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A few weeks later the Doctor and Rose were telling Mickey about their time at the academy.
"Rose remember our tutor from the academy Professor 'Edgeworth' Azmael?" The Doctor asked his wife, she nodded "I encountered him in my fourth incarnation and he was drunk so I had to throw him into a fountain to sober him up. I was also with him as he died: a few regenerations ago, my sixth actually." He told her
"How long ago was that?" Rose asked.
"About a few centuries ago." He told her "Remember that time when we had to learn to pilot a tardis?" She asked
"Yeah, I do, you passed and I got a 51% on the test on the second try. Meanwhile you got a hundred on the test." He said and then he burst out laughing.
"How long ago was this?" Mickey asked
"Right before graduation and before we got married. The Doctor answered he then noticed that Mickey was holding onto a control "Um What are you doing that for?" He asked Mickey
"Cause you told me to." Mickey told him
"When was that?" The Doctor asked
"About half an hour ago." Mickey replied
"Um... You can let go now. " The Doctor said and Mickey let go of the control.
"Well, how long's it been since I could've stopped?" Mickey asked
"Ten minutes? Twenty? ... Twenty-nine?"
"You just forgot me!" Mickey exclaimed at the Doctor
"No, no, no! Me and we're just... We were just..." The Doctor started
"Mickey we were recalibrating. He knows exactly what he was doing." Rose said
Then the TARDIS console explodes violently and both sparks and flames fly everywhere.
The TARDIS falls through fire as the TARDIS fall out of the the time vortex.
The Doctor scrambles to his knees and frantically tries to operate the console.
"What's happened?!" Mickey asked
"The time vortex is gone!" The Doctor said
Yeah, the time vortex is gone but that's impossible, it's just gone!" Rose said
The TARDIS falls vertically through the void very fast. INT.
"Brace yourself! We're gonna crash!" The Doctor screamed and The Tardis crashes into a parallel universe.
The Doctor, Rose and Mickey are thrown backwards and gas masks fall from the ceiling and the lights on the ceiling go out and and the room goes very dark.
"Everyone all right?Arkytior, Mickey?" The Doctor asked to see if Rose and Mickey were all right.
Mickey was at the other side of the console "I'm fine. I'm okay, sorry." He said and then they all stand slowly. The Doctor and Rose both looks up at the rotor and the console.
"She's dead." He said and they heard a clicking sound as the engines cool down, smoke Smoke rises from the console.
"The TARDIS is dead." Rose added and the Doctor walks slowly around the console.
"You both can fix it? Mickey asked
"There's nothing to fix. She's perished." The Doctor told Mickey as he pulls a lever back and forth fruitlessly.
"The last TARDIS in the universe... extinct." Rose added
"We can get help?" Mickey asked the Doctor and Rose.
"Where from?" The Doctor asked
"Well, we've landed, we've gotta be somewhere." Mickey said
"We fell out of the vortex, through the void, into nothingness. We're in some sort of no-place... the silent realm... the lost dimension..." the Doctor said as Mickey goes to the door and he grins as he opened the door "Otherwise known as London!" Mickey said before he laughs and steps out of the door and both Rose and her husband follows Mickey out the door to the Parallel London.
"London, England, Earth. Hold on..." Mickey said He jumps down off the low wall and picks a paper out of a dustbin and looks at the cover.
"First of February this year, not exactly far-flung, is it?" Mickey said as he read the date and Rose jumps down and looks over his shoulder and the Doctor jumps down as well and looks around "So, this is London." He asked
"Yep." Mickey said
"Your city, Mickey." He asked Mickey.
"That's the one." Mickey said still not getting what the Doctor was implying.
"Just as we left it?" The Doctor asked
"Bang on." Mickey said
The Doctor notices zeppelins "And that includes the zeppelins?" He asked and Rose and Mickey look up at him, then follow his gaze and turn around, sure enough, the sky is full of zeppelins.
"What the hell...?" Mickey said in shock.
"So this is a parallel universe where the hindenburg disaster never happened?" Rose guessed
"Okay. So, it's London with a big international zeppelin festival." Mickey said at the same time as Rose.
"Mickey, this is not your world." Rose said
"But if the date's the same..." he then realizes what she said ... "Rose, you said this is a parallel universe and said something about the hindenburg disaster never happening do your saying that this is a parallel universe where the hindenburg never caught on fire near New Jersey. Am I right, aren't I?"
"Must be." The Doctor muttered.
Rose notices an advertisement of her human self's father:Pete Tyler "So, a parallel world where..." she started before being interrupted by Mickey
"Oh, come on. You see it on films. Like an alternative to our world where everything's the same but a little bit different, like... I dunno - traffic lights are blue, Tony Blair never got elected by the parliament in 1997..."(That's how elections go in Britain; you elect the party and the parliament choose the candidate).
