When Alyssa jumped all she could do was sob in relief, she was finally out of the time war. Sobbing was how Rose and Jack found her. She didn't look up from where she was as they tried to figure out what was wrong. The Doctor soon arrived as well, and Alyssa looked up at him to see the Ninth Doctor. She shot up and grabbed him in a hug. The Doctor wrapped his arms around her as she started whispering "thank god." Over and over again. The Doctor didn't say anything as he just held her comforting her. Soon she was done sobbing and she looked at the Doctor, "what happened?" he asked
"I jumped to the Time War, I don't know how long I was there." She looked up at his face "Oh it is so good to see you again, Doc." Before she promptly collapsed. The Doctor who was right by her, so he quickly caught her, he quickly adjusted her to hold her bridal style as her head fell on his shoulder. Alyssa may have thought she was fine, but she wasn't the Time Vortex did damage to her, the Doctor walked through the Tardis to the Medical bay. He laid her on the bed before he started hooking her up to the system to see if anything was wrong. It was like something had burned her from the inside out, and there were traces of the Time Vortex inside her. He looked over at her and sighed, it was clear to him now. That the Time Vortex was what caused her to jump. He let out a sigh as he reached over and stroked her cheek, "What happened to you?" he whispered before he sighed and took his hand away and tried to find the best way to repair the damage Alyssa had. The best thing he could do for her is put her in a healing Coma which he did. He watched as her vitals started returning to normal. He sighed as he slumped into the chair beside her.
The Doctor stayed in the room for hours, as the Tardis was drifting through space. Alyssa let out a gasp, as she woke up and golden energy drifted out of her mouth. She looked around and saw the Doctor asleep next to her. she felt wires attached to her body. Panic filled her, as she felt like she was transported back to when the Time Lords experimented on her. She started to pull the wires out before a hand caught hers, she jumped as she looked up at the Doctor, who had woken up. "don't do that," he said before he stood up and looked at her vitals. She let out a sigh as the panic slowly left her as it was only the Doctor making sure she was alright. "What happened?" Alyssa said as she watched him type on the computer screen next to her.
"you tell me that, it was like something burned you from the inside out." The Doctor said as he did enough scans that told him she was alright and started taking the wires out of her. Alyssa blinked as she remembered the Time Vortex building up too much and it started burning her as she transported a thousand Dalek ships away from Gallifrey. Giving them a couple of days before the Fall of Arcadia. She didn't kill them; she would never kill anything if she had the second option. She looked down at her hands and said: "I told you I jumped to the Time War."
"That doesn't explain the damage you took."
"What do you want me to say, Doctor?"
"The truth!" the Doctor snapped as he pulled her up from the bed.
"I can't tell you!" Alyssa snapped right back before she looked up at the Doctor, who was really close to her. He just wanted to know the truth so he could help her, and she understood that. She was touched by the concern over her wellbeing. But even she could keep her secrets. And the look the Doctor gave her, made her realize that he understood that, and was no longer going to question her. She was okay and that is what mattered the most to him. She pulled herself away from him. "what did you do?" she asked
"I put you in a healing coma, if I didn't you would've either regenerated or died, permanently. Only one of your hearts were beating. Next time you jump and collapse in front of me and in that condition, you will tell me why you were in that condition. Can we agree on that?" he said as he led her back to the console room. Alyssa looked back down at the ground before nodding slowly. Right, when they entered the Console room someone threw themselves at Alyssa. She caught the person as it was Rose. Alyssa closed her eyes as she hugged Rose back before she pulled away from her.
"Are you alright? The Doctor told us about what happened to you." Rose said as she gestured between her and Jack. Alyssa looked at Jack and walked over to him ignoring Rose's question as she took him into a hug
"it's my big brother." She whispered as Jack hugged her back. She let go of him and walked over in the pilot seat. The Doctor watched her, with great interest. He recognized her, she was him after the war, detached from everything. She helped him heal now it was his turn. "We have to refuel," he said, "So we're going to Cardiff where theirs a rift that the Tardis can use to refuel." He said as he piloted the Tardis back to Cardiff.
A knock on the Tardis door happened hours after the Tardis had landed. Jack was the one to open the door and said, "Who the hell are you?" as he saw Mickey Smith outside the Tardis.
"What do you mean, who the hell am I? Who the hell are you?" Mickey said as he had never met Jack before that day.
"Captain Jack Harkness. Whatever your selling, we're not buying." Jack said,
"Get out of my way!" As he pushed his way passed Jack and into the Tardis.
"Don't tell me. This must be Mickey." Jack said, as he closed the door and turned back to the others, Alyssa looked up from her spot on the Pilot's seat and smiled "Yeah that's Mickey."
"Here comes trouble! How're you doing, Ricky boy?" The Doctor said, from where he was working on the Tardis.
"It's Mickey!"
"Don't listen to him, he's winding you up," Rose said, as she approached Mickey,
"You look fantastic," Mickey said before the two hugged each other,
"Aw, sweet, look at these two. How come I never get any of that?" Jack said, looking up at the Doctor,
"Buy me a drink first." The Doctor said as he continued to fix something for the Tardis.
"You're such hard work," Jack said,
"but he's worth it," Alyssa said, looking up at the Doctor who was grinning at her, she glanced back down at her notebook, she was drawing something, a machine small enough to wear but it could absorb something that was inside her.
"Did you manage to find it?" Rose asked, talking to Mickey still,
"There you go," Mickey said, as he handed over her passport.
