Doctor Who: The Time Child

The Doctor, the ninth Doctor, followed Van Statten into the outer room outside a place called The Cage, intrigued about his 'living specimen'. He and Rose had followed a distress signal that had originated from under the Earth in America, sometime in 2012. The complex was owned by a man called Henry Van Statten, and the Doctor really didn't like him. He'd never heard of Van Statten which immediately had put him on edge. Van Statten and his crew seemed to believe that he was something big and since, quite frankly, he knew everything, he suspected whatever he was holding wasn't good. He was grateful Rose was upstairs with the British lad, at least she would be safe. Van Statten, the pudgy bald man obviously compensating for something, walked past the two guards and the man in the bright orange full body suit and up to a vault-like door in the wall.

"We've tried everything. The creature has," He typed a pass code into a keypad and the door unlocked, "shielded itself but there's definite signs of life inside."

"Inside? Inside what?" The Doctor asked as the door opened outwards into the room. The man in the orange body suit, holding his helmet in his hands, walked up to Van Statten.

"Welcome back, sir. I've had to take the power down - the Metaltron is resting." The Doctor frowned.

"'Metaltron'?" He asked Van Statten; he'd never heard of a Metaltron.

"Thought of it myself." Ah, that'll be why, "Good, isn't it? Although I'd much to prefer to find out its real name."

"Here, you'd better put these on." The orange man took off his gloves and offered them to the Doctor, "The last guy that touched it... burst into flames." The Doctor grinned at the man.

"I won't touch it then." He replied and Van Statten continued to smirk at him.

"Go ahead, Doctor. Impress me." Van Statten taunted. The Doctor, with a neutral look on his face, stepped into the cell, "Don't open that door until we get a result." He heard Van Statten command and the door shut behind him, leaving him in almost pitch black with just a little blue light across the room. He spotted some tools on a table, obviously what they had been using on the alien and his mood darkened. The human race, torturing information out anything they didn't understand. He turned to the blue light.

"Look, I'm sorry about this. Mr Van Statten might think he's clever, but never mind him. I've come to help. I'm the Doctor." He told the alien gently.

"Doc-tor." A robotic voice stated, two lights on top of it's head flashing with each syllable. The Doctor's hearts froze in his chest.

"Impossible." He whispered in shock. That can't be...

"The Doctor?" The voice asked. The Doctor could only watch in horror as a light came on, illuminating the Dalek in front of him, "Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" He ran to the door as the Dalek lifted it laser at him. He banged on the door, then rattled it frantically.

"Let me out!" He pleaded.

"Exterminate!" It cried, "You are an enemy of the Daleks! You must be destroyed!" It continued to wave it's gun around. The Doctor stopped what he was doing when he realised he wasn't dead and looked at it, his face breaking out into a grin.

"It's not working!" He cheered in realisation. The Dalek looked at his gun as the Doctor laughed in relief, "Fantastic! Oh, fantastic! Powerless! Look at you. The Great Space Dustbin. How does it feel?" He snarled at the Dalek, now furious. How dare it be here? How dare it survive?!

"Keep back!" The Dalek told him, almost scared if you could believe such a thing from a Dalek. The Doctor ran up to it, his face inches away from it's eyepiece as he stared it down.

"What for? What're you going to do to me?" The Dalek didn't reply and he began circling it menacingly, "If you can't kill... then what are you good for, Dalek? What's the point of you? You're nothing. What the hell are you here for?" He demanded as he made it back around the the front.

"I am waiting for orders." The Dalek replied.

"What does that mean?"

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

"Well you're never gonna get any. Not ever." He told the machine gleefully.

"I demand orders!"

"They're never gonna come! Your race is dead! You all burnt, all of you. Ten million ships on fire - the entire Dalek race wiped out in one second." The joy of knowing they were dead, that the entire race was dead built up in him as it always did. Even with this one right in front of him, all he could do was smile at the thought of there being no more Daleks. He then frowned at himself, suddenly feeling guilty. He shouldn't feel like that about genocide. He didn't want to feel like that. If Rose could see him...

"You lie!" The Dalek cried out, pulling him out of his thoughts.

"I watched it happen. I MADE it happen!" The Doctor shouted.

"You destroyed us?" The Doctor paused, the guilt of what he had done hitting him, the sheer loneliness of what he had become causing him to turn his back on the Dalek and walk away.

"I had no choice." He told the machine quietly.

"And what of the Time Lords?" It asked.

"Dead." He replied, "They burnt with you. The end of the last great Time War. Everyone lost."

