CHAPTER 55

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The soldiers of UNIT were rapidly being surrounded by Daleks on all sides, and it looked as if they would soon be slaughtered once all of their avenues of escape had been cut off. It seemed to them that they were about to go down fighting in one last stand. They were determined to take as many of the Daleks as they could with them though.

Little did they know that they had an unexpected ally in their midst, one who was worth a whole planet full of Daleks. That ally chose this moment when all looked dark for the soldiers to strike back and to turn the course of the battle back in their direction. It was her specialty to do the impossible, after all!

Several aerosol cans were lobbed at the Daleks that were the closest to the UNIT troops and quickly exploded soon after hitting the ground. The affected Daleks were all left a smoking pile of rubble within seconds.

The Daleks that were in the rear and the furthest away from the soldiers all swiveled their eyestalks to see just who was attacking them. Once they saw who it was, they quickly gave this newest arrival their full attention.

Rose Tyler was standing in front of them holding a huge gun and a bag that was full of aerosol cans of Nitro-9 and a ton of other Dalek killing weapons as well. Standing around her were Penny, Emma, Gwyneth, Shareen, and Mickey. All of them also had bags full of Nitro-9 and other assorted weaponry as well.

"Do you like them? I borrowed the secret of how to make them from a friend of mine," Rose said with a smirk.

"IT IS ROSE TYLER! SHE IS AN ENEMY OF THE DALEKS! EXTERMINATE HER! EXTERMINATE!" they all started to shout in unison.

Several Dalek blasts were aimed at Rose at once, and it seemed to the soldiers that Rose would surely be cut down at any second. She would have if the blasts would have actually reached her. Fortunately for her though, none of them did. The blasts were absorbed by a force field that protected her and her friends from harm.

"Oh, did I fail to mention that I'm wearing a pendant around my neck that protects me and everyone around me with a force field? I borrowed that from the Time Lords once. It's a good thing I kept it, huh? You never know when seemingly useless junk is going to come in handy sometime," Rose said grinning.

Suddenly several of the Daleks who were firing on Rose were suddenly destroyed with a single blast fired from a concentrated energy weapon. The rest of the Daleks turned to see another Rose Tyler standing a few feet to the side of them.

"I am wearing a force field pendant, but I never said that that was the real me, did I? You'll have to watch out for stuff like that because I will fool you. This is the real me standing right here, Daleks. The one with the big gun pointed right at you!" Rose said with a ever widening grin on her face.

"EXTERMINATE!" the Daleks shouted as they fired their guns at this new Rose.

Rose activated a control on a wristband that she was wearing, and she instantly disappeared before the beams could reach her. The other Rose that the Daleks were now ignoring fired her own gun at them and destroyed even more of them.

The Daleks suddenly turned to face this Rose again as they realized that she was indeed real.

"Actually that version of me lied somewhat. You see, both versions of me were real. That me was the me from five minutes ago. I used a Vortex Manipulator to travel forward in time to help this version of me. You're really going to have pay attention now and keep up because it's bound to get all kinds of confusing around here very soon now," Rose said with a chuckle.

"EXTERMINATE!" the Daleks cried out again as they fired at the present Rose and their blasts still bounced harmlessly off of her force field.

"I told you that I have a force field. Keep up!" Rose taunted them.

She then quickly dropped her force field and shouted, "Now!"

All of Rose's companions started throwing Nitro-9 and Dalekanium bombs at the Daleks at the same time. Just as the last bomb was thrown, Rose swiftly brought the force field back up just in time to protect herself and her friends from the massive blast that went up once all of the bombs and Nitro-9 went off together at once! Several Daleks were wiped out in one fell swoop.

The Dalek forces had now been halved, and they began to nervously back away from Rose in fear. Since so many of them had now fallen, and she was as yet untouched; the Daleks now had good cause to fear her.

"Do not attack her. Attack the soldiers of UNIT instead. They are weak. Her compassion for them will inevitably cause her to make a fatal mistake. She will not be able to stand by and watch them die," a mysterious voice instructed the remaining Daleks.

The Daleks began firing on the soldiers once again. A force field protected the soldiers this time though, and their blasts bounced harmlessly off of it.

