She fell down the cliff face, yelping in pain as she hit the rough pink rock. Her view twirled over and over as re rolled; finally it ended with a splash of cold water. She beat with her paws to break the surface for a moment, but was then dragged down again by the undercurrents. When she broke surface again she had been washed down to the beach, she dragged herself from the water, collapsing on the pink and Magenta sands. She coughed, expelling the green water from her lungs then looked up at her surroundings. She could see the cliff from which she had fallen, and shivered inwardly at the size of it. She had fallen a long way. She groaned as she got to her paws, she could feel quite a few cuts, and loads of bruises, she would definitely need a long hot bath after this. She could hear the hover vehicles driving off and sighed, that would mean she would have to go hunting for the Doctor.
She walked to the into the forest, taking slow steps as her aching body protested. The birds had settled into the usual calling, the cacophony of "WhoooPa!" almost deafening her. She stilled as a rustling came from the bushes before her, she tensed, ready to fight…and was tackled by a blue blur.
"Tardis?" she got up from the floor to see the TARDIS wagging her tail, tongue lolling. "Send you to find me did he?" the TARDIS nodded at her. She sat down, the TARDIS came to sit beside her, and she could see the old girl was checking her out, seeing the extent of her injuries. Rose looked down seeing blood running down from her right paw to pool in the pink earth. She knew he shoulder hurt, which probably meant she had a cut on there.
"Come on old girl, lets get them out of trouble…. again" she began walking, the TARDIS by her side, the forest was dense, almost like a jungle. She looked back as the Sun began t set, seeing a blue moon rise. She smiled as the Song "Blue moon" popped into her head. Suddenly she became aware of talking. In the moonlight she could see a cave, outside which sat some animals. Rose assumed they were more people turned into dogs. They all looked upon hearing Rose and the TARDIS. The 6 of them came forward growling. Rose was about to respond in kind, but the TARDIS beat her to it. She transformed from the lovable bear dog, to a demonic monster with a ludicrous amount of teeth. Everyone…including Rose shrank back.
"Um…Calm down Tardis" and just like that, the TARDIS changed back to the lovable Dog/bear, tail wagging.
"Who are you?" asked a purple, eye-stalked slug.
"My name is Rose, this Is Tardis. Who are you?"
"I'm Grack," replied the purple slug
"I'm Rachel, and this is my daughter Ruth" these were 2 black Labradors
"Athrapromorficgorantic, but you all seem to call me Ant for short" Rose could see why…he was an ant.
"My names Vkol" this one looked like a green cat, but he was the size of an St Bernard
"And I'm Torath" this one looked like a sheep, but with teeth..and was silver.
"Your hurt, you poor thing. Just got escaped by the skin of your teeth by the looks of it." Rachel came up, her daughter Ruth sticking close.
"Be careful, how do we know she is not working for them. With that beast with her" Torath practically baaaed at them.
"Oh be quiet you fool. Come sit with us my dear" Rose limped over to the group and gingerly sat down.
"What's going one here? I mean what's with turning us all to pets?"
"It's for our meat"
"What!"
"We get processed to feed the upper-class."
"That's gross! How can they do that? Why doesn't anyone do anything?" Rose gasped in horror. It was cannibalism plain and simple.
"They don't do anything because they don't know" Rachel replied, looking sad and resigned.
"Why?"
"What you stupid? They can't understand us, we bark, baaa and sneeze" Grack said with a sneer, the TARDIS growled at him.
"No Tardis," Rose said with a sigh, she was tired, afraid and most importantly, she was missing the Doctor. She turned back to Grack. "What do you mean they can't understand us? were talking"
"We don't speak galactic English, we might be in this form but to everyone else we are just, for a better word, Dogs." Grack walked to the edge of the small clearing that the cave was in. Rose sighed heavily. The pain in her shoulder a draining throb, but then shock realisation dawned on her.
"Oh my god…..that means The Doctor and Jack… I have to help them" she got to her paws but and made her stop.
