A/N : For starters, thanks to everyone whose taken the time to review this story, it is greatly appreciated and I always try to incorporate suggestions when and if it fits the story line. I offically now have the entire story mapped out in my head so I know how and when I will end it. Hope you like this chapter, I've almost completed my AU of series one! :).
The world span as the Doctor opened his eyes and realized he was crouched in what appeared to be a small cupboard. He shook off his dizziness and stood up but as he pressed a hand against the wall, he unexpectedly fell through a door. "Oh my god!" a squeaky voice exclaimed with alarm."I don't believe it! Why'd they put you in here? They never said you were coming!" the voice belonged to a young, blonde haired woman. She ran up to him and helped him onto his feet. He looked at her half confused, half disorientated.
"But what happened I…."
"Careful now ….mind yourself!" she said as he fell down again."Oh that's the transmat. Scrambles you're head – I was sick for days. Are you alright?" she asked, helping him to his feet. "So what's your name then sweetheart?" The Doctor frowned at her for a moment.
"The Doctor I think….er what happened?" he asked groggily.
"You got chosen"
"Chosen for what?"
"You're a house mate. You're in the house isn't that brilliant?" the girl squealed with delight but before the Doctor could answer, a robotic voice that sounded exactly like Davina McCall's echoed throughout the house.
"Would the Doctor please come to the diary room?" the Doctor's brow furrowed and he glanced around the room as if he was waiting for someone to appear but a door opened behind him and the girl smiled at him encouragingly. He walked through the door and sank down onto a red bean bag."You are live on channel forty five thousand. Please do not swear" the Doctor raised an eyebrow.
"You gave got to be kidding me".
Donnas' head was killing her. She couldn't remember anything, barely her own name. Her bones ached and she had no idea where she was. She slowly opened her eyes and saw a black man smiling down at her. "What the hell happened?"
"It's all right" the man said gently."It's the transmat. Does you're head in. Get a bit of amnesia. What's your name?"
"Donna. Where's the Doctor?" she asked, her memory slowly coming back.
"Just remember – Do what the android says. Don't provoke it. The androids word is law" Donna narrowed her eyes at him.
"What are you yapping on about for goodness sake? What'd you mean Android? Like as in a robot?" Donna demanded.
"Positions everyone thank you!" a woman's voice called out. The man pulled Donna up to her feet.
"Come on hurry up! Steady…steady…" Donna leant on the man for support.
"I was with this man the Doctor his name was. And a woman called Captain Rose. They wouldn't just leave me…." Donna said, a bit frightened as the man led her god knows where.
" That's enough chat! Positions! Final call!" the woman cut off Donna. Donna shot the woman a threatening glare.
"I'll bloody well do what I like. I didn't ask to be here, lady!" she hissed. The woman stepped away from her and gulped."Yeah, you might as well be scared". The man let go of Donna and she found herself standing behind a podium with the guy standing in the one next to her. She instantly realized she was on a some sort of TV set with no sign of the Doctor. "Hold on I'm not suppose to be here!" she cried.
"It says Donna on the podium" the man, whose podium said Roderick on it, pointed at her podium. She looked down and sure enough it said Donna on it. Donna wasn't an idiot and knew that something was wrong right away. What was she doing here of all places? Maybe it was just a freaky dream; she had them all the time, like last night, she dreamt of a handsome dark haired man offering to punch the Doctor in the face for her. How random was that? This must be one of those kind of things again.
"This must be just some wacky dream" she whispered to Roderick who frowned. "Because unless I'm very much mistaken, I think I'm on……" the lights came to life and a robot stood behind a podium placed in the centre of the circle.
"Welcome to the weakest link" the Android said, in a voice very familiar to Anne Robinsons' to Donnas' suprise.
Rose groaned as she finally started to stir. Her eyes shot open and bright lights nearly blinded her. She noticed she was in a plain white room, sat on a chair and in front of her were two female looking robots. Hold on….where was she? ...how did she get here? …and what was her name again?"Lantern jaws are so last year" the purple headed robot spoke.
"Sorry….nice to meet your ladies…but where exactly am I?" Rose asked, standing up and frowning.
"We're giving you a brand new image" she answered.
"Oh hold on I was with Donna and the Doctor – wait a minute is there something wrong with what I've got on?" Rose looked at them alarmed and they examined her clothes with disdain. She wore a short denim skirt, pink sandals with a lilac flower on the toe strap and a lilac button down blouse. Her blonde hair was tied back into a pony like Donna had suggested. She didn't think there was anything wrong with what she had on and judging from the Doctor's expression earlier, neither had he.
