New Earth
This means Galifrayen.
*£* is a scene break.
Rose leads the way down a good old-fashioned staircase. The whole place is lined with the cells, thousands of them. The Doctor opens one at random. It contains a very sick looking man.
"That's disgusting. What's wrong with him?" The Cassandra-Rose asks the Doctor.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." The Doctor tells it.
The Doctor closes the door and moves on to the next. It contains a young woman, not ridden with disease as she is slumped.
"This one seems not to be ridden with disease, can I touch your heart?" The Doctor asks the woman.
"Yes. You may. The name is Sophia." The woman says.
The Doctor feels the woman's left and right parts of her chest, this then reveals that she is a Time Lord, she gets out of the patient cell.
"What about us? Are we safe?" The Cassandra - Rose asks.
"The air's sterile. Just don't touch the others." The Doctor tells them.
He closes the door.
"How many patients are there?" Sophia asks.
"They're not patients." The Doctor says.
"But they're sick." The Cassandra - Rose says.
"They were born sick. They're meant to be sick. They exist to be sick. Lab rats. No wonder the Sisters have got a cure for everything. They've built the ultimate research laboratory. A human farm." The Doctor explains.
"Why don't they just become destroyed?" Sophia asks.
"Plague carriers. The last to go." The Doctor tells Sophia, which he smiles at her face.
"It's for the greater cause." Novice Hame tells the Doctor.
"Novice Hame, When you took your vows, did you agree to this?" The Doctor asks.
"The Sisterhood has sworn to help." Novice Hame says.
"What, by killing?" The Doctor shouts. Sophia is a little scared by this, as he turned a little evil after the Time War, but she hasn't known all of it.
"But they're not real people. They're specially grown. They have no proper existence." Novice Hame explains that the people in the cells are not real people but are grown.
"What's the turnover, hmm? Thousand a day? Thousand the next? Thousand the next? How many thousands? For how many years? How many!" The Doctor asks as his anger gets the better of him, Sophia is still a little concerned from the anger The Doctor is portrayed in that 40 or so seconds.
"Mankind needed us. They came to this planet with so many illnesses. We couldn't cope. We did try. We tried everything. We tried using clone-meat and bio-cattle, but the results were too slow, so the Sisterhood grew its own flesh. That's all they are. Flesh." Novice Hame explains some more about how again, these humans were born and bred.
"These people are alive." The Doctor reminds Novice Hame, that even if they were cattle, they are live cattle.
"But think of those Humans out there, healthy and happy, because of us." Novice Hame tries to convince him otherwise.
"If they live because of this, then life is worthless." The Doctor does not accept that.
"But who are you to decide that?" Novice Hame inquires.
"I'm the Doctor. And if you don't like it, if you want to take it to a higher authority, then there isn't one. It stops with me." The Doctor reminds Novice Hame.
"Just to confirm. None of the humans in the city actually know about this?" Sophia checks with Novice Hame.
"We thought it best not." Novice Hame answers Sophia's question.
"Hold on. I can understand the bodies. I can understand your vows. One thing I can't understand. What have you done to Rose?" The Doctor tells Novice Hame as he then asks about who the hell has changed Rose.
"I don't know what you mean." Novice Hame says.
"And I'm being very, very calm. You want to be aware of that. Very, very calm. And the only reason I'm being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing. Whatever you've done to Rose's head, I want it reversed." The Doctor commands Novice Hame to do, reverse Rose's head.
"We haven't done anything." Novice Hame answers.
"I'm perfectly fine." Rose lies.
"These people are dying, and Rose would care." The Doctor says.
"Oh, all right, clever clogs. Smarty pants. Lady-killer." Rose commentss.
"What's happened to you?" The Doctor asks.
"Maybe you are this Rose possessed by a diffirent person." Sophia tells the Doctor.
"I knew something was going on in this hospital, but I needed this body and your mind to find it out." Rose explains about her plan.
