CHAPTER 54

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The Doctor rushed back into the TARDIS as he quickly came up with a plan to help Rose.

I just hope that I don't blow us both up in the process, old girl! he thought to himself as he looked at the TARDIS console.

Somewhere in the middle of the planet of Karfel, Rose and the Ouroboros were still locked in battle together. They continued to attack each other with every bit of power that they had at their command, but neither one seemed to be gaining an advantage.

"Fall! Just fall!" the Ouroboros screamed at Rose.

"Sorry, but there's one thing that you need to learn about me: I never give up! I just keep going and going until I win. I'm just too stubborn to give up I suppose. I haven't fought this long and this hard to establish a life with the Doctor to give it up now. I won't let you or anyone else pull us apart ever again, do you hear me? Never again!" Rose screamed as she let loose a massive blast of energy at the Ouroboros.

The black armored woman went flying out of the pit and landed with a crash on Karfel's surface that shook the entire area! Rose swiftly came after her as she floated up out of the pit and stood over her in anger.

"Who are you? Why do you hate me so much?" Rose demanded to know.

"You are a reminder of who I should have been. You have everything I ever wanted. How could I not hate you?" the Ouroboros screamed at her in rage.

A sudden realization hit Rose with sickening horror as she knew deep down in her hearts just who this woman was!

The Ouroboros began to laugh as she saw the look on Rose's face.

"That's right, precious Rose! Take a look at the truth. Look at who you really are deep down inside. Look at who you might have been had life taken you down a different road! Look at yourself, Arkytior!" the Ouroboros shouted as she removed her helmet.

Rose knew what to expect, but she still gasped in shock as she saw the face of her first incarnation staring back at her!

"I'm you, Rose. A you from another reality where I didn't get to have your oh so perfect life! I'm sick of hearing from everyone about how great and wonderful you are, Rose Tyler! I'm going to enjoy tearing your life down around you while I subjugate your reality under my boot!" the Ouroboros shouted at her.

"You act like everything was just given to me. I had to fight hard to get back to the Doctor over and over again. He pushed me away, but I still returned to him. I never had it all handed to me. I worked for it!" Rose protested.

"At least you had a Doctor! He never existed in my universe. He was never born as far as I can determine. I lost both of my parents when I was little, and I was all alone. I was raised by a cold and uncaring family who were made to take care of me because I was from nobility. The only love I ever had in my life was from my friend, Koschei. Our friendship turned into love, and we married. That was when the drums started! I started hearing the drums in my head through our bond, and they've been slowly driving me insane ever since! My link to the Vortex began to be the only slim hold that I had left to sanity. Then, the High Council found out about my power even though I had tried my best to keep it secret. They decided to imprison me, and they experimented on me to try and find out how my abilities worked. That was when I decided that I had had enough. I destroyed them all, and then I assumed control over the minds of every Time Lord! I decided that if I wanted to have a perfect life that I would have to use my power to make it happen for me. I made everything perfect just like it always should have been. Everyone loves me now and does as I say. Just like everyone here will. All I have to do is destroy you and your daughter, and no one will be able to stop me here either. You can't just work to get what you want, Rose. You have to take it! Sometimes you have to crush others to make things as they should be!" The Ouroboros shouted at Rose.

Rose couldn't believe what she was hearing. This woman looked and acted like her, but she couldn't believe that she was in any way like her. She would never say such things much less actually believe them. This woman was not her!

"You won't do anything here. I'll stop you and undo everything that you've done. I could never be like you! I won't ever be like you!" Rose shouted as she attacked her alternate self.

Golden energy snaked out from her hands and began to surround the other Arkytior. The Ouroboros began to feel the energy being sucked out of her as Rose tried to block her link with the Vortex.

"That won't work, Rose. I'm far too powerful now. My daughter tried that on me too. She dared to rebel against me. She said that she was trying to save me, but all that she was trying to do was to take what was mine away from me. She learned the error of her ways. It was the last thing that she ever learned because I wiped her mind. No one opposes me not even my family! That's why I must destroy your daughter as well so that she does not rise up against me as mine did! I can already feel how powerful she will someday be, and I cannot allow that. She must be destroyed now while she is still weak!" the Ouroboros shouted in insane rage.

Rose began to feel violently sick to her stomach. This woman was not her and never could be! She knew that for certain now deep inside her bones. She could never even in her worst nightmares conceive of ever hurting Jenny! It made her almost throw up to even think about it. She had to put this insane monster down now before she got anywhere near her daughter.

The Ouroboros began to feel weaker and weaker all of a sudden as she felt the energy being sucked out of her. The dark glow around her began to fade, and she screamed in outrage.

"How are you doing this?" she asked Rose.

Rose looked at her in confusion. She wasn't doing anything.

They both got their answer as they saw the TARDIS flying above them and sucking the Vortex energy out of Ouroboros.

"That's it, old girl. Keep draining her! She's getting weaker. Hold it together just a little bit longer until she's weak enough for Rose to stop her. Hold it together!" the Doctor said to the TARDIS as the console started to spark and catch on fire. The vast amount of energy inside of the other Arkytior was beginning to be too much for the old ship to absorb already.

Now, Rose! Strike now before the TARDIS explodes! the Doctor shouted to Rose in her mind.

Next: Rose continues to battle the other Arkytior while Jenny enters the battle to help her mom. Plus Rose finds out something about herself that even she didn't know from the Ouroboros of all people! What could it be?