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Without further ado…

Chapter 12: Utopia

"Well, we've landed." The Doctor said. "Everyone alright?"

"I think I might need some of the Headache cure tea. My head's killing me." Rebecca said.

"Let me check for concussion." Martha said rushing over. After a few small tests, she declared with a smile. "No concussion."

"Fantastic." She said, pulling herself up and dusting herself off.

"Doctor, what's out there?" Rose asked him.

"I don't know." He said.

"Say that again. That's rare." Rose said, with her tongue in teeth grin.

"Not even the Time Lords came this far. We should leave. We should go. We should really, really go." He looked to Rose and the two just laughed, walking to the door to see the sight. Rebecca followed immediately with Martha.

They walked out into the dark world, only to discover Jack laying on the ground.

"Oh my God!" Martha said. She rushed over and checked his pulse.

"Martha, leave him." Rebecca said. "I've got this."

"I've been studying medicine a lot longer. I'm gonna grab the med kit." Martha rushed inside the TARDIS and grabbed a kit.

"Martha, it's not about medicine." Rebecca told her as she sank down beside Jack and grabbed his hand. She laid her head down on his chest. "No heartbeat." She turned to the Doctor.

"How'd he even get here? Not very hundred trillion. That coat's more like World War Two." Martha said opening the med-kit.

"Martha he doesn't need it." Rebecca said pushing her back.

"He came with us." The Doctor said.

"How do you mean, from Earth?"

"Must have been clinging to the outside of the TARDIS all the way through the vortex."

"Well, that's very him." Rose said sadly. "Is he…?"

"What, do you know him?'

"Friend of mine. Used to travel with me, back in the old days." The Doctor said.

"He's more than that." Rose said gesturing to Rebecca.

"But he's. I'm sorry, there's no heartbeat. There's nothing. He's dead." Martha said putting her hand on Rebecca's shoulder who pushed it away, as Jack suddenly gasped back to life.

"It's all right. Just breathe deep. I've got you." Rebecca said grabbing him.

"Shit. I'm really dead for good this time. Not quite what I imagined heaven looking like. Although the view from here is mighty nice," he said winking at Rebecca.

"You're not dead, I'm here. I was coming to see you, you know." Rebecca said.

"Sorry I kept you waiting." He said, pulling himself up more so he was fully sitting up beside Rebecca.

"Make it up to me later?" she asked.

"Now that I can guarantee." He said, kissing her softly, a hand going into her hair and the other moving her onto his lap.

"Oi, love birds. Quit it" The Doctor said.

Jack glared at him for a moment before getting up and bring Rebecca up to a standing position. He brushed off his coat before looking around and noticing the blonde standing beside the Doctor.

"ROSEY POSEY!" He said happily opening his arms wide. She quickly ran to him and jumped into his arms for a hug. He spun her around before squeezing her tightly once more and letting her down.

"Jack! It's good to have you back."

"Same, you had me worried there for a while when your name was on the Canary Wharf casualty list."

"Yeah well we all thought you were dead so there's that." Rose said giving him another hug.

"And you must be the lovely Martha Jones." Jack said walking over to the other woman.

"That's me." She said.

"Captain Jack Harkness. Nice to meet you, Martha Jones. Rebecca has told me all about you."

"Oh, don't start." The Doctor said finally looking over at him.

"I was only saying hello." Jack said and Rebecca nodded.

"I don't mind," Martha said. "You're Rebecca's Jack-the boyfriend?"

"I like how I'm your-Jack." Jack said looking at Rebecca with a smile.

"Well… it's not like she's wrong. I'm yours too."

"That's true." Jack said, finally looking back towards the Doctor. "Doctor."

"Captain."

"Good to see you." Jack said stiffly, his jaw clenched.

"And you. Same as ever. Although, have you had work done?"

"Doc!" Rebecca exclaimed.

"You can talk." Jack retorted.

"Oh yes, the face. Regeneration. How did you know this was me?"

"The police box kind of gives it away. I've been following you for a long time. You abandoned me."

"Did I? Busy life. Moving on." The Doctor said before starting to walk away through some scrubland. Rose looked between the two of them and ran after the Doctor. Rebecca just grabbed Jack's hand and the two began to walk chatting with Martha.

"So what'd you mean that he left you?" Martha asked. "Sorry if it's a bit personal… don't mean to pry."

"It's fine. So there I was, stranded in the year two hundred one hundred, ankle deep in Dalek dust, and he goes off without me. But I had this." He said holding up his wrist. " I used to be a Time Agent. It's called a vortex manipulator. He's not the only one who can time travel."

