Last time on The Doctor's Girl:
The TARDIS console exploded, violently.
"She's dead. The TARDIS is dead." I said placing my hand on the console.
"Well, we've landed - we've gotta be somewhere." Rose told us.
"We fell out of the vortex." the Doctor explained.
"London." Mickey told us.
"So this is your city?" the Doctor asked him.
"An alternative to our world were everything's the same but a little bit different." Mickey said.
"A parallel world and my dad's still alive..." Rose said.
We blew gently on the power cell and it glowed brightly.
"We just gave away ten years of our life."
"February the first - mum's birthday." Rose said and I smiled.
The three of us went to a window and looked outside at the figures approaching us.
"What are they?" she asked.
"Cybermen." Several windows were smashed so they could get in.
I grabbed Rose's hand as the Doctor grabbed mine and we all ran out through one of the broken windows.
"There's two Mickey's!" the Doctor said and I smiled at him.
"It's Ricky." Ricky said.
"We surrender! Hands up..." The Doctor told us and we all put our hands up. "... there's no need to damage us, we're good stock. We volunteer for the upgrade program. Take us to be processed."
"You are rogue elements." the Cyberman said.
"But we surrender." the Doctor said, shocked.
"You are incompatible." the Cyberman told us.
"But this is a surrender!" I shouted.
"You will be deleted."
"But we're surrendering! Listen to me, we surrender!" the Doctor shouted looking at all of them.
"You are inferior. Man will be reborn as Cybermen but you will perish under maximum deletion." the Cybermen raised their arms and reached towards us. "Delete. Delete. Delete!"
The Doctor pointed the power cell at the Cybermen, which expelled a shoot of golden light which bounded off one of them and onto the others - they were all disintegrated.
"What the hell was that?" Ricky asked us.
"We'll have that instead - RUN!" The Doctor said and we all ran. A woman drove onto the scene in a blue van, hooting her horn.
"Everybody in!" She called to us. Pete tried to run back to the house but I stopped him.
"I've gotta go back, my wife's in there." he told me and I looked at the house.
"Anyone inside that house is dead by now. If you wanna help, then don't let her death be for nothing. You've gotta come with us right now." I told him and we all hurried into the back of the van.
"Come on, get a move on!" the woman driving said. I turned to see Rose still staring at the house and I went to her.
"Rose, she's not mum." I reminded her.
"I know." she said.
"Come on." I said grabbing her hand. We got into the back of the van together and I hugged her to me.
"Finished chatting?! Never seen a slower getaway in my life!" the woman said to us before driving off. Eventually the van slowed to a steady speed, relatively calm. Ricky glared through the grilling at the power cell that the Doctor was holding.
The van is driving along at a steady speed now, relatively calm. Ricky, who is sitting in the front, glares through the grilling at the power cell, which the Doctor is still holding in his hand.
"What was that thing?" he asked.
"Little bit of technology from my home." The Doctor told him.
"It's stopped glowing. Has it run out?" Mickey asked him.
"It's on a revitalising loop. It'll charge back up in about four hours." the Doctor told him.
"Right. So, we don't have a weapon anymore." Ricky said.
"Yeah, we've got weapons. Might not be one of those metal things, but they're good enough for men like him." Jake said and I looked to see him looking at Pete.
"Leave him alone! What's he done wrong?" Rose asked.
"Oh, you know - just laid a trap that's wiped out the Government. And left Lumic in charge." Jake told us.
"If I was part of all that, do you think I'd leave my wife inside?" Pete asked him.
"Maybe your plan went wrong. Still gives us the right to execute you, though." Ricky told him.
"Talk about executions, you'll make US your enemy. And take some really good advice - you don't wanna do that." I warned them.
"All the same... we have evidence that says Pete Tyler's been working for Lumic since 20.5." Mrs. Moore, the woman in front, told us and we turned to stare at Pete, taken back.
"Is that true?" Rose asked him and he looked uncomfortable.
"Tell 'em, Mrs M." Ricky said and we looked back at her.
"We've got a government mole who feeds us information. Lumic's private files, his South American operations... the lot. Secret broadcasts twice a week." Mrs. Moore told us.
"Broadcast from Gemini?" Pete asked them.
"And how do you know that?" Ricky asked.
"I'm Gemini. That's ME." Pete confessed.
