Chapter 2
"Everyone into the TARDIS," the Doctor ordered the whole crowd into the TARDIS.
People ran into the TARDIS and didn't think about doing anything else. They didn't know what to do. The Doctor also ordered, "And don't touch anything!"
Alex was the last one to go in and the Doctor followed her in and closed the doors. He ran to the control console and made the TARDIS go into the Vortex. The TARDIS vanished into the Vortex. Right after that the sub station collapsed in on itself.
Alex came up to the Doctor wanting answers.
"You said the Daleks were dead!" yelled Alex.
"They are, but not inside the Time Lock. The Time Lock is like a giant bubble. Nothing can get out and nothing can get in except for something that was already there!" the Doctor explained, "Think. Think. Think. Think! THINK! New York. New York. New York!"
"What are you doing?" asked Alex.
"I'm trying to think how the Daleks were able to link outside the Time Lock. The Time Lords did the same thing, but with a rhythm in the Master's head," said the Doctor.
"So something is linking the inside and outside of the Time Lock together and it..."
"It has to be something that's Dalek. I'm trying to remember...the 1930s!"
"You're trying to remember the 1930s?" asked Alex.
"What? No! The 1930s was when the Daleks were in the city and in the sewers," the Doctor's memory flooded back to him, "How could I have been so stupid! The theater. The sewers. The evolution of the Daleks. The Daleks were in the sewers in the 30s and planned to create a new human-Dalek hybrids. Long story short: my tenth incarnation stopped them and something must have been left behind. Dalek Thay and Jast were taken care of. Caan exploded on the Crucible. The tech used was human tech and warped into superior technology." The Dalek dropped his shoulders and sighed.
Alex noticed that and asked, "What is it?"
"Dalek Sec's armor survived. I left his armor there. I didn't think anything of it," said the Doctor. He put the coordinates, but the TARDIS wouldn't materialize. He knocked on the center control console and asked her, "Why aren't you materializing?"
The TARDIS didn't do anything, but Alex said, "It's because that's the heart of the Rift and it would tear her heart apart."
"How do you know that?" asked the Doctor.
"She's talking to me again," said Alex, "But this time she's scared, Doctor. She doesn't know if she'll make it."
The Doctor looked at her control column and told her, "It's going to be okay. I won't let anything happen to you."
Harper and the rest of the Russos went up to the Doctor. Theresa asked the Doctor, "What's going on?"
"I'll pull up the view on the screens, but I'll warn you that you may not like what you see," the Doctor told them. He put the view of New York City and the city in the viewscreen was a chaotic scene. Countless buildings had collapsed. The city had gotten lighter, but had a dark grey hue to it and the lightening had calm down, but it was still blasting away at random places. The river and ocean were churning violently.
"Is that New York?" asked Ernesto as he walked up to the stage.
"Yeah, it is," said the Doctor.
"Do you know who did this?" asked Ernesto, "Because I think you do."
"I do know who did this," said the Doctor, "And this is nothing. This is child's play compared to what they can do?"
"Who are they?"
"Daleks," said the Doctor, "They are the ultimate xenophobic megalomaniacs."
"They're what?" asked Theresa.
"They are the ultimate racists of the universe. You can reason with them. There is nothing you can offer them that can make them go away. They are strictly organized, cold, calculating, and devoid of any emotions that pertain to life. The only the thing that you can do is kill the Daleks before they can kill you," the Doctor explained and was fuming.
"But there must be something that we can do. They must want something," said Ernesto.
"They do want something from you," Alex chimed in.
"What is it?"
"Your death. The only thing that can satisfy them is for you to die," said Alex.
"How do you know that?" asked the Doctor.
"She told me," said Alex.
"Who is this she?" asked Ernesto.
"My TARDIS. The thing we're in is a living ship," said the Doctor, "Alex and her share a connection that I have never seen between her and a human."
"Doctor, is it true. Is it true that the Daleks only want your death?" asked Theresa.
"Yes, it is. Their battle cry is exterminate. They chose that way back when they were Kaleds back on Skaro in their endless war with the Thals. In the end, the psychopathic Davros created the Daleks and tried to wipe out both sides. I kind of got involved and postponed the Daleks reign of terror, but unfortunately didn't prevent it."
"You were there when the Daleks were created?" asked Alex.
"Yeah," the Doctor said, "I was there at the Genesis of the Daleks."
Harper was watching the view screen and saw dozens of things come up from the ground and float in the air. She thought they looked light weird salt shakers. They were lined with have orbs and what looked like an eyestalk. Each had what looked like an eggbeater arm and a toilet plunger arm. She wanted to know what they were and asked, "Doctor, what are those things?"
"What things?" asked the Doctor.
"Those in the air," said Harper pointing.
The Doctor saw them and said, "They're here. Those are what Daleks look like."
"They don't look threatening," said Ernesto.
"Believe me when I saw looks can be deceiving. Daleks have been feared for countless generations and in every corner of the universe. That's why my people went to war with them and yeah, that ended well," the Doctor replied.
The Daleks then blasted away at the city and killed the survivors. Building after building was destroyed, but there was one tower that was undamaged. The massive Montana Tower was fine. The Doctor noticed that and said, "The Montana Tower's not damaged."
The Daleks blasted away, but there attacks couldn't pierce what was best described as a shield. The Doctor's eyes opened wider and said, "The tower is shielded."
"How?" asked Alex.
"I don't know. Humans don't possess that kind of technology. Actually it would be easier to count the species that have the technology to shield Dalek weaponry," the Doctor said.
Alex and Harper both saw someone in a corner of the TARDIS control room. He wasn't at the party and neither one of them recognized him. He was man in his fifties and he had a white goatee and mustache. He was dressed in all white and his hair was white as well. He saw them and he put his finger over his mouth and told them not to say anything. He waved his hand and a gust of wind tore throughout the TARDIS. Everyone except for the Doctor, Russos, and Harper. The man in white also vanished.
"Who was that?" asked Harper.
"I don't know," said Alex.
"Did he use magic?" asked Harper, "That looked like magic."
"That wasn't magic," said Alex, "I don't know what that was all about." She was scared and didn't know what to do.
The Doctor looked around and asked, "What the heck was that? Where did the wind come from and where did everyone go?"
"I don't know," said Jerry.
"I guess it doesn't matter right now," said the Doctor, "We need to get to that tower and find out how that building is shielded. I have no idea how Montana has his tower shielded." Down in the city below, the UNIT forces that were left mobilized and launched a retaliatory attack on the Daleks. The battle went on for less than half an hour. The UNIT forces got lucky and blasted away several Daleks, but in the end the attack was in vain. The Daleks destroyed and killed all the forces.
In the skies of the city, a singular Dalek floated in the air. It was larger and looked more intimidating than the others. Another Dalek, this one normal looking, flew to the larger one. It said, "Su-preme Da-lek, the lar-gest to-wer is still stan-ding and o-ver that we have re-ports of Time Lord."
"Time Lord!" shouted the Supreme Dalek, "How did a Time Lord sur-vive the war? Which Time Lord is it?"
"We do not know yet, but he is dan-ger-ous and must be trea-ted with cau-tion."
"A-greed," said the Supreme Dalek, "Where is the Time Lord now?"
"In-side the to-wer."
"Then we will de-stroy the Time Lord and the to-wer," said the Supreme Dalek, "Go and find a way through."
"I o-bey," the Dalek said and flew away. Dozens of Daleks flew around the Montana Tower and started to blast away.