Title: Vengeance on Rose
Authors: Mark, Calla
Summary: Rose breaks through the void, and is confronted by a furious doctor. Can she make it up to him?
Disclaimer: THANK GOD I DON'T OWN ROSE!! Shame about Romana and K9. They'd be a laugh. Oh well.
And So Rose's Destiny Begins!
Rose Tyler sat down on the window seat, opened it, looked out into the tidy garden and reminisced.
"Oh, Doctor..."
It really wasn't fair, she thought bitterly. She had loved the Doctor more than anyone else had, and she felt sure that he felt the same... wherever he was.
Couldn't he come back for her? Couldn't he open the void one more time for the one he loved, and to hell with the consequences?
"Oh, Doctor..." she repeated, seemingly having forgotten how to say anything else. "Doctor, oh..."
"Rose! Breakfast!"
"Just coming!" Rose shouted back down the stairs, staring bleakly out of the window (somehow). She wondered why her mother was making breakfast for her on this particular day, because she certainly didn't do this most of the time. She didn't waste much time wondering, though; she was too wrapped up in self-pity to do much thinking anyway.
With faltering steps, Rose began to descend the staircase. A tear trickled slowly down her cheek, and then another. By the time she had actually reached the kitchen she was in full weeping mode, as a pose to maximum defence mode which would probably mean she was a robot dog.
"Oho, Out The Window You Will Go!" shouted her mother, whilst flipping pancakes like a maniac with one hand and adjusting a garish multicoloured party hat with the other. Rose, quite sensibly, stopped crying and started staring incredulously instead.
"Mum? Mum, are you quite all right?"
"Of course I am, Rose!" Jackie Tyler said cheerfully. "Have you forgotten what day it is?"
"Err... Thursday?"
"Nope!"
"Wednesday?"
"I mean, why is this day (it's a Tuesday, anyway) so special? Surely you haven't forgotten!" her mother said, a slight note of exasperation creeping into her voice as she said this.
"Err... I have, mum."
Rose began to cry again.
"IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!" shrieked Jackie, and popped another one of the hideous hats onto Rose's hideous head.
The whole house then began to shake. Her 'father' and Mickey (who she had been sleeping with) came down the stairs.
"What's going on Rose?" asked Mickey the idiot. Then, outside the window, through came a large gold sphere. Rose and Mickey gazed at it in horror, while Jackie gazed in mild bemusement and Pete just gazed.
"Isn't that..."
"That is a sight I had never hoped to see again," said Mickey mouse.
"...a big gold bouncy ball!" finished Rose. Mickey finn ran outside to the Dalek void ship. It opened, and the Cult Of Skaro emerged.
"Exterminate! EXTERMINAAAATE!!" shouted Caan at Mickey. Mickey then sensibly ducked, and the death ray meant for him smashed into Rose's 'father'. Rose's mother screamed ran outside and started smashing Dalek Caan with her ridiculous hat. The attack was so ferocious that Dalek Caan self destructed in a spectacular sheet of flame, which had the 'unfortunate' effect of cooking Jackie to a Jackie shaped crisp. Then, as the void in this world was opened, Rose suddenly lifted into the air, and was being sucked towards the void...
Rose grabbed hold of something to stop her, which unfortunately was Mickey. He too had been into the void, and therefore was lifted also. As her deceased 'parents' flew past her, Rose's leg snagged in a tree, the surprise causing her to let go of Mickey, who flew into the sky before smashing into a taller tree with a thump like a plank hitting a rotten Mickey. A robot dog and a blonde haired Woman flew past, and they both caught in the same tree as Rose. The Void ship flew past just as Rose and Romana (for that is who it was) were torn out of the tree. They landed inside the Void ship, and were flung into the void...
"Ow."
Rose rubbed her leg ruefully. Romana attempted to move but couldn't. She punched Rose, who began to cry again.
"Stop lying on me!" Romana said in annoyance. Rose realised that she was inside a large futuristic room that rather reminded her of the TARDIS, and cried even louder. Romana blinked, unsure of what to do.
"Please stop crying," she said eventually, and then "Please get off me."
Rose got off her.
