Fallon glances up at the doctor, "this seems to be a reoccurring theme falling into your arms" He smiles at her and says quietly "I don't mind that reoccurring theme to keep happening" His eyes are drawn to her hands and his smile drops "I see you have just came from my ninth self, as soon as we get to the Tardis, I will sort them out for you and get you something proper to eat." He rummages through his pocket pulls a tube with purple glowing liquid inside it, he gently pulls the cloth back, that his ninth self applied and rubs the liquid on her hands gently before wrapping the cloth back around them "this should help for the time being"
Fallon nods, her hands were painful and she was pretty hungry. She looks around her wondering where the hell are they, there is nothing but utter devastation around them and the sound of persisting rainfall.
The doctor pulls Fallon closer taking care not to hurt her hands, he leads her though some giant statue and through the large eyepiece, The doctor speaks out to a cloaked figure wearing high heels "I got your message. Not many people can do that. Send me messages." Fallon notices the hint of tension in his words and his body, she does not have a good feeling about this.
The cloaked figure continues as if he never spoken "I have a daughter, Hannah. She's in a Dalek prison camp. They say you both can help." Dalek? Prison camp? What even is that? Fallon wonders she gives the doctor a glance and he gives responds by pulling her closer to him.
"Do they? I wish they'd stop. I love your choice of meeting place." The doctor muses as he looks around. Fallon could tell despite the air of nonchalance around him he was tense.
"They said I'd have to intrigue you, and that the seer huntress is never far behind in your timeline to follow" Darla continues to them, making the doctor straighten up at the mention of Fallon too, especially at the name they used. The seer she's heard before but huntress that's new, well apart from when Face of Boe said it but she didn't put too much thought into it, Fallon thinks confusedly.
"Skaro. The original planet of the Daleks. Look at the state of it. Who told you about me? More to the point who told you about her, about my-" He demands before stopping himself. "About Fallon."
"Does it matter?" Darla asks him.
The doctor shrugs "Maybe not, but you're very well informed. If Hannah's in a Dalek prison camp, tell me, why aren't you?"
Her eyes flicker from The doctor and Fallon and she's answers the question a little too easily "I escaped." The doctor runs his Free hand in his hair and chuckles bitterly "No. Nobody escapes the Dalek camps. You're very cold." he observes as he walks closer to the woman and reaches out and touches the woman, before looking around nervously.
"What's wrong?"
The doctor quickly starts to walk back towards Fallon "It's a trap." He muttered.
"What is?" Darla asks, while Fallon feels confused with what is going on and where they are.
The doctors eyes darken "You are, and you don't even know it." He grabs Fallon and tries to push her behind him but it's too late a Dalek eyepiece comes out of the woman's head turns gun out of her right palm. Shooting them both quickly, and a Dalek saucer appears in the sky.
The Doctor & The Seer Huntress have been acquired.
It isn't long till they are both a wake again and get led towards a room by what Fallon can only describe as giant pepper pots, The doctor glances down at her as they walk, he reaches out to take her hand gently taking care not to hurt her even more "you okay? I promise I will make sure you're safe Lovely" She gives him a small smile "don't worry about me" he sighs and looks ahead I already always do worry about you.
"So how much trouble are we in?" Fallon hears someone say in the room as the door opens "How much trouble, Mister Pond?" The doctor and Fallon follow the dalek "Out of ten? Eleven."
The ceiling suddenly opens and the floor rises, and lifts them into an auditorium surrounded by thousands of Daleks with all marks and versions of them, including the TARDIS.
"Okay doctor what's going on? Where are we?" Fallon asks him as she watches Amy and the young man come closer to them still yet to learn his name "it's a spaceship right?" Amy adds in.
"Not just any spaceship. The Parliament of the Daleks. Be brave." The doctor informs them as he presses a quick kiss to the side of Fallons head.
Amy crosses her arms "what do we do"
"Make them remember you." The doctor answered as he looks around at the Daleks "Well, come on then. You've got me. What are you waiting for? At long last, it's Christmas! Here I am." He exclaimed, holding out his arms and closes his eyes tight, completely expecting to die but hoping, no praying Fallon will jump somewhere safe, safe from these hateful things.
"...Save us." The Dalek Prime Minister spoke up, making the doctor crack one eye open he did not expect that "You will save us."
Fallon raises an eyebrow she's never met these things before but something tells her this isn't something they normally do, the doctor opens both his eyes and drop his arms back down at his sides "I'll what?"
"You will save the Daleks."
"Save the Daleks! Save the Daleks! All the Daleks in the room start to chant. "Save the Daleks! Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks! Save the Daleks."
