A/N: Time for another update! These chapters are based on the part two Doctor Who episode 'Evolution of the Daleks'.
Here's part one!
I do not own Doctor Who. All I own is my OC Katy and this story.
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A NEW SPECIES OF DALEK
"I can see clearly now the rain is gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind."
– Johnny Cliff: 'I Can See Clearly Now' (Cool Runnings [1993])
Dalek Laboratory
There they were, a small group of frightened prisoners, the Doctor, Katy, and Martha. All were looking towards the biped formally known as Mr. Diagoras, but who was now apparently Dalek Sec in human form. And it was not a very pleasant sight. Sec observes the group standing before him with calculating eyes, before turning to the three other Daleks in the room with them.
"These humans will become like me," He declares, making all the humans in the room pale at the very idea of becoming what was standing before them. "Prepare them for hybridisation." He orders, before turning away.
The Doctor takes the chance to sneak away behind some equipment while the Daleks were distracted. But not before giving Katy a reassuring squeeze of her hand and a wink, when she looked at him in alarm as he started moving off. The pigmen, minus Laszlo, started walking over to take the others. Martha immediately protests and starts fighting them off when they grab her forcibly by the arms and start dragging.
"Leave me alone! Don't you dare!" She yells, squirming and trying to fight her way free, while Katy cooperates with little resistance and with a stoic expression on her face, once she realised that the Doctor had a plan. Suddenly, the song Happy Days are Here Again starts playing loudly from behind some equipment that the Doctor had ducked behind.
"What is that sound?" Sec demands, looking around for the source of the music.
"Ah, well, now, that would be me." The Doctor responds, smiling cheerfully as he walks into view and puts down a radio next to a Bunsen burner. He makes his way over to the hybrid and the three Daleks. "Hello. Surprise. Boo. Et cetera…" He added, a little sarcastically.
"Doctor." Sec recognises him almost immediately.
"THE ENEMY OF THE DALEKS!" The Daleks shrieked. "EXTERMINATE!"
"Wait!" Sec halts attempts to shoot down the Doctor where he stood, much to the relief of both Katy and Martha, who were watching, on pins and needles the entire time. The Doctor puts on his glasses in his curiosity when he approached this strange new entity in front of him.
"Well, then. A new form of Dalek. Fascinating and very clever…" He begrudgingly admits.
"The Cult of Skaro escaped your slaughter," Sec wastes no time in revealing this to the Doctor who doesn't look altogether surprised by this. He scrutinises Sec closely.
"How did you end up in 1930?" He asks.
"Emergency temporal shift," Sec responds promptly and the Doctor nodded, and looks back at where Katy was standing and rolls his eyes.
"Figures…" Katy muttered.
"That must have roasted up your power cells, huh?" the Doctor predicted. "Time was, four Daleks could have conquered the world, but instead you're skulking away, hidden in the dark, experimenting. All of which results in you." He jerks his head to indicate to Sec, who puffs up, strutting like a peacock.
"I am Dalek in human form," Sec confirms, almost proudly.
"What does it feel like?" the Doctor was intrigued. "You can talk to me, Dalek Sec. It is Dalek Sec, isn't it? That's your name? You've got a name and a mind of your own. Tell me what you're thinking right now." He encourages the hybrid, who pauses momentarily, actually doing exactly that.
"I feel humanity," Sec admitted with a bit of wonder in his voice. He turns away from the Doctor who smiles a little.
"Good. That's good." He praises him.
"I feel everything we wanted from mankind, which is ambition, hatred, aggression and war." The smile dropped from the Doctor's face, and Katy grimaced with worry. "Such a genius for war."
"No, that's not what humanity means." The Doctor corrects him.
"I think it does," Sec insists. "At heart, this species is so very Dalek."
"Alright, so what have you achieved then, with this Final Experiment, eh?" the Doctor challenges Sec and the other Daleks. "Nothing! Because I can show you what you're missing with this thing." He indicates towards the radio which was still playing Happy Days are Here Again. "A simple little radio."
"WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THAT DEVICE?" one of the Daleks demanded.
"Well, exactly. It plays music," the Doctor responded, casually. "What's the point of that? Oh, with music, you can dance to it, sing with it, fall in love to it…" He smiles and winks at Katy who gives a very weak smile back. "Unless you're a Dalek of course. Then it's all just noise." He suddenly aims his sonic at the little radio, which emits a shriek that hurts Sec and the Daleks, and the pigmen. The Doctor runs towards the cringing crowd of prisoners, Katy, Martha, and Frank. "Run!" the Doctor yells at them, seizing Katy's hand and doing exactly that, with the rest of the prisoners following him.
"PROTECT THE HYBRID!" A Dalek shouts.
"PROTECT! PROTECT! PROTECT!" All three of them shriek in unison as they surround Sec, who was cowering in the middle of them all with his hands plastered over his 'ears'. The humans, the Doctor, Katy, Martha, and Frank run back down the sewers, while Laszlo stays with the pigmen.
"STATUS REPORT!" One of the Daleks asks Sec who lowers his hands from his ears and glowers angrily at them.
"Pain. Pain of the flesh, like no other Dalek has felt for thousands of years." He described.
"THE DOCTOR HAS ESCAPED!"
"Then find him! Find him!" Sec orders.
"FIND THE DOCTOR. THE PRISONERS MUST BE RECAPTURED!"
Sewers
Running as fast as their legs could carry them; the Doctor, Katy, Martha, and Frank navigate their way through the sewers, trying to find a way out and to avoid being recaptured by the Daleks.
"Come on! Move, move, move, move, move!" the Doctor urges. The group come across a very lost Tallulah who sags in relief when she sees them. "And you, Tallulah! Run!"
"What's happened to Laszlo?" Tallulah demands as Martha grabs her hand and drags her along with them. What actually happened with Laszlo was that he had chosen to hang back with the pigmen while the Daleks searched the sewers. The Doctor eventually leads them to a nearby ladder.
"Come on! Everyone up! Come on!"
Hooverville
The Doctor, Katy, Martha, Frank, and Tallulah make their way back to the shanty town, and report back to Solomon exactly what had gone down. Meaning, what happens to the prisoners who had been captured by the Daleks for their so called 'Final Experiment'. Understandably, Solomon was horrified and disturbed by this piece of information.
"These Daleks, they sound like the stuff of nightmares." He remarked, and Katy couldn't help but snort at Solomon's description.
"That's putting it rather lightly." She points out.
"And they want to breed?" Solomon was appalled. The Doctor let out an agitated sigh as he filled in what he had learned to him.
"They're splicing themselves onto human bodies, and if I'm right, they've got a farm of breeding stock right here in Hooverville. You've got to get everyone out." The Doctor urges, and Solomon just gives him a flat look.
"Hooverville's the lowest place a man can fall," He doesn't hesitate to remind him. "There's nowhere else to go." But the Doctor was insistent.
"I'm sorry, Solomon. You've got to scatter," He was apologetic but resolute. "Go anywhere. Down to the railroads, travel across state. Just get out of New York." He urges, firmly.
"There's got to be a way to reason with these things," Solomon pointed out.
"There's not a chance," Martha confirms.
"You ain't seen them, boss." Frank concurred, worriedly.
"Daleks are bad enough at any time, but right now they're vulnerable. That makes them more dangerous than ever." The Doctor describes and Solomon deflates, but still doesn't look convinced that they should up stakes and get the hell out of there. His training and experiences of World War One were going against what the Doctor was suggesting. A soldier never gives up; they find a way to make things work. All of them jerk towards the sound of a whistle blowing shrilly in the night air.
"They're coming! They're coming!" A sentry calls the red alert, and Solomon is quick to react.
"A sentry. He must have seen something."
