Hi everyone! I meant to post this WEEKS ago but guess what, I forgot my password, so if you've been following the story I really apologise, so I hope I can make up for it here.
Doctor POV
I shoved the gun downwards, and the guard scowled, I could have some fun here. I teased him, lifting the gun up to my head then putting it back on the table, I did this two more times, and the last time I did it his expression stayed the same, angry. Now it was my turn to smile. He should've read up on his prisoners, if he did, he'd know that I am the Doctor, I don't want anything to do with guns. Anymore. I tossed it to General Isa, who threw it up in the air and then caught it. The guard's eyes darted around, something was wrong. I had been held in Siacrovaxic captivity before, I don't want to discuss why, but that's not the point, but I knew their tactics for prisoners, yes, it was 300 years ago, during the time-war, but- don't think about the time-war! I had said to Rose and the Brigadier and Isa not to worry, keep calm, don't show them you're afraid, cause it will make them angry, be resolute. The Siacrovax walked away, probably to bang his head off a wall, that's what they did when they were angry. And this was my chance, I started discussing strategies to escape, they all nodded, every time, except for Isa, who didn't, just once.
'And what makes you think an ageing Englishman would be able to do that!?' He scoffed, then the Brigadier swung his arm forward and smacked Isa in the face, then got him in a headlock.
'And what makes you think an ageing Englishman wouldn't be able to do this?' He smiled.
Rose face-palmed herself. My expression was stern.
'Come on you lot, stop fighting!' I shouted. They all stopped and resumed their original positions. I led them through the rest of my plan, they all seemed to agree, then the guard came back, with a bit of dust and very small pieces of rubble poking out of his forehead, and a trickle of green blood that looked like a trail left behind by a green gel pen.
'What are you looking at?' he said angrily to the Brigadier, launching his fist against the bars.
'The question you should be asking yourself is, what shall you be looking at?' The Brigadier replied simply, before picking up the rope, hoisting it behind his back and lashing it forward all in one movement. The tip of the rope snaked in between the bars and struck the guard in face. He screamed holding his face. Isa leapt up and grabbed the gun and directed it towards the guard's heavily bleeding face.
'Keys. Now!' He commanded. The guard crawled towards his rifle, and the expression on Isa's face was lethal. The guard placed his three fingers on the gun, and pulled it towards himself.
'You would-n-t do-oo tha-t, you are an asso-ci-ate of the Doc-tor.' The guard breathed weakly.
'You're right,' Isa laughed. 'I wouldn't! If I'd known the Doctor for a bit longer.'
The guard's face twisted round to look at Isa, and lifted his weapon and fired. Isa ducked and fired back, as the guard had no more energy, he had nowhere to go, he couldn't escape death. The Brigadier crouched down and reached in-between the bars for the rifle, he slipped it in the cell and tossed it to Isa, who shot the lock 4 times. He then kicked at the bars, they didn't move, he kicked again, and again, and again. But they still wouldn't move. Isa shook the bars with his hands, then took a step back and threw his body against the bars, he collapsed to the floor. Isa got up quickly and pushed against the bars, with all his might. They still didn't move.
'Try pulling.' The Brigadier said lazily, more interested in the way the light was flickering.
Isa turned his face and looked at the Brigadier sourly, then put one had against one of the bars and tugged without any effort, and the bars swung open.
Me and Rose burst out with laughter, and the Brigadier let himself a weary smile. Isa stomped out of the cell with the three of us collecting what we may need from the table, we then followed. We were travelling in-between the maze of corridors; I had my sonic screwdriver detecting life signs, it beeped rapidly as a Siacrovax turned a corner, he reached for his weapon but Isa pointed his right at the Siacrovax's heart. We now had something to bargain with. Traveagorian's second-in-command, Major Skreet, we recognised him from when we got captured, Rose snuck behind him and opened the bottle of poison and held it against his mouth.
'Let's head to the Bridge.' I said.
We all headed to the Bridge. When we got there, we assembled ourselves in a way, I could bargain with Traveagorian and Isa could defend us.
