Hello and welcome to my first OC story. This story does follow Season One of the 2005 DW. and the Doctor may be OC in parts. Please kindly review and let me know what you think. And remember, be kind with your words! No one likes to be told their story is horrible so review as you wished to be reviewed. Thank you XD Enjoy!
Chapter One
"This is a customer announcement. The store will be closing in five minutes. Thank you."
Oh finally, Talia Josephs thinks as she looks to see the last of the customers for the night leaving. She pushes some of her black hair out of her face and her green eyes roam the store looking towards her best friend, Rose. "That's all for tonight, everything is cleaned up. Claudia! Paulette! We're done for tonight."
She laughs as she hears three sighs of happiness. "We weren't too busy tonight girls." She follows Claudia and Paulette towards the break room where there lockers where with her blonde friend Rose trailing behind her. "Everything alright Rose? You look at bit tired."
"Yeah, everything is alright. Had lunch with Mickey today."
Talia grabs her bag from her locker and then looks to her best friend. "And?"
She shrugs her shoulders and grabs her own bag, shutting her locker door. "And nothing. Sat at the fountain and just ate, chatted a bit."
Talia sighs as they walk out of the break room and towards the front doors, "You don't seem too thrilled about it. Is everything okay in paradise?"
Rose was about to answer when the day guard, George, walked up to Rose holding a familiar white bag. "Oi! It's your job to take the bag down to Wilson tonight, Rose."
Rose and Talia share a glance before Rose reaches out to grab the bag but Talia grabs it before she can. "Go home Rose. Call up Mickey and you two have a chat."
She groaned and snatched the bag from Talia. "No, I'll take the bag."
"Well I'll go with you then. Good night George! Tell your wife I said hello!"
George gave a rare smile and tipped his hat towards her. "Will do Talia, you two be safe going home."
Rose and Talia walked to the lift as George left and Rose looped her arm through Talias. As they waited for the lift doors to open Rose looked at her with a grin, "So has Miss Josephs found herself a man yet?"
Talia groaned and shook her head, her cheeks turning a bright red. "I don't need a boyfriend Rose. I am perfectly fine with how my life is right now. I have my best friend, Rose Tyler! Along with Mickey and your mum. That's all I need."
"You're twenty two! You need to go out and experience more in life!"
The doors opened and Talia practically ran into the lift, trying to stay away from the conversation. It's not like Talia have never fancied anyone, she just hadn't found the right person that she could see myself happy with for the rest of her life.
Rose seemed to sense that she didn't want to continue and bumped their shoulders against each other, "So why did you decide to come with me? You usually hate taking the lottery money down to Wilson. You think it's creepy down there."
She frowned, "It is creepy down there, anything could be in the darkness that seems to lurk in every inch down there." It was silent for a moment before they both began to laugh. "I've just had a feeling today that something was going to happen."
"Oh, one of your feelings."
Talia laughed and pushed her away when she saw that Rose had a smile on her face. "Fine don't believe me, but when the dummies come alive and make a grab for you I will try not to say 'I told you so.'"
Rose rolled her eyes but she still had a smile on her face, "The dummies won't come alive."
"You say this now."
For as long as Talia can remember she had always believed in the things that couldn't be explained. Myths, aliens, the lochness monster. And every now and again she would get this strange feeling in her gut and that day something would happen. Whether it be good or bad, something always happened. Kids in her school figured this out and she was labeled as a freak. So in school Talia never really had any friends, that is until Rose. The small blonde headed girl in pigtails who was eight and while Talia was eleven, fought off three boys who where poking fun at Talia. She stood up for her like no one had before. Chased the boys all the way down the block then came back to make sure that Talia was okay. They have been best friends since then.
"So, you and Mickey?"
The smile was gone as she groaned, "I just don't know, Talia. When we started dating everything was great. I mean it still is great, Mickey is kind and attentive, the perfect boyfriend."
Talia leaned against the wall, "But?"
"Sometimes i just want something more, you know?
"I understand, but you should come clean with Mickey. If you feel like he isn't what you want right now then you need to tell him. He loves you Rose, if you need time to figure out what you want in a relationship with him then I'm sure he would understand and give you some time."
Rose sighed but Talia was reassured by the small smile she gave her, "You're right. I'll talk to him soon, I promise."
The lift jerked to a stop and Rose and Talia walked into the dark basement, which was silent, and illuminated only by a few lights. They walked towards a blue door that had a yellow danger of electric shock sign attached to it that was also the office of H P Wilson, CEO.
"Wilson are you there? Rose and I have the lottery money." Talia said loudly as she knocked on the door.
She turned to Rose and grinned as she watch her bounce on the balls of her feet, getting impatient.
"We can't hang about 'cause they're closing the shop. Wilson! Oh, come on." Rose said, knocking on the door as well.
Both girls jump and spin as a noise echoes from down the hall. They exchange a glance with they begin to walk towards the noise slowly, Talia putting herself in front of Rose.
"Hello? Hello, Wilson, it's Rose and Talia. Hello? Wilson?" Rose says loudly as they walk towards a double door.
They share another look before Rose opens the door to the dark store room and Talia quickly finds the switch to turn on the lights. They look around but only see piles of boxes full of clothes and some dummies, no people
"Wilson? Wilson!" Talia said loudly, slightly worried now that he wasn't answering. He was a bit of a grouch but he always answered when called.
They had both walked further into the room and jumped when the door slams closed behind them.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me," Talia grumbled when they reached the door only to find it locked. Just when she was thinking this night couldn't get any worse, they hear more noise coming from a little further back in the store room.
"Is that someone mucking about? Who is it?" Rose yells. They both stood still and watched curiously as one of the dummies began to move and walks towards them slowly. "Yeah, you got me. Very funny. Talia, tell them to stop"
Talia froze as she stared wide eyed at the moving dummy. "Rose, I swear to you, whoever is doing this I had no part in it."
More noise begins to echo throughout the room as more of the dummies seem to come alive and began to walk towards the wide eyed girls.
"Right, I've got the joke. Who's idea was this? Is it Derek's? Is it? Derek, is this you?"
"Rose, I don't think that Derek has anything to do with this either." Talia grabbed Roses hand and yanked her behind her as even more or the dummies begin to move, they noticed too late that it had been backing them into a wall.
"This-this isn't funny anymore!" Rose yells at them.
Talia puts myself directly in between the dummies and Rose, if one of them was going to try and hurt Rose then they'd have to go through her first. One of the dummies raises its arm up, like it was going to karate chop Talia. She closes my eyes, bracing herself for the hit, but they snapped open when she felt a large warm hand wrap itself around her own. She turns her head to the side to see a man cloaked in darkness and that he also had a hold of Roses hand.
"Run." The shadow man said as he yanked both of their arms and began to pull them through storage room and out of the side door and down the basement hall that led to the lift.
