"So what do you think happened to her?"
Martha stepped out of the Tardis into Sky, glancing at the main console that was showered with unfamiliar controls, the Doctor, however, strolled casually,
"I dunno, maybe she's been infiltrated or..." He stopped, standing still,
"or..."
He turned to Martha, a solemn expression painted on his face,
"She might be.." He turned away from her, looking down, his arms ran through his wild hair, Martha's eyes widened at the implication,
"What..like..like you?" He didn't answer her,
"Sky, where's Abi?"
"Abigail is in her bedroom"
"Okay, come on"
"Doctor, I advise you not to interrupt her"
He turned to the computer, then to Martha who had the same look of confusion, "Whyyy..."
"She has company"
"Okay..21 questions"
She sat crossed legged on her bed in sweats and a tank top, facing Jack who was in a similar position,
"Okay, how am I immortal?"
She rolled her eyes at the bluntness of his question, "So uhh..the Doctor sent Rose away to protect her, but she wasn't having any of that so she went into the Tardis opened her up and looked into her soul, when she came back she was this all powerful goddess thing with magic and stuff" He chuckled at her bluntness," Then she destroyed all the Daleks and brought you back to life but she couldn't control it so she brought you back..for..well forever" She shrugged after failing to put it nicely for him, he blinked looked down and all he could say was,
"Huh"
She frowned, "That's my line and you know it, so anything else?"
"So when you say immortal you mean..."
"Oh I mean you can qualify for Britain's got Talent, what do you think I mean?"
"Alright, okay, sarcastic much"
"Better get used to it" She stuck her tongue out,
"Alright next question"
"Go on"
"Why are you so beautiful?"
She stared at him, sighed then fake gagged,
"Okay, couple of things you need to know about me, I don't do presents, I don't do mushy feely stuff and I do not do flattery, I'm feeling nauseous right now"
"You say you don't do flattery but you blushed" He poked her, she didn't like it,
"No I didn't"
"You did"
"I didn't"
"I saw you"
"Hmm no I really don't think you did"
"Whatever"
She was in the midst of getting up, when he said that she gaped at his cheekiness, "Oh you did not just say that" She didn't wait for his reply, she took a brief run up and tackled him off the bed, making sure he landed on the ground. "Huh, taken down by a girl" She grinned at his shock.
"When did you learn to do that?!"
She opened her mouth to answer but a crash from outside stopped her, she looked down at him and jumped off. She ran out of the room, towards where the sound came from. She stopped when she heard the Doctor's voice,
"Who could she have with her?"
"Jari?"
"...In her room?! I mean-" The Doctor stopped talking when Martha looked behind his back, he turned to see Abi, frowning at the mess he made.
"Well I am not cleaning that up" She huffed and walked past him to hug Martha, "Hey Martha" She hugged back awkwardly. The Doctor stepped behind her and tapped her shoulders,
"Abi?"
She turned to his concerned filled face, "Who have you got in your room?"
"Oh, uh.."
Jack walked in to see the back of some mans head, his immediate concern was if he could hurt Abi, "Abi?"
The man turned to see Jack and exclaimed "Jack!" he hugged him tightly and let go, baring a great grin, Jack however was still shocked and a tiny bit intimidated, Abi seeing this went up to the Doctor and whispered, "uh.. you kinda ..well...regenerated"
Realization crossed the Doctor face and he turned to Jack, "I'm the Doctor"
Jack just blinked, "Sorry, what?"
Abi placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, "It's the Doctor, he...well...he regenerated, I forgot to mention" She rubbed the back of her neck, mentally scolding herself at missing out an important detail.
"Abigail. Extraterrestrial interference with Dasdre"
She stepped past the guys and onto the platform,
"Of what origin?"
"Daleks."
The four time travelers appeared in a field of blue and red grass, they were in the midst of an argument, Martha was questioning all three of them,
"But Doctor we saw, we saw that one Dalek in the Empire state building, how can there be millions now?"
"Time travel, who knows where in their time stream they are coming from" Abi was ahead of all of them, more angry than all of them too.