"Yeah, well you would say that." Ricky told him.
"Encrypted wavelength six-five-seven using binary nine." Pete told them and that must have meant something because Ricky and Jake glanced at one another. "That's the only reason I was working for Lumic. To get information. I thought I was broadcasting to the Security Services, and what do I get? Scooby Doo and his gang. They've even got the van!"
"No, no, no! But the Preachers know what they're doing. Ricky said he's London's Most Wanted!" Mickey told us.
"Yeah, that's not exactly..." Ricky said, dropping his sentence.
"Not exactly what?" Mickey asked him.
"I'm London's Most Wanted for... parking tickets." Ricky said and I smiled at the Doctor.
"Great." Pete said sarcastically.
"They were deliberate! I was fighting the system! Park anywhere, that's me." Ricky said defensively.
"Good policy. I do much the same. I'm the Doctor, by the way, if anyone's interested..."
"I'm the Hunter."
"And I'm Rose. Hello!"
"Even better. That's the name of my dog. Still - at least I've got the catering staff on my side." Pete said drawing our attention to him.
"I knew you weren't a traitor." Rose told him.
"Why's that, then?" Pete asked and Rose glanced at the Doctor and I.
"I just did." she told him.
"They took my wife." Pete reminded us.
"She might still be alive." Rose said trying to comfort him.
"That's even worse. 'Cos that's what Lumic does. He takes the living... and he turns them into those machines." Pete told her.
"Cybermen." The Doctor and I said together.
"They're called Cybermen. And I'd take those ear-pods off, if I were you." The Doctor told Pete. Pete obliged and gave them to the Doctor. "You never know... Lumic could be listening." The Doctor disabled them with his sonic screwdriver. "But he's overreached himself. He's still just a businessman. He's assassinated the President. All we need to do is get to the City and inform the authorities. Because I promise you - this ends tonight."
We were walking along the street and watched as everyone around us was marching towards the same destination.
"What the hell...?" Jake asked.
"What's going on?" Rose questioned.
"It's the ear-pods. Lumic's taking control." I told her.
"Can't we just... I dunno, take them off?" Rose asked as she reached up to one man to take his ear-pods out, but I grabbed her hands to stop her.
"Don't! Cause a brainstorm. Human Race - for such an intelligent lot, you aren't half susceptible. Give anyone a chance to take control and you submit. Sometimes I think you like it. Easy life." The Doctor insulted them.
"Be nice." I told him.
"Hey." Jake called to us and we saw them peering around the corner, crouching. "Come and see." We all joined them in looking around the corner. A row of Cybermen marched alongside the people under control of the ear-pods, still heading in the same direction.
"Where are they all going?" Rose asked.
"I don't know. Lumic must have a base of operation here in London." I said.
"Battersea. That's where he was building his prototypes." Pete told us.
"Why's he doing it?" Rose asked him.
"He's dying. This all started out as a way of life by keeping the brain alive. At any cost." Pete told us.
"The thing is, I've seen Cybermen before, haven't I? That head - those handle shapes in Van Statten's museum." Rose reminded us.
"Ah, there are Cybermen in our universe. They started on an ordinary world just like this, then swarmed across the galaxy." The Doctor explained to her.
"This lot are a parallel version, and they're starting from scratch right here on earth." I said.
"What the hell are you two on about?" Pete asked.
"Never mind that. Come on, we need to get out of the City." Ricky said as we watched the Cybermen fast-approaching down the street. "Okay, split up - Mrs Moore, you look after that bloke. Jake, distract them, go right, I'll go left, we'll meet back at Bridge Street. Move." He ran off in one direction and Jake in another.
"I'm going with him." Mickey told us before kissing Rose briefly and following Ricky.
"Come on, let's go." Mrs. Moore told us and we ran with her. "There!" we ran down a side alley, with some Cybermen in pursuit. The Cybermen marched down the street whilst the Doctor, Rose, Pete, Mrs Moore and I crouched hidden behind a pile of rubbish and dustbins. Rose clutched onto Pete's hand. The Cybermen stop as if they want to investigate the rubbish further, but the Doctor pointed his sonic screwdriver in their direction. It bleeps and they went on their way. Rose stood and let go of Pete's hand. We all stand warily and watched the Cybermen march off into the distance.
"Go." The Doctor whispered. We creeped out from behind the dustbins and ran in the opposite direction.
