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"These...humans will become like me," Dalek Sec again began to talk with their raspy voice after a brief silence, raising his hand at the prisoners, "Prepare them for hybridisation."

"I'd rather be dead than look like a human jellyfish," Alice uttered, scanning over the creature before Martha subtly nodded in agreement beside her.

It was now out of the corner of their eyes that Martha and Alice saw the Doctor slipping unnoticed behind some machinery, the Daleks still not having caught on that he was there. It made both young women wonder what he was planning. All they knew was that he needed to hurry up as the pig slaves had begun advancing on them, Frank and the other prisoners.

"Leave me alone!" Martha yelled as she tried swatting the pig men away from her.

"Don't you even dare think about putting those trotters on me!" the young Noble was doing the same as her friend.

Suddenly, the song 'Happy Days Are Here Again' began to play, and everyone in the room stopped what they were doing, wondering where the music was coming from. If the young Noble could take a guess, it was probably a radio.

"What is that sound?" Dalek Sec demanded, irritated about the melody echoing through the laboratory.

"Well, that would be me," the Time Lord popped out from behind the machinery, shaking a small radio sheepishly before placing it down next to a Bunsen burner to turn it off. It made both young women sigh with relief to hear his voice.

Alice watched as he casually walked across the room, hands stuffed inside his trousers pockets.

After he had waved at the Daleks, "Hello. Surprise. Boo. Et cetera."

"Doctor," the creature sounded surprised to see him now identifying who they were.

"The enemy of the Daleks," a Dalek states, gliding forward and moving to face the Doctor.

"Exterminate!"

"Wait," Dalek Sec commanded, holding out his arm as the other Daleks swivelled to look in his direction.

"Well, then," the Doctor is somewhat surprised by this action, "A new form of Dalek," he now strode forward towards Dalek Sec, having a better look at them, "Fascinating and very clever."

"The Cult of Skaro escaped your slaughter," the Human-Dalek narrowed their eyes at the Time Lord before him.

Both young women watched, their eyes wide with fear, glancing back and forth between that of the human Dalek and the Time Lord, his face becoming hard, brown eyes void as he looked at the other Daleks around him, "How did you end up in 1930?"

"Emergency Temporal Shift."

"Oh," the Doctor scoffed, followed by a slightly mocking laugh, "That must have roasted up your power cells, yeah?" he strides away looking around the laboratory as if he owned it, "Time was, four Daleks could have conquered the world but instead your skulking away, hidden in the dark, experimenting," he took a deep breath and stopped in his tracks turning back to face that of Dalek Sec, "All of which results in you."

"I am Dalek in human form."

"What does it feel like?" the Doctor returns to stand before the human Dalek but doesn't respond, and before he begins to walk around them, "You can talk to me, Dalek Sec. It is Dalek Sec, isn't it? That's your name? You've got a name and a mind of your own. Tell me what you're thinking right now."

"I...feel...humanity," Dalek Sec replied after having a long think about it back turned to everyone in the laboratory.

"Good," the Time Lord uttered with a nod eye on them, "That's good."

"I...feel...everything," Sec began to state, still not looking at anyone, "We wanted from mankind, which is..." he now turned back to face back an evil smirk painted upon his lips, "...ambition, hatred, aggression and war. Such...a genius for war."

"No, that's not what humanity means," the Doctor shook his head in disbelief, making both young women grimace.

"I think it does," the creature argued, gazing at the humans behind the Time Lord, "At heart, this species is so very...Dalek."

"All right," the Time Lord briefly peers over to both girls, silently checking on them both, offering a tiny nod, "so what have you achieved then? With this Final Experiment, eh? Nothing! 'Cause I can show you what you're missing with this thing," he goes to where he left the radio earlier. He gives it a gentle pat, "Simple little radio."

"What is the purpose of that device?"A Dalek demanded with a yell.

