h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

FALLS THE SHADOW

EPISODE ONE:

The TARDIS shook and twisted in the grasp of the Index's clutched suddenly it burst open. Its energy crackled on the dark tendrils. The explosion that happened threw the Doctor back as another tendril stabbed down at him...
He was alive, he was sure of that. He was crouching on a smooth floor, no where near the Shadow Index. Looking around him, he found himself in a sphere. A glass sphere, while below him was the sparkling colour of the vortex.
'How is this possible? The only beings strong enough to save me are gone, finished? Hello? Is anyone there?' he called aloud as he climbed to his feet.
Tentatively he tapped the wall and it tapped back at him.
'Hello? I need to talk to whoever has brought me here? Please, this vitally important!' the Doctor cried but no one answered his reply.
'Great! Out of one trap and into another, come on out and face me, who is it this time?' the Doctor snapped hard.
'Be calm and remain so' came a voice, fluted in places.
The Doctor looked all around him but could find no sign of the source.
'Relax Doctor, there is no need to fear, you are quite safe in this sphere' replied the voice.
'Safe or trapped, a difference of perspective, perhaps you could pop in and make an appearance?' the Doctor asked towards the sky.
'Very well Doctor, please won't you sit down' said a figure who was suddenly sitting dome feet away from him.
'If indeed you mean me no harm then copuld you explain your actions?' the Doctor demanded but the figure dressed in a white cowl raised a thre-fingered claw for silence.
'Please sit down, there is much to discuss Doctor' the figure said and as the Doctor walked to the figure and sat down facing it.
'Now that we are comfortable Doctor, can you tell me what you last remember?' the figure asked gently.
'I was standing the street, the Index was attacking everything, I tried to escape but they took my TARDIS the Index destroyed it' the Doctor replied steadily but the figure raised a hand.
'What you say is partly true but of the Index this is not so?' the figure slowly said, which promoted a look of confusion across the Doctor's face.

He stood there, not in the vortex but in the centre of a rich valley. The grass around his feet blew gently in the Morning breeze.
Where was he? The sky above was warm purple while a blue sun beat down upon the world. Trees- Baneapple grew upon them.
He gasped as he saw them and then heard the child-like squeals and walking to the edge he stared at the vast domes that bordered the land.
He could see children playing Loop Ball, watch the Mantirax flock into the sky.
'Not possible' he murmured as he walked along the banks of the green streams.
He nodded greetings to the people he saw dressed in the old clothes he knew so well.
He was home. No, not yet. He would not let this place trick him. Instead he closed his eyes and concentrated.
He reappeared on a blacony over looking the many tall domed buildings while below them stood the vast jungle of vegetation.
A Mantriax sat in a cage on the bar fluting to itself as he looked, he could see his old desk at which he worked. The paintings on the wall.
Just then a women entered, tall and attractive with long brown hair. On seeing him she crossed the floor to greet him.
'You have returned to us Phillanimous, we were so worried about you?' she breathed softly.
He smiled a long forgotten smile, his eyes cried showers of sorrow as he hugged her.
'Dearest Xsaskana, I thought that I would never see your face again?' he cried.
'Where have you been? Did they get back safely she asked and he nodded slowly.
Xsaskana then noticed his hand, twisted blackened claw.
'What happened to your hand? This happened recently, did something go wrong?' she asked but he shook his head.
'It's nothing, I made a mistake but it's all right now. You're back now, you're all back' he cried and stared out tearfully at the world before him.
Phillips was no longer needed, Phillanimous decided, everything was finally back. He felt so relieved.

The Doctor stood unable to take in what the figure had said.
'Please sit down Doctor?' the figure instructed but the Doctor was angry.
'How do you know so much? In the last thirty minutes you've told me everything that has happened. All the deaths of countless millions and you knew! How?' the Doctor snapped.
'Please sit down Doctor?' the figure asked.
'Only on one condition that you explain yourself starting with a name!' the Doctor snapped.
'I am Iphoadon, a keeper of time. A watcher who sees all' the cowled figure replied.
'A seer? Then that explains a lot, like Time Lords you prefer to observe events rather than prevent them' the Doctor replied as he sat back down.
'Precisely Doctor, we are bound never to act unless necessary. I saw you in mortal danger, I plucked you from destruction because it was not your time' Iphoadon replied calmly.
'If you know what is happening, perhaps you could explain what you meant by the index being not the Index?' he asked but the cowled figure simply pointed to the ground.
'It looks like glass, it feels like glass but is it?' he asked and the Doctor immediately shook his head.
'Of course it isn't a protective sphere created by mental energy to support us within the vortex' the Doctor replied and Iphoadon nodded.
'You see, now everything is not how it is. The force you encountered was not the Index. We have witnessed the end but now the beginning draws closer' he said.
Then what is it? The Doctor thought. An intelligent life form imitating the Shadow Index but why a deception so vast, no there had to be something the there?
'I don't suppose you could give me a clue? Our time is rather needed elsewhere?' the Doctor replied but the figure shook its head and raised an arm. Immediately a strange staff appeared in his hand.
'We exist outside time looking in, the answers are all there Doctor, you will not gain anything without full understanding?' Iphoadon answered.
The Doctor sat there, his mind going through all the events possible: The Dalek invasion, the encounter on Scarlos, Phillips' meddling, the death of the Time Lords and within all of them there had to be a link?

Phillanimous sat at his desk, a white bandage encircled his left hand as he worked. He was writing his confession to be sent to the senate immediately upon finishing it.
He had caused the agony of many, killing those who had stood in his way. He was guilty but he knew that he could not remain evil- amoral.
He would suffer what crimes he had wrought on others and as he worked Xsakana walked in carrying a basket of pink Baneapples and placed them down beside him.
'I thought you might be hungry?' she said sweetly and he looked up and smiled so.
'Thank you Xsakana, I am but I would prefer to get them myself. I am not so weak yet you treat me now like a poor child?' he said calmly and she smiled.
'Just trying to make sure that you're eating well, are you staying around long? I wondered if we could go for a walk along by the river?' she asked and he looked to her twinkling eyes.
'I see no reason why I cannot, after I have finished work I will be indeed staying long' he said slowly and with that Xsaskana left him.
He stared after her, how long until he would have to tell her the truth.
He quickly turned away from her fleeting form and onto the his confession.
It had to be written, he would suffer for the greatest crimes his race had forever annexed from their existence.
He looked to the Baneapple, it looked so ripe and it had been so long since he had tasted its sweet nectar? He reached forward and took one, testing its weight before he bit hard into the soft pink skin, the juice flowed into his mouth as he took his first bite.
This had been what he had fought for, even now as he closed his eyes and relaxed his thoughts still dwelt on Gallifrey, on the lives he had taken on the force he had encountered in the vortex.
He opened his eyes quickly and rose from his chair, walking to the balcony he looked out on his world, no longer dead and cold but alive and warm!
Yet in his heart he knew that it would not last, he felt a chill pass though him, a awkward chill of apprehension.
Was he finally home or was this a momentary reprieve?

The Doctor sat there, his thoughts trying to piece the story together but as he approached where he was now the thing just fell flat.
'You are having trouble Doctor, you still try to find piece where there is nothing?' Iphoadon said at last much to the grumbling from the Doctor sitting opposite. 'I am. None of this makes sense? Could you perhaps show me something that I don't know of?' he asked and surprisingly Iphoadon nodded.
'Very well Doctor' he said and as the Doctor watched the sparkling colour of the vortex vanished to be replaced with a familiar looking setting- Purple, green and yellow hung above him.

