Chapter 5: Same Ways but New Days
A/N- Wow, so because Doctor Who isn't on Netflix anymore I have to find the episodes online and now my computer has a virus. Then, I found out that most of the episodes are on youtube! I'm angry and also feel stupid. I blame Netflix for taking Doctor Who off. But this hasn't stopped me from posting this chapter! Anyways, enough of my rambling and bad luck, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, it belongs to BBC
David- Strumbellas
David won't you let me know if there's anything to say
We're a long way from home
And everything's strange
David won't you let me know if there's any other way
We're out on the road
Nothing's okay
Nothing's okay
They were running through the streets of London and it felt odd. The running in London wasn't the odd part, she had done that a bunch of time with her Doctor. No, what felt weird was running through the streets of London hand-in-hand with this Doctor. It felt so familiar but at the same time it was completely different.
The Doctor stopped just in front of the London Eye and turned to them. "Think of it, plastic all over the world, every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables-"
"The breast implants," Rose mumbled.
"Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath," the Doctor commented looking around.
Rose suddenly took off running to the railing and looked down. "What about down here?" Rose suggested.
Kit and the Doctor moved towards Rose and looked down. Below them was a large manhole entrance at the bottom of the stairs.
The Doctor smiled. "Looks good to me."
They all rushed down the steps. When they reached the manhole, the Doctor pulled the hatch open. As the Doctor was climbing down the latter, Kit looked at Rose. The blond looked unsure and slightly scared.
"Hey, it'll be okay," Kit reassured her as Rose started going down the latter.
"How do you know?" Rose questioned.
"I don't," Kit confessed.
This girl wasn't there in her time. Rose wasn't with the Doctor and her traveling with them. This meant that along the way something happened, either today and much later on. Kit wanted to promise the girl that she would do everything in her power to save her but she knew it would ultimately end up being an empty promise.
"The Doctor will fix this, right? He'll save us, don't you think? Like back at the store," Rose asked weakly.
Kit breathed in sharply. "Do you trust him?"
"Yeah, I think so," Rose replied with a small smile.
"Don't." Kit said firmly. "He may not be human but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes like one," Kit tried to explain in hopes that this information might help her in the future.
Rose started at Kit for a moment. "Who are you?" Rose stressed.
Kit didn't say any thing for awhile. "We should catch up with the Doctor," Kit mumbled instead of answering Rose's question.
Rose simply nodded and kept climbing down.
Kit waited for a moment looking down at the entrance. Something felt wrong. She wasn't sure what it was but something felt off. Her head was pounding. Something was going to happen, she just didn't know what.
Kit finally got down the latter right when the Doctor and Rose were about to open a door. The Doctor pushed it open and all of them when through. Inside was a multi-level chamber. As they walked down the flight of stairs Kit was able to see the Consciousness.
"The Nestene Consciousness. That's it, inside the vat. A living plastic creature," the Doctor pointed out.
Kit stared at the Nestene Consciousness. When Kit and her Doctor faced the living plastics, Kit never got to really see the Consciousness. Instead, Kit was trying to fix the Tardis so that they could leave the collapsing building they were in as fast as they could.
Suddenly, there was a light pounding in the back of her head that seemed to get harder and harder. There was also a weird feeling at the pit of her stomach that made her feel like throwing up.
"Well, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go," Kit heard Rose urged.
"No." Kit swallowed the bile that was in her throat.
Kit wasn't really paying attention to what she was saying anymore. She felt like crap all of a sudden. Her head felt like someone was slamming a sledge hammer against it. Still, she wasn't going to let Rose think she could just kill any living creature, even as horrible as this one in front of them. It took her a long time to learn that lesson.
She breathed in through her nose. "We've got to give it a chance," Kit whispered.
She could feel the Doctors eyes on her but at this point she was only focused on the pounding in her head and her legs going weak.
"She's right," he said slowly. "I'm not here to kill it."
The Doctor and Rose walked down the stairs but Kit stayed where she was trying to understand what was happening with her.
The Doctor looked down at the Consciousness. "I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation," he asked it.
The Consciousness flexed and made noises that Kit didn't understand which was odd because she usually knew what aliens were saying.