"And the coward survived." The Dalek taunted. The Doctor grinned to himself.

"Oh - and I caught your little signal... 'help me'... poor little thing..." He said mockingly, "But there's no one else coming 'cause there's no one else left."

"I am alone in the Universe." The Dalek summarized sorrowfully, it's eye stalk falling downwards.

"Yep." The Doctor said in the same tone, a sad smile on his face.

"So are you." His face fell, "We are the same." The Doctor spun around and stormed over to it.

"We're not the same, I'm not-" He trailed off, realising he was trying to convince himself rather than the Dalek, "No - wait. Maybe we are. You're right, yeah, okay. You've got a point. 'Cos I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve." He raised his eyebrows, a manic look on his face, "Exterminate." He crowed, striding towards a control panel and pulling a lever. The Dalek was engulfed by electricity and it began screaming. The Doctor watched it, a feeling of justice filling him.

"Have pity!" It pleaded.

"Why should I? You never did." He replied, turning up the voltage as he watched it suffer. The door flew open and soldiers began filing in. Instantly knowing they were there to stop him, the Doctor rushed forward to turn the voltage up one more time before he was restrained and pulled out of the room. The man in the orange body suit turned off the machine.

"I saved your life, now talk to me! God damn it, talk to me!" Van Statten demanded but the Dalek fell silent.

"You've got to destroy it!" The Doctor called but Van Statten ignored him.

"The last in the Universe. And now I know your name. Dalek. Speak to me, Dalek." He told it but the Dalek remained silent, "I am Henry van Statten, now recognise me!" With still no response he turned to Simmons, "Make it talk again, Simmons." Simmons stepped towards it, eyes gleaming menacingly, "Whatever it takes."

~0~0~0~

The Doctor, Van Statten and the bushy haired woman named Goddard stepped into a lift, following two guards with guns, who stood at the back silently.

"The metal's just battle armour," The Doctor explained, "the real Dalek creature's inside."

"What does it look like?" Van Statten asked.

"A nightmare. It's a mutation. The Dalek race was genetically engineered - every single emotion was removed except hate."

"Genetically engineered... by whom?" Van Statten sounded impressed and the Doctor rolled his eyes, frustrated by the man's lack of urgency. They had to destroy it.

"By a genius, Van Statten. By a man who was king of his own little world - you'd like him." He taunted and the bushy haired woman stepped between them, knowing an argument would break out if she didn't stop it.

"It's been on Earth for over fifty years - sold at a private auction moving from one collection to another. Why would it be a threat now?" She asked, obviously taking him a little more seriously even though she seemed slightly sceptical.

"Because I'm here." The Doctor stated simply, now addressing her, "How did it get to Earth? Does anyone know?"

"Records say it came from the sky like a meteorite. It fell to Earth on the Ascension Islands - burnt in its crater for nearly three days before anybody could get near it and all that time it was screaming. It must've gone insane." Oh this got better and better; not just a Dalek, but an insane Dalek.

"Must've fallen through time. The only survivor." He mused out loud.

"You talked about a war?" She asked and he nodded.

"The Time War. The final battle between my people and the Dalek race." He explained to her.

"But you survived too." Van Statten stated, not looking at the Doctor.

"Not by choice." The Doctor assured him.

"This means that the Dalek isn't the only alien on Earth, Doctor," Van Statten turned to face him, "there's you. The only one of your kind in existence. Take him to the girl. She knew that creature as well."

~0~0~0~

Two large lights flashed on, illuminating the Doctor who was chained to a rack, his hands above his head. He blinked in the light, having been restrained in the darkness the light almost blinded him. He looked around, his eyes widening in surprise as he saw Danni next to him, unconscious and hanging much in the same way. While she was still dressed, however, he had been stripped to his waist.

"Danni!" He cried, surprised and horrified as he began struggling at the sight of her. He glared at Van Statten, who was stood behind an instrument, smiling cruelly, "Let her go!" What was she doing here? She had disappeared after Cardiff and Gwen. What did it mean, her being here as well?

"Ah, so you know her. I knew you three were linked, even though she's only human and you're so much more." Van Statten taunted. Danni began stirring, panicking as she found herself chained up and fighting against the restraints hard.

"Danni, calm down!" The Doctor told her and she span, alarmed to see him next to her. Her eyes travelled to his torso and she couldn't help the smirk on her face.

"A topless Time Lord. Not the worse thing I could see in an underground cage." She told him.

"If you don't mind." Van Statten snapped, "We have more important things to be , smile!" The instrument ran a beam over the Doctor's torso, scanning him. He grimaced in pain, moaning when it stopped abruptly.

