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Chapter Seventeen: Judge, Jury, and Executioner

Ry'kla looked at Lora with contempt. "I have waited long for this moment. Now at last I can looking into the eyes of my captor and realize her life is in my hands."

Martha looked alarmed at Ry'kla, she was freaking her out some. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea for the Doctor to have left her and Ry'kla here with Ms. Lai "Uhh Ry'kla, the Doctor told us to watch her, not kill her."

She said coldly, "Forty-five years I have spent in her keeping and do you expect me to look at her fondly? Forty-five years of my life stolen. I have family, family back on Mala'shi who no doubt believe that I am dead. Do you know what that's like, human?"

Martha was about to respond but Ry'kla answered. "No, you do not. But I do not believe that killing her would make me happy. But making her suffer for it is another." She glared at Lora and said, "You have no sorrow in your heart for what you have done. I can tell. To you, I am nothing but an object, some quant attraction for everyone to look at and be amused by. Well then, it's time I was amused."

Ms. Lai was quiet, she said nothing; she only looked at Ry'kla with a wry looking smile on her face.

"Ry'kla, the Doctor wouldn't like this." Martha said and put a hand on Ry'kla for fear she might try and do something.

She snorted, "What would the Time Lord like? My heart bleeds with anger."

Martha sighed, "The Doctor will handle it. He'll make sure she's punished. I know, I have seen the Doctor handle people like her, she'll be punished enough."

She looked at Martha sadly, "How will he handle it?"

"I don't know Ry'kla, but the Doctor has his ways. Believe me; nothing can top anything you could do to her than what he will do. And the Doctor, he'll try his best to fix what's happened to you. I don't know if he'll be able to get you home Ry'kla but he'll do his best."

Ry'kla looked a bit sullen and said, "I hope you are right….Martha Jones, because I hurt terribly inside. It is a pain almost too much for even me to bear."

Martha gave Ry'kla a squeeze, "I know….I mean….I am a long way from home and from my family too."

Ry'kla sighed, "Tell me about your family. Perhaps it will ease my pain…"

Martha sighed and began to tell Ry'kla about her home, her job, her life, her family, everything she could to help her to forget what she was feeling.

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The Doctor wandered around, the menagerie looked empty. Anyone who had been in here earlier had either been killed, or had ran off. He didn't blame them. He coughed a bit; the area stank of foul putrid gasses, and they still hung in the air. He held his hand over his mouth. The Doctor wished he had dismantled Caan completely but he hadn't. He had only used a few components from inside his adversary's machine. But that didn't mean the Dalek was dead; far from it. And seeing how this place was as quiet as a grave yard, Caan could have easily scavenged parts and tried to rebuild himself.

The Doctor had troubles seeing and he quietly walked over various pieces of rubble and dead corpses that hung around. He ducked to the ground suddenly as he saw a Dalek blaster beam headed right towards him and it barely missed him.

The Doctor glared angrily but spoke, "I guess you want to die, Caan."

No answer. Right, he had dismantled the Dalek's vocalizer. He could have kicked himself now for doing that. He could hear nothing, see nothing. What a stupid thing to do, a quiet Dalek was a deadly Dalek. With them squawking all the time, the Doctor could hear his enemy when they approached. But now nothing, he was as good as blind and deaf in this dead menagerie.

The Doctor crawled through the rubble. It was like being back on Gallifrey for a moment. Crawling through carnage and wasted buildings, trying to evade the Enemy. Enemy capitalized, because there was only one true enemy of the Time Lords and that was the Daleks.

The Doctor pondered what he could do and then a grin appeared on his face. He suddenly had an idea and he knew what to do. He climbed inside one of the broken enclosures; it flickered lightly, with its fake holographic representation of a planet or a place on a planet. He walked over to a control panel and he took his sonic screwdriver and tweaked with it a bit. It cycled through various holographic settings and the Doctor made sure he disabled the safety protocols. Various jungles, deserts, and other vistas appeared that he recognized. He chose a setting from the holographic representations, an icy cold setting, from an ice world. He could feel the cold tare into him with biting needles. He grinned as he stepped out onto a frozen patch of ice. He slid lightly and he put his sonic screwdriver to the patch and caused the ice to crack lightly. He grinned; he only hoped that this plan would work, and his faith that the hologram would react as if it was in a real world scenario. Most holograms and holographic programs that he knew of were programmed so well, that most people couldn't honestly tell the difference between the program and a real honest to goodness place.

Caan entered the hologram. The Doctor smirked lightly. The way Caan moved, he acted like he was half drunk. His machine pitched back and forth violently as it entered and the Doctor laughed. In his attempts to prepare an escape, he must have ended up severing some of Caan's internal drive mechanisms.

"A piece of junk, and you're still trying to exterminating me, huh, Caan? This just proves how stupid your race really is."

Caan fired a bolt and the Doctor dogged it as he ended up on the ground. The bolt ended up hitting the back of the hologram, somewhere. The Dalek began to make its way onto the ice patch. The Doctor grinned, "I wouldn't step on to this if I were you." The Dalek kept coming forward.

"Okay…." The Doctor took his sonic screwdriver and cracked the ice. The ice cracked and began to shatter. The Doctor ran as fast as he could, converse trainers slipping across the ice. The ice creaking and cracking as the Doctor managed to get off the ice just in time and the ice shattering and taking Caan with it and the Dalek ended up in freezing cold water. The Doctor ran over to where the control panel was and fiddled with it some more. The ice froze over sealing the Dalek in; a blaster bolt was fired from Caan breaking the ice. The Doctor cycled quickly through various holograms. One of them was of a volcanic environment and right where the frozen pond had been was a volcano with hot molten lava.

The Doctor climbed the mountainous terrain and he tried to peak in as far as he could into the volcano's mouth. He did not see a trace of Caan anywhere. Either the Dalek had managed to perish in holographic lava, as he had managed to disable the safety switch, or Caan ended up using a temporal shift and had once again escaped. What ever was the case, the Doctor didn't care at this moment in time. What actually did matter was the threat had been taken care of and the Doctor slowly began to wander back to Martha, Ms. Lai, and Ry'kla.