And I've got a bit of time again. Woohoo. (-.-) Anyway, it's been a long few weeks. I only got a few reviews, and I'd love some more, but really I'm just wanting you to read. You telling me I'm good at writing and that you love my story would only give me joy and faith in myself, no biggie. *hint hint*

Anyway, I'm now eighteen and legally an adult.

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who, because I would never torture my poor Doctor the way Moffat does.

~.*§Found§*.~

Chapter 2: Priorities of Man

The Doctor ran down the hall, fully clothed, with Van Statten and his guards following closely. The group rushed into Van Statten's main office and turned their attention to the TV screens that showed the Cage. "You've got to keep it in that cell." The Doctor said, leaning into the mic, face stormy.

Rose turned to the camera on the wall monitor and gave it a pleading look. "Doctor, it's all my fault." she said guiltily.

A guard in the room stated, "I've sealed the compartment. It can't get out, that lock's got a billion combinations."

Humans. "A Dalek's a genius." The Doctor said into the mic. "It can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat."

Everyone gave him an incredulous look, whether in the room with him or looking at the camera from the outside of the cage, but the Doctor knew you should never underestimate a Dalek. And just as he had said, the screen showed the Dalek finish with Simmons and approach the door. After a glance at the heavy steel, it turned to the number pad lock to the right of the door and pressed its plunger appendage to it. The rubber of the device moved as though it were punching the numbers in and after a few seconds of this, the door swung wide, putting it in full view of the soldiers waiting outside, guns ready. The Guard that had tried to stop Adam and Rose from entering before, who was known a Bywater, shouted,"Open Fire!"

Van Statten leaned past the Doctor as gunshots went off on the screen, shells flying. "Don't shoot it! I want it unharmed!"

The Doctor glared at him before taking the mic back. "Rose, get out of there!"

Bywater turned to a female guard and called, "DeMaggio, take the civilians and get them out alive. That is your job, got that?" The woman nodded before turning to the two Brits. "You, with me."

She turned to the door and jogged out, Rose and Adam following closely.

Still outside the cage, the Dalek ignored the bullets hitting its shield and turned to the wall monitor. Those in the office watched as it came toward their camera and raised it's plunger, before smashing it through the screen, breaking the connection and causing electricity to spark all over and absorb into its battered armor. The dented plating started to mend, the chips, scratches and burns fading as its color turned from rusty-brown to a shining bronze-gold. Bywater backed up and called into his earpiece, "Abandoning the Cage, sir." as he retreated from the room and the sparking, screaming alien.

Goddard looked at her holographic computer screen in horror as she pulled up stats and diagrams. "We're losing power. It's draining the base. Oh, my gosh. It's draining entire power supplies for the whole of Utah."

The Doctor glared at the screen over her shoulder. "It's downloading."

Van Statten looked at him with a frown. "Downloading what?"

"Sir, the entire West Coast has gone down." Goddard reported.

"It's not just energy. That Dalek just absorbed the entire internet." The two humans tuned to look at him. "It knows everything." The Timelord said.

The Dalek slowly backed out of the smoking wreckage and said, "The Daleks survive in meeee!"

The alien shot a beam from its gun and destroyed what was left of the wall monitor, then the gun was turned on a shelf of flammable containers, then the light overhead.

Goddard shook her head. "The cameras in the vault have gone down."

"We've only got emergency power." The Doctor said, turning to Van Statten. "It's eaten everything else. You've got to kill it now!" The man looked up at him in shock from his position of leaning on the table.

The men turned to Goddard as she spoke into her headset. "All guards to converge in the Metaltron cage, immediately."

In the corridor De Maggio shouted at the oncoming guards, "Civilians! Let them through!"

The group split to let them past before kneeling in formation to steady their aim toward the Cage.

The soldiers watched anxiously for any movement. Bywatter came running around the corner and called, "Cover the north wall! Red division, maintain suppressing fire along the perimeter! Blue division-AAARRGH!" The Dalek had come up behind him and fired its ray. When the light hit him, his skin seemed to become transparent, showing his skeleton before he fell to the ground dead.

The guards opened fire, but before the bullets even reached the alien the were incinerated by its force-field. Another extermination ray hit one of the guards as more came from behind the Dalek and started their own fire. The metal creature turned its head around to look at them before the middle of its body followed and shot one of them down. It continued to turn back and forth, killing a soldier each time it did.

In the office, Van Statten turned to Goddard with a glare. "Tell them to stop shooting at it."

Goddard looked incredulous as she insisted, "But it's killing them!" she glared right back.

