Author's Note: It's Abby! Okay, here's part 2 of Rose! R&R!
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who or any other books, movies, music, etc I use in my story. I only own Ree and any other characters I make up.
Ree's POV:
After going down a few wrong turns, we managed to track this signal down to a pizza parlor. We walked in and saw Rose and some guy at a table. They were totally ignoring us. The Doctor pointed he sonic at them, then turned to me.
"The signal's coming from the man next to Rose," he said.
"Okay. How are we supposed to get to the Nestene consciousness with that?" I asked.
"We'll need the head," he stated, then grabbed a champagne bottle and went towards their table. I quickly followed. He stopped at their table, where they were arguing about something. A closer look told me they were talking about the Doctor.
"Here's your champagne," the Doctor said, but Plastic Mickey ignored him.
"We didn't order any champagne. Where's the Doctor?" he asked Rose again.
"Madam, your champagne," I told Rose, but I was ignored as well.
"It's not ours. Mickey, what is it? What's wrong?" she asked him worriedly.
"I need to find out what he knows, so where is he?" Plastic Mickey asked harshly.
"Doesn't anybody want this champagne?" the Doctor complained.
"Look, we didn't order it-" Plastic Mickey looked up. "Ah, gotcha."
"Don't mind me, I'm just toasting the happy couple. On the house!" The Doctor started shaking the bottle. The top popped off and sunk into Plastic Mickey's forehead and he spit it out his mouth.
"Anyway," Plastic Mickey said, turning his hand into a chopper and smashed the table in half. The Doctor tackled him and pulled off it's head.
"Don't think that's gonna stop me," the head said. People started screaming and Rose sounded the fire alarm, getting everyone outside the restaurant.
"Everyone out! Get out now!" I yelled, pushing a couple towards an exit. I saw the Doctor and Rose going out to the kitchen, so I hopped across the tables that were still standing to reach them and leave.
We got out of the place and locked the plastic body in there. The Doctor used his sonic on it to stop it. Rose rushed over to the gate and tried to open it.
"Open the gate! Use that tube thing, come one!" she yelled.
"Sonic screwdriver," I corrected.
"Use it!" she yelled again.
"Nah. Tell you what, let's go in here," he said, following me into the TARDIS.
"We can't hide inside a wooden box!" she cried.
"This isn't a wooden box!" I called. A few seconds later, she burst inside and shut the doors. She looked around, shocked, then ran back outside, only to come in again.
"It's gonna follow us!" she said.
"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 told Rose. I smacked his arm.
"Be nice!" I scolded.
"Fine! You see, the arm was too simple, but a head's perfect. I can use it's signal to trace it back to the original source," he explained to us. "Right, where do you want to start?"
"Um, the inside's bigger than the outside?" she said uncertainly.
"Yep!" I replied cheerfully. I let the Doctor explain the rest while I raced to the kitchen to get a cookie. When I get back, she's crying.
"What did you do?" I yelled at him and gave a Rose a hug.
"It's all right, just a bit of culture shock, happens to the best of us," he said.
"Did they kill him? Mickey?" she asked. "Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?"
"Oh. I didn't think of that," the Doctor said, which caused me to go back us and punch his shoulder again.
"Ugh! You can be such an idiot!" I told him.
"He's my boyfriend. You pulled off his head, they copied him, and you didn't even think? And now you're just gonna let him melt?" she said through tears.
"Melt?" The Doctor looked at the head, and sure enough, it was melting."Oh, no, no, no, no!"
"What are you doing?" Rose questioned.
"He's following the signal. but it's fading since the head is melting," I explained to her as I gave her another hug.
"Wait a minute. I've got it," he said quietly, but then, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no!"
"Almost there!" he yelled. When we landed, he launched himself out of the doors, with me closely following.
"Don't go out there! It's not safe!" Rose called, following us.
"I lost the signal. I got so close," he told me, frustrated.
"We've moved," Rose stated. "Does it fly?"
"Disappears her and reappears there, you wouldn't understand," he replied, looking at the water.
"If we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing?" she asked.
"It melted with the head," I said.
"Are you gonna witter on all night?" the Doctor asked rudely, which earned another smack from yours truely.
"I'll have to tell his mother. I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him, again!" she yelled at him. "You were right, you are alien."
