Victory of the Daleks
We materialized the TARDIS in a storage room in the Cabinet War Room. The Doctor and I stepped out first and we were face to face with soldiers pointing guns at us. But the soldiers quickly parted, and Winston Churchill walked up to us.
"Amy… Annabelle" said The Doctor, as he introduced them, "Winston Churchill"
"Doctor? Teddy? Is it you?" asked Churchill, as he looked closely at my uncle.
"Oh, Winston, my old friend!" The Doctor put out his hand to shake but Churchill motioned with his hand that he wanted something, "Ah, every time!"
"What's he after?" asked Amy.
"A TARDIS key," I said, "Nice to see you again, Winston."
"Think of what I could achieve with your family's remarkable machine, Teddy!" said Winston, "The lives that could be saved!"
"Ah, doesn't work like that," said my uncle, as he closed the door on the TARDIS and locked it.
"Must I take it by force?"
"I'd like to see you try," I said, "You might be able to get past us… But the TARDIS is VERY protective of her pilots."
"At ease," said Churchill. The soldiers lowered their rifles.
"You rang?" said The Doctor.
Churchill lead us through the corridors of the Cabinet War Rooms while we could hear the sounds of an air raid happening above us, for some reason The Doctor had Churchill's cane, "So you and Teddy have changed your faces, again."
"Yeah, we've had a bit of work done," said The Doctor.
"Got it, got it, got it!" said Amy, "Cabinet War Rooms, right?"
"Yup," I said, "Top secret heart of the War Office, right under London."
"You're late, by the way," said Churchill.
Just then a woman walked up to Churchill and handed him a clipboard and pen, "Requisitions, sir." she said.
"Excellent."
"Late?" I asked.
"I rang you lot a month ago," he said as he signed the papers.
"Really?" said The Doctor, "Sorry. Sorry, it's a Type 40 TARDIS. I'm just running her in."
"No," I said, "you keep changing the time coordinates when Annabelle and I have them set correctly."
Churchill handed the clipboard to the woman and he asked her, "Something the matter, Breen? You look a little down in the dumps."
Breen hugged the clipboard against her chest, "No, sir. Fine, sir."
"Action this day, Breen! Action this day!"
"Yes, sir," she nodded and forced a smile before walking away.
"Excuse me, sir," said an officer, "got another formation coming in, Prime Minister. Stukas, by the look of them."
"We shall go up top then, Group Captain!" said Churchill, "We'll give 'em what for! Coming, Doctor?"
"Why?" asked The Doctor.
Churchill snatched back cane, "I have something to show you."
The Doctor mouthed, "Oooh," and Amy giggled.
We got into an elevator, Churchill started the lift and puffed on his cigar. The Doctor waved away the smoke, "We stand at a crossroads, Doctor. Quite alone, with our backs to the wall. Invasion is expected daily. So I will grasp with both hands anything that will give us an advantage over the Nazi menace."
"Like what?" I asked.
The elevator stopped and Churchill opened the gate, "Follow me."
We found ourselves on the roof of the New Pubilc Offices, which was covered in sandbags. There was a man on the roof in a white lab coat watching the sky with binoculars. "Wow!" said Amy as she looked out at World War II era London.
"Doctor, Teddy," said Churchill as he pointed to the man, "This is Professor Edwin Bracewell, head of our Ironsides Project."
The Doctor gave Prof. Bracewell a 'V for Victory' sign.
"How d'you do?" said Prof. Bracewell, as he waved as us then went back to looking through his binoculars.
The Doctor, Amy, Annabelle and I walked toward the edges and looked out over London and its barrage balloons as the bombs drop. Amy was at a loss for words, "Oh, Doctor... Teddy, it's…"
"History." I said
"Ready, Bracewell?" called Churchill,
"Aye-aye, sir," said Prof. Bracewell, as he gave the thumbs up, "On my order! Fire!"
Then, energy beams with a very familiar sound started flying through the sky, and destroyed the German planes coming toward the city. Us three Time Lords looked at each other. We knew what that sounded like but we were hoping that we were wrong.
"What was that?" asked Amy.
"That wasn't human," I said, "Humans don't have the technology to do anything like that at this point in history."