"They're here! I've seen them! Monsters! They're monsters!" The sentry insists, sounding extremely frightened.
The Doctor was grim-faced.
"It's started…" He mumbled, as Katy and Martha look worriedly at him. They all follow Solomon who starts shouting to anyone who could hear him.
"We're under attack! Everyone to arms!" He orders, and immediately rifles are handed out. Frank steps forward, looking very determined to be of assistance.
"I'm ready, boss, but all of you, find a weapon! Use anything!" He states. Most of the homeless step up, but others run off, choosing to take their chances elsewhere. Solomon was not pleased.
"Come back! We've got to stick together! It's not safe out there! Come back!" He calls.
"Doctor…" Katy tugs on his sleeve and he looks over and sees her pointing towards some pigmen who had come into camp and were going around grabbing victims. He frowns, and protectively pulls her beside and half-behind him.
Katy clings to his sleeve, looking worried.
"We need to get out of the park." Martha points out, having also caught sight of the pigmen rounding up prisoners and looking increasingly nervous. The Doctor shook his head.
"We can't. They're on all sides. They're driving everyone back towards us."
"We're trapped!" Tallulah realises, in dismay.
"Then we stand together," Solomon declares. "Gather round. Everybody come to me. You there, Jethro, Harry, Seamus, stay together!" All the armed men form a circle around the women, by the campfire. "They can't take all of us!" He stated.
Then the shooting started.
"If we can just hold them off until daylight…" Martha attempted to be optimistic. The Doctor sees something flying overhead, and automatically looks up. His face hardened, looking resigned.
"Oh, Martha, they're just the foot soldiers." He declares, still staring up at what had caught his attention. Martha and Katy look up also, and Katy swears underneath her breath.
"Oh, my God…" Martha mumbles, eyes wide and fearful. A Dalek comes flying towards them; a large number '3' was stenciled on its armour. Solomon pales at the sight.
"What in the world is…? He trails off.
"That, is a Dalek." Katy tells Solomon.
"It's the devil. A devil in the sky. God save us all. It's damnation!" a Sentry panics. Frank glowers at the Dalek and raises his gun in the air, taking aim.
"Oh yeah? We'll see about that!" He states and fires his shotgun at the Dalek. But the shot bounces off the Dalek's armour with a clang, having no effect on it.
"That's not going to work," the Doctor tells Frank.
"There's more than one of them!" Martha announces, as another Dalek suddenly flies into view. Both Daleks start firing, blowing up tents and anyone who happened to be hiding in them.
"THE HUMANS WILL SURRENDER!" Dalek '3' orders. This prompts the Doctor to step forward to address them. He had a furious expression on his face.
"Leave them alone!" He yells. "They've done nothing to you!" He insists and the Dalek's eyestalk swivels around and down to focus on him.
"WE HAVE LOCATED THE DOCTOR!" Dalek '3' reports back to an unknown entity; presumably Sec back at the Dalek's laboratory. Solomon steps forward also, but the Doctor raises a hand to stop him.
"No, Solomon. Stay back," He warns the leader of Hooverville. However, Solomon ignores the Doctor's advice and chooses to address the Dalek.
"I'm told that I'm addressing the Daleks. Is that right?" He requested, unaware that he was being observed by Sec back at the laboratory. The Doctor looks at him with frustration; annoyed that he was once again being ignored when safety was vital. "From what I hear, you're outcasts too." He continues, and the Doctor spoke up, once again trying to get him to stand down.
"Solomon, don't!" the Doctor pleads, but Solomon just gives him a glare.
"Doctor, this is my township." He reminded him. "You will respect my authority. Just let me try." He returns his attention back on the Dalek hovering above him. Katy shakes her head, mystified by the man's stubbornness.
"It can't be reasoned with…." She whispered harshly; loud enough that only Martha could hear her and looked at her with dismay.
