The room was empty. It was also large, round and blue. There were rows of seating around the circumference with a small gap where the entrance to the room was. In the middle of the room was a round platform. The platform had a circular wall rising up from it to just above waist height with a gap in it to allow access for someone. People started to file into the room; they were all men and all wearing the same type of uniform except with different coloured shoulders. They all took there seats round the room and one man stood on the platform in the middle.
"Gentlemen, we all know about the attempted assassination of the Leading Minister of the Politius System," he said with such clarity he'd clearly practised his speech beforehand, "She has been studied and interrogated. Therefore I call forth the Security Minister."
The man stepped down and another man, the Security Minister, took his place.
"Thank you Secondary Minister, the information we have gathered has revealed to us the identity and motives of the assassin," the security minister announced, he'd clearly practised his speech too, "Her name is Rose Tyler, we cannot find anything on her in any official government citizen documents. Therefore we have come to the conclusion that she may be working for a breakaway rebel group who have erased all information about themselves. Her motives we have discovered are that she was hired for the assassination. We acquired that piece of information by studying her memories."
The lights in the room dimmed and a cube descended from the ceiling. It had four screens on it and each screen now activated. It showed a point of view image of a man sitting on one side of a table. He was now in conversation with Rose whose voice could be heard.
"You know why you're here don't you Miss Tyler," the man said.
"Yes," Rose replied, "You want me to assassinate the Leading Minister and I've come to negotiate terms of how it is to be done and what sort of reward I'll be getting for it."
The screens deactivated, the cube rose again and the lights brightened.
"The man she was talking to was the Leader of the Swordsmen, the Ministers own security guards," the Minister for Security announced, "There has clearly been a conspiracy from within them. This is why we have called this meeting, to organise an investigation into this matter. The assassin has been sent to the prison colony on Bictrax 4 and anyone found to be involved will join her."
The meeting continued with much discussion about how the investigation was to be held. There was a lot of agreement and disagreement, but in the end they had a fully formed plan and then departed. Only the secondary minister and the Security Minister remained.
"She hasn't been sent to Bictrax 4 has she," the Secondary Minister said smiling.
"Nope," the Security Minister replied, "She's gone to join the underground slave labour."
"The plan worked perfectly."
"Yes, they are now investigating the Swordsmen."
"Good, then tell the others the next stage of the plan."
"And that is?"
"We move in to capture the Leading Minister as soon as all the swordsmen have been removed. We now longer need the two time travellers, deactivate the mind control signal."
"Yes sir."
The Doctor stopped, suddenly he realised where he was. The last thing he clearly remembered was being shot down just outside the TARDIS. He looked round him; he was now in a crowded street with vehicles flying over head and buildings stretching up to the sky. He didn't know where he was, and he really needed to find out.
At about the same time Rose felt a similar sensation, she was now in a lift going down. In the lift with her were two men wearing a lot of black body armour and carrying rifles. Rose also noticed that her wrists had been locked together behind her back, what was doing it seemed like a metal strip linked together at the ends. The lift continued its descent for nearly another hour. Then it stopped and the door opened. One guard unlocked the metal band and pushed Rose out of the life. The door closed and it rose back up again. Rose looked round. She was now in an empty white room. She didn't no what was happening. Then the door opened and a small group of men came in. One of them approached Rose, a wicked sneer on his face.
"Welcome Rose Tyler, welcome to the rest of your life. Where you have no rights."
The swordsmen were practising, swords weren't used very much now but they'd brought them back into use by adding major technological features to them. There were about twenty of them grouped together in a large room, they were in pairs fighting each other and one man looked over them all. He looked round as swordsmen were disarmed or knocked out by the energy generators of the swords. Then he called for the combat to cease.
"Excellent skill gentlemen," he said, "You show the world why the Leading Minister respects and trusts us so much, and I am sure you will all…"
He was interrupted when a squad of armoured men with rifles burst into the room. The surrounded all the swordsmen.
"Drop your weapons, you are all under arrest."
Rose had been told where she was and what was going to happen to her from now on. She was now in the underground mining systems of the planet, the very secret mining systems and that she's going to stay here until she died. She was then given her working clothes which consisted of light brown overalls with a long skirt attachment. She also had her hair tied back and covered by a light brown cap which had a strap that was tied under her chin. She also had a metal band which went round her waist with a ring at the front and the back. Then she was taken down in the dark areas of the mine, the noise of the machines was deafening and the smell of smoke was thick and irritating. Rose felt a sense of foreboding; would she stay here for the rest of her life?