"Exterminate! Exterminate!" Sarah Jane closed her eyes and waited to be shot, instead she heard an explosion. Opening her eyes she saw Mickey standing next to her. "Mickey?" As she got out.
Mickey grinned at her. "Us Smiths gotta stick together."
The blonde woman with Mickey walked up to them. "Jackie Tyler," she introduced. "Rose's mum, now, where the hell is my daughter?"
Gwen and Ianto stopped firing when they realised that the Daleks haven't shot anything, that's when they realised that their own bullets had stopped mid air. Gwen walked upto them and touched one of the bullets and noticed a water like ripple move away from it. "What the hell?" She questioned.
The moment everyone was back in the TARDIS, the Doctor pulled Rose and Jenny into a big hug as they all grinned at each other.
Donna turned to Jack. "You can hug me if you want," she suggested. Jack grinned as he watched the family being reunited. "No, really, you can hug me."
"It's a time lock," Ianto explained. "The ultimate defence programme, Tosh was working on it. I never thought she finished it, but she did! The Hub's sealed in a time bubble, nothing can get in."
Gwen looked at him. "But that means we can't get out," she realised.
Ianto nodded his head in agreement. "Nope, not without unlocking that Dalek. We're trapped inside, it's all up to Jack now."
The TARDIS power shut down suddenly. "They've got us!" The Doctor explained. "Power's gone! Some kind of chronon loop."
Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie hid behind a car as they watched the Daleks send the TARDIS to the crucible. "Transferring Tardis to the crucible."
Sarah Jane turned to Mickey. "Those teleport things, can we use them? If they've taken the Doctor to the Dalek spaceship, then that's where we need to be."
"It's not just a teleport, it's a Dimension jump," Mickey explained. "This thing rips a hole in the fabric of space."
"But can we use it?" Sarah Jane insisted.
Mickey shook his head. "Not yet, it burns up energy, needs half an hour between jumps."
Sarah Jane sighed. "Then put down your guns," she suggested.
Mickey sent her a confused look. "Do what?"
"If you're carrying a gun, they'll shoot you dead," she explained as she stepped out from behind the car and walked towards the Daleks with her hands up. "Daleks! I surrender!"
The Daleks turned to her. "All humans in this sector will be taken to the crucible!" The Daleks stated.
"She's bloody mad!" Mickey breathed out.
Jackie nodded her head. "Yeah, but, Mickey, if they've got the Doctor then they've got Rose," Jackie pointed out as she placed her gun down and held up her hands. "And us, we surrender," Mickey kissed his gun before setting it down and following the woman.
Martha strapped project indigo back on. "Now Jack's explained the basecode, I know how this teleport works," Martha explained to her mother. "I think," she turned to her mother. "But you just stay indoors, there's no Daleks on this street, you should be all right, just keep quiet."
"But where are you going?" Her mother questioned.
Martha sighed. "I'm a member of UNIT and they gave me the Osterhagen Key. I've got to do my job. I'm sorry."
"Martha, what's an Osterhagen Key? Tell me," Mrs Jones demanded, she softened her voice. "What does it do?"
Martha refused to answer. "Love you," she stated as she pulled the cords and disappeared from her mothers home. Martha found herself in a forest, she could hear Daleks speaking German and smiled as she took off away from them.
"There's a massive Dalek ship at the centre of the planets," Jack explained. "They're calling it the Crucible, guess that's our destination."
Donna turned to the Doctor. "You said these planets were like an engine but what for?"
The Doctor turned to Jenny. "Jenny, you met Donna in that alternate world did you find out any information on what's going on?"
Jenny shook her head. "I had the Bad Wolf helping me, she's the one that said it's the darkness. The stars were going out, one by one."
The Doctor turned to Rose. "Have you heard anything?"
Rose shook her head. "Just what I told you before Shan Shen. That I felt something drawing us nearer, pulling us together," Rose gasped as Bad Wolf sent a thought to her. "It's not just in our world, but the whole of reality, even the Voids dying," Rose looked towards the Doctor. "Something is destroying everything."
Donna pointed to Jenny. "In that parallel world, you said something about me."
Jenny nodded. "My vortex manipulator, I modyfied it so it could measure time lines and it's. . . It's weird, Donna, but they all seem to converge on you."
"But why me?" Donna questioned. "I mean, what have I ever done? I'm a temp from Chiswick!"
"Oi," Rose called out as she pointed at Donna. "I told you to stop saying that."
A beeping noise started before anyone could respond and the Doctor checked the monitor. "The Dalek Crucible, all aboard!"
They could hear the Daleks on the outside. "The Tardis is secured, Doctor, you will step forth or die."
They all turned to face the doors. "We'll have to go out," the Doctor explained. "Cause if we don't, they'll get in."
"You told me nothing could get through those doors," Rose pointed out.
"You've got extrapolator shielding," Jack added.
The Doctor turned to look at them. "Last time we fought the Daleks, they were scavengers and hybrids and mad but this is a fully-fledged Dalek Empire at the height of its power, experts at fighting Tardises, they can do anything. Right now, that wooden door is just wood," the Doctor explained as he turned to Jenny. "What about your teleport?"
Jenny checked and shook her head. "It's gone down with the power loss."
The Doctor turned to Jack who also shook his head. "Same as Jenny's."
Rose was destructed by really beautiful singing as the others kept talking. "Right then, all of us together, yeah," he grinned at each of them before he noticed Rose's distraction. "Rose? Rose?"
The Doctor placed his hands on either side of her face breaking her away from the singing. "Yeah," she agreed.
The Doctor caressed her cheek. "I'm sorry, there's nothing else we can do."
Rose nodded her head. "Yeah, I know," she assured him.
"Surrender, Doctor, and face your Dalek masters," the Daleks called out. "Crucible on maximum alert!"
"Daleks!" Jack shuddered as he laughed. "Oh, God!"
The Doctor faced them all. "It's been good, though, hasn't it?" He questioned. "All of us, all of it everything we did," he faced Jack. "You were brilliant," then he turned to Donna. "And you were brilliant," then he turned to Jenny. "And you were brilliant but you must not let them know who you really are," he informed her before turning to Rose and kissing her softely. "And you were the most brilliant one of all. Blimey," the Doctor stated as he stepped out into the crucible.
"Daleks reign supreme," the supreme Dalek stated as the rest took up the chant. "All hail the Daleks! Daleks reign supreme," They could hear the chant run throughout the crucible. "Behold the might of the true Dalek race!"
Rose turned blocking Donna from exiting as well, as the singing started again, she turned, trying to find where it was coming from cause it sounded desperate. "Rose, Donna! You're no safer in there," the Doctor called to them. The TARDIS doors slammed shut suddenly, trapping both Rose and Donna on the TARDIS. The Doctor ran to the doors. "Rose, Donna?"
The slamming of the doors broke Rose away from the singing as she and Donna started pulling on the doors to open them. "Doctor? What have you done?" Rose questioned while Donna just called for the Doctor.
