Chapter Six
"Right," The Doctor said, as he rolled out of the theater. "Time to teach the Daleks a lesson. No one mocks me, or Rose, and gets away with it."
He paused and looked around, getting a layout of the city. Smirking, he headed over into the town square and observed the Daleks going about their business.
"Look out, Daleks, the Oncoming Storm is about to hit," he muttered.
He spoke into the modifier.
"LOOK OUT, IT IS THE DOC-TOR!" he said.
The Daleks around him gasped.
"WHERE?" they said. "WHERE IS THE DOC-TOR? WE MUST DESTROY HIM!"
"HE IS THIS WAY! I WILL LEAD YOU TO HIM. FOLLOW ME!" the Doctor said.
He took off down a side street while all the Daleks around him formed a line behind him and followed. The Doctor smirked, as he weaved his way around and around the city, leading the Daleks on a wild goose chase.
"WELL, WHERE IS THE DOC-TOR, RUFUS?" the Dalek behind him said.
The Doctor spun his eyestalk around.
"KEEP YOUR BUMPS ON, I'M TRY-ING TO LO-CATE HIM!" he said.
He turned his eyestalk back around and led the Daleks around in circles. By this time, others had joined them, and the line stretched back almost a mile.
"Superior race, eh?" the Doctor muttered. "More like a race of obedient little gits."
He smirked.
"Let's speed this up a bit, shall we?" he said.
He spoke into the modifier.
"I SEE HIM. IT IS THE DOC-TOR!" he said.
"WHERE, WHERE?"
"THIS WAY. FOLLOW ME! HURRY!"
The Doctor took off at full speed.
"COME ON, KEEP UP! HE IS THIS WAY!" he said, to the others.
He snickered, as the other Daleks followed him like a herd of sheep. More and more Daleks joined the chase until almost the entire population was behind him undulating like a metal snake, as he led them all around the city.
After about twenty minutes of this, when nearly all the Daleks were following the Doctor, he decided to bring the whole chase to it's climax.
"Red light!" the Doctor said.
He stopped short and felt the Dalek behind him stop. He quickly pulled up away from the others, and turned his eyestalk around watching, as the chain reaction sent the Daleks slamming into one another with an enormous earth-shattering, CLANG! He paused enjoying the sound of the Daleks slamming into each other.
"Yup, definitely a superior race at work here," he said, as the clanging echoed in the distance.
"RUFUS, WHY DID YOU STOP?" the Dalek directly in front of him said.
"I'M SORRY, I SAW THE DOC-TOR RUN OUT IN FRONT OF ME. MY BAD," the Doctor said.
The Dalek's eyestalk swiveled from side to side.
"WHERE? I DID NOT SEE HIM!" he said.
"YOU COULDN'T SEE HIM BE-CAUSE I WAS IN FRONT OF YOU," the Doctor said.
"OH! I GUESS THAT MAKES SENSE."
The Doctor snickered, as the Daleks backed away from each other.
"Stupid gits," he muttered.
He spoke into the modifier.
"THERE HE IS! IT IS THE DOC-TOR! BEHIND YOU!"
He giggled when some of the Daleks turned quickly, banged into others and smacked them with their plungers and eyestalks.
"SORRY, I THOUGHT I SAW HIM AGAIN. MY BAD!"
The Daleks grumbled at him, as they turned and headed back towards the center of the city.
"WHAT? DON'T YOU WANT TO LOOK FOR THE DOC-TOR?" the Doctor said.
"GIVE IT A REST, RUFUS," one of the Daleks said.
"BUT THE DOC-TOR IS NEAR!"
The Daleks ignored him, as they went about their business.
"Okay, I'll make you believe me then," the Doctor said.
He hurried off down a side street towards the center of the city. When he had reached the street leading towards it, he looked around a house and saw the Daleks were back to normal. Backing up slightly, he got out of the Dalek shell, put his hands in his pockets, and strolled casually out into the street.
"IT IS THE DOC-TOR!" one of the Daleks said.
The Doctor put his hand over his right heart and gave them a look of mock horror.
"Oh no, I have landed in New Skaro somehow. Whatever shall I do?" he said.
"DESTROY THE DOC-TOR! WE MUST NOT LET HIM LIVE!"
"EEEEEEEK!" the Doctor shrieked, as he threw up his hands and scampered away.
He quickly hopped into the Dalek shell and managed to close it, just as the Daleks rounded the corner.
"RUFUS, WHERE IS THE DOC-TOR?" one of the Daleks said.
"HE WENT THIS WAY. FOLLOW ME!"
He headed off and paused when he saw the Daleks hadn't moved.
"THE DOC-TOR IS THIS WAY! HERE, I'LL SHOW YOU!" he said.
He glided up to the next street and turned the corner, as the rest of the Daleks watched. The Doctor hopped out and ran back towards them.
