Hello everyone, it's ReaderWarrior here. I know you're probably all excited (hopefully) for the next chapter of Remnant Who, so I'll try and keep this short.
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Remnant Who
By ReaderWarrior
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Aliens of London (A)
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The camera opens with a familiar view of an estate parking lot.
Ruby points at the screen. "Hey! This is where Rose and the Doctor first left from!"
"Looks like crap," Qrow chuckles.
Graffiti covers the walls and ground as trash begins to blow around the area. A loud whooshing sound punctures the quiet neighborhood as the T.A.R.D.I.S materializes.
"That never gets old," Yang smiles.
As soon as the T.A.R.D.I.S finishes its return, Rose and the Doctor step out. The Time Lord leans against the box's corner while his companion explores a bit of the area they have found themselves in.
"How long have I been gone?" Rose asks.
"About twelve hours," he answers, resulting in a laugh from both of them.
Weiss' eyes go wide. "It's still impressive that they could be gone for days or weeks and yet arrive mere moments after they left."
"It's called time travel for a reason, Weiss," Ruby responds.
Rose turns back to the apartment complex down the street and holds up a finger. "Right, I won't be long. I just want to see my mum."
"Aww," the members of team RWBY sigh.
"What're you gonna tell her?" The Doctor asks.
"I don't know," Rose answers. "'I've been to the year five-billion and only been gone, what, twelve hours'?"
All six viewers laugh at Rose's answer.
"I doubt that will go well," Blake smiles.
The Doctor chuckles at her response.
"No," Rose clarifies, "I'll just tell her I spent the night at Shareen's. See you later. And, don't you disappear." The traveler raises his hands in mock surrender and watches as Rose walks away.
Becoming bored, the Doctor begins to explore the area. He kicks up a piece of trash before noticing a paper taped to the side of a concrete pillar.
"What's that?" Yang asks.
"Well," Qrow comments, "I think they call them fly-ers on Remnant, but I'll have to check back on that."
The blonde rolls her eyes but gives a small laugh at her uncle's comment.
The Doctor rushes over to the pillar and lifts up the flyer, revealing the letters 'Can you help?' and a small picture of a blonde in the corner of the page.
Blake frowns, "who is that?"
Shocked by the page, the Doctor runs after Rose.
Rose bursts into the apartment and closes the door behind her. "I'm back!" she yells. "Sharene was all upset again. Are you in?" She places her key into a bowl before looking around the corner and seeing her mother wide-eyed in shock.
"So what's been going on? How've you been?"
"I think something happened," Ruby mumbled.
I know that look, Qrow thinks. That's the same look in my eyes I had when Summer vanished.
Weiss nods. "And whatever it was, it wasn't good. Did someone die?"
"What?" Rose asked. "What's that face for? It's not the first time I've stayed out all night."
Jackie's hand spasms and the mug in her hand falls to the ground, smashing against the floor. "It's you," she whispers in awe.
"Uh, oh," the Librarian mumbled. "I think I know what happened."
"Course it's me!"
"Oh, my God, it's you. Oh, my God!"
The elder blonde wraps her arms around her daughter and pulls her into a hug. Sobbing, the two turn to the side, giving Rose an easy view of the kitchen table. On top of which are piles of different flyers displaying her face.
And the words 'missing'.
"Wait, what?" Yang yells. "The Doctor said she was gone for 12 hours."
The Librarian groaned. "Yeah… I think he messed up."
"Then how long was she actually gone?" Ruby gasps.
The Doctor rushes inside, sliding his sonic into his jacket pocket after using it to unlock the door, and runs up to Rose. "It's not twelve hours," he explains. "It's twelve months! You've been gone a whole year."
"WHAT?!"
"Sorry," he smiles, chuckling softly.
"You should be!" Weiss snapped. "You promised Rose she could be back within minutes of leaving! Do you have any idea what kind of pain Ms. Tyler went through this past year?!"
"She had no idea. Rose was just… gone." Yang looked down at her feet. Like Mom.
Ruby turned to face the Librarian. "Why?"
"A T.A.R.D.I.S isn't a car or bike, it's alive. They are grown, actually, and have a sort of… spirit themselves. Sometimes it decides some things, or some times, are more important than others." The Librarian strokes his chin and sighs. "It doesn't help that his T.A.R.D.I.S isn't exactly top-of-the-line." But I guess you get what you get when you steal one.
Qrow frowns. "And we're supposed to like this guy?"
"He's usually a lot more careful than this," Blake counters. Then, mumbling, she adds, "except for when he took her to witness a global destruction."
