Chapter 11
Ian's domed head swirled around as he entered the Control Room with the group of Daleks. Unlike the first time he had been in the Control Room this time he got a better look at the very heart of Dalek City. There was more Daleks than he remembered. Though the last time he had been in the Control Room he was not feeling the best as he went through the conversation.
His eye stock swirled around to the very heart of the circular room was a large collum. Perched on top of the podium was the unmissable black domed Dalek Supreme. His stomach dropped when the Supreme's eye stock swirled in his direction. The red lens scanned over him and the other Daleks that had entered the Control Room.
Ian felt a surge of relief when he was no longer under the Supreme's red glare. His relief did not last long as he followed the Supreme's glare. Standing before the Supreme and across from him was a group of humanoids. He recognised three of the prisoners instantly and his stomach dropped at the sight of them. He had thought that they had gotten away from the City but it seemed that he was wrong.
Ian's eye stock focused on Barabara. He felt relief in seeing she was alright but that relief did not last long when he saw a Dalek beside her. His vision zoomed in on them. A surge of anger spread through him as he saw Barbara placing her hand on its domed head.
Ian's attention moved away from his friends to the older Thal as he spoke to the Dalek Supreme, "If we work together, we can restore Skaro to what it was before the thousand-year war between our races. Maybe even better than it was before. And I am sure that your Emperor would be pleased to know that you have brought peace to our home world."
Ian looked away from Damadus back to the Dalek Supreme. The Dalek Supreme was silent. A shiver went through Ian's body as he looked into the red glow that was boring a hole into the Thal. Ian felt relief that the Supreme's glare was not fixed on him.
"What do you say Dalek Supreme?" Damadus spoke up again and gaining Ian's attention once again. "Surely too many Thals and Daleks have died in this never-ending conflict between our races?"
Damadus stepped forward with his hand reached out towards the Supreme. He did not flinch when the Daleks flanking the Supreme twitched. Their gun sticks aimed at the leader of the Thal Council. Damadus ignored them as he focused on the Dalek Supreme. A faint smile on his face as he kept pushing on for peace.
The Dalek Supreme's eye stock twitched down to the hand that Damadus was given him. The red lens narrowed in on the hand as he reversed away from the Thal with disgust. Slowly he looked away from the hand to look to Damadus's face. Internally he scoffed as he looked at the small smile that Damadus was given him.
"Please consider his words, Dalek Supreme." Susan cried out as she took a step forward. A small squeak escaped from her when the Dalek's eye stock turn to her. Taken a calming breathe in and then out she looked right into the red glow focused on her. "The Thals have found ways to live with the planet. While the Daleks have developed so much technology. Surely if you both work together you can make Skaro flourish once again."
The Dalek Supreme's response was to merely stare at her. He said nothing to her before he focused his attention back to Damadus. "You have managed to grow plants on a radioactive world? The very same radioactive world that has seen to mutate both Daleks and Thals mutate." he finally asked Damadus in his deep baritone mechanical voice.
Damadus looked away from the Dalek Supreme to his hands. Sure enough he was showing signs of mutation. The skin on the back of his hands was hardening into blue scales. His nails were also showing signs of sharpening into claws.
Dropping his hands to his sides he looked back to the Dalek Supreme. The never blinking red lens was focused on him. "We have both suffered in different ways. The Daleks have hidden yourselves away in your metal tanks. While the Thals have embraced the changes that Skaro has brought to us." he finally said to the Dalek Supreme.
Once again, the Dalek Supreme simply stared at Damadus with his unblinking red glare. "The Daleks have shown they are superior to the Thals. The only thing that the Thals are superior at is dying slowly in the wilds of Skaro." he boomed out to the Damadus.
Alydon stepped past his father and Susan. He pointed a clawed finger towards the Dalek Supreme. "We only life this way because of you Daleks! You have hunted us down for so long that we have been forced us to live on a dying planet!" he shouted at the Dalek Supreme. He did not flinch when the Dalek Supreme's eye stock flicked to him.
"We have two choices that we can make." Alydon continued to the Dalek. "We could keep fighting each other until Skaro is truly dead. Or we could move away from the past hatred and unite our world."
Silence feel over the Control Room. The Dalek Supreme stared at Alydon. His gun stick twitched slightly as he stared at the younger Thal. His guards on either side also focused in on the younger Thal. They were prepared to fire at him as soon as the Supreme ordered them.