"It wasn't me, I didn't do anything!" The Doctor insisted.
"Oi! Oi, I'm not staying behind!" Donna yelled at him.
The Doctor turned and galared at the supreme Dalek. "What did you do?" He demanded.
"This is not of Dalek origin," the supreme Dalek stated.
"Doctor!" Rose and Donna chorused.
The Doctors look turned fearful. "Stop it, their my friends," he called out, not willing to let them see exactly how much Rose means to him. "Now, open the door and let them out."
"This is Time Lord treachery," the supreme Dalek stated.
The Doctor walked towards him. "Hey, the door just closed on its own!"
"Nevertheless, the Tardis is a weapon and it will be destroyed!" The supreme Dalek informed them as a trap door opened underneath the TARDIS and the TARDIS fell with Rose and Donna trapped inside.
The Doctor ran to the opening and stared down. "What are you doing? Bring it back!" The Doctor demanded.
Rose and Donna held on as they felt the TARDIS falling. "Doctor!" Donna yelled out as Rose closed her eyes and sent him all the positive emotions she could, hoping he'd receive them.
"What've you done? Where's it going?" He demanded.
"The Crucible has a heart of Z-Neutrino energy," the supreme Dalek informed him. "The Tardis will be deposited into the core."
The Doctor gasped. "You can't, you've taken the defences down. It'll be torn apart!"
Jenny glared at the supreme Dalek. "But my mum and Donna's still in there!"
"Let them go!" Jack agreed.
"The females and the Tardis will perish together," the supreme Dalek sounded like it was gloating. "Observe! The last child of Gallifrey is powerless," a screen appeared above them and they saw the TARDIS floating in what looked like a small sun.
The Doctor turned back to the supreme Dalek. "Please, I'm begging you, I'll do anything! Put me in their place. You can do anything to me, I don't care, just get them out of there!"
"You are connected to the Tardis," the supreme Dalek stated. "Now feel it die!"
Rose and Donna held on as fires broke out all around the console room and the lights burst one by one. The singing noise intensified until it drowned out everything else, Rose looked up and noticed that the heart of the TARDIS was open and suddenly she remembered everything. Rose turned to Donna. "What ever happens, Donna, do not come near me," Rose insisted as she pulled herself up and moved towards the light.
"What do you mean, if something happens to you?" She questioned but Rose ignored her as she stood before the light. Donna watched in amazement as the light seemed to enter Rose's eyes and she started glowing, not like the times before but blazing like the sun.
Donna grew more concerned the longer Rose stood as if paralysed while the TARDIS was being destroyed around her. Donna hesitantly moved towards her, ignoring Rose's order and reached out a hand to touch her. "Rose?"
Rose's head snapped towards her and Donna took a quick step back as the vortex swirled in her eyes. She failed to notice the small thread of vortex energy be absorbed into her. "What have you done?" Rose questioned in an echoing voice. Rose then moved around the console and pushed the emergency button that not only hides the TARDIS from detection but sends her to a safe place.
"Total Tardis destruction in 10 rels," the supreme Dalek countered down as Jenny did what she knew her mother would do and took the Doctors hand. "Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. The Tardis has been destroyed," the supreme Dalek turned back towards him. "Now, tell me, Doctor, what do you feel? Anger? Sorrow? Despair?"
The Doctor nodded his head. "Yeah," he agreed but he was confused, sure he couldn't feel either the TARDIS or Rose but at least with Rose he should've felt their thin bond rip but he didn't, it was more like she was being masked.
"Then if emotions are so important, surely we have enhanced you?" The supreme Dalek suggested.
"Yeah? Feel this!" Jack yelled out as he pulled his gun out and fired.
"Exterminate!" The Dalek called out as Jack was shot.
Jenny gasped. "Uncle Jack! Oh, my God!" Jenny ran to him. "Oh, no."
The Doctor lifted Jenny back up. "Jenny, come here, leave him," he insisted.
She buried her head in the Doctors chest. "They killed him," she sobbed out.
The Doctor tried to comfort her but he never had a chance to build a parental bond with her so he had to settle for the human way. "I know," he agreed. "I'm sorry."
"Escort them to the Vault," the supreme Dalek ordered.
The Doctor stood them both up. "There's nothing we can do," he assured his daughter.
"They are the playthings of Davros now," the supreme Dalek stated as the Doctor and Jenny were led away. Just before he left the Doctor glanced over at Jack and saw him wink as he played dead.
Donna stared at Rose in amazement as she watched her fix the TARDIS. "There we are old girl, nice and new, we'll old new," she corrected. "Gorgeous," then she turned to Donna. "Shh! No one knows we're here gotta keep quiet. Silent running, like on submarines when they can't even drop a spanner. Don't drop a spanner," a pair of sunglasses appeared on the console. "Thanks old girl," Rose thanked as she put them on to hide her glowing eyes. "What do think, are they me?"
Donna seemed to still be in shock, she watched as Rose was able to pull them away from danger, dim the glow she had down so you could hardly see it except for her eyes then watched as she fixed the TARDIS, all while talking to the ship. "You are bonkers," she exclaimed.
Rose pouted. "Why, don't you like them?"
"How the hell did you do all that? What are you?" Donna questioned.
Rose grinned at her. "I'm unique, I'm the only being in the entire universe that can handle the power of the vortex. I am the Bad Wolf, never been another like me," Rose lost a bit of her grin. "Still, you touched me," she pointed out as she stood really close to Donna. "Yet nothing seems to have happened."
"Oi! Watch it, wolfy!" Donna exclaimed as she moved away from her.
"Oi! Watch it, nobel!" Roses brow quirked at that. "Ooh, I sound like you. I sound all, all rude."
Donna folded her arms. "Oi!" She complained.
Rose copied her. "Oi!"
"Oi!" Donna repeated.
Rose placed her hand over Donna's mouth. "Shh! Remember the spanner. I must've picked up a bit of your voice, that's all, you don't seem to have glowing eyes," Donna pushed her back a bit to gain some personal space. "That's strange the last time someone touched me, well the Doctor kissed me, the vortex transferred to him and it killed him," Rose's head snapped to the console and she seemed to be listening to something. "Oh, really," she seemed to whine before rolling her eyes. "Okay."
"But why am I here?" Donna questioned.
Rose beamed at her. "Cause you're special."
Donna shook her head. "I keep telling you, I'm not!"
"No, but you are," Rose insisted. "Oh, you really don't believe that, do you? I can see, Donna, what you're thinking, all that attitude, all that lip, 'cause all this time - you think you're not worth it."
"Stop it," Donna insisted.
"Shouting at the world 'cause no one's listening," Rose ignored her. "Well, why should they?"
Donna glared at her. "Rose, stop it."
"But look at what you did," Rose gestured around her before seeming to listen to the TARDIS again. "No, it's more than that, it's like we were always heading for this. You came to the Tardis, then you found us again. Your granddad! Your car, Donna, your car. You parked your car right where the Tardis was going to land, that's not coincidence," Rose hit her head suddenly in a very Doctor way. "Oh, we've been blind, something's been drawing us together for such a long time."
