"So this Davros," asked Xandria, "is he dangerous?"

"Extremely," the Doctor tried to reply..but it ended up sounding like "extmry" since he had his sonic in his mouth. (Long story short he was trying to rig something up. It failed so he gave up on human science and went for his alien technology.)

"Oh," Xandria said. In all honesty she wasn't exactly sure what the Doctor had just said to her.

"So how will we fight him?"

This was a reasonable question, but poor Myka was not dealing with a reasonable Doctor. He gritted his teeth and winced. "We. Don't." he said brokenly. "We HAVE TO let them die. We can't let the Daleks bring reinforcements..all we can do is keep the Time War LOCKED, TAKE AWAY THE KEY AND DESTROY IT. Got it?"

Myka glared back at the Doctor. "How can you be so spineless? If the Doll-licks have a key why don't you use it too?"

"If we do that the whole of creation is put at risk AGAIN. The safest deal is to let them die!" Cried the Doctor throwing his Sparknote Plugs at the floor. They sparked as Myka slumped against the console and the Doctor stormed away. Xandria looked up.

"Myka?" she asked quietly.

"What?" she snarled. "Oh Xandria I didn't mea-"

Xandria held up her hand. "Why are you being so harsh?"

"What do you mean?"

"Calling him spineless is pretty low- let me finish! Do you think it is easy to watch all his people die? He doesn't want to leave them behind...but it's the safest option for the whole universe. Not just humanity, but every race out there! Even the ones he doesn't like he is protecting! Think how strong one must be to do that...to protect everyone, to give everyone another chance!"

Myka looked at the young woman before her. She no longer saw a young maid from Greece, instead she saw a wise woman..perhaps even wiser than herself. It was almost as if when Xandria traveled through time she grew more and more wise~

"Now please," she whispered. "Apologize..."

Myka sighed, she knew it was the right thing to do. She found the Doctor on one of the many balconies looking at a lonely little star in an immense of blackness. The star was not usual, in fact it glowed a sinister color of gold...as they neared it it turned out to be two golden planets- cold and desolate. Like two hungry eyes looking out at the warmth of the universe and wanting to devour it.

"That's just what it is," the Doctor sounded weary.

"Huh?"

As if he had read her mind he explained. "Those two planets make up Skaro, everyone thought it was one..but it was two. The people, if you can call them that, are cold and want to excreate everything that has existed, or is existing, or will exist. They want to wipe out every single thing, whether it is a threat to them or not, so that they are the supreme beings. From these two planets they watch the universe and wait for a moment to strike. I presume you noticed that they are the only planets in this area of the sky? That is simply because of the Time War. They have wiped out all other life forms near by them, or nearly wiped out I should say. The Gelth survived, but lost their bodies...many other species suffered such loses...Now do you see why we cannot allow them to continue. Imagine the night sky, from your puny insignificant planet, without a single star. With no sun to rise and keep the Earth warm..try to think Myka!"

"I understand. Oh God Doctor! What can we do?" Myka said although her voice had almost left her.

"Get the Antikythera Mechanism back, and destroy it. Then we will return to Pete, Artie and Claudia. Hopefully everything is going well for them. We can't afford to lose this battle Myka. If we do -"

"I know," she placed her hand over his. "We will win."

"Doctor?" a cry from the other room..something had happened.

"Xandria!" Both adults said in unison. They ran to the main console to find the poor girl tangled up in wires, unfortunately they were still sparking.

"Get them away from her hair," cried Myka.

Carefully and with a surprising amount of patience the Doctor unwound the coils from the girl's long locks.

The girl sighed. "They've burned."

And it was true, a good deal of the girl's hair was singed and looked raggedy.

Myka smiled, "c'mon Xandria. I have an idea!"

When the two humans returned the Doctor almost had a heart attack..or two? He barely recognized Xandria. Myka had cut Xandria's hair into a very stylish fringe.

"Is it alright?" the young girl asked biting her upper lip.

"Brilliant!" the Doctor cried kissing the top of her head. "And you," he approached Myka. "I didn't know you could cut hair so well!"

"A hidden talent of mine, but where do you think Claude gets her's done? There are no good stylist in Univille...speaking of haircuts Doctor, how about I give you one? Your hair is a bit overgrown and could use a-"

The Doctor ran to the other side of the console. "No Myka. Forget all the compliments I gave you~"

"Come now Doctor," Myka teased picking up a pair of scissors. The rest of the trip to Skaro was spent by Myka chasing the Doctor around with a pair of shears. And why shouldn't they have a bit of fun? After all their journey was only about to get a lot more complicated...unfortunately in all their horse play they missed the Farnesworth going off...

D.W.-13

"Are they picking up?" Asked Pete nervously. He brushed the soaked locks away from Claudia's face.

"No," grumbled Artie. "Is she still out?"

"Yeah, and now she's trembling.."

Artie tried to call again. "Come on Doctor pick up...Myka?"

No one answered. They were alone. In a strange forest, and no one was coming to help.

Thank you moyercat11 for giving me the kick in the pants to give you guys this next chapter. Really it's because of them I decided to update now instead of next weekend. I would also like to thank spammessages222 for leaving such a great comment~ See guys comments lead to more chapters! Sorry this is a bit short~ I hope to have time to write more soon