Mistressnmoon: So... I've come to the sad realization that I seem to update this story once a month. I'd like to say that I'm going to be updating more since I have a little more free time. But I have a feeling that that's an utter lie. But we can all hope for the best! So... As usual I apologize for the wait, and hopefully it won't take so long for the next chapter, but it'll be out by June 12th, I can promise that much. And I also apologize that this chapter is so much shorter then the other three chapters, it's mainly because of the way this episode is set up...
Also, since I'm about to be finished with season one, I was wondering if people would rather me continue posting the new chapters in this story or create a new story for every season? And yes, there will be more seasons with Robin in it.
Let me know if there's any major errors, after all I'm the only one reading this and proofreading is not my strong suit. Also let me know if you have any questions, and please leave me a review if you like the story!
Shara Raizel: Yeah, I'm hoping that Robin was a little more involved in this chapter then she was in the other ones, she kind of ended up taking other characters lines at points xD Well... I want it to be more of a Doctor based story, but it seems to be fighting back. I'm still trying to figure out how to add Robin in for a romance in this, since I have no clue what to do when I get to River. But it should be a Doctor based story in the long run :)
Chapter Four
For a moment the only thing I could feel was the pounding in my head. Then I could feel the soreness in my body. What the fuck did the Doctor do, crash the TARDIS into an iceberg? My eyes finally fluttered open, only flinching a little bit at the bright light above me, as I briefly heard someone talking.
"Seriously, why is she here?" Groaning I told the voice,
"That's what I'm wondering too…"
"Must be the trasmat beam, it gets to the best of us." I glanced towards the second voice, seeing a pretty woman with curly black hair and bright blue eyes.
"It didn't bother me." This time a woman with bright blonde hair, very straight bright blonde hair, and dull muddy brown eyes, spoke in an obnoxious way. Without thinking, I automatically rolled my eyes at the woman, before my brain processed what the black haired woman said.
"Transmat beam?" The woman smiled at me, a look of pity on her face.
"Yeah, that's how you were chosen. I'm Shirley, and this is Vicky. So honey, what's your name?"
"Why does her name even matter, she's not going to be here very long." I turned towards the woman with the blue eyes, confused by everything she was saying. What exactly was I chosen for?
"The names Robin, and what exactly do you mean by chosen? For what exactly?" I gave a brief glance at the blonde when I heard her snort at my question, before turning back towards the other woman.
"For Next Top Model of course, you're on channel fifty-five thousand if you want to be specific." Before I could stop myself, a scoff escaped my lips.
"Me, on Next Top Model? You have got to be kidding me."
"You're here, aren't you?"
"Don't you normally have to, I don't know, apply for shows? Or I don't know, not join in the middle of it?"
"The transmat must have really messed with your head, nobody has applied for shows for centuries."
"Hey girls, it's time to go to the shoot!" My eyes shot towards the new voice, brunet haired woman and vibrant green eyes. "Oh, who's this?"
"This is Robin, she's got to be a new contestant."
"The thing is, I really shouldn't be here."
"Poor dear, she must still be in shock." My eyes glared over at the new girl, not having gotten her name yet, as I shook my head in disagreement.
"No, see I travel with my friend the Doctor, and he's no ordinary traveler. That silly little transmat beam shouldn't have been able to get inside his ship, meaning that it was probably at least thirteen million times more powerful then your normal transmat beam. I somehow doubt this is any little show, this was on purpose, there has got to be something else going on here." I paused, making sure to look into the camera so that whoever brought us here would know I was talking to them, "And you'd best know, the Doctor's going to make a visit, so you had best be prepared."
"I don't think you can blame those delusions on the transmat." My glare swiftly switched from the camera to Vicky, before I rolled my eyes at her.
"They aren't delusions, but you're welcome to think whatever you'd like." I shifted my gaze towards the new girl, pausing to give her a smile, "I don't think I got your name." The girl gave me a small hesitant smile, obviously wondering I was actually crazy or not.
"Elizabeth Sue. And guys, we really need to get going. I don't want to be disqualified for being late." I shrugged lightly, following the other three girls out as they all rushed towards wherever it was we were going. My teeth bite my upper lip, wondering if, since this didn't seem to be a voluntary television show, being disqualified was worse then it sounded?
"Hey Shirley, the transmat beam must be messing with my head still, because I can't remember what happens to those who are disqualified?" I guess the other two didn't hear my question, because they continued to walk ahead of us, while Shirley gave me a concerned look.
