Rose

The Doctor and I laugh and smile as we run through a building. "Always with the running," I say to him as my paws hit the ground.

"But that's the fun part!" We continued laughing as we glanced over our shoulders. "Looks like we've lost them."

"For now," I said as the Doctor slowed down and I slide to a stop. "These stupid floors, my pads can't stick to them very well."

"Oh but you look adorable when you trip over your paws!"

"Hey! That's not funny!" I say as I laugh with him. I hear something in the distance and my ears perk up.

"What is it?" The Doctor whispers.

"Sh… let me listen."

"Wilson? Wilson! I've got the lottery money." I hear a female's voice call out and the elevator doors close.

"It's a female- oops. Run! Behind us!" The Doctor and I begin our run. My ears twitch backwards, "Oh dear, she's in trouble now. "

"Come on!" The Doctor said with a smile and we laughed lightly as we changed direction.

We see her ahead of us, and the Doctor grabs her hand as she covers her face under the mannequins arms. "Run," he pulls her arm and we begin again.

We get out into the hall and the mannequins follow after us. We run into an elevator and a mannequin's arm reaches through the door. The Doctor rips it off and throws it to the girl.

"You pulled his arm off!"

"Yup. Plastic," the Doctor says as he crosses his arms, facing the doors.

"Very clever. Nice trick! So who were they then, students? Is this a student thing or what?"

"Why would they be students?" The Doctor asks as he looks back at the blonde girl and bends down picking me up. She glances at me for a second before continuing her "interrogation."

"I don't know."

"Well, you said it. Why students?" He asked as he scratched my forehead and behind my ear.

"'Cos to get that many people dressed up and being silly, they got to be students."

He looks back at her with a smile, "That makes sense. Well done."

"Thanks."

"They're not students."

"Whoever they are, when Wilson finds them, he's going to call the police."

"Who's Wilson?" He inquired.

"Chief electrician."

"Wilson's dead." The elevator doors open and the Doctor walks out with me in his arms.

"That's just not funny. That's sick!" she says as she follows us out the elevator. I jump out of the Doctor's arms as he pulls out his sonic screwdriver and disables the lift. We then turn and begin to walk away. "Who are you then? Who's that lot down there?" We kept walking so she walked after us. "I said, who are they?"

As the Doctor walked quickly, I ran in front of the three of us. "They're made of plastic. Live plastic creatures. They're being controlled by a relay device in the roof, which would be a great big problem if I didn't have this," The Doctor turned towards her and showed her the small bomb in his hand before turning and continuing his speed walking after me. "So I'm going to go up there and blow them up, and I might well die in the process, but don't worry about me." The Doctor opens a door that leads outside. He wraps his arm around her shoulders and guides her outside. "No, you go home. Go on. Go and have your lovely beans on toast. Don't tell anyone about this, because if you do, you'll get them killed." The Doctor closes the door and then opens it again, "I'm the Doctor by the way, and this is the Angel. What's your name?"

"Rose."

"Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!" He said waving the bomb at her and shutting the door.

"Good bye," I said to her, moving my mouth so she knew it was me talking. Before the door shut, I saw her look dumbfounded at my talking. "Oh, I love that look. Now let's go!"


"And why can't I just go through? It is a cat door," I said as the Doctor looks through the cat door. "Oh goodness. Move it!" I move in front of the Doctor's face, but before I can go in the door twitches and I move back a bit, before it fully opens again. I shuffle backwards into the Doctor's chest.

"What're you doing here?" He asks as Rose opens the door and he stands up.

"I live here."

"Well, what do you do that for?"

"Because I do. I'm only at home because someone blew up my job."

The Doctor pulls out his sonic screwdriver, "We must got the wrong signal, Angel," he says looking down at me. He looks back at Rose, "You're not plastic are you?" The Doctor knocks on her forehead. "No, bonehead. Bye, then," he smiles at her and we turn to walk away.

However, Rose grabs his arm. "You. Inside. Right now." And with that the Doctor is pulled into her house.

"Heey!" I say at her, still moving my mouth. She shuts the door, and I hop through the cat door. "I'm here too you know, girl." I hiss lightly in her mind as I trot past her and down the hall avoiding the eyes of anyone else.

We end up in the living room. "Don't mind the mess. Do you want a coffee?" Rose asks walking into the kitchen.

"Might as well, thanks. Just milk, and a little for Angel too," the Doctor says looking around. He picks up one of the gossip tabloids on the glass coffee table.