"Who are you?" The Doctor inquires Rose.
"The last human." Rose reminds the Doctor.
"Cassandra?" The Doctor asks.
"Wake up and smell the perfume." Rose tells him to do as she squirts the vial up his nose, and he passes out.
"You sentimental idiot, you know. I don't even think you are really possessed." Sophia says to Rose.
"You've hurt him. I don't understand. I'll have to fetch Matron." Novice Hame explains to Rose and Sophia.
"You do that, because I want to see her. Now, run along. Sound the alarm!" Rose commands Novice Hame.
Cassandra pulls on a power cable and sets off the alarms. Hame runs. Sophia looks at the Doctor who is unconisus on the floor and then to Rose.
The other nurses are going towards ICU part of the floor.
"Matron, it's that man, and the girl." Novice Hame tells Matron Casp.
"We heard the alarm. Now get back to work. Tend to your patients." Matron Casp explains to Novice Hame.
The Doctor is inside a cell. Chip has joined his mistress.
"Let me out! Let me out!" The Doctor shouts at Rose or Sophia to let him out of the cell he is in.
"Aren't you lucky there was a spare? Standing room only." Rose explains to him about how he is in the cell.
"You've stolen Rose's body." Sophia tells Rose.
"Over the years, I've thought of a thousand ways to kill you, Doctor. And now, that's exactly what I've got. One thousand diseases. They pump the patients with a top-up every ten minutes. You've got about three minutes left. Enjoy." Rose explains about how long Cassandra has being planning for.
"Just let Rose go, Cassandra." The Doctor asks.
"I will. As soon as I've found someone younger, and less common, then I'll junk her with the waste. Now hushaby. It's showtime." Rose explains.
"Anything we can do to help?" Sister Jatt inquires.
"Straight to the point, Whiskers. I want money." Rose asks.
"The Sisterhood is a charity. We don't give money. We only accept." Matron Casp says.
"The humans across the water pay you a fortune, and that's exactly what I need. A one-off payment, that's all I want. Oh, and perhaps a yacht. In return for which, I shall tell the city nothing of your institutional murder. Is that a deal?" Rose explains about the charity.
"I'm afraid not." Matron Casp whispers.
"I'd really advise you to think about this." Rose tells them.
"Oh, there's no need. I have to decline." Matron Casp reminds Rose.
"I'll tell them, and you've no way of stopping me. You're not exactly Nuns with Guns. You're not even armed." Rose explains.
"Who needs arms when we have claws?" Matron Casp tells Rose.
Matron unsheathes her claws.
"Well, nice try. Chip? Plan B." Rose says.
Chip pulls a lever, and all the doors on that level open. The Doctor comes out along with a lot of dazed, diseased people.
"What've you done?" Sophia asks Rose on what the hell she has done.
"Gave the system a shot of adrenaline, just to wake them up. See you!" Rose explains very quickly.
"Don't touch them! Whatever you do, don't touch!" The Doctor commands the Matron and the Sisters.
The Doctor runs after Cassandra, Sophia and Chip as the people advance on the cats.
"Please, save us." A man subject asks.
"I think we should withdraw." Sister Jatt asks Matron Casp.
"We understood what you did to us. As part of the machine, we know the machine." The man subject explains.
"Fascinating. It's actually constructing an argument." Matron Casp comments.
"And we will end it." The man subject finishes his sentence.
He puts his hand into a socket and get electrocuted. The locks on all the cell doors blow, freeing the people inside.
"They're free. By the Goddess Santori, the flesh is free!" Sister Jatt annouces.
"Stop the pain." The man asks.
A woman touches Sister Jatt and she dies, screaming. On a catwalk across the way.
"Oh, my God." Rose exclaims.
"What the hell have you done?" Sophia asks Rose.
"It wasn't me." Rose tries to not blame it on herself.