The lift doors opened immediately and Rose and Talia followed the man into it, but not quick enough. One of the dummies arms grabbed a hold of Roses jacket and started pulling her back to the doors. Talia instantly raised her bag and started to hit the arm, trying to detach it.
"You could help me!" She yelled breathlessly to the man who was standing there watching them with a peculiar look on his face.
He nodded and grabbed the arm that had a hold of Rose and in a few pulls he had completely detached it from the dummy and the lift doors slid closed.
They all three stood in silence for a moment, Rose and Talia breathing heavily, before the man tossed the arm to Rose, which seemed to shake her out of the shock.
"You pulled his arm off." Rose said, still slightly out of breath. Talia looks wide eyed from the dummies arm to the nameless man standing by the lifts door.
She was finally able to see what he looked like in the light. He stood over six foot tall, his brown hair was close cropped and pretty blue eyes but his face had a slight frown on it. Some might say he had a hawk like face but Talia found she thought he was quite handsome, to her at least. Though his nose and ears stood out a bit on his face. He wore a red t-shirt with a black leather jacket over it and blue jeans. Talia blushed a light pink when she realized that she had been subtly checking him out, but he nor Rose seemed to notice.
"Yep. Plastic." He replied to Rose.
"Very clever. Nice trick! Who were they then, students? Is this a student thing or what?"
Talia seemed to finally find her voice and managed to stammer out, "I-I don't think this is a trick Rose, I mean look at that arm! If someone was in the dummy then it would have holes for the arms to fit through!"
The man glanced at Talia and then back to Rose, "Your friend is correct, why would they be students?"
"I don't know." Rose said while staring at the dummies arm that she held.
"Well, you said it. Why students?" He asked with a slight smile.
"'Cause to get that many people dressed up and being silly, they got to be students."
"That makes sense. Well done." He said turning back to the doors.
"Thanks."
"But it doesn't make sense!" Talia said while leaning up against the wall. "Students wouldn't have the technology capable of controlling a dummie to come at us. And it is obviously impossible that someone would have been inside the dummy. Like I said, they would holes to put their arms through and there are none at all."
The man hummed and looked at both Talia and Rose before nodding. "They're not students."
"Well, whoever they are when Wilson finds them, he's going to call the police." Rose says, still clinging to the arm.
"I forgot about Wilson! He's down there by himself! We have to go back!" Talia jumped forward to press the basement but the man grabbed her arm and stopped her before she could.
"Who's Wilson?"
"He's the Chief electrician of the building." She said, removing her arm from his hold and trying to press the button again.
"Wilson's dead."
Talia backed up and looked at him in shock. "He's dead?" She asked, shocked.
The man nodded and there was a flash of sadness on his face, but the lift doors opened and it was gone, Talia doubted she actually saw anything.
The man walked out of the lift, pulling something out of his pocket as we followed close behind him. "That's just not funny. That's sick!" Rose managed to get out.
He turned and pulled Rose and Talia further away from the lift before he turned back to the lift and aiming a small metal stick he pulled out of his pocket towards the lift button.
"Hold on. Mind your eyes." He warns before a mechanical whistling sound starts and the button starts to spark and the lights on it dim.
"I've had enough of this now." Rose says as Talia eyes the man who quite possibly saved them from some type of impossibly strange dummies. "Who are you, then? Who's that lot down there? I said, who are they?"
Talia grabs Roses arm and pulls her after the man, who was now walking away from them at a quick pace. "Oi! Who are you then? Man who came out of nowhere and pulled us out of the basement! And I'm sure you know what those things are too! So answer us, please!"
"They're made of plastic. Living 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." He holds up a small bomb as he opens a set of double doors that lead outside. Talia and Roses eyes widen as they see what he is holding and then step out into the cool night air.
"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. No, you both go on 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." He nods to them both and then he disappears, the doors closing behind him.
"You can't stay in there if it's going to blow!" Talia yells incredulously, while opening the door and gaining his attention.
"I know what I'm doing!" He say simply and then closes the door again. They stand there for a moment staring at the door before it opens again. "I'm the Doctor, by the way. What are your names?"
"Rose."
"I'm Talia."
"Nice to meet you, Rose, Talia. Run for your lives!" Once again the door closes and Talia just looks at Rose slightly panicked before they both reach for each others hand at the same time and begin to run down the street.
They ran, as fast as they could, dodging people, buses, and taxis. Talia could feel my heart pounding in her chest, going faster than it ever had before, adrenaline pumping through her as they ran as far away from Henrik's as we could.
Talia pulled Rose to a stop once she thought they were a good distance away from their workplace before they were almost thrown off of their feet when the store suddenly exploded. People began to scream and run away from the burning building as Rose and Talia only stared in shock. Talias mind went to the man who called himself the Doctor and she hoped that he had been able to make it out of there, away from the plastic creatures, before the building blew.
She looked towards Rose as she slipped her hand back into Talias' and began to pull her towards Powell Estates where Jackie Tyler would be waiting in their flat and would have surely already heard about the explosion and was waiting impatiently for news about Rose.
With one more glance towards Henrik's, Rose and Talia quickly continued to walk towards Powell Estates.
0o0o0o0o0
"The whole of Central London has been closed off as police investigate the fire. Early reports indicate-"
Talia opened her eyes from her place on the Tyler's sofa to see Roses mother Jackie walk into the living room with a glass of tea for Talia and Rose while talking on the phone, cutting off whatever was being said on the telly.
"I know. It's on the telly. It's everywhere. They're lucky to be alive. Honestly, it's aged both of them. Skin like an old bible. Walking in now you'd think I was Roses daughter. Of course Talia is here as well! She and Rose have been attached at the hip for years! Oh, and here's himself."
Talia turned her head as she heard the front door open and she smiled as Roses worried boyfriend, Mickey, walked in and ran straight to Rose and pulls her into a hug. "I've been phoning your mobile. You could've been dead, both of you! It's on the news and everything. I can't believe that your shop went up!"
"We're both all right, honestly, I'm fine! Don't make a fuss." Rose said to him.
Mickey sits in between the two of them and looks to Rose in worry. "Well, what happened?
"I don't know!" She said tiredly.
"We were both walking home when the explosion happened." Talia put in.
"What was it though? What caused it? Do either of you know?"
Rose shook her head, "Like Talia said, we weren't in the shop. We were both outside. Didn't see anything.
MIckey was about to say something else when Jackie's walks back in, holding her hand over the phone. "It's Debbie on the end. She knows a man on the Mirror. Five hundred quid for an interview."
"Oh that's brilliant!" Rose says with fake enthusiasm, "Give it here."
Talia puts a hand over her mouth to stifle a laugh as Rose takes the phone and hangs it up, then hands it back to her mum.
Jackie frowns, "Well, you've got to find some way of making money, both of you. Your job's kaput and I'm not bailing you out, Rose." The telephoning ringing cut through whatever reply Rose would have have as Jackie immediately answers it and begins to talk. "Bev! They're alive. I've told them, sue for compensation. They were within seconds of death."
