Butterfly Effect

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“Hey! Watch it!”

“Terra is acquired.” A robotic voice spoke.

I rolled my eyes. “Stupid metal cans of death.”

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Amelia: “Where are we? A spaceship, right?”

The Doctor: “Not just any spaceship. The Parliament of the Daleks. Be brave.”

Amelia: “What do we do?”

The Doctor: “Make them remember you. Well, come on then. You’ve got me. What are you waiting for? At long last, it’s Christmas! Here I am.”

(The Doctor closes his eyes tight, expecting to die. The organic Dalek speaks.)

Dalek PM: “Save us. You will save us.”

The Doctor: “I’ll what?”

Dalek: “You will save the Daleks.”

Daleks: “Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks.”

The Doctor: “Well.”

Daleks: “Save the Daleks.”

The Doctor: “This is new.”

Rory: “What’s he doing?”

Amelia: “He’s chosen the most defendable area in the room, counted all the Daleks, counted all the exits, and now he’s calculating the exact distance we’re standing apart and starting to worry. Oh, and look at him frowning now.”

(Dalek Darla is there.)

Amelia: “Something’s wrong with Amy and Rory, and who’s going to fix it? And he straightens his bow tie.”

Dalek PM: “We have arrived.

The Doctor: “Arrived where?”

Dalek PM: “Doctor.”

Darla: “The Prime Minister will speak with you now.”

The Doctor: “Do you remember who you were before they emptied you out and turned you into their puppet?”

Darla: “My memories are only reactivated if they are required to facilitate cover or disguise.”

The Doctor: “You had a daughter.”

Darla: “I know. I’ve read my file.”

(The Doctor walks up to the Prime Minister, who is the organic Dalek.)

The Doctor: “Well?”

Dalek PM: “What do you know of the Dalek Asylum?”

The Doctor: “According to legend, you have a dumping ground. A planet where you lock up all the Daleks that go wrong. The battle-scarred, the insane, the ones even you can’t control. It’s never made any sense to me.”

Dalek PM: “Why not?”

The Doctor: “Because you’d just kill them.”

Dalek PM: “It is offensive to us to extinguish such divine hatred.”

The Doctor: “Offensive?”

Dalek PM: “Does it surprise you to know the Daleks have a concept of beauty?”

The Doctor: “I thought you’d run out of ways to make me sick. Hello again. You think hatred is beautiful.”

Dalek PM: “Perhaps that is why we have never been able to kill you.”

(A hole opens in the middle of the floor. The Doctor and Darla walk back to it. A planet is visible.)

Darla: “The Asylum. It occupies the entire planet, right to the core.”

The Doctor: “How many Daleks are in there?”

Darla: “A count has not been made. Millions, certainly.”

The Doctor: “All still alive?”

Darla: “It has to be assumed. The Asylum is fully automated. Supervision is not required.”

Amelia: “Armed?”

Darla: “The Daleks are always armed.”

Rory: “What colour? I’m sorry, there weren’t any good questions left.”

Darla: “This signal is being received from the very heart of the Asylum.”

(Carmen comes over the speakers.)

White: “What is the noise? Explain. Explain.”

The Doctor: “Er, it’s me.”

Rory: “Sorry, what?”

The Doctor: “It’s me, playing the triangle. Okay, I got buried in the mix. Carmen. Lovely show. Someone’s transmitting this. Have you considered tracking back the signal and talking to them? He asked the Daleks. Hello? Hello? Carmen? Hello?”

Oswin: “Hello?”

I squealed like a little girl. “Soufflé Girl!”

The Doctor: “Come in. Come in. Come in, Carmen.”

Oswin: “Hello! Yes, yes, sorry. Do you read me?”

The Doctor: “Yes, reading you loud and clear. Identify yourself and report your status.”

Oswin: “Hello. Are you real? Are you actually, properly, real?”

The Doctor: “Yes, confirmed. Actually, properly, real.”

Oswin: “Oswin Oswald, junior entertainment officer, starship Alaska. Current status, crashed and shipwrecked somewhere not nice. Been here a year, rest of the crew missing. Provisions good but keen to move on.”

The Doctor: “A year? Are you okay? Are you under attack?”

Oswin: “Some local lifeforms. Been keeping them out.”

The Doctor: “Do you know what those lifeforms are?”

Oswin: “I know a Dalek when I hear one, yeah.”

The Doctor: “What have you been doing on your own against the Daleks for a year?”