"Well..." The doctor starts before looking at the others "This is new."
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Fallon stands not far from the doctor and not far from Amy and the young man, the doctor glances over at her ever so often making sure she's okay and no Dalek has gotten close to her.
"What are they doing?" The young man whispers. "He's chosen the most defendable area in the room, counted all the Daleks, counted all the exits, and now he's calculating the exact distance we're standing apart and starting to worry. and how he can defend Fallon quickly" Amy lists of before she turns and looks at Fallon "Oh, and look at that shes frowning, she probably thinking oh Something's wrong with Amy and Rory, and who's going to fix it? And now she's biting her bottom lip, she probably contemplating what she can do to get us out of here and stop the doctor from doing something stupid" They both look sat Fallon waiting for her to say something to them like usual but she just stares at them both and they frown.
"You look uneasy? Normally you would be up next to him, putting the baddie in their place" The young man who she now knows as Rory, says to Fallon, she gives him a small smile "Right well the thing is, I have only met you once Amy and well I've never met you." Fallon informs them both and they nod "Right get it now, I'm Rory. We are friends" Rory points out to her.
Fallon decides to go join the doctor, when she starts to feel awkward around the hostile emotions between Amy and Rory, the pains in her hands are enough for her, she doesn't need the added pressure from others, just as gets to him she hears the Prime Minister announce "We have arrived."
The doctor glances at his watch before looking back up "Arrived where?"
"Doctor..." The Dalek Prime Minister summoned threateningly, The doctor reaches out and takes Fallons wrist carefully instead of her hand, he can see her in her eyes that's she in major pain with her hands, hopefully they can get this over quickly.
They pass by the Dalek Darla they had first met, Fallon notices when she concentrates on her, she feels absolutely nothing from her, she's just empty. The doctor stops and speaks to her in a low voice "Do you remember who you were before they emptied you out and turned you into their puppet?"
"My memories are only reactivated if they are required to facilitate cover or disguise." Dalek Darla replies back to them without a care. The doctor gives her a long look. "You had a daughter."
"I know." Darla Dalek gives a smile before continuing "I've read my file." Fallon frowns this is going to turn in to a shitshow.
"Well?" The doctor asked.
"What do you know of the Dalek Asylum?" The Dalek Prime questioned.
"According to legend, you have a dumping ground." The doctor answered dryly. "A planet where you lock up all the Daleks that go wrong. The battle-scarred, the insane, the ones even you can't control. It's never made any sense to me..." He added before trailing off.
"Why not?" The Dalek Prime asked. The doctor shakes his head "Because you'd just kill them." The doctor shot back at him. If a pepper pot could look offended this one would.
"It is offensive to us to extinguish such divine hatred."
"Offensive?" The doctor scoffed.
"Does it surprise you to know the Daleks have a concept of beauty?" The Dalek Prime pondered.
Fallon gives a disgusted look, she really hopes she doesn't meet this species often if that's the way they think. "I thought you'd run out of ways to make me sick. Hello again. You think hatred is beautiful." The doctor sneered.
"Perhaps that is why we have never been able to kill you." The Dalek Prime retorts before looking over at Fallon "or her," The doctor bristles at that but Fallon speaks before he can, "why would I be a concern?" She definitely wants to know more that the old spoilers comment. The Dalek Prime looks at Fallon again "You are The Seer, The huntress, The doctors constant, an enemy of ours like him, the calm and the storm, powerful together"
That silences them for a moment and gives Fallon a lot to mull over, she feels the doctor stroke a finger down her wrist as he holds it, when they're brought to the attention to machine making a noice, the doctor leads Fallon over to it and back next to Amy and Rory, when the hole in the middle of the floor opens up and reveals to them a planet down below them.
Dalek Darla approaches them and starts to explain what they are looking at "The Asylum. It occupies the entire planet, right to the core."
"How many Daleks are in there?" The doctor asked.
"A count has not been made. Millions, certainly."
"All still alive?" The doctor checked and Dalek Darla gives a smile that makes Fallon feel uncomfortable.
"It has to be assumed. She answers "The Asylum is fully automated. Supervision is not required."
"Well I'm assuming that didn't work out well for you" Fallon mutters and the doctor gives her wrist a gently squeeze not wanting to draw even more attention on her.
"Armed?" Amy pipes in and the Dalek Darla turns to the redhead "The Daleks are always armed."
Of course, everything is armed apart from her, not that it would be useful with her hands being the way they are.
"What colour?" Rory suddenly asks, everyone gives him a vary of confused looks and Fallon snorts a laugh yeah she can see now how they are friends "I'm sorry, there weren't any good questions left." Rory adds in defensively.