"You can't little one, you'll be caught just like them"
"I don't care, I won't leave him.. I mean….them. They're my friends. We can't keep letting them do this. When will you try to make it stop? After they here, trying to take her" Rose's snout towards Ruth. "Because by then it would be too late" Ant looked to Rose, seeing something in her he had not seen in a long time….Hope.
"I'm in"
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They had been put in a large what could only be called a dog pound, Jack stayed near to the Doctor as they sat in one of the wire cells. All round they could hear crying, pleading to be let go, to be given the time to live. Jack looked on concerned, the Doctor, who normally looked at everything, not missing any aspect of the situation they were in. he just looked ahead. Blue eyes now shadowed, drawing in the light, light the beast of the universe. Like a black hole.
"Humm, this is a strange one. Never seen this breed. What are you?" Jack looked to the alien that now talked to the Doctor. Jack realised it was the man they had seen when they had arrived; it was him that turned them into this.
"It's your fault!" Jack growled
"What is? That you're like this? Yes. Shame about the other one you was with. Would have made a nice pet. Though perhaps it might be better, she wasn't worth much"
"Shut up!" Jack looked back, and yelped
"Geeze Doctor!" The Doctor had become like the TARDIS, just a demonic dog, it looked like something that had come from the deepest pits of hell. Jack shrank back as the Doctor walked forward, no emotions flashing across his Black hole eyes.
"You didn't know her, so don't you dare say anything about her."
"Aww, were you quiet attached to her. Poor little Doggie. No matter, start up for the next consignment" With that he walked from the room. Jack and the Doctor looked over as screams came from the large machine that dominated the room. They watched as containers tipped dogs….no people into the machine. All that came out was meat.
The Cage shook as theirs was lifted; they rolled as it was tipped up, bodies slamming into another. The Jack met concrete. By some fluke he had landed beside the machine.
"Jack stop the machine!" Jack ran up over to the control panel, loads of wires out of the console. He stood there, not sure which wire to pull out.
"Bite the red one!"
"I can't!"
"Why?" the Doctor shouted back, he was getting close to the blades.
"I'm a dog!"
"And!"
"I'M COLOR BLIND!"
"Ah" The Doctor seemed stumped for a moment, Jack was sure he could hear he saying about "stupid colour blind ape dogs" but he decided to ignore him. And just pulled a random wire. The machine coughed and died. The Doctor with several others got out and stood before Jack
"Time to save the world Doc?"
"Time to destroy it" The Doctor walked past Jack, the demonic side of him crackling across the dark fur.
"Doc?" but the Doctor just kept walking away. Behind them the others now free started attacking the guards, others running from the factory. Jack trailed the Doctor, wishing Rose was here, and she would know how far the Doctor would go. But then Jack realised that the destructive storm that had taken hold of the Doctor was because of Rose. Jack's heart sank as the same destructive force took hold of him. There wasn't much chance she had survived the fall. And Jack realised that this was no act. The Doctor would turn this world to ash…..and he wasn't so sure he wanted to stop him.
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Rose made her way through the darkened streets, behind her they all followed, even the child. They had talked and decided that enough was enough. They could see the Factory when alarms began to blare. Spilling out from the factory came hundreds of creatures, shouts of "we're free" ringing through the night. They ran into the main rooms. She was on the higher walkway; below she could see the Doctor and Jack. And in the centre of the room was a pulsating light.
"What's that?" Grack came up beside her.
"That is the device that changed us, but it looks wrong. It shouldn't be red. Set like that…..it could destroy this whole area." They looked down seeing the man from before. Jack was pining him down to the floor
" You'll kill us all, I only wanted to feed my people"
"By feeding them to each other. Don't think so mate," The Doctor snarled. He walked towards the device.
"What you doing it for? That girl, that puny thing that my men threw over the cliff. Well I'll find you a new one, one that's even prettier."
"Shut up, You'll never find one like her, so don't you even mention her. She kept the darkness away from me. And you……you've let it loose" he turned to the device the other pleading with him not to activate it. Rose stood in horror, he would do this for her? No!
"Doctor No!" The Doctor and Jack turned to her, both faces showing happiness; well it looked like it from their eyes anyway.