Donna shook her head. "But you're talking like destiny. There's no such thing, is there?"
Rose's glow seemed to brighten momentarily. "It's still not finished, like the pattern's not complete, the strands are still drawing together but heading for what?"
Martha made it to a castle nearby and was confronted with a German woman. "That accent, that is London, ja?" The woman pointed out. "I went to London, long time ago."
Martha looked around. "I thought this place was supposed to be guarded."
The German woman nodded her head. "They were soldiers, boys. I brought them food, every day but when the Albtraume came from the sky, they went home, to die. But not you?"
"I've got a job to do," Martha explained as the woman led her to a dinning room. Martha walked right up to a wall and pulled the tapestry away to reveal a hand print analyser. She typed in her code and placed her hand on the scanner.
The German woman had followed her. "London, in those days, to see it! So much glamour, I was so young. I heard the soldiers talking, many times. They would speak of the Osterhagen Key, I think London must be changed now, yes? But still, the glamour," Martha ignored the woman as she watched the wall open, she turned as she heard a gun being cocked. "You will not go," the woman demanded.
"I've got no choice," Martha insisted.
"I know the Key," the woman explained. "What it does," before she resorted to speaking German.
Martha nodded her head. "Then do it," she urged her. The woman's hand shook before she lowered it and spoke to her in German.
Martha nodded her head. "I know," she agreed as she stepped in the elevator and was lowered down. She walked upto the chair and placed the card on the station as she pushed the comms. "This is Osterhagen Station One, my name is Martha Jones. Is there anyone there? Over."
"Prisoners now on board the Crucible. They will be taken for testing!" The Daleks stated as Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie walked through the corridors with their hands on their heads.
"One step closer to the Doctor," Sarah Jane assured them.
The Doctor and Jenny were led down to the vault where Davros was waiting and forced to stand seperatly. "Activate the holding cells," Davros ordered as a light was shined on each of them, the Doctor held out his hand and met a wall that rippled. "Excellent, even when powerless a Time Lord is best contained."
"Still scared of me, then?" The Doctor grinned.
Davros ignored his taunt. "It is time we talked Doctor, after so very long."
The Doctor shook his head. "No, no, no, we're not doing the nostalgia tour. I want to know what's happening right here, right now, cause the Supreme Dalek said Vault, yeah? As in dungeon.
Cellar, prison. You're not in charge of the Daleks, are you? They've got you locked away down here in the basement like, what, a servant? A slave? Court jester?" The Doctor taunted.
"We have an arrangement," Davros hesitated.
"No, no, no, no, no," the Doctor grinned. "I've got the word, you're the Dalek's pet."
Davros turned to Jenny. "So very full of fire, is he not and to think you travelled the entire universe to find him again."
The Doctor hit his holding cell. "Leave her alone," he ordered, afraid that they might find out exactly who she was to him.
Davros turned to him. "She is mine, to do as I please."
Jenny scoffed. "Then why am I still alive?"
"You must be here," Davros explained. "It was foretold, even the Supreme Dalek would not dare to contradict the prophecies of Dalek Caan."
Another light turned on to show the mutilated Dalek. "So cold and dark, fire is coming, the endless flames and the wolf will howl for her children of time."
Jenny gasped. "What is that thing?"
The Doctor sighed as he tried to puzzle over the ranting. "The last of the Cult of Skaro but it flew into the Time War, unprotected."
"Caan did more than that, he saw Time," Davros added. "Its infinite complexity and majesty raging through his mind and he saw you, both of you."
Caan started waving his tentacles around. "This I have foreseen in the wild in the wind. The Doctor will be here as witness at the end of everything. The Doctor, the Wolf and their precious children of time and one of them will die!"
The Doctor hit his cell again. "Was it you, Caan? Did you kill Rose and Donna? Why did the Tardis door close? Tell me!" The Doctor ordered.
Davros pointed at him. "Oh, that's it! The anger! The fire! The rage of a Time Lord who butchered millions, there he is," Davros turned to him. "Why so shy? Show your companion, show her your true self. Dalek Caan has promised me that, too."
"I have seen at the time of ending the Doctor's soul will be revealed," Caan cackled.
The Doctor sent Caan a cofused look. "What does that mean?"
"We will discover it together," Davros informed him. "Our final journey, because the ending approaches, the testing begins."
"Testing of what?" The Doctor questioned.
Davros grinned. "The Reality Bomb."
"Prisoners will stand in the designated area!" A Dalek ordered. "Move! Move!" One woman collapsed to the ground and Jackie helped her up as a Dalek approached. "You will stand!"
The woman shook her head. "I can't."
"You will stand!" The Dalek repeated.
"I can't," the woman explained. "Please."
"On your feet, on your feet!" The Dalek continued.
Sarah Jane noticed a door nearby so while the Daleks were distracted she ran to it and used her sonic lipstick to open the door. "Mickey, Mickey," Sarah Jane whisper yelled to get his attention.
Mickey looked to her then back to Jackie. "Jackie," he called out as he ran to the door but Jackie was helping the woman up so couldn't move.
"Prisoners will stand in the designated area!" The Dalek commanded.
The door closed after Mickey was through and all they could do was watch helplessly. "We can't just leave her!" Mickey exclaimed.
Sarah Jane grabbed his arm before he could open the door. "No, Mickey, wait!"
"What does it mean? What are they testing?" The woman Jackie had helped up questioned. "What are they gonna do?"
Jackie looked up. "I reckon it's that thing there," Jackie pointed out as a circle shaped construction started glowing green.
"Testing calibration of Reality Bomb," the supreme Dalek announced. "Firing in 10 rels, Nine, eight; seven, six."
Davros moved to watch the screen with the Doctor and Jenny. "Behold the apotheosis of my genius!" He announced.
"One, zero. Activate planetary alignment field!" The supreme Dalek ordered.
Rose and Donna held on as the TARDIS shook, Rose brought the readings up on screen. "It's the planets," she explained. "The 27 planets!"
The Doctor had realised the same thing. "But that's Z-Neutrino energy, flattened by the alignment of the planets into a single string," he turned to Davros. "No! Davros! Davros, you can't! You can't! No!"
"Single string Z-Neutrinos compressed into. . . No, no way!" Rose called out in horror.
Mickey was pacing and trying to figure out how to get Jackie out of there when a beeping came from his pocket. "Thirty minutes," he realised as he pulled out his dimension hopper. "It's recharged!" He ran to the window and showed Jackie. "Use it!"
Jackie pulled out her demension jumper and turned to the woman she had helped. "I'm so sorry," she apoligised as she pushed the button and disappeared just as the beam was activated. The moment she reappeared next to Mickey he pulled her into a hug before they turned and watched as the prisoners dissolved into atoms.
"Test completed," a Dalek confirmed.
