THE STOLEN EARTH
This is written in novel format with words, and my own words based on the episode, along with the addition of a 'new character'. Some words and scenes may not be alike. Constructive feedback is recommended, but not enforced. I have done my best to research so this 'new character' can fit in perfectly.
Everything seemed perfectly normal in this perfectly ordinary suburban street. It appeared to be early morning, when suddenly a whooshing noise startled a couple of birds feeding on a few chip scraps in the middle of the road. The TARDIS phased into view, and seconds later, The Doctor rushed out into the middle of the road looking quite startled, followed by his companion, Donna Noble.
The Doctor hurriedly looked for anything that didn't seem ordinary. "It's fine... Everything's fine. Nothing's wrong, all fine!"
Donna dropped her mouth open to start a reply, when she was interrupted by a milk truck stopping by them, and the Doctor ran up to the driver as the Milkman placed some crates in front of a house.
"'Scuse me, what day is it?" The Doctor asked, attempting to look a bit daft so not to confuse the poor Milkman, no doubt he'd encountered many strange things on his deliveries, such as one day greeting Jackie Tyler two years ago wearing nothing but a very short silk nightie and was called inside for a brief spot of breakfast.
The hardly startled milkman gazed at the Doctor and rubbed his nose. "Saturday", he replied effortlessly.
The Doctor merely nodded, but replied rather quickly with "Saturday. Good. Good, I like Saturdays".
Letting the Milkman return on his daily rounds, Donna continued to question the Doctor on her recent meeting. "So, I just met Rose Tyler?"
The Doctor peered at Donna somewhat before nodding. "Yeah",
Donna gazed at him confused. Hadn't he been constantly telling her that Rose had been trapped in a parallel world? "But she's locked away in a parallel world", she questioned, hoping the Doctor remembered this fact.
Of course, he did remember this fact, and the fact was... something bad was happening. Something, horrible, something that could no doubt cause the entire universe to collapse around him, he answered Donna with a quick: "Exactly. If she can cross from her parallel world to your parallel world, than that means the walls of the universe are breaking down. Which puts everything in danger, everything... but how?"
The Doctor raced back into the TARDIS, Donna following suit, something she had got used to rather quickly. Unknown to them, outside, the milk bottles began to rattle. The Milkman gazed at the bottles shaking before suddenly the entire earth started to shake. He dashed back into his truck and aimed for a quick getaway.
The Doctor frowned as he was fiddling with the controls of the TARDIS. Millions of thoughts rushed through his mind in a matter of seconds, one thought still remaining: Rose. How on earth could she be passing through from her universe to this one, and survive... without a TARDIS? He had to destroy a small sun to say goodbye to her, and even then it was more or less a holographic image.
He could feel his hand, which had been severed during that fateful Christmas Day where he fought the Sycorax and succeeded, bubbling by his foot. Something told him to keep it handy; after all... it was a pretty good hand.
He noticed Donna walking up beside him, as she quietly watched him messing about with the TARDIS controls.
"Thing is, Doctor. No matter what's happening, and I'm - I'm sure it's bad, I get that. But, Rose is coming back. Isn't that good?" Donna asked the question a little more gently, knowing Rose was definitely a sensitive subject when it came to the Doctor.
The Doctor looked up, greeting Donna with one of his lopsided grins. Yes, there was a chance that Rose was coming back... but there was another who could be coming back as well. He tried to push that idea to the back of his mind. Rose was all that mattered, Rose and stopping the universe from collapsing all around them.
"Yeah", he finally said, his grin vanishing within a second as a loud noise interrupted them, and the Doctor found himself grabbing onto a section of the TARDIS as it began to shake violently.
"What the hell was that?" Donna asked in her typical surprised tone, attempting to stand upright.
The Doctor thought about the noise quickly. It didn't sound like it came from inside the TARDIS, no, he knew his beloved TARDIS like the back of his hand... including the one bubbling by his foot. He knew every sound the TARDIS made, every groan, every sigh... but this... was different. Like Rock. "It came from outside", he made a brisk run for the door and yanked it open, staring into complete darkness. Asteroids floating about like no tomorrow. He didn't push anything to make the TARDIS travel, Donna didn't, either. He constantly told her not to push anything unless he told her to.
"We're in space!" The Doctor exclaimed, facing Donna who gave him a sort of 'duh', type look.
"I can see that, but how?" She was trying to make sense of the asteroids floating around them. She turned as the Doctor ran back to the console. 'Lots of running', she swore she lost a dress size during her time with the Doctor. "What did you do?"
"We haven't moved", the Doctor started, glancing at the monitor furiously, trying to find answers. "We're fixed... can't have, no!" His face dropped to a look of disbelief as Donna looked at him; mouth gaped, waiting for a sensible answer. The Doctor ran to the door and looked out at space once more, when he finally came to a conclusion. "We haven't moved, but the Earth has gone... the whole planet. It's gone".
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MEANWHILE: FAR ACROSS THE UNIVERSE IN NEW YORK...
An office building appeared to be in complete shambles following the strange movement that the Milkman had experienced earlier. Cables sparked and smoked, a few office workers were laying on the ground, and then a familiar face woke up from a brief state of unconsciousness. Martha Jones, a former companion to the Doctor and a Doctor of her own study, she currently works for UNIT. She lifted up her head with a groan.
