Three updates in a few days? Why's this? Honestly, I'm bored as hell. I'm unemployed and have exhausted nearly everything else, so I'm rewriting the chapters. Enjoy!
"I'm not going," Ella said.
Jack and the Doctor both looked to Ella in shock. "Why not?" Jack asked.
"Because I can work from here. I can give us a head start," Ella told them.
"Suit yourself," the Doctor said. "Stay safe."
"I'll try, just don't get yourselves killed," Ella said.
"I won't," Jack assured. He and the Doctor left and Ella got to work with some of the employees of the Gamestation. Lynda just wandered around, not really able to do much.
"Lynda?" Ella asked, catching the blondes attention. "I don't want you out here when the Daleks arrive. As soon as the TARDIS gets back, you're getting in it and staying there. Agreed?"
"Oh, that's fine. But why?" Lynda asked, tilting her head to the side.
"Because there is a high chance that you will die if you stay out here," Ella told her. "And I like you, you're sweet and chirpy." Lynda smiled at Ella's words. The TARDIS materialised and the Doctor walked out with Rose and Jack following.
"Turn everything up. All transmitters full power, wide open. Now! Do it!" The Doctor ordered.
"What does this do?" The man, Pavale, said. Ella found out his name while waiting for the others.
"Stops the Daleks from transmatting on board. How did you get on? Did you contact Earth?" The Doctor asked.
"Well, we tried to warn them, but all they did was suspend our license because we stopped the programmes," Pavale said.
"And the planet's just sitting there, defenceless. Lynda, what're you still doing on board? I told you to evacuate everyone," the Doctor said.
"She wouldn't go," Ella said, looking up from her computer screen. "But I made a deal with her that she has to stay on the TARDIS for this entire ordeal."
"Didn't want to leave you," Lynda said. She told me that the Doctor was like her father, a man who died in The Weakest Link five years previous.
"There weren't enough shuttles anyway, or I wouldn't be here. We've got about a hundred people stranded on Floor Zero," the woman, Kiala, said.
"Oh, my God. The Fleet is moving. They're on their way," Pavale said. The Doctor was pulling bits out of the conduits, obviously trying to make something.
"Dalek plan. Big mistake, because what have they left me with? Anyone? Anyone? Oh, come on, it's obvious. A great big transmitter. This station. If I can change the signal, fold it back, sequence it, anyone?"
"You've got to be kidding," Jack stated.
"Give the man a medal." Jack and Ella gave each other a look, knowing they both wanted to say the same thing. Ella nodded at her boyfriend.
"A Delta Wave?" Jack asked.
"A Delta Wave!" The Doctor cheered.
"What's a Delta Wave?" Rose asked.
"A wave of Van Cassadyne energy. It fries your brain. Stand in the way of a Delta Wave and your head gets barbequed," Jack explained.
"And this place can transmit a massive wave. Wipe out the Daleks!" The Doctor said.
"Well, get started and do it then," Lynda said happily.
"Trouble is, wave this size, building this big, brain as clever as mine, should take about, oh, three days? How long till the Fleet arrive?" The Doctor asked, continuing to piece together things.
Pavale looked quickly at his computer before he faced the Doctor, "Twenty two minutes."
Later, after some rerouting of bits and pieces, Jack was explaining things to Rose, Lynda, Pavale, and Kiala. "We've now got a forcefield so they can't blast us out of the sky, but that doesn't stop the Daleks from physically invading."
"Do they know about the Delta Wave?" Pavale asked.
"They'll have worked it out at the same time. So, they want to stop the Doctor. That means they've got to get to this level, five hundred. Now, I can concentrate the extrapolator around the top six levels, five hundred to four nine five. So they'll penetrate the station below that at level four nine four and fight their way up," Jack explained.
"Who are they fighting?" Pavale asked
"Us," Jack said.
"And what are we fighting with?" Pavale asked another question.
"The guards had guns with bastic bullets. That's enough to blow a Dalek wide open," Ella said.
"There's six of us," Kiala said.
"Rose, you can help me. I need all these wires stripping bare," the Doctor said. Rose left to help him while Ella was working with a different computer than before.
"Right, now there's four of us," Kiala said.
"There's actually three since Lynda is staying in the TARDIS," Ella piped up.
"Then let's move it. Into the lift. Isolate the lift controls," Jack ordered. Pavale and Kiala ran off as Ella went to sit by her father while Lynda went into the TARDIS.
