CHAPTER 3: Journey's End
His arms were outstretched and his face bent backwards, dazzling gold light erupting from his hands and neck, engulfing his entire figure and fiercely illuminating the room. It was bright, too bright. Almost blinding, but I couldn't move my eyes away. I was only just aware of Jack and Donna on either side of me, yet I was still clinging to both of them in dread. I could feel time ticking past; it seemed like hours, but I knew it only lasted seconds. Unexpectedly, Dad pointed his arms to the side, with the beams of gold still gushing from his hands. It hit a glass jar on the floor in front of our feet, and abruptly all of the glistening fire extinguished. The four of us stared, disbelief smeared across our faces, as Dad straightened up with a slight stumble and sniffed.
"Now then. Where were we?" He looked at us, and walked a couple of paces to bend down to the jar.
"There now," he said smiling, and blew over the glass. I looked up at Jack. Would he know what the hell happened? Apparently he didn't, because he simply gaped with the same confusion as Donna, Rose and me.
"You see?" Dad exclaimed, grinning up at us casually.
"What?" I replied.
"I used the regeneration energy to heal myself, but as soon as that was done, I didn't need to change," he explained. "I didn't want to. Why would I? Look at me." I smirked. Boasting seemed to be a perfect trait for my Dad.
"So, to stop the energy going all the way, I siphoned off the rest into a handy bio-matching receptacle, namely my hand," he continued. "My hand there. My handy spare hand." He stood up, still grinning, and focused his attention on Rose, the blonde girl I'd just met a few short minutes ago.
"Remember? Christmas Day, Sycorax. Lost my hand in a sword fight? That's my hand," He said to her. I was now entirely lost: Christmas, Sycorax… I had no idea what any of these words meant. It was also only then that I realised the jar had a whole Time Lord hand suspended inside.
"What do you think?" Dad asked Rose. She stepped forwards slowly, an unreadable expression on her face, and put her hand on his chest.
"You're still you?" She asked tentatively.
"I'm still me." Dad replied with a warm smile. Rose immediately jumped up and threw her arms around his neck, hugging him tightly. He did the same, an entirely honest and true smile beaming. I suspected there was something between my Dad and Rose; they had a kind of obvious connection, and although I'd only seen them together for a matter of minutes, they clicked. They're joy was infectious as I felt a smile creep on to my own lips, and I heard Jack let out a relieved laugh next to me.
"You can hug me, if you want," Donna said to Jack. "No really, you can hug me." I laughed as Jack suddenly became very awkward, and I leapt up to squeeze his neck and release my tension.
"And you!" Dad suddenly yelled, breaking his and Rose's contact, and chuckling happily at me.
"You!" I repeated, letting go of Jack and throwing myself at Dad instead. Relief washed over me as I realised how close I came to losing him again. "I thought I'd never find you!"
"I thought you were dead!" He replied. "Must have more of your old Dad in you than I thought."
"Never a bad thing," I said, smiling up at him.
"Not if it saved your life," Dad replied, still grinning, but with an edge of anxiety as his voice dropped a decibel. "And hello again, Captain!" Suddenly, all the lights dimmed and we heard a loud crash, the room rocking violently.
"They've got us!" Dad yelled, rushing to the control panels. "Power's gone… some kind of chronon loop!"
"There's a massive Dalek ship at the centre of the planets," Jack began. "They're calling it the Crucible. Guess that's our destination."
"You said these planets were like an engine. But what for?" Donna asked.
"Rose!" Dad said suddenly, a sort of realisation obviously dawning on him. "You've been in a parallel world. That world's running ahead of this universe, you've seen the future. What was it?"
"It's the darkness." Rose replied sadly.
"The stars were going out," Donna supported.
"One by one," Rose nodded. "We looked up at the sky and they were just dying. Basically, we've been building this… this travelling machine, this dimension canon, so I could… well, so I could…"
"What?" Dad said with a smug grin forming.
"So I could come back," Rose replied. "Shut up!" She seemed embarrassed as Dad giggled with mischief.
"Anyway, suddenly it started to work, and the dimensions started to collapse. Not just in our world, not just in yours, but the whole of reality. Even the Void was dead," Rose continued. "Something is destroying everything."
"In that parallel world, you said something about me." Donna asked her.
"The dimension canon could measure timelines, and it's weird, Donna, but they all seemed to converge on you." Explained Rose.
