Author's Note: This was a story I wrote years ago when I was in Secondary School on an old Fanfiction account that doesn't exist anymore. I ramdomly came across it two weeks ago as of writing this note and decided to rewrite and post it for you guys as something to read whilt I work on the next story in my Fanfic Multiverse. This isn't part of it, just something fun based off the old Doctor Who Adventure Games that sadly don't exist anymore. Hope you enjoy it. Keep in mind that this is old work from years ago that I only made some changes to if you're wondering about the change in writing style.
Doctor Who Adventure Stories
Episode 1: City of the Daleks
Months after resetting the universe, using the Pandorica he was sealed inside of by the alliance of his greatest enemies, the newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor continues to do what he loves more than anything in the universe. Travelling through all of time and space, seeing the wonders of it.
Amongst the many planets he's visited over 900 years of his life, his favourite place to go was the planet, Earth. Ever since he'd first landed there, he'd been fascinated by its history and the beings that live upon it. He loved humanity so much that he even took on several companions to accompany him on his travels.
His latest companion was a Scottish redheaded woman named Amy Pond. He first met her the same night he regenerated when she was only a child. His ship – the Tardis – ended up crashing into her backyard. Ever since their first adventure to locate Prisoner Zero and fend off the Atraxi, she'd been by his side, seeing the wonders of the universe.
For their current trip, the Doctor had this great idea of taking her to the year 1963 to watch the Beetles perform live in London. And between that and his other idea of visiting the Ice Age, Amy was more fond of meeting John Lennon and getting his autograph, hoping it would be worth a lot of money when she returned to her time.
The two of them chat away in the Tardis control room to pass the travel time until they arrive at their destination.
"1963 is such a good year. The year the Beetles released their first two albums, Sean Connery as James Bond, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Mary Quant, John Steed, and Cathy Gale… I could go on forever." The Doctor said excitedly.
"I can't wait to meet John Lennon."
"What?" He turns to face Amy in shock. "Not Ringo? Why doesn't anybody ever want to meet Ringo?"
"There's no such thing as a sexy drummer." Amy shot back at him.
The Doctor, unable to form a response to that statement, decides to change the subject by announcing their arrival once the Tardis makes its landing. Despite what Amy thinks, he is still excited to see the wonders of 1963. Because right now, outside those doors, London is not just the coolest place on Earth, but the whole galaxy.
Or so he thought. As soon as he opened the doors and set foot outside, he was shocked at what his eyes displayed before him.
"No… impossible!" Was all he could muster.
Everywhere he looked he could see utter devastation. The town square they're standing in is nothing but a war zone with trenches and piles of sandbags everywhere. Buildings were destroyed and burnt to the ground, the sky was darkened by black smoke, and cars and statues were broken. And perhaps the worst part of all was the fact that the streets were littered with thousands of dead bodies. Some were dressed in soldiers' uniforms, but most were civilians, men, women and children alike. All of them slaughtered.
Amy soon steps out of the Tardis and is also shocked by the destruction. But what caught her off guard was the smell of death and ashes filling the air. What the hell happened here? How did they go from seeing the Beetles to the apocalypse?
"Did you get this wrong?" Amy hesitantly asked the Doctor. "Maybe you accidentally brought us to the far future, like the year 2963 or something?"
The Doctor shook his head. "There's no mistake. This IS 1963… Or at least, it used to be".
"But how?" Amy questioned. "What or who could've done this?"
"Something with the power to alter time… on a massive scale."
The Doctor soon notices a burnt-up newspaper on the ground. He quickly picks it up and examines its fine print, desperate to find answers behind all this.
"Of course it was them!" The Doctor says with a slightly rage-induced tone. "I should've known it was only a matter of time until they came back again."
"Who?" Amy asked.
She then took a look at the newspaper and was shocked by what she saw on the print cover. The text reads "World ends. Aliens invade Earth in a state of terror." But what really shocked her wasn't the headlines, but the picture underneath it. The image was black and white and slightly blurred, but she could tell what it was she was looking at.
"The Daleks!" The Doctor answered. "Not even resetting the universe is enough for me to finally be rid of them!"
The Daleks. The Doctor's greatest enemy. The creatures responsible for the death of the Time Lords and the fall of Gallifrey during The Last Great Time War. The last time he'd encountered them was during World War 2 where they tricked him into activating a progenitor that created the new Paradigm Daleks. Those Daleks were also part of the alliance that sealed him in the Pandorica.
They hadn't been heard from since, until now. But destroying humanity in 1963 was impossible even for a Dalek to pull off. Leading the Doctor to wonder how they were able to accomplish this.
"Doctor! Look!" Amy points over to the square.
There she and the Doctor can see a black woman wearing a long pink coat, a green scarf and white high heel boots running towards one of the trenches. Once behind cover she starts arming a detonation device, constantly looking around her for danger.
"Human! Halt!"
The Doctor and Amy quickly get down as they hear the voice of a Dalek coming from the same direction the woman was running from. A bronze Dalek emerges from the dust kicked up in the wind and scours the area for the woman.
"The last survivor of Earth will be exterminated!" It cried out in its robotic, but terrifying, voice.
It didn't take long for the Dalek to locate the woman and close in on her location. Readying its ray gun arm to kill her.
"EXTERMINATE!"
But before the Dalek could fire, the woman slammed the plunger down on the detonator, causing the dynamite hidden underneath the rubble the Dalek was on top of to explode. The Dalek screams in agony as its outer shell explodes and the mutant inside is incinerated, killing it. The woman uses the smoke the explosion created as cover to mask her presence as she opens up a manhole and disappears underground.
The Doctor and Amy watched the whole thing unfold and were impressed to see a woman from 1963 succeed in killing a Dalek. Something most modern humans cannot accomplish easily.
"We've got to follow her." Amy attempted to get up, only for the Doctor to pull her back down again. Turns out that Dalek wasn't alone. Three more arrive on the scene and scan the area for life, starting with the square where the dead Dalek stood.
"Scour the area! Find the last human. Exterminate her!" One of the Daleks ordered the other two.
The three Daleks spread out and began their search. Once they were out of sight, the Doctor and Amy stepped out of their hiding spot and sneaked over to the town square.
Amy attempted to open the same manhole the woman fled down in, but the Doctor stopped her again. He placed his ear against it and was able to pick up the faint sounds of ticking. The manhole was boobytrapped. The woman must've set it up in case anyone followed her.
He looks around for another way inside that isn't trapped. Until he discovers a closed-off subway entrance, it is covered by a barrier of nailed wooden planks.
He then spots a taxi car sitting atop an unstable uprooted road. And just like that, an idea popped into his head. He and Amy could push the taxi off the edge of the road and have it crash into the barrier, opening up the entrance.
The two of them carefully climb up to where the taxi lay and put their plan in motion. On the count of three, they pushed the taxi down the slope and cringed as it crashed into the barrier, making way too much noise. There was no way the Daleks hadn't heard that. All the more reason they shouldn't stick around.
"Well, not exactly elegant. But it did the job." The Doctor commented. "The Daleks have probably heard us, so we better get a move on."
"It's dark and damp down there," Amy complained. "When I said I wanted to meet the Beetles I meant the band, not the bugs."
"Well, you could always stay up here and meet the Daleks. But they're more heavy metal." The Doctor joked.
He makes his way downstairs before Amy can have a go at him. She soon follows after him, heading down into the dark, deserted subway station.
After what felt like an hour of wandering aimlessly through the abandoned subway tunnels in complete darkness, The Doctor and Amy noticed a campfire burning at a station up ahead. If the woman was hiding down there, then that should be her camp. Once they find her, she can tell them when the Daleks first arrived and how they were able to completely change history.
