A/N: Hello boys and girls... I'm back for one of my LAST fanfictions that I'll ever do!
*everyone cries*
Yeah, I promise this time. 5 bleeding years and nothing to show for it.
But with the eve of Lady Christina, the BIG FINISH series that I have been waiting for 9 years to see a conclusion to the character that was brilliantly written by Messer Davies and Roberts in Planet of the Dead!
One of my old ideas - (dating back from 2015/2016) was to make Chrissy 10's last companion, and so it shall be. But it doesn't mean this will end with the very end of The End of Time: Part Two, oh… I have plans for this. But that is to wait.
This story carries on a bit from Planet of the Dead… One day I'll put down a short summary chapter of what happened between Planet and this story, which have a new title.
The Crimson Liquid Massacre
Inside the Tardis, Christina walked into the expansive growing console room with the rough coral texture that felt good in the hands every time she strokes it whilst coming in. Her hair was in a bundle of a mess, just coming from the shower as she had a bath robe around her… to see where the Doctor was, as he had a ridiculous orange colour for a spacesuit that he was wearing for controlling the inside the TARDIS.
"So, what's with the spacesuit then. You gonna pop out for a spacewalk?" Christina remarked, lightly laughing at the joke she made as the Doctor looked at her with one of those trustworthy smiles as he threw her a spacesuit almost identical to the one he had on.
"Both of us actually… I thought, because these spacesuits are getting a little dusty in the TARDIS wardrobe. You might fancy going out with me taking first proper steps on a different planet!" He babbled to her as she kept listening to what he was saying again.
"Didn't we already do that with San Helios, eh?" Christina corrected him as he shrugged it off to disbelieve her.
"Well, I think we should still try and have a go then! Plus… this MIGHT be your only chance!" The Doctor contrasted with her correction as she dropped the bath robe in front of him to walk back to her room and get dressed.
The big blue machine then materliazed on the surprise destination as it's two inner passengers strolled out.
MARS:
November 21st, 2059.
"Ahh… the red planet." The Doctor introduced the setting to his companion as both kept looking at the vast empty state of the planet. Christina couldn't believe it now, San Helios looked alright but seemed a bit Earth-y. But this WAS an entirely different planet!
"Well… I guess we're the only life on Mars then?" Christina inquired, as she mildly then remembered the David-Bowie reference which she accidentally put in by accident.
"I think we should walk around… all the ashes to ashes and dust to dust." The Doctor described as he took a couple of steps in front of Christina as she caught on to his Bowie reference faster than she did with hers. Now she would have to get one last one in for another joke.
"Wait up… Star-Man!"
She then started to walk faster towards him again.
The Doctor had found a crater rim with a view down onto the Base with its five outlying domes and shuttle pad connected to the central dome by modular walkways. Christina was amazed by this, she wasn't such a science-fiction person but after Helios, it was more of her starting to believe all this stuff now like it was common knowledge.
"Oh, beautiful." He commented by his viewing, Christina wanted to say something to… but she'd been put in so much awe until something jabbed her in the back, making her scared a lot more than she would have liked to be in that moment.
"ROTATE SLOWLY." A robotic voice commanded as both people do to look at the little robot. "YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR TRESPASSING!"
"I suppose the brochure didn't enlist small little robots coming to arrest us, didn't it?" Christina inquired as the Doctor kept looking at it.
INSIDE THE DOME:
BOWIE BASE ONE,
MARS
NOVEMBER 21st, 2059.
An older woman than Christina and most of the other people in the room known as Captain Adelaide points a gun at both travellers who are outside their spacesuits as she commanded them with her dark, cold and raspier voice - "State your names, ranks, and overall intention."
"The Doctor. Doctor. Fun." The Doctor easily, at first in a quick succession as it was time to move onto the next person, Christina who in the seconds was thinking of what to say to Adelaide.
"Lady Christina De Souza… entrepreneur, adventure."
As the Captain was about to say another thing to both of the 'prisoners'. A dark-skinned man ran into the end of the room as he searched around. "What the hell? It's a man and... a woman! People on Mars. How?"
"Both of them were wearing these things. I have never seen anything like it." Another woman on the team, with a strong-German accent spoke about the spacesuits that had been taken from the travellers.
"What did Mission Control say?" The dark-skinned man inquired to the German woman.
"They're out of range for ten hours with the solar flares." She replied, with a groaning informative tone.
"If we could cut the chat, everyone." Adelaide interrupted the two as she kept holding the gun in her hand to position at both intruders.
"Actually, chat's second on my list, the first being gun pointed at my head." The Doctor blurted out.
"Mine is trying to figure out mostly where we are." Christina followed his blurting out with her own interruption as she looked at the Doctor before looking at the gun that the Captain was holding in front of her. "Now, hopefully… that gun isn't armed with whatever you arm guns with now… so you're gonna put it down and possibly get some handcuffs for us both."
"Oh, you'd like that." Adelaide remarked at her little instruction.
"It's the safest way… and that's how I kinda met him." Christina tried to explain.
"Why should I trust you two then?" Adelaide inquired.
"Because I… no, WE give you our word. And forty million miles away from home, our word is REALLY all you've got." The Doctor told her instead of using Christina to explain that time, as the trust started to come in as Adelaide lowered her gun to both of them.
"Keep Gadget covering him." Adelaide said as she turned to the direction of the robot who arrested the two.
"GADGET, GADGET." The robot barked in a flimsy way that sort of annoyed Christina as the Doctor was pondering a couple of questions to ask.
"Oh right, so you control that thing. Auto-glove response." The Doctor said as he was looking at the man operating it, he MUST have been the youngest one there. Perhaps not…
"You got it. To the right." Roman, the operator of Gadget told him as he moved to where he would say.
"GADGET, GADGET."
"And to the left."
"It's a bit rubbish, really." Christina conveyed her reaction to it.
"GADGET, GADGET."
"Does it have to keep saying that?" The Doctor complained as his visible face was a bit groaning with the robot.
"I think it's funny." Roman commented as sparks flew from Gadget and near the gloves.
"I hate funny robots." The Doctor complained as a transmission came in on a futuristic communication device of one of the other crew.
"Excuse me, boss. Computer log says we've got an extra person on site. How's that possible?"
"Keep the Bio dome closed. And when using open comms, you call me Captain." Adelaide told her before dismissing the woman for using the wrong rank as she turned the communication off to focus on the matters at the moment.
