the future!

Books-and-Cleverness-394: Trust me, things are definitely just getting started. ;) Though I hope that you'll like all that will be coming in the future. I really hope you'll enjoy all the changes. Loved to hear all your thoughts on it. :) I hope this chapter was just as good of a read as last time. And that I'll see you in the future. ;) Take care!

heroherondaletherescue: So overjoyed that you're liking Alpha so far! I really hope you'll continue to enjoy her in the future. Until next time! :)

N7SpaceHamster: Oh yes. The can is been official ripped open from here on out. lol ;) No worries on reviewing! I'm just glad things are going well for you and to see you again. :) I'm super glad you liked the build up and the unforeseen. I was afraid the build up would not pay off or that it would be far too obvious. I'm happy to see it all worked out though. :) I will say that Alpha and Bad Wolf are indeed separate. I won't say why, however. You'll just have to wait and see until then. ;) I love trick moments like that, so I thought it'd be a nice touch. haha. Yes, Alpha is something you just love being scared of. There were many puppets during the Time War on both sides. We've seen that for ourselves through the Master. Yep, Alpha is much more in self defense than just to kill. You could say it's because of Wanda. In a way. Funny that you mention Jekyll and Hyde. haha. Now that I think about it, it is sort of like that isn't it? We'll get to see more of how the Doctor feels about it all in the next chapter. I hope you'll like it! :) So many questions. So little answers I can give. I will say that Alpha merely gave the Doctor that title as more of a way to not really say his name. Sort of so she's not showing that she likes him in any way. So glad you liked that reveal. As I've said from the beginning, there's a reason for everything and not everything is as it seems. ;) I would answer more, but you know how spiders go. Great theories! I love them! You're really onto something there. ;) hope life continues to go well for you and to see you again real soon! Take care!

lautaro94: Ooh, I've nevef heard of that comic. I'll definitely have to check it out now. Thanks for the share!

wonderbitch26: I'm happy to know that fast updates are okay. I had some complaints about it before, so I always like to double check. :) Oh I've had this planned out for years before even posting it on the site. I really wanted this story to be something special. So happy to know that it's paging off. :) I really hope that you'll continue to enjoy it throughout the rest to come. Also hope to see you in the future. Until next time!

Caroline: Yep, this is full Alpha. All the clones before then have just been incomplete copies, so now we get the full insane version of her. lol ;) You did call it! If it really came down to it, I think Alpha would if she had to. But luckily I don't think that'll ever happen. Hopefully, anyway. Yep, as we've seen in this chapter, it was indeed just a fake out. Oh there are so many more hints. I wonder if you'd be able to find them all. ;) can't wait until next time!

Wowza: Woo! I'm super happy that you liked it all! I have to say, I love possessions, too. They're just always fun. I'm really glad that it's been worth the build up. I've been afraid it wouldn't be good enough in the end. Glad to see so far that it has been. Fingers crossed that you'll like the rest to come!

Victoria: Aw, thank you. :) I'm just so overjoyed that's youve liked it all so far. Don't worry, all and any questions will be answered if not in this story than definitely in the next. There will be a fourth story, but it will be much, much different from this trilogy. As for Wanda meeting Twelve . . . I will just say spoilers for now. Oh, trust me when I say that Wanda would love Thirteen just as much as she loves any other Doctor. ;) Can't wait to see what you think of the rest of it and go see you in the future. Take care!

bored411: I'm just so happy you're enjoying Alpha! I hope the enjoyment continues from here. ;) There's actually a good reason that Wanda would never be able to be in control when Alpha is out in the open. But that's just spoilers for now. ;) Hope you enjoyed the update!

QuirkyKim: Lol I feel you there. I hope you liked the new chapter. :)

UltimateFan-girl15: So glad you're enjoying it all! Really hope you continue to like it in the future. :) Well, it is how the Doctor said it would be. A Time Lord with the Time Vortex in them would be a vengeful god. I think Alpha sums that up pretty well, don't you? Lol ;) Can't wait to see what you think of the new chapter! Until next time!

Jerry Skeleton: Yay! I'm really glad that you enjoyed it! :) I was worried that Alpha would not be enjoyable for everyone. Glad that see that she was for the most part. :) Nope, never a break when it comes to being a Wanderer I'm afraid. Nah, thank you for always being amazing and sending such wonderful reviews. Can't wait to see you again in the future!

NerdWithAPencil: So happy that you're liking it so far! I really hope that you'll enjoy the newest chapter! Thank you so much! :)

Vivi: Hmm, funny that you say that. ;) Hope you'll like the rest to come. Have a wonderful day/night!

Guest(a): Aww, thank you! I'm overjoyed that you're liking it all. I've had this all planned out for years. Even before posting the story to the site. I'm glad that it's coming out all good so far. I really hope that the rest of it will be just as enjoyable. I've been worried forever now in how everyone will take the ending to this trilogy. Fingers crossed until then!

crylo ren: I will say that, no, Alpha had never been to the Asylum. She was in another place all together for the Daleks, since technically only the Cult of Skaro ever knew about her. Funny you mention a fake world, though . . . I'm just going to say spoilers for now. ;) No worries! I always love hearing everyone's thoughts and theories on the story. Share all you like. :D Really hope you'll enjoy the rest and to see you again in the future!

Thank you all so much! There was just so many reviews. It filled me so much with such joy. I got a bit emotional seeing how happy you've all loved it. It's been such a long wait up to this point with Alpha. Filled with worries that it wouldn't be a good moment in the story. I'm so happy to see it was really enjoyable for so many. I just want to say that, if it's not something weird to say, I love you all! XD I wish every single one of your the best in life!

~Tinker~