Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor who this is just my interpretation of what if Rose became a Time lady after absorbing the time vortex.
AN:I won't be able to upload that much for a while because I have to get my grades up in my Economics class which is also part of a government class in New York state ,Rochester to be exact plus I'm a senior (12th grade) and I never passed that class last year but never passed it.
Amy is floating in space, with the Doctor holding on to her ankle from the open door of the Tardis with Rose standing next to him.
'My name is Amy Pond. When I was seven, I had two imaginary friends. Last night was the night before my wedding,' Amy thought to herself
"Come on, Amy," the Doctor told Amy.
'And my imaginary friends came back,' Amy went on thinking to herself and then the Doctor pulls Amy back inside the Tardis.
"Now do you believe us?" He asked her.
"Okay, Doctor and Wolf, your box is a spaceship. It's really, really a spaceship. We are in space! whoo!" She exclaimed and laughs "What are we breathing?"
"Oxygen," Rose answered "We've made the air shell bigger around the Tardis."
"We're fine," the Doctor added.
"That's interesting, most spaceships I've seen don't have a British Union Jack flag imprinted on them," Rose said as she noticed a spaceship with a Union Jack painted on its hull.
"Yeah, that is interesting, Wolf," he said, closing the doors as he and Rose runs back to the console, "Solar flares roast the earth, and the entire human race packs its bags and moves out till the weather improves. Whole nations. Migrating to the stars. Isn't that amazing?"
"Doctor? Wolf?" Amy called out and Rose noticed that Amy wasn't with then and goes to the doors and opens the door to see that she was floating in space and holding onto the wood of the Tardis and Rose pulls her hand out and Amy grabbed hand.
"Thanks, Wolf," Amy said.
"No Problem, Amy," Rose said and walks back to her husband.
"I've found us a spaceship," he said and pulled up the spaceship on one of the Tardis's relatively new monitors. "This is the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland. All of it, bolted together and floating in the sky. Starship UK. It's Britain, but metal. That's not just a ship, that's an idea. That's a whole country, living and laughing and shopping. Searching the stars for a new home."
"Reminds me of our first date," Rose said, recalling the time when they were on Platform One when they watched the Earth blow up.
"We had chips," the Doctor added.
"What are you two talking about?" Amy asked them with confusion.
"It was when we first met, seven years ago," the Doctor began to say.
"But from my point of view, it was seventeen years ago," Rose stated, "Remember that time when you left me in Paris 1727 with Reinette," Rose reminded her husband.
"Anyway, we went to this space station called Platform One to watch Earth burn in the year 5 Billion," the Doctor went on, "But during the whole ordeal, "Cassandra, a woman who we encountered twice that had so many cosmetic surgeries that made her resemble a living trapline, who claimed to be the Last human."
"She called herself the last 'pure' human with the rest of them mingling with aliens," Rose added, distastefully, "But we met her again and possessed me on the planet of New Earth. Which is a story we can tell you another time."
"Can we go out and see?" Amy asked.
"Course we can," he replied. "But first, there's a thing."
"A thing?" Amy asked in confusion.
"An important thing. In fact, Thing One. We are observers only. That's the one rule we've always stuck to in all our travels. We never get involved in the affairs of other peoples or planets," the Doctor told her.
"Amy, don't listen to him on that, he says that so he can interfere anyways," Rose said.
"Do not!"
"Do too!" She said back at him smiling as she sticks her tongue in between her teeth.
"Might I remind you that you're jeopardy friendly, Wolf," the Doctor reminded Rose.
"That was mostly from when I was human," Rose argued.
"Well you were sometimes after you became human," he stated.
"Like when?" She asked him.
"Um, I don't know, when we met my Fourth Incarnation or my other previous selves, a few months ago," he answered, recalling the time when they met the Doctor's previous selves at the Cathedral of Contemplation.
"Oh, right," Rose said, remembering the time when she met the Doctor's Fourth incarnation.
The scanner showed an image of a little girl sitting alone, crying and the Doctor notices it, "Ooo, that's interesting."
"So we're like a wildlife documentary, yeah?" Amy asked, watching the scanner, "'Cause if they see a wounded little cub or something, they can't just save it, they've got to keep filming and let it die. It's got to be hard. I don't think I could do that. Don't you find that hard, being all, like, detached and cold?"
Suddenly the Doctor and Rose appear on the scanner, speaking to the little girl. "Doctor? Wolf?" Amy said and Rose suddenly gestures for her to join them and with a smile she ran out of the Tardis.
'Welcome to London Market. You are being monitored,' a voice said on a speaker system.
Amy looked about and saw an arched glass ceiling through which she could see the stars. The market was a series of stalls and booths very similar to a contemporary marketplace. "I'm in the future," she said in amazement. " Like hundreds of years in the future." She approaches both Gallifreyans "I've been dead for centuries."
"Oh, lovely. You're a cheery one," he said sarcastically, "Never mind dead, look at this place. Isn't it wrong? "
"What's wrong?"
"Can't you see anything out of the ordinary?" Rose asked Amy.
"Exactly what Wolf said," the Doctor agreed with Rose, "Come on, use your eyes. Notice everything. What's wrong with this picture?"
"Is it the bicycles?" Amy asked, "Bit unusual on a spaceship, bicycles."
"Says the girl in the nightie," he said teasing her.
"Oh my God!" Amy said "I'm in my nightie."