"One touch and you get every disease in the world, and I want that body safe, Cassandra. We've got to go down." The Doctor explains.
"What about me, Theta?" Sophia asks in Old High Galifrayen.
"Don't worry, Alisiai. I've always known a way out with you and yes, I know you were a Time Lady all a long." The Doctor explains to Sophia in Old High Galifrayen.
"But there's thousands of them!" Rose shouts to the others.
"Run! Down! Down! Go down!" The Doctor commands.
Matron gets to a telephone.
"Quarantine the building!" Matron commands on the telephone.
"This building is under quarantine." The hospital tannoy annouces.
Shutters slam down across doors and windows.
"Repeat, this building is under quarantine. No one may leave the premises. Repeat, no one may leave the premises." The tannoy explains.
"Keep going! Go down!" The Doctor says.
A lift full of people arrive. They reach out to the nearest person. The grab a woman's hand as they join together.
Cassandra runs to call a lift.
"No, the lifts have closed down. That's the quarantine. Nothing's moving." The Doctor explains.
"This way!" Rose shouts at the others.
She leads the Doctor towards her lair. Chip gets cut off from them as more people approach.
"Someone will touch him." The Doctor says.
"I'm sorry but please, we need to survive as much as we can. Come on, Doctor. Theta!" Sophia tells the Doctor.
"Mistress!" Chip calls for Cassandra.
"I'm sorry, I can't let her escape." The Doctor says to Chip.
"My Mistress!" Chip calls for Cassandra again.
Chip jumps down a chute labelled Waste.
Cassandra runs to the back door but there are people there, too.
"We're trapped! What am I going to do?" Rose asks.
"Well, for starters, you're going to leave that body. That psychograft is banned on every civilised planet. You're compressing Rose to death." The Doctor explains.
"But I've got nowhere to go. My original skin's dead." Rose explains.
"Not my problem. You can float as atoms in the air. Now, get out. Give her back to me." The Doctor commands.
"You asked for it." Rose tells him.
Cassandra takes a deep breath and blows energy out to the Doctor. Eva keeps Rose up right.
"Blimey, my head. Where'd she go?" Rose asks herself.
"Oh, my. This is different." The Doctor says.
"Cassandra?" Rose asks.
"Goodness me, I'm a man. Yum. So many parts. And hardly used. Oh, oh, two hearts! Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba!" The Doctor says to his newly possesed self.
"Get the hell out of him." Sophia asks.
"Oo, he's slim, and a little bit foxy. You've thought so too. I've been inside your head. You've been looking. You both like it." The Doctor explains.
The diseased people burst in.
"What do we do? What would he do? The Doctor, what the hell would he do?" The Doctor asks the other two.
"We get up the ladder behind you?" Sophia tells them.
"Out of the way, brunette!" The Doctor shouts.
"Oi brown hair!" Sophia calls back.
Up on Ward 26, the Duke of Manhattan lends his considerable bulk to the barricade.
Chip shuts himself inside a cell in ICU.
Climbing up the stairs.
"If you get out of the Doctor's body, he can think of something." Rose asks.
"Yap, yap, yap. God, it was tedious inside your head. Hormone city." The Doctor comments to Rose.
"We're going to die if..." Rose starts her sentence as Matron Casp grabs her ankle.
"Get off!" Rose shouts at Matron Casp.
"All our good work. All that healing. The good name of the Sisterhood. You have destroyed everything." Matron Casp explains to Rose.
"Go and play with a ball of string." The Doctor comments.
"Everywhere, disease. This is the human world. Sickness!" Matron Casp continues to tell Rose.
A diseased arm reaches up and grasps Casp's ankle. She falls, screaming.
"Move!" Sophia shouts.
"Maximum quarantine. Divert all shuttles." The hospital tannoy annouces.
The doors on the next level will not open.
"Help us." Another man subject asks the trio.
"Now what do we do?" The Doctor asks.
"Use the sonic screwdriver." Rose inquires.