"Well, exactly. It plays music. What's the point of that?" the Doctor returned sarcastically, his tone now becoming light, "Oh, with music, you can dance to it, sing with it, fall in love with it," Alice swore he looked her way when he had said those words but chose to ignore it as he continued talking into the eyestalk of the Dalek who had spoken to him. However, Martha had seen it all but knew her friend was still completely denying what she felt for the Time Lord, "Unless you're a Dalek, of course. Then it's just noise."

The Doctor immediately aimed his sonic screwdriver at the radio, and an almighty high-pitched wailing emerged. Causing Sec to hold his head but also affecting the pigmen and Daleks to behave erratically as the Doctor turned to the prisoners to yell at them, "Run!"

In doing so, the prisoners began running out of the lab. The Time Lord, not far behind, took one last look at Sec, still in pain, before finally going after them. He can still hear the echoes of yelling Daleks over the wailing radio.

"Protect the hybrid!" one Dalek screeched.

"Protect. Protect. Protect," the other Daleks cried in distress, protecting that of Sec, still clutching his head.

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Alice is upfront with Martha, leading the other prisoners back through the sewers. The Doctor suddenly comes rushing up to the front, their eyes briefly meeting his brown, ushering them to the nod in understanding. Returning to face the show, they continued running through the damp, dark, smelly tunnels.

"Bloody hell, which way do we go now," the redhead muttered in disbelief as they came to a complete stop at an intersection, breathing heavily, and it wasn't doing Alice any favours as the dull throb of pain in her side wasn't helping from all the running.

"I don't know," Martha shrugged, just as lost.

"Come on!" The Time Lord now comes rushing past unconsciously without thinking, grabbing Alice's hand but not stopping, wanting to get her, Martha and the prisoners out safely. That was his priority, "Move, move, move, move, move!"

The young Noble felt the Doctor's hand tighten more around hers. Of course, she was surprised but didn't mind; it felt nice when he did, but they were in danger now. Now wasn't the time for her thoughts to wander.

They turned a corner into another tunnel before bumping into Tallulah, standing there looking hopeless, whom the Doctor had told to leave in the first place. Honestly, why does nobody ever listen to him, "And you, Tallulah!" he now yelled the blonde showgirl coming towards them, "Run!"

"What's happened to Lazlo?" she asked the Doctor, a little bewildered, just as Martha grabbed her, dragging her along.

"C'mon!" the Time Lord now spots a ladder just as the squeals of the pigmen are heard getting closer and closer to them, ushering the other prisoners to go, "Everyone up!"

Now, the others were up, and the Doctor got Alice to go up the ladder, followed by Martha, Tallulah, and Frank. Then, finally, he hurried up the ladder himself, slamming the maintenance hole lid closed and sealing it shut with his Sonic, and all of them ran into the night back to Hooverville.

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A while later, now back in the safety of Hooverville, as they all gathered around a fire, the girls and Frank, along with the Doctor and Solomon, sitting upon some crates after having found Solomon to explain what had happened to them, but it seemed the man was finding it hard to believe.

"These Daleks," the man uttered with a frown, staring back at the Doctor with disbelief as the fire crackled before them, "They sound like the stuff of nightmares. And they wanna breed?"

"They're splicing themselves into human bodies," the Time Lord responded gravely with a nod, "If I'm right, they've got a farm of breeding stock right here in Hooverville. We've got to get everyone out."

"Hooverville's the lowest place a man can fall. There's nowhere else to go," Solomon disagreed with a shake of his head, the young Texan now looking over to him from where he sat.

"I'm sorry, Solomon," the Doctor insisted, "You've got to scatter. Go anywhere. Down to the railroads, travel across the state, get out of New York."

"There's got to be a way to reason with these things."

"You haven't got a chance," the young Noble offered with a scoff as she gazed into the fire, not looking at anyone. Martha noted how lost her friend seemed, placing an arm around her shoulders.

"Not even one," Martha added.

"You ain't seen 'em, boss," Frank agreed with the girls.