"What was that?" Martha found herself interrupted by a voice over the PA.
"Emergency systems are online".
Other soldiers in the office start to get to their feet, groaning and all wondering what had happened. New York was not one prone to Earthquakes, and for a brief second, some feared it could've been another alien attack, or worse, another 9/11.
Martha looked around at her workmates and then shook her head back to reality. She rose to her feet. "Is anyone hurt?" she peered in another circular motion to see people shaking their heads. "We've lost power; will someone get the lights back on? DaCosta, see to it right now! Suzanne, are you okay?"
Suzanne, a workmate of Martha's in the field of simple Admin, was in a shocked state as she stared out of the window. "Look at the sky", she breathed, having seen nothing like it in reality, but only in her dreams. "Martha, look at the sky!"
"Why? What is it?" Unlike Suzanne, Martha had seen things beyond Suzanne's simple view of reality.
"Just look at the sky!"
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NOT TOO FAR AWAY... IN CARDIFF...
The Torchwood crew were struggling to hold up monitors and priceless artifacts as the ground shook once more. Captain Jack Harkness wiped his brow in a quick movement as he glanced around to ensure his team were okay, eventually letting go of an important piece of rock.
"Whoa! What happened? Gwen? Ianto? Are you two okay?"
"No broken bones, slight loss of dignity. No change there, then", replied Ianto with a frown, as he brushed himself over.
Gwen, who appeared to be in complete shock, declared "The whole city must've felt that... the whole of South Wales!" she hoped Jack had an answer to this seemingly odd event, and she adjusted her blouse before running her fingers through her hair. "Did anyone else just see..." a brief flash of light appeared out of the corner of her eye, but by the time anyone noticed her comment, Jack was already half way up the stairs.
"I'm gonna take a look outside", he said, with a swish of his cloak, and he was gone.
Gwen sighed and sat next to Ianto at a computer terminal. "Little bigger than South Wales", Ianto said with a shrug as a new display showed various spots of red all over the globe.
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JUST DOWN THE ROAD, IN EALING, LONDON.
Sarah Jane Smith, former companion to the Doctor and proud mother of a rather brilliant son, shook herself back to reality as she hopped to her feet and searched for her son amongst fallen debris. "Luke! Are you all right?"
Luke Smith got to his feet. The young man shook some dust out of his hair and glanced over his mother for any obvious injuries, before nodding with satisfaction. "Felt like some sort of cross-dimensional spatial transference".
Noting her son's observation, sounding oddly more and more like the Doctor every day, she ran to the window and pulled the curtains open. Noticing darkness, she glances at her son in surprise. "But it's night! It wasn't night... it was eight o'clock in the morning!" She turned to a wall nearby. "Mr Smith... I need you!"
An energetic trumpet fan fare filled the room, constantly boring both Sarah Jane and Luke. The pair rolled their eyes. Mr Smith, a supercomputer, appeared from behind the wall. "Can you stop giving such a dramatic entrance and simply give me an answer!"
Mr Smith answered in a rather calm voice: "Sarah Jane, take a look outside. I think you will find the visual evidence quite conclusive".
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OKAY, SO NOW WE ARE IN CHISWICK, LONDON.
Armed with a baseball bat, Donna Noble's grandfather, Wilf, entered into the street, shaking the baseball bat at the sky in defiance. He knew something like this would happen sooner or later, and he was going to defend his family no matter the cost.
"It's gone dark! It's them aliens! I'll bet my pension... What d'you want this time, you green swine?!"
Donna's mother, Sylvia, looked at the sky in fright.
"Dad", she said, pulling on the sleeve of Wilf's jacket. "Look at the sky", the words escaped her lips as if she were choking.
"Look, you get back inside!" he said, shrugging off her arm and shoving her in the direction of the house. "They always go after the women!"
"No, Dad, just look! Oh my God, look at the sky!"
Wilf took a breath and peered upward, his eyes widening. He'd never seen anything like it. He gripped onto his daughter's hand. Only the Doctor could save them now.
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Luke and Sarah Jane were staring at the same sky, the same shocked expressions appearing on their faces. "That's impossible", Sarah Jane admitted with a brief blink to make sure she wasn't in the TARDIS.
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Captain Jack Harkness had seen many things in his lifetime, but he'd never seen anything like this. "That's just impossible", he said with a shake of his head.
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Martha Jones and the rest of her UNIT team were staring at the sky with the same look of confusion on their face. "It can't be..."
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Back on that same ordinary street, this time covered by an extraordinary sky, the Milkman was staring up and questioning if his affairs were in order. Suddenly, a woman wearing a blue jacket and jeans with blonde hair came running out of what looked like a teleport wielding a big gun. The Milkman then checked his pulse to make sure he hadn't completely fallen down dead.
Rose Tyler looked up at the sky without a simple look of surprise as the others had shared. She cocked the weapon. "Right, now we're in trouble... it's only just beginning".
Finally, we follow her view... and just like their shocked expressions... yours turn to the same... as suddenly a dark sky filled with foreign planets are lining your sky that you had never seen before in your life time.