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Rose and Astrid suddenly ducked behind, several boxes of cargo and watched as the Doctor ran in front of the cyborg Max Capricorn.
"So, the business is failing, then you wreck the ship, so that makes things even worse...Oh! Yes! No. Yes! The business isn't failing, it's failed, past tense!" He yelled.
"My own board voted me out. They stabbed me in the back," said Max.
"If you had a back-" said the Doctor. "So you scupper the ship- wipe out any survivors, just in case anyone's rumbled you- and the board finally find their shares halved in value. Oh but that's not enough, no! Because if a Max Capricorn ship hits the Earth, it destroys an entire planet –outrage back home, scandal! The business is wiped out!" Finished the Doctor.
"And the board thrown in jail for mass murder," said Max Capricorn with glee.
"While you sit there safe inside the impact chamber," grimaced the Doctor. "That's the plan. Two thousand people on this ship, six billion underneath us, all of them slaughtered and why? Because Max Capricorn is a loser!"
Max looked furious. "I never lose!"
"You can't even sink the Titanic," spat the Doctor.
"Oh but I can Doctor," shouted Max, moving closer, "I can cancel the engines from here!"
A bright red light flashed from Max's machine.
Rose's eyes widened. The ship was going to crash.
"You can't do this!" shouted the Doctor as he was restrained by several Hosts.
Rose suddenly made up her mind, she couldn't let the Earth be destroyed, she knew what she had to do.
As the Doctor shouted furiously at Max Capricorn, Rose climbed up onto the seat of a fork-lift truck beside her.
"What are you doing?" said Astrid in a whisper, looking at Rose wide eyed.
"I have to save the Doctor and the Earth, this is the only way," said Rose his voice breaking and her eyes glistening.
Astrid shook her head. "No Rose, you can't, you'll kill yourself!"
"Like the Doctor said, there's six billion people down there.....My Mum's down there, my best friend, I can't let them die!" said Rose, turning the key in the ignition.
The two women suddenly looked up as they heard Max Capricorn shout. "HOST. KILL HIM!"
Rose's eyes widened, as the Hosts raised their halos towards the Doctor. She revved the engine loudly.
Suddenly Max Capricorn, the Hosts and the Doctor turned to face her, hearing the engine.
"No, Rose!" shouted the Doctor as Rose made to press her foot against the accelerator.
But Rose stopped suddenly, as she got hit painfully over the back the head by a large blunt object. She blacked out.
The Doctor watched as Rose revved the engine of a truck, aiming for Max Capricorn.
But as she looked down to move the truck into action, the Doctor caught sight of Astrid creep up beside her and hit her over the head with a long metal pipe.
"I'm sorry Rose, I can't let him lose you," he heard Astrid cry to the unconscious Rose, dragging her from the truck and jumping into the seat herself.
"Mr Capricorn!" cried Astrid.
Max Capricorn could do nothing but gape.
"I resign." And with that Astrid slammed her foot down on the accelerator.
She drove into Max, the two revving against each other for several moments, neither prevailing.
"Astrid don't!" yelled the Doctor, fighting against his restraints.
Astrid turned for a moment to face him. The Doctor merely gaped, shaking his head. Astrid gazed at him, smiling, before using the fork-lift to raise the Max-cyborg into the air.
She slammed her foot down on the accelerator and the truck sped forwards.
The railing behind Max broke and the two plummeted over the edge.
The Doctor managed to free himself from the grasp of the Hosts and flung himself forward peering over the ravine.
"ASTRID!" he cried, looking down to see her falling.
He could do nothing but stare as the core exploded and Astrid disappeared from sight.
Rose heard a loud blast from overhead. Slowly opening her eyes she saw him.
The Oncoming Storm.
Walking towards her while a great fire burned in his eyes as strong as the flames behind him.
He strode towards her, his face set.
She shifted slightly as he bent down and lifted her up in his strong arms.
She tried to speak but nothing came out, she merely stared up at the Doctor as he signalled for the Hosts.
Rose fell back into unconsciousness as they were lifted up into the air.
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