Author's note: sorry for not updating this sooner, just being busy with my performances. I'm in Dracula and we have three more weeks before we perform.

X. Eve of War.

It took several minutes for Jack to convince the Doctor to pick up Rose and go to the TARDIS. Once the group was inside, the Doctor sat on the floor, with Rose's limp body in his arms. He was holding her tight, and didn't seem to want to move. His hearts had dropped to his feet and tears prickled his eyes, but he did not cry.

Jack on the other hand couldn't help but shed a few tears. Rose was like his sister, a sister with a few privileges, he didn't even know she was back in this universe, he hadn't said one word to her since the kiss on the game station, and now she was gone forever.

Jenny and Donna stood at the jump seat watching Jack pace up and down with his hand covering his mouth and the Doctor holding Rose tightly in his arms. "That's her, that's Bad Wolf." Donna whispered in Jenny's ear.

"Rose Tyler." Jenny murmured, which caused Jack and the Doctor to look at her.

"You knew her?" The Doctor asked his voice a little shaky.

Jenny just shook her head, "I never met her, but Donna did though…in a parallel world…"

Donna just nodded. "She's nice…"

The Doctor frowned, "Was…" he whispered; he rubbed his thumb over her forehead continuously. He just looked down at her pale face.

"Can't believe you're alive…" Jenny whispered.

"We missed you…." Donna said.

The Doctor was silence for a moment before he answered. "I missed you too." He smiled, he placed a loving kiss to the top of Rose's head a gently lay her down on the grate.

"Great I don't get a 'I missed you' I'm always left out." Jack said throwing his hands up in the air then placing them on his hips.

The Doctor just glared at him, his face so unreadable, but his dark, hollow eyes, told Jack was still grieving. Suddenly the TARDIS shuddered, only the Doctor knew where they were going. He held on to the console while Jack, Donna and Jenny held onto the railings. Jenny glanced at Rose's body every few moments, just lying there, limp.

As soon as the TARDIS stopped, everyone let go of what stabled them. Jenny, Donna and Jack looked at the Doctor for orders. "They've got us." The Doctor said.

Jack looked at the screen, "There's a Dalek ship in the centre of the planets. It's called the Crucible."

"Jenny, you said these planets that they fit together like a puzzle." Donna said.

Before Jenny could answer, the Doctor had a sudden thought. "Jenny, you said Donna met Rose, in a parallel world."

"Yeah, what does this have to do with the twenty-seven planets?" Jenny asked her father.

"Donna what did Rose say?"

"Umm, just the darkness…the darkness is coming." Donna answered. "She said something about me…"

From behind them the computer bleeped and the sound of a thousand Daleks outside that surrounded them. "Crucible, all aboard." The Doctor said sarcastically

From outside a Dalek voice could be heard. "Time Lady! You will step forth, if you claim to be as brave as you say."

Jenny swallowed, "To the Crucible, then." Jenny faked a smile. The Doctor smiled slightly and grabbed onto her hand, Jack, Jenny and the Doctor stepped over Rose's body and towards the door.

Donna could hear something behind her, she wasn't paying attention to anyone inside the console room except for the sound, she glanced at the Doctor's hand in the jar as it began to wiggle.

The Doctor, Jenny and Jack stood before the door, the three of them drew in a deep breathe, before Jenny hesitated. "You," she turned to Jack "What about you're teleport thing?"

"Went down in the power loss."

"What about that thing on you're wrist?"

"Ask you're father." Jack muttered.

"Right," said father cut in. "are we going?" He looked to Donna who didn't make any move and was staring at his hand. "Donna?"

She looked up at him a little dazed.

"You alright?" he asked. She just nodded hesitatingly.

"So, just out of curiosity, these pepper pots? How dangerous are they?" Jenny asked.

"Well, they killed me for starters." Jack answered.

"Jenny stared at him wide eyed. "You can regenerate too?"

The Doctor snorted, "Jack has a problem of not dying."

"Well that makes three of us…" Jack muttered.

"Surrender Time Lady! Come and meet you're Dalek masters." The Dalek voice from outside said.

"I know one thing," The Doctor said. "They probably don't know I'm here."

"Then let's give them a surprise." Jenny smiled. The three of them stepped out of the TARDIS doors to be greeted by Daleks, surrounding the ship. There was a screen above them. They stepped towards the screen whilst getting pushed but the Daleks behind them.

"Daleks reign supreme. Daleks- Halt!" The red Dalek said who stood in front of them. "The Doctor is alive!"

"Why yes I am." The Doctor said, looking about.

"Then behold Time Lady, Doctor. Behold the might of the true Dalek."