"They can't be a World State flight, because we'd know about it. Therefore, they've got to be one of the independents, yeah? Was it the Branson inheritance lot? They've talked about a Mars shot for years." The deputy, Ed Gold explained as the Doctor started to huff a bit.
"Right, yes, okay, you got us So, I'm the Doctor, this is Lady Christina and you are?" The Doctor introduces himself again.
"Oh, come on. We're the first off-world colonists in history. Everyone on planet Earth knows who we are." Adelaide tells him as he starts to realise but Christina doesn't.
"Strike me, I'm from Earth and I barely know the year… than who you guys are." Christina speaks out as Adelaide scowls at her before going back to the Doctor's face.
"You're the first? The very first humans on Mars? Then this is…" The Doctor spoke as Adelaide then started to move her mouth at the instance of the next few words. "Bowie Base One."
He continued on without the help of the Captain to babble on, which was actually giving context to Christina, who knew nothing of what this future was to herself as she only came from a 2010 present day to Mars in the future.
"Number one. Founded July 1st, 2058. Established Bowie Base One in the Gusev Crater. You've been here how long?"
He then had a look like he had already read an article on them, which was true.
"Seventeen months." Adelaide finishes the Doctor's question as he then thinks for one more second before…
"2059. It's 2059, right now. Oh! My head is so stupid… You're Captain Adelaide Brooke! And Ed. You're Deputy Edward Gold. Tarak Ital, MD. Nurse Yuri Kerenski. Senior Technician Steffi Ehrlich. Junior Technician Roman Groom. Geologist Mia Bennett. You're only twenty-seven years old."
"Doctor, what's so important about her age. I'm a year older than year and it didn't matter." Christina said in as he kept looking at Adelaide and not her. That's when he knew something was up.
"As I said, Doctor, everyone knows our names." Adelaide reminded him as he nodded his head in agreement.
"Oh, they'll never forget them." He commented with such grandeur before getting serious again, "What's the date, today? What is it? Tell me the exact date."
"November 21st, 2059."
Then his mind processed the date as he felt like finishing up in this situation to never let him do anything more than that.
"Right. Okay, fine." The Doctor says.
"I can see your face, Doctor… what's wrong with it?" Christina inquires as he finally started to look at her now, like she's the most important thing in the universe at the moment and now he has to care for her.
"I should go. I really should go. I'm sorry. I'm sorry with all of my hearts, but it's one of those very rare times when I've got no choice. It's been an honour. Seriously, a very great honour to meet you all. The Martian pioneers." The Doctor stumbles through his words before he shaked all their hands, except Roman who had the auto-gloves on, so he pads Gadget instead as he then signals for Christina to go with him as he then finally salutes Adelaide. "Thank you. There's the other two. Hold on. Margaret Cain and Andrew Stone."
Ed then went over to a big radio system by one of the monitors.
"Maggie, if you want to meet the only new human beings that you're going to see in the next five years, better come take a look." Ed said as a roar came over the speaker, which alarmed both Christina and the Doctor as it was trouble for both of them.
"What the hell is that?" Christina softly asked the Doctor, who agreed with her.
"Something that is allowing us to go…" The Doctor told her as he and Christina started to slowly walk away from the rest of the people in the room to let them sort out their own situation. To them, the rest of the team were becoming passing voices in a conversation.
"This is Central. Biodome report immediately." Ed reported on the communication line.
"Show me the Biodome." Adelaide told him as they couldn't get any image on any of the cameras.
"Internal cameras are down." Ed said to her.
"Show me the exterior."
The cameras showed the lights are going out in the biodome.
"I'm going over."
She then pointed to the Doctor and Christina.
"Doctor… Christina, with me." Adelaide says to them as Christina walks over to her.
"C'mon, Doctor… I'm sure we'll be able to still get something done on Mars!" Christina happily told him as he tried arguing out of it again before Christina shot him a look to come with her and Adelaide. The spacesuits were then given to Steffi for safekeeping until later as they headed over to the Biodome.
Along with Christina and the Doctor, Adelaide; Tarak and Gadget were walking down the expansive empty corridors of the base.
"GADGET, GADGET." The little robot kept speaking as it started to annoy Christina as much as she wanted to bash it. Robots to her were almost like boyfriends, only following one command and nothing else.
"What's so important about Mia's age? You said she's only twenty seven. Why does it matter? What did you mean?" Adelaide inquired about his earlier comment about Mia, in which the Doctor didn't want to answer at the time.
"Oh, I just open my mouth and words come out. They don't make much sense." The Doctor sort of answered in his own honest way of saying it to her.
"Yeah… I can almost believe the truth there, Doctor. You do mostly NEVER make sense." Christina commented with a little laugh coming from her as the Doctor rolled his eyes at her for that. "And I can see you're rolling your eyes at me…"
"GADGET, GADGET."
"I hate robots. Did I say?" The Doctor reminded the robot and Roman, who operated the robot and was listening to the conversation in his part of the central dome.
"Yeah, and he's not too fond of you. What's wrong with robots?"
"It's not the robots, it's the people. Dressing them up and giving them silly voices. Like you're reducing them." The Doctor complained as he had relationships with robots and was thinking that Gadget was becoming one of the annoying ones.
"Yeah. Friend of mine. She made her domestic robot look like a dog."
"Ah well, dogs. That's different." The Doctor commented as he kept remembering about a dog from before.
"Have you had one? Is that sort of a…" Christina started, before the Doctor coughed to avoid her from revealing any sensitive information to the crew of the base, "gift you get for Christmas or birthday?"
"Well, I found him when he didn't have a home and saved him… sort of and you've got me rambling again." The Doctor continued before realising what Christina had made him do, "Roman, carry on."
"I adapted Gadget out of the worker drones. Those things are huge. They built this place when the shell was lowered down from orbit. They've got a strength capacity of fifteen tons."
"The channel is open for essential communications only." Adelaide reminded Roman as HE was about to explain some information to the Doctor and Christina and with them not being on her trust-worthy side.
"Sorry. Love those drones."
"I've read all that stuff about you, Captain Adelaide. But one thing they never said. Was it worth it, the mission?" The Doctor inquired.
"We've got excellent results from the soil analysis." Adelaide explained to him as he was silently shaking his head to her explanation.
"No, but all of it. Because they say you sacrificed everything. Devoted your whole life to get here." The Doctor tries to correct her by letting her believe.
"It's been chaos back home. Forty long years. The climate, the ozone, the oil apocalypse. We almost reached extinction. Then to fly above that, to stand on a world with no smoke, where the only straight line is the sunlight? Yes. It's worth it." She explained to him.
