King: ...

Knox: ...

King: EXTERMINATE!

Knox: EXTERMINATE!

King: Serious now. This story references the War Doctor, Ninth Doctor, and Fourth Doctor (in order of appearance). This was probably the episode (Series 1 Episode 6) that made me love the show. Then I fell off after a while... I don't know. Anyway, hope you enjoy.

Inspiration: Doctor Who

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"I really hope the next one doesn't have scenes like that…" Yang groaned, remembering Ruby blink out of existence.

"And… you've jinxed it." Sun lied back in his chair, waiting for things to go wrong now.

The next world opened to a vast desert. Standing in the screen's center was an older Ozpin with a beard adorning his face. He was dressed in a coat, scarf, vest, pants, and a pair of boots reaching up to his knees, all in shades of brown. His uniform for the War… The screen showed his back and up to see two fleets of warships ready to tear each other apart. Ozpin closed his eyes and took a breath, a bright light washing over everything.

"Woah! What happened?" Oscar couldn't explain it, but it felt wrong. Like he'd seen the end of existence itself.

The world returned again, but it was no longer the desert. Now, it was something that looked like either a museum or a trophy room. Then they heard an odd sound, hard to explain but very much unheard before. Then, a blue phone booth started to form into the room.

The door on the side popped open and Jaune jumped out from the booth. He was dressed in a black leather jacket, black slacks, black shoes, and a gold t-shirt. He grinned and looked around. "Well now~ Where'd we end up this time?"

"What's going on?" Velvet stepped out after him.

Velvet blushed a little. There was no way that booth was large enough to hold them both very comfortably without getting rather… intimate.

"Don't know…" Jaune looked around the area. "Weird signal got picked up by the Tardis, knocked us off course." He found a light switch and flicked it on. The room was a giant warehouse filled with displays. Jaune let out an impressed whistle. "Some one's got a hobby."

Velvet looked around. "Okay… where are we?"

"Utah, America. About… half a mile underground."

Velvet nodded a bit. "Okay… when are we?"

Coco raised an eyebrow, "Now why would she ask that?"

"Is that box a time machine?" Ruby was a little excited at the idea.

So was Oobleck, be he kept his hopes low.

Jaune looked around, "2012."

"2012? That's really close. I'd be… 26?"

"It is a time machine!" Ruby burst out.

Oobleck nearly fell over in his chair. He really hoped they explained how it was possible.

Jaune looked around at the various displays. One in particular caught his attention. It was the head of a robotic being called a Cyberman. A rather old version at that. "Now that's a blast from the past."

Velvet walked over, "What is it?"

"Old friend of mine. Enemy, really. One of the most dangerous and unfeeling beings in the cosmos, reduced to a museum exhibit." He touched the glass case and triggered an alarm. After a moment, the two found themselves surrounded by well armored and well-armed guards.

Velvet glanced to Jaune a moment, "Well, if someone's collecting aliens, that makes you the next exhibit."

"He's an alien?!" Nora grinned from ear to ear in excitement.

Jaune shook his head, "I don't look like an alien…"

"Humanoid being?" Ren offered.

The scene shifted to show Cinder walking along a hallway with a group of guards. "Emerald!"

Mercury let out a chuckle, "So, Cinder owns the museum?"

Emerald walked up beside her, "Ma'am."

"And Emerald is as docile as always."

Emerald wanted to smack him, but the rules of the theater made that impossible.

"I plan to visit the cage later. Let Mercury know, I want to visit my new pet."

Emerald chuckled nervously and got off to the side. "Mercury… Give me good news, is it talking?"

They heard her associate speak through the earpiece, "I wouldn't call it talking. Screaming more like…"

"Well get it talking! Cinder will be down later."

"I'll see what I can do."

Emerald caught back up to Cinder, "Ma'am, we also found two intruders on the 53rd level and we have no idea how they got there."

Mercury nodded from side to side, "Have to admit, the corporate look kind of works for you, Em."