"Don't tease her," Rose told the Doctor.
"Now, come on, look around you," he said, "Actually look."
'London Market is a crime-free zone,' the speaker system said.
"Life on a giant starship. Back to basics. Bicycles, washing lines, wind-up street lamps. But look closer. Secrets and shadows, lives led in fear," he said. "Society bent out of shape, on the brink of collapse. A police state. Excuse me."
He went over to a table and took a glass of water from one of the people sitting there. "What are you doing?" A man asked him.
The Doctor set the glass of water gently on the floor and looked at it intensely, then sets it back on the table, "Sorry. Checking all the water in this area. There's an escaped fish," he apologized before rejoining Rose and Amy, "Where was I?"
"Why did you just do that with the water?" Amy asked.
"I'm wondering the same thing," Rose said.
"Don't know. I think a lot," he replied.
"I'll say," Rose muttered after snorting.
"It's hard to keep track," he added, "Now, police state. Do you see it yet?"
"Where?" Amy asked.
The Doctor snapped his fingers and points at the same little girl who is crying on a red bench, "There," he said as he, Rose and Amy walked towards her and sat on a bench facing her.
"One little girl crying. So?" Amy asked.
"Crying silently," Rose said, "That's what wrong because, children cry 'cause they want attention, 'cause they're hurt or afraid. But when they cry silently, it's 'cause they just can't stop. Any parent knows that."
"Are you two parents?" Amy asked them.
"I was centuries ago, and a few years ago we had a daughter grown artificially from 2 of our cells for a few hours till she died in our arms from someone shooting her," the Doctor answered.
"You look too young to be a grandparent, Doctor," Amy said with confusion, "You look about 35."
"We don't age as fast as humans it takes decades or centuries till age starts to appear on our faces," he explained, "Anyway, there are hundreds of parents walking past this spot and not one of them's are asking her what's wrong, which means they already know, and it's something they don't talk about. Secrets. They're not helping her, so it's something they're afraid of. Shadows, whatever they're afraid of, it's nowhere to be seen, which means it's everywhere. Police state."
The little girl got up as the lift bell rang and the figure in the nearby booth turned to watch her.
"Where'd she go?" Amy asked.
"Deck two oh seven. Apple Sesame block, dwelling 54A. You're looking for Mandy Tanner. Oh, er, this fell out of her pocket when I accidentally bumped into her. Took me four goes. Ask her about those things. The smiling fellows in the booths. They're everywhere," he said and gives Amy a colourful wallet.
"But they're just things," Amy said with confusion.
"They're clean. Everything else here is all battered and filthy. Look at this place. But no one's laid a finger on those booths. Not a footprint within two feet of them," he explained, "Look. Ask Mandy, why are people scared of the things in the booths?"
"They're also creepy looking," Rose said.
"No, hang on. What do I do?" Amy asked, "I don't know what I'm doing here and I'm not even dressed."
"It's this or Leadworth," he said, "What do you think? Let's see. What will Amy Pond choose? Ha ha, gotcha. Meet us back here in half an hour."
"What are you and Wolf going to do?"
"What we always do. Stay out of trouble. Badly."
They leapt over the bench and walked away, hand in hand.
"You're following me," Many said as she walked into a dark street as Amy followed and walked towards Mandy, who was standing next to a green barrel with graffiti painted on it, "Saw you watching me at the marketplace."
"You dropped this," Amy said as she took out some sort of identification that the Doctor handed her and gave it back to her.
"Yeah, when one of your friends kept bumping into me, the one with sideburns in a pinstriped suit to be precise," Mandy said as she took it back before walking off as Amy went after her and a few seconds later they approached a hole that was blocked off.
"What's that?" Amy asked her.
"There's a hole," Many answered, "We have to go back."
"A what? A hole?" Amy asked, confusedly.
"Are you stupid?" Mandy asked her, "There's a hole in the road. We can't go that way. There's a travel pipe down by the airlocks, if you've got stamps." Amy then walked towards the hole and opened the gate a little to check it out, "What are you doing?"
"Oh, Don't mind me. Never could resist a 'keep out' sign," Amy explained as she turned around towards Mandy before she started to lift up a part of a tent that was in front of her, "What's through there? What's so scary about a hole? Something under the road?" She then found a lock with ropes tied around it.
"Nobody knows," Mandy answered, "We're not supposed to talk about it."
"About what?" Amy asked as she turned her head back around towards her.
"Below," Mandy answered.
and Amy guessed "And because you're not supposed to, you don't?" Amy surmised before taking out a hairpin, "Watch and learn." She placed the hairpin in the lock.
"You sound Scottish," Mandy noted.
"I am Scottish," Amy told her, "What's wrong with that? Scotland's got to be here somewhere."
"No. they wanted their own ship," Mandy stated.
"Hmm. Good for them Nothing changes," Amy muttered.
"So, how did you get here?" Mandy asked her as the smiler in the booth turned its head around to show that it was frowning.
"Just travelling with a married couple," Amy answered as she soon unlocked the lock, "Hey-hey, result!" She turned her head towards Mandy, "Coming?"
"No," Mandy answered.
Amy said "Suit yourself," Amy muttered as she climbed into the tent on her knees.
"Stop! You mustn't do that!" Mandy said as she saw the Smilers rotating its head to an expression to show that it was angry.
