A/N: A little guide: -Italics are telepathy.
Asylum of the Daleks: Part One
She couldn't move. That was the first thing she knew. The second was that she didn't know who she was, or where she was… or what she was. She couldn't see anything, she could hear anything. She could feel something though.
Something near her was alive. She didn't know how she knew that but she did. Just like she knew there were thousands of life forms near her but there was something off about them.
Granted there was something off about the one she could feel, like it was trapped. There was a tingling in the back of her mind and suddenly she heard a voice in her head.
"Hello!" The cheery voice called, causing the girl to flinch
"Who are you?" She asked, startled.
"Oswin Oswald," The voice said, "You are Rain, just in case you were wondering."
"But who are you to tell me who I am?" She asked. Slightly confused and extremely afraid. "I've told you, I am Oswin Oswald." The girl told her, "You are Rain."
"That's it, just Rain. I don't got two names like you?" Rain asked again. She wanted to pace. It's what she would normally be doing, she was sure, but it was not really something she was capable of at the moment.
She wasn't even capable of moving. The only reason she could talk to this Oswin person was because of a cybernetic field that Rain had accidentally opened with Oswin when she woke up.
Or so she had been told. Rain herself had no clue what was going on. She didn't know where she was, who she was, or why she was where she was… wherever that happened to be.
"No one really needs a last name, do they?" Oswin asked, smiling sweetly at the girl.
"I wouldn't know." Rain said and Oswin could only chuckle. Her new friend was so serious Oswin would change that soon. "Why Rain? Why am I Rain? What kind of name is Rain?"
"That's just your name." Oswin said, "That's what you told me."
"When did I tell you this?" Rain asked, frowning, "Why would I tell you my name was Rain? What kind of person is named after precipitation?"
"You didn't tell me. Sorry, I lied. You didn't tell me your name." Oswin said
"Then why did you say my name was Rain?" The girl asked, extremely confused and frustrated with Oswin. "Why would you say that?"
"The Dalek's told me." Oswin said finally, "They told me to fear the Rain. And then you showed up and they were… afraid."
"Why are they afraid of me?" Rain asked. "I don't even know who I am."
"How do you forget who you are?" Oswin wondered, not really speaking to Rain anymore, "How do you have no clue who you are? The Daleks are so afraid of you. They fear you more than the Doctor."
"Doctor Who?" Rain asked, tilting her head.
"The Doctor has been acquired" The voice of the Dalek rang out, a hint of glee announcing that this was a good thing for the Daleks. Which anyone who had paid attention to the Daleks at all in history would know that it probably wasn't. The Doctor always won.
"Why do the Daleks want this Doctor person?" Rain asked Oswin, after Oswin had explained the voice and what it meant, "Why is one man so important?"
"He's dangerous to them." Oswin said, "And he'll save them."
"If he's dangerous how can he save them?" Rain asked when the Dalek voice sounded again
"Amelia Pond has been acquired." Followed shortly by, "Rory Williams has been acquired."
Oswin watched with rapt fascination as The Doctor and his companions appeared in the center of a group of Daleks. She had managed to hack the security system and get a visual on them and was showing Rain the images through the link they had managed to form. By they she really meant Rain. Oswin had no idea how the other girl had done it.
"Parliament of the Daleks?" Rain asked, "Daleks have a form of government?"
"Well, yeah." Oswin said, "They say that Daleks only feel hate."
"Isn't hate a combination of Fear and Anger?" Rain asked unsurely, "Why are they angry and… what do they fear?"
"I don't know why they're angry." Oswin said after a moment, "But I know that they fear the Doctor… and you"
"What exactly are Daleks?" Rain asked after a few minutes of just watching the proceedings in the Parliament, "I mean, they're alien. I can see that much, but what are they?"
"An alien species created by a man named Davros so very long ago. The arch-enemy of the Time Lords."
"Do people have arch-enemies?" Rain asked, followed by, "What's a Time Lord?"