Emerald was not used to compliments from him, at least not genuine ones. They were usually backhanded or scummy, but this was different. It sounded genuine.

Cinder didn't seem too phased, "Alright. Bring them to me. I'm interested to see our new guests."

They soon found themselves in Cinder's office as Jaune and Velvet were led inside.

Cinder smirked seeing them. "Now this is interesting. Who are you?"

Jaune half-shrugged, "I'm the Doctor."

"Doctor? Doctor who?"

Jaune rolled his eyes. He'd heard that question too many times.

"I don't get it…" Ruby's head tilted.

Penny thought for a moment, "Perhaps he doesn't have a name and goes only by the title of Doctor?"

It was as good an explanation as anything they could come up with.

"Whatever." She stood up again. "But what bothers me is that found you both 53 floors down and with no idea how you got there." She paused, seeing his eyes bolt down. She looked down to find the device she'd been trying to figure out for a while now. "You know what it is, don't you?"

"I may."

Cinder handed him the device, well aware her guards would gun him down if he tried to attack her. Jaune took the item and slowly dragged his fingers across the top, letting out tones from the item.

Cinder grinned, "It's a musical instrument?"

"Yep." Jaune finished the song and returned it to her.

Cinder could tell he was more than he was letting on. "You're quite the expert in these things, aren't you?"

"It's kind of my thing."

Maybe you'll be able to help me again. "I acquired a new pet recently. Would you like to see it?"

Cinder was getting a little bored now. Even with her other self on screen, nothing was too impressive so far.

Nora was bouncing in her seat to see this new alien being. The Gem creatures were interesting, but it would always be fun to see more types.

Cinder walked around form her desk, "You're little partner in crime can spend some time in the lab area."

Velvet huffed, "I have a name!"

"Maybe, but I don't care." Cinder led Jaune off to the Cage.

The Cage was a bunker-like set up with scientists in full hazmat gear around the staging area.

"What in the world could be in there?" Oobleck was intrigued now.

Cinder walked into the room, "We've tried everything, but the creature isn't talking. It seems to have shielded itself from us, but there's clear signs of life inside."

Jaune raised an eyebrow, "Inside? Inside what?"

Mercury walked in from the side. "Welcome back, ma'am. I had to take the power down. The Metaltron is resting."

"Metaltron?"

Cinder shrugged, "Best we could come up with. But I'd be more interested in finding out its real name." She grinned to Jaune. Her plan was obvious to all involved, but it was harmless enough for the moment.

"So that's it." Weiss huffed, "She's trying to use him to get information. She'll likely turn on him if she finds out he's an alien.

Mercury tried to hand Jaune a pair of gloves, "Better put these on. Last guy that touch it… burst into flames."

Jaune didn't seem that bothered. "I won't touch it then." He walked in as the door closed behind him.

Cinder glanced to Mercury and Emerald, "Don't open that door until we get results."

Jaune looked around in the low-light environment. A table was set up with various items including a screwdriver and a hacksaw.

Ironwood winced a bit, "That explains the screaming comment…"

Winter sighed, "A torture room…"

Jaune shook his head and looked to the a large shadow in the darkness. "Look, I'm sorry about all of this. Cinder might think she's clever, but she's not."

Cinder felt her eye twitch a bit.

"I'm the Doctor. I'm here to help."

Pyrrha and Velvet spared a glance toward Jaune. He would be the type to help anyone and everyone he can.

Yeah… About that…

The camera shifted to the darkness, a single blue light the only thing they could see. Then, it spoke. "Doc-tor?" Lights atop its head lit up with each syllable it spoke. It's voice was mechanical, emotionless.

Jaune's blood went cold. "Impossible…"

"The Doc-tor?!" Then, its voice was fueled with indignant rage.

"Does that thing know him?" Kali asked with a hand on her cheek in thought.

"Looks like it." Blake nodded.