"Daleks, ain't we all the same?" Solomon questioned, calmly. "Underneath, ain't we all kin?" Solomon lowers his rifle. "Right. See, I've just discovered this past day, God's universe is a thousand times the size I thought it was. And that scares me. Oh yeah, terrifies me right down to the bone. But surely, it's got to give me hope. Hope that maybe together we can make a better tomorrow. So, I beg you now, if you have any compassion in your hearts, then you'll meet with us and stop this fight."
There was silence for several moments, and a look of hope passes over Solomon's face; believing that the Dalek was taking in what he was asking for. However, the Doctor and Katy knew better, and Martha looked extremely doubtful.
"Well? What do you say?" Solomon questioned.
"EXTERMINATE!" the Dalek shouts, before shooting Solomon down with a burst of green energy, which electrocutes him and briefly reveals his skeleton to everyone.
"No! Solomon!" Frank despairs, as Katy looks down at Solomon's body with a sorrowful expression on her face. While the Doctor glares up at the Dalek with deep hatred on his face.
"They killed him," Martha blurts out; completely horrified. "They just shot him on the spot."
"Daleks…" the Doctor mutters furiously before stepping forward once again, grabbing the hovering Dalek's attention. "Alright, so it's my turn!" He declares.
"No!" Katy protests vehemently, but the Doctor ignores her.
"Then kill me! Kill me if it'll stop you attacking these people!" He spreads out his arms to give the Dalek an easy target to aim for. Katy attempts to fight her way forward to stop the Doctor from needlessly sacrificing himself but is held back by both Frank and Martha. The Dalek seemed to be excited by this opportunity.
"I WILL BE THE DESTROYER OF OUR GREATEST ENEMY!"
"Then do it! Do it! Just do it! Do it!" the Doctor challenged it; his brown eyes wild.
"EXTERMINATE!" the Dalek shrieks and the Doctor, Katy, and Martha snap their eyes shut, either to avoid watching the Doctor being shot down by green energy, or by instinct. But nothing happens. "I DO NOT UNDERSTAND." The Dalek suddenly speaks out, sounding confused and maybe a touch outraged. "IT IS THE DOCTOR!" Everyone watches the Dalek with confusion and suspicion. "THE URGE TO KILL IS TOO STRONG!" the Dalek protests. But a few minutes later it seems to 'sag' in on itself. "I OBEY."
"What's going on?" the Doctor demands.
"YOU WILL FOLLOW!" the Dalek orders the Doctor before hovering back where it came from. The Doctor nods and begins to follow, but both Katy and Martha dart forward immediately.
"What are you doing?" Katy grabs his arm and fixes him a bewildered look.
"You can't go!" Martha agreed. The Doctor turns back towards Katy and Martha, and gently pries Katy's hand off his arm, holding it in his tightly.
"I've got to go. The Daleks just changed their minds. Daleks never change their minds." The Doctor stated, a bit bewildered himself.
"But what about us?" Katy points out, and the Doctor pauses before turning and addressing the Dalek.
"One condition!" He requests. "If I come with you, you spare the lives of everyone here! Do you hear me?" The Dalek doesn't respond straightaway, but after a couple of frustrating minutes it does.
"HUMANS WILL BE SPARED." It agrees; much to the Doctor, Katy, and Martha's astonishment. "DOCTOR, FOLLOW!" The Doctor turns back to Katy and Martha, who don't look entirely pleased.
"I'm coming with you!" Katy declares, firmly.
"Me too!" Martha agrees. But the Doctor shakes his head and puts his hand into one of his trench coat pockets.
"You both need to stay here," the Doctor insists. "Martha, do what you do best. People are hurt; you can help them." He turns his attention back to a disbelieving Katy and smiles tenderly at her. "Let me go." He plants a firm kiss on her forehead and smooths a stray hair behind her ear. He turns and walks off, following the Dalek. "Oh!" He comes back and retakes Katy's hand in his. "And can I say, thank you very much." The Doctor winks at Katy, then leaves with the Daleks.
