CHAPTER 54

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Rose had been traveling through the Vortex in her TARDIS along with Penny, Emma, Shareen, and Gwyneth on the way to take Penny shopping for a wedding dress when she heard a distress signal coming from Barcelona. Apparently someone was attacking Barcelona . . . again!

At least they can't blame it on me this time. I'm not even there yet. Rose thought to herself.

Rose arrived on Barcelona to find the whole planet being attacked by Daleks! Rose was not expecting that at all.

Since when did Daleks care about department stores? Rose asked herself.

The Dalek nearest her swiveled its eye stalk around to look at her and shouted, "ROSE TYLER HAS BEEN LOCATED. THE MISSION TO ATTRACT HER ATTENTION HAS PROVEN SUCCESSFUL. UNLEASH THE DEVOLUTION DEVICE."

A number of Daleks suddenly appeared with their suction arms attached to a massive cannon like device, and they fired it at Rose instantly. Rose put up a force field around herself just before the beam from the cannon hit her. The Daleks fired the cannon yet again, but this time Rose deflected the beam back at the cannon and destroyed it instantly.

"ATTEMPT TO NEUTRALIZE BAD WOLF HAS PROVEN UNSUCCESSFUL. COMMENCE STRATEGIC WITHDRAWAL," one of the Daleks said.

The Daleks all quickly initiated an emergency temporal shift and left before Rose could go on the attack against them. She was left to stand there amid the damage that the Daleks had done in confusion. She had no idea what that had all been about, but their use of the word devolution bothered her. She unconsciously fixed the damage done to the area with a wave of her hand as she walked along lost in thought. She didn't even realize that she had done it.

Shareen saw this and smiled. It was just in Rose's nature to help people. She always did it automatically without thinking about it. It was one of the things that she had always admired about her friend.

"Again you bring trouble to Barcelona, Rose Tyler. Those Daleks only attacked because they knew that you liked coming here and that doing so would attract your attention. You've made our whole planet a target by your constant presence here," the President of Barcelona, I. Gypsem Good, said in a fury.

Rose was so lost in thought about what the Daleks had been up to that she didn't even notice that he was there. Shareen decided to speak up for her.

"I noticed you didn't mind taking her money all of those times she came her though. If she was so dangerous to this place, why did you keep allowing her to come back?" Shareen said.

"Yes, we appreciated her constant business here; but that's all in the past now. We cannot allow her to continue to endanger our safety. As of this moment, Rose Tyler is banned from Barcelona. She is never to return here again unless asked," I. Gypsem Good said firmly.

"There's gratitude for you. We don't want to shop on your crummy planet anyway. You're just a bunch of rip off artists with your overpriced, cheap junk anyhow," Shareen said.

"How dare you?!" I. Gypsem Good bellowed.

"How dare you, sir? How dare you?!" Shareen shouted back.

Penny quickly had to get in between the two of them as it seemed as if they were going to get into a fight any minute now. She knew that Shareen would probably lay the irate man out with one punch so she wasn't worried about her. She just didn't feel like having the entire planet of Barcelona chasing after her afterwards for retribution. She'd had enough of entire planets out to get her, thank you very much! It seemed to happen a lot when you traveled with Rose.

Penny started dragging a still fighting mad Shareen away from I. Gypsem Good as she said, "Don't worry. We're leaving. You'll never see us again."

"If you ever return, we will take severe action against you," I. Gypsem Good threatened.

"Hey, I said that we were leaving. Calm down!" Penny shouted back as she struggled to keep herself from hitting the unpleasant little man.

"Come on Rose. We're leaving. Shareen just got you evicted from the planet," Emma said with a sigh.

Rose looked at her blankly and asked, "What?"

"Are you okay, Rose? You look sick. That worries me because you're never sick," Emma said as her instincts as a mother took over.

"I don't know. I do feel sick. I haven't been sick since I was human. Time Lords rarely get sick, and the Vortex doesn't allow me to catch any diseases. Something's wrong," Rose said worried.

"I said for you to go now!" I. Gypsem Good shouted unrelentingly.

"Shut up, you stupid petty little moneygrubber! She's sick if you hadn't noticed!" Emma shouted back at him.

Penny looked at her startled. She had never seen Emma get mad about anything before. She was always such a pleasant easygoing person. She knew that something must be seriously wrong with Rose for her to act this way.

"Come on, Emma. We've got to go. It seems that I'm the de facto leader of the group today because everyone else is acting crazy," Penny said with a sigh.

Rose still stood there oblivious to what was going on around her. Penny knew that something was wrong with her by the way that she was acting. She lightly touched Rose's shoulder and said, "Come on, sweetie. Let's go. You need to go to the TARDIS' medical bay.

"Okay. I'm sorry, Pen. I don't know what's wrong with me. The Daleks did something to me," Rose said.

Penny shivered because she had been thinking the same thing herself in the back of her mind and to now hear Rose state that she believed that too scared her. All of the women got back inside of the TARDIS, and Rose set the controls to take them back to Earth. Penny noticed that Rose seemed to be shaking now and to be moving unsteadily. She was growing more and more concerned about her by the moment.