"Oh, excuse me. That is not time travel. It's like, I've got a sports car and you've got a space hopper." The Doctor called back.

"Oh ho. Boys and their toys."

"All right, so I bounced. I thought 21st century, the best place to find the Doctor, except that I got it a little wrong. Arrived in 1869, this thing burnt out, so it was useless. I ran into this one." Jack said pointing at Rebecca. "But before she knew who I was. She was dazed and confused."

"I had a concussion." Rebecca protested. "And I hadn't met you yet. I had just started traveling with those two."

"I know. I don't blame you. But I had to live through the entire twentieth century waiting for a version of you that would coincide with me." Jack said.

"But that makes you more than one hundred years old." Martha said shocked.

"And looking good, don't you think?" he said with a wink.

"And everyone thought we had an age gap before." Rebecca joked.

"Wait so you two dated before all of this mess? How old were you two?"

"I was what twenty seven?" Jack asked.

Rebecca nodded. "I was seventeen and turned eighteen while we were dating."

"To be fair, you never acted like a teenager. You were always so mature and put together. I was the younger one in our relationship."

"True… anyway get back to telling Martha the story."

"Right…So I went to the time rift, based myself there because I knew the Doc would come back to refuel. Until finally I get a signal on this detecting you and here we are."

"I was coming to get you, I swear." Rebecca said. "I was about to leave the TARDIS when we were sent hurtling into the future."

"But the thing is, how come you left him behind, Doctor?" Martha asked. "The three of you really?"

"I was busy." The Doctor said.

"Wasn't there. This one sent me home on the TARDIS. Left him and Rebecca stranded and about to die." Rose said.

"I had just watched Jack die in my arms. I didn't know that he was still with us. And I'm so sorry that I didn't. If I could go back, I would." Rebecca said.

Jack wrapped an arm around her and held her closely. "You know I'm not mad at you, not anymore in the slightest, right?" he kissed the top of her head and just held her as Martha looked on at the Doctor outraged.

"Is that what happens, though, seriously? Do you just get bored with us one day and disappear?"

"Not if you're blonde." Jack muttered.

"Hey!" Rose said.

"He's not wrong," Rebecca said. "This one dropped me off after we just lost Rose, set me up with a life I didn't want."

"You lot! We're at the end of the universe, all right? Right at the edge of knowledge itself and you're busy blogging! Come on." The Doctor said, walking over to a cliff to look down on a village.

"Is that a city?" Rose asked.

"It's most likely a-"Rebecca started before the Doctor rudely interrupted her.

"A city or a hive, or a nest, or a conglomeration. Like it was grown. But look, there. That's like pathways, roads? Must have been some sort of life, long ago."

"Wow, way to not allow the girl with a degree in Archaeology speak Doc."

"I laugh in the face of archaeologists."

"Well then maybe you should've changed my major when you signed me up for Oxford."

"You two knock it off. You can bicker later." Rose said.

"I've got a question." Martha said. "What killed it?"

"Time. Just time. Everything's dying now. All the great civilizations have gone. This isn't just night. All the stars have burned up and faded away into nothing."

"They must have an atmospheric shell. We should be frozen to death." Jack said.

"Well, the rest of us maybe. Not so sure about you, Jack." The Doctor said bitterly. Rebecca rolled her eyes and just looked up at her boyfriend, seeing his jaw clenched.

"Doctor, what about the people?" Rose asked. "Did no one survive?"

"I suppose we have to hope life will find a way."

"Well, he's not doing too bad." Jack pointed at a man dashing through the city. Rebecca's eyes widened. He was followed by what seemed like an angry tribe.

"Is it me, or does that look like a hunt?" the Doctor asked. Within seconds, Rebecca had abandoned her heels and put on her flats.

"Come on! Let's help him." Rebecca said beginning to run, the four falling in line behind her.

"Oh, I've missed this." Jack said sprinting ahead and meeting the running man. "I've got you.":

"They're coming! They're coming!" Jack pulled out a revolver and pointed at the tribal people

"Jack, don't you dare!" Rebecca chided, but he had already changed his position and fired his gun into the air, a warning shot, causing the whole tribe to freeze in its tracks.

"What are they?" Rose asked.

"There's more of them. We've got to keep going." The Man said.

"I've got a ship nearby. It's safe. It's not far, it's over there." The Doctor said, and as he did the whole tribe began to move again. "Or maybe not."

"We're close to the silo. If we get to the silo, then we're safe." The man said

"Silo?" the Doctor asked them.

"Silo." Rebecca and Jack agreed in unison.

"Silo for me." Martha said.

