One of the Daleks turned to me, "You know the Doctor. You understand him. You will predict his actions," It said. "I don't know. And even if I did, I wouldn't tell you," I said. "Predict! Predict! Predict!" It demanded.
"TARDIS detected in flight," Another Dalek said. "Launch missiles. Exterminate," The first Dalek said. "But you can't! The TARDIS hasn't got any defences. You're going to kill him," I said. "You have predicted correctly," The Dalek said.
I was suddenly inside the TARDIS along with a Dalek. "Sam, get down!" The Doctor said and I did that immediately. "Exterminate!" The Dalek said before Jack destroyed it.
"You did it," I said. The Doctor walked up to me and we hugged each other tightly. "It feels like I haven't seem you in years," I said. "I told you I'd come and get you," He said. "I had no doubts," I said. "I did," He said and we pulled away, "You all right?"
"Yeah. You?" I asked. "Not bad, been better," The Doctor said and I smiled. "Hey, don't I get a hug?" Jack asked. I walked up to him and hugged him. "Welcome home," He said.
"I thought I'd never see you again," I said and they pulled away. "Oh, you were lucky," Jack said. "That was just a one shot wonder. Drained the gun of all its power supply. Now it's just a piece of junk."
"You said they were extinct. How comes they're still alive?" I asked The Doctor. "One minute they're the greatest threat in the Universe, the next minute they vanished out of time and space," Jack said.
"They went off to fight a bigger war," The Doctor said, "The Time War -"
"I thought that was just a legend," Jack cut him off with a frown. "I was there," The Doctor said, "The war between the Daleks and the Time Lords, with the whole of creation at stake. My people were destroyed, but they took the Daleks with them. I almost thought it was worth it. Now it turns out they died for nothing."
"There's thousands of them now," I said. "We could hardly stop one. What're we going to do?"
"No good stood round here chin wagging. Human race, you'd gossip all day. The Daleks have got the answers. Let's go and meet the neighbours," The Doctor said. "But you can't go out there," I said, but he stepped out.
"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Daleks said and their rays were stopped by a forcefield extending a good three metres out from the TARDIS. "Is that it? Useless! Nul points. It's all right, come on out. That forcefield can hold back anything," The Doctor said.
The three stepped out. "Almost anything," Jack said. "Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that. Thanks," The Doctor said. "Sorry," Jack said.
"Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek Homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You might've removed all your emotions but I reckon right down deep in your DNA, there's one little spark left, and that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me? So tell me. How did you survive the Time War?" The Doctor asked.
"They survived through me."
The Doctor, Jack and I walked up to a giant casing in front of them who spoke in a deep voice. "Sam, Captain, this is the Emperor of the Daleks," The Doctor said.
"You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek race died in your inferno, but my ship survived, falling through time, crippled but alive," The Emperor said. "I get it," The Doctor said. "Do not interrupt," Three Daleks said.
"I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk. I've got five billion languages, and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's going to shut up, it's you!" The Doctor snapped. The Daleks stepped back a little. The Doctor turned back to the Emperor, "Okey doke. So, where were we?"
"We waited here in the dark space, damaged but rebuilding. Centuries passed, and we quietly infiltrated the systems of Earth, harvesting the waste of humanity. The prisoners, the refugees, the dispossessed. They all came to us. The bodies were filtered, pulped, sifted. The seed of the human race is perverted. Only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured," The Emperor said.
"So you created an army of Daleks out of the dead," The Doctor said. "So, that makes them half human," I said. "Those words are blasphemy," The Emperor said. "Do not blaspheme," Three Dalek said.
"Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek," The Emperor said. "Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?" The Doctor asked. "I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the God of all Daleks!" The Emperor said.
"Worship him. Worship him. Worship him," The Daleks said. "They're insane. Hiding in silence for hundreds of years, that's enough to drive anyone mad. But it's worse than that. Driven mad by your own flesh. The stink of humanity. You hate your own existence. And that makes them more deadly than ever. We're going," The Doctor said.
"You may not leave my presence," The Emperor said. "Stay where you are," A Dalek said. "Exterminate!" All the Daleks said as we went back into the TARDIS. The Daleks started shooting at the forcefield again and The Doctor leaned his head on the door.
"Doctor," I started softly. He turned to me and sighed, "We need to go back," He said before walking past me to the console. He pulled lever before stopping and then walked out.
Jack and I followed him out to see we were in a room with the people I saw before at the screen. "It's Floor 500," Jack told me. "What?" I asked and The Doctor nodded to me before turning back to the others, "Turn everything up. All transmitters full power, wide open. Now! Do it!"
"What does this do?" The man asked. "Stops the Daleks from transmatting on board. How did you get on? Did you contact Earth?" The Doctor asked.
"Well, we tried to warn them, but all they did was suspend our license because we stopped the programmes," The man said. "And the planet's just sitting there, defenceless. Lynda, what're you still doing on board? I told you to evacuate everyone," The Doctor said.
"She wouldn't go," The man said. "Didn't want to leave you," Lynda told The Doctor. "There weren't enough shuttles anyway, or I wouldn't be here. We've got about a hundred people stranded on Floor Zero," A woman said. "Oh, my God. The Fleet is moving. They're on their way," The man said.
The Doctor began pulling out bits of conduit, "Dalek plan. Big mistake, because what have they left me with? Anyone? Anyone? Oh, come on, it's obvious. A great big transmitter. This station. If I can change the signal, fold it back, sequence it, anyone?"
