Sage walks over to the TARDIS doors to see it had materialised in a dimly lit area with carpeting and display cases, she furrows her eyebrows.
"So, what is it? What's wrong?" Rose asks walking over. Sage steps out, followed by Rose.
"Don't know. Some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS off course." Sage replies, looking around and squinting.
"Where are we?" Rose asks, also looking around.
"Earth. Utah, North America. About half a mile underground." The Doctor says, stepping out of the TARDIS and closing the door behind him.
"And when are we?" She asks.
"2012." He replies, looking at a display case.
"God, that's so close. So, I should be twenty-six." Sage finds the light switch and turns it on.
"Blimey. It's a great big museum." Rose says, looking around in awe.
"An alien museum. Someone's got a hobby. They must have spent a fortune on this. Chunks of meteorite, moon dust. That's the milometer from the Roswell spaceship." Sage says, looking in a display case.
"That's a bit of Slitheen! That's a Slitheen's arm. It's been stuffed." Rose says. The Doctor walks over to her to take a look.
"Oh, look at you." Sage whispers. Rose and the Doctor hear her and Rose walks over, followed by the Doctor.
"What is it?" Rose asked, as all three of them look at the Cyberman head. Sage shrugs.
"An old friend of ours. Well, enemy. The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit." She says, then looked up at the Doctor. "We're getting old." He just chuckles and nods.
"Is that where the signal's coming from?"
"No, it's stone dead. The signal's alive. Something's reaching out, calling for help." The Doctor says, leaning forward and touched the display case which causes an alarm to go off and armed guards to rush in from all sides, cutting them off from the TARDIS.
"If someone's collecting aliens, that makes you two, Exhibit A and B." Rose says. A while later, a woman named Goddard walks beside them as they all walk into a room.
"What does it do?" The man at the desk asks, looking up at the other man.
"Well, you see the tubes on the side? It must be to channel something. I think maybe fuel."
"I really wouldn't hold it like that." Sage says.
"Shut it!" Goddard says.
"Really, though, that's wrong." Sage continues.
"Is it dangerous?" One the men asks, causing Sage to snort and shake her head.
"No, it just looks silly." She says, her face scrunching, and putting her hands out for the item. The man who was sitting down, hands her the palm-sized object. "You just need to be..." She strokes the side and it makes a note. She smiles. "... delicate." She continues to play several different notes.
"It's a musical instrument." One of the men realise.
"Mhm, and it's a long way from home."
"Here, let me." The man takes it from her hand and the sounds that emit from it are harsh and horrible.
"I did say delicate. It reacts to the smallest fingerprint. It needs precision." Sage says. The man nods and finally gets the hang of it. "Very good. Quite the expert." She compliments.
"As are you." The man then casually tosses it aside and it lands on the floor. "Who exactly are you?"
"I'm Sage, that's the Doctor and that's Rose. And who are you?" She asks with her head tilted. The man scoffs.
"Like you don't know. We're hidden away with the most valuable collection of extra-terrestrial artefacts in the world. And you just happen to stumble in by mistake."
"Pretty much sums me up, yeah." Sage says, nodding her head.
"The question is: how did you get in? Fifty-three floors down, with your little cat burglar accomplice. You're quite the collector yourself, she's rather pretty." He gestures to Rose.
"She's going to smack you if you keep calling her she." Rose says, squinting.
"She's English too! Hey, little Lord Fauntleroy, got you a girlfriend."
"This is Mister Henry Van Statten." The other man introduces, pointing to the one sat down.
"And who's he when he's at home?" Rose asks.
"Mister Van Statten owns the internet."
"Don't be stupid. No one owns the internet." Rose laughs.
"And let's just keep the whole world thinking that way, right kids?"
"So, you're just about an expert in everything except the things in your museum. Anything you don't understand, you lock up." Sage says.
"And you claim greater knowledge?" Henry says.
"I don't need to make claims. I know how good I am." She says, confidently. That made the Doctor smile at his wife, proud at her for taking the lead.
"And yet, I capture you and your little friends. Right next to the Cage. What were you doing down there?"
"You tell me." Sage says, shrugging.
"The cage contains my only living specimen."
"And what's that?"
"Like you don't know."
"Show me and the Doctor."
"You two want to see it?"