"You know my answer!" Rose added, and the five began running after the man toward a sete of gates

"It's the Futurekind! Open the gate!" the man yelled.

"Show me your teeth! Show me your teeth! Show me your teeth!" the guard told them.

"Show him your teeth." All of them began grimacing in an effort to show off their pearly whites.

"Human! Let them in! Let them in!" the Guard yelled and the metal gates began to open, Jack pushing Rebecca through first and making sure Martha and Rose were safe before running in himself. "Close! Close! Close!"

The guards began to fire machine guns at the ground in front of the tribe as they got closer.

"Humans. Humani. Make feast." The Leader of the tribe yelled.

"Go back to where you came from. I said, go back. Back!" the Guard said.

"Oh, don't tell him to put his gun down." Jack said to the Doctor.

"He's not my responsibility."

"And I am? Huh, that makes a change."

"Boys," Rose warned.

"Kind watch you. Kind hungry." The Tribe leader said before walking away. Rebecca shivered in the cold night air and Jack wrapped an arm around her and held her closer.

"Thanks for that." Rose said to the guard.

"Right. Let's get you inside."

"My name is Padra Toc Shafe Cane. Tell me. Just tell me, can you take me to Utopia?" the man who had run with them asked.

"Oh yes, sir. Yes, I can."

"Utopia?" Rebecca looked to Jack who shook his head.

"Not a clue."

"Am I the only one who seems to think that we have a slight dilemma?" Martha asked. "We're missing the TARDIS and as much as I love the whole 'running thing' I'm not running out there with those weird pointy toothed things looking for it."

"Right you are Martha." The Doctor said.

"Excuse me," Rebecca said going over to the guard. "Do you have anyone who goes out to do supply runs from the city out there or something?"

"Yeah, hold on… Atillo!" the Guard called. A man came over to them.

"Can I help you?"

"We left our ship behind. It looks like a box, a big blue box. I'm sorry, but I really need it back. It's stuck out there." The Doctor explained.

"I'm sorry, but my family were heading for the silo. Did they get here? My mother is Kistane Shafe Cane. My brother's name is Beltone." Padra said cutting in front of them.

"The computers are down but you can check the paperwork. Creet! Passenger needs help." A young blond boy came forward with a clipboard and went over to Padra.

"A blue box, you said." Atillo said.

"Big, tall, wooden. Says Police."

"We're driving out for the last water collection. I'll see what I can do."

"Thank you." Rose said.

"Come on." Creet told them leading them into a set of corridors.

"Sorry, but how old are you?" Martha asked the boy.

"Old enough to work. This way."

They were lead through a serious of crowded corridors, people sleeping on the floor. Pictures of missing family members hung on the walls.

"Kistane Shafe Cane. Kistane Shafe Cane. Kistane and Biltone Shafe Cane? We're looking for a Kistane and Beltone Shafe Cane." Creet called out.

"The Shafe Canes, anyone? Kistane from Red Force Five? My name's Padra."

"Anyone? Kistane and Beltone Shafe Cane? Anyone know the Shafe Cane family? Anyone called Shafe Cane?"

"It's like a refugee camp." Martha said.
"Stinking. Oh, sorry. No offence. Not you." Jack said as he bumped into a larger man.

"Don't you see that? The ripe old smell of humans. You survived. Oh, you might have spent a million years evolving into clouds of gas, and another million as downloads, but you always revert to the same basic shape. The fundamental humans." The Doctor said.

"Kistane Shafe Cane." Creet called.

"End of the universe and here we still are." Rebecca said with a smile. "Says something about us even if we're all obsessed with celebrity gossip and our cell phones, doesn't it?"

"Is there a Kistane Shafe Cane?" Creet asked again.

"That's me."

"Mother?"

"Oh, my God. Padra."

"Beltone?"

"It's not all bad news." Martha said with a small smile watching the happy reunion.

"No it's not," Rose said, tears forming in her eyes.

"You okay?" Rebecca asked her concerned.

"Just miss my mum and my brother that's all." She said wiping them away. The Doctor went over to her and pulled her into a hug for a moment, kissing her tears away.

"I'll find a way for you to see them… after I find a way to get out of here. Jack, with me." He said pulling him over to a wall that he had been scanning before. "Give us a hand with this. It's half deadlocked. I need you to overwrite the code. Let's find out where we are."

The two began coding, Rebecca watching.

"Wrong number Doc," she said peering over his shoulder, pushing him towards the opening of the doorway, which once she fixed the coding, opened and the Doctor almost fell into the opening, which turned out to be a silo for a rocket ship.

"Gotcha." Jack said grabbing him by the coat at just the last moment.