"We should go to the police. Seriously. Both of us," I hear Rose's voice. I jump up onto the couch and watch the Doctor.

"That won't last; he's gay and she's an alien," he said grabbing a book.

"I'm not blaming you, even if it was just some sort of joke that went wrong."

He flips the pages, not once stopping. "Hmm. Sad ending." I giggle as I watch him.

"They said on the news, they'd found a body."

He picked up a letter, "Rose Tyler." He then turns and sees a mirror. "Ah, could've been worse. Look at the ears," he said looking at himself before turning to me and smiling. He then picks up a deck of cards, "Luck be a lady." He then tries to shuffle the cards but they all end up on the floor. "Maybe not." My ears perk up as I hear the cat flap. "What's that, then? Do you have a cat?" The Doctor looks behind the couch and the mannequins arms flies out of nowhere and grabs his throat. He grabs a hold of the plastic and tries to pull it away from his neck.

"No," Rose answers, still in the kitchen.

"Doctor!" I say standing up. 'What do I do? I don't have hands! And I can't shift right now!' I think to myself as he struggles and falls back on the couch.

Rose walks back into the living room and I bit onto the arm trying to pull it away. "I told Mickey to chuck that out. You're all the same. Give a man a plastic hand. Anyway, I don't even know your name. Doctor, what was it?"

"Help him!" I hiss at her through our minds. Before she can do anything the Doctor throws the arm off and it goes flying. It stops in midair before flying and grabbing onto Rose's face. The Doctor jumps up and tries to pull it off. I hear a hairdryer in one of the other rooms as the Doctor and Rose fall onto the coffee table and smash it. They roll around a little bit before Rose is able to get up and falls back onto the couch. Thankfully, I jumped out of the way fast enough that I didn't get squished.

The Doctor pulls out his sonic screwdriver and points it at the arm, stunning it. He holds the arm by its wrist as the finger keep moving. He presses the sonic screwdriver a few times before placing the tip on the palm and the fingers stop moving. "It's alright, I've stopped it. There you go, you see?" He throws it at Rose. "Armless," he says laughing at his own joke.

"Do you think?" Rose asks hitting him with it. I laugh at them.

"Ow!"


We then make your way to leave. We go to the staircase of the apartment complex and quickly make our way down the stairs. "Hold on a minute. You can't just go swanning off," Rose says as she follows us.

"Yes we can. Here we are. This is Angel and I, swanning off. See ya."

"But that arm was moving. It tried to kill me! And your cat talks!"

"Ten out of ten observation. And she can hear and understand what you're saying. Careful," he says as we continue to descend.

"You can't just walk away. That's not fair. You've got to tell me what's going on."

"No, we don't." I reach the bottom first and stand by the door waiting. Not but two seconds later the Doctor pushes it open for me and we walk outside, with Rose on our tails. The Doctor looks at the arm for a bit as we keep walking.

"Alright, then. I'll go to the police. I'll tell everyone. You said, if I did that, I'd get people killed. So, your choice. Tell me, or I'll start talking."

"Is that supposed to sound tough?"

"Sort of," Rose said a little calmer.

"Doesn't work," the Doctor says as he quickly bends down and snatches me up into his arms where I crawl onto his shoulder and lay there, balanced perfectly as always.

"Who are you?" she asks once again.

"Told you. I'm the Doctor and this is The Angel."

"Yeah, but Doctor what?"

"Just the Doctor."

"The Doctor."

"Hello," he says looking over his shoulder, and me, to give her a quick smile.

"Is that supposed to sound impressive?"

"Sort of," he teases and I giggle.

"And the talking cat, Angel?"

"Yes, I can talk. I can hear and fully comprehend what you're saying, human. So tread carefully," I say giving her a sarcastic smile.

"But you're a cat," Rose said staring at me.

"I'm not a cat."

"Then what are you?"

"Best if you don't know, and I don't talk," I said without moving my mouth this time.

"Then how are you talking?"

"Telepathy. I'm speaking through our minds, and I can control who hears me."

"Well then, come on. Tell me. I've seen enough. Are you two the police?"

"No, we are just passing through. We're a long way from home," The Doctor says rubbing my head a bit with his gentle hand.

"But what have I done wrong? How come those plastic things keep coming after me?" She asks nervously.

"Oh, suddenly the entire world revolves around you. You were just an accident. You got in the way, that's all."