"That sounded like…" said Annabelle, her voice quivering like she was getting ready to cry.
"Show me!" interrupted The Doctor, "Show me what that was!" he climbed up a ladder and stood next to Prof. Bracewell.
"Advance!" said Prof. Bracewell.
"Our new secret weapon!" said Churchill. Then the sight none of us Time Lords wanted to see… A Dalek moved up from behind the sandbags. It was painted in Army green, with a utility belt around it, a small Union Flag under the eyestalk and its lights on the top of the dome are covered. "What do you think? Quite something, eh?"
"Excuse me," said Annabelle, as she ran off back to the elevator.
I went after her and found her sitting on the floor of the elevator car, with her knees curled up to her chest, crying. I closed the gate and took us back down to the War Rooms. Then, sat down on the floor next to her, "Are you okay, Sweetpea?" I asked.
"Yeah," She said as she wiped her tears away, "I was hoping I would never see a Dalek again."
"You and me both kiddo."
"I thought The Doctor's clone killed all of the Daleks…"
I shook my head, "Only the ones in the Medusa Cascade. Somehow this Dalek escaped and I'm willing to bet it's not the only one."
"Mom," said Annabelle as she wiped the tears from her eyes, "Promise me you'll be careful… I don't want to see you regenerate again for a long time."
I smiled, "I promise…" Then, we hugged.
A short time later we were in Churchill's office. He was showing us Time Lords and Amy, diagrams and blueprints of the Daleks.
"They're Daleks!" said The Doctor, "They're called Daleks!"
"They are Bracewell's Ironsides, Doctor!" said Churchill, "Look! Blueprints, statistics, field-tests, photographs. He invented them!"
"He invented them?" I said, "I don't think so…"
"Yes! He approached one of our brass hats a few months ago. Fella's a genius."
"A Scottish genius, too," Amy piped in, "Maybe you lot should listen to…"
"Amy!" Annabelle interrupted, "He didn't invent them! They're aliens."
"Aliens?" asked Churchill.
Just then we herd the sound of a Dalek gliding past the door. Us three Time Lords looked over our shoulder at the Dalek. It looked into the room and then continued on, "And totally hostile!" said The Doctor.
"Precisely. They will win me the war!" said Churchill, as he turned over a blueprint to show us a propaganda poster with a large Dalek on it.
We walked down the corridor to the Map Room and I asked, "Why won't you listen to us?" I asked, "Why call us in if you won't listen to us?!"
"When I rang you a month ago, I must admit, I had my doubts," said Churchill, "The Ironsides seemed too good to be true."
"Yes! Right! So destroy them! Exterminate them!" said The Doctor.
"But imagine what I could do with a hundred! A thousand!
"I don't have to imagine," I said, as a courier Dalek went pass us in the opposite direction, "Amy, tell him."
"Tell him what?" asked Amy.
"About the Daleks!"
"What would I know about the Daleks?"
The three of us were stunned. Annabelle spoke up, "They invaded Earth, remember? There were planets in the sky, you don't forget something like that!"
Amy looked at my daughter like she was growing a second head, "Amy…" said The Doctor, "Tell me you remember the Daleks."
"Nope, sorry," said Amy.
"That's not possible."
We walked into the map room and saw women manning the radios and moving the figures on the map as required. A Dalek glided past us as we walked in. "So they're up to something, but what is it?" asked The Doctor, "What are they after?"
"Well, let's just ask, shall we?" asked Amy. Then she walked over to the Dalek.
"Amy…" I called, "Amelia!"
Amy knocked on the Dalek and it turned to focus its eyestalk on her, "Can I be of assistance?" it asked.
"Oh. Yes. Yes!" said Amy, "See, my friends reckon you're dangerous. That you're an alien. Is it true?"
"I am your soldier," said the Dalek.
"Yeah. Got that bit. Love a squaddie. What else, though?"
"Please excuse me. I have duties to perform." Then the Dalek slid out of the room.
Us Time Lords went over to Churchill. The Doctor took the cigar from the Prime Minister's mouth and said, "Winston, Winston, please."
"We are waging total war, Doctor!" said Churchill," Day after day, the Luftwaffe pound this great city like an iron fist."
"Just wait until the Daleks get started," said Annabelle.