"It's all very twentieth century. Where did you get that denim?" the red headed robot said snottily.
"Little place in Cardiff, it's called top shop" Rose snapped.
"Oh design classic" sang the purple robot. Wait a second, Rose recognized those voices. They sounded just like the ones off that show Donna had forced her to watch a couple of nights ago….what not to wear it was called. Oh my God, Rose thought her eyes widening, the purple robot was Trinny and the red one was Suzanna."But we're going to have to find you some new colours. Maybe get rid of that 'bimbo Barbie look' you have going on" Rose looked at them indignantly.
"I do not look like Barbie! I am much hotter than that plastic bimbo for starters!" she hissed.
"Just stand still and let the defabricator work its magic" Suzanna ordered.
"Defabricator?" Rose raised an eyebrow when all of a sudden a light hit her clothing and disintegrated them. "Oh right. Am I naked in front of millions of viewers?"
"Absolutely" the robots squealed. Rose folded her arms across her chest and grinned.
"Ladies you're viewing figures just went up".
Meanwhile back in the house, the Doctor stood by the door trying to unlock it with his sonic screwdriver. "I can't open it" he said to the young woman next to him.
"It's got a deadlock seal. Remember big brother five when they all walked out?" he looked at her blankly."You must remember that!" he didn't say anything, just moved his sonic screwdriver to the mirror next to the door."Oh that's exoglass. You'll need a nuclear bomb to get through that"
"Don't tempt me" the Doctor grunted while the woman started babbling about the outside world and whether she was popular or not. He also found out her name was Lynda with a Y but not with an I because that Linda got evicted for damaging the camera.
"Do people notice me?" she asked, with wide eyes filled with curiosity.
"You're nice, everyone thinks your sweet" he smiled at her sincerely.
"Oh is that right? Nobody's ever told me that before" she said obviously flattered. The Doctor smile grew broader when he suddenly remembered what had happened. Him, Donna and Rose had just been to Raxacoricofallapatorious then they went to Japan 1336 and were laughing in the Tardis when a bright light came through and carried them all away. He told Lynda, who told him it was just the transmat but he knew it was more. He wasn't just a travelling passenger and he wanted to find out what was going on before it was too late but he needed to find his friends in the process.
Back in the weakest link studio, Donna was mouthing off to the producer who was counting down the time they were going to start. "Oi lady, listen, I got here by accident, you hear me? Accident! And if you don't let me go and find my friends this very moment, I will slap your ass silly!" she shrieked like a banshee.
"Just shut up and play the game!" Roderick spat and Donna shot daggers at him.
"Tell me to shut up one more time and I swear you'll regret it" she snarled. Two threats in one minute to two different people, Donna was on a roll.
"Let's play the weakest link!" the Android announced and the producers moved away. Donna felt herself start to panic. What the hell was she doing here? "Start the cloak. Agorax - the name of which basic food stuff is an anagram of the word 'beard'?"
"Bread" the man across from Donna replied.
"Correct. Fitch - in the Pan Traffic Calendar, which month comes after Hoob?"
"Is it... Clavadoe?" the woman next to Roderick asked uncertainly.
"No, Pandoff. Donna, in maths, what is 258 minus 158?"
"One hundred!" Donna yelled nervously at the Android. She felt sweat build up in the palms of her hands. When the Android moved on to the next person, a young brown haired man, and he got it wrong, Donna could barely suppress her amusement at the distraught expression on the guys young face. He was acting as if it was life or death, she thought. It was only a flipping game show for crying out loud. Roderick looked at her as if she'd just done something disgusting. What was wrong with the people here?
Rose stood in front of a mirror admiring her self in the new clothes she was wearing. They'd made her change into black satin pants, black boots and a white lacy top. Her hair was now hanging down. She liked It and so did the robots. "Maybe we should add a little colour?" Rose suggested.
"Absolutely not. It makes the colour look cheap and the black look boring. Now let's talk jackets" Trinny croaked moving towards her.
"I liked the first one" Rose said referring to a black leather bomber jacket.
"No that was too much Hell's angel. I think I like the shorter one" Suzanna commented. Rose grabbed the short black leather jacket they were referring to and shrugged herself into it."Look, waist length, nice and slimming, shows off the bum". Rose grinned.
