DOCTOR WHO: RISE OF THE SMILERS

Chapter 6

"This is the time for new beginnings here on Bonsarviss…" declared Malcolm grandly into his video message to be streamed across the planet. "It's been a long time in planning but only now are the ways that all worlds should follow are actually taking place here. Soon, the imperfect in society will be no more and that is the way life should always have been. For those about to perish, I'm ever so sorry, but good luck on the other side…" he added with an evil grin as the message faded away. Leeds and Dennis were looking on as they could see the weary leader growing in power with each slice of good news he got.
"Sir, I've just been told 50 imperfections have been ridded in just one street…" Leeds said trying to impress his ruler.
"Perfect…" smiled Malcolm. "Wouldn't you agree Dennis?" he then asked but Dennis looked unsure. He'd only sided with Malcolm for safety and security but a Smiler was guarding his every move. This didn't feel safe at all. It felt quite the opposite and he now wished he'd have left when Helen did. He'd betrayed his friends, his children and most of all he'd betrayed his wife. He had a gun in his pocket which he always had at his side. He wanted to use it, but against who? Slowly and discreetly, Dennis got out the gun and pointed it towards Malcolm. The Smiler and Leeds were far too slow to react as the bullet fired out loudly.
"Good riddance!" Dennis shouted loudly as the bullet went right through Malcolm's chest. He stopped still only for his head to start creaking and cranking loudly.
"Sir, are you alright?" Leeds asked as he went to his side. Malcolm tried to push him away as his face then began to turn around. His eyes were blood red and his mouth was a grin of horror.
"Oh my god…" said a worried Dennis as before him Malcolm was revealed to be part-Smiler.
"You are imperfect…" Malcolm boomed mechanically. "You cannot shoot the leader of your nation. This is an imperfection and you must be halted immediately."
"I'm sorry, I didn't know…" panicked Dennis as Leeds soon cowered in the corner of the office. Malcolm just charged towards Dennis as guns and weaponry all began to protrude from his body. He was not looking like Malcolm at all and he growled loudly.
"YOU ARE IMPEFECT!" he shouted as he then loomed over Dennis. Leeds was just in as much shock and the Smiler guarding Dennis had seemingly stopped moving altogether. They were all so distracted by Malcolm's presence that none of them saw or heard someone else come into the office until the last moment.
"And that's for every person that's died because of you!" they shouted loudly as several missile bullets were fired right at Malcolm's head. They all exploded instantaneously and Malcolm ceased living at all. As he keeled over dead onto the floor, Dennis was shocked to see that it was Helen with the gun.
"Darling…" rasped Dennis hoarsely. "My god…."
"I never did like him…" Helen said as she passed the missile gun over to Leeds. "Now, come on, let's go!" she said as she ran out of the office. Dennis just followed as Leeds looked on at the body of his boss.
"He'd obviously been stabilised as a part-human, part Smiler…" Leeds muttered to himself as he tried to grasp the situation.
"And I can never be killed…" boomed out Malcolm's voice suddenly as he got back up to his feet. Leeds fainted in shock and Malcolm just left as he was. Apart from the several holes in his head he was fine.
"Now to kill our traitors…" he said. "I can't have them ruin my plans…"

The Doctor and Rory meanwhile were still searching round the government building looking for anything could control all the Smilers at once.
"For this many to be present, a major control unit must be around…" the Doctor repeated adamantly.
"Well obviously there isn't!" Rory protested as he searched all high and low. "There's nothing, nada, zilch, zero."
"Not a sausage indeed…" agreed the Doctor as he got out his sonic screwdriver. It had started beeping loudly for no apparent reason and then he began to realise why. "It's locked on…" he smiled. "It's found it…"
"And where is it?" Rory asked.
"With me…" called a voice. The Doctor and Rory looked around and saw a woman, a young woman standing with a control tablet at her side.
"Ruth…" said Rory.
"You know her?" the Doctor said in shock.
"She saved me from a Smiler ripping me to shreds…" Rory explained. "I could have died…"
"You still will…" Ruth said ominously as she pressed several commands into the tablet. Suddenly a jolt of electricity lashed out from the tablet and struck Rory on his chest and sent him flying.
"Rory!" called the Doctor. "Are you ok?" but he got no reply. He just turned round and looked at the woman called Ruth. "Whoever you are you can't just be in control like this…"
"Why ever not?" Ruth asked.
"Because Malcolm's the one in charge here however daft his ideology is…" the Doctor explained as he checked over Rory. He had a pulse, but it was minimal.
"I think you'll find that's factually incorrect, sir…" Ruth smiled widely. "This control is for all Smilers….I heard you earlier say that Malcolm wasn't himself so what does that make him?"
"Smiler…" the Doctor realised. "You're in control of him…"
"Indeed…" smiled Ruth as she tapped more commands into the tablet. "These really are wonderful things you know. They can control androids at will and even make me a cappuccino exactly how I like it, but it is truly marvellous at murder…" she added as another bolt of electricity fired out and struck a near lifeless Rory once more.
"What was that for?" the Doctor asked angrily as he frantically checked over Rory.
"To prove a point, sir…" Ruth replied. "To show you're powerless to stop me…your emotions for your friends will always override that of the need to act and bring an end to my powers…" she added. "The love for your friends to live is a dominant factor in your ideology I can tell sir, so save him…" she smiled before disappearing into the dark of the night. The Doctor had to do something and just pumped Rory's chest to start his heart again.
"Do not die on me, Rory…" he repeated over and over again. "Don't die….don't die for Amy's sake and for mine…" but as much as he tried Rory didn't show any signs of life. He just couldn't leave him as he was, so he picked him up and ran through the building calling out for help. Rory was slender but was much heavier than the Doctor had anticipated. He just kept calling out for help and soon Liz could hear him from her cell and was immediately concerned.
"Doctor?" she cried. "What's happening?" she added before a guard tried to quieten her down but Liz used her strength again and head-butted him through the gap in the cell bars. An alarm sounded and her cell opened before she attacked the other guards around her until they were all on the ground. Liz then just put on her spare red hood and ran for her life with plenty of guns at her side…