"Blimey, you can smell the testosterone." Rose says quietly to the Doctor, causing him to snort.
"Goddard, inform the Cage we're heading down. You, English. Look after the girl. Go and canoodle or spoon or whatever it is you British do. And you, Doctor with no name and Sage, come and see my pet." Henry, the Doctor, Goddard and Sage all stop outside the Cage. "We've tried everything. The creature has shielded itself but there are definite signs of life inside."
"Inside? Inside what?" The Doctor asks.
"Welcome back, sir. I've had to take the power down. The Metaltron is resting."
"Metaltron?" Sage asks, confused.
"Thought of it myself. Good, isn't it? Although I'd much to prefer to find out its real name." Henry says to Sage.
"Here, you'd better put these on. The last guy that touched it burst into flames." The guard says, handing Sage and the Doctor protective gloves. Sage just shakes her head.
"We won't touch it then." Sage says.
"Go ahead, Sage, Doctor. Impress me."
The Doctor and Sage step through the door and are greeted by darkness. They walk further in and the door closes then locks.
"Do you wanna talk to whatever's in here?" Sage asks, hoping he would say yes but to her disappointment he shakes his head.
"Uh, nope. I'm good." He says. Sage sighs, feeling slightly uncomfortable. As she talks, a feeling she hadn't felt in a long time resurfaces, confusing her.
"Look, I'm sorry about this. Mister Van Statten might think he's clever but never mind him. We've come to help you. I'm Sage and this is the Doctor." She says, her eyes landing on a white light as it blinks next to a blue glow.
"Sa-ge?"
Her eyes go wide and she is stood in stunned silence.
"Impossible." The Doctor says, shuffling towards Sage, to protect her.
"The Doctor?" The light turns on to reveal the one thing the two Time Lords hoped to never see again. There stood a Dalek held in chains. "Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Doctor tries to pull Sage over to the door but she was frozen in place, staring at the Dalek. He quickly runs over and starts hammering on the door.
"Let us out!" He yells.
"Exterminate! You are both enemies of the Daleks! You must be destroyed" Sage watches as its gun arm twitches, but nothing happens.
"It's not working." She whispers, finally being able to move. She laughs and the Doctor turns to her. "Fantastic! Oh, fantastic! Powerless! Look at you. The great space dustbin. How does it feel?" She asks, smiling at it.
"Keep back!" She moves forward and looks into its eyepiece.
"What for? What're you going to do to me, to him? If you can't kill, then what are you good for, Dalek? What's the point of you? You're nothing." She snarls, anger evident on her face as well as in her voice. "What the hell are you here for?"
"I am waiting for orders."
"What does that mean?" She asks, head tilted to the side.
"I am a soldier. I was bred to receive orders."
"Well, you're never going to get any. Not ever."
"I demand orders!"
"They're never going to come! Your race is dead! You all burnt, all of you. Ten million ships on fire. The entire Dalek race wiped out in one second." She spits, her eyes narrowing at the creature in front of her. The Doctor, who had been behind her, watched her in shock and horror. Out of all the years they had been together, he had never seen her this angry.
"You lie!"
"We watched it happen. We made it happen."
"You destroyed us?"
"We had no choice."
"And what of the Time Lords?" The Dalek asks, causing Sage to look down briefly before looking back up.
"Dead. They burnt with you. The end of the last great Time War. Everyone lost."
"And the cowards survived." Her eye twitches and she laughed dryly.
"Oh, and we caught your little signal. 'Help me.' Poor little thing. But there's no one else coming 'cause there's no one else left."
"I am alone in the universe?" It questions.
"Yep."
"So are you and the Doctor. We are the same."
"We're not the same! I'm not... no, wait. Maybe we are. You're right. Yeah, okay. You've got a point. 'Cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve. Exterminate." She smiles and turns to the nearby lever on the nearby console and the Dalek is lit up with electricity.
"Have pity!"
"Why should I? You never did."
"Help me!" It yells and the guards come running in and start pulling the Doctor and Sage out of the room. The Doctor struggles to get out of their grip whilst Sage just laughs.
"I saved your life. Now talk to me. Goddamn it, talk to me!" Henry shouts at the Dalek, wanting the answers he needed.