"Works for me"
"Once we've got the outfit, we can look at the face. Ever thought about a little cosmetic surgery?" Trinny asked. Rose frowned at her.
"Why do I need it? I mean I have thought about it but never really-"
"Let's do something cutting edge" Trinny snarled and Rose's eyes widened as the robots took caps off their forearms and revealed two saws.
"Oh shit not again" she muttered.
Meanwhile in the 'weakest link studio' the Android started quizzing Donna about her line of work. "I just travel" she said lightly, not taking it seriously.
"Another way of saying unemployed" the Android hissed. Donna glared at the machine, annoyed.
"Oi, you don't know anything about my life" she snapped. Roderick stared at her in disbelief. Donna chose to ignore him.
"Have you got a job?" the Android asked her. Donna replied no and then the Android started grilling her about why she'd chosen Fitch to leave the show. Fitch burst into tears and the Android turned and looked at her before a beam of light hit Fitch and she was turned into dust. Donnas' eyes widened with shock and she glanced at Roderick horrified. Roderick looked grim.
"What the bloody hell just happened?"
"She was in the weakest link. She got disintegrated" he answered gravely.
"But I voted for her! Oh my God, this is just sick. All of you are just sick!" Donna cried.
"I can't do this!" a young man a few podiums away from Roderick sobbed and ran off like Fitch but the Android hit him and he disappeared too. Donna paled dramatically.
"Don't try to escape. It's play or die" he whispered. Donna felt panic rise up within her while in the 'big brother' house the Doctor was still trying to get out.
"Doctor, they said ALL of the housemates must gather on the sofa. You've got too" Lynda told him.
"Busy getting out thanks" the Doctor replied, pointing his sonic screwdriver at the wall.
"But if you don't obey all the housemates get punished" she told him gently. The Doctor grudgingly stopped what he was doing and followed her into the living room. They sat on a red sofa beside a tall lanky brown haired man and a young black woman. As soon as they sat down, they all held hands, the man grabbing the Doctor's, who rolled his eyes.
"Big brother house – this is Davina Droid. Crosbie, Lynda and Strood – you have all been nominated for eviction. And the eight person to be evicted from the big brother house is……Crosbie!" Lynda jumped up and hugged the black girl – Crosbie – who was in tears. The Doctor looked bored.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" Lynda said hugging her. Crosbie cried harder.
"Oh it should have been me…it's not fair Crosbie love" Strood said sympathetically. It took Crosbie, three warnings and ten minutes to get into the lift to the Doctor's amusement. She looked scared and distraught. The lift closed on her and Lynda looked sad as she re-entered the room.
"I don't believe it. Poor Crosbie…." Lynda said sadly.
"It's only a game show; she'll make a fortune on the outside! Sell her story, release a record, fitness video, all of that... she'll be laughing!" Lynda frowned at him for a moment before her and Strood sat back down next to him and watched the screen intensely.
"Here we go" Strood murmured. Crosbie stood in the elevator sobbing.
"What are they waiting for? Why don't they just let her go?" the Doctor asked.
"Stop it, it's not funny" Lynda spat. Ten seconds later, there was a beam of light and Crosbie disintegrated right in front of them. The Doctor sat up, staring at the TV in shock while Lynda explained to him that contestants got evicted from life. He couldn't believe that anybody would chose to go through all of this just to get on TV but Lynda told him they don't. They get chosen randomly. The Doctor frowned and asked Lynda what the other Linda had done to get out of there and she told him damage to the camera, right before the Doctor turned around and did exactly the same thing using his sonic screwdriver.
Back in the 'what not to wear studio' the two robots had defabricated Rose again leaving her naked and weaponless. They pointed the saws at her. "I think you'd look good with a dogs head" Suzanna spat aggressively. Rose stepped back.
"Or maybe no head at all. That would be so outrageous" hissed Trinny.
"Now hold on ladies. I don't want to have to shoot either one of you" Rose said warningly.
"But you're unarmed and naked!" Trinny pointed out. Rose pulled a gun out from behind her.
"But that's a compact laser deluxe!" Suzanna gasped.
"Where were you hiding that?" Trinny demanded.
"You really don't want to know" she said before blowing their heads off.
Donna stood in the weakest link studio panic stricken. If the Doctor didn't find her soon, she was going to get disintegrated unless she won which wasn't very likely at the moment. Roderick, to Donnas' surprise, voted off the smarter woman, telling her he needed to keep her in because she was thick. Donna was highly tempted to slap him but didn't in case she got zapped by the Android. However, Donnas' ears pricked up when Lance mentioned that the prize would be courtesy of the Bad Wolf Corporation. "What do you mean? Whose bad wolf?" she asked him, eyes wide. The two words that had followed them everywhere. Despite what the Doctor may believe, Donna had a feeling there was more to it than a simple coincidence.
