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Chapter 35

The TARDIS jerked to the side, hard enough that even the Doctor needed to hold on to stay upright. Sparks flew from the console and the whole ship was shaking as each companion clung to whatever was stable and nearby. Donna and Martha were screaming while the Doctor was frowning, trying to regain some control of the ship. Rose clung to the chair, but on a sudden jerk, she tumbled to the floor and threaded her fingers through the metal grating, not even going to try to get back up.

"What the hell's it doing?" Donna yelled, deciding yelling pointless questions at the Doctor was more productive then screaming.

"Controls aren't working!" Doctor said, not really answering her question.

Rose spoke up from her spot on the floor, "Where ever we're going, your old hand is excited."

"Wait, that's his hand?" Donna said, completely ignoring the situation they were in and demanding an answer, having seen the hand before but not really caring whose it was. "I thought it was just some freaky alien thing! You're telling me it's his?"

The Doctor pulled a face and said, "Well, it's a long story." he ran around the console, dodging Rose, and attempted to push buttons, even though he knew controls weren't working.

"It got cut off, he grew a new one." Martha explained to Donna.

"That's impossible! You're completely impossible!" Donna said, her face twisted in an expression of surprise and amazement, as well as disgust.

"Not impossible, just a little bit unlikely." the Doctor muttered. No-one heard, as the TARDIS gave one last rebellious jerk and an explosion of sparks flew out from the console. Everyone on board fell backwards as the TARDIS landed. The Doctor and Rose shared a look before bursting into laughter. The Doctor helped Rose up then they ran outside together. Martha and Donna followed.

The Doctor looked around at their new location and frowned, "Why would the TARDIS bring us here?"

The place they were at was underground in a tunnel of some sorts. There were piles of junk and old equipment placed haphazardly around while it was freezing and smelt damp and old. The Doctor moved towards one of the piles of junk.

"You lick something, I am gonna pour that jarvikan acid stuff down your mouth before even thinking about kissing ya again." Rose told the man as he pouted briefly then pulled his sonic screwdriver out.

"It's Jarvikaanian Acid, and if I swallowed it, it would slowly burn through my digestive tract and into all my other organs and my blood before eventually reaching my hearts where they would burn it inside out and I would die." the Doctor said pompously.

"Well then, don't lick anything and I wont have to make you drink it." Rose said back, sticking her tongue out at him.

"Oh, I love this bit!" Martha said, looking around with a smile and wide eyes.

"Thought you wanted to go home?" Donna asked, a knowing smile on her face.

"I know, I do, but all the same," Martha trailed off.

"It's that feeling you get, as you step out of the TARDIS onto a new ground, with new air and new people. That feeling of anticipation and nervousness that gives you that boost to be able to keep up with mister time lord over there." Rose said, joining in the conversation.

Donna opened her mouth to say something but a loud noise interrupted her. They looked down the tunnel and saw a group of soldiers coming towards them with guns and hardened faces. The Doctor moved back to the other three females and stood next to Rose, ready to protect her.

One boy, who looked barely older than 18, pointed his gun up them and ordered, "Don't move, stay where you are! Drop your weapons!" He still had a baby face that was covered with pimples, showing his true youth. His sandy blonde hair was cut in a military cut and had streaks of dirt in it.

The TARDIS crew lifted their hands to show they were unarmed. "We're not armed! Look, no weapons. Never any weapons! We're safe." the Doctor said, his hands flinging around as he talked, trying to show there was nothing on or in his hands.

"Look at their hands! Their clean." a soldier pointed out, which made all the soldiers look at the group with a mixture of puzzlement, mistrust and smug happiness.

"Alright, process these two first!" the blonde soldier ordered, slinging his gun around and dragging the Doctor over to a strange machine.

"Oi, oi! What's wrong with clean hands!" the Doctor protested. Another soldier grabbed Rose and dragged her to the other side of the machine. There was a huge box-like compartment in the middle, and two smaller machines to the left and right of it respectively that had a hole in the middle. "What are you doing with us?" the Doctor demanded, worried for Rose.

"What's going on?" Martha demanded.

"Leave them alone, or I'll slap ya to all the way to -" Donna started to threaten.

"Stop talking." The blonde soldier ordered. He forced the Doctor's hand into the hole and the machine closed up around his hand and arm. The same happened to Rose.

"Doctor, what are they going to do? Cause I somehow think it's not going to take our blood pressure." Rose asked, fear in her voice.