"But why me?" Donna asked with exasperation. "I mean, what have I ever done? I'm a temp from Chiswick!" Dad and Rose both looked incredulously at her as she spoke, as if they knew better. Even I saw that Donna was not just anybody. She was more than a 'temp', whatever that was. Just then, the ship's screen lit up and beeped, indicating its landing.
"The Dalek Crucible," Said Dad. "All aboard."
-~oOo~-
From outside we heard the shrill call of the Daleks.
"The TARDIS is secured."
"Doctor, you will step forth or die."
"We'll have to go out," Dad started with little expression. "Because if we don't, they'll get in."
"You told me nothing could get through those doors." Rose said.
"You've got extrapolator shielding." Jack added.
"Last time we fought the Daleks they were scavengers and hybrids and mad. But this is a fully-fledged Dalek empire at the height of its power. Experts at fighting TARDISes, they can do anything," Dad explained bleakly. "Right now, that wooden door is just wood."
"You've fought them before?" I asked worriedly. They must have been pretty powerful if Dad had already defeated them, and they were back with a vengeance.
"Countless times." Dad nodded.
"What about your dimension jump?" Jack asked Rose.
"It needs another twenty minutes. And anyway, I'm not leaving." Rose replied.
"What about your teleport?" Dad suggested.
"Went down with the power loss." Jack replied.
"Got anything, Jenny?" Dad asked. That was the second time someone asked me for help, and I was useless.
"No, I came with Jack," I answered, slightly ashamed. "Sorry Dad."
"No, it's fine," He replied. "Right then. All of us together. Donna?" Donna was stood slightly away from us, her eyes fixated on something I couldn't see. Dad noticed this too, and walked towards her quickly. "Donna?"
"Yeah," she said, coming out of her trance.
"I'm sorry, there's nothing else we can do." Dad said.
"No, I know." Donna replied quietly.
"Surrender, Doctor," the vile Dalek voice sounded. "And face your Dalek masters."
"Crucible on maximum alert." Another screeched.
"Daleks!" Rose laughed inside the TARDIS.
"Oh god!" Jack joined in, making a joke of his own. Dad turned to us all, still smiling despite all of the difficulties he'd already faced.
"It's been good, though, hasn't it?" He said nostalgically. "All of us, all of it. Everything we did." I didn't feel like I quite counted with that comment; I wasn't even a day old yet.
"You were brilliant." Dad said to Donna, and she nodded smiling.
"And you were brilliant," He repeated to Jack, but with more sarcasm.
"And you were brilliant," He said again to Rose.
"You will be brilliant," He finally said to me. I couldn't help grinning back. "Blimey."
"Daleks reign supreme! All hail the Daleks!"
As we stepped confidently out of dad's ship, this was all we could hear. Repetitive and shrill, just the cry of the Daleks. The shrieks were coming mainly from our left, and we all turned that way as we entered the new ship. It was massive; a huge space filled with hundreds upon thousands of Daleks, all flying around aimlessly and screeching their war-cries. Opposite us was another one of them, one of the unspeakable Daleks, cloaked in light. It was tall and red, an eyestalk somehow probing us all, and it spoke:
"Behold, Doctor. Behold the might of the true Dalek race." None of us replied. Instead, we all just glared and ignored the evil welcome.
"Donna!" Dad turned back to his ship and called. "You're no safer in there." It was then when I noticed Donna hadn't joined us outside on the Crucible. I saw her turn to walk out of the blue box, but the doors suddenly slammed shut. Donna was trapped.
"Doctor?" I heard her call, banging on the doors from the inside. "What have you done?"
"It wasn't me, I didn't do anything!" Dad replied slightly indignantly.
"Oi! I'm not staying behind!" Donna panicked.
"What did you do?" Shouted Dad, turning back towards the red Dalek with anger.
"This is not of Dalek origin." It spat back.
"Stop it!" He hissed, while Donna was still yelling from inside. "She's my friend. Now open the door and let her out!"
"This is Time Lord treachery." The Dalek declared. Why would he shut his best friend inside all alone?
"Me?" Dad replied, voicing my thoughts exactly. "The door just closed on its own!"
"Nevertheless, the TARDIS is a weapon and it will be destroyed." The enemy said menacingly. Suddenly the box dropped out of the room and disappeared, leaving a square hole in the ground. We ran forwards and looked down. It was a tunnel, or a tube, and a deep one at that. It looked as though it went on for lightyears, and Donna was shooting downwards in the ship. How would we get her back? We couldn't leave her!