"It's been fun, but I guess this is goodbye," Jack said.
"Don't talk like that. The Doctor's going to do it. You just watch him," Rose said. Ella ducked her head, making her hair hide her face.
"Rose, you are worth fighting for," Jack said, cupping her face, he looked like he was going to kiss her but seemed to think better of it. "Wish I'd never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward." Jack kissed the Doctor and Ella snorted amusedly. Jack then turned to her and put his hands on her waist gently. Rose looked on with a grin while the Doctor looked like he wanted to look away but couldn't.
"Ella. My beautiful Pixie, I am especially glad I met you."
"Glad I met you too. Ecstatic actually," Ella laughed.
Ella hugged him tightly. Jack pulled her back and gave her one last long and passionate kiss. It was like their first kiss, everything falling into place, but it was also one of desperation, as if they were silently pleading the other to be safe. Their lips broke apart and their foreheads rested against each other.
"Just don't die," Ella warned. Jack shrugged with a smile before walking ackwards and out of Ella's grasp.
"See you in hell," Jack said. He then ran off to the lifts, disappearing from view.
"He's going to be all right, isn't he?" Rose asked.
"I bloody hope so," Ella mumbled.
"He's only one guy. I know he's a good friend but you can find others," the Doctor said. Ella shot a glare at the Doctor and he shrunk back, getting back to his work.
"Suppose…" Rose trailed off.
"What?" The Doctor asked.
"Nothing," Rose muttered.
"You said suppose," the Doctor pointed out.
"No, I was just thinking. I mean, obviously you can't, but, you've got a time machine. Why can't you just go back to last week and warn them?" Rose asked.
"As soon as the TARDIS lands in that second, I become part of events, stuck in the timeline," the Doctor said.
"Yeah, thought it'd be something like that," Rose said.
"There's another thing the TARDIS could do. It could take us away. We could leave. Let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989," the Doctor said.
"Yeah, but you'd never do that," Rose said.
"No, but you could ask. Never even occurred to you, did it?" The Doctor asked.
"Well, I'm just too good," Rose stated.
"The Delta Wave's started building. How long does it need?" The Doctor asked, running to a computer. He looked at the screen and his face dropped.
"Is that bad? Okay, it's bad. How bad is it?" Rose asked.
"Rose Tyler, you're a genius! We can do it. If I use the TARDIS to cross my old timeline. Yes!" The Doctor cheered falsely. Ella knew what he was doing and she went along with it. Ella ran into the TARDIS before the Doctor and quickly went to Lynda.
"Okay, I'm staying here at the GameStation. You are going to 21st century London. Just stay in the TARDIS because I have a feeling that you're going to come back. Oh, and if Rose opens the heart of the TARDIS, a bright gold thing, kiss her and take it into yourself," Ella said. Lynda nodded.
"I'll see you soon then," Lynda said. Ella quickly exited the TARDIS before the Doctor could make her go back inside.
The Doctor ran out and stopped in the midst of his mares-nest of cables. He looked back at the TARDIS then pointed the sonic screwdriver at it. The engines started and the TARDIS began to dematerialize.
"Doctor, let me out!" Rose yelled, banging on the door. "Let me out! Doctor, what've you done?" The TARDIS dematerialized and Rose's cries disappeared with it. Ella was hiding so that her father would think she had been in the TARDIS.
"Rose, I've called up the internal laser codes," Jack said on a screen. "There should be a different number on every screen. Can you read them out to me?"
"She's not here," the Doctor said.
"Of all the times to take a leak," Jack sighed. "When she gets back, tell her to read me the codes."
"She's not coming back," the Doctor snapped.
"What do you mean? Where'd she go? What about Ella?"
"Just get on with your work."
"You took her home, didn't you? And Ella," Jack realised.
"Yeah."
"Nope," Ella piped up, popping up behind her father.
"What are you doing here?" The Doctor asked, angry that his daughter wasn't safe.
"Like hell I was going to go to 21st century London! Or without Jack, what are you? Stupid?" Ella asked. The Doctor shook his head in defeat and Jack smirked.
"The Delta Wave. Is it ever going to be ready?" Jack asked.
"Tell him the truth, Doctor," a deep voice of a Dalek rang out. The Doctor looked up angrily at the screen. "There is every possibility the Delta Wave could be complete, but no possibility of refining it. The Delta Wave must kill every living thing in its path, with no distinction between human and Dalek. All things will die by your hand."
