"The TARDIS has been destroyed. Now tell me, Doctor. What do you feel? Anger? Sorrow? Despair?"
"Yeah." The Doctor whispered, seeing out of the corner of his eye as Jack slipped his now powered up teleport into Rose's hand.
"Then if emotions are so important, surely we have enhanced you?"
"Yeah? Feel this!" Jack shouted, turning round and shooting the Dalek before being shot and killed.
"Jack." Martha whispered as The Doctor squeezed her hand tightly, before looking over at Rose as she teleported away.
"Escort them to the Vault. They are the playthings of Davros now.
"Activate the holding cells." Davros said as The Doctor and Martha were placed inside holding cells. "Excellent. Even when powerless, a Time Lord is best contained."
"Still scared of me, then?" The Doctor asked as he reached out, making a rippling effect against the holding cell.
"It is time we talked, Doctor. After so very long."
"No no no no no, we're not doing the nostalgia tour, I wanna know what's happening, right here, right now, cos the Supreme Dalek said Vault, yeah? As in dungeon? Cellar? Prison? You're not in charge of the Daleks, are you? They've got you locked away down here in the basement like, what, a servant? Slave? Court jester?"
"We have... an arrangement."
"No no no no, I've got the word. You're the Dalek's pet!" Martha cut in.
"So very full of fire, are not?" Davros asked, gliding over to Martha. "And to think you crossed entire universes, striding parallel to parallel to find him again."
"Leave her alone."
"She is mine, to do as I please."
"Pfft, chance would be a fine thing." Martha said bitterly. "Why am I still here then? Could have exterminated me the second we walked out of The TARDIS."
"You must be here. It was foretold. Even the Supreme Dalek would not dare to contradict the prophecies of Dalek Caan."
"So cold and dark, fire is coming, the endless flames..." Dalek Caan sang from a podium above them slightly.
"But that's..." Martha began, looking at The Doctor. "Dalek Caan? The last of the Cult of Skaro, yeah?"
"But it flew into the Time War, unprotected." The Doctor said.
"Caan did more than that. He saw time, its infinite complexity and majesty, raging through his mind. And he saw you. Both of you."
"This I have foreseen, in the wild, and the wind. The Doctor will be here, as witness. At the end of everything. The Doctor and his precious Children of Time. And one of them will die!"
"Was it you, Caan? Did you kill Donna? Why did the TARDIS door close, tell me!" The Doctor shouted.
"Oh, that's it! The anger. The fire. The rage of a Time Lord who butchered millions. There he is! Why so shy? Show your companion. Show her your true self. Dalek Caan has promised me that, too."
"I have seen. At the time of ending, the Doctor's soul will be revealed."
"What does that mean?"
"We will discover it together. Our final journey. Because the ending approaches, the testing begins."
"Testing of what?" Martha asked.
"The Reality Bomb."
"Behold the apotheosis of my genius!" Davros cackled as a screen appeared, showing the testing area where prisoners were being dissolved.
"...two, one, zero. Activate planetary alignment field!"
"That's Z-Neutrino energy... flattened by the alignment of the planets into a single string. No! Davros! Davros, you can't! You can't! NO!" The Doctor shouted at him.
"Test completed."
"Doctor, what was that?"
"Electrical energy, Doctor Jones. Every atom in existence is bound by an electrical field. The Reality Bomb cancels it out. Structure falls apart. That test was focused on the prisoners alone. Full transmission will dissolve every form of matter."
"The stars were going out..." Martha whispered in horror.
"The 27 planets. They become one vast transmitter. Blasting that wavelength..."
"Across the entire universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust, and the dust will become atoms, and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the Rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation! This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The destruction of reality itself!"
"Incoming transmission! Origin Planet Earth." A Dalek reported, putting the screen through into the vault, showing Mickey in some sort of cabinet.
"This is Mickey Smith, representing the... HUMAN RACE! On... well, behalf of the human race. This message is for the Dalek Crucible, repeat, can you hear me?"
"Put me through."
"It begins. As Dalek Caan foretold."
"The Children of Time will gather. And one of them will die!"
"Stop saying that! Put me through!"
"Doctor! I'm sorry."
"Oh, but the Doctor is powerless. My prisoner. State your intent."