"Isn't it just like a human to automatically think there is something special about them that the whole world can't measure up to?" I said to them both, this time I didn't bother moving my mouth.

"It tried to kill me!"

"It was after us, not you. Last night, in the shop, we were there, you blundered in, almost ruined the whole thing. This morning, we were tracking it down, it was tracking us down. The only reason it fixed on you is 'cos you've met us," the Doctor said.

"So what you're saying is the entire world revolves around you two."

"Sort of, yeah," the Doctor and I say together, smiling.

"You're full of it."

"Sort of, yeah," The Doctor says.

"Pretty much," I say sending her a kitty smile.

"But all this plastic stuff. Who else knows about it?"

"No one," we say in sync again.

"What? You're on your own?"

"Well, sort of. I have Angel with me. But I mean, you lot? All you do is eat chips, go to bed, and watch telly, while all the time, underneath you, there's a war going on."

"Okay," Rose says as she takes the arm. "Start from the beginning." The Doctor shrugs and we continue walking, finally getting to a field. "I mean, if we're going to go with the living plastic, and I don't even believe that, but if we do, how did you kill it?"

"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. I cut off the signal, dead," he explained.

"So that's radio control?"

"Thought control." We both looked to Rose to see the shock and confusion on her face. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah. So, who's controlling it, then?"

"Long story," I say.

"But what's it all for? I mean, shop window dummies, what's that about? Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?"

The three of us laugh. "No," the Doctor answers."It's not a price war," he jokes. "They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you believe me?" He asks as we both look at her.

"No," she says.

"But you're still listening," he says before looking forward again to keep walking while I enjoy riding on his shoulder.

"Really, though, Doctor. Tell me, who are you?" She stops walking and asks.

The Doctor stops walking after a few steps and looks back at her. "Do you know like we were saying about the Earth revolving?" The Doctor walks back over to Rose. "It's like when you were a kid. The first time they tell you the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it." The Doctor holds Rose's hand to make his point. "The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling round the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you, Angel, and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go," and he let go of her hand. "That's who I am. Now, forget me, Rose Tyler," he took the plastic arm from her. "Go home."


I waited outside the restaurant as the Doctor went in to find Rose and a plastic Mickey. I hear crashing, screaming, and a fire alarm. I run to the back alley and see Rose trying to open a big metal gate and the Doctor casually walking.

"Open the gate! Use that tube thing. Come on!" Rose insisted wanting to get away.

"Sonic screwdriver," he corrected.

"Use it!" She yelled.

"Nah. Tell you what, let's go in here," the Doctor says pulling out a key and unlocking a blue Police Box. I trot up to him and go inside when he has the door open.

"You can't hide inside a wooden box. It's going to get us! Doctor!" I hear Rose yelling from outside. Finally, she opens the doors and comes inside the Tardis. She then goes back outside, to come back in. "It's going to follow us!" She says quickly running up the ramp the towards the main console.

"The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now, shut up a minute," the Doctor says walking around with a gadget in his hands. I sit in one of three connected seats as I watch quietly. I watch Rose look around in shock.

I look to the Doctor, "Can I shift in front of her?"

"Sure, go for it Angs," the Doctor says doing technology stuff I still don't understand after all this time.

I jump down from my seat and walk to a spot behind the console where Rose can't see me. I quickly transform and walk out so she can see. (Wearing: cgi/set?id=135499443) I look like a human girl in her early twenties with long black perfectly curled hair. For a moment, I let Rose see my black cat ears disappear into my hair before they are replaced my human looking ones with light pink flower earrings. My yellow eyes darken into a deep hazel brown. I walk over and stand next to the Doctor. She stands there in shock before the Doctor catches her attention.

"You see, the arm was too simple, but the head's perfect. I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source. Right," the Doctor and I walk to stand in front of Rose. "Where do you want to start?"

"Er, the inside's bigger than the outside?"

"Yes."

"It's alien."

"Yeah."

"Are you both alien?"

"Yes. Is that alright?"

"Yeah. And you're the cat? You changed?" Rose asked me.

"I shifted into this form from my cat one, yes, but I'm not a cat," I answered.

"It's called the Tardis, this thing," the Doctor continued. " S. That's Time And Relative Dimension In Space." Rose then starts crying. "That's okay. Culture shock. Happens to the best of us."

"Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?" Rose asks.

"Oh. I didn't think of that…." The Doctor says drifting off into his thoughts.

