Rose (Camyl).
Song: Seeking the Doctor, Murray Gold, Doctor Who: Series 1 & 2 Soundtrack.
Camyl had never been more conflicted, more torn apart than when she had to make the decision to either stay home or go with the Doctor. She was glad she'd made the right decision.
She'd done what Sonya had told her to do, and had packed as fast as she could. Living in the flat above her friends' had its perks. She didn't have to walk far or ask for a ride, since she didn't own a car, and the three girls went to uni by foot.
However, she almost missed the TARDIS. She started to hear the whirring noise, characteristic of the TARDIS, and saw the blue box flicker. She didn't hesitate and ran off, started pounding on the door, while yelling, "Oi! I'm coming with you! Open the door!"
Then the door opened, a hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her in, shutting the door immediately after, as the TARDIS disappeared back into the vortex and to the universe it belonged.
She looked up at the owner of the hand. It was Cassidy. "Glad you made the right decision." Her friend grinned at her.
Camyl couldn't help but smile at that. "Same." She looked around. "Where do I leave this?" She held up her bag.
The Doctor, who was still doing his best to select a time and place to go next, pointed at one of the doors. "Go through that door, then left, until the end of the corridor, then right, go up five steps, jump two times, then six and keep moving. A door's supposed to appear at the top of the stairs. Go through that door and pick a room."
Camyl was confused for a moment. "All right." She said slowly, and left the console room, mumbling the instructions to herself.
She came back to the console room soon after, and found Cassidy and Sonya talking to the Doctor.
"So, if we're going to be traveling with you, we need gadgets." Cassidy said. "I want a vortex manipulator."
"Oh, oh, I want a sonic screwdriver!" Sonya looked exited.
"Does that mean I can get a psychic paper?" Camyl called out, as she approached the rest.
"Hold on, hold on, first you order your way into my spaceship, and now you want me to give you gadgets?" The Doctor asked.
"Yeah, pretty much." Cassidy nodded. "It might seem to be too much but we won't ask anything else of you, I promise!" She made her puppy dog eyes and the Doctor sighed.
"All right, all right! I'll see what I can do."
Cassidy and Sonya clapped their hands together. "Yay!" They both exclaimed before they high-fived. Camyl chuckled. "If you're wondering, yes, they do act mostly like this." She told the Doctor, who sighed.
"Great." He said sarcastically. "So, where to?"
"Oh! I know! March 5, 2005." Sonya said, obviously excited.
"Let's go, then." Camyl, knowing already how the Doctor's driving could be, grabbed one side of the console as the Doctor flipped switches and pulled levers.
"Allons-y!" Sonya said.
"Geronimo!" Cassidy said, and the Doctor pulled the final lever, and the TARDIS started to move.
Song: Westminster Bridge, Murray Gold, Doctor Who: Series 1 & 2 Soundtrack.
Camyl and the girl had a chat after that, agreeing they wouldn't change big plotlines, because who knew what would happen then? Instead, they'd try to save everyone that died and didn't deserve to die, didn't have to.
And soon, they were off to save Rose from the Autons, though the Doctor didn't know that. He just knew about the Autons. Someone had to stay behind—Doctor's orders—because he'd… What had he said again? He'd bought a vortex manipulator and someone was to deliver it to the TARDIS. Sonya stayed behind, and Camyl and Cassidy were at Henrik's, Rose's shop.
The Doctor had gone down a while ago, and Cassidy was working on some sort of technological artifact. Camyl wasn't very good at science, which was one of the reasons why she was studying journalism instead, but Cassidy had decided to study both filmmaking and computer engineering.
"What are you doing?" Camyl asked her friend.
"It's a bomb. It'll make the place explode, just like in the episode. I've always wanted to know how the Doctor did it, and here I've got a chance." She replied, finishing the device as the doors of the lift opened, and the Doctor walked out, along with a pretty blond girl, with brown eyes. Rose.
"That's just not funny, that's sick!" Rose protested, eyeing the Doctor as if he were crazy. Or an alien. Well, he's both.
