The Doctor and Jack had grudgingly agreed to sit and talk, though they both kept glancing at Rose who seemed too weak to stand.
"We want a Time Lord." Mondas began.
"Well I'm the last and you're not having me." The Doctor replied his bright blue eyes burning with an intense fire.
"We do not want you Doctor, you would be able to escape us at any time. We want a Time Lord that you create. It does not have to be pure Time Lord as you yourself are not anyway. The girl over there would be the perfect carrier." Mondas said calmly, ignoring the Doctor's anger.
"You want…" The Doctor stared utterly amazed that these people could dare ask such a thing. "You want me to get Rose pregnant?"
"That's sick!" Jack said, suddenly taking note of the conversation. He'd been too busy giving Rose little looks of reassurance before.
"Too right it's sick!" The Doctor said. "Sick, morally wrong and never going to happen. Got it?"
"Doctor, a Time Lord is the only thing we need to complete our collection. We have a child of every other species in the universe. All being tested and monitored so we can find the perfect combination to make the perfect being." Mondas said as though this would make things better.
"This is wrong." The Doctor stood up suddenly. "I refuse your terms. Here are mine. Let Rose go, and these children that you speak of and I won't destroy you. If you refuse then I will destroy every last one of you, free all the children and wipe your 'research' from time itself!"
Mondas looked at him darkly.
"You seem to be under the misconception that- how do they put it?- you are 'free'." Mondas replied, no hint of sarcasm. "Take them away to consider their situation."
Several men grabbed the Doctor and Jack from behind and started to drag them, struggling, away.
"For being so impertinent, the girl will suffer," Mondas said as they disappeared round the corner.
Rose cowered at the words. If they had been kind before then she dreaded to think what their 'nastiness' was.
Several hours and much shouting later the Doctor and Jack were locked in another cell with no hope of escape. They'd been striped and searched for any weapons they might have.
The Doctor was sat cross-legged at one end of the cell, his head in his hands thinking carefully. Jack meanwhile was pacing about furiously.
"I swear if they hurt Rose I'm going to murder them with my bare hands…" He muttered darkly to himself.
The Doctor ignored him, pondering. How did they know of the relationship between him and Rose? They must've been following them for a long time, yes, that would explain how they'd managed to capture the TARDIS. He stood up suddenly and headed for the door, testing it with his hands and giving it a shove with his elbow. Nodding satisfied he measured six steps away from it and stood looking at the door.
"Captain, if you want to save Rose now's your chance," The Doctor said, bracing himself. "On the count of three, we run at the door. Got it?"
Jack looked up and stood next to the Doctor.
"Ready," Jack mimicked the Doctor's stance.
"One," The Doctor said. "Two."
"Three!" Cried Jack and they both charged at the door bursting through and walloping a guard to the floor.
"Must've just unlocked the door," the Doctor said, rubbing his shoulder. "He'll be fine."
A scream pierced the air and both the Doctor and Jack paled.
"Rose," Jack whispered and they both took off down the corridor following the screams.
Rose sobbed uncontrollably, her shoulders shaking as the man came at her again. The torture was almost unbearable. If it weren't for the thought of the Doctor and Jack looking for her she would've given up altogether.
"That's enough," said one man who seemed almost reluctant to torture Rose any more. It was the first human emotion any of them had displayed. Rose pushed herself as far into a corner as she could get and put her hands to her face, hoping that the Doctor would hurry.
The two men responsible for her torture were talking in low voices, murmuring to each other about what they should do with her next. Their commanding officer had instructed them to keep hurting the girl until they were told otherwise but it didn't look like they could take much more of her screaming.
Her hands were bleeding, her legs were bleeding, and her feet were bleeding. She didn't think there was a part of her that was left untouched. Even her insides felt like they'd been mashed.
The Doctor and Jack didn't find Rose but they did find a room full of children held in stasis. They wandered the length of the room, looking at all the different species.
"He wasn't lying," whispered Jack horrified. The Doctor touched one of the cases. It had a human child in it.
"This is wrong…" The Doctor shuddered, whispering almost inaudibly.
The pair looked at each other.
"This stops now." The Doctor said suddenly, backing away. "We can't release these children, they'd never survive. They'll have to be destroyed along with everything else."
Jack saw how hard the decision for the Doctor was. He placed a hand on the Doctor's arm.
"Let's save Rose," he said calmly.
The Doctor looked at Jack.
"We might be too late," he said sadly, eyes shining.
"What?" Jack frowned.
"The screams. They've stopped." The Doctor whispered.
Jack listened. The Doctor was right. Still they searched for her, but when they found her she looked terrible. Barely conscious and covered in blood the Doctor almost broke down. The men who had been torturing Rose simply stood and watched. They knew they should try and stop the Doctor and Jack taking the girl, but they too were being held there against their will. The Doctor scooped Rose carefully up into his arms.
They left and wandered down the corridor carefully. Mondas found them soon after.
"She is not yours to take." He said fiercely blocking the path with two other men.
The Doctor said nothing, but Jack stepped forward.
"Where are our weapons?" He asked.
"You're not leaving," Mondas said frowning.
The Doctor looked at him as though what he had said was unbelievable. He concentrated hard and Mondas and the men found themselves beginning to age and wither.
"What are you doing?" Screamed Mondas, looking at his hands.
"Leaving," Jack replied as the Doctor barged past and he followed.
They left the hanger and found themselves back on the planet they'd been on before all of the dreadful events had happened.
As they headed back for the TARDIS Jack glanced at the Doctor and Rose.
"What did you do to him?" He asked carefully.
"Created an time pocket around him and prematurely aged him," the Doctor replied.
Jack opened the TARDIS doors for him and the Doctor walked up the ramp and towards the infirmary with Rose.