Jack realised what was going to possibly happen. "Doctor, the range of this transmitter covers the entire Earth," he pointed out.
"You would destroy Daleks and Humans together. If I am God, the creator of all things, then what does that make you, Doctor?" The Dalek Emperor asked.
"There are colonies out there. The Human Race would survive in some shape or form, but you're the only Daleks in existence. The whole Universe is in danger if I let you live. Do you see, Jack? That's the decision I've got to make for every living thing. Die as a human or live as a Dalek. What would you do?" The Doctor asked.
"You sent her home. She's safe. Keep working," Jack said
"But he will exterminate you!" The Emperor said.
"Never doubted him. Never will. Same with Ella." The Doctor and Ella grinned at Jack and the Doctor ran up to the hologram.
"Now, you tell me, God of all Daleks, because there's one thing I never worked out. The words Bad Wolf, spread across time and space, everywhere, drawing me in. How'd you manage that?" The Doctor asked.
"I did nothing."
"Oh, come on, there's no secrets now, your worship," Ella said.
"They are not part of my design. This is the Truth of God," the Emperor said. The father-daughter pair looked up at the 'BadWolf Corporation' sign on the wall.
"-To four nine five," Ella heard a females voice say.
"Jack, how're we doing?" Dad asked.
"Four nine five should be good. I like four nine five," Jack said through the comm.
"What's happening on Earth?" Ella asked.
"The Fleet's descending. They're bombing whole continents. Europa, Pacifica, the New American Alliance. Australasia's just gone," the females voice said.
The pair heard the gunfire and the Doctor rushed to plug in a massive power cable.
"I've got a problem," the woman said. "They've found me."
"You'll be all right. That side of the station's reinforced against meteors," Ella said to the woman.
"Hope so! You know what they say about Earth workmanship," she replied.
The woman screamed, just once, moments later and they all instantly knew she was dead.
"Last man standing! For God's sake, Doctor, finish that thing and kill them!" Jack's voice yelled through the comm.
"Dad move it!" Ella said urgently.
"Finish that thing and kill mankind," the Emperor said. Ella ran out of the room and down to floor four nine five undetected.
"Jack?" Ella called. No answer. "Jack?!" No answer again. Ella kept walking around the floor until she saw a slumped figure against the wall. She hoped it wasn't Jack but the jacket gave him away. "Jack!" Ella ran over to him, begging to anyone that heard that he was asleep. She checked his pulse and found nothing before she leant over, pressing an ear to his chest to listen for a heartbeat and found nothing. Ella curled in on herself, gripping Jack's jacket in hysterical sobs before she uncurled herself and moved so she held Jack to her, her face in the crook of his neck. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Ella stayed for five minutes, sobbing into his shirt until she calmed down enough to leave Jack. Ella kissed his forehead. "I'll be back. We'll give you a proper burial." She then quickly rushed to floor 500, hiccupping a bit and her eyes puffy and red.
"It's ready!" The Doctor exclaimed as Ella arrived. The Daleks entered from all sides.
"You really want to think about this, because if I activate the signal, every living creature dies," the Doctor threatened.
"I am immortal," the Emperor said.
"Do you want to put that to the test?" The Doctor asked.
"I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor, the Great Exterminator."
"I'll do it!" The Doctor yelled, placing his hands on the Delta Wave switch.
"Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you, coward or killer?" But the Doctor could not throw the final switch.
"Coward. Any day."
"Mankind will be harvested because of your weakness."
"And what about me? Am I becoming one of your angels?"
"You are the heathen. You will be exterminated."
"Maybe it's time." The Doctor closed his eyes and Ella walked toward him. The TARDIS materialised behind them, making the pair turn.
"Alert! TARDIS materialising!" A random Dalek said.
"You will not escape!" The Emperor said. The TARDIS doors opened to show that Lynda was silhouetted in a blinding golden light. Energy tendrils snaked outwards of the TARDIS.
"What've you done?" The Doctor yelled.
"Rose looked into the TARDIS, and I stopped her to take it myself to save her. Just like Ella said," Lynda said dreamily.
"You looked into the Time Vortex. Lynda, no one's meant to see that."
"This is the Abomination!"
"Exterminate!" Lynda stopped the beam with her hand.