The area around the cave entrance was clear as Artrem hurried Nicole along using his body as a shield as he went.
As his advanced hearing heard something, he pulled Nicole down as ahead of them a Silver Dalek glided into view.
It glanced around before turning away.
Sensing that everything was ready Artrem motioned them to continue.
'Shh? I can hear something?' Nicole called as they approached the entrance, the stone steps before them.
'Are you sure?' Artrem asked because he could hear nothing.
'I am, something coming this way!' Nicole whispered and as Artrem motioned for her to remain still two Daleks appeared at the top.
'The other entrance to the vaults has been discovered' grated one of the Daleks.
'We are to guard this position, any resistance we encounter is to be exterminated!' replied the other.
'I Obey' said the first.
'What do we do now?' Nicole whispered but Artrem was focussing more on them.
'Artrem I'm scared!' Nicole cried and he looked to her, she was shaking so.
'I'll get you to the TARDIS but first I promise you that we'll get out of this place' he said at last.
'Anything I can do to help?' she asked and slowly he nodded.
'I'll need to divert the attention of one of them away from the entrance, could you perhaps throw a stone?' he asked but Nicole was nervous.
'Supposing it doesn't go that far?' she cried but Artem just looked towards the entrance.
'It doesn't matter? I just need something that will last a second or so?' he replied and as Nicole rooted round for a stone she tapped him.
Throwing it as far as she culd it bounced on the top step.
'Wait! What was that?' a Dalek called as Artrem triggered his weapon.
The Dalek's dome exploded in a volley of fire, the other Dalek started screeching.
'General alert, section severty-four under attack! Emergency!'
A second later it followed its companion into oblivion.

'This is better for your mind I believe?' he said at last.
'We are still in a time pocket aren't we?' the Doctor asked.
'We are but in the present that you would relate to, gaze down' the cowled figure replied and as the Doctor looked down he could see the Avalon peaks and the ruins.
But there to the far side, there stood a vast circular space craft and out of it glided tiny silver creatures.
'That's a Dalek ship! But the Daleks were wiped out?' he cried but Iphoadon simply raised a hand.
'It looks like glass, it feels like glass but is it? Do not take things at face value particularly from the Daleks. They lie as easily as we draw breath' Iphoadon replied.
'Then the Red Dalek lied, it lied to gain ignorance and then it struck!' the Doctor breathed.
'More than that, but now you begin to see? The danger is closer than you think but it is a beginning and not an end that we face now' the cowled keeper said.
'You said that before? Time, is that it? Time- the Daleks invaded Gallifrey to steal the power of the Eye, they tried to recreate it on Skaro but something went wrong. I arrived on Scarlos and the alien intelligence was released' the Doctor muttered.
'That and this we know of now are the past but they are the end what you will face their on Gallifrey is the beginning' Iphoadon said before tapping his staff.
Their view changed to the courtyard, to where the Time Lords stood in their golden prison.
'The Daleks want what? What could they want? Skaro is dead?' the Doctor asked.

Within the Control centre of the Dalek space ship a heavy klaxon was ringing out. As several technician worked at their consoles, some giving orders to sections.
Then doors from the laboratory opened to admit the Black Dalek, swinging to face the control console it grated a single word:
'Report?'
'Section seventy-four report being under attack from unknown hostiles, we are diverting other units investigate' the Silver Dalek reported.
'Instruct the scouts to search all buildings, any resistance located will be exterminated' the Black Dalek ordered.
'I Obey' the Silver Dalek replied and resumed its work.
The Black Dalek glided forward to the communications console.
'Report progress?' it demanded.
'Eye of Harmony secured, control rig has been activated' reported the Communications Dalek.
'Excellent, estimated to full operating capacity?' it asked.
'Five hundred rels, the Chief scientist is still being held captive by the prisoners' the Communications Dalek reported.
'Dispatch a work detail, they will disable the shield all prisoners will be destroyed' the Black Dalek ordered.
'I Obey' replied the Silver Dalek and it returned to the console.
The Black Dalek glided away slowly when it heard another Dalek screech its report.
'This is section seventy-five we are hostile attack by rebel forces'
The Black Dalek swung about quickly.
'Order sections seventy-three and seventy-seven into that area. All rebels must be exterminated!' the Black Dalek ordered.
'I Obey' replied the Communications Dalek.
The Black Dalek's eyestalk glanced over to the vast map on the console with the many Dalek unit symbols across it.
Soon complete control of Time would belong to the Daleks and nothing was going to stop that!

'The point is not what they want but what they all ready have' Iphoadon said at last.
'You could be a bit more helpful? You've all ready broken your first code, you could try and help more? No what am I saying. I can work this out on my own?' the Doctor replied.
'Exactly, if I told you, you would continue to ask questions. Questions do not promote knoweledge when you all ready know of the facts. I paid for mistake to intervene and now I help you' Iphoadon replied slowly.
The Doctor rose from his place and paced about.
'What can the Daleks want? They crushed the Time Lords completely. There nothing else left on Gallifrey for them to use unless the... the eye! The Eye of Harmony and that Red Dalek was the Chief scientist in charge of the Invasion!' the Doctor exclaimed.
'Now you begin to see, what would they do with the Eye of Harmony?' the figure asked.
'They would try and take control of Gallifrey. If they attempted the same thing on Skaro then they're bound to imitate the operation here and with the Eye being an everlasting power source then they'll succeed at manipulasting time!' the Doctor breathed.
'And that would culminate in what?' Iphoadon asked gently.
'A time paradox! The Daleks, of course but where does the Shadow Index fit into this?' the Doctor asked.
'The beginning and the end Doctor, to stop it you must aid the man you hate the most!' Iphoadon replied.
'What? There is no man I truely hate, I have faced so many monsters and fiends that I loose track through all my lives' the Doctor retorted loudly.
'The one you hate, of all all of them, the one that hurts you more. His actions although evil are not necessarily cruel' the cowled figure replied.
'Hurts me? How do I define that? Someone who has robbed from me? Some responsible but that would mean Phillips!' the Doctor whispered and Iphoadon nodded.
'He can help us for his own world is doomed like ours as it always was' came the reply.
'His world exists, of course when the Index wiped out everyone on Earth his world would have come back into being, can you take me there?' the Doctor said.
'I will take you only there, you must show him the error but do not show anger, he too was wronged and now you will need him' Iphoadon replied and as the Doctor breathed, the air around them shifted as the sphere vanished across time.

The sun shone down onto to the green plain as Phillanimous and Xsaskana walked along its side. The Green water trickled over the rocks of the stream.
As the wind caught at the blossom of the Roosh tree the white and gold petals fluttered in the beeze, some of it clinging to her hair.
'It's so beautiful here, I missed you much' she spoke and he smiled at her, catching at the blossom in her hair.
'I thought that I would never feel this alive, to do all these things before but pray listen to me Xsaskana for a moment' he said and slowly his face changed to worry.
'Whatever is the matter Phillanimous?' she cried but he shook his head.
'I have no right to be called by that. I have committed great crimes against others, I have destroyed innocents' he said slowly but Xsakana simply smiled until he shook her.
'I am serious my love, I have killed others, I am a murderer and meddler in the affairs of others!' he cried aloud and Xsakana's once happy face fell.
'When did this happen? You have just returned, you have been with me this last day' she replied but she saw his face.
'If I told you that once, not long ago this world ceased to be that it was invaded by creatures that killed you all, would you believe me?' he asked, his eyes pleading with her.
'How did it happen?' she asked.
'The Xylonians never reached their home, we crashed into a primitive world known as the Earth, they killed the Xylonians, they tortured me and their descendants ravaged this world. I swore to you people, you Xsakana that I would bering you back but now you are here I cannot live with the agony I held' he gasped weakly.
Xsakana sighed before looking him, her once noble lover standing here looking so weakened, she looked to his eyes.
Sniffing hard she hugged him and heard his sobs over her shoulder.
'I'm so sorry, my love' he cried weakly and as he sobbed Xsaskana looked to the sky, how the clouds were becoming darker?
'Phillanimous can you tell me, is this true?' she asked.
'With all my heart' he replied and as he looked at her, his vision joined her view and he stood staring at the darkening sky. It wasn't possible!