"Thanks."

"How did you cope without me?" Jack asked him. Martha cautiously stepped forward, looking on in wonder.

"Now that is what I call a rocket." She said.

"They're not refugees, they're passengers." Rebecca realized.

"He said they were going to Utopia." Rose mentioned.

"The perfect place. Hundred trillion years, it's the same old dream. You recognize those engines?"

"Nope. Whatever it is, it's not rocket science. But it's hot, though." Jack said fanning himself, shutting the door.

"Boiling. But if the universe is falling apart, what does Utopia mean?" Rebecca asked.

"The Doctor?" an older gentleman in a waist coat asked.

"That's me."

"Good! Good! Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good."

"It's good apparently." The Doctor said, the older man leading them into a laboratory, where he showed the Doctor a lot of his equipment. A blue woman, the man's assistant greeted them when they walked in.

"Chan welcome tho."

"Now, this is the gravitissimal accelerator. It's past its best but it works." The man explained.

"And over here is the footprint impellor system. Now, do you know anything about endtime gravity"

"Hello. Who are you?"

"Chan Chantho tho." She greeted.

"But we can't get it to harmonize."

"Captain Jack Harkness." Jack greeted with a friendly smile.

"Stop it." The Doctor chided him.

"That's my job to stop him. Thank you, very much. And I know he's just saying hello." Rebecca said in. "I'm Rebecca, and these women are my very good friends Rose and Martha."

"Can't I say hello to anyone?"

"Chan I do not protest tho." She said.

"Maybe later, Blue. So, what have we got here?" Jack asked.

"And all this feeds into the rocket?" Rebecca asked waving her hands around in an attempt to encase it all.

"Yeah, except without a stable footprint, you see, we're unable to achieve escape velocity. If only we could harmonize the five impact patterns and unify them, well, we might yet make it. What do you think, Doctor? Any ideas?"

"Well, er, basically, sort of, not a clue."

"Nothing?"

"I'm not from around these parts. I've never seen a system like it. Sorry."

"No, no. I'm sorry. It's my fault. There's been so little help."

"Oh, my God. You've got a hand? A hand in a jar. A hand in a jar in your bag." Martha said pulling a large container from Jack's bag.

"Okay, that's strange even for you Jack." Rose said.

"And why are you carrying this around?" Rebecca asked. "I was going to call you when we landed but as soon as we did we got sent here."

"But that, that, that's my hand." The Doctor said.

"I said I had a Doctor detector." Jack shrugged. "Sorry babe. Call me impatient." He said looking over to Rebecca who merely rolled her eyes at him.

"Chan is this a tradition amongst your people tho?" Chantho asked.

"Not on my street. What do you mean, that's your hand? You've got both your hands, I can see them."

"Long story. I lost my hand Christmas Day, in a swordfight." The Doctor explained.

"What? And you grew another hand?"

"Er, yeah, yeah, I did. Yeah. Hello." He said with a little wave.

"I rather like the new one." Rose said grabbing his hand.

"Yeah it's a fighting hand as well as a loving one." He turned to Rose and smiled.

"TMI Doc. TMI"

"Might I ask, what species are you?" the Professor asked.

"Time Lord, last of. Heard of them? Legend or anything? Not even a myth? Blimey, end of the universe is a bit humbling." Rebecca cleared her throat. "Small correction, one of the last two. Rebecca over here is a Time Lady although she's in a bit of a dormant state."

"Chan it is said that I am the last of my species too tho."

"Sorry, what was your name?"

"My assistant and good friend, Chantho. A survivor of the Malmooth. This was their planet, Malcassairo, before we took refuge."

"The city outside, that was yours?"

"Chan the conglomeration died tho."

"Conglomeration. That's what I said." The Doctor said happily, and at that moment both Rebecca and Rose hit him in his arms.

"You're supposed to say sorry." Jack advised.

"Oh, yes. Sorry."

"Chan most grateful tho."

"You grew another hand?" Martha asked still stuck staring at the hand.

"Martha, if you think him growing a new hand was surprising, imagine Beck's and my surprise, when he changed his whole body to look like this." Rose said. "Though I'm definitely not complaining."

"Chan you are most unusual tho."

"Well."

"So what about those things outside? The Beastie Boys. What are they?"

"We call them the Futurekind, which is a myth in itself, but it's feared they are what we will become, unless we reach Utopia."

"And Utopia is?"

"Oh, every human knows of Utopia. Where have you been?"

"Bit of a hermit."

"A hermit with friends?"

"Hermits United. We meet up every ten years and swap stories about caves. It's good fun, for a hermit. So, er, Utopia?"