"Thank you. If I might have permission to approach?" He asked as Kit slowly and shakily made her way towards the Doctor.
Suddenly they heard Rose yell, "Oh God," and rush down the stairs.
At the bottom of the stairs Kit noticed Mickey huddled in a corner.
"Mickey, it's me! It's okay. It's all right," Rose reassured him.
Kit followed the Doctor as he made his way down the steps. The Doctor suddenly turned towards her. "Are you alright?" He questioned. "You don't look so good."
Kit nodded. "I'm fine," she managed to say.
He didn't look convinced but nodded anyways.
They were half way down the stairs when Rose turned to them. "Doctor, they kept him alive."
"Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy," the Doctor replied, walking to the next set of stairs.
"You knew that and you never said?" Rose questioned angrily.
"That's because he didn't actually know," Kit cut in.
The Doctor glared at her. "Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?"
He continued walking down the stairs and Kit followed. "How would you know if I knew or not?" He grumbled.
Kit stared at him for a moment. She knew she had to choose her words carefully, especially after that slip up earlier.
"I can see it in your eyes," she put simply.
It wasn't really a lie. The Doctors eyes told a lot if you looked at them closely.
He stared at her. "I still can't figure you out. I can't tell if I like that or not."
Kit held her breath as the Doctor continued to stare at her. Suddenly they heard the Consciousness making strange noises.
The Doctor shook his head. "I'll come back to you later. Right now I have a world to save."
He brushed passed her and walked towards the Consciousness. Kit decided it would be better to let the Doctor handle the Consciousness so she went back up to check on Rose and her boyfriend.
"What's he doing?" Mickey asked her frantically.
"He's giving it a chance," Kit replied as they watched the Doctor come towards the alien.
Kit looked down over the railing and Rose did the same after a couple of seconds.
"Am I addressing the Consciousness?" The Doctor asked.
The Consciousness made more strange noises in response. Rose jumped back in surprise and fear but Kit stood standing where she was, watching intensely.
"Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?" He joked which cause Kit to roll her eyes.
The Consciousness made some more weird noise but these were more aggressive and angry, which Kit didn't like.
"Oh, don't give me that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights." The Doctor snapped at it.
It moved around now forming somewhat of a face and the face didn't seem happy.
"I am talking!" The Doctor yelled. "These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf. Please, just go," he begged.
Just then, Kit noticed three plastic dummies walking towards the Doctor as he talked.
"Doctor, behind you!" Kit shouted.
The Doctor turned around but it was too late. Two of the three dummies grabbed onto the Doctors arms holding him back. Kit was about to run to help when she noticed the third dummy just staring at her. Suddenly a sharp pain in her head came out of nowhere. She grunted holding onto the railing tightly.
As her head pounded, a series of images flashed before her. These images showed her the same situation as she was in now but instead of three dummies there were only two.
Kit gasped and backed up holding her head. She turned her gaze back at the third dummy still staring at her. It wasn't supposed to be there; it was all wrong. She knew that this dummy must be one from the future, meaning she needed to do something.
Kit watched intensely as one of the dummies holding the Doctor pulled the anti-plastic out in his pocket.
"That was just insurance. I wasn't going to use it," the Doctor told the Consciousness.
Suddenly Kit heard a voice hiss, "You, Doctor, are attacking us!"
She realized all of a sudden that it was the Consciousness; she was able to understand it. It had to mean that the Tardis was close by. She wiped her head about but saw nothing.
"I wasn't going to use it. I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not," the Doctor pleaded.
"Then why is your ship here, Time Lord?" It asked.
"What do you mean?" The Doctor asked in confusion.
Just then a door beside Kit slide open to reveal the Tardis.
"No. Oh, no. Honestly, no," the Doctor said frantically.
"Is this not your ship?" It questioned.
"Yes, that's my ship."
"Then you're here to destroy us just like the rest of my people!" It bellowed.
"That's not true. I should know, I was there. I fought in the war. It wasn't my fault."
Kit stood there frozen. She understood why this Doctor was so important. This Doctor was the Doctor right after the War Doctor, the one that destroyed Gallifrey. This Doctor was filled with sorrow and pain. This Doctor had just lost everything.
"My world was destroyed thanks to the Time War and you did nothing to save us!" It hissed.
