They landed in a corridor, dimmed completely, they struggled to get to their feet, but managed after a while. Abi got up cracked her back and groaned,
"Right place?", she questioned herself,
"Where did you take us?" The Doctor asked
"Well, I didn't want to spend time sneaking about, getting caught and then being escorted here, so I took a shortcut" She shrugged while Jari groaned realizing what she had done,
"Ohh you didn't"
The lights around them suddenly beamed and blinked into life, they were as Jari feared in the main Crusabel, surrounded by Daleks with Dalek Emperor in the front, Abi grinned at them and hit a button on her right leg surrounding the group in a blue light,
"Ha portable containment vortex, clever me"
The Emperor's voice boomed, "Time Lord trickery"
"Nope, just intelligence"
"No human has such intelligence"
"You underestimate us"
"You are no human"
The Doctor strolled to the edge of the container, with his hands in his pocket, "Never mind that, you want Dasdre planet, what for?"
"We do not require anything from Dasdre"
He frowned and scratched the back of his head "Oh, that's ...embarrassing, what do you want?"
"We want the mind of the Time Lady"
Abi frowned, silently cursing her emotions as tears threatened to spill, "I am not a Time Lady!"
Her fury astounded the group but not the Daleks, "Incorrect, you are the Guide, Salia, the most advanced Time Lord in existance!"
"I am human!"
The Doctor, seeing her anger and pain, now realized why she never said, it was because she didn't want to be a Time Lady, she didn't want the pain that went with it. And he knew that she didn't want to come from a race that was so corrupt, so bitter that the would destroy the universe to save themselves. At times he didn't want to be a Time Lord, just once he wanted to be from a place that was like Dasdre or Earth but finding out he wasn't alone brought some happiness to his hearts. The Dalek deciding that arguing was pointless changed the conversation,
"You will come with us"
She scoffed as Jack said "No" and went to hold her hand, she squeezed back but didn't look at him,
"You will come with us or Dasdre will be destroyed"
She blinked and looked at the Doctor, he knew she wanted to go, "No Abi, don't",
"But Dasdre...wait", she brought her wrist up to her mouth "Sky, put up defences"
"Defences inactive"
"What?! Are you OK, are you fully functioning?"
"Systems actively function, transmissions to Dasdre terminated"
She turned to her friends, silently asking them what to do, "They've stopped Sky connecting with Dasdre, I've got to stop them"
Jari shook his head, "You can't trust them, they'll go back on their word"
Jack squeezed her hand, "I'll go down to Sky, activate her manually, they won't touch them"
Abi nodded at him, she turned to the Doctor, Martha and Jari, she sighed, letting go of Jack's hand she went up to them but focused on the Doctor, "I need you with me"
"You know what you are"
"I'm not like you, I-", she sighed, "Just...just please"
Jari frowned at what she was asking,"Abi..Abi you're not gonna give yourself to them, they'll kill you"
The Doctor shook his head, "No, no they need us, for whatever they're planning" He nodded to the Emperor who was surprisingly quiet, he then turned to Martha, "I need you to go with Jack and Jari, he's gonna protect Dasdre from them but he needs you"
"But I don't know anything about weapons and defense" She hissed,
"He'll tell you what to do, he just can't do it alone, Martha please"
"What about you?"
"I'll be fine, I've got her" He nodded to Abi, who beamed at his appreciation, "We've got to sort this out"
Martha seemed happy with this response and nodded walking over, Jari hugged Abi, they broke apart and he kissed her cheek, he whispered something inaudible to the others and went over to Jack and Martha, they vanished leaving the Doctor and Abi in the containment vortex. They glanced at each other before the Emperor addressed them both,
"The petty emotions of humans waste time"
"They're not petty, they're important to them and us" Abi glared at the Emperor,
"You feel pain from being separated, do you not?"