The Doctor briefly side glanced at Alice. He was just as concerned for the young Noble as Martha was when all he wanted to do was comfort her and tell her that everything would be okay when he could see she wasn't in the slightest. Also, now the Doctor wondered why he had even said about falling in love and looked at her at that moment when rambling on about the radio to the Daleks earlier. It was like he was slowly being drawn to her like a moth to a flame, but he knew they were bound to get burned if either of them got too close. Because they weren't being truthful with one another, it might soon blow up in their faces.

"Daleks are bad enough at any time," the Doctor now implied, coming over all serious, staring back at Solomon, trying to make him understand Daleks were not creatures to be trifled with, "But right now they're vulnerable, and that makes them more dangerous than ever."

It was now they turned their heads of the whistle being blown in a warning by that of the sentry who was shouting, running towards them, "They're coming! They're coming!"

"A sentry. Must have seen something," Solomon offered with a guess.

"They're here! I seen 'em! Monsters! They're monsters!"

All three women suddenly stood in fright as screaming now broke out through the put-together town of Hooverville that these people called their home in the panic. Solomon had pulled out his gun.

"It's started," the Doctor spoke darkly, getting up from where he sat.

"We're under attack! Everyone to arms!" Solomon began yelling orders as shooting could be heard in the distance, the men now starting to pass out a variety of guns and weapons.

"I'm ready, boss, but al o' you! Find a weapon! Use anything!" Frank shouted, now having a weapon in hand, yet most people had huddled into groups, and other residents were running away.

"Come back!" Solomon pleaded with them, but it was no use. They were now gone, "We gotta stick together! It's not safe out there! Come back!"

It's now that more screaming ensued. The pig slaves have gotten into Hooverville, attacking whoever tried escaping and have begun to invade it. They were trapped.

"We need to get out of the park!" Martha suggested to the Doctor as she and Alice ran up to him. The pig men were getting closer. Some people who had tried running away have come back with terror written across their faces.

"Doesn't look like it," Alice added, eyes wide with fear, before looking to the Time Lord, "Sure, you can't get us out of here."

"No, I can't. They're on all sides, driving all the people back towards us," the Time Lord shook his head before glancing around him.

"We're trapped!" Tallulah cried in fright.

"Then we stand together," Soloman now stepped-up taking control of the situation, "Gather 'round. Everybody comes to me. You there, Jethro, Harry, Seamus, stay together," he continued to order as they get forced into a tight circle nearby the fire pigmen staring back at them before himself and the men began shooting, "They can't take all of us."

"If we can just hold them off till daylight," Martha suggested, yelling over the gunfire cracking through the air.

"Oh, Martha," the Doctor sighed, gazing at the already darkening sky twinkling with stars, "They're just the foot soldiers."

"Also, ones that can fly apparently," the redhead uttered fearfully once she and Martha had followed the Time Lord's line of sight of Daleks drifting through the air.

"Oh, my God," Martha voiced in terror before the Doctor pulled her and Alice behind him to protect them.

"What in this world..." Solomon asked after hearing Martha speak, and everyone's eyes now draw to the sky to the Daleks hovering above.

"It's the devil," the sentry who had warned them of the pig men earlier now cried, dropping to his knees, "A devil in the sky. God save us all. It's damnation."

"Oh yeah?" Frank shook his head in disagreement, aiming his gun up at the creatures, "We'll see about that!"

The young man fires with all his might at the Dalek, but the bullets don't even make a nick or scratch upon its metal body.

The Time Lord comes forward to gently push down Frank's rifle, "That's not gonna work," he cautions the young Texan, a hand now resting upon his shoulder, gazing up to the Dalek still hovering in the air, not making any move to attack.

Right then, a couple of seconds later, the young Noble spots a few more Daleks coming and, with a shaky voice, nods towards them, "I think we've got more than one to worry about!"

All hell breaks loose as the Daleks commence their attack on Hooverville, firing at anyone and anything. Explosions went off in every direction, causing fires, people screaming and running for their lives, but if there was one thing the Doctor couldn't stand, it was others getting hurt or caught up in the middle of something that wasn't their fault.