"You've got to destroy it!" The Doctor shouts as he's pulled out of the room with a laughing Sage in front of him.
A few minutes later, the Doctor and Sage are in a lift with Henry and Goddard. Sage looks down at her cuffed hands, which were in front of her. Protection for not only those around her, but herself as well.
"The metal's just battle armour. The real Dalek creature's inside." She says, quietly to Henry and Goddard.
"What does it look like?"
"A nightmare. It's a mutation. The Dalek race was genetically engineered. Every single emotion was removed except hate."
"Genetically engineered. By who?" Henry ask, causing Sage to lift her head a tiny bit to look at him.
"By a genius, Van Statten. By a man who was a king of his own little world. You'd like him."
"It's been on Earth for over fifty years. Sold at a private auction, moving from one collection to another. Why would it be a threat now?" Goddard asks.
"Because we're here. How did it get to Earth? Does anyone know?"
"The records say it came from the sky like a meteorite. It fell to Earth on the Ascension Islands. Burnt in its crater for three days before anybody could get near it and all that time it was screaming. It must have gone insane."
"It must have fallen through time. The only survivor."
"You talked about a war?" Goddard asks Sage, making her turn her head.
"The Time War. The final battle between my people and the Dalek race."
"But you two survived, as well."
"Not by choice."
"This means that the Dalek isn't the only alien on Earth. There's you two. The only ones of your kind in existence." Henry says, laughing and smiling, looking at the Doctor and Sage.
*Time Skip*
The Doctor and Sage are stripped of their shirts and are chained to a wall.
"Now, smile!" Henry says. Sage and the Doctor groan in pain as a laser tuns down their bodies. "Two hearts! Binary vascular system. Oh, I am so going to patent this."
"So, that's your secret. You don't just collect this stuff, you scavenge it." Sage says to Henry, sweat dripping off her face.
"This technology has been falling to Earth for centuries. All it took was the right mind to use it properly. Oh, the advances I've made from alien junk. You have no idea, Broadband? Roswell. Just last year my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian crater, and do you know what we found? The cure for the common cold. Kept it strictly within the laboratory of course. No need to get people excited. Why sell one cure when I can sell a thousand palliatives?"
"Do you know what a Dalek is, Van Statten? A Dalek is honest. It does what it was born to do for the survival of its species. That creature in your dungeon is better than you." Sage says, pulling forward on her chains. Henry moves up to her so he's face to face with her.
"In that case, I will be true to myself and continue." He says, looking at her for a moment. Her eyes scan his face before she slumps back against the wall, still eyeing him. He starts to walk away when the Doctor suddenly starts talking, well shouting.
"Listen to us! That thing downstairs is going to kill every last one of us!"
"Nothing can escape the Cage." He blasts them with the laser again, causing them to cry out in pain.
"But it's woken up. It knows we're here. It's going to get out. Van Statten, I swear, no one in this base is safe. No one on this planet!" The Doctor says through gritted teeth. Henry runs the laser scan again, finally getting both Time Lords to scream out in agonising pain. And at this, he smiles and continues.
"I repeat, this is not a drill!"
Sage opens her eyes to see the Doctor struggling next to her.
"Release us if you want to live." He says to the guard. The guard looks at them, debating whether or not to agree.
"Just do it." Sage says groggily. "Or you're dead."
The guard walks over to them and releases them. Sage grabs her shirt and jacket and puts it back on. The Doctor grabs her hand and starts running. To where, she had no clue. Soon they find themselves in an office. Sage looks up at the screen with squinted eyes.
"You've got to keep it in that cell." The Doctor says.
"Doctor, it's all my fault." Rose says quietly. Sage looks at her on the screen then shakes her head as her vision becomes blurry.
"I've sealed the compartment. It can't get out, that locks got a billion combinations." One guard says to the two Time Lords.
"A Dalek's a genius. it can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat."
"Open fire!"
"Don't shoot it! I want it unharmed." Henry shouts.
"Rose, get out of there!"
"We're losing power. It's draining the base. Oh, my God. It's draining the entire power supplies for the whole of Utah." Goddard says.
"It's downloading." Sage replies, sitting on the floor and putting her head in her hands.
"Downloading what?" Henry asks.
"Sir, the entire West Coast has gone down." A guard says.
