The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

Under the Sea Pt. 8

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With the knowledge of a Dalek AI and a burnt-up chassis, Theodore pondered their options, as he and Lila continued going down the ladder, his teeth gripping his trusty Sonic Screwdriver.

His father hadn't discussed dealing with solely a Dalek AI, much less one repurposed by a human, and if he were in Theodore's shoes, he'd giddily try and discover how this happened.

Very keen, he was, but for Theodore, he didn't want to think much about the Dalek AI, however, since this became his secondary job, suppose it's Theodore's best interest discovering just how a human managed to repurpose a dangerous AI that would've normally been inoperable after what it went through.

Given what the Daleks did, it's possible the AI wasn't tweaked to their standards, as hilarious as it sounds to a sane person describing them, and Richard Simms got lucky with the fragments he managed to program.

What he managed's probably putting the AI into a safe mode and rewrote it that way, making it like a robotic butler, but unfortunately, sometime between then and now, the AI reset itself, and returned to the previous programming, resulting in the disaster that befell Sanctuary.

Likely, when Richard Simms started reproducing the Dalek chassis, did the reset happen, as he would've wanted the AI working seamlessly.

Still doesn't excuse him being an idiot, even if he genuinely didn't think anything was going to happen.

Even the dimmest of aliens knew from the get-go that anything Dalek related's either tossed into an incinerator or calling the Doctor for help ridding it from their planet.

Thankfully for their troubles, Theodore and Lila weren't going to risk seeing more Daleks than the manmade ones, because they wouldn't value retrieving the chassis and AI.

Once a Dalek dies, the others discard it, like that.

Only the strongest survived and for the Daleks, there wasn't any exception to the rule.

Surviving a brush with death wouldn't impress them, kill the Doctor, maybe some recognition, but it's very obtuse in their mechanic society of hatred.

A miracle they even survive Thanksgiving, if they even know what it was, not that Theodore's going to tell them anything different.

That said, they're only dealing with these ones, but they risked the manmade Daleks going topside and making more problems for them.

Obviously, they can't have the Daleks escape from Sanctuary, but with the AI, they'll want to expand their reach, as Daleks did, and they'll just be as terrible as their counterparts.

Pondering about the chassis and how Richard Simms missed the fact that they had weapons, led Theodore thinking that he didn't give them weapons.

No point doing that, it's dangerous open firing in Sanctuary, they risked shooting the glass, plunging everyone into their watery graves.

True there were bullet sprays everywhere, but given how controlled, the people using them were aware of the dangers as much as the Daleks.

When the AI reset and gave the original protocols through a backup, the programmed Daleks did as the originals would've done in their stead, taking up arms, using whatever they found, and going after non-Daleks.

The AI wouldn't answer to a human, then, and would've gone with whatever's in the programming, which involved detaining and or killing.

Which led to the conclusion that the Dalek AI knew about the Doctor and that meant, the moment it's aware of Theodore, if it wasn't already, it'll send everything after him like the biological Dalek.