Jenny looked on in horror. "What was it? Da. . .Doctor, what did it do? Doctor, what happened?"
"Electrical energy, Miss Tyler," Davros explained. "Every atom in existence is bound by an electrical field. The Reality Bomb cancels it out, structure falls apart. That test was focused on the prisoners alone, full transmission will dissolve every form of matter."
"The stars are going out," Jenny breathed out.
The Doctor nodded his head in agreement. "The 27 planets, they become one vast transmitter. Blasting that wavelength. . ."
"Across the entire universe," Davros interrupted. "Never stopping, never faltering, never fading.
People and planets and stars will become dust, and the dust will become atoms, and the atoms will become nothing and the wavelength will continue breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade in to every dimension, every parallel. Every single corner of creation! This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The destruction of reality itself!"
"Prepare for universal detonation!" The supreme Dalek commanded. "The fleet will gather at the Crucible! All Daleks will return to shelter from the cataclysm! We will become the only life forms in existence!" He finished.
Mickey, Jackie and Sarah Jane startled as they turned around to see Jack rolling out from a ventalation shaft. "Just my luck," Jack sighed. "I climb through two miles of ventilation shafts chasing life signs on this thing, and who do I find? Mickey Mouse."
Mickey looked him up and down. "You can talk, Captain Cheesecake."
They both grinned suddenly as they hugged. "Good to see you," Jack agreed. "And that's "beefcake"."
"And that's enough hugging," Mickey pushed back from him.
Jack saluted Sarah Jane. "We meet at last, Miss Smith."
"There is something we can do," Sarah Jane pointed out. "You've got to understand, I have a son down there on Earth. He's only 14 years old," she held up a pendant with what looked like a diamond in the middle. "I brought this, it was given to me by a Verron soothsayer. He said, "This is for the end of days."
Jack took it from her as he looked at it. "Is that a Warp Star?"
"Gonna tell me what a Warp Star is?" Mickey questioned.
"A warpfold conjugation trapped in a carbonised shell," Jack explained. "It's an explosion, Mickey, an explosion waiting to happen."
Martha was waiting for any station to respond, she had already had one station checked in but they needed at least one more. "This is Osterhagen Station Five," a voice announced. "Are you receiving, Station One?"
"I've got you," Martha assured the woman. "That makes three of us and three is all we need."
"My name is Anna Zhou, what's yours?" The woman at station 5 asked. "Martha Jones, what about you, Station Four? You never said."
The man at station 4 shook his head. "I don't want my name on this, given what we're about to do."
Martha picked up the key as Anna asked. "So what happens now? Do we do it?"
Martha shook her head. "No, not yet."
"UNIT instructions say once three Osterhagen Stations are online. . ." Anna explained.
Martha cut her off. "Yeah, well, I've got a higher authority, way above UNIT and there's one more thing the Doctor would do."
"Incoming transmission! Origin planet Earth," a Dalek announced.
"Display," the supreme Dalek ordered.
A screen appeared with Martha on it. "This is Martha Jones representing the Unified Intelligence Taskforce on behalf of the human race."
"Send transmission to the Vault," the supreme Dalek commanded. "Continue to monitor."
The screen appeared and the Doctor and Jenny gasped as Martha appeared. "For the Dalek Crucible. Repeat', can you hear me?"
"Put me through," the Doctor ordered.
Davros grinned. "It begins, as Dalek Caan foretold."
"The children of time will gather, the wolf will howl and one of them will die!" Caan cackled.
The Doctor glared at him. "Stop saying that! Put me through!"
Martha gasped. "Doctor, I'm sorry, I had to."
"Oh, but the Doctor is powerless," Davros explained. "My prisoner, state your intent."
Martha held up a card looking key. "I've got the Osterhagen Key, leave this planet and its people alone or I'll use it."
The Doctors look turned to confusion. "Osterhagen what? What's an Osterhagen Key?"
Martha took a deep breath before explaining. "There's a chain of 25 nuclear warheads placed in strategic points beneath the Earth's crust. If I use the key, they detonate and the Earth gets ripped apart."
The Doctors look turned to shock. "What? Who invented that? Well, someone called Osterhagen, I suppose. Martha, are you insane?"
Martha frowned at him. "The Osterhagen Key is to be used if the suffering of the human race is so great, so without hope, that this becomes the final option."
"That's never an option!" The Doctor countered.
"Don't argue with me, Doctor!" Martha ordered. "Cause it's more than that, now, I reckon the Daleks need these 27 planets for something, but what if it becomes 26? What happens then? Daleks? Would you risk it?"
Jenny grinned at her. "She's good."
"Second transmission, internal!" A Dalek announced.
"Display," the supreme Dalek ordered.
A second screen appeared along side the first and Jack appeared with Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie in the background. "Captain Jack Harkness calling all Dalek boys and girls are you receiving me?" Jack held up what looked like a diamond. "Don't send in your goons or I'll set this thing off!"
Jenny gasped. "He's still alive!" She turned to look at the others. "Oh, my God, there's Aunt Sarah but who are they?" She pointed at the others.
The Doctor ignored her as he focused on what was going on. "Mickey, Captain, what are you doing?"
"I've got a Warp Star wired into the mainframe," Jack explained. "I break this shell, the entire Crucible goes up."
The Doctor gapped. "You can't! Where did you get a Warp Star?"
"From me," Sarah Jane explained as she pushed til she was standing next to Jack. "We had no choice, we saw what happened to the prisoners."
"Impossible," Davros gasped. "That face, after all these years."
Sarah Jane nodded her head once. "Davros, it's been quite a while. Sarah Jane Smith, remember?"
Davros grinned. "Oh, this is meant to be! The circle of time is closing, you were there on Skaro at the very beginning of my creation."
Sarah Jane glared at him. "And I've learnt how to fight since then."
"You let the Doctor go or this Warp Star, it gets opened," Jack demanded. "I'll do it, don't imagine I wouldn't."
Jenny grinned. "Now that's what I call a ransom! Doctor?"
Davros chuckled. "And the prophecy unfolds," he commented.
"The Doctor's soul is revealed! See him! See the heart of him!" Caan called out.
Davros grinned. "The man who abhors violence, never carrying a gun but this is the truth, Doctor! You take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons. Behold your children of time transformed into murderers," Davros gloated. "I made the Daleks, Doctor, you made this."
"They're trying to help," the Doctor insisted weakly.
"Already I have seen them sacrificed today for their beloved Doctor," Davros pointed out. "The Earth woman who fell opening the Subwave Network."
The Doctor's look turned to confusion. "Who was that?"
"Harriet Jones," Jenny explained to him. "But I saved her," she sent him a grin as the Doctor's head shot up.
Davros glared at Jenny before taunting. "How many have died in your name? The Doctor.
The man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor," He gloated. "I have shown you yourself."