"I hope your head is okay, the camera could make it worse… Anyways, since you don't seem to remember, I should probably let you know. If you're disqualified, or you lose, then you're… well, you're hit with the Disintegrator beam." I suppose my face must have looked a touch horrified, because Shirley quickly started speaking, "I know, it sounds horrible, but at least if you win you get to live." While she told me this, she had a bright smile on her face, as if this was actually a good thing; and to her, giving the world that she seems to live in, it probably was. I watched her closely as she turned towards Elizabeth, "So Lizzy, what's the challenge this time?"
"I'm not entirely sure, dear, but I know that there's a beach theme of some sort." I raised an eyebrow at Elizabeth, not sure what that was suppose to mean, but decided that for now my best bet was to go with the flow. Maybe I could get away from them when we were at the beach, if I'm lucky that is. With my minor plan in mind, I followed the girls down a hall, as they chatted. Eventually they lead me towards a room, which pretty much was a beach of it's own, where a skinny built robot quickly explained that we were doing a photoshoot with us wearing bathing suits. There were also a three other girls that I assumed were also part of the show, who didn't keep my attention for more then a moment, as the robot shooed us into a small room next door, I guess for us to get ready.
My assumption proved to be right when one of the many robots that I had seen in the last hour, disintegrated my clothing. I glanced down, only slightly horrified, upon noticing that I no longer was wearing any clothing… I think that I've been hanging out with Jack too much if something like being naked on television wasn't bothering me. I watched with mild interest as the woman around me smiled, each going over to a vanity with their name on the top of the mirror. Resting on the fancy plush red chair in front of the vanity's, for every woman, was an outfit. If a bikini and a pair of super short shorts counted as an outfit. I released a small sigh as my eyes rested on a vanity with my name on top of it, a neon blue and yellow bikini and black shorts resting on the chair. I slowly made my way to the chair, before regretfully pulling on the clothing that was waiting for me.
"Robin, dear, you're going to have to remove those sticks from your hair. It's almost time for hair and make-up to start." I glanced over at Elizabeth, giving her a small frown. These hair clips, the kind that look like chop sticks that hold your hair in a bun, were one of my favorite sonic devices. But I suppose that they really weren't doing me any good at the moment, and I do have another pair back at my home… Once again, I sighed, before hesitantly pulling out the sonic devices and placing them on my dresser.
It didn't take long for the robot to finish getting the rest of the girls ready to have their photographs taken. And once they were ready, as in their hair and make-up were finished, they were sent out of the room to have their pictures taken. Which left me as the last person in the room with the robot.
"You must remove the watch, or you will be disqualified." I frowned up at the robot, wondering what the hell it was talking about. It took the robot repeating itself for me to finally look down at my wrist. It wanted me to take off my time watch. First my sonic hair sticks, and now my time watch? That's just going to far. Glaring at the robot, I stood up, pointing my hair sticks at it as I calmly stated,
"Hell no." I paused for a moment, letting my glare transform into a menacing smile. "Do you know how much of a hassle it was to get this?" Before the robot could respond, I soniced it. It took a moment, but soon the it stopped moving. I gave a grin toward the camera. "And this is why you should have removed the watch when I was unconscious. Because now I'm getting out of here." Still grinning I hit the needed buttons on my time watch, before I felt the normal sickening feeling of teleporting with a time watch. It never use to bother me, but that was before I started traveling with the Doctor. Now it was like…. Like the Doctor had some nice red sports car, while I was riding in a go-cart. Totally different, and totally better.
When the sensation stopped, I looked up and felt my grin widen. Standing in front of me was a naked Jack, holding a gun to two robot women. Is it strange that this isn't the first time I've jumped in on this? Minus the robot part.
"But... that's a Compact Laser Deluxe!"
"WHERE were you hiding that?"
"You really don't wanna know." I watched the robot that had spoken last start to move towards Jack, telling him,
"Giveme that accessory—" My grin only stretched wider as Jack shot both of the robots.
"Nice moves!" My smile quickly morphed into a smirk when Jack turned towards me, gaping for a moment. I could feel his eyes taking in my body, having not seen me in much other then jeans and a t-shirt for quite some time.
"Well hello beautiful." Before I could stop myself, my hand was behind Jack's head, smacking him fairly hard.
"Shut up, it's not my fault this is the only clothing I could wear once mine were disintegrated!"