"You mean this thing?" The Doctor asks what the silver thing with blue at the end is.
"Yes, I mean that thing." Rose argues.
"Well, I don't know how. That Doctor's hidden away all his thoughts." The Doctor explains to Rose.
"Cassandra, go back into me. The Doctor can open it. Do it!" Rose explains to the Doctor.
"One of us. Go back into them." Sophia shouts.
"Hold on tight." The Doctor warns Rose and Sophia as the energy transfers back into Rose.
"Oh, chavtastic again. Open it!" Rose asks the Doctor.
"Not till you get out of her." The Doctor commands Cassandra.
"We need the Doctor." Sophia asks.
"I order you to leave her." The Doctor shouts, raising his voice again. So Cassandra swaps back again.
"No matter how difficult the situation, there is no need to shout." The Doctor then says to himself.
"Cassandra, get out of him!" Rose asks the Doctor.
"But I can't go into you, he simply refuses. He's so rude." The Doctor explains.
"Go into me. Why and how have you forgot about me? But no, do you have another idea?" Sophia asks.
"Oh, I am so going to regret this." The Doctor says.
Cassandra transfers to the lead woman on the ladder below Sophia.
"Oh, sweet Lord. I look disgusting." The possessed woman below Sophia comments about her appearence.
The Doctor opens the lift doors.
"Nice to have you back." The Doctor says to Rose.
"No, you don't." The possessed woman comments.
Cassandra's energy makes it to Sophia before the lift doors close again.
"That was your last warning, Cassandra!" The Doctor warns Cassandra, who is inside Eva's head at the moment.
"Inside her head. They're so alone. They keep reaching out, just to hold us. All their lives and they've never been touched." Sophia describes the pain of the people with no help.
The Doctor offers her his hand.
Frau Clovis lunges at them with a metal stand.
"We're safe! We're safe! We're safe! We're clean! We're clean! Look, look." The Doctor tries to explain to Frau Clovis.
"Show me your skin." Frau Clovis asks.
"Look, clean. Look, if we'd been touched, we'd be dead. So how's it going up here? What's the status?" The Doctor continues to explain.
"There's nothing but silence from the other wards. I think we're the only ones left. And I've been trying to override the quarantine. If I can trip a signal over to New New York, they can send a private executive squad." Frau Clovis tells the trio.
"You can't do that. If they forced entry, they'd break quarantine." The Doctor says.
"Do you really want to break quarantine to kill yourself?" Rose asks Frau Clovis.
"I am not dying in here." Frau Clovis says.
"We can't let a single particle of disease get out. There is ten million people in that city. They'd all be at risk. Now, turn that off!" The Doctor explains, raising his voice to shout at her when he wants her to turn it off.
"Not if it gets me out." Frau Clovis tells him.
"All right, fine. So I have to stop you lot as well. Suits me. Rose, Eva, everyone! Excuse me, your Grace. Get me intravenous solutions for every single disease. Move it!" The Doctor explains to the others.
Everyone grabs drip bags while the Doctor collects a long piece of heavy silk rope and starts hanging them on his body.
"How's that? Will that do?" The Doctor asks.
"I don't know. Will it do for what?" Sophia tells the Doctor, who secretly changes with Rose behind his back.
The Doctor opens the lift doors.
"The lifts aren't working." Rose says annoying both to the Doctor and Sophia.
"Not moving. Different thing. Here we go." The Doctor corrects Rose as he puts the sonic screwdriver between his teeth and runs.
"But you're not going to." Sophia says.
The Doctor jumps and grabs the lift cable.
"What do you think you're doing?" Rose asks.
"Something wonderful maybe?" Sophia mentions.
"I'm going down! Come on!" The Doctor shouts at them as he attaches a round piece of equipment to the cable.
"Not in a million years." Rose comments.
"I need another pair of hands. What do you think? If you're so desperate to stay alive, why don't you live a little?" The Doctor explains as he then asks Rose and Sophia if they want help.
