Davros' Revenge

[Davros]

As he went through the door, the room inside became filled with light, sensing the people come in. It was mostly bare, apart from a strange shape in a corner, the only area left in darkness. Stopping himself and the forcefield, he turned back to Sarah Jane. "So tell me Miss Smith, where is the Doctor? I'd very much like to meet him." If he could get the Doctor in his trap, it would make his revenge all the sweeter.

[Sarah Jane]

Following along reluctantly, but briskly enough to keep from being enveloped and electrocuted, she was stunned by what she saw. It hadn't occurred to her that he was anything more than a monster living down in the sewers, barely surviving.

Her heart began to pound, realizing her foe had established himself well here, and she caught deep in his trap. In the back of her mind, she was wildly trying to plan something brilliant to stymie him. Surely she'd come up with something, and find a way to clue Rani. Though, it would be nice if the girl came up with a brilliant plan of her own.

She realized her thoughts were tumbling as she fought a panic. What was that in the corner of the room? When Davros mentioned the Doctor, her heart almost stopped beating for a moment, so tightly did her muscles lock. She broke out of it a moment later, rolling her shoulders with disdain and tossing her hair out of her face with a shake of her head.

"I would like to see him as well, Davros, so you can just get in line. I have no idea where the Doctor is, I haven't seen him in months. No one has seen him in months." She capitalized on her slight exasperation with this true fact until her tone slid into contempt.

[Davros]

Davros simply shrugged, as if it didn't matter much. "Lie to me as much as you like, Miss Smith. You'll tell me all I want to know eventually." He went into the corner of the room. "It isn't the best model I've made, but it is only a rough copy. I'm sure it'll make no difference to you after your conversion." He flicked a switch, and some lights came on to reveal what looked like a Dalek travel machine. It was a frame made out of simple metal, and the eyestalk was an old pipe with opticl wires running through it. The mid-section, where the gun and plunger should be, was a transparent casing. Below that, the base looked normal, except there were no globes on it.

[Rani Chandra]

Rani tried to figure out what to do, and then she had an idea. She looked in Sarah Jane's bag and with luck found a sonic lipstick. "Maybe she has two." Rani said to herself, and then she wondered if this would work. Praying that it would, she sneaked down into a hiding place, near Davros and yet not near, she pointed the sonic lipstick at the button he had used to imprison Sarah Jane, and pressed a button. The sonic lipstick began to whirr. Please work, please work... Rani prayed. She had her eyes closed, and the whirr of the sonic lipstick could surely be heard by now...this guy was probably going to find her out, whatever happened here. And Rani was dreading thinking about what he might do to her if he did find her. Or, rather, when he did.
OOC: It would be nice if it did work, though Davros would probably find Rani out whether it does or doesn't work lol.

[Sarah Jane]

This little sojourn into London's sewer was taking a quick and ugly turn. The crudity of the Dalek travel machine intended for her made the prospect ever so much more terrible. It was horror on top of horror. This moment, she was having a hard time keeping her growing terror in check. However, she had had quite a bit of practice over the years.

"Davros, if you think I'm going to play 'Mr. and Mrs. Salt and Pepper Shakers' with you, you've got another thing coming!" She nearly spat at him. "And I honestly don't think you can ask me a question sophisticated enough to -" She broke off suddenly, hearing the Sonic Lipstick. A second later, light rippled around her, and that terrible sense that she was standing next to a giant Tesla coil left her.

Sarah Jane took her stance even as she drew her weapon. Left hand cupping under the butt, right hand guiding, she raised that Sontarn Blaster until the abomination before her fell into her sites and she pulled the trigger four times in quick succession. This was made slightly more complicated by the fact that she fired the last two energy bolts on the run. She just couldn't stop shooting at it, so offended she was by it's very existence.

She had seen the shadow of Rani earlier on the other side of Davros. Sarah Jane would have to to bolt down a different tunnel. She was running for it now. Davros was not going to be pleased about any damage done his little toy.



((OOC- SJ is a crack shot, see "Pyramids of Mars" right under her picture. www.whosdw.com/compan4.html))

[Rani Chandra]

Rani jumped as she watched Sarah Jane run. But now, Rani was stuck. Davros was still in front of her, and she had forgotten the way she came. She turned her head one way. Nope, that looked like a dead end. Oh dear. Rani figured she'd have to wait a while before being able to escape, and even then, she wasn't sure if she'd find Sarah Jane.

[Davros]

After Sarah Jane had made her comments, things seemed to happen in a rush. There was a whirring noise, the shield he'd placed around her had vanished, blasts flew through the air, and the female had escaped! Davros turned to check on his substitute travel machine. When he did, he found another person in front if him. He pointed a finger at her. "Don't move, or I'll blast you!" Then he pressed a button. "Voice command: deadlock seal all exits from sewer section A-1." Soon, the clanking of metal could be heard as all the doors sealed themselves. "No way out now," he smirked at the human child.