At the same time, the Doctor let out a yell of pain and Rose yelped, she tried to jerk her hand out but the Doctor stayed still. It didn't even matter, Rose was still stuck with the machine doing something to her hand.

"Everyone gets processed." the blonde soldier said, as if that explained everything.

"It's taken a tissue sample, and extrap- ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow! Some kind of accelerator?" the Doctor said, trying to think. Rose was biting her lip but keeping quiet, even though it hurt.

The machines stopped and released Rose and the Doctor, who both moved back to where Donna and Martha were. The Doctor examined his hand, then picked up Rose's and did the same. He frowned then looked at the box-like compartment part of the machine.

Martha studied both of their hands and compared the two grazes on both hands. They were exactly the same, just the mirror of each other. "Are you both OK?"

"What on earth? That's just, it's..." the Doctor muttered as the machine opened and smoke billowed out everywhere. A blonde woman stepped out and looked around curiously. She wore military coloured clothes, tight brown pants with a green tank top and black boots. The Doctor and his companions watched her just as curiously.

"Arm yourself!" the blonde soldier said, handing the woman a gun. She took it, and pulled the magazine out to look at it before putting it back in and cocking the gun, all of her movements were natural, like she had been handling guns her whole life.

"Where did she come from?" Martha asked, turning to the Doctor for answers. The Doctor in turn stared at the girl with his mouth open.

"Doctor, who is she?" Rose asked, not quite understanding what had happened.

"She came from us." the Doctor finally said.

"From you two, what do you mean?" Donna said, not following.

"Well, she's my...well...she's our daughter." the Doctor finally stuttered out, staring open mouthed at the girl from the machine.

The woman looked up at that and smiled at the Doctor, "Hello dad!"

The girl was then ushered over to the side by the other soldiers and was obviously being questioned about something.

Donna turned on the Doctor and repeated, "Daughter?"

The Doctor was looking around the tunnel, searching for something. "Mm." he then paused for a second then added, "Technically."

"Technically how?" Martha asked.

"Accelerated growth. They took haploid cells from me, and from Rose, combined those cells into a configuration and grew them very quickly." the Doctor explained.

"You are not turning our daughter into just a science procedure. She's ours now." Rose said, glaring at him.

"Something's coming!" the girl said, as all soldiers crouched behind piles of junk.

"It's the Hath!" the blonde boy soldier said. The TARDIS crew turned to watch as half fish, half men came marching down the tunnel. The Hath opened fire on them, causing the human soldiers to respond.

"Get down!" Jenny yelled to the Doctor and his companions.

"We have to blow the tunnel! Get the detonator!" the boy soldier ordered.

"No! I'm not going to blow anything!" the Doctor yelled, not wanting anyone to be fighting.

A Hath grabbed Martha and another grabbed Rose. The girl came up from behind and kicked the Hath that had Rose before picking up the detonator.

"Blow that thing, blow it!" the boy soldier ordered.

The girl pushed the button at the same time as Martha was dragged away by the Hath and the Doctor yelling, "Martha! No! Don't!" he grabbed her from behind but too late as she had pushed the button. The Doctor dragged her away and and pushed her down and covered her as the tunnel blew up, causing the ceiling to come down and seal the place off.

"You've sealed the tunnel. Why did you do that?" the Doctor yelled, his face contorted in anger as he stood up and paced back and forth like a caged tiger.

Rose and Donna got up from their place behind a pile of rubbish and Rose went up to the Doctor and clutched at his hand, making him stop pacing and just glare at his daughter.

"They were trying to kill us!" the girl argued back.

"But they've got my friend!" the Doctor yelled back.

"Collateral damage. At least you've still got those two." the girl said, gesturing to Rose and Donna. "Cline lost all his men, I'd say you came out ahead." the girl said, gesturing to the boy soldier that was the only soldier left alive.

The Doctor grew quiet but his anger still flashed dangerously behind his eyes as Rose turned on the girl and glared at her, "Her name is Martha, and she's not collateral damage, for anyone! Have you got that missy?"

"I've got to go find her." the Doctor told Rose and Donna, about to start walking towards the TARDIS to move to the other side of the debris.

Cline stopped him by pointing a gun at him, and the others. "You're not going anywhere, none of you make sense. No guns, no marks and no fight in you." Cline looked uncertain before pulling himself up as high as he could and gesturing with his gun to walk in front of him, the opposite direction to the way Martha was taken. "I'm taking you to General Cobb. Now, move!"

Cline was leading the way, with Jenny, Donna, the Doctor and then Rose following in that order.