"Seal the door!" Frau Clovis commands.
Cassandra and Sophia are trapped with approaching disease.
"No!" Rose shouts.
She jumps onto the Doctor's back.
"You're completely mad. I can see why she likes you." Rose comments to the Doctor.
"Going down!" The Doctor annouces.
The improvised wheel he has attached to the cable takes them down the shaft. After a short sequence of screaming, the Doctor puts on the brake and they come to a gentle stop on top of the lift, the Doctor returns the wheel to Sophia who follows them.
"Well, that's one way to lose weight." Rose comments.
"Well, I hope you guys do it again in a better way. Do you think, Theta?" Sophia asks.
"Now, listen. When I say so, take hold of that lever." The Doctor commands Rose.
"There's still a quarantine down there, we can't." Rose tries to say.
"Hold that lever! I'm cooking up a cocktail. I know a bit about medicine myself." The Doctor whispers to himself.
The Doctor pours the contents of the drip bags into the lift's disinfectant tank.
"Now, that lever's going to resist. But keep it in position. Hold onto it with everything you've got." The Doctor explains
"What about you?" Rose inquires.
"He's got an appointment. Because the Doctor is in." Sophia reminds Rose.
The Doctor drops down into the lift itself. He opens the doors with his sonic screwdriver.
The diseased people turn to look.
"I'm in here! Come on!" The Doctor tells the diseased people.
"Don't tell them." Rose says.
"Pull that lever!" The Doctor asks both of the women.
All the diseased people in hotel reception start to shuffle towards the lift. Sophia pulls the lever instead of Rose.
"Come and get me. Come on!" The Doctor calls for the diseased people
"I'm in here! Come on!"
"Commence stage one disinfection." The tannoy annouces.
"Hurry up! Come on!" The Doctor still calls for the diseased people.
The contents of the disinfectant tank are poured onto him.
"Come on, come on." The Doctor still is calling for the others.
The first of the humans join him, and get sprayed as well, then leave.
"All they want to do is pass it on. Pass it on!" The Doctor commands the humans.
"Pass on what? Pass on what?" Rose asks.
"The cure!" Sophia explains.
"Pass it on!" The Doctor shouts.
The disinfected and wet humans touch their diseased comrades. There are hisses and steam coming off their skin, which is now clear of symptoms.
The wet Doctor helps Cassandra and Sophia down.
"What did they pass on? Did you kill them? All of them?" Rose asks.
"No. That's your way of doing things." The Doctor tells her. "I'm the Doctor, and I cured them."
A woman hugs the Doctor.
"That's right. Hey, there we go, sweetheart. Go to him. Go on, that's it. That's it. It's a new sub-species, Cassandra. A brand new form of life. New humans! Look at them. Look! Grown by cats, kept in the dark, fed by tubes, but completely, completely alive. You can't deny them, because you helped create them. The human race just keeps on going, keeps on changing. Life will out! Ha." The Doctor explains.
A little later, the quarantine has been formally lifted. The Doctor is still wet.
"This is the NNYPD. Please step away from the shuttles." The New New York Police Department's loudspeaker shouts.
"All staff will present themselves to the officers for immediate arrest. I repeat, immediate arrest. All new life forms will be catalogued and taken into care. All visitors to the hospital will be required to make a statement to the NNYPD." The Tannoy explains.
"The Face of Boe!" The Doctor shouts.
They run to the last person left on the ward.
"You were supposed to be dying." The Doctor says.
"There are better things to do today. Dying can wait." The Face Of Boe tells the Doctor.
"Oh, I hate telepathy. Just what I need, a head full of big face." Rose complains.
"Shut up." Sophia tells Rose.
"I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor, but you have taught me to look at it anew." The Face Of Boe says to him.
"There are legends, you know, saying that you're millions of years old." The Doctor mentions.
