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Rose Tyler – Time Agent

By Tangerine Alert

Chapter 3 – Meeting

Rose groaned a few minutes later, and patted herself down, flicking at the energy vest she'd put on this morning and pulled out the absorption pack, it had been filled.

"So he wanted to kill me, no surprise there…" The filled pack should give her enough for two total disintegration blasts.

Glancing at the scanner she took off at a run, running through the garages that surrounded the estate she caught sight of it as it killed two people, Rose let of a blast which glanced it, disintegrating the casing, it swung around with greater speed and blasted at her, but in actual fact it was aiming at her weapon, which disintegrated.

"I really liked that one too." Rose said as she ran up with an electrified baton in one hand and her sonic screwdriver in the other, snapping the eye stalk and she then proceeded to jump on the back of the Dalek while holding the screwdriver at the highest setting to the dome, in effect char boiling the Dalek.

Another call to UNIT and she was running through an estate, she was after the strategist. She was at full pelt and didn't even notice a certain anachronistic police box, which by all rights should have been siting in an alcove inside a London estate.

She reset her spear gun with a rope so she could pull the Dalek out of wherever it was.

It was only then when she reached the floor that the Dalek was on that she looked around and realised where she was that she let out a set of expletives that would have made a freighter runner blush and took off, not even looking at her scanner.

"…er-min-ate…"

"Buggering Bugger." Rose rounded the door. "Dalek!" It turned and Rose fired the spear gun it crunched right through Dalek. She gaved at a rough pull and it pushed it over the balcony watching it smash into a pulp at the bottom, she levelled a sonic blaster at the wreckage and let off a few blasts around it just to make sure it was dead.

Contacting UNIT to make sure they could clean it up she confirmed with them that it was the last and took a breath, and walked in holstering the sonic blaster as she did.

Jackie had been takin tea with her least favourite guests. The Doctor, who took her daughter away supposedly getting her killed according to him, although she got some mild satisfaction that Rose had sent her two letters. And a handsome man who had introduced himself as 'Captain Jack Harkness', he'd smiled as he'd done on subsequent meetings.

Then a large pepper shaped robot thing had blasted down the door and had started screeching 'Exterminate' or something at the Doctor, it had also put several marks in her newly painted walls and the not so new carpet.

Then someone who sounded a bit like her Rose pulled the thing, the Deylek out of the flat.

Rose walked in and saw Jack and the Doctor staring at her as she holstered her blaster, then she turned to her mum.

"Hi mum." She smiled as her mum pulled her into a hug and started to cry.

"Rose…sweetie…oh Rose…I didn't know if you were…"

"You got my letters then?" Rose asked quietly, her mum broke away and slapped her on the arm.

"Letters. A text message would have held more…I could have called… you couldn't have been more vague?" She said wiping her eyes and pulling her into another hug.

She then stepped away from Rose and looked at her.

"You've grown…and aged." Jackie said staring.

Rose had grown a lot in height and was around 5ft 11', she was a little bit more built, stronger, and when Jackie had hugged her she felt a lot of things in her pockets and belt.

"Rose…!"

"Rose!" Rose heard before two men leapt up.

"Jack, Doctor…erm…Hi…" Rose waved at them while smiling awkwardly.

"We thought you were dead…" The Doctor looked at her before looked at her mum. Who looked back at him.

"You already knew."

"She sent me letters…"

"You sent her letters and not us?" Jack pouted.

"I'll make some more tea…" Jackie went off to the kitchen. "Then you can explain where you've been Rose."

"Yes…I'd like to know that too." The Doctor was staring at her intently.

"You could out stare an Alpha Centurian." Rose joked as she sat down, Jack laughed, The Doctor did too before his eyes widened as he looked at her.

"We never met any Alpha Centuri."

"No we didn't, why don't we wait until mum gets back…"

"So Rose, how come you didn't send us a letter." Jack one arm hugged the Doctor.

"And how was I going to get a letter to you, chuck it in a bottle and throw it to the time winds?"