"The call came from across the stars, over and over again. Come to Utopia. Originating from that point."

"Where is that?" Rebecca asked.

"Oh, it's far beyond the Condensate Wilderness, out towards the Wildlands and the Dark Matter reefs, calling us in. The last of the humans scattered across the night."

"What do you think's out there?"

"We can't know. A colony, a city, some sort of haven? The Science Foundation created the Utopia Project thousands of years ago to preserve mankind, to find a way of surviving beyond the collapse of reality itself. Now perhaps they found it. Perhaps not. But it's worth a look, don't you think?"

"Oh, yes." Rebecca smiled and nodded. "Do you mind if we take a closer look at your equipment?" the Professor nodded and Rebecca and the Doctor started going around the room examining the equipment.

"What if we soniced it?" Rebecca asked going over to something.

"Maybe… ooh what's this?"

"Those two… it's like Christmas for them." Rose said to Jack.

"It's one of the things I love about Rebecca… she's always hungry for knowledge and learning more. Her eyes light up and it's… I've seen a lot of the universe and I'm telling you, it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen."

"Do you have a brother?" Martha asked and Jack just laughed.

"And the signal keeps modulating, so it's not automatic." The Doctor said.

"That's a good sign someone's out there. And that's, oh, that's a navigation matrix. So you can fly without stars to guide you." Rebecca said before walking over to the Professor who seemed a little out of it. "Professor? Professor? Professor. Are you alright?" she asked him.

"I, er, ahem, right, that's enough talk. There's work to do. Now if you could leave, thank you."

"You all right?" the Doctor asked.

"Yes, I'm fine. And busy."

"Except that rocket's not going to fly, is it? This footprint mechanism thing, it's not working."

"We'll find a way."

"You're stuck on this planet. And you haven't told them, have you? That lot out there, they still think they're going to fly."

"Well, it's better to let them live in hope."

"Quite right, too. And I must say, Professor er, what was it?"

"Yana."

"Professor Yana. This new science is well beyond me, but all the same, a boost reversal circuit, in any time frame, must be a circuit which reverses the boost. So, I wonder, what would happen if I did this?" The Doctor said sonicing the end of a cable and pulling it, causing a power to surge through the machines.

"Chan it's working tho!"

"But how did you do that?

"Oh, we've been chatting away, I forgot to tell you. I'm brilliant." Rebecca coughed. "We're brilliant. Rebecca's idea actually."

"Thank you very much. Now… shall we have the passengers prepare for boarding?" And they did.

"Chantho, can you and some of our new friends go grab some circuits from storage."

"Chan Yes Professor tho." She nodded. "Chan would you like to come with me tho?" she asked Rose and Martha who nodded and followed her. Jack, the Doctor, Rebecca and Professor Yana stayed behind.

"Is this?" the Doctor asked sniffing one of the wires.

"Yes, gluten extract. Binds the neutralino map together."

"That's food. You've built this system out of food and string and staples?"

"Professor Yana, you're a genius." Rebecca said very impressed.

"Says the pair who made it work."

"Oh, it's easy coming in at the end, but you're stellar. This is, this is magnificent. And I don't often say that because, well, because of me." The Doctor said..

"He doesn't say it. His head's a little big." Rebecca said.

"Well, even my title is an affectation. There hasn't been such a thing as a university for over a thousand years. I've spent my life going from one refugee ship to another."

"If you'd been born in a different time, you'd be revered. I mean it. Throughout the galaxies." Rebecca said.

"Oh, those damned galaxies. They had to go and collapse. Some admiration would have been nice. Yes, just a little, just once."

"Well, you've got it now." The Doctor said.

"I have a question though Professor. The Footprint engine. You can't activate it from onboard. It's got to be from here. Are… are you staying behind?"

"With Chantho. She won't leave without me. Simply refuses." He said with a small sad smile.

"You'd give your life so they could fly."

"Oh, I think I'm a little too old for Utopia. Time I had some sleep."

"Professor, tell the Doctor we've found his blue box." Attilo said through the coms system.

"Ah!" the Doctor cheered. "Professor, it's a wild stab in the dark, but I may just have found you a way out."

A few minutes later, the TARDIS was in the lab.

"Extra power. Little bit of a cheat, but who's counting? Jack, you're in charge of the retro feeds. Rebecca with me, the Doctor said.

Martha, Rose and Chantho returned a moment later.

"Oh, am I glad to see that thing." Martha said.

"You can say that again." Rose said going over to the blue box and giving the old girl an affectionate pat.

"Chan Professor, are you all right tho?"

