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Ok, so I know there are a million of these, but mine is different! Honest! This story starts in "The Stolen Earth" when the subwave network is activated. A lot of it may sound familiar, that's because it is actual dialogue. Why mess with good material? Now, please read this and enjoy!

Rose sat in the Nobles' house where she had taken momentary refuge from the Daleks after saving Wilfred, Donna's grandfather, from them after he had tried to shoot one with a paint gun. The guy had courage, you had to give him that. Not exactly the most brilliant idea, but still… Rose allowed herself a moment of slight depression. She was so close to The Doctor, but still so far! Where was he? Rose sighed, then looked up confused as the laptop in the living room flickered to life and a voice came calling from it.

"Can anyone hear me? The subwave network is open. You should be able to hear my voice. Is anyone there?" Rose's head shot up.

"I know that voice!" Hope began to rise up within her again as she recognized the voice of Harriet Jones. Maybe Harriet could help her find The Doctor.

"Can anyone hear me? This message is of the utmost importance! We haven't much time!"

"The whole world's crying out." came another familiar voice. "Just leave it."Rose's spirits lifted even further when she heard the voice of Jack Harkness. If anyone could help her find The Doctor, it would be the former Time Agent.

"Captain Jack Harkness! Shame on you sir! Now stand to attention! This is Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."

"Harriet! Harriet, it's me!" Rose called out to the computer. Harriet stopped for a moment as she recognized Rose's voice.

"Rose? Is that you?"

"Yeah, it's me!" Rose could hardly believe this was happening to her.

"But, it can't be! You died at Canary Wharf! With the Cybermen and the Daleks! You were on the list of the dead!"

"I got trapped on a parallel world." Rose explained. "But that's not important right now. Right now, I have to find The Doctor."

"Right. And so we will. Sarah-Jane Smith, 13 Bannerman Road. Are you there?" Harriet called.

"Yeah! Yeah, I'm here! That, that's me!" Sarah-Jane's voice called.

"Good! Now let's see if we can call talk to each other!" One by one, the screens on the laptop flickered to life revealing Harriet Jones, Captain Jack and Sarah-Jane Smith. Rose couldn't help but grin as she saw all the faces of her friends. But there was a fourth screen that was still filled with static.

"The fifth contact seems to be having a little trouble getting through. I'll just boost the signal." Harriet said, typing a few commands into her computer. Suddenly, the static cleared, revealing a dark skinned woman.

"Who's she?" Rose wondered to herself.

"Hello?" The mystery woman called.

"Martha Jones!" Jack laughed, looking very relieved. "Martha, where are you?"

"I guess Project Indigo was more clever than we thought." Martha said as Rose wondered

'Project Indigo?'

"One second, I was in Manhattan, next second… Maybe Indigo tapped into my mind cause I ended up in the one place I wanted to be." The second woman on the screen, whom Rose assumed to be Martha's mother, smiled at her.

"You came home to me. At the end of the world, you came back to me."

"But then, all of a sudden, it was like the laptop," Martha continued, "It was like the laptop turned itself on?"

"It did." Harriet told her. "That was me. Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister." she said, holding up her passport.

"Yes, I know who you are." Martha said, exchanging a look with her mother.

"I thought it was about time we all met, given the current crisis. Torchwood, this is Sarah-Jane Smith."

"I've been following your work. Nice work with the Slitheen." But Rose's mind was still stuck on the word 'Torchwood.' Yes, she worked for Torchwood back on Pete's world, but that was different! This Torchwood was the one who had separated her from The Doctor in the first place and almost destroyed the world! How could Jack work for them? On screen, Sarah-Jane was saying,

"Yeah, well I've been staying away from you lot. Too many guns." Sarah-Jane inclined her head to the boy besides her. Rose wondered who it was, and inwardly applauded Sarah-Jane even though she was happy to see Jack. Last time she had seen him was onboard the Gamestation in the year 200,100.

"All the same," Jack said, "May I say, looking good Ma'am."

"Really? Oh."

"Not now Captain." Harriet chastised Jack with a roll of her eyes. "And this is Rose Tyler, former companion to The Doctor." Rose smiled and gave a small wave as all eyes turned to her. Jack and Sarah-Jane were grinning broadly at her, but Martha was just staring at her, mouth agape.

"Oh my god." Martha said softly.

"Nice to meet you Martha." Rose told her. Martha just continued to stare at her.

"Martha traveled with The Doctor after you…left." Harriet told her.