"Look, if I did forget some kid called Mickey-" he started.
"Yeah, he's not a kid!" she interrupted.
"It's because I'm busy trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering about on top of this planet. all right?" he shouted.
" 'All right'?!" she yelled back.
"Yes, it is!" he shouted.
"OH MY GODS, SHUT IT! JUST FUCKING SHUT IT! WE AREN'T GOING TO GET ANYTHING DONE IF WE JUST SIT HERE ON OUR ASSES AND YELL AT EACH OTHER! OKAY?" I practically screamed.
"Okay," they both muttered.
"If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the North?" Rose asked the Doctor.
"Lots of planets have a North," he retorted.
"I thought I said stop arguing!" I shouted, giving them both my best death glare. They backed away a few steps.
"What's a police public call box?" Rose asked quietly.
"It's a telephone box, from the 1950s," he explained. "It's a disguise."
"Okay," Rose chuckles. "And this living plastic, what has it got against us?"
"Nothing! it loves you!" I said.
"You've got such a good planet- lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air- perfct," the Doctor added. "Just what the Nestene consciousness needs. It;s food stock was destroyed in the Time War, all it's protein planets rotted, so Earth equals dinner!'
"Anyway of stopping it?" she asked.
"Anti-plastic," he relied, pulling a tube of blue liquid from his jacket. "But first, we've got to find it. How can you hid something that big in a city this small?"
"Hold on, hide what?" Rose asked confused.
"The transmitter," he explained. "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, somewhere slap-bag in the middle of London. A huge metal circular structure. Like a dish, a wheel. Radial. Close to where we're standing, must be completely invisible."
I looked and saw that in front of us was the London Eye. Rose and I looked at each other, nodding to inform the other that they both figured it out. We looked behind him and he turned around, then back to us.
"What?" We look behind him, nodding our heads in that direction. It takes us three more tried to get him to notice the London Eye. "What is it?" We just rolled our eyes, then looked back over to the Eye.
"Oh. Fantastic," he said smiling. He raced down the sidewalk on the bridge with Rose and I behind him. He reached out and grabbed one of our hands and pulled us ran down some stairs and over to the Eye. We stopped in front of it for a moment.
"Think of it. Plastic, all over the world. Every artificial thing waiting to come alive," he mused. "The shop-window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables-"
"The breast implants," Rose interrupted, sending me into fits of laughter.
"Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath," he pondered. Rose went over the the railing and pointed out a hatch on the ground..
"What about down here?" she asked. We rushed over and saw what she was talking about. I leaned over the railing to see what she was talking about since I'm so short.
"Looks good to me," the Doctor replied. He went down a set of stairs towards the hatch and opened it. He climbed the ladder down, Rose went second, and I jumped in last. We went through another door and into a room, with a pit of melted plastic in the middle.
"The Nestene consciousness," the Doctor pointed out, confirming my suspicions. "The thing in that vat there. A living plastic creature."
"Well, then, tip in your anti-plastic and let's go," Rose said blatantly.
"We're not here to kill it," I told her. "We've got to give it a chance. Every living creature has a chance. If they waste it, fine by me, but they still get one."
"Well said, Ree," the Doctor complimented. He walked to a balcony in front of the Consciousness. I went and stood next to him.
"I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract, according to convention fifteen of the Shadow Proclamation," he said. The Consciousness grumbled in response.
"Thank you. If I might have permission to approach," he asked. More grunts. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Rose run over to Mickey.
"Doctor, they kept him alive," she told him.
"Yeah that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy," he said, going down closer to the Consciousness with me following.
"You knew that and you never said?' Rose questioned.
"Can we keep the domestics outside? Thank you," he replied, going down the stairs. I hopped down them, three at a time. We walked on to a platform near the Consciousness.
"Am I addressing the Consciousness?" he asked the blob. A shape resembling a face appeared in it. "Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off." The blob made some squealing noises, sounding offended. "Oh, don't give me that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights." More growls.
"I AM TALKING!" he yelled, interrupting it. "This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learned how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf, please just go."
"Doctor! Ree!" Rose shouted, pointing behind us. Suddenly, my arms were pinned behind me by plastic dummies, same with the Doctor. I kept struggling against them. I saw one of the dummies restraining the Doctor pulled the anti=plastic from his jacket.
