"How about that cuppa now, then?" The Doctor joked noticing the Daleks when they stepped outside.

"I'll have tea!" The Time Lady pipped up chuckling at the joke while very seriously eyeing the two Daleks that were on Earth in the green metal shell and the brown/golden one.

"It is the Doctor and the Stone." The green Dalek on the left announced.

"Exterminate!" The other ordered.

"Wait, wait, wait. I wouldn't if I were you." The Doctor quickly pulled out... a jammy dodger from his pocket.

Is that your plan?" The Time Lady winced. Of course, the Daleks were stupid. It was the reason why she called them pepperpots, but they weren't that stupid. Were they?

"TARDIS self-destruct, and you know what that means. Our ship goes, you all go with it." He finished then glanced at the Time Lady who hid her slightly impressed smile as he hid his smug one. They would still scan it and see that it was just a biscuit though.

"You would not use such a device." The Dalek announced making the Time lady blink. Perhaps she overestimated the pepper pots. Was that even possible? She felt disgusted if it was.

"Try me." He ordered. One of the Daleks then slowly rolled forward. "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah." The Doctor held his hand higher to make the point. "No scans. No nothing. One move and I'll destroy us all, you got that?" He asked. "TARDIS bang bang, Daleks boom!" The Dalek quietly moved back. "Good boy."

"Never let me underestimate you sweetheart."

"As if you would listen." He telepathically scoffed at her.

"Dear lord, who do you take me for Doctor?" She raised a brow at him.

"Humour dear." He grinned at her.

"Oh, you are a tease." She rolled her eyes then glanced around at the ship eyeing it before frowning making her way to the controls. "This ship's pretty beaten up. Running on empty, I'd say, like you. When we last met, you were at the end of your rope. Finished."

"One ship survived." A Dalek announced making the Stone roll her eyes at it.

"Yes, yes I guessed that, not hard to work out."

"You fell back through time, yes." The Doctor nodded agreeing with the blonde. "Crippled, dying."

"We picked up a trace. One of the Progenitor devices."

"Progenitor?" The Doctor raised a brow. "What's that when it's at home?"

"It is our past and our future."

The Stone blinked. "Oh? That's deep." She slowly nodded the Doctor doing the same.

"That is deep for a Dalek." He said in agreement. "What does it mean, though?"

"It contains pure Dalek DNA." The gold Dalek answered. "Thousands were created. All were lost, save one."

"Okay, but there's still one thing we don't get, though." The Doctor gestured to himself and the Time Lady next to him. "If you've got the Progenitor, why build Bracewell?"

"It was necessary."

"But why?" The Stone frowned then started to laugh pointing at the Daleks. "I get it. Oh, I get it. I get it. Oh ho! This is rich. The Progenitor wouldn't recognise you, would it?" She looked at them.

The Doctor then started to snigger at them. "It saw you as impure. Your DNA is unrecognisable as Dalek."

"A solution was devised."

"Yes, yes, yes." The Doctor nodded rolling his eyes. "Us. Our testimony. So you set a trap. You knew that the Progenitor would recognise us, the Daleks' greatest enemy. It would accept our word. Our recognition of you." He explained.

"No. No, no." The Stone looked overseeing one of the Daleks at the controls. "What are you doing?"

"Withdraw now, Doctor, Stone, or the city dies in flames."

"Who are you kidding?" The Doctor looked at it. "This ship is a wreck. You don't have the power to destroy London."

"Watch as the humans destroy themselves." It stated.

The Daleks sucker extended connecting with one of the controls. The ship began to let out a low hum. The Doctor stared at it slowly lowering his hand and the biscuit his eyes flickering to the Time Lady who was watching in horror.

"No, no, no!" The Stone shouted running a hand through her hair. "They turned all of the lights on in London!"

"Turn those lights off now!" The Doctor shouted holding out the jammy dodger. "Turn London off or I swear I will use the Tardis self-destruct."

"Stalemate, Doctor, Stone. Leave us and return to Earth."

"Oh, that's it. That's your great victory? You leave?" He asked.

"Extinction is not an option. We shall return to our own time and begin again." It stated

"No, no, no." The Doctor shook his head. "I won't let you get away this time. I won't." He practically growled at them. He almost lost the Stone too many times, he wasn't going to let the Daleks leave, to go and start again. He couldn't let them.

"We have succeeded. DNA reconstruction is complete. Observe, Doctor, a new Dalek paradigm." The Dalek announced. The Doctor grabbed the Stones hand gripping it tightly as she did the same with him.