"First things first, who are you and where are we?" said Romana, trying in vain to get any kind of circulation going. Rose looked around, noticing the tell-tale signs that would give her a clue as to which species and era this ship belonged to.
"Err... no idea."
"Oh. Well, it's a good thing I'm more observant than you, isn't it?" Romana said loftily. "I happen to have picked up some very obvious hints from this decor, and have come to the conclusion that this ship is none other than--"
K9's ears rotated slowly, as if his internal systems had suffered some damage from having first Romana and then Rose land on him. In fact, the fall had probably done more damage to the blonde Time Lady than to her dog, as the large dent in her back paid testimony to. But anyway - back to the story. K9's ears rotated slowly again (you see, they rotated twice.)
"Sensors detect Dalek ship, Mistress," he said, interrupting Romana mid-sentence and just as she was about to reveal the terrible fact.
"Yes, I know! I WAS just about to say that, K9!"
"K9?" said Rose, pulling an expression slightly less idiotic than her normal face but which would still be considered extremely moronic by us mere mortals. "Isn't that--"
Romana got her own back on K9 by interrupting Rose.
"My robot dog, yes. Am I famous wherever this is, then?"
"Your dog?" gaped Rose. "But... but I thought he was... wait a second, you've travelled with the Doctor!"
"Oh, very perceptive!" snapped Romana. "Top marks for perceptiveness... wait, is that even a word?"
"Affirmative, Mistress."
"Oh. Good."
"I travelled with the Doctor too!" said Rose, positively gushing with horrible gushiness. "He regenerated when I was with him, it was amazing, there was just this... and then, and then..."
"His standards seem to have lowered a lot since I last travelled with him," sniffed Romana.
"I bet you've never seen a Time Lord regenerate, you nasty woman!" shrieked Rose. For some reason, she was completely overreacting. "You keep talking, but I bet you haven't seen half the things I have! I bet you don't even know what a Time Lord is!"
"I wouldn't bet on that," said Romana, laughing quietly to herself.
"Err why?"
"Well, silly young girl, I am 140 years old. This is my second regeneration. My full name is Romanadvoratrelundar and I AM A TIME LADY!!" Romana shouted into Rose's horrible ear. Rose promptly burst into tears again. Romana smashed her over the back of her head, knocking her over. Rose picked herself up with a strange look in her eyes. She picked up K9 and began to bash Romana over the head with him. Romana was knocked senseless. Rose looked at the controls, and with extremely luckily gained knowledge piloted the void ship through the void, and into her universe. The Universe. The Doctor's universe...
The Void ship landed somewhere remote. It looked like England, but no-one could ever be sure. She heard an odd wheezing noise, and the TARDIS appeared behind her. A furious 10th Doctor stepped out. Seeing Rose, who was smiling innocently, though in the situation it looked rather thick, the Doctor dashed over to her, and punched her straight in the face. She looked at him in a rather hurt way, before her eyes crossed and she fell backwards. The Doctor rushed forwards to the Void ship and looked inside. He saw K9 upside down and powered down, and Romana stretched out on the floor. Rose was just coming round when the Doctor turned on her and began to kick her.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ROMANA, BITCH?!" he said, still kicking her. Rose was too shocked to feel pain.
"Why are you kicking me? What have I done? And why did you punch me?"
"STOP WHINING! YOU BROKE THROUGH THE VOID THAT I REPAIRED!! I SAID THERE IS NO WAY BACK, AND YOU WENT AND DID THAT! AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO ROMANA??" Rose started to cry.
"I...thought...you...loved...me, Doctor! I thought you would do anything for me!" she said through her sobs.
"Maybe I did! But that was then. This is unforgivable. Goodbye." The Doctor turned and walked into his TARDIS, while muttering about how he would have to clear this mess up. He poked his head back out.
"And I thought Harry was an imbecile. I probably love Sil more than you right now." The TARDIS wheezed again, and was gone. Romana came round, and climbed out of the void ship, to find Rose lying on the floor, crying like a baby, with lots of pretty bruises on her ugly face.
"I see you got what you deserved then."