[Rani Chandra]

Rani gasped as Davros turned round and told her not to move, or he'd blast her. She swallowed, and didn't move. When she heard the clanking of metal, she winced. Great. Even if she escaped, she would be stuck. And blasted, if she tried to move. "Why did you capture Sarah Jane?" she asked, clearly bravely though inside she felt a little scared. Hopefully Sarah Jane would get her out, because Rani had run out of ideas when Davros had turned around, so she just wanted some answers now.

[Sarah Jane]

Cradeling the heavy blaster in her arms, she ran until a sudden, fateful sounding, echoing boom reverberated through the tunnels, stopping her in her tracks. Sarah Jane saw what it was, some sort of blast doors coming down and sealing part of the tunnel to her left. There must be dozens of such doors all around by the sound of it, she thought, with the sinking feeling of one trapped. Her mouth felt terribly dry.

In the sudden silence following, she heard Rani's voice talking loudly behind her. She must be talking to Davros. Davros had caught her. Oh, Rani!

Rani who must have found her bag . . . . . . .! Holding up her wrist she flicked the dish open on her Detector watch. She could use it to find her bag, and maybe even which way the girl had come in to flank Davros. If filled her with a terrible frustration to have to listen to the girl take him on. Rani wasn't ready. Deep down, Sarah Jane wasn't so sure she was ready.

Making quite a bit of haste, she started off, furiously dredging up the plan of the sewers in her mind. Ah, if her bag was this way, she must go that way.

"Hold on, Rani." she whispered, looking to where the voices came from.

[Davros]

"You will answer only my questions, child! And if you don't, you will regret it." Davros moved closer to the girl in front of him and leered at her. "Now, I must be working on my invention. If you move, you will die. If you speak when not spoken to, you will die. Understand?" Without waiting for an answer he moved behind Rani, flicking a switch to close the door into the room. It was the only one that wasn't deadlocked.

Approaching his work, Davros assessed the travel machine. There were a few scorch marks on the base, but they would be no harm. One had cracked the glass case. That may not need repairing...but the eyestalk substitute had been blown in half. Still, he could still so what he'd planned...but maybe with someone else. He turned back to the child. "Tell me who you are, and your relation to Sarah Jane Smith."

[Rani Chandra]

Rani wasn't going to give up her identity. "Why should I tell someone like you who I am? It's not like I'd tell you anything about Sarah Jane." Rani said, her confidence a little too.......confidence-y. She had no idea what would happen next, and so she waited to find out. Hopefully he would not kill her. If he did....Sarah Jane would blame herself and that happened to be something that Rani did not want.

[Sarah Jane]

Stumbling through the dark, finding her way by sliding her hand along the slick, encrusted sewer wall, she listened to Davro's voice booming and distorted by the tunnels, followed by Rani's, high and panicked response.

Using the direction of her bag as 'compass west'. There with only the ghost glow of her scanner, it was almost easier to see that map in her mind's eye. Or so she'd been telling herself right up until she a hard right turn instead of the left she'd been expecting.

The map in her head shifted to new possibilities of her exact location even as she forged ahead, trying not to be distracted by the fate of her young friend.

I'm coming, she thought, hold on.

[Davros]

Davros' brow furrowed in anger. "Do you really wish to test me, child?" he said in a dark tone. "Then so be it. You chose this fate yourself." With that, he made another forcefield at the back of the child, and brought it forward so it would force her towards the rough machine. He then activated an audio enhancer for his voice.

"Sarah Jane Smith!" His voice rang loud and clear through the whole sewer. "I know that you can hear me! I am sure you're aware that I have this friend of yours trapped in the grip of my hand, so to speak." He paused for effect. "If you do not surrender yourself to me in the next five Earth minutes, she will become part of my project; the first of many Daleks." Another pause. "If you try anything when you come in here, that is if you choose to, she will be vaporised before you can blink. Make your choice well, Miss Smith. Five minutes." He turned the audio enhancer off.

[Rani Chandra]

Rani was brought roughly forward, which jerked her and it hurt. In her face, however, it showed. "Don't do it, Sarah Jane!" Rani shouted, loud enough hopefully for her to hear. She dreaded becoming a Dalek but it wasn't like she wanted Sarah Jane to surrender herself to this....Dalek??? Oh, maybe he was the Dalek Creator.

[Sarah Jane]

The bag, when she found it, cause her to nearly fall and drop the blaster. There it was. Davros' voice jerked her upright again. His threats tore through her. Many years ago, Sarah Jane had spent quite a bit of time with Kaled soldiers. She'd picked up a few ripe swear words and insults in Kaled. She snarled one back at him.

"@#%^! You!"

Even more so did Rani's brave words sting because she could so easily hear the girl's fear. She was suddenly sorry for every time she'd done that same thing to the Doctor.

Already a plan was forming in her mind. From her bag, she first took her notebook. Tearing off it's cardboard cover, she jammed it in her mouth and chewed mightily. Then she took a ring with a pink stone and some twine as she knelt there on the cold concrete and muck. From the ground she plucked mouse bones. She began to work furiously.

It was a hell of a way to play beat the clock.