"I can go anywhere now," Rose said, as she showed it to the Doctor
"I told you, you don't need a passport." The Doctor said,
"It's all very well going to Platform One and Justicia and the Glass Pyramid of San Kaloon, but what if we end up in Brazil? I might need it. You see, I'm prepared for anything."
"Good to be overprepared than underprepared." Alyssa said, "anything can happen when you're traveling with the Doctor, so it's good you got that Rose."
"Thank you," Rose said, glancing back at her, before turning back to Mickey,
"Sounds like your staying, then. So, what're you doing in Cardiff? And who the hell's Jumping Jack Flash? I mean, I don't mind you hanging out with big-ears up there" Mickey said, pointing up at the Doctor,
"Mickey be nice," Alyssa said, as she finished sketching the machine she glanced down and blinked as she realized that it could work, but she couldn't make it, with her constant jumping and the Doctor constantly getting in trouble. She looked at the Doctor as he said "Oi!" In protest to Mickey's comment,
"Look in the mirror. But this guy, I don't know, he's kind of" Mickey said, only to be interrupted by Jack,
"Handsome?" Jack said,
"More like cheesy."
"Early twenty-first Century slang. Is cheesy good or bad?" Jack asked,
"It depends on who's saying it," Alyssa said, "Mickey?"
"It's bad," Mickey said,
"But bad means good, isn't that right?" Jack said, making Alyssa giggle and shake her head, as she watched the others,
"Are you saying I'm not handsome?" the Doctor said
"yes, you are Doctor, Mickey is just jealous of who Rose is hanging with." Alyssa said, as she got up and walked over to Mickey, "Don't worry Mickey, I'll make sure Rose doesn't get into too much trouble." Mickey nodded before turning back to Rose. The Doctor grinned at Alyssa as he started to walk over.
"We just stopped off. We need to refuel. The thing is, Cardiff's got this rift running through the middle of the city. It's invisible, but it's like an earthquake fault between different dimensions." Rose said, as soon as the Doctor joined the two,
"The rift was healed back in 1869." The Doctor said,
"Thanks to a girl named Gwyneth, because these creatures called the Gelth, they were using the rift as a gateway, but she saved the world and closed it," Rose said,
"Which leaves a scar," Alyssa said, as she turned to Mickey,
"and that scar generates energy, harmless to the human race," Jack said,
"But perfect for the Tardis, so just park it here for a couple of days right on top of the scar and"
"Open up the engines, soak up the radiation," Jack said,
"Like filling her up with petrol and off we go!" Rose said,
"Into time!" Jack said,
"And space!" The Doctor, Rose, and Jack said, as they high-fived each other, Alyssa grinned softly at the three
"My God, have you seen yourselves? You all think you're so clever, don't you?"
"Now Mickey don't be rude," Alyssa said, as the others said yes in various ways. Before Jack slapped Mickey's cheek. Alyssa turned around to head back to the Pilot seat before the Doctor said, "Oi where do you think you're going?"
"Well, you guys are about to leave so I thought I would stay." She said as she turned back to the Doctor,
"Nope, you're coming with us." The Doctor said, as he walked over to her and took her hand before pulling her with him out of the Tardis. "Should take another twenty-four hours, which means we've got time to kill." The Doctor said as the two left the Tardis. The Doctor closing the door behind the two,
"That old lady's staring," Mickey said, as he glanced around.
"Probably wondering what four people could do inside a small wooden box," Jack said,
"What are you captain of, the Innuendo Squad?" Mickey said as he looked right back at Jack
"Mickey seriously be nice. He's a friend." Alyssa said as she looked angrily at the Doctor for forcing her to leave the Tardis when she didn't want to. A headache was rising in her head as she listened to Mickey, as they started to walk away "Wait, the Tardis, we can't just leave it. Doesn't it get noticed?"
"Oi don't knock the Police box," Alyssa said as she turned to the two and rubbed her hand down the box. "It didn't get noticed when we left it here last time or the thousands of times when we parked it in the past. why would it get noticed now? It looks like a police box because of a cloaking device. Are you two going to ask questions all day?" Alyssa said as she looked at the two
"Yeah, but Mickey brings up a good point what's with the police box? Why does it look like that?" Jack said a
"The Cloaking device, it's called a chameleon circuit. The Tardis is meant to disguise itself wherever it lands like if this was Ancient Rome, it'd be a statue on a plinth or something. But I landed in the 1960s, it disguised itself as a police box, and the circuit got stuck." The Doctor said as he glanced at Alyssa,
"So, it copied a real thing? There actually was police boxes?"
"Yeah, you know Mickey I now realize why the Doctor calls you Ricky the Idiot because sometimes you are an idiot. Just because you don't see something every day now doesn't mean they never existed or don't exist at all. That's a great excuse to be oblivious to normal things." Alyssa said as she pointed at Mickey before he had the chance to protest the Doctor said "Yeah, on street corners. Phone for help before they had radios and mobiles. If they arrested someone, they could shove them inside till help came, like a little prison cell."
"Why don't you just fix the circuit?"
"Does he need to? We like it as the Police box so do we really need to fix it? Rose what do you think" Alyssa said, as she smiled softly at the police box, that keeps saving her life.
"I love it," Rose said, as she glanced at the box
"But that's what I meant. There's no police boxes anymore, so doesn't it get noticed?"
"Ricky, let me tell you something about the human race. You put a mysterious blue box slap-bang in the middle of town, what do they do? Walk past it. Now, stop your nagging. Let's go and explore." The Doctor said as he began to push Mickey away from the box. The others following the two,
"What's the plan?" Rose asked,
"I don't know. Cardiff, early twenty-first century and the wind's coming from the east. Trust me. Safest place in the universe." The Doctor said making Alyssa shake her head,
"Doctor saying that Cardiff is the safest place in the universe jinxes it, you just jinxed us," Alyssa said as she walked side by side with him.
