The Littlest Timelord: The Fall of the Eleventh

Chapter 6

"Oswin, I think we're close," the Doctor told her.

"You are. Less than twenty feet away. Which is the good news."

"Okay. And the bad, which I suddenly feel is coming?"

"You're about to pass through Intensive Care."

The door raised, revealing Daleks in cages.

Elise moved closer to her father.

"What's so special about this lot, then?" he asked.

"Don't know. Survivors of particular wars. Spiridon, Kembel, Aridius, Vulcan, Exxilon. Ringing any bells?"

"All of them."

"Yeah? How?"

"These are the Daleks who survived me."

Elise knew the Doctor had been involved in the Time War, but had he really been in that many battles? Her mind briefly flashed to the Naismith Mansion when the Doctor had the gun trained at Rassilon. He looked like he knew how to handle that and that fact just made Elise sad for him.

The Daleks around them started saying the Doctor's name.

"That's weird. Those ones don't usually wake up for anything," Oswin told them.

"Yeah, well special visitor."

The found a door.

"Okay, door, but it won't open. I can't be far away, though." The Doctor soniced the door.

"Hang on. Not quite sure. There's a release code. Let me just...Anything happening out there?" Oswin asked.

"No," the Doctor said, "Hang on, I'm trying to think."

One of the Daleks near them broke through its chains. "Doctor. Doctor."

"Oswin, get this door open. Oswin, open this door!" the Doctor yelled.

The Daleks were closing in on them.

"I can't!" Oswin yelled.

"Oswin! Just get this door open! Oswin! Oswin, please! Get this door open! Help us!" A plunger was headed for the Doctor's face.

The Daleks suddenly stopped and then turned away from them.

Elise's legs gave out and she slid to the floor.

"Oh, that is cool. Tell me I'm cool, chin boy," Oswin said.

"What, what did you do?" the Doctor asked.

"Hang on, I think I've found the door thingy."

"No, tell me what you did."

"The Daleks, they have a hive mind. Well, they don't, they have a sort of telepathic web."

"The path web, yes."

"I hacked into it, did a mass delete on all the information connected with the Doctor."

"You made them forget me?"

"Good, eh? And here comes the door."

The door rose, causing Elise to fall onto her back. She opened her eyes and saw herself staring at a white ceiling.

"I've tried hacking into the path web. Even I couldn't do it," the Doctor said as he entered the room.

"Come and meet the girl who can. Hey, you're right outside. Come on in," Oswin told them.