"Leave him alone, you stupid American!" Danni snarled, now trying to get away so she could smack him, hard. Oh, how she hated that man!

"Two hearts!" Van Statten crowed happily, looking at the results of the scan and ignoring her shouts, "Binary vascular system! Oh, I am so going to patent this."

"So that's your secret. You don't just collect this stuff, you scavenge it." The Doctor called to him, and he shrugged, not denying it at all.

"This technology has been falling to Earth for centuries." Van Statten explained, "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. Broadband? Roswell. Just last year my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian Crater, and do you know what they found?" The Doctor watched him, looking disgusted but intrigued while Danni just glared at the man. What a slimy human being, no wonder the Doctor got angry at humans all the time, "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?"

"Do you know what a Dalek is, Van Statten?" The Doctor snapped in reply, "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." Van Statten's eyes narrowed.

"In that case, I will be true to myself and continue." He bit out, striding back over to the scanner.

"Please listen to him!" Danni begged, "Dalek's don't negotiate! They don't listen, they don't have mercy! That Dalek will be the end of everyone on this planet!" The Doctor stared at her, surprised and a little suspicious. How did she know what a Dalek was like? She was only young, she shouldn't have even heard of them.

"That thing downstairs is going to kill every last one of us!" He said frantically as he turned back to Van Statten; he'd deal with the conundrum of Danielle Fielding later, right now there was a Dalek, alive, and no one seemed to care!

"Nothing can escape the Cage." Van Statten assured confidently before running the scan again, the Doctor writhing around in pain. Danni squeezed her eyes shut, not wanting to watch him when she couldn't do anything to stop him hurting.

"But it's woken up! It knows I'm here! It's gonna get out! Van Statten, I swear no one on this base is safe! No one on this planet!" He pleaded a final time, but Van Statten just ran the scan one more time, the Doctor throwing his head back and screaming at the pain.

"Condition red! Repeat, condition red! This is not a drill!" A voice came over the intercom as an alarm began blaring. This Van Statten did take notice of, looking at the Doctor who was covering in sweat, panting from the pain.

"That'll be Rose touching the Dalek." Danni told the Doctor.

"Release me if you want to live." He told the man wearily.

~0~0~0~

The Doctor led Van Statten, Danni, his assistant and his security guards out of the lift and into Van Statten's office. He headed immediately to one of the monitors showing the cell, Rose stood there anxiously.

"You've got to keep it in that cell." The Doctor stated, startling the blonde girl slightly. She turned and faced the camera.

"Doctor, it's all my fault." She told him and Danni frowned.

"No it's not." She assured Rose, "You weren't to know." Rose blinked, surprised at seeing Danni there.

"Danni?" Rose asked and Danni nodded, waving with a smile.

"Hello! I'll explain later, promise." Rose nodded and a security guard leant over her shoulder.

"I've sealed the compartment. It can't get out, that lock's got a billion combinations." He told the office, addressing the Doctor more then Van Statten. He didn't really like the man, no one did and he knew he wasn't clever enough to fight whatever the Metaltron actually was.

"The Dalek's a genius. It can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat." The Doctor retorted, arms folded, agitated. Van Statten's head shot around as he regarded the Doctor, someone who obviously knew more than he did. He didn't like it.

"Just get out of there. Seal every door on your way, but don't fight it." Danni warned, "You won't win."

"Stand your ground!" Van Statten snapped and Danni stared at him, incredulously.

"It's a Dalek!" She exclaimed, "It will kill them! All of them!"

"It's my Dalek!" Van Statten replied just as angrily, "And this is my complex!"

"Yes, and you will be buried here among your dead items from the stars you want to touch but never will! You are a weak man with a weak mind, and a Dalek will wipe the floor with you, you idiotic simpleton!" She turned to the screen, "Get out of there Rose!" The Doctor watched her rant, amused at her anger.

"How do you know what a Dalek is?" He asked. Danni looked out of the corner of her eye at him, a smirk on her face.

"I know what a lot of things are, sweetie. You'll get used to it." The door to the cell suddenly opened, all the guards in the lobby outside aiming at it with their guns.

"Open fire!" They all shot at the Dalek, the bullets ricocheting off its outer shell harmlessly.

"Don't shoot it, I want it unharmed!" Van Statten shouted at his men and Danni, having finally had enough of the man, span and slapped him across the face. The guards stood frozen, shocked and amused at the British girl's action as she stepped on her tiptoes, meeting him eye-to-eye.