As they stared at the blackening sky Phillanimous' eyes widened in horror.
'No! Not here!' he cried as Xsakana tried to calm him.
'What is it? What is that thing? she cried as the breeze became a gale.
'It is the end, the end of us all, it has followed me here!' Phillanimous cried hard.
'Not so, it's merely coming here to fill its feed' the Doctor replied as he stepped out of no where.
'Doctor! Even here you plague me!' he screamed.
'Who is this man? How dare you hurt him?' Xsaskana cried but the Doctor stopped his fiery anger. Instead of the man who had caused so much horror, so much pain he saw a man. The man he hated so much.
'I don't mean any of you harm, Phillips the Index has here. It destroyed Earth as it is going to destroy your world' the Doctor replied slowly as he looked around.
'This man has faced off my attempts to bring balance to my world Xsaskana. I would have called him evil but he was right, right about the Index' Phillips said lowly.
'Phillips, the Index has taken nearly everything in its existence, I... I need your help?' the Doctor asked but Phillips stared maddened at him.
'My world is going to die Doctor, to die again! I cannot live through this again' he cried weakly.
'This is not supposed to be Phillips, this resurrection of your world! The Daleks are the cause of this, I don't know how but they will unleash the Shadow Index! I need your help, I'm begging you?' the Doctor replied and knelt there in the grass.
'I remember a similar situation in which I begged the high council to help me and they turned me away! Why should I not do this?' he yelled.
'Because millions upon are going to die again and again unless you help me?' the Doctor pleaded and as Phillips looked to Xsaskana he could all ready see the storms descending, a tear trickled down her face.
'I'll always remember you my love' he said simply.
'And I too' she sobbed.

They hugged as the clouds blotted out the sun high above, he could feel tears course down his face and onto her.
'Come with us?' he asked but she simply shook her head.
'I belong here, here take these' she said and passed him three baneapples from the tree.
'Remember me, remember us all?' Xsaskana said and he took them carefully and placed them into his pocket.
'I shall never forget you' he breathed and hauled the Doctor to his feet.
'I'm sorry Miss that we were not acquainted before?' the Doctor said as he led Phillips away.
'What do you want Doctor? Where is your TARDIS?' he asked slowly.
'Destroyed as we will, can you warp us to Gallifrey?' the Doctor asked above the howl of the wind.
'I shall try but it will take some doing?' Phillips said slowly.
Suddenly there were screams as a massive dark wave descended from the sky blackening all to nothing.
'Exterminate!' the creature hissed, a massive howl of rage caught at everything, trees, buildings burning and blackened.
The maelstrom was sucking in all as Phillips turned he screamed as he saw Xsaskana pulled upwards, caught in the blast, her hands appealed to him and then her lifeless form fell to the ground.
'Exterminate! Exterminate!' the Index hissed.
'Xsaskana!' Phillips cried as her body fell he wanted to go but the Doctor patted his shoulder.
'I'm truly sorry Phillips but we must go, we must go now!' he replied gently and slowly Phillips nodded.
'Yes, yes the Daleks are going to suffer for this!' he hissed and dragged the Doctor closer.
'Keep your hand on my shoulder Doctor! Keep it there no matter what happens!' Phillips replied coldly and closed his eyes.
The Index on seeing these two recognised the smells, it licked its many mouths and rushed quickly at them!
'No pressure but it's coming this way!' the Doctor cried but Phillips was concentrating.
'It's very, very close' the Doctor warned.
As the Index reached them, lashing out they faded away into nothingness.
'No! Time Lord, Phillips! You cannot hide forever!' it hissed and then it knew where they were going, back to the beginning and it smiled.
The Doctor was finally going to die!

Deep in the vaults beneath the capital the Dalek scientists worked.
'Time energy levels rising' reported the first Dalek.
'Activate containment levels, prepare to introduce the Core!' ordered the Dalek Leader.
'We Obey' replied the four Daleks.
Immediately the glow from around the control rig changed colour as vast seal slid up.
'Core now prepared, awaiting order to enter it into the Eye' reported the second Dalek.
'Deploy the Core! Prepare to iniate core control of the Time Energy!' grated the Dalek leader.
'I Obey' replied the second Dalek and pressed a switch on the control rig, immediately an arm folded out from its centre holding a black barrel shaped object.
Suddenly the barrel was dropped, it tumbled far into the centre of the shimmering light.
'Core deployed, preparing to activate it' answered a third Dalek.
'Activate!' the Dalek leader grated and the first Dalek pressed the control.
Deep within the void, the barrel-shaped object start to spin quickly.
'Warning! Warning! Control Core's influence is too strong, the Time Energy is building' the second Dalek grated.
'Deactivate the control rig immediately!' ordered the Dalek leader but the Core kept on spinning.
'Danger! Danger! Time Energy eruption imminent!' cried the fourth Dalek.
As the Eye glittered there came a heavy rumbling, the ground shook beneath them while cracks formed along the edges of the eye.
'Deactivate the core!' the Dalek Leader screeched but the scientists could do nothing.
Suddenly a vast torrent of bluish light exploded from the centre of the eye flooding out into the room, the Daleks, the control rig simply vanished into a mass of twinkling light and what remained in its place was a strange mist floating.
However the energy continued to pour towards the high ceiling, its effects scything through the tough rock, ageing it to sand. At its centre the core continued to spin and spin and spin...

FALLS THE SHADOW

EPISODE TWO:

Three Daleks stood in the rocky passage, the Avalon mountains high over head except these Daleks were dead, their domes had been blown away by some intense weapon of some sort?
As Artrem and Nicole walked there came a strange whirring overhead last a jet plane.
'What was that?' Nicole asked as she looked around the sky.
'It was to fast to be a spaceship and also too small?' Artrem replied.
'Do we carry on down the mountains?' Nicole asked and Artrem motioned for her to drop down quickly, she did as he instructed. He took shelter round a large boulder as the roaring of engines grew louder.
A Dalek riding a hover bout glided down from the sky.
'This is hover scout nine to control, Section seventeen destroyed there is no sign of the intruders?' it announced.
'What do we do now? It's in the air' Nicole called.
'I can see, yes this is going to be tough. We'll have to lure it out of that thing?' Artrem rasped.
'I Obey' it suddenly grated and descended further to the ground. As it lowered, the Dalek glided down.
'Stay here!' Artrem warned and slowly he crept around the boulder as the Dalek looked around it.
'No sign of intruders, running scan!' it grated and extended its manipulator arm before it.
As Artrem crept up behind it the Dalek was about to swing around. Nicole suddenly gave a scream and quickly the Dalek glided round to face her.
'Do not move, stay where you are!' it screeched.
'I was so scared he would come back' Nicole babbled but the Dalek was uninterested.
'You will explain your presence here, failure to comply and you will be exterminated..' the Dalek squawked before it suddenly explodes showering the air with the remains of its dome.
'I told you stay there Nicole' Artrem warned but Nicole simply walked past the burning Dalek.
'Well it worked, didn't it?' she said as he walked to the hover bout.
'Yes but don't try anything like that again, get on board' he said slowly.
'Supposing it goes wrong? Can you fly it?' she asked.
'I could give it a go but you should hold on?' Artrem said and Nicole grabbed on the bar as Artrem pressed the control ball.
Immediately the engines beneath started to roar up. 'Well, here goes nothing!' he rasped.

