'Where to? So many possibilities… Sontar? We can have fun there… Or maybe Peladon, Axos, or maybe Mondas? Skaro! I can do Skaro… My planet is gone, so the Daleks don't deserve to have one either. What do you think? Rose?' the Doctor rattled, he seemed to be very enthusiastic.

'Whatever, not as if I know any of those planet,' Rose said.

'Clom? You know Clom. Worthless little planet. Might be a good one to warm up a bit.'

'Isn't that the planet with that green monster? What's his name… That one who absorbed people?'

'Exactly. He was an Abzorbalovian. The original citizens of Clom, there were other species there, but they have all been eaten by the Slitheen. Raxacoricofallapatorians own Clom right now, it is like a colony. So by taking over Clom, we can take over Raxacoricofallapatorius as well. Do you remember the Slitheen? Nasty creatures… I'd do the universe a favor by getting rid of them,' the Doctor smiled.

Rose folded her arms and sat down. She knew that she could better let him do what he wanted, she was not going to stop him anyway. Maybe if she behaved, then he would leave the Earth in peace. At least for now.

'I'll take that as a yes, then,' the Doctor said and he went to the console.

The Doctor tried to move the TARDIS to the place where he wanted to go, he hit the buttons, pulled the levers, even tried to hit the console with a hammer, but somehow the TARDIS refused to move.

'What is it, old girl? What's wrong?' the Doctor asked softly.

The TARDIS hummed a response and the Doctor turned around to face Rose and he advanced on her with darker eyes than just a second ago. Rose shifted uncomfortably, wondering what she had done wrong now.

'Have you done something to my TARDIS, Rose? Be honest… Have you somehow managed to block her?' the Doctor asked, a threatening look in his eyes.

Rose knew that the Doctor was protective of his ship and touching his TARDIS meant war. She knew better than ever trying that on him. One would only touch the TARDIS if one had a death wish. And Rose certainly didn't want to die yet.

'I haven't! I swear!' Rose defended herself.

The Doctor looked at her with his intense stare that made Rose very nervous. Even though she knew she was innocent, that stare just made her feel guilty. It almost made her want to confess, even though she didn't know what for.

'I believe you,' the Doctor said softly, turning his eyes away from her.

He paced down the TARDIS and decided to try the doors. But he found that they were locked as well.

'What the…?' the Doctor said confused, clearly not knowing what was going on. And he knew everything. 'I swear… if this is some trick from Torchwood, then I will personally rip their heads off their bodies and make Jack eat them all.'

Rose looked at him, terrified by what she heard, but she still didn't say anything. Then both she and the Doctor fell on the floor. The TARDIS was moving, but the Doctor didn't do anything.

'DOCTOR!' Rose shouted, trying to shout over the noise. 'WHAT IS HAPPENING?!'

'I DON'T KNOW! I REALLY DON'T KNOW!' the Doctor yelled back. In his mind he was already making plans of what he would do with the people who were doing this to him and his TARDIS. He wasn't going to let them continue their existence for very much longer.

After almost two minutes, the TARDIS landed and everything was completely silent again. Rose stood up confused and she looked questionably at the Doctor, as if she wanted an explanation.

The Doctor only looked at her with just as much confusion, but Rose saw that he was also very, very furious. He beckoned to Rose to come with him, and he tried the doors again. He wanted to know who was doing this to him.

He opened the doors, and he saw an old woman standing in front of him. She was dressed in a long, black dress, she had white hair, and perhaps the most remarkable thing were her red eyes. Behind her stood a couple of rhino-like creatures. Or better known as Judoon.

'Rose… May I introduce you to the Shadow Proclamation,' the Doctor said as soon as Rose had come out of the TARDIS as well.

Rose had heard the name of the Shadow Proclamation before, she knew that it was some sort of space police. But she had never actually seen the members. The Doctor had told her about the rhino creatures, though. And she knew that they weren't exactly friendly. But she didn't know who the woman was.

'Architect,' the Doctor said, quite politely. 'Please do tell me why I am here. And please do explain why you have forced my TARDIS to come here, because I don't really like it when people do things like that without my permission.'

'We have taken your TARDIS into custody. You will not travel with it for now. We have been informed about your actions and I do not approve. You will have to face trial,' the woman answered.

'Excuse me?' the Doctor asked dangerously, and Rose swallowed quickly.

'We shall imprison you and then we shall decide what we are going to do with you,' the woman repeated herself, talking very haughtily.

'Do you know who I am?' the Doctor asked slowly, approaching the woman.

'You are the Doctor. A Time Lord,' the woman replied coolly.

'Then do you know that you cannot just imprison me or my TARDIS? By the way, who told you about me?' the Doctor asked.

