As Rose, the Doctor, Jack, and Mickey made their way to where they knew Margret would be, Rose wished their afternoon could've at least lasted a little longer. They had all been chatting away, laughing at Jack's crazy story, when the Doctor found their old enemy in that morning's paper. Immediately, they were off. No time to waste when there was such a threat. Rose caught Mickey and Jack up to speed as they made their way to the local government offices. She was silently hoping for less collateral damage, but she had also accepted the fact that there wasn't much she could do differently this time around.
The moment they made it into the building, Jack, much to the Doctor's annoyance, started rattling off the plan. Rose tuned out the conversation following, then made her way off to her station. Before getting there, however, she remembered which way Margret was going to leg it. Immediately, she turned around and made her way towards there. As she was halfway there, the Doctor made the call to them, telling them where she was going. At that, Rose started to sprint.
Margret spotted Rose running towards her, and made to run the other direction with a hiss. Rose saw Jack making his way across the parking lot, and the Doctor came bounding towards them from where Margret had just come. Margret was running as fast as she could, which wasn't that fast, but Rose noticed her slipping off her earrings, obviously her transporters.
"Who's on exit four?" Jack called out as Margret made her get away.
"Here I am." Mickey panted, bursting out the side door to them with a bucket stuck to his foot.
"Mickey the Idiot." The Doctor chided.
"Wot, not like she's gonna out run us." Mickey protested, but the moment it was out of his mouth, Margret disappeared.
"She's got a teleport, that's cheating!" Jack growled. "Now we're never gonna get her!"
"Oh, the Doctor is very good with teleports." Rose reassured him.
With a flourish, the Doctor pressed the button on his sonic. It whirred and Margret reappeared, running straight towards them. Her triumphant smile vanished, then she turned around, and she vanished as well. The Doctor switched his sonic on again, and Margret appeared again, closer. She tried again, running and teleporting off, but the Doctor flipped his sonic on again and she appeared even closer.
"I could do this all day." The Doctor told Margret as she struggled for breath in front of them.
"This is persecution." She said, holding her hands up. "Why cant you just leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?"
"You tried to kill us and destroy the planet, 'member?" Rose interjected.
"Apart from that." Margret replied, just as sarcastically.
The Doctor simply shook his head and took her by the arm, leading her back into the building.
"So, you're a Slitheen, you're on Earth, you're trapped," the Doctor said as they entered the presentation room. "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?" He asked. They all turned to study the scale model of the nuclear plant.
"A philanthropic gesture." Margret replied calmly, causing Rose to snort. "It's true, I've learned the error of my ways."
"And it just so happens to be right on top of the Rift."
"And what rift would that be?"
"A rift in space and time." Jack said irritably, "If this power station went into meltdown, the entire planet would go…" Jack made a noise, imitating what it would sound like if the entire planet sucked in on itself.
"This station is designed to explode the miute it reaches capacity." The Doctor deduced.
"And nobody noticed? Isn't there someone in London checkin' this sorta stuff?" Mickey asked.
"Oh, I'm sure there was." Rose said, only now realizing the horrible truth of this matter. "But somehow, I get the feelin' they didn't get very far." She glared coldly at Margret.
"There were some incidents." Margret said, defending herself with ease. "Accidents cannot be avoided in a project this size."
"But why would she do that? A great big explosion, she'd only end up killin' herself." Came Mickey again.
"She's got a name y'know." Margret said indignantly.
"She's not even a she, she's a thing." Mickey retorted.
"Oh, but she's clever." The Doctor said, then he picked up the grey piece under the model power station and flipped it over, revealing the blue wiring on the other side. "Fantastic."
"Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator?" Jack asked excitedly.
"Couldn't have put it better myself." Replied the Doctor with raised eyebrows.
"Oh, genius!" Jack said, taking the board from him to examine it more closely. "You didn't build this." He said, walking over to Margaret.
"I have my hobbies." Margret said with false modesty. "A little tinkering…"
"No, no, no, I mean, you really didn't build this." Jack clarified. "Way beyond you."
"Probably stolen." Rose commented. "Wotsit do anyway?"
"It's transport." Jack explained. "You see, the reactor blows, the rift opens, phenomenal cosmic disaster, but this thing shrouds you in a force field. You have this energy bubble, zoom, so you're safe. Then you feed it coordinates, stand on top, and ride the concussion all the way out of the solar system."
"It's a surfboard." Mickey said simply.
"A pan-dimensional surfboard, yeah."
"And it would've worked." Margaret said bitterly. "I would've surfed away from this dead-end dump and back to civilization."
"Yeah, yeah. If it weren't for us meddlin' kids." Rose scoffed, earning her a chuckle from Jack. The Doctor, however, was distracted. Rose walked over to him as Mickey spoke.
"You'd blow up a whole planet just to get a lift?" She heard Mickey ask.
"Like stepping on an ant hill." Margret replied with ease.
"How'd you think of the name?" The Doctor asked suddenly, starring up at the poster.
"What, Blaidd Drwg? It's Welsh."
"I know, but how did you think of it?"
"Chose it at random, that's all." She said. "I dunno. Just sounded good. Does it matter?"
"Blaidd Drwg," He repeated, turning around again with his brows furrowed.
"What does it mean?" Jack asked.
"Bad Wolf." The Doctor said. Rose shivered next to him.
"I've heard that before." Rose said in a small, hollow voice. "I've heard that loads of times. Like it's followin' us."
"Everywhere we go, those two words. Bad Wolf." The Doctor looked down at Rose. The look on her face made him worried, he'd never seen her so scared. He immediately scoffed. "Nah, just a coincidence, I suppose. Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day." This time, Rose noted, he didn't sound as convinced. "Never mind. Things to do! Margret, we're taking you home."
"Wait, isn't that the easy option, like letting her go?" Jack asked, shocked.
"They have the death penalty." Margret said in a dark voice. "The family Slitheen was tried in its absence and found guilty, with no chance of appeal. According to the statutes of government, the moment I return I'm to be executed. Take me home and you take me to my death. What do you make of that, Doctor?"
There was a long, tense pause.
"Not my problem." The Doctor replied, but Rose could sense the unease in his voice.
She hated having to let this play out, but the Doctor had already turned to go back to the TARDIS, Mickey and Jack taking Margret the Slitheen by each arm to lead her out.
A/N: Literally the worst thing happened. I was using Amazon Prime to rewatch these episodes for accurate dialogue, when they decided to no longer make Doctor Who available on Prime. Now, I have to pay to watch these episodes, right when I was in the MIDDLE of Boom Town! UGH! I will continue this fic, as soon as I find a way to do so. I might just have to pay them... Anywho, I hope you enjoyed this. I probably won't be back as soon as I'd like due to these set backs, but I will not abandon this fic!