A/N: Oh god, I'm so sorry that this took longer than it should have. It's been crrraaazy. I'm back in school, and working full time. So bare with me while I set a schedule for myself and get into the swing of things so I can update on a regular basis. I promise! Real life suuuucks. Don't ever do it. Anyways, here's chapter five! Hope you enjoy! :3
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Chapter Five - The Brilliant Rose Tyler
Oh how very wrong we were.
It would turn out that Rose Tyler, would play a bigger part of our lives than we assume. The Doctor would never forget Rose Tyler, and I would never forget her either. She was, without a doubt, an amazing woman. Still is. She's brilliant. This girl - no - woman was definitely a big part of our lives. She easily became our best friend, without a doubt.
As the TARDIS disappeared, I leaned against the railing, watching the Doctor silently, Matt had moved closer to inspect the plastic arm. He looked interested and wanted to ask questions but remained silent. I could see it in his face, but the boy didn't say a word, which surprised me. I don't blame him, the mood swings of the Doctor, was well...unnerving sometimes. Especially since you didn't know what mood he's going to be in. I continued to watch him attach the wires, then move around the console, muttering to himself. I, however, couldn't stand the silence.
"What are you doing with that plastic hand?" I asked, giving it a disgusted look, which got a grin from both men.
"I'm trying to find the signal to find the real source. So we don't have a big disaster on our hands" The Doctor smiled, before pressing buttons, turning to look at the screen. I continued to watch the hand and raised an eyebrow.
"How are you going to manage that when it's melting?" I asked, my arms crossed over my chest. Glancing over, the Doctor swore, before jumping around the place once more. The room jerked hard, sending me across the room into the console, as Matt fell to the floor with a groan. I grumbled, as that hum seemed apologetic. Again with that hum. I was going to have to ask about it later. With another thud, I stood up, rubbing my stomach, god that hurt. That was something I was not going to get used too.
"No, no, no, no...dammit. I lost the signal." The Doctor grumbled running for the door, looking outside than ran back in. "Why did we come here?" He asked the console, while Matt and I just glanced at each other. Great, we're on a wild goose chase. I sighed.
"Where are we?" Matt asked, standing up, walking towards the door.
"By the smell of it, the back alley of a restaurant." The Doctor stated, staring at his screen intensely. "The TARDIS locked onto the small amount of signal and landed here. Which makes absolutely no sense. There's nothing here!" He exclaimed, sighing grumpy.
"Smells good." Matt said from the door, moving over to him I glanced outside. We were at the back of the restaurant, a building with deep red brick with a single metal door imbedded. Must be the way into the kitchen. There was a wooden gate that was padlocked to our right and a dumpster to the left, black garbage bags in and around it. The smell was delicious though, I had to admit, once you got past the garbage smell of course, you noticed the food smell. Which in turn made my stomach grumble, quite loudly. Glancing at me with a smirk, Matt looked back at the Doctor.
"Um, Doctor do you think if it would be alright if we went inside to get some food. Anna hasn't eaten since yesterday." Matt asked, which he got a grunt and a nod from the Doctor, who didn't look up. He seemed confused at whatever his screen said, I rolled my eyes. "Thanks. We won't be long, we'll just get take out."
We decided it was best if we walked around to the front door. The last thing we needed to do was go through the kitchen, we didn't work there and people would notice. I had a hand on my stomach as the growling continued, the food was just smelled so good. Matt just laughed, grabbing my hand as we headed inside. It was a nice place, a quiet place. There wasn't a lot of people, which was nice, no loud noises. Then it dawned on me, how were we going to pay for our food? I glanced at Matt, then back at the restaurant, grabbing Matt close to me.
"How are we going to pay for this?" I whispered, glancing around. Matt blinked staring down at me.
"I do have some cash on me, don't worry. I always carry some cash." He smiled at the my confused look. "I hadn't empty my pockets when we got home. I was about too then we got here." He added, which I nodded slowly. Sure. We'll go with that. We smiled at the waitress who gave us menus, mentioning that we just wanted to take out. Glancing down at the menu I couldn't decide, everything looked so good. Honestly it did, as I was staring at the menu, I noticed Matt shift suddenly beside me. I turned to look only seeing a confused look on his face. He was staring past me into the restaurant beyond. What the hell was he staring at? Turning to look, I glanced at the few people who were sitting there. Nothing out of the ordinary. I looked back at Matt, with my eyebrow raised, and he just nodded his head his eyes staring at something, or should I say someone. My eyes followed his gaze, landing on a pretty blonde, and a dark-skinned man, well more like plastic man. From here I could even tell he wasn't human. How couldn't she? She was talking absentminded as he was just staring at her all creepy like, and smiling. Oh that smile would give me nightmares I swear. I wiped around, my eyes wide, staring at Matt for a moment. We ran back to the TARDIS.