Jake eventually ran back to where we were waiting to meet up.
"I ran past the river. You should've seen it, the whole City's on the watch. Hundreds of Cybermen all down the Thames." Jake told us. I looked down the street to see one of our twins running to us, alone. "Here he is!" he didn't reply while he came to a halt in front of us. "Which one are you?"
"I'm sorry. The Cybermen. He couldn't..." he said.
"Are you Ricky? ARE YOU RICKY?" Jake asked him.
"Mickey, that's you, isn't it?" Rose asked him close to tears.
"Yeah." Mickey said, nodding and Rose ran to him and threw her arms around him. "He tried. He was running..." Mickey said but Jake turned away from him. "There was too many of them."
"Shut it." Jake ordered but his face was contorted with pain.
"There was nothing I could do." Mickey told him and Jake spun on him.
"I said just SHUT IT. Don't even TALK about him. You're NOTHING, you are." Jake shouted, both of their eyes were red and shining with tears. "Nothing."
"We can mourn him when London is safe. But now, we move on." The Doctor told them and everyone nodded miserably.
We walked up a slope which overlooked the river - Battersea is on the opposite bank.
"The whole of London's been sealed off, and the entire population's been taken inside that place. To be 'converted'." The Doctor told us.
"We've gotta get in there and shut it down." Rose said.
"How do we do that?" Mickey asked.
"Oh, we'll think of something." the Doctor told him.
"You're just making this up as you go along!" Mickey said, finally realizing that we've always flown by the seat of our pants.
"Yuuuup. But I do it brilliantly." The Doctor said smiling at me. I smiled back and kissed him. Mrs Moore pulled out her laptop out, and had a 3D model on the screen."
"That's a schematic of the old factory. Look, cooling tunnels... underneath the plant... big enough to walk through." Mrs. Moore said and we all crowded around the laptop on a bench.
"We go under there and up into the control center?" I asked.
"Hmm." Mrs. Moore nodded.
"There's another way in." Pete said and we all looked at him. "Through the front door. If they've taken Jackie for upgrading, that's how she'll get in."
"We can't just go strolling up." Jake said.
"Or, we could... with these..." Mrs. Moore said taking some ear-pods from her bag. "Fake ear-pods. Dead. No signal. But put them on, the Cybermen would mistake you for one of the crowd."
"Then that's my job." Pete said.
"You'd have to show NO emotion. None at all. ANY sign of emotion would give you away." I told him.
"How many of those have you got?" Rose asked Mrs. Moore.
"Rose, no." I told her.
"Just two sets." she told my sister.
"Okay. If that's the best way of finding Jackie... I'm coming with you." Rose told Pete.
"Why does she matter to YOU?" Pete asked her but she didn't answer him.
"We haven't got time. Doctor, Ashlee, I'm going with him, and that's that." Rose told us and I sighed.
"No stopping you, is there?" The Doctor asked her.
"Nope." she said and I chucked her the ear-pods.
"Tell you what... we can take the ear-pods at the same time. Give people their minds back. So they don't walk into that place like sheep. Jake?" I called to the young man and I led him further up the hill for a better look at Battersea and the zeppelin stationed above it. "Lumic's transmitting the control signal, and it must be from over there. Doctor." the Doctor tossed me the sonic screwdriver and I pointed it in that general direction and it bleeped at me. "There it is... on the zeppelin, see? Great big transmitter. Good thing Lumic likes showing off. Reckon you could take it out?"
"Consider it done." he told me and I pat him on the shoulder and went back to the others.
"Mrs Moore... would you care to accompany us into the cooling tunnels?" The Doctor asked her.
"How could I refuse an offer of cooling tunnels?" she asked him and we all smiled.
"We attack on three sides - above - between - below. We get to the control center, we stop the conversion machines." The Doctor said and I gave him a look.
"What about me?" Mickey asked and I smirked at the Doctor.
"Mickey! You can... ahm..." the Doctor stuttered.
"What, stay out of trouble? Be the tin dog? No, those days are over. I'm going with Jake." Mickey declared.
"I don't need you, idiot." Jake told him.4. told her.
"Yeah, you better." Rose told him.
"If we survive this, We'll see you back at the TARDIS." The Doctor told him, smiling.