"Men, women and children slaughtered. Families torn apart. Wren's churches in flames.
"Yeah?" I said, "Try the Earth in flames!"
"I weep for my country, I weep for my empire. It is breaking my heart," said Churchill, then he moved around the table.
We followed him and The Doctor said, "But you're resisting, Winston! The whole world knows you're resisting! You're a beacon of hope."
Churchill signed some papers, "But for how long? Millions of innocent lives will be saved if I use these Ironsides now!"
The Dalek came up to us, "Can I be of assistance?"
I looked at the Dalek, "Queit!" then I looked at Churchill, "The Daleks have no conscience, no mercy, no pity. They are our oldest and deadliest enemy. You cannot trust them!"
"If Hitler invaded hell, I would give a favorable reference to the Devil!" said Churchill, "These machines are our salvation!" just then a siren sounded , "Oh, the all-clear. We are safe. For now." Then, he left the room, followed by the Dalek.
Amy walked up to us, Doctor, it's the all-clear. Are you OK?
The Doctor picked up an officer's cap and started twisting in in his hands, "What does hate look like, Amy?" he asked.
"Hate?" asked Amy.
"It looks like a Dalek," said Annabelle.
"And we're going to prove it," I said. The Doctor tossed the cap, and put it on a desk as we walked out.
We went to Prof. Bracewell's office and found him sitting at his desk, "All right, Prof!" said The Doctor, "The PM's been filling us in. Amazing things, these Ironsides of yours. Amazing. You must be very proud of them."
"Just doing my bit," said the professor.
Amy picked up a wrench, "Not bad for a Paisley boy." she said.
"Yes, I thought I detected a familiar cadence, my dear," .
"How did you come up with the idea for the Ironsides?" I asked.
"How does the muse of invention come to anyone?" asked the professor
"But do you get you get these ideas?" asked Annabelle.
"Well, ideas just seem to teem from my head! Wonderful things! Like... let me show you." he showed us some files, "Some musings on the potential of hypersonic flight. Gravity bubbles that could sustain life outside of the terrestrial atmosphere! Came to me in the bath!"
"And are these your ideas or theirs?" asked The Doctor, referring to the Daleks.
"No, no, no, no. These robots are entirely under my control, Doctor," said the professor, "They are…" a Dalek brought him some tea, "Thank you...the perfect servant, and the perfect warrior."
"I don't know what you're up to, Professor, but whatever they've promised, you cannot trust them! Call them what you like, the Daleks are death!"
"Yes, Doctor." we turned and saw Churchill walk followed by another Dalek, "Death to our enemies! Death to the forces of darkness, and death to the Third Reich!"
"Yes, Winston, and death to everyone else too!" I said.
"Would you care for some tea?" asked the Dalek.
"No, I would not care for some tea," I mocked the Dalek, then knocked the tray out of its suction arm, "What are you doing here? What do you want?"
"We seek only to help you."
The Doctor walked up, "To do what?"
"To win the war," said the Dalek.
"Really?" asked Annabelle as she walked up,"Which war?"
"I do not understand."
"The against the Nazis?" I asked, "Or the war against the rest of the Universe? The war against all life-forms that are not Dalek?"
"I do not understand," said the Dalek, "I am your soldier."
"Oh, yeah?" said The Doctor, "OK." he walked over to a table and picked a giant wrenches. Then The Doctor said, "OK, soldier, defend yourself!" then he started to hit the Dalek with the wrench.
"Doctor, what the devil...?!" said the professor.
"You do not require tea?" asked the Dalek.
"What do you think?" I asked, as The Doctor continued to hit the Dalek.
"Stop it!" shouted the professor, "Prime Minister, please!"
"Doctor, please, these machines are precious," said Churchill.
"Come on!" said The Doctor, "Fight back! You want to, don't you? You know you do!"
"I must protest!" said the professor.
"What are you waiting for? You hate me. You want to kill me. Well, go on! Kill me. Kill me!" The Doctor hit the Dalek again.
"Doctor, be careful!" said Amy as she pushed him back.
"Please desist from striking me," said the Dalek, "I am your soldier."