Mickey took that moment to turn to Rose with a small smile, "What're you drinking, tea? Nah, nah, that's no good, that's no good. You're in shock. You need something stronger."
Talia watched as Rose frowned and shook her head, "I'm all right."
"Now, come on, you deserve a proper drink. We're going down the pub, you and me. My treat. How about it?"
Rose looked at Talia before looking back at Mickey, "What about Talia? Is there a match on?"
"No, I'm just thinking about you, babe. And yeah, Talia can come if she really wants to."
Talia shook my head, "No thanks, I'm not up for going anywhere at the moment. I think I'm gonna crash here tonight."
Rose smiles at her and then looks at Mickey with a sigh, "There's a match on, ain't there."
Mickey grimaced as Rose realizes there is a match one. "That's not the point, but we could catch the last five minutes."
Talia stands as Rose just shakes her head and walks Mickey to the front door. "Go on, then. I'm fine, really. Go. Get rid of that." She grimaces as she watches Rose grab the dummies arm, Talia hadn't even realized that Rose had carried it all the way back to the flat.
As soon as Mickey leans in to kiss Rose goodbye Talia turns around and walk into Roses bedroom and lays down on her pink bed, waiting for Rose to finish saying goodbye to Mickey.
A few minutes later Rose walks into her bedroom and lays down next to her.
"Tomorrow," She says after a moment. "Tomorrow I'll talk to him. It's has been to crazy today to have that conversation. So the dummies coming alive, huh?
Talia groaned and buried her face in her hands, "I told you I had a feeling something was going to happen."
Rose yawned and turned over, facing away from Talia, "Remind me to never doubt one of your feelings again"
Talia nods and a moment later she hears Roses soft snores, telling her that she is asleep. Talia grabs an extra blanket and stumbles into the small guest room and then she collapses onto the twin size bed. She sighs and closes her eyes, her thoughts once again drifting to the Doctor before she drifts off to sleep to the sound of the telly, bleeding through the walls.
"Fire then spread throughout the store. Fifteen fire crews are in attendance though it's thought there is very little chance of saving the infrastructure."
0o0o0o0o0
Talia woke up at a quarter past eight to hear Jackie and Rose talking. She stood up and pulled on a pair of jeans and and a blue top of of the small dresser that had her clothes in it and then quickly changed.
She walked into the dining room when she was done to see Rose sitting at the table, picking at her food at grumbling about the butchers and Jackie watching her.
"Oh, good morning Talia. Hungry?" Jackie asked with a smile.
She shook her head, "No thank you Jackie. Not really in the mood for anything right now. Thank you though."
She nods and pats my shoulder, "Just let me know if you do." She smiles one more time at her and then looks back to Rose as Talia lays her head down on the table. "Well, the butchers might do you good. That shop was giving you airs and graces. And I'm not joking about compensation. You've had genuine shock and trauma. Arianna got two thousand quid off the council just because the old man behind the desk said she looked Greek! I know she is Greek, but that's not the point. It was a valid claim."
Rose and Talia share a look and laughed when Jackie walked out of the dining room and into her bedroom to get ready for the day. Rose groaned and stands up when she heard the cat flap start to rattle.
Talia stands and follows behind Rose as she walks towards the door. Rose looks at the cat flap and then yells, "Mum, you're such a liar. I told you to nail that cat flap down. We're going to get strays."
"I did it weeks back!" Jackie replied from her room.
"No, you thought about it." Rose grumbled and she leaned down and froze. Talia frowns and picked up a one of the four screws that were now on the floor. They looked at each other for a moment before Rose leaned down further to look through the cat flap only to gasp and jump back.
"What?" Talia asked, startled.
Rose quickly opened the door and Talia saw what made Rose jump back, the Doctor was standing on the other side with a frown on his face.
"What're you doing here?" He asked looking at Rose, not noticing Talia standing towards the side.
"I live here." She said as if it was the most obvious option.
"Well, what do you do that for?" Talia laughed and that got his attention. "Hello again. You live here as well then?"
She shook her head with a smile as Rose continued to look at him with a frown. "Because I do. I'm only at home because someone blew up my job."
"I must have got the wrong signal. Neither of you are plastic, are you?" He pulled out his mechanical stick that began whistling again and shine a blue light before he shook his head. "No, boneheads. Bye, then."
"You. Inside. Right now." Rose all but growled out as she grabbed the Doctors arm and pulled him inside.
"Hello again Mr. Doctor." Talia said with a smile as he looked slightly shocked that Rose had grabbed him.
"Oh, no. Just the Doctor."
"Okay then, 'just the Doctor.'"
"Who is it?" Jackie yelled from her bedroom.
Rose and Talia walked past her bedroom door with the Doctor following them.
"It's about last night. He's part of the inquiry. Give us ten minutes." Rose said, making something up on the spot.
"She deserves compensation." Jackie says when she sees the Doctor in the doorway.
"Oh, we're talking millions." He said while looking around. Rose walked into the kitchen and Talia turns to see the Doctor still in the doorway to Jackies room. She stifled a laugh as Jackie began to flirt.
"I'm in my dressing gown." Jackie said while pressing her gown down.
"Yes, you are." Talia covered her eyes, unable to watch. He didn't seem to know where she was going with this.
"There's a strange man in my bedroom."
"Yes, there is."
"Well, anything could happen." She took a step closer.
The Doctor frowned, "No."
Talia couldn't help it anymore, a laugh escaped her mouth and Jackie just glared at her. She just shrugged and smiled at Jackie before pulling the Doctor to the dining room table.
"Don't mind the mess." Rose said from the kitchen, "Do you want coffee?"
Talia sat down on one of the chair as the Doctor continued to look around.
"Might as well, thanks. Just milk."
"We should go to the police. Seriously. All three of us."
Talia frowned and looked to the Doctor to see that he wasn't even paying attention, he was looking at Jackies magazine that she left on the table. Rose was clanging cups in the kitchen still not noticing that the Doctor wasn't paying attention.
"That won't last, he's gay and she's an alien." He said while flipping through it.
"I'm not blaming you, even if it was just some sort of joke that went wrong."
So Rose didn't truly believe that it wasn't a prank, not that Talia blamed her. It was pretty far fetched to think that the dummies that attacked them were some kind of living plastic.
The Doctor then picked up a book and flipped through it. "Hmm. Sad ending."
He is a very fast reader, Talia thought. She looked at the Doctor to see that he wasn't even paying attention to what Rose was saying. They were both talking, not listening to one another. I wish I had some popcorn.
"They said on the news they'd found a body."
He picked up some of the mail, "Hm, Rose Tyler."
"It's not polite to go through someone's mail." Talia said while watching him curiously.