"The Thals should have been exterminated centuries ago!" the Dalek Supreme finally boomed out. Both Alydon and Damadus took a step back with their lungs holding onto the air they had inside. "But the Thals have proven to be more successful than I first thought. You may be of use to the Daleks." he finally said making the two Thals relax.
"Of use to you how, hm?" the Doctor asked. He stared right into his red lens of the Dalek Supreme's eye stock that focused on him. The Doctor was not frightened by the Dalek Supreme. He knew that mostly the Dalek Supreme was mostly bluffing. They were prisoners of interests.
He, Susan and Barbara were aliens. He knew that the Dalek Supreme would no doubt be using them against Ian and Ian against them. Then there was Damadus and Alydon. Damadus was an important Thal being the highest member of the Thal Council. The Dalek Supreme could use him as a bargaining chip with the Thals. That was not to say that Alydon was also important. Alydon, as far as the Doctor knew was the only child of Damadus. That was something that the Daleks would use that to control Damadus and in doing that control the other Thals.
Hearing the Dalek Supreme saying the Thals had use to the Daleks did not fill the Doctor with confidence with the blooming alliance between them.
"The Thals will be split into two groups." the Dalek Supreme stated back to the Doctor."The first group would be of those who poses high intelligence will be converted into Daleks." the Supreme continued as his eye stock swirled towards Ian beside him and Barbara. Ian's eye stock twitched towards the Supreme.
The Dalek Supreme looked back to Damadus. He observed the grimace on the older Thal's face as he continued, "The rest will be put to work as slaves for the might of the Dalek Empire."
"You cannot do that!" Damadus shouted at the Dalek Supreme. "We came to your City looking for peace. Not enslavement in two forms!"
"Silence!" Dalek Supreme shouted making Damadus stumble backwards. His red lens narrowed into a dot as he glared at Damadus. "The only peace between Thals and Daleks is you are subjected to the Dalek Empire. You will be permitted to return to the other Thals to tell them that you are all now the servants to the Dalek Empire." he ordered.
"I will do no such thing!" Damadus shouted back to him.
"Then you will be Exterminated! And the other Thal will deliver my message to the other Thals" the Dalek Supreme snapped back to Damadus.
"My son will do no such thing!" Damadus shrieked back to the Dalek Supreme. "None of us will sell our people to enslavement."
The Dalek Supreme was still and quite. He studied Damadus for a moment. Damadus held his breathe as he waited for the Supreme's response. All around them all the other Daleks were still working on their duties, but they were also waiting for the Supreme's response. The future of Skaro was going to be determined by the Supreme's reaction.
The Dalek Supreme's gun stick aimed at Damadus's chest. His red lens narrowed as he screeched out one single word, "Exterminate!"
A beam of blue light fired out of from the Dalek's gun stick. Damadus was struck with the blue beam. His skeleton became visible as a silent scream came from his mouth. As he dropped.
Alydon screamed in horror as he watched his father's lifeless body dropped to the ground. He took a staggering towards his father but that was all he got. He stumbled over his own feet as Ian silently approached him and blocked his way to his father. Tears bubbled in his eyes as he looked at the Dalek in front of him. "Get out of my way, Dalek!" he screamed at Ian.
Ian remained still. His eye stock was fixed on Alydon's face as tears streaked down his face. He ignored the pleading that Alydon was given him and continued to stare at him.
Alydon snorted as he looked away from Ian to look at Barbara and the Doctor. "I thought you said he was your friend?" he questioned them.
The Doctor hummed as he looked to 'Ian'. "Dear boy, what do you think you are doing?" he asked Ian in a calm voice, but there was a tone of annoyance in his voice.
Ian's casing turned towards the Doctor. The blue lens in his eye stock narrowed as he glared at the Doctor. "You are all enemies of the Daleks!" he screamed at the Doctor. His gun stick twitched as the Doctor stepped back with a shocked expression on his face. "You will surrender to the might of the Daleks, Doctor."
Barbara stepped to stand in between Ian and the Doctor. "Ian what do you think you are doing?" she asked him. Her eyes widened when Ian's gun stick twitched to her. "Ian, we are your friends." she continued to plead to him.
"Silence Susan!" Ian shouted back to Barbara as his gun stick twitched more.
Barbara and the Doctor both exchanged a worrying glance with each other. Slowly they both looked back to Ian whose entire casing was trembling.
"I'm not Susan." Barbara calmly said to Ian. "Are you sure you are okay?" she asked him with concern.