"He replaced me." was Rose's immediate thought, but she managed a small smile and polite nod, but not after a glance at Sarah-Jane who was looking at her sympathetically.

"He's been looking for you for so long…" Martha said almost to herself, but it caught Rose's attention.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"I traveled with The Doctor after you left, and you should have seen him. He was lost without you. Sometimes when he was looking at me, I could tell he was seeing you."There was silence for a moment as Rose processed that.

"But how did you find me?" Rose finally asked Harriet.

"This, ladies and gentlemen, is the subwave network." Harriet said. "A sentient piece of software programmed to seek out everyone and anyone who can help contact The Doctor."

"What if the Daleks can hear us?" Martha asked. It was a valid concern.

"No! That's the beauty of the subwave! It's undetectable." Harriet assured them.

"And…you invented it?" Sarah-Jane asked.

"I developed it."Harriet clarified. "It was invented by the Mr. Copper Foundation."

"Yeah, but what we need now is a weapon." Jack broke in. "Martha, back at UNIT, what was that key thing?"

"The Osterhagen key." Martha replied grimly,

"That key is not to be used Dr. Jones!" Harriet exclaimed severely. "Under any circumstances!"

"But what is an Osterhagen key?" Jack persisted.

"Forget about the key and that's an order! All we need is The Doctor!"

"Bravo Harriet." Rose thought. She had to find The Doctor soon, before it was too late.

"Excuse me, Harriet, but well the thing is, if you're looking for The Doctor, didn't he depose you?" Sarah-Jane asked, looking slightly concerned. Rose's mind wandered back to that fateful Christmas Day. It had been right after The Doctor had regenerated and the Sycorax had invaded. The Doctor had managed to defeat them and sent them packing, but Harriet had ordered them shot out of the sky. The Doctor hadn't agreed with her actions and gotten her removed from office with only six words.

"He did." Harriet admitted, with a glance at Rose. "And I've wondered about that for a long time, whether I was wrong. But I stand by my actions to this day." Harriet said, now looking at directly at Rose. "Because I knew that one day the Earth would be in danger and The Doctor would fail to appear. I told him so myself and he didn't listen." Rose just stared at her. She had been there that day, and she still did not agree with Harriet's actions.

"But I've been trying to find him." Martha broke in. "The Doctor's got my phone on the TARDIS, but I can't get through to him."

"Nor can I." Rose added. "And my phone never doesn't have service. The Doctor supercharged it."

"That's why we need the subwave." Harriet said. "To bring us all together, to combine forces. The Doctor's secret army."

"Wait a minute!" Jack exclaimed! "We boost the signal! That's it! We transmit that telephone number through Torchwood itself using the power of the Rift…"

"And we've got Mr. Smith!" The boy with Sarah-Jane exclaimed. "He can link up with every telephone exchange on Earth. Get the whole world to call the same number at the same time! Billions of phones all calling out at once!"

"Brilliant!" Jack exclaimed. "Who's the kid?"

"That's my son!" Sarah-Jane said. Then on Jack's screen, another man appeared.

"Sorry, hello. My name is Ianto Jones. Ummm… If we start transmitting, then the subwave network is going to become to visible. I mean, to the Daleks."

"Yes, and they'll track it back to me." Harriet admitted. "But my life doesn't matter. Not if it saves the Earth." There was silence in response to that statement for a moment, then Jack saluted.

"Ma'am." But Rose wasn't ready to let Harriet sacrifice herself.

"Get a lock on Harriet's position." She ordered into the device she was carrying that let her communicate with Torchwood back on Pete's world. She was going to save Harriet if she could. Rose grabbed her specially modified gun, and waited for the 'All-clear' to come through.

"Thank you Captain." Harriet said, "But there are people dying, on the street. Now, enough of words. Let's begin." And with these words, everyone moved into action. Rose could hear Jack and the others at Torchwood shouting to each other.

"Rift Power activated!" Jack called. A female voice that Rose hadn't seen the face to called back,

"All terminals coordinated!"

"Grid online!" Ianto Jones yelled a few moments later. "Give it everything we got!" In Sarah-Jane's attic, there was also a flurry of activity.

"All telephone networks combined!" Sarah-Jane's son reported.

"Sending you the number…now!" Martha told them, plugging her phone into her laptop.

"Mr. Smith…Make that call!" Sarah-Jane ordered.

"Calling…The Doctor." Mr. Smith said as the computer began to place the call.

"Come on!" Rose hissed into her communication device. There wasn't much time!