"Hold on!" The Doctor pushed her aside. "Mind your eyes." He disabled the lift with his sonic screwdriver, and sparks flew. Rose covered her eyes.
"I've had enough of this now!" She exclaimed.
The Doctor walked to where the girls were, in the middle of the corridor. "Is it ready?"
"Just finished it." Cassidy stood up, holding up the device. "Give the girl a medal." She threw the device at the Doctor, who caught it easily, as Rose walked toward them.
"Who are you? All of ya. Who's that lot down there? I said, who are they?" She insisted when the Doctor started walking again toward the end of the corridor, and Cassidy and Camyl followed.
"They're called Autons." Camyl supplied.
"They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures. They're being controlled by a relay device in the roof. Which would be a great big problem if we didn't have this." The Doctor showed her the bomb. "So!" He opened the fire exit, and held the door open. "We're going to go up there and blow them up, and we might well die in the process. But don't worry about us, no. Go home, go on! Go and have your lovely beans on toast." Rose stepped hesitantely outside, and the Doctor pushed Camyl as well. "Make sure she doesn't try to come back." He told her, and she nodded. "Don't tell anyone about this, because if you do, you'll get them killed." He told Rose, before closing the door.
"Let's go, then." Camyl said. "I'm Camyl, by the way." She extended her hand.
"Rose." The girl shook it, a bit numb.
"Let's go, then." Camyl said, and started moving, but the door opened, and the Doctor and Cassidy poked out.
"I'm the Doctor, by the way, and this is Cassidy, what's your name?" The Doctor asked.
"Rose."
"Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life." The Doctor and Cassidy said at the exact same time, before closing the fire exit door, and Camyl knew they had to move.
"Come on." Camyl said, and started walking, before jogging, and then breaking into a run. They passed the TARDIS. She looked over her shoulder a few times to make sure Rose was following, and she only stopped when she thought they were safe. "So, go on, Rose. Go back home, I've got to go, anyway."
"But—" Rose started to protest, but at the same moment, Henrik's exploded, catching her attention. Camyl took advantage of her distraction, and walked away, breaking into a run as soon as she was out of earshot, and ran toward the TARDIS. She knocked, but not in that desperate way she had before. Sonya opened.
"Camyl! What happened?" She asked.
"The Doctor and Cassidy blew up the shop. Did Cassie's vortex manipulator get here?" She asked.
"Yeah, a couple of minutes ago. How's Rose?"
"Stunned." Camyl entered the TARDIS. "Now we've just got to wait."
Song: Cassandra's Waltz, Murray Gold, Doctor Who: Series 1 & 2 Soundtrack.
While the Doctor had found a psychic paper for her, he still had to make Sonya's sonic screwdriver, but both Camyl and Sonya had a feeling she wouldn't get one any time soon.
The next day, they were looking for the plastic arm, all three of them. Camyl had hurried to the bin where Mickey had tossed the arm but it wasn't there, so she walked up to Rose's flat, just to find her pulling the Doctor, Cassidy and Sonya in.
"You too." Rose said, grabbing her arm and pulling her in.
"What's this about?" Camyl asked, confused, as Rose shut the door.
"Who is it?" Jackie called out from her bedroom.
"It's about last night, they're part of the inquiry. Give us 10 minutes." Rose said, motioning the others to follow her.
"She deserves compensation." Jackie called out. The Doctor lingered at the door while the three girls followed Rose into the living room.
"Don't mind the mess. Do you want a coffee?" Rose asks.
"No, thanks." Camyl shook her head.
"Had some this morning, but thank you anyway." Sonya also refused.
"I'd like coffee. Black, two sugars, please." Cassidy sat down on the couch. Just then, the Doctor appeared, having heard the coffee question.
"Might as well, thanks! Just milk." He said, and Rose disappeared into the kitchen to make coffee.
"We should go to the police. Seriously." Rose said. "All of us—well, at least the ones who were there." But everyone was pretty much ignoring her. Sonya had picked up a book that had been on the table, Cassidy had picked up a pack of cards, and Camyl was giving the couch strange looks.
"That won't last, he's gay and she's an alien." Camyl looked up at the Doctor, who was looking at a magazine.