"Ugh," Oswin groaned, getting tired of explaining things to the girl, "Time Lords. An extinct species except for The Doctor, from Gallifrey. Now hush."
"Gallifrey." Rain said, testing the word. She was about to ask another question but found that she couldn't. There was no connection with Oswin anymore and she was alone.
"Day 363." Oswin said, starting another daily recording, "The terror continues. Also, made another souffle." She pulled the souffle out of the oven and tossed it into the garbage with a wrinkle of her nose, she'd been too distracted by Rain, "Very nearly. Checked defences. Made a new friend. They came again last night. It's still always at night. Maybe they're vampires. Oh, and it's my Mum's birthday. Happy birthday, Mum. I did make you a souffle, but it was too beautiful to live." Oswin sighed as the voices of the Daleks got louder
"You will let us enter! We will enter! We are the Daleks, you will let us enter! Enter! ENTER! ENTER!"
"What's he doing?" Rory asked Amy despite the fact that he was undoubtedly upset with his soon to be ex-wife
"He's chosen the most defendable area in the room, counted all the Daleks, counted all the exits and now he's calculating the exact distance we're standing apart and starting to worry." Amy said as the Doctor looked around the room before glancing at the two of them, "Oh, and look at him frowning now. 'Something's wrong with Amy and Rory, and who's going to fix it?' - And he straightens his bow tie!"
"We have arrived." The secretary of the Daleks said. An older woman with red hair, a lightly wrinkled face, and black clothing. The same woman that had been the Doctor's trap.
"Arrived where?!" The Doctor called, turning to face the woman
"Doctor, the Prime Minister will speak with you now." The Dalek hybrid said.
"Do you remember who you were, before they emptied you out and turned you into their puppet?" The Doctor asked the woman, getting in her face
"My memories are only re-activated if they are required to facilitate deep cover or disguise."
"You had a daughter." The Doctor said
"I know." The woman snarked, "I've read my file."
"Well?" The Doctor asked, drawing out the word as he stepped closer to the Prime Minister.
"What do you know of the Dalek Asylum?" The Dalek asked haltingly
"According to legend, you have a dumping ground." The Doctor said, "A planet where you lock up all the Daleks that go wrong. The battle-scarred, the insane. The ones even you can't control. Which never made any sense to me."
"Why not?" The Dalek asked as the Doctor's eyes started to wander
"Because you'd just kill them." The Doctor said bringing his attention back to the Prime Minister
"It is offensive to us to extinguish such divine hatred." The Dalek told the trio
"Offensive?" The Doctor asked
"Does it surprise you to know the Daleks have a concept of beauty?" The Prime Minister asked
"I thought you'd run out of ways to make me sick, but hello again." The Doctor whispered in disgust, "You think hatred is beautiful?" The Doctor shook his head before making his way over to Amy and Rory
"Perhaps that is why we have never been able to kill you." The Prime Minister said, making The Doctor pause for a moment before he continued to his companions.
"Oswin?" Rain said, feeling that the link they'd previously had was open again, "What happened with the Doctor?"
"I'm speaking with him now," was Oswin's reply, "He's actually real."
"What?" Rain asked, wondering how someone could not be real. "What am I then?"
"You don't even know your name, how do I know you're real?" Oswin asked before letting Rain listen in on her conversation with the Doctor.
"Oswin Oswald, Junior Entertainment Manager, Starship Alaska." Oswin said, "Current status - crashed and shipwrecked somewhere not nice. Been here a year, rest of the crew missing. Provisions good, but keen to move on."
"Oswin, if you've been here a year, how long have I been here?" Rain asked quietly, only to be ignored by the girl who was focused solely on the Doctor.
"A year?" The Doctor asked softly, "Are you OK, are you under attack?"
"Some local life-forms, I've been keeping them out." Oswin said.
"Do you know what those life-forms are?" The Doctor questioned, concerned for the young girl.
