{The Runaway Bride Part II}
The Doctor stood with the TARDIS doors open spraying a fire extinguisher at the console. He coughed stepping out of the doors and closed them behind him.
"For a spaceship, she doesn't do that much flying." said the Doctor. "We better give her a couple of hours. Are you all right?"
Donna walked over to the edge of the roof and sat down, and the Doctor took off his coat and wrapped it around her shoulders. She cracked a joke that he was skinny and that his coat could fit a rat. She told him that they had missed her wedding. He told her that she could set another date for the wedding.
The Doctor pulled out a gold ring from his pocket. It was a bio-damper and would protect her from the Robot santas. It would protect her from others that wanted to get her. He slid the ring onto her left hand.
"How did you meet Lance?" asked the Doctor.
"I met Lance at HC Clements. I'm a secretary. I was working, temping. It was all posh really." said Donna.
She went on into her tale about Lance being a head of HR at the firm, and he had offered her some coffee. She was shocked because no one gets secretaries coffee. It didn't bother her because he was nice and funny. He kept on nagging her to marry him, (other way around), he asked her marry her six months later.
"Little soon to be getting married, don't you think?" said the Doctor.
"What can I say, I love him." said Donna. "How long did you and-"
"Rose, we were friends long before we got married." said the Doctor.
"What's the age gap, because me and Lance it's two years."
He scratched behind his ear. "Well, it's more then two years. A lot more then two years, try several centuries."
"Well, come on. It can't be that bad." said Donna. "You can tell me."
"Ah, 879 years difference."
"No way! That means you're what?"
"I'm 900 years old." said the Doctor.
"No way! No way! You look good, what moisturizer do you use?"
The Doctor laughed, stood up and held out his hand. "I better get you to the church."
Donna took the Time Lord's hand and he helped her to her feet. She handed him back his jacket. He slipped it back on and they went back into the TARIDS, and slowly vanished from the roof.
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Donna and the Doctor entered the reception and found the party was in full swing, music, dancing and laughter rang throughout the room. The Doctor looked around and couldn't believe that the people Donna saw as friends and family were dancing and having fun instead of out looking for her. He felt a slight bit of anger rise up in his chest. He knew that truly hurt Donna. Even though he watched her snapped at the entire room shocked that they had started without her.
"What were we suppose to do, it was already paid for. And I got your little message on my phone. "I'm on Earth." said Sylvia Noble, Donna's mother.
Sylvia went on nagging Donna how she had had vanished from the church. She thought it was very silly trick to leave Lance standing at the alter.
The Doctor took several tiny steps forward to speak up, but saw Donna throw her arms around Lance and he heard what he knew was fake sobs. She threw him a quick wink. The Doctor held back a chuckle in his throat. He had to admit, she was good at getting what she wanted.
The Doctor stood near the bar, and borrowed a smart phone from a man next to him. He pulled out his sonic screwdriver to do an advance search on HC Clements and found that the company of sole propritetor of Torchwood. He handed the man back his phone.
The Doctor spotted the cameraman making videos from the footage of the wedding. He slipped on his glasses and watched the footage. He saw Donna turn into gold energy and flew off.
"It can't be. Play it again." said the Doctor and the cameraman backup the footage. "It looks like Huron Particles."
"What's that?" asked the cameraman.
"That's impossible. It's ancient. Huron energy doesn't exist anymore, not for billions of years. So old it can't be hidden by a biodammper!"
The Doctor ran over to the large window and saw robot santas in the yard with large tubas, and they were approaching. He saw one with a remote control. He quickly ran through the crowd over to Donna.
"Donna! Donna, they've found you!" said the Doctor.
"But you said I was safe." said Donna.
"It can't be blocked by a biodamper! We've got to get everyone out!"
Donna looked around, "They're all my family."
"Everyone out the back door!" called the Doctor, then he saw the Santa's and one with a remote. "Maybe not."
"We're trapped." said the bride when she saw all the entrances blocked by robots.
"The Christmas trees."