"They're dispensable. That Dalek is unique. I don't want a scratch on its bodywork, do you hear me? Do you hear me?!"

The gunfire slowly stopped and Van Statten looked at the ceiling with slight fear in his eyes. When they looked at the screen they saw the reason no one was shooting. Every soldier was dead, sprawled out in the hallway with the Dalek standing in the middle of them. It turned and slowly glided down the corridor.

Goddard swallowed before pulling up a schematic of the base. She pointed out different details as she spoke. "That's us, right below the surface. That's the cage, and that's the Dalek." she finished, showing the blue light that was making its way through the levels.

"This museum of yours. Have you got any alien weapons?" The Doctor asked her, ignoring Van Statten.

She nodded. "Lots of them, but the trouble is the Dalek's between us and them." She said, looking at the blue light.

Van Statten leaned forward and said desperately, "We've got to keep that thing alive. We could just seal the entire vault, trap it down there."

The Doctor straitened up and looked down at him. "Leaving everyone trapped with it. Rose is down there. I won't let that happen. Have you got that?" The collector straitened as well and gave the alien a look not unlike a spoiled child that wasn't getting its way.

The Doctor leaned back down and pointed to a spot on the schematics. "It's got to go through this area. What's that?"

"Weapons testing." Goddard replied.

The Doctor nodded. "Give guns to the technicians, the lawyers, anyone. Everyone. Only then have you got a chance of killing it."

Suddenly an alert popped onto the screen. "Oh no." Goddard whispered.

"What?" The Doctor asked, looking between her and the screen.

"It's the other alien. The one we call Raven. It's out as well."

~.*§Found§*.~

Rose, Adam and De Maggio were rushing down a corridor when a pounding, cracking sound emitted from the wall ahead of them. Rose skidded to a halt, throwing out her arms to stop her fellow humans just as the left wall exploded out in a rain of rubble and dust. The three of them covered their faces to protect themselves from the choking particles. When everything finally cleared they turned to the hole in the wall. It wasn't long before someone walked out, easily balancing on the ruble. Rose was completely shocked to see a teenage girl was responsible for the destruction.

She barely looked fifteen, wearing black skinny jeans with lots of decorative zippers that were tucked into loosely tied black jungle boots, a long-sleeved black shirt with the sleeves rolled up above her elbows and a red short-sleeved tee-shirt over it. On her hands were black, fingerless gloves with a red stripe across the backs of her hands and her hair was just as black as her outfit, with the bangs on the left side of her face a blood-red. Brown eyes turned their attention to the shocked humans and the girl looked them up and down before examining the damage done to the corridor. "Sorry about that. I didn't expect anyone on the other side." She said, looking back at them.

Adam gasped. "Oh my gosh, it's the other alien."

The girl glared at him before hopping off the ruble and brushing off the dust that had gathered on her pants. "For the millionth time. I was born on Earth, my parents were human, therefore, I AM HUMAN."

Adam shut his mouth. Rose glanced at the two behind her then strode up to the girl and held out her hand. "I'm Rose." she said.

The girl was short enough that she had to look up at the blonde. Two pairs of brown eyes searched each other, one for trust, one for deceit. Finally the teen took the offered hand. "I'm Rachel."

The sound of a metallic voice echoed down the hall and caused them all to freeze. "Ex-ter-minate!"

Rachel looked at them in shock. "The condition red was a DALEK?!"

Rose nodded fervently and grabbed the teens forearm, pulling her along as they continued their escape and not noticing her flinch at the skin contact. The group of four continued their mad dash until they stopped to catch their breath at a staircase. Rose stopped herself by grabbing the railings and huffed out, "Stairs! That's more like it. It hasn't got legs. It's stuck!" she said turning and grabbing Adam's arm in excitement.

Rachel shook her head, and was about to comment when De Maggio ran up behind them. "It's coming! Get out!"

The ran up the steps and looked back as the Dalek, which in turn stopped to look at the stairs at its base. Adam smirked and Rachel tried to push them up the stairs. "We need to keep going!" She hissed.

"Why?" Adam asked. "Great big alien death machine defeated by a flight of stairs." The Dalek slowly looked up at them as the young man talked.

"You idiot." Rachel hissed. "They don't just roll, they-" But De Maggio cut her off and loudly began talking to the creature, keeping her gun trained on it.

"Now listen to me. I demand that you return to your cage. If you want to negotiate then I can guarantee that Mister van Statten will be willing to talk. I accept that we imprisoned you and maybe that was wrong,"

"More like pure idiocy." Rachel grumbled. "We need to leave before it comes after us!"