That was the distraction Dormas needed. He kicked Jack off, and pressed a button on his belt, doors slid open and out poured the Wolves and the dogs from Orlac 10. Dormas got up, brushing himself off, as if he didn't have a care. And pulled out a gun, pointing it at the Doctor he smiled.
"Bad dog"
The Doctor stood for a moment in time, it couldn't end like this. Shot, while looking like a dog. What a stupid way for a timelord to die. That was his thought in that moment. Stupid last thought….now that he thought about it. Then time moved again, he saw a blur. He knew it was Rose, blonde fur matted with blood and dirt. She clamped down on Dormas's arm. The gunshot going wide. Then the guard dogs moved and he was fighting, biting. He saw others coming, fighting with them. A black Labrador came beside him,
"Your Rose's friend" it wasn't a question it was a statement. "She's special, and worries a lot about you."
"I worry about her too" the others had begun to win; the guard dogs being chased off. All stopped when the shot rang out, followed by a yelp. Jack moved in an instant, biting Dormas's hand deeply, he howled in pain, the gun skittering across the floor. The others came, pinning him down. The Doctor walked slowly to the blonde fur mound on the floor.
"Rose…..Rose?" he came closer, nudging her. A small gasp of pain left her as she opened her eyes
"Doctor…Don't…Don't destroy it….it's not you….not for me…not worth it" her eyes closed and she stilled. The Doctor stood frozen; he looked at her, blood matting her fur more as the wound bled. The he turned, his form changing with the anger inside of him. He became the demonic dog, row upon row of teeth as his eye swirled with dark anger. He advanced on the now cowering form of Dormas, he pinned the man to the floor, eyes boring into his.
"Please don't..please"
"Un-do what you have done. Put us all right" the Doctor snarled. Domas nodded quickly and with the Doctor close, activated the machine. Instead of the green glow, there came blue. The Doctor closed his eyes and when he opened them he saw people standing before him.
"We're us, we're back to normal" they began to cheer as they danced. The Doctor turned from the scene and walked over to where Jack was crouched beside Rose, the Doctor gently picked up her still form and walked from the scene. The TARDIS stood awaiting him.
"What about him Doc?"
"They can clear it up themselves. I have other things on my mind" he carried her to the med bay and lay her softly on the bed. Jack looked at how he cared for her, and knew he would have destroyed that planet to make them pay. If Rose hadn't stopped him then who knows how far the storm would have reached. He left them too it walking to his room…he suddenly realised he was scratching his ear like a dog.
"Oh great"
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He healed her wounds, taking the bullet from her flesh. He felt the TARDIS wrapping her mind in warmth keeping her from slipping into the coma her injuries had threatened. He stroked the hair from her face as he sat and watched her, felling sleep tug at his soul. He didn't even feel himself lie down beside her, or feel his arms encompass her as she cuddled to his chest. All he knew was the presence of Rose, and the very smug presence of the TARDIS.
When she awoke she felt safe and warm, the hum of the TARDIS surrounding her in its presence.
"'Ello Tardis" she mumbled into the warm jumper…..warm jumper? Hang on. She opened her eyes to see the blue jumper, she angled her head up to see the serene form of the Doctor, his face slack in peaceful slumber.
"Silly git"
"Who's a silly git?" came his mumbled response
"You are you fake-sleeping-alien-timelord-thing" he cracked open one eye at her making her giggle.
"Fake-sleeping-alien-timelord-thing?"
"Well you are. Come on I need a cup of tea" Rose extracted herself from his embrace heading for the door; she paused at the threshold giving him a cheeky grin.
"What?"
"You really were a cute dog" with that Rose ran laughing from the room the Doctor chasing her, wiping from the Doctor's mind the darkness he nearly came to do again. But this time it was not to save the universe, it was to avenge her…. and to be honest………it scared her more than anything.
"I'VE GOT FLEAS!" Jack shouted down the TARDIS hallways.
THE END
KITG: there you go, that's the end to my silly ditty, strange what my mind gets up to when I'm ill….oh well. Hope it made you laugh.
Thanks to everyone who reviewed. Glad it was something strange to make you laugh. See Evee and Fern pop in as well as others. So thanks fo reading me silly little fic