The Doctor looks out of Rose's apartment window and watches his T.A.R.D.I.S being desecrated by a child with a spray can. Before he could do anything, the Doctor's attention is brought back into the apartment, where Jackie is now standing over the shoulder of a police officer in the middle of questioning Rose. However, Jackie wasn't letting anyone get a word in.
"The hours I've sat here," the elder blonde rants, "days and weeks and months, all on my own! I thought you were dead! And where were you? Traveling. What the hell does that mean, traveling? That's no sort of answer!" She turns back to the officer, his pen unmoving as he holds out a notebook. "You ask her. She won't tell me. That's all she says. 'Travelling'!"
"Well," Blake defends, "she's not lying. Rose was 'traveling'. Just not traditionally."
Qrow chuckles. "Yeah, I really can't wait to see how she explains this away."
"That's what I was doing," Rose argues.
Jackie points towards Rose's room. "Well, your passport is still in the drawer!"
"Passport?" Ruby asks, turning to the Librarian.
"It's similar to a Huntsman license. Countries like to keep track of who is coming and going into their lands, as well as where you are coming from."
Weiss frowns. "Your world doesn't have open borders?"
"Nope." The Librarian shakes his head. "Most countries require Visas. It's meant to keep control of what comes in. For instance, one country might have a ban on cigars. By looking at a person's passport, we can tell if they have been to a country that sells that sort of product and to keep an eye on it. Also, in worse cases, some countries may not be wanting those from another specific country to enter their lands unless under very specific circumstances." North Korea, for example.
"That's horrible. Why don't they all just get along?"
"Good question, Ruby… Good question."
"It's just one lie after another!" Jackie yells.
"I meant to phone!" Rose explains, hugging herself on the couch. "I really did. I just… I forgot."
"What, for a year? You 'forgot' for a year?!" Jackie moves back over to the adjacent couch. "And I'm left sitting here. I just don't believe you. Why won't you tell me where you've been?"
"Because you wouldn't believe it!" Yang yelled back.
"Or she might allow her daughter to go into dangerous situations," Weiss adds.
"Actually," the Doctor interjects, "that's my fault. I sort of employed Rose as my companion."
The policeman perks up and asks, "when you say companion, is this a sexual relationship?"
Rose and the Doctor look at each other for a moment. "No." They answer at the same time.
"Then what is it?" Jackie leaps up from her seat and steps in front of the Doctor. "Because you, you waltz in here, all charm and smiles, and the next thing I know, she vanishes off the face of the Earth! How old are you, then? Forty? Forty-five?"
The Doctor's nose crinkles in a strange mixture of disgust and amusement.
"Wait, how old is he really?" Blake asks.
"Older than you think, but not as old as others might guess," the Librarian answers with a twinkle in his eye.
Ruby grumbles, "that's not even a real answer…"
"What, did you find her on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a doctor?"
"I am a doctor," he scoffs.
"Prove it! Stitch this, mate!" Jackie reels back and smacks the Doctor across the face. Completely taken by surprise, he groans and takes a few steps back, holding his cheek.
And the police officer silently sneaks out the front door.
Qrow rubs his own cheek, wincing. "Never mess with the mothers."
Team RWBY laughs at this.
In the kitchen, daughter and mother reconciled. Rose and Jackie hugged each other, the elder asking, "did you think about me at all?"
"I did, all the time, but-"
"One phone call," Jackie reiterates. "Just to know that you were alive."
Rose sniffles as her eyes water. "I'm sorry, I really am."
"But do you know, what terrifies me is that you still can't say," Jackie explains, studying her daughter's face. "What happened to you, Rose? What can be so bad that you can't tell me, sweetheart? Where were you?"
Instead of answering, Rose just hugs her mother more.
"Why doesn't she just tell her," Weiss asks.
"Kid," Qrow answers, grabbing his flask, "if there's one thing most parents don't want their kids to do, it's be in danger. If the Grimm weren't around, do you really think people would be sending their children to learn how to fight for their lives when they could be safe at home?"
"Just like Jaune!" Ruby realizes.
The Librarian nods. "Exactly. But here's another possibility: what if she's doing it to keep her mother happy? Knowing her daughter could disappear into the void of time and space never to return is an emotional catastrophe."
"She doesn't want her to worry." Blake nods in agreement. "It's safer for her this way."
On the rooftop of the flat, Rose and the Doctor stare out into the London sky. Sirens wail distantly, and the sounds of life echo even to this height.