Once again she was ignored and the soldier woman continued. "but people have died, and that stops right now. The killing stops. Have you got that? I demand that you surrender. Is that clear?"

Finally Rachel grabbed her arm and turned her around. The fire in the teens eyes seemed to surprise the others. "Listen to me. Daleks don't negotiate, they were programmed to kill anything that's different, including flying species, which means they can float!"

Just as she finished saying this, the Dalek said, "Elevate."

It slowly raised into the air and started gliding up the steps. "Oh my gosh." Rose whispered.

"Did you really expect the universe's most dangerous killer to be stopped by steps. If it were that easy they wouldn't have been the scourge of the universe." Rachel grumbled.

Adam's face fell and he leaned back in horror. De Maggio turned to them and said frantically, "Adam, get them out of here."

Rose leaned over the banister and grabbed the woman's shoulder. "Come with us!"

"You can't stop it." Rachel said, giving the woman a hard look.

"Someone's got to try. Now get out! Don't look back. Just run." She shoved them up the stairs and Adam grabbed Rose, turned and ran, but Rachel said, "Aim for the eyepiece." Before following.

As they ran down the hall and the sounds of gunfire turned into a scream over the sound of a ray gun, they knew she hadn't succeeded in hitting her target.

~.*§Found§*.~

"I thought you were the great expert, Doctor. If you're so impressive, then why not just reason with this Dalek? It must be willing to negotiate. There must be something it needs. Everything needs something." Van Statten sneered at the Timelord.

The Doctor didn't even look up from the computer screen. "What's the nearest town?"

"Salt Lake City."

"Population?"

"One million."

"All dead." The Doctor said, looking up at the other man. "If the Dalek gets out, it'll murder every living creature. That's all it needs."

Van Statten shook his head in frustration. "But why would it do that?!" He shouted.

"Because it honestly believes they should die. Human beings are different, and anything different is wrong. It's the ultimate in racial cleansing and you, Van Statten, you've let it loose!" he said.

"Now tell me about this other alien. IS. IT. A. THREAT?"

The collector huffed. "I don't know! It's strong, looks like a human girl, and it's smart. We've been calling her Raven because she acts like a bird sometimes, even screams like one when she's angry. We haven't been able to get any information from her."

The Doctor glared at him and said, "For the sake of everyone on this base, you'd better hope she doesn't hold a grudge."

~.*§Found§*.~

In the loading bay, soldiers were rushing around, taking positions behind various corners, packing cases, boxes, up on a metal catwalk and around the exit. The Doctor leaned over the mic and said, "The Dalek's surrounded by a force field. The bullets are melting before they even hit home, but it's not indestructible."

The soldiers listened as his voice came over their earpieces. "If you concentrate your fire, you might get through." The men shifted uncomfortably and watched the opening nervously, a few clicking their guns to make sure they were ready. "Aim for the dome, the head, the eyepiece. That's the weak spot."

The commander rolled his eyes from his position on the catwalk. "Thank you, Doctor, but I think I know how to fight one single tin robot. Positions!"

There was more shifting and anxious waiting, until Rose, Adam and Rachel ran around the corner, stopping when they saw all the weapons pointed at them. "Hold your fire! You three, get the hell out of there!" The commander yelled.

They quickly did as they were told, passing a guard by the door. They stopped and turned to see the Dalek look right at the three running teens, or more specifically, Rose. Rachel grabbed their arms and pulled them away, leaving the Daleks sight.

"It was looking at me." Rose said, pulling away.

Rachel huffed in frustration. "Do we have to stop to discuss this?" She asked in irritation.

Adam grabbed Rose's hand and said, "Yeah, it wants to slaughter us!"

"I know, but it was looking right at me."

"So? It's just a sort of metal eye thing. It's looking all around."

"I don't know." Rose exclaimed in frustration. "It's like there's something inside, looking at me, like, like it knows me!" she said.

Rachel looked at her. "The outside is just armor, so yes. Something is looking at you from inside."

~.*§Found§*.~

The metal creature slowly moved to the center of the loading bay. The commander called, "On my mark." The Dalek looked up at him. "Open fire!"

Shots rang through the room, their hk g36's flashing and bullet shells clattering on the floor.

In the office, the monitor flickered to life, causing Goddard to straiten up. "We've got vision." She said.

The Doctor stood up from his position of leaning on the table. He looked apprehensively at the live feed as bullets continued to rain on his greatest enemy. "It wants us to see."