"You're carrying a gun." The Doctor said solemnly.

"Several, but you mean the sonic blaster, got the idea from Jack, visited the Weapon Factories of Viliengard." Rose un-holstered the weapon. "More battery power for those special features." Rose shared a smile as she passed it to Jack who looked over the sleek lines, it was a slimmer model than the one he used to have.

"Nice, stylish, not the standard model."

"Wanted something that was sleeker, your one was way too…"

"Manly, long, powerful…" He grinned at her "Phallic?" He flashed a smile at her and the Doctor.

"Chunky."

"What's this about Chunky?" Jackie said as she sat down, between the Doctor and Jack, they were all looking at Rose.

"Rose and Jack here were just discussing weapons."

"Oh…?" Jackie looked up at her daughter oddly.

"I guess I should start at the beginning…"

"I think you should…"

Rose started to tell everything from when her mum helped her with the TARDIS up to when she'd brought Jack back to life.

"Thanks for that."

"No probs, sure you can make it up to me."

"Rose the vortex, the energy should have burnt you I…"

"You were going to take it away…you'd lived such a short life…"

"I'm 900 years old…"

Rose looked at him intently.

"I don't mean you, I mean you, this body…you'd lived such a short time with that face, in the aftermath of the time war…."

He looked at her puzzled and slightly afraid.

"The energy spoke to me, the vortex spoke to me…I didn't want you to die…so I took myself away."

"To where?" Jack said swallow some tea.

Rose took a breath and leaned into the chair.

"I arrived at a space station…"

"Where…when…I searched for you…" The Doctor said sadly.

"For months we scanned the vortex…" Jack added.

"Where were you sweetie." Jackie smiled gently at her daughter.

"I was at a space station for the Temporal Powers Agency."

Jack's eyes went wide.

"Time Agents…that means…you…"

"I became a Time Agent, yeah that's what you're getting at." Rose fingered the sonic blaster and her stun gun. Jack jumped up and Rose pulled and levelled them both at him.

The Doctor stared at Rose.

"Jack sit down, and I can try and explain, or you can make a fuss and I can…"

"Kill him where he stand?" The Doctor muttered disgustedly.

"No, stun him and continue."

Jack glared at her and sat down.

"Good, I did my research and looked into them before I joined, they do good things, stop people from drastically buggering up the timeline…" Rose paused.

"Jack you said two years had gone from your memories, did you ever think that maybe they went for a reason, that maybe you got rid of them yourself."

He stared at her.

"Time Agents are a rare thing, you can't be forced into it, and even if you want to you have to be suited to doing a lot of travelling."

"In time?" The Doctor and Jackie said together before they stared at each other.

Rose chuckled. "Yeah, and space."

"So, what does this have to do with my 2 years Rose, 2 years…"

"From what I read, and believe you me I read and researched, there was a big something, that wiped out ¾ of the Time Agents, might have been a big Time Destructor or a TED, somethin' like that."

"Ted? Like Super Ted?" Jackie said her brow furrowing as she tried to understand her young…well her daughter.

"A temporal extinction device." The Doctor muttered.

"Yeah. But that would have had to have been planted in the vortex…" Jack continued.

Rose nodded again.

"Supposedly there were only a few survivors, still not sure what it actually was, but what ever they saw, what they experienced in that time they didn't want to remember, I'm just saying maybe you're one of them…" Rose sat back hugging her tea.

"So where've you been Rose, if not gallivanting around with him and him."

"I was an apprentice, got through that quick, turns out you don't need A levels to defuse a TED…well it probably would've helped…then I got a ship, and then a better ship."

"You got a ship! Can I see it?" Jack asked grinning again; the Doctor also seemed to have perked up.

Rose looked at them and shook her head.

"No, I don't think so…"

"Why? Your former travelling companion's not good enough?" The Doctor almost sounded hurt.

"Nothin' like that, just…I know you Doctor…"

"What does that mean…?"