"Yes"
"Daleks feel no such pain"
"If you don't feel pain then how can you feel happiness, you don't understand, you'll never know, but sometimes you need to feel pain so that you can feel happiness, it's the only way" She shrugged but the Doctor looked down during her explanation, thinking of those he lost, maybe he needed to lose Rose for-
"You will proceed to the senate room" She sighed and cancelled the containment vortex, leaving them unprotected, two Daleks ushered them to a passage, they instantly reached for the others hand.
The room was dim if not for a couple of the Daleks eyestalk lights, the were pushed to the center of the room, the Doctor looked around at the room,
"So what's this then?"
"This is the cenate room, the history of the Time Lords are kept here, everything we need from them, from you"
"From us"
"We do not need you, Time Lord, we only need your associate"
"Me? Why?" Abi exclaimed,
"Your mind is of powerful..origin"
"You mean the Time Lords? I'm not a Time Lord"
"You deny your heritage, but your memories defy you"
"I am human, I was born and raised on Earth, human"
"Incorrect!"
"Your mind will bring the Daleks infinite power" Another spoke,
"But I don't have her mind"
"Just leave her, she can't help you!"
They raised their rays at her , "HER MIND WILL BE ACTIVATED!" They shot her down
She gasped immediately when she awoke, she noticed she was on a floor, it was cold and uncomfortable. She also noticed that she wasn't chained up which scared her more than it calmed her, if she wasn't restrained it meant that she was contained so securely that she doesn't need chains. She groaned and picked herself up, mumbling to herself,
"How is this happening for the second time today" She sighed at her bad luck but her sigh turned into a hiss of pain, it was like her mind was being ripped and shredded, she tried to steady herself but there were no wall to her assistance, "Ahh! Oh Rassilon" She gasped at her exclamation, why did she say Rassilon, she meant to say God, that's what humans say, they say 'oh god', why Rassilon?
The Doctor groaned from his place on the floor, "Rassilon is the Lord President, our Lord President"
She got up hearing his voice, "Our?" She took a moment to get her bearings, after blinking and breathing she saw, she saw everything, she saw time and endless possibilities, she gasped at this new information, she knew about the Laws of Time, she knew about manipulating the elements with just science, she knew about mind control, hypnosis, planets and civilizations, computers, technology, biology, she knew more than she could deal with. She started breathing heavily, silently sobbing, panting and frantically trying to reach out for anything to lean on, she stopped when she felt a warm body. Without thinking she latched onto it, hugging tightly,
"What am I?"
"You're a Time Lord"
"No, no I can't be, not possible"
"Abi-"
She ripped herself from his embrace, "Salia, Salia, that's me, I'm the Guide?"
"Yeah"
She huffed and dropped ungracefully on the floor, she heard him do the same, his body very close to hers, they went through a moment of silence and she broke it,
"Where's Rose?"
He sighed, knowing this was coming, "I lost her, she's in a parallel universe, she's gone" He mumbled the last bit, not knowing what to do, she simply lay her head on his shoulder and he lay his on her head,
"There was this light, like a transmat, it pulled me away from Sky and I was in this...this subconscious world, and there were the Time Lords, there was Rassilon and " she took a deep breath, "They told me that I was a project, before you activated the moment they sent me to Earth, blocking out my Time Lord part, once I was starting to be more noticed on Earth they sent in the Serpashens. I was supposed to one day realize my natural origin and bring them out of the time lock. But I believed I was human and to show me, Rassilon shot me, I regenerated but my anger and pain caused me to regenerate internally, dunno how that worked, " She played with her fingers, "I know who I am, I don't know what"
"You can be angry at me Doctor, you can hate me all you want but you know, after all this time you know, that whenever I don't tell you things it's to protect you, I do have a plan and I need you to let me do whatever because it's to help everyone"
He looked down at her fingers, fidgeting, he place a hand over hers to still her, "I don't hate you, Abi, you're my best friend"
She scowled, "Blurgh, this is getting too touchy feely, I'm not an emotional wreck" She got up as he chuckled at her behavior, he remained sitting,
"Do you know how long we've been here?"
"Nope"
"Do you know why they're doing this?"
"Nope"
"Can we get out?"
"Nope"
She glared at him, "Do you want to get killed?"
