Chapter Two
The Doctor winced, as the TARDIS landed with a thump on New Skaro.
"Shhhh…not so loud, girl. I don't want Rose to wake up," he said.
The TARDIS burbled an apology. The Doctor patted her console in reply, and she gave another happy burble.
"Keep an eye on my Rose, I'll be right back," he said to the TARDIS.
He headed to the doors and peeked out. He was once again outside the walls of the city. Peeking around the corner, he saw the usual sentry guarding the entrance. Whistling, he strolled up to him.
"IT IS THE DOC-TOR! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!" the sentry yelled.
He shot at the Doctor. The Doctor casually sidestepped the blast and walked up to the Dalek.
"YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE DOC-TOR!" the sentry said, angrily. "I WILL DESTROY…"
The Dalek was silenced, as the Doctor pushed a tiny button on the side of its head, and the metal casing slid apart to reveal the true Dalek inside.
"WAIT! WHAT IS THE MEAN-ING OF THIS? HOW DID YOU OPEN MY AR-MOR?"
The Doctor said nothing. Casually he reached inside and plucked the slimy, squid-like creature from its resting place.
Tucking the Dalek under his arm, he strolled back to his TARDIS.
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Rose walked down the hallway towards the TV room. She paused outside the door when she noticed the Doctor was already sitting on the couch.
"Oh, great, now I have to argue with the Doctor over the remote," she muttered, as she entered the room.
She paused when she noticed there was a purple, slimy mass resting on a newspaper beside him. As she neared the couch, her eyes widened when she suddenly realized what the purple mass was.
"Oh my God, is that a Dalek?" she said, pointing to it.
"Shhhh, my new pet is trying to watch the telly with me," the Doctor said.
He looked down at the Dalek.
"Isn't that right, Spot?" he asked him.
"I WILL GET YOU FOR THIS, DOC-TOR!" the Dalek said, telepathically, to him and Rose.
The Doctor grabbed a rolled up newspaper sitting on the coffee table in front of him, and thwacked the Dalek's head.
"Bad Spot! You don't threaten your master like that!" he said, thwacking him repeatedly. "Bad, bad Dalek!"
"Doctor, have you gone insane?" Rose said, sitting down on the other side of him. "That's a Dalek!"
She gasped, as the Doctor thwacked her on the head with the paper.
"Bad Rose! You don't question your master's sanity like that!" he said, thwacking her repeatedly. "Bad, bad, companion!"
Rose grabbed the paper from his hand and flung it across the room.
"You see that, Spot," the Doctor said, to the Dalek. "She grabbed that paper out of my hand. I'm gonna have to send her to obedience school now."
"YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS, DOC-TOR! I AM NOT A PET! I AM A DALEK! MY PURPOSE IS TO KILL YOU AND DE-STROY! I WILL NOT BE HU-MIL-I-ATED! I…"
"SHHHHH! Daddy's trying to watch a program on the telly!" he said, to it.
He looked at Rose.
"I guess I'll be sending Spot to obedience school too," he said, to her.
"I s'pose you think you're clever."
The Doctor raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, I am clever. Extremely clever. Why, was that in debate at some point in time?" he asked, shocked.
"Doctor, we are not keeping a Dalek as a pet," she said, pointing to it.
"Why, I let you keep Mickey in here."
"Mickey is not an ugly, purple piece of snot."
She quickly jabbed her finger in the Doctor's face.
"Don't you dare say it," she said, when she saw the Doctor's smirk. "I know a smart assed remark is about to come out of ya, and believe me, I will give you the mother of all slaps if you say it!"
The smirk fell off the Doctor's face, and he neatly folded his hands in his lap.
"Thank you," Rose said, lowering her hand to her lap.
"HE ISN'T AN UGLY, PURPLE PIECE OF SNOT? I HADN'T NOTICED!"
Before Rose could react, the Doctor leapt up, vaulted over the coffee table, and ran out the door.
Rose sat and listened to the Doctor yelling back "NAH, NAH, CAN'T CATCH MEEEEEEEEEEE!"
She looked at the Dalek.
"I can understand why you want to kill the Doctor so badly. Sometimes I feel like doing that myself," she said to it.
"THEN JOIN US, ROSE TYLER. BECOME A DALEK, AND WE CAN EX-TER-MIN-ATE THE DOC-TOR TO-GE-THER!"
Rose stared at the Dalek for a moment, as she considered that.
"Nah, on second though, I don't wanna become an ugly, purple piece of snot," she said, as she grabbed the remote and changed the channel.
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Meanwhile, back on New Skaro…
A group of Daleks clustered around the abandoned armor and examined it.
"WHAT HAP-PENED TO LOUIS?" one Dalek asked. "HE WAS SUP-POSED TO BE ON GUARD DU-TY, AND NOW, HE'S GONE."
"MAYBE HE STEPPED OUT TO GO TAKE A PEE," one Dalek offered.
"WE DON'T HAVE TO PEE, MORON. WE'RE BLOODY DALEKS!" another said hitting him on the dome with his eyestalk.
"DON'T HIT ZEKE. HE CAN'T HELP BEING SLOW. THEY RAN OUT OF HU-MAN DNA, SO THE EM-PO-ROR DALEK COMBINED HIS DNA WITH THE DNA OF A BA-NA-NA."
"WHY A BA-NA-NA?" the Dalek asked.
"THE DOC-TOR LEFT IT BEHIND ONCE, SO THE EM-PO-ROR DALEK USED IT, AND NOW, ZEKE IS AN ID-I-OT."
"MAY-BE HE WENT OUT FOR A JOG!" Zeke offered.
All eyestalks turned to Zeke.
"OR THE DOC-TOR TOOK HIM BACK TO THE TAR-DIS AND MADE HIM INTO A PET?" he said.
"DON'T BE RI-DI-CU-LOUS, ZEKE! THE DOC-TOR WOULDN'T DO THAT!" another Dalek said.
"WHY NOT? WE MAKE GREAT PETS, DON'T WE?" Zeke said, swiveling his eyestalk around to look at his fellow Daleks.
The other Daleks looked at each other and groaned.
COME ON; LET'S GO SOME-WHERE WHERE ZEKE'S STU-PID-ITY WON'T RUB OFF ON US!" one of the Daleks said.
Muttering in agreement, the other Daleks glided off and left Zeke alone.
"WHAT?" Zeke said, confused.
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Spot's eye looked around in terror. A few hours ago, the Doctor and Rose had landed, dropped him off, and took off again. He stared fearfully at the television cameras pointed at him and looked up at Kevin Brauch who was standing near him.
"Welcome back to Iron Chef America," he was saying to the camera. "I'm Kevin Brauch, your floor reporter, and if you remember, we told you before the break that today's ingredient was squid, and now, Masaharu Morimorto is about to slice up this hefty specimen and fry him in oil. And here he comes now."
Spot's eye widened in terror, when he saw a huge Japanese guy standing over him with an enormous butcher knife.
"OH, SHIT!" he said, as the knife came towards him.