Gira growled a bit. "It does not sound happy to see him though…"

The lights started to come on. Then, they could see it. The creature was an armored form with a domed head. A single eye extension looked off to the world. The armor fell down the form and expanded out to the base. Two appendages formed on the front, one like a plunger and the other a small turret. Several balls formed around the bottom half of the body. It was old, rusting, and broken, but the creature within remained.

Yang chuckled, "That thing looks ridiculous."

"Like an upside-down trash bin." Blake smirked.

The creature started to shake, chains holding it in place. Then, it shouted, "EX-TER-MI-NATE! EXTERMINATE!"

Jaune's feet skid across the floor a bit and moved to the door. "LET ME OUT OF HERE!"

Ruby blinked "Is it really that dangerous?"

"Exterminate! You are an enemy of the Daleks! You must be destroyed!"

Jaune spun around. There's usually a laser. Why isn't there a laser? He looked down to the gun. He saw its condition and started to laugh. "It's not working… Fantastic!"

The Dalek looked down its weapon then back up to him.

Jaune laughed again. "Powerless! Look at you… the great space dustbin. How does it feel?!" He rushed the creature.

"Get back!" For the first time in this Dalek's life, it was afraid. It was face to face with the Doctor, the most powerful and deadliest enemy to all of Dalek-kind.

Everyone jumped at Jaune's outburst. This Dalek creature was afraid of him. But they were a bit out of the loop.

"Or what?!" Jaune was up in the Dalek's eye. "What are you going to do to me?"

Silence.

"Well?" Jaune started to walk to the side. "If you can't kill, what are you good for, Dalek?" A jab to the Daleks' very existence. They demand purity of the galaxy, and to wipe out all non-Dalek life in the universe.

Everyone was cold. Such a being was seriously twisted in the head. But they also found it hard to take the creature seriously.

Jaune walked around the Dalek, "What's the point of you?! Why are you here?"

"I am awaiting orders."

"What does that mean?"

"I am a soldier. I was bred to receive orders."

"That's just unnerving…" Ironwood made it no secret he hated mechanical soldiers. His one exception was Penny, but he preferred to think of her as a niece than a soldier. He wanted his subordinates to follow orders, but he allowed them their identities. To do otherwise were actions of tyrants.

"Well you're never going to get any. Not ever."

"I demand orders!"

"They're never going to come! Your race is dead! You all burned! Ten million ships on fire! The entire Dalek race wiped out in one second!"

"You lie!"

"I watched it happen. I MADE it happen!"

A chill ran down their spines. The nuke from before was powerful, but that sounded far above anything they'd seen before.

"You destroyed us?"

Jaune's anger fell away as his memories got the better of him. He turned around and walked of. "I had no choice…"

"And what of the Time Lords?"

Jaune's lip trembled at the memory. His race… "Dead. They all burned with you. The end of the Last Great Time War. Everyone lost…"

Ironwood gripped his seat. If weapons like the nuke came into existence, then such a situation could very well happen.

"But the coward survived…" The Dalek aimed this as a jab at Jaune, but there was one little problem with its logic.

Jaune grinned. "And I caught your little signal. 'Help me.' Poor little thing." Jaune mocked the Dalek back. A Dalek was never meant to cry for help. It was supposed to be a being of hate and destruction. "But there's no one coming because there's no one left…"

The Dalek's eye hung low. "I am alone in the universe…"

Given they'd never seen a Dalek before, they felt sorry for this creature. It was the last of its kind in all of the universe. It was a daunting sentiment.

Jaune had a satisfied grin. "Yep."

"So… are you."

Jaune's grin faded.

What they felt for the Dalek, they felt for Jaune ten-fold, since they actually knew a version of Jaune. Granted, knowing he caused it made them a bit conflicted.

Then the Dalek continued, "We are… the same."