Inside the tent, there were lights that were blinking on and off before Amy found a futuristic torch and grunted as she tried to find the switch to turn it on and soon she found it on the side and cranked the switch around as the torch flashed its light as she moved it around to her side and saw something that looked like a living tentacle.
"Oh, my god! That's weird. That's..." Amy muttered as the tentacle thrust towards her before the tentacle growled at the same time as she screamed as the tentacle kept trying to attack her as she backed out of the tent and a few seconds later and then she looked around her and saw a group of men wearing robes as one of them aimed his fist at her that had a ring on it, causing gas came out of the ring, causing Amy to pass out.
Meanwhile, the Doctor and Rose both climbed down a ladder before they looked to both their left and their right and then the Doctor went to a nearby door and took his brainy specs out and put them on before he placed his hands on the door and then he put his ear on it and then he took his ear off the door.
"Can't be," He muttered.
"What is it, Theta?" Rose asked him.
The Doctor replied "I think this ship's moving without an engine because I don't feel an engine vibration," He answered before taking out his screwdriver and scanned the door with it, "It seems that I'm correct."
"But how is that possible?" Rose asked as she noticed that there was a glass of water on the floor and went over to it and saw that the water in the cup wasn't moving.
"The impossible truth in a glass of water. Not many people see it," a woman wearing a mask said, "But both of you do, don't you, Doctor and Wolf?"
"You know us?" The Doctor asked as he took off his glasses as placed them back inside one of his jacket's inside pockets.
"Keep your voice down," she said, "They're everywhere. Tell me what you both see in the glass."
"Who says we see anything?" The Doctor asked.
"Don't waste time, Doctor," the woman said, "At the marketplace, you placed a glass of water on the floor, looked at it, then you both came straight here to the engine room and Wolf looked at a glass of water on the floor, here. Why?"
"No engine vibration on deck," he explained.
"I saw the same thing, nothing causing the water in the glass of water to move," Rose said.
"Ship this size, engine this big, you'd feel it. The water would move. So, I thought we'd take a look. It doesn't make sense." He added and goes over to a power box on the wall "These power couplings, they're not connected. Look. Look, they're dummies, see?" He then goes to the wall behind him and knocked on it, "And behind this wall, nothing It's hollow. If I didn't know better, I'd say there was..."
"No engine at all." The Doctor Rose, and the mysterious woman said at the same time.
"But it's working. This ship is travelling through space. We saw it," the Doctor said, confusedly approaching her.
"The impossible truth, Doctor," the woman said, "We're travelling among the stars in a spaceship that could never fly."
"How?" Rose asked.
"I don't know," the woman answered, "There's a darkness at the heart of this nation. It threatens every one of us. Help us, Doctor, you too Wolf You both are our only hope. Your friend is safe. This will take you to her." The woman hands the Doctor a tracking device "Now go, quickly!" The woman walks away and the Doctor looks at the device
"Who are you? How do we find you again?" Rose asked the woman.
"I am Liz X, and I will find the two of you," the woman said before they heard a crashing sound, they looked around, when they turned, the woman was gone.
Amy was in a mysterious place as she slowly woke up from unconsciousness and saw one of the booths with the smilers in them and gasped as she looked around.
"Welcome to Voting Cubicle 330C. Please leave this installation as you would wish to find it. the United Kingdom recognises the right to know of all its citizens. A presentation concerning the history of Starship UK will begin shortly. Your identity is being verified on our electoral roll, " she heard an automated masculine voice say before she stood up as she heard the and rotated her body around in a circle and saw multiple TVs in front her where she was sitting and then she looked down and saw three buttons two are circle shaped with one of them being larger than the other one and the one in the center is a rectangular shape, the circle one on her left said 'Protest', the rectangular one said 'record' and the circle one on her right said 'Forget'. A few seconds later she sat back down in the chair, slumped and one of the TVs powered on and showed her name, age and relationship, "Name: Amelia Jessica Pond." Amy leaned forward and the voice continued "Age: 1,306."
"Shut up," she laughed quietly in a tone that sounded like a whisper.
"Maritial status: Unknown," the automated voice said, but the words on the TVs read 'Information Unavailable,' causing Amy to look surprised at this.
'how does this not even know I'm engaged,' Amy thought to herself as she slumped back in her chair.
Suddenly then all the TVs showed a clip of a man that looked like he was in his early 50s wearing glasses and a professional suit with a red tie, "You are here because you want to know the truth about this starship and I am talking to you because you're entitled to know. When this presentation has finished, you will have a choice. You may either protest or forget." the man on the TVs said as Amy leaned forward, "If you choose to protest, understand this. If 1 percent of the population do likewise, the program will be discontinued, with consequences for you all. If you choose to accept the situation, and we hope that you will, then press the 'forget button. All the information I am about to give you will be erased from your memory." Amy then looked with wide-eyes, "You will continue to enjoy the safety and amenities of Starship UK, unburdened by the knowledge of what has been done to save you. Here, then, is the truth about Starship UK, and the price that has been paid for the safety of the British people. May god have mercy on our souls." The screens then showed her images of a whale in space, the sun a baby, a fire, firefighters and etc at a very fast speed and she pressed the Forget button and forgot the information she was just shown and a monitor said 'Message Waiting.'
A clip of herself then appeared on the TV screens, "This isn't a trick. This is for real. You've got to find both the Doctor and the Bad Wolf and get them back to the Tardis," the clip of herself said, pleading with herself, "Don't let either of them investigate. Stop them. Do whatever you have to. Just please, please get both the Doctor and Wolf off this ship!"
