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[There is a Dalek on the Plane.]

[The sense of menace that usually accompanies it is muted, somehow. The creature is still, unmoving, its eyestalk sagging lifelessly and its weapons array disabled. Closer inspection, if someone is bold enough, would reveal the reason for this unnatural stillness -- there is a gaping hole blown into the back of the Dalek’s upper casing.]

[...It’s best you don’t look in there. You may never view fried squid the same way again.]

[Crouched next to the Dalek is one Lord Founder Omega. There’s a hardness to him, at the moment, a grim smile on his face. He is carefully disassembling the casing, hands covered in thick welding gloves.]

[He actually seems quite pleased by this situation.]

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[Omega doesn't look at all concerned -- you're still not as irritating as the Doctor, Brax.]

The opportunity presented itself.

[No one is as irritating as the Doctor.]

It's nice to see you contributing to the war effort. I assume that is what this is? Not that I'd blame you if it was just out of curiosity, but if that were the case, I'd suggest a vivisection instead.

That war has not yet begun. I intend to see that it doesn't.

[This is all said quite matter-of-factly. If he wants it to happen, it will, even if the laws of the universe have to be bent to make it so.]

And you're taking it one Dalek at a time. I commend your dedication.

[Brax's tone prompts a flat look from him.]

This was a chance encounter in my favour. The creature was searching for the Doctor.

[And since he biologically is the Doctor...]

Was it? They're almost as bad as his exes. I take it you'll be sharing whatever findings you have.

We all have hopes for the future, after all.

Indeed. And I intend to take the Time Lord's future into my own hands.

Very literally, it would seem.

Of course. They are unwilling to do it themselves, after all.

Dear me. Have we disappointed you terribly?

[C'MON, MOM. AT LEAST WE NEVER TRASHED DAD'S CAR!]

[YEAH, YOU BLEW UP THE HOUSE INSTEAD.]

Gallifrey has not progressed as I would have had it.

[In other words, yes.]

That's one of the rather unfortunate consequences of 'progressive' becoming a pejorative word.

You only have yourselves to blame.

Of course, my Lord Founder. Thank Rassilon's bones that we have you to save us now.

[with a sharp look] You are welcome to leave your fate to the Doctor, but I'm certain you know what the result would be.

The greatest xenophobic dictators the universe has ever known, wiped from out of space and time? The universe will miss us about as much as Gallifrey missed you.

Wiped from space an time? The Doctor can't even manage that. The Daleks will survive, the timeline will be unprotected, and the only survivors of the Time Lords are the two most unworthy to bear the name.

Believe it or not, the species of the universe do a fair job of fending off the Daleks with or without our former people. The humans and the Draconians beat them back without Time Lord assistance. Unsurprising, as the only protecting the Time Lords do is preserving the status quo that gives them power. And how can you expect progress from a people like that?

Progress cannot be expect from a species that is dead, either.

But it can give a new chance for all the younger races to grow.

I didn't die for them. I won't allow my achievements to become nothing.

It's nice to know your motives are altruistic, Omega.

I am sure all of those 'younger races' you care to defend are perfectly pure in their motivations.

The ethical or moral lapses of others are not justifications for one's own behaviour.

All altruism ever earned me was isolation.