So I didn't fall off the face of the Earth after all! Sorry for the lengthy time in between updates, but what with High school starting and everything I barely got any time for writing! That's not the point though. This TARDIS story takes place in the episode 'The Parting of the Ways'. I thought it might be nice to see what the TARDIs thinks of the events, so ENJOY! Warning: This one is a bit lengthy.
"That's all, one thing. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life. " The spirit watched the holographic Doctor flicker off for what had to be the fifth time in the last hour with a dead look on her face. Her eyes looked as if they'd been crying, and she had, not because she was afraid of dying but because she had to leave her Doctor to the mercy of the Daleks. Wasn't there something she could do? The spirit's sullen thoughts were suddenly interrupted
when Rose and Mickey burst into the console room. "All the Tardis needs to do is make a return trip. Just reverse." Rose said. Mickey shrugged. "Yeah, but we still can't do it." "The Doctor always said the Tardis was telepathic. This thing is alive. It can listen." "Dang right she can listen," said the Spirit of the TARDIS, walking over to the pair. "It's not listening now, is it?" said Mickey, walking through the Spirit and examining the console. The TARDIS' spirit couldn't be seen nor heard, but that doesn't mean she wasn't watching or listening. "We need to get inside it," said Rose determinedly. "Last time I saw you, with the Slitheen, this middle bit opened, and there was this light, and the Doctor said it was the heart of the Tardis. If we can open it, I can make contact. I can tell it what to do." The TARDIS made an incomprehensible noise. "Excuse me, Rose Tyler, what did you say?! You are NOT seriously thinking about this. If I'm honest, looking into my heart would probably kill you, and even if It didn't the odds of me actually listening to you and taking instruction are not looking particularly good." Of course, this rant on the TARDIS' part went unheard, and the two just kept talking.
"Rose," asked Mickey. "Mmm?" she responded. "If you go back, you're going to die." Rose sighed as if she'd thought about that a hundred times. "That's a risk I've got to take, because there's nothing left for me here." "Nothing?" "No." Mickey looked down, visibly upset. The TARDIS face palmed. Sometimes, humans were just so oblivious it hurt. Mickey took a breath. "Okay, if that's what you think, let's get this thing open."
In a few minutes, Mickey had a chain hooked up to a hatch on the console, which, when opened, allowed one to look into the heart of the TARDIS. The other end of the heavy duty chain was attached to his mini cooper, and while he drove the car forward, Rose stood next to the hatch and yelled for him to go faster. The TARDIS sat on the balcony with a cup of tea and sighed. "This should be good to watch," she muttered. "HEY, YOU KNOW I ONLY OPEN IT IF I WANT TO!" The humans just kept tugging at the hatch and finally, the TARDIS decided enough was enough and broke the chain with a snap of her fingers. She could generally control most of the things in the TARDIS, which is why she could do this. Rose kicked the console angrily. "Ow, hey that hurts!" complained the spirit.
Eventually Jackie, Rose's mom, came down and, to put it in a short way, told Rose to give up. "Dad wouldn't give up," said Rose. "Well, he's not here is he?" said Jackie, "And even if he was, he'd say the same." "No, he wouldn't." the simple statement took Jackie by surprise, and before she could say anything, Rose continued. "He'd tell me to try anything. If I could save the Doctor's life, try anything." "Well, we're never going to know." "Well, I know cuz I met him," said Rose, looking at her mom. "I met Dad." "Don't be ridiculous," responds Jackie with a shake of her head. "The Doctor took me back in time and I met Dad." "Don't say that." The TARDIS walked over and put a hand on the woman's shoulder. "It's true." she whispered, knowing it wouldn't make a difference. "Remember when Dad died?" asked Rose, "There was someone with him. A girl, a blonde girl. She held his hand. You saw her from a distance, Mum. You SAW her! Think about it. That was me. You saw me." Jackie just couldn't take it, or believe it. "Stop it!" she cried, running out of the TARDIS. "Just stop it!"