He ignored her and then caught site of the mirror that was hanging on their wall. He tilted his head as he looked at his reflection, looking as if he is just seeing it for the first time.
"Ah, could've been worse. Look at the ears."
His comment confused her, did he not know what his own reflection looked like?
"All the same, he was nice. Nice bloke."
Talia roll her eyes and propped her head on her hands as the Doctor picks up a deck of cards and tries to shuffle them.
"Luck be a lady."
"Anyway, if we are going to go to the police, Talia and I want to know what we're saying. I want you to explain everything."
Talia laughs as the deck of cards goes flying and the Doctor just grins at her and then shrugs. "Maybe not."
The Doctor and Talia both look around as we hear something moving behind the couch.
"What's that, then? You got a cat?" He asked as he moves towards it.
"No." Rose and Talia answered at the same time. Rose continues talking as Talia stands up and walks towards the Doctor, "We did have, but now they're just strays. They come in off the estate."
Talia jumps with a gasp as the dummy arm flies up and wraps itself around the Doctors neck. She runs up to him and wrap her arms around the dummy arm, trying to pull it off of the Doctor. She hears Rose still talking in the background and rolls her eyes.
"Rose, a little help please!"
"What is it?" She asked and walks into the living room just as the Doctor and Talia managed o detached the arm.
Unfortunately, it managed to freeze while in mid air and attack a new target: Rose.
Talia jumped forward and once again start pulling at the arm, harder this time, trying to get it away from her blonde friend. The Doctor came to help and with the both of them pulling at it they managed to detach it from Roses face. He whips out his mechanical stick and jabs it into the arm, immediately it stops moving.
"It's all right, I've stopped it." The Doctor said smiling, and slightly breathless. "There you go, you see? Armless."
"Do you think?" Rose says as she hits him with it. Talia looked her over to make sure she was okay before looking at the Doctor. He said a quick 'Ow' and then grabbed the arm and walked out the door.
"Rose! He's leaving!"
Rose grabs her arm and pulled her out of the door to catch up with the Doctor who was jogging down the stairs.
"Hold on a minute. You can't just go swanning off." She said once they caught up to him.
"Yes I can. Here I am. This is me, swanning off. See you." He replied, not even stopping his descent.
"But that arm was moving. It tried to kill me."
"Ten out of ten for observation."
"You can't just walk away. That's not fair. You've got to tell us what's going on."
"No, I don't."
"You should explain at least a little. This is the second time Rose and I have ran into you." Talia added.
"All right, 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."
Talia rolled her eyes, She knew Rose wouldn't endanger peoples lives just to get some answers. But she has always been the one who took charge out of the two of them, so Talia usually let Rose ask the questions.
"Is that supposed to sound tough?"
"Sort of."
He just smiled at Rose, "Doesn't work."
"Who are you?" Rose and Talia asked. Though Talias was more out of curious fascination.
"Told you both. The Doctor."
"Yeah, but Doctor what?"
"Just the Doctor."
Rose was getting annoyed, but Talia thought he was interesting. "The Doctor."
"Hello!" He said with a wave and a large smile. Talia laughed but Rose just sighed and ran her hand through her hair.
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?"
"Sort of." He replied.
"Kind of was." Talia said, receiving a look from Rose and a grin from the Doctor.
"Come on, then. You can tell us. I've seen enough, we've both seen enough. Are you the police?"
"He's definitely not, Rose."
"No, I was just passing through. I'm a long way from home."
"But what have we done wrong?" Rose asked.
"How come those plastic things keep coming after Rose?" Talia asked.
"Oh, suddenly the entire world revolves around Rose." Talia frowned and was about to comment when he continued, "You were just an accident. You both got in the way, that's all."
"Got in the way?" "It tried to kill me." Talia and Rose said at the same time.
"It was after me, not you two. Last night, in the shop, I was there, you both blundered in, almost ruined the whole thing. This morning, I was tracking it down, it was tracking me down. The only reason it fixed on you is 'cause you've met me."
The girls exchanged a look before Rose said, "So what you're saying is, the entire world revolves around you."
"Sort of, yeah." He still had that ridiculously cute grin on his face as he said it. Talia froze, No! Bad Talia! The random man you have met only twice is not cute!
"You're full of it." Rose said as they continued to walk. Talia ran to catch up to them to hear Rose say, "What, you're on your own?"
"Well, who else is there? 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. Start from the beginning. 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?"
It was a good question, even though Rose didn't believe the plastic was alive. Maybe I should start carrying a taser, Talia thought.
"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. I cut off the signal, dead."
"So that's radio control?" Rose asked while looking at the arm. Talia looked at her and then at the ground. If there are more of these things then they need to be stopped.
"Thought control. Are you all right?"
Talia looked up at the Doctor and gave a smile as Rose looks at her before nodding. "Yeah. So, who's controlling it, then?"
"Long story."
"But what's it all for? I mean, shop window dummies, what's that about? Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?" Talia asked, getting both the Doctor and Rose to laugh with her.
After a moment the Doctor spoke again, "No."
"No." Rose and Talia said together.
"It's not a price war. They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you believe me?"
"No." Rose answered at the same time Talia said, "Yes."
"Really? You believe that there is something else out there? Beyond the stars?" The Doctor asked while looking at Talia.
She shrugged, "Always have, though I haven't been able to get Rose to believe me."
He looks to Rose and points at her, "But you're still listening."
Rose rolled her eyes, "Really, though, Doctor. Tell me, who are you?"
"Do you know like we were saying about the Earth revolving? 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 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. Talia and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go. That's who I am. Now, forget me, Rose Tyler, Talia. Go home."
Talia watched with a sigh as he walked across the street to a blue police box. She turned around to see Rose waiting for her with a small smile. Talia walked up to her and smiled, then they began our walk back. Only stopping once to turn around curiously when a whirring noise echoed around them.
0o0o0o0o0
Instead of going back to Powell Estates like Talia thought they were going to, Rose insisted that they go to Mickeys. Talia had hoped that Rose was going to talk to him, but instead she told her they were going to use his computer to see if they could find anything on the man who calls himself the Doctor.
Rose knocked on the door once they were there while Talia leaned up against the wall.
"Hey, hey, here's my woman. Kit off!" Mickey said with a grin as he opened up the door.
"Oi! That's practically my sister you're talking to! I don't want to hear that kind of thing!" Talia groaned as she walked through the door.
Mickey only shrugged and gave her a hug and then shared a kiss with Rose.
"You two want coffee?
Rose nodded, "Yeah, only if you wash the mug. And I don't mean rinse, I mean wash. Can I use your computer?"
"Yeah. Any excuse to get in the bedroom. Don't read my emails!"
Talia glared at him and smacked his arm with a blush on her face. "Ow! Lia, I was joking!"
"Yeah right!" She grumbled as she walked into his messy bedroom.