The progenitor cabinet began to let out a white fog of smoke. Five Daleks all different colours rolled out of the smoke and stayed side by side in a row staring at the Time Lords. "The Progenitor has fulfilled our new destiny." The gold Dalek stated sounding almost proud, if a Dalek could possibly sound proud. "Behold, the restoration of the Daleks. The resurrection of the master race."

"All hail the new Daleks. All hail the new Daleks."

"Yes, you are inferior." The white Dalek looking at the other three.

"Yes."

"Then prepare."

"We are ready."

"Cleanse the unclean. Total obliteration. Disintegrate." The old green Daleks and the gold one were then destroyed.

"Blimey." The Doctor stared at where the three once were. "What do you do to the ones who mess up?"

"You are the Doctor." It said rolling forward. "You must be exterminated."

The Doctor narrowed his eyes and held up the Jammy dodger. "Don't mess with me, dearie."

"I'm just glad you didn't call it 'sweetheart'." The Stone whispered to him. "I would never call you it again if you did."

"Good job I didn't say it then." He winked at her. "I enjoy that name."

"Thought you did." She smirked at him.

"Drone, Eternal, and the Supreme." The white Dalek announced cutting them off, reminding the Time Lords of where they were.

"Which would be you, I'm guessing." The Doctor smirked. "Well, you know, nice paint job." He winked at the Stone who sniggered. "I'd be feeling pretty swish if I looked like you. Pretty supreme."

"I'm glad you don't look like a Dalek." She gave him a pointed look. "But he is right." She slowly nodded looking at supreme. "Pretty swish. But the question is, what do we do now?" She asked wondering around the room a little while the Doctor watched. "Either you turn off your clever machine or I'll blow you and your new paradigm into eternity."

The Doctor blinked then silently groaned while his lip twitched in a smirk realising that she had stolen the jammy dodger.

"And yourself."

"Occupational hazard." The Doctor shrugged taking the biscuit back from the Stone when she stood beside him after wondering.

"Scan reveals nothing. TARDIS self-destruct device non-existent." The Doctor sighed eating half the biscuit.

"All right, it's a Jammy Dodger, but the Stone was promised tea." He grinned letting the blonde eat the other half of the biscuit.

The Time Lords eyes darted around the ship as an alarm blared out.

"Alert. Unidentified projectile approaching." Thr blue Dalek announced. "Correction, multiple projectiles."

"What have the humans done?" The white one looked at the Time Lords who blinked.

They looked at each other. "We don't know." They both said at the same time.

"Explain. Explain. Explain."

"Danny Boy to the Time Lords. Danny Boy to the Time Lords. Are you receiving me? Over." They heard through a speaker, they ran to the small screen showing the little dots on the screen the both of the grinning.

"Oh ho! Winston, you beauty." The Doctor laughed. The Stone grinned raising her brows at the Daleks.

"Danny Boy to the Time Lords. Come in. Over."

"Loud and clear, Danny Boy." The Stone laughed. "Big dish, side of the ship."

"Blow it up. Over." The Doctor cut in taking the Stones' hand.

"Exterminate the Doctor and the Stone!" The white Dalek screeched. The Doctor and the Stone darted to the TARDIS ducking the beams of energy they shot.

Not wasting any time they both ran to the console and managed to get into the communication device of the planes thanks to the Time Lady.

"Danny Boy to the Time Lords." He announced. "Only me left now. Anything you can do, sir, ma'am? Over."

"The Time Lords to Danny Boy. The Time Lords to Danny Boy." The Doctor called through. "We can disrupt the Dalek shields, but not for long. Over."

"Good show, Doctor, Stone. Go to it. Over."

"I'm going in. Wish me luck. Over."

They waited a moment then heard the pilots voice. "The Time Lords to the Doctor. Going in for another attack."

"The Time Lords to Danny Boy. The Time Lords to Danny Boy. Destroy this ship. Over."

"What about you and the Stone, Doctor?" He asked.

"We'll be okay." He grinned at the Time Lady, the smile was then wiped off his face when they heard the Daleks voices come through.

"Doctor, Stone, call off your attack."

"Ah ha." He shook his head. "What, and let you scuttle off back to the future? No fear. This is the end for you. The final end."

"Call off the attack, or we will destroy the Earth."

The Stone froze. "I'm not stupid, mate. You've just played your last card." The Doctor shook his head again his eyes on the Time Lady.

"Bracewell is a bomb."

"You're bluffing. Deception's second nature to you. There isn't a sincere bone in your body. There isn't a bone in your body."

