"So, what is it? What's wrong?" Rose asks as her and the Doctor step out of the TARDIS.
"Don't know, some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS of course." The Doctor looks around.
"Where are we?" Rose asks.
"Earth," the Doctor answers. "Utah, North America, about half a mile underground."
"And when are we?" Rose asks excitedly.
"2012," the Doctor answers.
"God that's so close. I should be 26." She tries to ignore the fact that her mother won't be in this universe anymore. The Doctor finds a light switch and flips it. As the place lights up they realise it's a museum. "Blimey," Rose forgot how big the museum was. "It's a great big museum."
"An alien museum," the Doctor agreed. "Someone's got a hobby. They must of spent a fortune on this." The Doctor and Rose move down the exhibits. "Chunks of meteorite, moon-dust. That's the milometer from the Roswell spaceship."
Rose points to one, "that's a bit of Slitheen, it's a Slitheen's arm, it's been stuffed."
"Oh, look at you." Rose looks over to see the Doctor looking at a Cyberman's head. Rose takes the Doctors hand as he looks on, remembering that their the reason he first regenerated. "That's a Cyberman's head, my old enemy." The Doctor realises something. "The stuff of nightmares, reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old."
"Is that where the signals coming from?" Rose questions.
"Nah, it's stone dead." The Doctor explained. "The signals alive. Something's reaching out, calling for help." The Doctor lifts his hand to touch the glass when an alarm sounds. Armed men come storming in and surround Rose and the Doctor.
"Someone's collecting aliens then that makes you, exhibit A." Rose points out worriedly.
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Rose and the Doctor were escorted into an office obviously the owner of the museum. "I paid 100 thousand dollars for it." Adam finished explaining.
"What's it do?" Van Statten asked.
"Well you see the tubes on the side, must be to channel something, I think maybe fuel." Adam answers.
The Doctor raises his eyebrows. "I really wouldn't hold it like that," the Doctor interrupts.
"Shut it," Goddard tells him.
"Really though that's wrong." The Doctor continues.
Adams looks at him. "Why? Is it dangerous?"
"No," the Doctor grins. "It just looks silly." The Doctor goes to reach for it when the men with guns point them at him. Van Statten stops them before handing the object over to the Doctor. The Doctor takes it gently. "You just need to be delicate." Musical notes come out of the instrument.
Van Statten grins. "It's a musical instrument."
"And it's a long way from home." The Doctor agreed.
"Here, let me." Van Statten takes the instrument off the Doctor and tries to play it himself.
"I did say delicate," the Doctor warns. "Reacts to the smallest finger print. It needs precision." The Doctor smiles when he finally gets it. "Very good. Quiet the expert."
"As are you," Van Statten mentions. Rose and the Doctor look concerned when he tosses the instrument aside. "Who exactly are you?"
The Doctor lost his smile, "I'm the Doctor and who are you?"
"Like you don't know." Van Statten stats. "We're hidden away with the most valuable collection of extraterrestrial artefacts in the world and you just stumbled in by mistake."
"Pretty much sums me up, yeah." The Doctor agrees.
"Question is, how did you get in." Van Statten moves around his desk. "53 floors down with your little cat burglar accomplice. Quiet a collector yourself, she's rather pretty."
"She's gonna slap you if you keep calling her she." Rose stats.
"She's English too," Van Statten exclaimed. Rose is wondering if she can smack him now and be done with it. "Hey little farm boy, got you a girlfriend." Van Statten stats.
"This is Mr. Van Statten," Adam introduces.
"Does it look like I care." Rose says.
"Mr. Van Statten owns the Internet," Adam continues.
"I'm suppose to be impressed." Rose looks anything but impressed.
"So," the Doctor interrupts before Rose can give in to the urge to slap him. "Your just about an expert in everything except the things in your museum. Anything you don't understand, you lock up."
"And you claim greater knowledge?" Van Statten scoffs.