"It means you want a look inside so you can convince me to come with you…or so you can follow me, make sure I'm not doing anything…"

"Anything like killing people?"

"Had to bring that up."

"Well are you?"

"Rose you're not…"

Rose turned to her mum sadly.

"I try to take people in stunned, but when necessary yeah I've killed em…and when it's the difference between a time terrorist and a major continent, or the discovery of a vaccine that could save a planet…yeah I'll take out one person who for whatever reason decides to stuff around with time…"

Jackie went silent for a while.

"How come you never visited?"

"There's a lot of temporal action around this time zone, where I could stuff things around if I arrived at the wrong moment it could have been when I'd just arrived, except in my future, or out of sequence with meeting other people like him and him…"

The Doctor looked pensive for a moment.

"How come you came back?"

"You think I was just dropping round for a visit when the Dalek came round?"

"Well yeah, it looked like it was after the Doctor after all."

"That was the strategist."

"Strategist?" Jack said frowning.

"It was part of an assassination squad, got caught in a time eddy, missed the war got free, I took out the squad and only realised it was coming up here as I ran up the stairs."

"So…you're the reason I have burn paint and carpet and Deylek blood on my carpet."

"Dalek blood, well more its nutrients…" Rose pulled her scanner out running it over the stain. "No you were right that is blood." She got up and started to pat down her pockets.

"Well I've got to be goin'."

"What?" three voices cried out.

"Could I 'ave a word with mum, mum…" Rose took her mum's hand and led her to the kitchen.

"Rose darlin' how come you're leaving…" Rose held up her hand as she took out her sonic screwdriver and twisted the handle it made a buzzing noise.

"That'll stop him from listening in."

"Who, what is that?"

"Sonic screwdriver."

"Hasn't the Doctor got one of 'em?"

"You know?"

"Fixed the thermostat. His doesn't look like that." Jackie pointed at the silver rod.

"Different model, this is more precise than the Doctor's. And it's to stop him from listening in."

"The Doctor?" Rose nodded.

"Mum, I've got to go sort out some things, but I will try and come back."

"But…I want you safe Rose, can you guarantee me that, that you'll bring yourself home safe?"

Rose smiled at her mum.

"I'm doing something I love, something which is helping people…I will visit, maybe…" Rose pulled out her scanner and stared at it frowning.

"Sutekh's ass. Mum, can you keep the Doctor and Jack busy…I've got to take care of some things."

"Why…what…?"

"I've always wanted to say this…" She brought up the command for her transmat. "'Beam me up Scotty', and no I don't have the Enterprise." She kissed her mum and disappeared leaving her mum gaping at the empty kitchen.

Rose walked back through the her ship studying the readings.

"Note temporal coordinates, location, place note first linear meeting back up with Mum, The Doctor and Jack."
"Noted."

"There's a lot of interference, estimate location of Dalek time vessel."

"Dalek time vessel is in low power stealth mode, location only accurate within 5 kilometres Earth standard."

"Fine." Rose reached over and hit all the active stealth mechanisms and guided the ship off the moon into a high orbit.

"Don't want the Doctor getting his hands on you." Rose could have sworn he heard the computer snort. She grabbed the remote control for the ship and slid it into her scanner.

"Stay in a high orbit, transmat me as close to the Dalek ship…" She grabbed some transmat tags on the way.

"Let's get this done before the Doctor decides to interfere."

Jackie walked out of the kitchen carrying three mugs, Jack and the Doctor looked up at her, the Doctor was playing with his sonic screwdriver.

"Where's Rose?"

Jackie smiled and shrugged.

The Doctor looked at her for a second and leapt up Jack just behind him into the kitchen.

"There's a very light almost non-existent transmat residue." Jack glanced around as he studied his wrist computer.

"Can you trace it?"

"No chance, she's an expert…didn't think I'd say that about Rose." He grinned at the Doctor.

"The TARDIS, we can look for a Dalek ship."