Once they reach the camp they waste no time searching the area. There was still no sign of the woman. But the Doctor knew she wasn't dead, otherwise they'd have found her body lying in the tracks.
"Be careful down here, Amy. You never know what you're gonna find underground. Rats, dinosaurs, yetis… Maybe not those last two." The Doctor joked, hoping it would help liven things up. "The woman we saw must be around here somewhere."
"Don't move!"
Amy and the Doctor quickly turn around to address whomever was behind them. Both of them were shocked to see the woman they'd been following standing there, pointing an RPG right at them with an intent to kill in her eyes.
"Ah, there you are. Hello." He replied, not at all intimidated by her.
The woman soon lowers the RPG once it clicked that these two were not Daleks, but other survivors. It had probably been so very long since she'd seen another human. She was convinced that she was the last human left on Earth, as the Dalek described her.
"Calm down. We're here to help you." The Doctor spoke up again in a more calming tone.
"How can I trust you?" The woman replied.
"Do we look like Daleks?" Amy said sarcastically. "Us humans have to stick together… I'm Amy, by the way."
"And I'm The Doctor."
"… Sylvia" The woman hesitantly replied. It's been so long since she'd said her name, let alone introduced herself to someone new.
Fully convinced that these two strangers were friendly, she lowered her guard and allowed her guests to sit down by the campfire using some old chairs she scavenged from the surface.
The Doctor and Amy listen closely to Sylvia's story. She shares with them what her life was like before the world ended. How she worked as a vet and she used to have a husband who was a police officer. They lived in a small flat in the centre of London and were having thoughts of having kids and starting a family.
Then the Daleks came and destroyed everything. She watched in horror as her husband was killed during their first invasion. She and many other civilians were forced to evacuate the city while the military fought off the alien invaders. But they stood no chance against a species with technology that was centuries ahead of what they've got. And when the army fell, the rest of humanity inevitably followed.
They admired the woman for how long she was able to hold out against them. Setting up traps, learning their weak spots were the eyestalks, and hiding underground where they couldn't follow her. A one-woman army surviving for a whole month, refusing to be the one responsible for humanity's extinction.
"How did you survive?" The Doctor asked her.
"When the Daleks defeated the army, most of the civilians decided to take up arms and fight… You learn fast when you have to." Sylvia answered as she rubbed her hands together, feeling the warm heat of the fire on her hands.
"Are there any other survivors?" He followed up with another question.
Sylvia shook her head. As far as she knew, the Daleks had destroyed everything and everyone. It's just her left now.
"I used to be part of a group in the first few weeks. But the Daleks eventually found where we were hiding and killed everyone. I managed to escape because my friend, Kevin, gave his life for me… He was a demolition expert. He's the one who taught me how to use explosives and set up traps… I've been alone ever since."
"The last human on Earth. That's what the Dalek called you." Amy spoke up.
"Well it was wrong about that, wasn't it? There's you two." She pointed out, not knowing that one of them is actually another alien. "Since that day, I've been constantly on the move, setting up traps in the city, trying to stay alive as long as I can. One day my luck will run out. Perhaps running into you two spent the last of it."
As much as the Doctor would like to hear more of her story, there were far more pressing matters to deal with. They still needed to know how the Daleks arrived on Earth and wiped out humanity in the past. Sylvia is the only being left on Earth who can tell him.
"Tell me what happened, Sylvia? When did the Daleks get here?" He asked.
"What do you mean? How can't you know? They've overrun the Earth, the whole planet!"
"We've sort of been away," Amy muttered as a terrible, but technically true, excuse.
"I promise you, Sylvia. We can help make things right. But you have to tell us, please."
Sylvia was still unsure how they didn't know how this happened. But she was in no position to question them. She had nothing left to lose at this point, so she was willing to play along and answer him.
As she explains, she thinks back to the day they arrived. It was a nice peaceful day. She and her husband were walking through the streets and enjoying each other's company.
Suddenly, the sky started to crack like a fractured mirror. It was impossible for everyone not to notice it, especially since the crack just kept growing bigger until it opened a hole into what looked like a blank white void. White mystical energy was sparking out of the tear in the sky. Once the tear was big enough, legions of Daleks started to fly out of it. Their numbers were endless. So many that they turned the sky dark.
The people started to panic as the Daleks began to descend to Earth and started firing their ray guns at every living thing below, all of them shouting "Exterminate" in unison as they slaughtered them.
One Dalek was closing in on Sylvia and her husband's location. Her husband pushes her out of the way, putting himself in the line of fire. Sylvia screamed in horror as she watched her husband's body light up from the impact of the beam, showing off his skeleton as he screamed in agony. His lifeless body soon plummets to the ground to join the rest of the bodies.
With no other choice, Sylvia ran away. Not even given enough time to mourn her husband's death.
Amy and the Doctor paid close attention to her explanation. The Doctor appeared to be completely confused by what she told him. Nobody knows what the Daleks are capable of more than him. And he knows for a fact that the Daleks can't do this. They've never had the power to change time like this before.
Sylvia started to break down in tears after being forced to relieve the memory of seeing her husband die. Amy holds her hand, comforting her. She can tell that she's barely holding onto her sanity as it is.
"Listen to me, Sylvia." The Doctor spoke up again. "This was not supposed to have happened. 1963 was followed by 1964 and a whole lot more years after that… I have to stop whatever the Daleks have done to make this happen."
Sylvia pulls her hand away from Amy to properly address the Doctor. How could he, a simple man, stop the Daleks? Even if by some miracle he could, it wouldn't change the fact that she was the last human on Earth. Nothing could undo the damage they've done.
Yet, there was something about this Doctor that she couldn't help but feel like she could trust him. That everything he says is not all talk, but a serious statement that he can back up with action. She had been on her own for a long time. Maybe the reason behind it was so she could help him stop the Daleks. If that were true, then she would do everything she could to give him a fighting chance.
"Look, it isn't safe for us to stay here much longer. If you want to stay alive now, you'll have to keep on the move." She pointed out.
Once the trio is fully rested, Sylvia quickly extinguishes the campfire and grabs her RPG.
"Let me check ahead. These tunnels are dangerous."
The trio were suddenly startled by the distant sound of something being knocked over.
"What was that?" Amy whispered.
The group quickly hides behind cover. Back down the tunnel they came from was a Dalek, scouring the area for them. The Doctor knew it was only a matter of time before they would think to look underground for survivors. And it was obvious that they came in the same way they did, meaning they can't go back the way they came.
"I think it just got even more dangerous." The Doctor whispered back.
Both he and Amy were safe behind the piles of sandbags in the tunnel. But they were shocked to see that Sylvia had made a run for the other end of the tunnel. The good news is that she was safe and well beyond the Daleks' line of sight. The bad news was that they were going to have to be very careful if they planned on sneaking past it and getting to her undetected.
Timing their movements carefully, the Doctor led the way while Amy followed close behind. The Dalek slowly rotated its head left and right, trying to find any survivors. So far the only heat signatures it could pick up were from the recently put-out campfire and the many rats scurrying around the tunnels.
They successfully manage to sneak around the Dalek and reach Sylvia who was standing at the end of the train tracks. The only reason she hadn't gone any further was because the track was electrified.
The Doctor reached into his inside jacket pocket and pulled out his trusty Sonic Screwdriver. He uses it on the fuse box next to the tracks to reroute the power to another location far away from them, hoping it would force the Dalek towards it and electrocute itself.
Once the path was cleared, Sylvia led them down the tunnels and turned right to an emergency exit. At the end was a ladder that led to another manhole cover to the surface.