"AAAAAAAAAH! THE DALEKS!" he said, in a high-pitched girly voice.
"THERE HE IS! WE MUST DESTROY HIM!" the lead Dalek said.
The Doctor waved and quickly ran back to his disguise. He hopped in, and shut it, as the Daleks rounded the corner.
"SEE, I WAS TELL-ING THE TRUTH!" he said to them.
"OKAY, OKAY, WHERE IS HE NOW?" the lead Dalek asked.
The Doctor raised his eyestalk and looked over their heads.
"HE IS OVER THERE BE-HIND YOU!" he said.
The Daleks spun around in unison.
"WHERE, WHERE?" they said, heading down the street.
"NO, WAIT, HE IS OVER HERE BE-HIND ME!" the Doctor said.
"WHERE, WHERE?" the Daleks said spinning back around and gliding towards the Doctor.
"NO, WAIT, HE'S OVER THERE AGAIN! HE GOT BE-HIND YOU AGAIN SOME-HOW!"
The Daleks spun around again and headed back down towards the street. By this time, there were five rows with five Daleks in each row. All of them moved as one, as they tried to find the Doctor.
"NO, HERE HE IS, BE-HIND ME AGAIN!" the Doctor said.
He giggled, as the Daleks turned in unison and began to come towards him again.
"Wow, I've just invented a new sport. Dalek line dancing," he said, to himself.
"NO," he said. "I'M WRONG. NOW HE'S OVER THERE AGAIN!"
The Daleks turned.
"NO WAIT, HE'S OVER HERE! KA FARAQ GATRI IS VERY CRAFTY! HOW CAN WE HOPE TO DE-FEAT HIM?"
He snickered, as the Daleks spun back around. He opened his mouth to speak when suddenly the Daleks turned back around again, and again, and again. The Doctor watched amused, as the Daleks went back and forth automatically while they tried to determine where the Doctor had gone.
"Yup, I am the definitely the superior being here," he said, watching them.
As the Daleks turned again, one dizzy Dalek in the front bumped into the one beside him. The bump set off the Dalek's blaster. The laser flew up over the Doctor's head and hit the house beside him. A chunk of plaster fell down and hit the button on the Dalek Doctor's dome. The Daleks paused, as the Dalek opened to reveal a very surprised Doctor inside.
"IT IS THE DOC-TOR! HE IS INSIDE RUFUS!" the lead Dalek said.
"Um, no, wait!" the Doctor said, thinking fast. "It is I, Rufus!"
"YOU ARE NOT RUFUS; YOU ARE THE DOC-TOR! DESTROY HIM!"
"No! Listen to me! I am Rufus! I caught up with the Doctor, and I absorbed him, and used his body and his DNA to become a human/Dalek hybrid. I am Dalek Doctor and..."
He stood up and lifted his arms to the sky.
"I AM REBORN!" he said.
He paused and stared at the Daleks.
"You aren't buying this one bit, are ya?" he said.
"KILL HIM!"
The Doctor shrieked and leapt out of the Dalek. He ran for his life in a zigzag pattern, as the Daleks pursued him and tried to shoot him down.
"BLAST! SOMETIMES I'M TOO CLEVER FOR MY OWN GOOD!" he screamed, as he headed towards the city gates.
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Rose was sitting on the captain's chair reading a book. She jumped out of her skin when she heard the door slam and looked up to see the Doctor running towards the console at full speed.
"Well, how'd the reconnaissance go?" she asked.
She frowned when the Doctor rounded the console and punched coordinates into the computer.
"Doctor? Why is your hair on fire?" she asked.
The Doctor paused and looked at his reflection in the monitor. His eyes widened when he saw the top of his hair was burning. Shrieking, he smacked at his hair desperately trying to extinguish the flames. Rose leapt off the seat and helped him. After a minute, the flames were out and the Doctor resumed punching in coordinates.
"Wanna tell me what that was about?" Rose asked.
"Daleks…shot at me….played prank…got my hair….my fabulous hair….singed…Daleks will pay for burning my doo…" the Doctor sputtered out.
Rose shook her head. She sat back down, as the Doctor ran around the console pushing buttons and pulling levers.
"Told ya that one of these days these pranks would come back to bite ya in the ass," she said.
The Doctor ignored her. He pulled the Vortex Loop and collapsed against the console, as the TARDIS dematerialized.
"That was close. Too close," he panted.
Rose shrugged.
"I keep telling ya not to mess with them, Doctor. I hope you learned a lesson from all this."
"I did actually."
The Doctor leaned back up and stomped away.
"I learned, I gotta come up with a foolproof plan next time," he said.
Rose sighed.
"Doctor!"
The Doctor spun around and jabbed a finger at her.
"They will pay, Rose! No one singes the ruff and lives to tell about it!"
Rose rolled her eyes while the Doctor left the room to plan his revenge.