"Ah. That's the Adelaide Brooke I always wanted to meet. The woman with starlight in her soul." The Doctor commented on her as he smiled at what he was saying, whilst looking at Christina who much didn't seem to care about the words he wanted to say at Adelaide.
"What's that?" Adelaide asked as she was looking at a figure lying on the floor which the four ran to it to see what it was, "It's Maggie."
"Don't touch her! We don't know what she can have." The Doctor told them as Tarak got to see to her, Christina kneeled to look at Maggie more closely.
"Doctor, she's only got a scar on her head. I've had worse… I can say." Christina told him as he had the face of disapproval as Tarak explained without the Doctor and Christina really caring.
"It's okay, she's still breathing. She's alive. Yuri, I've got Margaret Cain, head trauma. I need a full medpack."
"I've got it. Medpack on its way."
Ed and Yuri then arrived at the double with a stretcher.
"Get her to Sickbay. Put her in isolation." Tarak explained to both who had just arrived.
"We're going on to the Biodome. Tarak, with me. Yuri can take care of her. Ed, go back. Gadget, stand guard. Keep an eye on this area." Adelaide commanded the people of her team as she explained what she wanted them to with Gadget responding on the second.
"GADGET GADGET."
"Captain, you're going to need me. Andy is the only other crew member out here, and if that wasn't an accident, then he's gone wild." Ed expressed to Adelaide who was in more disapproval of the Doctor before.
"You've deserted your post. Consider that an official warning. Now get back to work." Adelaide continued her commanding tone as the Doctor made a face that Ed ignored and Christina sort of smiled at, "You two."
They ended up moving towards a small little room which was to open to the Biodome of the base. The four of them stopped in the little room when a transmission came in from Steffi.
"Captain, that sound we heard from the Biodome. I've run it through diagnostics. According to the computer, it's, it's Andy… It registers as the voice print of Andy Stone."
"Understood. Double check, thanks." Adelaide responded as she the air pressure of the door had stabilised as Tarak opened the door to let the group through, then she had to call out to ask about the missing crew member who made the peculiar noise beforehand. "Andrew? Andrew Stone? It's Captain Brooke. Andy, report. I need to see you. Where are you?"
The Doctor sonics a computer terminal and the lights come back on.
"There you go." The Doctor said as Adelaide and Christina looked at the pen object he had in his hand that had turned on the lights for them.
"I never got to ask before, Doctor… you had that device before. What is it?" Christina inquired as he showed it off to her in full sight as Adelaide was confounded at its existence, but Christina could guess it.
"Screwdriver." He muttered to them.
"Are you the Doctor or the janitor?" Adelaide asked about his role as he smiled at a historical figure making a little quip at him for fun in a dark situation.
"I don't know. Sounds like me. The maintenance man of the universe." The Doctor joked around as he put his sonic screwdriver back into his pocket for safekeeping in his blue overshirt as Christina was thinking of a comeback before blurting out.
"A bit of a handy-man, eh?"
"You stay with me. Don't step out of my sight. Tarak, go to External Door South. Make sure it's intact." Adelaide commanded for the Doctor and Tarak, whilst Christina stayed there at the start.
"Yes, ma'am." Tarak answered as he went his separate way from the Adelaide and the Doctor.
"Quite an achievement. First flower on Mars in ten thousand years. And you're growing veg!" The Doctor congratulated Adelaide as Christina looked at all the plants near her, something was up with them and Andy.
"It's that lot. They're already planning Christmas dinner. Last year it was dehydrated protein, this year they want the real thing." Adelaide explained to the Doctor as she kept walking with him.
"Still, fair enough. Christmas." The Doctor then commented, Christina could remember the last Christmas clearly… she was with 'her lover' at the time, remembering that nothing that year went wrong… unlike the last three years beforehand. First with the spaceship, she'd thought it was something the weather people had put up… The "Web-Star" everyone had talked about, she'd missed that one because she was raiding in Spain but the last one with the big 'replica of the Titanic' she didn't miss.
Wonder what Christmas in 2059 could bring.
"If we must." Adelaide says.
"You've got birds!" The Doctor then commented as the tweeting of the birds was heard throughout the dome.
"It's part of the project, to keep the insect population down." Adelaide explained to him as he was smiling all around about the birds.
"Good sign." The Doctor said.
"In what way?" Adelaide asked him, as she was curious.
"Well, they're still alive." The Doctor said as the communications came back, this time from Yuri.
"Captain, good news. It's Maggie. She's awake. She's back with us. Hey. How are you, soldier? Just take it easy. Can you remember what happened?"
"I was just working. Then I woke up here."
"What about Andy? We can't find him. Was he, all right?"
"I don't know. I just…"
"If you remember anything, let me know straight away."
"Yuri, does she know how she ended up in the tunnel?"
"And keep the comms clear. Everything goes through me, got that?"
The communications ended for a while, as everyone went off in their directions… Christina then looked at one of the visible panels as she found a way to get into the comms to talk to Adelaide and the Doctor.
"Doctor… erm, Captain. I've just noticed something as I've been waiting here." Christina told them.
"Can you explain, Christina?" The Doctor asked her, as she on the other hand was bending down to see the carrot near her.
"You know Andy, or whatever his name was? Well, I have right next to me… a bitten carrot. I dunno if that means anything or not." Christina then reported back.
"Oh Christina, even the simplest things mean anything!" The Doctor told her, which cheered her up a little. "But thank you…"
"Well, it's something I can do I suppose."
Then she turned off the communications to stand for a bit, she really didn't know if this was deadly or not, so she really couldn't know until it was confirmed.
Then… Yuri called in with a loss of nerves in his voice.
"This is Sickbay. We have a situation. Maggie's condition has. I don't know. I don't know what it is. It's water, just pouring out."
"Yuri, calm down. Just tell me what's happened to her."
"The skin is sort of broken around the mouth. And she's exuding water, like she's drowning."
"Tarak, this area's unsafe. We're going back." Adelaide told Tarak before waiting a minute to see if he would respond, "Tarak? Tarak!"
"Where was he?" The Doctor asks as she took him around to where he said he was going as they then reach him on his knees with Andy's hand on his head. Water is pouring from both, "Andy, just leave him alone."
"Step away from him."
"I can help, I promise. I can help. Just leave that man alone."
"I order you to stop. Stop, or I'll shoot."
"Andy, I'm asking you to take your hand away from him and listen to me."
Andy then releases Tarak, who has stopped from what Andy was doing.