"It's not just energy. That Dalek just absorbed the entire internet. It knows everything." Sage says, looking up at them with bloodshot eyes. The Doctor notices it, and tilts his head before kneeling down in front of her.
"Sage... Look at me." He takes her face in both of his hands to make her look up at him. "This'll be over soon, I promise. We'll find Rose and I'll get you both out of here." He looks up at Henry, who's looking at Sage with a small smile. The Doctor gets up and comes face to face with Henry. "This is not her. Whatever you did to us made her weaker." The Doctor whispers, worried for his wife.
"The camera's in the vault have gone down." Goddard says. The Doctor moves away from Henry.
"We've only got emergency power. It's eaten everything else." Sage says, looking straight ahead.
"You've got to kill it now!" The Doctor says.
"All guards converge in the Metaltron cage, immediately."
"Tell them to stop shooting." Henry says.
"But it's killing them!" Goddard says.
"They're dispensable. That Dalek is unique. I don't want a scratch on its bodywork, do you hear me? Do you hear me?!" Henry shouts. The gunfire stops, only because there is no one left to shoot.
"That's us, right below the surface. That's the cage and that's the Dalek." Someone says, pointing to a map in the room.
"This museum of yours; have you got any alien weapons?" Sage asks, suddenly standing up.
"Lots of them, but the trouble is the Dalek's between us and them." Goddard says.
"We've got to keep that thing alive. We could seal the entire vault and trap it down there."
"Leaving everyone trapped with it? Rose is down there, and I won't let that happen. Have you got that? It's got to go through this area. What's that?" The Doctor asks, pointing to the map on the screen.
"Weapons testing."
"Give guns to the technicians, the lawyers, anyone. Everyone. Only then have you got a chance of killing it."
"I thought you were the great expert, Doctor. If you're so impressive, then why not reason with this Dalek? It must be willing to negotiate. There must be something it needs. Everything needs something." Henry says, determined to keep the alien alive.
"What's the nearest town?" Sage asks, her back still turned to them.
"Salt Lake City." Goddard answers.
"Population?"
"One Million."
"All dead. If the Dalek gets out, it'll murder every living creature. That'll all it needs."
"But why would it do that?" Sage turns around, her eyes still bloodshot.
"Because it honestly believes they should die. Human beings are different, and anything different is wrong. It's the ultimate in racial cleansing and you, Van Statten, you've let it loose! The Dalek's surrounded by a force field. The bullets are melting before they even hit home, but it's not indestructible."
"If you concentrate your fire, you might get through. Aim for the dome, the head, the eyepiece that's the weak spot." The Doctor says, talking to the commander who was at the loading bay.
"Thank you, Doctor, but I think I know how to fight one single tin robot. Positions!" The commander yells. Sage moves to sand next to the Doctor with her arms crossed.
"We've got vision." Goddard says.
"It wants us to see." The hail of bullets that the soldiers were firing is having no affect. The Dalek starts to rise straight up into the air. It zaps the fire alarm and the sprinklers are set off. Once the concrete floor is covered with a layer of water, it fires downward and electrocutes every wet person on the ground.
"Fall back! Fall back!" The commander yells. The Dalek exterminates him and the rest of his men with another strategic shot, then continues to hang there, water pouring down it's shell.
"Perhaps, it's time for a new strategy. Maybe we should consider abandoning this place." Henry says.
"Except there's no power to the helipad, sir. We can't get out." Goddard replies.
"You said we could seal the vault, right?" Sage asks.
"It was designed to be a bunker in the event of a nuclear war. Steel bulkheads." Goddard says. "There's not enough power, though. Those bulkheads are massive."
"We've got emergency power. We can re-route that to the bulkhead doors." Sage says.
"We'd have to bypass the security codes. That would take a computer genius." Goddard sighs.
"Good thing you've got me, then." Henry says.
"You want to help?" The Doctor asks.
"I don't want to die, Doctor. Simple as that. And nobody knows this software better than me."
"Sir." Someone says, making everyone looks at the screen to see the Dalek is back on the ground.
"I shall speak only to Sage."
"You're going to get rusty." She says to the Dalek.
"I fed off the DNA of Rose Tyler. Extrapolating the biomass of the time traveller regenerated me."