"I know a Dalek when I hear one, yeah." Oswin said glancing back at the wood covered door.
"What have been doing, on your own, against the Daleks for a year?!" The Doctor asked
"Making souffles." Oswin said, she would have mentioned how she'd been talking to Rain but she didn't want to explain to the girl that she lost her memory everyday.
"Souffles?! Against the Daleks?" The Doctor asked, "Where do you get the milk?"
"This conversation is irrelevant." The Prime Minister interrupted only for the Doctor to turn on him with a glare
Oswin's transmission was cut and she started to panic and type quickly in order to get the transmission back up so that she could talk to someone who was actually going to remember the conversation the next day.
"The asylum must be cleansed." The Prime Minister said
"Then why is it still here?" The Doctor asked, "You've got enough firepower on this ship, to blast it out of the sky."
"The Asylum force-field is impenetrable." The Secretary said
"Turn it off." The Doctor said, not looking away from the Daleks
"It can only be turned off from within the Asylum." She told him
"A small task force could sneak through a force-field, send in a couple of Daleks." The Doctor said, walking back to Amy and Rory before stopping half way there and turning around "Oh! Oh, that's good." He started clapping "That's brilliant. You're all too scared to go down there! Not one of you will go! So tell me - what do the Daleks do when they're too scared?"
"The predator of the Daleks will be deployed." One of the Daleks said, "The Rain must be destroyed."
"You don't have a predator." The Doctor pointed out, "And even if you did, why would they turn off a force-field for you? And why do you want to destroy the Rain? Don't want to get a little rusty?"
"Because you will have no other means of escape." The Prime Minister told the Doctor as said man looked at the Dalek in confusion before the secretary walked up to him.
"May I clarify The Predator is the Daleks' word for you." She informed
"Me?!" The Doctor yelled, "Me?!"
"You will need this. It will protect you from the Nano-cloud." The woman said, attaching a bracelet to the Doctor's wrist.
"The what, the nano-what?" The Doctor asked as two men grabbed his arms and led him down to the middle of the arena.
"The gravity beam will convey you close to the source of the transmission." The woman explained "You must find a way to deactivate the force-field from there."
"You're going to fire me at a planet?" The Doctor asked again, his voice slightly higher pitched than it had been. "That's your plan? I get fired at a planet and expected to fix it?"
"In fairness, that is slightly your MO." Rory said, leaning past Amy
"Don't be fair to the Daleks when they're firing me at a planet!" The Doctor said before turning to the Daleks as bracelets were attached to Amy and Rory "What do you want with them?!"
"It is known that the Doctor requires companions." The Dalek replied
"Oh, Brilliant." Rory groaned "Good-oh!"
"Don't worry, we'll get through this I promise." The Doctor said, looking at Amy and Rory, "Don't be scared."
"Scared? Who's scared?" Amy said, "Geronimo."
The Doctor started to laugh before being pushed into the light and transported to the Asylum, followed quickly by Amy and Rory.
Rain could sense three new lifeforms near her. She didn't know how, she didn't even know where 'here' was. She knew nothing. She didn't know if she had a real form, she couldn't feel anything. No toes or fingers, things that she was certain would be clear indicators of a real body. She knew nothing about herself but she could recite pi up to the one-hundredth digit and was absolutely positive that she wasn't spewing random numbers.
She was pretty sure she knew the equations for most basic physics concepts and even some of the more complicated ones. Such as the exact equation needed to get a rocket to fly from Earth to the Moon with three grown men on board.
She knew the makeup of every single mineral on the planet earth but she didn't even know how old she was. She knew how to travel faster than light, she could do complicated math, she was pretty sure she knew how to cook. Not that she could prove that. But she had no idea who she was and that was frustrating to no end.
Especially since she didn't even know where she was. With all these facts about Earth in her head surely she was human. But then why didn't she feel a body. And Oswin had told her that she wasn't on earth. That they were in this place called the Asylum of the Daleks, like that was normal.
