Chapter Seven: The Stolen Earth

Rose had been in her original universe for about a week now. She had been staying with Gwen and Rhys. Every day, she, Jack, and the rest of the Torchwood team would try to find some sort of disturbance pattern that would match the disappearing planets. Since Rose had been in a parallel universe, this was herder for her than it was for Jack, Gwen, Rhys, Ianto, and the other people from Torchwood.

"Well, there was the fad Adipose diet," Ianto said. "That fat literally just walks right off of you. That was their slogan and boy was it true. From what I heard, they had lost their home planet."

"The flowers in my garden haven't been growing well these past few years. Rhys and I have seen fewer and fewer bees," Gwen added.

"So bees are aliens too?" Rose sarcastically asked, leaning sideways in a revolving chair, her head in the pal of her right hand.

"Well not all of them," Jack answered. "But if I recall correctly, their home planet is Melissa Majoria. They would go back if they sensed some sort of disturbance."

"It's amazing none of us back at the parallel universe noticed anything like that," Rose said.

"Thalia noticed the stars going out. That's something. You and your team were able to deduce that the Daleks were behind all of this pretty fast. Don't be too hard on yourself, Rose," Jack said.

"Oh but I need to be, Jack. I am her mother and I promised her that I'd never let anything happen to her, that I'd never let anyone harm her. Ever since I've been here we've found nothing to help us find her. I feel like such a failure as a mother."

Jack bent down, put his hand on Rose's shoulder and said, Now Rose, if you don't let anything happen to your kids every once in a while, they'll never learn to grow. They may get hurt, but it'll only make them stronger people in the end. My mom tried to keep me from leaving home. Sure I miss her sometimes, but if I had stayed with my folks, I wouldn't be where I am right now. And I sure wouldn't have met you and the Doctor. We'll get Thalia back, but you can't protect her forever, Rose."

Rose looked down. Suddenly, there was a tremor. Everyone fell on their sides. Papers and other equipment fell off the desk and to the floor. "What was that?" Rose asked.

"Probably an earthquake," Gwen answered.

"No, it felt too quick to be an earthquake," Rhys piped in. Sounds of car alarms and screaming came from outside. Rose, Gwen, Rhys, Jack, and Ianto rushed to the window. They saw cars stopped in their tracks and people standing in the middle of the road looking at the sky. When they looked up at the sky, they saw large planets and moons close to the point of near collision, blocking the sunlight.

Jack ran over to the computer and entered their coordinates. The others followed him to his computer. Jack pulled up a visual of the planets in the sky along with several blinking red dots close to the Earth's atmosphere. "I'm getting a message. Let's see if I can interpret it," Jack said.

Blue and red lines appeared and faded with sound when the horrific message came through. "Exterminate! Exterminate!" it chanted over and over again. Rose and Jack's eyes widened in horror. Gwen, Rhys, and Ianto stood dumbfounded.

"Oh my God it's happened," Jack said softly. He gathered everyone together and kissed all of their foreheads.

"What do you mean?" Ianto asked.

"These are made of artificial material, they're ships," Jack answered excitedly, pointing to the red blinking dots. "It's them. They've come. The Daleks have come to invade Earth."

"First they kidnap my daughter and then my home planet and now they terrorize it?! They picked the wrong mum to mess with," Rose said angrily, heading toward the door. Jack ran and leapt in front of her.

"Where do you think you're going?" he asked.

"To see the Daleks and demand that my daughter be returned to me safely," she answered.

"Rose, you can't just go out there. You'll be exterminated. No, we need a plan. A plan to keep you safe so that you can see Thalia again. If all else fails, that will be our number one mission: to reunite you and Thalia. That's why you came here in the first place," Jack continued.

Rose sighed and nodded her head in agreement. "All right, so what's the plan?" Rose asked.

Jack opened his mouth, paused, and said, "I'm working on it." He paced about the room, his hands together under his chin, muttering, "Okay, okay okay. Okay, there's no other way about this. We have to contact the Doctor. Right away. Rose, you've got to tell him about Thalia and he'll defeat the Daleks and get Thalia back to you safely. You know this is how it was all going to go down anyway." Rose nodded. "Everyone, get out your phones. We're calling the Doctor," Jack shouted.

Jack, Gwen, Rhys, and Ianto pulled out their cell phones and called the number that the Doctor had given them. They each received a beeping signal followed by the message, "The number you are trying to reach is out of service."

"What does that mean?" Rose asked.

"It must be the Daleks. They're blocking the number in the atmosphere," Gwen answered.

"Try Martha Jones. She'll know what to do," Jack ordered. Turning to Rose, he continued, "Martha traveled with the Doctor after you. Now she works for UNIT in New York. You'll like her. I think she's kind of sensitive about you, though. Maybe she's got an issue with pretty blondes, but more than likely it's because she fancied the Doctor but he was still hung up on you."

"He was?" Rose asked, shocked that the Doctor would remember her and mention her after her departure from the Doctor, something he had failed to do with Sarah Jane Smith and so many other companions who had come before her.

"I just got off the phone with Lieutenant General Sanchez. He says they can't find Martha," Ianto said.

"Well great! Now what do we do?" Rose shouted despairingly.

"I have another idea. Find Sylvia Noble and Wilfred Mott. They're the mother and grandfather of the Doctor's current companion, Donna Noble. They should know where she and the Doctor are at," Jack said. He pulled out a Post-It note and wrote down their address. "They live here in Chiswick. We'll teleport you there."

"But what about you guys? I can't just leave you all here. Not after all you've done for me," Rose asked sadly.

"Don't worry about us. We can take care of ourselves and hold down the fort," Jack answered. He and Rose shared a somber, long hug. When they broke apart, he put his hand on her shoulder and said, "Take care of yourself, Rose. Find Thalia. And if you see the Doctor on the way, tell him I said hi."

