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Rose Tyler – Time Agent
By Tangerine Alert
Chapter 2 – Call In
Rose groaned and raised her head out of her bed, something was beeping…
"That is the last time…eh bugger it, next time I'll take him out on Erridinian brandy…" Rose made a grab for her comm. Link with her ship.
"Yeah?"
"Tyler, you're needed back at HQ."
Rose focused on the voice it was an agitated Xepto. She still had at least another 40 hours left she sighed.
"What is it?"
"Large chronological disruption…"
"How large?"
"As in systems, everyone's researching, more when you come in."
"Fine…" Rose threw the comm. Link down and wandered off to the bathroom, big things could wait…for a little while, she needed to grab a shower first.
Taking the offered basket of fruit as she left her house and waving a farewell to the gardner a friend of Stast's, well one of his friends who liked to work with her odd mix of plants. She took a bite out of the costaberry as she ran up the ramp and began to power up her ship. She smiled as she cleared the atmosphere and took a moment to look down at the planet she called home, it was a far cry from the Estate and her and her mum's flat.
Rose had managed to send one other letter to her mum not long after she had got her first ship.
Dear Mum
If anyone comes looking for me, don't show em the letters…I'm doing better things…
Got a fantastic job.
Love you always
Rose
She had wanted to say more, but if some how the Doctor got a hold of it…she wasn't sure how he'd react to her life as it was now.
Her ship emerged at HQ, which was oddly devoid of any ships.
Guiding her ship round to an airlock she grabbed a coat and walked off to the meeting room, Xepto was there with Joanna who sometimes headed up big missions.
"Jo, Xepto called me back, what's up."
"Several systems have ceased to exist."
"Oh." Rose sat down with a thump and stared at the screen, several sections were flashing red.
"The Orion belt, Centauri system, Eriphamus Empire, Torbal Confederacy and many smaller planets have been wiped clean, or erased totally." Xepto read off a screen.
"That's not good, what can I do?"
"We've got everyone on it, its going to be a long research job, leaves you though…" Jo said trailing off.
"Me?"
"Our resident expert on 30th century Earth and her empires backwards."
Rose smiled, she was around the 'office water cooler' something of an oddity, all of the time agents came from the far future, or somewhere around where time travel was worked out or started to interact, no one came from 21st century Earth, well no one who wanted to become a time agent.
"I was originally from 21st century Earth."
Joanna nodded. "Yes, but while this crisis is investigated and rectified, you'll be working Earth and the subsidiaries…" Rose nodded slowly.
"So what was so important I needed to be dragged across space and time by an annoying call in the early morning?" She glared at Xepto.
"Something that requires urgent attention. I'll let Xepto explain. Just wanted to say from further notice you're going to be handling all operations around Earth, you may have to deal with a lot of Earth's timeline…Until we get this system, systems…worked out."
"Right."
Joanna smiled and nodded to Xepto before leaving.
"So why did you drag me back here?"
"Hard night?"
"It's going to get harder unless you explain to me why I'm here…"
Xepto smiled fondly and touched the screen, it shimmered to show a cream and white box.
"Why have I seen one of these before?" She said to herself after she stared at it for a moment.
"A Dalek time vessel carrying an Assassination squad."
"Oh…bugger. I thought all the time vessels were lost in the..."
"The Time War, yes…this one was trapped in a time eddy, it recently got free…"
"Oh."
"It appears to be tracking a time vessel, here is its temporal signature that you should be able to follow."
"And the ship it's following?"
"No idea, sorry."
"No worries, if I'm going to be on a long mission there can you restock all my supplies, and if it isn't too much trouble…" Rose smiled sweetly at Xepto.
"What?"
"Fix my long distance transmat. It's been on my to do list…"
"Fine, there are a few technicians still here…they're sent. Now why do you want a long distance transmat."
Rose leaned into the seat. "If I'm going after Daleks and who ever else, they land and seek their target out, I don't want my ship there distractin' them or anythin' else."
Soon, Rose was in her ship, fully restocked and everything.
"Right, lock in temp signature."
"Signal locked, calculating temporal coordinates."
Rose nodded her head as she checked her ship and took it into the vortex.
"Vessel found, temporal coordinates…"
Rose didn't really register the coordinates until after she'd started off.
"Coordinates, relative Earth time?"
"Relative Earth time; Earth year 2006, relative earth month known colloquially as March, 12 day…"
"Location."
"Projected Location: London."
"Fun." She stood up and began to pull on a belt with her various guns, scanners and what not, she pulled on over it a long old brown leather coat she'd picked up somewhere, it had plenty of pockets, she also grabbed a compact crossbow spear gun, she couldn't go around 2006 disintegrating Daleks, well she could but that many Daleks she'd easily run out of power, double checking her comms unit for UNIT contact info and double checking that they'd actually encountered Daleks…
"Well that's a lot of times, including more than one temporal encounter…"
She glanced at the scanners as the emerged into 2006 space.
Sitting back down at the controls she guided her craft to a secluded area on the moon.
"Transmat ready, set me down to largest concentration of Dalek squad."
It took Rose a second to work out where she was, she'd put herself down at the back of some old shops, near where she'd first gone into the TARDIS, pulling her scanner out she glanced around the general area.
There was nothing, just a faint trace, running down the alley she came face to face with a Dalek, a much less imposing Dalek, it had blue spots instead of a brushed golden one.
"Ext-ter-min-…" Rose wipped out the crossbow, the Dalekenium hardened bolt rushed through the air and plunged into the 'heart' of the creature.
"Surprised?" Rose said glancing at the creature and double check it was dead, went behind it and shoved it into an alley and started to contact UNIT.
"This is UNIT command how did you get this number?"
"And who is this?"
"Brigadier Bambera. How did you get this number."
"So you weren't caught with the rest of the UNIT people in the Slitheen incident." Rose asked mildly curious, she'd had limited dealings with UNIT, they were good at cleaning up things they knew about, and generally the shoot first ask questions later mantra worked.
"How did you…"
Rose heard typing and such.
"Don't bother trying to trace me or my voice, I could trash your computers from here."
"Then…"
"There's a Dalek, a dead one that you should probably come and pick up." Rose gave the address. "There'll be others, I'll call you on this number ok?"
"Look, I demand to know who you are."
"Really? Well in that case…no, I'm a friend, I've had dealings with UNIT before, and you're a pretty good orangisation, but I work alone. See ya."
Rose closed the link and ran off as she got another four hits on her scanner.
"Probably come to investigate their chum."
Dalek Assassination squads were supposed to comprise 11 Daleks, 10 'Soldiers' which split off into 2 teams and 1 strategist.
The four dealt with and another call made to UNIT, Rose jumped on a passing bus heading for the next 5 or so.
She found 2 of them chanting their mantra at the top of their tinny voices.
"Seek-Locate-Exterminate."
"Seek-Locate-Exterminate."
She came up behind them and shot one with a fine point laser and the other with a cross bow bolt, as she slid the bolt out of it and restrung it spinning around shooting the third which was sidling up to optimum weapons rang.
Another call and she began to follow the 2 other traces hoping one of them was the Strategist.
She found one outside a sweetshop, it had some sort of scanner instead of the standard sucker arm and was saying something about 'time traces'.
The woman behind the counter was dead.
Rose ran across the park after another Dalek, it was quite out of place being in the middle of a park on an overcast day.
Rose took aim and fired, the bolt went through the air, but it much have only glanced the creature, the whole body of the Dalek turned to face her, which Rose thought was a bit comical, and then it spewed red death at her and slammed her against a tree.