The Journey was certainly bumpy going as the Doctor glanced around him into the semi-darkness, at times the currents of time winds were so ferocious that he had to cling on to Phillips roughly.
'Do you mind Doctor?' Phillips hissed and quickly the Doctor relaxed his grip.
'Sorry but if I get blown back in to the vortex, you'll have to come and get me?' he replied.
'Not long to go now' Phillips said reassuringly but the Doctor was unaware of who he was speaking to?
Slowly, very slowly the Doctor could see trees starting to form around them, thick bushes then suddenly they were there in a clearing.
'We here Doctor and you can take your hand off me now, you're quite safe' Phillips replied.
'Depends on your definition of safety? The Daleks have retaken my world, they're trying to tamper with the Eye of Harmony' the Doctor answered.
'Really? So what exactly are we doing here? What could be so important?' Phillips retorted angrily, barely concealing a snarl.
'It's a time paradox, Phillips. We're caught in its wake' the Doctor replied and saw that Phillips was smiling.
'I could have told you that, Doctor? Obviously it is not a circular one?' he said slowly.
'Don't be too sure!' the Doctor said as he parted aside a branch to gaze out at a ruined building not far away.
'The Daleks created it when they started meddling with the Eye, we've seen the end and here comes the beginning unless we stop it!' the Doctor replied.
'And how did you go from stupid minded to all seeing?' he asked in a sarcastic tone.
'I've been speaking to Iphoadon, he told me quite a lot!' the Doctor muttered but Phillips instead grinned and laughed.
'You spoke to a seer? Ha! I'm surprised you actually got something out of him? Contemptuous creatures that they are!' Phillips laughed.
'Had plenty of experience with them then?' the Doctor asked.
'Yes, they do tend to see a lot but never the boredom on people's faces' he replied and as the Doctor looked to him, he could see traces of anxiety around the eyes.
'Perhaps we should go, or would you prefer to sit here?' Phillips replied with a smirk.

In the control centre of the Dalek ship five of the markers on the display map flickered out of existence.
Noticing this the Black Dalek glided to the communications Dalek.
'Report status of scientific division deployed to the vaults below the capital?' it ordered.
The Communications Dalek turned and adjusted all controls. Swivelling its dome it reported its find.
'The Scientific division do not respond'
'Could they be under attack from hostile forces?' asked the Black Dalek.
'It is not possible, they did not report any such occurrence?' the Communications Dalek reported.
'Instruct scouts in the tunnels to investigate immediately!' it ordered.
'I Obey' replied the Silver Dalek and returned to its station.
The Black Dalek surveyed their actions closely, its eye moving from the display map to the other Daleks.
'Has the work detail been sent to dismantle the power units of the Time Lords' force field?' it demanded.
'Two Engineers have been dispatched, a hover scout dispatched to section seventy-four has not yet reported back?' answered another Dalek.
The Black Dalek sat there still and brooding before there was a sudden trembling quake, immediately the ship went into a deep klaxon.
'Report? it grated as the ship continued to shake.
'Massive seismic disturbance has been detected, its epicentre is estimated three miles below the Capital' reported a technician.
'The Eye of Harmony, reserve scientific division will report to that prime location immediately!' the Black Dalek ordered.
'Black Dalek?' called the Communications Dalek.
'Speak?' it grated.
'Scout seven and fourteen report sighting of rogue hoverbout travelling towards capital' the Dalek reported.
'The rebels will attempt to disrupt our plans, exterminate the rebels, bring it, force it down, destroy them!' the Black Dalek screeched.

'Any further ideas on this proposed paradoxical problem?' Phillips asked as they cleared the ruin.
'I beg your pardon?' the Doctor asked and saw that once more Phillips seemed more calmer, less angry that before.
'Without knowing the direct reason for the paradox, have you considered that your actions could cause it?' he asked.
The Doctor considered his thoughts, he was right. To attempt anything, he would have to know the full details.
'Never trust a seer, they always know too much, never give the right information, 'What's the lost is lost and can never be found' Hah!' Phillips muttered.
'Yes well we're here now, the things we know that the Daleks are attempting something with the Eye, an enormous gestalt is raging throughout the universe of matter. A collective ball of evil possesses a young girl and from there grows' the Doctor muttered much to the annoyance of Phillips.
'Yes thank you Doctor, I am aware of this now' he grumbled.
'In that case where did the life form in the void originate from? It corrupted any attempts to let myself or the Dalek ship go anywhere? Why?' the Doctor asked aloud.
'Perhaps you are essential to the paradox, if it is a paradox?' Phillips retorted as he led on across the ground.
'Of course it is! The seer told me but looking at it now, would it be best to trust them?' he asked himself.
'Figure it out silently Doctor unless you want to disturb any potential patrols around here?' Phillips warned.
'Yes, yes you're right!' he said and slowly he motioned for Phillips to follow him. They kept to the back of ruins as they walked, constantly on the look out for any potential threats.
As they looked up, they could see a gate house, or what was once a ruined gate house and outside it stood two Daleks.
'How do you propose we get in there, Doctor?' Phillips asked.
'There's always a way to these things, we just have to find it, that's all' the Doctor said timidly much to the disgust of Phillips who rolled his eyes and sighed hard.

In the courtyard all was still, Katyen stood by the golden wall watching the few Daleks that remained. The rest had moved off to other duties, there appeared to be only ten left but even if it was just one Dalek it was still trouble.
'Katyen, we really should decide our next move?' Yarsh asked, the fat, rounded Time Lord dressed in a black suit with a white shirt and black tie pointed out.
'In front of that thing? Are you mad Yarsh' Katyen replied stabbing a finger at the Red Dalek in their midst.
'No, but standing here like this out in the open, supposing the shield should fade?' he asked sounding panicky.
'That's quite enough of that, you'll promote unrest among our guests' Taseth replied gesturing the many aliens that surrounded them.
'Besides of which, the shield will hold, it gets its power directly from the Eye itself, the Eye is everlasting' Katyen replied.
'Well I've never really had much trust in the word 'Everlasting' they never seem to do that?' Yarsh muttered.
'Be thankful that it's here now or else we'll all be finished' Katyen whispered.
They believed that their conversation could not have been heard, they were right but to the advance sensors in the Red Dalek's casing, it had heard everything.
Silently it transmitted the information to the Dalek ship. Upon acceptance of this, it knew that it had to be free, to make sure that the process went on ahead of schedule.
'You will not escape the power of the Daleks' it suddenly grated, attracting eyes of all kinds towards it.
'And what do you mean by that?' Yarsh demanded but Taseth motion him.
'Leave it, there's no point arguing with it. All it can do is lie!' Taseth breathed.
'When the power drops you will all be exterminated, everyone of you will die!' the Red Dalek added and it saw to its delight that panic was starting to spread.
'Be silent!' Taseth warned but the creature continued.
'You are inferior, the power will not last, you will all be exterminated when the shield drops'
'I said silence!' Taseth yelled to the Red creature, his anger present excited the creature, intimidation and panic were now setting in!