Dalek Darla gestured back over at the Dalek Prime Minister and at the machine next to him and she explained "This signal is being received from the very heart of the Asylum."
There's a loud beep, and then Carmen starts to come over the speakers, "What is the noise" The white Dalek exclaimed. "Explain. Explain." It demanded.
"Music, nice piece actually, definitely something Dean wouldn't play.. or you lot by the looks of it, since you have whack sense of beauty " Fallon says with a deadpanned look. The doctor grins at her answer, Amy leans over and whispers "but seriously where is it coming from?"
"Someone's transmitting this." The doctor explained as he scanned the machine as he scanned the machine with his sonic screwdriver before wandering back over to the Dalek PM "Have you considered tracking back the signal and talking to them?" He asked the Daleks.
The doctor soniced the transmitter before calling out "Hello? Hello? Carmen, Come in Carmen"
"Hello?" They all hear a woman respond back.
"Come in. Come in...Come in, Carmen." The doctor continues, slightly surprised he got a reply, he turns and gives Fallon a quick wink and she can't help but smile at his antics despite the situation. "Hello! Yes, yes, sorry. Do you read me?" The woman replies back a little breathlessly.
"Yes, reading you loud and clear. Identify, Yourself and report your status." The doctor requested. "Hello. Are you real? Are you actually, properly, real?" She double checks sounding a little in disbelief. "Well he just answered you love, he's as real as you can get, so I would take what you can get" Fallon spoke into the transmitter.
The woman's chuckle comes over "okay.." the woman answer sounding a little amused, excited maybe "Oswin Oswald, junior entertainment officer, starship Alaska. Current status, crashed and shipwrecked somewhere not nice. Been here a year, rest of the crew missing. Provisions good but keen to move on."
Fallon raises an eyebrow at that, she's been stuck in some places but something just feels off about the girls tone, the doctor glances at her and makes a face "a year? Are you okay? Are you under attack?"
"Some local lifeforms." Her excitement in her tone dies down at little "Been keeping them out."
"Do you know what those lifeforms are? The doctor checks and Oswin replies back a little snarky "I know a Dalek when I hear one, yeah."
"What have you been doing on your own against the Daleks for a year?" The doctor asks curiously.
"Making soufflés?" Oswin answers a little weakly. Fallon screws her face up at the answer Soufflés? This girl is something else.
"Soufflés?" The doctor asks making sure he heard right "Against the Daleks?" He suddenly frowns in thought "Where'd you get the milk?" She couldn't get an answer in when the white Dalek cuts the conversation short "This conversation is irrelevant." Fallon scoffs a little "I doubt that very much" She mutters and the doctor nods and says at the same time as her "No it isn't."
The doctor snaps at the white Dalek "Because a starliner has crashed into your Asylum, and someone's got in. And if someone can get in, then everything can get out."A tsunami of insane Daleks." He shakes his head "Even you don't want that."
"The Asylum must be cleansed." The Dalek replied
"Then why is it still here? The doctor questioned before continuing "You've enough firepower on this ship to blast it out of the sky."
The Asylum forcefield is impenetrable." The Darla Dalek tells him and the doctor rolls his eyes "Turn it off then"
"It can only be turned off from within the Asylum."
"A small taskforce could sneak through a forcefield. Send in a couple of Daleks" The doctors pauses and claps his hands sarcastically "Oh. Oh, that's good. That's brilliant. You're all too scared to go down there. Not one of you will go, so tell me, what do the Daleks do when they're too scared?"
"The Predator of the Daleks will be deployed." The white Dalek answered. "You don't have a Predator, and even if you did, why would they turn off a forcefield for you?" The doctor responds back confused.
Fallon glances at him "I think they mean...you" the doctor looks back at her and he sighs "oh well that's just great" he mutters when Dalek Darla speaks up again correcting Fallon "May I clarify? The Predator is the Dalek's word for you both"
Fallon frowns what did she do to this species for them to hate her so much? The doctor notices her frown and pulls her closer to him she's just so young, she has no idea whats to come.
Dalek Darla waves over two humanoids "You will need this. It will protect you from the nanocloud." The humanoids place a wristband in the doctors wrist and one on Fallons wrist. "The what?" The doctor asked "The nano what?"
"The gravity beam will convey you close to the source of the transmission. You must find a way to deactivate the forcefield from there." Darla Dalek continues ignoring the doctor's question.
The doctor gives a horrified look when a bright beam rushes up through the clear floor "You're going to fire us at a planet? That's your plan? We get fired at a planet and expected to fix it." The doctor questioned in anger.