"I'm being serious Robin, you look fantastic." I could feel the heat on my face, as I hit Jack's head once again.
"Ow! What the hell was that for!" His frowning face quickly looked down at my scowling one, confusion showing on his face.
"I've told you before that you're not my type Jack." I watched as he raised one of his eyebrows, my scowl still in place.
"Only after I accidentally stood you up that one time. You seemed pretty damn interested in me before that."
"You were off screwing another woman Jack! I think that knocks down your appeal, just a bit."
"I wasn't! And I told you it was an accident!"
"And I waited there five whole hours!" By this point I was panting heavily, giving Jack the toughest glare I could manage at the moment. It seems that my response took Jack by surprise, as he quickly shut up.
"You told me you only waited around 30 minutes."
"Yeah, well people lie Jack. I lied." I closed my eyes, rubbing my temples in the way I do when something starts to be too stressful for me. "And it's all in the past. So I suggest you follow my lead and get dressed." I then pushed past him, going towards a rack of clothes. It took some digging, but eventually I found a few female clothing. I put on a pair of black skinny jeans, with a plain white shirt. On top of the shirt I wore a plain black button up vest. I turned around, biting back a chuckle. I glanced over Jack once again, this time I couldn't hold back my laughter, and burst out into laughter. Jack was pretty much wearing the male version of the clothes I was currently wearing. I guess we have more in common then we thought.
"Why are you laughing Robin?" After a brief moment he joined in the laughter, probably having realized that we were pretty much wearing the same clothing. Once my laughter wore out, I spoke up again, my anger at Jack long gone.
"It's Red. I really don't like it when you call me Robin; it's just way too strange. Anyways, think we can make the Defabricator into a gun?" I glanced away from the Defabricator, having been observing it, towards Jack. I watched his face morph from amusement, into confusion, before I bothered to elaborate. "You do still have your Compact Laser Deluxe, right?" I watched, with mild glee, as Jack looked between the Defabricator and myself three times, before his face split into a grin and he dashed over to the Defabricator. I watched him start to attach his Compact Laser Deluxe to the Defabricator, as he told me,
"They're compatible systems, Red. I've just got to align the wave signature..." I gave him a smile, and walked closer to him and the almost complete gun. "Thattaboy! Got ourselves a gun." I let out a small cheer, fingering my sonic hair sticks, before twisting them back in my hair. I followed Jack's gaze, staring at the destroyed robots. "Well, ladies, the pleasure was all ours. Which is the only thing that matters in the end." I chuckled, quickly following Jack out of the room. I glanced at the large number plastered on the wall, seeing that we were on floor 299. I watched Jack glance at his watch, before he mumbled out,
"Two hearts, that's him... which floor?" I barely held back a chuckle as he impatiently pushed on several buttons, before the door to the elevator finally closed. After that Jack and I ran around a lot, trying to find the Doctor. It took us awhile, but we eventually found him, with another girl that I assume was on whatever show he was placed in, standing on the observation deck. It seems that Rose was the only one that wasn't here, and the Doctor wasn't pleased about this fact.
"Can't you track her down?"
"She must still be inside the games. All the rooms are shielded." I watched, with a frown on my face, as the Doctor fiddled with the computer.
"If we can just get inside this computer... she's GOT to be here somewhere."
"Well, you'd better hurry up. These games don't have a happy ending." I scoffed, rolling my eyes at Jack. I think we all knew this, but honestly, if she was at least in a show like the Doctor or mine, then she would be fine for a little while longer.
"You think I don't know that?" I sighed as Jack gave into the Doctor's glare, and handed him his watch,
"There you go." I continued to frown at the two, as the Doctor snatched the watch from Jack's hand. Once more I rolled my eyes at the two, before turning to the other girl.
"Hi, I'm Robin Williams, what's your name?" I tried to give her a smile, but I knew it wasn't nearly as real as I would have liked.
"Lynda Moss." She gave me a friendly smile back, before Jack turned his attention from what the Doctor was doing, and onto Lynda. I watched as Jack shook Lynda's hand, already knowing that he was going to flirt with her, and gave him a warning look that I'm pretty sure he ignored.
"Hey there!"
"Hello!"
"Captain Jack Harkness."
"Lynda Moss."
"Nice to meet you, Lynda Moss!"
"D'you mind flirting outside?" I grinned at the Doctor; he hadn't even glanced up at the two before he spoke.