Jaune's anger peaked hearing that. "We are not the same! I'm not…" His anger fell off. "No… Maybe you're right. Yeah… Okay! Because I know what to do. I know what should happen…" He walked back to a circuit breaker off to the side, a grin on his face. "Exterminate." With their own motto used against them, he flipped the switch, intent on frying the Dalek into a bubbling pool inside its armor.

The Dalek yelled out in pain, "Have pity!"

"Why should I? You never did." Jaune pulled another lever to boost the voltage. Jaune lost friends, loved ones… too many people to these monsters to ever have a sense of mercy for them.

Ruby shrunk in her seat at Jaune's look. "So… Grimm in space that can scream?"

"That's creepy." Yang groaned.

Cinder and her guards stormed into the room and dragged Jaune off before he could kill the genocidal alien in armor. As they pulled him off to an elevator, Jaune kept trying to 'reason' with them. "Listen! The outer armor is just a shell, the real creature is inside."

But this only interested Cinder instead, "What does it look like?"

"A nightmare. A mutated being. Every Dalek is genetically engineered. Every emotion was removed. The only exception was hate."

Cinder felt she could use something like that. She wondered how these things were engineered.

The Cinder on screen was also intrigued, "Engineered? By who?"

"A genius… A pathetic man, king of his own little world." Jaune's eye twitched remembering an old life. The screen went white starting his flashback.

"You have done the universe a great service Doctor." The screen showed Watts in a mobile chair that resembled the Dalek's lower half. His upper half was dressed in a black leather uniform. His own eyes were sealed shut, but a blue light shined out from his forehead, granting him his vision. "When the Dalek's reign supreme over the universe, there will be no war. There will be peace. They are not a force of evil, Doctor, but of good."

Standing opposite him, however, wasn't Jaune. It was a man with dark hair and brown eyes. He dressed in a dark trench coat over a rather fancy style. He also wore a very colorful scarf.

"Wait…" Ruby blinked to the screen. "How did… That's still Jaune?"

Ozpin and Oscar glanced to one another. Safe to say, they could see similarities with their own situations.

Jaune replied. "Watts… I want to ask you something. If you created a virus in your lab that could kill anything on contact, would you use it?"

Watts thought for a moment, "An interesting question…"

Cinder knew what she would do.

Watts moved to look away in thought. "To hold in my hands a capsule that contains such power… To know life and death on that scale was my choice… To know the tiniest bit of pressure from my thumb would be enough to end everything… Yes. I would do it. That kind of power would set me above the gods. And through the Daleks… I SHALL HAVE THAT POWER!"

Ozpin felt a chill run up his spine. This was effectively Watts without a filter. A Watts without any sense of subtlety and the means to unleash hell.

The memory ended as Jaune looked back to Cinder. "I think you'd get along swimmingly."

But Cinder wasn't paying attention. Her thoughts were on something else. "And… you mentioned a war?"

Jaune sighed, "The Great Time War. Wiped out both our races."

"Interesting… But it's here, and that means that there are other aliens on Earth." She grinned and glanced toward Jaune, "Like you."

"Cue the betrayal." Roman snapped his fingers into a point toward the screen.

Lights came on to show Jaune shackled to an elevated table. Cinder grinned behind a strange device. "Smile~" She activated a very invasive scanner, causing Jaune no small amount of pain. A screen on the device showed his internal organs. "Ooh~! Two hearts? That's interesting. Going to have to patent that."

Jaune, had to take a pained breath before he could speak again. "So, that's your game. You're not just a collector, you're a scavenger. Pick up alien tech and recycle it…"

"And why not? These things are falling from the sky anyway. Why not put them to use?"

"I have to admit…" Port grumbled, "Though she seems to be rather unpleasant, the sentiment does hold a certain merit."

"Speaking of…" Cinder set the device to run again. She would torture Jaune to get all the secrets she could out his alien body. But the screen cut away before it did.

Velvet had made a friend in Cinder's lab technician, a counterpart of Penny. The two had made their way into the Cage after seeing a feed of Mercury torturing the Dalek. They had no context of what this creature is, and this had consequences.

