CHAPTER 10

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Legend from the Past Part 2

Rose appeared a few feet away from Talos using the temporal shift device that Oswin had given to her. She had a spare moment in her quest to find Astrid where she wasn't really doing anything that important so she had decided to see how the Doctor was doing for a minute.

She felt a need to constantly check up on him whenever she was away from him because she knew that if she left him alone for too long that he was likely to get himself into an enormous amount of trouble. She had a bad feeling about him already because he had closed himself off from her in their link.

He only did that when he was trying to hide something from her. Usually it was that he had gotten into some horrible situation that he didn't want her to know about because he knew that she'd try to come and help him. She knew that he was too proud to admit that he needed help and too protective of her to want her to risk her life for him.

It was a good thing for him that she had decided to heed her own inner warnings about him and show up anyway. She saw what to her looked like an enormous robot about to squash the TARDIS in its hand like a bug and immediately pulled out her Vortex Screwdriver to use against it.

Rose scanned Talos and saw to her surprise that he was a living being and not a machine at all. She attempted to communicate with him and hoped that she wasn't wasting time that the Doctor didn't have by doing so.

"I invoke Convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation to request parley with you. You are to cease all hostile actions immediately now by Galactic Law," Rose shouted to Talos.

Talos stopped shaking and crushing the TARDIS for a moment, but he still held onto it firmly. Rose smiled to herself. She had finally gotten that right! She had tried to do the same thing to the Sycorax back when she was human, but they had just laughed at her.

"Identify yourself," Talos said.

"I am Rose Tyler, sometimes known as the Lady Arkytior of the House of Lupinesglen from the planet Gallifrey. I don't want to get too hung up on titles though. You can just call me Rose," Rose said with a warm smile.

"Another Time Lord. I did not want to get involved in any squabbles between your people. I just wanted to be able to return home after being stranded here on this mudball for so long, and your fellow Time Lord offered to help me if I first did as he asked," Talos explained.

"My fellow Time Lord?" Rose asked.

The Monk finally came out of hiding where he had been since Talos had first started attacking the TARDIS. He had known that Rose would be here soon after all. They were just like they were back in his youth. Attack one and the other would always come running to their defense. They were always an annoying pair of pests, Theta and Arkytior, and they had only gotten worse as they had gotten older.

"Hello, Arkytior. I see that you've managed to stumble upon my plans yet again just like you always do. Whenever I have a good thing going, you and the Doctor always appear to derail it. This time though I'm ready for you. Show her why, Eldrad," the Monk said with a smug look on his face.

Rose now saw Eldrad come out of hiding as well, and he started using his ring to try to take over her mind right away. Rose both surprised and infuriated him when she started laughing at him.

"That's not going to work on me. The Doctor could tell you that my mind is very hard to change once I've got it set on something. Right now I have it set on stopping you and Morty here from permanently changing Earth's history," Rose said as she used her screwdriver against Eldrad's ring.

Eldrad discovered to his horror that his ring was starting to smoke. He realized that the Time Lady was doing something to it with her device. He cursed as she forced him to withdraw before she damaged it permanently. If that ever happened, the next time that he died would be for good.

The Monk almost howled in anger as in less than five minutes Rose had managed to at least temporarily stop both of his allies. He was now all alone against her. The only advantage that he had was at least she didn't have her powers this time. Of course what Mortimus had forgotten was that Rose was still dangerous even without them.

If you're done showing off, can you talk Talos into letting my TARDIS go while you still have a chance? The Doctor asked Rose through their link.

Sounds like someone's jealous, Doctor. Why don't you just dematerialize if you want to go so badly? Rose answered him.

I would but uh . . . the Doctor started to say but he trailed off without finishing.

What was that? Rose asked as a grin started to come on her face.

She had a feeling that she already knew what he was going to say. She knew him so well.

The dematerialization circuit's shorted out. I can't free us without it, okay? The Doctor admitted with a mental sigh.

Don't worry, Doctor. I'll save you. Rose said as she began to laugh out loud now confusing both the Monk and Talos.

Writer's note: What the Doctor said next in response to her was unprintable.

Such language! When did you get such a potty mouth? Rose teased him.

"Is she mad?" Talos asked the Monk due to the fact that Rose had seemed to burst out laughing for no reason.

"I've always thought so," the Monk said.

"Oh, you made a funny. Don't strain yourself trying to crack a smile, Mortimus. You might break something," Rose said.

"I expected you to come, Arkytior. Did you really think that I wouldn't be ready for you?" the Monk asked.

He pulled out a small device from his pocket and all of Rose's equipment began to short circuit and stop working including her temporal shift device and her screwdriver. He began to laugh as Rose started throwing everything that she had come up with to compensate for her loss of her powers to the ground as it began to catch on fire and explode one by one.