"I was just saying hello!" I rolled my eyes at him, and opened my mouth at the same time as the Doctor,
"For you, that's flirting."
"I'm not complaining." I grumbled to myself about how we should be focusing on finding Rose, not flirting, when Jack took Lynda's hand and kissed it.
"Which is a good idea." Lynda let out a laugh, I suppose very flattered by Jack.
"Oh!" I flinched when the machine suddenly let out an angry bleep, protesting what the Doctor was doing.
"It's not compatible. This stupidsystem doesn't make sense." I moved forward to help Jack and the Doctor pull off the front of the computer, while Lynda held Jack's watch that the Doctor had tossed at her. The moment we had the front of the computer pulled off, the Doctor grabbed the watch back from Lynda, and started trying to patch it in again. "This place should be a basic broadcaster. The systems are twice as complicated. It's more than just television... this station's transmitting something else." I frowned at him, wondering what else it could be transmitting. Jack quickly voiced my thoughts,
"Like what?"
"I don't know. This whole Bad Wolf thing's tied up with me. Someone's manipulating my entire life. It's some sort of trap and Rose is stuck inside it." We all sat in silence, none of us really knowing how to respond to that, until the watch suddenly started beeping. A large grin split across my face; not only does this mean we know where Rose is, but it also means that she's still alive.
"Found her! Floor 407!" My smile dropped when Lynda gasped, and told us in a frantic tone,
"Oh, my God! She's with the Anne Droid! You've gotta get her out of there!" I felt my eyebrows furrow in confusion, not sure how bad that could be.
"Anne… Droid?"
"She asks questions, and if you don't get enough right then you get disintegrated!" I let out a curse, rushing over towards where I knew the elevator was. Before I knew it, the Doctor was in front of me, jabbing at the button. Luckily, since Jack and I had recently used it, the doors opened fairly quickly. Once in the elevator, we all watched the numbers go up, all of us impatiently waiting to reach the floor 407. I briefly heard the Doctor saying,
"Come on... come on...!" After a few minutes, which felt much longer then they actually were, we finally reached the floor, and all rushed out of the elevator. I grimaced when I heard the Anne-Droid's voice broadcasting threw the whole floor.
"Rodrick, in physics, who discovered the Fifteen-Dash-Ten Barric Fields?"
"Game Room Six, which one is it?" I was about to go look for the room, when I heard Lynda's voice shout out,
"Over here!" Once I reached the door, having been much closer to Lynda then Jack or the Doctor, I pulled my sonic hair sticks from my hair and started to work on opening the door. I didn't pause when Jack told me,
"Stand back, let me blast it open." I growled lightly, about to snap at him that blasting it would work, when the Doctor answered for me,
"Won't work, it's made of Hydra Combination." I quickly moved my sonic device to the touch sensitive pad, praying for the door to open. I murmured out,
"Come on, open you damn thing…" I grinned lightly when the door finally opened, and let the Doctor rush in first, relieved that the door had finally opened. I rushed in after the other three; frowning when I saw just how far away we were from Rose.
"Rose!"
"Rose, you leave this life with nothing—"
"Stop this game!"
"You damn well better stop this game!"
"I order you to stop this game!"
"We're live on air!" I glared at the woman, I assume the manager, with a scowl on my face. So what if they were on the air, that doesn't mean they can't turn off the Anne-Droid. I noticed from the corner of my eyes, that the Doctor started running towards Rose, and she towards him.
"You are the weakest link."
"Turn off that damn robot!" The woman jumped, giving me a frightened look, while repeating what she had already told us.
"Look out for the Anne Droid, it's armed!" My anger only grew when the Anne-Droid suddenly turned its head, and shot a beam directly at Rose. With a scream that I knew would echo in my thoughts, probably for the rest of my life, Rose was gone. I felt numb for a moment, my anger coming back to me when I heard Jack shout,
"What the hell did you do to her?" I was ready to join Jack in his yelling, before I saw the Doctor. He was crouching in front of the pile of dust that use to be Rose, looking broken. "Back off!" Not sure what to do, I looked between Jack and the Doctor. While I wanted to go comfort the Doctor, comforting wasn't really a strong suit of mine. That and I doubt that he would even listen to me at the moment. And it looked like Jack had the anger covered, brandishing his gun about. It wouldn't do me an good to show my anger, if I did then Jack would probably think that it's okay to start shooting people. I felt lost, that I really didn't belong with the others.
