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The Tardis materialises around Rose, April and the nearest Dalek.
"Get down! Get down, Rose!"
April pulles Rose down with her.
"Exterminate!"
The Dalek fires and misses. Jack takes out the Dalek with the modified Defabricator.
"You did it." Rose breathes relieved.
The Doctor hugs Rose, while Jack hugs April, who flinches a little. Jack noticed and frowns.
ROSE: Feels like I haven't seen you in years.
DOCTOR: I told you I'd come and get you.
ROSE: Never doubted it.
DOCTOR: I did.
JACK: Hey, don't I get a hug?
ROSE: Oh, come here!
JACK: I was talking to him.
(Jack hugs Rose anyway.)
The Doctor turns to April and hugs her too.
"You all right?"
She just nods.
JACK: Welcome home.
ROSE: Oh, I thought I'd never see you again.
JACK: Oh, you were lucky. That was just a one shot wonder. Drained the gun of all its power supply. Now it's just a piece of junk.
[Spaceship]
EMPEROR [OC]: Patience, my brethren.
[Tardis]
ROSE: You said they were extinct. How comes they're still alive?
JACK: One minute they're the greatest threat in the Universe, the next minute they vanished out of time and space.
DOCTOR: They went off to fight a bigger war. The Time War
JACK: I thought that was just a legend.
DOCTOR: I was there. The war between the Daleks and the Time Lords, with the whole of creation at stake. My people were destroyed, but they took the Daleks with them. I almost thought it was worth it. Now it turns out they died for nothing.
ROSE: There's thousands of them now. We could hardly stop one. What're we going to do?
DOCTOR: No good stood round here chin wagging. Human race, you'd gossip all day. The Daleks have got the answers. Let's go and meet the neighbours.
ROSE: You can't go out there!
[Spaceship]
DALEKS: Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!
(The Dalek rays are stopped by a forcefield extending a good three metres out from the Tardis.)
DOCTOR: Is that it? Useless! Nul points. It's all right, come on out. That forcefield can hold back anything.
JACK: Almost anything.
DOCTOR: Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that. Thanks.
JACK: Sorry.
DOCTOR: Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek Homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You might've removed all your emotions but I reckon right down deep in your DNA, there's one little spark left, and that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me? So tell me. How did you survive the Time War?
EMPEROR [OC]: They survived through me.
(The lights come up to reveal a large apparatus, which on closer inspection is an exploded giant Dalek casing, and a blue-skinned one-eyed mutant is happy for everyone to see it sitting there as if on its throne..)
DOCTOR: Rose, April, Captain, this is the Emperor of the Daleks.
EMPEROR: You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek race died in your inferno, but my ship survived, falling through time, crippled but alive.
DOCTOR: I get it.
DALEK: Do not interrupt.
DALEK 2: Do not interrupt.
DALEK 3: Do not interrupt.
DOCTOR: I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk. I've got five billion languages, and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's going to shut up, it's you! Okey doke. So, where were we?
EMPEROR: We waited here in the dark space, damaged but rebuilding. Centuries passed, and we quietly infiltrated the systems of Earth, harvesting the waste of humanity. The prisoners, the refugees, the dispossessed. They all came to us. The bodies were filtered, pulped, sifted. The seed of the human race is perverted. Only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured.
DOCTOR: So you created an army of Daleks out of the dead.
ROSE: That makes them half human.
EMPEROR: Those words are blasphemy.
DALEK: Do not blaspheme.
DALEK 2: Do not blaspheme.
DALEK 3: Do not blaspheme.
EMPEROR: Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek.
DOCTOR: Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?
EMPEROR: I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the God of all Daleks!
DALEKS: Worship him. Worship him. Worship him.
DOCTOR: They're insane. Hiding in silence for hundreds of years, that's enough to drive anyone mad. But it's worse than that. Driven mad by your own flesh. The stink of humanity. You hate your own existence. And that makes them more deadly than ever. We're going.
EMPEROR: You may not leave my presence.
DALEK: Stay where you are.
DALEKS: Exterminate!
(The Doctor, Rose, April and Jack go back inside the Tardis. The Daleks start shooting at the forcefield again.)
DALEKS: Exterminate! Exterminate!
(The Tardis materialises.)
DOCTOR: Turn everything up. All transmitters full power, wide open. Now! Do it!