Once they had heard of the Dalek interference Abi was the first to move, she was protective over this world, and because of her feelings from the recent memory activation she wasn't their biggest fan, the Doctor tried to warn her of the dangers but nothing was going to stop her saving this planet, not even the universes greatest devils. But the Doctor was more worried about her safety, because if she has gained Time Lord knowledge then they could use her, or, if she was a Time Lord then they could take advantage of her unique energy. Right now, though, he was scared for the Daleks because even he wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of her when she was this angry. Jack was also worried about what she would do, from what he could see she wasn't planning anything nice for them,
"Abi,, just wait", he caught up to her and stopped her from moving, "The Daleks aren't going to reason with you, they'll just kill, we can't just barge in and demand them to stop, they'll just exterminate us"
"Nothing is touching this planet, nothing is touching the people and nothing is touching you, I promise" She waited for him to nod before she walked off, but this time the Doctor stopped her,
"If you go to them, they'll find out what you are"
"And what am I?" She challenged him,
"Abi..-"
"Daleks have a telepathic web, if I find one of the patrols, blast it open and take the data chip, I can find out what they're doing"
"But that's Dalek data banks, you're gonna need a lot of power to use that data chip"
"Don't worry, he's not far."
She stepped over a mound of Earth and just over it was a hovering Dalek, "HALT, INTRUDERS, EXTERMINATE, EXTERM-"
Abi shot it down without a second thought, she angrily mumbled to herself, "Doing my head in, does it have to scream"
They went over to the fallen Dalek, she attempted to open it but the Doctor pulled out the sonic, "Need help",
She shrugged, "Knock yourself out"
He went over to the creature and started disassembling it, Martha started asking,
"What are we actually doing?"
Abi looked up from the Dalek, but the Doctor spoke "Well assuming we can extrapolate the data from this Dalek, we'll find out what they're planning and stop them"
"How?" Jack asked,
"Well..haven't worked that bit out yet"
"What about you?" He turned to Abi,
"I've got something planned"
Both the Doctor and Martha were interested now, "What?"
Abi sighed and looked down, "I don't wanna lie to any of you so I can't say anything"
"Abi, if you've got a plan.."
"Bit of a plan"
"But why can't you tell us?"
"Because you'll stop me" She got up without saying anymore, she moved to the other side and looked out at the view, the Doctor continued working with Martha, Jack got up and walked to her,
"I meant what I said before, they are not touching this planet, there is just no way"
He stood next to her, "If you know we'll stop you, then that kinda means that you shouldn't do it"
She laughed and looked up at him, "Right little detective aren't you"
"You rubbed off on me"
"You did too" He chuckled and turned to her,
"What are you planning?" She gave him a sad smile, but a clanging noise behind them caused them both to turn, they saw the Dalek opening up. She jogged over to the creature and sat down beside it. The Doctor held up a ball that looked similar to the Dalek's eyestalk,
"This is it"
She reached out to take it and looked at it, "Good"
"Ex..exx.." The Dalek stuttered in pain, they all slowly shuffled away, "ESSCCAAAPPE"
Martha blinked and looked at all of them,"What?"
The Dalek repeated itself and that's when Abi fully approached it, "Escape? Why are you telling us to escape?"
"SALIA, ESCAPE" The octopus-like creature closed it's one eye, the Doctor pulled Abi up and stared into her eyes, looking for something, he sighed giving up but kept her in place, "Do you know who Salia is?"
She blinked at his intensity, she really did know who Salia was, she was supposed to be Salia according to Rassilon but in her heart she was Abigail, a human but what she learnt in the Time Lock said otherwise. Not telling the Doctor anything about what happened was hard, she knew that one day he would find out but admitting to him that she knew about the Time War because she was apparently a Time Lady wasn't something she was looking forward to. She didn't want to lie, she hated it but until she knew what was going on she had to, she couldn't afford to waste with questions.
