Revanche

(PROSE: Engines of War C7) AE

Jan 23rd, 2019
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  1. Five glass structures stood against the rear wall. They were transparent, but shaped in the archetypal form of a Dalek, complete with a glass manipulator arm and weapon.
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  5. Through the glass walls of the casing she could see the organic matter inside, a heaving, glutinous mass of flesh and tubing, steadily inflating and deflating like a sticky, diseased lung.
  6. The room was some sort of incubation chamber.
  7. This in itself was enough to cause another involuntary gag, but it was when she looked at the second of the incubation chambers that she realised the true extent of the horror. In this one, the organic component still had a human face.
  8. It had once been a woman, but now, if there was anything left behind the darting, yellow eyes, it was only madness. The head had mutated, becoming hairless, misshapen. The flesh had blistered and bubbled, caked in gnarled tumours. The woman's limbs had been removed, and cables extruded from her chest, wiring her into the incubation housing.
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  12. 'Experimenting on the prisoners?'
  13. 'Turning them into Daleks,' said the Doctor, his voice grim.
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  17. 'They're making foot soldiers,' he said. 'Cannon fodder. They're dousing people in radiation so that their cells mutate into forms resembling the mutant Kaleds. Once they've altered them physiologically, they'll remove all of the emotion, effectively lobotomising them, and re-house them in normal Dalek casings. They'll take orders as well as any other Dalek, and if they're destroyed, well—at least they weren't a real Dalek.'
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