"You are our enemy!" The Doctor hit the Dalek again. "And my family is yours! You are everything we despise! The worst thing in all creation. We defeated you time and time again, we've defeated you. I sent you back into the void! We saved the whole of reality from you! I am the Doctor! She's Teddy! She's Annabelle! And you are the Daleks!" He kicked the Dalek and it rolled backwards.
It rolled across the room. When it stop it looked to us and said, "Correct. Review testimony."
We heard what my uncle just said played back to us, "I am the Doctor! She's Teddy! She's Annabelle! And you are the Daleks!"
"Testimony?" asked The Doctor, "What are you talking about, testimony?"
"Transmitting testimony now," said the second Dalek.
"Transmit what, where?"
"Testimony accepted!
"Everyone! Get back!" I said as I moved Annabelle back.
"Marines!" called Churchill, "Marines! Get in here!"
Two Marines ran into the room and one of the Daleks killed them before they could even take a shot at it, "Stop it!" pleaded the professor, "Stop it, please! What are you doing? You are my Ironsides!"
"We are the Daleks!" said the first Dalek.
"But I created you!"
"No." then it shot the professor hand leaving a stump of wires, "We created you!"
"Victory!" chanted the Daleks in unison, "Victory! Victory!" Then they teleported out of the room.
"What just happened. Doctor?" asked Amy.
"I wanted to know what they wanted, what their plan was. I was their plan!" The Doctor ran out of the room with Annabelle and I close behind him.
"Hey!" called Amy as she followed.
We ran into the room that the TARDIS was parked in and my uncle said, "'Testimony accepted!' That's what they said! My testimony."
"Don't beat yourself up. You were right." said Amy as The Doctor unlocked the TARDIS, and Annabelle went inside, "What do we do?" asked Amy, "Is this what we do now? Chase after them?"
"This is what we do," I said, "It's dangerous, so wait here."
Just then Churchill waked in the room and stood by Amy, "What, so you mean I've got to stay safe down here in the middle of the London Blitz?"
"Safe as it gets around us," said The Doctor as he waved and we got into the TARDIS closing the door behind us.
Annabelle started the dematerialization as The Doctor and I joined her at the console.
We materialized on board the Daleks ship. There were three Daleks positioned around a gate-like chamber. The two we saw on earth and one that looked like a normal Dalek. We stepped out of the TARDIS and the Daleks turned their top sections to look at us and The Doctor said, as he rubbed his hands "How about that cuppa now, then?"
"It is the Doctor and his nieces! Exterminate!" said one of the Daleks.
"Wait, wait, wait, I wouldn't if I were you!" said The Doctor as he pull out a small round object and held it out in front of him, "TARDIS self-destruct. And you know what that means. My ship goes, you all go with it."
"You would not use such a device," said the second Dalek.
"Try me."
The first Dalek moved toward us, "Freeze!" I said, "Move any closer and he'll destroy us all, you got that?' The Dalek moved back, "Good boy." I looked at the Dalek's instrument panels, "This ship's pretty beaten up. Hardly any fuel left. Last time we met, you were on your last legs."
"One ship survived," said the second Dalek
"And you fell back through time, yes?" asked The Doctor, "Crippled? Dying?"
"We picked up a trace. One of the Progenitor devices."
"Progenitor? What's that when it's at home?"
"It is our past. And our future."
"Whoa, that's deep… for a Dalek," I said, "But, what does it mean?"
"It contains pure Dalek DNA," said the normal Dalek, "thousands were created, all were lost, save one."
"OK, but there's still one thing I don't get," said Annabelle, "if you've got the Progenitor, why did you make Bracewell?"
"It was... necessary," said the second Dalek.
"Buy why was it necessary?" I thought about it a moment then it all became clear. I started to laugh a little, " Oh, of course! The Progenitor didn't recognize you as Daelks? You all were made from Davros' DNA. Your DNA is unrecognizable as Dalek.
"A solution was devised."
"Yes, yes, yes. Me. My testimony," said The Doctor, "So you set a trap, you knew that the Progenitor would recognize me. The Daleks' greatest enemy! It would accept my word. My recognition of you." the second Dalek turned to the control panel behind it, "No, no, no. What are you doing?" The Doctor held out the 'self-destruct button.'
"Withdraw now, Doctor, or the city dies in flames." said the third Dalek.