"That's a promise." Mickey said smiling. He walked away again with a smile on his face, confidence restored. I hugged Rose tightly.
"Good luck, little sister." she nodded to me before leaving with Pete.
"Ready?" The Doctor asked us. We nodded to him and off we went.
Mrs. Moore led us to a trap door that opened into the cooling tunnels. I descended a ladder, then Mrs. Moore, then the Doctor, into the cooling tunnels.
"It's freezing here." Mrs. Moore said.
"Any sign of a light switch?" The Doctor asked and I tried to look around but I couldn't find anything.
"Can't see a thing. But I've got these..." Mrs. Moore said pulling out a light for us to tie around our heads from her bag. "A device for every occasion..."
"Ooh!" The Doctor said turning it on.
"Put it on." I told him laughing as she handed me one.
"Haven't got a hotdog in there, have you? I'm starving." The Doctor told her and she laughed at him.
"Of all the things to wish for! That's mechanically recovered meat!" she said.
"I know. It's the Cyberman of food - but it's tasty." he told her.
"A proper torch as well." she said handing us a torch.
"Let's see where we are." I said switching the torch on and taking a few steps forward. The first thing the light fell on was a row of Cybermen. There were hundreds lining the cooling tunnels - but from the looks of them they were lifeless. Already converted, just paralyzed. Come on!" I said walking forward for them to follow.
"Let's go slowly. Keep an eye out for trip systems." The Doctor suggested and we edged slowly and warily down the tunnel, past lifeless Cyberman after lifeless Cyberman.
"How did you get into this, then? Rattling along with the Preachers?" The Doctor asked Mrs. Moore.
"Oh, I used to be ordinary. Worked at Cybus Industries. '95. 'Til one day, I find something I'm not supposed to. A file on the mainframe. All I did was read it. Then suddenly, I've got men with guns knocking in the middle of the night. Life on the run. Then I found the Preachers. They needed a techy, so I... I just sat down and taught myself everything." she told us.
"What about MR Moore?" I asked her.
"Well, he's not called 'Moore'. I got that from a book, 'Mrs Moore'. It's safer not to use real names. But he thinks I'm dead. It was the only way to keep him safe. Him and the kids. What about you? Got any family, or...?" she dropped her sentence.
"It's just the two of us. Who needs anyone else, we've got the whole world on our shoulders. Go on then - what's your real name?" the Doctor asked her.
"Angela Price." she told us and the Doctor nodded, smiling. "Don't tell a soul."
"Not a word." The Doctor said.
"Doctor? Hunter? Did that one just move?" Angela asked us.
"It's just the torchlight. Keep going, come on." I said, but I didn't believe it. Another one, just in front of us, definitely turned to us. "They're waking up- RUN!" We ran down the cooling tunnel as fast as we could. As we went, the Cybermen sprang to life, one after another. They began to march forwards just as we reached the ladder at the end of the tunnel. We scrambled to get up it.
"Get up! Quick! They're coming!" Angela told us as the Doctor attempted to open the seal with his sonic screwdriver. "Open it! Open it!" The Doctor succeeded and tossed the door aside. "Get up!" We climbed the ladder faster than before. "Quick! Quick!"
"Come on! Come on!" I said at the bottom of the ladder. We climbed out of the trapdoor - the Cybermen were following, but we manage to slam the door closed just in time. The Doctor sealed it with his sonic screwdriver.
"Oh, good team, Mrs Moore!" The Doctor said, smiling. We continued edging along the dark, metal corridor when suddenly, a Cyberman stepped out in front of us.
"You are not upgraded." it said.
"Yeah? Well, upgrade THIS." Angela threw a small metal device at the Cyberman and it stuck to its chest. It sparked and it caused the Cyberman to be electrocuted. It shook and jerked, and then slumped to the floor.
"What the hell was that thing?!" I asked her delighted as we approached the body.
"Electromagnetic bomb. Takes out computers, I figured it might stop the cyber-suit." she told us.
"You figured right. Now, let's have a look..." The Doctor said taking out his sonic screwdriver, bent down and held it to the Cybus logo on its chest. "Now... know your enemy... and the logo on the front... Lumic's turned them into a brand." he took off the logo so we could see inside the Cyberman. "Heart of steel... but look..." he put his fingers inside the suit and drew out some bodily tissues.
"Is that flesh?" Angela asked.