Jenny hit her cage and glared at Davros doing what she knew her mother would do. "Your wrong," she saw the Doctor's head shoot to her. "I've travelled everywhere, trying to find him and Rose and everywhere I saw, he had helped people. You, you can't see it cause he's stopped you from hurting innocent people, people that have no idea what's out in the universe. Not just that he helps other people to know what's right," she gestured to the people on screen. "He shows them that sometimes you have to make the hard decisions if its for the greater good," she looked into the Doctors eyes to emphasise her point. "What's one planet or a few people when not just this universe but every universe is in trouble."
"Enough," The supreme Dalek commanded. "Engage defence zero five."
Martha took a step back. "It's the Crucible or the Earth."
"Transmat engaged!" A Dalek announced as everyone disappeared from where they were and landed inside the vault.
Jack jumped up immediatly and caught Martha. "I've got you," he assured her.
"Don't move, all of you," the Doctor ordered. "Stay still!"
Davros pointed to them. "Guard them!" He ordered. "On your knees all of you! Surrender!"
"Do as he says," the Doctor ordered.
Jackie looked around her before turning her confused gaze on the Doctor. "Doctor, where is Rose," she saw the sad look the Doctor showed her and shook her head. "No, where is my daughter?"
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Jackie," he apoligised.
Jenny gasped. "Your my grandmother," she realised.
It was Jackie's turn to gasp. "What?"
Before anything more could be said Davros spoke up. "The final prophecy is in place, the Doctor and his children all gathered as witnesses! Supreme Dalek, the time has come," Davros suggested. "Now! Detonate the Reality Bomb!"
"Activate planetary alignment field," the supreme Dalek ordered. "Universal Reality Detonation in 200 rels."
The Doctor hit his cell again. "You can't, Davros, just listen to me! Just stop!"
Davros started laughing evilly as he turned back to the Doctor. "Nothing can stop the detonation! Nothing and no one!"
Rose turned to Donna. "Ready!" Donna nodded as she grinned when Rose walked up to her and placed her hands on Donna's shoulders. "Remember, under no circumstances must you step foot outside that door," it was a slim chance that Donna would listen but she had to try. Donna nodded her head at her, Rose grinned before throwing the switch that would send them back to the crucible. "Maximum power!" She grinned.
The sound of the TARDIS appearing had everyone gasping. "But that's. . ." The Doctor stated.
"Impossible!" Davros's grin dropped.
Rose threw off her glasses as her glow brightened to a supernova. She sent Donna one more wolffish grin before opening the doors and stepping out into the vault. Everyone had to turn their heads away at the light that was coming from the ship. When they turned back, they gasped again in shock. "Brilliant!" Jack grinned as he saw Rose.
Rose started walking towards Davros. "Don't!" The Doctor warned her as his fear for her skyrocketed.
"Activate holding cell," Davros ordered as a cell was beamed onto Rose's form.
Rose seemed to pause as her head cantered to the side very much like a wolf before grinning and stepping through the holding cell. "No one, can cage time," Rose informed them in an echoing voice.
Davros moved backwards, trying to get out of her way. "What are you, what are you?"
Rose stopped again as she cantered her head. "I am the Bad Wolf."
Caan started cackling gleefully. "And see it, see the heart of the Doctor," he pointed out.
Davros glared at Caan. "But you said they were," he pointed to the others.
Everyone was distracted when Donna came racing out of the TARDIS. "Rose, Doctor! I've got it!" She assured them as she ran to the controls nearby and looked at it in confusion. "But I don't know what to do!"
Rose gasped as she saw Donna's future turned fixed. "Donna!" She yelled but it was too late and Donna was hit with a bolt of electricity and flew backwards.
"Donna! Donna!" the Doctor called out. "Are you all right, Donna?"
Davros turned back to the Doctor. "I was wrong about your warriors Doctor, they are pathetic!"
Jackie turned to the Doctor for an explanation. "How come Rose is glowing?"
The Doctor waved her off. "Never mind that, we need to stop the Reality Bomb."
"Detonation in 20 rels," the supreme Dalek informed them. "Nineteen. . ."
Bad Wolf turned back to Davros. "I give one chance and one chance only. Stop or I will make you."
Caan started cackling madly. "The wolf howls, the wolf howls."
"Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one," nothing happened.
An alarm sounded as Donna suddenly popped up standing in front of the controls. "And closing all Z-Neutrino relay loops using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop. That button there," she pointed out.
"System in shutdown!" A Dalek cried out.
"Detonation negative! Explain! Explain! Explain!" The supreme Dalek commanded.
The Doctor gasped at her in amazement. "Donna, you can't even change a plug!"
Donna grinned at him. "Do you wanna bet, Time Boy?"
"You'll suffer for this!" Davros tried to electrocute her but she pulled a switch and he electrocuted himself.
"Ooh, bio-electric dampening field with a retrogressive arc inversion," Donna grinned.
Davros pointed to her again. "Exterminate her!" He demanded.
"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Daleks cried out. "Weapons non-functional!"
Donna grinned again. "Whor! Macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength blocking Dalek weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix."
The Doctor was still gaping at her. "How did you work that out?"
Rose sighed as she stared at Donna sadly. "You absorbed some of my energy."
Donna nodded. "Oh, yes! That was a two-way transfer, half Wolf, half Donna and a small part time lord, after all the Doctor took the energy out of you the first time."
"Doctor Wolf Donna," the Doctor realised. "Just like the Ood said, remember? They saw it coming! The Doctor Wolf Donna!"
"Holding cells deactivated," Donna exclaimed as the lights above the Doctor and Jenny turned off. "Unseal the Vault," she looked between the Doctor and Jack. "Well, don't just stand there, boys, get to work!"
The Doctor and Jack ran to the control panel to help. "Stop them! Get her away from the controls," Davros ordered.
Donna flipped a switch and turned a dial. "And spin," she grinned as the Daleks started spinning.
"Help me! Help me!" Everyone grinned as the Daleks called out for help.
"And the other way," Donna pointed out as she turned the dial in the opposite direction.
The Doctor grinned at her. "What did you do?"
Donna leaned towards him. "A trip stitch circuit breaker in the psycho-kinetic threshold manipulator!"
The Doctor was back to gaping at her. "But that's brilliant! Why did I never think of that?"
Donna just grinned at him. "Because you're just a Time Lord, you dumbo! Lacking that little bit of human, that gut instinct, that comes hand in hand with planet Earth. I can think of ideas you wouldn't dream of in a million years! Oh, the universe has been waiting for me!" She explained. "Now, let's send that trip stitch all over the ship!" She wiggled her fingers at him. "Did I ever tell you? Best temp in Chiswick, 100 words per minute!"
The Daleks started panicking. "System malfunctioning!" They cried out. "Motor casing interference!"
"What is happening?" The supreme Dalek ordered. "Explain!"
Donna grinned at the Doctor and Jack. "Come on then, boys, we've got 27 planets to send home," she pointed out. "Activate Magnatron!"
"Stop this at once!" Davros called out.
Mickey ran to the TARDIS and grabbed the gun lying on the console. He ran back out and aimed it at Davros. "Just stay where you are, mister."