The metal rain of ammo continued, but had absolutely no affect on their metal foe. Instead, the Dalek raised itself into the air, just as slowly as all its other movements. When it had reached mid-height of the room, it turned its own weapon on the fire alarm, causing water to pour down and soak the floor and its human occupants. When the area was flooded, the Dalek looked at the floor and fired. Electricity arched over the ground, frying everyone that stood there. Screams reverberated in the enclosed space like a haunting choir as each man and woman fell to the concrete. Up on the catwalk the commander shouted, "Fall back! Fall back!"

A shot to the metal platform electrocuted the last of the men, their bodies slumping against the banister. In the following silence the Dalek continued to hover in the air, water running down it's shell as the dead lay around it.

~.*§Found§*.~

The Doctor swallowed and looked away from the screen, eyes haunted. Van Statten took a deep breath before saying in a dazed voice, "Perhaps it's time for a new strategy. Maybe we should consider abandoning this place."

Goddard gave him a disapproving glare and bit out, "Except there's no power to the helipad, sir. We can't get out."

"You said we could seal the vault." The Doctor said, looking over at him.

The collector moved to look at the computer screen, finally taking his eyes from the black screen. "It was designed to be a bunker in the event of nuclear war." He sat in the chair and began typing. "Steel bulkheads close off the area."

Goddard looked at the Doctor, shaking her head. "There's not enough power, those bulkheads are massive."

The Doctor glanced over at the woman. "We've got emergency power. We can re-route that to the bulkhead doors."

She still shook her head and continued, "We'd have to bypass the security codes. That would take a computer genius."

Van Statten pursed his lips. "Good thing you've got me, then."

The Timelord's eyebrows went up to his hairline as he looked at the human. "You want to help?"

The man looked at him over his shoulder. "I don't want to die, Doctor. Simple as that. And nobody knows this software better than me."

The security screen flickered back on, catching Goddard's attention. "Sir."

Both men whipped their heads around to the video feed. The Dalek was back on the ground, the water still drenching the loading bay. "I shall speak only to the Doctor." it demanded.

The Doctor slowly stood, never taking his eyes from the screen. "You're going to get rusty." He said when he was at full height.

The metal alien ignored the comment and said, "I fed off the DNA of Rose Tyler. Extrapolating the biomass of a time traveler regenerated me."

"What's your next trick?"

"I have been searching for the Daleks."

A smirk crossed the humanoids face and he walked around the desk. "Yeah, I saw. downloading the internet. What did you find?"

"I scanned your satellites and radio telescopes."

"And?"

"Nothing." It paused. "Where shall I get my orders now?"

"You're just a soldier without commands." the Doctor said.

"Then I shall follow the Primary Order, the Dalek instinct to destroy, to conquer."

"What for?" The Doctor yelled. "What's the point?"

The Dalek said nothing, not moving an inch. "Don't you see it's all gone? Everything you were, everything you stood for."

"Then what should I do?"

"All right, then." A slightly nervous expression crossed the man's face. "If you want orders, follow this one." The Dalek continued to sit there. "Kill yourself."

"The Daleks must survive!" The Dalek cried.

"The Daleks have failed!" he shouted, closing the distance between him and the screen. "Why don't you finish the job and make the Daleks extinct. Rid the Universe of your filth. Why don't you just die?" He yelled, his breath heavy.

For a moment, no one moved, the only sound was the water hitting the cement floor of the loading bay. After a pregnant pause the Dalek said, "You would make a good Dalek."

And the screen went blank.

The Doctor stared wide-eyed at the black TV. His lips quivered in terror before he licked them and said, "Seal the Vaults."

The humans glanced at each other before Van Statten got to work.

In the meantime, the Dalek lifted into the air and continued through the room and out the door.

"I can leach power off the ground defenses, feed it to the bulkheads." Van Statten said as he and the Doctor sat at the hologram computer, typing away on both sides. "It's been years since I had to work this fast." He said, a giddy smile lighting his face.

The Doctor glanced up at him in annoyance. "Are you enjoying this?"

Goddard leaned next to the Timelord and said, "Doctor, she's still down there."

~.*§Found§*.~

In the stairwell Rose's phone chirped a merry sound that echoed in the enclosed space. Rachel raised an eyebrow, but said nothing as the blonde answered and they all kept climbing. "This isn't the best time."

The Doctor's voice questioned, "Where are you?"

Rose glanced at the wall, falling slightly behind Adam. "Level forty-nine."

"You've got to keep moving. The vault's being sealed off up at level forty-six."

"Can't you stop them closing?"

"I'm the one who's closing them. I can't wait and I can't help you. Now for Heaven's sake, run."

