"Total temporal disintegration in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…" Dalek Hoth says as he presses a button on the control panel in front of him. But seconds before the programe could complete, the TARDIS jolted into demateralization and disappeared, just in time. Jespin looked on, grinning, as the TARDIS escapes.
"TARDIS has dematerialized before program could complete. The TARDIS has escaped…" Dalek Hoth says.
"What has happened? Explain!! Explain!! Explain!!" Supreme Dalek Joss yells.
The Doctor soon realizes what has happened, "Oh brilliant. That was the HADS program that kicked in, good girl…"
"What just happened? What is HADS?" Donna asked.
"Hostile Action Displacement System – it is a part of the TARDIS defense system. When a TARDIS finds itself in a great deal of danger, just like now, it immediately dematerializes and then rematerializes somewhere else, away from the danger. Of course, I forgotten I had the HADS turned on – well done. Well, Supreme Dalek Joss, I'd say that was a vote for true survival. My TARDIS outwitted you…" the Doctor says, winking.
"No matter, you are still our prisoner and your son is still going to suffer…" Supreme Dalek Joss says.
"And he won't because you haven't been paying attention. Look at the wall…"
Supreme Dalek Joss turns his top to look at the wall, soon realizing that Jespin has escaped, leaving only chains and wires behind.
"What has happened? Where did the prisoner go? Explain!" Supreme Dalek Joss says.
"Apparently he had his own plan of escape, waiting when you were all distracted and to busy being full of it. That's my son, oh yes…" the Doctor says, grinning.
"The prisoner known as Jespin is not on board the Crucible…" Dalek Soe says, standing at a control panel.
"No matter, we still have the Doctor…" Supreme Dalek Joss turns his top and looks at a Dalek coming into the room.
The Dalek who entered the room speaks, "I have been given orders from Davros to bring the female known as Donna to the Chair. Davros has a use for her there…"
"Davros. It can't be…" the Doctor's eyes suddenly widen.
Dalek Hoth spins his top and looks at the Doctor.
"Very well, take the female prisoner to the Chair. Dalek Hoth will take the Doctor to the Vault, he is a plaything of Davros now…" Supreme Dalek Joss says as two spider Daleks come up behind Donna and the Doctor, coming between them and splitting them up.
The Doctor begins to protest, "Hold on, where are you taking her? What is the Chair?"
"You will find out soon enough…" Supreme Dalek Joss says as Donna is being pulled towards another doorway opposite from the one the Doctor is being pulled through.
Donna cries out, "Doctor, where are they taking me? What is the Chair?"
"Silence! Resistance is futile…" Supreme Dalek Joss says as Donna begins to disappear out the door.
"Donna, I will save you. Just hold on…" the Doctor yells as he looses sight of Donna and is pulled out the door.
Another flashback occurs, this time in an alien dungeon on the planet Torvolis. A dungeon door creeks open and a humanoid alien being, about 7 feet tall and bear-faced walks in. He is a Torvolisan. He is carrying food and a jug of water in his hands. The slobish, filthy looking being lets out a boastful laugh for no reason, whipping droll off the side of his mouth. He first starts down a dirty stone stairway on two legs before going down on all fours, walking past the skeleton of a Chula that didn't quite make it. At the bottom of the stairway, a being runs up to the bars of his cell screaming, trying to make the Torvolisan jump in surprise, but it is ineffective and instead backfires when the Torvolisan pulls out a electrocution rod and threatens to use it.
"I suggest you stand back Time Lord if you do not want me to use this…" the Torvolisan says, but the prisoner is not intimidated. The prisoner barks back, "Did anyone ever tell you how ugly you are?"
The Torvolisan narrows his eyes and starts to growl, "Hold your tongue Time Lord…"
"I certainly will not…" the Time Lord replies, "And when was the last time you took a bath? What is that smell?"
"Silence!!" the Torvolisan yells.
"I'm not surprised you people are allies to the Daleks. You'll let anyone take over so long as they have enough money to buy your people off. I mean, seriously, you don't see use Time Lords being bought off that easily. You're people are pathetic you know that? Totally and downright pathetic!"
The Torvolisan has heard enough. The Torvolisan pulls out his electrocution rod and pokes it through the bars of the cell, but the Time Lord jumps back before the weapon touches him.