"He's my boyfriend. You pulled off his head. They copied him and you didn't even think? And now you're just going to let him melt?" Rose said gesturing to the plastic head behind us.

"Melt?" We look behind us. "Oh, no, no, no, no, no!"

"What're you doing?" Rose asks, still upset about her boyfriend.

"Following the signal. It's fading. Wait a minute, I've got it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Almost there. Almost there. Here we go!" The Doctor says as he flies the Tardis. We then run past Rose, outside.

"You can't go out there. It's not safe," she yells at us. We look around as Rose comes out.

"I lost the signal, I got so close," the Doctor say upset.

Rose looks around, seeing that we are no longer in the same place. "We've moved. Does it fly?"

"Disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand" the Doctor says in a somewhat tense voice.

"If we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing? It's still on the loose."

"It melted with the head. Are you going to witter on all night?" The Doctor asks pacing back and forth a bit. I lean against the Tardis watching, running my fingers through my hair.

"I'll have to tell his mother." The Doctor looks at Rose with a blank look. "Mickey. I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him, again! You were right, you are alien." I raise an eyebrow and hold back a growl.

"Look, if I did forget some kid called Mickey."

"Yeah, he's not a kid," Rose defended.

"It's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, alright?"

"Alright," Rose says back arguing with him.

"Yes, it is!" The Doctor slightly glares at her before crossing his arms and looking away.

"If you are an alien, how comes you sound like you're from the North?" Rose asks the Doctor.

"Lots of planets have a North," he says glancing at her for a moment.

"What's a police public call box?" Rose asks randomly.

"It's a telephone box from the 1950s."

"It's a disguise," I explain moving my mouth again. We both say smiling a little bit.

"Kay. And this, this living plastic. What's it got against us?"

"Nothing. It loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. It's food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein plants rotted, so Earth, dinner!"

"Any way of stopping it?" Rose asks again.

"You sure have a lot of questions," I say in a slightly annoyed tone.

"Angel," he says giving me the look. The look of "behave yourself." He then holds up a tube of blue liquid with a smile as he shows Rose. "Anti-plastic."

"Anti-plastic," Rose says looking at him confused.

"Anti-plastic," he says enthusiastically. "But first I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?" He says beginning to pace again.

"Hold on. Hide what?"

"The transmitter," I say standing up and walking behind the Doctor before jumping on his back, forcing me to give him a piggyback ride.

"The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal."

"What's it look like?" Rose asks

"Like a transmitter," I say as if she should know.

"Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London," the Doctor says quickly to not make Rose feel stupid. A huge circular metal structure like a dish, like a wheel. Radial. Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible." We both look at Rose who is looking above us carefully. "What?" Rose nods her head and we turn around. We look back at her, "what?" Rose purses her lips and raises her eyebrows as she keeps looking behind us. "What is it? What?" He says looking back and forth. The Doctor then catches on that the transmitter must be the London Eye, that is behind us."Oh." I jumped off his back and he smiles, "Fantastic!" We then run to the London Eye.

We run across the bridge and look at the famous ferris wheel. "Think of it, plastic all over the world, every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables."

"The breast implants," I hold back a laugh.

"Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath." We all look around.

Rose runs over to a edge. "What about down here?" The Doctor and I run over to her and look.

"Looks good to me." The three of us then run down.

A red light fills the room. We open a door and look around.

"The Nestene Consciousness. That's it, inside the vat. A living plastic creature." Below a pit of yellow and orange liquid moves as we watch.

"Well, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go," Rose says a bit shaky.

"I'm not here to kill it. I've got to give it a chance," he says and we walk down the stairs to get closer. We reach a platform and stop. "I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." The vat shakes. "Thank you. If I might have permission to approach?" I stand next to the Doctor as Rose see Mickey below us and runs past us down the stairs.

"Oh, God! Mickey, it's me! It's okay. It's alright." She crouches down next to him.

Mickey puts a finger to his lips telling her to be quiet. "That thing down there, the liquid. Rose, it can talk!" The Doctor and I make our way down to them.

"You're stinking. Doctor, they kept him alive," Rose says looking up at us as we descend the last few steps.

"Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy."

"You knew that and you never said?"

"Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?" We continue down the stairs closer to the living plastic.