"No, who is she?" He rubbed his eyes, letting her go,
"Not now"
"But why did that Dalek want her to escape, Doctor, it might help"
"Trust me, it won't"
"...He thought I was Salia"
"Yes"
"Why"
He looked at her and walked off, she wasn't having any of that, she ran up to him, "What are you not telling me?"
He glared at her to her astonishment, "What are you not telling me?" Jack saw how intense the conversation was and went up to both of them but before he could say anything Jari appeared, Abi, who was grateful for the interruption, went up and hugged him, the others right behind her,
"Hey, where did you get that", pointing to the manipulator, he shrugged,
"Stole it, hey guys, come on" He lead the way with the Doctor next to him, talking, Jack and Martha were on either side of Abi, Jack asked,
"Where is he taking us?"
"His home"
"His home?" Martha gaped,
"Yeah, he works for the top Dasdreen officials, he's got loads of technology"
"He can scan the Dalek thing?"
"Yep, its not far"
They walked on for 5 more minutes through the city, it looked peaceful and safe, much to Martha's confusion, she asked Jari,
"What's going on, where are the Daleks"
"They're not doing anything to us now, they're orbiting and scanning the planet"
"Scanning for what?"
"I dunno, come on, down here" He lead them into an alcove and through a tunnel lit up with scented candles, they looked at their surroundings in awe, Dasdreen homes were beautiful, no one could deny that.
When they got in Abi walked off purposely to a room, the others stayed longer, looking around the house, the Doctor followed Abi into the room, Martha and Jack went in after. The room was darkly lit with alien computers and screen, in the middle of the room was something that looked like an incubator with the lid off. Abi was working on a computer, the Doctor watching her. She turned to him, giving him the ball and returning to the computer. Their conversation was unfamiliar and just wrong, to an outsider they would seem like enemies when really they were the best of friends but right now they were acting like anything but. Martha went up to Abi while Jack and Jari spoke to the Doctor.
"What are you doing?" She tilted her head at her,
"Scanning for the Dalek Crusable ship, it's not far"
""How many are there?"
"Apparently the Doctor said that the Daleks may have tampered with our scans, they may have wanted us to think they were many but there might be two, right now I just don't know" She sighed, looking at the Doctor, he was placing the ball in the 'incubator', Martha, seeing this, asked her,
"What happened, with you and him, I mean one minute you're all loved up and happy couples-"
"What? Me and the Doctor aren't together"
"You're not?"
"No, look, the Doctor's my best friend, I mean I love him, yeah course I do, to bits. But as a friend, and that's all he can be to me"
"But what happened, between you two"
"We have secrets, both of us, and we're both hiding them which is annoying the other" She shrugged at her own explanation, the Doctor looked up to Abi,
"Got the data, I'm streaming it"
She nodded, "OK"
They all crowded around the computer, a screen came up showing information , she scrolled down to scan results, both thee Doctor and Abi analyzed the whole page, understanding completely what this meant, the others didn't, Martha frowned at the page,
"Doctor what does this mean?"
"There..well...there looking for Time Lord energy on Dasdre, they know about it's structure, they know it can be used as machinery but the need energy, Time Lord regeneration energy, they use that, plus the power supporting the planet then they could tear the whole universe apart."
The screen blinked, alerting Abi that the coordinates were located she typed them into her manipulator whilst the Doctor continued explaining,
"But it's more than that cos I reckon that Dalek outside of the city meant that they needed Salia, I think the Daleks haven't worked it all out"
Jari looked at the screen before asking the Doctor, "Who's Salia?"
"Time Lady genius, she was capable of destroying the universe once upon a time"
"Where is she now?"
"She must've died in the Time War...or.."
"Or.."
Abi looked up at them, purposely extracting them from their conversation, "I've got the coordinates, I'm going up to the ship"
"With us, you're not going without us" Jack said, firmly,
"What are you going to do anyway?" Martha asked,
"Well, you heard the Doctor, they haven't worked it out yet, so I'm going stop them before they do"
The Doctor stared at her, "And can you do that?"
"No, but you can" She looked at him questioningly
"Yeah, OK"
They disappeared.