"What are you doing?" Dad yelled angrily. "Bring it back!"
"Bring it back right now!" I repeated, reaching for my gun in my pocket. No luck. I'd left everything on Messaline.
"What have you done? Where's it going?" Dad continued, fury and rage evident.
"The Crucible has a heart of Z- neutrino energy." The Dalek replied emotionlessly. "The TARDIS will be deposited into the core."
"You can't! You've taken the defences down!" Dad spluttered. "It'll be torn apart!"
"But Donna's still in there!" Rose yelled.
"Let her go!" Jack roared.
"You'll kill her!" I bellowed.
"The female and the TARDIS will perish together. Observe," the Dalek confirmed as the image of the blue box appeared above us, bobbing around in a fiery yellow liquid. "The last child of Gallifrey is powerless."
"Please, I'm begging you. I'll do anything," Dad exclaimed fearfully. "Put me in her place! You can do anything to me, I don't care, just get her out of there!" I felt pride as my Dad said this. He was the bravest person I knew I would ever meet.
"You are connected to the TARDIS. Now feel it die." The Dalek said smugly.
"Total TARDIS destruction in ten rels," Another one said, and began to count down as we watched the screen in despair. Rose walked purposefully towards dad and grabbed his hand. "…three, two, one."
"The TARDIS has been destroyed." The red Dalek uttered. "Now tell me, Doctor. What do you feel? Anger? Sorrow? Despair?"
"Yeah." He replied despondently.
"Then if emotions are so important, surely we have enhanced you?" The Dalek mocked.
"Yeah? Feel this!" Jack shouted abruptly, pulling a revolver from his pocket and shooting at the Dalek. Another incredibly brave man.
"Exterminate!" The red thing cried, and hit the Captain with its white laser. Jack's body seized up and flashed his skeleton, before falling quickly to the floor. I clutched Dad's sleeve in shock. Captain Jack Harkness was dead.
"Jack. Oh my god, oh no," Rose muttered, leaning over Jack's corpse. I joined her on the floor silently.
"Rose, Jenny, come here. Leave him." Dad whispered to us, putting his hands on our shoulders comfortingly, just as Jack had done for me earlier.
"They killed him." Rose stated.
"I know," Dad said. "I'm sorry." I couldn't believe it. It wasn't just that I was in shock, it was something else. Somehow, there was something telling me that it wasn't true. Jack wasn't dead.
"He can't be." I muttered. Dad looked at me, his eyes widening for a fraction of a second. He pulled both of us to our feet.
"Escort them to the Vault." A Dalek ordered.
"There's nothing we can do." Dad said as we all continued to gaze down at Jack's lifeless body.
"They are the playthings of Davros now." The red one said. Daleks appeared by our sides and pushed us away, directing us down a new corridor, and we left the Captain alone.
-~oOo~-
"Activate the holding cells."
Three spotlights shone down from the ceiling, one for each of us. We were in a new room, but it looked very similar to the last: dim, spacious and futuristic. The only different feature was a creature sat in a Dalek-like shell. It seemed to look more like us once, many years ago, but now it was dark and wrinkled, with brown patches where eyes should have been. It had a blue light on its forehead, and it spoke with the same coarse voice as the Daleks (but perhaps with more expression). I knew that this disgusting figure was Davros.
"Excellent. Even when powerless, a Time Lord is best contained." Davros said to Dad.
"Still scared of me, then?" Dad replied, reaching for the edge of the light around him.
"It is time we talked, Doctor," Davros said, dodging Dad's comment. "After so very long."
"No, no, no, no, no. We're not doing the nostalgia tour," Dad said. "I want to know what's happening right here, right now, because the Supreme Dalek said Vault, yeah? As in dungeon, cellar, prison? You're not in charge of the Daleks, are you? They've got you locked away down here in the basement like, what, a servant? Slave? Court jester?" I smirked appreciatively.
"We have an arrangement." Davros answered. I detected a hint of embarrassment in his voice.
"No, no, no, no, no! I've got the word!" Dad laughed. "You're the Dalek's pet!"
"So very full of fire, is he not. And to think you crossed entire universes, striding parallel to parallel to find him again." Davros said, turning and addressing Rose.
"Leave her alone." Dad ordered seriously.
"She is mine to do as I please," Davros replied menacingly, and turned slowly to look at me. "As is your daughter, Doctor."
