Asylum of the Daleks- Part 2
We were now inside an escape pod, "We should have some climbing rope long enough for that hole." Harvey said.
"Won't you introduce us to your crew?" I asked Harvey, maneuvering myself in front of Lia.
"Ah, yes, sorry. Guys, this is Captain Jack Harkness, his wife, Susan Jane Harkness and his daughter, Amelia Harkness."
No response.
"Guys?" Harvey asked, turning the corner to discover the crew are desiccated corpses.
"Oh, my god." Lia gasped, covering her mouth with her hands.
I checked my pocket and apparently they forgot to take out my sonic pen. I took it out and did a quick sonic scan, "They're dead. All of them." I said.
"That's not possible. I just spoke to them. Two hours ago. We were doing engine repairs." Harvey said.
"You're sure about that, are you? Because I'd say they've all been dead for a very long time." I told him.
"But they can't have been." Harvey protested.
"Well, they didn't get in this state in two hours." Jack retorted.
"No, of course. Stupid me." Harvey said, his face suddenly going emotionless.
"Of course what?" Lia asked, her voice slightly quivering.
"I died outside, and the cold preserved my body. I forgot about dying." Out pops the Dalek eyepiece.
I grabbed a CO2 fire extinguisher and lets it off in Harvey's face while Jack grabbed Lia and pushed her behind him, "Jack, the door!" I yelled.
Jack and Lia run to the door, while I continually sprayed Harvey the Dalek, "Come on, come on!" Lia yelled to me.
Harvey is backed through a door that Jack manages to get open, then closes and locks again.
"Explain. How'd he get all Daleked?" Lia asked, putting hands on her hips. I could tell from her expression that she was beyond pissed.
"Because he wasn't wearing one of these. Oh, that's clever. The nanocloud. Microorganisms that automatically process any organic matter, living or dead, into a Dalek puppet. Anything attacks this place, it automatically becomes part of the on-site security." I said.
"Living or dead?" Lia asked in horror.
"These wristbands protect us. The only thing stopping us going exactly the way he did." I said.
"Mum?! Shut up! Living or dead?" Lia yelled, trying to get her point across.
"Yes, exactly. Living or, or-" The corpses have glowing eyepieces, and are starting to move, "Dead. Oh shit." I said. I kicked the zombies so we could get into the cockpit. Jack and I pulled Lia's arm out of an zombie grasp.
"Zombies?!" Lia asked, breathing hard, her eyes wide.
"Yeah." I said, breathing hard as well.
"Freakin' ZOMBIES?!" Lia yelled at me, her face pale.
I laughed and leaned back against the door, "Oh I've missed this." Lia looked at me like I've gone insane.
A while later I exclaimed, "Ah ha! Hatch. Looks like it's been used already and they've tried to block it off behind them."
"Can't imagine why." Lia retorted.
"The lower part of the pod is buried, so this must go straight down to the Asylum." Jack said.
"Where Amy, Rory and The Doctor are." Lia said.
I started sonicing the hatch.
"By the way, why did you not tell me Dad was immortal?" Lia asked.
Jack paled a bit, "It was for your safety." Jack argued weekly.
"My safety?!" Lia yelled, "Shouldn't a daughter know if their father will live forever?!"
"Technically you are too." Jack remarked as Lia sat down, shocked.
I glared at Jack then went back to sonicing the hatch saying, "We don't know that yet. We only know that you've never gotten sick." I finally got the hatch open. A shaft heads down into the planet, with a flexible metal ladder hanging down it.
"Okay, so somebody else got out this way, then." Lia asked, hopefuly.
"Yeah, let's go and find them. Oh, what are they up to?" I asked, meaning the zombies are on a small monitor on the wall, waving something at the camera.
"What's that?" Lia asked.
"One of these." I said, figuring my wristband. "But where did they get it?"
Lia was staring at her wrist and said slowly, "Mum, they got it from me."
"Amelia." Jack breathed out, seeing our daughter's bare wrist.
Lia looked up at us, "Mum, Dad, what's going to happen to me? Seriously. Tell me what."
We were climbing down the latter from the Cockpit into another corridor. Jack had gone first, then Lia and lastly, me.
"So tell me, Mum, Dad, what's going to happen to me? And don't lie. Because I know when you're lying to me and I will definitely fall on you." Lia said.
"The air all around is full of micro-machines. Robots the size of molecules. Nanogenes. Now that you're unprotected, you're being re-written." Jack said, I could detect a slight horror to his voice.