Katy opens her mouth to protest but realises that the Doctor had placed something in her hand when he had retaken it and looks down to see his psychic paper.
"What the…?" Katy mumbles, and Martha looks at it too.
"Why did he give that to you?" She questioned, looking confused.
"I have no idea."
Solomon's Tent
Martha and Katy regroup in Solomon's tent, taking care of any wounded while trying to think of what to do next. Particularly because they had the Doctor's psychic paper in their possession. It was obvious that he wanted them to use it for a reason. It was just a matter of figuring out what it was. Outside the tent, people are throwing water on the remaining burning tents, while Martha wraps a man's wrist in a bandage with Katy handing her things on request, and Tallulah enters carrying a pan of hot water.
"Somebody help me!" a man yells out desperately for help off in the distance.
"Here you go," Tallulah offers Martha the pan of hot water. "I've got some more on the boil."
"Thanks," Martha smiles at Tallulah before re-focusing on the man she was attending to. "You'll be alright. It's just a cut. Try and keep it clean." She instructs him, and the man nodded.
"Thanks." He gets up and leaves. Katy, Martha, and Tallulah ponder their next move.
"So, what about us? What do we do now?" Tallulah questioned the girls, who look a bit worried, still at a loss about what to do next. Katy pulls the Doctor's psychic paper out of her peacoat pocket and holds it up.
"The Doctor gave me this. He must have had a reason." Katy mused, flipping it open and frowning down at it, as though it had all the answers in the universe written on it.
"What's that for?" Tallulah asks.
"It gets you into places. Buildings and things." Katy explains, absently.
"But where?" Martha asks, and Katy shrugged; tapping the leather book in her hand, lost in thought.
"He must want us to go somewhere but, what are we supposed to do?" Katy grumbled; a bit frustrated that they seemed to be stuck at square one once again.
Dalek Laboratory
The Doctor found himself escorted back into the Dalek Laboratory, where he is confronted by Sec. He immediately glares at the hybrid and storms over, ready to rain down hell upon him for the orders Sec had given to the Daleks to take down Hooverville in their attempt to take him (the Doctor) out.
"Those people were defenseless!" He growled. "You only wanted me, but no, that wasn't good enough for you. You had to start killing, because that's the only thing a Dalek's good for-"
"—The deaths were wrong," Sec cut off the Doctor mid rant.
The Time Lord looked at him in surprise.
"I'm sorry?"
"That man, their leader, Solomon. He showed courage." Sec almost looked regretful, if not remorseful for the unnecessary death.
The Doctor was mystified.
"And that's good?"
"That's excellent!" Sec corrects him. The Doctor blinked at him in astonishment.
"Is it me or are you just becoming a little bit more human?"
"You are the last of your kind, and now I am the first of mine," Sec stated, as the Doctor frowned at him with confusion.
"What do you want me for?" He questioned, cautiously.
"We tried everything to survive when we found ourselves stranded in this ignorant age. First we tried growing new Dalek embryos, but their flesh was too weak." Sec explained, and the Doctor nodded in understanding, flashing back to the green jellyfish that was obviously a deceased baby Dalek, carelessly discarded.
"Yeah, I found one of your experiments. Just left to die out there in the dark." The Doctor couldn't decide if he was disgusted or relieved.
"It forced us to conclude what is the greatest resource of this planet. Its people." Sec throws a breaker switch, and it lights up the entire laboratory. It wasn't hard to miss what was floating above their heads, and what the Doctor saw, made his eyes widen in horror. Floating above their heads were hundreds of covered bodies on stretchers. Sec throws a lever, which brings one of the stretchers down for inspection.
"We stole them," Sec explains. "We stole human beings for our purpose. Look inside." He encourages the Doctor to inspect the body for himself, and the Doctor reluctantly uncovers a man's face. "This is the true extent of the Final Experiment."