Amy was the first one up the ladder, putting her safety first. The Doctor turned to Sylvia expecting her to go next. Except she was busy setting up another dynamite trap at the entrance to the tunnels, placing a tripwire in the doorway in case the Dalek followed them.
"Come on Sylvia, we don't have much time." The Doctor warned her.
"I'm almost done." She reassured him. "Once I set up the tripwire, it'll blow up any Dalek that tries to follow us."
Unfortunately for Sylvia, she failed to calculate the possibility of another Dalek coming down the other end of the tunnel that she hadn't rigged to explode. The Dalek spots her and makes a beeline for them.
"Exterminate! Exterminate!"
"Run, Doctor!" She shouts as she pushes the Time Lord back through the archway and forces him to climb up the ladder. Sylvia pulls out her RPG and wastes no time firing her only rocket at the approaching Dalek, blowing it to pieces.
She lets out a sigh of relief once she sees the Dalek's remains. She turns to the Doctor and smiles at him. She felt like a hero in that moment. This was the first time she saved a life, rather than being saved by others. This must've been what Kevin felt when he gave his life to save her.
But all her thoughts were silenced forever as her body lit up, revealing her skeleton like an x-ray. In an instant, she was blasted by another Dalek from behind.
"NO!" The Doctor shouted, accidentally giving away his position.
There was no time to mourn Sylvia as the Dalek was most likely following the direction of his voice… from the tunnel they just come from.
Remembering the trap Sylvia had set before her untimely death, the Doctor rushed up the ladder, getting as far away from the explosion as possible. The Dalek eventually reached the end of the tunnel, breaking through the tripwire and setting off the explosives, destroying it and collapsing the whole tunnel, preventing anything from venturing down there ever again.
The Doctor soon rejoins Amy on the surface. Fortunately for them, the manhole they'd climbed out of was a few inches away from where the Tardis was.
"They killed her," Amy stated in a saddened tone.
The Doctor places his hand on her shoulder, comforting her. "Come on. We've got to get back to the Tardis."
With Sylvia dead, humanity in 1963 was officially extinct. There was only one path moving forward from here on out. Find the source of the Daleks' time manipulation and stop it. They had to tread lightly. The Daleks on the surface had changed their patrol routes and there were more of them present. They needed to get back before the Tardis was discovered.
If they discovered the Doctor was on Earth, every invading Dalek would be put on high alert and move in on their location. They'll be exterminated on sight and the Tardis will be destroyed.
Thankfully they didn't have to walk too far to get there. Once safe inside the Tardis the Doctor wastes no time performing a scan to locate the source of the Daleks' new power.
"Doctor… I feel… strange." Amy muttered.
"Amy?" He looks over at her, surprised to see that she is starting to cough uncontrollably. "It's alright, Amy. You're going to be all right." He assured her.
Amy soon stops coughing and manages to take a couple of deep breaths. She had no idea why she felt this way. Maybe the trauma of losing Sylvia and the realisation of humanity's extinction had finally gotten to her.
The Doctor continued to analyse all of time and space, trying to pinpoint the exact moment the Daleks altered the timeline.
"I don't get it." Amy interrupted him. "If humanity is destroyed in 1963, then how am I still here?"
"The Tardis is protecting you." The Doctor answered without looking back. He was too focused on trying to find the Daleks' source of power.
The universe and its timeline were infinite. It could've happened anywhere and any-when throughout its entire history. Like finding an atom-sized needle in an ever-expanding haystack. Just when he thought he'd be staring at his computer screen forever, the Tardis was able to finally pinpoint the source. And the Doctor was not surprised at where the coordinates were.
The computer showed a red planet in a faraway galaxy. The text next to it listed the planet as Skaro. The planet of the Daleks. It had been years since the Doctor had been to Skaro. The last time he'd seen it, it was destroyed during the Time War. The planet became a lifeless husk, with most of the Daleks either being dead or MIA.
Whatever the Daleks did to change Earth's history, they must've done the same to their own planet. Returning it to its former, glorious self. Or at least, glorious in their vision.
Originally it was impossible for anything to change the the events of the Time War since it was time-locked. But Dalek Caan had proven that one Dalek could succeed where Time Lords had failed, resulting in Davros' return and the events of the Reality Bomb.
"You find something?" Amy asked, snapping him out of his dwelling on the past.
"The source of the Daleks time meddling is coming from Skaro. The Daleks' home world… If we're to stop them, we'll have to go there."
"I don't like the sound of that."
"Me neither. I hadn't been there since the Time War… But it's the only way we can find the source of their power and stop them." The Doctor types in Skaro's coordinates, and the Tardis dematerialises on Earth, beginning its trip to the planet of his oldest and deadliest enemy.
"Coordinates set." The Doctor announced. "We're going back to where it all began. And we're going to save the Human Race."
The Planet Skaro. Once a thriving world full of life, identical to Earth. Very few inhabitants of the universe got to see what it was like in its heyday. All it was to the universe today was where the Daleks were created. Many forgot that it once belonged to other beings. Before the Daleks, it was inhabited by two races known as the Kaleds and the Thals.
Both races have been at war with each other for over a thousand years. The balance of power shifted between them more times than could be counted. Until one Kaled mad scientist created the Daleks. An unstoppable weapon with all emotions removed, believing that they were the perfect, superior beings. The Daleks became the most powerful race in the universe. They all then decided that only they should inhabit the universe and that everything non-Dalek should be exterminated.
Only by creating the Daleks were the Kaleds able to defeat the Thals. But as a result of the Daleks' supremacy, they eventually turned against the Kaleds and wiped them out as well. Even their own creator was viewed as an inferior lifeform. Though they let him live, they only kept him around as a slave to ensure their species continued to grow and improve.
But they didn't stop with that. They wiped out all forms of non-Dalek life on Skaro until the planet was reformed into a lifeless wasteland with burning red skies, barren wastelands, and never-ending acid rainstorms.
After The Last Great Time War, the great civilisations the Daleks had built in place of the Kaleds were wiped out by the Time Lords. But with the aid of their new power source, the Daleks have completely changed their timeline. Skaro and their cities have been restored.
The Tardis lands within the biggest building standing in the centre of the city. The imperial capital. To avoid detection from the Daleks, it was parked inside what appeared to be a storage closet. The Doctor peaks out the doors, cautiously looking around for any Daleks. With no Dalek in sight, he exited the safety of the Tardis. Amy soon came out of hiding, only to be jump scared by a Dalek sitting in front of her. She hides behind the Doctor, expecting it to attack. But the Dalek didn't respond to their presence. It was just sitting there. It's arms and eyestalk were limp and it appeared that the blue light at the centre wasn't on.
The Doctor pulls out his Sonic Screwdriver and points it at the Dalek casing, the Sonic's whirring bypasses the locking mechanisms and opens it up. He was relieved to see that the casing was empty. There was no Dalek mutant inside.
"It's alright, Amy. There's nobody home." He says as he knocks the Dalek's head.
He then notices a small window on the right-side wall and takes a look. He was shocked to see the Daleks' capital city had been restored. He knew that 1963 was only a teaser of what the Daleks had altered. He can't help but wonder if the Daleks somehow altered the past to the point where the Time War itself never came to be. He shuddered at the very thought of it.
"It looks like they've been busy rebuilding this place."
"Rebuilding?" Amy peers out the window too. She was in awe at the sheer size of this massive, alien-looking city all around her. They were peering out the window of the tallest building in the city, giving her a full view of the Daleks' world. This city represented the sheer strength of the Dalek Empire. A symbol of fear throughout the entire universe. "What is this place?"