Jenny ran and helped everyone push the Daleks out of the way when Jackie looked between her and Rose. "You called me your grandmother."
Jenny grinned at her. "That's cause Rose is my mum," she informed them.
Sarah Jane gasped as she too looked between Rose who was still glowing and Jenny as she noted the similarities. "And the Doctor is my dad," she confirmed to the two gaping women.
"Ready?" Donna asked them. "And reverse!" She called out as they pulled out switches on the control panel.
"Off you go, Clom," the Doctor called out.
Jack grinned as he turned a switch. "Back home, Adipose III!"
"Shallacatop, Pyrovillia and the Lost Moon of Poosh, sorted!" Donna grinned.
The Doctor checked the readings. "We need more power."
Jenny turned to the Doctor. "Is anyone gonna tell us what's going on?"
Donna pointed to Rose. "When she absorbed the heart of the TARDIS, the first time, it would've killed her but he," she pointed to the Doctor. "Absorbed It out of her but she still changed then when Rose absorbed the heart a second time, I touched her and a minut amount of energy was transferred to me, carrying with it both the Bad Wolf and Time lord but it just stayed dormant in my head till the synapses got that extra little spark, kicking them into life. Thank you, Davros!" She pointed to herself. "Part human, part Time Lord, part Wolf."
Jenny grinned at her. "You are so unique, the time lines were converging on you."
"A human being with the knowledge of time!" Davros realised as he turned to Dalek Caan. "But you promised me, Dalek Caan! Why did you not foresee this?"
Rose turned her gaze from Donna, who she had been staring at sadly. "Oh, I think he did," she explained. "Something's been manipulating the time lines for ages, getting Donna Noble to the right place at the right time."
"This would always have happened," Dalek Caan agreed. "I only helped the Wolf."
"You betrayed the Daleks!" Davros raged.
Caan seemed to become more lucid. "I saw the Daleks, what we have done throughout time and space. The wolf showed me the truth of us, Creator, and we decreed no more!"
"I will descend to the Vault!" The supreme Dalek announced as he started lowering.
Mickey noticed the supreme Dalek lowering and cocked his gun. "Heads up!" He warned everyone.
"Davros you have betrayed us!" The supreme Dalek decreed.
"It was Dalek Caan!" Davros insisted.
"The Vault will be purged, you will all be exterminated!" The supreme Dalek informed them as he shot out the control panel.
Jack caught the gun that Mickey threw him and pointed it at the supreme Dalek. "Like I was saying, feel this!"
Donna and the Doctor stood back up as they looked over the controls. "Oh, we've lost the Magnatron! And there's only one planet left," he groaned. "Guess which one?"
He ran towards the TARDIS. "But we can use the Tardis," he insisted as he ran up to the console. "Holding Earth stability, maintaining atmospheric shell."
"The prophecy must complete," Dalek Caan pointed out.
"Don't listen to him!" Davros insisted as he watched Rose glowing brighter.
Caan continued. "I have seen the end of everything Dalek and you must make it happen, Bad Wolf."
Bad Wolf looked at everyone as tears ran down her cheeks. "He's right," she informed them. "Cause with or without a Reality Bomb, this Dalek Empire's big enough to slaughter the cosmos. They've got to be stopped."
Donna walked up to her. "Just wait for the Doctor," she begged.
The Doctor ran back out of the TARDIS as he saw Rose raise her hand and the Daleks started turning to dust. "What have you done?" He gasped out.
Bad Wolf turned to him. "Fulfilling the prophecy," she grinned at him. "I sent them back into the Time War," she explained to his relief. She turned and disappeared in front of their eyes only to reappear in front of Caan. "I give you a choice, Caan, we can help you have a body again and find you a planet to settle on."
Caan cackled again. "An endless sleep would be a blessing," he informed her. Bad Wolf nodded her head as she sang him to his everlasting sleep.
The crucible started shaking as fires broke out and sparks ignited. "Now, get in the Tardis!" The Doctor urged everyone. "Everyone! All of you inside! Run! In! In! In! In! In! Sarah Jane! Jenny!Jackie! Jack! Mickey!" He turned to Davros as Rose appeared back beside him. "Davros, come with me! I promise I can save you," he held out his hand to him.
Davros just pointed at him. "Never forget Doctor, you did this! I name you forever! You are the Destroyer of Worlds! One will still die," he reminded him.
The Doctor shook off that pronouncement as he made sure Rose was in before shutting the doors.
The moment Rose stepped foot back into the TARDIS the glow in her eyes brightened as a golden stream ran from her, back into the ship and the panel snapped closed. The Doctor caught her, just as she fell before he noticed her starting to glow.
Thanks to the knowledge she had, Donna knew exactly what was happening and pulled the Doctor away from her. The Doctor struggled but Jack stepped in and helped hold him back. "That's impossible," the Doctor breathed out as the glow intensified.
Jackie stared at her daughter in confusion. "What's happening to her?"
Donna was still holding the Doctor as she turned to the rest of the crew. "She's regenerating, when she absorbed the vortex energy the first time, it had already changed her into a Gallifreyan cause a human couldn't handle the energy but Gallifreyan's have only one heart," she explained. "It's not until Time Lords regenerate that they grow a second heart."
Everyone had to turn their gazes away as Rose erupted in a shower of light. Once the light had died down, they looked back and found Rose, still looking like herself. The Doctor shook Jack and Donna off as he ran to Rose. "Are you alright? Are you alright?"
Rose seemed to be in a bit of a daze until he noticed her shocked look as she placed her hands on each side of her chest. She grinned at him as she grabbed the Doctors hands and placed them on each side of her chest. "Look, now we match."
The Doctor grinned back at her as he felt the double heart beat before noticing her hair. "Oh, how come you get to be ginger on your first go?" He complained as he held a piece of her hair between his fingers, she had changed from a golden blonde to a strawberry blonde.
Jack looked between them. "Is anyone gonna explain why Rose hardly changed?"
"That's a good point," he pointed to Jack before turning back to Rose. "Care to explain?"
Rose shrugged. "My energy came from the TARDIS, she may have been controlling it," just as she finished, Rose gagged a bit as golden regeneration energy left her mouth.
The Doctor jumped into action as he realised what was about to happen. "Jack stand there," he indicated as he pulled Rose to stand in front of Jack and handed him a length of blue ribbon he had been carrying around for a while. "Jackie you stand there," he manoeuvred her next to Rose. "And when Jack tells you to, say yes."
Jackie looked at him in confusion. "Say yes to what?" She questioned as everyone else watched on.
Jack grinned as he realised what was happening. "The Doctor's marrying Rose in the style of his people."
The Doctor waved him on. "Yeah, Yeah, yeah, haven't got much time, Rose will be falling into a healing sleep and the Earth is still in the wrong place."
Jack grinned at them as he noticed Rose swaying a bit. "Usually the weddings are like earth with a lot of fluff but we just need the basics," he turned to the Doctor. "Doctor, do you accept Rose as your bond mate, forever tied together."