After more time of fruitlessly trying to open the hatch, even Rose was starting to get down. "There's got to be something else we can do," said Mickey, still trying to remain positive. Rose, Mickey, and the spirit were standing just outside the TARDIS, which was parked in the Powell Estates. The TARDIS liked Mickey's attitude. "Mum was right," responded Rose sadly, "Maybe we should just lock the door and walk away." the TARDIS sighed. She was already worn thin from the things that had happened recently with the Daleks and maintaining the force field. She wanted to rescue the Doctor as much as Rose did, but with her energy levels and the level of Danger there as it is, it would be very tricky just getting there and downright impossible to do anything helpful.
"I'm not having that." Mickey sounded determined. "I'm not having you just, just give up now. No way. We just need something stronger than my car. Something bigger." he pointed down the road. "Something like that." the TARDIS and Rose looked up to see Jackie driving a huge yellow tow truck towards the TARDIS.
"Right, you've only got this until six o'clock, so get on with it," said Jackie, getting out. "Mum, where the heck did you get that from?" "Rodrigo. He owes me a favour. Never mind why, but you were right about your dad, sweetheart. He was full of mad ideas, and it's exactly what he would've done. Now, get on with it before I change my mind." Jackie tosses Mickey the keys, and he nods and races toward the tow truck as Rose hooks up the hook to the hatch on the Console. "Uh oh," said the TARDIS, appearing inside the console room, sitting on top of the hatch. "This thing DEFINITELY has a better chance than 'Ricky's' Cooper." Rose was standing directly next to the console, Jackie was right outside the doors, and Mickey was driving the tow truck full throttle. "Keep going!" shouted Rose enthusiastically. "Put your foot down!" Jackie yelled. The two women were yelling more encouragement to Mickey, but the TARDIS obviously wasn't paying them much attention because she was too busy trying to hold the console down. "This isn't gonna end well," the spirit grunted. The next thing that happened happened very fast. With a bang, the hatch on the TARDIS' console began to dislodge, and the spirit sensed there was nothing more she could do, so she hurriedly dove out of the way, behind the console as the hatch flew open and Rose looked inside.
Almost immediately, the TARDIS felt the effects of her heart being absorbed by Rose. Needless to say, it was painful. "GAAAH!" the TARDIS collapsed on the floor, her hand over her heart. It felt like her soul was being ripped in two and it felt ten times worse than what the humans called a heart attack. However, through the blinding pain, the TARDIS snapped her fingers, making the doors close and her machine dematerialize into the time vortex. Breathing heavily, the TARDIS crawled to the nearby couch and pulled herself onto it, leaning back on the worn cushions and resting. The pain had somewhat subsided now, and she suspected it was because Rose was done taking a gander at her heart or whatever it was she was doing. The Spirit groaned. "Hey, who are you?" Rose's voice echoed around the console. "How'd you get in here? Wait, are you okay?" The TARDIS' eyes had been closed during this one sided exchange, but now she opened it to find Rose looking straight at the spirit, her eyes glowing gold instead of being their normal brown. "You're talking to me?" muttered the TARDIS, furrowing her brows. "Yeah, I'm looking' right at you. Now who are you?" "But how-" the Spirit suddenly realized and face-palmed with her free hand (The other was still pressed over her heart area). "Of course! You can see me because you absorbed the Time Vortex which happens to be part of my very soul. Welp, it's nice to be formally introduced, Rose!" the Spirit took advantage of the situation-either that or she was just going crazy. You would be too, if part of YOUR heart had just been absorbed. The TARDIS held out a hand. "I'm the TARDIS." "What?" "You heard me. I'm the Spirit of the TARDIS." Rose shook the TARDIS' hand. "I'm Rose Tyler. "Oh I know. I've been driving you around time and space, remember?" Rose nodded. "I dunno, it's just so weird. Not just this-" the human gestured between herself and the spirit, "-but the fact I can see through all of space and time. It's like..." "everything at once. The turn of the earth. The speed we're going. All the places and times flashing by us in the vortex." Rose looked at the Spirit curiously. "Yeah, that's right. But there's something else... Something I've seen through all of our travels, two words: Bad Wolf."
