Doctor, Is That You?
I do not own Doctor Who and I am making no profit off of this.
For Rose, this story takes place shortly after the end of my story, War Of The Guardians. I will avoid putting any spoilers to the end of that story in this one. For Ace, the events of this story occur right after Survival, the final story of the original show.
Note: Ace calls The Doctor The Professor or just Professor most of the time. It's her own personal name for him.
CHAPTER 1
Ace was lost. Extremely lost! It wasn't just that she didn't know where she was, but that she also didn't know when she was.
She had just gotten out of the TARDIS when it suddenly took off, leaving her lost and alone in the middle of nowhere. She knew that The Professor would never just abandon her so she instantly knew that something must be wrong and that worried her even more.
She could see that she was in some kind of small town and it looked English, but she wasn't sure. She had yet to come across a single person or even a sign after having walked through the town for ten minutes. So there were no clues to be found there.
She continued to walk aimlessly through the town until she stopped when she began to hear several loud explosions up ahead. That sounded like music to her ears! She loved to watch things explode. She wondered what kind of explosives were being used. Was it C-4? She loved C-4. It wasn't as good as her home made Nitro-9 in aerosol cans, but it was still pretty brill.
She began to walk closer to the sounds and straight in the face of her common sense. She soon saw a large group of soldiers that wore what she recognized as UNIT uniforms up ahead of her. They were the ones that were setting up the explosions. They were testing them on selected targets throughout the town she noticed. She then realized that this whole town was fake and had just been created as a testing area for UNIT's combat drills.
That meant that at least she was somewhere in the 20th or 21st centuries she thought, trying to narrow her location down. She had met UNIT troops before during one of her adventures with The Doctor. They were an organization dedicated to investigating and dealing with alien threats to the Earth. The Doctor used to work for them as a Scientific Advisor back in either the 70's or the 80's. Even The Doctor wasn't sure when it was exactly it seemed like to her.
At least she had a plan to rescue herself now. She would talk to the UNIT soldiers and maybe they could help her find her back to The Professor.
Just as she was about to call out to them, she heard that familiar wheezing groaning sound as the TARDIS materialized a few feet to the side of her.
"Well, it's about time!" She said out loud.
She ran over to the oh so welcome blue box and began to talk as soon as she saw the doors start to open.
"Where have you been? What happened? What's the idea of leaving me stranded here in the middle of a UNIT testing ground? Was that supposed to be funny? It wasn't to me! Do I look like I'm laughing?" Ace started to belt out questions before anyone even emerged from inside.
She was shocked when she heard a female voice answer back from inside the TARDIS.
"No, you certainly don't. You look worried and upset. Let me guess. He left stranded you here. You don't know where or even when you are, do you?" a kind voice asked.
A second later, she saw a beautiful blonde woman walk out of the TARDIS dressed all in pink. Ace looked at her in shock, and the blonde gave her a soft, reassuring smile.
"Who are you? Where's The Professor? What have you done to him? If you've hurt him, I'll rip –" Ace started yelling at her.
Rose swiftly started to attempt to calm her down.
"Hang on a minute! I haven't done anything to The Doctor if that's who you mean. I've just borrowed the TARDIS for a little trip. I like to travel by myself sometimes. It helps me relax to just pop in for a quick little visit somewhere after a stressful day. It's kind of like what taking a nice quiet walk does for some people. My name is Rose, by the way. Rose Tyler," the blonde said with a sweet smile.
"The Professor doesn't give the TARDIS to anyone. You're lying. Where is he? I want to see him right now!" Ace yelled.
She ran inside the still open TARDIS doors and stared in shock at the interior. It looked completely different from the TARDIS that she was used to seeing!
Rose went inside with her and continued to be as nice as she could. She knew that this girl was upset and confused, and it wouldn't do anything but make things worse if she lost her temper.
"This isn't the Professor's TARDIS," Ace said.
"It is actually. Just not your Doctor's TARDIS. Which one are you traveling with? What does he look like? Is he a Scottish bloke with a question mark covered sweater?" Rose asked her curiously.
Ace looked at her with a strange look as she studied her in an attempt to figure her out.
"Yeah. That's him. Is he okay?" Ace asked her.
"He should be. Tell you what though. I'll help you find him and we'll make sure together, okay?" Rose said.
Ace nodded. She didn't know why, but she felt as if she could trust this woman. She felt that same sense of trust and protection that she had always had around The Professor. You just felt safe around him, and she had felt the same way ever since Rose had appeared.