"Hmmm... central nervous system. Artificially grown then threaded throughout the suit so it responds like a living thing. Well, it IS a living thing. Oh, but look..." The Doctor pointed to an electronic chip. "Emotional inhibitor. Stops them feeling anything."
"But... why?" Angela asked.
"It's still got a human brain... imagine its reaction if it could see itself. Realise itself inside this thing. They'd go insane..." I told her.
"So they cut out the one thing that makes them human." she said sadly.
"Because they have to." The Doctor said.
"Why am I cold?" the Cyberman said suddenly.
"Oh, my God. It's alive. It can FEEL." Angela said, shocked.
"We broke the inhibitor." The Doctor said as he leaned over the Cyberman and touched its head sincerely. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."
"Why so cold?" the Cyberman asked again.
"Can you remember your name?" I asked it.
"Sally. Sally Phelan." she told us.
"You're a woman..." Angela said.
"Where's Gareth?" Sally asked.
"Who's Gareth?" Angela asked.
"He can't see me. It's unlucky the night before." Sally said.
"You're getting married." I said grabbing the Doctor's hand.
"I'm cold. I'm so cold." she said.
"Sorry. You sleep now, Sally. Just go to sleep." The Doctor pointed the screwdriver just inside the suit and the blue light inside goes out. "Sally Phelan didn't die for nothing. 'Cos that's the key. The emotional inhibitor - if we could find the code behind it, the cancellation code, then feed it throughout the system into every Cyberman's head. They'd realise what they are..."
"And what happens then?" Angela asked.
"I think it would kill them." I said.
"Could we do that?" The Doctor asked looking at us.
"We've got to. Before they kill everyone else." Angela told us. I looked at the Doctor and from the look on his face, he didn't want to do this. "There's no choice, Doctor. It's got to be done." she stood up while the Doctor and I were still bent down staring at Sally's body. The Doctor and I looked as Mrs. Moore screamed to see her being electrocuted by a Cyberman and stood in horror.
"No! No! You didn't have to kill her!" the Doctor shouted at it.
"Sensors detect a binary vascular system. You are an unknown upgrade. You will be taken for analysis." the Cyberman said and we allowed ourselves to be lead off by two other Cybermen.
We were marched into the main control room of Battersea.
"I've been captured, but don't worry - Rose and Pete are still out there, they can rescue me- oh well, never mind." the Doctor said as we walked in and saw Rose and Pete.
"You okay?" I asked Rose.
"Yeah. But they got Jackie." she told me. I walked to her and gave her a large hug.
"We were too late. Lumic killed her." Pete told us.
"Then where is he? The famous Mr Lumic? Don't we get the chance to meet our Lord and Master?" the Doctor asked looking around for another human.
"He has been upgraded." a Cyberman said.
"So he's just like you?" I asked it.
"He is superior. The Lumic Unit has been designated Cyber Controller." it answered me. We all turned as sliding doors open. A Cyberman entered sitting on an elaborate chair, covered with wires and tubes.
"This is The Age of Steel and I am its Creator." it said and it sounded like Lumic. Suddenly we heard screams and I smiled as the Cybermen looked around.
"That's my friends at work. Good boys! Mr Lumic, I think that's a vote for free will." the Doctor told him, winking.
"I have factories waiting on seven continents. If the ear-pods have failed, then Cybermen will take humanity by force. London has fallen. So shall the world. I will bring peace to the world. Everlasting peace - and unity - and uniformity." Lumic said.
"And imagination? What about that? The one thing that lead you here. Imagination - you're killing it, dead!" The Doctor shouted at him.
"What is your name?" Lumic asked him.
"I'm the Doctor."
"A redundant title. Doctors need not exist. Cybermen never sicken." Lumic told him.
"Yeah, but that's it! That's exactly the point! Oh, Lumic, you're a clever man... I'd call you a genius, except I'm in the room. But everything you've invented, you did to fight your sickness. And that's brilliant. That is SO human. But once you get rid of sickness and mortality, then what's there to strive for? Eh? The Cybermen won't advance. You'll just stop! You'll stay like this forever. A metal Earth with metal men and metal thoughts. Lacking the one thing that makes this planet so ALIVE. PEOPLE. Ordinary, stupid, brilliant people." the Doctor told him.
"You are proud of your emotions?" Lumic asked him.