Rose instantly started up Mickeys computer and typed 'Doctor' into the search bar. When they found nothing Talia grabbed the keyboard and typed in 'Doctor Living Plastic'. But there were still no results. She sighed and leaned back in her chair before a smile bloomed across her face.
"There was a blue police box he was walking to!"
"You're a genius, Lia!"
She blushed as Rose typed in 'Doctor Blue Box'. They both shared a look as they saw the top link.
'Doctor Who? Do you know this man?'
They didn't want to get their hopes up, but as soon as they saw the picture that was attached Talia knew they had found the right source. Rose emailed him immediately and arranged a meeting at his house as soon as possible.
Talia jumped out of her seat and walked to Mickey who was just finishing making Coffee. "We need to borrow your car." She said while looking for his keys.
"Why do you need to borrow my car?"
"We're going to meet a man who may know something about this man that Talia and I met yesterday." Rose said as she walked out of his bedroom.
Mickey frowned and sat the cups of coffee down, "What man? I'm not letting you take my car."
Talia groaned, "Please Mickey!"
"I'll just take you," Talia rolled her eyes as he seemed to pull his keys out of nowhere and looked at Rose as Mickey left to go get a jacket.
"Is it safe to let him come with us? What if the plastic comes after us again and attacks him because he is with is?"
"Nothing will happen to him Lia." Rose replied as she walked to the front door.
Talia shrugged and smiled, "You never know. A trash bin might eat him."
Rose laughed and walked to Mickeys small VW beetle, "A trash bin will not eat him."
Rose opened the passenger and let Talia climb into the back. Rose was climbing into passengers seat when Mickey opened the door and got in, starting the car.
"Okay then, where am I taking you?"
They drove in silence and Talia leaned her head against the seat. She couldn't believe that they were driving to a random mans house to find out more information on a man that had saved then twice. A mysterious man who said the word 'human' as if he wasn't one.
"We're here," Rose said while looking at the house that may hold the answers they wanted.
Mickey made to open his door when Rose stopped him, "You're not coming in. He's safe. He's got a wife and kids."
Rose got out of the car and walked to the front door as Talia climbed out from the back. She shot Mickey an amused look as he said, "Yeah, who told you that? He did. That's exactly what an internet lunatic murderer would say."
"I think it'll be okay." She said, patting his shoulder before she got out, "We'll be out in no time. Just stay here for a bit."
She walked up the small patch to the front door, where Rose was waiting for her, and knocked.
A boy about eleven years old opened the door, "Hello."
"Hello, we've come to see Clive? We've been emailing." Rose says with a small smile.
The boy rolled his eyes and then yelled back into the house, "Dad! It's some of your nutters!"
Talia frowned, "Oi! We are not nutters!"
But she was ignored by the boy and only got a small laugh from Rose as the boy walked back into the house and a heavier man walked to the door.
"Oh, sorry. Hello. You must be Talia and Rose. I'm Clive, obviously." The man says as he shakes both of their hands.
"I'd better tell you now. My boyfriend's waiting in the car, just in case you're going to kill us."
"No, good point. No murders."
Talia smiled at Clive, "Just wave at him. He'll get over it."
Clive waved but was cut off from saying anything when a females voice came from upstairs.
"Who is it?"
Clive ushered them into the house, and with one more wave at Mickey, Talia walked in and followed Rose through the house to the back. "Oh, it's something to do with the Doctor. They've been reading the website. Please, come through. I'm in the shed."
Talia look around in awe once they entered Clive's shed. There were pictures and notes everywhere, most of them of the Doctor that Talia and Rose had met.
Clive walked in and immediately began talking, "A lot of this stuff's quite sensitive. I couldn't just send it to you. People might intercept it, if you know what I mean. If you dig deep enough and keep a lively mind, this Doctor keeps cropping up all over the place. Political diaries, conspiracy theories, even ghost stories. No first name, no last name, just the Doctor. Always The Doctor. And the title seems to have been passed down from father to son. It appears to be an inheritance. That's your Doctor there, isn't it?"
He held up a black and white picture and Talia found herself nodding as Rose answered, "Yeah."
Clive nodded and pulled out another picture. "I tracked it down to the Washington public archive just last year. The online photo's enhanced, but if we look at the original"
Talia felt shock course through her as she looked at the original picture. She clearly saw the Doctor, but what shocked her was who was also in the black and white photograph. The United States President Kennedy and his cortege driving down a street in Dallas.
"November the 22nd, 1963. The assassination of President Kennedy. You see?"
"Amazing," Talia whispered.
Rose shook her head, "It must be his father."
He dug through another pile of papers and hands Talia a photo of a family. Four small children with their parents, and standing beside them was none other than the Doctor. "Going further back. April 1912. This is a photo of the Daniels family of Southampton, and friend. This was taken the day before they were due to sail off for the New World on the Titanic, and for some unknown reason, they cancelled the trip and survived. And here we are. 1883. Another Doctor."
Clive holds up an old sketch of the Doctor "And look, the same lineage. It's identical. This one washed up on the coast of Sumatra on the very day Krakatoa exploded. The Doctor is a legend woven throughout history. When disaster comes, he's there. He brings the storm in his wake and he has one constant companion."
They waited in silence until Rose whispered, "Who's that?"
"Death."
Talia swallowed hard and shared a spooked looked with Rose.
Clive sighs and wipes his face, "If the Doctor's back, if both of you have seen him, Rose, Talia, then one thing's for certain. We're all in danger. If he's singled you two out, if the Doctor's making house calls, then God help you. "
"But who is he? Who do you think he is?" Talia asked him, thinking it was a possibility that the Doctor wasn't human.
Clive confirmed her thoughts, "I think he's the same man. I think he's immortal. I think he's an alien from another world."
"An alien? Do you really believe that it could be possible? Life on other planets?" She asked excitedly.
Clive nodded, "Oh yes, I think that they walk among us. Hiding, and that the Doctor is here to protect us as best as he can."
She smiled widely and shook his hand, "Thank you so much for your help, Clive. We really appreciate it."
"Any time," He said with a smile. He walked them back through the house and they were waving goodbye when he stopped them. "Be safe you two."
Talia and Rose smiled kindly at him and nodded. They quickly walked back to the car and climb in.
"All right, he's a nutter. Off his head. Complete online conspiracy freak. You win! What are we going to do tonight? I fancy a pizza." Rose says in one breath.
Talia leaned forward and lightly smacked her arm, "He was not a nutter! I completely believe him and you should too!"
Rose rolled her eyes, "You have always believed in the strange things that happen in the world. That's just what makes you the amazing person you are, but that man, was a nutter. So pizza?"
Mickey smiled a manic grin "Pizza! P-p-p-pizza!"
"Or Chinese." Talia put in, looking at Mickey, he seem a bit, shinier?
"Pizza!" He said again
"Pizza it is," She and Rose said together.
Talia spent the entire drive watching Mickey act strangely and once they were seated at the pizza restaurant the lights seemed to shine off of his forehead. Was he waxing his forehead in the car or something?
