A/N: This starts after Rose saves Sylvia and Wilf from the Dalek, everything before that in the episode is pretty much the same for this story.
Chapter One
Sylvia was making tea for her father and the other occupants in her house that had just saved her life and her father's from a Dalek. She walked back the living room where everyone were gathered and chimed into the conversation. Her father was responding to something Rose had asked him.
"Yeah, I've tried calling her, but I can't get through! But she's still with the Doctor, I know that much and the last time she phoned, it was from a planet called Midnight, made of diamonds!"
"What the hell are you four on about?" Sylvia asked the people in the room. "And who are you two again?" Indicating to the two people in the room that she didn't know anything about, she didn't even know their names.
"Oh sorry, as I said before, I'm Rose Tyler," the blonde girl said, and then turned to the males sitting next to her on the couch. "This is Mickey Smith," pointing to the dark skinned male, "and that is Jake Simmonds." She said introducing the other male to Sylvia. "We need the Doctor! You're our last hope. If we can't find Donna, we can't find the Doctor." Rose trailed off and spoke to no one in particular, "Where is he!"
The Dalek transmission stopped and a woman's voice came from the computer. "Can anyone hear me?" Rose and Mickey's heads tilted towards the laptop recognising the voice. "The Subwave Network is open. You should be able to hear my voice…Is anyone there?"
"Who's that?" Luke Smith asked his mother, referring to the voice that played over the Dalek's transmission.
"Some poor soul calling for help." She answered sadly.
"…can anyone hear me?"
"There's nothing we can do." Sarah Jane said looking defeated holding her son closer. The young boy didn't want to think that the human race were defeated so easily and scanned his eyes across the room looking for something to help them.
"But look at Mr. Smith." Sarah Jane did as the boy said looking at the computer, fast at work.
"Processing incoming soundwave." The computer stated.
"This message is of the utmost importance. We haven't much time…Can anyone hear me?" Gwen walked over to the monitor in the Hub where the voice was coming from.
"Someone's trying to get in touch." She informed her boss.
He replied, defeated. "The whole world's crying out. Just leave it."
"Captain Jack Harkness, shame on you! Now stand to attention, sir!"
"What?!" Jack was stunned that the person calling out to them knew his name.
"Who is that?'" Gwen questioned which was followed by the image on the screen clearing to show Harriet Jones in her home, flashing her ID card to the monitor.
"Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."
"Yeah, I know who you are."
"Sarah Jane Smith, 13 Bannerman Road…are you there?"
"Yeah. Yeah I'm here! Yeah, that's me!" Sarah Jane answered to Harriet Jones voice over the webcam that Mr. Smith was broadcasting to them.
"Harriet! It's me, it's me. Oh, she can't hear me…Have you got a webcam?" Rose asked Wilf and Sylvia.
"No, she wouldn't let me, she said they're naughty." Wilf said gesturing to his daughter.
"I can't speak to her then, can I?" Rose said to herself, feeling helpless in the situation they were stuck in.
"Then why don't we go to them?" Jake offered, picking up the jumpers and placing one of them in Rose's hand. "How about we split up and go to different people over the webcam. Then we can talk to them and help find the Doctor."
"Let's see if we can talk to each other."
Everyone turned to in the direction of the laptop to see the screen be split in four parts. In the four parts, one was a picture of Harriet, the one next to it of Sarah Jane and a young boy, another one of Jack Harkness and the final one was static.
"Jack?" Rose and Mickey stared in shock, as they believed him to be dead.
"Rose, Mickey we don't have time for explanations. We need to find the Doctor."
"Yeah Rose, Jake's right. How about you go to Harriet, I go to Sarah Jane and Jake will stay here with the Noble family in case Donna comes back." Mickey suggested, get his jumper and checking the amount of time passed since they were last activated.
"The fourth contact seems to be having some trouble getting through." Harriet informed the rest of the people on the four part screen. "I'll just boost the signal…" She typed away on the computers surrounding her doing what she had said. Martha Jones appeared on the screen in place of the static picture.