"My past self left a force field generator behind to protect them, Daleks. I wasn't about to leave them at your mercy," Rose said with anger in her voice and on her features.

"Fire at UNIT Headquarters itself," the mystery voice commanded the Daleks.

"No. No more death and destruction for you, Daleks," Rose said with fierceness in her voice.

She dropped her force field for a moment while the Daleks had turned their attention to UNIT HQ. She then activated her new and hastily cobbled together dimension cannon based on the block transfer computation technology of Logopolis that she had studied once as she was thinking of ways to make the dimension cannon work without ripping open the walls between the dimensions again. This new dimension cannon opened up a portal straight to the Vortex, and the Daleks all began to be quickly sucked into it.

Rose's companions and the UNIT soldiers all grabbed onto whatever they could find that was firmly stuck down into the ground in order to keep from being sucked into the portal themselves.

Rose was holding onto a nearby tree with all of her strength. She was the closest to the Vortex opening so she was the one who it had the strongest pull on. She knew that it would grab her at any minute now once her strength gave out.

She could shut the portal down now, or she could let it suck her in. It might be the only way to become the Bad Wolf again. She looked back at her friends one last time as she struggled to make a decision. She knew that she had to become what she was once more. As much as she loved being human again, she had to be the Bad Wolf in order to protect the people that she cared about. Then again, she might not become anything. She might just be killed instantly by being exposed to the Vortex. She wasn't sure what to do.

After several long, agonizing and soul searching moments, she finally came to a decision and let go of the tree. She smiled as she was instantly drawn inwards by the pull of the Vortex upon her.

Rose was sucked right into the portal and straight into the Vortex! As soon as Rose had gone inside of it, the portal closed behind her.

"Rose!" Mickey yelled in despair.

"What was she thinking?!" Penny said in anger.

"She was saving us all. It was the only way," Emma said as she put an arm around Penny to calm her.

'No. There was another way. There had to have been," Penny protested.

"Rose isn't beaten yet. I know it. She wouldn't just let herself get taken like that without a plan," Shareen said in disbelief.

Gwyneth remained silent. She already knew what happened this day, but couldn't tell anyone without possibly changing the future.

Mickey looked at Gwyneth suspiciously due to her lack of emotion at Rose's disappearance. He knew that the medium knew something that they didn't. That gave him a glimmer of hope that all might not be lost.

"Rose had to have had a plan. She had a Vortex Manipulator on so maybe she's about to use that to reappear any minute now," Mickey said.

"That's not possible. Exposure to the Vortex will kill an ordinary human being. Jack told me that it killed him when he hung onto the TARDIS as it went through the Vortex and travelled into the far future. The only reason that he survived was because he was immortal," Penny said.

"Rose isn't an ordinary human being. She was exposed to the Vortex before and survived," Mickey said with faith in Rose in his voice.

Thousands of Daleks then appeared out of nowhere and began to attack UNIT HQ once again. The buildings of the complex were instantly bombarded with Dalek blasts and began to shake and crumble from the massive assault.

"THE BAD WOLF IS DEAD! PROCEED WITH THE TOTAL ANNIHILATION OF UNIT AND THEN CONTINUE ONWARD UNTIL YOU HAVE DESTROYED THE ENTIRE PLANET! DALEKS CONQUER AND DESTROY! DALEKS CONQUER AND DESTROY!" the Daleks said together.

"It was all for nothing. She sacrificed herself for nothing," Shareen said in agony.

"No! They're lying!" Mickey shouted.

"I'm sorry," Penny said.

The Daleks continued to fire upon everything around them. They set several buildings on fire and made several others collapse. The soldiers could not stand against them even though they tried to several times. Each time they tried to make a stand, the Daleks would force them to scatter with the massive fire that they laid down upon them.

"Fall back! Fall back!" could be heard from several locations as the Daleks scattered everyone who stood against them as though they were leaves before a mighty wind.

"Destroy them! Destroy them all! All of Rose Tyler's precious human allies must pay the price for their association with her. All of those who ever gave Rose Tyler aid or succor must pay.