"Oh, yes." The Doctor said.
"Then tell me, Doctor - have you known grief - and rage - and pain?" Lumic asked.
"Yes. Yes, I have." the Doctor answered.
"And they hurt?" Lumic asked.
"Oh yes."
"I could set you free. Would you not want that? A life without pain?" Lumic asked, trying to persuade us.
"Never." I said.
"You might as well kill us." The Doctor told him.
"Then I take that option." Lumic said.
"It's not yours to take. You're a CYBER controller. You don't control me or anything that's flesh and blood." I told him.
"You have no means of stopping me. I have an army. A species of my own." Lumic told us and the Doctor put his face in his palm, exasperated.
"You just don't get it, do you? An army's NOTHING. 'Cos those ordinary people - they're the key." he said and I followed his look to a security camera. "The most ordinary person could change the world. Some ordinary man or woman... some idiot... All it takes is for him to find, say, the right numbers... say, the right codes... say, for for example, the code behind the emotional inhibitor. The code right in front of him. 'Cos even an idiot knows how to use computers these days. Knows how to get past firewalls and passwords... knows how to find something encrypted in the Lumic Family Database, under... what was it, Pete? Binary what?"
"Binary 9." Pete said loudly from behind his hand. He must have known what we were doing.
"An IDIOT could find that code. The cancellation code. And he'd keep on typing. Keep on fighting. Anything to save his friends and loved ones."
"Your words are irrelevant." Lumic told him.
"Talk too much, that's my problem. Lucky I got you that cheap tariff, Rose. For all our long chats. On your PHONE." the Doctor said with a meaningful glance into the camera doing the phone sign.
"You will be deleted." Lumic ordered.
"Yes, delete, control, hash, all those lovely buttons. Then of course, my particular favourite - SEND. And let's not forget how you seduced all those ordinary people in the first place." My phone beeped, indicating I just received a message.
"By making every bit of technology compatible with everything else..." I said walking to him, loitering by one particular computer. "Like this." I shoved it into a post. It fit perfectly. All hell broke loose and the Cybermen clutch onto their heads, moaning as a code flashed on every single computer screen. One of them had caught sight of their reflection in a piece of metal and was whimpering and touching its face and fingering its reflection.
"I'm sorry." The Doctor said to it.
"What have you done?" Lumic asked us furiously.
"I gave them back their souls. They can see what you've done, Lumic! And it's killing them." I shouted at him before we all ran from the room. Small explosions erupted all over the factory, whilst we ran for their lives, looking for a way out. We tried one door but find the way blocked by wailing Cybermen. The Doctor shut it again.
"There's no way out!" she said. before my phone ran and I saw it was Mickey and tossing it to Rose.
"It's Mickey. He says 'head for the roof'." she told us and we ran up a flight of stairs, trying to avoid the explosions and flames. Rose reached the top of the ladder to the roof and we all followed her up. We leaps over the wall, and we halted when we saw the zeppelin in motion. "Mickey, where'd you learn to fly that thing?!" we never heard the answer before we all bolted forward, flinching at the random explosions all around us before a rope ladder descended down to us.
"You've got to be kidding." The Doctor said.
"Rose, get up!" I told her and Rose started to climb the ladder. I followed her with the Doctor behind me and finally Pete as the zeppelin rose up and away.
"We did it! We did it!" Rose said happily before the rope was suddenly jerked downwards. Rose screamed and nearly fell off. We all looked down and Lumic was hanging onto the bottom rung and started climbing up after us. The Doctor took his sonic screwdriver out of his jacket pocket.
"Pete! Take this!" The Doctor shouted at him and he dropped it into Pete's outstretched hand. "Use it! Hold the button down! Press it against the rope - just do it!"
"Jackie Tyler - this is for her!" Pete pressed the button down and held the sonic screwdriver against the rope ladder. Lumic was getting closer and closer. For a moment it seemed like it wasn't going to work - but then the rope finally snapped. Lumic fell down to earth.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Pete laughed with delight as Lumic fell into the flames below. We all began to struggle up the ladder again as the zeppelin carries us away to safety.
The Doctor and I went into the dark TARDIS, him carrying the power cell. He put it in place - and the TARDIS sprang to life. The lights came back on and it began to hum again. A huge grin spreads across the our faces.
"Welcome back, old girl." I said rubbing my hand on the console.