"Hello?" Martha Jones greeted to the people on the webcam. Jack laughed with relief as he saw Martha.
"Martha, where are you?!"
A flash of blue light and an unusual noise filled the room that Harriet was in.
"What's going on?" Sarah Jane asked the other people over the webcam after seeing a light flash from Harriet Jones' screen. In fear that the Daleks had discovered their undercover broadcast and had started to go after the people involved. Pulling Luke closer to her, as the same strange scene that had happened to Harriet played itself in front of her.
"What the hell is going on over there?" Jack demanded to know after watching the same scene happen to two participants in the four screens. Jack, Gwen, Ianto and Martha watched in silence as the screens of Sarah Jane and Harriet lacked the people who were meant to be there.
"Rose! I thought you were dead!"
"I don't plan on dieing for a while; we have a Doctor to find and a universe to save."
Jack's jaw dropped as Harriet's screen cleared to show a very shocked Harriet and a stressed out Rose Tyler. Jack watched as Rose laughed most likely at his surprised face.
"Mickey! How…What are you doing here?"
"Well we Smiths have to stick together."
Jack was sure that his jaw must have dropped to the ground by the surprise appearance of two old friends of his that he thought he would never see again. "How did you two get here? I got the idea that it was impossible, that you were trapped."
"I was Jack, and now I'm home. Now we need to find the Doctor and Donna. Jake I want you keep phoning the Doctor."
"Who's Jake?"
"A friend and colleague from the parallel world, he is with Donna Noble's family. She is with the Doctor right now."
"OK, so Donna Noble is with the Doctor, are we having no luck getting in touch with her?" Harriet asked Rose, who shook her head. "That is why I developed this Subwave Network. A sentient piece of software, programmed to seek out anyone and everyone who can help to contact the Doctor."
"What if the Daleks hear us?"
"No, that's the beauty of the Subwave, it's undetectable." Harriet answered Martha Jones' question.
"You invented it?" The question came from an impressed Sarah Jane.
"I developed it. It was created by the Mr Copper Foundation."
"Yeah, but what we need now is a weapon. Martha, back there at UNIT, what did they give you, what was that key thing?"
"The Osterhagen Key."
"The key is not to be used, Dr. Jones. Not under any circumstances!" Harriet exclaimed. "That key is not to be used and that's an order!"
"All we need is the Doctor." Rose said sadly, somewhat confused due to some people she was working with who she didn't know. "I may not have seen the Doctor in over 2 years but if he knew what was going on, he would be doing something about it."
"I knew that one day the Doctor would fail to appear when Earth was in danger. That's why we needed the Subwave. To bring us all together, combine forces. The Doctor's secret army."
"We need to contact him." Rose said feeling defensive. "Jake is calling him but we need to boost the signal."
"Brillant Rose Tyler!" Jack beamed giving her one of his grins. "We can transmit that telephone number through Torchwood itself, using all the power of the Rift."
"And we've got Mr. Smith!" The boy with Sarah Jane said. "He can link up with every telephone exchange on the Earth! He can get the whole world to call the same number, all at the same time! Billions of phones, calling out, all at once!"
Rose smiled at the boy. "Sarah Jane who's the kid?"
"That's my son!"
"And you didn't mention him last time, why?"
"Excuse me." Ianto stepped in front of Jack and Gwen, standing right in front of the screen. "Hello, Ianto Jones. Um, if we start transmitting, then this Subwave Network is going to become visible. I mean, to the Daleks."
"Yes, and they will trace it back to me. But my life doesn't matter. Not if it saves the Earth." Harriet looked over to Rose, who was sitting next to her watching the four split screens as everyone watched her in silence.
"Do it."
"But Rose, the Daleks will find you and will kill you. You both have time to escape." Jack argued. He watched Rose shake her head.
"I can't. I have to help Harriet here. I came here to warn the Doctor and that is what I will do." Jack and everyone else who knew Rose, knew of the sacrifice that she was making and also how determined she was to save the Doctor.