Everyone that she knows or has ever known must be scattered into atoms!" the same insidious voice from before ordered the Daleks.

"What did I ever do to you?" Rose's voice could suddenly be heard saying all around them.

She materialized right in the middle of the Dalek forces in a burst of golden energy. She was the Bad Wolf once more. As soon as she had entered the Vortex, the energy from it began to flow into her through her connection to it which had not been severed even in her human form. She had become filled with energy just as she had been once before, and she had used it to transform herself back into a Time Lady once more.

"I knew it. I knew it. I told you!" Mickey screamed with joy.

"EXTERMINATE HER!" The Daleks shouted over and over as they focused their attention onto her and several of them fired on her at once.

All of their energy blasts stopped just before they reached her and were frozen in time. She gestured towards them; and they were reflected back onto the Daleks who fired them, destroying them instantly.

The remaining Daleks started firing on her as soon as their brothers had fallen, but it was to no avail. Rose pulled out her sonic screwdriver and began bombarding them with it. She increased its energy output by adding her own Vortex powers to it and reconfiguring it on the spot. She had just created the first Vortex Screwdriver.

The Vortex Screwdriver continued to pour out the energy of the Vortex from inside of it and disintegrated all of the Daleks in one massive wave of energy that spread out from it. Rose looked at the results of her new invention with a grin of approval as she absentmindedly fixed all of the damage to UNIT HQ that the Daleks had just caused that day with a casual subconscious thought.

"You just can't beat the classics sometimes," Rose chuckled.

She could still feel a presence watching her even though she couldn't see them. She knew that it was this person who had sent the Daleks to change her back into a human and kill her.

"I don't know who you are yet, but I will find you. You're not going to get away with this," Rose said to the air. She could feel that whoever had been watching her could still hear her.

She was right. The Shadow switched off his link with the communication device that had still been functional from one of the destroyed Daleks in disgust. The renegade faction that had split off from Davros to join his cause had failed. It didn't matter though. He had many more plans still in motion plus there was the ultimate plan of resurrecting his master that was even now under way. Once that was done, it would be too late for Rose to do anything but die. He chuckled to himself, confident in his own ultimate victory.

Mickey ran up to Rose and hugged her tightly. He had almost given up on her. He would never make that mistake again.

"I knew you were planning something. You probably had the whole thing thought out from the beginning," Mickey said with a grin.

"No. I actually just thought of it on the fly. As soon as I opened up the power to the Vortex, I thought 'why not?' " Rose admitted with a mischievous look on her face.

"You could have died!" Mickey protested.

Rose shook her head with a wide smile as she said, "I could feel the Vortex calling to me. That's when I knew that it wouldn't kill me. It changed me before, and I knew that it would again because I'm a part of it."

"I hate it when you start talking all cosmic. You're worse than the Doctor when you do that," Mickey said with a groan.

Rose just laughed at him and hugged him tightly. She was glad that she had Mickey and the rest of her friends around to keep her from getting too full of herself. The last thing she needed to do was to start babbling away about stuff that no one else had a clue about and have everyone tune her out in boredom. One Doctor in the family was bad enough!

"It's time to head back to Barcelona and let you do some shopping, Penny," Rose said.

"Don't you remember? You were banned for life," Penny reminded her.

"I'll see about that. If there's one thing that will change I. Gypsem Good's mind every time, it's money. I'll show him my unlimited credit stick again, and he'll cave," Rose said confidently.

"What if he doesn't?" Shareen asked.

"Then I might just have to start shopping at his competition on the planet Rodeo and loudly proclaim how much better they are than Barcelona to everyone. Maybe I'll even do some commercials for them. That'll bring him around," Rose said with a wicked smile.

"You are just pure evil sometimes, Rose," Shareen said with a laugh.

"Don't tell anyone. It's our little secret. After all, I've got a reputation to uphold," Rose snickered as she held a finger to her lips.

Next: The Doctor as a high school history teacher with Rose as his assistant? It happens. Find out what the Doctor and Rose are up to and why in the next chapter as the Doctor teaches his version of history to the class as it 'really happened'. Everything that you thought that you knew about certain moments in history may just be totally wrong!