CHAPTER 37

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All of the Daleks opened fire on her at once, and she blocked all of their beams with one hand. She then redirected their beams back at them knocking them all back down to the lower levels of Sarah Jane's house for the moment.

"We have to get out of here now," Rose said as she snapped her fingers and opened the trunk on her TARDIS.

Everyone got inside of Rose's TARDIS, and they dematerialized.

"Why did they come to my house?" Sarah asked.

"I don't know. Maybe they were just following me," Rose suggested.

"What if they weren't? What if they're after me too? What if they go after Luke?" Sarah asked as she got to her real worry.

Rose opened up a communication between Luke at college and Sarah Jane using her TARDIS' monitor.

"Mum, what is it? Is something wrong?" Luke asked as he picked up her call. He could tell instantly that his mother was upset.

"Luke, are you okay? We were just attacked by the Daleks! I'm going to come and pick you up in a minute. They may attack you too," Sarah Jane said with worry.

"There's no need for us to land, Sarah Jane. Don't be afraid, Luke. I'm bringing you to me," Rose said as she teleported Luke to her TARDIS along with Sarah Jane's K-9 who was staying with him.

Luke looked at Rose in astonishment as he said, "Wow! That's incredible. That was near instantaneous travel through the Vortex without a time capsule or a vortex manipulator of some kind. How did you do that?"

"I'm the Bad Wolf," Rose simply said with a mysterious smile.

Luke's eyes went wide as he looked at her. He started to shake a little as he remembered things that he had read about this mysterious entity before him.

"Luke, she's my friend. She's not going to hurt you," Sarah Jane assured her son.

"I never knew that you knew her. I've read so many stories about her. I thought that she was just a legend. There are legends about her all throughout time and space. Mr. Smith has told me all about them. Most of the legends show her as kind and gentle. A few of them, mostly from the Daleks, show her as vengeful and angry. She's the good witch or the fairy godmother in all of the fairy tales. She's just amazing!" Luke said as he stared at Rose like someone in a trance.

"What is it with young boys having a crush on me today?" Rose asked Sarah Jane with a grin.

Clyde looked mortified at her bringing his hitting on her up again while Rani laughed at him.

Amy just smirked at the whole thing. Then she realized that nobody was crushing on her! She got kind of put out by that. They were way too young, and she was married; but still you'd think that they would at least show some interest. What was she, chopped liver?! Amy began to be afraid that she was losing her looks.

"Oh, no! Your highness, I don't have a crush on you. It's more like admiration. I just deeply admire you because you're such a great heroine. You're my hero. Well, you and the Doctor both," Luke admitted.

Rose blushed deeply as she shook her head.

"I'm no hero. The Doctor is a hero not me! I just do what I can to help. The Doctor risks his life all of the time and saves planets and the universe without any special Vortex powers. He just uses his wits and the TARDIS. He's a hero! What's with the 'highness' stuff anyway? Don't call me that. My name is Rose," Rose told him candidly.

Luke smiled. She was just like the stories said. She was full of humility.

"I'm just trying to honor you. You're a Time Lady, and you have a leadership role in one of the Great Houses of Gallifrey. You also were Lady President. You're just so incredible!" Luke said with awe in his voice.

Rose wanted to hide somewhere. Give her the Daleks any day! She hated all of this hero worship and praise! She knew that she didn't deserve any of it.

"You call me Rose, and I call you Luke. How about that?" Rose said to him with a little irritation in her voice.

Luke realized that he was making her uncomfortable so he went along with her wishes.

Sarah Jane smiled. She loved how Rose remained herself no matter how powerful she became or what honors and praise were thrown at her. In Rose's mind, she was still just Rose. It was one of the things that Sarah Jane most admired about her.

"It looks like you just struck out, Luke. Don't worry about it though. I did too. She's too in love with the Doctor. Guys like us have just got no chance with her," Clyde said with a macho air about him.

"Yeah, that's the reason why you struck out. She didn't want you because of the Doctor. Right! It has nothing to do with the fact that you're too young and quite frankly, out of her league!" Rani said as she rolled her eyes.

"It sounds to me like somebody's jealous!" Clyde said as he smiled an evil smile at her.

"I am not!" Rani said a bit too quickly.

"You're jealous of her," Clyde said with a smug grin.

Rani just let it go. She was only jealous of Clyde hitting on someone besides her. She wasn't jealous of Rose at all. She actually liked her. She knew that she was no threat to her when it came to coming between her and Clyde whatsoever.

Rose tried not to smile as she listened to this. She felt sorry for Rani but decided to stay out of things. It wasn't any of her business.

Sarah Jane's daughter, Skye, had been moved to safety at a UNIT base with the Brigadier himself leading the troops protecting her. Rose was sure that she was reasonably safe there.