"Is he dead?" the Doctor questioned, disturbed by what he was seeing.
"Near death," Sec confirmed. "With his mind wiped, ready to be filled with new ideas."
"Dalek ideas." The Doctor realised, darkly.
"The Human Dalek Race," Sec stated. The Doctor attempted to make a mental calculation of exactly how many 'stolen' humans were currently floating above his head on stretchers.
"All of these people. How many?" He asked.
"We have caverns beyond this, storing more than a thousand." Sec confirmed. The Doctor felt his hearts sink.
"Is there any way to restore them? Make them human again?" He asked, not holding out much hope, but determined to find out just in case. However, Sec confirmed his worst fears.
"Everything they were has been lost."
"So, they're like shells. You've got empty human beings ready to be converted. That's going to take a hell of a lot of power. This planet hasn't even split the atom yet. How're you going to do it?"
"Open the conductor plan," Sec revealed.
Solomon's Tent
At the same moment that Sec revealed to the Doctor how he was going to convert humans into Daleks, Martha was hit with an epiphany. She vaguely remembered something that one of the Daleks had said back in the sewers when she and Frank were being held prisoner down there.
"Wait a minute!" She exclaimed, earning Katy's attention.
"What is it?" Katy asked.
"Down in the sewers, the Daleks mentioned this energy conductor." Martha explained.
"What does that mean?" Tallulah frowned, looking a bit lost.
"I don't know. Maybe like a lightning conductor or … Dalekanium!" She gasped in realisation.
"Oh!" Katy's eyes widened in shock.
"What?" Tallulah prodded, still not getting it.
"They said the Dalekanium was in place!" Martha explained, as a relieved smile spreads across Katy's face. Finally! They had something to go on for a plan to get the Doctor out of the Dalek's clutches and to not only defeat those bloody sociopathic pepper pots, but also save 1930s New York.
"In place where?" Tallulah was getting a bit annoyed that her question wasn't being answered.
"Frank might know." Katy pointed out, running from the tent with Martha and Tallulah on her tail.
Hooverville
They found Frank sitting by himself, still mourning the loss of Solomon to the Daleks. He looks up when they approached him, looking sympathetic but also determined to finish what they had set out to do when Martha suddenly came to the conclusion that the Daleks were up to something nefarious and involving an energy converter.
"Frank? That Mister Diagoras, he was like some sort of fixer, yeah?" Martha questioned him. "Get you jobs all over town?"
"Yeah. He could find a profit anywhere," Frank confirmed.
"But where, though? What sort of things?" Katy asked, as Frank shrugged looking a bit bemused by the questions they were asking him.
"You name it. We're all so desperate for work, you just hoped Diagoras would pick you something good. Building work, that pays the best." Frank explained.
"But what sort of building work?" Martha asked.
"Mainly building that," Frank points towards the Empire State Building off in the distance, and both Katy and Martha turn to look at the almost finished building with curious frowns on their faces.
Dalek Laboratory
At the same moment, the Doctor was presented with a view of the very same building, projected onto a big screen by one of the Daleks.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Empire State Building. We're right underneath that. I worked that out already, thanks." He stated somewhat dismissively. "But what, you've hijacked the whole building?"
"We needed an energy converter," Sec explained.
"What for?" the Doctor frowned.
"I am the genetic template," Sec stated, somewhat arrogantly. "My altered DNA was to be administered to each human body. A strong enough blast of gamma radiation can splice the Dalek and human genetic codes and waken each body from its sleep."
"Gamma radiation?" the Doctor repeated his words. "What are you—Oh, the sun. You're using the sun." The Doctor realised.
"Soon the greatest solar flare for a thousand years will hit the Earth. Gamma radiation will be drawn to the energy conductor and when it strikes—"
"The army wakes." The Doctor interrupted, boredly. "I still don't know what you need me for."
"Your genius," Sec stated like it should've been obvious. "Consider a pure Dalek, intelligent but emotionless."