"Oh yes, that's right. Get angry! That's all you Torvolisans do is get angry. O-er…" the Time Lord says, making a face at the Torvolisan.
"Oh yeah, will just see how you will act after a month without food. That should put you straight…"
The Time Lord laughs and grins, "Yeah, I get the word – it has to be a month because I'm a Time Lord! And besides, I don't want to eat any of your moldy food anyway…"
The Time Lords begins to smile and slowly walk backwards, heading back to the far wall of his cell. The Torvolisan speaks again, "Oh, never you mind. You won't be seeing any food for a while..."
The Torvolisan lets out a roar and a snort before walking on to the next cell, walking away on all fours.
"That's right, walk on. Leave me to rest in peace…" the Time Lord says, as another voice is heard through the bared window of his cell.
"You are honestly to much, Doctor. How long have you been tormenting that Torvolisan?"
The Doctor looks up at his barred window, only to see his younger brother, Mythias, wrapping a metal chain around the bars of the window.
"Mythias! Blimey, where did you come from?"
"The question is, what are you doing in this cell? You need to be out here fighting the Daleks…"
"Yeah, I would be if Torvolisan soldiers didn't capture me and lock me up in one of their filthy prison cells. They are just a little bit thick…"
"I hear you, filthy people they are. But don't worry my brother, you'll be out of there in about 2 minutes. Stand back…"
Without another word said, the Doctor stood back from the barred window as Mythias attached the ends of two long metal chains to the bars of the window and the other ends to the saddle of Mythias's battle mount. With a swipe of the hand and a yell from Mythias, the beastly alien battle mount charged forward, its six hooves digging into the soft ground as it pulled the bars off the window with a great and mighty force.
With a loud crash, the bars fell to the ground and Mythias raced in to pull the Doctor to safty, seconds before the Torvolisan raced in. The Doctor and Mythias jump on Mythias's battle mount and race to safety in a shower of dust and ash…
Back in the present, in a dimly lit room, Jack begins to wake up and begins to focus. He soon sees that the others, Mickey, Martha and Rose are already awake and sits up. Martha and Rose help Jack onto his feet.
"Where are we?" Jack asks.
"It's some sort of an enclosed space. We've looked for an entrance but there doesn't seem to be one. Only this light is here…" Mickey replies as he presses a button on the wall and the room brightens up.
They soon realize that they are in a small square room with white walls, but with no windows and no doors. Not even the source of the light is seen. The only thing seen is a small view screen inside the wall in front of them. The view screen flickers on and a picture of Davros is seen.
Davros speaks from the Vault, "Welcome to the Cubicle Captain Jack Harkness and friends. In just a few moments I will begin my experiment to test my ultimate weapon. It should be a most interesting test…"
"What sort of a weapon is this?" Jack asks through the view screen.
"A very special weapon, made from dare I say it, Time Lord technology. Oh, the Time Lords made a similar weapon long ago, but they didn't know how to use it, saying that it was to barbaric, which is why they didn't win the Time War. Of course, if they did understand the dynamics of the weapon like I myself did, maybe they would have been better then the Daleks, at least metaphorically speaking that is. And as soon as my guest appears, we will get started with the experiment…" Davros turns around and hears movement going on behind him, "...And here he comes…"
Davros watches as the Doctor is brought into the room with a blind fold on and placed in a spot in front of Davros. Davros move forward a little and speaks again, "Pull that wretched blind fold off of him..."
"I obey…" the spider Dalek says as he pulls the blind fold off the Doctor. He looks over and sees Davros, but he does not believe what he sees.
"Control, place the Doctor in a containment field..."
"I obey…" Control replies and a containment field comes up around the Doctor.
Davros speaks again, "Excellent. Even when powerless a Time Lord is best contained. Behold Doctor, the wonder and majesty of my design. This is where we will witness the ending of everything – at least the ending of everything that you know that is…"
A Dalek enters the Vault, Davros stars over a him, "Well…"
"The female known as Donna is not in the Chair. We now await you're orders…"
"Excellent. Everything is falling into place…"
"No, you can't be. You shouldn't still be alive…"
"But I am, Doctor. I was left to die in the first year of the Time War. Left to burn in the inferno in which you started by use of Time's Fire…"
"I had no choice. I had to stop the Daleks from killing anyone people. They would have continued on and on, destroying everything in their wake – I tried to save you…"
"Oh, but you didn't did you Doctor? But someone did, oh, it cost his mind but without him none of this would have been possible. Behold Doctor, the Savoir of my children – Dalek Caan…"
Davros flipped a switch on his chair and the Vault lit up. Starring down at the Doctor sits the broken remains of Dalek Caan, his true form exposed, but still very much alive.