Oswin: “Making soufflés?”

The Doctor: “Soufflés? Against the Daleks? Where’d you get the eggs?”

White: “This conversation is irrelevant.”

The Doctor: “No, it isn’t.”

The Doctor: “Because a starliner has crashed into your Asylum, and someone’s got in. And if someone can get in, then everything can get out. A tsunami of insane Daleks. Even you don’t want that.”

White: “The Asylum must be cleansed.”

The Doctor: “Then why is it still here? You’ve enough firepower on this ship to blast it out of the sky.”

Darla: “The Asylum forcefield is impenetrable.”

The Doctor: “Turn it off.”

Darla: “It can only be turned off from within the Asylum.

The Doctor: “A small taskforce could sneak through a forcefield. Send in a couple of Daleks. Oh.” (applauds) “Oh. Oh, that’s good. That’s brilliant. You’re all too scared to go down there. Not one of you will go, so tell me, what do the Daleks do when they’re too scared?”

White: “The Predator of the Daleks will be deployed.”

The Doctor: “You don’t have a Predator, and even if you did, why would they turn off a forcefield for you?”

Dalek PM: “Because you will have no other means of escape.”

Darla: “May I clarify? The Predator is the Dalek’s word for you.”

The Doctor: “Me? Me?”

Darla: “You will need this. It will protect you from the nanocloud.”

(Two humanoids put a wristband on the Doctor’s wrist.)

The Doctor: “The what? The nano what?”

Darla: “The gravity beam will convey you close to the source of the transmission. You must find a way to deactivate the forcefield from there.”

The Doctor: “You’re going to fire me at a planet? That’s your plan? I get fired at a planet and expected to fix it.”

Rory: “In fairness, that is slightly your M O. &

The Doctor: “Don’t be fair to the Daleks when they’re firing me at a planet.”

(Rory and Amy have wristbands put on them, too.)

The Doctor: “What do you want with them?”

White: “It is known the Doctor required companions.”

Rory: “Oh, brilliant. Good oh.”

The Doctor: “Don’t worry. We’ll get through this, I promise. Don’t be scared.”

(Amy’s Look could melt granite.)

Amelia: “Scared? Who’s scared. Geronimo.”

The Doctor: “Ha! Oi!”

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“Good morning, sleeping beauty.” I greeted Rory, surveying the Dalek prison.

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Rory: “Shush.”

(Other Daleks start to boot up, too, making sounds.)

Rory: “What? Sorry, what?”

Dalek: “Eg eg eg eg eg eg eg.”

Rory: “Eggs? You mean those things?”

(The roundels on the Dalek’s casing. Some have fallen off onto the floor.)

Dalek: “Egg.”

Rory: “I don’t, I don’t know what you want. Those things. Are those things eggs? This? You want this.”

Dalek: “Egg. Stir. Min. Ate.”

(Rory drops the ball.)

Dalek: “Exterminate.”

Daleks: “Exterminate.”

(One weapon blast just misses him. Rory tries to run the gauntlet.)

Dalek: “Emergency. Emergency. Exterminate. Exterminate.”

Oswin: “Run! The door at the end, run for it. They’re waking up, but they’re slow. The door at the end. Just run. Now! Now! Now!”

Daleks: “Exterminate. Exterminate.”

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Oswin: “So, anyway, I’m Oswin. What do I call you?”

Rory: “Er, I can’t remember. Er, Rory.”

“Terra. You can call me Terra.” I smirked up at the camera. That’s me, Terra Song, flirting with a Dalek.

Oswin: “Lovely name, Rory. First boy I ever fancied was called Rory.”

Rory: “Okay.”

Oswin: “Actually, she was called Nina. I was going through a phase.” “Just flirting to keep you cheerful.”

Daleks: “Exterminate. Exterminate.”

Rory: “Er, okay, any time you want to start flirting again is fine by me.”

“Amelia won’t be happy with that.” I commented.

Rory squinted, avoiding my gaze. “Doubt she would.”

“She better not be fighting with my nurse.” I warned.

“Your Nurse?” Oswin laughed. “Really?”

“Don’t like sharing. One of my flaws.” I admitted. “Oh, and earlier you called it a phase. Don’t.” I said. “Phase implies it’s over.”

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Oswin: “Hey there, beakie boy.”

Rory: “If it’s a straight choice, I prefer Nina.”

Oswin: “Loving this. The nose and the chin. You two could fence.”