"I will." Rose then turned to hug Ianto, then Gwen, then Rhys. "Thank you guys so much for taking me in and helping me out. You've done so much for me to help me find Thalia I don't know how I can ever repay you."

"Stay safe, find your daughter, and return home together safely. That is enough payment for us," Gwen answered.

Rose turned away and headed toward the door when Jack called out, "Wait!" He ran toward her holding a very large gun. "Since the streets are filled with Daleks, you'll probably need this." He handed her the gun and she slung it around her shoulder. He then put a teleportation device on her wrist and entered the coordinates for Chiswick. Rose backed away and stood still.

"Good luck, Rose Tyler," Jack said before Rose vanished into thin air.

The Daleks terrorized the streets of London. They destroyed buildings and cars, attacked those who ran from them, and rounded up everyone from their homes. "You will come with us. Resistance is useless," they threatened those they had extracted.

One man stepped aside from his wife and son and asked, "Where are you taking us?"

"Daleks do not answer human questions. Stand in line," it ordered.

Rose had just teleported onto the scene. She was hiding behind a building several feet away from the Daleks. Suddenly, she noticed an older woman and an elderly man old enough to be the woman's father hiding behind a fence. The woman said, "Dad please, come home. They're leaving our street alone."

The older man said, "Yeah, I've got a weapon." He held up a small paint-gun, like the kind Tony liked to play with.

"It's a paint-gun," the woman sharply reminded him.

"Exactly! Them Dalek things, they've only got one eye. A good splodge of paint, they'd be blinded!" the man excitedly stated. A man who knows about the Daleks. Surely these people must be Sylvia Noble and Wilfred Mott, the relatives of Donna Noble. These people are my last hope to find Thalia and the Doctor, Rose thought to herself.

The man in the crowd said, "We're not going. Do you hear me?" he turned to his wife and ordered, "Laura, get back inside the house. Simon, get inside. Go!" The man's wife and son did as they were told. The man picked up a brick and threw it at the Dalek. It barely scraped him. "Get back in the sky! Go back where you came from and leave us alone!" the man spit at the Dalek. Oh how Rose wanted to do the very same things to these remorseless monsters that threatened the existence of the universe, its inhabitants, her people, her daughter. But she knew she must be patient, or else she would never see Thalia again.

The man hurried back into the house to be with his wife and son. The Daleks stood outside of the house and ordered, "Dalek attack formation seven." Two more Daleks joined him and they said together, "Maximum extermination." The Daleks fired into the house until it was set ablaze with the innocent family trapped inside. The crowd screamed in horror. Rose silently scowled at the Daleks from behind, silently swearing revenge for all they had done to her.

"They're monsters," the elderly man said, shaken by what he had just seen.

"Dad, please, come home," the woman begged. They turned around and ran behind the fence but were shortly stopped by a Dalek.

"Halt! You will come with me," it ordered.

Not on my watch, Rose thought.

"Will I, 'eck," the man defiantly asked before firing his paint-gun. It hit the Dalek square in the eyepiece.

Rose heard a sizzling noise and then the Dalek said, "My vision is not impaired."

"I warned you, Dad," the woman cried.

"Hostility will not be tolerated," the Dalek shouted. "Exterminate! Exterminate! Extermin-" The Dalek's head blew off and the monster burst into flames right before the old man and his daughter's eyes. Rose stood a few feet behind the Dalek, holding her gun.

"Do you want to swap?" the old man joked, holding up his paint-gun.

Rose didn't answer him. Instead she asked, "You're Donna Noble's family, right?" The old man nodded. "I'm Rose Tyler and I need you to help me find the Doctor and my daughter," she continued.

The Nobles took Rose back to their house. Sylvia made tea for the three of them. Wilfred recounted about the last time he heard from Donna. "Yeah, I've tried calling her, but I can't get through! But she's still with the Doctor, I know that much and the last time she phoned, it…it was from a planet called Midnight, made of diamonds!"

"What the hell are you two on about?" Sylvia asked as she entered the room carrying a tray of tea.

"Look, she's out there, sweetheart. Your daughter. She's been traveling the stars, with that Doctor, she always has been!" Wilfred confronted his daughter.

"Don't be ridiculous," Sylvia dismissively said.

"Oh come on, open your eyes! Look at the sky! Look at the Daleks! You can't start denying things now!" Wilfred continued.

"You're my last hope," Rose despairingly said. If we can't find Donna, then we can't find the Doctor. If we can't find the Doctor, then we can't find Thalia. She's only fifteen years old. You're a mother, Sylvia. Aren't you worried at all about Donna?"

"Well, yes of course but…but this is all so surreal. I mean, don't get me wrong, my dad and I want to help you find your daughter but I just can't believe any of this is happening," Sylvia answered.

"Well do what your father says and start believing, cause this is really happening and we're all in trouble," Rose said firmly.

"Oh, Doctor, Thalia, where could you be?" Rose asked in despair as she sat down in a chair and placed her head in her hands. Wilfred and Sylvia placed their arms on the distraught mother, trying to comfort her, but they had no idea how to help her in such a dangerous and unusual situation.

Hey guys! Sorry it's been so long. I've been busy with school and such. But regardless, thank you to all of those who have reviewed, followed, and favorites the story so far. It's only going to get better from here. Next chapter is when Thalia finally finds out the truth. I should hopefully have that chapter up soon. But until then, rate, subscribe, review. On another note, what do you guys think of Peter Capaldi as the Doctor so far? I guess he's all right, but I would really like to get to know him as the Doctor a bit better. And what will happen with Clara and Danny? I sure hope Steven Moffat doesn't kill them off like he did with Amy and Rory. And who is the Missy in Paradise? Please review!