"I need security and I need it here right now! It's this lot... " My head quickly moved to look at the woman who wouldn't stop the show, glaring at her.
"Don't you touch him! Leave him alone!" I continued to frown as I saw a guard yank the Doctor up. The moment I saw the guard pull a gun towards the Doctor's head, I started to move forward; only to have a guard pull my arm back, and start tying it up. I struggled against the binds, not having much luck.
"You killed her! Your stupid freaking game show killed her."
"Leave it Jack. That bitch doesn't care, it's not like this is the first person that she's killed." Shock was etched on Jack's face as he stared at me, obviously not pleased that I wasn't as angry as he seemed to be.
After that it was a bit of a blur, as they patted us down, and locked us up. Thankfully they didn't confiscate my watch, or my hair sticks, which were held to my chest by my bra; but they did take the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. They questioned us, on how we got on board, who we were, and why we were there. Naturally none of us answered, personally my only response was to stare at the man unblinkingly in an attempt to make him uncomfortable; it didn't seem to be very affective, but I took the small joy of him being irritated with my lack of response. When they learned that we weren't going to answer, they took us to have our convict pictures taken; sadly this wasn't my first convict picture, but it was my first convict picture that I was getting when I was with Jack. Once they finally had all of our pictures, they moved us back in the cell. The man started speaking,
"You will be taken from this place to the Lunar Penal Colony, there to be held without trial, you may not appeal against this sentence." I noticed from the corner of my eyes, since I was still staring at the guard, that Lynda shifted uncomfortably, while the Doctor and Jack continued staring ahead. "Is that understood?" When none of us answered him, the guard went to the gate and opened it.
"Let's do it." With the statement the Doctor gave we were all on our feet, making our way out. Jack was punching and kicking his way out, and I was following in a similar fashion, punching a few guards as hard as I could until they passed out. The Doctor also knocked a man out by throwing him against a wall. I was grinning by the time all of the men were knocked out. And once all the men were knocked out, Jack and the Doctor went to the table and grabbed their weapons. All of us quickly made our way towards the elevator, and piled onto it once it arrived on our floor. Once we had entered the Doctor said,
"Floor 500." After a moment, the Doctor released the safety on the Defabricator gun he was now holding, his face much more serious then I had ever seen it. The moment the elevator doors opened, all the staff in the room turned to look a us, clearly worried about our presence as we all walked out armed.
"Okay! Move away from the desk! Nobody try anything clever. Everybody clears!" The staff all scattered, as the Doctor walked up to a extremely pale girl, that I don't think has ever seen the light of day, who was wired into the system. "Stand to the sides. And stay there." I watched the Doctor brandish his gun at the girl, threatening her as he asked in a menacing tone,
"Who's in charge of this place?"
"... 18... 19... 20..." I blinked, before glancing between the girl and the Doctor, finding something strange with her response, or rather lack of response.
"This Satellite's more than a Game Station."
"79..."
"Who killed Rose Tyler?" I gave the Doctor a small frown, noticing that he was getting angrier every time that the girl didn't answer his questions. And I was starting to question if she could answer him, because not many people would ignore a gun in their face.
"All staff are reminded that solar flares—"
"I want an answer!" While I flinched at the Doctor's tone of voice, hardly ever hearing him that angry, the girl didn't even react. In fact she just kept speaking,
"... in delta point one."
"She can't reply." The Doctor suddenly turned towards the staff, the gun still in his hand, something that made them all flinch.
"Don't shoot!" I smiled lightly at the man, knowing that the Doctor would never purposefully take another persons life.
"Oh, don't be so thick. Like I was ever gonna shoot." I chuckled quietly to myself as the Doctor tossed the Defabricator to the man, while giving my own small gun, only the one that was in my hands and not the ones near my waist, in my back to Jack. "Captain, we've got more guards on the way up. Secure the exits."
"Yes, sir!" I smiled over at Jack, before taking on if the staff's seats, as Jack ran off to secure the exits.
"You - what were you saying?" The man seemed to be confused as he stammered out,
"But... I've got your gun." And as usual, the Doctor was unfazed by this realization.
"Okay, so shoot me. Why can't she answer?"
"She's, um..." I nearly laughed again hen I noticed that the man was completely distracted by the gun he's holding and couldn't answer the Doctor because he was so distracted by the gun he was holding. "Can I put this down?"
"If you want, just hurry up."