"And he's still alive..." Rose said as she looks at the advertisement poster of Pete Tyler as a successful businessman, holding a bottle of Vitex.
"A parallel world and my human self's father is still alive..."
She walks towards the poster and tries to look and walk away from it but couldn't.
The Doctor and Mickey follow her "Don't look at it, Arkytior. Don't even think about it. This is not your human self's world and universe." The Doctor said sternly.
But he's my human self's father... and..." She touches the poster, and the picture of Pete springs to life for a moment, "trust me on this", the poster of Pete says and it winks and gives a thumbs up and Rose steps back "Oh, that's weird." Rose said and the poster of Pete repeated itself "He's a success! He was always planning these daft little schemes, health-food drinks and stuff. Everyone said they were useless. But he did it in this universe." Rose said happily
Then the Doctor suddenly grasps Rose by the shoulders and bends slightly to look into her eyes. THE DOCTOR (urgently): "Arkytior, if you've ever trusted me since we were children, then listen to me now." The Doctor said urgently and Rose glances back at the poster.
"Stop looking at it!" He exclaimed and Rose reluctantly meets the Doctor's eyes again.
"Your human self's father's dead. He died when your human self was just six months old. That is not your Pete. That is 'A' Pete. For all we know, he's got his own Jackie, his own Rose. His own daughter who is someone else, but not you. But I doubt that cause I don't think We don't exist in this universe and our species was never born in this universe." The Doctor told his wife.
Rose's eyes then starts to wander back to the poster, but she tries to stop herself. "We can't see him. Not ever." The Doctor told his wife and she gives a tiny nod. Mickey touches her shoulder comfortingly. The poster of Pete says 'trust me on this' repeatedly.
A while later Mickey enters the pitch-black TARDIS, closing the door behind him. The Doctor rounds on him. "I told you to keep an eye on her!" The Doctor told and shouts at Mickey angrily.
"She's all right..." Mickey said dismissing what he said.
"My wife in this incarnation of her goes wandering off, parallel world, it's like a gingerbread house! All those temptations calling out." The Doctor said.
"Oh, so it's just Rose then? Nothing out there to tempt me?" Mickey asked the Doctor.
"Well, I don't know, I can't worry about everything... if I could just get this thing to..." The Doctor said and then he kicks the TARDIS console hard in his frustration. He walks slowly over to a chair, scowling "Did that help?" Mickey asked.
"Yes." The Doctor answers.
"Did that hurt?" Mickey asked him.
"Yes. Ow." The Doctor said as he sits down and rubs his foot.
Outside the Tardis Rose strolls along the bank of the Thames and sits down on a bench, clearly deep in thought. The zeppelins are chugging softly in the sky and she looks up at them. One flies right over her head, low in the sky. It is obviously Lumic's, as it has the Cybus logo stamped on the bottom. Her phone bleeps and she takes it out of her pocket and flipped it open and saw a message on the screen of her phone and it says 'welcome - free trial period' and she selects news and footage of the news plays.
"And it's good news for Great Britain as John Lumic returns to the country of his birth. Mr Lumic, the inventor of high-content metal, has denied allegations of ill health." The newsreader said and the screen changed to an elderly man.
"We're all flesh and blood, but the brain is what makes us human. And my mind is more creative than ever." The elderly man stated and the screen changed back to the newsreader.
"With shares in Cybus Industries doubling in price, Mr Lumic..." The newsreader continued as
Rose glances up at the zeppelin, realising who must be inside it. "In other news the Torchwood institute published a study claiming that..." The newsreader continued and then Rose closes off the report.
Back in the Tardis the doctor was still sitting in the chair "We're not meant to be here. The TARDIS draws its power off the universe, but it's the wrong universe. It's like diesel in a petrol engine." The Doctor told Mickey
Mickey sits down down next to him "But... I've seen it in comics. People are hopping from one alternative world to another, it's easy." Mickey asked confusedly
"Not in the real world." The Doctor said "Used to be easy. When the Time Lords and Time Ladies kept their eye on everything, you could hop between realities, home in time for tea. Then they died, took it all with them. The walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed. Everything became that bit less kind." he added.
"Then how did we get here?" Mickey asked the Doctor
"I dunno. Accident? Should've been impossible, now we're trapped." The doctor answers and then
There was a short, hopeless silence. Then the Doctor notices something "What's that?" The Doctor asked and he spots a tiny green light glowing beneath the console.
"What?" Mickey asked
"That there, is that a reflection?" The Doctor asked and then he and Mickey crouch, staring at it.