"Yes, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. Just get on with it."

"Connect those circuits into the spar, same as that last lot. But quicker." Jack said to Martha and Rose.

"Ooo, yes, sir."

"You don't have to keep working Professor." Rebecca said. "We can handle it."

"It's just a headache. It's just, just noise inside my head, Doctor. Constant noise inside my head."

"What sort of noise?" the Doctor asked.

"It's the sound of drums. More and more, as though it's getting closer."

"When did it start?"

"Oh, I've had it all my life. Every waking hour. Still, no rest for the wicked." He said. "Rebecca, would you go help the other ladies. I want to make sure the circuits are in correct."

"Of course Professor." Rebecca walked over to the girls with another stack of circucits and began inserting them as they gossiped.

"How long have you been with the professor?" Martha asked.

"Chan seventeen years tho."

"Blimey. A long time."

"Chan I adore him tho."

"Oh right, and he do-" Rebecca started.

"Chan I don't think he even notices tho."

"Tell me about it. We've all been there." Martha said.

"Chan but I am happy to serve tho."

"Do you mind if I ask? Do you have to start every sentence with chan?"

"Chan yes tho."

"And end every sentence with.."

"Chan tho tho."

"What would you happen if you didn't?" Martha asked.

"Chan that would be rude tho."

"What, like swearing?"

"Chan indeed tho."

"Go on, just once." Rose encouraged.

"Chan I can't tho."

"Oh, do it for me."

"No." Chantho said before the four girls collapsed into a fit of giggles and headed back to the

"Systems are down. Professor, are you getting me?" Atillo asked over the coms.

"I'm here! We're ready!"

"Now all you need to do is connect the couplings, then we can launch." The Professor was explaining into the web cam of sorts when Atillo's face disappeared. "God sake! This equipment. Needs rebooting all the time."

"Anything I can do? I've finished that lot." Martha asked.

"Yes, if you could. Just press the reboot key every time the picture goes."

"Certainly, sir. Just don't ask me to do shorthand."

"Right." Atillo's face then reappeared.

"Are you still there?" he asked.

"Ah, present and correct. Send your man inside. We'll keep the levels down from here."
(Atillo opens a heavy door for a man in protective gear to go inside.)

"He's inside. And good luck to him." Atillo announced.

"Captain, keep the dials below the red." Yana said.

"Where is that room?" Rebecca asked.

"It's underneath the rocket. Fix the couplings and the footprint can work. But the entire chamber is flooded with stet radiation."

"Stet? Never heard of it."

"You wouldn't want to. But it's safe enough, if we can hold the radiation back from here." The four watched the monitor showing the man connecting the equipment but were disturbed by the sound of an alarm.

"It's rising. Naught point two. Keep it level!"

"Yes, sir." But then all of a sudden the power began to fail, causing the radiation to rise.

"We've lost control!" Jack yelled.

"The chamber's going to flood."

"Jack, override the vents!"

"Get out! Get out of there! Jate!"

"We can jump start the override." Jack said grabbing two of the live ends of the cables.

"Don't! It's going to flare!" the Doctor yelled. But the power surged through Jack, electrocuting him.

"YOU IDIOT!" Rebecca yelled, running over to him. "I've got him."

"Chan don't touch the cables tho."

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Professor Yana said.

"Wake up you stupid stupid man." Rebecca said starting CPR, hoping it would bring him back faster.

"Rebecca…" Martha said going to grab her friend but she was pulled back by Rose.

"The chamber's flooded with radiation, yes?" the Doctor said.

"Without the couplings, the engines will never start. It was all for nothing."

"Oh, I don't know It strikes me, Professor, you've got a room which no man can enter without dying. Is that correct?" the Doctor said, watching as Rebecca gave Jack mouth to mouth.

"Yes."

"Well" Mid-mouth to mouth, Jack came back to life and was kissing Rebecca.

"You stupid prat." She said kissing him again.

"I think I've got just the man."

"Sorry." Jack said sheepishly. Rebecca got up and pulled him with her.

"But… I don't understand." Rose said.

"You and me both Rosie."

"C'mon Jack, we've got a mission to carry out." The Doctor said pulling him from the room.
JACK: Was someone kissing me?

"We lost picture when that thing flared up. Doctor, are you there?" Martha asked a few minutes later sitting in front of the computer.

"Receiving, yeah. He's inside."

"And still alive?"

"Oh, yes."

"But he should evaporate. What sort of a man is he?" Professor Yana asked surprised.

"I'm not even sure how to explain it," Rebecca said. "But…all I know is he's mine."