"In fairness, that is slightly your MO." Rory points out. Fallon gives him a look "don't defend creatures with plans like that" Fallon states through gritted teeth.
The doctor nods in agreement "Yeah..Don't be fair to the Daleks when they're firing me and my injured handed Fallon..at a planet." Fallon notices Rory and Amy have wristbands on them as well and she nudges the doctor to show him "What do you want with them?" The doctor exclaims when the wristbands are pointed out to him.
"It is known the Doctor required companions." The white Dalek states.
"Oh, brilliant." Rory groans "Good oh."
"Don't worry." The doctor reassured them softly, keeping a hold of Fallons wrist "We'll get through this, I promise. Don't be scared." Fallon glances at the look on Amy's face could probably melt granite as she replies "Scared? Who's scared. Geronimo." Well someone certainly grew some more confidence since the last time Fallon saw her, is that the doctors and hers influence? How long ago was that for them?
"Ha! Oi!" The doctor exclaims as the four of them are pushed into the gravity beam.
"Argh" they all scream
"Wrong way up! Wrong way up!" As Rory Plummets headfirst past the Doctor, The beam splits into three, it goes that fast the doctor loses his grip on Fallon, his hearts drop when she also plummets ahead "Fallon." He shouts but luckily Rory manages to latch on to her arm. There is a blinding light as they enter the atmosphere, Fallon is knocked out cold as she hits the ground.
Outside..the planets surface...
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An eyepiece pops up and down under the snow to look at the doctor "hey" he laughs slightly before Carmen plays again "huh?"
Sorry!" Oswins voice comes over the speaker "Sorry, sorry. Pressed the wrong switch."
The doctor tilts his head in question "Soufflé girl?"
"You can always call me Oswin, seeing as that's my name." She tells him amused before adding "You okay?" He sighs when Fallon flashes through his mind "No, I've been separated from my wif- well she's not that yet, she, she's just someone important." He stumbles over his words "oh what ones that? The redhead.. or the dark haired one?"
"The dark haired one" The doctor answers easily. The eyepiece turns around "oh, she is pretty"
The doctor taps the glass on the eyepiece wanting to change the topic of Fallon "How are you doing that, eh? This is Dalek technology."
"It's very easy to hack." Oswin replies simply. The doctor shakes his head "No, it isn't. Where are you? The doctor asks as he uses the sonic on the eyepiece. "The ship broke up when it hit." Oswin informs him. "Somewhere underground, I think. You coming to get me?"
"Fallon? Doctor?" The doctor hears Amy call out "Hey! Oi!" The doctor exclaims as the he starts to loose the connection "Soufflé girl! Come back!"
Amy spots the doctor and starts to run towards him "Doctor!" He helps her regain her footing as she comes down the snowy slope, he also clock a man following after her. "Amy! Hey, where's Fallon and Rory?"
"There was another two beams There. Over there, they merged together." The man tells them as he points over in one direction.
Amy and the doctor quickly run in the direction the man points in "Are you the rescue team?" He calls to them as he follows them.
The doctor, Amy and the man reached a shaft that has been drilled through the snow and rock
"Rory?" Amy asks, her voice echos down the hole. "Rory!"
"Fallon!" The doctor also called out "FALLON!!" he calls out as loud as he can as his voice echos.
Inside.. the Asylum in a empty cold room...
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Fallon comes too when she feels Something drips down her face, she wakes up and notices Rory lies next to her still out, she leans over him "Rory! Rory!" Rory starts to groans when he feels something shake his shoulder, Amy? Why would Amy be waking him up? They haven't spent together in months. "Rory! Would you wake up god damn it" she slaps his arm and Rory's eyes shoot open and he scrambles up, he rubs the part she slapped "Fallon... what the hell?"
He glances around There are lots of inanimate Daleks here. He touches one, but it doesn't respond so he pushes it away. "Do you think they are alive.?" Fallon shrugs and helps Rory up onto his feet, "who knows, but let's be careful yeah?"
Fallon looks around but it's too dark "you don't have a light on you, do you?" Rory digs into his pocket and pulls out a pen light and passes it to her, she flicks it on and shines it around the room and the pair took stock of the room that they are in.
Rory glances over at Fallon "where do you think the doctor and Amy are at?" Rory asks her hoping she might have some sort of answer. Fallon sighs "probably near by somewhere, they will be fine.." Fallon answers trying not to sound too worried "I've not met you yet, so who exactly are you, I can see we are friends" Fallon asks wanting to know but also wanting to keep his mind off from panicking.