"It's a light! Is it? Is that a light? I think that's a light! That's all we need!" the Doctor exclaimed excitedly and then they both remove the grilling "We've got power! Mickey, we've got power! Ha!"
Then soon the doctor goes right underneath the console and pulling out some important looking internals of the TARDIS. "It's alive!" The Doctor said happily.
"What is it?" Mickey asked
"It's nothing. It's tiny. One of those insignificant little power cells that no one ever bothers about, and it's clinging onto life. But with one little ounce of reality tucked away inside." The Doctor explained to Mickey.
"Enough to get us home?" Mickey asked
"Not yet." The Doctor answers and he picks up the power cell and sits back on the small set of stairs under the grilling. "I need to charge it up."
He holds it carefully, cupped in both his hands. "We could go outside and latch it up to the national grid!" Mickey suggested.
"Wrong sort of energy. It's gotta come from our universe." The Doctor told him.
"But we don't have anything." Mickey told him confusedly.
"There's me and Rose..." He said and then he blows gently on the power cell and it glows brightly and The Doctor beams happily "I just gave away ten years of my life. Worth every second!" He exclaimed happily as he He giggles dorkishly.
Back with Rose she searches for the name 'Peter Tyler' on the Cybus Network which she now has on her phone.
Back in the TARDIS The Doctor and Mickey are both staring at the power cell with huge grins and the light fades "It's going out. Is that okay?" Mickey asked
"It's on a recharging cycle." The Doctor explained as the power cell glows brighter again, and then back to dim and so on.
"It'll loop round, power back up and be ready to take us home in, oh, twenty-four hours?" He guessed and then he kisses the power cell.
"So, that gives us twenty-four hours on a parallel world?" Mickey asked.
"Surely! As long as we keep our heads down. Easy. No problem." The Doctor said and then he tosses the power cell in the air and catches it again "Let's go and tell her." He said as he stands up and goes to tell Rose what he found.
The Doctor and Mickey come across Rose sitting on the bench.
"There you are, Arkytior!" He called out to Rose "You all right?" He asked his wife "No applause, I fixed it! Found one of the tardis's power cells so we'll have to stay here for twenty-four hours, then we're flying back to reality." He said as he show his wife the power cell.
He sits down on the bench and holds the power cell up to show her and she doesn't even glance at it as she's lost in her own thoughts. "What is it, Arkytior?" he asked Rose as his guns fades and notices her phone
"My phone connected. There's this... Cybus Network, it finds your phone. It gave me Internet access." Rose told him
"Arkytior, whatever it says, this is the wrong world." The Doctor told Rose.
"I know. Doctor. But you were right we don't exist in this universe." Rose told him
"What do you mean?" The Doctor asked his wife.
"There's no Rose Tyler. I was never chameleon arched and adopted by Jackie and Pete Tyler. There's Pete, my human self's father, and Jackie... he still married Jackie... but they never adopted kids." Rose told him
"Give me that phone." The Doctor said as he tries to snatch Rose's phone from her but
Rose pulls it away from his grasp "They're rich. They've got a house and cars, and everything they want. But they haven't ever adopted me." She told him and she sounds like she is close to tears. She stands, walking away from bench and then she turns to face her husband "I've gotta see him." Rose told him
"You can't." He told her
"I just wanna see him." Rose said.
"I can't let you, Arkytior!" He told her.
"You just said twenty-four hours!" She reminded him.
"You can't become their daughter, you're not human, Arkytior, that's not the way it works! Mickey, tell her." the Doctor said
Mickey stands up "Twenty-four hours, yeah?" he said.
"Where're you going?" The Doctor asked in bewilderment
"Well, I can do what I want!" Mickey told him
Rose walked backwards in the opposite direction "I've got the address and everything." She told her husband.
The Doctor looks at his wife then looks at Mickey frantically "Stay where you are, both of you! Arkytior, come back here! Mickey, come back here right now!" He ordered them.
"I just wanna see him." Rose told her husband
"Yeah, I've got things to see and all." Mickey told the Doctor.
"Like what?"
"Well, you don't know anything about me, do ya? It's always about Rose, your wife. I'm just a spare part." Mickey told him
"I'm sorry. I've gotta go." Rose said as she walks away and the Doctor turns from Rose to Mickey. They're both walking away from him and he doesn't know which way to turn.
Mickey gestures for the Doctor to chase after Rose "Go on then. No choice, is there? You can only chase after one of us, and it's never gonna be me, is it?" Mickey told him and Rose stops walking backwards, turns and leaves.
"Back here in twenty-four hours!" The Doctor snapped and ordered Mickey before he runs after his wife and Mickey watches the Doctor chasing after his wife.
"Yeah. If I haven't found something better." Mickey muttered to himself before he turns away.