"Now enough of words. Let's begin!"
Jake sat in the Noble household, feeling useless watching the people from Torchwood, Sarah Jane Smith's screen and Rose and Harriet get to work on the various machines that they had available to them in attempt to call the Doctor. If he didn't know the Doctor he would have thought that these people were a bunch of lunatics going to extreme lengths trying to call someone.
"Harriet! A saucer's locked on to your location, they've found you…"
"I know. I'm using the Network to mask your transmission. Keep going!"
"EXTERMINATE!"
"Harriet send the Subwave Network to Torchwood, we have incoming." Rose was heard saying, moving out of sight from the webcam and heard loading a gun in her defence against the Daleks.
"Captain, tell the Doctor from me…he chose his companions well. It's been an honour." A scream of agony was heard as Harriet made her way to face the Daleks unarmed, not in view of the webcam anymore. Only sound was heard from Harriet Jones' house and it was confirmed by the scream heard only seconds before that Rose Tyler was dead. "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."
"Yes, we know you who are."
"Oh, you know nothing of any human. And that will be your downfall."
"EXTERMINATE!"
In the Hub it was silent, everyone else involved on the Subwave Network were quiet, some like Jack Harkness had tears rolling down their cheeks over the loss of two brave humans killed without a second thought by the Daleks.
The Doctor and Donna appeared in the place where Harriet and Rose had been.
"Where the hell have you been?! Doctor, it's the Daleks!" Jack yelled across the Subwave Network in fury.
"It's the Daleks, they are taking people to their spaceship…" Sarah Jane informed him and then went silent again.
"Who are they? I know that's Martha." Donna asked the Doctor, both of them in grins that they were able to get through to Earth.
"That's Torchwood, aren't they brilliant? And that's Sarah Jane, who's that boy?" The Doctor said scanning the screen looking at his friends, when he spotted someone familiar in the corner of Sarah Jane's. "Mickey?"
"Doctor, Mickey came back to this world with Rose and someone else." Jack started to say to him. "Rose went to Harriet Jones, the woman who developed this program but the Daleks found them." Jack stopped and remained quiet, no one else was talking, they were watching the Doctor's screen. Watching the grins from Donna and the Doctor's face flatten. "She dead, Doctor, Rose died sending this signal out to you."
The screen in the TARDIS went static, the Doctor was frozen to the spot hearing over and over again what Jack had just said.
"We've lost them!" Donna stated bring the Doctor out of his trance. He started fiddling with the controls of the TARDIS.
"There's another signal." His voice was empty and uneven.
"Your voice is different." The Doctor refroze to the spot recognizing the voice.
"No. But he's dead…" A voice of Sarah Jane was heard over the Subwave Network.
"Welcome to my new Empire, Doctor. It is only fitting that you should bear witness to the resurrection, and the triumph, of Davros. Lord and Creator of the Dalek Race!"
"Doctor?" A worried voice from Donna reached his ears.
"Have you nothing to say?" The Doctor remained speechless caused by a number of factors that had happened in the last couple of minutes.
"Doctor, it's alright. We're…we're in the TARDIS. We're safe." Donna said reassuringly, to him, staring at him instead of the screen, trying to make eye contact.
"But you were destroyed. In the very first year of the Time War. At the Gates of Elysium. I saw your command ship fly into the jaws of the Nightmare Child. I tried to save you."He spoke but his voice wasn't as it usually was, he was stating facts in fear.
"But it took one stronger than you. Dalek Caan himself." He stopped as a Dalek behind him spoke. "Emergency Temporal Shift took him back into the Time War itself."
"But that's impossible! The entire war is time-locked." The Doctor's voice unsteady as he spoke.
"And yet he succeeded. Oh, it cost him his mind. But imagine, a single, simple Dalek succeeded where Emperors and Time Lords have failed. A testament, don't you think, to my remarkable creations? I gave myself to them, quite literally. Each one grown from a cell of my own body. New Daleks. True Daleks. I have my children, Doctor. What do you have, now?" The Doctor had nothing; he had lost so much since the Time War, some events that were as recent as a couple of minutes ago.