"I don't need to make claims, I know how good I am." The Doctor tells him.
"And yet I captured you," Van Statten gloats. "Right next to the cage. What were you doing down there?"
"You tell me," the Doctor throws back.
"The cage contains my one living specimen." Van Statten explains.
"And what's that?" The Doctor inquires.
"Like you don't know?" Van Statten counters.
"Show me." The Doctor demands.
"You want to see?" Van Statten asked.
Rose looks between them. "Blimey, you can smell the testosterone."
"Goddard," Van Statten yelled. "Inform the cage were heading down. You English, look after the girl. And you Doctor with no name, come and see my pet."
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Van Statten leads the Doctor into the cage. "We have tried everything." Van Statten explained. "The creature has shielded itself but there's definitely signs of life, inside."
"Inside?" The Doctor questions, confused. "Inside what?"
"Welcome back, sir." One of the technicians greeted. "I've had to take the power down, the meateltron is resting."
"Metaeltron?" The Doctors becoming more and more confused.
"Thought of it myself." Van Statten gloats. "Good isn't it. Although I much prefer to find out its real name."
"Here," the technician hands him some gloves. "You better put these on. The last guy to touch it burst into flames."
"I won't touch it then." The Doctor answered.
"Go ahead Doctor," Van Statten pushes. "Impress me."
The Doctor enters the cage and they close the door behind him. He sees all the instruments on a table nearby. What there doing to that creature is horrible. "Look, I'm sorry about this." The Doctor apologises. "Mr. Van Statten might think he's clever but never mind that. I've come to help, I'm the Doctor."
"Doc-Tor." He hears.
The Doctor looks on shocked as the alien comes to life. "Impossible."
"The Doc-Tor." The lights come on to show a Dalek. "Ex-ter-min-ate. Ex-ter-min-ate."
The Doctor runs back to the door. "Let me out." The Doctor yells.
"You are an en-emy of the Dal-eks. You must be des-troy-ed." the Dalek continues.
The Doctor suddenly realised that the Daleks laser isn't working. "It's not working," the Doctor starts laughing. "Fantastic, fantastic, powerless. Look at you the great space dustbin. How does it feel?" The Doctor spat.
"Get back," the Dalek tried to move but was chained down.
"What for," the Doctors anger comes out. "What are you going to do to me? If you can't kill then what are you good for Dalek. What's the point of you. Your nothing. What the hell are you here for?"
"I am wait-ing for or-ders." The Dalek answers.
"What does that mean?" The Doctor asked confused.
"I am a sol-dier. I was breed to rec-eive or-ders."
"Well your never going to get any, not ever." The Doctor calms down a little.
"I de-mand or-ders." The Dalek cries.
"There never going to come," the Doctor yells. "Your race is dead. You all burn, all of you. 10 million ships on fire. The entire Dalek race wiped out in 1 second."
"You lie." The Dalek cried.
"I watched it happen," the Doctor gloated. "I made it happen."
"You des-troyed us." The Dalek stated.
"I had no choice," the guilt was replacing the anger.
"And what off the Time-Lords?" The Dalek asked.
"Dead," the Doctors mind was thrown back to that day. "They burned with you. The end of the last great time war, everyone lost."
"And the cow-ard sur-vived." The Dalek stated.
The Doctors anger comes flooding back. "Oh, and I caught your little signal. Help me, poor little thing but there's no one else coming cause there's no one else left."
"I am a-lone in the uni-verse." The Dalek sounds sad.
"Yep," the Doctor agrees.
"So are you." The Dalek stats. The Doctors mind returns to Rose, he may be the last Time Lord but he hasn't been alone since he met her. "We are the same," wrong thing for the Dalek to stay.
"We're, not the same. I'm not," the Doctor stops suddenly. "No, wait, may be we are. Your right, yeah ok you've got a point. Cause I know what to do, I know what should happen. I know what you deserve, exterminate."
The Doctor pulls the switch to electrocute the Dalek. "Pity," the Dalek screams.