"Do you expect us to believe that?" asked Annabelle, "This ship is trashed, you don't have the power to destroy London."
"Watch as the humans destroy themselves." said the second Dalek.
We watched as a beam of light shot down from the ship to London and we watched as all the lights in London turned on, "Turn those lights off now," shouted The Doctor, "Turn London off or I swear I will use the TARDIS self-destruct!"
"Stalemate, Doctor, Leave us, and return to Earth."
"Oh, that's it? That's your great victory? You leave?" I asked.
"Extinction is not an option," said the second Dalek, "We shall return to our own time and begin again."
"No, no, no!" shouted the Doctor, "We won't let you get away this time!"
Just then there was a whoosh sound, "We have succeeded," said the third Dalek, "DNA reconstruction is complete."
The Daleks moved back from the chamber that was now glowing red. The doors slid opened and sparked, "Observe, Time Lords, a new Dalek paradigm!" said the second Dalek. We watched as new, larger Daleks slid out of the chamber, each one was a different color, white, blue, yellow, orange and red. "The Progenitor has fulfilled our new destiny," said the second Dalek, "Behold, the restoration of the Daleks! The resurrection of the master race!"
"All hail the new Daleks!" said the first Dalek, "All hail the new Daleks!"
"Yes, you are inferior!" said the white Dalek. It's voice was deeper and more sinister.
"Yes."
"Then prepare."
"We are ready!" said the three original Daleks in unison.
"Cleanse the unclean!" said the white Dalek, "Total obliteration! Disintegrate!"
The blue Dalek shot the first and third Dalek while the Red Dalek shot the second Dalek. There was absolutely nothing left of the three.
"Blimey, what do you do to the ones who mess up?" asked The Doctor under his breath.
The white Dalek looked at us "You are The Doctor and his nieces! You must be exterminated!"
"Don't mess with me, sweetheart!" he said.
"We are the paradigm of a new Dalek race," said the White Dalek, "Scientist, Strategist, Drone, Eternal, and the Supreme."
"Which would be you, I'm guessing? Well, you know, nice paint job. I'd be feeling pretty swish if I looked like you. Pretty 'Supre-eme'." said The Doctor. I crossed my right hand across my chest, put my left hand to my forehead, looked down and shook my head. Then The Doctor continued, "Question is, what do we do now? Either you turn off your clever machine or I'll blow you and your new paradigm into eternity."
"And yourself and your nieces."
"Occupational hazard."
"Scan reveals nothing!" said the Blue Dalek, "TARDIS self-destruct device non-existent!"
"All right," said The Doctor as he took a bite of the cookie, "it's a Jammy Dodger, but we were promised tea!"
Just then a siren sounded, and the Blue Dalek goes a control panel, "Alert! Unidentified projectile approaching!" Us Time Lords went to a second control panel, "Correction. Multiple projectiles!"
"What have the humans done?" asked the White Dalek.
The three of us looked as each other completely perplex at what it could be, "We don't know…" I said.
"Explain! Explain! Explain!" shouted the White Dalek
Just then on the over head we heard, "Danny Boy to Time Lords! Danny Boy to Time Lords! Are you receiving me? Over."
We all smiled and The Doctor said, "Oh, Winston! You beauty!" Bracewell used the ideas the Daleks gave him and used it to turn some Spitfires into spaceships.
"Danny Boy to Time Lords! Come in. Over."
"Loud and clear, Danny Boy! Big dish, side of the ship, blow it up! Over!
"Exterminate the Time Lords!" shouted the White Dalek.
We ran for the TARDIS and got inside as the Daleks opened fire. We watched on the monitor as the Spitfires opened fire on the ship. But they were out gunned and lost two of the three planes, "
"Danny Boy to Time Lords... only me left now," said the pilot of the remaining plane, "Anything you can do? Over."
I thought for a moment and then picked up a small microphone on the console, "Time Lords to Danny Boy... Time Lords to Danny Boy. We can disrupt the Dalek shields, but not for long. Over."
"Good show, go to it. Over." Then we started to work on disrupting the shields. "Going in, wish me luck. Over. " Then we watched as the Spitfire destroyed the dish and cut of the beam and London was back under the cover of darkness. The three of us all hugged and then we heard, "Danny Boy to Time Lords...going in for another attack."