The Doctor was not looking at Ian as he looked at the Dalek Supreme. The Supreme was still perched on top of his podium with his red glare watching over everything. "What have you done to him?" he asked the Dalek. "Mutilating his body was not enough for you?"
"You are just to be blamed for this, Doctor!" Barbara suddenly snapped at him.
The Doctor turned around to look at her with confusion and a small hint of being hurt from her words. "My fault? And how do you come to that conclusion, my dear?" he asked her.
Barbara scoffed back at the Doctor as she folded her arms over her chest. In the corner of her eye she saw a Dalek slowly gliding closer to her. Its eye stock was on her but its gun stick was aimed at Ian. She quickly looked back to the Doctor. She saw that he had also noticed the Dalek slowly creeping closer to them, but he was mainly focusing on her.
"You had wanted to explore this City in the first place. All for that ship that you cannot control. This would have all be avoided if you had not kidnapped us from Earth!" she snapped back at him.
The Doctor gave a low chuckle as he looked directly at her. In the corner of his eyes he was still watching Ian and the other Dalek. The other Dalek was slowly getting closer to them. His mind was racing over what that Dalek was doing, but first he had to deal with Barbara.
"Dear girl, none of this would have happened if you both had not barged into my Tardis back on Earth. I never wanted you to come along." he responded back to her with a dangerously low chuckle.
"Enough of this!" Dalek Supreme ordered them both. His eye stock swirled from Barbara to the Doctor than to the Dalek that had snuck up behind them. "Take them to the prison section." he ordered the Dalek.
"I obey." the Dalek responded to the Supreme. It's eye stock swirled towards Barbara and the Doctor while it moved its casing to block Ian. Quickly the Dalek's eye stock swirled around to regard Ian behind it. Neither Dalek said anything to each other. The Dalek's eye stock swirled back around to look at Barbara and the Doctor. The Doctor had noticed the quite exchange between the two Daleks and was looking at them closely. He may have been an old man, but the Doctor was sharp.
"Move. Move." the Dalek screeched at them both as it's chasing moved closer to Barbara and the Doctor. It was so close to them that they could both feel the static from its shielding. The Dalek noticed Barbara shivering and moved in to be much closer to her than before.
Barbara wrapped her arms around each other at how close the Dalek had gotten to her. She tried to walk in front of it, but it always got in closer to her. She looked over her shoulder as she kept walking towards the doorway of the Control Room. She looked right into the Dalek's blue glow lens. A small yelp escaped from her as the Dalek looked back to her.
The Dalek suddenly got closer to her. It was so close to her not just could see feel the static from its shields but she could hear the whirling of its casing as it moved behind her.
"Barbara," the Dalek whispered to her, which surprised her as she always heard Daleks shouting, "don't react. But it's me. Ian."
Barabara stopped walking and the Dalek behind her bumped into her. She looked at the Dalek that had bumped into her. She watched as it reversed from her personal space and got in the way of Ian who had been trying to get closer to them.
"We need to move quickly." Ian whispered to her again making her look back at her.
Barbara looked away from the Dalek that had told her was Ian. She looked towards the Doctor. Even as they were being pushed out of the Control Room had been listening to the quite conversation between her and the Dalek. Barbara looked away from the Doctor to look over to Ian who had moved away from them to heard both Susan and a grieving Alydon out of the Control Room.
She looked back to the Dalek behind them. She narrowed her eyes as she bit lip. "How can you be Ian when he said he was Ian?" she asked the Dalek as she pointed towards Ian.
The Dalek's eye stock swirled away from her to look at Ian. The blue glow of its lens narrowed as it glared at him. Not saying a word it swirled back to Barbara.
Barbara felt her stomach dropping as looked right into it blue glowing lens. It was hard to believe that behind that never blinking blue lens was a living creature. A living creature that needed the casing in order to survive. "How can there be two Ian's?" she asked the Dalek.
The Dalek was quick to respond to her, "We meet two years ago at the start of the school year. I had just started teaching after being in the military for a couple of years. I thought that going back to normal life after being a solider was going to be hard. But you were there for me from the start. You made me feel like I was human again."
The Dalek's eye stock dropped downwards to avoid Barbara's gaze. "Once again I don't feel human." he continued to whisper to her.
"Ian it is you." Barbara whispered to Ian as he kept leading them out of the Control Room. She looked away from Ian to look to the other Ian. She looked back to Ian. "But why did that Dalek tell us that he was Ian?" she asked him.