They made their way to a diner and sat down as Jack told the three stories from the past adventures. Rose was hanging on to every word as was the Doctor. Alyssa, however, was just sitting off to the side scribbling down notes in her journal. "I swear, six feet tall and with big tusks," Jack said as the doctor said "You're lying through your teeth!" while Rose said "I'd have gone bonkers! That's the word - bonkers!" As she laughed at the story Jack was telling.
"I mean, it turns out the white things are tusks and I mean tusks! And it's woken, and it's not happy." Jack said, ignoring the two's comments.
"How could you not know it was there?" The Doctor asked,
"And we're standing there, fifteen of us, naked" Jack said,
"Naked?!"
"And I'm like, oh, no, no, it's got nothing to do with me. And then it roars, and we are running. Oh my God, we are running! And Brakovitch falls, so I turn to him and I say" Jack started only to be cut off by Mickey when he said, " I knew we should've turned left!"
"That's my line!" Jack said, as the others started bursting out laughing, Alyssa didn't look up until she saw the Doctor get up from the corner of her eye, she glanced up and watched as he walked over to an old man and snatched a newspaper.
"I don't believe you. I don't believe a word you say ever. That is so brilliant. Did you ever get your clothes back?" Rose said as she didn't notice the doctor getting up.
"No, I just picked him up went right for the ship, full throttle. Didn't stop until I hit the space lanes. I was shaking. It was unbelievable. It freaked me out, and by the time I got fifteen light-years away I realized I'm like this." The Doctor looked up as the others finally noticed he was looking at a newspaper his eyes met Alyssa's and he flipped the newspaper around as he said "And I was having such a nice day." on the front page of the newspaper was Margaret a Slitheen. Alyssa let out a sigh as she put her notebook away and said: "Can I go back to the Tardis now?"
"Nope, you are staying with us." The Doctor instantly said as he gave the newspaper back to the man. Alyssa let out a sigh as she said "Well it was worth a shot" as she stuffed her notebook back in her pocket.
The group instantly took off towards the city hall to meet up with their old friend. They entered the building. As they entered Jack immediately said, "According to intelligence, the target is the last surviving member of the Slitheen family, a criminal sect from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorious, masquerading as a human being, zipped inside a skin suit. Okay, plan of attack, we assume a basic fifty-seven fifty-six strategy, covering all available exits on the ground floor. Doctor, Alyssa, you go face to face. That'll designate Exit One, I'll cover Exit Two. Rose, you Exit Three. Mickey Smith, you take Exit Four. Have you got that?"
"Excuse me. Who's in charge?" The Doctor said,
"Does someone have to be in charge doc?"
"Yes." the Doctor immediately said, still looking at Jack,
"Sorry. Awaiting orders, sir." Jack said,
"Right, here's the plan. Like he said. Nice plan. Anything else?" The Doctor said, making Alyssa sigh and shook her head,
"Present arms," Jack said, as they each pulled out a phone except for Alyssa and said they were ready.
"Ready. Speed dial?" Jack said,
"Yup." The Doctor said as Rose and Mickey said that they were ready to
"See you in hell," Jack said, as the five of them split up. Alyssa and the Doctor heading towards the front door to where Margret was. " Hello, We've come to see the Lord Mayor." the Doctor said,
"Have you got an appointment?" The man said, glancing between the two.
"No, just some old friends passing by. Bit of a surprise. Can't wait to see her face."
"Well, she's just having a cup of tea." The man said,
"Just go in there and tell her the Doctor and Alyssa would like to see her."
"Doctor who?" The man asked,
"Just the Doctor. Tell her exactly that. The Doctor and Alyssa"
"Hang on a tick." The man said before he got up and went into the room. A couple of seconds passed and the sound of a teacup breaking before the man came out again. "The Lord Mayor says thank you for popping by. She'd love to have a chat, but, er, she's up to her eyes in paperwork. Perhaps if you could make an appointment for next week?"
"She's climbing out of the window, isn't she?" The Doctor asked, and Alyssa smiled as the man said: "Yes, she is." Alyssa let out a chuckle as they went into the room and to the balcony, they looked around and saw Margret running away. The Doctor ripped out his phone and dialed the others and said "Slitheen heading north."
"On my way," Rose said, and
"Over and out," Jack said, Alyssa's eyes snapped to behind them when they saw the man come through with a not very friendly look on his face. Alyssa instantly stepped forward grabbing the man's arms and pushed him back. He tried to go at the two again but Alyssa quickly threw a punch. A crack sounded under her hand as the man slumped back unconscious with blood running down his nose. "What was that for!" The Doctor said, his tone harsh. Alyssa winced as she turned to the Doctor and said "he was going to attack us" instantly defending herself, but that just made the Doctor even madder.
"Doesn't give you the right to knock him out!"
"What did you expect me to do?"
"Not knock him out!"
"Do we really have time for this?" She said, brushing off the fact she had knocked someone out,
"We will talk about this later." the Doctor said, Alyssa just let out a sigh as she followed the doctor to a wood platform they jumped on it to get down and they ran to rejoin the others.
"Margaret!" The Doctor yelled as she ran farther away.
"Who's on Exit Four?" Jack yelled as the
"That was Mickey!" Rose said as they met up and The Doctor and Alyssa instantly joined them as Mickey burst out of the door next to them.