Then suddenly a door opened as Amy saw Mandy sitting on a bench and got up as both the Doctor and Rose entered the room as the clip of Amy continued, "Listen to me..."
"Amy?" The Doctor said, calling out to both his and Rose's companion.
'You've got to find the Doctor and Rose,' the Amy on the TV went on before suddenly Amy pressed a button and the TV switched off.
"What have you done?" The Doctor asked her.
"I don't know," she answered.
"Yes you do," he said.
"I literally have no idea what I just did," Amy said.
"Doctor, I think, Amy just had a memory wipe," Rose said.
"I have a feeling that she did as well," he said and he took his screwdriver out before he scanned a device on the ceiling and found out that he and Rose were both correct, "Yeah, your basic memory wipe job. Must have erased about twenty minutes."
"But why would I choose to forget?" Amy asked.
"I'm wondering the same thing," Rose said.
"Because everyone does," Mandy answered, "Everyone chooses the Forget button."
"Did you?" The Doctor asked her.
"I'm not eligible to vote yet," Mandy answered, "I'm twelve. Any time after you're sixteen, you're allowed to see the film and make your choice. And then once every five years."
"And once every five years, everyone chooses to forget what they've learned," the Doctor said, "Democracy in action."
"I agree with you, Doctor," Rose said, "This is so absurd and against everything that is democratic and is straight up fascism under the guise of democracy."
"How do you both not know about this?" Mandy asked, "Are you both Scottish too?"
"Oh, we're way worse than Scottish. I can't even see the movie," he chuckled as he tried to play the video before Rose tried to play it as well, "Won't play for us."
"It played for me," Amy said.
"The difference being the computer doesn't accept me and Wolf as human," he explained.
"Why not?" Amy asked, going over to them, "You both look human."
"No, you look Time Lord also known as a Time Lady to females," he said, "We came first and Wolf was Human till she was 19 years old, we'll tell you the story how when we're not on an adventure."
"He is correct, Amy," Rose said, "From what I've heard him and and read in the Tardis, our species is over a billion years old."
"So there are other Time Lords and Time Ladies, yeah?" Amy asked.
"No. There were, but there aren't. Just us now. Long story. There was a bad day. Bad stuff happened," he answered.
Rose snorted at that statement that her husband just made, "You call the biggest war in the history of the universe 'a bad day,'" she told him.
He ignored what she just said, "And you know what? I'd love to forget it all, every last bit of it, but I don't. Not ever. 'cause this is what we do, every time, every day, every second. This. Hold tight. We're bringing down the government." He said as he slammed his hand on a button labeled 'Protest' as they backed up against the wall as the door suddenly slammed shut, trapping him, Rose and Amy inside as the floor beneath them opens up to reveal a long drop with red lights.
"Say wheee!" The Doctor said with a grin.
"Argh!" Amy screamed as they fell into the whole.
The Doctor drops down a chute into what appears to be organic waste. Followed by Rose and Amy a few moments later with a scream.
"Argh! High speed air cannon," the Doctor explained as he scans the area with his screwdriver, "Lousy way to travel."
"Where are we?" Amy asked.
"Six hundred feet down, twenty miles laterally, puts us at the heart of the ship," the Doctor answered. "I'd say Lancashire."
"Doctor, it looks more like a cave to me," Rose said.
"I agree with Wolf," Amy said, "plus it's a rubbish dump, and it's minging!"
"Yes, but only food refuse," he said agreeing with them, smelling something that he picked up and then drops it, "Organic, coming through feeder tubes from all over the ship."
"The floor's all squidgy, like a water bed," Amy said as she got down on her hands and knees.
"But feeding what, though?"
"I'm wondering the same thing," Rose told him.
"It's sort of rubbery, feel it," Amy added, "Wet and slimy."
Suddenly they all heard a distant moaning from some kind of animal and both the Doctor and Rose stood up as they realized where they were.
"Er, it's not a floor, it's a. So…" The Doctor said trying explain where they were to Amy.
"It's a what?" She asked.
"The next word is kind of a scary word," he told her, "You probably want to take a moment, get yourself in a calm place. Go omm."
"Omm."
"Oh, for Rassilon's sake!" Rose cried at the Doctor in annoyance, "Amy, we're on a tongue."
"Wolf is correct," the Doctor said, "It's a tongue."
"A tongue?" Amy asked in confusion.
"A tongue," he confirmed, "A great big tongue."
"This is a mouth," Amy went on, looking around. "This whole place is a mouth? We're in a mouth?!"
"Yes, yes, yes," he said, "But on the plus side, roomy."
"Maybe to you Doctor," Rose said, "but to me it's not roomy at all, it's disgusting."
"How do we get out?" Amy asked them.
"How big is this beastie?" He said, scanning the area again with screwdriver as Rose took hers out and does the same, "It's gorgeous. Blimey, if this is just the mouth, I'd love to see the stomach. Though not right now."
"Focus, Doctor," Rose cried.
"Doctor, Wolf, how do we get out?" Amy asked them.
"Okay, it's being fed through surgically implanted feeder tubes, so the normal entrance is closed for business," the Doctor said pointing his screwdriver at a giant wall of big teeth.
"We could try, though," Amy said as she headed forward towards the wall of giant teeth.
