Chapter Four
"Mmmmm, delicious," Rose said, to herself.
She was walking down the hall towards the console room sipping a nice, cool glass of milk.
"Hey, Doctor, thanks for picking up some milk yesterday," she said as she stepped into the console room. "After drinking that Yabo milk the other day I was ready for some good old Earth milk and…"
She stopped short, and her mouth fell open, when she saw a Dalek near the front door.
"Doctor?" she said, in a hushed whisper while she slowly backed away from it.
"Rose?" the Doctor said, as he popped up from behind the Dalek.
He smiled at her.
"Ah, there you are. I thought I heard you come in."
Rose stared at him. He was squatting behind the Dalek, and the Dalek wasn't attacking.
"Doctor, what is going on?" she said.
"Hmmm?" the Doctor said. "What do you mean?"
He glanced at the Dalek.
"Oh! You mean this?" he said, pointing to it.
"Yes, I mean that! What is a Dalek doing in the console room, and why aren't you dead?" Rose said.
"Oh, well, the reason why I'm not dead is perfectly simple. It's because the Dalek is."
"Is what?"
"Dead. The Dalek is dead. This is just the armor. It came from that Dalek that was stuck in here when I landed around you. I reconstructed it, so it looks exactly the way it did before."
"Why?"
"Weeeell, I was thinking I could keep it, as a kind of trophy, but then, I got to thinking; if I hollowed it out and added some power to it to make it go, I could go among my enemies and do reconnaissance."
He grinned at her, as he stood up.
"And I did just that. Have a look," he said.
He pushed a button on top of the Dalek's head. Rose came nearer, as the Dalek split open to reveal a hollow shell.
"Now," the Doctor said, leaning over the top. "If you notice there is a little rubber stick in here. This is what I use to guide the Dalek, the little stick next to it moves the head around, and the other controls operate the eyestalk, blaster and plunger doo-hickey. I can see out the eyepiece, and I put in a little voice modifier, so my voice will sound like a Dalek.
He came around the front and stepped up into it.
"Now, if I hunker down like so…and I use this button inside here to close it…"
Rose watched, as the shell closed back around the Doctor's body.
"AND NOW, IF I SPEAK INTO THE MOD-I-FI-ER AND TALK LIKE THE DALEKS, I SOUND JUST LIKE ONE," he said. "AREN'T YOU IM-PRESSED ROSE TY-LER?"
"Whoopie," Rose said, spinning her finger around
The shell opened, and the Doctor stared at her indignantly.
"What do you mean "Whoopie?" he said. "I spent a lot of hours fixing this thing up. I'm quite proud of it."
Rose shrugged.
"Personally, I would have thrown the thing in the rubbish bin, but boys and their toys, I guess."
"Hmmmph, well, I'm proud of myself for doing this."
"Gee, that's a shocker!"
The Doctor rolled his eyes and stepped out of the shell.
"Well, just for that. We're gonna take this little baby out for a test run."
Rose sighed.
"New Skaro, again?"
"Yup."
Rose rolled her eyes. She walked over to the captain's chair and slumped down in it, as the Doctor punched the coordinates in.
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(New Skaro)
The TARDIS door opened, and Rose looked out.
"Alright, all clear. No Daleks around," she said.
She stepped back and watched, as Dalek Doctor glided out onto the surface of the planet.
THANK YOU ROSE TY-LER FOR YOUR RE-PORT. I WILL GRANT YOU YOUR LIFE IN RETURN FOR YOUR LOYAL SER-VICE," he said.
Rose flipped him off.
"DO NOT MAKE O-FFENSIVE HAND GES-TURES, OR I WILL EX-TER-MIN-ATE YOU!"
"Yeah, yeah, just go and do your reconnaissance before I blast ya into atoms or something," Rose said.
She turned and gasped when she felt the plunger hit her butt and suction itself onto it.
"NICE ASS, TOOTS! WHAT'S YOUR SIGN?"
"DOCTOR! GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME THIS INSTANT."
"IN A MO-MENT, I'M PLUN-GERING YOU UP!"
"DOCTOR!"
The Doctor let go and backed away.
"ROSE TY-LER NEEDS TO LIGHT-EN UP!" he said, as he glided away towards the city.
Rose sighed and shook her head.
"Soon as he comes back, and we get airborne, that thing is going into the vortex," she said.
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"Ah, here we go, into the heart of New Skaro," the Doctor muttered, as he entered the city. "Now I shall see what my ancient enemies are planning."
"RUFUS!"
The Doctor spun around and saw a Dalek approaching him.
"I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD, RUFUS!" the Dalek said. "THEY SAID THE DOC-TOR LANDED ON YOU AND THAT WAS THE LAST ANY-ONE SAW OF YOU? WHAT HAP-PENED?"
"Rufus? My name is Rufus?" the Doctor muttered to himself. "I thought only the Cult of Skaro were supposed to have names."
He shrugged.
"Oh well, learn something new every day," he said.
He spoke into the modifier.
"I MAN-AGED TO ES-CAPE THE DOC-TOR WHEN HE WASN'T LOOK-ING!" he said. "HE IS SUCH A STU-PID I-DI-OT!"
"YOU GOT THAT RIGHT, AND HE IS UGLY TOO!"
"I am not ugly, you oversized pepper pot," the Doctor muttered.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY, RUFUS?"
"NOTHING, I SAID NOTHING."
"OH, WELL, COME WITH ME. I WAS JUST GOING TO GO TO THE THEATER AND TAKE IN A SHOW."
"Come again?" the Doctor muttered. "A show?"
He spoke into the modifier.
"SOUNDS GOOD…UM…I FOR-GET YOUR NAME. THE DOC-TOR TRIED TO BRAINWASH ME BE-FORE I ES-CAPED."
"MY NAME IS GER-TRUDE. I WAS YOUR GIRL-FRIEND!"
The Doctor's eyes bulged out of his head.
"They have girlfriends?" he said, in disbelief.
He spoke into the modifier.
"OH YES, THAT'S RIGHT, HONEY. IT WAS HELL ON ME BE-ING IN THE TAR-DIS. THE DOC-TOR TOR-TURED ME, AND I HAVE MEM-O-RY LOSS FROM THE TRAUMA."
"OH DEAR, I'M GLAD YOU'RE ALL RIGHT NOW!" Gertrude said. "IF YOU AREN'T FEELING THAT WELL, MAY-BE WE CAN SKIP THE SHOW."
"Not on your life, sister. I want to see what this show is all about."
He spoke into the modifier.
"NO, I'M FEEL-ING BET-TER. I WOULD LOVE TO GO SEE THE SHOW. IT WILL CHEER ME UP!"
"OH OKAY, WELL, FOLLOW ME THEN!" Gertrude said.
The Doctor watched, as Gertrude went further into the city.
"Dalek theater. Now this I gotta see," the Doctor muttered, as he followed her.