"I'm Amy's husband.. well I am the now... won't be soon, I suppose" he notices the look Fallon is giving him "getting divorced" Fallon nods "explains the hostile feelings I felt earlier, though I did sense deep love from you both"
Rory scoffs a little "I forget you sense things like that, doesn't matter.. it's over, you know it's funny you knew when we met this was going to happen between Amy and I" Fallon frowns "uh I haven't done any of that yet remember" she remarks back at him. "Yeah but you could have stopped us from going through it in the future when you do" he answers back sharply.
"Maybe there was a reason why future me didn't"
Rory sighs and relents a little it isn't fair of him to take it out on this Fallon especially when she's always been so kind to him, so he speaks to her like he would a future Fallon and tells her honestly "I don't want to divorce her, I still love her, I always will, I guess we weren't supposed be, not like you and the doctor."
Fallon raises an eyebrow at that "The doctor and I aren't together" Rory quickly nods "right right ignore me saying that." Fallon tries to ignore his words but the thought of it makes her stomach flutter, she's not sure why.
She reaches out to him ignoring the sting as best as she can in her hand "Look I might not know you, or how you and Amy are together, but I will say the love I felt between you both, you don't just give that up, so fight for it" Rory gives her a smile "thanks Fallon"
Just at that Rory stumbles over a piece of metal on the ground and he kicks it away forgetting for one slight second where he is and it makes a large clattering noise, Both Fallon and Rory freeze, but it's too late one of the Daleks eyepiece starts to glow.
"Oh shit" Fallon exclaims this can't be good.
Back Outside in the planets surface..
*~*~*~*~*~*~
The man that the doctor finds out is called Harvey, is taking Amy and him back to the hatch he had been working on "We came down two days ago." He informs them "There's twelve of our escape pods. I don't know what happened to them."
"Alaska?" She questioned. "That's the same ship as soufflé girl." The doctor nods as he watches Harvey open a hatch covered in snow "Yeah. Except she's been here a year."
Harvey climbs down in to the pod followed by the doctor and Amy "We should have some climbing rope long enough for that hole." Harvey informs them before going to a locker.
"Won't you introduce us to your crew?" The doctor asks him eying the motionless crew curiously that sat in rows with controls in front of them. "Ah, yes, sorry. Guys, this is the Doctor and Amy." Harvey introduces them as he rummages through the locker, The doctor gives a salute but they got no response back from the crew, Harvey notices this and stops what he is doing "Guys?" He turns to look at his crew and they are all desiccated corpses "Oh, my god."
The doctor does a quick sonic scan. "They're dead. All of them."
Harvey shakes his head and stares at his crew "That's not possible. I just spoke to them. Two hours ago. We were doing engine repairs."
"You're sure about that, are you?" The doctor challenges as he pulls a hood off on of the dead crew "Because I'd say they've all been dead for a very long time."
"But...they can't have been..."
Amy steps far back from the dead crew and remarks "Well, they didn't get in this state in two hours."
Harvey's face changes to a calm expression almost a smirk "No, of course. Stupid me." Amy looks over at him "Of course what?" She asks not sure if she likes where he was heading with this.
"I died outside, and the cold preserved my body. I forgot about dying." He announces to them, as out pops the Dalek eyepiece, and starts to come for them, The Doctor grabs a CO2 fire extinguisher and lets it off in Harvey's face. "Amy, the door!"
Amy hurriedly gets over to the door and manages to get it open, the doctor grabs Harvey by his arms and manages to get him through it, they slam it shut and lock the door again.
"Explain. That's what you're good at. How'd he get all Daleked?" Amy exclaimed. The doctor turns to look at her "Because he wasn't wearing one of these." He replied as he holds up his wrist showing the band that they all wearing and he grins "Oh, ho, ho. That's clever. The nanocloud. Microorganisms that automatically process any organic matter, living or dead, into a Dalek puppet." He states as he taps a skull "Anything attacks this place, it automatically becomes part of the on-site security."
"Living or dead?" Amy asks nervously.
"These wristbands protect us." He tells her "The only thing stopping us going exactly..." Amy interrupts him "Doctor, shut up! Living or dead?!"
"Yes, exactly. Living or, or..." The doctor trails off as the bodies of the corpses have all begun to have eyestalks coming out their foreheads and are now starting to move and stand up. "...Dead. Oh dear."
The doctor quickly climbed over the seats kicking the zombies so he and Amy can get a clear path away, however one of the corpses grabs a hold of Amy, just before they reach the cockpit, making her scream, the doctor manages to pull her free and inside the cockpit before closing and locking the door. "Is it bad that I've really missed this?" Amy asks him and he huffs out a laugh "Yes."