"There are? That would be impossible." The Face Of Boe asks.
"Wouldn't it just. I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell me." The Doctor inquires.
"A great secret."
"So the legend says."
"It can wait."
"Oh, does it have to?"
"We shall meet again, Doctor, for the third time, for the last time, and the truth shall be told. Until that day." The Face Of Boe explains as he beams away.
"That is enigmatic. That, that is, that is textbook enigmatic." The Doctor comments. "And now for you."
"But everything's happy. Everything's fine. Can't you just leave me?" Rose asks.
"You've lived long enough. Leave that body and end it, Cassandra." The Doctor commands her.
"I don't want to die." Rose says.
"I don't think anyone does." Sophia comments.
"Help me."
"I can't."
"Mistress!" Chip shouts.
"Oh, you're alive." Rose says.
"I kept myself safe for you, mistress." Chip explains.
"A body. And not just that, a volunteer." Rose comments.
"Don't you dare. He's got a life of his own." Sophia tells Rose, but she doesn't listen.
"But I worship the mistress. I welcome her." Chip says.
"You can't, Cassandra, you." The Doctor argues before the energy transfer takes place and Rose collapses into the Doctor's arms.
"Oh! You all right? Whoa! Okay?" Sophia asks.
"Yeah. Hello!" Rose says.
"Hello. Welcome back." The Doctor tells her.
"Oh, sweet Lord. I'm a walking doodle." Chip comments.
"You can't stay in there. I'm sorry, Cassandra, but that's not fair. I can take you to the city. They can build you a skin tank and you can stand trial for what you've done." The Doctor explains.
"Well, that would be rather dramatic. Possibly my finest hour, and certainly my finest hat, but I'm afraid we don't have time. Poor little Chip is only a half-life, and he's been through so much. His heart is racing so. He's failing. I don't think he's going to last." Chip explains as he falls to his knees.
"Are you all right?" Sophia asks the dying Chip.
"I'm fine. I'm dying, but that's fine." Chip says.
"I can take you to the city." The Doctor tells him.
"No, you won't. Everything's new on this planet. There's no place for Chip and me any more. You're right, Doctor. It's time to die, and that's good." Chip explains.
"Come on. There's one last thing I can do." The Doctor says to him.
The Tardis materialises out of sight of the party.
"Oh no, don't. Stop it. Simply not true. Tiny. The beaches were so dismal, and the mosquitoes were." Casandra explains.
"Thank you." Chip says.
"Just go. And don't look back." Sophia tells him.
"Good luck." Rose says.
"And if you actually see them, you're shocked. But don't quote me on that. Oh, naughty. À bientôt!" Cassandra says.
"Excuse me, Lady Cassandra." Chip asks.
"I'm sorry, I don't need anything right now. I'm fine, thank you." Cassandra explains.
"No, I just wanted to say you look beautiful." Chip says.
"Well, that's very kind, you strange little thing. Thank you very much." Cassandra tells Chip.
"I mean it. You look so beautiful."
"Thank you."
Chip's body collapses. Lady Cassandra cradles him.
"Oh, my Lord. Are you all right? What is it? What's wrong? Someone get some help! Call a medic or something, quickly!" Cassandra asks.
"Who is he?" A woman inquires.
"I don't know. He just came up to me. I don't even know his name. He just collapsed. I think he's dying. Someone do something! I've got you, sweetheart. It's all right. There you are. There you are, I've got you. It'll be all right. There, there, you poor little thing." Cassandra explains.
A/N - So, did you enjoy New Earth. It wasn't as hard as writing Robots Of Sherwood but it was a toughie. So, this is a plan I've wanted to do after I left Adam before Series 8 started. Do a Female Time Lady, and Alisiasa is ours. Now, some people may remember my little start off last summer with Lillithena but here is my OFFICAL Time Lady.
So, Alsisisa is in her eighth incarnation played by Natalie Dormer.