CHAPTER 53
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The Doctor had decided to take Rose to a second location as he attempted to give her another chance at a honeymoon that would hopefully not be ruined this time. This time they had gone to the planet Karfel, which had a garden with singing plants in it.
The Doctor, his companion Peri, and a young H.G. Wells had saved the planet from going to war with their neighbors, the Bandrils, by overthrowing the evil dictator called the Borad and his army of androids. Naturally the inhabitants of Karfel were very grateful to the Doctor and had offered to let him spend his honeymoon there. They considered it a great honor.
Rose had loved the garden and so far the trip had been going well until the planet was invaded by more of the Ouroboros soldiers. The two of them had been asleep in the suite that had been so graciously provided to them when they had heard explosions coming from outside that woke them up immediately.
Rose snapped her fingers, and she was instantly dressed and ready to fight. She teleported outside and went to see what was going on.
"That's easy for you to do," The Doctor mumbled to himself as he slowly put his usual outfit on in a hurry.
Slow poke! Rose called to him in his head through their link.
I'm coming as quick as I can! the Doctor insisted as he rushed to get dressed.
He then found himself outside fully dressed and with his sonic screwdriver in his hand.
He just looked at Rose in surprise while she laughed at him.
"If I waited on you to get dressed, the fight would already be over. It looks like I'm going to have to get you dressed from now on, Slow Poke!" Rose kidded him.
The Doctor rolled his eyes and sighed.
They both watched as the Ouroboros appeared in their TARDISes and began to attack the planet once again. They had already performed a hit and run attack just a few minutes before and had left several of the buildings in flames. No one had been hurt yet from what Rose could tell with her powers.
The TARDISes were War TARDISes and were firing missiles at the buildings, and then dematerializing before they could be hit by any weapons on the planet's surface. They were now firing on the planet for a second time, but this time Rose was ready for them.
Rose dissolved the missiles into atoms, and then forced the TARDISes to stay materialized. She would not allow them to leave this time.
The TARDISes landed, and the Ouroboros' alternate universe Time Lords got out and started firing stasers in all directions. Rose's eyes glowed, and the stasers melted into goo in their hands. She also caused their TARDISes to start shooting out with sparks and to shut down.
"Show off!" the Doctor said with a smile at her. He was actually very proud of her, of course.
The Ouroboros soldiers started attacking Rose and the Doctor even after Rose had so easily disarmed them. They came at them with their fists flailing, and Rose knew that they had been brainwashed by the Ouroboros. They were disregarding their own safety to attack her bare handed. Rose quickly stunned them with golden blasts from her hands.
It was then that the Ouroboros' real plan was revealed as the enemy TARDISes all exploded at once and bathed Rose with pure Vortex energy. She just had time to teleport the Doctor to safety before she was thrown to the ground and knocked unconscious by the impact of the explosions!
The Doctor rushed back to Rose's side and found her lying unconscious on the ground. He ran to her in horror and checked her pulse and vital signs. He checked her over with the Sonic Screwdriver until he was sure that she was alright. As far as he could determine, she was just stunned. He stood guard over her as he knew that another attack could come at any moment.
He was soon proven right when another person in dark armor and a dark cape around her shoulders appeared before him. He could tell this person was obviously a woman from her figure. She slowly walked closer to him while he stood in front of Rose protectively.
"So, you are the great Doctor that I have heard so much about," said a distorted voice. Her voice was so scrambled that it was impossible for him to recognize it as anything other than female. He wondered if she were an alternate version of someone that he knew.
"That would be me. And you are?" the Doctor said with a defiant look on his face.
"That would be telling, Doctor! I'm afraid that you'll have to figure that out by yourself. Are your other enemies so accommodating of you that they instantly blurt out all of their secrets to you immediately?" the woman said with a laugh.
"No, but I hope that one of them will slip up and eventually tell me anyway one day. One day that will work, I assure you," the Doctor told her with a grin.
The woman laughed, and it almost seemed as if she were a friend instead of a deadly enemy out to kill him.
"Of course it will. You're a funny little man, Doctor. I can see why she loves you so much. If only I had had someone like you in my own life. How different would it all have been?" the woman said to him with what almost sounded like regret in her voice.
"What do I call you? I can't just go around shouting "Hey, you!" Or do you prefer that?" the Doctor said with a grin.
"I am the Ouroboros, Doctor! I am the one that you fear so much. Do I look so fearsome in person? I wish you no harm. Just let me have Rose Tyler and her daughter. I will spare the rest of you, and you can all help me bring about peace to this universe. I only want what is best for everyone," the woman said in a calm voice.
"I won't let you lay a finger on my wife or my daughter. You're insane if you think that I'll just roll over and let you near either of them without a fight!" The Doctor said as his face changed from happy to angry in an instant.
The Ouroboros looked almost saddened at this outburst.
"I thought that that would be your reaction, but I wanted to give you a chance anyway. If you wish to die by your wife's side though, then so be it!" she said in what sounded like more regret.
She began to glow with dark energy, and she reminded him of the Black Guardian for a moment as she did so. She gestured at the Doctor, and he started to feel intense pain all throughout his body as she started to pull him apart, atom by atom!
Then his pain stopped as he was suddenly surrounded by golden energy, and his body began to pull itself back together. He smiled as he knew now that Rose was awake!
"Leave my husband alone, you crazy b- ." Rose started to say when the Ouroboros blasted her with a dark energy bolt and quickly drowned out her words.
"Uh uh! Language! You have a foul mouth, dear! I'm going to have to wash it out for you with my fists!" the Ouroboros said with laughter. The near gentleness that she had shown the Doctor earlier was now gone and replaced with sheer hatred for Rose.
"Fall, you stupid cow! You will not stand there and mock me any longer with your perfect little life!" the Ouroboros shouted at her with pure venom in her voice.
Rose got back to her feet and blasted the Ouroboros with so much energy that she went flying up into the air for hundreds of feet!
"Have fun in orbit, witch!" Rose shouted at her.
The Ouroboros was soon returning though as she went flying at Rose under her own power and slammed into her fists first! Rose was slammed through the ground, and both of them wound up fighting each other deep beneath the surface of Karfel. Their battle started causing earthquakes on the surface up above, and the inhabitants started running in a blind panic as the Doctor stood there helpless to do anything!
Meanwhile back on Gallifrey, Captain Jack had just gotten out of the shower when he discovered just how Rose had gotten him back for his toast. All of his clothes had disappeared and had been replaced by tweed suits with bow ties! He called Gwen Cooper on Earth and was about to get one of the Time Lords to take him back there to get another set of clothes for him to wear when to his horror Gwen told him that all of his clothes on Earth had suddenly changed to tweed suits with bow ties as well!
He bought some new clothes at a clothing shop that had sprung up for tourists on Gallifrey. As he went to put them on though, he soon discovered that he was wearing a tweed suit and a bow tie!
"No!" Jack screamed as he now realized that Rose had zapped him so that everything he owned would turn into tweed suits with bow ties.
He would have to do a huge amount of begging for forgiveness to get her to undo this one!
Donna smirked at him as she had found out what Rose had done to him. She had gotten off relatively easy compared to him. Rose had just turned her hair purple with white polka dots in it. That was nowhere near as bad as having to wear bow ties and tweed though she thought with a snicker!
Next: The battle between Rose and the Ouroboros continues as our mystery villainess finally reveals her identity to them!