"Here I am," Mickey said,
"Mickey the idiot." The Doctor said as they watched Margaret run away.
"Oh, be fair. she's not exactly going to outrun us, is she?" Rose said, but Margaret vanished obviously using a teleport.
"She's got a teleport! That's cheating! Now we're never going to get her."
"Do you really think the Doctor didn't have a backup plan?" Alyssa said, as the Doctor brought out his Sonic Screwdriver and switched it on. Margaret reappeared this time facing them. She had a look of shock as she realized what had happened and turned around to run away and once again teleporting away. The Doctor only activated his screwdriver again. Margaret reappeared, only to disappear again. She turned around and ran away again, disappearing as she teleported but the Doctor just reactivated his screwdriver and reappeared in front of them this time she didn't turn around she ran straight up to them and the Doctor said: "I could do this all day."
"This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?" Margaret said,
"Well let's name a few, 1. You and your family invaded this planet. 2. You killed people in order to take their places in the government. 3. You tried to kill me and my friends, 4. What was that last one? Oh, right Tried to destroy an entire planet just to make some cash." Alyssa said harshly, which caused Rose's and Jack's eyes to snap to her back in shock they never heard Alyssa talk like that. "Apart from that and who the hell are you."
"Oh, you have got to be kidding. I regenerate again?" she said, glancing at the others but no one answered her. "Awesome. Survived 130 years of war only to learn I regenerate again."
"Wait Idris said the Doctor and Alyssa so you must be Alyssa, you change your image as well," Margaret said
"Yes but not by killing people." She said harshly as she glared at Margaret.
"Enough Chatting" Jack said, and the group headed back into the City hall.
"So, you're a Slitheen, you're on Earth, you're trapped. Your family gets killed but you teleport out just in the nick of time. You have no means of escape. What do you do? You build a nuclear power station. But what for?" The Doctor said as they walked into a room with a model of a nuclear power station.
"A philanthropic gesture. I've learnt the error of my ways." Margaret said, which made Alyssa snort and say "hardly"
" And it just so happens to be right on top of the rift." The Doctor said,
"What rift would that be?" Margaret said,
"A rift in space and time. If this power station went into meltdown, the entire planet would go" Jack said as he made an explosion sound.
"This station is designed to explode the minute it reaches capacity." The Doctor said
"and who would've designed to be that way." Alyssa said glancing at Margaret who just glared at her.
"Didn't anyone notice? Isn't there someone in London checking this sort of stuff?" Rose asked,
"We're in Cardiff. London doesn't care. The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice. Oh. I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native." she said.
"But why would she do that? A great big explosion, she'd only end up killing herself." Mickey said,
"She's got a name, you know."
"She's not even a she, she's a thing."
Are you kidding me right now Mickey?" Alyssa snapped, "She is an Alien she isn't a thing that is like calling me and the Doctor's things just because we are aliens. It's racist or discriminatory whatever word you want to describe it. She may have killed a bunch of people but that doesn't mean you have a right to call her a THING. Like she doesn't have feelings or a mind." She said as she glared at Mickey who only recoiled.
"she's clever." The Doctor said as he destroyed the model of the power station and pulled out the middle section and turned it over to reveal different electronics. "Fantastic." He said, as Alyssa walked over to him and looked down at it,
"Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator?" Jack said, in shock
"Couldn't have put it better myself." The Doctor said as Alyssa glanced at Margaret. Jack took it from the Doctor and walked over to Rose, Mickey, and Margaret, as he said "Oo, genius! You didn't build this?" Jack said addressing Margaret,
"I have my hobbies. A little tinkering." Margaret said,
"No, no, no. I mean, you really didn't build this. Way beyond you."
"I bet she stole it," Mickey said
"She did steal it I don't think the technology to make that is even on earth, So the only way to get it is for her to steal it, Am I right Margaret?"
"It fell into my hands." She said, which made Alyssa smile and she said "I was right,"
"Is it a weapon?" Rose asked,
"It's a transport. You see, if the reactor blows, the rift opens. Phenomenal cosmic disaster. But this thing shrouds you in a forcefield. You have this energy bubble, so you're safe. Then you feed it coordinates, stand on top, and ride the concussion all the way out of the solar system." Jack said, realizing Margaret's plan,
"It's a surfboard."
"Easiest way of explaining it yes, a space surfboard."
"More of a pan-dimensional surfboard," Jack said,
"And it would've worked. Id have surfed away from this dead-end dump and back to civilization."
"And you would've killed everyone on this whole planet just so you could getaway? And this is why I have no problem taking you home." Alyssa said, as she turned to the sign that said the name of the project realizing the doctor was in front of it looking at the name.
"How'd you think of the name?" he asked,
"Bad Wolf," Alyssa whispered as she looked at the name, the Doctor glanced at her as she had unknowingly walked over to him.
"What, Blaidd Drwg? It's Welsh." Margaret said, not getting the reason he was so caught up with the words.
"I know, but how did you think of it?"