PAVALE: What does this do?
DOCTOR: Stops the Daleks from transmatting on board. How did you get on? Did you contact Earth?
PAVALE: Well, we tried to warn them, but all they did was suspend our license because we stopped the programmes.
DOCTOR: And the planet's just sitting there, defenceless. Lynda, what're you still doing on board? I told you to evacuate everyone.
PAVALE: She wouldn't go.
LYNDA: Didn't want to leave you.
April smiles at the young woman.
WOMAN: There weren't enough shuttles anyway, or I wouldn't be here. We've got about a hundred people stranded on Floor Zero.
PAVALE: Oh, my God. The Fleet is moving. They're on their way.
(The Doctor is pulling bits out of the conduits.)
DOCTOR: Dalek plan. Big mistake, because what have they left me with? Anyone? Anyone? Oh, come on, it's obvious. A great big transmitter. This station. If I can change the signal, fold it back, sequence it, anyone?
APRIL: You are not serious./JACK: You've got to be kidding.
DOCTOR: Give the man a medal.
JACK: A Delta Wave?
DOCTOR: A Delta Wave!
ROSE: What's a Delta Wave?
JACK: A wave of Van Cassadyne energy. It fries your brain. Stand in the way of a Delta Wave and your head gets barbequed.
DOCTOR: And this place can transmit a massive wave. Wipe out the Daleks!
LYNDA: Well, get started and do it then.
DOCTOR: Trouble is, wave this size, building this big, brain as clever as mine, should take about, oh, three days? How long till the Fleet arrive?
PAVALE: Twenty two minutes.
(Later, after some rerouting of bits and pieces.)
JACK: We've now got a forcefield so they can't blast us out of the sky, but that doesn't stop the Daleks from physically invading.
PAVALE: Do they know about the Delta Wave?
JACK: They'll have worked it out at the same time. So, they want to stop the Doctor. That means they've got to get to this level, five hundred. Now, I can concentrate the extrapolator around the top six levels, five hundred to four nine five. So they'll penetrate the station below that at level four nine four and fight their way up.
PAVALE: Who are they fighting?
JACK: Us.
PAVALE: And what are we fighting with?
JACK: The guards had guns with bastic bullets. That's enough to blow a Dalek wide open.
WOMAN: There's five of us.
DOCTOR: Rose, April you can help me. I need all these wires stripping bare.
WOMAN: Right, now there's four of us.
JACK: Then let's move it. Into the lift. Isolate the lift controls.
(Pavale and his colleague run off.)
LYNDA: I just want to say, er, thanks, I suppose, and I'll do my best.
DOCTOR: Me too.
(They shake hands and Lynda moves away.)
JACK: It's been fun, but I guess this is goodbye.
ROSE: Don't talk like that. The Doctor's going to do it. You just watch him.
JACK: Rose, you are worth fighting for. (kisses her) Wish I'd never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward.
(Jack kisses the Doctor.)
Jack leans in to whisper in Aprils ear, something that makes her blush and smiled. He then kisses her too.
JACK: See you in hell.
(Jack leaves.)
ROSE: He's going to be all right, isn't he?
[Floor 500]
ROSE: Suppose.
DOCTOR: What?
ROSE: Nothing.
DOCTOR: You said suppose.
ROSE: No, I was just thinking. I mean, obviously you can't, but, you've got a time machine. Why can't you just go back to last week and warn them?
DOCTOR: As soon as the Tardis lands in that second, I become part of events, stuck in the timeline.
ROSE: Yeah, thought it'd be something like that
DOCTOR: There's another thing the Tardis could do. It could take us away. We could leave. Let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989.
ROSE: Yeah, but you'd never do that.
DOCTOR: No, but you could ask. Never even occurred to you, did it?
ROSE: Well, I'm just too good.
DOCTOR: The Delta Wave's started building. How long does it need?
(They run over to a console.)
ROSE: Is that bad? Okay, it's bad. How bad is it?
DOCTOR: Rose Tyler, you're a genius! We can do it. If I use the Tardis to cross my old timeline. Yes!
DOCTOR: Hold that down and keep position.
ROSE: What's it do?
DOCTOR: Cancels the buffers. If I'm very clever and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant, I might just save the world. Or rip it apart
ROSE: I'd go for the first one.