The blonde looked up at the stairs they had left, panting slightly. Rachel gave her an encouraging smile, keeping stride with the older teen easily. Rose realized that Rachel could have passed both her and Adam by now, but she had stayed. Why?

Below on level 51, the Dalek was slowly making its way up the steps.

~.*§Found§*.~

Van Statten hit a key on the computer with finality. "Done it. We've got power to the bulkheads."

"The Dalek's right behind them." Goddard reported.

On Level 46 Rose gasped into the phone, "We're nearly there. Give us two seconds."

Rachel glanced at Rose with concern then looked forward where Adam was racing ahead of them. The corridor seemed so long for the little time they had.

Van Statten quickly glanced up and warned, "Doctor, I can't sustain the power. The whole system is failing." The computer made several noises to stress his point. "Doctor, you've got to close the bulkheads."

The Doctor glanced up at him, pain clear on his face. The collector met his gaze before looking down at the Enter key. Goddard looked away, the pain the alien was radiating too much for her.

"I'm sorry." he said, and hit Enter.

Rachel heard the Klaxons start to blare and tried to help Rose to pick up the pace. Adam turned the corner ahead of them, running as fast as he could. 'What a gentleman.' Rachel thought at the boy's retreating back. They turned the corner a few seconds later and Adam turned his head to yell, "Come on!"

The bulkhead was lowering to quickly. It was two feet from the ground when Adam rolled underneath.

~.*§Found§*.~

"The vault is sealed." Van Statten said.

The Doctor leaped from his chair where he had been intently watching the little blue dot that was his Companion. His hand flew to his headset. "Rose, where are you? Rose, did you make it?"

On Level 46 Rose leaned her head against the steel door, fighting the tears and breathing heavily as she replied, "Sorry, I was a bit slow." she gave a weak chuckle as she looked at the somber teen beside her. "Rachel got stuck with me."

The two girls looked back down the corridor as they heard the whirring of a machine and the Dalek made its slow turn around the corner. Rose bit her lip and said, "Sealed in, Doctor." She took a sniffling breath and said as bravely as she could manage, "It wasn't your fault. Remember that, okay? It wasn't your fault."

Rachel gently held her upper arm as the Dalek closed in, shifting her weight slightly to be closer to the older girl. "And do you know what?" Rose continued, her voice thick. "I wouldn't have missed it for the world."

In the office the sound of the Dalek yelling, "Exterminate!" broke both of the Doctor's hearts, and he ripped the Bluetooth device from his ear when the zap of its ray sounded. "I killed her." he whispered in horror.

Goddard looked at him in sympathy. What would he tell Jackie? How could he tell her that her only child was dead.

Van Statten looked up, shaking his head. "I'm sorry."

The Doctor looked at him incredulously. "I said I'd protect her. She was only here because of me, and you're sorry? I could have killed that Dalek in its cell, but you stopped me." He said advancing on the human.

The man leaned forward defensively. "It was the prize of my collection!" He jabbed his finger into the desk as if it made his words more important.

"Your collection?" The Doctor spat in fury. "But was it worth it? Worth all those men's deaths? Worth Rose?" Van Statten looked slightly scared of the raging man, leaning back slightly. "Let me tell you something, Van Statten. Mankind goes into space to explore, to be part of something greater."

"Exactly!" The collector cried, leaping from his chair. "I wanted to touch the stars!" he shouted, making large hand motions.

The Doctor leaned forward with a glare. "You just want to drag the stars down and stick them underground, underneath tons of sand and dirt, and label them. You're about as far from the stars as you can get."

Van Statten had a lost expression as the Doctor calmed, the pain resurfacing. "And you took her down with you. She was nineteen years old."

~.*§Found§*.~

Rose slowly opened her eyes and was surprised to see Rachel standing in front of her, alive, with the Dalek looking at them both silently. Rachel furrowed her brow at the creature. It had missed. Daleks never miss, and they never show mercy. Rose stepped around the young girl, glancing at her as if to ask why she would have shielded her like that, before turning to the Dalek. "Go on then, kill us." It did nothing, merely staring. "Why're you doing this?" Rose asked in nervous frustration.

"I am armed. I will kill. It is my purpose."

Rachel regarded it quietly as Rose angrily proclaimed, "They're all dead because of you."

"They are dead because of us." The alien said.

Rose stared wide-eyed at it for a moment while Rachel looked between the two. Suddenly her eyes lit up. "Ohh." She breathed.

Rose didn't hear her as she continued to talk to the Dalek. "And now what? What're you waiting for?"

"I... feel your fear."