"A Dalek ship here?"

"Time ship, they used to be really small. A bad copy of a TARDIS." The Doctor muttered as they walked out the door.

Jackie followed them. "Rose said she had things to take care of…" The Doctor spun around staring at Jackie before walking off.

Jack handed Jackie the tea mug.

"Always a pleasure Jackie, Baking soda, mineral water and fresh grapefruit juice."

"What?"

"Will get rid of the Dalek blood in your carpet." Jack said before running after the Doctor.

In the TARDIS the Doctor was already tapping things into the screen muttering to himself.

"There's a trace of a ship on the moon."

"The moon? That's where Rose is?"

"No, long gone, wouldn't 'ave landed there, Daleks are direct if anythin'. What did you used to do?"

"What?"

"As a time agent."

"Flew my ship in grab whatever fly out."

"Very Hero." Jack just grinned.

"There's no trace of any ship flying into the atmosphere…but the Dalek ship…"

Rose rounded the second corner, she'd been walking at a fast pace scanning the streets, whatever the Dalek ship was, in low power mode, all it gave off a very fat sensor signature, which meant endless wandering trying to find it.

She walked around another laneway just a line of large bins…she continued walking before pausing and running back.

They were all blue…shrugging she continued, on the last lane way all but the last of the bins were blue, it was cream and white. Rose walked calmly over to the ship, it didn't have any locks, cautiously she withdrew a laser pistol and walked in, according to most of her scanners it was a bad version of a TARDIS, except it used way more power.

Walking back out she pulled a transmat tag from her coat and stuck it to the door.

"Found it!" The Doctor was busy setting controls as Jack looked at the screen.

"Rose, her ship or the Dalek ship."

"The Dalek ship." The TARDIS groaned into life and a short trip it solidified back into existence next to the Dalek ship.

"Push all those switches to full."

"Aren't those for the time field."

"Will disrupt the Dalek ship's ability and any transmat as well…come on."

Rose groaned to herself as the TARDIS materialised.

"Traveller, transmat Dalek vessel to cargo hold."

Rose watched as the TARDIS door opened and the Doctor ran out followed by Jack. The Dalek ship was conspicuous by its presence and it's not disappearing.

"Traveller?"

"Time field from time vessel disabling transmat."

"Buggering, f-ing, Sutekh's ass." Rose muttered as she wandered over to the Doctor and kicked him in the shins. "You did this."

"What?" The Doctor grinned guiltily.

"Do the words 'Time Field' and disabling of transmat' mean anything to you?"

"Rose, I just didn't want you disappearing off with this, it's a dangerous piece of equipment."

"You think I don't know that." Rose glares at him while she pulled out her scanner and remote.

"What are you doing?" The Doctor said as he walked over to the Dalek ship running his screwdriver over the transmat tag.

"Leave that alone." Rose said without looking up.

"Why? You can't use it, not with my field in place."

"What's to stop me going into the TARDIS and pulling the time field indicator out."

"And how would you know how to do that or able to? Rose come on, it's me…"

"You tried to kill yourself, Last of the Timelords, Last Survivor of Gallifrey…and you wanted to kill yourself, such a young life, probably younger than me."

The Doctor stared at her. Jack was looking up and studying his wrist comp.

"Inside time field." The Traveller computer said over her comm. Link.

"Take it aboard." Rose muttered as she saw the ship disappear just as the Doctor was about to walk in.

"How'd you do that? Rose I just wanted a look inside, to make sure there weren't any…"

"Daleks, checked, I got em all."

"Your ship's within the field."

Rose smiled at Jack.

"You can see it, gotta get the stealth looked at…again."

"It's working fine, slight displacement of the field around the top of the ship…" Jack held up his wrist comp it showed a silhouette of the ship.

"Fantastic…" The Doctor grabbed Jack and ran to the TARDIS.

Rose watched before her eyes went wide and shouted at her ship to bring her aboard.

The Traveller rocketed out of the atmosphere and out into space.