"Good" she laughs.
"I know." He smiles before it drops "we need to find Fallon." and Amy nods "yeah and Rory obviously" He rolls his eyes "I meant Rory too but we need to get to them and make sure Fallon doesn't take that bracelet off especially" Amy gives him a look "explain"
"Fallons still young.. her body is still going through the process of change, the energy inside her is still settling, she takes that off and she's not going to convert into a Dalek, her body is going to be like a battery it will overload with energy and I don't want to even say or think of the outcome"
He's luckily brought out of the dark path of those thoughts when he hears Oswins voice come over the speaker "Unauthorised personnel may not enter the cockpit."
"Shut up." The doctor exclaims before getting up off the door "Oh, Mister Grumpy." She says through the speaker amusedly "Bad combo. No sense of humour in that chin."
"Is that her again, soufflé girl?"
"Yeah, she. Oi, what is wrong with my chin?" The doctor asks as he leans into the camera. "Careful, dear. You'll put someone's eye out" Oswin teases him. "Scanning you. You're in another of the escape pods from the Alaska, right? Same ship I was on." She observed.
"How can you hack into everything? It should be impossible. You're in a crashed ship!" The doctor asks in disbelief something isn't right.
"Long story." Oswin cuts in "Is there a word for total screaming genius that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?" The doctor smirks a little "Doctor. You call me the Doctor... my wife does... well that and among other names... but we won't get in that" The doctor suddenly starts to think of the stuff Fallon calls him and the things she does that gets him often riled and hot and bothered.
He's shaken out of his thoughts when he hears Oswin again " oh I bet she does.." she laughs just as there was a beep. "Check the floor. I'm picking up a breach at floor level. There could be a way out. See you later."
The doctor and Amy clear a spot in the centre of the floor "Ah ha! Hatch." The doctor in victory "Looks like it's been used already and they've tried to block it off behind them."
"Can't imagine why." Amy remarked as she glanced back at the door as she steps closer to him. "The lower part of the pod is buried" The doctor explains to her. "so this must go straight down to the Asylum."
"Where Rory and Fallon will be?" Amy asks concerned for the two of them.
"Yeah" The doctor replies as he works on opening the hatch "Speaking of Rory, is there anything you want to tell me?, Fallon had some concerns about you both... different Fallon, I'm just airing them on her behalf"
Amy gives him a look baffled why he chosen now to do this "Are we going to do this now?" She exclaims to him. "What happened?" He asks calm and serious.
She shrugs "Oh, stuff. You know." She tells him waving him off. "We split up. What can you or Fallon even do?"
The doctor fights the urge to roll his eyes "What can we do?" He asks her rhetorically.
"Nothing. It's not one of those things you can fix like you fix your bowtie." She tells him with a smile "Don't give me those big wet eyes, Raggedy Man. It's life. Just life. That thing that goes on when you and Fallon are not there." The Doctor gets the hatch open, a shaft heading down into the planet, with a flexible metal ladder hanging down it.
"Okay, so somebody else got out this way, then." Amy comments.
"Yeah, let's go and find them. Oh, hello, hello, hello. What are they up to?" They stared up at the small monitor that the dalek zombies are on, they are waving something at the camera. "What's that?" Amy asks pointing at the thing they are waving.
"One of these." The says tensely identifying the item as a wristband that they are currently wearing. "But where did they get it?"
"Oh" Amy looks down at her wrist now bare. "Doctor, they got it from me. " The doctor groans "Oh, Amy." He groans in frustration.
"Doctor, what's going to happen to me? Seriously. Tell me what." Amy asks him immediately wanting to know how bad her fate is going to be.
Back in the Asylum...
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The dalek starts to croak.. "Eg..."
"Sssh... shush" Rory hushes it hoping that it would work and it would stop again, but the other Daleks start to boot up too, making sounds. "I don't think that worked" Fallon mutters to him.
"Eg..eg...eg" The dalek continues.
"What's it trying to say?" Rory whispers to Fallon. "Eggs?" Fallon shrugs "I doubt it, but then this is this first time I'm meeting this species"
"eg...eg...eg egg.." Rory picks up a circle piece of casing "Eggs? You mean those things?"
"Egg."
Rory holds up the round thing once again "Are those things eggs? This? You want this."
"Egg..stir...min...Ate."
This time Rory drops the casing and he backs away, "Egg,stir,min,ate" Fallon sounds out the word again and the penny drops "Exterminate?" Her eyes widen oh , it drops with Rory as well and he grabs her hand "Run!" Just as they start to run the Daleks start to fire at them, a blast misses Fallon by seconds okay she definitely doesn't like these guys.
