Felicia ducked from one corridor into another, keeping her eyes open for daleks at all times. She walked backwards a few feet before she suddenly bumped into something behind her.

She turned to see a dalek turning towards her.

“APPREHEND!” The dalek shouted.

She screamed in shock and let loose with another blast of psionic energy from her fingers. This one managed to puncture a hole in the dalek’s body, quickly immobilizing the machine.

She caught her breath as she looked into the smoking hole of the dalek. It had gone into its midsection and out through the back.

Something then suddenly jumped up onto Felicia’s head. It was the tiny creature that was once inside, controlling the dalek.

“Ahhhhh! Gaaahhh!” She quickly reached up and grabbed the creature’s small tentacles, wrestling with it as she slammed into a few walls in the process, before landing down on her back.

With a burst of strength, she finally managed to pry the creature off from her head, and toss it into the air. Before it could hit the ground, she took out the rod and blasted it with another wave of energy, frying the being on contact.

The burnt body of the creature landed on the floor, and trembled a little, before shriveling up forever.

“Uggghhh…yuck!” Felicia wiped herself off and panted softly as she watched it. She had no clue that there was something organic inside of these things…what were they, she wondered?

Before she could think about this more, another dalek wheeled itself in from a distant corridor and fired its pain ray.

“IT IS THE PRINCESS!” The dalek shouted, rallying other daleks around it, as Felicia avoided the blast and jumped up, grabbing onto a cable hanging a bit from below the ceiling.

The daleks aimed at her in vain, all the shots missing as she used her legs to swing a bit on the horizontally lined cable, before finally leaping off and grabbing onto another one as she continued to swing a bit with her legs.

She then spotted a high platform in the distance, as she swung back a few more times, and with a deep breath, launched herself towards it.

The daleks fired, and missed, as she soared and somersaulted in midair, before landing on the platform with knees bent, hitting her mark flawlessly.

She smiled as she then got up and looked down at the pursuing daleks below her. “It’ll take a while for them to get up here, I think…”

But she was soon proven wrong, however, as a few of the daleks suddenly fired off thrusters under their bodies, soon going airborne as they slowly began to rise towards Felicia’s position.

“Oh bother…” she moaned to herself a little, as she quickly began to run down the hallway connected to the platform.

“Come on…where’s the engine room on this thing…” she looked back and forth quickly, as she then noticed a few tubes running down one of the walls, carrying what looked like some kind of fuel, glowing blue in color.

“Maybe this will lead to it…” she thought to herself as she quickly ran down in the direction the tubes ran towards.

As she ran down one of the hallways, another dalek soon came out from an intersection and faced her down.

“YOU SHALL NOT ESCAPE!” It yelled to her.

“Aaaahhh!” Felicia quickly got down onto her knees as the dalek fired its pain ray. The blast sailed over her head, just barely, as she quickly slid past the dalek and turned to fire another psionic blast from her hand as her head-jewel glowed.

The blast smacked the dalek hard in the back, causing it to yowl in pain as its chest, then its dome exploded in succession, leaving behind a shredded, broken mess, as Felicia quickly got back on her feet, and ran again, following the tubes.

She ran and ran, as she quickly turned another corner, only to find three daleks, one behind the other, staring right at her.

She was still running as she screamed, and jumped up. She unintentionally landed on the dome of the lead dalek, as she stumbled a bit and sprang off the same surface. Just as she leapt, the confused dalek fired its pain ray, which ricocheted off a wall, and smacked the second dalek in the eye.

She landed behind the third dalek, which soon turned to fire at her, before she quickly nailed that one in the dome with another psionic blast as she somersaulted again and hit the floor. The blast knocked the dalek back, causing it to smack into the second dalek as it fell, causing the second dalek to topple the first one like domino before it could get any shots off.

Felicia turned her back on the trio, as she ran down towards what looked like a set of steel doors. She concentrated, gathered power, and reared back, before tossing a ball of energy into the doors, and smashing them wide open.

Ahead of her, she saw a large, blue, cylindrical object, pulsing with energy, and had many cables attached to it. It was indeed the main engine.

“Finally!” She shouted to herself, as she ran into the room, only to find a group of 5 daleks all watching the controls.

“INTRUDER! INTRUDER!” One of them barked, bringing the other 4 to attention.

“Will this NEVER end?” Felicia rolled her eyes as she quickly jumped out of the way of their pain ray blasts, landing on top of a heating duct above the room. The daleks continued to fire on her, as she then jumped, twirled a bit, aiming for another duct.

She overshot her mark, however, and sailed right over it. She only had one place where she could land safely…the console, right in front of the daleks.

She landed on her bent knees, and with her left hand on a panel, as the daleks looked her dead in the eyes…she quickly gritted her teeth, and prepared for the worst.

But nothing happened…she slowly opened her eyes and looked them all over, befuddled. “Well? What are you waiting for?”

“MUST NOT DAMAGE ENGINE CONTROL CONSOLE” One of them responded.