"What's your next trick?"
"I have been searching for the Daleks."
"Yeah, I saw. Downloading the internet. What did you find?"
"I scanned your satellites and radio telescopes."
"And?"
"Nothing. Where shall I get my orders now?"
"You're just a soldier without commands!" Sage taunts.
"Then I shall follow the Primary Order. The Dalek instinct to destroy to conquer."
"What for? What's the point? Don't you see it's all gone? Everything you were, everything you stood for."
"The what should I do?"
"Alright then. If you want orders, follow this one." She says, getting closer to the screen. "Kill yourself."
"The Daleks must survive!"
"The Daleks have failed! Why don't you finish the job and make the Daleks extinct? Rid the Universe of your filth. Why don't you just die?"
"You would make a good Dalek." It says, making Sage laugh and shake her head.
"You'd like that, wouldn't you?" The screen goes blank and she turns around to face the others. "Seal the vault."
"I can leech power off the ground defences, feed it to the bulkheads. God, it's been years since I had to work this fast." Henry says.
"Are you enjoying this?" Sage asks him, glaring at him.
"Doctor, Sage. She's still down there." Goddard says. Sage and the Doctor shares a look and Sage grabs a phone and calls their companion.
"This isn't the best time." Rose says through the phone, as she answers the call.
"Where are you?" Sage asks.
"Level forty-nine."
"You've got to keep moving. The vault's being sealed off up at level forty-six."
"Can't you stop them closing it?"
"The Doctor is the one who's closing them. We can't wait and we can't help you. Now run, for God's sake. Run."
"Done it. We've got power to the bulkheads." Henry says.
"The Dalek's right behind them."
"We're nearly there. Give us two seconds." Rose says to Sage over the phone.
"Doctor, I can't sustain the power. The whole system is failing. Doctor you've got to close the bulkheads." Someone says. The Doctor looks up at Sage with a solemn look on his face.
"I'm sorry." He says before hitting enter on the keyboard in front of him.
"The vault is sealed." Henry says to the two Time Lord.
"Rose, where are you? Rose, did you make it?" Sage asks. The line was silent for a moment before Rose responded.
"Sorry, I was a bit slow. See you, then, Sage. It wasn't your fault. Remember that okay? It wasn't your fault. And do you know what? I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Rose says through the phone. Sage drops it and falls to her knees.
"Exterminate!" The Dalek could be heard through the cameras. The Doctor kneels down in front of his wife.
"I killed her, Doctor." She blinks, stunned.
"I'm sorry." Henry says.
"I said I'd protect her. She was only here because of the Doctor and I, and you're sorry?" Sage asks, glaring at Henry. "I could've killed that Dalek in its cell, but you stopped me."
"It was the prize of my collection!"
Sage pry's the Doctor's hands off her shoulder and stands up looking Henry in the eyes. "Your collection? But was it worth it? Worth all those men's deaths? Worth Rose's? Let me tell you something, Van Statten. Mankind goes into space to explore, to be part of something greater." Sage says, calmly.
"Exactly! I wanted to touch the stars!"
"You just want to drag the stars down and stick them underground, underneath tons of sand and dirt, and label them. You're about as far from the stars as you can get. And you took her down with you. She was nineteen years old." Sage growls. That's when the boy Rose was with runs in. She moves away from Henry and turns to the boy. "You were quick on your feet, leaving Rose behind."
"I'm not the one who sealed the vault!" He argues back.
Sage goes to take a step forward towards him but the Doctor grabs her by the waist and pulls her back, grabbing her face to look at him and tried to calm her down. He could tell Sage was angry and upset and when she was feeling like that, she was unpredictable in what she could do. He needed to calm her down and soon.
"Open the bulkhead or Rose Tyler dies!"
Sage turns to face the screen at hearing the Dalek saying Rose's name. She sees her and smiles lightly.
"You're alive!" She exclaims at the screen.
"Can't get rid of me that easily." Rose replies.
"I thought you were dead."
"Open the bulkhead." The Dalek demands.
"Don't do it!" Rose shouts.
"What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?"
"I killed her once, I can't do it again." Sage says, walking over to the computer and opens the bulkhead.
"What do we do now, you bleeding heart? What the hell do we do?" Henry shouts.