Donna tried to start a conversation with the Doctor and Rose's daughter. "I'm Donna, what's your name?"

"Dunno know. It's not been assigned." the girl said, shrugging her shoulders.

:Well, if you don't know that, then what do you know?" Donna asked, curious.

"How to fight." Jenny said, as if that should've been obvious.

"Nothing else?"

"The machine must embed military history and tactics, but no name. She's a generated anomaly." the Doctor said in a monotone voice, clearly not wanting anything to do with the girl.

"Don't call our kid a generated anomaly." Rose said from the back. "That's like telling a kid they were an accident and that mummy and daddy didn't really want them but they were drunk and forgot about protection and abortion is illegal in their country."

Donna, the Doctor and the girl turned to look at Rose. She blushed, "My mate Shareen hates her parents."

"Anyway, what do you want to be called, or what do your parents want to call you?" Donna said, changing the topic back to names.

The girl shrugged, and said, "It'll be assigned eventually."

"But we can't go around calling you generated anomaly, can we?" Donna said, smiling at the girl.

"Jenny." Rose said all of a sudden. "I always wanted to name my kid Jenny."

"Jenny. Yeah, I like that, Jenny." Jenny said, smiling and turning to walk backwards to grin at her mother.

"What do you think, 'Dad'?" Donna asked as Jenny turned back around and kept walking.

"Good as anything, I suppose." the Doctor said, his face blank and his tone neutral.

"Not what you'd call a natural parent, are you?" Donna sighed, looking over her shoulder to give him a look that said stop being rude to Jenny.

"They stole a tissue sample at gunpoint and processed it. Not what I would call natural parentage." the Doctor protested.

"Rubbish! My friend Nerys fathered twins with a turkey baster, don't bother her." Donna snapped.

"You can't extrapolate a relationship from a biological accident."

"Child Support Agency can." Donna said, crossing her arms stubbornly.

"Donna, stop it." Rose snapped. "Don't pick a fight when you only know half of the story."

"What do you mean, half of the story. Jenny is yours and the Doctor's and he is too stubborn to realise that."

"I know she is my daughter, just drop it." Rose said.

'Thank you Rose.' the Doctor sent her.

'I didn't do it for you' Rose sent back, her anger evident in her thoughts.

'Rose?' the Doctor asked, hurt that she would be angry with him.

'Doctor, can't you see that your actions are hurting Jenny? Yeah, she was created at gunpoint, yeah she grew from a cell into a fetus into a baby, into a toddler, into a child, into a teenager in a matter of seconds but she sure as hell is mine, and yours and she is coming with us once we find Martha and leave.' Rose told the Doctor, her tone leaving no room for the Doctor to change her mind.

The group then left the tunnel into a huge room that had humans running about everywhere. It was clearly the base of operations.

"So where are we? What planet's this?" the Doctor asked, deciding to change the conversation.

"Messaline. Well, what's left of it." Cline told him.

"This place is like an underground town, or city. But why build it all underground?" Donna asked, looking around at the theatre like room.

Once they had reached the centre of the room, Cline had taken Jenny and left the group to report to an older soldier who then walked over to the three friends. Jenny and Cline followed behind him.

"General Cobb, I presume?" the Doctor asked, sticking his hands in his pockets.

"Found in the Western tunnels, I'm told, with no marks. There was an outbreak of pacifism in the Eastern Zone., three generations back, before we lost contact, is that where you came from?" Cobb asked, getting straight to business.

"Yeah, Eastern Zone, that's us. I'm the Doctor, this is Donna, and this is Rose." the Doctor said, even though he knew Cobb wouldn't care.

"And I'm Jenny." Jenny said, a smile of childish delight of being included lighting up her face. Rose watched her face and inwardly smiled at the similarities between Jenny and the Doctor.

Cobb, crushed Jenny's smile with a wave of his hand, "Don't think you can infect us with your peacemaking. We're committed to the fight, to the very end."

"Well, that's alright. I can't stay anyway. I've gotta go find my friend."

"That's not possible." Cobb said, moving slightly which seemed to indicate to the soldiers around them. They didn't do anything, just seemed to pay more attention and their hands twitched every now and again to their guns, ready for action. "We're at war, all movement is regulated.

"Yes, I noticed that. With the Hath. But tell me, cos we got a bit out of circulation, Eastern Zone and all, who exactly are the Hath?"

"Back at the dawn of this planet, these ancient halls were carved from the earth. Our ancestors dreamt of a new beginning, a colony where human and Hath could work and live together." Cobb explained, his voice not losing it's military strictness even when telling old stories.