"I'm not blaming you, even if it was just some sort of joke that went wrong." They could hear Rose still talking, unaware of the others' distractions.
He dropped it back on the table, and looked at the book Sonya was holding, before picking it up, flicking through it and dropping it back in Sonya's lap. "Sad ending."
"They said on the news they'd found a body." Rose.
The Doctor picked up an envelope, and read, "Rose Tyler." Before noticing his own reflexion in the mirror. "Ahh, could've been worse! Look at me' ears."
"All the same, he was nice. Nice bloke." Rose.
Two different conversations at the same time, and trying to focus on both was giving her a headache, so she focused back on the couch. The arm was behind it, she was sure of it.
"Doctor." She said, catching his attention. "The arm we're looking for? It's behind the couch."
Cassidy practically jumped off the couch, cards flying out of her hands and onto the floor. The Doctor leaned behind the sofa, and the arm flew out, the hand grabbing his neck and strangling him.
Cassidy and Camyl tried to pull out the hand while Sonya searched the Doctor's jacket pockets for the sonic screwdriver. She found it just when the hand stopped strangling the Doctor and tried to turn to attack the girls. Camyl lost her grip when the arm tried to fly out but Cassidy didn't, and held it firm as Sonya sonic-ed the plastic, and the arm stopped struggling.
"There." Sonya smiled, looking satisfied. She threw the sonic at the Doctor, who caught it, though it almost fell to the floor.
"I told Mickey to chuck that out." Rose said, as she entered the room with the coffee mugs. She put them on the table.
"And then it came back and it tried to kill us." Sonya said. The Doctor tossed the arm at Rose, who caught it.
"Don't worry now. I've stopped it. 'Armless." The Doctor said.
Sonya snorted. "You stopped it? You were completely useless! We stopped it!" The girl protested.
"Fine, fine, we stopped it." The Doctor corrected himself. Sonya rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, he was just playing the bait." Cassidy said. Rose just looked at them, confused.
"It's just plastic." The blonde girl said.
"Yes, about that, we've got to go." The Doctor stood up and just left. The girls exchanged a glance, and ran off after him.
Camyl wasn't sure she wanted to do that, leave Rose on her own without any answers. At least that's how it felt, anyway. Camyl was sure she wouldn't like it either if she was left like that. But right now, she had to follow the Doctor. They hadn't exactly been nice to him, she felt as if they owed him something.
"Hold on a minute, you can't just go swanning off." Rose protested, as she followed them down the stairs.
"Yes we can. Here we are, this is us, swanning off. See ya!" Cassidy said the Doctor's lines from the show, since the Doctor was far down the stairs, and while he'd probably heard them, he might not want to answer, or they might not hear him.
"Was that arm really moving?" Rose asked. They didn't answer. "You can't just walk away, that's not fair! You've got to tell me what's going on."
"No, we don't." Cassidy said again.
"Sorry." Camyl added.
"Not really." Cass shook her head and hurried to join the Doctor. Sonya and Camyl exchanged glances before running along.
They exited the building, and walked fast, instead of running. "Alright then. I'll go to the police. I'll tell everyone. You said, if I did that, I'd get people killed. So, your choice. Tell me, or I'll start talking."
"Is that supposed to sound tough?" Sonya asked.
"Sort of." Rose replied.
"Doesn't work." They all said at the same time.
"Who are you?"
"We told you! The Doctor, Cassidy, Camyl and Sonya." Sonya said.
"Yeah, all right, but doctor? Doctor what?" Rose asked.
"Just the Doctor." The Doctor replied, slowing down a little.
"The Doctor?" Rose asked.
"Hello." The Dooctor smiled and waved.
"We'll meet you back in the TARDIS, Doctor." Sonya said, grabbing her two best friends by the arms and leading them to the blue box on a corner of the street.
Song: Just Scarecrows to War, Murray Gold, Doctor Who: Series 3 Soundtrack.
Later that night, the Doctor found a lead that would take him to one of the Autons, and with a bit of luck, he could get a part of the plastic man that he could use to trace the place the signal came from.