DOCTOR: Me too. Now, You will need help from April, I'm just gonna get her and then I just got to go and power up the Game Station. Hold on!
The doctor runs out to find April, but doesn't notice her.
APRIL: You are going to send us home.
The doctor looks at her, with a sad look.
DOCTOR: Yes
April's eyes begins to be wet.
APRIL: I don't wanna leave you.
DOCTOR: You have to, I won't let you die.
APRIL: But you won't have a chance yourself.
DOCTOR: But I won't leave them.
APRIL: I know.
She is crying openly now. She turns to go to the TARDIS, but she looks back one time again.
APRIL: You know you were the first person who made me feel happy for the longest time. You made me feel loved.
She goes to joins Rose and closes the door behind her.
The Doctor looks at the Tardis then points the sonic screwdriver at it. The engines start.
ROSE: Doctor, what're you doing? Can I take my hand off? It's moving.
Rose runs to the door.
ROSE: Doctor, let me out!
ROSE [OC]: Let me out! Doctor, what've you done?
(The Tardis dematerialises.)
(A hologram appears.)
HOLO-DOCTOR: This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, April, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape.
ROSE: No!
DOCTOR: And that's okay. Hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you two, and that's what I'm doing. The Tardis is taking you home.
ROSE: I won't let you.
HOLO-DOCTOR: And I bet you, Rose is fussing and moaning now. Typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The Tardis can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do. Let the Tardis die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it. No one'll even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world'll move on and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all, one thing. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose, April. Have a fantastic life.
(The hologram flickers out.)
ROSE: You can't do this to me. You can't. Take me back! Take me back! No!
(Rose tries to use the controls, but the engine stops. She runs outside into the Powell Estate, then back inside.)
ROSE: Come on, fly. How do you fly? Come on, help me!
(Rose finally gives up and goes outside. Mickey comes running down the road.)
MICKEY: I knew it! I was all the way down Clifton Parade, and I heard the engines. I thought, there's only one thing that makes a noise like that. What is it?
(Rose hugs him, in tears.)
(Whole chickens turn in a rotisserie. Jackie and Mickey are eating their meals out of polystyrene containers. Rose isn't hungry.)
JACKIE: And it's gone up market, this place. They're doing little tubs of coleslaw, now. It's not very nice. It tastes a bit sort of clinical.
MICKEY: Have you tried that new pizza place down Minto Road?
JACKIE: What's it selling?
MICKEY: Pizza.
JACKIE: That's nice. Do they deliver?
MICKEY: Yeah.
JACKIE: Oh, Rose, have something to eat
ROSE: Two hundred thousand years in the future, he's dying, and there's nothing I can do.
JACKIE: Well, like you said two hundred thousand years. It's way off.
ROSE: But it's not. It's now. That fight is happening right now, and he's fighting for us, for the whole planet, and I'm just sitting here eating chips.
JACKIE: Listen to me. God knows I have hated that man, but right now, I love him and do you know why? Because he did the right thing. He sent you back to me.
ROSE: But what do I do every day, mum? What do I do? Get up, catch the bus, go to work, come back home, eat chips and go to bed? Is that it?
MICKEY: It's what the rest of us do.
ROSE: But I can't!
MICKEY: Why, because you're better than us?
ROSE: No, I didn't mean that. But it was. It was a better life. And I don't mean all the travelling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know he showed you too. That you don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, and I just can't
(Rose runs out of the cafe.)
MICKEY: You can't spend the rest of your life thinking about the Doctor.
ROSE: But how do I forget him?
MICKEY: You've got to start living your own life. You know, a proper life, like the kind he's never had. The sort of life that you could have with me.
(Then Rose notices large letters painted on the tarmac of the play area.)
ROSE: Over here. It's over here as well!
MICKEY: That's been there for years. It's just a phrase. It's just words.
ROSE: I thought it was a warning. Maybe it's the opposite. Maybe it's a message. The same words written down now and two hundred thousand years in the future. It's a link between me and the Doctor. Bad Wolf here, Bad Wolf there.
MICKEY: But if it's a message, what's it saying?
ROSE: It's telling me I can get back. The least I can do is help him escape.
ROSE: All the Tardis needs to do is make a return trip. Just reverse.
MICKEY: Yeah, but we still can't do it.