"There is a device inside this casing that copied my memories. The Dalek Head Scientist was then able to copy it and give it to that Dalek." Ian continued to speak to Barbara in a quite tone of voice.
"I think this conversation should wait until we get out of here." the Doctor suddenly spoke up to them. He looked directly into Ian's eye stock that was fixed on him. "I take it you have a plan, dear boy?" he asked him.
"I do, Doctor. But we need to be quick. I know the full layout of the City." Ian responded back to the Doctor. He swirled his eye stock away from the Doctor to the other him. He watched as the Dalek kept ordering Susan and Alydon to keep moving. His eye stock swirled back to Barbara and the Doctor. "But we first need to deal with the other me."
"How are we going to do that, dear boy?" asked the Doctor.
"Destroy the Dalek quickly and near a lift. And then move quickly. I know the quickest way out the City." Ian responded back to him.
The Doctor hummed, "We shall follow your lead, Chatterton."
The group kept moving down many corridors in Dalek City. Every part of the corridor looked the exact same. Every door, wall and floor panel all looked the same. Even the Daleks themselves looked the exact same from to the other.
Barbara kept looking all over the place. How could Ian know where he was going. She kept biting her lip as she followed Ian's direction.
"Halt!" Ian suddenly spoke up. Barbara looked around her to see that they had stopped in front of a door. There could be anything behind that door. A squad of Daleks could be behind it. It could even be them returning to the cell they had been in before. She did not know as every corridor and door looked exactly the same as each other.
"Why have we stopped?!" 'Ian' screeched to Ian from behind Susan and Alydon.
Ian swirled his eye stock around to look at the other Dalek that was masquerading as him. He watched as the other Dalek's gun stick started twitching. Had the Dalek figured out what was happening and was just waiting for the right time. Ian was glad that he was hidden within thick metal as the Dalek drone glared at him.
"The old humanoid needed a moment to catch his breath." Ian quickly explained to the Dalek. He ignored the annoyed grunt he got the Doctor.
Ian's eye stock swirled back around to face the Doctor and Barbara. Barbara looked at him with concern while the Doctor kept glaring at him with annoyance. Ian ignored the glare he was getting from the Doctor and also the Dalek pretending to be him.
Stealing himself to keep pretending to be a Dalek he barked, "Move prisoners! Move! Or you will be exterminated!"
The Doctor grumbled at him as he and Barbara both started walking again. All around them there was a faint thrumming noise like a heartbeat. The Doctor's eyes kept jumping all around him as he watched all the Daleks moving in every direction within the many passageways of Dalek City.
It was a shame that they had to leave so soon. He had really wanted to see more of the city, but that was not going to happen. The Daleks had proven to them all that they were not willing to make peace with the Thals.
"Why did they have to kill my father?" Alydon cried to Susan as they followed Ian. His eye were red from all the crying he had been doing after the Dalek Supreme had murdered his father. "He had only wanted peace."
The young Time Lady looked sadly at Alydon. She was also crying for the death of Damadus, he had been so nice. Never had she seen someone being murdered in front of her before. And she had not been prepared to see him being shot by the Dalek Supreme. She looked over her shoulder to Ian behind her.
"Ian why didn't you help us back there? I thought you were our friend, not theirs." Susan screaming at the Dalek behind her.
"Daleks follow orders, Barbara. I am a good Dalek. I follow orders." the Dalek Drone screamed back to her. "Keep moving!"
Susan looked straight ahead of her. The Dalek that was in front of her had turned its domed head right around to look at her. She looked directly into its blue lens that stared right at her. "This is wrong. There is still a chance that the Thals and Daleks to be at peace." she shouted at it with tears still streaming down her face.
"Susan I think it is beyond that now." the Dalek responded back to her. Its eye stock twitched between her and the Dalek behind her, but it was not paying attention to them. He returned his attention back to her and whispered, "Are you okay?"
"Why are you asking me that?" Susan scoffed back.
"Because you should not have seen what happened in the Control Room." he continued to speak to her.
Susan looked closely at the Dalek and whispered, "Ian?"
"We will talk more. But first we need to get rid of the other me?" Ian continued to say as his eye stock flicked back to look at the other Dalek. "Be ready to drop out of the way to give me a clear shot to him."