"How...could...the...Doctor...do...that...to...me?" she said, hardly able to talk because of her sobs. There was another wheezing, and the TARDIS appeared again, but this time out stepped the Ninth. He looked down at Rose lying on the floor.
"Rose? How did you get here? I only left you for a minute!"
"Doctor?" Rose said, smiling through her tears. "It's you! It's you you!"
"Ah, so you're still with me as I regenerate. What's wrong?" Before she could answer, he spotted Romana.
"ROMANA!! But you were in E-Space! HOW DID YOU GET HERE?" However, Rose answered his previous question.
"You were kicking me, and you punched me, only because I got back to you through the void!" The Doctor looked aghast, and walked over to them.
"YOU BROKE THROUGH FROM THE VOID!! NO WONDER HE PUNCHED YOU!! I was totally right." He turned to go, but as an afterthought, he turned to Romana.
"What part did you play in this?" he asked accusingly. Romana looked rather hurt.
"She knocked me out! I would have stopped her, believe me!" she said, still looking upset.
"I'm sorry, Romana, just checking, I didn't really think you would. Oh well, better go, I was supposed to be in Bassas Da India." He gave Romana a seemingly passionate kiss, before disappearing into his TARDIS. Having been rejected by two Doctors, Rose was now positively unhappy, even more so as her new enemy had not only not been scorned by them, but one had even snogged her! The thought of this caused her to start to bawl.
"HE LEFT ME AGAIN!" she wailed, tearing the hat from her head where it had miraculously managed to stay on through all of this and putting it back on. Romana blinked once more at the dematerialising TARDIS in growing dismay.
"He left me too!" she muttered. Rose laughed like a maniacal idiot, what brains she had had obviously addled by her current emotional state.
"But don't despair, Romana," Romana said to herself quietly, "he's sure to come back sooner or later, of course. And hopefully in the form I knew him in."
"Yes, I hope he does come back for you AND TAKE YOU AWAY AND LEAVE YOU SOMEWHERE WITH NO OXYGEN!" shrilled Rose. "And then he'll come back for me, because I am obviously the prettier and more intelligent of us two. And he loves me!"
"No he doesn't!" said Romana. "Whatever would give you that idea?"
Rose shrugged.
"I suppose it's just… well, call it intuition. Feminine intuition. I just know he loves me too!"
K9 had somehow managed to right himself and was now trundling round in very small circles.
"Think what you want, my dear- oh, what's your name?"
"Rose Tyler," said Rose.
"Oh."
"Oh yes."
"Oh."
"Oh no!" said K9, for some reason. He shot Rose, who fell to the floor unfortunately not quite dead. Romana smiled and patted him on the head.
"Come on, K9, I think it's time we ought to be leaving this horrible place."
"Affirmative, Mistress!"
The blonde Time Lady and her robot dog walked slowly towards the nearest door to the ship, thanking their lucky stars (what an odd phrase, they thought) that they had been able to make their escape so easily and that they could pilot the ship to wherever they needed to go.
Romana opened the door…
…and came face to face with five Daleks.
"It's sure lucky we got out of that Genesis Ark!" said one.
"Indeed it is! Oooh look, HUMANS! EXTERMINAAAATE!" Romana shut the door and ran away, which was rather lucky as the ship self-destructed. Fortunately, Rose was caught in the blast, and her hair was on fire. This turned her hair to black ash, so she was no longer an idiotic blonde Rose, but an idiotic bald Rose. There was a wheezing noise, and yet another TARDIS appeared. A Doctor, who neither Rose nor Romana recognised. He saw Rose, screamed, and ran into the TARDIS. Rose dashed towards the open door of the TARDIS, the Doctor closed the door and she ran into it. She was knocked senseless. The Eighth poked his head out.
"Hello, Romana!" He then disappeared with the TARDIS.
"Oh," said Romana, recognising him at last.
Suddenly, there was the sound of yet another TARDIS landing. Then, a TARDIS landed. Out popped a shortish man with a question mark for an umbrella handle, and more question marks inexplicably on his jumper.
"ROMANA! ROSE!" he yelled.
"How did you know my name?"