"What about them?" asked Donna.
"They kill. Everyone back away from the tree." said the Doctor.
Donna helped him moved the children from the trees. "Today is suppose to be my wedding, but very since you showed up, I've been captured by a Robot Santa, and now attacking Christmas trees! What's next a giant spider!"
Donna and the Doctor ran for cover when the ornaments began to move and explode. Donna pulled Lance down with her and the Doctor. He lifted his head up to see the action.
"Oh brilliant! Something different this year, bomb ornaments!" said the Doctor and he quickly ducked when one zoomed by.
He ran across the floor over to the sound systems. He smiled. He grabbed the microphone and tossed it in the air and caught it.
""Hey Santas' here's a lesson for you never let a man near the sound system that has a sonic screwdriver." said the Doctor.
He turned it on causing all the santas to fall apart and the windows shatter. He turned off the screwdriver when all the robots quick working. He put the screwdriver back into his pocket. He walked over to a robot head and squatted down to look at it carefully.
"These people need medical attention. You're a doctor can't you help them?" said Donna.
"I'm not that type of doctor." He told her. "But this is beautiful wiring work done into these robots. They're designed to function from extremely far locations. I can trace it's origin." He rose to his full height, and grabbed several ordements and a remote without Donna seeing him grab them.
"What ever or who ever has done this to me. I want it out of me." said Donna. "Lets go."
The Doctor smiled, "Allons-y!"
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"Where are we going?" asked Donna.
The Doctor typed in the location the Santa robot was giving him. He looked over with a smiled, "Back farther then I have ever been before!"
Donna quickly grabbed onto the railing as they Doctor ran around the console turning around in a circle every once in awhile. He threw up his right leg and held down a leaver as he pushed a dial with his hand and set it into drift mode.
The Doctor pulled open the doors and Donna walked down the ramp and stood next to the Time Lord. He explained that this was when Earth became a planet once gravity took hold from a larger rock.
"Wait a minute, that's not a rock. It's a space ship. So what ever wants you its at Earth." said the Doctor and ran over to the controls and they quickly made their way back to earth. They need to get into HC Clements.
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The Doctor, Donna and Lance, who they had gotten from the reception so they could get access to the upper levels. The Doctor sat a computer reading over the layout for the building.
Donna couldn't help but notice the Doctor tense when he saw a white wall in front of them. She wondered what cause it to happen. She would have to ask him. She thought for a moment maybe that was too much of personal question.
The Doctor pointed out that there was a whole different floor that wasn't on the layout. They took the lift to lower deck of the building were they found Huron particles that went down to the center of the Earth.
The trio stepped into the lifted when Donna noticed that there was a button that led to a lower part of the office that led to whole different floor that wasn't on the plans. The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver and pressed it on the button and the lift made it's way to lower unknown level. The Lord couldn't help but chuckle to himself. He knew that was differently the one in charge of the relationship telling Lance to get into the lift.
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Meanwhile high above planet Earth a spaceship in shape of a large star hovered watching the lift go down. A large sharp claw touched a screen. "She approaches. The bride is the key." said an empress.
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The Doctor and Donna found a drill sight when they found a large humanoid part spider that had teleported down from the spaceship that had been hovering a above Earth. The Doctor quickly knew what the creature was when he saw her.
"Racnoss? But that's impossible. You're the one of the Racnoss."
"Empress of the Racnoss." said the giant red spider.
Donna saw Lance climb up a ladder and grabbed an axe. He threaten to strike, but stopped in mid-swing.
"If you're Empress were are all the others. Or are you the only one?"
"Such a sharp mind." said the spider.
"That's it, the last of your kind. The Racnoss come from the Dark Times, billions of years ago. Billions. They were connivers. They devoured entire planets."
"They eat people." said Donna.
"We are born starving. Get her." said the Empress.
The Doctor turned to Donna and asked again how she met Lance. She told him at work. Lance had fixed her coffee when they met. The Time Lord looked at the redhead sadly and told her that he was dosing her with Heron particles, and that he was only using her.
