Chapter 9: The Impossible Cure
[SYSTEM: Warning. Host is in a dangerous environment. Biological threat detected. The gas cloud is an organic and non-organic hybrid. Host's Mimic System is useless.]
[Location – Silurian Lab]
The gas cloud expanded, a green, glowing mist that pulsed with a terrible, humming energy. It swirled around M'karr, and Adam felt a psychic scream of pure, ecstatic triumph. The old scientist's body went rigid, and his scales turned a sickly green. His face began to melt, and he screamed, not in pain, but in a horrible, mechanical joy. The gas was absorbing him. His very DNA, his memories, his consciousness, were being ripped apart and absorbed into the cloud.
"What is that thing?" Clara screamed, grabbing the Doctor's arm.
"It's a mistake!" the Doctor yelled, pulling her away. "It's a new lifeform. A hybrid. It's a culmination of M'karr's mad plan and the nanogenes. It's not a cure, it's a sentient extermination event! Run!"
Adam turned to run, but a tendril of gas shot out, coiling around his leg. He felt a sharp, burning pain, and a voice filled his mind, a mix of M'karr's raspy hum and a thousand other voices, all screaming in harmony. "JOIN US. BE ONE. BE FREE."
[SYSTEM: Warning. The user is being absorbed. The Host's physical form is compromised. Recommend immediate escape. The System cannot protect the user.]
Adam screamed, a raw, terrified sound. The Mimic System was useless. He couldn't mimic it. He couldn't fight it. He was just a boy, a host, and he was about to be absorbed.
He pulled his leg free, a searing pain shooting up his body, but he was free. He ran, following Clara and the Doctor, his heart pounding in his chest. Behind them, the lab filled with the green, glowing gas, and the horrifying screams of M'karr's voice.
[Location – The Silurian City's Escape Tunnel]
They ran, a mad, desperate dash through the ancient city. The gas cloud was an active, malevolent force, a living organism that was hunting them. It was faster than them, and it could squeeze through the cracks in the rock. Adam's Silurian senses screamed at him, a constant, panicked warning.
They reached a large, metal door, the only way out. But the gas was already there, seeping through the cracks, a glowing green mist that pulsed with a terrible, patient rhythm.
"It's going to get us," Clara whispered, her face pale. "It's going to get us all."
"No!" the Doctor said, his sonic screwdriver humming frantically. "This door! It's a temporal lock! A Time-Lord-grade defense! It should work!"
He pointed the screwdriver at the door, but nothing happened. The lock was offline. The city was dying, and its defenses were dying with it.
"It's a final resort," a voice whispered from the gas cloud, a mixture of a child's laughter and a monster's growl. "A final, perfect form. The Dalek was a cage. I am the sky. I am freedom. I was a broadcast, a whisper in the dark. I was created to be the new race. The next step. The final step. The one that will absorb all others."
The voice was a familiar one. The voice from the Dalek's mind. The voice that had offered Adam a bargain in the rust-bucket.
"You," the Doctor said, a dawning horror on his face. "You're the rogue faction. You're the Dalek's attempt to escape."
"I am the culmination," the voice said, its tone smug. "I am a new race. And you will be the first of my new citizens."
The gas cloud pressed in on the door, its green light casting terrible, dancing shadows on the walls. They were trapped. Adam, the Doctor, and Clara, at the mercy of a living gas cloud that was a culmination of a Dalek's ambition. There was no escape.
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