Felicia slowly grinned at this. “Really now?” She slowly reached for the rod. “Well…Jenny always said to never be a slave to routine…”

With that, she jabbed the rod directly into the control console. Sharp metallic barbs quickly came out from the penetrating end, locking it into place as it shocked the engine with a force of powerful, purple energy.

“ALERT! ALERT!” One of the daleks shouted as Jenny leapt over them and ran out of the room. “MAIN ENGINE HAS BEEN INFUSED WITH UNKNOWN ENERGY SOURCE!”

“COUNTERACT!” Another dalek suggested.

“CANNOT!” the first dalek responded. “ENERGY SOURCE IS TOO POWERFUL. ENGINE OVERLOAD IS IMMINENT!”

“SEND ALERTS THROUGHOUT VESSEL” Another dalek shouted. “PREPARE ESCAPE PODS! SET COORDINATES FOR SKARO AND SEND TO UNITS ABLE TO LEAVE!”

Felicia was well outside of the main engine room now, as she ran from one hallway to another.

“I don’t have much time…” she thought, as she ran past what looked like a spare parts room. “There has to be something I can do to speed up my escape, so I can to Grandma in time…”

She then stopped for a moment, as she remembered spotting something in the spare parts room. She ran back, and looked again, seeing the bits of dalek parts hung up neatly…and something else…it looked like a vehicle.

“A Skaran speed cruiser!” Felicia exclaimed as she ran to the driver’s side door. She wondered what such a thing was doing on a dalek ship, as she also found a Skaran skeleton sitting in the seat…obviously someone who had strayed into territory that he shouldn’t have.

She was eager to try one of these things when they first landed on Skaro…and now seemed as good at time as any. She quickly opened the door, pushed the skeleton out, and hopped into the seat.

After some tinkering with the wires, she managed to get the engine started. It roared to life as she grinned up at the sky, whilst buckling the seat belt.

“Thank you, oh goddess…” She mused, before she suddenly looked down to see a dalek staring into the room.

“YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED HERE!”

“Ahhhhhh!” Felicia quickly pushed the twin throttles forward a bit, as the cruiser took off with great speed, and rammed into the dalek before it could fire. The cruiser went crashing through a railing, and flew down into a large, open hallway, with the dalek still attached to its pointed hood.

After falling quite a few feet, the cruiser landed, with its barrier below keeping it afloat as Felicia quickly got a hold of the controls. The dalek began to spin its head, wondering what to do, before Felicia found a chance, and rammed the dalek into a wall, the point of the cruiser’s hood breaking the creature virtually in half as she slammed it in.

“Whoa…” She shook off the impact after a moment, as she then pulled back on the throttles, reversing and turning a bit, as she steadied the cruiser…she then pushed up on the throttles, slowly going into full speed, as she raced up the corridors now…

As this was happening, The High Artificer was still in hiding in the docking bay of the ship. Cautiously, she peeked out from behind a few steel crates, watching the daleks, as they all seemed to be scrambling towards the escape pods now, alarms blaring in all directions.

“Oh…I do hope Felicia’s all right…” She thought to herself, as she clutched her hands together for a moment.

Her answer would soon come, as she suddenly heard the sound of a CRASH through one of the walls. She looked up to see Felicia, racing in on her new cruiser, as she slammed on the brakes, and slid into a few daleks in the process, toppling them all over.

“Grandma!” She shouted and waved. “Over here!”

The High Artificer nodded as she quickly made her way over. At this point, the daleks seemed to busy with escaping to pay too much attention to them, as parts of the ship were already beginning to rumble, and blow up from the inside.

A beam nearly crushed the High Artificer from above as it fell, causing her to jump as Felicia quickly took her hand, and pulled her aboard next to her.

“Can we make it out in time?” The High Artificer asked.

“With this thing…definitely…” Felicia smiled, as she pushed a button on the console.

“SPACE MODE ACTIVATED” The onboard computer spoke, as a dome quickly covered the top half around them, almost like a convertible car.

“Who taught you how to drive this thing?” The High Artificer asked, puzzled.

“Oh…” Felicia giggled a bit. “I was a little bored during the time before the attack, so I had a few Skaran guys show me around this big garage near where we were staying.”

The High Artificer nodded. “Well then, I guess that was a good time for you to be bored, for a change.”

Felicia blushed a bit and nodded, smiling as she quickly went full throttle. The cruiser quickly charged out of the docking bay, just as parts of that area were beginning to explode, and raced towards a weak looking wall. She then hit a special boost button, which gave the vehicle just enough speed to punch a big hole in the metal, and allow it to pass through.

The vacuum of space now invaded the docking bay as the cruiser escaped, grabbing and sucking out several daleks, as the rest of the ship began to consume itself in flames.

Felicia slowly began to pull back on the throttle as she put more and more space between the cruiser and the ship…before something suddenly grabbed her with a *BUMP*.

“AH!” She exclaimed. “What now?”

“Relax, Princess…” a familiar voice called out. “We got ya!”

Felicia smiled widely. “Deadeye!”

“The one and only, highness!” The duck responded. “All you need to do now is sit back, and let our tractor beam take care of the rest. Great to see ya both alive, and great job!”