"Kaalann. The capital city of the Daleks. The last time I saw it, it was in ruins and the Daleks had fled… But now Kaalann is reborn."
"Yeah, well, I'm still not coming here for my holidays." Amy joked.
"I wouldn't blame you. It never stops raining, so I wouldn't go outside. Even with an umbrella. The atmosphere is 30% sulphuric acid."
"Ugh… No wonder they're so screwed up." She muttered to herself.
Focusing back on the task at hand, the Doctor starts to pace the floor, thinking of a plan to get around Kaalann without the Daleks detecting them. They were in the Daleks' equivalent of the houses of parliament. This place will be filled to the brim with them.
He then looks back at the empty Dalek casing and hatches an idea. Using his Sonic Screwdriver, he scans the casing for any possible damage. It was logical the Daleks would lock this away due to malfunctions. Everything must be flawless, even their technology.
But to the Doctors surprise, there was nothing wrong with it. It worked perfectly fine. No defects. No malfunctions. Nothing. So why was this thrown out like garbage? That was a question for another day. Right now he's just thankful he doesn't have to waste time repairing it.
"Uh… what are you doing, Doctor? Amy asked, confused by his actions.
"Kaalann's security system is programmed to lockdown everything if anything non-Dalek attempts to open the doors. Even my Sonic Screwdriver would set it off. Therefore, if we are to successfully find the Daleks' source of power, we have to pretend to be a Dalek." The Doctor explained as he was setting up the inside of the casing for him to climb inside. "Each casing comes equipped with an internal sensor. So even though I'm controlling this thing, the system will register me as Dalek."
"Yeah, you maybe. But what about me?" Amy pointed out. "I doubt there's room in that thing for both of us. And I'm certainly not gonna sit on your lap and-
Amy starts coughing again, only this time it's gotten much worse than before. She starts to feel a sharp pain in her sides, causing her to bend over and cling to them.
"Doctor… I don't feel so good." She utters weakly.
"I'm sorry, Amy. I'm so very sorry."
Amy starts to panic as she starts to notice a change in her body. Her entire body was starting to become transparent, slowly flashing between being a whole person and being invisible, like a ghost fading in and out of existence.
"Doctor! What is happening to me?!" She panicked.
"Time is catching up with you." He says regrettably. "When the Daleks destroyed humanity in 1963 you became a paradox. You shouldn't exist, but you do because the Tardis protected you. But that protection can only last for so long. That's why we have to find how the Daleks went back in time and put things right. For all of humanity. And to save you."
"But there'll be Daleks everywhere. What if they're not so easily fooled by your disguise?" She asked.
"It doesn't matter. I'll find a way." He responded quickly. Right now, saving Amy was his only focus. Before discovering the Daleks' source of power, he needed to find a way to at least slow down Amy's paradox, buying him more time to undo the damage they caused.
"Before we stop the Daleks, I have to slow down what's happening to you. The Daleks have temporal technology, I can use that… To fix you, I need to build a Chronon Blocker from Dalek spare parts. It should counter the effects of the paradox. To do that I'm gonna need two things. A Dalekanium Coil and a Kontron Crystal."
"Like you're talking English. A what-what and what?"
"Don't worry about it. You rest here, and I'll find them and bring them back." He reassured her.
After a few minutes of modifications, The Doctor climbs inside the Dalek casing, hooks the wires to his head to control it, and closes it up. The Daleks eyestalk lights up, showing that it is now up and operational.
"Sit tight, Amy!" The Doctor speaks through the Dalek's robotic voice, creeping her out in the process. "I'll be back in two bites of a jammy dodger!"
With that said, the Dalek leaves. The door opens upon contact, recognising him as a Dalek and not a Time Lord. Amy collapses to the floor and patiently awaits the Doctor's return.
"This is really weird." She commented. Never could she have imagined hearing a Dalek talking about jammy dodgers. She would've laughed if it didn't hurt. "I hope when a Dalek comes through that door, it doesn't turn out to be a real one."
Deep within the Production Facility of Kaalann, many Dalek drones were patrolling the hallways, carrying out their duties of protecting the conveyor belts that are constructing more Dalek casings for newly-born mutants.
The Doctor – still inside his Dalek casing – slowly makes his way through the facility in search of the two parts he needs to save Amy. Both parts would most likely be in the Production Facility. If not, then he'd be in a lot of trouble.
So far, none of the other Daleks seem to acknowledge his existence. They seem to think that he's just an ordinary Dalek. Not a single one of them has given him so much as a sideways glance. Daleks aren't exactly known to be social creatures, even with other Daleks. The only times they do converse are over strategic planning or checking each other's progress.
The only Daleks he knows that do engage in conversation are the members of the Cult of Skaro. Their topic of discussion was always about coming up with new ways to kill for the survival of their race. It's amazing how they never get bored of each other.
The Doctor soon finds himself inside one of the Daleks' labs. The most likely place for him to find a Kontron Crystal. These crystals were what provided the Dalek's ray guns with their ammo. It's a rare power source that can only be found on Skaro. If only the Daleks didn't use them for killing all the time. So much good could've been done with a clean power source like that.
As he enters the lab, he notices a scientist Dalek working on the computers in the background. It hadn't noticed him yet, but that didn't mean he had time to stand around doing nothing, not when he could see a huge deposit of crystals sitting in a crate to his left.
He, ever so silently, moves the Dalek towards the crate. But he failed to gauge the distance between the crate and his casing, which led to him accidentally crashing into it and knocking the crystals over.
The Dalek scientist turns its head around and sees the back of the Doctor's Dalek and the crystals littered all over the floor.
"Halt! You are not authorised to be here! What are you doing over there!? Explain! Explain! EXPLAIN!"
The Dalek begins to approach him. The Doctor quickly opens the bottom part of the casing and uses his left foot to reach for one of the crystals. He sweats nervously as he could hear the Dalek getting closer. On top of that, he was struggling to pick up the crystal with his feet. His arms were still connected to the Dalek arm controls so picking them up normally wasn't an option.
"Identify yourself! Or else I will report you!" The Dalek warned him.
Taking a few calming breaths, the Doctor performs a signature keep-up football move on the crystal to kick it up to his open palm. He sighs in relief. Had he failed to catch the crystal he'd be screwed.
He closes the casing and turns around to face the scientist. He thinks hard about what a Dalek would say in this situation. He's encountered and fought them for many years. He'd expect to know their vocabulary very well by now. But nope.
"My casing was suffering motor functions. I came to make repairs!" The Doctor replied in his Dalek voice."
"Your argument… is logical." The scientist responds. The Doctor sighs with relief. He thought for sure he wasn't going to buy his lie. "I will perform an internal scan to seek the source of your malfunction!"
The Doctor started to panic internally again. If that Dalek scans him, it'll discover that he's inside it and not a Dalek.
"Negative!" He responded. "My functions have been restored. An internal scan is no longer necessary!"
"The Emperor Dalek does not tolerate imperfections. You will comply with the scans, or you will be exterminated!" The Scientist insisted.
The Doctor was almost caught off guard by the mention of The Emperor Dalek. But he's also not surprised that he's the one running Kaalann. With the timeline altered, the Dalek Emperor never escaped the Time War and Rose never destroyed him using the Heart of the Tardis. It was then he realised that the Emperor's council chamber is where the Dalek's source is likely being held.
As the Dalek scientist was in the middle of scanning him, the Doctor was leaning towards his last option to escape. Which was to kill the Dalek with its ray gun.
The Dalek Scientist's scan reveals that the Dalek it was scanning was not a Dalek at all. It was something non-Dalek impersonating one. And not just any non-Dalek. It registered as a… Time Lord.