"Thanks." I actually did chuckle this time, as the man carefully set the gun on the ground before he continued his explanation. "Sorry. Um... the Controller is linked to the transmissions. The entire output goes through her brain - you're not a member of staff so she doesn't recognize your existence." I glanced up at the girl, before finally speaking up,
"What's her name?" The man glanced over at me in surprise, before looking back to the Doctor who looked just as curious as I felt.
"I don't know. She was installed when she was five years old. That's the only life she's ever known." Ah, so I was right, she literally has never seen sunlight, or at least she hasn't since she was five. Jack interrupted my thoughts when he suddenly called out,
"Door's sealed. We should be safe for about ten minutes."
"Keep an eye on 'em."
"But that stuff you were saying about something going on with the Game Station - I think you're right." I glanced over at Jack when his watch suddenly bleeped, before I hopped out of the chair I was sitting in and made my way over to Jack, who was currently looking around the room. "Unauthorized transmats... it's been going on for years." I grinned, having glanced at Jack's watch and saw that the TARDIS was close by. I followed Jack closely when he started to move towards a closed door in the corner.
"Show me." I watched Jack place his hand on the door to the room, and leaned against the wall next to the door. Jack and I both jumped when a female voice shouted at us,
"You're not allowed in there! Archive Six is out of bounds!"
"Do we look like out-of-bounds sort of people?" Jack quickly put his hand over the pad, which opened the door. I followed Jack into the room, making a large grin stretch across my face. Standing in the middle of the room was the TARDIS. I skipped over to Jack, who had used his key to open the TARDIS doors, and followed him inside. After entering the TARDIS, I could hear it humming in a familiar way, almost as if it were comforting Jack and myself. I glanced down at the railing when Jack paused, seeing that Rose's jacket was just resting casually on the railing. I frowned at it for a moment, before tearing my eyes away from the jacket. I walked past Jack, who had placed his hands on the jacket for a moment, snapped out of his thoughts when I walked around him, and made my way closer to the console. Jack sped around me, before he looked at one of the screens. I raised an eyebrow at him when he suddenly leaned closer to the screen in a puzzled manner.
"What the hell...?" I moved closer to the screen, wondering what Jack was looking at.
"What's up?" I peered at the screen over Jack shoulder, my mouth dropping. "What the hell? The TARDIS is a genius!" I jumped when Jack suddenly turned around, and grabbed onto my shoulders shaking them slightly,
"Do you know what this means!"
"Stop shaking me Jack."
"Rose is still alive, Red!" I blinked up at him, staring at him in shock for a moment, before I let out a loud, happy, cheer. I gave Jack a jumping hug, both of us grinning widely, before I shouted out,
"Come on, we have to let the Doctor know!" I tugged on Jack's arm; letting it go once we reached the TARDIS doors. I smiled as I exited the room, yelling out to the Doctor,
"We found the TARDIS!"
"We're not leaving now." Jack, who had left the room right behind me, responded to the Doctor.
"No. But the TARDIS worked it out." I chuckled as Jack suddenly tossed the man that had talked to us earlier out of his chair, as I made my way towards the empty space in the room. "You'll wanna watch this. Yeah, right there Red." I nodded at Jack, standing where he told me to stand. "Everybody watching? Okay... three, two, one—" For a moment all I saw was white, before I was in a dark room. Before my eyes could adjust from the transmat beam, and adjust to the new poorly lit room, I was back in the control room standing next to the Doctor.
"Man, that really messes with your head." I noticed that the Doctor giving me a concerned look, only for a moment, before he turned to look at Jack for an explanation.
"It's a transmat beam. Not a disintegrator - a secondary transmat system. People don't get killed in the games! They get transported across space! Doctor, Rose is still alive!" The Doctor let out an ecstatic laugh; both him and Jack quickly threw their arms around each other, grinning widely. The Doctor surprised me when he suddenly turned to me, pulling my into a hug and swinging me in a circle, happily stating,
"She's alive!" He then set me on the ground, and rushed from console to console cheerfully yelling out, "She's out there somewhere!"
"Doctor!" I whirled around in shock, staring at the pale girl plugged into the wires, a look of pain on her face.
"Co-ordinates five point six point one—" I watched the girl in concern, not really understanding what was going on at the moment, as the Doctor typed in the coordinates frantically. While he was typing them in he shouted,
"Don't! The solar flare's gone, they'll hear you!"