"Where'd you pick up Jack anyway?" Martha asked.

"World War II," Rose told her. "The Doctor sort of travels through time and space and picks people up."

"God, you make us sound like stray dogs. Maybe we are." Martha mused.

"He travels in time?" Yana asked.

"Don't ask me to explain it. That's a TARDIS, that box thing. The sports car of time travel, he says."

"Stands for Time And Relative Dimension in Space." Rose said proudly. All of a sudden the transmission for the Doctor and Jack began coming in.

"When did you first realize?" the Doctor asked.

"Earth, 1892. Got in a fight in Ellis Island. A man shot me through the heart. Then I woke up. Thought it was kind of strange. But then it never stopped. Fell off a cliff, trampled by horses, World War One, World War Two, poison, starvation, a stray javelin. In the end, I got the message. I'm the man who can never die. And all that time you knew."

"Yeah… was even there the first time. Becks had a panic attack thinking she heard your voice. But that's why I left you behind. It's not easy even just looking at you, Jack, because you're wrong."

"Thanks." Jack said sarcastically.

"You are. I can't help it. I'm a Time Lord. It's instinct. It's in my guts. You're a fixed point in time and space. You're a fact. That's never meant to happen. Even the TARDIS reacted against you, tried to shake you off. Flew all the way to the end of the universe just to get rid of you."

"So what you're saying is that you're, er, prejudiced?"

"I never thought of it like that."

"Shame on you."

"Yeah."

"You've known?C" Rose asked looking at Rebecca, tears in her eyes.

"Since I found him again." She nodded. "I was so angry, I was gonna kill Doc the second I found him but… then I saw him and he was so sad… he had just lost you and was barely scraping through.

"Last thing I remember, back when I was mortal, I was facing three Daleks. Death by extermination. Rebecca held me as I died. She sang to me and kissed me. And then I came back to life. What happened? Rebecca tried to explain but she wasn't there for all of it."

"Rose." The Doctor said.

"I thought you'd sent her back home."

"Oh no.." Rebecca said. Rose looked at her.

"Becks… what are they talking about."

"DOC, can you hear me?" she said trying to get into the system. "Damn it comms are down."

"Rebecca what the hell is he talking about?"

"She came back. Opened the heart of the Tardis and absorbed the time vortex itself."

"What does that mean, exactly?"

"No one's ever mean to have that power."

"If a Time Lord did that, he'd become a god. A vengeful god. But she was human. Everything she did was so human. She wiped out all of the Daleks at once. Committed a genocide. She brought you back to life but she couldn't control it. She brought you back forever. That's something, I suppose. The final act of the Time War was life."

"Do you think she could change me back?"

"I took the power out of her. That's how I got the new face. I had to save her even if it meant I had to die."

"Rose calm down." Rebecca said looking at her friend.

"What'd you mean calm down? I committed a bloody genocide without even knowing it and I basically killed my fiancé before we were even dating."

"Rose breathe."

"I went back to her estate, in the nineties, just once or twice. Watched her growing up. Never said hello. Timelines and all that. I found Rebecca too… but I didn't have the heart to see her in such a bad time of her life and not be able to do anything. I almost went so many times."

"Do you want to die?"

"Oh, this one's a little stuck."

"Jack?"

"I thought I did. I don't know. I have Rebecca now and with her extended life time with the watch… I don't think I want to. Not now. Not yet. She's promised me her forever… and I know that will never be enough time with her but I'd like to spend every second I can with her.

"What's wrong?" Martha asked looking at the professor crying.

"Chan Professor, what is it tho?"

"Time travel. They say there was time travel back in the old days. I never believed. But what would I know? Stupid old man. Never could keep time. Always late, always lost. Even this thing never worked." He said taking a pocket watch, just like Rebecca's out and held it in his hand.

"Time and time and time again. Always running out on me."

"Can I have a look at that?" Rebecca asked. Rose had even calmed down and was staring.

"Oh, it's only an old relic. Like me."

"Where did you get it?"

"Hmm? I was found with it."

"What do you mean?" Martha asked.

"An orphan in the storm. I was a naked child found on the coast of the Silver Devastation. Abandoned, with only this."

"Have you opened it?" Rose asked.

"Why would I? It's broken."

"How do you know it's broken if you've never opened it?"

"It's stuck. It's old. It's not meant to be. I don't know. Does it matter?"

"No. It's nothing. It's. Listen, everything's fine up here. We're going to see if the Doctor needs us." Rose said. Rebecca stayed and watched the professor. He who used to glaze over the watch was now staring at it as if he could see it. I hope he's a good time lord who ever he is.