Rose looked at her black leather jacket with the many different badges on it, and knew who she must be from the Doctor's description of her in his many stories of his past adventures.
"You're Ace, right?" Rose said .
"How do you know that?" Ace asked suspicious.
"The Doctor told me about you. He's told me about all of his companions. I recognize you from his descriptions of you. I finally know where I am in relation to you. I'm from your Doctor's future," Rose explained.
"So you're his companion?" Ace asked.
"I used to be. That was when I was human," Rose said with a sly smile. She couldn't help but have a little fun with Ace about her identity.
"What are you now?" Ace asked, not in the least fazed by this. She had seen a lot of weird things in her travels with the Doctor.
Rose looked at Ace for a minute and seemed to come to a conclusion about her.
"Do you have any connection with Fenric? I can sense his presence on you. It's just barely there, but I can feel it. I can see him tangled up in your timeline," Rose said as her face became enigmatic for a moment; then she returned back to her normal nice, cheerful persona.
Ace knew what she was now without her having to tell her.
"You're a Time Lord," Ace stated.
"Yep! I'd rather be called a Time Lady though. You see I was always a Time Lady, but then I became human and forgot who I was. Now, I'm back to my real self. It's a long story," Rose said.
"I'm sure it is, but I would rather find out what happened to The Professor instead of hearing about your whole life story," Ace said impatiently.
Ace was getting more worried by the minute, and she had no time to waste with this nonsense.
Rose could see that Ace was getting more worried, so she stopped playing around with her.
"We'll find him Ace. I promise!" Rose said with a serious expression.
Ace gave her a small nervous smile and nodded.
"Tell me what happened to him?" Rose asked.
"I don't know. The TARDIS had just materialized, and I got out first. Then before I could even turn around, it dematerialized and left me stranded here. Do you know where here is?" Ace asked.
Rose sniffed the air as she tried to determine the time and place with her time sense. She loved being able to do this again!
"I'd say that it's just a few miles outside of London, and the year is 2012. Wait. Maybe 2013?" Rose said with a grin.
She sniffed the air again.
"Yeah, definitely 2013! Sorry! I'm a little rusty at this. I was human for the last 20 years or so, so I'm going to have to get used to this again," Rose said as she giggled. She was well aware of how silly she was sounding, and she enjoyed every moment of it.
Ace laughed at her as she said, "You definitely know The Professor! You're just as crazy as he is!"
Rose pretended to be offended as she gave her a mock pouting look.
"I resent that remark, miss! You have offended my delicate sensibilities! I may just cry!" Rose struggled to say while barely being able to keep from bursting out laughing.
As Ace started chuckling away at this display, Rose smiled in satisfaction. She seemed to have finally calmed the girl down which was what she had been trying to do since they had first met.
It would be much easier to help her get back to The Doctor if she stopped trying to fight with her every minute.
It was just then that they both whirled around in shock and sudden terror as a whole battalion of Sontaran soldiers teleported behind them from out of nowhere!
"You will surrender right now, Doctor! If you decide to resist, we will kill your companion!" The Sontaran in the front shouted as he looked at Rose!
Rose was completely taken by surprise at being addressed as The Doctor! Ace was looking at her in utter disbelief as if she was actually wondering whether she really were The Doctor or not.
"Wait a minute here! There's been some kind of mistake! I'm not The Doctor!" Rose protested.
"You arrived in The Doctor's TARDIS, and you are a Time Lord. Who else could you be? It is well known that no one but The Doctor ever pilots the TARDIS. Therefore, you are The Doctor!" The head Sontaran said with a unbelieving smirk.
"Such wonderful logic!" Rose muttered to herself.
She could hear a voice yell at them and turned to see UNIT soldiers coming up on the other side of the two of them and the Sontarans.
"I am Colonel Mace, and you will all lay down your weapons now and surrender to me in the name of the Unified Intelligence Taskforce!" said the voice.
Suddenly, Colonel Mace seemed to notice the TARDIS and looked at Rose in confusion.
"Doctor, is that you?!" He asked her.
Rose sighed and smacked herself in the forehead.
She had just wanted a nice relaxing little side trip! Was that too much to ask?
Next: Rose is stuck between a rock and a hard place as she has to keep the Sontarans and UNIT from slaughtering each other. Oh, and everyone believes that she's The Doctor too and won't listen to her when she tells them otherwise! All in all just a normal day for our favorite Time Lady!