"It's on your hat." Rose took off her hat in confusion, and looked at it. On the inside in minute lettering it said 'Rose Manufacturing LTD'. She turned to the Seventh, but he was disappearing into his TARDIS. However Romana stuck out a hand and grabbed his hat.
"What are you doing?" he said, turning round. He saw Romana and his eyes lit up.
"Romana! Hello!" He then went into his TARDIS, which wheezed and disappeared.
Romana's nerveless fingers released their hold on the Seventh Doctor's hat, which fell to the floor with a small thud.
"What IS that hat made of, lead?" she shouted in frustration. "And why... what... oh, Doctors!"
She suddenly felt very alone in the universe, so small, so insignificant that the Doctor would actually leave her behind rather than wait for her. And he had left her with... this horrible thing. She really couldn't understand what had gone wrong with the regeneration that had picked Rose Tyler up. Yes, Rose was the root of everything that had happened today - in typical Rose fashion, she supposed. Why had the Doctor left her behind after kissing her? How could he? HOW COULD HE?
Rose, as tactless as usual, tried to talk to her and got a punch in the mouth for her troubles. She fell to the ground screaming her hideous head off. Romana smoothed her hat, already feeling a little better for having done that.
"Come on, K9!"
Silence.
"K9?"
Silence again.
"Oh no."
She turned to see that a TARDIS had landed on K9. Out of the TARDIS stepped a Doctor, and from behind the TARDIS trundled a very unsquashed K9.
"Ah yes, perfect place for a spot of cricket!" The Doctor looked down at K9.
"K9? How did you get here? Where's Leela?" He then looked at Rose lying on the floor in disgust.
"I bet Adric looked better than that after he got blown up." He then sat down rather heavily and tears appeared on his boyish face. Romana looked horrified.
"Adric got blown up? How? Where?" Romana looked down at a clearly upset Doctor, who looked up at her.
"After the Cybermen destroyed the dinosaurs. Oh Adric..." He looked up at Romana suddenly. "Romana, do you by any chance no where Leela is? She's forgotten K9!" Romana looked down at the Doctor, he was clearly distressed.
"It's my K9," she said quietly. All this time they were ignoring Rose. She crawled over to the Doctor, and belched in his face. The Doctor's celery turned purple, and he smacked Rose with a cricket bat, ran into his TARDIS and slammed the doors, his face an unhealthy colour.
"Doctor, please! Please help me!" Romana cried. The TARDIS doors opened a crack and the Fifth Doctor's worried face looked out.
"I'm afraid I can't, Romana. You see this celery here?"
He indicated the wilting celery pinned to his lapel.
"Yes, Doctor."
"Well, that--" -he coughed quietly- "that means that there is a poison at work here that our bodies are not equipped to deal with."
He coughed again. The celery dropped to the floor and shrivelled away into nothing.
"Then take me away from this place, Doctor!' Romana said in panic. She could feel it now; the deadly venom creeping through her veins. Her heartbeat slowed then started to beat at an alarming speed of 40 beats per minute.
"Romana... I can't."
"Whyever not, Doctor?"
"I need rest and recuperation after this brief exposure, and even then I might have to regenerate."
"But that's perfectly fine, Doctor!" said Romana. "I don't mind seeing another of your regenerations, honestly!"
The Doctor's voice had dropped to a barely audible whisper by now. It took a few seconds for Romana to actually hear what he was saying properly, and even then she wasn't sure she'd understood.
"It could be infectious, Romana."
The poison throbbed in Romana's head, a pressure so strong that she began to cry silently. The Fifth Doctor's distressed, pale face disappeared for a moment inside the TARDIS before the whole of him reappeared, carrying a cricket bat.
"If you do survive, Romana... I'll be back for you, don't you worry."
With that he presented Romana with the bat, gave her a quick hug, then ran off towards the TARDIS. The Time Lady, having resigned herself to death, stopped crying -what an undignified way to die, crying!- and watched her Doctor as he reached the doors, stumbling through them as if he couldn't hold himself up properly any more.
The TARDIS began to dematerialise.
Romana, with shaking fingers, dropped the cricket bat on Rose Tyler's head. This was it. This was the end.
Then all the pain stopped, and merciful blackness unfolded itself into infinity.