"Sweetheart..." the Stone whispered placing her hand on his shoulder. "I don't think it's bluffing..." she softly rubbed his arm.

"His power is derived from an Oblivion Continuum. Call off your attack, or we will detonate the android." The Dalek cut in.

"No. This is my best chance ever. The last of the Daleks. I can rid the Universe of you, once and for all."

"Then do it. But we will shatter the planet below." It stated almost mocking them. "The Earth will die screaming."

"Yeah, and if I let you go, you'll be stronger than ever. A new race of Daleks."

"Then choose, Doctor. Destroy the Daleks. Or save the Earth. Begin countdown of Oblivion Continuum. Choose, Doctor. Choose. Choose." They chanted.

The Doctor looked over at the Stone tears in his eyes. "Sweetheart we can't do this." She whispered cupping his cheek. "It's either the Daleks genocide or the human race. Doctor, we can't do that." She sniffed. "I want them gone as much as you but we can't."

The Doctor sighed leaning into her touch. "But they will be out there."

"And we will find them again." She said.

Sighing again the Doctor took her hand and kissed her knuckles then took the microphone. "The Time Lords to Danny Boy. The Time Lords to Danny Boy. Withdraw."

"Say again, sir. Over."

"Withdraw. Return to Earth. Over and out."

"But sir-"

"There's no time." The Stone cut in squeezing the Doctors hand. "You have to return to Earth now. Over." The Doctor closed his eyes for a moment. "We'll find then again." The Stone reassured him.

"That's what I'm worried about." He admitted pulling the lever to materialise the TARDIS in the filing room.

The Stone quickly ran out of the TARDIS and straight to where Bracewell stood with Amy and Churchill. She didn't hesitate a moment before her knuckles collided with the man's jaw sending him to a ground.

"Stone!" Amy gasped then saw the Doctor run in just after her. "Doctor!"

"Ouch..." The Stone winced wiggling her fingers. "Sorry, Professor, you're a bomb." She explained as the Doctor completely ignored the half man half bomb and started to lightly kiss all over the Time Ladys knuckles. Typical of him to worry only about her in a time like this. "An inconceivably massive Dalek bomb." 

"What?" The man gaped at her as if she was mad.

"There's an Oblivion Continuum inside you. A captured wormhole that provides perpetual power. Detonate that, and the Earth will bleed through into another dimension." The Doctor explained after he let the Stones hand go and crouched down to him. "Now keep down." He ripped open his shirt and flashed his sonic at Bracewell's torso opening it up to show a small disk-like device in the upper centre with five parts lit white.

One of the five segments then turned yellow and the Stone swallowed hard not having an idea of what to do. And she was one of the people made to take apart and rebuild many Dalek created devices at the start of the Time War. That was until they forced her to make new weapons.

"Well?" Amy looked at him.

"Stone?" The Doctor worryingly looked at her hoping that she had at least fiddled with one in the past either taking one apart or remaking one.

"I don't know, I don't know, I don't know." She quickly said shaking her head the Time Lords both scanning the circle with their sonics. "I've never seen one up close like this before. Never been given one to take apart or re-mend."

"So what, they've wired him up to detonate?" Amy looked at them.

"Oh no, not wired him up. He is a bomb." The Doctor explained. "Walking, talking, pow, exploding, the moment that flashes red."

"There's a blue wire or something you have to cut, isn't there? There's always a blue wire..." Amy said the Doctor stood up thinking that she had got it figured out. "...Or a red one."

"You're not helping." he groaned.

"It's incredible. He talked to us about his memories. The Great War."

"Someone else's stolen thoughts, implanted in a positronic brain." The Stone winced a little. She sort of knew what it was like, a whole life being a lie.

"Tell me about it. Bracewell." The Doctor nodded. "Tell us about your life."

"Doctor, I really don't think this is the time." The man looked at him with fear and terror over his face.

"Tell me, and prove you're human." The Stone softly said trying not to scare him more than he already was while her eyes shifted down to the segment now growing red. "Tell us everything."

The man complied and explained to them trying to keep himself together. "My family ran the Post Office. It's a little place just near the abbey, just by the ash trees. There used to be eight trees but there was a storm."

"And your parents? Come on, tell me." Doctor said.

"Good people. Kind people. They died. Scarlet fever."

"What was that like? How did it feel?" The Doctor cut in. "How did it make you feel, Edwin? Tell me. Tell me now."

"It hurt. It hurt, Doctor, Stone, it hurt so badly. It was like a wound. I thought it was worse than a wound. Like I'd been emptied out. There was nothing left." He explained to them as the Stone looked at the segments seeing two red, one yellow and two white.