"Do your worst." I replied, surprising myself with the amount of boldness in my voice.
"Oh, you have your father's foolishness. A trait of any Time Lord, no doubt," Davros said to me, wheeling closer. "Yet I must disappoint. You must be here, as has Miss Tyler. It was foretold. Even the Supreme Dalek would not dare to contradict the prophecies of Dalek Caan."
"So cold and dark. Fire is coming. The endless flames." A high-pitched, squeaking voice projected from across the room. I let my eyes scour the surroundings until I found the source: an open Dalek, its shell destroyed, and the true form of the monster perched on top. It was tiny and fleshy, not significant or intimidating in the slightest.
"What is that thing?" Rose asked.
"You've met before," Dad replied. "The last of the Cult of Skaro. But it flew into the Time War unprotected."
"Caan did more than that. He saw time," Davros said. "Its infinite complexity and majesty, raging through his mind. And he saw you. All of you."
"This I have foreseen, in the wild and the wind. The Doctor will be here as witness, at the end of everything. The Doctor and his precious Children of Time. And one of them will die!" Caan said gleefully.
"Was it you, Caan? Did you kill Donna?" Dad shouted. "Why did the TARDIS door close? Tell me!"
"Oh, that's it! The anger, the fire, the rage of a Time Lord who butchered millions. Observe, Miss Tyler, Jenny. There he is," Davros mocked Dad. "Why so shy, Doctor? Show your companion. Show your daughter. Show them your true self. Dalek Caan has promised me that, too."
"I have seen. At the time of ending, the Doctor's soul will be revealed." Caan giggled.
"What does that mean?" Dad yelled.
"We will discover it together. Our final journey," Davros answered, indulging devilishly in his commandeering of the conversation. "Because the ending approaches, the testing begins."
"Testing of what?" Dad asked.
"The Reality bomb." Answered Davros simply.
"Testing calibration of Reality bomb. Firing in ten rels. Nine, eight, seven…" I heard the red, 'Supreme' Dalek say through the speakers.
"Behold. The apotheosis of my genius." Davros said proudly, as a screen appeared showing a holding area with several humans stood scared inside.
"…four, three, two, one, zero," The supreme Dalek finished. "Activate planetary alignment field."
"That's Z-neutrino energy, flattened by the alignment of the planets into a single string," Dad thought aloud. "No, Davros! Davros, you can't! You can't, no!" On the screen, I saw the group of poor humans simply disintegrate into nothingness, their atoms evaporating into the atmosphere. What had they done? What the hell was Davros planning?
"Doctor, what happened?" Rose asked.
"Electrical energy, Miss Tyler," Davros replied before dad had the chance. "Every atom in existence is bound by an electrical field. The Reality bomb cancels its out. Structure falls apart. That test was focused on the prisoners alone, full transmission will dissolve every form of matter."
"The stars are going out." Rose said aloud, finally realising the cause of her world's problem.
"The twenty seven planets," Dad added. "They become one vast transmitter, blasting that wavelength-"
"Across the entire universe." Davros interrupted. "Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust, and the dust will become atoms, and the atoms will become nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the Rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation. This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The destruction of reality itself!" I thought I followed the explanation; basically, the Daleks wanted to exterminate everything from existence, until it would be only them left. Good luck with that, Davros. You've brought just the wrong person here: my Dad. He was going to stop it. Suddenly a new screen opened above us, showing a familiar face.
"This message is for the Dalek Crucible, repeat. Can you hear me?" Martha Jones said strongly.
"Put me through!" Dad said.
"It begins," Davros said with glee. "As Dalek Caan foretold."
"The Children of Time will gather, and one of them will die!" Caan laughed.
"Stop saying that!" Dad shouted with annoyance. "Put me through!"
"Doctor!" Said Martha. "I'm sorry, I had to." What did she have to do?
"Oh, but the Doctor is powerless. My prisoner," Davros replied with false politeness. "State your intent."
"I've got the Osterhagen key. Leave this planet and its people alone, or I'll use it." Martha threatened.
"Martha, no!" I shouted. I didn't know what the key did, but it must have been bad because Harriet was dead against it.
"Osterhagen what? What's an Osterhagen key?" Dad asked frantically.
"There's a chain of twenty five nuclear warheads placed in strategic points beneath the Earth's crust. If I use the key, they detonate and the Earth gets ripped apart." Martha explained.
"What? Who invented that? Well, someone called Osterhagen, I suppose," Dad replied exasperatedly. "Martha, are you insane?"