"That was just insurance. I wasn't gonna use it," he tried to explain. The creature growled some more. "I'm not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy, I swear I'm not." The creature grunted again and the Doctor looked confused. "What do you mean?"
A door opened behind us, revealing the TARDIS. "Oh, oh, no. Honestly, no. Yes, that's my ship," he told the blob. It squealed some more, making the Doctor's face fall to a frown.
"That's not true! I should know. I was there!" he yelled at it. "I fought in the war. It wasn't my fault. I couldn't save your world. I couldn't save any of them." His voice sounded so sad, regretful even.
"What's it doing?" I asked at the same time as Rose.
"It's the TARDIS," he told us. "The Nestene's identified superior technology. It's terrified. It's going to the final phase. It's starting the invasion! Get out, Rose! Just leg it! Now!"
Rose ignored him and pulled out her mobile, probably to phone her mum.
"The activation signal! It's transmitting!" the Doctor cried. A blue beam was sent out to every single piece of plastic. "Get out Rose! Just get out!"
"The stairs have gone!" she shouted. She took Mickey over to the TARDIS, then looked around. The dummies were really starting to hurt me and they were pulling us closer to the blob. She ran over to a chain and pulled on it, mumbling to herself. She grabbed the chain and swung Tarzan-style across the room, knocking over the dummies restraining me and sending the one holding the anti-plastic into the Consciousness.
The Doctor caught Rose and pulled her into the TARDIS. I followed, dragging Mickey as well. The Doctor started the engines and got us out as we left the place. I heard explosions outside of the ship.
Mickey ran out of it once we stopped, totally freaked. Rose walked out too. She took out her mobile, dialing a number. It was a short call.
"Fat lot of good you were," she said, going over to Mickey.
"Nestene Consciousness? Easy," the Doctor said from the door way of the TARDIS, snapping his fingers. I slipped under his arm and walked outside, leaning against the side, crossing my arms.
"You were useless in there," Rose told us. "You'd be dead if it wasn't for me."
"Yeah, I suppose so," I said.
"Thank you," he murmured. "Right, then. We'll be off, unless, I don't know..."
"Do you want to come with us?" I finished. "This box doesn't just travel through London. It takes you anywhere in any galaxy. Free of charge!"
"Don't! They're aliens!" warned Mickey.
"Oi! I'm 100% human!" I shouted, feeling offended.
"He's not wrong about me," he told them. "You could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go, uh... anywhere."
"Is it always this dangerous?" she questioned.
"Sometimes, yeah," I replied. Mickey wrapped his arms around her waist, squeezing her tight.
"Yeah, I can't. I've, um... I've got to find my mum and someone's got to look out for this stupid lump, so..." she trailed off, the grin slipping off my face.
"Okay," the Doctor said. "See you around." We turned and walked back into the TARDIS. I stopped and waved good bye. The Doctor closed the door and turned on the engines.
"Wait!" I told him. "We forgot something!" He looked at me, but turned around. I peeked out the door and looked at Rose. "Oh yeah, did I mention it also travels in time?"
Rose came running into the TARDIS after a few seconds. "Welcome back to the TARDIS!" I said. I dragged her towards the kitchen and gave her a cupcake.
"What's this for?" she asked, confused.
"It's a cupcake for you to eat," I told her.
"Yeah, but why do you have cupcakes?" she asked again.
"Oh, I almost forgot! Today's my birthday!" I said excited.
"Oh, well, happy birthday Ree!" she said. "How old are you?"
"Um, eighteen, I think. Yeah, eighteen."
"Cool, I'm nineteen." We each have a cupcake, then bring one for the Doctor back to the console room. I went back to my room, I was so tired out. On my bed, wrapped up in blue wrapping paper, was a gift. I picked it up and read the tag. It said 'To: Ree From: Sexy.' I smiled, unwrapping it. It was a manual on how to drive the TARDIS. I thanked her, then went down into the console room, where the other two were waiting.
Author's Note: Okay, thanks for reading! Review, favorite, and/or follow! It means a lot to me! Ree's outfit for this chapter/episode is on my Polyvore, there's a link in my bio. :) (Sorry for the crappy ending, didn't know how to end it.)