"There now, that's better, hmm? So, you must be Andy. Hello." The Doctor then introduces himself before Tarak looks at them. But this time, he has been transformed, too.
"We've got to go."
The both of them start chasing as the water-filled people as Christina can notice them as she gets the airlock done as the Doctor and Adelaide rush inside.
"Set the seals on maximum!" The Doctor ordered as Adelaide did what he said before Andy fired a jet of water at them.
"What the hell are they?" Christina asked, as she was recovering from the rush in.
"Andy and Tarak… except something else wrong with them." The Doctor told her, as she kept on staring at their extra-terrestrial faces. They looked so similar, but very different… unlike the Tritivores.
The radio turned on, with Steffi's voice coming up first.
"Captain, we need you back here."
"Just tell me that Maggie is contained. Can you confirm, Ed?"
"Confirmed. She's locked in."
"Keep surveillance till I get back. And close down all water supplies. All pipes and outlets. Don't consume anything. Have you got that, everyone? That's an order. Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop."
"Can you talk? Human beings are sixty percent water, which makes them the perfect host." The Doctor questioned, before explaining to Adelaide and Christina.
"But why choose these people, do they mean anything apart from being part of the crew?" Christina kept asking as Adelaide couldn't answer, and the Doctor didn't want to.
"I don't know. I don't think we should ever never will. Because we HAVE got to go. Whatever's started here, I don't want to see it to the end. I can't." The Doctor told them both, which Christina at this point really want to believe him. Not like last time, it wasn't anything easy that she could fix. This was in HER future, so it was less likely that she could escape it without possibly ruining this world for whatever it had done so far in the 50 years she had missed from escaping 2009 in the TARDIS with the Doctor.
Then, Andy and Tarak started gushing water at the airlock seals which made all three inside the airlock jump to no means of an end.
"This thing's airtight, yeah?" The Doctor asked.
"And therefore watertight." Adelaide concluded.
"I think it depends how clever the water is." Christina commented as a banging noise from outside emitted as Andy and Tarak had jumped from the ground to the exterior part of the door.
"They're fusing the system." Adelaide said as more sparks came inside as the two were breaking the door down with the water.
"Abandon ship!" The Doctor called as they ran out into the walkway. Andy and Tarak got through the airlock to chase them as they got back to where Gadget was standing guard. The Doctor gets out his sonic screwdriver to fiddle around with Gadget.
"Doctor, we haven't got time." Adelaide told him.
"Are you sure you don't need my hammer again? Oh wait, I forgot them…" Christina said to him as he kept fiddling around with Gadget, sort of ignoring them.
"They can run faster than us. We need a lift." The Doctor said as it gives Roman a jolt and Gadget an overhaul.
"GADGET, GADGET."
"Get on behind me." The Doctor tells them as Christina gets on without asking him any other questions as all she wanted to do is survive this and get back to the TARDIS to go somewhere else and have a better adventure with the Doctor.
"That thing goes at two miles an hour." Adelaide reminded him bluntly.
"Not any more. Trust me." He told her simply as she walked on it.
"GADGET, GADGET."
The Doctor then simply mocked him before using the sonic screwdriver to make flames come out of Gadget's exhaust. Gadget zoomed off leaving burning tyre marks with Andy and Tarak still behind, which was the problem as they were now no longer human.
They were some sort of super-human monster.
"The Central Dome airlocks have got Hardinger seals. There's no way they can get in." Adelaide explained as the Doctor signalled for Gadget to come in as Christina rushed in before it would move slowly in.
"Come on. Come on."
"GADGET, GADGET."
"I thought you hated robots." Adelaide reminded him.
"I do." The Doctor agreed.
"But it could be helpful for us if we kept it." Christina breathed the words she really wished she wouldn't say, but it was true… annoying or not, Gadget did let them escape from the two as it drove into the airlock just before Andy and Tarak arrived.
"We're safe. It's hermetically sealed. They can't get in." Adelaide explained to them two as it relieved a bit of hope to Christina.
"Water is patient, Adelaide. Water just waits. It wears down the clifftops, the mountains, the whole of the world. Water always wins. Come on." The Doctor explained before he let the two of them walk out of the airlock.
"Biodome Tunnel is out of bounds. Andy and Tarak are infected. Repeat, infected. Make no contact. And if they make the slightest move, tell me. I'm going to the Medical Dome."
The three of them arrived in another tunnel which looked exactly like the one that they ran down with Gadget beforehand away from Andy and Tarak. Christina kept looking around to see if the two of them had followed them from the 'Bio-Dome Tunnel', which they hadn't.
"Blimey, it's a distance. You could do with bikes in this place." The Doctor complained a little whilst he was running.
"Every pound in weight equals three tons of fuel." Adelaide explained to him, damping his chances of bikes.
"Aren't bikes still useful in 2059, or have they gone extinct?" Christina jokingly questioned the both of them as Adelaide shook her head to answer her question in a sort-of manner.
"Has that door got a Hardinger seal?" Adelaide asked as she had reached the inside Medical-Dome with the Doctor and Christina.
"No, just basic." Ed answered for her.
"Then the moment she heads for the door, we evacuate. Got that?" Adelaide orders as everyone agrees.
"Pulse is low. Electrical activity in the brain seems to be going haywire." Ed explains to them.
"Can she talk?"
"Don't know. She was talking before we noticed the change, but…" Yuri nervously told them as he didn't want to answer them.
"Maggie, can you hear me? Do you know who I am? Your commanding officer, Captain Adelaide Brooke. Can you tell me what happened?" Adelaide tried to speak to Maggie again, who had turned as much as Andy and Tarak had as Christina was trying to look as a way as much as she could… the eyes and the cracked mouth were distracting enough to creep her out.
"Hoorghwall in schtochman ahn warrellinsh och fortabellan iin hoorgwahn." The Doctor spoke in a different language that no one could understand, but Christina was intrigued about the speech as it was kind of like the same as back on Helios, when he was talking different languages. Possibly, part of being a 'Time Lord' of what he was.
"What language is that?" Ed inquired.
"Ancient North Martian." The Doctor named it, as everyone except for him and Christina refusing to believe it.
"It's like she recognised it. Like with when… you and me tried to speak Spanish in Mexico." Christina said before having to lie about speaking a different language to everyone.
"And her eyes are different. They're clear, like she's closer to human." The Doctor noticed as he was checking out Maggie's appearance.
"Not close enough for me." Ed complains.
"Where do you get your water from?" The Doctor then asked as he was curious to know.