The Doctor, of course, couldn't explain that easily, and was rambling for at least five minutes. After the first two, Camyl already had a headache, and had decided that she'd had enough techno babble for the day, so she retreated into her room. She heard the TARDIS moving, jumped off her bed after a bit of reading, and walked out of her room, trying to find her way back to the console.
Because the TARDIS was either extremely mad at her or she was just feeling like playing with her for a while, it took her about half an hour to get back to the console, and by then, Rose Tyler had entered the TARDIS for the first time. How did she know? Because as soon as she entered the room, Rose was looking wide-eyed at the interior of the TARDIS before running out without uttering another word.
"Did you get the head?" Camyl asked, as she approached the Doctor. She looked at the console, and found herself looking with Mickey's plastic head. "Never mind. I can see it."
"Ten out of ten for observation." The Doctor replied absent-mindedly.
Before Camyl could say anything else, Rose ran back into the TARDIS.
"It's gonna follow us!" She cried out.
"The assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now, shut up a minute." The Doctor ordered her.
Sonya rolled her eyes. "He means, welcome to the TARDIS."
But Rose was too busy, stil admiring the interior to hear her. Which meant, no one would stop the Doctor from rambling even more techno babble than before. At least, Camyl hoped, this one wouldn't be so bloody complicated.
"You see, the arm is too simple, but the head's perfect." The Doctor said, as if it was obvious to Rose, what they were talking about. "I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source. Right." He turns back to Rose. "Where do you want to start?"
"Um… The inside's bigger than the outside?"
"Yes." The Doctor grinned.
"Yup." Camyl nodded.
"Right-o." Cass said, before making her I-won't-ever-use-this-word-again face.
"Correctimundo." Sonya smiled, before her friends turned back at her and gave her a weird look. "What? Ten said it!"
Camyl, who vaguely remembered the Doctor saying that, quickly following with "I hope I won't say that ever again" or something of the sort, nodded absent-mindedly, focusing back on the Doctor and Rose.
"It's alien." Rose continued, ignoring the girls.
"Yup." The Doctor nodded.
"That's right." Camyl said. Cassidy and Sonya were still rambling about the weirdnesses the Doctors say.
"Are you alien?" She asked them all.
"He is." The three girls said at once, pointing at Nine.
"I am." The Doctor nodded. Rose just stared at him. "Is that all right?"
"Yeah." Rose said.
"It's called the TARDIS, this thing. T-A-R-D-I-S, that's Time And Relative Dimension In Space." A small sob escaped Rose's lips, and Camyl walked toward her, wanting to comfort her. "That's okay. Culture shock. Happens to the best of us."
"I don't think that's what she's upset about, Doctor." Camyl said, and barely registered Sonya and Cassidy nod out of the corner of her eye.
"Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?" Rose asked. Camyl hugged her, and Rose quickly returned the hug.
"Oh... didn't think of that." The Doctor admitted, and thus received glares from pretty much all the girls in the room. Rose and Camyl stopped hugging each other.
"He's my boyfriend. You pulled off his head—they copied him and you didn't even think? And now you're just going to let him melt?!"
"Melt?" The Doctor wasn't the only one who turned around to stare at plastic!Mickey's head melting. Camyl had been so busy worrying about Rose, she hadn't remembered the head melting. "Oh, no no no no no NO!" The Doctor ran frantically around the console, flicking switches, pushing buttons and pulling levers.
"What're you doing?!" Rose asked.
"Reviving the signal, it's fading! Wait I've got it..." The Doctor explained as the TARDIS started shaking, which meant they were moving. "No No No No No No NO!" Rose and Camyl almost fell to the floor, while Sonya and Cassidy managed to get a grip around the console.
"Come on." Camyl pulled Rose toward the console, as best as she could, and they managed to grip the console for support.
"Almost there! Almost there! Here we go!" The Doctor exclaimed, and the TARDIS stopped shaking. He, Cass and Sonya ran out the doors without a word.
"You can't go out there, it's not safe!" Rose ran after him, and Camyl followed.
"I lost the signal, I got so close." The Doctor lamented.