"Exterminate! Exterminate! Emergency. Emergency. Exterminate. Exterminate." The Daleks chanted as they attempted to chase the two of them, though the my were going pretty slow.
Oswins voice comes over the speaker "keep running, The door at the end, run for it." She tells them relaying directions to the pair "They're waking up, but they're slow. The door at the end. Just run. Now! Now! Now!"
The doors rise up and just in time they both slide underneath it and it shuts behind them. They lean against the wall catching their breath, Fallon glances down at her hands, they are beyond aching now and see can see blood now seeping through the cloth, she grimaces great.
"So, anyway, I'm Oswin." She chirped "What do I call you both?"
"Er, I can't remember." Rory states still in a state of shock "Er, Rory."
"Lovely name, Rory." She comments before continuing "First boy I ever fancied was called Rory." Rory nods "Okay..."
"Actually, she was called Nina. I was going through a phase." She shrugs before speaking again "and what about you mysterious girl?" Fallon glances up from her hands "uh Fallon."
Oswin comes through the speak again "Finally I get to know her name.." before adding in. "it's a hot name"
Fallon furrows her eyebrows wondering what she means by that "uh thanks? Glad to please you?"
Oswin chuckles "Just flirting to keep you both cheerful." They can here banging in the distance and the voices from the Daleks as they echo throughout the building "Exterminate. Exterminate."
"Er, okay," Rory mutters quickly "any time you want to start flirting again is fine by me."
Fallon gives him a look at that and shakes her head but moves on not really her place to comment.
Luckily Oswins voice comes through again "okay keep going down that way, I'll be with you both again at the end" she clicks off once again and Fallon shrugs and starts to head down it "Fallon.." Rory calls after her. "Are we sure we can trust her?" Fallon sighs and shrugs "do we have choice? We have got to take what we got right now."
Inside another corridor...
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The doctor and Amy are climbing down the ladder from the cockpit and into another corridor. "So tell me," Amy began to ask "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." She finishes threateningly.
"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." The doctor explains to her in one breath.
"So, what happens?" She asked "I get one of those things sticking out of my head?" He shakes his head "Physical changes come later." He looks around before he takes Amy's hand and walks down the corridor they are in.
"What comes first? How does it start?"
"With your mind." The doctor answered "Your feelings, your memories, and I'm sorry but it's started already."
"How do you know?" Amy tilts her head wondering how he would know that already. "Because we've had this conversation four times." The doctor answers back Dryly. Amy starts to panic a little "Okay...scared now."
The doctor gives her hand a squeeze before pulling her into a hug "Hang on to scared. Scared isn't Dalek."
Back inside another part of the Asylum...
~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*
They both carefully walk down the hallway, "we should really be careful" Rory whispers to her. She peers down the path they were heading but the corridor they reached the lights were off and the only thing keeping them from full darkness was Rory's torch but even at that it kept flickering. "You know I was thinking if we run into any Daleks, they would probably take a shot at me first, since they seem to know me, that would give you the chance to escape." Fallon says to him offhandedly.
Rory gives her a look of horror "Fallon I don't think so, that's a bad plan." He tells her firmly before continuing "you might not know me well yet but you're my friend, no you're family and I would never let you put yourself in the firing line, we do this together okay?"
Fallon gives him a long look it his words makes her feel warm inside and she gives him a small smile and nods "okay, can't argue with that.but I know I Will feel better when we find the others and are back together"
Rory nods in agreement but then he frowns when the penlight completely turns off, leaving them in complete darkness "oh that's not good" but suddenly the lights turn on and they both brace themselves, to be facing a fleet of Daleks but instead they are met with Oswins voice "Hey there, mysterious girl, beakie boy"
"Oswin." Fallon calls a little relieved while Rory makes a face at the name "If it's a straight choice, I prefer Nina."
Oswin chuckles "Loving this. The nose and the chin. The feisty redhead and the beautiful mysterious girl"
"The Nose and the chin?!" Rory exclaims as Fallon can't help but laugh a little at the names "oh yeah" Oswin replied "You two could fence. There's a door behind you both"
The door opens and Rory and Fallon quickly make their way through it and into a room with a large round platform in the middle. "Okay, you're both safe for now. Pop your shirt off, beakie boy quick as you like, feel free to join in pretty girl" Oswin teases them and Rory gives a confused look while Fallon blushes with a slight smirk "Why?" Rory exclaims.
Oswin giggles "Does there have to be a reason?"