'That is not relevant,' the Architect said.

'To me it is. I want to know exactly who has been talking about me behind my back. Was it Earth?' the Doctor asked.

'It is not relevant.'

'Do not waste my time,' the Doctor said annoyed. 'If you are not going to answer my questions, then fine by me, but have the dignity to release my TARDIS and let me go.'

'Not before you have been in trial. Who is the girl?'

The Doctor choose to ignore that last question. He threw one back at the woman instead. 'Why am I on trial? What exactly have I done?'

'You have disobeyed our rules. You have ignored too many intergalactic laws,' was the short answer.

The Doctor raised his head and scoffed.

'I want to remind you that there are no rules that apply to me. I make the rules and it is you who need to obey them. I don't need you here to make laws and make sure that everyone follows them, the laws are mine. I am the Last of the Time Lords, all the laws are mine now. And I order you to release my TARDIS right now, or I will put you on trial. And I'll be the judge,' the Doctor said.

The woman blinked, as if she didn't understand. She wasn't used to threats, the Shadow Proclamation was the highest authority in the universe.

'Our rules apply to everyone. You are no exception, Time Lord,' the Architect said.

'You cannot keep me here. I am your superior, you shall do as I wish. So release my TARDIS, or I will find a way out myself and believe me, you will regret that last option,' the Doctor snarled.

Rose looked nervously from the old woman and the Judoon to the Doctor. The Doctor seemed to be still very calm, and Rose knew that he already had some plans ready in his mind.

'Don't threaten us, Time Lord,' the woman said, now slightly irritated. She sounded very strict, she was absolutely not someone to cross.

'May I introduce you all to my lovely companion, miss Rose Tyler,' the Doctor said and he took Rose's hand and pulled her closer to him. 'She is going to tell you, in detail, how you can possibly ever imprison me. She has been with me for quite some time, so if there is anyone who knows this, then it is Rose. Go on… tell them.'

Rose looked at the Doctor's face, which was a mix of complacency and determinacy, and she knew that she had to do as he said. She looked at the woman and started to tell her exactly how she should capture the Time Lord.

'Well… For a starters, you need to grab him with many. He can control minds, so make sure you don't face him alone and that you keep up your mental barriers. If you succeed in capturing him, then you should take everything he has, including his clothes, because otherwise he can make something with the stuff he has with him. His pockets are bigger on the inside. You should keep him somewhere in a cell where he can't possibly escape, no windows, no doors. Keep him isolated, with as many guards as you could give him. Oh, and make sure he can't contact his TARDIS. But even if you have done all that, he would still find a way to escape. And believe me, he will only be worse after that,' Rose said, hoping she was convincing enough. If they believed her, if she had scared them off, then maybe they would just let the Doctor leave.

'I will destroy you completely,' the Doctor added with a silky voice.

'You think you can make us afraid,' the woman said. 'You mock us.'

'Of course not. I won't let it come that far. I won't let myself getting captured by you… But if you don't let me go, then I will have to force you,' the Doctor sneered and he walked over to a panel in the corner.

'GRAB HIM!' the Architect shouted and three Judoon quickly went after the Doctor, who had already his sonic ready.

'STOP!' the Doctor yelled, waving his sonic around. 'You don't want to do that! If you come any closer, then I will dismantle your lovely base without hesitation. I can do that, trust me.'

'But you won't, you would commit suicide,' the Architect said, but the Judoon had stopped in their tracks.

'I won't, because even though I can't escape with my TARDIS, I can still hide in my TARDIS. Her shields will keep me and Rose safe. And as soon as your base is gone, my TARDIS will be able to fly again as well. Am I right or am I right?' the Doctor smiled with a wink. 'Don't think you are cleverer than I am, I am a Time Lord, for God's sake.'

'You enjoy this, don't you, Doctor?' the Architect said, clearly fuming. 'You enjoy ordering people around, having control over things. You enjoy that power, don't you?'

'Who wouldn't?' the Doctor said smugly. 'I have that power, so I am going to use it. And you shall obey me. If you don't, you will be destroyed. Now what is it going to be?'

'What do you want?' the Architect asked.

'I want you to apologize very deeply for trying to kidnap my TARDIS and me and Rose. I want you to accept me as you lord and master and I want you to do exactly as I say from now on. Got that?' the Doctor said.

'You can't do this. We are the Shadow Proclamation. TAKE THE GIRL!' the Architect shouted and two Judoon grabbed Rose forcefully and forced her down on her knees.

'Oh… Wrong thing to do…' the Doctor growled, standing to his full height. 'Never touch her. Because you will have to face the Oncoming Storm if you do. You are doomed, Architect.'