'Ok, three, two, one.' I said, then we burst open the doors, to see an audience of soldiers, waiting for us.
'Doctor!' said Traveagorian, sat on a throne, opening his arms with a rare smile on his face. 'What a surprise!'
'You can't kill us or else we will kill Major Skreet!' Isa bargained, as Rose shook the bottle.
'Go on, kill him!' Traveagorian urged. ' He has a terminal disease; he is retiring after this raid to live the rest of his life in piece.
'General sir, why do you not just kill us like the rest of humanity down on the plant below?' Rose asked, and to be fair it was a good question.
'Him!' The general pointed at me.
'Wait a minute!' I cut-in. 'Before we start placing the blame on everyone, well, most of us, well, some of us, well… just me, anyway, since when did the generals of the Siacrovax army get royalty status?'
'No, Doctor, I am the only one who gets a throne, I am a warlord, I have served in battle-upon-battle, won war-upon-war, I am, the god of war. You probably think I am insane, but I don't mean god as in omniscient or omnipresent, I mean I never lose.' He answered.
'Well if you do lose, will you lose that chair?' I mocked.
'Doctor, if I lose, I die!' Traveagorian scoffed.
'Well that's extreme!' I replied.
'No!' he shouted. 'I mean, if I lose, I will get killed by the victors! I am one of the biggest warlords in the galaxy.'
'Not the biggest though.' I said.
Traveagorian raised out of his seat. 'Do tell.'
'Myself. Surely you recognised the name Doctor.' I told him.
'Ahh yes, which reminds me, what was your question again?' Traveagorian inclined to Rose.
'Um… Oh, yeah! Uh, why don't you just kill us like you are the people down on land?' She said, not noticing my constant head shaking to tell her no.
'As I said before, him!' Traveagorian said with lethality, pointing at me again.
'What've I done?' I sighed.
'You're a Time Lord.' He said simply.
'Is that it?' I replied.
'No, the Time War.' He said simply.
'Stop with the riddles and just tell me!' I said, getting frustrated, I was playing straight into his hands.
'OK. In the late stages of the Time War, we had control of one of our 17 moons, Riposte it had a key channel straight into both Gallifrey and Skaro, whoever controlled Riposte could flip the war on it's head. The Time Lords invaded Riposte, and slaughtered our forces. It was massacre. The few Siacrovax that didn't die were imprisoned, and then only days later the Daleks came to call. The prisoners were killed with as much mercy as the others were, they used the channel straight to Arcadia, Gallifrey's second city, where they attacked, in said attack Gallifrey miraculously disappeared, leaving the Daleks to defeat themselves in a crossfire, but only one Siacrovax survived the two attacks on Riposte, only, one.' Traveagorian informed us.
Upon hearing this news I placed both my hands to my face. How could I tell him, how could I tell him?
'Something you wish to tell me?' Traveagorian asked.
'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.' I said from between my fingers.
'Do tell.' Traveagorian said once more.
'I- I was there.' I said quickly, solemnly.
'Traveagorian leapt up from his throne, his eyes twitching like a mad dog.
He screamed. 'KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!'
We shoved Skreet forwards and took cover behind a few crates Brigadier had taken out the gun he'd taken from Skreet from his belt, and him and Isa fired at the army of aliens in front of them.
Major Skreet had ordered a gun to be given to him, and when he received one, he started muttering to himself. 'My last battle for the army is going to be in honour of my father.' He started firing; he almost hit Isa, who ducked behind the crate, before quickly standing and firing. The plasma bolt soared through the air and hit Skreet square in the forehead.
We had to move. 'Hurry up, quickly, we'll not stay alive for much longer!' I urged.
'He's right.' The Brigadier said to Isa. 'Let's move.'
We moved as a unit out of the doors then turned and ran. Out of the corridors into a lift.
'I have a plan, we head to the engine room.' Said Isa, and he pressed the buttons on the lift.
We arrived at the engine room.