"Naughty girl" Fallon remarks and Oswin comments back to her "Very"
Inside the Asylum in another corridor...
~*~*~*~*~*~~*
A door rise to let Amy and Amy into the place that Fallon and Rory once were, making them stop as the doctor sniffed the air "What's that?" Amy questioned, they could hear the Daleks in the distance but couldn't see any of them, they backed away and the doors slide shut.
"Keep a look out. Don't open this door. Oswin!" The doctor ordered before calling out again "Oswin, can you hear me?" He doesn't notice Amy rubbing her forehead.
"Hello, the chin." Oswin calls out amusedly. "I have visual on you."
"Why don't I have a visual on you? Why can't I ever see you?" The doctor questioned.
"Limited power, bad hair, take your pick. She told him nonchalantly "There's a door to your left. Open it." The doctor opened the door to reveal a screen.
"I'm going to send you a map to that screen. I put your little friends somewhere safe. I can get you to them." Oswin tells him proudly.
"Fallon and Rory?" The doctor asks to be sure. "You've found them?"
"Yes have so" Oswin replied. "Both of them quite the interesting characters, both pretty. Hush now"
As the doctor was looking at the screen, Amy was looking through the transparent panels in the door and sees a man in a suit standing in the chamber. "Who are you?" Amy asks the character she hallucinated she watches as she sees lots of people in the chamber now, men and women in various styles of dress from formal evening wear to a little red-haired girl in a ballet tutu. Amy opens the door and goes in.
The doctor turns to glance in Amy's direction before back to the screen "How many Daleks directly ahead of me right now?"
"Ten, twenty. It's hard to say" Oswin answers back. "Some of them are catatonic but they do have firepower."
"How do I get past them?" Before he glances in Amy's direction finally realising what she's done "Amy!"
"Shush. It's okay," she reassured him "it's just people in here. It's just people."
He felt his hearts stop when he sees her step dangerously close to a dalek. "Amy, it's the nanocloud" the doctor states trying to get her to see "it's altering your perception. Look again. Look again. Those aren't people."
Amy takes another look and she finally sees it as the Dalek that it is, the doctor holds his hand out for her to take "Amy, come out. Take my hand. Run! Run!"
They run back down the corridor and back to the ladder, but it was moving due to the weigh of the descending Dalek Zombies, "Look" Amy points out. "they're coming down!"
"Yes, they are!" The doctor exclaimed as they turned back towards the room but they stop as soon as they see the Dalek coming out the room "Intruder."
"Run." The doctor pushes Amy into the cubby Hole that was opened for them, the two of them hid as the Dalek approached "intruder!" The Dalek calls out as it tries to fire its weapon but nothing happens.
"It's damaged..." The doctor states quietly as they step back out the cubby hole. Amy comes over to join him "Okay, but what do we do?"
Identify me." The doctor orders it "Access your files. Who am I? Come on. Who's your daddy?"
"You are... one of the.. Predators." The Dalek answers struggling. "Access your standing orders concerning the Predators." The doctor continued to order.
"The Predators must be destroyed."
The doctor scoffed his eyes darken slightly he doesn't like his oldest enemy including Fallon in that threat. "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?" He cocks an eyebrow and opened his arms as an invitation
"Self-destruct initiated." The Dalek announced and the doctor uses his sonic underneath the top casing of the Dalek. "What's it doing?" Amy asks him.
"It's going to blow itself up, and us with it. Only weapon it's got left." The doctor informed her like it was no big deal.
"Self-destruct cannot be countermanded." The Dalek remarked. The doctor lifts it's lid and scans inside "I'm not looking for a countermand, dear. I'm looking for reverse."
"Forward, forward." The Dalek demanded but instead it whizzes backwards into another Dalek and blows up taking the other Daleks with it.
Back in the Teleport Room...
~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*
The explosion is felt there and both Rory and Fallon wobble on their feet. "Oswin" Fallon calls out. "What was that?"
Rory glances at Fallon "that sounded really close"
They both decide to head towards the explosion to see what it was, they enter the chamber they were once before and all they can see is the smoking remains of Dalek shells "what happened here?" Rory wonders "Who killed all the Daleks?"
Fallon heart flutters at the thought "I think I have an idea who"
At that moment the doctor walks in from the side corridor carrying Amy "who do you think?"
A/N
Thanks for reading.
Part one completed... things are just going to get harder...
Thanks for the comments , they are always appreciated, The doctor has certainly known Fallon for a long time, she will have her turn soon in the meeting the doctor for the first time on his end.. and whether she can regenerate or not well... spoilers..
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