"The humans will surrender!"

"Leave them alone!" the Time Lord yelled, a scowl upon his features. Both young women stared at him with concern, "They've done nothing to you!" the Daleks stopped their attack, now focusing their eyestalks on the Doctor.

"We have located the Doctor!" Solomon walked through the crowd to the front, only for the Time Lord to grab him by the arm and pull him back to caution him, "No, Solomon. Stay back."

"I'm told that I'm addressin' the Daleks, is that right?" Solomon took another few steps, now gaining the Dalek's attention, ignoring the Doctor's warning, "From what I hear, you're outcasts, too."

"Solomon, don't," the Doctor again tried to warn him.

"Doctor, this is my township. You will respect my authority," Solomon returned before looking at the Doctor, "Just let me try," he pushed the Time Lord away, who shook their head as they stepped away back with everyone.

"Something tells me this ain't gonna end well," Alice uttered with a worrying scowl, fiddling with the chain of her necklace, feeling it and the locket warming up unpleasantly against her skin.

"What makes you think that?" Martha inquired with a whisper, side glimpsing at her flatmate and friend now becoming just as concerned.

"Dunno, just a feeling I've got," she shrugged.

"Daleks...ain't we all the same? Underneath, ain't we all kin?" Solomon went on to speak a hand up in surrender as he laid down his rifle upon the ground, "'Cause, see, I've just discovered this past day God's universe is a thousand times the size I thought it was. And that scares me. Oh, yeah. Terrifies me," he goes on to admit, "Right down to the bone. But it's got to give me hope...hope that maybe together we can make a better tomorrow. So I...I beg you now, if you have any compassion in your hearts, then you'll meet with us and stop this fight. Well...what do you say?"

A brief moment of tense silence fills the air, interrupted by the Dalek's shrill, grating voice in response, "Exterminate!"

It's laser-shooting Solomon down, who yells in pain, body falling like a lead weight to the ground dead. Horrid cries came from the Hooverville residents as Frank goes running over to the man's body.

"No! Solomon!"

"They killed him," Martha gasped, eyes wide with horror, unable to erase what she had just witnessed, "They just shot him on the spot."

"Nobody deserves to die like that, not anyone," the young Noble shook her head in disbelief, mouth open and eyes wide. This was something she would never get over anytime soon, watching an innocent man getting killed before her very eyes.

Yet she and Martha could see that this had tipped the Doctor over the edge from the burning hatred and pain from within his eyes, along with his murderous expression.

"Daleks!" The Doctor yelled angrily, marching forward with nothing but intent and beyond done with the Daleks hovering above him, arms outstretched to his sides as he confronted them, "All right, so it's my turn! Then kill me! Kill me if it'll stop you attacking these people!"

"What's he bloody doing?" Alice gasped, felt like her heart was in her throat and that the Time Lord had lost the plot and that he looked deadly serious about it. Why was he doing this? Why was he sacrificing himself? She felt Martha now grabbing her hand and tightly squeezing it, which she returned.

'Stop him, protect him!' that mysterious woman suddenly yelled with panic inside Alice's head. It hurt a little but hadn't been done before, which was worrying.

"I will be the destroyer of our greatest enemy!" the Dalek yelled, the arm of its laser twitching about, ready to aim the Doctor.

"Then do it! Do it! Just do it!" he screamed back at them furiously, banging a few beats on his chest, "Do it!"

At that very moment, Alice knew the voice in her head was right. She needed to save the Time Lord if he did anything rasher. She couldn't just stand here frozen with fear, on the verge of almost crying and not doing anything, no matter how hard her heart was pounding. She bravely moves her hand out of Martha's grasp and steps forward.

"Ally, what are you doing?!" Martha asked in a panicked whisper with a frown, wondering what's come over her friend, grabbing hold of the redhead's arm and trying to pull her back.

"Saving him," Alice yanks her arm out of Martha's grasp.

"Extermin...!"