Susan looked over her shoulder to look at the other Dalek. It was not paying attention to her. Instead, its eye stock was fixed on Alydon with a narrowed blue lens. She looked back to Ian and asked him, "How can I trust that you are Ian and not him?"
"He called you Barbara. Not Susan." Ian responded back to her before his domed head swirled back around to the front leaving Susan to look at the back of his casing.
"Stop!" Ian ordered them all as they approached a closed door. Moving his casing around to face the Dalek Drone who pushed past Susan to get to him. Ian watched the Dalek Drone's gun stick twitching but he ignored the silent threat.
"Why have we stopped?" Dalek Drone asked him. His eye stock swirled around to look at all four prisoners of the Daleks. His eye stock returned to look to Ian who had moved to block his view of the Dalek prisoners. "The prisoners are to be moved quickly in order to prevent an escape attempt."
Ian stared at the Dalek drone for a moment. The two Daleks were silent as they stared at each other. Then Ian spoke calmly as a Dalek could, "An escape attempt like this?"
A bright blue laser fired from his gun stick. It struck the Dalek Drone with a powerful explosion. The Dalek let out a scream as its casing exploded. Large chunks of silver metal dropped to the ground with flames consuming the mutated flesh of the Dalek within the casing.
Ian turned his full casing away from the destroyed Dalek. He looked to the Doctor and the others. His eye stock quickly scanned over them all, looking for any signs of injuries as he asked them all, "Are you all okay?"
"Yes Ian." Barbara replied back to him as she stepped up to him. She smiled to him as she placed her hand on the domed head of his casing. She looked over to the Dalek that he had just destroyed. She remembered their interaction back in the Control Room. When she had touched that Dalek back there it had recoiled at her touch. Ian however was frozen under her hand. "But are you okay?" she asked him.
"We do not have time to talk at the moment, my dear." the Doctor said to Barbara. He looked away from Barbara to look to Ian. "Now dear boy, I take it you are ready to enact your next step is in this plan?" he asked him.
Ian's eye stock swirled to the side to look to the Doctor. The blue glow from his eye stocks lens bathed the Doctor's weathered face in a light blue glow. "I am. We need to move quickly before other Daleks arrive and see what has happened to that one." he replied.
Ian couldn't help but turn his eye stock around to look at the destroyed Dalek. Green ooze that he could only assume was the Dalek's blood. Quickly he swirled his domed head around and moved towards the side of the door. His manipulator arm reached up towards the touch pad at its side. Once again, the computers in his chasing connected his brain with the computers in the lift. With a quick thought he summoned the lift to them.
"Why should we trust a Dalek?" Alydon snapped as Ian backed away from the lift's touch pad. He stepped back when Ian's eye stock swirled around to him. "Clavius was right. There can be no peace between the Thals and the Daleks." he continued.
"That may be the case for the Daleks, young man." the Doctor said to Alydon making him look away from Ian and to him. "But like we said before, Ian is our friend. We can explain this more when we get back to the Thal camp."
Alydon closed his eyes as he drew in deep breathe through his nose. He opened his eyes. "Very well Doctor." he said to the Time Lord before he looked at Ian. He narrowed his eyes as he sneered, "Be warned Dalek, I do not care what you were before. To me you are my enemy. And if you betray us in any way I will make you scream inside that casing."
Ian stared at Alydon as he slowly reversed away from the angry Thal. "I am not your enemy." he defended himself to Alydon.
A low grinding sound came from the lift making everyone's attention look towards it. "Now quickly everyone in the lift." the Doctor ordered as he pushed Susan and Barbara into the lift. He looked over his shoulder to Alydon following behind him and behind the Thal was Ian. His casing gliding into the lift. Both men not saying a word to each other as they entered the lift.
Once inside the lift, Ian spun around to face the touch pad on the wall. His manipulator arm reached up to the touch pad and once again he commanded the lift to take them up.
His manipulator arm was still attached to the touch pad as he swirled his eye stock around to face the others. "We are going up to the surface." he saidto them all.
"We just now need to get back to the Thal camp." Susan said as she felt the lift juddering to life under her feet. She looked to towards her grandfather and smiled. The Doctor returned her smile with his own small smile.
Alydon folded his arms over his chest as he growled out, "But the Dalek is not coming with us."
Susan looked away from her grandfather to look at him. Her eyes were still red from all the crying she had been doing. "Yes he is." she snapped at Alydon. "Like we said before he is our friend."