"I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words, I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead you, Rose and Ella here."
"Lynda, you've got to stop this. You've got to stop this now. You've got the entire vortex running through your head. You're going to burn."
"I want you safe, Doctor. Protected from the false god."
"You cannot hurt me. I am immortal."
"You are tiny," Lynda snapped. "I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence, and I divide them." A Dalek disintegrates into dust. "Everything must come to dust. All things. Everything dies. The Time War ends." The Daleks crumble into dust.
"I will not die. I cannot die!" The Emperor says. Seconds later, he was dust in the universe.
"Lynda, you've done it. Now stop. Just let go," Ella ordered.
"How can I let go of this? I bring life," Lynda said.
"But this is wrong! You can't control life and death."
"But I can. The sun and the moon, the day and night. But why do they hurt?" Lynda asked, her voice cracking.
"The power's going to kill you and it's my fault."
"I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be."
"That's what Ella and I see. All the time. And doesn't it drive you mad?" The Doctor asked, standing up.
"My head," Lynda said.
"Come here."
"It's killing me," she cried.
"I think you need a Doctor," the Doctor said. He gently took Lynda into his arms and kissed her lightly, didn't even last two seconds, but it was just enough to transfer the Vortex to him. Lynda fainted in his arms and the Doctor gently placed her on the ground and exhaled the energy back into the TARDIS and the doors closed. The Doctor carried Lynda inside but Ella stayed put.
"Come on," the Doctor said.
"No, I have to get Jack. Give him a proper burial," Ella said, her voice low. The Doctor walked over to his daughter and chucked her over his shoulder.
"NO! I WON'T GO! LET ME GO!" Ella screamed, hitting her father's back with everything she had. The Doctor placed her onto the captain's chair and walked back to shut the doors quickly. Ella ran to the doors and tried to open them and when she couldn't, she started hitting them. "TAKE ME BACK YOU BASTARD! TAKE ME BACK! I CAN'T LEAVE HIM THERE!" When Ella knew they had fully dematerialized, she slumped down, sobbing quietly. Rose and Lynda woke up minutes later.
"What happened?" They both asked.
"Don't you remember?" The Doctor asked.
"It's like there was this singing," Rose said at the same time Lynda said, "There was singing."
"That's right. I sang a song and the Daleks ran away," the Doctor joked, but his sadness shone through.
"I was at home. No, I wasn't, I was in the TARDIS, and there was this light. I can't remember anything else…" Rose said.
"I remember kissing someone then singing," Lynda said. Ella looked at her father through bleary eyes and saw that his skin was glowing a bit.
"Rose Tyler. I was going take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You'd love it. Fantastic place. They've got dogs with no noses. Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's still funny," the Doctor said, laughing. Ella was looking on sadly because she knew that her father was about to go into his eleventh incarnation.
"Then, why can't we go?" Rose asked, thinking the Doctor was being stupid.
"Maybe you will, and maybe I will. But not like this," the Doctor said.
"You're not making sense," Rose stated, standing up.
"He's making perfect sense to us," Lynda said. "Time Lord yeah?" The Doctor nodded. "Then I know what's happening, there are legends about them."
"I might never make sense again. I might have two heads, or no head. Imagine me with no head. And don't say that's an improvement. But it's a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you're going to end up with." The Doctor doubled over in pain, glowing gold for a second.
"Doctor!" Rose yelled, running towards him.
"Stay away!" He warned.
"Doctor, tell me what's going on," Rose said.
"I absorbed all the energy of the Time Vortex, and no one's meant to do that. Every cell in my body's dying."
"Can't you do something?" Rose asked.
"Yeah, I'm doing it now. Time Lords have this little trick, it's sort of a way of cheating death. Except it means I'm going to change, and I'm not going to see you again. Not like this. Not with this daft old face. And before I go…"
"Don't say that."
"Rose, before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Same with you Ella, as always. You too, Lynda. And do you know what? So was I." Golden light burst out of the Doctor's body. This is not a nice quiet regeneration of the usual kind. Everything changed very suddenly and then a tall, skinny brown-haired man was standing there in front of the three women.
"Hello. Okay. Ooo, new teeth. That's weird. So, where was I? Oh, that's right. Barcelona," the Doctor grinned. Ella could tell this was going to be a great regeneration, but that didn't mean she wasn't sad for the loss of the previous body.