Rachel's head whipped around to the alien in shock, but Rose didn't notice in her nervousness. "What do you expect?"

"Rose." Rachel said. "Dalek's don't know fear. The only emotion they have is anger." she whispered.

The Dalek shook a little and repeated, "Daleks do not fear. Must not fear."

It shot at the wall beside them, first to the right, then to the left, making them cringe. The Dalek looked straight at Rose, its voice panicked as it said, "You gave me life. What else have you given me?"

A grim smile crossed Rachel's face. "A Biomass Extrapolation. You have more of Rose in you than you wanted, and Rose cares about people. She cares a lot."

The Dalek shook from side to side in a panic as it shouted, "I am contaminated!"

~.*§Found§*.~

The Doctor turned around as the door slid open and Adam walked in, head down and holding his hands together. "You were quick on your feet, leaving Rose behind." The Timelord growled.

"I'm not the one who sealed the vault!" Adam defended as the alien got in his face.

"Open the bulkhead..." The Daleks voice came over the video comm., causing everyone to turn their eyes to the screen. "or Rose Tyler and Rachel die."

And lo and behold, there on the screen, the metal alien stood with the two teens on either side of it, Rose looking slightly scared as she stood in front of the Dalek's ray and the black and red-haired girl standing with her arms folded in front of the plunger like appendage.

"That's her. That's Raven." Van Statten said, pointing at the young, black clad teen that stood with Rose.

The Doctor ignored him and let out a gasp, nearly laughing in joy. "You're alive!"

"Can't get rid of me." Rose let out breathlessly.

The man's face fell slightly in agony. "I thought you were dead."

"Open the bulkhead!" The Dalek demanded.

"Don't do it!"

"What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?" The Dalek asked in irritation.

Rachel raised an eyebrow at this. The alien beside her obviously didn't realize it was showing that it knew what Rose felt about the Doctor.

The Doctor swallowed and looked over at Van Statten and Goddard. "I killed her once. I can't do it again."

He hit Enter and the bulkhead opened, allowing the Dalek to slowly herd the two humans through.

Van Statten rounded on the Doctor. "What do we do now, you bleeding heart. What the hell do we do?"

"Kill it when it gets here." Adam said excitedly.

Goddard snapped her head up at him. "All the guns are useless, and the alien weapons are in the vault."

"Only the cataloged ones." The boy replied.

Van Statten slowly looked over at him with a look that said he would be fired under normal circumstances.

~.*§Found§*.~

The Doctor rummaged through a large wire basket of warped and weird devices, throwing one after the other over his shoulder. "Broken. Broken. Hairdryer."

Adam rubbed his face before explaining, "Mister Van Statten tends to dispose of his staff, and when he does he wipes their memory. I kept this stuff in case I needed to fight my way out one day."

"What, you in a fight? I'd like to see that." The Timelord said critically.

"I could do." The young man said, offended.

The Doctor rolled his eyes. "What are you going to do, throw your A-Levels at 'em?" Adam frowned. "Oh, yes." The humanoid said, pulling a large black gun from the basket. It buzzed with electricity as he cocked it. "Lock and load."

~.*§Found§*.~

The elevator was counting down the floors in bright blue numbers as Rose eyed the Daleks gun before trying to reason with the it. "I'm begging you, don't kill them. You didn't kill me."

"But why not?" It asked, twisting its head around so the girls had to duck when it looked their way. "Why are you alive?" It turned away again. "My function is to kill. What am I? What am I?"

Rachel glanced at the wall and saw the level hit 3...2...1.

The elevator pinged and the door to the office pinged open. Van Statten's mouth dropped open in terror. "Don't move. Don't do anything. It's beginning to question itself." Rose said, looking from behind the Dalek as it rolled forward. "Van Statten. You tortured me. Why?"

The man's mouth moved like a fish out of water as he stuttered, "I wanted to help you. I just, I don't know. I was trying to help. I thought if we could get through to you, if we could mend you." Goddard glanced away as the alien backed her boss up to a wall. "I wanted you better. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry! I swear, I just wanted you to talk!" he cried shrilly in panic.

The Dalek paused. "Then hear me talk now. Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The collector cringed into the wall.

"Don't do it! Don't kill him!" Rose cried, running up to the Dalek. It turned its head around to look her in the eye. "You don't have to do this anymore. There must be something else, not just killing. What else is there? What do you want?"

The Dalek turned its head back to Van Statten, who shrunk further back into the wall. After a tense moment it turned back to the blonde.

"I want... freedom."

Rachel grinned. "I think we can handle that." she said.