"So what happened?" the Doctor asked,

"The dream died. Broken, along with Hath promises. They wanted it all for themselves. But those early pioneers, they fought back. They used the machines to produce soldiers, instead of colonists, and began this battle for survival."

"There's nothing but earth outside, why's that? Why build everything underground?" Donna asked. She had wondered over to the wall where a window was sealed shut, but the dirt was still visible.

"The surface is too dangerous." Cline said, his tone saying that it was pretty obvious.

Donna frowned though, "Then why windows in the first place?" she then pointed to a plaque that had a number on it about the window, "and what does this mean?"

"The rites and symbols of our ancestors. The meanings, lost in time." Cobb said, forced sadness in his voice

"Lost in time?" Rose asked. He nodded, so she then said, "Just how long has this war been going on for?"

"Longer than anyone can remember. Countless generations marked only by the dead." Cobb said.

"What? You've been fighting all this time? Why not just stop?" Rose asked, not wanting more people to die.

"Because we must, every child of the machine is born with this knowledge. It's our inheritance. It's all we know. How to fight, and how to die." Jenny said, confusion that they didn't know this evident in her voice and face.

Earlier, on the other side of the explosion, Martha groaned and sat up in amidst the debris of the explosion. Off to her right, lay an injured Hath.

Martha crawled over to him, coughing a bit to clear her throat. "Hold on, I've got you. Is it your arm, yeah?"

The Hath gurgled at her.

Martha pulled a face and said, "Is that a yes?"

The Hath nodded.

Martha then mentally sighed and said, "Let me examine it. Keep still, still yeah? Don't move!" the Hath nodded and held still like she said. She felt around his shoulder and started thinking out loud, mumbling to herself, "Half fish, half human, how'm I suppose to know? Is that a shoulder? Feels like a shoulder. I think it's dislocated." She was about to explain to the Hath what was wrong when several Hath marched in with guns and aimed them at her.

"I'm trying to help him!" Martha said, holding her hands up, but gesturing to her patient. "I am a doctor, and he is my patient, and I'm not leaving him!" the Hath gurgled to each other before one nodded at her to continue.

Martha turned to her injured Hath and told him what she was going to do, "You've moved your shoulder out of place. I have to move it back. This is going to hurt." the injured Hath bubbled feebly and she took it as a yes. "OK, 1, 2, 3!" Martha jerked his arm back and up, popping it back in face. The injured Hath let out a keening noise of pain that caused the other Hath to cock their guns and aim at Martha once again. The injured Hath lifted both arm up and gurgled to them. 'I just hope it is to say that I helped him.' Martha thought to herself. The other Hath lowered their guns.

"Now, I'm Doctor Martha Jones. Who the hell are you?" Martha said, standing and placing her hands on her hips, wanting an immediate answer.

The Hath gurgled to each other and then gestured for her to walk. All of them surrounded her and led her down the corridor.

They turned into a base, that looked exactly like the humans base but with Hath, not human...although, Martha couldn't have known that. The Hath around Martha gurgled to the other Hath, telling them how she helped them. The Hath all surrounded Martha and were delighted to meet a human that was friendly. They patted her. Martha smiled, and looked around nervously. She needed to get out of here and back to the Doctor.

They led Martha over to a console desk and turned it on. A holographic map flashed up. "Right." Martha said, she turned to the nearest Hath and asked, "So, we're here?" she pointed at the map.

Back at the Human camp, Cobb had shown the Doctor the same map.

"Does this show the entire city, including the Hath zones?" the Doctor asked, pulling his glasses out and slipping them on.

"Yes. Why?" Cobb asked.

"It'll help us find Martha." The Doctor said, studying the map.

"We've more important things to do. The Reproduction Machines are powered down for the night shift, but soon as they're active, we could breed a whole platoon from you three." Cline said, excited at the thought of new soldiers.

"I'm not having sons and daughters by some great big flippin' machine!" Donna said, outraged. She turned to Jenny and softened her voice slightly to say, "Sorry, no offence but you're not... well, I mean you're not real."

Jenny frowned and glared at Donna. "You're no better than him!" Jenny yelled, gesturing to the Doctor. "I have a body, I have a mind, I have independent thought, how am I not real? What makes you better than me?"

"Well said, soldier. We need more like you if we're ever going to find the Source." Cob said, praising Jenny. Jenny grinned proudly at the praise, it was technically her first 'well done' from anyone.

"Ooh, the Source, what's that then. What's a Source? I like a Source, what is it?" the Doctor asked, his face lighting up with childish glee.