"So, what happens? I get one of those things sticking out of my head?" Lia asked.
"Physical changes come later." I said, trying to sound comforting.
"What comes first? How does it start?" Lia asked.
"It starts with your mind. Your feelings, your memories, and Lia, I'm sorry but it's started already."
"How do you know?" Lia asked.
I allowed to my face to show concern on it, something I rarely did nowadays, "Because we've had this conversation four times."
"Okay, scared now." Lia said, her panic starting to show.
"Hang on to scared. Scared isn't Dalek." Jack said. We glanced at each other but continued to climb down.
A door rises and the bad-tempered pepperpots are repeating, "EXTERMINATE!" Over and over again.
"What's that?" Lia asked.
We backed out again.
"Jack, keep a look out with Lia. Don't open this door. Oswin!" I yelled, going back down the corridor we came, "Oswin, can you hear me?!"
"Hello, ginger." Oswin's voice echoed in the corridor, "I have visual on you."
"Why can't I see you?" I asked, "I would like to know if you have ginger hair or brown." I remarked.
"Limited power, bad hair, take your pick. Plus my hair is brown. There's a door to your left. Open it. I'm going to send you a map to that screen. I put your friends somewhere safe. I can get you to them." Oswin said.
"You found them?" I asked, "Are they okay?"
"Hush now, genius at work."
"Then you're in excellent company." I said, smirking, "How many Daleks directly ahead of me right now?" I asked.
"Ten, twenty. Hard to say. Some of them are catatonic but they do have firepower." Oswin said.
"How do I get past them?" I glanced to the door and saw no one there, "Jack! Lia!" I yelled, running into the room and skidding to a halt as I saw Lia calmly approaching the moving Daleks and Jack trying his best to stop her.
"Shush, Mum. It's okay, it's just people in here. It's just people." Lia said.
"Lia, it's the nanocloud, it's altering your perception. Look again. Look again. Those aren't people." I said clearly to her. I stared at her until her eyes widened and Lia stepped back, "Lia, come out. Take my hand. Run! Run!" I said, grabbing her hand and running, Jack not far behind us.
We ran back to the rope ladder, which is moving under the weight of descending zombies.
"They're coming down!" Lia yelled.
"Yes, they are." I stated.
"INTRUDER!" A Dalek said.
"Run." I said.
"INTRUDER!"
We hid in the cubby hole Oswin opened for us.
"INTRUDER!" The Dalek yells, then it runs out of power and we come out of the cubby hole again.
"It's damaged." Jack said.
"Okay, but what do we do?" Lia asked.
"Identify me. Access your files. Who am I? Come on. Who's your daddy?" Jack asked.
"YOU ARE THE IMMORTAL ONE." The Dalek said.
"Access your standing orders concerning The Predator and The Immortal One." Jack commanded.
"THE PREDATOR AND THE IMMORTAL ONE MUST BE DESTROYED."
"And how are you going to do that, Dalek? Without a gun you're a tricycle with a roof. How are you going to destroy me?" Jack asked.
"SELF-DESTRUCT INITIATED."
"What's it doing?" Lia asked, panicking.
"It's going to blow itself up, and I with it. Only weapon it's got left." Jack said.
"SELF-DESTRUCT CANNOT BE COUNTERMANDED." It's internal clock is down to 12. I had lifted its lid and scans inside.
"I'm not looking for a countermand, dear. I'm looking for reverse." I said.
I grabbed Lia's hand and with Jack, we ran, "FORWARD, FORWARD." The Dalek whizzes backwards into the chamber, bumps into a colleague and blows up.
I felt someone shake me awake, "Susan, come on, wake up!" Jack said, near my ear.
I groaned and sat up quickly, "Lia! What happened?" I asked, as soon as I spotted an unconscious Lia lying next to me.
"Explosion via self-destruct." Jack said, helping me up, "Come on, we have to find the others. Jack picked Amelia up and we started walking to the exit.
"Oswin? What happened?" I head The Doctor ask.
"Who killed all the Daleks?" Rory asked.
"Who do you think?" I asked as we came around the corner.
Jack laid Lia on the teleport pad, "Will sleeping help her? Will it slow down the process?" Amy asked, running her fingers through her goddaughter's hair.
"You'd better hope so because pretty soon she's going to try and kill you." Oswin remarked.