Velvet approached the Dalek, "Are you hurt? My name is Velvet Scarlatina, I have a friend called the Doctor. He can help you."

The Dalek sounded pained. "Yes…"

"I'm sorry?"

"They hurt me… They torture me… Yet, they still fear me. Do you… fear me?"

"No."

"I am dying…"

"No! We can help you!"

"I welcome death. But… I am glad that before I die, I met a human who was not afraid. My race is dead… I will die alone."

Velvet felt sorry for this being. She wanted to find a way to help it like the counterpart on screen. But she had the context. She knew that Doctor Jaune feared this thing.

The Jaune sitting next to her also caught onto something. "This will not end well…"

This got Velvet to turn to him in confusion, but the screen didn't wait for her attention.

Velvet, feeling sorry for this creature, attempted to comfort it, placing a hand on its dome. It burned her, causing her to pull away. The mark seemed to remain, glowing for a moment before dissipating into the creature's armor.

"Genetic material extrapolated! Initiate cellular reconstruction!" The Dale's armored body seemed to glow and reform itself. Within moments, it broke the chains apart. Sure, it was still old and some places were broken, but it could move again. So began it's rampage. One of Cinder's soldiers ran in, not taking the creature seriously. It used the plunger-like device on one arm to stick to the man's face and kill him with little effort. As Velvet and Penny ran, more guards approached the Cage area. As they fired their guns, the Dalek simply moved to a nearby console, draining the power and downloading everything humanity had ever known. In time, its armor was like new again.

Mercury felt cold. "Thing tells a sob story to escape… And learning everything we could ever know in a couple seconds… That thing is creepy as hell."

Soldiers poured into the adjoining hall to intercept the Dalek's advance. One of the other soldiers tried to run but was shot by the Dalek's blue laser. The viewers saw the man as a skeleton as he fell to the ground. As the soldiers opened fire, the screen showed the bullets seemingly disappearing against a forcefield around the Dalek shell. As more filed in behind it, it simply turned it's dome around to look at them. Its mid-section spun around to shoot at them and then back around. In time, every one of them was dead on the floor.

The camera showed Velvet and Penny run in through a door and looked around. Velvet grabbed a railing, "Stairs! Now we're talking. That thing doesn't have legs!" She, Penny, and one last guard climbed the stairs just in time before the Dalek approached.

As the Dalek approached, it looked down at the stairs.

Yang chuckled, "Some death machine. Defeated by a flight of stairs!"

The Dalek looked up, into the camera at the angle shown. "Elevate." The genocidal mutant started to float upward, traversing the stairs without issue. The Dalek had learned since their defeats at the hands of the Doctor.

Yang's grin died as soon as it arrived. "That's just not fair."

The screen changed to show Jaune back in Cinder's office. Being the expert, the tycoon didn't have too many other options but let him out. She was also visibly frustrated. She wanted the Dalek brought in alive and undamaged at all costs. Everyone else was expendable, that thing was unique. "If you're so clever, Doctor, they why don't you try reasoning with the Dalek? There has to be something it needs."

"What's the closet city?"

"Salt Lake City."

"Population?"

"One million."

"All dead. If that thing gets out it'll kill every living creature it can find. That's what it needs…"

"But why would it do that?!"

"Because it honestly believes they should die. Human beings are different, and anything different is wrong. It's the ultimate in racial cleansing, and you Cinder have let it loose on the world!"

Gira growled in anger. This thing was effectively the incarnation of everything he hated. Kali placed a hand on his shoulder to calm him, but it was also for support to calm her as well.