"I heard about you and your new little gadgets, Arkytior. I decided to come up with a way around them all so I came up with this little device that could destroy them all at once with an electromagnetic pulse that not even Time Lord and Dalek technology could guard against. Now you're helpless before me. You have no powers, no weapons, and no Doctor this time. I finally have you right where I want you. I'm going to kill both of you now, and you're both helpless to stop me," the Monk gloated.

"Well, that depends really," Rose said.

"Depends on what?" the Monk asked exasperated as even now Rose refused to give up.

"On Talos here. We still have parlay, right?" Rose asked the giant.

"Yes. I have still not decided whether to help you or the Monk since I now find myself caught up in your feud," Talos said.

"You will help us, or you will die!" Eldrad said as he returned.

"Did you fix your ring, Eldrad?" Rose asked him with a smile.

"Your device did no permanent damage. I still have the use of all of the ring's powers while you no longer have any way to stop me. I am going to enjoy killing you and the Doctor," Eldrad said.

"There are no hostilities until parlay is ended according to Galactic Law," Talos said.

"Fool! I agreed to no parlay. It does not affect me in the slightest. Stay out of my way, or I will kill you too," Eldrad threatened Talos.

"Really?" Talos said as he raised himself up to his full height and towered above Eldrad, who looked like an insect in comparison to the giant.

The Monk now saw that things could quickly go the wrong way if Eldrad persisted in angering Talos so he tried his best to rescue the situation before it blew up in their faces.

"We will all abide by the parlay until Talos decides what he wants to do of course. Are you actually considering listening to her, Talos? I am the one who decided to help you when you were stranded on that island where your ship crash landed. You do still remember how you were trapped there for so many centuries with no way home while the humans kept coming there and attacking you, correct? I will free you from this world in exchange for your help in conquering it for my friend Eldrad here. All you have to do to go home is to obey my orders without question, and my orders are very simple this time. I order you to destroy the blue box in your hand and to kill Arkytior," the Monk said.

"What do you have to say?" Talos asked Rose.

"That blue box that you hold in your hand is your only way of going home. It is a time machine capable of traveling through time and space. My husband can use it to find your people and bring them to you so that you can go home. You will never go home if you listen to the Monk and Eldrad. They're only using you until they get what they want. Once they get that, they'll find some way to destroy you," Rose said.

"She's lying to you. She would say anything to survive," the Monk said.

"You could say that about anyone. We all want to live at the end of the day. It doesn't make me a liar though just because I happen to like living," Rose said.

Talos seemed to like that because he chuckled at her. He found himself trusting Rose more and more the longer that he talked to her. He had to admit that he hadn't trust either the Monk or Eldrad from the minute that he had met them. He was just so desperate to get home that he was willing to deal with anyone who could help him to get out of this place.

"Crush her, Talos. Crush her now, or you'll never get home. I'll leave you here forever," the Monk said as he grew impatient.

"It seems that you are the one who doesn't want to help me, Monk. Why else would you threaten to leave me?" Talos said in anger.

"He's using that promise to control you, Talos. He doesn't care about you or anyone else believe me," Rose said.

"Hello out there," the Doctor's voice said as it suddenly seemed to come out of nowhere.

"Hello?" Talos said as he looked around him in confusion.

"That's my husband. He's the one in the blue box that you're holding," Rose explained.

"Oh. Hello," Talos said as he looked at the TARDIS.

"If you'll let me go, I promise that I'll help you find a way back to your own planet. You're a Kapecian right? I know where Kapecia is because I've been there before. I saved them from an invasion by the Wirnn once. That was back when I used to wear a question mark sweater and spoke with a Scottish accent," the Doctor said through the TARDIS' outside speaker.

"Kapecia?" Rose said as she became lost in thought.

"Do you know it?" Talos asked her.

"I've been there before too. Your people found themselves right in the middle of a fight between the Daleks and the Movellans, and I had to stop both of them from using your planet as a battleground," Rose said.

Talos' eyes widened as he asked, "Are you the Bad Wolf?"

"Yes," Rose said.

"So what if she helped your people in the past for her own purposes. It doesn't mean that she's going to help you now," the Monk said.

"The Bad Wolf saved my entire world from being destroyed by the Movellans' planet destroying bomb. They had decided to sacrifice my world in order to deal a major blow to a Dalek fleet that had invaded us at the time. The Bad Wolf destroyed the bomb and the Daleks and sent the Movellans light years away with a wave of her hand. My mother told me all about it. She said that you saved her life when she was a little girl and helped her find her parents," Talos said as he looked at Rose with renewed respect now.

"Her name was Ishira right?" Rose asked as she remembered.

She remembered having been surprised at how much like a human or Time Lord child that the Kapecian girl had been. She was easily fifty feet tall but seemed so young and helpless to Rose that her heart had went out to her the moment that she had met her.