"The ice field. That's why we chose the crater. We're on top of an underground glacier." Adelaide explained to him as he smiled a little.
"Tons of water. Marvellous." The Doctor commented.
"But every single drop is filtered. It's screened. It's safe." Yuri said to him.
"Looks like it, yeah."
"If something was frozen down there. A viral life form held in the ice for all those years." Ed pondered to the rest of the group inside the room.
"Look at her mouth. All blackened, like there's some sort of fission. This thing, whatever it is, doesn't just hide in water, it creates water. Tell me what you want." The Doctor tried to guess what 'Maggie' wanted.
"She was looking at the screen. At Earth. She wanted Earth. A world full of water." Yuri noted to them.
"Captain, With me."
Adelaide and Ed turned their backs on Maggie and walked away to speak without Maggie knowing.
"I'm sorry, but it's an unknown infection and it's spreading. That demands Action Procedure One."
"Do you think I don't know that?"
"I think you need reminding."
"Yeah."
"Well, at least I'm good for something."
"Now and again."
"That's almost a compliment. Things must be serious."
The Doctor then finally picked up on the words 'Action Protocal One' as he hurried to interrupt their conversation.
"Sorry, sorry, but, Action One, that means evacuation, yeah?"
"We're going home. This is Captain Brooke. I'm declaring Action One. Repeat to all crew members, this is Action One with immediate effect. Evacuate the base." Adelaide commanded the rest of the team.
She then called for the team to answer for her.
"Steffi, what's your estimate on shuttle viability?"
"It's a nine month flight. It'll take us at least three hours to load up everything we need."
"You've got twenty minutes. And give me a report on Andy and Tarak."
"Still in the Biodome tunnel. They're just standing there, like they're waiting."
"Keep an eye on them. And make that twenty minutes fifteen. Ed, line up the shuttle. Go straight to ignition status."
"Doing it now." Ed responded as he walked away from the group in the room.
"But what about Maggie?" Yuri inquired.
"She stays behind. We've got no way to contain her on board. Close this place down. I want the power directed to the shuttle." Adelaide explained to them all.
"Of course, the only problem is…" The Doctor tried to start to say.
"Thank you, Doctor, Miss Souza. Your spacesuits will be returned. And good luck to both of you." Adelaide said as she was trying to go to her team before the Doctor fought to try and believe him.
"The problem is, this thing is clever. It didn't infect the birds or the insects in the bio dome, it chose the humans. You were chosen. And I told you, Adelaide, water can wait. Tarak changed straight away, but when Maggie was infected it stayed hidden inside her, no doubt so it could infiltrate the Central Dome. Which means…" The Doctor explained to her.
"Any one of us could already be infected. We've all been drinking the same water." Adelaide reminded him.
"But what happened if you drank a drop. Something like JUST one drop. Bringing that back to Earth… you would kill so many people that you don't know! Don't do this Adelaide…" Christina proposes to Adelaide as she refuses to believe her.
"But we're only presuming infection. If we can find out how this thing got through. When it got through. Yuri, continue with Action One. I'm going to inspect the ice field." Adelaide explains her plan as Christina follows her.
"Wait, Christina… where are you going?" The Doctor inquired to his companion who was walking away.
"I want to go with her… c'mon. So far we've had all this happening around us. Can we actually do something to help her?" Christina asked him as she ran off towards Adelaide without looking back.
"Right. I should leave. Finally, I should leave. Yuri, me old mate, no point in me seeing the ice field. No point at all. No…" The Doctor told himself as he slowly banged the back of his head on the wall before realizing what he needed to do before screaming after the woman, "Adelaide!"
The Doctor then catches up with Christina and Adelaide.
"All I'm saying is, bikes. Little foldaway bikes. Don't weigh a thing." The Doctor told her as he smiled to both women running along with him.
The three of them later reached the ice field in question, the temperature in the room was much colder and was a relief to see something that was part of the planet or water coming from people's cracked mouths.
"They tell legends of Mars from long ago, of a fine and noble race who built an empire out of snow. The Ice Warriors." The Doctor retold a memory before he named a alien that no one noticed.
"I haven't got time for stories." Adelaide dismisses him.
"We've got all the time in the world for stories." Christina remarked, as she looked closer to the ice field.
"Perhaps they found something down there. Used their might and their wisdom to freeze it." The Doctor tried to say as he and Christina then wandered over to the computers.
"Doctor, we need to find any sort of change in the water process. We've got to date the infection." Adelaide commanded him as he and Christina were typing on the futuristic keyboards which to Christina, it was harder to use because of the reliability of it being touch-pad heavy.
"Access denied."
"You two don't look like cowards, but all you've wanted to do is leave. You know so much about us." Adelaide told him.
"Well, you're famous… to him, not to me." Christina commented as she then got back to her work on the computers.
"It's like you know more, Doctor." Adelaide pondered to him, in which he started to stare at her like she was an angel in the darkest place on Earth.
"This moment, this precise moment in time, it's like. I mean, it's only a theory, what do I know, but I think certain moments in time are fixed. Tiny, precious moments. Everything else is in flux, anything can happen, but those certain moments, they must stand. This base on Mars with you, Adelaide Brooke, this is one vital moment. What happens here must always happen."
What he was describing, wasn't just inspiring Adelaide as she was slowly changing her mind. It was also inspiring Christina as she had never known about these fixes in time before the Doctor. She never really knew that much about time before the Doctor, and now… he was now sort of a mentor to herself in everything.
So much for her father, in whom she was only a thief for the adventure that she wanted. The Doctor… was now a better person than her father.
"Which is what?" Adelaide asked him.
"I don't know. I think something wonderful happens. Something that started fifty years ago, isn't that right?" The Doctor then asked her, as it made her wonder.
"I've never told anyone that." Adelaide started to reveal.
"Are you sure? You must have told someone over the fifty years since when it happened." Christina inquired to the captain.
"Possibly. I wouldn't want to tell you who though." Adelaide dismissed her inquiry.
"You told your daughter. And maybe one day she tells the story to her daughter. The day the Earth was stolen and moved across the universe." The Doctor fully revealed who she told to them both as she then interrupted him to finish what he was saying.
"I saw the Daleks. We looked up. The sky had changed. Everyone was running and screaming. And my father took hold of me. I never saw him again. Nor my mother. They were never found. But out on the streets, there was panic and burning. I went to the window, and there, in the sky, I saw it and it saw me. It stared at me. It looked right into me. And then it simply went away. I knew, that night, I knew I would follow it."
"But not for revenge." Christina told her, as she agreed.