Alydon looked away from Ian to look at her. Tears were still on his face and his eyes were red and puffy. "Look at everything the Daleks have done, Susan. They killed my father who wanted peace with them. That murder has restarted alone has restarted our war with the Daleks." he hissed at Susan.
"But Alydon-"
"No Susan!" Alydon screamed back to her. "Every Dalek must be destroyed!"
"Enough of this bickering!" the Doctor shouted making Alydon and Susan look to him. "Yes, the Daleks have proven that they do not want an alliance with the Thals. But this is a conversation that must be spoken not in a lift but somewhere much safer."
Alydon looked at the Doctor and growled out, "I agree but I don't want that Dalek anywhere near my people!"
The Doctor chuckled.
"What do you find so funny?" Alydon growled at the Doctor. His sharpened teeth were bared but this only made the Doctor chuckle more at the Thal. "Would you stop laughing at me?" he growled at the Doctor.
"Now my dear boy, there are many things that I find funny." the Doctor chuckled to Alydon. "Your anger. You are going through the processes of grief. Which is understandable truly. But that does not give you the right to take your anger out on Ian." he continued with a much series tone than before.
"But I will remind you that Ian has also suffered because of the Daleks."
Alydon's face was twisted into a sneer as he looked from the Doctor back to Ian. He was silent as he thought what the Doctor was saying. Finally he scoffed, "I suppose it would be good to use a Dalek to defeat the Daleks."
Alydon huffed as he looked away from Ian to the lifts wall. He folded his arms across his chest as he avoided the looks that he was getting from the aliens. He was allowed to cry. He had just lost his father. With the death of Damadus he was now them highest ranking member of the Thal Council. He knew that Calavius would no doubt fight his every decision until he had proven himself to be a good leader. He was not ready to be the leader. He was still learning so much from his father and there was so much he still had to learn.
What type of leader was Alydon going to be? Was he going to be the leader who was going to restart the Thal-Dalek war. Or was he going to be the leader who drove them to peace. Even if it meant dragging both Daleks and Thals to peace.
But could he do what was best for his people? Or what was best for him?
The lift came to a shuddering stop bring Alydon out of his mind storm.
The lifts door slid open onto yet another corridor. Once again this corridor looked like every other corridor in the City. It was completely empty with no signs of any other.
Ian's eye stock swirled around to look at the Doctor, "We need to move. The Head Scientist has reported that I am missing from the lab and has told the Dalek Supreme."
"You are connected to their communications, Chatterton?" the Doctor asked him.
"Yes." Ian responded back to him.
The Doctor hummed as he looked back to Alydon. "I think we have an advantage over the Daleks. Don't you agree, my boy?" he said to the young Thal.
Alydon snorted as he looked to Ian. He had stopped crying but his face was still red. There was still tear tracks down his face. "I suppose that can be of use to defeat the Daleks." he grumbled as he glared at Ian.
He walked out of the lift. Not once did he look over his shoulder to make sure the others were following him.
The Doctor sighed as he watched Alydon stalking away from them. He could hear him muttering to himself but he could not make out the words that were being said. He looked to his companions who were still standing in the lift behind him. "We better get a move on before Alydon walks himself back to the Thal Camp. And before the Daleks catch up with us." he said to them.
Ian watched the Doctor walking out of the lift in silence. Seeing the older man out of the lift he turned his eye stock around to Barbara and Susan. "Go in front of me. I will be right behind you." he reassured the two girls.
Susan quickly walked after her grandfather and Alydon. She quickly caught up with the Doctor. They didn't say anything to each other as they walked side by side down the corridor.
Barabara waited for Ian to leave the lift before she followed the others. Barbara's hells clicked on the metallic floor with every step while the thrusters of Ian's travel unit made a humming noise as they caught up with the others.
"Ian what happened to you?" Barbara asked him as they walked behind the Doctor and Susan.
Ian's eye stock was fixed on a point straight ahead. There was no point at all that was focusing on. His mind was just racing over what actually happened to him.
"I will tell you. Just later." Ian responded back to her.
Barabara looked to him with worry. He looked and sounded like a Dalek, but he was still human on the inside. "Ian-"
"Not now, Barbara."
"Alert! Alert! A prisoner has escaped from the science lab." screeched a Dalek's voice in the intercom over. "All Daleks are ordered to be on the lookout for this escaped prisoner. The Dalek Supreme has ordered for its recapture!"
"I believe that is our cue to leave." the Doctor said as he picked up his walking pace along with the others.