"No, stop, don't move," the Doctor said as the mouth they were in started to heave and vibrate in agitation, "Too late. It's started."
"What has?" Amy asked.
"Swallow reflex," the Doctor said as they fell over and both he and Rose used their screwdrivers on the wall of teeth.
"What are you both doing?" Amy asked.
"We're vibrating the chemo-receptors," the Doctor answered.
"Chemo-what?" Amy asked.
"The eject button," he explained.
"How does a mouth have an eject button?" Amy asked.
"Think about it, Amy! What happens if you eat too much food at once," Rose explained as Amy's eyes widened as she realizes what Rose meant and the vibration stops, allowing them to stand up as a tidal wave of vomit comes rushing towards them.
"Right, then," the Doctor said as he straightened his overcoat, "This isn't going to be big on dignity." He held hands with Rose and Amy "Allons-y!" He exclaimed as the water gets closer towards them and Amy screamed as the water hits them and they flew upwards back towards the surface.
A few moments later, they found themselves out of the mouth and back in the ship. "There's nothing broken, there's no sign of concussion and yes, you are covered in sick," the Doctor said, turning around at Amy as he examines a door in front of them.
"Where are we?" Amy asked.
"I think we are in an overspill pipe," Rose said.
"I agree with you, Wolf," the Doctor said, "I think we are in an Overspill pipe, at a guess."
"Oh, God, it stinks," Amy complained as she gets up.
"Oh, that's not the pipe," the Doctor said.
Amy smelled her arm, "Whoo!. Can we get out?"
The Doctor stopped examining the door with his screwdriver and turned and looked at her. "One door, one door switch, one condition. We forget everything we saw," he said and a button lit up saying 'FORGET' " Look familiar? That's the carrot."
Suddenly the lights lit up and Rose saw another of the smilers and both she and her husband approached them.
"Ooo, here's the stick. There's a creature living in the heart of this ship," he told them, "What's it doing there?"
"I'm wondering the same thing," Rose said, "What's it doing there?!"
The Smilers turns their faces to show faces that are frowning.
"No, that's not going to work on us, so come on," he told them, "Big old beast below decks, and everyone who protests gets shoved down its throat. That how it works?" He asked sarcastically and suddenly the smilers turned their faces the other way they rotated and showed faces that looked like A scowl.
"Oh, stop it," the Doctor said, "We're not leaving and we're not forgetting, and what are you fellows going to do about it? Stick out your tongues, huh?"
Suddenly the booths open and the Smilers step out.
"Now look what you've done," Rose said, scowling at her husband.
"Doctor?" Amy gasped as the smilers stood up heading towards them and the three of them backed away.
Suddenly a door burst opened from to reveal a dark skinned woman with a regal appearance striding in, holding up her pistol. She shot the smilers, mercilessly in the chest. As they fell down, the woman put away her gun in its holster, effortlessly after twirling it around.
"Look who it is," the Doctor said as he saw Liz, "You look a lot better without your mask. Don't you agree, Wolf?"
"Definitely," Rose said agreeing with her husband.
"You must be Amy," Liz said, approaching Amy and pulled her hand out to shake her hand, "Liz. Liz X."
"Hi," Amy said, shaking her hand.
"Eurgh!" Liz exclaimed and she wiped it on her cloak, "Lovely hair, Amy. Shame about the sick." She headed for the door. "You know Mandy, yeah?" She asked as Mandy came in and Liz put her arm around Mandy's shoulder, "She's very brave."
"How did you find us?" The Doctor asked.
"I'm wondering how you found us as well," Rose asked.
"Stuck my gizmo on one of you," Liz explained as she tossed a device at the Doctor, "Been listening in. Nice moves on the hurl escape. So, what's the big fella and his wife doing here?"
"You're over sixteen, you've voted," the Doctor told her, "Whatever this is, you've chosen to forget about it."
"I agree with my husband, you've voted and chosen to forget what you've learned about this ship," Rose said, agreeing with him.
"No. Never forgot, never voted, not technically a British subject," Liz told them.
"Then who and what are you, and how do you know me and Rose?" The Doctor asked Liz.
You both are a bit hard to miss. Mysterious stranger, MO consistent with higher alien intelligence with a wife that was born human and turned alien and hair of an idiot," Liz explained and the Doctor points at her like he was about to protest and he ran his hand through his soaked hair.
"Well, Doctor, you do have hair of an idiot, but I love you for it," Rose told him as she kissed him.
"I've been brought up on the stories," Liz went on, "My whole family was."
"Your family?" Both Gallifreyans asked at the same time.
One of the deactivated Smilers began to move "They're repairing," Liz said, "Doesn't take them long. Let's move."
They all went out of the room and as they walked through a corridor "The Doctor. Old drinking buddy of Henry XII." Liz explained.
"That was before me right?" Rose asked her husband.
"Uh, yeah, yeah it was," he answered, "Right after the Time War and within the hundred years before I met you."
"The Bad Wolf formally known as Rose Marion Tyler born in 1986 to Pete and Jackie Tyler. Lost her father when she was a few months old in November of that year. Started traveling with the Doctor in late March of 2005 after he blew up the department store of Hendriks to stop an Auton invasion of Earth, a year before aliens destroyed Big Ben and tried to start the Third World War but was stopped by you Doctor with help of Harriet Jones. And a year later lost her mother to a parallel universe where your father was still alive and was never born. You were in depression that lasted till you regenerated into your second body," Liz X explained about Rose.