"It is you! I have decided. I will help you, Rose Tyler. If it wasn't for you then I wouldn't even exist in the first place," Talos said.

"You're getting as well-known as me, Rose, except that people actually like you and don't want to throw you off the planet the next time that you come back to see them," the Doctor said.

"It's probably just your winning way with people," Rose said with a chuckle.

"You have sealed your doom, Kapecian," Eldrad said angrily as he started to use his ring against Talos.

Talos laughed at him as he said, "Your ring doesn't work on me. You can't take over my mind so easily."

"It wasn't your mind that I was trying to affect," Eldrad said with a smirk.

An army of Trojans under Eldrad's control suddenly came up behind Talos and quickly hacked a huge piece out of his right heel with their swords. He started to have a torrent of blood pour out of his heel, and he screamed as he sank to his knees in agony.

"He's going to die now. You do know that right?" Rose asked Eldrad in anger.

"That is the price for betrayal," Eldrad said coldly.

Back on board the TARDIS where the Doctor and his companions had been watching this on the monitor the entire time, Vicki said, "It really is just like the Greek myths. A bronze nail is yanked out of Talos' heel, and his blood pours out of it killing him. Can you help him, Doctor?"

"I don't know. I may not have enough time. Unfortunately those myths were based on reality, Vicki. Kapecians have one weak spot in an otherwise impervious body. The back of their heels are very weak and can be removed very easily. Once this happens, all of their blood comes rushing out; and they will quickly bleed to death in a matter of minutes. It's one good reason that the Kapecians were never a warlike species since they would be defeated so quickly in battle by anyone who knew their weakness," the Doctor said sadly.

"There must be something that you can do, Doctor," Clara said.

"I don't know, Clara. I'm not sure that there's anything that can be done for him now," the Doctor said.

I can help him. Rose said in the Doctor's mind.

Yes, and then your secret will be exposed to the Silence. The Doctor warned her.

I don't care. I can't just stand by and watch him die. Rose answered.

The Doctor didn't want Talos to die either, but he also didn't want Rose to endanger herself again by making herself a target of the Silence once more when they learned the truth about her. He made a decision that he hoped he wouldn't regret when he dematerialized the TARDIS out of Talos' hand and then materialized it again somewhere nearby. He immediately hurried outside with his companions right behind him.

"I thought you said that the dematerialization circuit wasn't working," Rose said as he caught up to her.

"I made that up so that you'd stay longer. I also closed my mind off from you so you'd think that I was in trouble in order to get you here in the first place," the Doctor said.

"So you mean that you really didn't need my help at all?" Rose asked in a perturbed tone as she realized now that she really hadn't had to be there at all.

"I missed you," the Doctor admitted.

"Any other time I'd be touched, but now Talos might die for trying to help me," Rose said feeling guilty.

"It's my fault. I shouldn't have been inventing excuses to bring you back. I should have just waited for you to return. I got impatient though. Being away from you for too long makes me go crazy," the Doctor admitted.

Clara nodded her head emphatically behind his back to tell Rose that this was very, very true. She had never seen anyone mope around so much as the Doctor had without Rose. She thought it was extremely sweet that he missed Rose so much while at the same time she wanted to kill him for driving her crazy with his moodiness.

"Soon you will never be parted from her again, Doctor. Both of you will be dead, and then you will spend all eternity together and never be apart," Eldrad said with laughter.

"Man, that guy is just plain evil," Alex said.

"I think that he's just plain nuts," Mary responded back to him.

Eldrad began to attack them all now with his mind controlled Trojan servants as an army of them came after the Doctor, Rose, and their friends with their swords drawn and ready for battle. Talos meanwhile could do nothing to help because he was so weak from blood loss that he was close to death now. The Monk watched his enemies run from Eldrad's enslaved humans with a triumphant grin on his face. He was enjoying every moment of this.

Doctor, I have to reveal myself now. I can't let us all die. Rose said to the Doctor through their link.

No. Wait a little longer before you do anything. I've come up with a way out of situations much worse than this in the past, and I'll do it again. Trust me, Rose. You don't need to endanger yourself to save us. The Doctor insisted.

What about Talos though? Do you have a plan to save him in time? Rose asked in despair.

The Doctor said nothing. There was nothing that he could say.

It was up to Rose now as she struggled to decide what to do. Should she reveal her secret and risk it falling into the hands of the Silence, or should she try to help Talos in some other way and risk killing him in the process? She had to decide quickly because time was running out.

Next: Rose has a momentous decision to make as she decides whether to risk revealing her secret in front of everyone as the battle with Eldrad and the Monk comes to its conclusion. Will Rose try to win the battle by any means necessary and wind up possibly losing her greatest weapon against the Silence? What will happen if she doesn't? Also will Talos live or die?