Chapter 5
Out of the Frying Pan
As the group stood around in shock of their new found knowledge, the screen on the wall in front of them opened up a comms-link with the Daleks as the Dalek tried to talk to them.
"Where is the Doctor? The Doctor and his relation shall step forward. The Doctor and his relation shall step forward or you will be exterminated!" The Dalek on screen said in it's menacing, robotic voice, it's eye-stalk swinging around as it looked for them. not having much choice, after sharing a glance, the Doctor and Adept stepped forward. Adept immediately started questioning the Dalek.
"What do you want? Why haven't you killed us already? Our shields are down, we're defenseless, you out-number us by billions, but we're not dead." Her gaze grew even more steely than it had already been.
"You want something." This time it wasn't even a question, she said it as a statement."What?"
The Dalek seemed to squirm under her gaze, evening backing up a step before answering. This kind of startled Jack, the only person he knew who could make a Dalek take a step back with only words was the Doctor. Who was this girl? Really?
"The Doctor's relation has knowledge that is useful to us, she shall give us the information we want or you will be exterminated."
As the Dalek said that, looking at Adept, Jack couldn't help but wonder how she would know things the Daleks would want or even how she knew all that stuff about the others and himself. It didn't make sense. Even if she'd met a future version of them, they had no reason to tell her all the things she knew. There were just somethings that she shouldn't know, and he knew at least he wouldn't've been willing to tell her, and he doubted the others would be any more willing to tell her, so how the hell did she know them? As if Adept knew what they were thinking, she lowered her gaze, and glanced around at them, silently saying 'I'll tell you later,' before looking back to the Dalek.
"Well, you're not getting that information. Deal with it. I'm not telling you."
"You will tell us or you will be exterminated!" The Dalek screamed, bristled by her reply.
"No."
"Explain yourself."
"I said 'no'."
"What is the meaning of this negative?"
"It means, 'no'."
"But you will be exterminated!"
"No! 'Cause this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna save this ship from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and the I'm going to fly us back down to Earth, and—just to finish off—I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!"
"But you have no weapons, no defenses, no plan."
"Yeah! And doesn't that scare you to death."
At this statement the Dalek visibly reacted, its' eye-stalk swinging as it backed away before the screen went dark.
"Well, that was fun. What to do now. Hhmm. They'll back off for a little while after that last conversation. They'll be trying to figure out what were are planning before they attack. That'll hopefully give us enough time to come up with that plan. Any ideas? Anyone?" Adept said turning around and looking at everyone, but they just looked at her in shock. She'd just threatened 10 billion Daleks, without even the slightest hint of being nervous or scared, and she turned around and told them she had absolutely no plan. She was either a brilliant genius, or a idiot, who was about to get herself, and everybody else, killed.
"We could start by getting the energy the TARDIS took from the ship back, that way we might have enough energy to get some shields up. It'll at least slow them down while we come up with something else." River offered.
"Good idea. River, take the Professor and go get on that in a minute, first we need as many brains as we can get thinking of a actual plan." Adept told her and she nodded and Adept turned back.
"But even with those shields, we'll still need a weapon. We're dead if we don't get one." The Watchmaker reminded Adept, and she nodded, frowning, obviously puzzled over the problem.
"What experiment were you running on this ship?" The Doctor interjected, looking around at the controls, seeing if they would give him a clue as to what they were doing aboard 'The Archives'.
"Why?" Another Timelord asked who had previously stayed silent. This one a woman with brunette hair held in a intricately braided bun, and red robes like you'd see the high council wear. The woman had icy blue eyes, and tan skin. Somehow she carried a air about her that reminded Jack of a Captain, even though the actual captain was much younger, and didn't seem carry much of that air at all, at least that he'd seen so far. Adept carried much more so a air of mystery, one that Jack pondered if would ever leave the girl.
"Because, depending on your answer, we might have ourselves a weapon." The Doctor answered, his eyes never straying from the controls before him.
A/N: Hey everybody! I Know this chapter was kind of short.. but, oh well. Sorry! Anyway i want to to give a special thanks to 33 Vi, and Amy bergset for reviewing! You two (if you're reading this..) really motivated me to hop on to this story and really get to it, (I wrote like two chapters just because seeing these reviews made me so happy.. it's nice to know people are enjoying the story!) Anyway thank you guys for reading! Hopefully the next chapter will be longer..