"They're in charge; they run the game station" he answered.
"Why are they called Bad Wolf?"
"I don't know" he shrugged.
In the big brother house, the Doctor jumped up as the Davina Droid ordered him to go to the lift. Lynda watched with wide eyes as he practically ran in. He stood there for ten seconds but as he'd suspected, nothing happened. Then he proceeded to look up at the cameras and announce he was getting out of there. He looked towards Lynda and invited her to come with him. After a bit of persuasion she agreed and jumped into the lift with him. He used his sonic screwdriver to control it and they soon found themselves on floor 56. When they walked out, the Doctor automatically realized where they were. "Hold on, I've been here before" he commented with his brow furrowed. "This is satellite five!" They walked up to another door and he opened it was his screwdriver. They walked through. "No guards, that makes a change. You'd think a big business like satellite five would be armed to its teeth"
"No one's called it satellite five in ages" Lynda told him."It's the game station now, hasn't been satellite five in about a hundred years". The Doctor looked at his watch.
"A hundred years exactly. It's the year two zero-zero/one zero-zero. I was here before. Floor 139. Satellite was broadcasting news channels back then... had a bit of trouble upstairs. Nothing too serious. Easy - gave them a hand - home in time for tea" Lynda smiled at him.
"A hundred years? What you were here a hundred years ago?" she asked skeptically.
"Yep"
"You're looking good on it"
"I moisturize" he smirked and glanced at the sonic screwdriver. "Funny sorts of readings. All kinds of energy... the place is humming. It's weird. This goes way beyond normal transmissions. What would they need all that power for? "
"I don't know. I think we're the first contestants to ever get outside" she replied as he scanned a door.
"I had two friends travelling with me. Where do you think they'd be?" he asked her. She then proceeded to give him a list of all the game shows that were played on the different floors, from big brother to stars in their eyes. She also told him about all of the various things that happened during the games. The Doctor looked slightly alarmed."And you watch this stuff?" he asked moving onto the next door.
"Everyone does" she shrugged."Who are you anyway?"
"I'm just a traveler. Believe it or not, all I'm after is a quiet life" he sighed.
"So if we get out of here, what you going to do, just wander off again?"
"Quick as I can"
"Maybe I could come with you" she suggested quietly. He smiled at her. "I wouldn't get in you're way"
"I wouldn't mind it you did" he replied."Lynda with a Y. But first of all, we need to concentrate on getting out and to do that you've got to know whose controlling it. Who's in charge of the satellite now?" he asked her. Lynda immediately ran to the other side of the room, pulled down a lever which revealed three huge words on the wall. Bad Wolf Corporation. The Doctor's eyes widened with shock.
"You're lord and masters" Lynda said softly.
Meanwhile, Rose started attaching the defabricator to her compact deluxe. She'd changed back into the black satin pants, boots and the white lacy top. "That a girl got myself a gun!" she grinned at herself and put the gun over her shoulder. She looked down at the two robots bodies."Well ladies the pleasure was all mine which is the only thing that matters in the end" . She ran down a corridor, got into the lift and exited it when it stopped on floor 299. She looked at her wrist watch."Two hearts, that's him, which floor?" she sighed, got back into the lift and pressed a few floors down. She eventually found him on the observation deck with a short, pretty, young girl. Rose's eyes flickered with jealously very briefly before she made her presence known. "Hi there handsome" she said huskily. The Doctor and the girl spun around to face her."Any sign of Donna?" when the Doctor saw her, his face seemed to spread with relief.
"I'm really glad you're alright Rose. Can't you track her down?"
"She must still be inside the games, the rooms are shielded" she watched as the Doctor frantically fiddled with the computer that was stood there beside him."Hurry up, the games don't exactly end happily"
"I know that thanks" the Doctor snapped.
"Here patch this in. It should find her" Rose said gently, passing him her watch."So whose you're new girlfriend, Doctor? Replacing me already?" the Doctor ignored her. Lynda frowned.
"Lynda Moss" she said politely.
"Captain Rose Tyler" Rose said shaking her hand hard. Lynda didn't say anything but Rose knew she was hurting her.
"Captain? I didn't know women could be Captain's?" Rose glared at her annoyed.