Rose seemed to not notice that something was strange with Mickey and started rambling as soon as they were seated. "Do you think I should try the hospital? Suki said they had jobs going in the canteen. Is that it then, dishing out chips. I could do A Levels. I don't know. It's all Jimmy Stone's fault. I only left school because of him. Look where he ended up. What do you two think?"
Talia frowned at the mention of Roses ex Jimmy Stone and was about to comment when Mickey cut her off. "So, where did you meet this Doctor?"
Talias frown only deepens when she started searching her memory, she didn't recall either her or Rose mentioning that the man we met was called the doctor. Unless he checked what we were searching for on his computer before they left his flat.
"I'm sorry, wasn't I talking about me for a second?"
"Because I reckon it started back at the shop, am I right? Was he something to do with that?" Mickey wasn't stopping his questions.
"No." Talia said to him, "It was just Rose and I there."
"Come on Talia, Rose, you can trust me." Mickey said with a weird smile.
"Sort of." Rose caved.
Talia spun her head and looked at Rose in shock, "Rose!"
"It's Mickey, Talia! I'm not going to lie to him."
Still, something was off about him. Even though Mickey was dating Rose, he had never ignored Talia when they were all together.
"What was he doing there?" He asked once Rose admitted the Doctor was there.
"I'm not going on about it, Mickey. Really, I'm not, because, I know it sounds daft, but I don't think it's safe. I think he's dangerous."
"But you can trust me, sweetheart. Babe, sugar, babe, sugar. You can tell me anything. Tell me about the Doctor and what he's planning, and I can help you, Rose. Because that's all I really want to do, sweetheart, babe, babe, sugar, sweetheart."
Talia reached under the table and grabbed Roses arm, now she knew something was wrong. Mickey was definitely not behaving like himself.
Rose looked at Talia for a moment before looking back at Mickey worriedly, "What're you doing that for?"
"Your champagne." A waiter says. Talia looked up to tell him that they didn't order champagne when she saw who it was.
"We didn't order any champagne." Mickey said without looking away from Rose. "Where's the Doctor?"
"Madam, your champagne." He said to Rose. Talia thought Rose would have looked over, even after Talia squeezed her arm, but Rose still stared at Mickey.
"It's not ours. Mickey, what is it? What's wrong?"
"Rose," Talia said, squeezing her arm harder.
"I need to find out how much you know, so where is he?" Mickey asked again, commanding Roses attention.
"Doesn't anybody want this champagne?" The Doctor asked, trying to get Rose and Mickeys attention.
"I could use some right now," Talia grumbled.
Mickey seemed to finally have enough, "Look, we didn't order it." He finally looked up and saw the Doctor was standing with them. He grinned, "Ah. Gotcha."
"I actually think that maybe the Doctor could say 'Gotcha' instead of you Mr. Oblivious." Talia said as she watched the Doctor begin to shake the champagne bottle.
"Don't mind me. I'm just toasting the happy couple. Oh, and their third wheel. On the house!"
"Hey!" Talia yelled at his comment. She was no third wheel. Well, maybe. But they never usually made it weird like this.
She was cut off saying anything else by the Doctor releasing the cork which flew straight into Mickeys forehead and disappeared. Talia looked on in shock as Mickey just tilted his head for a few moments and then spit the cork out of his mouth.
"Oh my god." She whisper
"Anyway." Mickey holds up his hand and it transforms into a chopper.
"Rose!" Talia pulled Roses hand to get her away from the table. Rose stumbles a bit but Talia straightened her out just as the Not-Mickey brings his arm down and destroys the table we were just at.
The Doctor runs up to the Not-Mickey and places his hands on his head. They watched in shock as he yanked the Not-Mickeys head off and the customers began screaming and running away.
Talia jumped as the head continued to talk, "Don't think that's going to stop me."
Not-Mickeys body stands up and starts swinging his arm, trying to hit someone. She pulled Rose over to a wall where she saw a fire alarm, she let go of Rose and pulled the lever down
"Everyone out! Out now! Get out! Get out! Get out!" Rose yells as she sees what Talia is doing.
"Run people! Hurry!" Talia yelled with her.
She turned to the doors of the kitchen and begin to run towards it, Rose following closely behind. Adrenaline was once again surging through her body as thye ran away from the Not-Mickey who was following them.
The Doctor pulls them out the back exit and shuts the door, sealing it shut, before Not-Mickey reaches them.
Rose runs to the locked gates, right past the strange blue police box Talia recognized from earlier.
Rose not noticing the police box yells for the Doctor, "Open the gate! Use that tube thing. Come on!"
"Sonic screwdriver." He says calmly while holding the head of the Not-Mickey.
"Use it!" Rose yells back, not seeing him walk to his blue box.
Talia watched him curiously as he turns and smiles at her and then unlocks the box.
"Nah. Tell you what, let's go in here."
Talia jumped as the Not-Mickey begins to break through the door. "Rose! Come on!" She ran towards the box and follow the Doctor inside and then gasped in awe. "No way." She said. "Rose, you have to see this!" She yelled out.
She heard Rose yelling to the Doctor but she ignored her as she looked at her surroundings. Talia saw Rose run into the box, run back out and then come back in a moment later, shutting the door behind her.
The box, wasn't a box, and even though it looked small on the outside, it was nothing compared to what it looked like inside. The room was mostly open with what looked like a circular console. There were panels lining the floor and brass hexagons lining the wall in the large room. But the room was huge with a few hallways leading towards some doors.
"It's going to follow us!" Rose said breathlessly.
"The assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now, shut up a minute." He seemed a bit smug about the Genghis Khan part.
The Doctor pulled out his mechanical - no, sonic screwdriver out of his pocket and began circling the console. "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. Where do you want to start?" He asked after placing the Not-Mickey head on the console and connecting it to some cables.
"I'm in a spaceship!" Talia breathed out as Rose said, "Er, the inside's bigger than the outside?"
"Yes."
"It's alien."
"Spaceships are alien Rose." Talia said while walking further into the room.
The Doctor smiled, "Yeah."
"Are you alien?" Rose asked quietly. Talia spun to face the Doctor as she awaited his answer.
"Yes. Is that all right?"
"Of course it is!" Talia said happily, cutting Rose off.
The Doctor smiled and waved his hands around, "It's called the Tardis, this thing. S. That's Time And Relative Dimension In Space. "
Rose looked around for a moment before looking at Talia and bursting into tears. She pushed aside her excitement for a moment and ran to Rose and pulled her into a hug. "It's okay Rose, just let it out."
"That's okay. Culture shock. Happens to the best of us. Though you, Talia, are taking this much better than I expected."
Talia smiled, "I've believed in this stuff since before I can remember."
Roses next question broke through Talias happiness, "Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?"
