Chapter 7
Rose returned awhile later and entered the Tardis, her eyes scanned the large room and grinned at the mess still on the floor
"Doctor?" she called out, heading to the door on the other side of the room "hey Doctor, you here?" she called out again beginning to become concerned at his lack of response, she checked the main rooms but found them all empty, for a moment she debated exploring some of the other areas of the Tardis but decided against it, remembering when she had first joined the Doctor and being lost in the Tardis for 4 hours, for such a small box it sure had a lot of rooms she thought with a grin. She back tracked to the control room and caught sight of the empty packet of hobnobs on the floor, she grinned as she picked it up
"Slob" she muttered as she threw the packet in the Tardis waste extractor, thinking he must have gone out for more biscuits; for someone who had lived so long he really had a sweet tooth, she grinned to herself, amazing he had any teeth left really she thought a little meanly as she sat in the chair the Doctor had been sitting in earlier.
Rose must have nodded off at some point because she awoke suddenly with a crick in her neck, and the monitors that acted as windows were showing it was getting dark outside. Rose looked around in concern, noticing that nothing had changed in the room.
The Doctor had not been back.
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The Doctor woke slowly to the glare of a single bulb and a throbbing in his head, which caused him to want to vomit. He swallowed deeply and tried to focus on what was around him, but his eyes didn't want to cooperate. Slowly though his vision cleared and his head eased; his eyes widened at the sight of the three men sitting facing him, he slowly tried to move his arms into a more comfortable position but realised that they were tied behind him to the chair he was sitting on.
"Hello" he said as cheerfully as he could manage when all he wanted to do was throw up
"I'm the Doctor and I am going to guess that you are the cryotrons" he added watching them carefully, pleased for once that Rose had gone to see her mum.
"We are the Cryotrons and you are the Doctor" the middle man said in a strange mechanical voice.
The Doctor gave him a look that screamed idiot
"Yes, I think I just said that" he said slowly as if talking to a child, "For something that wants to destroy the earth you really are a bit stupid" he added caustically, he watched the three exchange glances.
"We do not want to destroy the world called earth, only the one called Sky Tyler" the middle man said slowly, his eyes looking confused.
"Fantastic" the Doctor said enthusiastically, hiding his shock at the words "Glad we've cleared that up, can I go now? Seeing as I don't know anyone called Sky Tyler" he said raising his eyebrows and smiling hopefully "But I do know a Jackie Tyler, you could always kill her instead" he added gleefully, glad Rose couldn't hear him.
"No, you are the sire of Sky Tyler" middle man said "Sky Tyler must not live" he continued in the oddly monotonous tone.
The Doctor shook his head at them and grinned
"You must have the wrong Doctor, I don't have a daughter called Sky, haven't had a daughter in a long, long time, and she is very much dead already I am afraid" he said to them as if trying to work out a puzzle, "Might have some great grandkids though, or even some great, great grandkids around" he said introspectively "Must look up Susan one of these days and find out" he added to himself thoughtfully, realising it had been a long time since he had seen his granddaughter. He looked up and smiled at the threesome
"But definitely no daughter called Sky" he said with a firm nod "Bit of a daft name really" he added on with a wry smile.
The threesome sat silently, obviously trying to assimilate what the Doctor had been saying. Middle man seemed to become angry and stood, crossing towards the doctor
"You are the sire of Sky Tyler, you are the Doctor from Gallifrey, and you will die so that she may not live" he said angrily. The doctor considered what he had said for a moment and then grinned
"You've got that bit wrong" he said with a full on smile"the phrase in the movies is always 'You will die so that she may live'" he told middle man smugly, "you really need to get out more" he added as he raised his legs and kicked middle man firmly in the chest, using the seat he was tied to as leverage. Middleman flew through the air and landed on the far wall with a scream and shudder.
The other two moved quickly to try and stop the Doctor but all the time he had been talking he had been working his hands free from the ropes binding him to the back of the chair. He flung the rope out in front of him like a whip catching the one on the left in the face, causing him to stager back with his hands to his face, and green blood pouring from beneath those hands. The third and final one stood and faced the Doctor and grinned slowly before pulling out what looked like a mobile phone, the Doctor moved quickly to the side as a red beam sliced the chair he had been sitting on, cleanly in half. The Doctor quickly snatched the broken chair and threw it at the last man standing, dashing to the door in the corner as the chair left his hands.
The Doctor didn't have time to be relieved that the door was unlocked, as he heard standing man throw the chair aside and stagger after him, just as the Doctor crashed through the door into the open air outside, he felt a searing heat on his arm and saw the red laser light sore past him. The Doctor never paused in his running as he quickly looked back, but standing man didn't seem to want to venture out of the doorway, the Doctor leapt behind a parked car as the laser fired again, and then he dashed down the road, staying low and listening for the sound of pursuit, pleased when it sounded as if they weren't following.
A few minutes later the Doctor stopped running and turned to look behind him, he slowly lent against a brick wall and looked at his shoulder
"Just bloody marvellous" he said when he saw the large burn in his leather jacket "I really liked this jacket" he gripped, fingering the large whole in it, before setting off away from the three cryotrons. And back to Rose and the Tardis.