“You call him the Chin too?” I smirked.

“Yes.” Oswin said, in a flirty tone.

“I only call him that when I’m mad.” I admitted. “His chin could poke an eye out.”

“Finally, someone agrees with me.” Oswin laughed. “There’s a door behind you.”

(The door rises and Rory runs through into a room with a large round platform in the middle.)

Oswin: “In there, quickly. Okay, you’re safe for now. Pop your shirts off, quick as you like.”

I grinned, taking mine off. “That’s good. Kinda like going without a shirt.”

Rory: “Why?”

Oswin: “Does there have to be a reason?”

“I like it too.” Oswin flirted.

“This room is hot, but only ‘cause I’m in here.” I added.

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Rory: “Oswin? What was that? That was close.”

(Rory runs in to see the smoking remains of Dalek shells.)

Rory: “Oswin? What happened? Who killed all the Daleks?”

(The Doctor enters from the other side, carrying Amy.)

The Doctor: “Who do you think?” He tilted his head. “And Terra Song, where is your shirt?”

I tried to look innocent, but I smiled and laughed. “Oswin told me to take it off.”

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Rory: “Will sleeping help her? Will it slow down the process?”

Oswin: “You’d better hope so, because pretty soon she’s going to try and kill you.”

The Doctor: “Amy.”

Amelia: “Ow.”

The Doctor: “Amy. Still with us.”

Rory: “Amy, it’s me. Do you remember me?”

(Amy slaps Rory.)

Rory: “She remembers me.”

The Doctor: “Same old Amy.”

Oswin: “Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract love, add anger. Doesn’t she seem a bit too angry to you?”

Amelia: “Well, somebody’s never been to Scotland.”

The Doctor: “What about you, though, Oswin. How come you’re okay? Why hasn’t the nanocloud converted you?”

Oswin: “I mentioned the genius thing, yeah? Shielded in here.”

The Doctor: “Clever of you. Now, this place. The Daleks said it was fully automated. Look at it. It’s a wreck.”

Oswin: “Well, I’ve had nearly a year to mess with them, and not a lot else to do.”

The Doctor: “A junior entertainment manager hiding out in a wrecked ship, hacking the security systems of the most advanced warrior race the universe has ever seen. But you know what really gets me about you, Oswin? The soufflés. Where do you get eggs for the soufflés? Seriously. Is no one else wondering about that?”

Rory: “No. Frankly, no. Twice.”

Oswin: “So, Doctor. I’ve been looking you up. You’re all over the database. Why do the Daleks call you the Predator?”

The Doctor: “I’m not the Predator, I’m just a man with a plan.”

Oswin: “You’ve got a plan?”

Rory: “That’s all he is.”

Amelia: “There’s a nose joke going if someone wants to pick that one off.”

The Doctor: “In no particular order, we need to neutralise all the Daleks in this Asylum, rescue Oswin from the wreckage, escape from this planet and fix Amy and Rory’s marriage.”

Amelia: “Okay, I’m counting three lost causes. Anyone else?”

The Doctor: “Oswin, there’s a Dalek ship in orbit.”

Oswin: “Yes. Got it on the sensors.”

The Doctor: “The Asylum has a forcefield. The Daleks upstairs are waiting for me to turn it off. Soon as I do, they’ll burn this whole world and us with it. So, Oswin, my question is this. How fast can you drop the forcefield?”

Oswin: “Pretty fast. But why would I?”

The Doctor: “Because this is a teleport. Am I right, Oswin?”

Oswin: “Yeah. Internal use only.”

The Doctor: “I can boost the power. Once the forcefield is down, I can use it to beam us right off this planet.”

Rory: “You said when the forcefield is down, the Daleks will blow us up.”

The Doctor: “We’ll have to be quick, yes.”

Amelia: “Fine, we’ll be quick. But where do we beam to?”

The Doctor: “The only place within range. The Dalek ship.”

Amelia: “They’ll exterminate us on the spot.”

Rory: “Ah, so this is the kind of escape plan where you survive about four seconds longer.”

The Doctor: “What’s wrong with four seconds? You can do loads in four seconds. Oswin, how fast can you drop the forcefield?”

Oswin: “I can do it from here, as soon as you come and get me.”

The Doctor: “No, just drop the forcefield and come to us.”

Oswin: “There’s enough power in that teleport for one go. Why would you wait for me?”

The Doctor: “Why wouldn’t I?”

Oswin: “No idea. Never met you. Sending you a map so you can come get me.”

