Prologue

Rose had been listening to their new music for days now. Well, new music for her; otherwise it was either ancient history or too new and different to comprehend! The perks of travelling, she thought.

Rose had grown up listening to this music. Her mate Shireen introduced her to the alternate-space-rock trio, and she was instantly hooked. The melodic riffs mesmerised; the beats and bass lines hypnotised; the vocals transported Rose away from the Estates, to somewhere new, wonderful, beautiful. All her life, Rose wished she could be taken away to these places, to see what inspired the three men who created such wonderful songs.

The universe was kind, granting me that wish. The revelation was not new to Rose, that she had received what she wanted. She wanted to be taken away from the Estates, and here she was, travelling through Time and Space with an alien in a little blue box.

The same alien who had taken her to a record shop on September the 14th 2009. It seemed to be just another random place in time for another adventure, but it had turned out to be a birthday present, Doctor's treat: the new Muse album, Resistance.

New, of course, being a relative term.

Since then, for about a fortnight, TARDIS-time, Rose had been listening to the album non-stop. Though she had thought it nigh impossible, the endless repeats of 11 songs seemed to be driving both the Doctor and the TARDIS mad. She should've known that 'impossible' doesn't have much meaning around the Doctor.

On the fourteenth day, the Doctor thought something had to be done about it.