Rose smiled at her and the Dalek moved to the door. "But if you want, I can punch him in the face and make us both feel better without killing him." The teen said as she followed, a smirk in place.

~.*§Found§*.~

The sound of pounding footsteps echoed up the stairs as the Doctor rushed up towards the First Level, casting frantic glances upwards as he ran.

The Dalek rolled down the hallway of Level One with Rose and Rachel following curiously. When it reached the halfway point in the corridor, it looked up and fired on the ceiling, showering dust and chunks of cement down with the sunlight that filtered down on them from the outside. Rachel smiled as the light hit them and closed her eyes. Rose looked over at them. "You're out. You made it." She gazed up at the golden stream. "I never thought I'd feel the sunlight again."

"Neither did I." Rachel whispered.

"How does it feel?"

The humans looked at it in confusion and watched in fascination as its middle split apart and moved down, revealing the creature inside. It was horribly mutated. It looked like a gooey, fleshy octopus with one, droopy eye. Rose and Rachel moved in front of it for a better look and watched it extend a tendril into the sunlight. "Get out of the way."

The girls were startled by the voice and turned around to see the Doctor shifting uneasily from foot to foot, holding a large gun. "Rose, get out of the way now!"

Rose weakly said, "No, 'cause I won't let you do this."

"That thing killed hundreds of people."

"It's not the one pointing the gun at me." Rose said quietly.

Rachel could tell that hit the Doctor in a sore spot. He gritted his teeth. "I've got to do this. I've got to end it. The Daleks destroyed my home, my people. I've got nothing left."

Rose shook her head and stepped to the side. "Look at it."

The Doctor looked at the waving tentacles of the Dalek in confusion. "What's it doing?"

"It's the sunlight, that's all it wants." Rose said pleadingly.

The Timelord shook his head. "But it can't."

"It couldn't kill Van Statten, it couldn't kill me. It's changing." Rose interrupted him. "What about you, Doctor? What the hell are you changing into?"

Rachel deemed this as a good time to intervene. "It absorbed a lot of Rose's emotions, Doctor. It's not exactly Dalek-like anymore." She said softly.

The Doctor let his arm drop, the gun swinging loosely from his grip. "I couldn't..." He looked at Rose, his voice breaking. "I wasn't..." His eyes flicked over to the Dalek. "Oh, Rose. They're all dead." He stuttered out, his face crumpling.

"Why do we survive?" The Dalek asked.

"I don't know." The Doctor said shakily.

"I am the last... of the Daleks."

A small, sad smile twitched at the Timelords lips. "You're not even that. Rose did more than regenerate you." Rose turned her head to him. "You've absorbed her DNA. You're mutating."

"Into what?"

"Something new. I'm sorry."

"Isn't that better?" Rose asked.

"Not for a Dalek." Rachel said, looking back at the creature.

"I can... feel so many ideas... so much darkness. Rose... give me orders. Order me to die." It closed its eye and The Doctor and Rachel looked at it in shock.

"I can't do that." Rose said, shaking her head.

"This is not life. This is sickness. I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!" Rose breathed shakily and looked as though she were trying not to cry.

"Do it."

"Are you frightened... Rose Tyler?"

Rachel glanced at the blonde.

"Yeah." Rose said quietly.

The Dalek looked at her. "So am I. Exterminate."

The last of the Dalek race shut its eye for the last time before closing its armor as Rose and Rachel backed away to stand by the numb Doctor. It floated into the air and the orbs on it's lower body spread out around it to form an electric blue force field before the Dalek glowed gold and exploded, disintegrating instantly.

~.*§Found§*.~

Diana Goddard walked stern-faced up to Henry Van Statten who had four guards around him and handcuffs on his wrists. She nodded at the guards and they grabbed his shoulders and marched him backwards down the hall with Goddard following. "What the hell are you doing?"

Goddard just stared forward as she said, "Two hundred personnel dead, and all because of you, sir. Take him away, wipe his memory, and leave him by the road someplace."

"You can't do this to me. I am Henry van Statten!"

"And by tonight, Henry van Statten will be a homeless, brainless junkie living on the streets of San Diego, Seattle, Sacramento." She said, giving him a mocking smile before turning around smugly. "Someplace beginning with S."

~.*§Found§*.~

The Doctor stood next to the Tardis, sadly stroking her side. "A little piece of home. Better than nothing."

"Is that the end of it, the Time War?" Rose asked, looking at him.

"I'm the only one left. I win." He said, rolling his eyes. "How about that?"

"The Dalek survived. Maybe some of your people did too." Rose offered.