Talia looked wide eyed to the Doctor, praying that Mickey was okay. The thought that Mickey could be hurt, or worse, hadn't even crossed her mind.
"Oh. I didn't think of that."
Talia frowned at his reply, he had just detached a dummies head and he hadn't wondered about the human it probably cloned it from?
Rose stood up straight with a frown and moved towards him, "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?"
"Melt?" The Doctor spun around and they all looked at the console and Talia grimaced once she saw that the head was indeed melting on the cables.
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no!" He ran around the console and pushed some buttons then pulled a few levers.
"What're you doing?" Rose yelled as they watched him talking and a whirring noise started.
"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 room started to shake and Talia grabbed onto the wall to stop herself from falling over, only to feel as if she had been zapped by the railing. She gasped and jerked her hand away and looked at Rose to see if she had the same reaction, but she didn't. Rose was just looking at the Doctor, also trying to stay standing.
And then the whirring stopped and the Doctor ran towards the door.
"You can't go out there. It's not safe." Rose yelled after him.
Talia put the wall zapping her in the back of her mind and ran out after the Doctor, only to see that they were now next to the RAF monument and the Thames which was not there before.
"No way," Talia breathed out excitedly. They had moved locations, I had just traveled in a spaceship! Though it wasn't very far I had at least something to mark off of my bucket list.
"I lost the signal, I got so close." The Doctor said as he looked around.
Talia looked back and watched as Rose stepped out of the Tardis, though Rose still wasn't as excited as Talia was. "We've moved. Does it fly?"
The Doctor looked out onto the Thames,"Disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand."
"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? Try to be more like Talia, she's quiet."
Talia blushed and looked away as Rose glared at the Doctor and continued talking, "I'll have to tell his mother. 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."
"Look, if I did forget some kid called Mickey-"
Talia quickly cut him off, "Yeah, he's not a kid. He's my best mate!"
"-It's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, all right?"
Talia walked over to Rose with a sad smile, "All right." Talia said. Hopefully Mickey wasn't hurt, but the Doctor was right. They couldn't expect him to care more about one human being if he is trying to save the whole of Earth. Though Rose may kill me if I actually admitted that out loud. Though I really want to say something about that 'stupid ape' comment.
"Yes, it is!"
They all just stared at each other before Rose got curious, "If you are an alien, how comes you sound like you're from the North?"
Talia laugh and looked at the Doctor, "Surely more than just planet Earth has a North."
"Right, lots of planets have a north."
"What's a police public call box?" Rose asked, looking back at the Tardis.
Talia was curious as to why a spaceship looked like a '50s police box.
"It's a telephone box from the 1950s. It's a disguise." He patted the Tardis with a small smile.
"It's great!" Talia said happily.
Rose rolled her eyes at Talia and she just gave Rose a sweet smile. "Okay. And this, this living plastic. What's it got against us?"
"Yeah, I mean, surely humans have never tried to harm them before." Rose said, walking up to the Doctor.
Talia moved to stand beside Rose as the Doctor looked between the two of them. "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!"
"They're going to destroy the Earth for food?" Talia said, appalled.
"Every being in the universe tries to find ways to survive. The Nestene Consciousness has found theirs."
"Well then, is there a way to stop it?" Talia asked, not that she wanted to kill something, human or not, but if it was going to try to take over the Earth then it needed to be stopped. She knew there were billions of people that could die if they didn't.
The Doctor donned a large smile and reached into his pocket, pulling out a vial of dark blue liquid.
"Anti-plastic." He said, showing both Talia and Rose.
"Anti-plastic." Rose repeated him.
"Anti-plastic. But first I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?"
It seems anti-plastic is our word of the day! Talia waved her hand to get the Doctors attention, "Hide what?"
"The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal."
"What's it look like?" Rose asked.
Talia folded her arms across her chest, wishing she had brought a bigger jacket, it was getting chilly out.
"Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London." He said, walking around the Tardis. He stops, his back facing the London Eye. "A huge circular metal structure like a dish, like a wheel."
Talia turned and saw what was behind the Doctor, and turned to tell the Doctor, but he was still talking. She looked at Rose and pointed to the London Eye. Rose just smiled and rolled her eyes staring out over the Thames.
"Radial. Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible. What? What?"
The Doctor seemed to finally notice that neither one of them were looking at him. He looked around to try and see what they were looking at. After a minute Talia just laughed and pointed.
"What? What is it? What?" He kept turning around, seeing the London Eye but not truly seeing it.
He looked back and forth a few more moments before he paused, "Oh. Fantastic!" He said once he caught on.
He grabbed both of their hands and started to run. They ran across Westminster Bridge and didn't stop until they were almost directly underneath the London eye.
"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 Doctor said as he looked around.
"The breast implants." Rose said with a laugh. Talia looked at her in shock for a moment before sharing a small laugh with her.
The Doctor continued looking around. "Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath."
Rose and Talia walked away from the Doctor, looking for any sign of where the Nestene Consciousness could be.
Talia turned to see Rose leaning over the parapet and then Rose looks back to the Doctor, "What about down here?"
The Doctor and Talia ran over to see where Rose was pointing, at the bottom of some stone stairs there was a large manhole.
"Looks good to me." He shrugged while jogging to reach the stairs with Talia following closely behind and Rose trailing after.
Once they reached the manhole, Talia slightly out of breath from all the running, the Doctor grabbed the hatch and quicly opens it up, red light and steam billowing up once he did.
They climbed down a ladder to see chains ganging from the ceiling and pipes around them. The Doctor paused for a moment before walking through a door in front of them and then found more stairs to climb down before the he pulled Talia and Rose to a stop, pointing to a multi-level chamber. At the bottom was a large hole, in it was something that reminded Talia of moving lava, though it had a mind of its own.
The Doctor points to it, "The Nestene Consciousness. That's it, inside the vat. A living plastic creature."
Rose frowns at it and then looks back at the Doctor. "Well, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go."
"Rose! It may be alien but it is still a living being! You just just want to kill it and not give it a chance! That's murder!"
"It's killed Mickey, Talia!"
"That may be so, but if you kill it without a second thought then that would make us no better than it!"
The Doctor looked a Talia with a different smile than before, "I'm not here to kill it. I've got to give it a chance."
"Thank God," Talia said quietly as the Doctor walked away from them to talk to the moving plastic lava being.
"I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." He said loudly, gaining the attention of the being.
The Nestene Consciousness began to move around making noises.
"Thank you. If I might have permission to approach?"
Talia was pulled away from watching the Doctor as Rose pulls her arm and point down, "Oh, God! Mickey, it's me, Rose! And Talia is here too! It's okay. It's all right. "
"That thing down there, the liquid. Rose, it can talk!"
Talia climbs down the stairs as quickly as she can to get to her friend. As soon as she was next to Mickey, she pulled him into a hug, just a few seconds later feeling Rose join in.