"Well they can were I come from Lynda"
"Oh" Rose turned her attention back to the Doctor.
"I ended up in what not to wear. They stripped me naked, too bad you weren't there to see" Rose said flirtatiously. The Doctor tried to ignore her as usual as he continued working on the computer but was having difficulty doing so when she came on so strong. Then the machine started to beep.
"It's not compatible. This stupid system doesn't make sense. This place should be a basic broadcaster. The systems are twice as complicated. It's more than just television... this station's transmitting something else" he said, sounding frustrated.
"Like what?" Rose asked gently and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"I don't know. This whole Bad Wolf thing's tied up with me. Someone's manipulating my entire life. It's some sort of trap and Donna is stuck inside it".
The woman herself was wondering where the bloody hell Rose and the Doctor where. She was stuck playing a deadly game of weakest link while they were more than likely off flirting each other to death and not even doing anything about it. She vowed to herself, if she ever got out of here, she'd force the Doctor to take Rose somewhere nice and somewhere Donna could go off relax and maybe have a fling with a purple alien or something. Now that would be something worth telling her granddad about. The Android asked Donna a question which Donna got wrong yet again. She was dreadful, she was going to have to spend some more time in the Tardis library reading up on this kind of boring crap. Now it was only her and Roderick and he was winning. One last question and if she got this wrong. She lost. She got it wrong of course, considering her luck. "Roderick, you are the winner" the Android announced just as the doors to the studio flung open and the Doctor, Rose and some other girl who Donna didn't recognized came running through.
"Donna!" he yelled.
"Stop this game!" Rose cried out, following him in.
"Donna, you are the weakest link" the Android croaked. Donna felt something like fear rush through her. She watched horrified as her friends came running towards her. The Android turn towards them. She was going kill the Doctor!
"I order you to stop this game!" the Doctor demanded angrily.
"Doctor, look out!" she yelled and ran towards them but the Android's ray beamed out and hit her in the back. She instantly became dust. Rose's face paled and she marched up towards the producers angrily, holding her gun out.
"What the hell did you do to her? That was my friend!" the Doctor knelt down and held some of the dust in his hand. He felt numb. Donna had been his companion, his best friend, he'd been responsible for her and now she was dead thanks to him. "Back off!" Rose shrieked at the producer and Roderick. Suddenly a team of security guards barged in and took Rose, the Doctor and Lynda down to a prison where nobody even listened as the security guard spoke.
"Lets do it" the Doctor told Rose and Lynda and they attacked the guards that were watching them and made an escape. They got into the nearest lift and headed towards floor five hundred. The doors opened and the Doctor, Lynda and Rose strode out.
"Okay! Move away from the desk! Nobody try anything clever! Everybody clears! Stand to the sides and stay there!" Rose demanded, holding the gun at them. Nobody hesitated and the staff cleared out, making room for the three of them to walk up towards the thing known as the controller. She was a frail young woman, skinny with icy blue eyes. Her hair was wild and she stared out into space. The Doctor immediately started questioning her but she didn't answer. Just kept repeating numbers.
"She can't answer" a male worker told them. He flinched as the Doctor turned around and faced him, with the gun pointed right at him."Don't shoot!"
"Don't be so thick. Like I was ever going to shoot" the Doctor scoffed tossing the gun at him before turning to Rose."Captain, we've got more guards on the way, secure the exists"
"Yes sir" she saluted, winked and then obeyed. The Doctor then began to question the man about the controller. The man told him she was linked to the transmissions and she didn't recognize him because he wasn't an employee. Meanwhile, Rose's device beeped. She frowned and was about to walk into the room before a female worker stopped her.
"You're not allowed in there, it's out of bounds"
"Well h-e-l-l-o, do I look like an outer bounds kind of girl?" she showed off her two guns. The woman gulped and stepped back."That's what I thought". Rose walked into the room and grinned as she saw the Tardis. She walked in and something caught her eye on the monitor. "What the hell?" she muttered before running back out and saw the Doctor looking annoyed at the female worker from before. "Doctor!" he turned and looked at her. "Found the Tardis"
"We can't leave now"
"I know that! But the Tardis worked it out" Rose smirked. The Doctor had no idea what she was going on about, clearly, going from the look of confusion on his face. She suddenly grabbed a hold of Lynda."Lynda, could you please just stand over there for me?" she pointed to an empty area of the room.
"I want to go home" she whined.