"The Osterhagen key is to be used if the suffering of the human race is so great, so without hope, that this becomes the final option." Martha said calmly.
"That's never an option." Said Dad.
"Don't argue with me, Doctor!" Martha shouted back, unexpectedly. "Because it's more than that. Now, I reckon the Daleks need these twenty seven planets for something. But what if it becomes twenty six? What happens then? Daleks? Would you risk it?"
"She's good!" Rose exclaimed, smiling.
"Who's that?" Martha asked.
"My name's Rose," she replied. "Rose Tyler."
"Oh my god," said Martha. "He found you." Rose turned and smiled at Dad.
"Second transmission, internal." A Dalek said.
"Display." The supreme Dalek said. Another screen opened next to Martha's, showing four people.
"Captain Jack Harkness, calling all Dalek boys and girls, are you receiving me? Don't send in your goons, or I'll set this thing off." The man said. I couldn't believe it. Jack survived? The instinct I felt was right!
"Jack?" I yelled.
"He's still alive?" Rose said, repeating my thoughts. "Oh my god, that's my mum!"
"And Mickey, Captain, what are you doing?" Dad added.
"I've got a Warp Star wired into the mainframe," Jack said. I noticed he was holding up a small jewel-like object which had wires falling down from it. "I break this shell, the entire Crucible goes up." My kind of guy.
"You can't! Where did you get a Warp Star?" Dad shouted back.
"From me!" Sarah Jane said, coming into frame. "We had no choice. We saw what happened to the prisoners-"
"Impossible," Davros said. "That face, after all these years."
"Davros. It's been quite a while. Sarah Jane Smith. Remember?"
"Oh, this is meant to be. The circle of Time is closing," Davros replied. "You were there on Skaro at the very beginning of my creation."
"And I've learned how to fight since then," Sarah Jane said. "You let the Doctor go, or this Warp Star, it gets opened!"
"I'll do it," Jack warned. "Don't imagine I wouldn't."
"Now that's what I call a ransom," Rose laughed. "Doctor?"
She was looking at Dad expectantly, but he was staring guiltily at the floor. I frowned at him, wondering what he could be feeling gloomy about when his friends were coming up with brilliant plans to help.
"And the prophecy unfolds." Davros said gleefully.
"The Doctor's soul is revealed. See him. See the heart of him!" Caan supported.
"The man who abhors violence, never carrying a gun. But this is the truth, Doctor." Davros tormented him. "You take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons. Behold your Children of Time, transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor. You made this."
"They're trying to help." Dad defended weakly.
"Already I have seen them sacrifice today for their beloved Doctor. The Earth woman who fell opening the Subwave Network."
"Who was that?" Dad asked innocently.
"Harriet Jones." I said.
"She gave her life to get you here." Rose added. Dad looked shocked and saddened by this information, which quickly turned into guilt.
"How many more? Just think. How many have died in your name?" Davros tortured him. Dad turned and looked at me with the same guilt.
"I'm alive, Dad." I told him, trying to help.
"The Doctor. The man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame," Davros continued. "This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you yourself."
"Enough. Engage defence zero-five." The supreme Dalek called from elsewhere.
"It's the Crucible or the Earth!" Martha reminded over the screen, standing up and holding the key aloft. Suddenly, she disappeared from the image and dropped the key where it was. "No!" She cried. The same happened to the four on the second screen; Jack, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Rose's mum all vanished and the Warp Star dropped. A moment later, all of Dad's friends appeared in the same room as us, falling to the floor.
"I've got you, it's all right." Jack said, helping Martha up.
"Jack!" I called happily.
"Don't move, all of you!" Dad warned them. "Stay still."
"Guard them! On your knees, all of you. Surrender!" Davros ordered.
"Do as he says." Dad agreed. Everyone went quiet, and the five of them knelt obediently.
"The final prophecy is in place," Davros said. "The Doctor and his children, all gathered as witnesses. Supreme Dalek, the time has come. Now, detonate the Reality bomb!"
"Activate planetary alignment field," The supreme Dalek said. "Universal Reality detonation in two hundred rels."
"You can't, Davros! Just listen to me! Just stop!" Dad hollered angrily, but Davros nor any of the Daleks were listening.
"Ah ha ha ha! Nothing can stop the detonation! Nothing and no one!" The fiend yelled evilly. Without warning, a new sound appeared in a dark corner of the room. It was like a strained horn, struggling to wail. It was like someone left the brakes on a ship.