"You're stinking." Rose said to Mickey before turning to the Doctor who had walked up behind them, "Doctor, they kept him alive."
"Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy." He said watching the three of them hugging before turning away.
"You could have told us that he was alive instead of making us worry," Talia said to him.
"Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?"
"That was too domestic for you?," Talia asked the Doctor but he ignored her and walked down another level.
"Am I addressing the Consciousness? Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?"
Talia withheld a laugh, asking it to shunt off? Won't that just possibly upset it?
She looks on as a face emerges from the vat and begins to make noises again.
"Oh, don't give me that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights. I am talking! 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."
Rose and Talia both noticed the dummies approaching the Doctor from behind, "Doctor! Behind you!"
He didn't turn around fast enough and the two male dummies grabbed a hold of him, one of them searching his pockets. The dummy pulled out the vial of anti-plastic and the Doctor looked worriedly to the vat.
"That was just insurance. I wasn't going to use it. I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not. What do you mean?"
Talia moves closer to the Doctor and the dummies, trying to form a plan to help him. She turned to check on Rose and Mickey to see Rose standing behind her watching the Doctor and Mickey cowering down, hiding.
Talia hears Rose gasp and turns back around to see two door sliding open with a very familiar police call box behind them.
"No. Oh, no. Honestly, no." The Doctor said worriedly, "Yes, that's my ship. 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!"
"What's it doing?!" Rose asked as the Nestene Consciousness began to move around more, seeming aggravated.
"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! Talia! Just leg it now!"
"We are not leaving without you Doctor!" Talia yelled to him.
The plastic roared out and Talia hears Rose on the phone, "Mum?"
Hopefully she could warn Jackie in time, Talia looked around to see if she could find something to help the Doctor, but there were only chains hanging from the ceiling attached to the walls.
She groaned and ran her hands down her face as bolts of electric energy began to shoot up from the vat and Rose continued to try and warn Jackie to go home.
"It's the activation signal. It's transmitting!"
"It's the end of the world." Rose mutters as she hangs up her cell.
Talia looked wide eyed as more energy began to shoot up and the plastic got more agitated.
"Get out, Rose! Talia! Just get out! Run!"
Talia just shook her head, unwilling to leave as Rose just looks around and says, "The stairs have gone."
"No!" Talia yells as the Autons begin to try and push the Doctor into the vat. But the stairs were gone so she couldn't get to him without jumping a ten foot drop, which she could but she would more likely be more of a hindrance then help if she jumped. Rose and Mickey were trying to get into the Tardis with no luck.
"I haven't got the key!"
"We're going to die!" Mickey whimpers.
"No, we are not going to die here Mickey Smith!" Talia yells to him.
She looks around in a panic and breathe out a small sigh of relief when she sees an ax in a glass box hanging on the wall. She turns her back towards the box and throw her elbow into the glass as hard as she can, breaking it, but getting glass shards in her elbow in the process.
"Rose! I need your help!"
Rose had some trouble getting away from the terrified Mickey, him saying something Talia couldn't hear, but Rose was soon running over to Talia.
"Do you remember when we were younger and when you won your gymnastic medal you carried it around for months just telling anyone who would listen about it?"
"Yeah, what does that have to do with what we are dealing with right now?
Talia swung the ax as hard as she could into the chains on the wall, detaching it in a few swings. She grabbed the chain and held it out to Rose. "Let's see if you still got it."
Rose smiled, grabbed the chain and walked to the side of the catwalk, determined, "I've got no A Levels, no job, no future." Talia runs back over to Mickey and helps him up. "But I tell you what I have got. Jericho Street Junior School under 7s gymnastic team. I've got the bronze!"
Talia watched, biting her lip as Rose holds onto the chain tightly and then takes a jump from the catwalk. She swings, knocking the Auton that had the anti-plastic held tightly in his hand as the Doctor over powered the other Auton and both dummies fall into the vat. The Nestene begins to scream and turn blue as the anti-plastic is absorbed into its body.
"Rose!" The Doctor catches Rose as she swings back his way and helps her down from the chain.
The ground shook as small explosions began shaking the ground.
"Now we're in trouble." The Doctor said as he and Rose tried to regain their balance after an explosion goes off near them.
"We need to go! It's not safe for us here anymore!" Talia yells down to the Doctor and Rose. They both nod and soon join Talia and Mickey in front of the Tardis.
The Doctor quickly unlocks the doors and they all rush inside. He runs to the console and starts pressing buttons and the whirring starts. They shook for a moment before they land and Mickey was out of the door faster than Talia had ever seen him move before, Rose following after him pulling out her phone as she walked out.
Talia turned to look at the Doctor who smiled at her. She smiled back, "Thank you. You saved the world and no one besides me, Mickey and Rose will ever know."
"All in a days work," He said with a grin.
Talia shook her head with a smile and walked out of the door.
"Nestene Consciousness? Easy."
"You were useless in there. You'd be dead if it wasn't for me and Talia."
Talia blushed and went to deny her part when the Doctor nodded, "Yes, I would. Thank you. Right then, I'll be off, unless, er, I don't know, you and Talia could come with me. This box isn't just a London hopper, you know. It goes anywhere in the universe free of charge."
"Don't. He's an alien. He's a thing." Mickey almost yelled, grabbing a hold of Rose.
"Mickey!" Talia yelled, disappointed with how he was acting to the man who saved all of their lives.
"He's not invited," He said pointing to Mickey. "What do you think? You two could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go anywhere.
"Is it always this dangerous?" Rose asked.
Talia looked to Rose in hope, if Rose decided to go then Talia would to. Talia couldn't leave behind what family she had left.
"Yeah." The Doctor said.
"Yeah, I can't. I've er, I've got to go and find my mum and someone's got to look after this stupid lump, so."
Talias shoulders slumped as the Doctor looked at her, "I'm sorry Doctor, but I can't. Rose is my family and I just can't just leave her."
"Okay. See you around." Talia was shocked when not even a minute later the whirring noise began and the Tardis, with the Doctor inside, was gone.
"You could have gone, you know?" Rose said while grabbing Talias arm.
Talia shook my head with a wince, pulling her injured arm out of Roses hold, "No I couldn't. Like I said, you're my family. Where you go, I go.
Rose sighed, "Come on, let's go. Come on. Come on. And we'll fix up your arm once we're home, Talia." Rose grabbed Mickey and began to walk away.
Talia looked back at the spot the Tardis had been one more time before they all started moving towards the street, but stopped when the whirring began agian.
Rose and Talia spun around to see that the Tardis was back with the Doctor smiling from the door, "By the way, did I mention it also travels in time?"
Rose and Talia shared a look before Rose smiled and looked at Mickey, "Thanks."
"Thanks for what?" He asked, confused.
"Exactly." Rose said simply.
Rose gave him a kiss on the cheek and then grabbed Talias' hand and they ran into the Tardis together.
It was time for their adventures to begin.