You both had tea and scones with Liz II. Vicky was a bit on the fence on the two of you, knighted and exiled both of you on the same day but when Liz II met you both she revoked your banishment. And as for your friend Jack, tell him so much for the Virgin Queen, that bad, bad boy."
"I think I know who she is now," Rose said.
"Then who is she, Wolf?" The Doctor asked.
"Queen Elizabeth X of the Royal House of Windsor," Rose explained.
"Yeah, I am," Liz said "Elizabeth the Tenth. And down!" They all ducked and she took out her guns and shot the Smilers with them and the Smilers fell on the ground. "I'm the bloody Queen, mate. Basically, I rule."
"There's a high-speed Vator through there," Liz said as they entered a room and heard a metallic clanking noise "Oh, yeah. There's these things." They then saw tentacles beating at the cage they were in. "Any ideas?"
"Doctor, I saw one of these up top," Amy said as the Doctor took out his screwdriver, "There was a hole in the road, like it had burst through like a root."
"Exactly like a root. It's all one creature, the same one we were inside, reaching out," he said, "It must be growing through the mechanisms of the entire ship."
"What, like an infestation?" Liz asked
"Yeah, Liz, exactly like an infestation," Rose answered, confirming her suspicions.
"Someone's helping it. Feeding it. Feeding my subjects to it. Come on. Got to keep moving," Liz said, angrily as she walks away with Mandy following her.
Amy went to follow but stops as she saw the Doctor and Rose were staring at the tentacles "Doctor? Wolf?"
"Oh, Amy," he said as he looked at her for a second, "We should never have come here."
"Yeah," Rose said, "We never should have come here, Amelia."
The Doctor and Rose then followed Liz and Mandy and Amy follows them as well.
The Doctor, Rose, Amy and Mandy followed Liz to her headquarters and the doctor noticed a lot of glass cups and stepped in between them, "Why all the glasses?" He asked her.
"To remind me every single day that my government is up to something," Liz explained from her bed, "and it's my duty to find out what."
"A queen going undercover to investigate her own kingdom?" He asked as he picked up the mask Liz wore when he and Rose met her.
"I agree, Doctor, I've never heard of a queen doing that," Rose said.
"Secrets are being kept from me," Liz explained, "I don't have a choice. Ten years I've been at this. My entire reign. And you both have achieved more in one afternoon."
"Liz, I'm curious, how old were you when you came to the throne of Britain?" Rose asked her.
"Forty," Liz answered, "Why?"
"What, you're fifty now? No way," Amy said in disbelief, approaching the bed and sitting on the couch that's in front of the bed.
"Yeah, they slowed my body clock. Keeps me looking like the stamps," Liz explained.
"And you always wear this in public?" The Doctor asked, sitting in front of her on the bed and showing her the mask.
"Undercover's not easy when you're me," Liz told him, "The autographs, the bunting."
"Air-balanced porcelain," he noticed as he examines the mask further, "Stays on by itself, 'cause it's perfectly sculpted to your face." He explained raising the mask up.
"Yeah? So what?" Liz asked him.
"Oh, Liz. So everything," he said as suddenly they heard a door open and a group of hooded men walked in.
"What are you doing?" Liz asked the hooded men, "How dare you come in here?"
The Doctor got off the bed and stared at the men, "Ma'am, you have expressed interest in the interior workings of Starship UK," one of the hooded men said, "You will come with us now."
"Why would I do that?" Liz asked the hooded men as the man that was speaking suddenly rotated his head and became a Scowler.
"How can they be Smilers?" Amy asked.
"Exactly like cybermen right, Doctor?" Rose asked her husband.
"You're right, Rose," he answered, "Half Smiler, half human, is what they are."
"Whatever you creatures are, I am still your queen," Liz said "On whose authority is this done?"
"The highest authority, Ma'am," the winder answered.
"I am the highest authority," Liz told him.
"Yes, ma'am," the winder said, "You must go now, Ma'am."
"Where?"
"The Tower, Ma'am," the Winder answered.
The half-human and half smilers left the room, not bothering to check if the queen was following them. Liz looked at the Doctor who gave a slight nod before following them.
"I think we should follow them," Rose said, "Don't you agree, Doctor?"
"I think we should follow them as well," he said as they followed Liz and the winders to the Tower of London.
In the tower of London which looked medieval, but futuristic as there was a base of controls which powered a huge needle, shooting down electricity. There was also grates which were bolted shut but Amy soon discovered why. Giant roots were banging harshly against the grates.
"Doctor, Rose, where are we?" Amy asked.
"The lowest point of Starship UK," the Doctor answered "The dungeon."
"Ma'am," an elderly man, dressed in a brown cloak, same as the smilers but he had his hood down, so he was human, walked up to the Queen.
Liz pursed her lips as she recognized him, "Hawthorne," she said, greeting him in surprise, "So this is where you hid yourself away. I think you've got some explaining to do."
"There's children down here. What's all that about?" The Doctor asked as he saw a group of children walking past them and patted a child of African descent on the head.
"Protesters and citizens of limited value are fed to the beast. For some reason, it won't eat the children," Hawthorne explained, "You're the first adults it's spared. You're very lucky."