"We've moved! Does it fly?" Rose asked.
"Disappears there, reappears here, you wouldn't understand." The Doctor answered absent-mindedly.
"Come on, Doctor, she's not stupid." Cassidy gave him a stern look, which the Doctor completely ignored when he turned to look at her.
"Would you rather have me say that the TARDIS moves because of a process called 'materialisation', controlled by a component called the dematerialisation circuit which is composed of—" The Doctor started, but Camyl, who'd heard enough techno babble for at least a week, interrupted him,
"Disappears there, reappears here is fine." She said. The Doctor gave Cassidy an I-told-you-so look.
"But if we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing? It's still on the loose." Rose guessed.
"It melted with the head, are you going to witter on all night?" The Doctor, obviously annoyed, asked her.
"I'll have to tell his mother..." Rose said, more to herself than anything. When the Doctor gave her a questioning look, she gave him an incredulous one. "Mickey! I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him, again!" The Time Lord just rolled his eyes. "You were right, you are alien."
Rose turned away, walking away from the little group already, and Camyl called out her name. She didn't turn around, until the Doctor said, "Look, if I did forget some kid called Mickey—"
"Yeah, he's not a kid." Rose interrupted him, but the Doctor continued, as if the interruption hadn't happened.
"It's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, alright?"
"Alright!"
"Yes! It is!"
The three girls looked at each other, as silence settled over them. This was a bit uncomfortable, at least for Camyl. She felt out of place, as if she were eavesdropping on something she shouldn't even be aware about. She shouldn't even be aware of the existance of the Time Lord, yet she was. And she'd traveled with him through time—because she came from the end of the year 2013, couple days after Christmas—and while she had yet to travel with him through space, time was enough to drive anyone mad.
"If you are an alien, then how comes you sound like you're from the North?" Rose suddenly asked.
"Lots of planets have a North." The Doctor protested, folding his arms, looking offended.
"What's a police public call box?" Rose asked.
"It's a telephone box from the 1950s." The Doctor grinned, patting the TARDIS fondly. "It's a disguise."
"I thought it was from the 1960s." Sonya frowned.
"Same difference." The Doctor shrugged.
Rose smiled slightly, and shook her head. "Okay. And this living plastic, what's it got against us?" She asked.
"Nothing, it loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air... Perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. It's food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein plants rotted, so Earth... Dinner!" The Doctor explained.
"Any way of stopping it?" Rose asked.
"Anti-plastic!" The Doctor grinned, as he took out a tube filled with a dark blue liquid, and showed it to Rose.
"Anti-plastic…"
"Anti-plastic! But first we've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?"
"Hold on… Hide what?" Rose asked. Instead of the Doctor, Cassidy stepped in.
"The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal."
"What's it look like?"
"Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London. A huge circular metal structure. Like a wheel… Or an eye." She finished when she turned around to stare at the London Eye.
"Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible." The Doctor completed. Rose and the other two girls also spotted the London Eye. The alien notices them staring at it, and he turns around, facing the Eye, just to turn back toward the girls again, confusion etched on his face.
"What?" The girls nod toward the Eye. He turns around, just to repeat what he did the first time. "What?" The girls insist, wordlessly, but the Doctor still doesn't get it. "What is it? What?"
"God, you're pretty useless." Cassidy, who had no patience at all, sighed, exasperated. "Do you need glasses, Doctor? Are your big ears compensating for your lack of observations skills?" She turned him around, facing the Eye. "The London Eye. Looks like a transmitter, doesn't it? Round and massive, huge metal structure, close to where we're standing, completely invisible, in a way." She finished.
"Oh…" The Doctor turned in a way that he's facing the four girls. "Fantastic!" He grinned, before running off. The four girls exchanged a glance, before following him, also running.
Song: All the Strange, Strange Creatures, Murray Gold, Doctor Who: Series 3 Soundtrack.
They stopped at the foot of the Eye.
"Think of it. Plastic, all over the world. Every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables..."
"The breast implants…" Rose added, making Cassidy and Sonya chuckle.
"Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath." The girls ran off in different directions, trying to find some sort of entrance when they heard Rose calling out for them.