"But that's-" Dad began.
"Impossible!" Davros exclaimed. In the shadowy corner, a box began to appear. There was a white light on top of it which was flashing every couple of seconds, and each time the box became bluer. It was Dad's ship, and out of the doors he appeared. My Dad ran out of the box that just appeared with a weapon, and he was also stood next to me. Two Dads.
"Brilliant!" Jack exclaimed.
"Don't!" Dad yelled. Davros lifted his arm carefully and zapped the new Dad who was running towards him. My second Dad fell dramatically to the floor as the laser hit him square in the chest, and the weapon slipped away.
"Activate holding cell!" Davros ordered, and a new spotlight appeared opposite us over my second Dad. Just as I thought it was over, our chance was lost, someone else rushed through the doors of Dad's ship: Donna Noble. She bent down and picked up the weapon that had been blown from Dad's hands.
"Doctor!" She cried. "I've got it! But I don't know what to do!" Davros struck again, pointing his laser at Donna and throwing her backwards behind some controls. The weapon was hurled away across the floor again.
"Donna! Donna!" Dad yelled anxiously. "Are you all right, Donna?"
"Destroy the weapon." Davros ordered. A Dalek obeyed and its laser hit the weapon, blowing it to pieces and rendering it useless. Our chance was well and truly gone.
"I was wrong about your warriors, Doctor," Davros said. "They are pathetic."
"How comes there are two of you?" Rose spluttered.
"Human biological metacrisis." My second Dad replied.
"Never mind that, now we've got no way of stopping the Reality bomb." The first said heatedly.
"Detonation in twenty rels. Nineteen…" The supreme Dalek began.
"Stand witness, Time Lords. Stand witness, humans," Davros said, sickeningly triumphantly. "Your strategies have failed, your weapons are useless, and… oh, the end of the universe has come."
The supreme Dalek's countdown continued. There was nothing any of us could do, it was futile. I looked around at everyone helplessly, hoping for something, anything, that could stop it. Any inspiration, but there was nothing. And time was running out. All of reality was about to collapse if we couldn't think fast.
"…three, two, one." The countdown ended, but I couldn't feel anything happening. Instead, an alarm sounded in the same room.
"Mmmm, closing all Z-neutrino relay loops using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop," A woman said. "That button there!" Donna had woken up from behind the controls, and had saved the universe. I knew she wasn't just anyone!
"System in shutdown."
"Detonation negative."
"Explain, explain, explain!" The supreme Dalek screeched.
"Donna, you can't even change a plug!" Dad said, evidently surprised.
"Wanna bet, Time Boy?" She replied cheekily, with a huge grin on her face.
"You'll suffer for this!" Davros began, lifting his arm again to zap the brand new, brilliant Donna Noble. She casually flicked a control on the panel and an electrical charge shot up Davros' raised limb, and he yelled in pain.
"Oh, bio-electric dampening field with a retrograde field arc inversion." Donna commented sarcastically.
"Exterminate her!" Davros hollered. The Dalek's typical cry rang out at his order repeatedly. Donna was busy at the controls, and we all just stared disbelieving at the scene unfolding in front of us.
"Weapons non-functional." The Daleks said angrily.
"Macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength blocking Dalek weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix!" Donna continued.
"How did you work that out?" Dad exclaimed. "You're-"
"Time Lord." My second Dad confirmed. "Part Time Lord."
"Part human. Oh yes," Donna explained. "That was a two-way biological metacrisis. Half Doctor, Half Donna!"
"The Doctor-Donna! Just like the Ood said, remember? They saw it coming…the Doctor-Donna." Dad said as Donna nodded knowingly back at him.
"Holding cells deactivated, and seal the Vault." Donna commentated as she used the controls. "Well, don't just stand there, you skinny boys in suits. Get to work!" The spotlights faded and we could move again. I couldn't believe it! At the last moment, when I thought there was no hope for the world at all, Donna did it. She saved everything, and in the greatest way possible.
"Stop them! Get them away from the controls!" Davros shouted hysterically.
"And spin!" Donna laughed, pressing a button and making the Daleks rotate quickly on the spot. I looked around, grinning at the sight, and laughed. "And the other way!" Donna called as the Daleks started to spin in the opposite direction. I pulled myself together and ran across to the humans still knelt on the floor. I faced Jack first, offering my hand to help him up, and grinned at him.