'And your plan was?' asked Rose.
'We bring this thing down towards the same altitude as the Valiant.' Said the Brigadier.
'No, we-' said Isa.
'No, but that works.' I said.
'But how exactly are we going to control this thing?' Asked Isa.
'We're going to need something long so we can poke inside the mechanics.' I thought out loud.
'I brought this.' Said Rose, holding up the rope.
'Fantastic!' I shouted with delight. 'You're a genius!'
'I know, right?' Rose replied.
'Gimme.' I said, and took the rope out of her hand; I walked over to the engine and fished around in gears and cogs with the rope, until I found a massive electric current snaking up the engine. I drew back my arm and swung it at the current, suddenly I felt a strange sensation threaded up my arm, I started shuddering violently, I heard a strange screaming that slurred in my head, it sounded like "Doctor, no!' I felt a lurch in my stomach amidst the constant shaking, the ship was falling, and the engines had stopped. I was calculating the distance fallen in my head, I'm going to take my hand away right, about, now! I whipped the rope out of the current and logrolled across the floor, straightening up, breathing heavily, I felt the falling suddenly stop.
'Thank god.' Said Rose.
The Valiant would be upon us soon…
Colonel Mace POV
I was on the Valiant, preparing to jetpack over to the enemy ship. I assembled my team very carefully, the Brigadier was on there, he was my mentor when I started working for UNIT, and I wasn't going to let him die now.
'We head to the hangar, there!' I shouted to my team, pointing to a large opening on the side of their ship.'
'With all due respect, sir, the autopsy of these things showed they can't breathe thin air, why don't we just fire a missile into the bridge? Sir.' Said one soldier.
'Because the ship will fall, and we won't be able to stop it taking out hundreds of millions of people.' I replied. 'Any more queries?' I looked behind me; all of my team shook their heads. 'Ok, we jump, in 3, 2, 1, JUMP!' We all jumped, I pressed two buttons on my jetpack, and the thrusters fired. I was plummeted swiftly into the hangar. I had an audience of Siacrovax looking at me. I landed on the floor, I quickly slipped off the jetpack and unholstered my pistol and started firing. I felt the others land behind me and heard them firing too.
We had quickly taken the hangar, and made our way down the corridors.
Doctor's POV
We heard footsteps pounding down the stairs to the engine room. Isa and the Brigadier dropped their guns and kicked them away so whoever it was wouldn't see them. Two armoured feet stomped down the stairs, followed by a torso, followed by a large ugly head. The Siacrovax wasn't alone, as another stomped down too.
'WE SURRENDER!' Rose said.
I got the gist. 'WE SURRENDER! WE SURRENDER! DON'T SHOOT!'
The Brigadier and Isa joined in chorusing our surrender.
'Come with us.' One of them grunted.
We followed them up the stairs, through the corridors and into the bridge, but it gave us time to contemplate the situation.
'Why did Traveagorian get mad when you said you where there?' Isa said in a hushed voice.
'Must have had a relative in there or something, I'm not sure.' I replied.
'Why did they send their best general over here, they could've sent someone else who could do it, cause it's not been that hard for him, has it?' Rose asked.
'I don't know.' I said.
We reached the bridge to see an unhappy face when the doors were opened.
'Boy scout!' I said cheerily.
'You are in no position to make jokes, Time Lord.' Captain Liitu sneered.
'Move to the middle of the room.' One of my captors ordered me. I did as I was asked. 'Kneel.' He ordered, I, once again, did as asked.
Traveagorian leapt down from his throne and crouched down next to me.
'You're a Time Lord, aren't you?' He asked. I remained silent. 'AREN'T YOU!'
'Yes.' I said, unfazed.
'And you have killed my species before, haven't you.' He asked. I nodded with a grimace on my face.
'And you want to kill me now, don't you.' He shouted. I shook my head. He uppercut me. 'DON'T YOU!' I shook my head again. He pushed me on the floor and kicked me in the ribs umpteen times. 'DON'T YOU!' I shook my head once more. Traveagorian picked me up and threw me against the wall, then unholstered his pistol and threw his it at me.