As the four of them were headed to the medical bay, Rose suddenly let out a massive scream and fell to the floor unconscious. Her three friends immediately rushed to her side, and Shareen started checking her vital signs.

"Her hearts are racing out of control, and she feels warm. We need to get her to the medical bay," Shareen said.

They carried her to the medical bay and hooked her up the best that they could to a diagnostic machine to monitor her vital signs. They didn't really know much about what everything on the machine meant, but they could tell that Rose's vital signs were changing rapidly by the minute. They had no idea what was happening to her, but they were sure that the Daleks had caused it with their strange new weapon. Emma and Shareen decided to stay with her and try to help her if they could while Penny went back to the Console Room to monitor events there.

The TARDIS materialized back on Earth, and Penny could read on the console that they were now back in UNIT HQ's parking lot where Rose usually kept her TARDIS. The TARDIS started to shake just a minute after their arrival as if they had suddenly become caught in an earthquake. Penny went to the monitor and saw that it was the Daleks again. They were attacking UNIT HQ!

"What are they doing? Following us?" Penny asked out loud in exasperation.

Rose's TARDIS got a call right after that, and Penny picked it up. It was Martha Jones on the line. She had seen Rose's TARDIS reappear and was calling to ask for Rose's help against the Daleks.

"I'm sorry, Martha, but Rose can't do anything right now. She's unconscious. The Daleks shot some kind of ray at her and now she's sick," Penny said.

"That's impossible. Rose is never sick!" Martha said with concern.

"Tell me about it. She's not going to be able to help you any time soon," Penny said.

"Oh, that's wonderful. The Bad Wolves are who knows where, the Doctor never answers his phone, I can't find Jack, and now Rose is down for the count. It's a wonderful day!" Martha said with a growl.

"Martha, she's really sick! I'm afraid that she might be dying!" Penny said in a tearful state.

"I'm sorry! I'm not trying to make light of whatever Rose is going through. I just don't know what to do to stop the Daleks without her. UNIT is good but even they can't do much against this many Daleks at once. The whole area is covered in them," Martha said with growing alarm in her voice.

"I'll see if I can locate Jack or Oswin. Maybe I can get one or both of them to come. I'll also see if I can contact Lily. She needs to be here anyway just in case," Penny said ominously.

Martha swallowed hard as she didn't even really have to ask what Penny meant by that last sentence. Rose must be very bad indeed. Martha started to shake and had to choke back a sob at the thought of something happening to her. She would have to make sure that Mickey was there if this was it for Rose. She knew that Mickey would never forgive himself if he wasn't there at the end with her.

The Daleks continued to bombard the area with no one but the valiant UNIT soldiers there to stop them. The soldiers did the best that they could but it was like ants fighting an oncoming foot. There was no chance of them even making a dent in the Daleks' attack.

Mickey had gotten a call about Rose's condition from Martha, and he used the key that Rose had given him to let himself into Rose's TARDIS as soon as he reached the UNIT base. He had braved constant deadly fire from the Daleks to get here. Nothing was going to keep him from being there for Rose if she needed him.

Penny wasn't at all surprised to see Mickey suddenly appear. She had expected Martha to call him as soon as she told her the bad news. She led Mickey to the medical bay, and they were both shocked to find Rose standing there looking better than ever. Just minutes ago, Rose had looked like she was on her death bed.

"What's going on? I thought that you were dying," Mickey said in confusion.

"It certainly felt like I was. I was actually changing, Mickey. The Daleks changed me with their weapon. I'm not the same as I was anymore," Rose said.

"What are you talking about? What did they do?" Penny asked.

"They changed me back into a human being again. I'm just Rose Tyler again," Rose said with a grin on her face.

"Why are you smiling for? There's a million Daleks out there, and you've got no more super powers to handle them with," Mickey said.

"They think that they've gotten me beaten, Mickey. They're wrong. They made a huge mistake by not killing me when they had the chance. I was fighting and beating Daleks even when I was just plain old ordinary Rose. I've got no Vortex powers and no Time Lord abilities, but I'll tell you what I have got," Rose said with an ever widening grin.

"What's that?" Mickey asked.

"I've got me and all of you. That'll be enough to win the day easily," Rose said with a confident grin on her face.

"Why don't I like the odds?" Mickey groaned.

"You worry too much, Mickey. We'll beat the Daleks easily in plenty of time, and then go grab a quick evening meal to celebrate. You'll see. Oh, I could kill for some chips right about now. Let's go clean the Daleks up quick so that I can get some!" Rose said with a swagger in her step as she marched off to the Console Room.

Mickey couldn't help but smile at her. She hadn't acted this happy in a long time. She was still the same old Rose. Throw her up against impossible odds in a life or death situation, and she acted like it was Christmas!

Next: A very human Rose Tyler and her friends alone up against an army of Daleks. Will they be able to beat the Daleks by themselves? Will Rose ever change back again, or will I have to rename this title? Find out in the next chapter.