We walk a little further and reach an open ledge the is right over the Nestene Consciousness. "Am I addressing the Consciousness?" The liquid makes weird bubbly sounds and moves around as he speaks. "Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilisation by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?" He asks with a smile. He vat moves and growls and it almost looks like it is making a face to speak, in its own way. "Oh, don't give me that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights." It screams a bit, moving more aggressively. "I am talking!" He yells grabbing its attention again. "This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf. Please, just go," he asks kindly.

"Doctor! Angel!" I hear Rose's voice, but it's too late. Four plastic mannequins grab the Doctor and I. We both struggle to try and get away. I watch and keep struggling as one of the mannequins pulls out the Anti-plastic from his pocket and steps back while the one locks his arms.

"That was just insurance. I wasn't going to use it." The vat screams again. "I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not." It screams again and my eyes widen. What do you mean?" We look behind us as a door opens and the Tardis sits there. "No. Oh, no. Honestly, no. Yes, that's my ship." The vat continues to scream as we listen. "That's not true. I should know, I was there. I fought in the war. It wasn't my fault. I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them!" It keeps talking to us, but I turn and growl at the two mannequins as I pull harder against their hold.

"What's it doing?!" Rose yells from above us.

"It's the Tardis! The Nestene's identified its superior technology. It's terrified. It's going to the final phase. It's starting the invasion! Get out, Rose! Just leg it, now!"

Rose, instead of running, answers her ringing phone. "Mum?...Where are you, mum?... No, go home!... Just go home right now!...Mum! Mum!"

I look behind me at Rose, "RUUN! You stupid human!"

What looks to be blue lightning shoots up from the vat all the way to the ceiling. "It's the activation signal. It's transmitting!" The Doctor says as we both still struggle.

"It's the end of the world…" Rose mumbles.

"Get out, Rose! Just get out! Run!" The Doctor and I yell at her, saying the same thing but at different times.

"The stairs have gone." The mannequins start to push us closer to the vat. Rose then runs over to the Tardis and tries to open the door. "I haven't got the key!"

"We're going to die!" I hear Mickey say next to Rose.

"No!" The Doctor says. We both look back at Rose.

"Time Lord and Blood Shifter."

Rose stands up and meets our gazes. "Just leave him!" Mickey says scared. Rose then runs somewhere out of my line of sight. "There's nothing you can do!"

From the corner of my eye, I can see Rose swinging on a chain right towards us. The Doctor flips the mannequin holding him over the edge and into the vat. I grab onto the mannequins arms and turn throwing one into the vat as well. I turn towards the other one and place my foot on his chest before rolling onto my back, pulling him along with me, before tossing him off too. Rose knocks into the mannequin with the Anti-plastic and it falls into the vat.

"Rose!" The Doctor yells as she swings back towards us. He then grabs her so she can let go of the chain. We all look at the vat as it turns blue. "Now we're in trouble." We all turn around and run as the place starts exploding. We run over to the Tardis and get in. We then quickly take off with Rose and Mickey inside with us.

When we land, Mickey runs out. Rose goes out as well and calls her mom but hangs up. "A fat lot of good you were." Rose runs over to Mickey how is kneeling next to some wood in the alleyway.

"Nestene Consciousness?" The Doctor says and I snap my fingers smiling with the Doctor as we stand at the door of the Tardis. "Easy," he finishes.

"You were useless in there. You'd be dead if it wasn't for me," Rose said confidently.

"Yes, I would. Thank you," he says gratefully with a smile.

"Thank you, Rose," I say giving her a gentle smile.

"Right then, we'll be off, unless, um, I don't know, you could come with us. This box isn't just a London hopper, you know. It goes anywhere in the universe, free of charge."

"Don't. They're aliens. They're just things," Mickey says still shaking and pointing at us.

I send Mickey an icy cold glare. "He's not invited," the Doctor gestures at Mickey with his head. "What do you think? You could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go anywhere."

"Is it always this dangerous?" Rose asks.

"Yeah," we both respond. I shrug a little bit.

Mickey clings to Rose's waist. "Yeah, I can't. I've uh, I've got to go and find my mum and someone's got to look after this stupid lump, so."

"Okay…" the Doctor says trying to hide his disappointment. "See you around," we both give Rose a weak smile before going into the Tardis.

We are both quiet for a moment. We look at back each other. He gives me puppy dog eyes. I roll my eyes and nod. We quickly go back, and the Doctor runs to the door. "By the way, did I mention it also travels in time?" He backs up and leaves the door open.

Rose kisses Mickey on the cheek and runs into the Tardis. "Off we go!" I cheer as she comes in.