"Your friend seems rather intrigued by my watch." He said once they had left.

"Yes well...the Doctor has been looking for more pocket watch. He loves them. He wants to start a collection in his cave."

The Professor stared at the TARDIS for a moment before rushing and pulling a lever to shut the control room door.

"Chan but you've locked them in tho"

"Get it open! Get it open!" the Doctor yelled.

"DOC!" Rebecca yelled running over to the lever which was now stuck.

"Not to worry, my dear. As one door closes, another must open." He said turning off the silo's defenses.

"Chan you must stop tho. Chan but you've lowered the defences. The Futurekind will get in tho. Chan Professor, I'm so sorry, but I must stop you. You're destroying all our work tho." She said as he played with dials on the control. Chantho stood there with a gun in her hand pointed at the Professor nd Rebecca ran to the otherside of the computer to try and counteract his actions.

"Oh. Now I can say I was provoked."

"Professor stop it!" Rebecca said as he took hold of a live energy cable and approached Chantho.

"Did you never think, all those years standing beside me, to ask about that watch? Never? Did you never once think, not ever, that you could set me free?"

"Chan I'm sorry tho. Chan I'm so sorry."

"You, with your chan and your tho driving me insane."

"Chan Professor, please"

"That is not my name! The Professor was an invention. So perfect a disguise that I forgot who I am."

"Chan then who are you tho?" Chantho asked terrified.

"I am the Master." He took the live end of the cable and shoved it at Chantho.

"Master… please." Rebecca said backing away.

"Now… you my dear… you are very lucky. Very pretty." He said stroking a piece of her hair. She shuddered.

"What do you want?" she asked.

"I was told that you were the last time lady before. How fitting that it's just you and I in here?"

"I'm human just like you."

"But you have a watch as well… I could see it in your eyes. That spark… of recognition."

"Please.. what do you want?"

"Professor! Professor, let me in! Let me in! Jack, get the door open now!" the Doctor yelled.

"Professor! Professor, where are you?! Professor! Professor, are you there? Please, I need to explain. Whatever you do, don't open that watch."

"DOC!" Rebecca yelled as Yana removed a circuit board from the gravitational field navigation system.

"Utopia." He scoffed. "Now… get in the TARDIS." He said holding up the power cable before disconnecting it. Rebecca obeyed, hands raised.

"Open the door, please! I'm begging you, Professor. Please, listen to me." The Doctor called.

As the Professor went to step into the TARDIS, with her dying reached for her gun and shot him, shocking him and causing him to fall

"Just open the door, please." The Doctor yelled, as Yana grabbed the Doctor's jar and went into the TARDIS locking the door behind him as the Doctor tried to unlock the door.

Rebecca ran over to the door and tried to unlock it, but it was too late. The Master had deadlock sealed it.

"DOC!" Rebecca yelled. "It's deadlocked. Tell me what to do!"

"Let me in! Let me in" The Doctor yelled.

"JACK!" Rebecca yelled. "I LOVE YOU!" she cried tears streaming down her face.

"I'm begging you. Everything's changed! It's only the three of us! We're the only ones left! Just let me in!"

"Killed by an insect. A girl. How inappropriate. Still, if the Doctor can be young and strong, then so can I. The Master reborn." He said opening the fob watch and regenerating into the man Rebecca had seen in plenty of advertisements. Harry Saxon.

"DOC HES REGENERATING."

"Ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha! Oh."

"Now then, Doctor. Ooo, new voice. Hello, hello. Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me, I don't think."

"Hold on. I know that voice." Martha said.

"I'm asking you really properly. Just stop. Just think!" The Doctor pleaded.

"Stop it, please." Rebecca cried.

"Use my name."

"Master. I'm sorry."

"Tough!"

"I can't hold out much longer, Doctor!" Jack said.

"JACK!" Rebecca yelled as the TARDIS was activated.

"REBECCA!" He screamed back, forcing himself to stay with all his might and hold that door to protect Martha and Rose instead of running after her.

The Doctor has activated his sonic screwdriver, locking the signal on the TARDIS.

"Oh, no you don't! End of the universe. Have fun. Bye, bye!" While the master was piloting the TARDIS, Rebecca sprinted to her bedroom and sealed the door shut as best she could grabbing her watch.

"Old girl, protect me as long as you can." She begged. The TARDIS hummed in reply.

"Here goes nothing." She said opening the watch before bursting into a shower of golden light and collapsed on her bed, a few inches taller and ginger.

AN: So there we have Utopia! I know I'm excited for the next chapter which will be my take of what happened in the time before Saxon became prime minister.

So look for it coming soon!

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