Rose landed her TARDIS back in ancient China at the court of Kublai Khan. She had tracked the Doctor down to this spot with her TARDIS' sensors. She quickly changed herself into the outfit of a Chinese noblewoman of the time with her powers and went outside to get him.

She walked into the court of the Great Khan, and the guards immediately rushed to block her way.

"Oh most honored Khan, I have no wish to cause you any trouble. I only wish to talk with my husband. I wish to consult him on a most important and grave manner," Rose said in her poshest voice.

The Doctor looked at her with a look of relief on his face. He was sitting across from Kublai Khan at a table with a backgammon game playing out on top of it. From what Rose could tell, the Doctor was losing very badly!

"Let her through. The court recognizes the Lady Arkytior. She may be allowed to speak before me," Kublai Khan said with a smile on his face.

Rose smiled and walked slowly toward him with her head bowed. She had never been here before but obviously she would be sometime in the future. More timey wimeyness at work in her timeline apparently.

"Oh, most great and magnificent Khan, I am so grateful for being admitted into your august presence! I wish a thousand blessings upon you, oh noble lord!" Rose said as she kept her head bowed. She may hate this kind of thing, but she knew how to do it and when to use it to her advantage.

"I thank you for your gracious words, oh beautiful and noble lady of the court! I will let your husband go now because if he were to play any longer he would probably wind up losing his ship once again. You may take him and leave now, oh great and gracious lady!" Kublai Khan said as he bowed to Rose.

"Thank you, my lord!" Rose said as she bowed to him and put her hand on the Doctor's shoulder to get him to go.

She lightly pulled him along at first; and then when she got back into her own TARDIS, she dragged him inside forcefully.

She contacted the Doctor's TARDIS, and Idris answered the monitor.

"It's my Wolf! How are you? He has recreated Experiment Zero. He has a new girl to take the old one's place," Idris said.

"I'm doing fine. I see you're anticipating our questions again before we even ask them," Rose said with a smile.

"So there is a new Experiment Zero," the Doctor said thoughtfully.

Rose had thought so. Davros had recreated those terrible experiments that he had been doing before despite her having tried to stop him.

"Oh, there's my thief. I'm so glad that you've rescued him, Wolf. I thought for sure that I would be lost to Kublai Khan in a backgammon game . . . again! I suppose you want me to link myself to your TARDIS then and follow you?" Idris asked.

"Yes, please. Sorry to have to bother you," Rose said.

"No bother. I'm so glad to not be taking up space in the Khan's Palace again. Oh, there's orange-haired girl and the reporter lady. Hello, reporter lady!" Idris said with a big grin.

"Hello!" Sarah Jane said. She had no idea who Idris, was but she went along with it thinking that she must be another companion.

"I'll link myself to you and follow you through the Vortex. Hello, Wolf! Oh, I still get those confused! Good bye!" Idris said as she switched off communications.

The Doctor's TARDIS followed Rose's into the Vortex. She planned to stay there for at least a few minutes until she had a chance to talk to the Doctor about the latest developments with the Daleks.

"Who was that in the TARDIS?" Sarah Jane asked.

"Oh, that was the TARDIS. It's a long story. I'll tell you about it sometime," the Doctor said with a wide grin.

Sarah Jane just looked at him in astonishment. She had just talked to the TARDIS?! She would have to try and get a chance to see her again later. She couldn't pass up on an opportunity like that!

"I can't believe you! You almost lost the TARDIS in a game again," Rose chided the Doctor.

She changed her clothing back to her 50's look once more as she continued to tell him off.

"You're always betting her all of the time. You lost her before to Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and to Alexander the Great in games. You'd think that you would learn to stop playing them sometime!" Rose said in annoyance.

"I'll have you know that I'm very good at games. I beat Fenric in a game and saved the world. I also beat the Celestial Toymaker at his own game too," the Doctor defended himself.

"So did I. It was very tough beating him too I must admit. So, I'll give you a lot of credit for that. He really hated to lose. I wonder how he's doing on that island! I really need to check up on him one of these days," Rose said with a grin.

"Rose, what is Experiment Zero?" Sarah Jane asked her.

"It was a horrible attempt to create a new Bad Wolf for the Daleks by Davros. I thought that I had put a stop to it, but I was wrong. He's found a way to give the power to the Daleks now using another poor girl to do it. I'll have to find out how he's doing this and stop him somehow. I can't allow the Daleks to use the power of the Vortex. They would be unstoppable!" Rose explained with a shiver running down her back.

She would put an end to Experiment Zero for good this time if she had to burn the details out of Davros' mind! There would be no more innocent people suffering because of her!

Next: Rose confront Davros and finds out the details behind the new Experiment Zero.