"Yeah, look at us. Torture chamber of the Tower of London. Lucky, lucky, lucky!" The Doctor said, "Except it's not a torture chamber, is it? Well, except it is. Except it isn't. Depends on your angle," he went on as he walked around the room.
They look down a hole with a brain showing in the middle of the room with a needle hanging over it, "What's that?" Liz asked.
"Well, like I say, it depends on the angle," the Doctor said, "It's either the exposed pain centre of big fella's brain, being tortured relentlessly."
"Or?" She asked him.
"Or it's the gas pedal, the accelerator. Starship UK's go faster button," he explained.
"I don't understand," Liz said.
"Don't you?" He said, "Try to. Go on. The spaceship that could never fly. No vibration on deck. This creature, this poor, trapped, terrified creature. It's not infesting you, it's not invading, it's what you have instead of an engine. And this place down here is where you hurt it, where you torture it, day after day, just to keep it moving. Tell you what." He went over to a grate and took the top of the grate off "Normally, it's above the range of human hearing," one of the tentacles then came out as the Doctor took out his screwdriver and he flicked it as the screwdriver extended outwards, "This is the sound none of you wanted to hear."
The Doctor activates his sonic screwdriver on the tentacles as every non-Gallifreyan suddenly heard a loud roaring and high pitched shrieking scream.
"Stop it," Liz said, not able to handle the noise any longer, "Who did this?" She asked Hawthorne.
"We act on instructions from the highest authority," Hawthorne answered.
"I am the highest authority," Liz growled, "The creature will be released, now. I said now! Is anyone listening to me?"
"Theta," Rose said as the Doctor looked at her, "Should I tell her or should you?"
The Doctor approached Liz holding her mask, "Liz. Your mask."
"What about my mask?" Liz asked.
"Look at it," he said as threw it to her, " It's old. At least two hundred years old, I'd say."
"Yeah? It's an antique. So?" Liz said, not knowing what was important about her mask.
"Yeah, an antique made by craftsmen over two hundred years ago and perfectly sculpted to your face. They slowed your body clock, all right, but you're not fifty. Nearer three hundred. And it's been a long old reign," he explained to her.
"Nah, it's ten years," Liz said in disbelief, "I've been on this throne ten years."
"Ten years," he said, "And the same ten years, over and over again, always leading you here." he then grabbed her hand and took her towards a monitor with 2 buttons one saying 'FORGET' and the other saying 'ABDICATE'.
"What have you done?" Liz asked Hawthorne, horrified.
"Only what you have ordered. We work for you, Ma'am. The Winders, the Smilers, all of us," Hawthorne explained as he clicked a button on top of the monitor as an image of Liz appeared on the monitor
"If you are watching this. If I am watching this, then I have found my way to the Tower Of London," the Liz on the monitor said as Liz sat down on a chair in front of the monitor as a diagram of a whale appeared on the monitor, "The creature you are looking at is called a Star Whale. Once, there were millions of them. They lived in the depths of space and, according to legend, guided the early space travellers through the asteroid belts. This one, as far as we are aware, is the last of its kind." That phrase got the attention of the Doctor and Rose who were both the last of their kind. "And what we have done to it breaks my heart. The Earth was burning. Our sun had turned on us and every other nation had fled to the skies. Our children screamed as the skies grew hotter. And then it came, like a miracle. The last of the Star Whales. We trapped it, we built our ship around it, and we rode on its back to safety. If you wish our voyage to continue, then you must press the Forget button. Be again the heart of this nation, untainted. If not, press the other button. Your reign will end, the Star Whale will be released, and our ship will disintegrate. I hope I keep the strength to make the right decision."
"I voted for this? Why would I do that?" Amy asked.
"Because you knew if we stayed here, I'd be faced with an impossible choice," the Doctor told her, "Humanity or the alien. You took it upon yourself to save me from that. And that was wrong. You don't ever decide what I need to know, Only Wolf can."
"I don't even remember doing it," Amy said.
"You did it," He said, "That's what counts."
"I'm, I'm sorry," Amy pleaded as Rose grabbed Amy's hand and brought her to a corner.
"Don't bother him when he's like this he's in his 'Oncoming storm mood'. There will still be a way to stop him from comatising the star Whale." Rose explained.
The Doctor walked over to the monitor and started working on it, "What are you doing?" Liz asked him.
"The worst thing I'll ever do. I'm going to pass a massive electrical charge through the Star Whale's brain. Should knock out all its higher functions, leave it a vegetable," he explained, "The ship will still fly, but the whale won't feel it."
Amy went up to him, "That'll be like killing it," she said, horrified at what he's going to do.
"Look, three options. One, I let the Star Whale continue in unendurable agony for hundreds more years. Two, I kill everyone on this ship. Three, I murder a beautiful, innocent creature as painlessly as I can," he told her "And then I find a new name, possibly 'The Valeyard' 'cause I won't be 'the Doctor' any more."
"There must be something we can do, some other way," Liz said.
"Nobody talk to me," he said "Nobody human has anything to say to me today!" He suddenly shouted.
As the Doctor continues working with his plan Amy sat next to Mandy and Rose sat in a corner and as the Doctor rotates a switch on the console he was working on the door opened and children came in and Mandy recognized one and she ran towards him "Timmy!" She said calling the boy's name but he wasn't saying anything "you made it l! You're okay! It's me, Mandy."