Jenny glanced back to the TARDIS noticing Donna hadn't come out yet. "Donna, it isn't any safer it there." She said in a stage whisper. Her eyes widened when the doors slammed, causing the Doctor and Jack to jump and turn quickly behind them. Jenny ran up to the doors and began to bang on the doors.

"Donna!" she shouted, she could hear Donna's frightened voice shouting her name back and suddenly the TARDIS dropped, Jenny almost fell of the edge before the Doctor caught her.

He turned back to the Supreme Dalek, his face full of anger; first he loses Rose now the TARDIS. Why was he losing everything he loved all over again? "What did you do?" he shouted.

"This is not of Dalek origin." The Dalek replied. "This is Time Lord Treachery."

"Me? The doors shut on its own!"

"Nevertheless; the TARDIS is a weapon. It will be destroyed."

"No!" Jenny shouted. "You can't do that!"

"Don't you get it, someone was in there! Where did you send it?" Jack asked.

"The Crucible has a heart of Z – Neutrino Energy. The TARDIS will be deposited into the core."

"But you can't, you've taken the defenses down!" the Doctor said in horror.

"What does that mean?" Jenny asked.

"It'll be torn apart." He whispered to her as he stared off at the screen in horror.

XxXxX

Inside the TARDIS, Donna was choking, smoke going into the air and into her lungs. She knelt down on the ground grasping the console with one hand while the other held her throat as she coughed. She was sweating now, and she knew this was how she was going to die. She could barely see through the smoke now. The heat had become to much for her as she wiped the sweat from her brow.

Suddenly from the corner of her eye she could see a great gold light shoot up into the air, it came from the Doctor's hand. It swayed above her, she watched in amazement as it danced around her. Then it froze and then like a bullet it shot straight through her. She closed her eyes in pain. She could feel something weird happening.

When she opened her eyes again, she could see clearly and see Rose's body still dead on the grate floor. She crawled over to her and placed her hand on Rose's chest. Then both girls were engulfed by the gold light.

XxXxX

"The two of you are connected to the TARDIS, now feel it die." The Dalek shouted. The Doctor and Jenny watched in pain as the TARDIS disappeared from view into the burning core of the Crucible. "The TARDIS is destroyed." The Dalek declared. "How does that make you feel, Children of Gallifrey? Anger, despair, sorrow?"

"Oh yes…" The Doctor whispered a solemn look on his face. Jenny looked up at him in tears.

"Yeah, well, feel this!" Jack shouted as he pulled out a gun and shot the Supreme Dalek. The bullets just bounced of him.

"Exterminate."

And with that Jack fell to the ground. Jenny gasped and clasped a hand over her mouth, while the Doctor placed a hand on her shoulder. "C'mon…" he whispered to her.

"Escort them to the vault!" the Supreme Dalek hissed. "They are the playing of Davros, now."

XxXxX

Donna stood by the console waiting for any sign of Rose awakening. She tapped her fingers on the side, her chest feeling very weird and heavy. She understood fully what was happening to her. Her mind was on fire and so was her chest. She could feel and see everything. Then suddenly with a gasp Rose woke sitting up. Donna ran to her side, but when Rose looked at her she jolted back. Rose stood and floated to the console, flicking switches. Donna watched in horror, Rose was like a goddess.

"They have my Doctor…" Rose said softly, when she turned to look at Donna, her golden eyes piercing straight through her. "Help me, Donna; we are the last of the Time Lords."

Donna hesitated for a moment, before she moved over to the console and helped.

XxXxX

The Doctor and Jenny stood meters away from each other, in blue light holding cells. Davros was centered in front of the Doctor, staring at him closely. "It was time we talked, Doctor…" Davros said, in his croaky voice.

"Ah, no, we're not doing that." The Doctor said coolly. "I want to know what's happening, cause the Supreme Dalek said 'vault'. This isn't a vault. And you're not in charge of the Daleks. I bet they have you looked up, in here, the basement. So that must make you, the servant…the slave…the jester."

"We have an arrangement." He answered.

"Nah, you're the Daleks Pet." The Doctor laughed.

Davros glanced towards Jenny, who still looked a little uneasy. "So full of fire is he not?" Jenny didn't answer. "To think you've being living in his name."

"Why are we still alive?" She asked quickly.

"It was foretold, not even the Supreme Dalek would dare to contradict the prophesies of Dalek Caan."

From behind Davros, a spot light was turned on and in the light Dalek Caan appeared. He was different and the Doctor knew exactly why. His top was off and it was just the squid alien that the Daleks truly were, showing. "So cold and dark." He said in a sing-song. "Fire is coming, the endless flames."