The Doctor aimed his screwdriver at the control panel and he looked quickly for the codes to unlock his TARDIS. When he found it, he took his own TARDIS key and he made his ship materialize around himself, the Architect and Rose and the two Judoon who were still forcing her down on her knees.

'Stealing my TARDIS and trying to control her is one thing…' the Doctor hissed, 'but trying to hurt Rose is something I can never accept.'

Judoon weren't the types to be intimidated very easily, and the Doctor knew that. But they had to let Rose go, only then he could safely negotiate with the Architect. Not that he wanted to negotiate, he just wanted her to obey him.

'That was me telling you to let her go,' the Doctor said, trying to make himself clear.

When they still didn't listen to him, the Doctor asked the TARDIS to take care of the Judoon that were holding Rose. The TARDIS liked Rose, so she didn't have to think twice about that. Two blue barriers appeared around the two Judoon and they immediately let Rose go.

'Maybe I will just let the two of you suffocate there. Seeing what you did to us… Your oxygen will run out very soon in those barriers,' the Doctor said matter-of-factly.

He walked over to the Architect, who hadn't even blinked since she was in the TARDIS. She was giving the Doctor a cold stare, she didn't care about the Judoon at all. The Doctor came closer to her and he stroke with the sonic her cheek all the way down to her chin, very slowly. He pressed the sonic against her throat then, but still the woman didn't say anything.

'You need to know when you are beaten, Architect. The only reason you still exist is because I never had a reason to come after you. Until now. Is it worth it, do you think?' the Doctor asked lowly.

'Is what worth is, Doctor?' the Architect asked without showing any sign of fear.

'Your braveness. Do you really think that would do you any good? Never touch my TARDIS without my permission and never touch Rose. Unless you want to die, of course,' the Doctor growled, taking the sonic off the Architect and now circling slowly around her.

'We have defenses. We are the highest authority in the universe. How many times have you called us to help you?' the Architect asked haughtily.

'That was because I thought that was the right thing to do back then. Now it is my turn. I am the highest authority now, and if you have a problem with that, then that is too bad for you. You may have defenses, but I am a Time Lord. I can see through your defenses. I can break them faster than you can even blink. Choose your enemy well…'

'The Shadow Proclamation does not have enemies. We are for justice. And we punish injustice,' the Architect replied dutifully.

'But I do have enemies. And you have made yourself one of them. And I destroy my enemies. I will make them suffer a long, slow and painful death. That is if they don't listen to me. Because I do need something from you,' the Doctor said, his voice still a soft threat, he was still looking down on the woman while slowly circling around her.

He smiled a wicked smile when she didn't answer.

'I want you to spread the word about me across the universe. I want you to make them afraid of me. I want you to scare them and I want you to make sure that they are terrified. I want you to prepare the universe for me. You can tell them that they have a choice. They can either surrender to me or they can face total destruction,' the Doctor said. 'Can you do that for me?'

'What happens if we refuse?' the woman asked.

'Wasn't I clear enough about that? You will undergo a slow and painful death,' the Doctor growled and he seized her arm and twisted it painfully, just to emphasize his words. She had to feel that he was being serious.

'I will do as you ask. I will warn the universe. I will prepare them. So don't be surprised when they will bring you to your own death. Because you are making enemies, Time Lord,' the Architect said coolly.

'I know that. Now go and take your Judoon with you. And don't ever pull out a stunt on me like that again,' the Doctor said, releasing her arm and narrowing his eyes.

The Architect just gave him a cool glare, one that she usually used on criminals. The Doctor just stared back at her, with an even cooler glare, telling her to go. The woman ordered the two Judoon to follow her, and the TARDIS released them both. They left the TARDIS quickly, closing the doors behind them.

Rose was still on the floor, crying silently.

'What's wrong, Rose? Why are you crying?' the Doctor asked carefully, and then his eyes darkened. 'Did they hurt you?'

Rose shook her head.

'Then what is it? Come on, stand up, no need for you to kneel for me,' the Doctor joked, but he didn't sound as if he was trying to be funny.

'I hate… what you have… become,' Rose sobbed softly. She shouldn't have said that.

The Doctor looked as if he was slapped in the face by her. His face was one mix of anger and sadness and he dropped down next to Rose and grabbed her shoulders forcefully.

'You can't hate me, Rose. You just can't. You are all I have left and you will stay with me. So please, don't hate me. Please,' the Doctor said, hearing his own voice cracking.

Rose almost felt sorry for him, she really was all he had left. But she couldn't stop hating him. She hated what he had become. She felt like his prisoner. Nothing more.

'You said you could do anything,' Rose said softly, taking his hand and stroking his arm.

'I can. I can and I will,' the Doctor answered firmly.

'Then go and get her back. The one you lost,' Rose said.