"What would be the point of that?" Adelaide asked her.
"That's what makes you remarkable. And that's how you create history." The Doctor told her as she wondered.
"What do you mean?" Adelaide inquired.
"Imagine it, Adelaide, if you began a journey that takes humans all the way out to the stars. It begins with you, and then your granddaughter, you inspire her, so that in thirty years Susie Fontana Brooke is the pilot of the first lightspeed ship to Proxima Centauri. And then everywhere, with her children, and her children's children forging the way. To the Dragon Star, the Celestial Belt of the Winter Queen, the Map of the Watersnake Wormholes. One day a Brooke will even fall in love with a Tandonian prince, that's the start of a whole new species. But everything starts with you, Adelaide. From fifty years ago to right here, today. Imagine."
"Who are you two? Why are you telling me this? Doctor why just tell me?" Adelaide asked him.
"As consolation." The Doctor told her as all three them wanted to believe each other as much as they could to stop all the fighting as the maintenance log popped up on screen.
"Andy Stone. He logged on yesterday." Christina noted as the Doctor pressed an image of Andy as it turned into a video that he had recorded before he had turned, it was the first time that Christina had actually felt for him since she hadn't seen what he had looked like until after he had turned not only himself but Tarak and Maggie at the same time like some sort of infected mad-man on the run to find new people to invade.
"Maintenance log, twenty-one twenty, November 2059. Number three water filter's bust. And guess what? The spares they sent don't fit. What a surprise. Over and out."
"A filter! One tiny little filter and then the Flood." The Doctor evaluated.
"But that means the infection arrived today, and the water's only cycled out of the biodome after a week. The rest of us can't be infected." Adelaide realized as she then called on the radio, "We can leave…. Ed, we're clean. How are we doing?"
"Shuttle's active. Stage one. I haven't got time to convey the protein packs. If you want food you're going to have to carry it by hand. Start loading, right now."
"You two were right about one thing after all." Adelaide commented.
"What about?" The Doctor asked her, in a curious to himself.
"Bikes!" Adelaide excitedly replied in glee, as she, the Doctor and Christina chuckled the rest of the way down the corridor as it finally had seemed as Adelaide had finally warmed up to the two of them, but not in time.
Back in the central dome, Adelaide gave the Doctor and Christina their spacesuits that they had stolen off them since the beginning of the mis happening on Mars. It was almost as if it was a final release from the hell that they were now a bigger part of than which they would have wanted to be.
"Now, you two. I think it would be right to get back to your ship. I'm saving my people, you should save her, Doctor. I know what this moment is. It's the moment we escape. Now get out." Adelaide told them two as Christina then walked away to find a place to put her spacesuit back on, but near the crew members and the Doctor… not to get lost from both of them.
To her and the Doctor, the rest of the crew started to sound like distant echoes of ghosts.
"Everyone, stay focused."
"I'll swap them round. Roman, what about you?"
"Protein packs thirty to thirty-six."
"Hurry up, Roman."
No-one in a moment had realized that Andy and Tarak had climbed onto the roof of Tunnel One and were walking towards the dome. During this, an alarm kept sounding around the dome without no-one caring or noticing.
"Ditch the central containers. We don't need them."
"Units forty-one, forty-two and forty-three."
"Unit forty-one is here."
"Roman, try to condense the oxygen membranes. We can lose ten pounds. Faster, come on! Ed, how's the fuel jets?"
"Cooling down in about thirty seconds."
"Captain, we've got all the hard drives."
Then, suddenly… Adelaide stopped to listen, and the voices stopped becoming an echo.
"What the hell's that noise? Mia, you lot, shut up." Adelaide said as she looked around to notice.
"It's the module sensors. Exterior twelve. The cameras are down, but there's pressure on top of the module." Ed explained as they looked above the two signals right above them.
"That means they're on the roof?" Steffi noted, as the Doctor mouthed the same words at the same time, almost like he had the idea in his head before she had said it.
"How did they get inside the Dome?" Yuri inquired.
"They used the maintenance shafts." Ed explained to him.
"The shaft's open and they haven't got spacesuits." Mia noted to them both.
"They breathe water."
"But they'd freeze."
"They've got that internal fission."
"But we're safe, they can't get through, can they? Can they?"
The roof then creaked more as everyone got a little tighter in their scared feelings to each other.
"This place is airtight."
"Can it get through? Ed, can it get through?"
"I don't know! Water itself isn't motile, but it has some sort of persistence."
Adelaide started to huff inside, everyone was not being helpful and all this was just one thing after another that was getting on her nerves… this needed to stop.
"Everyone, listen to me. That's ten feet of steel-combination up there." She explained to the crew as she then decided to take charge finally to calm them all down, "We need all the protein packs or we're going to starve… Now keep working. Roman, watch the ceiling. Ed, get to the shuttle. Fire it up."
"I can carry more than this lot, Captain." Ed commented as Adelaide immediately dismissed it.
"That's an order!"
"Captain."
The Doctor continues to stand there as Christina felt like she wanted to leave, as he held his spacesuit, and just remembered how history was recorded the end of Bowie Base One. Finally he signals Christina to turn and leave the base. It was almost a release from hell thought Christina.
But all of it wasn't done yet.
The two of them tried to get outside with the spacesuits on.
The Doctor pressed the button to get out, "Access denied." He pressed it again to see if it was an error for the first time, "Access denied."
"Tell me what happens." Adelaide asked them.
"I don't know." The Doctor told her, he was still lying to keep her safe. But she didn't feel that at all.
"Yes, you do. Now tell me."
"You know, Adelaide… I don't think he does want to tell you… he's saving your life." Christina said, as she was lying in a way that was trying to help Adelaide without telling her the truth.
"Tell me! I could ramp up the pressure in that airlock and crush you." Adelaide warned
"Except you won't. You could have shot Andy Stone, but you didn't. I loved you for that. Imagine, imagine you knew something. Imagine you found yourself somewhere. I don't know, Pompeii." The Doctor dismissed her before trying to explain why he couldn't tell her earlier, "Imagine you were in Pompeii."
"What the hell's that got to do with it?" Adelaide angrily questioned him.
"And you tried to save them. But in doing so, you make it happen. Anything I do just makes it happen." The Doctor continued, without answering her question… Almost like this was something he had to say without any interruptions.
"Captain, we need you right now." Steffi interrupted her, as she closed the door to leave a bit of silence in case Adelaide had followed her rules and went with her team.
"I'm still here." Adelaide breathed.