"I chose it at random, that's all. I don't know. It just sounded good. Does it matter?" Margaret said, still not understanding why they were so caught up with the words. Alyssa stared at it as thousands of possibilities ran through her head. She couldn't go deal with that right now, she knew the Doctor, Rose and Jack had adventures before they went there. If she went there, the chances of her showing the Daleks any mercy would be almost nonexistent. Flashes of the Daleks from the war ran through her head, the death she witnessed of the friends she made while there. She felt hands grab her arms "Alyssa?" a voice said, as the flashes slowly faded, she didn't realize she was shaking until she realized that the Doctor had grabbed her arms, she didn't say anything as she tried to catch her breath, "what happened one minute she was fine the next she was pale," Rose said, as they had crowded around her, "I think she had a panic attack," Jack said, as the Doctor stared at Alyssa, "Are you okay?" he whispered, Alyssa could only nod, as the Doctor turned to the others. "Time to get back to the Tardis. Margaret, you are coming with us, we're going to take you home." the Doctor said, as one of his hands went down to grab Alyssa's and pull her with him,
"Hold on, isn't that the easy option, like letting her go?" Jack said,
"I don't believe it! We actually get to go to Raxa. Wait a minute! Raxacor" Rose said, trying to say the name.
"Raxacoricofallapatorius," Jack said,
"Raxacorico"
"Fallapatorius," Jack said,
"Raxacoricofallapatorius," Rose said finally getting it and smiling as the group turned to Margaret.
"They have the death penalty. The family Slitheen was tried in its absence many years ago and found guilty with no chance of appeal. According to the statutes of government, the moment I return, I am to be executed. What do you make of that, Doctor? Take me home and you take me to my death."
"Not my problem," The Doctor said.
they went back to the Tardis. Alyssa instantly sat in the Pilot seat as she watched Margaret examine the Tardis. "This ship is impossible. It's superb. How do you get the outside around the inside?"
"Like I'd give you the secret, yeah."
" I almost feel better about being defeated. I never stood a chance. This is the technology of the gods."
"But we aren't gods, if I was a god, I would have snapped my fingers and you and your family would've never have had the opportunity to kill all those people," Alyssa said, making the Doctor glare at her, but she only shrugged, it was clear the Doctor thought she would kill them before they made it earth. Yet that wasn't what she was going to do at all. The Doctor looked back to the two wires he had in his hands and said "Don't worship me - I'd make a very bad god. You wouldn't get a day off, for starters. Jack, how we doing, big fella?" he had given Jack the task to fit the Extrapolator hooked up to the Tardis.
"This extrapolator's top of the range. Where did you get it?"
"Oh, I don't know. Some airlock sale?" Margaret said,
"You can just say you stole it," Alyssa said, Margaret looked over at her but she didn't say anything.
"Must've been a great big heist. It's stacked with power." Jack said,
"But we can use it for fuel?" The Doctor said, looking at Jack,
"It's not compatible, but it should knock off about twelve hours. We'll be ready to go by morning." Jack said, as Margaret walked over to the console and picked up a silver ball. "Then we're stuck here overnight." The Doctor said, just as Alyssa got up and walked over to Margaret. "I'm in no hurry." Margaret said, Alyssa grabbed her wrist and snatched the ball out of her hands "Do not touch things that do not belong to you okay?" she said as she set the ball back down on the console.
"We've got a prisoner. The police box is really a police box." Rose said,
"You're not just police, though. Since you're taking me to my death, that makes you my executioners. Each and every one of you." Margaret said,
"Well, you deserve it," Mickey said,
"You're very quick to say so. You're very quick to soak your hands in my blood, which makes you better than me, how, exactly ?" Margaret said before she walked around the tardis to the pilot seat and sat down before continuing "Long night ahead Let's see who can look me in the eye." Margaret said before she glanced around the room looking at Mickey first who glanced away. She went to Rose next who also couldn't look her in the eye. She looked at the Doctor and saw him glance down at the Tardis. She looked at Alyssa who was glaring at her as they continued to look at each other, neither of their gazes faltered. Alyssa finally broke the silence and said "You have killed people Margaret, we won't be the ones whose hands are covered with your blood. That is only you, your own blood is on your own hands since you killed all those people the first time to infiltrate the Government of England. So you could destroy it so you could make a quick buck. Now you've made a power station with the only intention of getting you off of earth. We aren't doing it to you you did it to yourself." Margaret gasped as she saw golden whisps fly through Alyssa's eyes before Margaret glanced away.
Soon Mickey left the tardis and after a couple of minutes, Rose joined them. Alyssa and the Doctor watched as they walked away probably to go get some food. "So, what's on?" Jack asked as he walked over to the two.
"Nothing, just." The Doctor said before he was interrupted
"I gather it's not always like this, having to wait. I bet you're always the first to leave, Doctor. Never mind the consequences, off you go. You two butchered my family and then ran for the stars, am I right? But not this time. At last, you have consequences. How does it feel?" Margaret said, but Alyssa only rolled her eyes,
"I didn't butcher them."
"Don't answer back. That's what she wants."
"I didn't. What about you? You had an emergency teleport. You didn't zap them to safety, did you?"
"It only carries one…" Margaret said,
"And that's where you went wrong, you abandoned your family, if I was you, I would've never abandoned my family right before they died, I would've died with them, better to die than being alone for the rest of my life," Alyssa said before she glanced down at the Tardis console. A hand took hers and she looked up to see the Doctor she only smiled at him as she squeezed his hand. Margaret didn't say anything for a couple of seconds before she said: "Do I get a last request?"
"Depends on what it is." Alyssa and the Doctor said together,
"I grew quite fond of my little human life. All those rituals. The brushing of the teeth, and the complicated way they cook things. There's a little restaurant just round the Bay. It became quite a favorite of mine." Margaret said Alyssa let out a snicker as she and the Doctor turned around to face her.
"Is that what you want, a last meal?" the Doctor said, as looked at her, Alyssa couldn't help another snicker
"Don't I have rights?"