Phillips covered a yawn with his hand, they had been sitting there for ages. The Doctor on the other hand had been watching their movements carefully, watching as each of them glided about before returning.
As the Doctor motioned for Phillips to get up a third Dalek came along.
'Must we continue this ill game of musical chairs Doctor?' Phillips replied as they dropped to the ground.
'Funny? I could have sworn it was sardines and like sardines we're trapped in a tight place at the mercy of those creatures' the Doctor breathed.
'I am aware of that, Doctor?' Phillips replied but the Doctor waved his hand for silence.
'Control reports that a rogue hoverbout is being used by rebel forces, we are to destroy it on sight!' the newcomer grated.
'We Obey' replied the other two.
'Hoverbouts, oh dear?' the Doctor murmured.
'Indeed, so we shall now have to watch the skies' Phillips muttered.
'If only we knew what they were doing?' he asked when suddenly there came an enormous jarring quake. The trees around them swayed and then crashed down hard.
House bricks crashed the ground hard casting dust hard, the three Daleks wobbled severely.
'What is happening?' one of the them asked, the newcomber sporting a strange device instead of the usual manipulator activated it.
'Perceptor registers seismic disturbance, this is a natural occurrence' grated the newcomer and immediately the other Daleks continued to their posts.
'Normal? It certainly is not!' the Doctor snapped.
'Really? Then what or whom do you think is causing it?' Phillips asked and the Doctor knew at once.
'It's them! They're tampering with the Eye! They don't know the danger they're creating?' the Doctor muttered.
Slowly, very slowly the rumbling started to slow as the quake became less strong the Doctor sat up glancing towards the gate house but the three Daleks remained intact.
Sighing hard he rattled his mind to create a means of entry.

Within the courtyard, there suddenly came a low rumbling but it was ever increasing.
'You see? Something is happening! It's the power, it's failing!' Yarsh cried but Katyen quickly grabbed him by his lapels.
'Now listen Yarsh, you went through the academy like everyone else here, we must remain calm' she calmly responded but the growing fear on his face was unmistakable!
'Calm? The power's failing, you heard that thing! They're going to kill us!' he snapped.
Suddenly the quake hit home and being where they were didn't help matters as archways cracked and collapsed, walls followed quickly. Those standing up fell to their feet as the full force of the quake hit.
'You will all be exterminated! You cannot escape our power!' the Red Dalek grated loudly.
Immediately half of the aliens started to mutter, squeal and roar. Taseth started to climb to his feet but fell back onto the Quesllian Admiral, being a jellyfish it wasn't squashed but slightly bruised.
Yarsh was the only one who kept his balance among the tide of people then as he looked, his eyes widened in horror as the shield started to fade, to flicker.
'You are the enemy of the Daleks! Exterminate, Exterminate!' the Red Dalek screeched but Yarsh had heard enough, he was off through the barrier and sprinting hard across the courtyard but fell to the ground a few times.
'Yarsh! Come back here!' Taseth yelled but panic had taken full hold and it was driving him like a scared animal.
Katyen could only watch as Yarsh looked up, straight into the barrel of a Dalek gun, he looked pleading to the creature but its eye glanced at him.
'Exterminate!' the Dalek screeched and Yarsh screamed as it fired, he twisted in its blaze, his body smoked hard as burning caught at him before his body slumped forward.
'Yarsh!' Katyen yelled as the walls of the shield solidified back to strength as the quake subsided.
The atmosphere that followed was quiet and still, Katyen turned angrily on the Dalek.
'You murderer! You made him!' she yelled but the Red Dalek eyed her and all.
'When the power drops you will all be Exterminated!' it grated and as she struggled to hit back Taseth pulled her away.
'Katyen! There's no point lowering ourselves to their level' he replied but Katyen spat at the Dalek, it was pleased about what was happening. Morale would fall to panic and when that came their end was in sight!

'It's no good? We can't just sit around here any longer?' the Doctor breathed as he looked at the three Daleks.
'What do you suggest we do Doctor, take the place by storm?' Phillips muttered.
'A bit more than sarcasm would help us now?' the Doctor retorted agitatedly.
'Then what do want from me Doctor, to needlessly warp over there and distract them while you slip through? No I'm not risking my life for yours!' Phillips replied grimly.
'Then how about you warp us past those guards? If the TARDIS was here I'd be right in the capital by now?' the Doctor quickly said but caught Phillips' bemused look.
'No you wouldn't Doctor? The current of time within a paradox behaves differently, you would held in submission if you try as probably would I now that I'm apparently so close to the source' Phillips replied.
'Then we must use other means, I have to know what they're doing?' the Doctor muttered.
'Is that all?' Phillips asked and suddenly he stood up.
'What do you think you're doing?' the Doctor cried.
'Halt! You will remain still' ordered a Dalek.
'Of course but I have working for you, for the Supreme Dalek and I captured a rebel' Phillips replied and hauled the Doctor to his feet.
'Backstabber!' he muttered angrily as Phillips forced him forwards.
'He is known as the Doctor, an enemy and a saboteur to your plans!' Phillips purred as he shoved the Doctor forward.
'I should never have trusted you?' the Doctor cried.
'You are the Doctor, you are the enemy of the Daleks, you will be transported to pursuit ship!' instructed the lead Dalek.
'Whatever you want, I can't disagree now can I?' he replied.
Turning about the Daleks looked at Phillips.
'You are no longer required, Exterminate!' it grated but Phillips raised a hand and started to fade away.
'I thought you said you couldn't warp?' the Doctor argued but Phillips simply smiled.
'I lied Doctor, pleasant journey!' he grinned before going.
'You will move ahead of us! Move!' grated the Dalek.
'I Obey' the Doctor replied reluctantly.

The electronic pulse continued to echo in the main control centre as the Black Dalek glided through.
'Report?' it ordered.
'Section fifteen report the capture of the Doctor, he is is being brought here for interrogation' answered the communications Dalek.
'Excellent. Have all reserve scientists arrived at the vaults yet?' the Black Dalek asked.
'Not yet, they have reported that they will arrive in the centre of the vaults in approximately twenty-seven rels' reported the Silver technician.
'Are there any reports referring to the rogue hoverbout?' the black Dalek asked.
'No, other hoverscouts have been alerted and are are patrolling the skies' the communications Dalek replied.
'Black Dalek? Section forty is reporting' informed a Silver Dalek.
'Speak?' it asked and across the the computer link came the Dalek's reply.
'This is troop leader to Black Dalek, a massive seismic disturbance has occurred, the shield was deactivated for two rels, one Time Lord prisoner has been exterminated' it reported.
'Report status of Time Lord Shield?' the Black Dalek asked.
'It is still holding, Chief scientist reports morale is failing in the aliens' the troop leader responded.
'An engineering detail has been dispatched, when the power falls you will exterminate them all!' it grated.
'We Obey' came the reply.
'Emergency! Emergency!' rang out another Dalek voice.
'Make your report?' ordered the Black Dalek.
'This is reserve scientific division to Black Dalek, we have arrived in the vaults, there is no sign of other Dalek scientists, the control rig is missing'
'That is not possible? Are there traces of sabotage?' the Black Dalek asked.
'No, perceptors register massive time energy disturbance' it reported.
'Continue your work, nothing must be made to interfere in our plans!' the Dalek screeched.
'We Obey' chorused the unseen Daleks.
The Black Dalek looked to the Display map at the many Daleks present. No one was going to stop them! The Dalek plan would succeed!