The Doctor shook his head and glanced at her. "I'd know... in here." He touched his temple. "Feels like there's no one."

"Well then, good thing I'm not going anywhere." Rose said with a smile.

The Doctor nodded. "Yeah."

He then turned to the teen that had been curiously looking at a display. "Now you." He said. "Rachel, was it?"

Rachel turned to him and nodded. The Doctor eyed her up and down, lingering on her face and wondering what could make someone so young look so world-weary. "You're from the future, aren't you." He asked.

Rose gaped at this. Rachel just smiled and put her hands in her pocket. "Yeah. I was exploring an old science lab and knocked into a machine. Ended up in the Twenty First Century, and that Van Statten idiot thought I was an alien."

The Doctor nodded. "From what he said, you have amazing physical abilities, but humans evolve so much, it wouldn't surprise me."

He glanced back at the blue box that was his home. "We could drop you off. This is my spaceship." He said, patting the door and grinning at her. "And she just so happens to be able to go through time."

Rachel chuckled. "I don't have anything to go back to."

"No family?" Rose asked kindly.

Rachel shook her head, brown eyes haunted for a moment. "Not for a long time."

The Doctor slowly nodded. "Well..." he said, leaning on his ship. "You could always come with us. You're a good kid and I can't just drop you off anywhere."

Rachel's eyes widened and she looked between the two smiling time travelers. "Really? You'd take me with you?"

"Yeah!" Rose said with her famous tongue-in-teeth smile. "You did try to save my life."

The Doctor nodded, when Adam ran up. "We'd better get out. Van Statten's disappeared. They're closing down the base. Goddard says they're going to fill it full of cement, like it never existed."

"About time." Rose said.

"I'll have to go back home." Adam said.

The Doctor was looking slightly annoyed and Rachel agreed. "Better hurry up then... next flight to Heathrow leaves at fifteen hundred hours." The Timelord said, glancing at his watch.

Rose gave the Doctor a hopeful look. "Adam was saying that all his life he wanted to see the stars."

The Doctor gave a smile as though he were listening to a small child talk about their day. "Tell him to go and stand outside, then."

"He's all on his own, Doctor, and he did help." Rose said.

"He left you down there." He said indignantly.

"So did you." Rose said.

"Uh... just pointing out that the Doctor was saving other lives, Adam was saving his own skin." Rachel said. "Just in case my vote counts."

"It does." The Doctor said smiling at her.

"What're you talking about? We've got to leave." Adam said, looking at them all as though they were crazy.

The Doctor glared. "Plus, he's a bit pretty."

Rose gave him a very straight face. "I hadn't noticed."

Rachel made a gagging noise and the Timelord's eyebrows raised. "On your own head." he said, turning to the Tardis and starting to unlock it. "Come on Rachel."

Rachel and Rose watched the Doctor while Adam began complaining. "What're you doing? She said cement. She wasn't joking. We're going to get sealed in."

When the door opened, the Doctor led the way in and Adam just stood there looking befuddled. "Doctor?" He asked, moving to the door to look. "What're you doing standing inside a box? Rose?"

Adam slowly walked inside the Tardis and it dematerialized.

~.*§Found§*.~

Inside Rachel and Adam stared at the ship in awe. The Doctor and Rose grinned, leaning against the console. "Well?" The Doctor asked.

"She's beautiful." Rachel breathed.

"It's bigger on the inside!" Adam gaped.

The Doctor rolled his eyes and said to Rose, "I like Rachel's comment better."

Rose just grinned while Rachel ran up to the console, her boots clanking on the grate. "It's another dimension, right? Packed into a box, which is probably a shield or shimmer to avoid too much attention?"

"Oh I like her." The Doctor said with a grin.

Rose rolled her eyes and grabbed Adam's hand to show him around. The human was still staring open-mouthed at everything. When they left the Doctor turned back to the black-haired girl who was examining the Time Rotor. "So you like technology?"

"Oh yeah. Anytime I find some broken machine I just know what goes where. I always read any books I find so I can learn. I didn't go to school, my mom taught me to read and write, but books are where I got most of my knowledge."

The Doctor gave her a fond smile. "Learning's good. Remind me to show you the library sometime. Now, the outside is not a shield or a shimmer, it's a Chameleon Circuit, and it broke. Don't tell me how fix it, I like the police box."

Aaaand... that's a wrap. You have now been introduced to my character, so things will really get rolling. Rachel is going to change a lot, and I hope you like her as much as I do. She's the baby of my character family. I would really love some reviews to tell me what you think of her.

Thanks for reading!

Artistically yours,

Destiny Obake