Amy watched as a tentacle behind Mandy looks like its about to harm her but instead it tapped her on the shoulder and she looked behind her and started petting the tentacle and Amy remember the Doctor's words 'Come on use, your eyes notice everything.' She reeled back the entire adventure in her mind and remembered what Hawthorne said about the Star whale not eating the children and a lot of other important things as well.
"Doctor stop," Amy said as she came back to reality "Whatever you're doing, stop it now!" She then took Liz's hand as she brought her over to the monitor to where the two buttons were, "Sorry your majesty, going to need a hand."
The Doctor knew what she was doing, "Amy, no no!" He yelled as Amy slammed Liz's hand on the button that says 'ABDICATE' as the electricity stopped beaming down to the brain of the Star Whale as it started groaning and objects starts crashing and people start screaming all over the ship in fear.
"Amy, what have you done?" The Doctor asked her.
"Nothing at all. Am I right?" Amy asked.
"We've increased speed, Hawthorne said as his eyes widen in shock.
"Yeah, well, you've stopped torturing the pilot," Amy said, "Got to help."
"It's still here," Liz said in confusion, "I don't understand."
"The star Whale didn't come to you like a miracle all those years ago. It volunteered," Amy told them, "You didn't have to trap it or torture it, it that was all just you." She then walked in front of Liz to look at her face to face, "It came because it couldn't stand to watch your children cry. What if you were really old, and really kind and used to be alone. Your whole race dead, no future till a human became one of that person's species. What could you do then she asked? If you were that old, and that kind, and one of the last of your kind, you couldn't stand there and watch children cry." She then turned to Wolf as she called out the Time Lady's name, "Right Wolf!"
"Yep, you are correct, Amy," Rose said smiling, sticking her tongue between her teeth.
Both Liz and Hawthorne looked down looking mournfully.
Later the Doctor and Rose were in a glass corridor standing, "So, Arkytior you helped Amy figure out what to do?" He asked his wife.
"No. not necessarily helped her figure out to do I just told her about your 'Oncoming Storm' persona and said that there was another way to do it than comatising the Star Whale," She answered.
"Thank you, Arkytior, my Bad Wolf." He muttered to her as he flirted with her before kissing her, passionately.
"Woah, I don't want to know what that was about," Amy said, interrupting both Gallifreyans, "But what I came here for is that her majesty says that there will be no more secrets on Starship UK." She then showed them Liz's mask.
"Amy, you could have killed everyone on this ship," he said.
"You could have killed a Star Whale," she countered.
"And you saved it," he said, "I know, I know."
"Amazing though," Amy said, "don't either of you think? The Star Whale. All that pain and misery and loneliness, and it just made it kind."
The Doctor looks at her 'cause he knew that feeling back when he still had big ears and wore leather jackets before he met Rose, "But you couldn't have known how it would react," he said.
"You couldn't," Amy said, "But I've seen it before. Very old and very kind, and nearly the last of it's kind. Sound a bit familiar?"
He smiled as Amy said that and hugged Amy, who then hugged Rose.
Soon they were walking back to the Tardis, through the London Market, "Shouldn't we say goodbye? Won't they wonder where we went?" Amy asked.
"For the rest of their lives," he answered, "Oh, the songs they'll write."
"Definitely," Rose said at the same time.
"Never mind them," he went on, "Big day tomorrow."
"Sorry, what?" Amy asked.
"Well, it's always a big day tomorrow," he explained as he turned around as he approached the Tardis, "We've got a time machine. We skip the little ones."
"You both know what I said about getting back for tomorrow morning?" She asked them, "Have either of you ever run away from something because you were scared, or not ready, or just…" she trailed off "just because you could?"
"Once, a long time ago," was all he said.
"What happened?" Amy asked him.
"Hello," was the reply he said.
"Right," Amy said as the Doctor approached the Tardis, "There's something I haven't told either of you." She then heard the phone and Amy had the same expression of when Rose first found out that the Tardis had a phone, right after blowing up Downing street, "No hang on is that a phone ringing?" The Doctor and Rose both entered the Tardis as Amy followed them, "People phone you?"
"Well, it's a phone box," he explained.
"Amy would you mind answering it for us." Rose asked as she and the Doctor went to the controls of the console.
Amy then picked up the phone and answered it "Hello? Sorry, who?" She asked not knowing who it was on the phone "No, seriously. who?" She repeated herself then before putting the phone off her ear, "Says he's the Prime Minister. First the Queen now the Prime Minister. The two of you get about don't you?"
"Which Prime Minister?" He asked.
Amy put the phone back on her ear as she pulled down a lever, "Er, which Prime Minister?" She asked and Amy put the phone off her ear again, "The British one."
"Amy, which British Prime Minister is it calling us?" Rose asked.
Amy put the phone back on her ear, "Which British one?" Amy asked before handing the phone to the Doctor, "Winston Churchill for you, Doctor."
He took the phone and put it on his ear, "Oh! Hello, dear. What's up?"
"Tricky situation, Doctor," Churchill said, "Potentially very dangerous. I think I'm going to need you and your wife."
"Don't worry about a thing, Prime Minister," the Doctor said. "We're on our way." He then hung up the phone and put it back where it is when not being used and the three of them chuckled as the Tardis dematerialized.
Fun fact: Scotland has a very high independence movement and had an independence referendum in 2014 which failed and after the Brexit referendum, the Scottish independence movement grew in popularity because the Scottish people want to stay in the EU.
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