"What about down here?" She asked, once the Doctor and Camyl, who were the ones closest to where she was, joined her.
"Looks good to me." The Doctor grinned, just as Cass and Sonya arrived. They entered the manhole, after taking the lid off it, and letting part of the smoke pour out. They followed the Doctor into some sort of chamber, where they walked down a couple of steps. "The Nestene Consciousness, that's it, inside the vat. A living, plastic creature." The alien said, pointing to a big mass of wobbling liquid plastic, if that's what it is.
"Well, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go." Rose said.
"I'm not here to kill it. I've got to give it a chance." The Doctor walked down a couple of steps, Cassidy right next to him.
"We seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract. According to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." The girl said. The Doctor gave her a questioning look, but didn't say anything.
In the show, you could only hear the Consciousness wobbling about, making weird noises, but since they'd actually traveled in the TARDIS, the ship translated it for Camyl, Sonya and Cassidy.
"You have permission to speak. Approach." The Consciousness said.
"Thank you. That we might have permission to approach." The Doctor said.
"Oh, my God! Mickey! It's okay! It's alright!" Rose rushed to help her boyfriend, and Sonya and Camyl jogged to where the couple were as well.
"That thing down there, the liquid, Rose—it can talk!" Mickey exclaimed, overwhelmed. Then, he seemed to notice the other two girls. "Who are you?"
"They're the girls I told you about." Rose said. "Sonya and Camyl." The girls waved as they were introduced.
"Now don't move." Sonya said, approaching him, taking out a knife out of one of her boots. Mickey's eyes widened, and tried to scoot away from her. Sonya rolled her eyes. "I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm gonna cut you free, so don't move." She said firmly, and Mickey obeyed and stayed still, as Sonya cut him loose.
"You're stinking!" Rose said, before turning to the Doctor. "Doctor, they kept him alive!"
"Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy." Cassidy answered absent-mindedly, already making her way to the Consciousness, followed by the Doctor.
"You knew that and you never said?" Rose's eyes widened, as she looked at each member of the group.
"Sorry." Sonya and Camyl apologised simultaneously.
"Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?" The Doctor rolled his eyes at them. Rose helped Mickey to his feet, and the four of them gathered to watch the Doctor and Cassidy's audience with the Consciousness.
"Are we addressing the Consciousness?" Cassidy asked.
"Yes."
"Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warped, shunt technology. So, may I suggest that you shunt off?" The girl demanded
"If I recall the article 11 of the Polymos Constitution—" The Consciousness started, but the Doctor cut it off.
"Oh don't give us that, it's an invasion! Plain and simple! Don't talk about constitutional rights!"
"Do not interrupt me. You asked to talk—"
The Doctor interrupted again. "I. Am. Talking! This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf—please, just go."
Four Autons approached them, two behind the Doctor and two behind Cassidy.
"Doctor!" Rose exclaimed.
"Cass!" Camyl and Sonya called out.
Too late. The Autons grabbed them, one of them taking the anti-plastic filled tube out of the Doctor's jacket pocket. "That was just insurance! We weren't going to use it."
"Oh, really? Because this certainly looks as if you were attacking me!" The Consciousness retorted angrily. "And you'll soon find out to what I do to my enemies! And you are one of the worst enemies my kind could ever have after what you did! Because this is your ship, isn't it?"
"We were not attacking you. We're here to help. We're not your enemies. I swear, we're not—"
"What do you mean?" The Doctor interrupted Cassidy. A door opened, revealing the TARDIS. "Oh, oh no—honestly, no! Yes, that's my ship."
"You are one of them—one of the Time Lords! You destroyed my planet! And now I'm going to destroy this planet you care so much about!"
"That's not true. I should know, I was there. I fought in the war—it wasn't my fault! I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them!" The Doctor protested.
"What's it doing?!" Rose asked. Camyl had forgotten she couldn't hear the Consciousness' half of the conversation.
"It's the TARDIS! The Nestene has identified its superior technology—it's terrified! It's going to the final base. It's starting the invasion! Get out, Rose! Just leg it! Sonya, Camyl, you too! Get out! Now!" The Doctor insisted, but Camyl saw him turn to Cassidy. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."
