Storm: Time Jump

Victory of the Daleks

Teresa walked into the laboratory to find the Doctor sitting on a chair beside one of the desks, flipping through a file as Amy leaned against the desk. Bracewell was just replying to Amy, smiling warmly: "Yes, I thought I detected a familiar cadence, my dear."

He nodded in greeting at Teresa as she walked in, and smiled at him, wrinkling her nose as the Doctor piped up: "How did you do it? Come up with the idea?"

"How does the muse of invention come to anyone?" Bracewell replied with a shrug.

The Doctor raised his brows and tossed the file onto the desk as he asked: "But you get a lot of these clever notions, do you?"

"Well," Bracewell replied excitedly, "ideas just seem to teem from my head. Wonderful things, like. Let me show you."

He pulled some files from another desk, laying them out as he explained: "Some musings on the potential of hypersonic flight." The Doctor walked over quickly to take a look, Teresa and Amy also peering over as Bracewell went on: "Gravity bubbles that can sustain life outside of the terrestrial atmosphere. Came to me in the bath."

"And are these your ideas or theirs?" The Doctor asked as he slapped the file down, and Teresa had to frown at his bluntness.

Bracewell replied with a scoff: "Oh no, no, no. These robots are entirely under my control, Doctor. They are." A Dalek brought Bracewell his tea and Bracewell said to it distractedly: "Thank you."

Bracewell finished, looking back at the Doctor: "The perfect servant, and the perfect warrior."

The Doctor leveled a look at Bracewell and he said darkly: "I don't know what you're up to, Professor, but whatever they've promised, you cannot trust them. Call them what you like, the Daleks are death."

"Yes, Doctor." Churchill called as he walked into the lab as well. "Death to our enemies. Death to the forces of darkness, and death to the Third Reich."

The Doctor snapped as another Dalek rolled in after Churchill: "Yes, Winston, and death to everyone else too."

"Would you care for some tea?" The first Dalek asked the Doctor, and the Doctor hit the tray away from it, his tempter starting to take over as he shouted at it: "Stop this! What are you doing here? What do you want?"

Everyone else in the room watched in shock while the Dalek replied, as meekly as a Dalek could (which wasn't much): "We seek only to help you."

"To do what?" The Doctor asked flatly, and the Dalek replied triumphantly: "To win the war."

Teresa tensed as the Doctor demanded: "Really? Which war?"

"I do not understand." The Dalek answered and the Doctor elaborated with forced calm: "This war, against the Nazis, or your war? The war against the rest of the Universe? The war against all life forms that are not Dalek?"

The Dalek's eyestalk twitched before it answered: "I do not understand. I am your soldier."

"Oh, yeah?" The Doctor snarled, his temper breaking. "Okay." He spun around and spotted a huge spanner. He picked it up, making Amy's eyes widen and Teresa start to freak out.

"Okay, soldier, defend yourself!" The Doctor proclaimed as he began to hit the Dalek.

Amy watched in alarm, Bracewell gasped, and Churchill cried angrily: "Doctor, what the devil?"

"You do not require tea?" The Dalek asked and Teresa cried in fear: "Doctor!"

Bracewell shouted over her: "Stop him! Prime Minister, please."

"Doctor, what the devil? Please, these machines are precious." Churchill cried while the Doctor kept hitting the Dalek, shouting furiously: "Come on. Fight back. You want to, don't you? You know you do."