Phillips stood there on the remains of a balcony as he surveyed the atmosphere below him. He watched as the Time Lords and the other aliens that he had so wilfully abandoned stood there in their shelter.
The Daleks held control, that was obvious enough, he could see a body lying close to where the Daleks stood.
Somehow he pitied the fallen. He was strong but his heart broke as he remembered his world, his new life scything apart as his history corrupted him. He was not a killer, he was once a good man but in the eyes of his people he was a criminal.
He blinked as he remembered the vast force descend towards his home, his beloved was there in the monster's jaws. He could feel pain, as he lifted his weakened left hand, the bandage wrapped around it.
'Xsaskana, will I ever see you again?' he whispered slowly and then suddenly he snapped out of his delirium as he heard a strange scuttling from behind him.
Turning there stood a Dalek.
'You are my prisoner, you will stay where you are or you will be exterminated!' it grated but Phillips could only hear the 'Exterminate' again and again howling at him, at his world at his love.
'No! No! You killed my world! You killed my world!' he suddenly yelled at the creature but it raised its gun.
Phillips on seeing this knelt down, almost begging before it. Suddenly he gripped the gunstick tight, forcing it up as he wrestled with the Dalek.
'Assist! Assist! I am under attack!' screeched the stricken Dalek as Phillips wrestled it.
'Think yourself superior? Think you're all powerful? Power corrupts, I know it does!' Phillips snapped as he suddenly pushed the Dalek forwards, casting it over the edge.
'Am under attack, am under at...' screeched the Dalek as it impacted exploding outwards in all directions.
Phillips stood there looking down at the creature with contempt and hate then he looked to the others.
Saw how they were being treated, just like his world. It started here, he could still hear the echoes of the Index's howls.
Screwing up his face he held on to his head as he tried to shake them free.
The Daleks! If they were responsible for Xsaskana's death for his world then they would suffer!
Pulling himself together he glanced down to see other Daleks approaching the wreck of their fallen comrade.
A second later he was gone from the balcony.

'Move! Move' ordered the silver Dalek as the Doctor was ushered into the central centre.
'Same old, same old. You know you really ought get a new decor once in a while, might improve things round here?' the Doctor replied.
The laboratory door slid open admitting the Black Dalek, it glided over and stopped before the Doctor.
'You are the Doctor, you are in our power' it grated.
'Well I am now but not for long, I have an extremely important appointment I have to make' he said cheerfully.
The Black Dalek eyed him closely.
'Return to your patrol!' it ordered and the two Daleks behind the Doctor glided away.
'Now that they're gone, how about some tea?' the Doctor asked.
'You will remain still Doctor!' the Black Dalek grated.
'Look here, I can't exactly foil your plans now that I'm under lock and key? Could I at least take a look around?' he asked.
'Remain here!' ordered the Black Dalek as it glided over to the communications.
'Report, scientific division?' it grated.
'The Time energy readings are increasing in the vaults, perceptor registers massive temporal eruption about to occur' the Dalek reported.
'The Vault, what were your Daleks doing down there?' the Doctor asked but the Black Dalek ignored him.
'Continue your work, activate secondary control rig' it ordered.
'We Obey' the unseen Dalek grated.
'Control rig? You are attempting to take control of the Eye of Harmony?' the Doctor snapped as the Black turned.
'We will take this planet outside time into a protected pocket in the void. There nothing will endager the Daleks!' it grated but the Doctor looked grim.
'You stupid, stupid creatures! It won't work and do you know why? No, you don't, you simply meddle! When you pilot a planet you remove the core but this planet is a lot different. An infinite amount of time energy kept in a constant circulation of harmony! The Eye of the storm is much calmer but abandoning that principle you're more than happy to drop a Dalek machine down there! You are destabilising the delicate balance that this planet holds!' the Doctor snapped.
'Be silent, we shall be Masters of time!' grated the Black Dalek.
'No you won't by upsetting the balance, the resulting effects could prove to be catastrophic, you're tampering with forces you don't understand!' the Doctor snapped.
The Black Dalek eyed him for a moment.
'You will aide the scientific division, if you fail to comply our prisoners will be exterminated!' grated the Dalek leader.
The Doctor frowned at the Black Dalek hard but any intimidation was lost. Reluctantly he was forced away.

'A Time Paradox' Phillips muttered as he descended the stairs slowly, he was still in a large, apparently empty building.
Just then, he flattened himself against the wall as two Daleks glided through.
'How could such a thing happen?' he asked himself when suddenly there came another rumbling, a lesser quake but with him inside a building.
He concentrated hard and slowly he faded away to reappear at the side of some cloisters, a square of rich green grass stood in its middle.
As the quake continued he had trouble standing and crouched down, not far away he could see the group. Their only protection was the golden shield but as he peered, the shield started to fade.
He had to do something, to stop the Daleks, if only he still held his disrupter?
Just then two Daleks appeared and as he dogged around the side of a pillar he noticed one of them had a strange two pronged claw?
They paused before a strange statue in the centre of the cloister.
'Perceptor registers that this is the syphon point the the Time Lords' shield' grated one of the Daleks.
The other extended a claw and pulled on the statue to reveal an electrical interface.
'I cannot deactivate it, it would be better to destroy it' the second reported.
Phillips suddenly appeared, calling across the square.
'Stop!' he cried and quickly the two Daleks turned.
'Stay where you are, do not move!' one of them called but Phillips was advancing towards them, he felt his pockets for a sign of a weapon.
A Baneapple met his hand, grasping it slowly he stood less than ten feet away.
'I have vital information about the rebel forces, I need to speak to one of your leaders' he said quickly.
'You will be exterminated!' one of the them grated then Phillips looked over their domes.
'Now! he cried and as the both swivelled around he grabbed the Baneapple and mashed it hard into one of the Daleks' eyes.
Immediately it started to panic.
'Vision impaired, cannot see!' it screeched and as Phillips wielded it, it fired straight at its companion.

The explosion sounded out across the courtyard catching at the ears of the Time Lords.
'By the great Sea, what was that?' the Quesellian Admiral asked.
'It is the end of your reign on this planet' grated the Red Dalek.
'No, listen, it's something else?' Taseth replied and urged everyone for silence.
'Vision impaired, vision impaired. I cannot see!' screeched the distressed Dalek.
'Over there!' Katyen cried pointing to the distant figure in the cloister.
As they looked, they could see a figure tearing at a smoking Dalek ruin.
Taking the gun, the figure turned on the Dalek and fired. The Dalek scream was sudden and long and hurriedly the figured hurried away.
'At least we know there are others that still resist them' Taseth replied.
'They will not succeed, we shall triumph!' grated the Red Dalek.
'If you have anything to say, you will remain silent!' Taseth replied sternly.
Then suddenly the Silver Daleks parted and admitted a Black domed leader and following it came the Doctor.
'Move! Move!' ordered his escort.
'I can walk myself you know?' the Doctor muttered.
'You will move! Move!' ordered the Dalek Leader.
'Doctor?' cried Katyen and all he could do was nod slowly.
Suddenly there came a loud rumble and cracks started to appear in the pillars of the cloister.
Suddenly the courtyard was hit by a vast tremor shaking everyone to the ground and seizing his chance the Doctor half stumbled to their side.
'The Daleks are meddling with the Eye of Harmony, when shield drops you must fight, you must destroy the Daleks! It's a time paradox! And unless we stop them we'll be finished' the Doctor yelled.
'Stop! You will remain still' grated the Dalek leader.
'You must or else Gallifrey and all of us is lost!' the Doctor cried.
'You will be Exterminated! Exterminate! Exterminate!' screeched the Dalek leader and the other Daleks as they advanced on him.