"I've got the Osterhagen Key. Leave this planet and its people alone. Or I'll use it."
"Osterhagen what? What's an Osterhagen Key? Where the hell did you get it?"
"There's a chain of 25 nuclear warheads, placed in strategic points beneath the Earth's crust. If I use the key, they detonate and the Earth gets ripped apart. UNIT's been smuggling stuff into the estate for Rose, undercover work, but this turned up after she left to go find you, so here I am."
"What? Who invented that? Well, someone called Osterhagen, I suppose. Mickey, are you insane!"
"The Osterhagen Key is to be used, if the suffering of the human race is so great, so without hope... that this becomes the final option."
"That's never an option!"
"Don't argue with me, Doctor! Cos it's more than that. Now, I reckon the Daleks need these 27 planets for something, but what if it becomes 26? What happens then? Daleks? Would you risk it?"
"He's good." Martha said.
"Who is that?"
"My name's Martha. Martha Jones."
"He found you?" Mickey asked, shocked before smiling and another screen appeared with Jack, Rose, Leo and Tish on with Jack holding a warp star wired into the ship.
"Captain Jack Harkness, calling all Dalek boys and girls! Are you receiving me? Don't send in your goons, or I'll set this thing off!"
"He's still alive!" Martha grinned. "Oh my god, that's my brother and sister!" She spluttered, looking at Tish and Leo.
"Follow you anywhere, remember?" Leo said, smiling softly at his big sister.
"Oh, Martha. Have something to eat..." Francine said to her daughter as Martha hugged her knees to her chest as she sat on the window sill, looking out of the window with chips wrapped in paper from the chip shop going cold next to her.
"Two hundred thousand years in the future, he's dying, and I can't do anything. I'm meant to be training to be a doctor and I can't even help him."
"Well, like you said - two hundred thousand years - it's way off!" Martha's father commented, stuffing his face with chips. The man never really believed all the stuff with The Doctor, throught they just backpacked across countries.
"But it's not! It's now!" Martha snapped, looking at her parents as Tish and Leo looked guiltily betwen them. "That fight is happening right now, and he's fighting for us! For the whole planet, and I'm just sitting here eating chips!" She shouted, knocking the chips across the room.
"Listen to me." Francine began. "God knows I have hated that man, but right now, I love him - and d'you know why? Because he did the right thing. He sent you back to us."
"But what do I do every day, mum? What do I do? Get up - catch the bus - go to work - come back home - eat chips and go to bed? Is that it?"
"It's what the rest of us do. Martha, your training to be a doctor, you can save people's lives now."
"But I can't!" Martha shouted. "If it wasn't for him, they wouldn't be here so I could save their lives, so anyone could!" She sighed. "But it was... it was a better life. And I - I don't mean all the travelling and... seeing aliens and spaceships and things - that don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life." She looked over to Tish and Leo. "You know, he showed you too. That you don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, and I just can't!" She shouted, jumping up, grabbing her jacket and storming out of the house. Tish looked at her parents for a second before following her.
Martha sat on the bench by the Hope hospital, where she met The Doctor for the first time, glancing over at The TARDIS sitting several metres away from her. She looked over at a brick wall beside the hospital with the words 'Arch Angel' sprawled across it.
"Over here. It's over here as well!" Martha whispered walking up to it as Tish appeared beside her.
"That's been there for years! It's just a phrase! It's just words!" Tish muttered.
"I thought it was a warning... maybe it's the opposite. It could be a link, the messages, connecting the us to the year 200100!" Martha said, quickly making her way over to The TARDIS as Leo pulled up next to it in his car.
"But if it's a message, what's it saying?" Tish asked as Leo got out of the car.
"Maybe I can get back." Martha explained as she slotted her key into the door and opened it up before walking in. "All the TARDIS needs to do is make a return trip. Just... reverse."
"Yeah, but we still can't do it." Leo said, looking round the console.
"The Doctor always said the TARDIS is telepathic. She's alive." Martha said, smiling and stroking the console.
"It's not listening now, is it?"
"We need to get inside her. A while back, the console opened up, and there was this light, if we can open it up, maybe I can get back."
"Were gonna need a chain." Tish said, smiling as Leo dangled the car keys in front of her.
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