The Scientist was about to sound the alarm but was killed by the Doctor, who fired an energy beam at it, killing it before it could do so.
The Doctor exits the Dalek case and examines the now-dead Dalek Scientist. Though he didn't plan on killing any Daleks, he didn't hesitate to make use of it. He still needed a Dalekanium Coil. And those are usually used for keeping the Dalek Mutants connected to the actual casings. His Dalek tank was deprived of one since there was no mutant within it to begin with. He didn't complain though. All that mattered was he found both components he needed to assemble the Chronon Blocker.
"Well. That happened!" He thought to himself as he rummaged through the scientists casing for the coil. His face showed the emotions of being grossed out as he felt the slimy skin of the dead mutant, trying to remove the coil from its head.
Once he removed the coil the dead mutant ended up falling out and hitting the floor with squishy thud. The Doctor resisted the urge to throw up in the process.
"Great. I got both the things I need. I should get back to Amy." He looks down at the dead mutant. "But I should probably clean up first."
After cleaning up the dead Dalek – via its self-destruct sequence – and removing all traces of its existence, the Doctor made his way back to the closet Amy and the Tardis were inside.
At first, Amy was startled to see a Dalek enter the room and approach her. But since it hadn't exterminated her she can safely assume it was the Doctor.
Her condition started to worsen. Her body was beginning to flash in and out of existence at a much faster rate than usual. If the Doctor didn't do something quickly, she'd fade away completely.
"Doctor, please hurry! I'm fading away!" She panicked.
"Don't worry, Amy, I've got all the components I need now." The Doctor assured her as he climbed out of the Dalek and showed her the two parts.
He wastes no time assembling the Chronon Blocker. It didn't take him long at all. All he had to do was remove the plug where the wires connecting the casings controls to the Daleks brain with the Kontron Crystal.
He attaches the device to Amy's right wrist and activates it with his Sonic Screwdriver. Amy sighed in relief as her body became whole again.
"How's that?" He asked her.
"A bit better. At least I've got some colour back."
"See-through is so not you." He joked, livening up the tension. "It will block the Chronon energies for a while. But we have to find whatever the Daleks used to change time and deactivate it. And from what I learned from that Dalek, the most likely place they're keeping it is the Supreme Council Chamber."
"But how do we even find out what's in there? It could be a Dalek convention inside." She replied.
Amy had a good point. If the source of the disturbance was in the Supreme Council Chamber, it would most likely be guarded by hundreds of Daleks, including the Emperor himself.
Luckily for them, the Daleks have a Visualiser Room that monitors all Dalek activity on Skaro. It'll show them exactly what they're up against. And since the Doctor had the entire layout of Kaalann memorised, he knows exactly where it is. He takes Amy's hand and leads her out of the closet and down the opposite end of the hallway he goes to find the parts for the Chronon Blocker.
"Are you sure it's wise to explore this place without the empty Dalek shell?" Amy whispered.
"The Visualiser Room is right next door to us. There's no need for it. I removed the Internal Sensor so it should allow us access to certain areas, I think … Besides, it's only big enough for one, remember?" He whispered back.
And just like he said, they only had to walk a few steps to reach the Visualiser Room. Luckily for them, they hadn't encountered a single Dalek on the way over.
They soon enter the room and Amy is surprised to see how identical it looks to a regular human library on Earth where they keep all their books, only theirs are all digital. The whole room was just rows and rows of databanks with streams of Dalek information flowing through them.
"Huh? Kind of reminds me of my old school library set in a futuristic setting." Amy commented.
"This is where they monitor and record all Dalek activity across the universe." The Doctor explained. "This is like the Dalek Records Office."
"A librarian Dalek?" Amy chuckled slightly. "That's actually something I want to see."
"There's your librarian over there." He pointed over to the far wall at the end.
When they first entered the room Amy was expecting at least one or two Daleks running the place, but it was surprisingly empty. She wondered why there weren't any Daleks present, but after looking at whatever was guarding the room, she could see why.
Attached to the centre of the wall was a giant version of the Dalek's blue round eye on the end of their stalks. It acted as the guard of the Visualiser Room, making sure no intruders attempted to steal the Dalek's records. A huge red security beam was moving up and down as the eye looked left and right, constantly scanning the area for non-Dalek life forms.
"That is the Visualiser Eye. It's a Dalek supercomputer that also acts as the buildings' main security system. That laser emitting from its eye is an alarm beam. If it touches us it'll alert the Daleks to our presence. And you know what sticklers' librarians are." He looks over to the console underneath the giant eye. "I need to get to that console so I can deactivate the security beam… Those databanks look like good cover. Let's go."
The Doctor and Amy crouched as they entered the room and quickly hid behind the databanks as the security beam was passing over them. This task was really testing Amy's patience as the eye was moving very slowly.
"Can't that eye move any faster?!"
Suddenly - as if fate wanted to mess with her - the rate of the eye's scan sweep has started to speed up. She grunts in annoyance to herself. If she ever makes it out of here alive she vowed to never tempt fate again.
Fortunately for her, the Doctor was able to reach the console undetected and deactivate the eye with his trust screwdriver. Once the eye was shut down, the Doctor reprogrammed its screen to show them a visual of the Supreme Council Chamber.
"Right. Let's see what we're dealing with, shall we?"
It looked similar to how a human government council room looked, only much bigger. In the centre of the room was a machine with four generators firing an energy beam at a device hovering in the centre.
The Doctor was shocked to see that the device in question was a Genesis Ark. It was identical to the one the Cult of Skaro captured and stashed away in the Void Ship, except it was much bigger and bulkier in appearance. Whatever was inside of it had to be the source of the Daleks' time power.
The Doctor zooms the camera feed out to get a better layout of the chamber. There were hundreds of Daleks positioned in the rows of seats all around the room. And at the very end of the room were two slopes leading up to the Emperor Dalek himself. The same Dalek Emperor he'd encountered during the events of Bad Wolf. The same one Rose killed with the power of the time vortex.
"Aha. That's the Supreme Council Chamber all right. And there's the Emperor."
"He is massive," Amy stated.
"Occupational hazard. You're sitting on a throne all the time, you're gonna put on a few pounds." He points to the Genesis Ark. "But that is what I'm interested in."
"Is that it? Whatever the Daleks used to wipe out the Earth?" She asked.
"If I was a betting man – yep, that's it. The last time I saw the Daleks with a Genesis Ark they opened it up and released millions of captured Daleks during the Time War on Earth. And now they're doing the same thing again. Only this time… there's something far more dangerous inside it."
"Ok. But how do we get anywhere near that thing with all those Daleks around?" Amy asked.
The Doctor slowly turns around to face Amy to deliver his answer.
"Knock politely."
"What?!" Amy says in disbelief.
Was he serious? Are they actually gonna just stroll right into the chamber and announce their presence? The Doctor had had some really questionable plans over the time she'd known him. But this must be the worst one of all. What makes him think the Daleks wouldn't just exterminate them on sight the moment they step inside?
But the Doctor didn't seem to care. He just strolled right out of the exit and made his way back to the hallway area, with a very concerned Amy following behind.
Before leaving, he took one last look at the computer console. He just noticed something very important out of the corner of his eye. Something that might be of use to him against the Daleks.
"That's interesting. Temporal coordinates… I recognise that date." He thought to himself.
They soon enter the elevator sitting across from the door to the closet the Tardis was parked in and start riding it to the top floor.
As they waited for the elevator to reach their destination, the Doctor thought back on his early years when he first met the Daleks and visited their planet.
He'd always thought that Davros' genius was almost unmatched by his own. The concept of the Daleks themselves was not a completely bad idea, and the Daleks' technology was wonderful. Some of it is so advanced that it puts some of the Time Lords own science to shame… If only they didn't use it to kill everything all the time.