More soldiers filed into a large area. Each had a gun pointed to hall, ready to put the Dalek down. As the Dalek moved in, the soldiers waited for it to be centered. Then, they opened fire, bullets melting against its force field. The Dalek opened the video feed again to let the Doctor, Cinder, and Emerald see what was about to happen. It started to lift off the ground and shot the fire system. As water fell to the ground, it started to lightly flood the area. The soldiers kept firing at the Dalek as it aimed its weapon to the flooded ground. One shot was all it took to kill everyone on the ground. Another shot killed the men on the upper ramp.

This sent chills so frigid the room dropped a degree. This thing was a monster. What could they say seeing that?

Jaune looked over to the monitor, the Dalek looking directly into the camera.

The Dalek spoke through it, "I will speak only to the Doctor."

Jaune tried to keep a strong face, "You're going to get rusty."

"I have absorbed the DNA of Velvet Scarlatina. Extrapolating the biomass of a time traveler regenerated me."

Velvet blinked. That thing grabbed her DNA to regenerate? She's a time traveler?! Or, was that thanks to Jaune?

"What's your next trick?" Jaune was getting frustrated with this thing again.

"I have been searching for the Daleks."

"Yeah… I saw that. Downloading from the internet. What did you find?"

"I searched through your satellites and radio communications!"

"And?"

"… Nothing. Where shall I get my orders, now?!"

"You're just a soldier without commands…"

Another reason Ironwood preferred human/faunas soldiers to the robotic pains in his neck.

"Then I shall obey the Primary Order! The Dalek directive to destroy! To conquer!"

"What for?" Jaune yelled through the screen. "For what purpose?! Don't you see? It's all gone. Everything you were, everything you stood for. All of it!"

The Dalek remained in the falling water. "Then… what should I do?"

Jaune growled a bit. "Alright… You want orders? Follow this one. Kill yourself."

Not even Nora could hide the pain and fear. Everything about this was wrong.

"The Daleks must survive!"

"The Daleks have failed! Why don't you finish the job and make the Daleks extinct?! Rid the universe of your filth! WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE?!"

There was a pause. No sound could be heard. Then, the Dalek spoke again, "You would make a good Dalek." The feed died, leaving Jaune in silence again. Neither Emerald nor Cinder dared speak.

The camera now followed the Dalek as it moved through the area. In time, it found itself on floor 46. On that same floor, Penny and Velvet were trying their hardest to get through a closing bulkhead. Penny was able to escape just in time. Velvet… was not as lucky. She had to skid to a halt, just as the door slammed shut. Penny tried to reach for her, but it was too late.

Velvet's ears drooped in understanding. There's every likelihood she was going to watch herself die.

The camera held on her as she heard the sounds of the Dalek's approach. She slowly turned to see the alien before her. It shouted out, "Exterminate!" and fired its gun toward her. Her eyes closed, waiting for the inevitable. But… nothing. Her eyes cracked open to find she was still alive, and the Dalek's gun had moved away from her.

Velvet's ears perked back to normal and now she was just confused, "What's going on?"

The Velvet on screen took a breath. "Well? Go on then. No reason to play with this. Just kill me."

"I am armed." The Dalek sounded frustrated. "I will kill! It is my purpose!"

"And what about them?! They all died because of you!"

"They died because of us." The Dalek was silent. "I feel your fear…"

"What did you expect?!"

"Dalek's do not feel fear! Must not feel fear!" It fired two more shots, but the laser avoided her each time. "You gave me life! What else did you give me?! I am contaminated!"

Velvet blinked. "I feel insulted…"

Coco sighed, shaking her head. At least Velvet was more open about that now.

The Dalek hacked back into the monitors and opened it to the office again. It shouted out to the Doctor, "Open the bulkheads, or Velvet Scarlatina dies!"

They could hear Jaune speaking through a pa system, "Velvet? You're alive?!" He sounded so excited to see her again.

Velvet chuckled a little, despite her situation, "Can't get rid of me." It was clearly a way to mask her fear.

"I thought you were dead…"

The Dalek interrupted them, "Open the bulkhead!"

Velvet couldn't move very far with the weapon pointed directly at her back, no way to miss, "Don't do it!"

