Sorry for the short chapters, longer one next time...promise.
Jack had picked up one of the torches and for a fleeting moment he wondered how it stayed alight.
"I feel like a very big rat in a huge maze," Gwen said from behind him.
"Or a really bad Indiana Jones movie," Jack replied, quirking a smile.
"Ha, ha," Gwen said. "If there's a hole full of creepy crawlies, you can put your hand in."
They stopped when the corridor turned into wall.
"Great, another dead end," Jack sighed and turned.
They began backtracking when the sound of something grinding filled the tunnel.
"Jack!" Gwen yelled and began running.
Up ahead a brick door was slowly lowering, small amounts of sand and dirt were trickling from its sides.
They dashed towards the ever decreasing gap but as they reached it stopped with a muffled fatalistic thud.
"No!" Jack yelled and thumped the wall...they were trapped!
The Supreme Dalek watched its new Emperor as he closed his eyes and communed with the others. It could feel the Emperor's mind...feel the power of it...feel the dark heart of it.
This was what the Dalek race had been waiting for, an Emperor to take them to new heights.
"What is it Supreme Dalek?" the Emperor asked.
"The prisoners you requested have been scanned and selected."
The Emperor opened his eyes and looked at the Supreme Dalek. The mutant inside squirmed with a new sensation...fear.
"Good, bring them to me. I will select those that are fit for transmutation."
"I obey," the Supreme Dalek said. "Bring the prisoners."
Seconds later a group of about twenty, some human, some not were herded into the chamber. They were lined up in front of the Emperor.
They nervously looked at the figure, unsure of what was happening.
The Emperor approached the first, a Sontaran. "No, the genetic purity is contaminated, extermination."
He went along the line, the Supreme Dalek following him. The ones that were selected were pushed forward.
"You will serve the Emperor and become the new master race. Take them to the chambers, exterminate the others."
There were cries of "No!" and "Mercy" that were cut short by the rake of a Dalek laser.
"Mercy has no place in the new Empire," the Emperor said. The Darkness smiled to himself...soon he would have mastery of the Dalek DNA within this body and then he would rid himself of what remained of the Time Lord's consciousness. Soon his destiny would be fulfilled.