"Oh, like she's not going to try to escape," Jack said,
"Except I can never escape the Doctor and Alyssa, so where's the danger? I wonder if you could do it? To sit with a creature you're about to kill and take supper. How strong is your stomach" She said as she stood up,
"Strong Enough." The Doctor said, and Margaret glanced at Alyssa
"You are still trying to change our minds about taking you home," She said as she walked over to her and continued "what you don't know is that you are talking to the two most stubborn people in the Universe."
"Prove it," Margaret said
"And that I shall do." She said, smiling before she walked over to the Doctor,
"There are people out there. If you slip away just for one second, they'll be in danger." The Doctor said,
"Except I've got these," Jack said as he held up two bracelets. "You both wear one. If she moves more than ten feet away, she gets zapped by ten thousand volts."
"Margaret, would you like to come out to dinner? My treat." the Doctor said,
"Dinner in bondage. Works for me." Margaret said before smiling. The Doctor and Margaret both put on the bracelet and were about to leave before the Doctor turned back to Alyssa and said: "Do you want to come?" Alyssa looked at Margaret then at the Doctor and just nodded and the three of them left the Tardis.
They made their way over to the restaurant that Margaret wanted to go to, called Bistro 10. They sat down and started looking at the menu, "Here we are, out on a date, and you haven't even asked my proper name." Margaret said,
"It's not a date. What's your name?" The Doctor said,
"Blon. I am Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen. That's what it'll say on my death certificate."
"That's a mouth full," Alyssa commented,
"Nice to meet you, Blon." The Doctor said,
"I'm sure. Look, that's where I was living as Margaret. Nice little flat, over there, on the top. Next to the one with the light on." Margaret said glancing at the building in the window. The Doctor glanced over but Alyssa just smiled at her and leaned closer "Do you know that I have psychic powers?" she said, as the Doctor turned to the two.
"No, I don't believe you."
"Oh really, then I how do I know about this?" Alyssa said before she snatched Margaret's hand that had a ring on it and opened and poured some powder onto the table. "How do I know that you planned to distract us so you could pour that into the Doctor's wine?"
"Lucky guess?"
"Sure," Alyssa said sarcastically,
"Tell me then, Alyssa. What do you know of our species?"
"Only what I've seen," she said, smirking, the Doctor realized that she was talking about what she saw in the show universe.
"Did you know, for example, in extreme cases, when her life is in danger, a female Raxacoricofallapatorian can manufacture a poison dart within her own finger." She asked before pointing at Alyssa before a dart came out of her finger, Alyssa instantly caught it, she smirked as she gave it to the Doctor and said
"Yes, I did."
"Just checking. And one more thing. between you and me." She said, leaning closer, but Alyssa stayed away, and let out a chuckle. "As a final resort, the excess poison can be exhaled through the lungs?" Alyssa said, "I did know that," Margaret was about to exhale but the Doctor instantly brought out a little sprayer and sprayed her in the mouth.
"That's better thank you doctor," Alyssa said, before glancing at the Doctor who had returned to looking at the menu "What looks good?"
"Mmm, steak looks nice. Steak and chips."
"Hmm, that does sound good," Alyssa said before they both looked up at Margaret and smiled before Alyssa grabbed her own menu. Margaret doing the same defeated. A couple of minutes had passed before Margaret once again started to try to plead her case. "Public execution's a slow death. They prepare a thin acetic acid, lower me into the cauldron and boil me. The acidity is perfectly gauged to strip away the skin. Internal organs fall out into the liquid, and I become soup. And still alive, still screaming." Margaret said,
"We don't make the law." The Doctor said,
"But you deliver it. Will you stay to watch?" She asked,
"What else can we do?"
"The Slitheen family's huge. There's a lot more of us, all scattered off-world. Take me to them. Take me somewhere safe."
"So you can start again?" Alyssa asked,
"I promise I won't."
"if that was true why don't I believe you?" Alyssa said, "you can't promise the future, Blon."
"You've been in that skin suit too long. You've forgotten. There used to be a real Margaret Blaine. You killed her and stripped her and used the skin. You're pleading for mercy out of a dead woman's lips."
"Perhaps I have got used to it. Human life, an ordinary life. That's all I'm asking. Give me a chance, Doctor, Alyssa. I can change."
"If it was true that you got used to it you would not have tried to blow up the planet to get off it. So I think I speak for both me and the Doctor when I say we don't believe you."
"I promise you I've changed since we last met, Doctor. There was this girl, just today. A young thing, something of a danger. She was getting too close. I felt the blood lust rising, just as the family taught me, I was going to kill her without a thought. And then I stopped. She's alive somewhere right now. She's walking around this city because I can change. I did change. I know I can't prove it."
"We believe you."
"Then you know I'm capable of better."