The Doctor grinned. "Absolutely," he agreed.
Jack turned to Rose. "Rose, do you accept the Doctor as your bond mate, forever tied together."
Rose grinned up at the Doctor. "Yes."
Jack then turned to Jackie. "As Rose's only living parent, do you accept the union between these two."
Jackie had tears in her eyes as she nodded. "Yes," she agreed and couldn't help a tear that fell as she saw her daughters grin widen.
Jack wrapped their joined hands with the blue ribbon. "This is a symbol of their timelines twisting together til theirs only one," he then said something the Doctor had taught him to say in Gallifreyan as the Doctor started glowing blue and Rose glowed a soft gold they watched as the colours mixed until they were swirling around them both before settling.
Jack stepped back as the Doctor leaned down and whispered his true name in Rose's ear. Rose grinned before leaning up to the Doctor and whispered her true name in his ear. Rose swayed again and the Doctor caught her as she collapsed.
He carried her to the jumpseat and laid her down while Jackie checked on her.
Martha leaned towards Jack. "What did they whisper in each other's ear?"
Jack grinned. "The Doctor told her his true name and Rose, seeing she's a Time Lady now, whispered her true name. It's why Time Lords choose titles, they can only say their true name to the one they want to spend forever with."
The Doctor turned back to them after he had made sure that Rose was fine. "And off we go!" He grinned at them as he pulled a lever and the TARDIS dematerialised just before the crucible blew up.
"How are we gonna get the earth back?" Sarah Jane questioned.
The Doctor grinned at her. "I'm on it!" He turned on the monitor. "Torchwood Hub, this is the Doctor are you receiving me?"
"Loud and clear," Gwen agreed.
"Is Jack there?" Ianto questioned.
The Doctor grinned at Jack. "Can't get rid of him."
"Jack, what's her name?" He asked.
"Gwen Cooper," Jack grinned.
The Doctor grinned as he realised why she looked familiar. "Tell me, Gwen Cooper, are you from an old Cardiff family?"
Gwen nodded her head. "Yes, all the way back to the 1800s."
The Doctor nodded in agreement. "Ah, thought so, spatial genetic multiplicity. Ah, yeah, it's a funny old world," the Doctor turned serious again. "Now, Torchwood, I want you to open up that Rift Manipulator and send all the power to me."
"Doing it now, sir," Ianto informed him.
"What's that for?" Martha questioned.
The Doctor grinned at them. "It's a tow rope," he explained as he turned to Sarah Jane. "Sarah, what was your son's name?"
Sarah Jane grinned at him proudly. "Luke! He's called Luke and the computer's called Mr Smith."
The Doctor grinned at that. "Calling Luke and Mr Smith, this is the Doctor. Come on, Luke, shake a leg," he urged the boy as Luke ran to the screen.
"Is Mum there?" Luke questioned.
The Doctor waved him off. "Oh, she's fine and dandy, now, Mr Smith, I want you to harness the rift power and loop it around the Tardis, you got that?"
"I regret, I will need remote access to Tardis basecode numerals," Mr Smith informed him.
The Doctor sighed. "Oh, blimey, that's gonna take a while."
"No, no, no, let me!" Sarah Jane insisted as she stood in front of the monitor. "K9, out you come."
"Affirmative, mistress," K9 agreed as he entered the room.
The Doctor couldn't stop grinning. "Oh, good dog! K9, give Mr Smith the basecode."
The dog seemed to nod his head. "Master," he agreed. "Tardis basecode now being transferred, the process is simple."
The Doctor turned his full attention on the others. "Now then, you lot," he exclaimed as he directed them. "Sarah, hold that down, Mickey, you hold that. Do you know why this Tardis is always rattling about the place? Jenny, that, there," he directed as he gave her a quick hug. "It's designed to have six pilots and I have to do it single-handed, we'll not anymore," he corrected as he sent Rose a loving look. "Martha, keep that level, Jack, there you go, steady that. Now we can fly this thing," he stopped as he stood in front of Jackie. "No, Jackie, no, no, not you, don't touch anything, just stand back," he insisted as he continued. "Like it's meant to be flown! We've got the Torchwood rift looped around the Tardis by Mr Smith and we're gonna fly planet Earth back home! Right, then! Off we go."
The TARDIS seemed to stall a bit before pulling the earth back to its proper place. Donna grinned at Jack. "That's really good, Jack, I think you're the best." Jack just grinned at her as the TARDIS dematerlised with the earth until it was back in its proper place in time and space.
Everyone started cheering and hugging each other as the entire planet celebrated the Earths return. The Doctor picked Rose up and carried her to their room. He kissed her forehead and smiled at her as he felt her mind along side his own. He walked back to the console room and set the TARDIS to land in a park.
Sarah Jane was the first to step out as she turned to him. "You know, you act like such a lonely man but look at you," she pointed out as she hugged him. "You've got the biggest family on Earth!" She startted walking away but then stopped and turned back. "Tell Rose that I'll be looking forward to seeing the both of you," she started running as she called over her shoulder. "Gotta go! He's only 14, it's a long story and thank you!"
Donna answered her phone as her gramps rang. "Yeah, I'm fine," she assured her family. "Are you all right? Yeah, I know."
"I'm gonna miss you," Mickey told Jackie. "More than anyone."
Jackie gave him a confused look. "What do you mean? The Doctor's going to take us home, isn't he?"
Mickey sighed. "Well, that's the point," he explained as he hugged Jackie.
Jack and Martha stepped out next and the Doctor grabbed Jack's wrist. "I told you, no teleport!" The Doctor reminded him as he locked his manipulator before turning to Martha. "And, Martha, get rid of that Osterhagen thing, eh? Save the world one more time."
Martha grinned at him. "Consider it done," she confirmed.
Jack and Martha both saluted him as they walked off. "You know, I'm not sure about UNIT these days," Jack suggested. "Maybe there's something else you could be doing."
Mickey ran out the doors to catch up with the other two. "Oi, where are you going?" The Doctor yelled out.
Mickey shrugged. "Well, I'm not stupid, I can work out what happens next and, hey, I had a good time in that parallel world but my gran passed away, nice and peaceful. She spent her last years living in a mansion. There's nothing there for me now, certainly not Rose," Mickey explained.
"What will you do?" The Doctor asked.
Mickey grinned at him. "Anything, brand new life. Just you watch, see ya boss," Mickey waved as he ran to catch up with Jack and Martha. "Hey, you two!"
The Doctor heard Jack sigh. "Oh, I thought I'd got rid of you."
The Doctor grinned as he entered the TARDIS and grinned at Jackie. "Just time for one last trip," he explained to her as he piloted them to the parallel world. "Darlig Ulv Stranden, better known as. . ."
"Oh! Fat lot of good this is! Back of beyond," Jackie broke in to complain as she stepped out of the TARDIS. "Bloody Norway! I'm going to have to phone Pete, he's on the nursery run," she explained. "I was pregnant, do you remember? Had a baby boy."
