House Call

Chapter 16

Joe looked out the spaceship doors and said, "Skaro…well, Sally doesn't beat around the bush does she? She's brought us back to were it all began."

The Eleventh Doctor ran to look out the door as well and scanned the horizon. He saw the rolling storms and the thunder and the lightening. The planet was a barren wasteland and the only thing insight was rock and debris. It was Skaro that it's worst. Already the original peoples of the planet, the Kaleds and the Thals had turned their world into ash. Nuclear war and bombardment had scarred the land till there was barely anything left.

"Oh, not good."

The leather-clad man crossed his arms and said, "That's an understatement. Look."

Joe then grabbed the Doctor's shoulder and walked him out a few steps and pointed to something behind them. Joe was pointing to some sort of building. It was massive. The Doctor walked a few paces away from smaller stone-like TARDIS. Sally's chameleon arch was still fully functional. She didn't look like a castle with a town anymore. Instead, she was a black boulder the size of an outhouse. Though, just a few feet away was the building. It looked more like a fortress. It had no door and no windows. It was just a massive structure pushing out of the ground.

"You know what that is," stated Joe.

The Doctor knew that it wasn't a question. Joe was right. He did know what that place was. It had haunted his dreams several times. "Darvos' laboratory."

"Yeah, looks like Sally is going for the creator of the Daleks."

Rose popped out to look at the fortress with River and said, "Davros? You mean that creepy handicap alien that was bossing around the Daleks when the stars were going out?"

The Doctor mutely nodded his head with his hands in his pockets before finally stating, "Yup, Darvos…he made the Daleks. He was an evil genius that wanted to use his science experiment to kill off the Thals. You could kill off one man and change the course of all of history. In a blink, a bleep, a nanosecond—everything could be different."

River said, "Or implode. Doctor, this will create a Bad Wolf of a paradox that I don't even think you can fix."

Stunned, the bow tied man spun on his heel and turned to future-time traveler and exclaimed, "What? What did you just say?"

Frustrated, River rolled her eyes and stated, "I said, it will create a paradox that I don't even think you can fix."

The Doctor shook his head and grabbed her shoulders nervously. Wide-eyed, he sputtered, "No, no you said, and I quote 'a Bad Wolf of a paradox,' now why did you say that? Why did you say that saying? Of all the saying in the blood universe why did you have to say that?"

River shrugged him off and frowned. "I don't see what the big deal was. It's just a bit of slang. Haven't we got bigger fish to fry than to worry about catch phrases and words?"

Excited, the Doctor said, "Words! Oh, but words can be important, River Song and especially those words."

Suddenly, the two men turned their heads and faced Rose. The blonde suddenly noticed that everybody was staring at her and she raised her hands in surrender and said, "Don't look at me. I'm not doing anything. I haven't heard a peep about Bad Wolf in years. You can asked him."

The Doctor glanced over at Joe and watched him shrug his shoulders stiffly in his leather jacket and reply, "Yeah, its like what she said. Haven't heard a word. Though, we should really be going in. I very much doubt Sally's going to stop herself."

The bow-tied man clapped his hands in readiness and hopped up in place. The sound caught everyone's attention. Good. That was the response he needed. He needed everyone looking sharp. He pointed at his remaining party, minus the Ponds and said, "Ok, we've got a mad TARDIS and one plan that will result in an end-of-the-world paradox. Right, Amy and Rory are taking care of the pyschic plant. It will sever Sally's control of her control over the console. But, she is still an avatar. She can still move around and take out Davros. We need to protect him. Stop her plan."

Rose smirked and said, "Yeah, but we haven't got a plan, right?"

"Right, no plans. Never needed a plan. I always worked better thinking on my feet. So, lets go in and see if we can't drag her back out."

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Location: Davros' laboratory

"It's so—so clean," commented Rose as they entered a blinding white hall.

Rose looked around and noticed that there wasn't any color to the place at all. Everything was a white from the floor to the ceiling. It made everything look sterile and bland. It sort of felt like being inside a hospital or that posh hotel she and her Mum stayed at in Germany during holiday in Pete's world. It was one of those ultra-modern places where you couldn't figure out the bathroom or find the remote. Her Mum had a fit about everything and almost drove one the staff to tears.

"Yes, Davros likes to keep a clean house," said the Doctor as he continued to walk down the corridor.

However, before Eleven could move around the corner, Joe grabbed him by the arm and roughly whispered low so only he could hear. "We may have a problem."

Bewildered, the Doctor stared at him and asked, "We do? I thought that was obvious."

Joe narrowed his brow and in exasperation ran his hand through his wild brown hair. The Doctor watched him do it and followed the movement of his hand. He noticed that his hair was all over the place. It had completely no control. How could he stand it? How could ninth him stand it? Nine even have enough hair to satisfy a comb.

"Rassilion, did my hair really used to look like that? Don't you have glee? You're practically a mad man."

"Oi! There is nothing wrong with my hair. Ladies happen to like the hair. The wild look happens to have a lot of sex appeal. I heard Ten was a big hit. It was all hormones and endorphins. It was so—so human." Joe then eyed the Doctor up and down and added, "But you look like the nerdy type. Sort of like a young graduate."

Eleven looked down at himself in shock. "Young graduate? I'm older than you are. And what sort of look it that." He fingered his leather jacket.

Joe was unfazed and pulled his lapse closer to his chest and huffed. "Yes, well this is a classic. And unlike last time this is a motorcycle jacket and nothing like the U-boat captain coat I had before. But, what the hell am I talking to you about fashion for?"

"I don't know."

Irked, Joe said, "I wanted to hear your thoughts about the whole Bad Wolf thing. Have you heard it before?"

"Um…no, well yes…sort of. It was indirect."

"Oh for god's sake, tell me."

"I might have seen a label on a spare part before all this happened with the words 'Bad Wolf.'"

Joe felt his sole heart began to sink and panic started to set in. In a harsh muttered tone, he said, "And you didn't think to meant it? Rose's life maybe in danger and you just thought to keep that little tib-bit to yourself? Rassilion, you're lucky I'm not Jackie Tyler. I would have slapped your block off my now." Then after a pause Joe did slap the Doctor on the back of his head.

"Ouch! Why in the world are you so cross?"

"This is Rose were talking about, pencil neck!"

"Doctor!" called River Song.

Eleven frowned and rubbed the back of his head and slapped Joe back. "Well you don't have to take it out on me. I had nothing to do with it. It was practically destiny. You know that Rose wrote that blood message to herself."

"Doctor!"

Joe was getting steamed. "Oh, I forgot you've got more important things to do than tell me. Rose is just old news, right? Yesterday's model. You've got your new companions. A nosy redhead and a wimpy husband, Mr. Pond. Oh, but let's not forget Doctor River Song. She must be the new woman in your life if she calls you sweetie, sweetie!"

"DOCTOR!" roared River and Rose in unison.

"What? Oh, bad."

Joe and the Doctor looked behind them and saw a pair of Daleks. In a screeching mechanical voice one of the pepper pots raised its laser stoke said, "YOU WILL COME WITH US."

Both men raised their hands up in surrender. The bow tie man tilted his head towards Joe and stated, "No, this is good."

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TBC

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