Those two words spoken by Rose sparked an old memory within the data banks of the TARDIS, a memory taken place near the end of the Time War. Bad Wolf. "Hold on... You said those words are EVERYWHERE? I know it was spray-painted on me once but I thought it was just simple graffiti." Simple graffiti that just 'happened' to be what the Moment called herself when she met the Doctor. "Yeah actually that's what prompted me to come back, to try and save the Doctor. A message throughout space and time, all leading up to this moment." "The question is, how did they get there?" Suddenly Rose looked like she had a revelation. "I'm the Bad Wolf. And with this power, I create myself..." the Console room jolted as they landed back in Satellite 5, while the engines stopped.
The TARDIS could hear a Dalek, just outside the box. "Alert! TARDIS materializing!" Rose snapped her head around towards the doors, with grim determination set in her face. "I'm ready." she whispered. The Spirit appeared right next to her and grasped her hand tightly, like a fellow sister in arms. "Time to save our Doctor." The TARDIS made her doors fly open and golden tendrils slipped out behind them, giving the pair an almost magic-looking glow. Immediately, the TARDIS' senses were paired with Rose's, and they could feel every living being, the whole universe, all of time and space, all at the same time. To be honest, it was a bit overwhelming, even for the aged time machine. The Spirit couldn't even be able to guess what Rose was going through. The two girls soon spotted the Doctor. He was faced towards the TARDIS, and his face betrayed how much concern and worry he felt for his Rose. "What've you done?" he asked, taking a step closer. "I looked into the TARDIS," responded Rose calmly, "and the Tardis looked into me." "You looked into the Time Vortex. Rose, no one's meant to see that." "This is the Abomination!" Interrupted the Dalek Emperor, who was displayed on the screen. "Oh, shut it you," said the TARDIS. A nearby Dalek fired a laser in response to their Boss' comment. "EXTERMINATE!" Both the Spirit and Rose held up a hand and stopped the beam in its tracks.
"I am the Bad Wolf." says Rose, "I create myself. I take the words, I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here." With a wave of her hand, the 'Bad Wolf Corporation' letters fly off the wall and disappear. "Rose, you've got to stop this. You've got to stop this now. You've got the entire vortex running through your head. You're going to burn." Now the TARDIS could feel his fear over their telepathic connection. He was afraid of losing another companion, especially of losing the girl that brought him out of the horrors of the Time War, and back to the light. But Rose could feel it too and she tried to comfort him. "I want you safe. My Doctor. Protected from the false god." "Listen, this is for your own good Thief," added the TARDIS, building up her energy. The Emperor didn't like this new development, this "Bad Wolf" girl come to take his throne. "You cannot hurt me. I am immortal." "Ha-ha no, you idiotic, mutant of a Kaled!" the TARDIS felt a surge of agreement from Rose, and she said "You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence, and I divide them." The Daleks on satellite 5 disintegrate like falling snow into golden dust. "Everything must come to dust. All things. Everything dies. The Time War ends."
I guess the Bad Wolf girl stopped the Time War after all.
Sooooooo, please comment and tell me what you think of the last one! Sorry for the abrupt ending, but this was hard work writing as it is, I didn't need any tears on top of that for what happens afterwards. I know every other fanfic author says to comment, but it's a super-big encouragement to keep writing. To Corrie-H, I MIGHT be planning a Star Trek crossover (like I did with the DeLorean), but I've only seen Star Trek: Into Darkness, so I'd have to do a lot of research. But seriously! If you have an episode you'd like to see written in the TARDIS' perspective LET ME KNOW! It'll help me get these things done quicker. ;) Have fun, Read on, See ya next time.
