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F O U R
Davros' Vault, Dalek Crucible, somewhere in 2009

Lucie has a good look around the vault from where she is stood

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Lucie has a good look around the vault from where she is stood. The room is dimly lit, she then notices how Cann is chained up. Her eyes then cast towards the large pillars in the middle of the room.

Some of the Daleks are stood by them. Like guards, making sure they don't move, a feeling of dread crept up from the pit of her stomach. "This message is for the Dalek Crucible. Repeat. Can you hear me?" The voice of Martha Jones echoes through the vault.

"Put me through." The Doctor please.

"It begins As Dalek Caan foretold." Davros tells the Doctor.

"The Children of Time will gather, and one of them will die." Cann cackles once again.

"Stop saying that. Put me through!" The Doctor says once more.

"Doctor! I'm sorry, I had to." Martha tells the Doctor.

"Oh, but the Doctor is powerless. My prisoner. State your intent." Davros tells Martha.

"I've got the Osterhagen Key. Leave this planet and its people alone or I'll use it." Martha holds up a device up to the screen.

"Osterhagen what? What's an Osterhagen Key?" The Doctor looks at his friend with wide eyes.

"There's a chain of twenty five nuclear warheads placed in strategic points beneath the Earth's crust. If I use the key, they detonate and the Earth gets ripped apart." Martha exclaims.

"What? Who invented that? Well, someone called Osterhagen, I suppose. Martha, are you insane?" The Doctor asks his friend.

"The Osterhagen Key is to be used if the suffering of the human race is so great, so without hope, that this becomes the final option." Martha explains to the Doctor.

"That's never an option." The Doctors tells Martha.

"Don't argue with me, Doctor! Because it's more than that. Now, I reckon the Daleks need these twenty seven planets for something. But what if it becomes twenty six?" Martha looks at the Doctor with a glare. "What happens then? Daleks? Would you risk it?" Martha looks down the lens with confidence.

"She's good." Rose comments.

"Who's that?" Martha asks.

"My name's Rose. Rose Tyler." Rose introduces herself.

"Oh, my God. He found you." Martha gasps.

That's when they hear of another transmission, Lucie smiles when Jack's face appears the screen. However, that smile is short lived due to what Jack is currently holding. "Captain Jack Harkness, calling all Dalek boys and girls." Jack says as there are wires attached to the Warp Star now. "Are you receiving me? Don't send in your goons, or I'll set this thing off." Jack leans forwards as he holds the Warp Star.

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