"Good. Remember it now, Edwin. The ash trees by the Post Office and your mum and dad, and losing them, and men in the trenches you saw die. Remember it. Feel it. You feel it because you're human. You're not like them. You're not like the Daleks."

"It hurts, Doctor. It hurts so much." He cried.

"Good. Good, good, brilliant. Embrace it." the Doctor nodded softly speaking. "That means you're alive. They cannot explode that bomb because you're a human being. You are flesh and blood. They cannot explode that bomb. Believe it. You are Professor Edwin Bracewell, and you, my friend, are a human being." The segment changed from yellow to red. "It's not working." The Doctor winced seeing the whole circle almost fully red. "I can't stop it."

The Stone blinked. "Love." She murmured, the Doctor frowned as the Stone suddenly knelt down on the other side grinning Amy laughing a little seeing what she meant and followed.

"Hey, Paisley." the redhead softly asked. "Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?"

"What?" he blinked not seeing how it was relevant.

"It hurts, doesn't it?" The Stone asked. "But kind of a good hurt." The Doctor blinked at them both.

"I really shouldn't talk about her," Bracewell muttered.

"Oh. There's her." Amy raised a brow. The Stone started to grin again as one of the segments turned from yellow to white again.

The Doctor broke out into a broad grin as well seeing that what they were doing was working. "What was her name?"

"Dorabella."

"Dorabella?" The Doctor raised a brow then coughed seeing the pointed look his wife was giving him. "It's a lovely name. It's a beautiful name." he quickly nodded.

"What was she like, Edwin?" The Stone questioned.

"Oh, such a smile. And her eyes." He said in awe. "Her eyes were so blue. Almost violet, like the last touch of sunset on the edge of the world. Dorabella..." he softly smiled as the last segement turned back to white.

"Welcome to the human race." The Doctor grinned then pointed to Churchill. "You're brilliant." He then pointed to Bracewell. "You're brilliant. He then pointed to Amy and the Stone. ,"and you two." He grinned kissing Amy's forehead then wrapping an arm around the Stone softly kissing her lips. "Brilliant." He breathed then stood up taking her hand. "Now. Got to stop them."

"Stop the pepper pots." The Stone nodded running out the room with him to then stop hearing Bracewell.

"Wait, wait. It's too late." He shot up into a sitting position. "Gone. They've gone."

"No. No! They can't." The Doctor shouted. "They can't have got away from me again."

"No, I can feel it. My mind is clear. The Daleks have gone."

The Stone let out a defeated sigh resting her head on his shoulder, wrapping an arm around his torso she tightly hugged the Doctor.

"Doctor, Stone, it's okay. You did it." She looked at them stepping a little closer. "You stopped the bomb. Doctor?"

"I had a choice." He sighed. "And they knew I'd choose the Earth. The Daleks have won. They beat me. They've won."

"But you saved the Earth. Not too shabby, is it? Is it."

"No, it's not too shabby." He started to grin. The Stone chuckled at him and straightened his bowtie kissing his cheek.

"It's a brilliant achievement, my dear friend." Churchill nodded. "Here, have a cigar." He held one out.

The Doctor scrunched up his nose. "No."

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"There all done." The Stone walked in with the Do ror brushing her hands.

"We've taken out all the alien tech Bracewell put in." The Doctor explained.

"Won't you reconsider, Doctor? Those Spitfires would win me the war in twenty hours."

"Exactly." The Time Lords both said in unison.

"But why not?" He asked. "Why can't we put an end to all this misery?"

"Oh, it doesn't work like that, Winston," the Stone shook her head.

"And it's going to be tough. There are terrible days to come." The Doctor cut on. "The darkest days. But you can do it. You know you can."

"Stay with us, and help us win through. The world needs you."

"I'm not putting my wife through that." He smiled kissing her cheek and whispering in her ear. "Not again. He then took her hand and looked at Churchill. "Plus the world doesn't need me."

"No?" He frowned at them.

"The world's got Winston Spencer Churchill." He laughed.

"It's been a pleasure, Doctor, Stone, as always." He nodded.

"Too right."

"Goodbye, Doctor."

"Oh, shall we say adieu?" The Doctor raised a brow before hugging Churchill. The Stone rolled her eyes seeing Churchill go into the Doctors pocket and take out a TARDIS key. The Time Lady glanced over at Amy who frowned a little then noticed the Stones gaze and slowly nodded hiding the smirk on her face.

"Indeed. Goodbye, Stone." Churchill hugged the Stone. "Goodbye, Miss Pond."