There was only one Dalek he knew that went so far as to question their existence and claiming Davros' idea of removing their emotions made them stronger. When in reality, it only made them lesser than their enemies.
That Dalek was Dalek Sec, the leader of the Cult of Skaro. Looking back on it, the Doctor wondered what things could've been if he'd succeeded in his plan to evolve the Daleks and allow them to begin anew. It would've been amazing.
Alas, it wasn't meant to be. In the end, the Daleks will always choose death and destruction. They'll always pursue their goal of destroying all non-Dalek life in the universe.
The Doctor's thoughts were soon interrupted by the sound of the elevator reaching their location. The Supreme Council Chamber.
But the moment the doors opened, they were startled by the presence of two Daleks that appeared to have been waiting for them. Like they knew they were coming.
"Halt! You will be taken to the Dalek Emperor." One of the Daleks spoke.
"What a stroke of luck. Just the dictator I wanted to see." The Doctor replied, not at all intimidated by the Dalek's sudden appearance.
"Speak for yourself". Amy thought to herself.
"You will come with us!" The other Dalek added.
"By all means. Lead on." The sooner he could find out what's in the Ark, the sooner he can make things right.
The Doctor and Amy were escorted out of the elevator and into the Supreme Council Chamber. They climbed up the slope to the top balcony where the Emperor sat. Three Daleks followed behind them, with another three coming up the other slope, cutting off their escape in case they tried to escape.
The actual mutant of the Dalek Emperor was sitting within a jar of liquid, awaiting the arrival of his greatest enemy. It looked down at him and his new companion like the lesser beings he viewed them as. Though he had regenerated twice since the last time they met, he could still tell who he was. He is the Doctor. The enemy of the Daleks.
"Doctor!" The Emperor bellowed with a voice that sounded deeper and more menacing than the regular Daleks.
"You recognise me then? Good. That saves us time then."
The Doctor was afraid the emperor wouldn't remember him. Because the Daleks had altered history, many events related to them on Earth never happened. The last Dalek imprisoned in Van Staton's museum. The Game Station. The battle of Canary Wharf against the Cybermen. Even the Reality Bomb. All of it was erased from history… But they still remember the Time War. No amount of time alterations can ever change that.
But instead of dwelling on the past, the Doctor wanted to focus on the here and now. So without further ado, he began to make his statement before his majesty.
"Have you got the first idea of what will happen if you carry on disrupting the time continuum?" The Doctor responded.
"Daleks will be the masters of time and the universe! And there is nothing you can do to stop us!" The emperor responded deadpan as always.
"You have to stop this! The laws of time can't be manipulated on such a massive scale."
"The laws of time are controlled by the Daleks!" The emperor replied, ignoring his feeble warnings.
"No! They're too powerful for anyone to control. You carry on ignoring them and time will fold in on itself. You will destroy the Daleks and everything else!"
Amy stood and listened to the exchange of words between both individuals. It was clear to her that talking the Daleks out of what they were doing wasn't going to work. If this keeps up, the emperor will eventually grow tired of his bickering and order the Daleks to execute them.
The Doctor asks the Emperor to show them the source of their power, but he refuses. He was the emperor of all Daleks, he takes no orders from anyone. Least of all a lesser being.
Since asking didn't work. The Doctor decided to taunt the emperor, claiming that there was no point in holding great power if there was no one to marvel at it. To tremble with fear in its presence. He was playing on the emperor's pride. Getting him to show off his power over everything.
The plan seemed to have worked as the emperor ordered the Daleks manning the generator controls to open up the Genesis Ark, revealing to them whatever was inside of it.
"Witness the might of the Daleks! Fear it!"
The Doctor and Amy slowly turn around to finally lay their eyes on the source of the time manipulation. Amy's reaction was what you'd expect. It was something new and alien to her. She was mostly confused as to what it was, forcing her to turn to the Doctor for answers. Rarely has he encountered something he truly doesn't understand.
But when the Doctor first laid eyes on it, he wore a look of pure fright on his face. The reveal was so shocking that he was forced to take a couple of steps back. His mouth struggled to form any words in response to it.
"No! It- It… can't be!"
The source of the Daleks' power was something the Doctor had only seen once in his entire life as a Time Lord. Something he believed didn't exist anymore. It was a gigantic orb of pure white energy that appeared to have a galaxy full of stars inside of it in the shape of an eye.
"What is it?" Amy asked. Judging by the Doctors reaction, she would assume that it was something bad."
"It's… it's… The Eye of Time!" The Doctor uttered. He still couldn't believe it, even though he could see it in plain view.
"And what is that?" Amy questioned.
"It's the most powerful energy source in the entire universe. More powerful than the heart of the Tardis. More than the heart of every Tardis ever grown! I've only ever seen it once before in my 900-year life. Back when I was still a young boy… It was harnessed by the Time Lords centuries ago, and lost at the fall of Gallifrey." He explained.
He briefly thinks back to his childhood on his home planet. The day he first saw the Eye of Time was during the Time Lord initiation. Children of Gallifrey were taken away from their families and forced to stare into the Untempered Schism. A gap in the fabric of reality. And deep within that gap was the Eye of Time. Hidden in the space between dimensions. The Void.
Only the strongest and most gifted of children would be able to see it, whilst most of them would be driven mad by the intensity of it all. One of those children was his old friend turned rival, The Master.
But the Doctor himself was among the few to have seen it. Those who do end up seeing The Eye are given the highest honour of being a part of the great council. The only other Time Lord that he knew of who had seen it was Rassilon. The Lord President of the Time Lords.
The Eye itself is a natural phenomenon. Legends say it is the heart of time and space itself. The very core of the Big Bang.
"Your people had this thing?" Amy interrupted him.
"For centuries. Even long before I was born… The Time Lords contained it in a powerful ion field and locked it in the Void. The Untempered Schism acted as a link between us and the Eye. But when Gallifrey was destroyed in the Time War, the seal broke and the eye vanished into the universe, travelling aimlessly through time without end."
"Until the Daleks found it!" The emperor interrupted, causing all eyes to fall back on him. "It is ours! Daleks are the new Time Lords!"
"Time Lords used their powers to benefit the universe, not to crush it!" The Doctor shouted in anger.
"You were weak." The emperor mocked. "Soon throughout all time and space, there will be only Daleks!"
"No." The Doctor pulls out his Sonic Screwdriver and zaps the Emperor's throne, breaking his control over the generators keeping the Eye stable. "Your time just ran out."
"EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR!" The emperor ordered all the Daleks in the area.
All the Daleks start to close in on their positions, chanting "Exterminate" in almost complete synchronisation. All the exits were sealed off with no way out. They were trapped and surrounded.
But that didn't stop the Doctor. There was only one option left for them to take. He was unsure what would happen if they followed through with this plan, but as of right now, anything was better than getting killed by Daleks.
He grabs a hold of Amy's hand, and without a moment's warning, throws her and himself into the Eye of Time.
"GERONIMO!" He screamed in a mix of excitement and fear.
By the time the Daleks reached the top, the Doctor and Amy had disappeared into the Eye of Time. Wherever they were now, they were beyond the Daleks' reach.
In a bright flash of light, the Doctor and Amy were transported by the Eye to another time. They both hit the ground hard. Luckily nobody was hurt. Both of them were so focused on recovering that they didn't notice straight away that they were still inside the Supreme Council Chamber.
However, things were different. The whole chamber was in ruins. The floor was cracked with puddles of sulphuric acid filling the holes. The roof was damaged to the point where acid rain was coming in through the holes above said puddles, constantly dripping acid.