"You've got to be kidding," Jack said. "Give the man a medal," The Doctor said. "A Delta Wave?" Jack asked. "A Delta Wave," The Doctor repeated. "What's a Delta Wave?" I asked.
"A wave of Van Cassadyne energy. It fries your brain. Stand in the way of a Delta Wave and your head gets barbequed," Jack explained. "And this place can transmit a massive wave. Wipe out the Daleks," The Doctor added.
"Well, get started and do it then," Lynda said. "Trouble is, wave this size, building this big, brain as clever as mine, should take about, oh, three days? How long till the Fleet arrive?" The Doctor asked. "21 minutes," The man replied.
Everything was rerouted, "We've now got a forcefield so they can't blast us out of the sky, but that doesn't stop the Daleks from physically invading," Jack said. "Do they know about the Delta Wave?" The man asked.
"They'll have worked it out at the same time. So, they want to stop The Doctor. That means they've got to get to this level, five hundred. Now, I can concentrate the extrapolator around the top six levels, five hundred to four nine five. So they'll penetrate the station below that at level four nine four and fight their way up," Jack said.
"Who are they fighting?" The man asked. "Us," Jack replied. "And what are we fighting with?" The man asked. "The guards had guns with bastic bullets. That's enough to blow a Dalek wide open," Jack explained.
"There's five of us," The woman said. "Sam, you can help me. I need all these wires stripping bare," The Doctor said and I went over to help him. "Right, now there's four of us," The woman said. "Then let's move it. Into the lift. Isolate the lift controls," Jack said.
Lynda came over to us, "I just want to say, um, thanks, I suppose, and I'll do my best," She said. "Me too," The Doctor said and she walked forwards. Jack joined us, "It's been fun, but I guess this is goodbye."
"Don't talk like that. The Doctor's going to do it. You just watch him," I said. "Sam, you are worth fighting for," Jack said before he grabbed me on the sides of my face and crushed his lips to mine.
My eyes grew slightly wide but before I could respond, he pulled away and gave me one last smile before walking over to The Doctor, "Wish I'd never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward," Jack said. He kissed The Doctor as well and I smirked. "See you in hell," Jack said and walked off.
The Doctor blinked a few times before glancing at me with a frown. Then he shrugged before turning back to work. I stared at him for a moment before walking to stand by his side. "Suppose," I spoke.
"What?" The Doctor asked. "Nothing," I said. "You said 'suppose'," He pointed out. "No, I was just thinking. I mean, obviously you can't, but, you've got a time machine. Why can't you just go back to last week and warn them?" I asked. "As soon as the TARDIS lands in that second, I become part of events, stuck in the timeline," He explained.
"I thought so," I muttered, sighing. "There's another thing the TARDIS could do. It could take us away. We could leave. You and me. Let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989," He said.
"Yeah, but you'd never do that," I said with a soft smile. "No, but you could ask. Never even occurred to you, did it?" He asked. I shrugged, "I know that if I'll ask, you probably agree, but . . . We can't let people die."
He stared at me for a moment before looking away, "The Delta Wave's started building. How long does it need?" He asked before he walked to a console and I followed him. I studied his face and knew it wasn't good, "It's bad isn't it? How bad?"
His face suddenly change expression and he turned to me with a grin, "Sam, you're a genius! We can do it. If I use the TARDIS to cross my old timeline," He said before running into the TARDIS and I quickly followed him.
"Hold that down and keep position," The Doctor said, placing my hands on two levers. "What's it do?" I asked. "Cancels the buffers. If I'm very clever and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant, I might just save the world. Or rip it apart," He replied.
"I'd go for the first one," I said. "Me too. Now, I've just got to go and power up the Game Station," The Doctor said before running out, "Right, hold on!" He closed the doors after him and I waited for him to come back.
Suddenly, the engines of the TARDIS were starting and I frowned. "Doctor, what're you doing? Can I take my hand off? It's moving," I said. I let go and ran to the door but it was locked, "Doctor, let me out!" I pounded on the door.
Suddenly I heard something behind me so I turned around to see an hologram of The Doctor, "This is Emergency Programme One. Samantha, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape and that's okay. Hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home. And I bet you're fussing and moaning now. Typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do. Let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it. No one'll even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world'll move on and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all, one thing."
I leaned against the door as tears fall down my cheeks. "Have a good life. Do that for me, Sam. Have a fantastic life." I shook my head, "You can't do this to me. You can't," I said and quickly went over to the console, trying to figure out the controls.
"Take me back! Take me back! No!" I said. The TARDIS stopped and I ran outside but froze when I saw I was back home. I shook my head slightly before rushing back into the TARDIS and ran to the console, "How do you fly? Come on."
I tried but nothing worded. I sniffed as I walked outside. I leaned against the TARDIS as a few tears continued to fall. "Sammy!" I looked up to see Rose running towards me with Mickey and I quickly looked down.
"We knew it! We heard the engines," Mickey said as they reach over to me "There's only one thing that makes a noise like that." I looked back at them and they frowned. "What is it?" Mickey asked me in concern. I felt my heart hurt and tears just started again, so I just shook my head and wrapped my arms around Rose, hugging her.
She hugged me back as Mickey put his hand on my back. "Sammy, what's wrong?" Rose asked softly. I sobbed and just rested my head on her shoulder, closing my eyes as I cried.