But the Dalek knew what buttons to push with the Doctor. "What use are emotions… if you can't save the woman you love?"

Velvet's face turned bright red at the implication there.

Jaune didn't fair much better, looking down and away from the screen.

This got Pyrrha's heart to crack a bit. There was still hope for her chances with Jaune, but if she kept holding it off, she risked losing him.

The bulkhead opened soon after. The Dalek forced Velvet to walk through, keeping her as a hostage. They entered an elevator and started to ascend the floors. Velvet took a breath and glanced at the Dalek beside her. "Please… Don't kill them! You didn't kill me!"

"But why?!" The Dalek turned its head to her, causing her back up and not get hit by the eye stalk. "Why are you alive?!" It turned back to the door. "My function is to kill! What am I? What am I?!"

This moment actually got everyone to have a bit of hope. This creature, born and trained to kill, was questioning itself and the choices. Right?

Then, the elevator hit level 1. The doors opened to show Cinder waiting in her office.

Velvet shouted after it as it moved, "Don't shoot! It's starting to question itself!"

The Dalek moved forward. "Cinder Fall… You tortured me! Why?"

Cinder was visibly afraid of the mobile death machine in front of her, "I wanted to help you! I thought if we could get through to you… to mend you!" She backed away as the creature moved toward her. "I swear! I'm sorry! I only wanted you to talk!"

Mercury's eyes widened in surprise. He never thought he'd hear those words come out of Cinder's mouth in his life. Yet, there they were. I'm sorry.

The Dalek stopped. "Then hear me talk now. Exterminate!" The Dalek aimed its weapon toward Cinder. "Exterminate!"

Velvet had seen enough people die for a lifetime. "Stop! Stop. You don't have to do this! You don't have to kill her! Isn't there anything else you want?"

The Dalek looked between Velvet and Cinder. Back and forth in an internal debate. Then, it turned back to Velvet. "I want my freedom."

"I can't tell if that's a good sign or not." Neptune remembered the action before that allowed it to escape. This could be another ploy, but the alien seemed to develop emotions.

Everyone was on edge, uncertain of what was going to happen.

The two walked off into another hallway. After a moment, the Dalek fired its weapon into the ceiling, allowing the sun to enter in and wash its armor in light. The Dalek looked up into the light.

Velvet smiled, "There. You're free." She sighed in delight, "Never thought I'd feel the sun again…"

The Dalek, within its armor, felt nothing. "How does it feel?" After a moment, they heard mechanical sounds. The front of the Dalek's chest opened apart and floated down to the ground by its base. The upper section under the dome opened next, revealing the creature within. The Dalek's true form was like a blob, with a single eye and its brain above it. In comparison, it was almost like an octopus.

"Ew…" Ruby gagged a bit. "He wasn't kidding calling it a nightmare. It just looks gross."

"Out of the way!" Jaune yelled from behind Velvet. As she turned around, Jaune was standing there with a large alien cannon in his hands. "Get out of the way, Velvet…"

But Velvet shook her head. "No… I won't let you do this…"

Velvet closed her eyes and took a breath. "Why?"

Coco turned to her teammate with a raised brown, "What?"

"Why? Why would she care so much? She's only known this thing as a killer, and it couldn't have been very long."

"It does seem like it's changing though…"

"I get that. It just seems weirdly fast to get over her fear."

"Velvet! Step aside. I need to do this! To end this! That thing killed hundreds of people today alone! You have no idea how much it's done! How dangerous it is!"

Velvet shook her head, "It's not the one point a gun at me."

Ruby groaned. "He not pointing it at you! It's at the thing behind you. He warned you! You don't point a gun at someone unless you intend to shoot them." Considering how powerful her weapon is, she had that lesson hammered into her head for a long time. "If he intended to shoot, he would have already."

But Velvet's point wasn't done. "Look at it!" She stepped to the side a bit.