"The Breath of life." Cobb said, awe in his voice at the memory of whatever this Source was.

"And that would be...?" Rose asked, wanting the general to continue.

Cline answered for him, "In the beginning the Great One breathed life into the universe, and then she looked at what she had done and she sighed."

"She, I like that." Jenny and Rose said at the same time. They grinned at each other.

"Right, so a creation myth." the Doctor summed up.

"It's not myth. It's real. That sigh. From the beginning of time, it was caught and kept as the Source. It was lost when the war started. But it's here, somewhere. Whoever holds the Source, controls the destiny of the planet." Cobb barked, correcting the Doctor.

"Ah! I thought so." the Doctor said, not even listening to him. He was fiddling with the holographic map.

"Don't play with things that don't belong to you." Rose said, rolling her eyes at him.

"There's a suppressed layer of information in this map, if I can just..." the Doctor trailed off, sonicking the map for a second, completely ignoring what Rose said. The map flickered and disappeared for a second. "Oops. That wasn't meant to happen." the Doctor muttered. He then re-sonicked the map and it turned back on, this time with more tunnels depicted on it.

"What is it? What's it mean?" Donna asked,

"See, a whole complex of tunnels, hidden from sight." the Doctor said, using his fingers and 'walking' along one of the hidden ones.

"That must be the lost temple. The Source will be inside. You've shown us the way! And look, we're closer than the Hath! It's ours!" Cobb said, pointing at a huge block of tunnels. Cobb turned to Cline and ordered, "Tell them to prepare to move out. We'll produce new soldiers on the morning shift, then we march. Once we reach the temple, peace will be restored at long last."

"Um, excuse me." the Doctor said, interrupting Cobb. "Call us old-fashioned, but if you really wanted peace, couldn't you just stop fighting?"

"Only when we have the source. It'll give us the power to erase every stinking Hath from the face of this planet!" Cobb spat, hatred in his eyes towards the Hath.

"Hang on, hang on, a second ago it was peace in our time, now your talking about genocide?" the Doctor said, his voice still causal and relaxed, and his body appeared at ease, but anyone who knew him could tell he was pissed at the humans for planning genocide.

"For us, that means the same thing." Cobb said, about to walk away to prepare for the march.

"Then you need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up genocide. You'll see a little picture of me there, and the caption will read 'Over My Dead Body'!" the Doctor yelled.

The general laughed and said, "And you're the one who showed us the path to victory. But you can consider the irony from your prison cell. Cline, at arms!"

Cline didn't hesitate, just lifted his gun and aimed at the Doctor, Donna and Rose.

Donna lifted her hands and glared at the boy, "oi, oi, oi! Alright! Cool the beans Rambo!"

"Take them, I wont have them spreading treason. And if you try anything Doctor, I'll see to it that your woman dies first." Cobb said, gesturing to Rose.

"I'm not his woman, he's my man." Rose mumbled, but obediently lifted her hands in the air.

"Come on, this way." Cline said, gesturing for them to go as more soldiers came up and pointed their guns at the trio.

"I'm going to stop you Cobb, you need to know that." the Doctor warned him.

"I have an army, and the breath of god on my side, Doctor, what do you have?"

"this." the Doctor said, pointing to his head.

The General laughed but at the Doctor's serious expression, he soon stopped. "Lock them up and guard them."

"What about the new soldier?" Cline asked.

Jenny stepped forward, eager to prove where her loyalties lay but Cobb didn't even look at her, just shoved her away. Rose caught Jenny from falling and helped her regain her balance. Jenny pushed Rose away and stood up tall and by herself, her hurt and betrayal showing on her face. "Can't trust her, she's from pacifist stock. Take them all!" Cobb ordered.

While the Hath and Martha were studying the holographic map, it flickered and disappeared. "What happened, I didn't touch it, I swear." Martha said, holding her hands up to show she didn't do anything.

The Hath gurgled and bubbled but moments later, the map came back with extra tunnels. "Hold on, look. That's a new map. There's extra tunnels, see?" Martha said, pointing to them and looking around at the Hath around her.

The Hath bubbled to each other then lifted their guns in the air and cheered (bubbled). Clearly celebrating the appearance of tunnels on the map. The Hath patted Martha on her back and head, obviously thinking she was a good luck charm, or that she had done something to help them.

"But it wasn't me, I didn't do anything!" Martha protested. The Hath ignored her and continued cheering. Martha looked around and sighed, starting to panic, "I think I just started a war!"

To be continued.

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