"It'll only take a second sweetheart, just do it" Lynda obliged reluctantly."Everybody watching? Okay, three, two, one….." she hit a button and the disintegrator beam blasted out and hit Lynda. She immediately disappeared. The Doctor glanced at Rose horrified.
"You killed her"
"You think?" Rose raised an eyebrow and pressed the button again. Lynda reappeared beside the Doctor looking slightly dazed. The Doctor frowned and stared at Rose for an explanation." It's a transmat beam. Not a disintegrator - a secondary transmat system" the Doctor smiled realizing what Rose was saying."People don't get killed in the games, they get transported! Donnas' alive, Doctor!" the Doctor laughed and threw his arms around Rose. They hugged and caught up in the excitement, the Doctor cupped Rose's face in his hands and they started to kiss passionately. Five seconds later, Lynda coughed and they finally pulled away and the Doctor's ears went red. Rose, who was used to this sort of thing, looked away arkwardly but didn't appear the least embarrassed or ashamed.
Meanwhile, Donna opened her eyes and found herself on some sort of space ship. She picked herself up off the floor and was starting to wonder how she'd got here when she saw a familiar creature staring at her. Donnas' face paled. They'd gotten rid of the last of them, this was impossible. Yet there it was staring at her. "For goodness sake" Donna hissed."We never quite manage to finish the job" the creature hovered towards her and backed her into a wall. She squealed with horror.
The controller had been taken by her masters after giving the Doctor some numbers that will help him locate her 'masters'. While the Doctor figured out what he was doing, Rose sat at a computer. The male worker walked up to her and passed her a disk. "Look use that. It might contain the final numbers. I keep a log of all unscheduled transmissions" Rose smiled at him flirtily and gave him a once over. He was quite nice looking.
"Nice work, thanks. I'm Captain Rose Tyler by the way" she said, batting her eyelashes at him.
"Davitch Pavale" he replied shaking the hand she held out.
"Nice to meet you Davitch Pavale" she winked.
"Flirt on your own time" the Doctor growled."Although I'd prefer you not to flirt at all"
"Is somebody jealous?" Rose teased but he didn't deny it. A few minutes later, after a lot of fiddling with computers and devices, they managed to get a view of what was going on outside. There was nothing but outer space but then the Doctor cancelled out a signal and suddenly there about a million fleets of gold UFO's flying around. "That's impossible!" Rose gasped."I know those ships! They were destroyed!"
"Obviously they survived" the Doctor said in a hushed voice. Rose couldn't help but notice that he looked quite upset.
"Who are they?" Lynda asked.
"Two hundred ships. More than two thousand on board each one. That's just about half a million of them" the Doctor said cryptically.
"Half a million what?" Davitch frowned.
"Daleks" the Doctor hissed angrily.
Meanwhile on the dalek space ship Donna stared at the group of daleks that had gathered in the room she was being held prisoner in. The Doctor wouldn't let them get away with this, he'd kill them all. That thought at least gave her some comfort. "ALERT, ALERT WE HAVE BEEN DE-TEC-TED" A dalek croaked to another.
"OPEN COMMUN-I-CATIONS CHA-NEL" another one commanded. Suddenly a screen popped up in the middle of the room with the Doctor's face glaring in on them. Never in her life had Donna be so relieved to see a man especially that one.
"I will talk to the Doc-tor" the third dalek croaked.
"Oh will you? That's nice" he said coolly.
"The Dalek Stratagem nears completion. The Fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene " it ordered.
"Why's that?" he asked through gritted teeth.
"We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated" Donnas' heart began to race.
"No" he said simply. Donna glared at him through the screen. Oh she was so going to kill space-boy!. She knew he didn't like her slapping him but Donna never thought he'd leave her to die!.
"Explain you're self!" the Dalek shrieked.
"It means no" the Doctor replied, firmly.
"But she will be destroyed"
"No because this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to rescue her" he said angrily."I'm going to save Donna Noble from the middle of the Dalek fleet and then I'm going to save the Earth and just to finish off, I'm going to wipe out every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!"
"But you have no weapons! No defenses! No plan!" the Dalek pointed out. As if that had ever stopped him before, Donna thought amused.
"Yeah and doesn't that scare you to death? Donna?" he turned towards her, grinning.
"Yeah, space-boy?"
"I'm coming to get you"
"About bloody time and all!"Donna snapped but she was pleased really. The screen disappeared as the Doctor disconnected it and marched right into his Tardis with Rose following on right behind him.