Jaune was confused by the sight. The Dalek seemed to be reaching out for the sun with its tentacles. "What's it doing?" This made no sense to the Time Lord. Dalek's didn't do that. They only killed and conquered.

Velvet had never seen this or lived through such a thing, feeling more sympathy for the alien. "It's the sun, that's all it wants. It's changing." She took a breath, "And what about you, Doctor? What are you changing into?"

Gira sighed. He could understand this Doctor's anger, but he saw Velvet's point of view as well.

Jaune shook in place a moment, the cannon falling to the side. He promised himself to protect others, only taking life if no other option was available. He hated what he had done in his previous life during the War. "Velvet… They're all dead…"

The Dalek was the one to reply to him. "Why do we survive?"

"I don't know…"

"I am… the last of the Daleks."

Jaune shook his head, "You're not even that. Velvet did more than just regenerate you. You absorbed her DNA. You're mutating."

"Into what?"

"Into something new." Jaune paused. He knew the implications inherent to this. "I'm sorry…"

Velvet turned to Jaune in shock, "Isn't that better?"

"Not for a Dalek…"

Winter sighed. "The sense of superiority. That they were perfect beings that demand racial purity in the universe."

Ironwood recalled Jaune's earlier phrasing. "'It honestly believes they should die. Human beings are different, and anything different is wrong.' I believe those were the words."

The Dalek almost sounded pained, "I can feel… so many ideas. So much darkness… Velvet… Give me orders. Order me to die."

Velvet shook her head. "I can't do that."

"This is not life. This is sickness…"

Velvet felt her eye twitch. "Rude…"

Coco raised a brow with a grin. All this was having an effect. Maybe there was hope that she would finally stick up for herself back home.

The Dalek was getting angry now. "I will not be like you. Order my destruction! OBEY! OBEY! OBEY!"

Velvet finally broke. "Do it…"

The Dalek turned somber again. "Are you frightened, Velvet Scarlatina?"

Velvet was silent, but she had an answer for this creature. "Yeah…"

And for once, the Dalek could honestly say, "So am I." Its eye closed and it painfully spoke. "Exterminate…" As Velvet ran back behind Jaune, the Dalek rose into the air. The balls off the base and surrounded the armored form. A field formed around it before the Dalek exploded within. The energy was contained before blinking away into nothing. The screen flashed white to transition to a later scene.

Jaune and Velvet were standing before the blue box from the beginning. Jaune had his hands on the box, "A little piece of home… Better than nothing."

"It that the end of it?" Velvet was slightly to the side. "The Time War?"

"I'm the only one left." Jaune now stood as the only survivor. "I win. How about that?"

Ozpin's eyes fell a bit to look into his mug. "War… It's never about who's right. But who's left…"

"The Dalek survived." Velvet wanted to give him some sense of hope. "Maybe some of your people did, too."

Jaune shook his head. "I'd know." He tapped the side of his head, "Up here. Feels like there's no one."

"Well then…" Velvet put on a smile. "Good thing I'm not going anywhere."

Jaune nodded and gestured for Velvet to enter the box. The camera followed them to show the interior, a large room with a central console.

Everyone was in shock.

Velvet was just awestruck. "It's… It's bigger on the inside."

Jaune started to press a few buttons and pull levers. "Where to now?"

Velvet chuckled a little, "You haven't steered me wrong yet, Doctor."

Jaune smiled and nodded. "Alright. Then let's just wing it." He pulled a level and the scene went black.

Jaune couldn't help but grin a bit. "That was… different."

"It was crazy." Nora groaned. "And kind of sad."

Jaune nodded. "Most of it, yeah. But I can't help but feel… hopeful?" Everyone turned to him to hear his explanation. "It's like… The Dalek thing was this evil, twisted being. It wanted nothing but death and domination. If something like that can change… it kind of gives me hope that anyone can."

It was a sentiment that got the audience thinking. A certain silver-haired assassin in particular.