One of the life forms was moving near her. She could feel them getting closer and Rain called out to them, sensing that the person, human, was startled.
"Sorry" She apologized once the man had calmed down, "So sorry, but you're close to me, and I don't know where I am."
"Your voice is in my head." She heard faintly, "How are you doing that?"
"To be honest, I have no clue." Rain said, "I won't hurt you, I don't know that I can. Turn left here."
She felt him turn left and smiled as he drew nearer.
"I'm Rain." She told him as he got nearer, "Who are you?"
"Rory" The man said
"The Rory that was with the Doctor?" She asked
"How'd you know that?" Rory said, stopping around twenty feet from Rain, "There's a door."
"Oswin told me." Rain said, "See if you can open it, there might be a panel to the side, try the right."
After a few moments Rain heard a door open and Rory gave a triumphant yell before stepping into the room. Rain smiled as she felt him draw nearer, slowly.
"Rain," Rory said cautiously, "The room is empty."
"No, you're right next to me, I promise." Rain told him, "No, wait. You're right above me. Check the floor, there might be a trap door or a panel."
She felt Rory kneel and start feeling around the floor for a panel. She could sense him right above her and it was so frustrating, not being able to see anything.
Suddenly there was a high pitched whirring and Rory let out a brief laugh before a sudden sharp gasp.
"Rain," He said gently, "You're floating in liquid. Are you sure it's safe to move you?"
"Please," Rain said, "I don't care if I die. Just get me out."
"We came down two days ago." Harvey said, leading the Doctor and Amy in his ship "There are 12 other escape pods. I don't know what happened to them."
"Alaska?" Amy asked, looking at the name of the ship
"That's the same ship as souffle girl." The Doctor said, "Except she's been here a year."
"We should have some climbing rope long enough for that hole." Harvey said moving to a panel in the wall to search for the rope.
"Won't you introduce us to your crew?" The Doctor asked, looking around the room
"Ah yeah, sorry." Harvey said, moving back into the room, "Guys, this is the Doctor and Amy." No one responded so he tried again, "Guys?"
When there was no response again The Doctor moved forward to place a hand on the closest crew members shoulder, causing the mummified corpse of the crew member to fall forward
"Oh, my God!" Harvey said as the Doctor proceeded to sonic the men
"They're dead." The Doctor told them, "All of them."
"That's not possible." Harvey said, panicking, "I just spoke to them. Two hours ago, we were doing engine repairs!"
"You're sure about that, are you?" The Doctor asked, moving around the room "Cos I'd say they've all been dead for a very long time."
"But but they can't have been" Harvey argued
"Well, they didn't get in that state in two hours." Amy pointed out, watching the mummies with caution.
"Oh, of course! Stupid me." Harvey exclaimed, drawing the attention of Amy and the Doctor to him.
"Of course, what?" Amy asked
"I died outside and the cold preserved my body." Harvey explained as his forehead started to grow one of the dalek stalks out of it "I forgot about dying."
"Amy!" The Doctor called and he used a fire extinguisher to stop Harvey from moving forward "The door!"
Amy rushed to the door and opened it in time for the Doctor to shove Harvey into a separate room before closing the door and taking a deep breath.
"Explain!" Amy demanded, moving behind the ladder, "That's what you're good at. How did he get all Daleked?"
"Because he wasn't wearing one of these." The Doctor said, lifting up his arm to show Amy the bracelets they had been given, before getting really excited about something "Oh-hoho! That's clever! The nano-cloud. Micro-organisms that automatically process any organic matter, living or dead, into a Dalek puppet. Anything attacks this place, it automatically becomes part of the on-site security."
"Living or dead?" Amy asked, looking around the room worriedly
"These wristbands protect us." The Doctor continued, not hearing Amy, "The only thing stopping us going exactly"
"Doctor, SHUT up!" Amy yelled when she was in front of the Doctor before reiterating, "Living or dead?!"