"We have a problem." I yelled as I ran up the ramp, the Doctor poked his head out from behind the screen, his looked confused.
"What problem?" He asked looking at us, raising his eyebrow as both Matt and I were panting.
"That blonde girl, Rose? I think that's her name. She's in the diner...with a plastic...something...it looks like an actual man but he's just creepy as all hell." I said pointing out the TARDIS towards the restaurant, the Doctor looked even more confused.
"The signal! The one you couldn't figure out where it was coming from. It's coming from a plastic replica of a man sitting with that Rose blonde woman you were speaking with earlier!" Matt snapped, turning to face the Doctor than back out the doors. I looked over at the Doctor, I watched as the realization dawned on him. God, he was thick. His mouth opened into an 'o', before he dashed for the door.
"You two stay here, please. This time don't follow." He said, pointing a finger at each of us. I raised my hands and nodded. No way in hell was I going to get involved this time. Matt just nodded and the Doctor took off. I leaned against the console, my arms across my chest as I crossed my leg over the other, staring at the door. Matt glanced at me then to the door, we wondered how long it would be before the two of them came crashing through the doors. Wasn't long as all. I was going to ask Matt about the humming that was in the back of my head. It seemed, amused and excited about something. Before I could, we heard commotion and yelling, the Doctor opened the TARDIS door, with a plastic head under his arm. Bloody hell. What was it with him collecting plastic limbs. I scowled at it. The Hum chuckled.
"You can't hide inside a wooden box. It's going to get us! Doctor!" A female voice shouted from outside the doors, I moved from where I was to stand by Matt, who was smirking. That would be Rose. The Doctor was placing the plastic head on the console once more. Before turning to glance out the door, glancing at us with a smirk, then decided to turn back to the head. She ran into the TARDIS, stopped halfway up the ramp, then back out. I saw in my mind's eye Rose running around the small blue box, we heard the ratting of the gate, the banging of the metal door and the desperate groan from the woman. Giving up on the gate, the blonde ran back into the TARDIS.
"It's going to follow us!" She stopped, her mouth opened wide.
"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 stated, before smirking at Matt and I. "You see, the arm was too simple, but the head's perfect. I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source." I raised an eyebrow, before pointing at the very shocked Rose Tyler, who was staring with her mouth wide open. "Right." Turning he took the same place I did, and looked at Rose. "Where do you want to start?"
"Er, the inside's bigger than the outside?"
"Yes"
"It's Alien." Rose stated calmly, which kinda shocked me.
"Yeah"
"Are you alien?" She eyed him for a moment.
"Yes" The Doctor paused. "Is that alright?"
"Yeah" Glancing over at us, I could see the question there. Are we alien as well. Matt and I shook our heads.
"We're not alien, I'm Matt Riley by the way, and this is Adrianna McDonald. Humans from planet earth. Canadian's to be exact." He smiled. Rose just nodded.
"Rose Tyler." Rose said quietly.
"It's called the Tardis, this thing. S. That's Time And Relative Dimension In Space" The Doctor added as Rose glanced at the three of us. She took a deep breath before she started sobbing covering her face with her hands. "That's okay. Culture shock. Happens to the best of us." He added staring at the girl. There was this look on his face, one I couldn't place. The Hum seemed to approve of this situation, I raised an eyebrow. Where the hell is that hum coming from. I glanced at Matt who looked at the scene in mild amusement.
"Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?" She asked. Confusion written over our faces for a moment, before my eyes snapped over to the plastic head. I then realized who she was talking about. Oh boy. Boyfriend? Friend maybe? I turned to look at Matt who wore the same 'oh shit' expression. The Doctor raised an eyebrow before, he too, glanced at the head.
"Oh. I didn't think of that." The Doctor stated. God he could be so thick.
"Doctor..." I moaned, placing my face in my hand. That wasn't something you weren't suppose to say. The girl looked murderous.
"He's my boyfriend. You pulled off his head. They copied him and you didn't even think? And now you're just going to let him melt?" Melt? Turning to look Matt and I once again groaned, there the plastic head was melting over the console, exactly where the plastic arm was.
"Melt?" Turning around the Doctor shouted, dancing around the console, the TARDIS jerking as she took off. Matt and I leaned against the console, slowly getting used to this travel thing, as Rose yelped gripping onto it with dear life.