"It's, it's been amazing, meeting you." She grinned.

"I'm sure it has." He chuckled. Amy then kissed his cheek and Churchill walked away.

"Oi, Churchill," Amy said stopping him and making a beckoning motion with her hand. "TARDIS key." She said.

"The one you just took from the Doctor." The Stone added making the Time Lord almost choke on his tea.

"Oh, she's good, Doctor." He slowly nodded then frowned tapping the pocket he snuck it in. The Stone shook her head opening the palm of her hand showing the key sitting there. "That wife of yours Doctor," he fondly shook his head at the Doctor who grinned wrapping an arm around the blonde's waist. "As sharp as a pin. The Stone and miss Pond. Almost as sharp as me." The Doctor saluted Churchill with the victory salute. "K B O." Churchill nodded then turned away to leave.

The Doctor glanced at the Stone holding out his hand raising a brow at her. "Not going to lose it this time are you?" She teased.

"You got it back." He protested.

"Your lucky that I did and that Amy noticed." She pointed out smirking at him.

"Do I have to get the key by force?" He teased narrowing his eyes at her

"Don't lose it again." She pointed at him with the key. "Or I won't give it back to you," She warned. The Doctor shrugged knowing she wouldn't before he smiled at the Stone placing the key in his hand.

"Thanks, dear." He kissed her cheek linking his arm with hers.


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They walked into the Laboratory Bracewell stood in. "I've been expecting you, Doctor, Stone. I knew this moment had to come." He said not looking at them.

"Moment?" The Time Lords frowned glancing at each other confused.

"It's time to de-activate me."

"Is it?" The Doctor asked glancing at the Time Lady and then Amy. "Oh. Er, yeah." He slowly nodded.

"You have no choice. I'm Dalek technology. Can't allow me to go pottering around down here where I have no business."

"No, you're dead right, Professor." The Stone nodded. "A hundred percent right."

"And by the time we get back here in what, ten minutes?" He looked at Amy.

"More like fifteen."

"Fifteen minutes, yeah, that's exactly what we're going to do. You are going to be so de-activated."

"It's going be like you've never even been activated." The Stone added.

"Yeah." Amy nodded along with them.

"Fifteen minutes?" Bracewell asked looking at them.

"More like twenty, if I'm honest." The Stone shrugged.

"Once Pond, the Stone and I see to the urgent thing we've got to see to. The, the. See?"

"Very well, Doctor." Bracewell nodded. "I shall wait here and prepare myself."

"That Dalek tech a bit slow on the uptake," Amy whispered to the Time Lord. "That thing we've got to do, going to take half an hour, realistically, isn't it, Doctor?" She loudly asked.

"Easily. So no running off, that's what I'm saying."

"Don't go trying to find that little Post Office with the ash trees or that girl." The Stone nodded.

"What was her name?" The Doctor asked.

"Dorabella."

"Dorabella." He nodded. "On no account go looking for her."

"Mind you, you can get a lot done in half an hour." The Stone shrugged then grinned.

Bracewell blinked at them for a moment before his eyes widened. "Thank you. Thank you, Doctor, Stone." He broadly smiled.

"My work here is done." The Stone brushed off her shoulders laughing. "Coming Sweetheart?" She asked taking his hand entwining their fingers together.

"Of course." He nodded walking with her. "Come along, Pond." He called over his shoulder.

They slowly walked back to the TARDIS. "So, you two have enemies then?" Amy looked at them as the Doctor walked up to the TARDIS leaning against it with the Stone beside him her head resting on his shoulder.

"Everyone's got, enemies." The Time Lady shrugged.

"Yeah, but mine's the woman outside Budgens with the mental Jack Russell. You've got, like, you know, arch-enemies." She said leaning on the other door of the TARDIS.

"Suppose so." The Doctor nodded thinking it over.

"And here's me thinking we'd just be running through time, being daft and fixing stuff. But no, it's dangerous."

"Yep. Very." He replied. "Is that a problem?"

"I'm still here, aren't I?" She laughed then looked at them. "You're worried about the Daleks."

"We're always worried about the Daleks." The Doctor replied pulling the Stone a little closer to him.

"It'll take time though, won't it? I mean, there's still not many of them. They'll need a while to build themselves up."

"It's not that." The Stone frowned. "There's something else. Something we've forgotten. Or rather you have Amelia."

"Me?" She blinked at them.

"You didn't know them, Amy." The Doctor cut in. "You'd never seen them before. And you should have done. You should." He frowned a moment then opened the TARDIS door letting the Stone and then Amy walk inside before he did so too and shut the door.