"Removing the emotions makes you stronger," the Doctor reminded him of Davros's beliefs. "That's what your creator thought, all those years ago." He stated with disgust.
"He was wrong," Sec retorted, evenly.
"He was what?" the Doctor was shocked by this correction. Never had he thought he'd see the day that a Dalek (even one spliced together with a human) would contradict everything it ever stood for.
"It makes us lesser than our enemies," Sec insisted. "We must return to the flesh, and also the heart."
"But you wouldn't be the supreme beings anymore," The Doctor pointed out.
"And that is good," Sec confirmed.
"THAT IS INCORRECT!" One of the Daleks interrupted.
"DALEKS ARE SUPREME!" Another added.
"No, not anymore," Sec insisted.
His words appeared to invoke agitation in the other Daleks, and the Doctor was astonished by what he was hearing, but also not altogether surprised that the other Daleks had instantly rejected what Sec was saying to them too.
"BUT THAT IS OUR PURPOSE!" A third Dalek argued.
"Then our purpose is wrong," Sec stated firmly. "Where has our quest for supremacy led us? To this." He indicates to their underground laboratory. "Hiding in the sewers on a primitive world, just four of us left. If we do not change now, then we deserve extinction." Sec was passionate about this belief.
"So, you want to change everything that makes a Dalek a Dalek?" the Doctor confirmed.
"If you can help me," Sec reaffirmed his intentions.
Service Lift
Coming to the conclusion that the Doctor had intended them to investigate the Empire State Building, which was the sole reason for giving Katy his psychic paper; she, Martha, Frank, and Tallulah headed straight for the unfinished building. Frank and Tallulah were a bit sceptical that they would even get passed the workers but were gobsmacked when Katy simply flashed the paper and they were let through, no questions asked.
Piling into the service elevator, Martha made an observation.
"I always wanted to go to the Empire State. Never imagined it quite like this though." She mused thoughtfully.
"You get used to doing things like this after a while, when travelling with the Doctor." Katy stated, tucking the psychic paper into the back pocket of her jeans for safekeeping.
"Where are we headed anyway?" Frank questioned, curiously.
"The top, where they're still building." Katy answered, promptly.
"How come those guys just let us through? How's that thing work?" Tallulah asked, looking at Katy, impressed.
"Psychic paper. It shows anyone whatever I want them to believe," Katy explains as she fishes out the leather-bound wallet again to examine it. "For example, this has claimed that we're two engineers, an architect, and an electrician." Katy read; a bit bemused but going along with it.
Dalek Laboratory
The more the Doctor listened to the Dalek's plan via Sec, the more he doubted their chances of successfully pulling this off. It was already three against one as the other Daleks had immediately objected when Sec declared that changing everything that made up a Dalek was the only key to their survival. It was only a matter of time before mutiny could happen; the Doctor was convinced of it.
"Your knowledge of genetic engineering is even greater than ours," Sec told the Doctor. "The new race must be ready by the time the solar flare erupts."
"But you're the template," the Doctor pointed out, confused. "I thought they were getting a dose of you." However, Sec shook his head.
"I want to change to gene sequence."
"To make them more human?" the Doctor clarified.
"Humans are the great survivors. We need that ability," Sec explains. But the Doctor was still seeing red flags.
"Hold on a minute," He stated. "There's no way this lot are going to let you do it." The Doctor indicated to the nearby Daleks, who were already highly suspicious of their mutated comrade the second he started sprouting ideals that were thoroughly un-Dalek.
But Sec seemed unfazed, and very dismissive.
"I am their leader."
"Oh, and that's enough for you, is it?" The Doctor scoffs, disbelievingly. Surprisingly, the Daleks were quick to confirm Sec's statement.
"DALEKS MUST FOLLOW ORDERS!"
"DALEK SEC COMMANDS, WE OBEY."
"If you don't help me, nothing will change," Sec insisted to a very sceptical Doctor.