'Exterminate! Exterminate!' the Dalek Leader grated when suddenly it exploded in a fiery bolt of energy.
'What is happening?' cried another Dalek buit it too joined its leader as it exploded into a fiery pillar.
'We are under attack! Emergency! Emergency!' chorused the other Daleks.
Glancing all around him the Doctor was surprised as were the Time Lords as Phillips emerged holding the steaming Dalek gun.
'Phillips?' the Doctor cried in surprise.
'I thought that you might need some help?' he simply said.
'Good people, the Daleks have been experimenting with the Eye of Harmony, they have destabilised the energy within and unless we stop the Daleks now, then we'll be finished!' the Doctor said plainly.
The aliens within the shield drew their weapons.
'We shall fight for you Doctor' replied the Admiral and behind him other aliens raised their hands.
'Not for me, for yourselves! We must secure the Eye, to close it before they unleash the Index. This is where it begins!' the Doctor cried.
'Doctor, we have company!' Phillips called and as they looked, Daleks were coming!
'Quickly!' Taseth replied as the shield finally faded away, hurriedly all the aliens made for a sign of shelter, their various weapons drawn.
'What about you Doctor?' Phillips called as the Doctor was hurrying away.
'I'm going to see what they've done, I have to see. Hold them back Phillips, remember this is for your world!' the Doctor reminded and Phillips nodded.
'Good Luck Doctor!' Phillips called but he was gone, turning around Phillips levelled his gun and fired.
A Dalek exploded in a fiery mass, however the other aliens' guns hardly scratched their casings.
Daleks levelled their guns and fired, they spat death as they caught at stragglers.
The few alien ships were attacked at once as aliens made a fleeting attempt to reach their ships.
Their bodies hit the ground hard, smoking.
The air was filled with the stench of death as the sound that filled the air were the screams before they too fell to 'Exterminate' battle cries!

Within the control centre a klaxon drowned out the electronic pulse.
'Report progress?' the Black Dalek demanded.
'Message from troop leader, they are under attack from hostile force, the Doctor is free, the prisoners are rebelling in the capital!' reported the communications Dalek.
'Divert all accessible Dalek units to the capital, they are to converge and Exterminate the rebels, Exterminate them! Exterminate!' the Black Dalek screeched.
In the tunnel far from the surface walked the Doctor cautiously, any turning could lead off into a Dalek or side tunnel.
It had been a long time since he'd been down there but he was sure he was on the right track.
As he reached the end he appeared down a ramp and there before him stood the Eye of Harmony.
Hurrying down to it he could see the energy pulsing from it, being a Time Lord he was only able to stand a bit but to be caught in that wave and it didn't bear thinking about?
Looking around he caught sight of the Seal of Rassilon. Pushing down on it with all his might, the stone refused to budge.
'Come on, come on! If you could just close, it would be so much easier?' he cried as he pushed.
'Do not move!' announced a Dalek.
'Of course, I thought I wasn't alone?' the Doctor muttered and continued to push down.
'Stand back from the seal!' ordered the Dalek and slowly the Doctor rose up to greet three Daleks.
'Now isn't this nice, nice and comfy aren't we all? Having trouble are we?' he asked but the Daleks raised their weapons.
'You will help us Doctor! You will obey!' the lead grated.
'Actually I won't and neither will you, meddling with other people's property like this?' the Doctor replied.
'You will Obey!' the Dalek grated but as it advanced into the energy there came a bright flash and then it was gone and in its place was mist.
Grey mist, like before, on the scanner. As the other Daleks advanced the same happened, they too vanished into grey, pulsing mist!

As the aliens fought back, Time Lords among them more Daleks appeared in the capital, the aliens counted at least thirty present as they advanced slowly, weapons raised.
'Exterminate! Exterminate!' the creatures screeched as they advanced, their weapons striking hard at anything and everyone.
Phillips had managed to take out three or four of them but for every few removed, more sprung up in their place.
'Our power cells are nearly exhausted' grumbled an alien.
'Aim for the eyes stalks!' Katyen ordered and as they fired a few Daleks exploded.
'Erk Vision impaired! Vision impaired!' screeched many Daleks, who glided around lost but they too were lost as their comrades fired on them.
Few aliens still aboard their ships tried to take off, to manipulate the success of the others but quickly there set upon by vast swarms of Dalek hoverbouts.
The ships were blasted in flaming fiery fragments that crashed down hard upon Gallifrey's surface.
'Exterminate!' screeched a Dalek from behind the barricade, turning, Katyen was staring at the barrel of a gunstick.
Suddenly there came a rap on its dome, swivelling round to see Phillips stood there gun raised, he smiled as he fired.
The Dalek's screams echoed hard in Katyen's ears.
'Here, take this' Phillips replied and passed her his gun.
'Why? Why are you helping us?' she asked but Phillips shook his head.
'The Daleks destroyed my world and now they're going to pay for it!' he breathed as he pulled at the wrecked Dalek's gun.
'Is it true about a paradox?' Katyen asked but Phillips shook his head.
'This is neither the time nor indeed the place? I just pray that the Doctor can stop them!' he hissed.

The Doctor stared in amazement at the phenomenon, the mist as it winded and twisted in the air of the As four more aliens fell to the Daleks the handful remaining fought on, the Quesllians had taken to the air attacking the Daleks from above but they too had fallen, lying in a pool of internal fluid as Hoverbouts screamed above them.
'Surrender!' ordered the Red Dalek standing amongst the others, however the moment one of the aliens rose, the Daleks cut it down.
Only Taseth, Katyen and a mere handful survived, the rest lay hard on the cold ground.
'You will surrender immediately!' ordered the Red Dalek and try as they might they could not fight on.
Suddenly three Daleks exploded under heavy fire and glancing up the Daleks could see two beings riding the hoverbout.
'Rogue hoverbout detected' grated a silver Dalek.
'Exterminate the Rebels!' it screeched and suddenly the air was thick with energy blasts as the hoverbout dodged this way and that.
Seizing their chance Phillips and Katyen fired their Dalek guns, two units exploded under heavy fire, three more followed.
'Emergency! Emergency!' grated the Silver Daleks.
'Eliminate the rebels, exterminate them!' the Red Dalek snapped and the Daleks broke their ranks, firing in all directions.
'Artrem, Artrem I'm scared' Nicole cried above the roar of the engines.
'We may have to prepare for an emergency landing' he said as they swooped down again.
'How can we, with so many Daleks?' she cried and Artrem simply lifted her up.
'Hold on Nicole, what I'm about to do is quite dangerous but there is no ther way' he rasped and before Nicole could argue Artrem stepped off the Hoverbout as they reached the ground, he landed hard but was sure that Nicole was all right.
'Whatever you do next, just tell me when you're going to do things like that?' she cried.
'But you're safe' he replied and then they looked to the many Daleks facing them. Their hoverbout vanished over the horizon before there was a crumpling explosion.
'Depends on how you mean safe?' she said and looked to the many Daleks encircling them.
chamber.
'It's not possible? The Index and the Daleks are one in the same! The Paradox is the Shadow Index and the Daleks! Then what do I do? I cannot close down the Eye? However if we could destroy all Daleks then perhaps we could...?' the Doctor muttered as he paced about him.
'You're not far off Doctor' came a reply and searching around him he spotted a cowled figure.
'Iphoadon! I'm sorry I didn't expect you to be here?' he said quickly but the cowled figure shook its head.
'Do not expect him, for I am not he. You are not far off from the truth' the figure replied.
'What are you talking about? I've identified the source of the paradox- it's the Daleks themselves!' he argued but the figure shook his head.
'No Doctor, things a cycle holds always stay in place. The rider but there are many involved, how can these Daleks be your Index when they have not been before' the figure whispered.
'I don't know what you mean? Are you telling me that they're not the paradox?' he asked but the figure shook his head.
'No, consider the elements present at the end and at the beginning' the cowled form said.
The Doctor thought hard, a being, a being was responsible for the Index, someone there now and had been at the beginning.
Then he saw it as clear as day, the answer to his question!
'Now you see the truth Doctor' the figure replied and gestured to towards the Eye, the cracks forming along its sides.
As the Doctor looked, he could see a vast hole in the ceiling above as the energy sizzled and sparked.
'Thank you, whoever you are?' the Doctor replied but silently the figure had gone.
Turning quickly the Doctor hurried up the ramp, he had to warn the others!
While behind him the eye crackled and bubbled as the energy increased, in its centre the barrel continued to spin faster.
A moment later a crippling earthquake resounded through out the chamber, its effects hit at everything even the Doctor as he scrambled up the steps.

