Chapter 4

Trouble's Brewing

Adept raced down the corridor in front of them her flaming hair whipping back behind her.

"Which way to the controls?" They Doctor asked, only a step behind his sister. She pointed right as she turned.

"This way!" She called as her gravity suddenly changed and she was running along a corridor in the ceiling. With a few more twists and turns and strange gravity switches, they finally arrived at the control room. As Amy and the rest of the Doctor's companions looked around the room, they couldn't make sense of anything: The only one who looked like she might understand any of it was River. At least twenty Timelords stood around the room before them, running around flipping switches, punching in codes, pressing buttons and all the like. Monitors, buttons and switches where everywhere you looked, not one space in the room empty, even the floor was one giant screen monitoring all the rooms and corridors on the ship. The room wasn't small either, it was about as big as your average school cafeteria.

"What happened?" Adept asked, immediately taking charge of the room. When the Timelords in the room noticed her they all seemed surprised, some calling out 'Ma'am!' as they straightened their posture recognizing her as their superior. Even though she had recently regenerated, they still seemed to recognize her, as if they'd already seen this regeneration.

"We aren't sure exactly, everything was fine and then the ship was hit but what looks like a shock wave, we lost our artificial gravity for a minute before we could fix it. So far I don't think anyone was hurt, but we have yet to receive reports from the whole ship." One of the Timelords stepped forward and spoke. The man looked to be in his mid to late twenties, with brown-red hair that was cut so strands invaded his vision. The man had green eyes, a rather athletic build, and was around 5'8" in height. He wore they same clothes you'd expect to see on your average walk around a park, or for that matter just down a normal, everyday street: he wore a blue t-shirt with what looked like a quote written on it, 'wibbly wobbly, timey wimey… stuff ' (A/n: Hehe! Just had to do it! XD), a gray hoodie, jeans and black high top converse. One thing Amy noticed as she looked at him though, was a gold and silver pocket watch hanging out of his jeans pocket. There appeared to be symbols on it, but she couldn't make them out.

"Good work" The Doctor commented. "What's your name?"

"I'm the Watchmaker." the man replied. "And you are-?"

"I'm the Doctor." The Doctor said with a smile, always happy to introduce himself, as he straightened (his already straight) bow tie. The man gasped, his eyes flickering to Adept, apparently aware of their relationship as siblings, his eyes seemingly asking her if what the Doctor had said was true. She nodded.

"Let's take a look at those readings, see if we can figure out what happened." She said walking over to the controls, flicking a few a screen swung in front of her, a few more and then she began intently studying the screen, the Doctor and River walking over and joining her. After a few minutes of going over the screen, her fingers flying across the buttons in front of her, she froze and gasped. About a minute later the Doctor seemed to realize why.

"no, no, No, NO, NO! But that's impossible! They can't be be here! They shouldn't've been able to move us, much less find us! We were hidden, parked, everything! How'd they even get here? This shouldn't even be possible!" The Doctor went on, taking over the controls from Adept to make sure what he'd just read was indeed correct. Adept just stood there, still frozen with the same expression plastered on her face: shock, with every trace of fear.

"Doctor, calm down.. What's going on? What's wrong?" Amy said because she knew she would never find out what the heck was going on if she didn't ask the Doctor now.

"They're here. They're all here. All of them." The Doctor said, running his hands through his hair rubbing his face like what he does when he's trying to figure out what to do next, as he took a few steps back. Beside him, River who'd still been searching the information for answers, gasped too, the info finally clicking as the Doctor said, "It was a trap."

"What do you mean?" Jack asked with a nervous tone to his voice, as he scanned the room suspiciously, like the Timelords around them were about to attack them. The Doctor seemed to note of it as he frowned and shook his head.

"No Jack, not them! Geez, come on! No-! It's not the people on this ship. It's who let this ship land on Earth, directed it towards Earth, forced it to land."

"Who?" Jenny and Clara asked practically at the same time. But this time it wasn't the Doctor who replied, it was River who answered for him, at the same time telling him she was on the same page he was... and it wasn't a good one.

"Daleks, every last fleet, probably in existence. And they're all right here. When the artificial gravity let out, that was them teleporting us to their ship, and with the ship we're on damaged like it is and since we took even more power away from the ship when we lowered the wall around Adept, our shields were weakened so much that we couldn't stop them. We're trapped on a Dalek ship surrounded on all sides by about 10 billion Daleks."(A/n: while reading this listen to the Doctor Who score: The Daleks. Seriously, it matches the situation perfectly! C; )

"Fucking bloody hell! How'd they know where we were?!" The Watchmaker cursed.

"Probably followed us here. Most likely the noticed us when the ship was repairing itself after the mega star exploded, and used us as a trap for my brother to get him here and then from there, well, they kill two birds with one stone." Adept said, seemingly finally reigning in her astonishment enough to were she could move and speak.

"What the hell are we going to do?" She muttered to herself, but everyone in the room heard, and agreed. They were so very dead if they didn't come up with something. At times like these Jack couldn't help but wonder how the Daleks escaped Bad Wolf, they really shouldn't've been able to. Rose had divided every Daleks' atoms through out time and space and should've been able to see every Dalek in existence in all of time and space, so why couldn't they just all be dead?

'Maybe this was a fixed point in time and she couldn't?' The logical side of his brain fought, and he hated the thought, but it was the only explanation he could come up with. Still, it just felt so unfair. He was probably going to die alot from this.. and even worse, he was probably going to lose way too much today. Everyone else in this room too.

A/N: Hey everybody! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but last week I had three four hour tests in a row for school and after that I just didn't feel like writing anything.. But I'm back to writing now! \~^v^~/

I'm not sure how busy I'll be in the future, but I'll at the very least update once a month. (Cross my fingers... Waahh! Actually.. I'm really not sure how often I'll be able to update because, you know, life.. but that's what I'll aim for! *determined expression, holds fist in air as if to challenge life to stop me from updating story* Okay, I got this!)

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Have fun you guys! Hope you enjoyed it so far!