Hey there, I havent updated in months, I know - I just completely ran out of steam for the series... but then i randomly got a really nice message from someone and after that i just had to update. Three hours of babysitting later and I'm here!
This may not read quite as well and may not link to the rest of the series that good because I honestly cant remember what I had planned, but it's the last part before I start a whole new episode, so I hope you carry on reading!
The radio signal was transmitting from a circular room situated at the top of the tower. It had glass windows and overlooked a large area of the park. All around destruction and chaos reigned.
"We have to try and contact Earth!" Rose said, running up to the main console and pressing random buttons.
"Well that isn't the way to do it!" Jack said, "Do you even have a clue what you are doing?"
"No!" Rose cried with frustration.
"Here," Quinn said, pressing buttons and turning dials to much more effect than Rose's random prodding, "I used to work in broadcasting."
"Used to?" Rose asked.
"I'm retired," Quinn replied.
Amber and Jack stood either side of the doorway, waiting ready for something to come bursting through. Every so often they would tentatively glance at each other, occasionally catching each other's eyes and looking away embarrassed, both glad the other occupants of the room were distracted enough not to notice.
"Here," Quinn said, "now we just need to make a recording to transmit."
He held out a microphone, but no one reached to take it.
"Oh come on then!" Rose said, grabbing it, "Always wanted to be on telly when I was a kid."
Back in the TARDIS the Doctor was still working away, pulling levers and twirling dials as the ship groaned in complaint.
"Sorry old girl," the Doctor said, "But we have to get this done."
Suzi was still holding down her switch with a look of fierce concentration when the TV screen she had been watching flickered and changed.
"Is it recording?" a familiar voice said, "Oh, umm… Hi there."
The Doctor paused in his manic working to wander round and take a look. There on the screen transmitting to every channel was Rose.
"This is Rose Tyler broadcasting from the moon. If anyone is out there listening, we need help. The park has gone into terminal shut down and is on the brink of starting a self destruct cycle. Many have already died and others will too if we don't get some sort of transport off this place!"
"Anyone still on the moon surface please head towards er…"
There was a rattle of paper off screen and Rose squinted at something.
"…Yeah, um, please head towards section Delta Plura Alpha, quadrant 17. Quick as you can, and we'll try to get as many of you to safety as we can!"
"And please, whoever on Earth is listening, please help us!"
The screen faded and went black for a moment, then Rose reappeared again, saying, "Is it recording?"
"Haha!" the Doctor said with triumph, "Good old Rose! Play it on a loop on every channel! That's bound to get them listening."
"My Mum was out there," Suzi said, looking at the desolate view behind Rose, "Is she one of the people who died?"
The triumphant grin faded from the Doctor's face and he stopped skipping around. He looked solemnly at Suzi for a moment then continued working harder and faster than ever.
"That's that playing on a loop on every channel available," Jack said, as he finished hacking into the broadcast system with Quinn, "you'll be a household name Rose!"
"Yeah, would have been nicer if I was presenting the Oscars or something," Rose said, throwing the microphone to one side.
"Everyone starts somewhere," Jack said, standing up.
"Lets get going," Amber said, "We have to get to the rendezvous point as well, get some sort of order established."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Rose said, running for the door.
Quinn lead the way as they ran through the chaos, avoiding what fights they could in a bid to reach the rendezvous as quickly as possible. Rose and Amber spotted and injured woman in the rubble and grabbed her by her arms, dragging her with them, while the boys aimed their guns all around, covering them as much as they could.
Ten painstaking minutes later, they arrived at the rendezvous, painfully aware they had only minutes left to get everyone off.
"Ok everyone!" Amber said, pointing the biggest gun she could find in the air, "What escape ships do we have?"
"A fleet of thirty engineer ships," one man in a yellow overall said, "We heard your radio transmission and came to do what we could."
"How many can each ship hold?" Amber asked.
"Up to a hundred, ma'am," the man replied.
Amber looked around at the thousands of dirty, frightened faces. They would never get them all off with just those ships.
"Ok, any more?"
"There are some ships docked here," a woman said, "about ten Transports."
"Great," Amber said, "But the need pilots, who here can fly?"
A couple of people stepped forwards and Jack dragged them over to the transports. Rose busied herself finding as many of the children as she could, directing them over to the mechanic, who transmatted them onto his fleet of ships, carrying them away to safety.
"Five minutes, Quinn," Amber said, "Then everyone here dies, us included, do what you can."
She put her hand on his shoulder, then headed off to help load people into the Transports.
The Doctor saw the countdown had reached less than five minutes and began to panic. There wasn't enough time, they would never get everyone off. He would have to watch from safety with Suzi as the whole moon blew, taking her family and his with it.
Rose… if only she had stayed in the TARDIS. It was very selfish, being more concerned about Rose than Jack and Amber. But Rose had a vulnerability about her that made him even more obliged to take care of her. He knew she could look after herself, but she was his responsibility.
And he loved her…
The Doctor tried not to let his emotions cloud his thoughts and judgments as he continued running round his ship, holding on for as long as he could before finally firing the engines and letting it carry him to section Delta Plura Alpha, Quadrant 17.
Jack crammed one last person on the already heaving Transport, wished the driver luck and watched them take off. It was the last one. There was still a gathering of solemn but accepting people gathered round, one being the woman they had dragged all the way with them. Quinn was stood on the edge of the group, looking drawn and tired. Rose was behind him, some way off, crying her eyes out.