He grinned at her anger, "Nope"
The door behind her slid open and a Dalek entered,
"You will follow" She looked at the Doctor winked and walked off, but as she was leaving she dropped something small, he was going to warn her but she crossed her fingers behind her back. When the door slid back the object stopped it fully closing, he grinned, realizing her plan.
"Brilliant"
She lifted her head to look at the Emperor,
"So why am I here then? What happens now?"
"Your intelligence will benefit the Dalek race greatly, we have the Moment's energy but not it's structure, we need to build a consciousness capable of control and withstanding the moment"
"Well there's your problem, you can't feel any emotion, how do you expect to create emotion?"
"Your opinion is not of importance"
"It is if you want my help"
"We do not require your help"
"You said you needed my mind.."
"We needed your mind to use, it is the perfect template consciousness for the Moment"
"What will you do, with the Moment?"
"We will travel the stars, playing with planets as we choose"
She blinked rapidly and stepped back, "I can stop you, I can put barriers in my mind"
"You can, but you won't, not if you love your Doctor"
She slightly trembled, and sighed, she knew what she had to do, "If I do this, do not touch them"
The Dalek brought in a red crystal, she saw it shimmer and flicker. When it got closer she could see the pain that went in to making it, she saw what the Doctor did, she saw everything and she felt everything. But she felt anger, anger at the Doctor for what he did. She sharply took in a breath when she was forced to hold it.
"What, so it absorbs my mind, it takes everything I know, drains my body"
"Your consciousness will be absorbed into it and we will be able to fashion you abilities"
"It takes my feeling and emotions" She muttered to herself, blinking back tears, "And you absorb them too, I can feel it, it's connected to you"
"We will consume a tiny bit, the Hind Mind absorb some of its power and connects it with all Daleks"
She looked at the crystal, feeling it take everything, "It takes my emotions" She mumbled again, to herself.
She let the tears fall, she knew this is what had to happen, she knew that she had to accept what she was if she was going to stop the Daleks, if the crystal absorbed emotions and transferred it into the Daleks then they could feel the pain, "You can feel what I feel, you can feel the Time War!" The Daleks stuttered and screamed, their eyestalks flying and their shells cracking, "You didn't know what you were getting yourself into, you didn't know what emotions are, you don't know! Feel it, feel the pain and love and loss and anger and distress!" The Daleks were almost crying, at this sound the Doctor and the others came into the Crusabel to see everything, they couldn't reach Abi due to the Daleks, only watch.
She focused on everything she saw in the Time War, everything she felt before she was sent away, her family, the children, the pain of losing control. She remembered the Doctor and all the pent up anger she had for him, now the Daleks couldn't control their movements, they were screaming so loudly, she almost couldn't hear the Doctor calling for her,
"Salia! Salia!"
But his voice only angered her, she couldn't take his voice and her connection with Sky meant she could send them back to Sky. They vanished but she wasn't focusing on them, when she couldn't take it, she had to drop the crystal, she had trouble keeping herself up, but she just about did, she looked around at the now still and silent Daleks, their shell were split wide open and she could she the creature inside. She approached one Dalek. The creature was beating, and the eye seemed to look at her, a single blue tear escaped it's eyes, it moaned,
"Huuuuurrttss"
She cried with it, "I know, I'm sorry"
"Paiiiinn..." It closed its single eye and stopped beating. She looked around at the silence, then down at crystal that hummed with life, with her life, it emitted a floating gold gas that moved up to her and entered her, she gasped and collapsed. She was still conscious but unable to get up for moments, when she did, she saw the Doctor standing alone. She loved him, but she hated him, they were the only ones left because of him, but it wasn't like he had a choice. She pushed all her anxieties down because she knew that down, even though she felt human, she was the only thing he had. She stepped closer to him and he did the same, they gained speed and soon they were running towards each other. He lifted her up and clung to her tightly, when they broke apart he looked at her,
"Salia or Abi?"
"Abi" She said without a second thought.
"Well, Abi, you need to come back to Sky, now"