"Kill it when it gets here." The boy replies.
"All the guns are useless, and the alien weapons are in the vault, Adam." Goddard says.
"Only the catalogued ones." He replies.
*Time Skip*
After visiting Adam's workshop, Sage and the Doctor, who had a gun, ran up various staircases and finally make it to Level 1 to see Rose talking to the Dalek, who was looking up at the hole it had created as sunlight streams in.
"You're out. You made it. I never thought I'd feel the sunlight again." Rose says. "How does it feel?"
The Dalek opens its middle and dome section to reveal the one-eyed mutant within. It holds out a tendril.
"Get out of the way. Rose, get out of the way now!" The Doctor shouts.
"No, I won't let you do this!" Rose replies.
"That thing killed hundreds of people."
"It's not the one pointing the gun at me."
"I've got to do this. I've got to end it. The Daleks destroyed our home, our people. We've got nothing left, except each other." The Doctor says, gesturing to himself and Sage, who was looking down at the floor with tears in her eyes.
"Look at it."
"What's it doing?"
"It's the sunlight. That's all it wanted." Sage says, refusing to look up, realising.
"But it can't."
"It couldn't kill Van Statten, it couldn't kill me. It's changing. What about you, Doctor? What the hell are you changing into?" Rose asks.
"I couldn't. I wasn't. Oh, Rose. They're all dead." The Doctor responds. Sage walks over to the Dalek and kneels down in front of it. The alien inside looks at her.
"Why do we survive?"
"I don't know." She responds.
"I am the last of the Daleks."
"You're not even that. Rose did more than regenerate you. You've absorbed her DNA. You're mutating." She tells it.
"Into what?"
"Something new." She says before giving it a look of sympathy. "I'm sorry."
"Isn't that better?" Rose asks.
"Not for a Dalek." Sage responds, looking at Rose briefly.
"I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness. Rose, give me orders. Order me to die." The Dalek begs the blonde.
"I can't do that." Rose says.
"This is not life. This is sickness. I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!"
Rose looks at Sage, who nods. "Do it."
"Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?" It asks her.
"Yeah." She responds, looking to the creature in front of her.
"So am I." It responds. "Exterminate!"
The Dalek shuts it's eye. Sage stands and takes Rose's hand, pulling her back as it closes up it's armour again then rises into the air. The balls on its lower body spread out around it, creating a force field, then it implodes safely.
*Time Skip*
"A little piece of home. Better than nothing." The Doctor says, walking in front of Rose and Sage.
"Is that the end of it, the Time War?" Rose asks Sage.
"We're the only ones left. We win." Sage says, sadly. She then looks to the Doctor. "How about that?"
"The Dalek survived. Maybe some of your people did too." Rose says to the two Time Lords. Sage shakes her head in response.
"We'd know. In here." She points to her head. "It feels like there's no one there."
"Well, good thing I'm not going anywhere then."
"Yeah." Sage says, nodding.
"We'd better get out. Van Statten's disappeared. They're closing down the base. Goddard says they're going to fill it full of cement, like it never existed." Adam says, walking over to them.
"About time." The Doctor says, sarcastically.
"I'll have to go back home." Adam says.
"Better hurry up then. Next flight to Heathrow leaves at fifteen hundred hours." The Doctor says.
"Adam was saying that all his life he wanted to see the stars." Rose says, with a pointed look.
"Tell him to go and stand outside, then." The Doctor says, pointing to the stairs.
"He's all on his own, Doctor. And he did help."
"He left you down there." Sage points out.
"So, did you." Rose says, looking at the two Time Lords.
"What're you talking about? We've got to leave, plus he's a bit pretty." The Doctor says.
"I hadn't noticed." Rose replies.
"On your own head." The Doctor pull out his own key and opens the door to the TARDIS. Sage follows him in with Adam and Rose still outside. The Doctor looks towards Sage and gives her a small smile and took her hand in his. He then pulled her over to the console.
"What're you doing? She said cement. She wasn't joking. We're going to get sealed in!" Adam shouts as Rose then walks into the TARDIS, causing the Doctor and Sage to pull apart. "Doctor? What're you doing standing inside a box? Rose? Sage?" Adam then shuts up and creeps inside and suddenly the TARDIS sets course for a new adventure.
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