"After all this time. Everything we saw. Everything we lost. I have only one thing to say to you…" The Doctor started his voice slow and unsteady, "Bye!" He pulled a lever, sending the TARDIS flying off to Earth.
"Gwen, Dalek saucer heading for the Bay. They've found us!" Ianto formed Gwen over the alarms as she came over to the computer he was working at. Jack ran past them on the phone to Martha, collecting his gun. Ianto helped Jack into his jacket while he got what information he needed from Martha and typed the teleport base code into his vortex manipulator. Jack hung up the phone as Gwen passed his gun to him, that he had passed off to her before typing in the teleport base code.
"I've gotta go, I've gotta find the Doctor. I'll come back, I'm coming back." He reassured them after seeing their faces of doubt.
"Don't worry about us. Just go."
"We'll be fine."
"You'd better be." He told them before teleporting away. The Hub shook as the Daleks made their way inside.
"They're here."
"TARDIS heading for Vector 7, grid reference 665." Mr. Smith informed the occupants in the room. Mickey picked up his gun and waited at the door as Sarah Jane put on her coat and gathered her keys.
"But there are Daleks out there!" Luke said to her. She turned around to look at him.
"I know, I'm sorry, but I have to find the Doctor…Don't move, don't leave the house, don't do anything."
"I will protect the boy, Sarah Jane." The computer told her.
She stood at the door on the verge of tears looking at her son. "I love you. Remember that." She ran out of the house and hopped into her car with Mickey and drove off.
Jake stood up from his place on the couch and answered the phone.
"Mickey?" Jake listened to what he had to say and then hung up. Picking up his gun and he activated his hopper and left in a flash of blue light. Leaving Sylvia and Wilf in their home in fear of the Daleks.
The TARDIS landed on a deserted street. The Doctor and Donna got out of the TARDIS looking at the street with turned up cars and not a person in sight.
"Like a ghost town…" Donna mentioned.
"Sarah Jane said they were taking people. What for? Think, Donna, when you met Rose in that parallel world, what did she say?" The Doctor asked her, in hopes of more answers then that actually had.
"Just…the darkness is coming."
"Anything else?" He sounded shaken and very unlike himself.
"No, I'm sorry." She said, she had met Rose in that parallel world and knew that Rose felt deeply for him. She also knew by words from Martha and past events where Rose's name had been brought up that he had feelings for her but then he lost her.
A Dalek came around a corner of a building and spotted Donna and the Doctor. Donna spotted the Dalek in time to see it been blown to pieces by a man that she had seen from the Torchwood screen. He ran towards them attracting the attention of the Doctor who was quiet for his usual self.
"Jack!" The Doctor greeted him, changing his mood automatically.
"Doctor! Donna! It's not safe out here. Get in the TARDIS!" They obeyed getting into the TARDIS with Jack following. None of them noticed the Bad Wolf signs that were scattered among the scene surrounding them.
Sarah Jane quickly put on the breaks as soon as she saw two Daleks on the road before her.
"All human transport is forbidden!" One of the Daleks said.
"I surrender! I'm sorry!" She said taking a glance at Mickey who was going for his gun that was at his feet.
"Daleks does not accept apologies! You will be exterminated!"
"EXTERMINATE!"
TO BE CONTINUED
A/N: Please review, I don't own anything. I basically took a transcript (don't own that either) and moulded the epsiode into what I thought should have happened. Its just a way for me to sleep well at night. I should admit I did like the clone idea, it was a Doctor and Rose ending but I want her to continue her travels with him. Just to let you know I AM A DOCTOR/ROSE FAN! Take that as a hint. Oh and BAD WOLF. Just don't flame me over Rose's death I've given you hints to what might happen to her. Sorry if it isn't edited very well, I edit it myself for practice for school English, if you find so many errors that it drives you crazy tell me please!