"You really missed her." The Doctor said holding my other hand.
"Of course I did. She's family, just like you and Rose and Mum." I said smiling at him. I walked to the door with the Doctor on my heels. "Rose?" she and Pete looked around and we walked over to them. "We've only got five minutes of power... we've gotta go."
"The Doctor and Ashlee could show ya..." Rose said turning to Pete.
"Thank you. For everything." Pete said. I looked at Rose and saw tears in her eyes, staring at him intensely.
"Dad." she said as her tears fell.
"Don't. Just- just don't." Pete said walking away. I held Rose's hand tightly for comfort as Mickey and Jake approached us, Mickey holding the Doctor's brown striped suit.
"Here it is! I found it. Not a crease." Mickey told him.
"My suit! Good man! Now then, Jake - we've gotta run. But one more thing; Mrs Moore. Her real name is Angela Price. She's got a husband out there. And children. Find them. Tell them how she died saving the world." The Doctor told him.
"Yeah, course I will." Jake said.
"Off we go, then!" the Doctor told us.
"Uh... thing is, I'm staying." Mickey told us and I looked at him shocked.
"You're doing what?" I asked him.
"You can't." Rose said.
"It sort of balances out, 'cos this world lost its Ricky. But there's me. And there's work to be done with all those Cybermen still out there." Mickey told us.
"But you can't stay." Rose repeated.
"Rose, my gran's here. She's still alive. My old gran - remember her?" Mickey asked us and I nodded to him.
"Yeah." Rose said.
"She NEEDS me." Mickey told her.
"What about me? What if I need you?" Rose asked him.
"Yeah, but Rose... you don't. You have your mum and Ashlee and the Doctor, don't you?" Mickey asked her, tears in his eyes. "She has no one."
"Well- we'll come back. We can travel anywhere, come and see you, yeah?" Rose asked looking at me.
"Rose, we can't. We told you, travel between parallel worlds is impossible. We only got here by accident. We- we fell through a crack in time. When we leave... I've got to close it. We can't ever return, ever." I told her. I looked at Mickey, asking him if this is really what he wants. He nodded to me.
"Doctor." Mickey said putting his hand out to shake it.
"Take the Hunter's phone. It's got the code. Get it out there. Stop those factories." The Doctor said and I gave my phone to Mickey as he nodded. "And good luck. Mickey the Idiot." The Doctor slapped his cheek with w twinkle in his eye.
"Watch it!" Mickey said and the Doctor sauntered back to the TARDIS and slipped inside.
"Good luck Mickey." I said hugging him before going to the TARDIS myself.
"Do you think Rose will be okay?" I asked him, walking to the console.
"Like he said, she has you and Jackie." the Doctor said.
"He also said she had you." I told him smiling. We put our arms around each other before giving him a quick kiss.
"Come on, we have to get ready to leave." he told me and we got ready to go back home. We just needed Rose. She walked back into the TARDIS, sobbing. She looked out the door and she look back at Mickey, one last time before closing the door behind her.
"Can we go see mum?" she asked me.
"Of course." I told her as we went on our way. We arrived back in our world and I closed the gap between worlds as we appeared in Mum's living room. Rose ran to the door and opened it.
"You're alive..." Rose said. "Oh, mum. You're alive." Rose flung her arms around mum as I walked to the door. I hugged her tightly. I would never say it but being there, seeing Pete and hearing about her death would haunt me.
"Well, I was the last time I looked..." Mum said. "What is it? What's happened, sweetheart?" I felt tears well up in my eyes as I clung to her, my eyes screwed shut. "What's wrong? Where did you go?"
"Far away. That was... far away." The Doctor told her.
"Where's Mickey?" she asked him.
"He's gone home." the Doctor told her and Mum hugged us comfortingly and I knew I'd always be able to come back home, for comfort against anything.
Next time on The Doctor's Girl:
"There you go sir, all wired up for the great occasion." a man said.
We followed a black car around the corner.
"Someone help me please!" We heard someone call out.
"It's happening all over the place. They're turning into monsters." the boy told us as a man walked to us.
I saw red electricity coming from the screen.
"Ordinary people are being struck down and changed, and the only new thing in the house is a television." I told him.
"Men in black. Vanishing police cars. This is Churchill's England not Stalin's Russia." The Doctor said as we looked at the wall.