We had been pushed into a room, and chained up. Our hands and arms outstretched, as were our legs. They had taken the Doctor's jacket, shirt and shoes, and tried to take my shirt, which left all of the agent people with broken noses or passed out. "Now, smile!" Van Statten pulled a lever, sending a painful laser down our backs. I screamed out in pin as my back arched. Sweat rolling down my forehead. Earlier I bit down on my lip, which resulted in sending a metallic taste into my mouth.
"Two hearts! Binary vascular system. Oh, I am so going to patent this!!" Van Statten laughed, staring right at me. "So that's your secret. You don't just collect this stuff, you scavenge it." I spat blood out of my mouth, raising my head to look at him. "This technology has been falling to Earth for centuries. All it took was the right mind to use it properly. Oh, the advances I've made from alien junk. You have no idea, Doctor. And the pretty little Rebel. Broadband? Roswell. Just last year my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian crater, and do you know what we found? The cure for the common cold. Kept it strictly within the laboratory of course. No need to get people excited. Why sell one cure when I can sell a thousand palliatives?" Van Statten rambled, stepping closer to me with each word.
"Do you know what a Dalek is, Van Statten? A Dalek is honest. It does what it was born to do for the survival of its species. That creature in your dungeon is better than you." I sneered, his face inches from mind. I could feel his horrid breath hit my face.
"In that case, I will be true to myself and continue." He smiled, evilly.
"Listen to me! That thing downstairs is going to kill every last one of us!" The Doctor pleaded. "Nothing can escape the Cage." He denied, almost caressing my face. I tried to lean back, but the chains proved otherwise... He signaled for us to be hit with the laser agin, and I screamed loudly, tears forming in my eyes. The Doctor let out a high pitched scream, and I painfully looked at him.
"But it's woken up. It knows I'm here. It's going to get out. Van Statten, I swear, no one on this base is safe. No one on this planet!" I screamed. The laser hit us again as Van Statten went back to the control board.
Rose's POV
"Hold it right there." A big guard guy stopped us.
"Level three access. Special clearance from Mister Van Statten." Adam pulled out a badge, allowing us access. Adam was really nice, and it would be nice if after this was over, if maybe, the Doctor and Rebel would let him come with us...
We walked into a smaller room, that the Doctor had been to already. I could tell, everybody was in a slight panic and frenzy. 'He must of been in here.' I smiled.
"Don't get too close." Adam warned. The heavy metal door closed shut behind us, making no me jump a bit. "That's not creepy." I whispered under my breath, as the door locked.
It was then I noticed a pepper pot shaped figure in the lighter area of the Cage, as it was called. It was chained up. Poor thing... "Hello. Are you in pain? My name's Rose Tyler. I've got a few friends... They can help. They're called the Doctor and Rebel. What's your name?" I tried, cautiously asking.
"Yes." It's mechanical voice cracked.
"What?" I asked, but understanding the poor creature I front of me.
"I am in pain. They torture me, but still they fear me. Do you fear me?" It asked slowly.
I really don't see a reason to fear it. It was a poor alien chained up and tortured. It couldn't be that bad? Right?
"No." I finally answered.
"I am dying." It said sadly, looking down with its eye piece thingy.
"No, we can help." I smiled.
"I welcome death. But I am glad that before I die I have met a human who was not afraid." This brought a light smile to my face again as I tried to make it comfortable in the last moments of death.
"Isn't there anything I can do?" I thought.
"My race is dead, and I shall die alone." It looked down again. I slowly reached my hand for the head of the creature and my fingers brushed the cool metal.
"Rose, no!" Adam cried.
That brief touch made my hand suddenly scorching and I pulled my hand away quickly, cradling it into my chest.
"Genetic material extrapolated. Initiate cellular reconstruction!" The pepper pot's broken voice sounded stronger as it repaired itself. It started to brake its chains! "Oh my god!" My eyes widened in shock.
"What the hell have you done?" A man rushed in with a drill. The thing raised its sink plunger to the man. "What are you going to do? Sucker me to death?" He taunted. The creatures sucker covered most of his face, and the man started to scream in pain.
"It's killing him! Do something!" Adam and I ran out of the Cage and into the viewing room.
"Condition red! Condition red!" A voice yelled.
The Rebel's POV
"I repeat, this is not a drill!" A voice announced. "Release us if you want to live." The Doctor raised his head to Van Statten.
We both walked into his office, fully clothed. The scenes from the Cage was on a large wall TV.
"You've got to keep it in that cell." I pleaded.
"Doctor, Rebel, it's all my fault." Rose blamed.
"I've sealed the compartment. It can't get out, that lock's got a billion combinations." A guard said nervously. "A Dalek's a genius. It can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat." I shot down, leaning on the desk, head in my hands.
And that is precisely what the Dalek used its plunger to do. Inside the Cage, the Dalek had hacked into the computer systems. "Oh crap." I whispered. "We are screwed."
"Open fire!" A guard's voice rang out.
"Don't shoot it! I want it unharmed." Van Statten ordered, making me scoff. "Rose, get out of there!" The Doctor yelled to Rose through the screen.
"De Maggio, take the civilians and get them out alive. That is your job, got that?" A guard ordered a woman to take Adam and Rose away. "You, with me." She ordered them.
The Dalek glided up to the wall monitor and smashes it, absorbing the electricity. It's battered armour starts to mend, turning from brown to golden. "Abandoning the Cage, sir." A male voice rang.
"We're losing power. It's draining the base. Oh, my God. It's draining entire power supplies for the whole of Utah." Goddard gasped.
"It's downloading." I shot up.
"Downloading what?" Van Statten asked.
"Sir, the entire West Coast has gone down."
"It's not just energy. That Dalek just absorbed the entire internet. It knows everything." I said.
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The Girl Who Survived (Doctor Who)
Fanfiction"Oh yeah?! What's stopping me from running away? Huh? You know. There's a reason I'm called The Rebel. It's because I don't follow rules. Especially rules given to me by some tin pepper shakers! Bye. Bye!" ••• The Rebel thought she was the last Time...