"Why should I," the Doctor stats coldly. "You never did." Soldiers run in and grab the Doctor as others shut the electricity of. "You've got to destroy it." The Doctor yells as they drag him away.
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Adam leads Rose to his workshop. Rose is wondering if she should give him another chance and thinking of the Doctor. Last time he was in a mood and she thought it was because if the Dalek, now she's not so sure.
"Sorry about the mess," Adam apologised. "Mr. Van Statten sort of let's me do my own thing. So long as I deliver the goods. What do you think that is?"
Rose looks at the object he's holding out. "A sign for a spaceship."
Adam looks shocked. "So it is from the hull of a spaceship?"
"I said it was a sign from one, not that its from the hull." Rose responds.
"How do you know so much." Adam inquires.
"I travel with the ultimate alien expert." Rose explains. Better not tell him I have the guardian of time inside me that helps. "So you what, sit here and catalogue it."
"Best job in the world." Adam insists.
"Imagine if you could get out there," Roses hints. "Travel amongst the stars and see it for real."
"Yah, I'd give anything." Adam dreams. "I don't think it's ever going to happen. Not in our lifetime though."
"You never know," Rose hints again. "So how did you end up here?"
"Van Statten has people all over the world looking for geniuses to recruit." Adam boasts.
"Right," Rose rolls her eyes. "Your a genius."
"Sorry but, yeah. Can't help it, I was born brilliant. When I was eight," Adam gloats. "I logged onto the U.S. Defence network system. Nearly caused world war three."
"What and that's funny is it?" Rose questions his stupidity.
"Well, you should've been there. Just to see them running about, fantastic." Adam laughs.
"You sound like the Doctor." Rose mutters quietly.
"Are you and him." Adam suggests.
Rose smiles, "yeah, we are."
"Oh," Adam sighs disappointedly.
"Wouldn't you rather be downstairs." Rose enticed, "I mean you've got these bits of metal and stuff but, Mr. Van Statten's got a living creature down there."
"Yeah, yeah." Adam agrees. "Well I did ask but he keeps it to himself. Or though, if your a genius it doesn't take long to patch into the comm system."
"Let's get on with it then." Rose grins.
Adam starts typing on his computer. "It doesn't do much. The alien. It's weird, it's kind of useless, it's like this great big pepper pot."
Rose watches as they torture the Dalek. She certainly hates them enough but she won't stand by and watch any creature be tortured. "It's being tortured, where's the Doctor?"
"I don't know," Adam seems shocked.
"Take me down there, now!" Rose demands.
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Van Statten follows the Doctor into the lift. "The metals just the body armour, the real Dalek creatures inside."
"What dose it look like?" Van Statten inquires.
"A nightmare," the Doctor responses. "A mutation. The Dalek race was genetically engineered, every single emotion was removed except hate."
"It's genetically engineered," Van Statten said in awe. "By who?"
The Doctor rolls his eyes. "By a genius Van Statten. By a man who was king of his own little world. You'd like him."
"It's been on earth for over 50 years," Goddard interceded. "Sold at private auction moving from one collection to another. Why would it be a threat now?"
"Because I'm here," the Doctor stats. "How did it get to earth, does anyone know."
"They say it came from the sky like a meteorite," Goddard answered. "It fell to earth near the ascension islands. Burned in its crater for three days before anyone could get near it. And all that time it was screaming. Must of gone insane."
The Doctor was shocked. "Must of fallen through time, the only survivor."
"You talked about a war?" Goddard inquired.
"The time war," the Doctor agreed. "The final battle between my people and the Dalek race."
"But you survived too." Van Statten piped up.
"Not by choice," the Doctor assured him.
"This means the Dalek isn't the only alien on earth, Doctor, there's you." Van Statten stated. "The only one of your kind in existence."
The Doctor wakes to find himself strapped to a metal frame. His jumper had been taken off.