Rory: “This place is crawling with Daleks.”

Oswin: “Yeah. Kind of why I’m anxious to leave. Come up and see me sometime.”

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Rory: “So, are we going to go get her?”

The Doctor: “I don’t think that we have a choice. Okay, as soon as the forcefield is down the Daleks will attack. If it gets too explody-wody in here, you go without me, okay?”

Rory: “And leave you to die?”

The Doctor: “Oh, don’t worry about me. You’re the one beaming up to a Dalek ship to get exterminated.”

Rory: “Fair point. Love this plan. What about Amy?”

The Doctor: “Keep her remembering, keep her focused. That’ll hold back the conversion.”

Amelia: “What do I do?”

The Doctor: “You heard what she said. They’re subtracting love. Don’t let them.”

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“Leave you alone on a Dalek ship?” The Doctor asked, looking horrified at the idea. “Not a chance, my dear.”

I gave the Ponds one last look. They better get back together, or I would kill them.

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Daleks: “Emergency. Emergency. Prepare to be annihilated. Emergency. We are the Daleks. We are the Daleks.”

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The Ponds

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Rory: “Okay, look at me. I’m going to be logical. Cold and logical, okay? For both of our sakes, for both of us, I’m going to take this off my wrist and put it on yours.”

Amelia: “Why? Then it’ll just start converting you. That’s not better.”

Rory: “Yes, but it’ll buy us time, because it’ll take longer with me.”

Amelia: “Sorry, what?”

Rory: “It subtracts love, that’s what she said.”

Amelia: “What’s that got to do with it? What does that even mean?”

Rory: “It’s arithmetic. It’ll take longer with me because we both know, we’ve always known, that. Amy, the basic fact of our relationship is that I love you more than you love me, which today is good news because it might just save both of our lives.”

Amelia: “How can you say that?”

Rory: “Two thousand years, waiting for you outside a box. Don’t say it isn’t true, you know it’s true. Give me your arm. Amy!”

(Amy slaps Rory.)

Amelia: “Don’t you dare say that to me. Don’t you ever dare.”

Rory: “Amy, you kicked me out.”

Amelia: “You want kids. You have always wanted kids. Ever since you were a kid. And I can’t have them.”

Rory: “I know.”

Amelia: “Whatever they did to me at Demons Run, I can’t ever give you children. I didn’t kick you out. I gave you up.”

Rory: “Amy, I don’t-”

“Terra was right.” Amy snapped, tears in her eyes. “She told me, a while ago, that nothing compared to giving the one you love up. She was right.” She glared at her husband. “So don’t you dare talk to me about waiting outside a box, because that is nothing, Rory, nothing, compared to giving you up.”

Rory: “Just give me your arm. Let me put this on you. Just give me your arm!”

Amelia: “Don’t touch me!”

(She is already wearing a wristband.)

Rory: “It’s the Doctor’s. When you were sleeping-”

Amelia: “That Time Lord. What’s the betting he doesn’t even need it.”

Rory: “Why didn’t he just tell us?”

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Terra

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The Doctor: “Oswin, I think I’m close.”

Oswin: “You are. Less than twenty feet away. Which is the good news.”

The Doctor: “Okay. And the bad which I suddenly feel is coming?”

Oswin: “You’re about to pass through Intensive Care.”

(The Daleks here are in cages.)

The Doctor: “What’s so special about this lot, then?”

Oswin: “Don’t know. Survivors of particular wars. Spiridon, Kembel, Eridius, Vulcan, Exxilon. Ringing any bells?”

The Doctor: “All of them.”

Oswin: “Yeah? How?”

The Doctor: “These are the Daleks who survived me.”

Dalek: “Doctor.”

DALEK 2: “Doctor.”

Daleks: “Doctor.”

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Oswin: “That’s weird. Those ones don’t usually wake up for anything.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, well. Special visitor. Okay, door, but it won’t open. I can’t be far away, though.”

Oswin: “Hang on. Not quite sure. There’s a release code. Let me just. Anything out there?”

The Doctor: “No.”

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Oswin: “Hang on, I’m trying to think.”

(One Dalek has been disarmed, literally, and chained up.)

Dalek: “Doctor.”

(It breaks its chains.)

Daleks: “Doctor. Doctor.”

The Doctor: “Oswin, get this door open. Oswin, open this door!”

Oswin: “I can’t!”