"That was one Life Blon, one life doesn't make up for all the other lives you and your family took. It doesn't mean anything." Alyssa said,
"I spared her life," Margaret said,
"You let one of them go, but that's nothing new. Every now and then, a little victim's spared because she smiled, because he's got freckles because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions. Because once in a while, on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction, you happen to be kind." The Doctor said,
"Only a killer would know that. Is that right? From what I've seen, your funny little happy go lucky little life leaves devastation in its wake. Always moving on because you dare not look back. Playing with so many people's lives, you might as well be a god. And you're right, Doctor. You're absolutely right. Sometimes you let one go. Let me go." Margaret said,
"We do not play with people's lives, we travel and trouble finds us, and when that trouble finds us, we try to save people, Yes we keep going because we don't dare to look back because even the greatest men, women, alien can't save everybody. Yes, our life leaves devastation in our wake but I doubt your family is any different. We don't look back because it hurts, we try to help, rather than destroy, not because they begged us too because it's the right thing to do. We do let people go sometimes, but our decision for you stands." Alyssa said, she looked down at the table as she focused on the room around her mentally, before she felt the person who was sitting next to her "Doctor, we can't take her home and let them kill her. That is not who we are, not who you are. There is another way and I know you realize it too." She said, mentally to him, the Doctor looked at her in the corner of his eye and he instantly sent back "yes I realize it too, we have to get back to the Tardis." Alyssa let out a sigh, as she looked at the Doctor. But they didn't say anything out loud as Margaret said, "In the family Slitheen, we had no choice. I was made to carry out my first kill at thirteen. If I'd refused, my father would have fed me to the Venom Grubs. If I'm a killer, it's because I was born to kill. It's all I know. Doctor, Alyssa, are you even listening to me?" but Alyssa and the Doctor weren't paying attention as they heard something faint. A Rumbling noise that definitely not a normal sound
"Can you hear that?" the Doctor said,
"I'm begging for my life," Margaret said,
"No, listen, shush." The Doctor said as the two tried to make out the noise. The glasses on the table shook, and it wasn't long before the window next to the group shattered. Screams sounded around them as the ground started to shake. They instantly got up and started running for the Tardis only to stop when Margaret called out "The handcuffs!" The Doctor took the cuff off of her when she reached them.
"Don't think you're running away." The Doctor said,
"Oh, I'm sticking with you. Some date this turned out to be!" Margaret said as they took off running towards the Tardis again. Running into other people running in the opposite direction. They saw the Tardis which had what looked like lightning hitting it. "It's the rift. The rift's opening!" The Doctor said before the three rushed over to the Tardis. Cracks followed them as they ran before entering the Tardis.
"What the hell are you doing?" The Doctor yelled as the Tardis was shaking and the tardis was making a noise that almost sounded like an alarm was going off.
"It just went crazy!" Jack said as he rushed around the Tardis console.
"It's the rift. Time and space are ripping apart. The whole city's going to disappear!" the Doctor said as he got to the console trying to fix what was going on while Alyssa stayed close to Margaret she knew what was going to happen next.
"It's the extrapolator. I've disconnected it but it's still feeding off the engine! It's using the Tardis. I can't stop it!" Jack said as he messed with some of the controls on the console.
"Never mind Cardiff, it's going to rip open the planet." The Doctor said as Rose entered Alyssa instantly pushed Rose forward as Rose asked "What is it? What's happening?!" but before Alyssa could react and answer the claw of Margaret went around her neck keeping her still, "Oh, just little me." Margaret said,
"Alyssa!" The Doctor's voice went into Alyssa's head and she just mentally said back "I'm okay don't change the plan." yet her words didn't stop the Doctor from rushing forward. Only to stop when Margaret said, "One wrong move and she snaps like a promise." as she tightened the grip around Alyssa's throat.
"I might've known." The Doctor said as he glanced between Alyssa and Margaret.
"I've had you bleating all night, poor baby, now shut it. You, flyboy, put the extrapolator at my feet." Margaret said as she moved forward bringing Alyssa up with her. Addressing Jack, Tightening the grip once more around Alyssa's neck making her whimper. As she started fighting her as she struggled to breathe. The Doctor nodded at Jack who put the Extrapolator at her feet. "Thank you. Just as I planned."
"I thought you needed to blow up the nuclear power station," Rose said, as she realized that it was Alyssa who pushed her forward so she wouldn't be in that position.
"Failing that, if I were to be arrested, then anyone capable of tracking me down would have considerable technology of their own. Therefore, they would be captivated by the extrapolator. Especially a magpie mind like yours, Doctor. So the extrapolator was programmed to go to plan B. To lock onto the nearest alien power source and open the rift. And what a power source it found. I'm back on schedule, thanks to you."
"The rift's going to convulse. You'll destroy the whole planet." Jack said,
"And you with it!" Margaret said, as she pulled Alyssa to the other side of her and away from her before standing on the Extrapolator "While I ride this board over the crest of the inferno all the way to freedom. Stand back, boys. Surf's up." The Tardis console cracked open and shone a light on Margaret's face. Alyssa instantly looked away as the Doctor said, "Of course, opening the rift means you'll pull this ship apart."
"So sue me," Margaret said,
"But it's not an old power source," Alyssa said, struggling a bit.
"It's the Tardis. My Tardis. The best ship in the universe." The Doctor finished,
"It'll make wonderful scrap," Margaret said,
"What's that light?" Rose asked,
"The heart of the Tardis. This ship's alive. You've opened its soul." the Doctor said, making Margaret look into it.
"It's so bright."
"Look at it, Margaret."
"Beautiful."
"Look inside, Blon Fel Fotch. Look at the light." The Doctor said, and Margaret's grip around Alyssa's neck loosened and let Alyssa go, Jack instantly held a hand out to her and she took it. Jack pulled Alyssa to him. "Thank you," Margaret said, as she disappeared into the light and her bodysuit crumpled to the floor. "Don't look. Stay there. Close your eyes!" The Doctor said, to the three and instantly all of them closed their eyes as the Doctor closed the panel, "Now, Jack, come on, shut it all down. Shut down! Rose, that panel over there, turn all the switches to the right." The Doctor said as they worked to stop the rift from opening. "Nicely done. Thank you, all."