Lia groaned as she regained consciousness, "Lia?" I asked cautiously as The Doctor scanned her with her sonic screwdriver.
"Amelia, still with us?" The Doctor asked.
"Lia, it's Dad. Do you remember me?" Jack asked. Lia slapped Jack, "Yep, she remembers."
"Why would she hit you?" Rory asked.
"Because he forgot to mention that he's immortal!" Lia snapped.
"Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract love, add anger. Doesn't she seem a bit too angry to you?" Oswin asked.
"What about you, though, Oswin. How come you're okay?" Jack asked, "Why hasn't the nanocloud converted you?"
"I mentioned the genius thing, yeah? Shielded in here." Oswin remarked.
"Clever of you. Now, this place. The Daleks said it was fully automated. Look at it. It's a wreck." The Doctor said.
"Well, I've had nearly a year to mess with them, and not a lot else to do." Oswin said.
"A junior entertainment manager hiding out in a wrecked ship, hacking the security systems of the most advanced warrior race the universe has ever seen. But you know what really gets me about you, Oswin? The soufflés. Where do you get milk for the soufflés? Seriously. Is no one else wondering about that?" The Doctor asked.
"No. Frankly, no. Twice." Rory said.
"I am." I said, sideways glancing at Rory.
"No one cares." Lia remarked.
"Not now Amelia Rose." I snapped. Lia quickly shut her mouth, stopping herself from making another retort.
"So, Doctor. I've been looking you up. You're all over the database. Why do the Daleks call you The Predator and him The Immortal One."
"I'm not the Predator, I'm just a man with a plan." The Doctor said.
"You've got a plan?" Oswin asked.
"That's all he is." Rory remarked.
"There's a nose joke going if someone wants to pick that one off." Amy said.
"In no particular order, we need to neutralize all the Daleks in this Asylum, rescue Oswin from the wreckage, escape from this planet and fix Amy and Rory's marriage." The Doctor said.
"Wait, they're divorced?" Jack asked, confused.
"Okay, I'm counting three lost causes. Anyone else?" Amy retorted.
"Oswin, there's a Dalek ship in orbit." The Doctor said.
"Yes. Got it on the sensors." Oswin said.
"The Asylum has a force field. The Daleks upstairs are waiting for me to turn it off. Soon as I do, they'll burn this whole world and us with it. So, Oswin, my question is this. How fast can you drop the force field?"
"Pretty fast. But why would I?"
"Because this is a teleport. Am I right, Oswin?" I asked.
"Yeah. Internal use only."
"I can boost the power. Once the force field is down, I can use it to beam us right off this planet." The Doctor said.
Rory looked at The Doctor, "You said when the force field is down, the Daleks will blow us up."
I nodded, "We'll have to be quick, yes." I said.
"Fine, we'll be quick. But where do we beam to?" Lia asked.
"The only place within range. The Dalek ship." I said.
Lia rolled her eyes, "They'll exterminate us on the spot."
"Ah, so this is the kind of escape plan where you survive about four seconds longer." Rory said.
"What's wrong with four seconds? You can do loads in four seconds. Oswin, how fast can you drop the force field?" The Doctor asked.
"I can do it from here, as soon as you come and get me." Oswin said.
"No, just drop the force field and come to us." Jack said.
"There's enough power in that teleport for one go. Why would you wait for me?" Oswin said.
"Why wouldn't I?" The Doctor asked.
"No idea. Never met you. Sending you a map so you can come get me."
"This place is crawling with Daleks." Lia said.
"Yeah. Kind of why I'm anxious to leave. Come up and see me sometime." Oswin commented.
"So, are we going to go get her?" Amy asked.
"I don't think that we have a choice. Okay, as soon as the force field is down the Daleks will attack. If it gets too explody-wody in here, you go without me, okay?" The Doctor asked.
"And leave you to die?" Rory asked.
"Oh, don't worry about me. You're the one beaming up to a Dalek ship to get exterminated."
"Fair point. Love this plan. What about Lia?" Jack asked.
"Keep her remembering, keep her focused. That'll hold back the conversion." The Doctor told us.
"What do I do?" Lia asked, her voice quivering.
"You heard what she said. They're subtracting love. Don't let them." The Doctor said, kissing Lia's forehead and then left to go get Oswin.
While Rory and Amy were talking softly in a corner, Jack and I stood together and faced Amelia, "Why didn't you tell me, and don't say that you were waiting until I was eighteen." Lia snapped.