The Doctor grinned. "Ah, brilliant, what did you call him?"
"Doctor," Jackie stated with a straight face.
The Doctors brow rose. "Really?"
Jackie laughed. "No, you plum, he's called Tony," Jackie calmed down as she watched the Doctor. "I only came back to make sure that Rose was fine, I want you to promise me that you'll watch her."
The Doctor placed a hand over each heart. "I swear to you, on both my hearts, that she'll be treated as the most precious thing in any universe," The TARDIS flashed a warning. "We got to go, this reality is sealing itself off forever," he explained.
Jackie handed the Doctor the bag that she had brought with her. "That's for Rose, so she always has something from me," Jackie grinned at him as she waved goodbye before pulling out her phone and calling Pete.
Jenny ran and hugged Jackie. "I wish I could get to know you."
Jackie started crying as she hugged Jenny. "And I wish I could get to know you," she agreed.
Jenny let go suddenly and mumbled something about checking on her mother as she ran back through the TARDIS doors. The Doctor and Donna walked back into the TARDIS and sent her back to their universe.
Donna grinned at him. "I thought we could try the planet Felspoon," she explained. "Once Rose is up and running around, cause what a good name, Felspoon. Apparently it's got mountains that sway in the breeze, mountains that move, can you imagine?"
The Doctor looked at her sadly as he realised what Rose already had. "And how do you know that?"
"Because Rose and you know," she pointed out. "And if the two of you know, then I know."
The Doctor sighed. "And how does that feel?"
Donna grinned again. "Brilliant! Fantastic! Molto bene! Great big universe packed into my brain!" She continued on, not realising how manic she was sounding. "You know you could fix that chameleon circuit if you just tried hotbinding the fragment links and superseding the binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary," She seemed to glitch like a computer before shaking her head. "I'm fine! Nah, never mind Felspoon," she continued on. "You know who I'd like to meet? Charlie Chaplin, I bet he's great, Charlie Chaplin. Shall we do that? Shall we go and see Charlie Chaplin? Shall we? Charlie Chaplin? Charlie Chester? Charlie Brown," she shook her head again as she grew panicked. "No, he's fiction, friction, fixing, mixing, Rickston, Brixton," she gasped suddenly. "Oh, my God, do you know what's happening?"
The Doctor nodded his head. "Yeah, there's never been someone like you before now and you know why? Because there can't be."
"I want to stay," Donna begged him.
The Doctor grabbed her face and urged her. "Look at me, Donna, look at me."
"I was gonna be with the two of you, forever," Donna explained.
The Doctor sighed and nodded his head. "I know."
"Rest of my life," she continued. "Travelling in the Tardis, the Doctor, Rose and Donna," Donna shook her head as she moved away from him. "Oh! Oh, but I can't go back, don't make me go back," she begged. "Doctor, please, please don't make me go back."
The Doctor shook his head. "Donna, oh, Donna Noble. I am so sorry but we had the best of times the best," he assured her. "Goodbye."
Donna shook her head. "No, no, no, please," she begged. "Please! No, no, no!" She denied as the Doctor placed his hands on her head and locked the part of her mind containing the vortex energy, he caught her as she fell unconscious.
The Doctor landed the TARDIS just outside her home and carried her to the front door as he rang the bell. "That must be her!" He heard Wilf exclaim as he opened the door. "Donna!"
"Help me," he urged Wilf.
"Donna? Donna," Wilf called out as he helped the Doctor settle Donna on her bed.
He was led back into the living room and sat down as he explained to Wilf and Sylvia what happened. "She took vortex energy into her body, all that knowledge, it was killing her."
"But she'll get better now?" Wilf questioned.
The Doctor nodded his head. "I had to wipe her mind completely, every trace of me, Rose or the Tardis, anything we did together, anywhere we went, had to go."
Wilf gapped. "All those wonderful things she did."
The Doctor nodded in agreement. "I know but that version of Donna is dead, cause if she remembers, just for a second, she'll burn up. You can never tell her," he insisted. "You can't mention me, or Rose or any of it, for the rest of her life."
"But the whole world's talking about it," Sylvia pointed out. "We travelled across space."
The Doctor leaned towards them. "It'll just be a story," the Doctor explained. "One of those Donna Noble stories where she missed it all again."
"But she was better with the two of you," Wilf pointed out.
Sylvia hit his arm. "Don't say that."
"No, she was!" Wilf insisted.
The Doctor nodded his head as he tried to hold back his own tears. "I just want you to know that there are worlds out there safe in the sky because of her," he assured them. "That there are people living in the light and singing songs of Donna Noble a thousand million light years away. They will never forget her, while she can never remember and for one moment, one shining moment, she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe."
"She still is," Sylvia agreed. "She's my daughter."
"Then maybe you should tell her that once in a while," the Doctor pointed out.
Donna suddenly walked into the room. "I was asleep! On my bed, in my clothes like a flipping kid.
What did you let me do that for?" She glanced at the Doctor briefly. "Don't mind me, Donna," she introduced as she called her friends.
"John Smith," he greeted her, not using Tyler cause it might set her off, he held out his hand and she shook it.
"Mr Smith was just leaving," Sylvia explained.
Donna frowned at her phone. "My phone's gone mad! 32 texts! Veena's gone barmy," she complained. "She's saying "planets in the sky!" What have I missed now? Nice to meet you," she threw out as she left the room.
"As I said, I think you should go," Sylvia reminded him.
The Doctor nodded his head as he moved to the kitchen to say goodbye to Donna. "How thick do you think I am? Planets! I'll tell you what that was, dumbo, that's those two-for-one lagers you get down the offy 'cause you fancy that little man in there with the goatee!" She snarked at one of her friends. "Yes, you do, I've seen you!"
"Donna, I was just going," The Doctor called out.
Donna didn't even look at him as she waved. "Yeah, see you," she tuned back into her phone. "I'll tell you what, though, you're wasting your time with that one, because Susie Mair, she went on that dating site, and she saw him. No, no Listen, this is important! Susie Mair wouldn't lie! Not unless it was about calories!"
The Doctor sighed, it hurt when he saw no recognition in her eyes as he stepped outside into the pouring rain. "Ah! You'll have quite a bit of this, atmospheric disturbance. Still, it'll pass," the Doctor shrugged as he turned to look at Wilf standing in the doorway. "Everything does," the Doctor pasted on a smile. "Bye then, Wilfred."
The Doctor turned to walk back to the TARDIS when Wilf called him back. "Oh, and, Doctor. I'll watch out for the two off you, sir."
"You can't ever tell her," the Doctor reminded him.
Wilf shook his head. "No, no, but every night, Doctor, when it gets dark and the stars come out, I'll look up. On her behalf, I'll look up at the sky and think of you."
The Doctor nodded his head. "Thank you," he thanked as he entered the TARDIS and left.