"You're taking Action One. There are four more standard action procedures." The Doctor said as he went on a different subject, "And Action Five is?"
"Detonation." Adelaide completed his question.
"The final option. The nuclear device at the heart of the Central Dome. Today, on the twenty first of November 2059, Captain Brooke activates that device, taking the base and all her crew members with her. No one ever knows why. But you were saving Earth. That's what inspires your granddaughter. She takes your people out into the galaxy because you die on Mars. You die today." The Doctor explained to her as he was describing it to her like a story, as he took a breath to continue. "She flies out there like she's trying to meet you."
"I won't die. I will not." Adelaide dismisses the Doctor.
"But your death creates the future."
"Help me. Why won't you two help us? If you know all of this, why can't you change it?" Adelaide argues.
"I can't."
"Why can't you find a way? You could tell me, I don't know…"
"I'm sorry, but I can't. Sometimes I can, sometimes I do. Most times I can save someone, or anyone. But not you. You wondered all your life why that Dalek spared you. I think it knew. Your death is fixed in time for ever. And that's right."
"You two will die here as well." Adelaide tried to figure out.
"No."
"What's going to save you?"
"Captain Adelaide Brooke." Christina named the person, as it gives Adelaide the chance to release the airlock.
"Damn you." Adelaide finished, as the Doctor and Christina left her and the team…
As she was walking away, Christina was looking all around the planet at the night to see what she had been looking for since they were arrested earlier on. Adelaide was starting to inspire her… perhaps the Doctor is a bit too much for her liking. He could be wonderful and the best man ever, but then again… he could be an opposite reaction as well. And what she heard from the crew behind her… was devastating.
"Water! We've got water!"
"Captain! Get back! Get back! Captain! Don't touch it, Roman. Get back. Get back."
"Everyone, we're abandoning this section. Get to the shuttle. Yuri, lead the way. Section B corridor, now."
"Get that, and that."
"Close it!"
"Yuri, did that water touch you?"
"I'm safe."
"Did it touch you?"
"Yuri, did that water touch you?"
"I'm clean. I'm dry."
"Everyone, section B is out."
"But we can get…"
"Listen to me. Take every pack that you can. We'll go round. We'll make our way out through Section F."
"Transferring oxygenation to Section F. Mia you take the redline stock. And hurry up!"
"Steffi, get back!"
"Steffi, keep back."
"Get back!"
"Steffi!"
"Get back, Steffi! Shut the door! Close the door!"
"Steffi, we'll come get you, okay? We'll come get you!"
"Steffi!"
"Captain!"
"We'll open the access panel. We'll get you out through the back. Get out of here. Move it!"
"Captain, it's inside!"
"Steffi!"
"Steffi, get back!"
"We're coming, Steffi. Hold on!"
"The access panel's fused, Captain. We can't open it."
"We can't get through!"
"I can't move!"
"Steffi! Can you hear me?"
"Oh, my God."
"Out. Get out."
"Ed, we're going around the long way. How are we doing?"
"All systems online one hundred percent. Not a single delay. Don't you worry, Captain, we are going to fly."
Christina, stopping to turn around saw the big massive space-shuttle behind them two as the engines fired up. Truly, they weren't going to fly… this was the reason for a potential explosion.
"I need air in section F right now. All of you!"
"Locking chamber three. Locking chamber four."
"The water is going to get through."
"Keep moving!"
"Gate five is open. Gate six is open. Quickly, come on."
"I've got twenty five to thirty locked down."
"Roman, come on. With me."
"You'd better go."
"Don't just stand there. Move."
"You'd really better go without me. I'm sorry, Captain. One drop."
"Roman! Roman!"
"Leave him, come on."
"We can't just leave him."
"Come on. We've got to go."
"Captain. The shuttle is down."
"What the hell do you mean?"
"Compromised. It was Maggie."
"Get out of there."
"Too late."
"They want this ship to get to Earth. Got no choice. Hated it, Adelaide. This bloody job. Argh. You never gave me a chance. You never could forgive me.
"See you later."
The shuttle goes KaBOOM as the blast knocks the Doctor and Christina off their feet and wreak havoc in Section F.
"We're losing oxygen! The hull is broken!"
The Doctor then stood up with Christina leaping up to talk to him.
"Doctor… I'm going back to the TARDIS!" Christina shouted.
"No, you can't…" The Doctor argued. "And to say I thought you liked the danger."
"Yes… I do… but this, is… too much. You've changed life and death and I want to stay somewhere where I'm safe… plus… that ship has exploded. So, it's life or death… and I'll chose life."
"Oh! Key! You'll need it."
He gave her a YALE key to use as she put it in her pocket and ran off back towards the TARDIS as The Doctor slowly returned to Bowie Base One.
After a lot of running, Christina then found the time to collapse on one of the chairs inside the main room of the TARDIS as she then noticed on the screen was a camera or a recording of Bowie Base One as she tried touching something on the scanner to get audio or a representation of what is happening as she saw the Doctor had arrived.
"Mia, take this sealant, fix that leak. Yuri, open emergency oxygen. Adelaide! Don't just sit there!" The Doctor then took charge of the team, as the alarms had stopped for the moment. "That's better. The Dome's still got integrity! It's ten feet of steel-combination, made in Liverpool. Magnificent workmanship."
"It can't be stopped. Don't die with us." Adelaide tried to convince him.
"No, because someone told me just recently. They said I was going to die. They said he will knock four times, and I think I know what that means, and it doesn't mean right here, right now, because I don't hear anyone knocking, do you?"
Andy thumped three times on the bulkhead door.
"Three knocks is all you're getting." The Doctor angered, with rage told Andy as he electrifies the bulkhead, "Water and electricity, bad mix. Now then, what else have we got?"
"But there's no way to fight them." Adelaide interrupted him.
"Heat! They use water, so we can use heat. Worked against the Ice Warriors, might work against the Flood. Ramp up the environment controls and steam them." The Doctor explained a plan as he rushed over to the controls.
"But you said we die. For the future, for the human race." Adelaide reminded him.
"Yes, because there are laws. There are Laws of Time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. Do you know who that leaves? Me! It's taken me all these years to realise the Laws of Time are mine, and they will obey me!"
Then a bang with sparks and more alarms sounded off.
"Environment controls are down. Sorry, Doctor, it looks like history's got other ideas." Adelaide dismissed him.
"I'm not beaten yet. I'll go outside, find the heat regulator." The Doctor said before he found out his spacesuit helmet was damaged. "Not beaten. Not beaten! You've got spacesuits in the next section."