The Emperor Dalek was still present, but the mutant inside was missing, leaving only the shell. There were no Daleks around either, no living ones at least. All that there was were empty damaged and rusted casings.
When the Doctor and Amy finally recovered from their fall, they took a look around, analysing their surroundings. The Doctor instantly recognised it as Kaalann, but how it was supposed to look. In ruins and abandoned.
"Are you alright?" He asked Amy.
"Yes. What just happened?" She asked, still hysterical over the Doctor pulling her into the Eye with her.
"Back in the Visualiser Room, I noticed some temporal coordinates. When we encountered the emperor, I used the Sonic to put in those coordinates and fed them into the Eye. Then… well you know the rest." He sheepishly explained. "Those coordinates brought us here. This is Kaalann just before the Daleks returned to it with the Eye of Time."
"But it looks like it will be coming soon," Amy said with concern.
"And it won't be long before the Emperor sends more Daleks after us through the Eye. We have to be ready for them."
"What do we do?"
"Set a trap." The Doctor looks around vigorously, searching for anything that could help them set a trap for the Daleks.
He uses the Sonic Screwdriver to scan the damaged generators used to hold the Eye in place. The good news was that they weren't damaged beyond repair. The bad news was that it needed power to work. He looked around once more for anything he could use to power the generators. Luckily for him, a bunch of Dalekanium wires were just conveniently sitting around for him to pick up.
He connects the wires to a huge broken column sitting in a pool of acid and attaches the wires to it, whilst connecting the other end to the generators. One of the benefits of Dalekanium was that it could conduct acid like a battery and provide power to Kaalann. As bad as Daleks were, the Doctor had to admit that their technology had its uses if it could harness the endless acid rainstorms to power their cities infinitely.
"These wires should connect the debris to the generators, and with a zap of the sonic, we should have our trap set. Then all we'll need is a Dalek or two." He announced proudly.
Amy just stood and watched as the Doctor worked his magic. She was almost tempted to give him a clap. But as she raised her hands, she was shocked to see that her whole body was starting to fade out of existence again. She looks down at the Chronon Blocker on her wrist and taps it, thinking it might fix whatever is broken. But the device was working just fine.
"Doctor… It's happening again!" She panicked.
"We've jumped time again. The Chronon Blocker won't work here. Just hold on, Amy! I can save you. I promise!"
Suddenly, another bright flash of light came and went within the room. This time though, a large group of Daleks appeared in the air above them.
They spot the two threats and begin their descent. With no time to waste, the Doctor zaps the generators with his Screwdriver and activates them. The generators begin powering up and fire four energy beams into the air where the Daleks are. The beams take out every Dalek one at a time at the speed of light, killing them all in an instant.
The Doctor was relieved to see that the trap worked. Should any more Daleks go through the Eye, the generators will take them out the moment they arrive.
With that taken care of, the duo prepare their next move to stop the Daleks and save the Earth. They need to wait for the Daleks with the Eye of Time to appear so that they can stop them and release the eye back into the void where no one can ever find it again.
The Doctor leads Amy through the ruined Kaalann in search of the Visualiser Room they went to earlier. But with the elevators down, they were forced to climb down through the holes in the floor.
As they were closing in on the Visualiser Room, the Doctor quickly grabbed Amy by her arm and pulled her back.
Out of nowhere, some kind of Venus flytrap-looking plant lunges out of the corner of the room and tries to grab her. Luckily she was out of range, and the plant's vine was forced to give up and retreat back into what appeared to be a bug's nest covered in thorn-covered vines.
"What the heck was that?!" Amy shouted.
"That was a Varga plant, one of the original inhabitant lifeforms of Skaro. They prey on living flesh and their vines carry a deadly poison." He notices that a lot of the carnivorous plants have been growing out of the pools of acid. "Of course, the acid. While most plants feed off water, these feed on acid. The more they drink, the deadlier their venom… One of the good things about the Daleks is that they wiped them all out when they took over Skaro."
"So stay out of reach of the deadly space venus flytraps. Check." Amy responded.
The Doctor led the way through the Visualiser Room, keeping a careful eye out for any more Varga plants and keeping their distance.
Using a piece of debris, he carves a line for each plant, showing Amy the limited range for each vine and allowing her to safely reach the Visualiser Eye without getting touched.
Amy was holding her breath the whole time she was slowly guided around the plants to the computer. She thought the Daleks were bad. But these plants were really starting to creep her out.
The Doctor uses his Sonic Screwdriver to restore power to the Visualiser Eye and uses it to give them a visual of the Supreme Council Chamber. The image came out staticky, but he was able to get some visual on what was going on. The screen showed the Genesis Ark containing the Eye of Time being put down on the floor.
Five Daleks were present in the room. But these weren't the ordinary bronze Daleks that everyone knew. These Daleks had a completely different design. They were slightly bigger and bulkier than the usual Dalek. And each one of them had a different colour.
The Doctor and Amy recognised them immediately. They met these types of Daleks before during World War 2. These were the supposed new Paradigm Daleks, created by the Progenitor device found by the Daleks posing as Bracewell's Ironsides. They were meant to be an example of the new pure and superior Dalek race. Each colour had a significant meaning and rank for the Dalek that bared them. Red was for the standard drones. Blue was for Dalek strategists. Orange was for scientists. Yellow was for Eternal Daleks whose purpose was unknown. And white served as the Supreme Dalek and leader of the group.
The Doctor always wondered what became of them in the end. Now he knows what they meant when they told him they'll be returning to their own time and beginning again. With the Eye of Time under their control, they were able to bring back the Dalek Race and prevent their destruction.
"The Paradigm Daleks… Who else?" The Doctor said, not at all surprised he'd encounter them again. They did make a vow to him that they would return, and they'd meet again after all.
"Been a while since we've seen them," Amy added. "So they're the ones that found the Eye?"
The Doctor nodded. He and Amy watched as the Paradigm Daleks deactivated the trap and began to load the Ark onto it.
"The generators have been repaired, Dalek Supreme!"
A new Dalek enters the room. It was another Paradigm Dalek. But this one had a green-coloured casing. And it had a claw arm instead of a plunger like all other Daleks.
"Excellent, Geneticist Dalek." The Supreme Dalek addressed its new Dalek class. He then turns to the others and gives them their next orders. "Secure Kaalann! Prepare to activate The Eye of Time!"
"WE OBEY!" The Daleks responded.
Before they can watch any more of the Daleks carrying out their orders, the screen goes completely blank, preventing them from seeing anything more.
"That green Dalek wasn't with them before, was it?" Amy asked the Doctor.
"The Geneticist they called it. I don't know where it came from, but that doesn't matter right now. We have to release the Eye before the Daleks can activate it. Then the natural timeline will be restored. The Daleks don't crush Earth, and Amy Pond gets born."
"That's great and all. But how are we gonna get past that lot?" She says as she points at the screen, even though it's shut off now.
"What? Like I wouldn't have a plan? Everything we need to stop them is in here." He assured her.
Then with a zap of the Sonic Screwdriver, the Doctor shatters the glass screen of the Visualiser Eye. Before Amy questioned what he was doing. The Doctor climbs on top of the console, reaches into the eye and pulls out a huge spherical device.
The Doctor could feel a question from Amy coming, wondering what it was he pulled out. So he does what he enjoys best. Provide exposition.
"This device is linked to the eye of every Dalek. If I can reverse-engineer it, we can interfere with their vision. We just need some parts from the Production Facility."
Amy knew exactly what he was gonna say next. He wanted her to take a look around and find whatever he needed to blind the Daleks.