"Yes, exactly," The Doctor said as the Mummies started to move. "living, or, or dead. Oh, dear."
The Doctor and Amy rushed to the door that they hadn't shoved Harvey in and opened it quickly. The Doctor went in first followed by Amy. As Amy went through the door she was grabbed by one of the Dalek hybrids and her anti-nanocloud bracelet was forced off her wrist.
"Is it bad that I've REALLY missed this?" Amy asked as she and the Doctor leaned against the door to catch their breath after the Doctor had forced the Dalek-Hybrid to release Amy.
"Yes." The Doctor said with a mock frown
"Good." Amy smiled
"I know." The Doctor, pushing off the door as a voice sounded over the intercoms
"Unauthorised personnel may not enter the cockpit." Oswin said, her voice slightly muffled
"Shut up!" The Doctor commanded
"Ooh, Mr Grumpy!" Oswin chided, "Bad combo! No sense of humour and that chin."
"Is that her again - souffle girl?" Amy asked, but the Doctor ignored her in order to oppose Oswin's comment.
"What is wrong with my chin?!" He asked, offended, as he brought his chin closer to the camera that Oswin was watching them through
"Careful, dear, you'll put someone's eye out." Oswin mocked, before getting back to business, "I'm scanning you. You're on another of the escape pods from the Alaska, right? Same ship I was on."
"How can you hack into everything?" The Doctor asked, "Should be impossible, you're in a crashed ship!"
"Long story." Oswin said, typing away at the keyboard that was on her lap, "Is there a word for total screaming genius, that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?"
"Doctor." The Doctor said with a smirk, "You call me the Doctor."
"I see what you did there." Oswin said, "Check the floor. I'm picking up a breach at floor level, there could be a way out."
"See you later!" The Doctor called as he went to search the floor as Oswin had suggested. "Aha, hatch!" He lifted the hatch to reveal a hole that went straight down with a rope ladder hanging on it. "Looks like it's been used already, and they tried to block it off behind them."
"Can't imagine why!" Amy said, as the Dalek-Hybrids started to pound on the door.
"The lower part of the pod is buried, so this must go straight down into the Asylum." The Doctor said as they looked down the hole to find they were unable to see the bottom
"Where Rory is?" Amy asked, worried for her soon to be ex-husband
"Speaking of Rory Anything you want to tell me?" The Doctor asked, looking up at Amy in concern
"Are we going to do this now?!" Amy asked, looking at the Doctor like he was stupid, which was her current opinion of him, if she was being honest.
"What happened" The Doctor asked, the concern for his companions evident in both his expression and his tone.
"Oh, stuff, you know." Amy said nonchalantly, "We split up. What can you do?"
"What can I do?" The Doctor asked, causing Amy to look away
"Nothing. It's not one of those things you can fix like you fix your bow tie." She reached out and tweaked his bow tie a little as the Doctor gave her puppy-dog eyes, "Don't give me those big wet eyes, raggedy man. It's life. Just life. That thing that goes on when you're not there." She looked down the hole to draw the conversation away from the lack of love-life between her and Rory, "OK, so someone else got out this way then?" The Doctor nodded, "Let's go and find them."
Before they could start down the hole the Dalek-Hybrids started to get more violent. The Doctor ran over to the door and used the sonic to open the video link only to see that they had a bracelet just like the ones he and Amy were wearing.
"Oh, hello, hello, hello?" He asked as the hybrids pushed to be at the front of the video link.
"What are they up to?" Amy asked, also noticing the bracelets, "What's that?"
"One of these." The Doctor said absently, raising his wrist to show Amy his bracelet. "Where did they get it?"
"Doctor!" Amy called, after checking her wrist, she lifted it to show him, "They got it from me!"
"Oh, Amy!" The Doctor said, grabbing her wrist and looking between it and the video link.
"Doctor?" Amy asked, "What's going to happen to me?" He walked away so Amy followed him as he neared the hole, "Seriously, tell me, what?"