But water was pouring through the ceiling.
"We're not just fighting the Flood, we're fighting time itself. And I'm going to win!" The Doctor readied himself as Christina hacked into the comms.
"And how the hell exactly are going to do that then?"
"Good to hear ya, the Honourable Lady Christina De SOUZA!" He replied.
On a screen, Yuri saw an image of the glacier starting to crack on one of the computers.
"Something is happening to the glacier." He informed the crew.
"Think-a think-a think-a think. What have we got? Not enough oxygen. Protein packs, useless. Glacier, glacier mints, minty, Monty, molto bene, bunny, bonny, bish bash bosh. Argh." The Doctor rambled on as he tried to think up a plan.
"Doctor! I'm in the TARDIS, of course… why don't we bring it to you guys?!"
"Ohhh… brilliant! Fantastic, even! Do you remember how to control it?" The Doctor
"Yep. I jotted them down… in… my note-book!"
"Implementing Captain's protocol."
"Adelaide? What the hell are you doing?"
"Oh, my God. Action Five." Mia gasped.
"If I have to fight you as well, then I will." The Doctor told her.
"Nuclear device now active and primed."
The countdown had started at 50.
"Nuclear device now active and primed."
"CHRISTINA!"
"Doing it now!"
She pulled down the lever as it moved from the outer part of the planet as the wind of a materialising Tardis filled the area.
Then, Bowie Base One exploded, causing a crater on the planet and a legacy now lost to the survivors of the base inside a magical machine to bring them home as it materialised on a snow covered Georgian street.
The Doctor lead Christina, Adelaide, Mia and Yuri out.
"Isn't anyone going to thank me?" The Doctor inquired.
"And me, Doctor…?" Christina asked him, in which he nodded in agreement.
"Sorry, yes. Chrissy. Thank you." The Doctor then commented.
"Chrissy?"
"That's my house." Adelaide noted to them.
"Don't you get it? This is the twenty first of November 2059. It's the same day on Earth." The Doctor explained, "And it's snowing. I love snow."
"I hope it is still snow…" Christina commented.
"Well, over the fifty years of your time… I think the snow hasn't changed a bit." The Doctor answered for her.
"What is that thing? It's bigger. I mean, it's bigger on the inside. Who the hell are you?" Mia kept asking questions before running off.
"Look after her." Adelaide asked him.
"Yes, ma'am."
Yuri ran after Mia.
"You saved us." Adelaide told the Doctor and Christina.
"Just think though. Your daughter, and your daughter's daughter, you can see them again. Family reunion." Christina pondered to Adelaide, who wasn't believing what both had done to her.
"But I'm supposed to be dead." Adelaide flat-out dismissed the fact of her being alive.
"Not anymore." The Doctor disagreed, hoping she would agree.
"But Susie, my granddaughter. The person she's supposed to become might never exist now." Adelaide tried to remind them about her story and the Doctor's.
"Nah! Captain Adelaide can inspire her face to face. Different details, but the story's the same." The Doctor disagreed as he tried to see the positive part of changing history.
"You can't know that. And if my family changes, the whole of history could change. The future of the human race. No-one should have that much power." Adelaide kept to being disapproved of him.
"Tough." The Doctor huffed at her.
"Doctor, I think that's a bit far…" Christina interrupted him.
"You should have left us there." Adelaide said to the Doctor.
"Adelaide, I've done this sort of thing before. In small ways, saved some little people, but never someone as important as you. Oh, I'm good."
"Little people? What, like Mia and Yuri? Who decides they're so unimportant? You two?" Adelaide inquired.
"You know… I'm not mostly apart of this, okay?" Christina muttered as she started walking away.
"Christina…please, could you come back?" The Doctor inquired, as she stopped in the snow as Adelaide looked at her like she was actually going to help her this time.
"I was… going to stand by the TARDIS." Christina lied, as she waited for the response from the Doctor.
"Okay… fine."
As she walked away, she could hear the conversation continue.
"For a long time now, I thought I was just a survivor, but I'm not. I'm the winner. That's who I am. The Time Lord Victorious."
"And there's no one to stop you." Adelaide says.
"No."
"This is wrong, Doctor. I don't care who you are. The Time Lord Victorious is wrong." Adelaide dismissed with him as Christina was listening and sort of agreeing on her points.
"That's for me to decide. Now, you'd better get home. Oh, it's all locked up. You've been away. Still, that's easy." The Doctor said to her as he pointed his sonic screwdriver at the front door, and it opened. "All yours."
"Is there nothing you can't do?" Adelaide asked him clearly.
"Not any more." The Doctor told her.
Adelaide went inside as she drawed her gun and closed the door.
So, that was almost the end thought Christina.
"Well, we've saved one famous person… should we go?" The Doctor asked her as Christina was going to turn around.
"Perhaps we should. I think Mars should be off the list for a while." Christina told him.
"Hmm… I think I'll agree for once. Perhaps somewhere else?" The Doctor asked her as she opened the door for him to go through.
Then we hear the shot and see the energy blast light up the window.
"Oh crap." Christina said as she saw The Doctor turned around and, in his head, he watched the history record change her place of death from Mars to Earth. "We changed history… so shouldn't there be a paradox or something?"
The Doctor turned to see an Ood looking at him.
"Woah… what kind of alien is HE and what is he doing at the end of the street?" Christina inquired to him.
"I've gone too far. Is this it? My death? Is it time?" The Doctor disapproved as he fell to his knees.
The Ood then vanished.
He got up again and went inside the Tardis as Christina looked around the place to see if time was changing all around her, which it didn't as she rushed in as well.
She walked slowly in as the Doctor was standing near the scanner was on the console, as the Cloister bell tolled.
"No. This is not the end. Chrissy… give us something to do." The Doctor told her as he rushed to use the controls to take them somewhere.
"You know, I wanna get married. I mean having so many times to love someone, but I've never done it properly."
"Right… let's get married then." The Doctor told her as they were off to get married somewhere.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
So, funny thing about this episode is (or was) that I started this thing two weeks ago… :D Dunno why it took me that long to get to the end except for outside stuff that took longer or shorter than it should have.
About this being the last fanfiction, that's true… when I finish this one… this almost 5-year legacy will be over. Yeah, and I have the plans of when this will finish… I just won't tell you when that happens.
Anyways, onto THE END OF TIME: Part ONE, and no I'm not doing them together… it would take twice as long as you'd think it would if I did it that way. You know. It makes perfect sense!
The Phantom's Rising
JUNE 4TH, 2018