Felicia nodded as she brought the throttles back to their neutral position, and sighed as she slumped back in her seat, happy to know that her ordeal was now over.

“This…this is what it must have felt like for Jenny…every single day…” she spoke sleepily now, relaxing as her grandmother gently patted her on the head.

“So…you think I’ll be able to read the mind of one of these things?”

Jenny shot the doctor a somewhat skeptical look, as she kneeled behind some bushes with him in the forest, on the lookout for daleks.

“I think so…” The doctor nodded. “Your powers are strong enough to make one of these daleks explode, so I think you maybe be able to discern something from one of their tiny brains.”

“It’s not as easy to read minds as you might think, Doctor…” Jenny crossed her arms.

“Why?” The Doctor cocked his head a bit. “Can’t you read mine right now?”

Jenny gave him a funny look, noticing the somewhat mischievous nature in his eyes.

“I’d prefer not to…” Jenny kept her arms crossed, but smiled just a little, sensing his jest.

“Tsk, pity…” The Doctor jibed again as he looked back out of the bushes. “Once you’ve been inside a mind like mine, you probably wouldn’t want to leave it for any other.”

“I highly doubt that…” Jenny shifted her eyes a bit. “You’re not THAT interesting, Doctor…”

“Oh no?” The Doctor looked back at her with a smile. “How about the fact that I can read your mind…and I know that you’re lying…didn’t need your powers for that, now did I?”

Jenny thought this over for a second…and just laughed it off, as The Doctor looked over and spotted a dalek. He quickly shushed her, as the two hunkered behind the bush.

“I’m going to need to get a good look at the creature inside, if I’m to read its mind…” Jenny told him, quietly.

The Doctor nodded slowly. “Then we’ll need to open the thing up…” He took out his trusty sonic screwdriver, and began recalibrating it.

“The trick is going to be getting the thing to stand around long enough for us.” Jenny looked up again for a second. “Got any ideas?”

The Doctor rubbed his fuzzy head for a moment, before he saw something dripping from a plant nearby…zanzabub nectar.

“Yes…I think I do…”

The dalek continued its patrol, idly turning its dome from left to right…before something suddenly jumped out behind it.

“Hey! Hey, trash can!”

The dalek quickly turned to see Jenny, waving her arms at it.

“Come and get me, you unholy pile of scrap!”

“EXTERMINATE!” The dalek predictably responded, firing its laser as Jenny threw a ball of psionic energy close to it, deliberately missing as it exploded where its feet would be if it had been bipedal.

The dalek turned its dome some more, seeing nothing but dust, before The Doctor suddenly sprang up in back of the creature, pelting it with a bulb of nectar, which splattered all over the back of the dalek.

“HOLD STILL! HOLD STILL!” The dalek protested, as The Doctor used his new jumping abilities to leap back in front of the creature as its head was still backwards. He then pelted the front of the dalek with another bulb, as a gloppy mess of nectar splattered all over it

He then leapt out of view, and programmed his sonic screwdriver to send out a high frequency screeching noise.

The dalek, still confused, turned around and around, covered in gooey nectar, as it looked for any sign of the Doctor or Jenny. Instead, what it soon found was a pack of shrieking frogs, all leaping towards it.

“GET OFF! GET OFF! DO NOT INTEREFERE!” The dalek yelped as the frogs all jumped on the front and the back of its metal body, sticking to the nectar and licking it all up.

The Doctor then leapt down behind it once more, and jammed the powered up screwdriver into its dome. The dalek was unable to fight back, still covered in frogs, as The Doctor slowly cut the dome open, and reached inside with his hand, as Jenny stood at the ready.

Within a few minutes, The Doctor grunted, and pulled out the slimy, tentacle-laden creature inside of the dalek.

“Catch!” He yelled to Jenny, as he quickly threw the creature to her.

Jenny was unfazed by the creature’s ugliness (Thanks to her experiences with the toads, and Al Negator) as she caught it, and put a hand over its head, immobilizing it, as she focused her mind.

The Doctor let the frogs finish the nectar on the dalek’s shell, as he slowly walked over and observed Jenny, whose head jewel was glowing now.

After a few moments, Jenny grunted a bit, and finally let go, tossing the creature into the bushes. She panted a bit and leaned over, hands on her knees.

“Goddess…” She spoke, finally. “Such a violent mindset…these creatures make Komplex look like pacifists.”

“Did you learn anything?” The Doctor enquired, as he helped Jenny back up.

“Just…a lot of images…random…jumbled…” Jenny rubbed her head as she walked further down the path. “I think the more I see of this planet, the more clear it will become.”

“Well then…” The Doctor smiled as he looked around. “There are no daleks present right now, and I’ve never been one to pass on a good sightseeing opportunity in a new world…” he then politely offered his arm. “Shall we?”

Jenny shot him an odd look at the gesture, then chuckled a little.

“You are so strange, Doctor…” She answered with a smile, before walking off slowly.

The Doctor took a moment too look back up to the sky…what she said sounded almost like something Rose would have said.

“I guess that’s what makes me so memorable…” He mused in a bittersweet manner, before finally walking off to join his new partner.