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"And that weird munchkin lady with the big eyes! Do you remember the way she looked at you? And then she opens her mouth and fire comes out!" The Doctor was struggling to contain his laughter as he recounted the story of he and Rose's adventure with the fire-breathing munchkin lady.
"I thought I was gonna get frazzled!"
"Yeah, one minute she's standing there, and the next minute, RAWR!"
"RAWR!" Rose said at the same time, and both of them burst out laughing.
"Yeah. Where was that, then? What happened?" Mickey asked. He had been listening to the story for the past few minutes, but apparently did not find it as funny as the other two.
"Oh, it was on this, um, uh, this, uh, planet thing, asteroid. It's a long story. You had to be there." The Doctor stopped talking for a moment as he realized that Mickey was holding down a button on the Tardis. "Um, what are you doing that for?"
"'Cause you told me to."
"When was that?"
"About half an hour ago."
"Um, you can let go now."
Rose started giggling as Mickey let go of the button. With an embarrassed look on his face, He asked, "Well, how long's it been since I could've stopped?"
"Ten minutes? Twenty? 29," the Doctor admitted.
"You just forgot me!" Mickey yelled at him.
"No, no, no! I was just - I was, I was calibrating. I was just- no, I know exactly what I'm doing," he said finally.
But even as he said those words, they were proven wrong. A massive explosion rocked the Tardis, and all three companions struggled to find something to hold onto as they were thrown violently out of the time vortex.
"What's happened?" Rose called over the loud clattering of Tardis parts.
"The time vortex is gone!" The Doctor realized out loud, while staring at the console wide-eyed. "That's impossible! It's just gone!" He looked down for a few more seconds, and then yelled, "brace yourself! We're gonna crash!" before grabbing onto the nearest thing he could find.
And then the Tardis crashed. The console seemed to explode in a shower of sparks and light, throwing the three of them against the ground, and causing gas masks to come down from the ceiling.
"Everyone all right? Rose, Mickey?" The Doctor asked.
"I'm fine. I'm okay. Sorry, yeah," Mickey answered.
"She's dead," The Doctor said quietly, without waiting for Rose to answer. "The Tardis is dead."
"You can fix it," Rose almost pleaded.
But the Doctor dashed her hopes when he said, "there's nothing to fix. She's perished. The last Tardis in the universe, extinct." He walked slowly around the room, staring at the center and stroking it, as if he couldn't quite believe that she was dead.
"We can get help, yeah?" Rose sounded desperate by this point.
"Where from?"
"Well, we've landed. We've got to be somewhere."
"We fell out of the vortex. Through the void, into nothingness. We're in some sort of no-place." He was almost talking to himself by this point. "The silent realm. The lost dimension…"
"Otherwise known as London," Mickey laughed, staring out the open door. "London, England, Earth." He walked outside. "Hold on," he strode over to a bin and took a newspaper. "May 7th, 2007. Not even a year into the future."
"No. Can't be. Not possible," The Doctor shook his head and took the newspaper from him. "You're right. It says London, 2007. But it can't be. No. No way. Do you even know how improbable that is? It's impossible. 100 trillion years until the end of the universe, billions of planets and stars and asteroids, not to mention the individual cities in each one. And the space outside of the universe too. And we just happen to land in the exact time and place you're from? No. Can't happen. The probability of that, it's just impossible."
"You keep saying that, and yet here we are. London, 2007." Mickey showed him the newspaper again.
"Is it possible that the Tardis sensed that she was dying and brought us back here?" Rose asked him.
"We fell out of the time vortex, Rose. We get to London by traveling through the time vortex. I don't think it's possible to get here without going through the time vortex."
"Well obviously we did," Mickey pointed out.
"I know," the Doctor replied, "and that's what worries me. There's something else going on here. Something I'm not seeing. Somehow, I don't think we are where we think we are."
"Well anyway, I'll let you figure it out. I'm going to go find my mum. If it's really 2007, we've been gone for almost a year. I'd better go see if she's okay." Rose ran down the street in the direction of her apartment, and soon disappeared from sight. The Doctor watched her go, and then went back inside the Tardis. Mickey followed him.