"I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them!" The Doctor yelled.
"No!" It roared. "I will take this world just like you took mine away!"
"What's it doing?!" Kit heard Rose yell.
The Doctor turned to them. "It's the Tardis! The Nestene's identified its superior technology. It's terrified. It's going to the final phase. It's starting the invasion!" He explained with fear in his eyes. "Get out, Rose, Kittredge! Just leg it now!"
Rose took out her phone and called someone while Kit tried to think up a plan. She knew she needed to get the anti-plastic but she didn't like how the third dummy was just standing in front of the dummy that held the anti-plastic. It almost looked like it knew what she was thinking about doing.
Suddenly, a burst of electricity shot through the ceiling from the Consciousness.
"It's the activation signal. It's transmitting!" The Doctor yelled.
"It's the end of the world," Rose mumbled.
Kit clenched her jaw, the Doctors voice about time being rewritten rang through her head.
"This is your end, Doctor!" The Consciousness roared.
The Doctor turned to them. "Get out, you two! Just get out! Run!"
Just then a big chunk of the ceiling fell on the stairs cutting their exist off.
"The stairs have gone," Rose shouted back.
Rose and Mickey suddenly took off running towards the Tardis but Kit ran to help the Doctor. She ran down the stairs but was stopped half way by the future dummy. It grabbed her arm with one hand and took her sonic out of her pocket with the other.
"Come on, do you really want to kill the Doctor?" She asked, struggling to break free of the tight grip. The dummy simply nodded its head stiffly. "Of course you do," she muttered. "Look, hear me out! If you stop now, then I promise I'll get the Doctor to spare the Consciousness." There was a pause and then the dummy shook its head. Kit sighed. "Fine, have it your way!"
With her spare hand Kit pressed a side button on her sonic and it led out a pulse of electricity. It shocked the dummy and it crumbled to the floor in pieces. Kit picked up her screwdriver and put it back in her pocket.
She shook her head. "It didn't have to be this way."
Kit looked up only to find Rose carrying an axe. Rose chops through the rope holding a very long chain to the wall and took a firm hold on it. To Kits surprise, Rose ran and swung out along the side of the catwalk, kicking the two dummies into the vat.
The anti-plastic was just about to fall into the vat when a plastic arm grabbed it before it could. A sharp pain in her head hit again and new images flashed through her head. The image was of the anti-plastic going into the vat and destroying the Consciousness.
That wasn't suppose to happen, Kit thought.
She looked down at the pieces of the dummy and, to her horror, only saw one arm. Kit rushed to the arm holding the anti-plastic and picked it up.
"Oh no you don't," she mumbled.
She was about to throw the arm in the vat when something stopped her. She looked behind her and saw the dummy she thought she destroyed. It was fully together and was gripping her wrist so tightly that Kit couldn't help but scream in pain. Still, Kit refused to let go.
She tried to pull her wrist out of the dummy's hold no matter how painful it was. Finally, with one last pull she escaped the dummy's clutch. Quickly, she took the arm with the anti-plastic in it and throw it into the vat. She looked over the edge to see the anti-plastic tube opened and seeping into the Consciousness.
Kit was about to turn around when she heard someone shout her name in panic. Kit turned to see the dummy in front of her. With its one arm, it pushed her backwards over the edge.
She screamed until she felt someone grab her hand. Kit looked up to see the Doctor struggling to keep her from dropping. Rose rushed beside him and helped pulled Kit up until she was back on solid ground. Kit looked behind the Doctor to see the dummy crumbling to pieces again.
"You alright?" The Doctor asked her with concern eyes.
Kit nodded. "Peachy."
He smiled suddenly helping her up. "Well then, now we're in trouble."
Everything around them started exploding and they rushed up the stairs to the Tardis. The Doctor unlocked the door and they all bustled in. Once inside, Kit let out a sigh of relief.
She looked up at the Doctor running around the console. This is definitely going to be harder than I thought.
A/N- So Kit has faced her first alien from the future and she's realizing that this mission might be more difficult then she thought. The Doctor is now very suspicious of Kit and next chapter we will see the Doctor confronting her. We'll see if Kit can lie her way out of that. Don't forget the review!