'You've killed before, why not now, too afraid? You're a killer.' At his words my body tensed up, my hearts began to race. Oh, how I wanted to. How much I wanted to pull the trigger, but I didn't move.
'Come on! Shoot me! SHOOT ME!' He urged. I still didn't move. 'Just what I thought. Coward!' He strode up to me and punched me in the face and snatched the gun from my hands.
'Everyone knows the rule of survival, Doctor, you more than most, "kill or be killed." You really wanted to. But you didn't kill, so you have to BE killed.'
He pulled me up to my knees, and pressed the gun to my head. I turned my head towards my friends. Rose was trying to break free from her captor's grasp. The Brigadier held his face in his hands, and Isa's pupils had swelled.
'I can't believe that I will be the one to kill the Doctor, don't you think that'll be amazing?' Traveagorian teased.
'I have one question.' I halted him, looking into his eyes, his face tilted.
'That question is?' He asked.
'Why are you so intent on making me suffer, cause this isn't just you losing a family member, this is so much more,' I'd pieced everything together. 'Because you did lose your family on Riposte. You-'
'But doesn't that contradict you theory?' Traveagorian seemed intent on silencing me.
'No, because I haven't finished. I-' I began.
'Oh, just get on with it!' Came a grunt from behind us. Traveagorian turned his body to face Captain Liitu. 'Sir.' Liitu added. The general had, had enough. He raised his weapon, and shot Liitu in the skull.
'There's him earning no more badges.' I said. This just seemed to make Traveagorian even more angry. He stomped over, but before he reached I spoke again.
'So as I was saying, please don't interrupt again-' I began.
'You are in no position to order-' He halted, because I pressed a finger to my lips and looked him straight in they eye. I stood up.
'SO! As I was saying!' I turned to the general. 'You didn't just lose a family member. You lost your friends, too.' At my words he froze, which allowed me to continue. 'And these would hurt you dearly, but, you read up on your governments plan to attack Earth, and learned of their protector, a Time Lord, and you just had to go. Because you were on Riposte when it happened, I remember, even though I don't want to, looking into someone's eyes who lay on the floor, them mercilessly shooting the person. I have been scarred enough, but you saw for yourself the horrors of the Time War. But that one survivor, is of course you, but even though you survived, you lost the battle, you aren't undefeated, you haven't earned your luxuries, I mean burn that chair! But you are a beaten soldier.' I finished my rant at him, and I had scarred him, deeply.
It took him for what seemed like a millennia to reply. 'ENOUGH!' He smacked me across the face, and it was the first time he'd made me shout in pain.
'I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!' He screamed, directing his gun at my face. 'SAY GOODBYE, DOCTOR!' Traveagorian spat. 'To everything you've loved!'
The doors to the bridge were smashed open, with a bunch of black and red blurs streaming out in every direction, with most having a yellow star flashing near there stomach, these seemed to be gunfire. I blinked a few times, and everything came into focus. One of the black and red people that kind of like Darth Maul before I blinked came over to me.
'Hello, Doctor glad to see you're still alive.' The man said.
'I know.' I sighed. 'Who are you?'
'Colonel Mace, sir.' The man replied.
I got up to my feet and twisted round to see Traveagorian, unconscious on the ground, with a green blotch on his shin.
'Take cover.' Mace said. I remained still. 'Sir, that's an order!'
I took cover with Rose.
'Oh, Doctor!' She cried with happiness. 'Thank the lord you're still alive!'
'Stop saying that, it'll become a jinx!' I chuckled, as a bolt of plasma hit the wall where I'd just been.
The Siacrovax numbers were thinning, apparently UNIT had taken the rest of the ship. The last of them fought to the death, quite literally, UNIT had done quick work here!
'Excuse me, er, Colonel Mace, is it?' I asked, the Colonel nodded. 'How are we going to get off the ship? And what do we do with the ship afterwards?'