"Shut. Up!" She shouted, eyes blazing before turning to the screen.

"Rose, get out of there!" The Doctor begged Rose.

"De Maggio -" The guard who had addressed the Doctor turned to his female partner, "take the civilians and get them out alive. That is your job, got that?" She nodded, heading for the door.

"You - with me." She commanded Rose and the limey lad Van Statten had mentioned before. They followed her out of the room without complaint. The male guard continued shooting while retreating but the bullets had no effect. The Dalek turned away from him, ignoring him as it glided towards the camera. The members of the office stared silently as it raised it's sucker to the screen, smashing it through the camera and cutting off visual to the cell. The sound of it screaming came across the audio feed.

"Abandoning the cage, sir." The male voice called as the guard fled for his life. Danni looked up at the Doctor, who was staring at the screen with a look of horror on his face.

"It's repairing itself." She whispered quietly and the Doctor nodded, recognising the noise. The Dalek was free.

~0~0~0~

The Doctor, Danni and Van Statten leant over Goddard's shoulder as she typed frantically on the keyboard of a computer with a thin, see-through monitor, almost like a window. She brought up some statistics.

"We're losing power. It's draining the base." Goddard exclaimed. The image changed to an outline of the USA with a close-up of a state, red dots flashing on it warningly, "Oh, my God. It's raiding entire power supplies for the whole of Utah."

"It's downloading." The Doctor replied.

"Downloading what?" Van Statten asked.

"Sir, the entire West Coast has gone down." Goddard continued as the image continued changing, showing the power outage stretching across America.

"It's not just energy. That Dalek just absorbed the entire Internet. It knows everything." The Doctor told them. Goddard brought up a blueprint of the base, showing all power with a error across one part of it.

"Sir, the cameras in the vault have gone down." She stated.

"We've only got emergency power, it's eaten everything else, you've got to kill it now!" The Doctor commanded Van Statten as Goddard nodded, holding her finger up to her ear to activate her communication device.

"All guards to converge in the Metaltron cage, immediately." She issued the command as Danni stared at the Doctor, incredulously.

"You can't send them in there! They don't stand a chance!" She shouted. He turned to face her.

"We have to stop it." The Doctor replied simply.

"It'll slaughter them!" She argued, getting more furious as he seemed to be disregarding all the soldiers in the base.

"You don't understand. That Dalek cannot be allowed to escape! The whole of the planet is at stake, a couple casualties..." Her eyes narrowed.

"I understand perfectly!" She snapped, "Let the little humans die, that's fine! We're only tiny little apes to you, but I'm not going to let you do this!" She yanked the device from Goddard's ear, much to her protest and fumbled with it clumsily, turning it on, "Retreat. I repeat, all guards retreat. Lock down each..." The Doctor snatched the device out of her hands.

"What do you think you're doing?!" He shouted at her.

"If I have to stop you as well, I will." She swore, "The bullet's are not going to make a dent on a fully-healed Dalek!"

"You don't know that." He replied, glaring at her, "Who are you?!"

"Danielle Fielding!" She shouted back as the sound of gun and Dalek fire filtered through to the room, "Look me up sometime!"

"Tell them to stop shooting at it!" Van Statten commanded Goddard, who turned to look up at him, amazed.

"It's killing them!" She exclaimed.

"They're dispensable, that Dalek is unique." He replied callously, picking up a microphone, "I don't want a scratch on its body work? Do you hear me? Do you hear me?" He shouted over the intercom. Danni smacked the microphone out of his hands.

"Didn't I tell you to shut up?" She screamed at him, so frustrated at everyone around her. Why would no one listen to her?! The gunshots faded into nothing and they all looked towards the ceiling, realising it wasn't because the guards were following orders. Danni let out a sob, her hand moving to her mouth as she tried to stifle the noise. She took a deep breath to try and calm herself and turned to the Doctor.

"This is what happens when you become emotional." She told him lowly, "All you had to do was stop and think, but you just can't stay calm."

"That Dalek needs to be stopped!" He told her angrily.

"You need to be stopped." She snapped back and he blinked at her, surprised, "All you had to do was realise that we are in a museum full of alien tech, but you are still so full of hatred for yourself that you let them men die!" She turned away from him and pushed past Van Statten to go sit in the corner, her head in her hands. He should have listened to her. Eleven would have, even Ten would have at least taken notice but he obviously barely knew her. She didn't like it, she didn't know how to handle him at all and all they seemed to be doing was argue.