The Doctor looked on, "No…"
Dalek Caan spoke, "I saved our creator from the wild and the wind. He gave us new life again, returning the Dalek race to its former glory…"
"But how did you survive? How did you get into the Time War, the Time War is time locked! What's happened to Donna? Tell me!!"
Davros spoke as he unbuttoned his shirt, exposing his flesh deprived chest, his heart beating inside it, "I gave my self to the Daleks, quite literally, each Dalek grown from a single cell of my own body. Dalek Caan broke the Time Lock and rescued me from the jaws of the Nightmare Child, something that you failed to achieve. You see Doctor, my experiment involves the use of Time energy and a lot of it. You're companion known as Donna is filled to the brim with it thanks to the tricksters brigade…"
The Doctor suddenly has a flashback, when he and Donna were looking at the large beetle that was on her back and then came back to the present.
Davros spoke, "I sent that creature to you're companion for I knew that she would be the perfect catalyst to hold the Time energy created from the encounter. Oh, she managed to fight off the creature but not until just enough energy was created to use in my experiment. Behold Doctor, see what will become of your companion…"
Davros flips another button on his chair and brings up a view screen, with the image of Donna in the Chair, with long wires attached to her head. After a few moments, the image pans upward, allowing the Doctor to see the whole weapon in which Donna was connected to. A shocked look fell upon the Doctor's face and immediately protests.
"NO! NO! It can't be! Where did you – how did you – Davros no! Davros you can't! You can't!!"
In the Cubicle, Jack and the others see the weapon. Jack spoke, "NO… No it can't be…"
Martha speaks, "What is that?"
Jack, "You don't want to know. It is to horrible to even think about…"
Back in the Vault, Davros spoke again, "Oh, but I can Doctor! This is my ultimate victory Doctor! All will be changed forever. Nothing will stop me from achieving my goal! The distruction of all life in the universe! And from the ashes will rise not only new life, but the only life, eternal and forever!
Davros laughs hysterically.
The Doctor spoke again, "No Davros you can't! There was a reason why my people never used it, you can't do this!"
Davros spoke again, "What's wrong Doctor? We're you're people to scared to become true masters over life itself? Afterall, they did steal the power from the true masters of it, but then after all was said and done, they didn't know how to use it – but I do. After I have achieved my goal and have rebuilt the universe to my own design, I will officially become one of those people whom the Time Lords tried to eliminate so very long ago…"
The Doctor spoke again, "Not all of us thought of them that way…"
"To late, Doctor. You're people had a chance to co-exist with them, but they showed that even they could be just as powerful as the Time Lords, if not more so. That was the kind of ignorance that your people had at that time and now, the rest of the universe will suffer. I shall begin my experiment…" Davros says as he turns away and begins to move off.
The Doctor pleaded, "Davros you can't! Even you can't control that power! Please just stop! Listen to me!!"
In the Chair room, Donna tries to struggle out of the Chair, but suddenly stops when a familiar face suddenly pops up behind her.
The Doctor continued to protest, but as Davros was about to begin his experiments, he suddenly realizes that Donna is not in the Chair. He looks over to a Dalek in the room, "Where is the catalyst? What has happened?"
The Daleks in the Vault spin their top and look at one another, then answer, "Someone has freed the catalyst…"
Suddenly, the view screen in front of Davros flickers and comes on. A familiar face pops on the view screen and speaks. It is Jespin, "Hey Davros, looking for something?"
Donna stands next to Jespin, smiling. The Doctor grins while Davros protests, "How did you get her out of the Chair?"
"That's none of you're concern! But you will be concerned if I blow up your petty machine with this…" says Jespin as he holds up a necklace with a type of diamond attached to it.
"You think you can destroy my machine with a petty stone on a chain?" asks Davros.
"This is no ordinary stone. It is a warp star and I will not hesitate to set it off in your ship if you do not stop this right now…" says Jespin sternly.