'For your first question, I have something to show you. For your second, I'll just say we are leaving that to Torchwood.' He told me.
'What is Torchwood?' I asked.
'You'll see.' He replied simply.
We walked for five minutes across the corridors, before we were led into a cupboard-ish room.
'Oh, thank you!' I said. 'How did you find it?'
'We just sweeped the place and found it.' Mace replied.
I took out my key and slotted it in the lock, then walked into the TARDIS. Isa, the Brigadier and Rose followed.
'Wow.' Said Isa. 'Just wow.'
'You've already seen it.' I told him.
'I know, but-' He began.
'It's amazing.' The Brigadier finished.
I turned to my friends.
'Do you want to see the stars?' I asked Isa.
'No, sorry, I just- I mean- this has blown my mind, and it's dangerous, I got kids too, sorry Doctor.' He told me.
'Not married?' I asked.
'Divorced.' He replied.
'So you don't want to come then?'
'No.' He said.
'That's fine.' I told him.
'So,' I asked the Brigadier. 'Time for one more trip?'
'No, Doctor, I just… can't, I'm too old for this thing.' He said. 'I'm sorry.'
'No, no, it's fine, I understand.' I told him. 'Back home?'
'Back home.' He confirmed.
I turned the controls to travel back to Earth. Then we arrived. I turned round.
There I saw Traveagorian.
'You will pay for what you did to me Doctor! PAYYYYYY!' He raised a gun. And I saw movement next to me…
'Where do you live?' I asked Isa quickly. He told me his address.
The TARDIS landed outside Isa's house.
I scooped Isa up in my arms and ran over to the door and knocked several times.
Two children answered the door, one looked about five, the other looked about twelve.
'Yes?' Said the eldest. Then he looked at my arms and gasped. They let me in. I lay Isa on the couch. He was very weak, with a giant gash on his chest. The eldest ran in and bent over to look at his father.
'Dad…' he said with tears in his eyes.
'John…' Isa groaned, running his hand slowly down his eldest son's cheek.
The youngest stumbled over to his father and climbed up onto the couch, sitting just in front of him.
'Nikolei' Isa breathed. Running his hand slowly down his youngest son's cheek.
'I love you, dad.' John said, fighting back tears, a battle he was losing.
'I love you too dad!' Nikolei said, trying to paint a smile on his face, but the mask just fell off.
'I love you too b- ARGH!' Isa screamed, then started breathing rapidly.
'Dad!' The two boys shouted in unison, as their father's breathing slowed, then, jus stopped, he sighed and closed his eyes at the same time. They never opened.
'What happened?' John asked me about half an hour after his father passed, after he and Nikolei's eyes ran out of tears to cry, now there was just a sorrowful grimace.
'He saved my life, them aliens, they were going to kill me, then your father jumped in the way. Then someone else shot the alien.' I regretfully told them.
'Are they gone? The aliens?' John asked again.
'Yeah.' I told them.
They resumed their mourning.
'I'm so sorry.' I told them.
'It's OK, it's not your fault.' Nikolei told me, he was somehow smiling at me, not a proper smile, but an I-don't-blame-you sort of smile.
-1 Day Later—
I had dropped the Brigadier and Rose off at their homes. Then travelled back to Oslo to help dig the grave.
'Dad said, that when he goes, he doesn't want to be cremated, he was like, "Don't cremate me! Don't cremate me!" Nikolei imitated.
That meant something, for some reason, sometime in my future I might meet Isa again, because he wasn't cremated.
I knocked on Rose's door, Jackie opened it.
'Oh, you.' She said. 'ROSE, THE DOCTOR'S HERE!'
Rose was instantly at the door.
'I already know what you're gonna ask me, and the answer is yes, I will come with you to see Time and Space.'
'Ok, suits me.' I smiled.
I just want to say, I'm starting a crossover series to, check out my page for the crossover with the game Destiny, if you like this idea, suggest in the reviews where you want to see the Doctor at next. See you next time, well, I can't actually see you but you know what I mean. J