The Doctor picked up the microphone, "Time Lords to Danny Boy. Time Lords to Danny Boy. Destroy this ship! Over."
"What about you, sir?"
The Doctor looked at Annabelle and me, "We'll be OK."
We got ready to prepare to leave the ship when the White Dalek appears on the large viewscreen by the door.
"Doctor! Call off your attack!"
"Ah-ha, what? And let you scuttle off back to the future?" asked The Doctor, "No fear. This is the end for you. The final end!"
"Call off the attack, or we will destroy the Earth."
"We're not stupid," I said, "You've just played your last card!"
"Bracewell is a bomb." said the White Dalek.
"You're bluffing," The Doctor, "Deception's second nature to you. There isn't a sincere bone in your body. There isn't a bone in your body!"
"His power is derived from an Oblivion Continuum! Call off your attack, or we will detonate the android.
"No!" I shouted, "This is our best chance ever! We can rid the Universe of you, once and for all!"
"Then do it," said the White Dalek, "But we will shatter the planet below! The Earth will die screaming!"
"And if we let you go, you'll be stronger than ever," said The Doctor A new race of Daleks."
"Then choose, Time Lords! Destroy the Daleks or save the Earth. Begin countdown of Oblivion Continuum! Choose, Time Lords! Choose! Choose!"
The three of us looked at each other, we knew there was only one choice. The Doctor picked up the microphone, "Time Lords to Danny Boy. Time Lords to Danny Boy. Withdraw."
"Say again, sir. Over." said Danny Boy.
"Withdraw! Return to Earth. Over and out."
"But sir...!"
"There's no time, you have to return to Earth now! Over!" Then we set the coordinated for Earth. We landed the TARDIS back in the storage room then ran to the Map Room. The second we got in the room The Doctor ran up to Bracewell and punched him in the head, hurting his hand in the process. But, knocking Bracewell to the floor.
"Doctor!" said Amy, sounding appalled.
I shook my head, "For being a 900 year old Time Lord, you are a real idiot sometimes…"
"Ow! Sorry, Professor," said The Doctor, "You're a bomb! An inconceivably massive Dalek bomb."
"What?" asked Bracewell.
"There's an Oblivion Continuum inside you," I said, "a captured wormhole that provides perpetual power. If it explodes, Earth will get sucked into another dimension!":
The Doctor knelt down beside him, took out his sonic and opened Bracewell's shirt, "Now keep down!" The Doctor scanned Bracewell and the panels on his chest opened to reveal a solid metal chest with a circular pad, divided into five sections, all glowing blue. Then one section turned yellow.
"Well?" asked Amy.
I looked at Bracewell, "I don't know… I've never seen one close up before…"
"So, what, they've wired him up to detonate?"
"Not wired him up!" said The Doctor, "He is a bomb. Walking, talking," he made an exploding sound effect, "exploding! The moment that flashes red."
"There's... a blue wire or something you have to cut, isn't there?" asked Amy, "There's always a blue wire." The Doctor stood up and Amy said, "Or a red one."
"You're not helping…" I said.
"It's incredible," said Churchill, "He talked to us about his memories. The Great War…"
The Doctor tossed his sonic from hand to hand, "Someone else's stolen thoughts, implanted in a positronic brain."
Annabelle smiled, "That's it!" she knelt down next to Bracewell, "Tell us about your life.."
"I really don't think this is the time!" said Bracewell.
I smiled realizing Annabelle's idea, The Doctor and I knelt next to him as well "Tell us and prove to us you're human," I said, I watched as the yellow section slowly changed from yellow to red. "Tell us everything."
As soon as the first section turned red, the next section turned yellow, "My family ran the Post Office." said Bracewell, "It's a little place just near the abbey. Just by the ash trees. There used to be eight trees but...but there was a storm."
"And your parents?" asked The Doctor, "Come on! Tell me!"
"Good people. Kind people. They... They died. Scarlet fever."
"What was that like?" I asked, "How did it feel?"
"Please…" begged Bracewell.