"What're you doing?" Both Rose and I shouted at the Doctor, as Matt just laughed beside me.
"Following the signal. It's fading. Wait a minute, I've got it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Almost there. Almost there. Here we go!" The TARDIS jerked once more before the Doctor threw up a lever, and dashed for the door, Matt and I in hot pursuit.
"You can't go out there. It's not safe." The blonde looked scared for a moment, Matt turned around and smiled.
"Of course we can, trust me. You'll get used to it." Without another word, the three of us ran out the opened doors. I stopped beside Matt, who had moved to look across the bridge we were now standing on. I noticed at once what he was looking at and smiled.
"The London Eye, wow, never thought I'd see it." I muttered, wrapping my arms around myself staring at it. Matt laughed.
"You and me both, I thought I would be stuck in Canada my whole life. Travelling with the Doctor, it's opened your eyes hasn't it? It's fun, and there's a whole world out there we can explore." He smiled down at me, which I returned nodding.
"Yeah, speaking of the Doctor." We turned around watching Rose and the Doctor in a heated argument. Before the blonde calmed down, staring at the alien with a questionable look.
"If you are an alien, how comes you sound like you're from the North?" Matt and I leaned against the bridge, smirking.
"Lots of planets have a north!" The Doctor exclaimed, leaning against the old wooden box. We watched the two of them in silence. It was much more amusing.
"What's a police public call box?" That was Rose's next question, one that I was actually interested in hearing. Moving closer the two of us stared at the box.
"It's a telephone box from the 1950s. It's a disguise." The Doctor smiled at the three of us, before turning to look around once more. Well that didn't exactly answer the question completely.
"Okay. And this, this living plastic. What's it got against us?" Rose spoke up.
"Nothing. It loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. It's food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein plants rotted, so Earth, dinner!" Rose and I exchanged a glance. Right. Made kinda sense but at the same time it really didn't.
"So it wants the planet for its self, but wipe out the human race." Matt spoke up from behind the TARDIS, poking his head around.
"Exactly. Brilliant Matthew!" The Doctor smiled. I rolled my eyes.
"Any way of stopping it?" Rose asked, she wrapped her arms around herself.
"Anti-plastic." Holding up a thin tube of blue liquid, the Doctor shook it, once more a huge grin upon his face.
"Anti-plastic." Once more Rose and I stated, raising our eyebrows in disbelief. Matt reappeared from behind the TARDIS, staring at the tube.
"Um...? Does it do exactly what I think it does?" Matt asked, staring at the tube.
"That it does my boy. Anti-plastic. But first I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?" The Doctor muttered to himself, before turning to walk off. The three of us glancing at each other before following.
"Hold on. Hide what?" I asked.
"The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal." The Doctor said stopping, staring across the River, the London Eye behind him, Matt and I stood and glanced at the Eye, a smirk on both our faces. We knew. Oh did we know.
"What's it look like?" Rose asked, catching on just as quickly, staring at the London Eye.
"Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London. A huge circular metal structure like a dish, like a wheel. Radial. Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible. What?" He looked between Matt, Rose and I. Matt and I wearing an amused smile, while Rose just stared behind the man. "What?" He asked again, glancing behind him. "What? What is it?" Oh god he could be so think. Mind you, this was fun. It was nice to tease the poor man, even though he was getting slightly frustrated. He glanced at Matt who laughed, then me who just shook my head smiling. Then to Rose who was just nodded in that direction. "What?" He once again turned, looked, looked back at us, before realization dawned on his face. A smile broke out as he looked back at the Eye. "Oh. Fantastic! Come on then!" He jumped from where he stood, grabbed Rose's hand and took off. Matt grabbing mine followed.
We found Nestene Consciousness in a manhole under the Westminster Bridge, thanks to the clever and ever watchful Rose. I'm not going to lie when we came face to face to the creature, I cringed. It looked like a big orange glob that just shouldn't be there. Some how it was talking with the Doctor. I thought the situation was going pretty well, we had found Mickey, Rose's boyfriend, who was well cowering like a little dog. That didn't exactly impress me, nor did Matt find it amusing, he would tell me later of course. The Doctor seemed to have everything under control, that was until those creepy dummies appeared, grabbed the alien, and Consciousness accused the Doctor of coming to attack it. Which was ridiculous since that thing invaded our planet. Then it got worse. The Doctor yelled for us to go, which I was more than willing, Rose grabbed Mickey, trying to make it out. The Consciousness had started its transmission, all hell was breaking lose all over the place. The dummies were trying to push the Doctor into it and the stairs fell apart. I thought we were trapped. I was amazed by how calm I was though, same with Matt, we were panicking you could see it in our eyes, but did we yell and scream like the idiot Mickey. No.