Donna looked over at Lance for any form of answer. And it wasn't the answer she wanted to her. He told her he was easy to convince that he loved her. She looked over at him sadly, that she didn't the web string wrap around her and she was thrown into the large web to be spider food.
"Lance whatever she has offered you, it's not worth it." said the Doctor.
"But you see Doctor the Empress will give me anything I want. I'm looking at the bigger picture." said Lance.
The Empress looked to Lance and said, "Who is this little physician?"
"I think she said he was from Mars." said Lance.
"Oh, I'm sort of homeless, but the point is what's down there?" asked the Doctor. "Rocnoss are extinct. What's going to help you four thousand miles down? That's just the molten core of the Earth, isn't?"
"I think he wants to talk to us." said Lance. "I thought Donna was all we needed.
"Kill the little chattering little doctor man." ordered the Empress.
"Don't hurt him!" yelled Donna.
"No, no, Donna it's all right." said the Doctor.
"Take aim!" ordered the spider, and robots moved and pointed their guns at the Time Lord.
"Sleep." said the Doctor and the robots lowered their guns. "Donna guess what I've got pockets!" He waved the remote at her.
"How did that fit in your pocket?" she asked.
He smiled, "They're bigger on the inside."
She groaned, "Of course they are."
He pointed his sonic screwdriver over at the web, and Donna was broke free. "Swing over to me."
"What?" said Donna.
"Come on you must swing. I'll catch you."
She closed her eyes and sung over the large hole that went to center of the Earth. The Doctor had his arms stretched out to catch her, but she sung under the second level and hit the wall. He looked down and saw laying on the floor on her back.
"Oh, are you all right? Sorry!"
"I'm just peachy, thanks!"
"Come on up, hurry," said the Doctor and Donna quickly made her way up the stairs and stood next to the man. "Empress I'm giving you one last chance, leave. I can take you and your children to place were you can co-exist.
"Never. If my children are not to feed on human flesh, then they feed on Marstian flesh." said the Empress.
Donna looked over at Lance who was trapped in the web. He had angered her and he now found himself trapped in the web.
"Oh, I'm not from Mars." said the Doctor.
"Then were are you from?"
"My home has long since gone. But it's name lives on. Gallifrey."
"The Time Lords murdered the Rancoss!" yelled the Empress.
"This is your own doing." said the Doctor, pulled out several ordainments and flew them around hitting the water pipes flooding the drilling room.
"My children!" My children!" cried the Empress.
The Doctor starred coldly at the Racnoss watching the water drown her young. The pain of loosing his wife and son raged The On Coming Storm was strong and very angry.
"Doctor, Doctor you can stop now." said Donna over the loud rushing water.
He turned and looked at the redhead. He took her hand and they ran out of the drilling room. Lance long since dead at the hand of the Empress.
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The TARDIS materialized near Donna's house. She stepped out of the phone box. The Doctor leaned against the doorframe. He looked over at the Noble's lit window.
"You better go, they're waiting for you." said the Doctor.
"Do you want to come and have Christmas dinner? Mum makes enough for twenty." said Donna.
"No, it's best be on my way."
"But no one needs to spend Christmas alone."
"I won't be much good company right now Donna." said the Doctor and he swallowed hard.
"Because of Rose." said Donna quietly.
"Yes, but Merry Christmas." said the Doctor.
"Merry Christmas," and she watched the TARDIS vanish from sight. "Doctor! Doctor!"
The TARIDS reappeared in front of her. He opened the door. "Bilmey you can shout."
"Will I ever see you again?" said Donna.
He smiled, "If I'm lucky."
"Doctor promise me you won't travel alone, because sometimes I think you need someone to stop you."
"You can always come with me.""
Donna shook her head. "No I don't so Doctor. I can't handle what you do. Maybe I'll travel go see things."
He smiled, "Have a Merry Christmas Donna Noble."
"You too Doctor," and the TARDIS vanished, and Donna went inside to face the wrath that was her mother.
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