"Point four three four- no my masters, no! I defy you! Stigma seven seven—" The girl let out a loud scream, before she was hit by a transmat beam, leaving only a pile of dust behind.
"They took her." We all paused for a moment, staring at the spot that the girl use to be, before we all scrambled to work on the coordinates. After a moment we were all surrounding Jack, who was sitting in one of the computer terminals.
"Look, use that." I gave a glance at the man from earlier, briefly wondering what his name was, before the disc he handed Jack distracted me. "It might contain the final numbers. I kept a log of all the unscheduled transmissions."
"Nice... thanks..." I eyed Jack as he held out his hand, eyeing the man like he seems to do with everyone, thinking that this really wasn't the time to be flirting. After all we needed to find Rose as soon as possible, who knows what took her. "Jack Harkness, by the way..."
"I'm Davitch Pavale." Well, I guess on the plus side I know the man's name now, but I still don't think this is a good time to be flirting.
"Nice to meet you, Davitch Pavale..." I smacked Jack's arm, while the Doctor stated,
"There's a time and a place."
"Are you saying this entire set-up's been a disguise all along?"
"Going way back. Installing the Jagrafess a hundred years ago. Someone's been playing a longgame. Controlling the Human Race from behind the scenes for generations." I guess Jack figured out the coordinates, because when the Doctor finished speaking, Jack handed him a small device telling him,
"Click on this." I watched the Doctor pointed it up before he clicked the button; and once he clicked it an image of an empty expanse of space materialized above our heads. "The transmat delivers to that point. Right on the edge of the solar system."
"There's nothing there." I gave the woman a frown, telling her,
"It only looks like nothing. See, that's what this satellite does. Underneath the transmission, there's a second signal..."
"Doing what?" The Doctor was quick to answer before I even opened my mouth, which I was okay with; he probably knows at least a little more about this then I do.
"Hiding whatever's out there. Hiding it from sonar, radar, scanner..." The Doctor paused for a moment, in which we all continued to stare up at the blank expanse of space, before he continued to speak, "There's something sitting righton top of Planet Earth... but it's completely invisible. If I cancel the signal..." The Doctor started pressing buttons, and suddenly the expanse of space was no longer empty. In front of us was a spaceship, a very familiar looking ship. I stared at the image, horrified, as it continued to zoom out showing hundreds of ships.
"This can't be."
"That's impossible. I know those ships... they were destroyed."
"Obviously, they survived." I gave the Doctor a concerned glance, before the woman spoke up again,
"Who did? Who are they?"
"Two hundred ships. More than two thousand on board each one. That's just about half a million of them." I could feel the panic in my body as I stared at the Doctor in shock… How the hell would we be able to deal with that many?
"Half a million what?"
"Daleks." Within seconds we were all huddled around the screen that showed the Daleks, and Rose. Even though there were three Daleks flanking Rose, I was pleased to see that she appeared to still be unharmed.
"I will talk to the Doctor."
"Oh, will you? That's nice. Hello!" The Doctor gave them a mocking wave, and his fake grin started fading.
"The Dalek Stratagem nears completion. The Fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene." I raised an eyebrow at the screen, wondering why they thought that we wouldn't intervene.
"Oh, really? Why's that then?"
"We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated." My frown deepened when I saw Rose shaking, obviously terrified, as she stared at the Doctor.
"No." My head snapped towards the Doctor, not pleased with his response. I didn't think he would endanger Rose, even more so since we already lost her once today. The Dalek seemed as shocked as us, or rather as shocked as a Dalek can be, when it demanded,
"Explain yourself." I think this is the only time that I have, or ever will, agree with a Dalek. The Doctor had better explain himself soon, or he was going to make Rose even more terrified, and piss Jack and I off.
"I said 'no'."
"What is the meaning of this negative?"
"It means 'no'."
"But she will be destroyed."
"No! 'Cos this is what I'mgonna do - I'm gonna rescue her." And the Doctor's explanation brought a smile to my face. He quickly elaborated on his explanation, in a very fierce tone. "I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek Fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth, and then just to finish off, I'm gonna wipe every last STINKING Dalek outta the sky!"
"But you have no weapons! No defences! No plan!" The large grin on the Doctor's face mirrored my own as he supplied the clever response of,
"Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death? Rose?"
"Yes, Doctor?"
"I'm coming to get you." The Doctor then clicked the device, effectively shutting off the communication line. I turned to the Doctor with a large grin on my face as I asked him,
"So where do we start this rescue misson?"