"Blimey, where did you get a warp star? And where are you anyway?" asks the Doctor squinting at the view screen.
"We're in my TARDIS. Oh, very much out of your firing range Davros so don't even attempt to shoot at us…" replies Jespin, holding up the warp star.
"He says he got the warp star off of a Chula tradesman. Hi Davros! See if you can put me in you're machine now…" says Donna, smiling and waving.
"No matter, I will have the power – no matter what the cost…" says Davros presses a button on his chair.
"No!! I will stop you, Davros!" yells Jespin as the view screen shuts off. A Dalek at a control panel spins its top and speaks to Davros, "BlackStar Program initiated..."
"What are you doing?" the Doctor asks.
"Another trick of the people the Time Lords feared so much. If I can not use the power gathered by your companion then I will have to use whole suns to power my machine. Oh, the suns will be destroyed in the process, but the energy created from the explosions will be enormous…" replies Davros.
"BlackStar Program will commence in 50 rells…49…48…" says a Dalek.
"Behold Doctor, your precious planet Earth…" says Davros as he flips a switch, turning on the view screen in front of him, "It shall be the first planet to be destroyed by the BlackStar Program. First it will become turned into a supernova, then it will explode, producing the energy needed to power my machine. The shockwave from it will destroy all traces of planet Earth and any other planets in its way. Quite a shame really, Earth would have made a good ornament on my hanging mobile after I had molded the universe to my design – but now it will become a source of entertainment as it blows up in a million pieces…"
"BlackStar Program will commence in 20 rells…19…18…17…16…" says a Dalek.
"I will become god over life itself! The universe will bend to my will! All will be of my ingenious design! It will forever be my domain!! I will become Master of the Universe!!" says Davros as he laughs hysterically.
The Doctor begins to plead again. Jack and the others in the Cubical begin to yell and protest. In the room where the Chair is located, Jespin's TARDIS materializes. Jespin runs out and gets in the Chair, watching the Dalek count down on a view screen. He pulls out wires in the Chair and attaches them to the warp star.
"BlackStar Program will commence in 10…9…8…7…"
Jespin looks at his father one last time on the view screen in panic before looking back down at the warp star, "Father, forgive me…"
Donna runs out at the last moment, suddenly realizing what Jespin is about to do, unaware that Jespin had already planned an escape route.
"Jespin! No!! You'll kill yourself!! Stop!!" Donna yells as she runs towards the Chair.
"Donna! NO!" Jespin yells as Donna puts her hands on his hands, at that moment, the warp star explodes, blowing up the Crucible and everything in it almost instantaneously, at the force of a supernova. A bright cloud of gas and dust forms in the aftermath, forming a nebula, where new stars and planets begin to form.
In a secret location in space, beings first hidden from view watch on a large view screen as the nebulae forms new stars and planets. One of the beings, hidden in the darkness speaks, "It seems that Jespin has fulfilled his purpose in using the warp star your Chula friend gave him do you agree Madame President Romana?"
A lady walks out into the light, wearing a full senatorial outfit. She is Madame President Romana and the beings in the location are Time Lords, "Indeed he has, Castellan Torlos. I think it's time that they had a vacation don't you think?"
Another Time Lord walks into the light, wearing only brightly colored robes and helmet, coming up next to Madame President Romana, "My lady, teleportation of Jack, Martha, Rose, Mickey, Jespin and the Doctor was successful…"
"And Donna?" asks Romana, turning an ear to the Time Lord.
The Time Lord bows his head in sadness, "Unfortunately her recent encounter with the Trickster Brigade has cost her…"
Madame President Romana turns and looks at the Time Lord, slightly stunned, "What has happened to Donna?"
The Time Lord speaks again, "She has been locked in a time bubble at the heart of that nebula. She is asleep and quite safe but unfortunately we will be unable to free her from the time bubble without harming her. In normal circumstances we could free her without harming her but with are limited resources…"
Romana gives a melancholic smile, "I understand. We are still licking our wounds since the ending of the Time War. It will be a while before we will be able to do much of anything except observe. Return to your post…"
The Time Lord bows and turns around, slowing walking away from Romana. Romana looks back the nebula, wondering if Donna could ever be freed.
END OF PART 6
Part 7 coming soon...