"How did it make you feel, Edwin?" asked Annabelle. Edwin hesitated, Annabelle took his remaining hand, "Please tell us…"
"It hurt. It hurts, so badly. Like a wound." said Bracewell. The second section turned red and the third started to turn yellow, "It was worse than a wound. Like I'd been emptied out. There was nothing."
"Good," said the Doctor, "Remember it now, Edwin! The ash trees by the Post Office and your mum and dad and losing them and men in the trenches you saw die... Remember it! Feel it, because you're human. You're not like them. You are not like the Daleks!"
"It hurts! Doctor, it hurts so much!"
"Good! Good! Good! Brilliant! Embrace it." The third section turned red and the forth turned yellow, "That means you're alive! They cannot explode that bomb, you're a human being! You are flesh and blood! They cannot explode that bomb! Believe it! You are Professor Edwin Bracewell! And you, my friend, are a human being!" The forth section turned Red and the fifth section turned yellow, "It's not working, I can't stop it!"
I was racking my brain, it should have worked. The influx of human emotions should have been enough to disarm the device. Then, Amy knelt down next to Bracewell, "Hey... Paisley. Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?"
"W... What?" asked Bracewell
"Hurts, doesn't it?" the last section remains yellow, "But kind of a good hurt."
"I really shouldn't talk about her."
"Oh. There's a her." The fifth section turned blue and the forth section started turning from red to yellow.
"What was her name?" asked Annabelle.
"Dorabella," said Bracewell.
"Dorabella?" said The Doctor, "It's a lovely name, it's a beautiful name."
"What was she like, Edwin?" I asked.
"Oh... Such a smile," said Bracewell with a smile of his own, "And her eyes... Her eyes were so blue...Almost violet. Like the last touch of sunset on the edge of the world... Dorabella…" and like that all the sections went back to blue.
Annabelle smiled, "I guess the old saying is true, 'Love conquers all.'"
"Welcome to the human race," said The Doctor, to Bracewell.
"That was just brilliant," I said as I gave Amy a one armed hug, "You've outsmarted three Time Lords, I'm very impressed. "
The Doctor got to his feet, "Now, gotta stop them! Stop the Daleks!"
He ran out of the room, But just as Annabelle and I got to our feet Bracewell said, "Wait! Doctor! Wait... Wait." we all stopped and looked at Bracewell as he sat up, "It's too late. They've gone."
"No, no, no!" said The Doctor, "They can't! They can't have got away from me again!"
"No, I can feel it, my mind is clear. The Daleks have gone."
The Doctor leaned against a pole. I walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder and gave him a reassuring smile, "Well at least we stopped the bomb…"
"We had a choice. And they knew we'd choose the Earth. The Daleks have won. They beat us. They've won."
Annabelle gave her great uncle a hug and said, "But we saved Earth. That's got to count for something?"
The Doctor looked around at everyone in the room and he smiled, "Yeah… Yeah it does."
"It's a brilliant achievement, my dear friend," said Churchill as he walked over, "Here, have a cigar!"
"No…" said The Doctor as he waved it off.
Us three Time Lords walked into the Map Room just as Amy asked Annabelle, "Where's Teddy, Annabelle and The Doctor?"
"Tying up loose ends," said The Doctor.
"We've taken out all the alien tech Bracewell put in," said Annabelle.
"Won't you reconsider?" asked Churchill, "Those Spitfires would win me the war in 24 hours!"
"Exactly," said The Doctor as he picked up a cup of tea and took a sip of it and spit it back into the cup.
I shook my head at him as Churchill asked, "But why not? Why can't we put an end to all this misery?"
"But it doesn't work like that, Winston," I said, "It's gonna be tough. There are terrible, dark days to come. But you can do it. We know you can."
"Stay with us, and help us win through! The world needs you three."
I shook my head, "The world doesn't need us."
"No?"
"The world's got Winston Spencer Churchill," said The Doctor as he made the Victory sign.
"It's been a pleasure, as always," said Churchill with a smile.
"Too right." said The Doctor, then the two men hugged.
"Goodbye, Doctor."
"Oh, shall we say adieu?"
Churchill ended the hug. "Indeed." Then he looked over to me, "Until, we met again, Teddy."
I smiled and gave him a hug, "Give my best to Clementine."
He nodded and looked at my daughter, "A pleasure meeting you Annabelle."