"Ok, what do you need? A cup of tea? Choccie biccies?" She says sarcastically.
"A Dalek gun and a Dalek eyestalk." He corrected her. "And I strongly recommend looking for salvage rather than a live one."
Amy responds with a fake laugh to show how unamused she is. Of course, she wouldn't do anything that stupid.
Although hesitant at first, due to all the Varga plants, she had a thorough search around the room. Her body was still flashing in and out of existence as she explored.
Amy eventually finds an old Dalek tank with a functioning gun and eyestalk. But fate has decided to punish her even further by having it placed right next to a Varga plant nest. Just her luck.
Without even realising, Amy accidentally steps over one of the lines and is now within reach of the plant's vines.
But to her surprise, the plant didn't lash out. She looks down at her body and realises that she is currently invisible due to the paradox.
"It didn't see me. Looks like invisibility can have its advantages."
Her body, however, didn't stay that way for long as she started becoming visible again. Without thinking, Amy quickly backed over the line just as the plant was about to lunge itself at her. In order to harvest the Dalek's body, she'll have to time her approach perfectly with her paradox.
Holding her breath, Amy waited until her body started becoming transparent again. The moment she went invisible, she dashed over to the Dalek casing and removed its gun and eyestalk.
She could feel her body fading back in again, so she quickly jumped back over the line just before the Varga Plant could make its third attempt to bite her. Catching her breath, she hurried back to the Doctor and handed him the components he needed.
With the gun and eyestalk connected to the device, they now have a weapon to use against the Daleks.
"There. This will blind the Daleks. But its range is limited… Unless I can fit it into the cradle of the old Emperor. That will take out every Dalek in the chamber."
The Doctor then notices that Amy is starting to lose balance in her legs and almost collapses to the floor. The paradox was getting worse. They're running out of time. If they want to save the Earth then they have to leave immediately. They still have one chance at winning, but it has to be now.
The Doctor and Amy make haste for the Supreme Council Chamber. But their timing was terrible. The Paradigm Daleks had just opened the Ark and released the Eye of Time.
All six Daleks were present in the room. The green Geneticist Dalek was manning the generator controls using its claw arm at the top of the balcony where the emperor's shell was, whilst the other five had the Eye surrounded.
The Doctor clutches the device to his chest and takes a deep breath. The moment he runs out the Daleks will see him and open fire. But what other choice did he have? It's now or never if he wishes to stop them.
"Doctor, no!" Amy whispered, holding him back from running out in the open. "There's too many of them. They'll exterminate you on sight!"
"There's no other choice, Amy!"
"Yes, there is. Give it to me." She snatches the device away from the Doctor and prepares to head out herself.
"No! It should be me!" The Doctor argued. "I can't let you risk your life like that."
"I'm already dying!" Amy pointed out. "But I can use what's happening to me to my advantage. Once I'm invisible, I can sneak past them undetected… Please, Doctor. Let me do it.
The Doctor did not like this plan of hers. She may be on the cusp of being erased, but that didn't mean she was immune to the Daleks ray guns if she got caught. But no matter what he would say, she'd just ignore his advice and go along with her plan anyway. That's the problem with his companions. They never do as they're told. He might as well let her do it.
Once her body was barely visible, Amy ran out into the open and raced up the slope to the Emperor's shell. The Geneticist Dalek was still there manning the controls, completely unaware of her presence. But Amy could feel her body fading back in again. So before she could be detected, she places the device under the Emperor's shell and activates it.
"Doctor, this better work."
The device channels a beam of white energy through the emperor and fires a multitude of beams out of its eyestalk. The beams shine into the Daleks' eyes, blinding them.
"My vision is impaired! I cannot see!" The Eternal Dalek screamed out, being the first one to state the obvious.
"Vision malfunction!" The Supreme Dalek added. "Daleks are under attack! Daleks are under attack!"
The Daleks start blindly moving around the room in a desperate attempt to rid themselves of this blindness but to no avail.
The Doctor uses this distraction to reach the console controlling the Magnetic Field Generators. With one last zap of the Sonic, he set them to self-destruct. Once they're destroyed, the explosion will free the Eye and send it hurtling back through the time stream like before.
"Alert! Intruders detected! Exterminate them!" The Supreme Dalek ordered.
All the Paradigm Daleks take this to the extreme and respond by rapidly firing their blasters in all directions, hoping to exterminate whatever it was their eyes couldn't see.
The Doctor ran and dodged like hell to avoid the many flying beams whilst trying to reach the top where Amy was waiting for him. They only had 30 seconds to escape through the Eye before the whole chamber exploded.
Some of the Daleks ended up getting blown up by each other's blasts, making it easier for the Doctor to climb the top of the slope and reach Amy.
However, the Geneticist Dalek hears his approach and confronts the last of the Time Lords.
"You will not escape!"
"Try and say that to our faces!" Amy shouted from behind it.
The Geneticist turns around to the sound of Amy's voice. Unfortunately for the Dalek, it was standing on the edge of the platform and ended up falling over the edge and exploded on impact once it made contact with the Supreme Dalek directly below it.
"Ten seconds till self-destruct!" One of the Daleks shouted out in a panicked tone.
"You heard him, Amy. Let's get out of here."
He grabs a hold of Amy's hand and the two of them run over to the edge of the platform and leap into the Eye of Time with the Doctor crying out his catchphrase once again.
"GERONIMO!"
The moment they disappear within the Eye of Time, the generators explode, taking out any surviving Daleks. And the Eye itself was launched through the roof and started blasting through time at the speed of light, forever out of the Daleks, or anybody's reach for good.
The Doctor and Amy are teleported back to the Tardis by the Eye, which was still right where they left it. The only difference is that the closet is in ruins just like the rest of Kaalann. The Doctor sighs in relief. Kaalann was back to how it should look. Ruined and forgotten by the Daleks. They did it. The universe is safe.
"Phew. Now that's what I call door to door." He uttered.
He offers Amy his hand and slowly helps her up on her feet. Amy looks over herself. Her body was no longer fading. She even clenches her fists to be completely sure that she is whole again.
"I'm ok! We did it!" She said joyfully. "But how did we get here?"
"Don't worry. The Eye just spat us back to the point where we entered it. As for the Eye itself, It's back where it belongs. Endlessly flying through the time stream."
"And Earth?" Amy asked.
Instead of telling her what's become of it, the Doctor motioned his head towards the Tardis, telling her to get inside so she could see for herself.
The Doctor pulls up video footage of humanity in 1963. Both parties were happy to see that everything was back to normal. People were going about their daily lives and just doing what they could to get by.
But what put a smile on Amy's face was seeing Sylvia alive and well. Like everyone else, she had no memory of being the last surviving human on Earth and the Daleks. But that also meant she had no memory of meeting them either. But the Doctor didn't mind. As long as she was happy.
Right now, she was standing in a red British phone box. She appeared to be on the phone with someone. The Doctor turned one of the screens knobs so that they could hear what Sylvia was saying.
"Oh, Kevin, stop being such a square, will you? It's only ten o'clock. I can look after myself you know… I know. I love you too, honey. And I promise I'll be back in time for our anniversary dinner… So, what if I'm late? It's not the end of the world, hahaha."
Amy and the Doctor were glad to see that she was doing well. And this time she'll be with her husband. They didn't need to observe anymore. They both agreed that they'd interfered with her life long enough. It was time for them to move on to their next adventure.
"Now then." The Doctor addressed Amy. "Before we were so rudely interrupted. Didn't you say something about meeting Ringo Starr?"
Amy rolls her eyes and groans in annoyance. And here she thought he'd forgotten all about their talk from before.
"Ugh! Typical Doctor."
To Be Continued