"And smile," Van Statten gloats. A machine x-rays him while causing a lot of pain. The Doctor glowers at him. "Two hearts, binary vascular system. Oh, I am so gonna pattern this."
"So that's your secret," the Doctor scoffs. "You don't just collect stuff, you scavenge it."
"This technology has been falling to earth for centuries. All it took was the right mind to use it properly. Oh, the advances I made from alien junk, you have no idea," Van Statten explained. "Broadband, Roswell, just last year my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian crater and do you know what they found? The cure for the common cold. Kept it strictly in the laboratories of course no need to get people excited. Why sell one cure when I can sell one thousand palitifies."
The Doctor looks at him in disgust, "do you know what a Dalek is Van Statten? A Dalek is honest, it does what it is born to do for the survival of its species. That creature in your dungeon is better than you."
"In that case I will be true to myself and continue," Van Statten walks behind the machine again and starts torturing the Doctor.
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Adam shows everyone an ID card as he and Rose enter the cage. "Special clearance from Mr Van Statten."
"Don't get too close." Adam warned.
Rose moves closer to the Dalek. "Hello, can you hear me."
"Yes I can." The Dalek responds.
Rose moves as close as possible to the Dalek without touching it. "Do you know who I am?"
"Yes, I know you as Bad Wolf." The Dalek states.
"Do you know why I'm here?" Rose questions.
"You are here to kill me." The Dalek says.
Rose moves over to the switches and casually leans on them as she discreetly turns the power to maximum. "Yes that's right." Everyone can hear her now.
"Would you do it then Bad Wolf?" The Dalek questions, looking directly at her.
"Yes, I would." Rose throws the switch and a massive jolt of electricity is sent to the Dalek. It only lasts a few seconds before its top is blown off.
Adam stares at her shocked. Soldiers poured in as Rose feels Bad Wolf stirring. Bad Wolf doesn't have much power yet cause Rose hasn't taken in the heart of the TARDIS in that body yet. But she does have enough to make her eyes show the time vortex hiding there. Rose turned to the soldiers and they gasped when they saw her eyes. "Take me to the Doctor." The soldiers rushed to obey. They knew instinctually that she is one person not to be messed with.
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Van Statten turned to the Doctor. "Your partner just killed my pet."
The Doctor looked up as Rose was escorted in. Rose marched right up to Van Statten so he can see her eyes. "What are you doing to my Doctor."
"He's an alien," Goddard exclaimed.
Rose turned to face her and she instinctually took a step back. "So your saying if an alien found a human and tortured it, it would be alright if they said. 'It's only human.'
Goddard's eyes widened as she realised where Rose was coming from. Discreetly she motioned everyone else back as someone unhooked the Doctor. The Doctor pulled on his jumper and jacket as he grabbed Roses hand and started to lead her away. When they reached the door, Rose turned around, marched back to van Statten and slapped him as hard as she could.
The Doctor grinned as she walked back over to him, grabbed his hand and walked back to the TARDIS. They make it back to the TARDIS and the Doctor puts a hand on her. "Little piece of home. Better than nothing. I'm the only one left, I win. How about that."
"It's a good thing I'm not going anywhere," Rose gives him her special smile. "Got to keep you out of trouble." The Doctor laughs at that.
Adam comes running up then. "We better get out, Van Statten's disappeared. There closing down the base."
Rose turns to the Doctor. "What would you think if Adam came along."
"He's a bit pretty." The Doctor scoffed.
"I only thought that since he helped, we could take him on one trip. Believe me Doctor I'm not interested in him." Rose assured him.
"On your own head then." The Doctor warns her.
Rose turns to Adam, "come on then." Adam follows Rose into the TARDIS as she disappears.
Yes this is a shorter chapter but after what the Dalek did before developing emotions means that if Rose killed the Dalek while it was still weak she would save a lot of people but she did not let the Dalek suffer. I debated with myself about letting Adam join them but in the end I decided to let him.