"Don't worry, Doctor. I signed up for this when I decided to join you." Cassidy told him. Camyl didn't register Rose phoning her mum, and just stared at the scene happening in front of her until Sonya grabbed her arm, pulling her toward the spaceship.
"It's the activation signal! It's transmitting!" She faintly heard the Doctor calling out.
"The end of the world..." Rose muttered, but Camyl was close enough to hear her, and she nodded numbly.
"Come on, guys! Get inside the TARDIS!" Sonya ordered as she fumbled to get her key out of her jeans pocket, and then trying to open the door.
"Why don't we just get out the way you came in?" Mickey asked.
"The stairs have gone." Rose replied.
"Just get inside!" Sonya ordered, having opened the door. Mickey stumbled on his feet, but managed to get inside, trying to back out as soon as he saw the interior. Sonya just pushed him back inside. "Mickey, we've got no time for culture shock. Stay inside." She turned to Rose and Camyl. "Girls! Come on!"
But Camyl and Rose were too busy watching the Doctor struggling to get the anti-plastic. Camyl stood up and picked up an axe.
"Cam! No time for heroics, get inside!" She heard Sonya call out, but completely ignored her.
She hacked at a chain on the wall trying to release it. Her heart was pounding, when she managed to get it free. She grabbed it, and breathed in and out two times before Rose got to her.
"Let me." She extended her hand for the chain.
Camyl didn't have to think about it. She gave Rose the chain.
"I've got no A Levels. No job. No future." She said. "But you know what I've got?" She asked Camyl, who stayed quiet, as she stepped aside. "Jericho Street Junior School under 7s gymnastic team." The girls took a deep breath. "I've got the bronze."
Camyl watched as Rose swung across the gap over the Consciousness, kicking the Autons holding the Doctor hostage. When she was swinging back, she kicked the ones holding Cassidy. The girl helped Rose release the chain and get to where she and the Doctor were, and the three of the watched as the anti-plastic fell onto the Consciousness's wobbling mass. The Consciousness screamed, and Camyl covered her ears, falling onto her knees. It was too much. A cry of agony, that chilled her to the core.
Sonya ran up to her and helped her up, constantly wincing, as she led her best friend to the TARDIS. The Doctor, Rose and Cassidy were close behind, and Cass closed the door behind them, the Doctor rushing to the console, and the TARDIS dematerialised.
Song: The Doctor's Theme, Murray Gold, Doctor Who: Series 1 & 2 Soundtrack.
As soon as they materialised, Mickey ran out of the TARDIS, almost falling to the ground as he did. He backed against a wall, completely terrified. Rose, instead, just stepped out, dialing her mum's number on her phone.
The girls and the Doctor stayed inside for a moment. "Are you going to invite her to come with us?" Sonya asked him.
"I don't know." The Doctor admitted. "I was thinking of doing just that but—"
"But what?" Cassidy asked. "She's smart, she's got better observation skills than you do, and she's brave. Brave enough to try and save your life and mine when she could've died, hadn't she made it."
"Point taken. I'll ask her." The Doctor sauntered off, and the girls stayed back as he asked Rose. After a moment, the Doctor shut the door, and walked back to the console, pushing buttons, flicking switches and pulling levers. The TARDIS dematerialised.
"She said no?" Camyl guessed.
"It's her loss." The Doctor said. "So, where do you want to go next?"
"Did you mention this was a time machine?" Cassidy asked.
"No."
"Ask again." All three girls said at once.
"I don't ask twice."
"Ask again." The girls repeated.
The Doctor looked at them, before sighing, and choosing his destination. He walked back to the door, and said, "By the way, did I mention, it also travels in time?"
He walked back in, the door wide open, and grinning like mad. "She agreed, didn't she?" Cass asked smugly.
"Well I hope so. It would look bad if I just assume she does and leave the door open for her when she doesn't, wouldn't it? Terrible for my reputation." He said. Seconds later, Rose ran inside, just to find the whole crew grinning at her.