It was then, through all the chaos, and yelling, the brilliant amazing Rose Tyler saved the Day. I held onto Mickey, when she passed him off to me, moving past us. Matt yelled for her but she just smiled at him before continuing to a chain that was attached to the wall. "Just leave him, there's nothing we can do!" Oh I wanted to hit Mickey honestly. I went to yell at him, when I heard the unmistakable yelp of Rose, turned to only watch in amazement Rose swinging, knocked over the dummies, the anti-plastic and saved the Doctor. Yelling out in surprise and happiness, we dragged the crying Mickey towards the TARDIS, boarded and took off. The four of us laughed, I laughed cause we made it out alive, Matt laughed because of the thrill, the Doctor was laughing because he was still alive and Rose was laughing to hide her own panic. The TARDIS landed and the doors swung open, which Mickey took off right away, cowering behind a pallet. Raising an eyebrow I glanced at Rose who just shrugged. The Hum once more seemed to chuckle with amusement. We all filed out of the TARDIS the Doctor leaning against the door, Matt and I standing in front of him.
"A fat lot of good you all were." Rose laughed, walking over to Mickey who was cowering. Matt and I laughed.
"Nestene Consciousness? Easy." The Doctor smiled. I shook my head.
"That was not easy." I stated, getting a laugh from the other three.
"You were useless in there. All three of you. You'd be dead if it wasn't for me." Rose laughed, Mickey clinging to her legs now as she was close enough to him. I stared at the man, wondering how this girl was with him.
"Yes, I would. We all would be. Thank you. Right then, I'll be off, unless, er, I don't know..." He glanced down at Matt and I, I could see the question and broke into a smile nodding. "You could come with me...well I guess us. This box isn't just a London hopper, you know. It goes anywhere in the universe free of charge." He smiled
"Don't. He's an alien. He's a thing." Mickey spoke clinging ever tighter to Rose. I sighed. Matt just rolled his eyes.
"He's not invited." The Doctor glared at the black man, before turning a smile to Rose. "What do you think? You could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go anywhere." He moved from the door, as Matt and I both went to go inside, I smiled back at Rose who looked torn, she wanted to come, you could see it plastered all over her face, but something was holding the girl back from coming. Could it be Mickey? Or something else? Matt waved to the blonde, who nodded staring at us sadly, both of us entering the TARDIS waiting. We didn't hear her answer but was shocked when we heard the Doctor's reply.
"Okay. See you around." The Doctor turned around, shutting the TARDIS door walking to the console, switching it on. Glancing at Matt, I looked at the Doctor.
"She's not coming?" Matt asked, as the whirring sound echoed through the room. The Doctor shook his head.
"That's okay though! I have you two do I not?" The Doctor laughed, dancing around, but I could see it. He wanted Rose to come along too. She was brilliant, and amazing. That blonde girl from the estates saved our lives.
"Go on, invite her again." I said, a smile on my face. The Doctor glanced at me. Matt looked at me, smiling. "She did save our lives." I stated while smiling at the Doctor. The Hum seemed to encouraging this, seemed happy that I was pushing. I really needed to ask the Doctor about that. "Plus I think it would be nice to have another female along. I don't like being outnumbered." They laughed.
"How? She wants to be with Mickey the Idiot. Who is not allowed to come. Plus, I don't usually ask twice!" The Doctor growled sobering up.
"What else does the TARDIS do? Other than visit space. There must be something else you can offer her." Matt and I blinked as the Doctor smiled brightened suddenly, laughing. He threw a few switches up, sending the TARDIS in reverse, the whirring sound getting louder around us. We laughed.
"You two are brilliant! Time! The one thing every human wants to do is Time Travel! I'll be right back and then the real adventures will begin!" He twirled smiling at us before racing towards the door. The Hum seemed satisfied, then went suddenly sad. Confused, I glanced around, before turning to follow the Doctor. I blinked.
I stopped, stumbling ever so slightly, my eyes growing wide. There was no pain, no bright white light. The Hum was gone. There was nothing. Absolutely nothing. Blinking I looked around me, my heart sinking in my chest. The TARDIS had disappeared, the wonderful madman was gone, and the blonde brilliant english girl wasn't there. It was all replaced with-
"Our apartment..." Matt stated, shock coming from him in waves as he stood beside me. We were home. We were standing in the middle of our livingroom. I blinked.
What the hell?