ROSE: The Doctor always said the Tardis was telepathic. This thing is alive. It can listen.
MICKEY: It's not listening now, is it?
ROSE: We need to get inside it. Last time I saw you, with the Slitheen, this middle bit opened, and there was this light, and the Doctor said it was the heart of the Tardis. If we can open it, I can make contact. I can tell it what to do.
MICKEY: Rose.
ROSE: Mmm?
MICKEY: If you go back, you're going to die.
ROSE: That's a risk I've got to take, because there's nothing left for me here.
MICKEY: Nothing?
ROSE: No.
MICKEY: Okay, if that's what you think, let's get this thing open.
(Mickey has fastened a heavy chain to the tow hitch on his Mini. The other end is fastened to the Tardis console. He drives forward slowly, trying to pull it open.)
ROSE: Faster!
(Jackie watches as the Mini burns rubber fruitlessly.)
MICKEY: Come on!
ROSE: It's not moving!
(The chain breaks. Rose kicks the console in frustration.)
JACKIE: It was never going to work, sweetheart. And the Doctor knew that. He just wanted you to be safe.
ROSE: I can't give up.
APRIL: Rose…
JACKIE: Lock the door. Walk away.
ROSE: Dad wouldn't give up.
JACKIE: Well, he's not here, is he? And even if he was, he'd say the same.
ROSE: No, he wouldn't. He'd tell me to try anything. If I could save the Doctor's life, try anything.
JACKIE: Well, we're never going to know.
ROSE: Well, I know because I met him. I met Dad.
JACKIE: Don't be ridiculous.
ROSE: The Doctor took me back in time, and I met Dad.
JACKIE: Don't say that.
ROSE: Remember when Dad died? There was someone with him. A girl, a blonde girl. She held his hand. You saw her from a distance, Mum. You saw her! Think about it. That was me. You saw me.
JACKIE: Stop it.
ROSE: That's how good the Doctor is.
JACKIE: Stop it! Just stop it!
(Jackie runs out.)
MICKEY: There's got to be something else we can do.
ROSE: Mum was right. Maybe we should just lock the door and walk away.
APRIL: I think that's a good idea.
Rose glared at her until she realised something.
ROSE: Wait. You can fly the TARDIS. The doctor gave you lessons. I saw you.
APRIL: Rose, i didn't get that many lesson. I do not know how to use the TARDIS, without help.
ROSE: Help me! You must know enough.
APRIL: Rose I love him! Don't you think if I could save him I would.
ROSE: No, I do not think that! If you love him, you would help save him.
APRIL: Rose, I love you, and I love the doctor, I don't want to see you get killed. He would never forgive me.
ROSE: I hate you
April is on the brink of tears.
APRIL: Rose...
(A big yellow recovery truck comes round the corner and stops by the Tardis. Jackie was driving.)
JACKIE: Right, you've only got this until six o'clock, so get on with it.
ROSE: Mum, where the hell did you get that from?
JACKIE: Rodrigo. He owes me a favour. Never mind why, but you were right about your dad, sweetheart. He was full of mad ideas, and it's exactly what he would've done. Now, get on with it before I change my mind.
(Jackie throws the keys to Mickey.)
(Once again, Jackie watches as Rose and Mickey use a chain to try and pull the Tardis console open.)
ROSE: Keep going!
JACKIE: Put your foot down!
ROSE: Faster!
JACKIE: Give it some more, Mickey!
ROSE: Keep going!
JACKIE: Come on, come on!
ROSE: Keep going!
JACKIE: Give it some more!
(The console burst open. Rose looks inside and golden energy streams into her eyes.)
MICKEY: Rose!
(The Tardis doors slam shut on him, and the Tardis dematerialises.)
APRIL: NOO! Rose! DON'T!
April goes to grab the TARDIS door, but is too late, and falls to her knees in defeat.
"Nooo! Damnit!"
She punches the ground, and stands up to face Jackie and Mickey.
"She is going to get herself killed"
So as you know I last updated in September, so I hoped you all had a good thanksgiving (if you celebrate that), a merry christmas, a happy new year, a lovely valentine (if you celebrate that) and a good birthday, if you had a birthday in the last five months. As you read, the chapter was as good as the last one. The next one will be better, I promise, because it is all original.
See you.