"I can't tell her," Rose mutters, sitting cross-legged on a ledge while the Doctor leans against it with his arms folded. "I can't even begin. She's never going to forgive me. And I missed a year." She turns to the Doctor and asks, "was it good?"
"Middling."
"Average," Weiss answers, knowing her teammates were already turning to her for the definition.
"Well, that's the Doctor's opinion," Yang scoffs, "he doesn't seem to enjoy anything unless something dangerous is happening."
The Librarian closes his eyes. "Let's see… 2005… Youtube was founded, the 43rd US President was elected, the Pope died, Disneyland's 50th birthday, BTK was charged, London wins the right to stage the 2012 Olympics (a sort of a non-violent Vytal Festival), and the London bombings. All in all, some good and some bad."
"I have no idea what any of those things mean," Qrow states, tossing back another drink.
Rose rolls her eyes. "You're so useless."
"Well, if it's this much trouble, are you going to stay here now?"
"I don't know," she sighs. "I can't do that to her again, though."
"Well, she's not coming with us," the Doctor responds quickly, earning a laugh from Rose.
Team RWBY laughs in agreement.
"Hey, I like a girl that can knock me off my feet," Qrow chuckles.
"You like any girl," Yang jokes back.
"No chance!" Rose giggles.
The Doctor smirks. "I don't do families."
"She slapped you!"
"Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother."
"Wait, WHAT?!" RWBY yelled. Even Qrow spit out his drink in shock.
"Give it a second," the Librarian responds. "He'll explain."
"She slapped you!" Rose reiterated, still laughing.
The Doctor placed a hand on his 'wound' and stroked it. "It hurt."
"You're so gay!" [1]
Blake scrunches her nose. "What does that mean?"
Sighing the Librarian answers, "it means he's feminine. Weak. It's a slang term."
"That's rude," Weiss scolds.
"Yeah, once again, the human race being slanderous to those who are not 'the norm'." The Librarian shakes his head. "The early 2000s weren't the most respectful of times."
Rose pauses, replaying the Doctor's comment in her mind. "Wait… When you say 900 years-"
"That's my age," he explains.
"He's joking, right?" Ruby asks
"Yeah, that's impossible," Yang agrees. "Only Grimm live that long!"
"And Time Lords," the Librarian explains. "They can live up to 12 lifetimes of 500 years each if they are careful." [2]
Even Qrow's eyes widened at that revelation. "Dang, that's impressive."
Blake nods. "And oddly specific."
"6000 years?!" Weiss cries.
"Yep."
"You're nine hundred years old?"
The Doctor nods. "Yeah."
"..." Rose nods slowly in shock. "My mum was right. That is one hell of an age gap." She then jumps onto her feet and looks over the flat's edge, watching the people walk around below her. "Every conversation with you just goes mental. There's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things, and I'm the only person on planet Earth who knows they exist."
BEEEEEEEP.
The Doctor and Rose duck as a large, smoking spaceship flies overhead, buzzing the building.
"WOAH!" Team RWBY laughs at the timing.
"Because of course," Yang critiques. "Right after they returned, aliens would stop by."
"Maybe that's why the T.A.R.D.I.S dropped them off here," Blake realizes.
Smart thinking, the Librarian smiles. "Possibly."
Weiss frowns. "It looked damaged too. Perhaps it was damaged and is trying to land!"
Crouching, the two travelers watch as the ship soars overhead, turning towards the city. It's engines flicker on and off as black smoke pours from the ships' stern. It misses Tower Bridge, weaves around St Paul's, then with a nasty back-fire and a splutter, dives for the Thames.
However, as the ship descends, its right wing smashes into a large building, a clock tower to be precise. Gears and clock-hands go flying with a loud rumble as the ship passes cleanly through it.
"Hope that wasn't important," Qrow frowns.
The Librarian shrugs. "Kinda, just one of London's biggest attractions, Big Ben. Well, technically that's the name of the bell but the entire clocktower is called such."
"Really?!" Ruby asks. "Can we go?"
"Maybe after we finish the episode," the Librarian offers.
"Yay!"
Big Ben chimes once and the spaceship crashes into the river. The Doctor and Rose watch a plume of black smoke rise into the air on the horizon from their perch.
"Oh, that's just not fair," She mutters. Suddenly, the Doctor laughs and grabs Rose's hand. They both gleefully run off to get a better view.
"What did I say," Yang repeats. "He's only excited when there is danger."
"Like you're one to talk." The Schnee heiress rolls her eyes.