'Stop! Cease this now!' the Doctor yelled as he crossed the courtyard.
'Doctor!' chorused the Daleks.
'Yes, I am the Doctor. Go on, take a good hard look at me!' the Doctor roared as he stood before them.
'I am going to tell you something, everyone here has the right to know! The Daleks want to pilot this world into the pocket in the vortex where they believe that they will be safe from the Index but that is not going to happen!' the Doctor explained.
'You are the enemy of the Daleks! You will be exterminated!' grated the Daleks.
'Then go ahead: Kill me!' he roared.
Suddenly from behind him there came a vast roar as the ground shook hard, somehow the Doctor remained standing then behind him a vast gaping hole formed as twinkling, rushing time energy burst far from within!
'What's going on?' Taseth cried.
'It's the Eye of Harmony, it's destabilising!' the Doctor yelled above the rush of light.
'Time Eruption! Massive Time spillage detected grated the closest Dalek.
Suddenly the gushing fountain rained down as a vast wave of time energy, lashing out at the Dalek it screeched agonisingly before it twinkled away!
'What in the name of?' Phillips muttered as the waves advanced.
'It's concentrated time energy, whatever you do, do not stand in its way!' the Doctor yelled.
The Time Lords and aliens stood frozen watching this as the Doctor waved to them.
'Go to your TARDISes, get to to them, you'll be safe there!' the Doctor yelled and without anything further the people ran hard and quick toward the many waiting boxes.
The Daleks unable to do anything vanished as the wave caught at them and for one moment the capital was full of Daleks and the next they were gone!
An alien slipped on the cobbles and fell back into the screaming winds, the blinding light took its breath away.
In their place there stood thick grey mist but as the rumbling ceased the energy slipped back into the hole dragging the mist with it as if it were a net being dragged in by an eager fisherman?
The Doctor gasped as he looked around- there was no sign of any Dalek, it couldn't have happened? It couldn't!

He sighed hard as he crossed the now empty capital, glancing around for any sign of it?
'Looking for something, Doctor?' Phillips suddenly asked.
The Doctor jumped fiercely and turned to face the smug looking man still holding the Dalek gun.
'You're just as dangerous as the real thing!' he snapped. 'Phillips, have you seen the Red Dalek?' he asked in a desperate voice.
'Why? What did you do to them?' he asked but the Doctor grabbed him hard by the lapels.
'Was the Red Dalek amongst those who were consumed by the time wave?' he asked desperately.
'No, I saw it go off towards the data library some moments before that wave hit. What did you do?' he asked as the Doctor carried on.
'I did nothing, the Daleks did though. They upset the natural balance within the Eye and the excessive Time energy transformed them back to their greater form, free floating intelligence' the Doctor explained.
Phillips looked surprised but quickly pointed to beyond the courtyard.
'Look, your friends have abandoned you' Phillips indicated and looking onward the Doctor could see no TARDISes left and no bodies.
'Pulled back into the backwash and displaced in time, now where is the Red Dalek?' he asked aloud almost unconcerned that he was the last Time Lord present.
'What is so important about this one Dalek?' Phillips snapped agitatedly.
'It's the paradox! The Daleks are the Index, you saw what happened, pure hate personified but what being was present with me on Scarlos, on Gallifrey alone, the one who orchestrated this entire re-taking?' the Doctor explained.
'The Red Dalek. But how can it be this Index creature?' Phillips asked.
'The Daleks have evolved, the Index knew of Gallifrey, this Dalek knows everything about the Time Lords, the Index didn't dare try to kill it on Scarlos because it would crush its own existence!' the Doctor breathed.

'Then if we destroy this one Dalek, then the paradox is void?' Phillips asked and the Doctor nodded.
'Every damage made will be undone, Gallifrey restored, Earth every other single world resurrected even Skaro' the Doctor replied.
'It will be heading to the vaults, I'll go Doctor!' Phillips replied in a calm, cold tone.
'I realise that you will remember everything whereas we shall all forget. Phillips I am truly sorry for your loss' the Doctor replied.
'As am I' he said slowly and with that he faded away.
As the air grew still there came a strange grinding roar and looking up, the Doctor saw a blue box materialise but then he stopped. It wasn't blue, it was black, then suddenly it unfolded.
'Oh no! What do you want?' the Doctor cried but the coiling form of the Index twisted in the air.
'Merely to collect what is all ready mine' it hissed.
'You know you'll endanger yourself, destroying yourself in the past and you cease to be!' the Doctor retorted calmly.
'True but with the damage I have made then I have to exist- a paradoxical paradox you might say?' it hissed and then it laughed hard.
'Then finish it, you've conquered time, annihilated all. I remain, eat me then or won't you stomach me?' the Doctor called.
'Why not, you are tasty morsel and I will be complete!' it howled and the Doctor exchanged a slight smile.
'Oh you will be... a complete and utter fool!' he cried and grinned widely.
Deep inside the Vault the Red Dalek worked at the discarded control rig.
'Skaro will be saved. The Daleks will triumph!' it grated to itself as it worked harder, without any other Daleks it had progressed quickly and now the console was working and ready just as Phillips appeared from the shadows.
'Victory for the Daleks is assured!' it grated.
'Dalek?' he called and as the creature looked up at him, he smiled. His eyes burning with the look of vengeance.
'This is for Xsakana!' Phillips cried and pressed the trigger. The Dalek gun spat death and the Red Dalek could do nothing as the blast shredded its casing...

The evening sky above Gallifrey was bright and clear, the cool wind the blowed over the many roofs knocked at the the shutters of the town house.
The nightwatchman stood there, his head at an angle, his snores were deep and long.
All was still and safe.
Ajac sat at the noisy bar, amongst the drinking and chattering while his friend had started to chat up some lovely looking girls. If he played his cards right then he too might get lucky this night. Reaching out to his glass, he took a sip and relaxed.
'Are you feeling better today Roska?' Havlok asked as she sat up.
'I feel fine thank you father' Roska replied and went to hug him.
The Doctor lay back on the sun lounge, the twin suns of Trelon IV warming his skin. He took a sip from glass and admired the horizon. Trelon IV was perfect, the perfect place to recuperate. The nice calming atmosphere was just the thing to rest his mind.
Phillips stood there at the gates of the Dalek city on Spirodon. He shook his head clear of the effects of the paradox.
He had won. Xsaskana had been avenged but his world was still gone. This is where it had started, where his plan had been set into motion.
He instead turned away from the door and sighed looking around the thick, humid jungle, as his hands brushed his pockets they caught at the two surviving Baneapples.
He smiled as he saw them, taking one aside, he pulled at its gentle flesh with two whole hands to pluck at the seeds.
Carefully he knelt down and dug a slight hole, dropping the seeds in, he covered it over.
'My time, my legacy I leave here but I will not give in! My time with her was cut short but I will return to you Xsaskana! I will return' he sobbed slowly.
Wiping free his sorrows he looked to the jungle with his cold vision, revenge was on his mind. The humans would pay for their crimes and this time there would be no disruptions!
He grinned at the thought of success and taking a bite from the surving Banapple he faded away into the void.
Spirodon lay silent and still.