I sighed, "Lia, it was for your safety. We couldn't let it slip that Jack is Immortal. If that happened, we would have to move, the danger would be so great."
"Why, though." Lia asked, "What aren't you telling me."
Jack put a hand on my back and started rubbing his hand in circles, to calm me down, "Amelia, we have, over the years, gained enemies. Enemies who would do anything to make sure we are killed. There is an psychopath out there, namely Madam Kovarian. She has tried multiple times to kill your Mum and The Doctor, even going as far as to create an army to stop them."
"An army?" Lia echoed.
I nodded, "She is a lunatic, who, under no circumstances, can be told of our whereabouts. She has made it her personal mission to try to kill me, and I won't put it past her to try to kill you as well."
Lia was silent, trying to digest this information, "So, you have your own version of Moriarty."
I blinked, "I guess I do."
Lia smiled, "Then that would make you Sherlock!"
Jack and I gave each other amused looks. Lia was absolutely enchanted with the whole Sherlock world, "Then who would I be?" Jack asked, flirtatiously.
"Eww!" Lia said, "Mum, Dad, could you PLEASE not flirt in front of me? It's disgusting."
I giggled and smirked at Jack, "Only if he stops first."
I saw Lia look away and down, then froze, "Mum, Dad, when did I get a wristband? I thought the zombie creatures had taken mine."
Jack and I looked at each other then down at Lia's wrist. There certainly was a wrist band. Amy and Rory had come over to us at this point. They had finished talking and were wearing silly grins and holding hands.
"Looks like you two got back together." Jack said, smirking.
Amy and Rory ignored him and Rory said, "The Doctor must have slipped it on you while you were sleeping."
"That Time Lord." Amy said, sighing, "What's the betting he doesn't even need it."
"Why didn't he just tell us?" Lia asked.
"Okay, everyone one the teleport." I said, as we heard explosions all around us.
"What about The Doctor?" Lia asked as I grabbed her and held her close, while Jack held me.
"How long can we wait?" Rory asked.
Amy smiled sadly, "The rest of our lives."
"Agreed." They kiss as explosions happened around us The Doctor runs in.
"Right, go! Let's go. We're good." The Doctor said, but Amy and Rory were still kissing, "Let's go." Amy and Rory still didn't move and Jack laughed, "Oh, for God's sake." The Doctor takes the control unit from Rory and activates it.
We all appeared in the Tardis. I brushed hair out of Lia's face, "You can open your eyes, sweetheart. We're safe."
Lia slowly opened her eyes and gasped, looking around in wonder. "Am I where I think I am?"
The Doctor smiled at Lia, "Welcome to the Tardis. If you wait a minute, I can give you a tour, I just have to deal with the Daleks."
Lia nodded, still dumbfounded, looking around the Tardis in awe.
The Doctor started speaking before even reaching the door, but I knew his voice would be broadcasted outside the Tardis and into the Dalek Parliament, "You know, you guys should really have seen this coming. The thing about me and teleports, I've got a really good aim. Pin-point accurate, in fact. Or, to put it another way-" The Doctor looks out of the Tardis door. "Suckers!"
"IDENTIFY YOURSELF! IDENTIFY! IDENTIFY!"
The Doctor looked around, puzzled, "It's me. You know me. The Doctor. The Oncoming Storm. The Predator."
"Titles are not meaningful in this context. Doctor who?" Darla asked.
"Doctor who?" The Dalek PM asked.
"DOCTOR WHO?"
The Doctor started smiling, "Oh, Oswin. Oh, you did it to them all. You beauty."
"DOCTOR WHO? DOCTOR WHO?"
"Fellas, you're never going to stop asking." The Doctor shuts the door and the Tardis dematerialises off the ship.
We dropped Amy and Rory back off at their home, before The Doctor took us back to Drax Three. The Tardis had materialized in front of our house and Jack, Amelia and I were standing, with our backs to our house, facing the Tardis where The Doctor stood.
"Thank you, Doctor." Lia said, "For saving me."
The Doctor smiled, "It's my job. Besides, your parents would kill me if I didn't."
"You're right, we would." Jack said in a jokingly and threatening tone.
"Well, I'd best be off." The Doctor said, "It was good to see you again, Susan, Jack, and you as well, Lia. I just wish it was under better circumstances."
"As do I." I said, "See you soon, Doctor."
The Doctor nodded and stepped inside his Tardis and the Tardis dematerialised.
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