"There's no room on Earth for another race of people," He pointed out, but Sec was stubborn.
"You have your Tardis. Take us across the stars. Find us a new home and allow the new Daleks to start again." The Doctor hesitates, but very reluctantly gives in.
"When's that solar flare?"
"Eleven minutes," Sec responded triumphantly. The Doctor sighed; this was a disaster waiting to happen, and he was going to be the unfortunate one to see their plan crumble about their 'ears'.
And it was going to be deadly…
"Right then," the Doctor muttered. "Better get to work."
Works Office
Katy, Martha, and Frank manage to locate all the blueprints the engineers and workers had drawn up for the construction of the Empire State Building and had moved to a nearby sawing station to unfurl them all and study them. Tallulah, meanwhile, had walked over to an unfinished part of the building which was where a glass window would be affixed later on. It was an impressive view of the entire city.
"Look at this place. Top of the world," Tallulah marveled.
"Let's see what we've got to work with here…" Katy mumbles out loud, as the three of them try to make heads and tails of what they were seeing.
"This looks good," Martha stated. Frank suddenly points towards the date which had been scribbled at the top of the page.
"Hey, look at the date. These designs were issued today," He realises. "They must've changed something last minute."
"You mean the Daleks changed something?" Martha frowned.
"Yeah, could be." Frank nodded.
"Would not surprise me in the slightest. They must be up to something, otherwise why escort the Doctor away, if they weren't going to enlist him into doing something against his will?" Katy stated logically. Martha checks the blueprints underneath the first sheet they were studying.
"The one's underneath, they're from before. That means that whatever they changed must be on this top sheet, but not on this one. We need to check one against the other." Martha suggests, and they immediately hold both sheets together to play 'spot the difference'.
"The height of this place!" Tallulah gushes. "This is amazing!" Martha glances over to Tallulah to see what she was up to.
"Careful, we're a hundred floors up. Don't go wondering off." She cautions the blonde, who waves a dismissive hand at her.
"I just want to see," Tallulah reassures her as she goes to the open area and looks out towards the Chrysler Building off in the distance. "New York City…" The entire city was a blaze with lights, which is why it is dubbed 'the City that Never Sleeps' in the future. It is truly a breathtaking sight. One that any American would be proud of seeing. "If aliens had to come to Earth, oh, no wonder they came here." Tallulah sighed.
Dalek Laboratory
The Doctor and Sec were hard at work trying to figure out the best method to transform the humans into human-Dalek hybrids.
"There's no point in chromosomal grafting. It's too erratic," the Doctor explains, sounding a little frustrated. "You need to split the genome and force the Dalek human sequence right into the cortex."
"We need more chromatin solution," Sec orders.
"THE PIG SLAVES HAVE IT." One of the Daleks confirmed and some of the pig slaves walk into the room, carrying a large crate among them. Laszlo was one of the pig slaves assisting. The Doctor observes them, looking both curious and pitying.
"These pig slaves, what happens to them in the grand plan?" He enquires.
"Nothing," Sec states, almost dismissively. "They're just simple beasts. Their lifespan is limited. None survive beyond a few weeks." The Doctor looks over at Laszlo with alarm, surprised that the pig-hybrid had survived for as long as he did. "Power up the line feeds!" Sec orders as the Doctor sidles up to Laszlo and attempts to talk to him without making it look obvious that they were working together against the Daleks.
"Laszlo, I can't undo what they've done to you, but they won't do it to anyone else." The Doctor promises and Laszlo nods, looking mistrustfully at Sec, who was oblivious to the attention he was receiving from the Doctor and Laszlo.
"Do you trust him?" He asks, referring to Sec with a jerk of his head.
The Doctor was torn.
"I know that one man can change the course of history. Right now in the right place at the right time, it's all it takes. I've got to believe it's possible." The Doctor admitted, sounding a little doubtful.
A/N: Part two is not far away!