"What is that thing?" Jenny whispered to the Doctor.

"That was one of the last Daleks…from the Cult of Skaro. He flew into the Time War unprotected." The Doctor answered bitterly.

"Caan did more than that." Davros interjected. "He saw Time. Its infinite complexity and majesty raging through his mind. And he saw you…the last two Time Lords in history"

"This I have seen. The Doctor and the Doctor's daughter will bear witness to the end of everything." Dalek Caan said.

"Tell me this then, why did the TARDIS doors close? Tell me!" the Doctor demanded.

Davros laughed. "Oh, that's it, the end, the fire, the rage of the Time Lord who butchered millions. There he is. Dalek Caan promised me that."

"I have seen it." Dalek Caan said. "At the time of ending, the Doctor's soul will be revealed."

"What does that mean?" Jenny asked, her father who was meters away from her, was looking at the ground, silently.

"We will discover it together." Davros looked at the Doctor with a sly smile. "Our final journey. Because the ending approaches. The testing begins."

"Testing what?" Jenny interrupted again.

"The Reality bomb."

"Testing the calibration of Reality bomb." Supreme Dalek's voice rang through the air. "Firing in ten rels – nine, eight, seven…"

Davros laughed, "Behold, the apotheosis of my genius."

"…Two, one, zero. Activate planetary alignment field."

"No, but that's Z - Neutrino Energy. Flattened by the alignment of the planets into a signal stream." The Doctor stated in clear panic. "Davros, you can't!"

"Dad, what does the Reality Bomb do?" Jenny asked, frighten tinged into her voice.

"Electrical Energy…" Davros answered. "Every atom in existence is bound to by an electrical field. The Reality Bomb cancels it out and structure falls apart."

"Twenty seven planets…" Jenny muttered realizing what happened.

"They become like one vast transmitter, blasting a wavelength…." The Doctor muttered motionless.

"Across the entire universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading." Davros looked at the Doctor, smiling gently. "This is my victory, Doctor, the destruction of reality itself!"

"We will be the only life-forms in existence." They heard the Supreme Dalek declare.

"In coming transmission." One of the Daleks said. "From planet Earth."

"Display." The Supreme Dalek said.

In front of Davros, Jenny and the Doctor, a screen appeared with Martha's image in clear view. "This is Martha Jones, representing UNIT on behalf of the human race. Can you hear me?"

"Martha Jones…" Jenny's face lightened up, but when she glanced at the Doctor his face was still motionless.

"It begins as Dalek Caan foretold." Davros muttered.

"The Children of Time will gather." Dalek Caan laughed.

"Jen- Oh, my God, you're alive! Doctor I'm sorry I had to…" Martha said.

"But the Doctor and his daughter are powerless – my prisoner."

"I've got the Osterhagen Key. Leave this planet and its people or I'll use it."

"What's the Osterhagen Key?" Jenny asked. The Doctor's head propped up and looked at the image of Martha, clearly wanting to know more about the key also.

"There's a chain of twenty five nuclear war heads place in strategic points beneath the Earth's crust."

"What? Martha, are you insane?!" The Doctor demanded, outraged.

"The Key is to be used if the human race is suffering. If there's no hope, this becomes our final option."

"It's never an option!"

"Don't argue, Doctor…there's more than that. I reckon these Daleks need the twenty seven planets for something. What if it becomes twenty six? I don't think the Daleks would risk it."

"Second transmission." A Dalek said. "From…internal?"

"Display."

The screen flickered again and split into two. On one side was Martha Jones the other side showed an image of Captain Jack Harkness, Sarah Jane Smith and two people Jenny didn't recognize.

"Captain Jack Harkness calling, you lovely Dalek boys and girls. Are you receiving me?" Came the American accent.

"You were right; he does have a problem with not dying." Jenny mumbled to the Doctor but he wasn't listening.

"Captain, what are you doing?" The Doctor asked.

"I got a warp star wired into the main frame. The entire Crucible goes."

"Where'd you get a warp star?"

"From me," Sarah Jane interrupted. "We saw what happened to the prisoners."

"That face…" Davros stared at Sarah Jane. "After all these years. Oh this is meant to be."

"Yeah, Sarah Jane Smith, remember me? Now let the Doctor and Jenny go or we'll use it."

"I'll do it." Jack stated.

Jenny smiled, but when she glanced at her father her smile disappeared. He was staring off, not looking at the occupants in the room or on the screen.

Davros noticed, "And now the prophesy unfolds."

"The Doctor's soul is revealed." Dalek Caan laughed.

To Be Continued…