Yang sports a sideways grin. "Exactly. I know better than you guys."
In downtown London, the city is in gridlock. Sirens are wailing and cars are stopped. People, confused by the events of what is happening, are getting out of their cars and running around, trying to find out more.
"All right, all right!" a woman yells as a car behind her honks violently. "Keep your hair on! It's not my fault, is it?"
Another man pounds at his steering wheel. "I can't move anywhere!"
Soldiers, wearing green fatigues with red berets, guard the road while sporting large weapons in their hands. "Stay back, please. Back, thank you," they order the approaching people.
"Ah, just my luck," one groans, returning to his car.
"This is a disaster," Qrow groans. "I hate dealing with civilian blockades."
"Why aren't they letting people get close?" Yang frowns.
"Maybe," Ruby answers, "they don't want to let anyone close because it might be dangerous."
Qrow ruffles his niece's hair, earning a giggle. "Smart, kiddo."
The Doctor and Rose stop at the edge of the bridge, looking at the sea of stopped cars and panicking onlookers. "It's blocked off," the Doctor notices.
Panting, Rose looks behind her. "We're miles from the centre. The city must be gridlocked. The whole of London must be closing down."
"I know!" He smiles. "I can't believe I'm here to see this. This is fantastic!"
Yang snaps her fingers. "Ay, there it is again!"
"Did you know this was going to happen?" Rose asks, turning to her 'guide'.
"Nope!"
"Do you recognize the ship?"
"Nope!"
"Do you know why it crashed?"
"Nope!"
Rose sighs. "Oh, I'm so glad I've got you."
Frowning, Weiss shakes her head. "So he has no idea what events could happen in the times or places he travels to? That seems unsafe"
"I think you mean 'fun'!" Ruby smiles.
"I bet you are," the Doctor agrees, ignorant to Rose's sarcasm. "This is what I travel for, Rose," he explains. "To see history happening right in front of us."
"Well let's go and see it!" She points to the guards. "Never mind the traffic, we've got the T.A.R.D.I.S."
The Doctor hums. "Better not. They've already got one spaceship in the middle of London. I don't want to shove another one on top."
"Yeah, but yours looks like a big, blue box. No one's going to notice."
"You'd be surprised," he explains. "An emergency like this, there'll be all kinds of people watching. Trust me, the T.A.R.D.I.S stays where it is."
"So history's happening and we're stuck here?"
"Can't the Doctor just use his psychic paper to get through the barricade?" Blake asks.
Qrow coughs. "His what?"
"He would have to get to the barricade first," the Librarian rationalizes. "The problem is getting past everyone first."
"Yes, we are," he answers.
"... We could always do what everybody else does," Rose offers, earning a glance from the Doctor. "We could watch it on TV."
News 24
-LONDON UFO CRASH (BIG BEN DESTROYED)-
"Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash-lands in central London." The screen shows the broken clock tower, helicopters now surrounding it. It cuts to show dozens, if not hundreds, of police officers creating a wall which the civilians are not happy about.
-(POLICE STRUGGLE TO CONTAIN SIGHTSEERS)-
"Police reinforcements are drafted in from across the country to control widespread panic, looting and civil disturbance."
"Looting?" Weiss scowls. "Why would that happen?"
The Librarian shakes his head. "People are crazy. And it doesn't help that an alien spaceship just crashed. Everyone's panicking and some are taking advantage of that."
"How uncivilized."
"A state of national emergency has been declared. Tom Hitchinson is at the scene."
The Doctor and Rose stare intently at the screen as it cuts to a man walking with a microphone.
The newscaster struggles to talk as more people push past him to get a better look at the crashed alien ship."The police are urging the public not to panic. There's a helpline number on screen right now if you're worried about friends or family."
-ALIEN EMERGENCY HELPLINE (08081 570980)-
Yang pulls out her scroll and types the number. The line beeps loudly, earning a half-sigh, half-chuckle from the blonde. "Dang it!"
The channel changes, jumping now to a woman at a desk.
AMNN
"The military are on the lookout for more spaceships," she declares. "Until then, all flights in North American air space have been grounded."
"Heh," Qrow chuckles. "Sounds like something James would do."
The channel changes back.
-(ARMY DIVERS SEARCHING THAMES FOR BODIES)-
"The army is sending divers into the wreck of the spaceship. No one knows what they're going to find."
"I hope the aliens are okay!" Ruby cries.
Weiss frowns. "But why was it crashing to begin with? Was it running from an attacking ship?"
"Maybe it hit an asteroid," the Librarian offers.