"Didn't die, then?" I teased.
"Never." He replied with a chuckle. The room was suddenly busy with people rushing around, the Daleks no longer a threat to us.
"Stop this at once!" Davros screamed hopelessly. We all ignored him, and I saw Jack run into the TARDIS and return with two massive guns: one that was his from Torchwood, and the other Rose's. He passed one to Mickey, who immediately focused it on Davros himself. Meanwhile, I busied myself by pushing the spare Daleks out of the way with Rose, Martha and Sarah Jane. We eventually got over to the control panel, where Donna and my two Dads were working.
"Is anyone gonna tell us what's going on?" Rose asked.
"He poured all his regeneration energy into his spare hand," Donna launched into explanation. "I touched the hand, and he grew out of that but that fed back into me. But it just stayed dormant in my head till the synapses got that little extra spark, kicking them into life. Thank you Davros! Part human, part Time Lord. And I got the best bit of the Doctor. I got his mind."
"So there's three of you?" Sarah Jane questioned.
"Three Doctors?" Rose added.
"Three Dads?" I repeated.
"I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now." Jack admitted. I smirked at him.
"You're so unique the timelines were converging on you," Dad said to Donna. "Human being with a Time Lord brain."
"But you promised me, Dalek Caan. Why did you not foresee this?" Davros said, distracting us.
"Oh, I think he did. Something's been manipulating the timelines for ages, getting Donna Noble to the right place at the right time." Dad explained confidently.
"This would always have happened. I only helped, Doctor." Caan spoke.
"You betrayed the Daleks." Davros accused.
"I saw the Daleks. What we have done, throughout time and space. I saw the truth of us, Creator, and I decreed no more!"
Suddenly, the supreme Dalek appeared in the Vault and addressed its creator.
"Davros, you have betrayed us."
"It was Dalek Caan!" Davros argued.
"The Vault will be purged," the Dalek said. "You will all be exterminated." It aimed at the control panel and zapped.
"Like I was saying, feel this!" Jack yelled, and this time blew the red Dalek's top off. I laughed again. Nothing was going to stop us now!
"Oh, we've lost the magnetron!" Dad complained. "And there's only one planet left, oh, guess which one. But we can use the TARDIS!" He ran across and entered his ship, leaving the rest of us in the Vault to continue working.
"Holding Earth stability. Maintaining atmospheric shell." My other Dad said.
"The prophecy must complete." Caan muttered from somewhere in the room.
"Don't listen to him." Davros said. I was at the controls, trying to ignore the irrelevant threats being made.
"I have seen the end of everything Dalek, and you must make it happen, Doctor."
"He's right," the second Dad said, stopping fiddling with the controls. "Because with or without a Reality bomb, this Dalek empire's big enough to slaughter the cosmos," I looked at him in the eyes, wondering what he was going to do. "They've got to be stopped!"
"Just wait for the Doctor!" Donna told him.
"I am the Doctor!" He said darkly. "Maximising Dalekanium power feeds, blasting them back!" I heard explosions all around us, and the Daleks on the sides of the Vault were exploding. Dad ran out of the box with fire in his eyes.
"What have you done?" He shouted at himself.
"Fulfilling the prophecy." He replied ominously.
"Do you know what you've done?" Dad repeated. "Now get in the TARDIS! Everyone! All of you, inside! Run!" We all followed the instructions and ran quickly towards the blue box. "In, in, in, in!" Dad yelled outside, and the other version stood inside of the door counting everyone inside.
"Martha! Donna! Sarah Jane! Rose! Jackie! Jenny! Jack! Mickey!"
Inside, we gathered around the console and waited for Dad to return from the Crucible. I was stood between Rose and Sarah Jane.
"I'm Jenny," I smiled at them both. "I haven't actually introduced myself yet, I'm the Doctor's daughter."
"You're really his daughter?" Rose asked.
"Yeah, really," I replied with a grin. "And you're his, what, friend? Or more?"
"Well, friends," She said, looking down at her hands. "Yeah." It was then that Dad flew back through the doors, closing them behind him, and smiling at all of his friends.
"And off we go!"
LunaRoseDiCaprio: First I want to thank the followers of the story, never expected anyone to be so interested in this :) And I apologise for lack of updates... I'm just finishing my A Levels at the moment so I have exams which are taking priority right now. They'll be done in a few weeks, so I should be able to write quicker then :) Read & Review! xx