"What happened to Margaret?" Rose asked as the Doctor walked over to look at skin suit Margaret was using
"Must've got burnt up. Carried out her own death sentence." Jack said as Alyssa walked over to the doctor,
"No, I don't think she's dead." The Doctor said,
"She isn't dead," Alyssa said,
"Then where'd she go?" Rose asked,
"She looked into the heart of the Tardis. Even I don't know how strong that is. And the ship's telepathic, like I told you, Rose. Gets inside your head. Translates alien languages. Maybe the raw energy can translate all sorts of thoughts." The Doctor said, and leaned down and found an egg in the suit. "Here she is."
"She's an egg?" Rose asked,
"Regressed to her childhood." The Doctor responded,
"She's an egg?"
"Yes, she's an egg," Alyssa said, laughing at the two companions who were shocked at the revelation
"She can start again. Live her life from scratch. If we take her home, give her to a different family, tell them to bring her up properly, she might be all right!" The Doctor said,
"Or she might be worse," Jack said,
"That's her choice." The Doctor said,
"She's an egg." Rose stated again, making Alyssa burst out laughing and said: "man I missed you."
"She's an egg." The Doctor said,
"Oh, my God. Mickey." Rose said, before taking off out of the Tardis to go find Mickey. The Doctor looked over at Alyssa "You Alright?"
"Yes, She didn't even hurt me."
"But you fought her."
"I was pretending, do you really think a Slitheen could hurt a Time lady who was in the time war and trained by him before that?" Alyssa said gesturing to Jack,
"Wait what?" Jack said,
"Oh, crap." Alyssa said before turning back to Jack "Spoilers sorry."
"There is still one thing I am confused about you said you two were the stubborn people in the world, what made you change your mind?"
"Well, I never changed my mind for one. I was acting most of today, and I never said, Let the slitheen take care of you, I just said take her home. That can be open to interpretation. She's an egg, we plan to take her home. Just like I always said. The Doctor wasn't acting yet he didn't know everything that was going to happen today so you could say his mind wasn't changed?"
"Yeah, that clears things right up." Jack said, being extremely sarcastic
" do you always have to be sarcastic?"
"You love it," Jack said, as he smiled at her,
"Jack no flirting with me, just don't please," Alyssa said before she left the console room and made her way to the library. She instantly got to work when she got there. Grabbing many books about materials, as she started writing down what type of metals would work for this. But they were rare and with her jumping, they were almost impossible for her to get and the machine was even more impossible for her. The only way this machine could be made is if the Doctor made it. "What are you doing?" the Doctor said, Alyssa jumped and slammed her notebook and the book about materials closed, "Just some light research," Alyssa said, as she stood up and walked over to him. "Did you want something?"
"Yes, I wanted to talk to you about what happened today. I have never seen this version of you so cruel."
"This version? And how many times have you seen this version of me, Doctor?"
"Twice," The Doctor admitted, " Yet I have seen a future version of you and you were never this cruel I am just making sure that this isn't the turning point about who you become. And I don't want you to become like…" the Doctor trailed off,
"Like who doctor?" Alyssa said
"Like me, when I first met you and Rose,"
"Oh Doctor, I will never become like you, I have just come out of the war and it changed me Doc, and I don't think I will become like the old version of me which you will see plenty of in the future, but I still hold the same beliefs as that women. Right now I just don't know who I am anymore, but I know for certain that I need to find that out on my own and you can't help me with that. This is something I have to figure out on my own. But I promise you, Doctor, I will not become like you." she said, before she walked over to him and hugged him, they pulled apart and the Doctor said "I'll leave you to your research I have to do some of my own with Jack." before leaving the library. She smiled as she finished writing down the best materials to make the machine out of. She put the notebook back in her pocket and put the materials book away as she made her way to the Console. "So it's the same story every time? The Golden Angel saves many?" She heard Jack ask "Yes it just never says who it is."
"Why are you following this doctor? This could be a wild goose chase for all we know."
"The Golden Angel was there on one of the last days of the Great time war. And she prevented or at least delayed the fall of one of Gallifrey's greatest cities. She can't be anything other then Time-Lord, since she was on Gallifrey around that time not many other races, were so if there are stories about her, that keep popping up that means she is alive, and a Time-Lady that means I am not the only one I have to find her." The Doctor said Alyssa let out a shaky sigh as she entered the Console room. "How about you ask me?" She said, and the two people's eyes snapped to hers. "Do you know who the Golden Angel is?" The Doctor said,
"I am the Golden Angel, Doc. Well, that's what many people call me, but I didn't think that much of it."
"But that can't be you." the Doctor said, as he walked over to her. " There are so many stories about you, and you just…"
"What came from the time war? I didn't tell you when I was in it, but I was there around the final days. I was outside Arcadia when thousands of Dalek fleets descended with the intention of destruction. So I stopped them."
"But that story tells of someone who used the power of the time vortex, the only way you could've done that…" He said, trailing off as he realized why she was so hurt when she jumped here.
"Absorbed the Time Vortex? Doc, it's a little more complicated than that, I wish I can tell you but I can't, this is one of those moments where I ask you to trust me." Alyssa said, as she walked up to him and stared at him in the eyes, her gaze soft, he only nodded as he said: "what did you do to the Daleks?"
"I didn't kill them, the fall of Arcadia was a fixed point for the Time war and your past, and for some reason even when I had all that power there was something inside me that was telling me no don't do that, I transported them across space so that they were miles away from Gallifrey, 7 days was all I could give Arcadia, and you." she said, before she winced as a headache ran through her head she smiled at him as she said "I hope I lived up to your expectations." before golden flecks danced around her and she disappeared. "Yes you did Alyssa," The Doctor whispered to the air, before turning back to the Tardis console ready to leave Cardiff for Raxacoricofallapatorius.