"Erm..." Goddard stated unsurely, drawing the Doctor's attention from the sobbing girl and to the computer screen, "That's us right below the surface. That's the cage - and that's the Dalek." She zoomed onto a piece of the blueprint and a flashing blue light appeared in one of the corridors, indicating the Dalek. The Doctor nodded, looked back at Danni with a thoughtful frown and then back at Goddard.

"This museum of yours - have you got any alien weapons?" He asked.

"Lots of them, but the trouble is the Dalek's between us and them."

"We've got to keep that thing alive. We could just seal the entire vault, trap it down there." The Doctor turned to him, not understanding why the man still wanted to keep the Dalek alive.

"Leaving everyone trapped with it? Rose is down there. I won't let that happen. Have you got that?" Van Statten stood up straight at the threat but the Doctor had already turned his attention back to the screen and Goddard, "It's got to go through this area. What's that?" He pointed to an area on the blueprint.

"Weapons testing." Goddard replied.

"Give guns to the lawyers, technicians, anyone. Everyone. Only then have you got a chance of killing it." He told her. She nodded and stood up to go give the orders, the Doctor taking her place in front of the screen.

"It's not going to work." Danni snapped from across the room, "It's a fully-functional, armoured Dalek with no master." The Doctor ignored her and she sighed, "Do you remember De Maggio?" She asked him and he rolled his eyes, turning to her.

"No. Who was he?" He muttered back.

"She." Danni corrected, "De Maggio is the woman who was told to look after Rose." This caught his attention and he straightened as Danni stared at the wall, "She's dead now. Thinking she could stop it. It's chasing Rose, and you're still sending men in to try and kill it."

"I thought you were the great expert, Doctor." Van Statten stated, the Doctor staring at Danni with a confused frown, "If you're so impressive, then why not just reason with this Dalek? It must be willing to negotiate - there must be something it needs, everything needs something."

"What's the nearest town?" The Doctor asked instead.

"Salt Lake City." Van Statten replied, confused.

"Population?"

"One million."

"All dead." The Doctor replied, "If the Dalek gets out, it'll murder every living creature, that's all it needs."

"But why would it do that?!" Van Statten shouted, frustrated and scared.

"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, Van Statten, you've let it loose!" The Doctor replied just as angry. Danni sighed and stood up, wiping her eyes.

"It's not exactly a Dalek anymore." She told them reluctantly and the Doctor spun the chair around to face her.

"What?" He asked, exasperated.

"It used Rose's DNA to heal itself. Took something from her it could use and fixed itself." She walked over to the Time Lord, "What we have roaming the hallways is a Dalek/Human hybrid." The Doctor's mouth fell open.

"So?" Van Statten snapped.

"So everything." She snapped back at him, "You know what a human is that a Dalek isn't? Scared. Vengeful. Manipulative. Humans can use others emotions and weaknesses against them, a Dalek can't because it doesn't understand them, all it wants to do is kill. This Dalek can, and you're sending it after people who probably even now don't fully understand the threat it is, and it knows it." She turned to the Doctor, "Please." She begged him, "Please pull them out."They stared at each other, Danni trying to urge the Doctor to listen to her. He turned back to the monitor, eyes downcast.

"We need to stop it." He replied sadly and she closed her eyes in defeat.

"Fine." She whispered, "But I warned you." She went and sat back against the wall, wishing more then ever she was with Eleven.

~0~0~0~

Thanks for all the replies to my question, I think that I will split it up into three because I think that rating the next part 'm' would mean you get the story as it's written. It seems like a plan, but that means that this part only has a few episodes left :P

As of writing this I have reached 100 favorites! Wahoo! *dances*

So, here's a sneak peak of Part 2, which is going to be called... *drum roll*... The Time Child: Insanity Calling! Mwahahaha! It's kinda obvious which episodes it's from, but enjoy all the same!

"It's okay." Danni replied soothingly as she reached up and stroked his hair. The Master's hand shot out and caught her wrist, yanking her towards him. She yelped in surprise and fell forward into his lap.

"Oh ho ho, what's this then? A Vortex Manipulator?" She shook her head.

"No... Well, yes but it doesn't work." She explained quickly.

"Did you think I wouldn't notice? Your assistants are becoming increasingly stupid." The Doctor glared at him.

"It doesn't work." Danni reiterated hastily, "It's a fixed point, it just shoots me off when and where it likes. I can't even take it off." She took her arm back and tried to undo it to show him, "See, you can't grab it." He roughly grabbed her arm back again and tried for himself.

"A fixed point, on your arm?" He asked slowly.

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