"Is there nothing else we can do?" Amber asked.
"We've done all we can," he said, taking her hand in his, lacing his fingers through hers.
She looked up at him, meeting his eyes, smiling. Jack smiled back at her. They would go down with this ship together in less than a minute, and the Doctor was nowhere to be seen.
Quinn watched as they all resolutely accepted their fate, but he couldn't sit by and wait to blow up, he was a survivor. He had fought the dinosaurs, battling up through the levels before to earn the privilege to face them. He still hadn't caught his T-rex, and he wasn't going to die before he achieved that.
Without saying a word to anyone, he turned and ran out of the hanger. He knew this park like the back of his hand, having practically lived here for the last few months. He knew the first aid crew used light surface craft to fly quickly to the scene of the accident. Such a craft would hold the right amount of people, enough to get everyone left behind off. It wouldn't hold up to the pressures of reentering the Earth's atmosphere, but it would hold in the vacuum of space where they could float around, waiting to be rescued by a more sturdy ship.
Quinn ran desperately. He knew there was less than a minute left, but, if the gods, fate or whatever it was, favoured him, he knew it could be done.
Fortunately for Quinn, the powers that be were smiling down on him that day.
Half buried in rubble, but otherwise pristine, a med ship was sat not two hundred yards from him. Quinn ran towards it, pushing his burning legs as hard as he could. When he was done and the adrenaline died down he was going to need a med ship. He was really getting too old for this. He would have to catch his Rex soon or it would never be done.
Quinn jumped into the cockpit of the med ship and fired the engine. After a small protest, the ship lifted from the ground, creating a shower of rubble. Somewhere in the distance and explosion sounded and Quinn jammed the throttle on full, heading back towards Quadrant 17.
A buzzing sound was approaching them very quickly. Amber dropped Jack's hand, and reached for her gun, but she was stopped in her tracks by a med ship crashing through the walls of the hanger, and the TARDIS materialising simultaneously.
"Quinn!" Jack called with a happy laugh as the old man waved from inside the cockpit, "Ok everyone, on board!"
Rose ran over to help those injured onto the ship with Jack and Amber. They had only seconds, but there were also only a few people left. Finally there was only the woman who they had picked from the rubble left.
"No!" she shrieked, "I can't leave, my daughter, she is still in the park somewhere!"
"You have to!" Rose said, "This park is about to blow up, you'll die!"
But the woman dug her feet into the ground and refused to move.
"Come on, lets get out of here!" Jack said, "I'm not going to die because some crazy woman has a death wish!"
"She's lost her daughter Jack, cut her some slack!" Rose retorted, looking to Amber for support. Amber shook her head and ran towards the TARDIS.
"Fine then!" Rose snapped, "Come on," she said more soothingly to the woman, "I can't just leave you to die here."
"I'm not leaving, not without my Suzi."
"You have to… wait, Suzi?" Rose said, then ran towards the TARDIS with all speed.
"Lets go!" the Doctor said as Rose dashed through the door, but Rose just grabbed Suzi and ran straight back out again.
"Rose!" the Doctor called after her. The timer was on ten seconds.
Suzi felt comfortable in Rose's arms. She would be a good mother, she thought, but why was she taking her outside, it wasn't safe out there…
Suzi looked in the direction Rose was heading and saw the answer.
"Mum!" she called.
The injured woman looked up at the sound of her daughter's voice and cried out with happiness.
"Now get on the ship!" Rose said, "Go! Go!"
Quinn gave Rose the thumbs up and took off, flying the small ship through a hole in the roof and away to safety.
And speaking of safety…
Rose ran as fast as she could towards the TARDIS. She had to be on minus seconds now, she was sure. Amber and Jack were stood in the doorway, their arms held out towards her, the Doctor poised at the console ready to take off as soon as she was in safely. If Rose was too slow, or the Doctor left it too late, they would all die.
Rose ran faster as things around her began to blow up. She could feel the heat on the back of her neck, and breathing was becoming much harder. Only a little way to go, she could make it.
A ball of flame was gathering behind her, and Rose saw the light for one brief moment, before her outstretched hands found Amber and Jack's, and she was dragged to safety.
"Rose Tyler you are an idiot!" the Doctor fumed, marching over to her, all anger fueled by relief and worry.
"I know," Rose said, and fainted dead into his arms.
The Doctor melted as she lay in his arms and held her tight, almost crying with relief.
Amber and Jack grinned at each other and left him too it.
"So who was behind it all then?" Rose asked as she sipped on a very strong coffee.
"I don't know," the Doctor said.
"Is that case not closed?" Rose asked with a grin. The Doctor didn't return it.
"No, that is case definitely closed. They ran away, and they won't come back in a hurry."
Rose thought it was probably more of a case that the Doctor didn't want to go back in a hurry, but didn't want to argue the point. She was still relieved he wasn't too mad at her for doing two crazy life risking things.
"Let's go somewhere nice next, hey?" she said.
"We've been saying that for days," the Doctor said, a hint of a grin reappearing on his face.
The Doctor and his companions laughed and joked together about their near miss and lucky escape. But while all this frivolity was going on, in the empty space along side the Earth and echoing voice called out.
The time has come…
Prepare the Gamestation!
And that's the end of that! Next episode is called 'The Song of the Lorelei' and with the new series starting here soon, I am feeling very inspired again lol. Please review! xx