The Doctor just shushed Amy, not wanting to scare his friend. However he knew that this was very, very bad. Thereabouts of twelve suitcases full of bad
Once Rory had gotten the girl out he moved her out of the room and laid her out on the floor. He could see that she was still breathing and he checked the rest of her for injuries.
"Rain?" Rory asked, "Rain, can you open your eyes?"
I don't have control of my body yet. The voice, Rain's voice, flitted through his mind, I didn't even know I had a body until just now, couldn't feel a damn thing.
"How did you know I was there, then?" Rory asked, looking around at the Daleks that were near the duo.
It's like, I can sense life forms. There are 30, 344, 544, 504.5 Daleks here. Rain said and Rory looked at her, shocked.
"How can there be half a Dalek?" Rory asked
Oswin, she's not completely human, not completely Dalek. Rian said, I just woke up today, I didn't even know my name until she told me.
"How'd she know then?" Rory asked before standing up and walking over to one of the Daleks.
She said the Daleks fear me or something. Rain told him, 'Fear the Rain' or something like that.
"Ee-ee-ee-eex" The Dalek started, startling Rory and making him forget his response
"What? Sorry - what?"
"Eggzz, eggzz, eggzz, eggzz, eggzz." The Dalek said and Rory pointed to one of the egg shaped things near the Dalek that matched the domes on its body
"Eggs?" He asked, "D'you mean those things?"
"Egggzzzzzzzz."
"I don't I don't know what you want." Rory said
"Those things?" Rory tried again, "Are those things eggs? This? You want this?"
Rory Rain said, careful.
"Eggggzzz term in ate. Eggzz term in ate. Ex term in ate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!"
Rory ran over as the Dalek tried to kill him and picked up Rain
"Run!" A voice called and Rory ran, "The door at the end, run for it! They're waking up but they're slow. The door at the end, just run."
That's Oswin, Rain said, Do as she says, just run.
"Now, now, now!" Oswin called again as Rory neared the door. All of the Daleks in the room started to go after them too
"Exterminate! Exterminaaaaate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Daleks called, following Rory as the man entered the other door with Rain still in his arms and only seconds to spare
"So anyway." Oswin said when "I'm Oswin. What do I call you?"
"Er I can't even remember."
Rory
"Er Rory." He said, casting a glance at the woman in his arms.
"Lovely name, Rory." Oswin said, "First boy I ever fancied was called Rory. OK Actually, she was called Nina, I was going through a phase. Just flirting to keep you cheerful."
"Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Daleks called, running into the doors as they tried to get through the door.
"Okay Any time you want to start flirting again it's fine by me" Rory said, making Rain chuckle.
"So, tell me." Amy demanded of the Doctor "What's going to happen to me? And don't lie, cos I know when you're lying to me and I will definitely fall on you."
"The air all around is full of micro-machines, robots the size of molecules, nanogenes." The Doctor said, "Now that you're unprotected, you're being re-written."
"So, what happens?" Amy asked, "I get one of those things sticking out my head?"
"Physical changes come later." The Doctor told her.
"What comes first, how does it start?" Amy asked
"With your mind." The Doctor explained, "Your feelings, your memories and I'm sorry, but it's started already."
"How do you know?" Amy questioned, stopping the Doctor with panic evident in her voice
"Because we've had this conversation four times." The Doctor said, grabbing Amy's hand and moving them forward
"OK." Amy voiced, "Scared now."
"Hang on to scared." The Doctor demanded, "Scared isn't Dalek."
A/N: Alright. In honor of the creation of Doctor Who, and the fact that I got the classes I wanted for the next quarter, I have decided to post early. The next part of this episode will go up on Thursday when I'm on the train to my dad's house. Until then, enjoy your selves and make sure you tell the people you love that you're thankful for them.
From Rain's point of view at first she isn't using telepathy. She's disoriented for awhile. If you get confused about point of views let me know. Later on it becomes first person and a lot easier to understand