They shook hands and she said, "Likewise."
"Goodbye, Miss Pond."
"It's.. it's been amazing. Meeting you." said Amy with a big smile.
"I'm sure it has," he said. Amy kissed him on the cheek and Churchill headed for the door.
"Oi, Churchill!" called Amy as she held out her hand, "TARDIS keys. The ones you just took from the Doctor and Teddy."
My eyes went big as I checked my pockets, sure enough my TARDIS key was gone! Churchill laughed as he brought the keys over, "Oh, she's good, Doctor. As sharp as a pin!" He handed Amy the keys, "Almost as sharp as me!" he lit his cigar, "KBO!" Then left.
The Doctor held out his hand and Amy reluctantly gave the Doctor his key back. She handed me my key but I shook my head, "That's yours… Frequent Flyer Privilege…" Amy smiled and slipped the key into her pocket.
We then headed to Bracewell's lab and found the android standing stoically. He was able to make himself a new left hand but not skin so he had a black leather glove covering his hand. "I've been expecting you, Doctor. I knew this moment had to come."
"Moment?" I asked.
"It's time to deactivate me."
"Is it?" asked the Doctor. We all looked at each other, as far as we were concerned Bracewell didn't need to be deactivated. He was smart enough to keep himself out of trouble. "Oh... Yeah." said The Doctor, leading him on.
"You have no choice," said Bracewell, as he turned to look at us, "I'm Dalek technology. Can't allow me to go pottering around down here where I have no business."
"No, you're absolutely right, Professor," I said, "And by the time we get back here in... what, ten minutes?
"More like 15," said Amy.
"Fifteen minutes, yeah, that's exactly what we're going to do."
"You are going to be so deactivated," said Annabelle, "It's going be like you've never even been... Activated."
"Yeah." said Amy
"15 minutes?" asked Bracewell.
"More like 20, if I'm honest," said The Doctor, "Once Pond, Teddy, Annabelle and I see to the urgent thing…"
"Yes!" said Amy
"…we've got to see to. The... the... See?"
"Very well, Doctor. I shall wait here and prepare myself," said Bracewell.
I rolled my eyes and Amy turned to me and said, "That Dalek tech's a little bit slow on the uptake." I nodded and then Amy turned back to Bracewell, "That thing we've got to do. Gonna take half an hour, realistically, isn't it, Doctor?"
"Easily!" exclaimed the Doctor, "So no running off, that's what we're saying."
"Right," said Annabelle, "We don't want you to go trying to find that little Post Office with the ash trees or that girl you mentioned, Dorabella. On no condition, go look for her.
"Although, you can get a lot done in half an hour," I said with a smile.
Bracewell smiled and laughed once we realized what we were doing, "Thank you! Thank you, all!"
"Come along, Pond!" said The Doctor, as we walked out of the room.
We walked into the storage room were the TARDIS was and Amy asked, "So, you have enemies then?"
"Everyone's got enemies," I said, as Annabelle used her TARDIS key to unlock the ship, and once it was unlocked she opened the door and walked inside.
"Yeah, but mine's the woman outside Budgens with the mental Jack Russell. You've got, like, you know, arch-enemies." said Amy as she leaned against the closed door. Annabelle and I leaned against the open door and The Doctor leaned on the door frame.
"Suppose so." said The Doctor.
"And here's me thinking we'd just be running through time, being daft and fixing stuff. But no, it's dangerous."
"Very dangerous," I said, "Is that a problem?"
"I'm still here, aren't I? You're worried about the Daleks."
"We're always worried about the Daleks," said Annabelle.
"It'll take time, though, won't it?" asked Amy, "There's still not many of them. They'll need a while to build themselves up."
"It's not that," I said, "There's something else. Something you've forgotten."
"Me?"
"You didn't know them, Amy," said The Doctor, "You'd never seen them before. And you should have done. You should." With that Annabelle and I moved into the TARDIS allowing The Doctor and a confused Amy to come in as well.
A/N: Hey folks, another chapter is in the books. I never like the fact that The Doctor never gave Amy, a TARDIS key. So, I fixed that... :) I'm glad you are all liking this story. I'm really having a fun time doing this. Your reviews and comments are always welcome.