The Doctor: “Oswin. Just get this door open! Oswin! Oswin, please! Get this door open! Help me! Stop!”

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Oswin: “Oh, that is cool. Tell me I’m cool, chin boy.”

The Doctor: “What, what did you do?”

Oswin: “Hang on, I think I’ve found the door thingy.”

The Doctor: “No, tell me what you did.”

Oswin: “The Daleks, they have a hive mind. Well, they don’t, they have a sort of telepathic web.”

The Doctor: “The path web, yes.”

Oswin: “I hacked into it, did a mass delete on all the information connected with the Doctor.”

The Doctor: “You made them forget me?”

Oswin: “Good, eh? And here comes the door.”

(The door rises.)

The Doctor: “I’ve tried hacking into the path web. Even I couldn’t do it.”

Oswin: “Come and meet the girl who can. Hey, you’re right outside. Come on in.”

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The Doctor: “Oswin, we have a problem.”

Oswin: “No, we don’t. Don’t even say that. Joined the Alaska to see the universe, ended up stuck in a shipwreck first time out. Rescue me, chin boy, and show me the stars.”

The Doctor: “Does it look real to you?”

Oswin: “Does what look real?”

The Doctor: “Where you are right now. Does it seem real?”

Oswin: “It is real.”

The Doctor: “It’s a dream, Oswin. You dreamed it for yourself because the truth was too terrible.”

Oswin: “Where am I? Where am I? Where am I?”

The Doctor: “Because you are a Dalek.”

Oswin: “I am not a Dalek. I am not a Dalek! I’m human.”

The Doctor: “You were human when you crashed here. It was you who climbed out of the pod. That was your ladder.”

Oswin: “You mean? Human.”

The Doctor: “Not any more. Because you’re right. You’re a genius. And the Daleks need genius. They didn’t just make you a puppet, they did a full conversion. Oswin, I am so sorry, but you are a Dalek. The eggs, Oswin. The eggs for the soufflés. Where, where did it all come from?”

Oswin: “Eggs.”

The Doctor: “It wasn’t real. It was never real.”

Oswin: “Eggs.”

Oswin: “Stir. Min. Ate.”

The Doctor: “Oswin.”

Oswin: “Eggs. Stir. Min ate. Exterminate.”

The Doctor: “Oswin. No, no, no, Oswin. Oswin.”

Oswin: “Exterminate!”

The Doctor: “Listen. Oswin, you don’t have to do this.”

Oswin: “Exterminate!”

The Doctor: “Oswin!”

(Oswin is crying.)

Oswin: “Why do they hate you so much? They hate you so much. Why?”

The Doctor: “I fought them many, many times.”

Oswin: “We have grown stronger in fear of you.”

The Doctor: “I know. I tried to stop.”

Oswin: “Then run.”

The Doctor: “What did you say?”

Oswin: “I’ve taken down the forcefield. The Daleks above have begun their attack. Run!”

The Doctor: “Oswin, are you-”

Oswin: “I am Oswin Oswald. I fought the Daleks and I am Human! Remember me.”

The Doctor: “Thank you.”

“Run you clever boy, with your star, and remember.” Oswin said.

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The Doctor: “Right, go! Let’s go. We’re good. Let’s go. Oh, for God’s sake.”

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White: “The Asylum is destroyed.”

Dalek: “Incoming teleport from Asylum planet. We are under attack.”

White: “Prepare to defend. Defend. Defend!”

Dalek PM: “Explain, Dalek Supreme.”

The Doctor: “You know, you guys should really have seen this coming. The thing about me and teleports, I’ve got a really good aim. Pin-point accurate, in fact. Or, to put it another way-”

(The Doctor looks out of the TARDIS door.)

The Doctor: “Suckers!”

Dalek: “Identify yourself. Identify. Identify.”

The Doctor: “It’s me. You know me. The Doctor. The Oncoming Storm. The Predator.”

Darla: “Titles are not meaningful in this context. Doctor who?”

Dalek PM: “Doctor who?”

Daleks: “Doctor who?”

The Doctor: “Oh, Oswin. Oh, you did it to them all. You beauty.”

Daleks: “Doctor who? Doctor who?”

The Doctor: “Fellas, you’re never going to stop asking.”

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“Oswin Oswald.” I said. “You watch me run.”

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“Doctor who!” The Doctor cheered.

“Doctor who!” I cheered back.

“Doctor who!” The Doctor said, dancing about the console.

I started to dance. “Doctor! Who!”

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