The first Dalek ship proved just to be a standard attack vessel with nothing out of the ordinary.
The second vessel, the one where the temporal stasis pod full of Varga seeds had come from, turned out to be far more interesting. It has a partially automated ship with two Dalek guards only along for escort duties.
Peri discovered this when she was captured by them shortly after the TARDIS materialised.
***
The Doctor searched all over for Peri, frequently stopping to lambast her carelessness.
***
The Daleks were about to exterminate Peri when she suddenly began to turn into a Varga plant.
"Oh my head, feels slow and fuzzy. Why do I keep liking you all of a sudden and why are my arms green?" Then she remembered the Varga spine hitting her leg back at that research base. She had forgotten about it completely when she could find no trace of injury. It must have been a hallucination she had told herself until she obviously believed it.
"You serve the Dalek empire, you are a Varga now." The Daleks chanted in their peculiar, yet sinister, monotone.
***
Inside a sealed cargo bay the Doctor found it had been stripped out and made to look more like a tomb. Then he saw boxes, lots of them. Each was embossed with the mark of the great vampire. "I was wondering when something like this was going to show up." The Doctor mused. "The Time Prophet said that time was circular, I just didn't expect it to be this neat."
***
Peri had thrown away the unwanted reminders of her lost humanity and hoped this would please her masters. The Daleks were the perfect beings after all and she had been created to serve them. Willingly she told them about her former friend and colleague, and she was pleased when they ordered her to hunt him down and kill him.
***
The shadows suddenly got darker and the Doctor turned around to see a Varga that somehow reminded him of his companion.
"Doctor, you must be killed. I serve the Dalek empire and you are its enemy."
"Oh Peri, no. How could they do this to you?"
"Please do not resist and I will make it painless. My poison thorns contain enough venom to end the life of even you."
"Enough poison to find an antidote?" An idea struck the Doctor, but he would need a distraction.
The two Daleks viewed the Varga's progress on a monitor. "The Varga still retains affinity to its former associate," the first Dalek intoned.
"Such weakness will soon be irradicated from it," the second replied.
***
The Doctor produced a small pocket knife and cut his hand. Then he wiped the blood over a bulkhead. He smiled as the boxes began to rattle and open.
Ten vampires emerged and the bulkhead was clean in seconds.
"Now, erm I wonder if you would be so kind as to contain my friend, she seems to have gotten a little too involved with her study."
"Why should we help you?" the first Vampire asked.
"Because if you don't she's about to poison me. Then how good will my blood be to you?"
"You have a point," a second Vampire stated with a toothy smile.
The Vampires managed to hold down Peri despite her best attempts to infect them. The Varga poison just wouldn't affect their undead bodies as she was bundled inside the TARDIS.
***
The Daleks fired at several Vampires but the damage was minimal. It was then that a variety of alert warnings began to sound out.
***
Inside the TARDIS the Doctor frantically set the controls to take him forward in time to the research base. "It was my own temporal wake the TARDIS detected. I should have checked for such a simple probability as that."
***
Later, much later Peri found herself back inside the TARDIS, all traces of the Varga infection had been removed from her body. "What about our hungry friends?" she inquired.
"While you were being treated I took them to Earth, in the middle ages. They were so grateful as I left them on a desolate moor, only a few hours before dawn."
"So they couldn't survive? You killed them?"
"One or two of them must have survived; remember all the Vampire stories in your planets history? Then our recent encounter with one of their number? Anyway it's all over now Peri, the wheel has come full circle."
"What do you mean?"
"We were at the centre of a crude loop in the fabric of time. Part way between a chronic hysterisis and a full blown paradox. Very nasty too. We had to play out our roles and make the loop complete or we would never have escaped."
"So now we can have a really nice holiday? I really could do with a few days rest and relaxation."
"I don't see why not, I have somewhere delightful in mind, a place of dreams and wild excitement."
"Oh no, not Blackpool again." Peri sulked.
"What was wrong with Blackpool, wretched child?" The Doctor's shouting could be heard three light years away.
"Well apart from being almost killed every few minutes it rained on the one day I did get to spend sunbathing."
"Well there's always the sun kissed shores of Bermuda."
"Bermuda? Great, I'll go and pack."
The TARDIS altered its course inside the space/time vortex; it's occupants busy preparing for some well deserved rest.