Boats now surround the fallen ship, with divers continuing to jump into the water.
AMNN
"The President will address the nation live from the White House, but the Secretary-General has asked that people watch the skies."
"What's the White House?" Weiss asks.
"It's where the President of the United States lives," the Librarian answers. "He's kind of a big deal."
"But isn't it dumb to bring attention to a place like that? It sounds like an easy target."
The Librarian smiles. "I'd love to see you try and get to the Oval Office without permission. Even somebody with a Semblance or Aura would have difficulties."
"You've broken your mother's heart!" A woman sitting across from Rose yells, most likely a family friend.
"Who the heck are you?!" Yang yelps.
"Most likely, she's a friend of the family," Blake answers.
Jackie walks in from the kitchen, holding a cup in her hands. "I've got no choice," she complains, "Either I make him welcome, or I risk never seeing you again." The elder hands Rose the mug before sitting down.
The family friend continues to berate her, however. "She was sobbing in my arms; I cradled her like a child!"
Ruby frowns. "It really must have been bad for Jackie not knowing where Rose was."
"Heartbreaking kid," Qrow answers. "It's heartbreaking."
"Oi!" the Doctor yells, peeling his eyes away from the screen. "I'm trying to listen!"
News 24
-(NO COMMENT FROM 10 DOWNING STREET)-
"If the White House is the United State's main government building," Blake asks, "then does that make Downing Street Londons?"
"Yep. But technically, it is for Great Britain. London is just their capital city."
"News is just coming in. We can go to Tom at the Embankment," the narrator announces as the screen returns to Tom's cameraman.
"They've found a body," he exclaims as the camera turns to show a boat heading towards a dock. "It's unconfirmed but I'm being told a body has been found in the wreckage. A body of non-terrestrial origins. It's being brought ashore."
"I hope it is a good alien this time!" Ruby exclaims.
"Nah," Yang jokes. "It's gotta be a race of warriors bent on taking over the world!"
Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Qrow, and the Librarian turn to Yang with a concerned look in their eyes.
"Too much?"
"A bit."
The Doctor's eyes widen with this revelation and turns to talk to Rose. However, she is now being surrounded by multiple friends and family. Jackie runs about, handing the guests wine and beer while the Doctor shakes his head in disbelief.
Qrow chuckles. "Are we sure they're not aliens? They seem to be multiplying."
"C'mon Uncle Qrow," Ruby whines. "I think they are just being nice."
"A body of some sort has been found inside the wreckage of the spacecraft," Tom repeats.
"Oh!" Jackie interrupts. "Guess who asked me out? Billy Croot!"
"Shhh!" Team RWBY yells at Jackie, wanting to hear more about the body.
Once again, the Doctor shakes his head and turns his attention back to the T.V.
"Unconfirmed reports say that the body is of extra-terrestrial origin." Zooming in, one can barely make out a body being carried out on a stretcher. However, the form is covered in a sheet, keeping the species hidden from view. "An extraordinary event unfolding here live in Central London. The body is being transferred to a secure unit mortuary, the whereabouts is yet unknown. The roads in Central London are being-"
"-And when you've stuck your fins on, you can cover the whole lot in buttercream!" The screen jumps to a man, with a name tag of 'Matt Baker', buttering some bread.
"What the heck?!"
Surprised by this, the Doctor realizes there is now a baby sitting in front of him, holding the remote.
Team RWBY lets out a laugh (a small chuckle in Qrow's case) at the Doctor's predicament.
"Go back!" Yang yells. "Go back to the aliens!"
"Oh, look at that," the host states in mock surprise. "Then ice it any color you want. Here's one I made a little bit earlier. And look at that, your very own spaceship ready to eat. And for something a little extra special-"
The Doctor pulls the remote out of the baby's hands and quickly flicks back to the previous channel.
"Thank goodness," Blake smiles.
"We still don't know whether it's alive or dead. Whitehall is denying everything."
"What's Whitehall?" Ruby asks.
"Most likely another term for their government," the Librarian explains.
Tom is now standing in front of a gated hospital. Armed soldiers guard the entryway, scanning the crowd for anyone attempting a run at the fence. "But the body has been brought here, Albion Hospital. The road's closed off. It's the closest to the river."
The flat is now full of people of all ages. The Doctor motions for a child to move, as the youngster is now standing in front of the screen.
"Go on!" He shooed.
"Where did all of these people come from?" Weiss frowns.
"That girl's mom probably invited them," Qrow guesses.
The crowd in front of the hospital begins to part as a car pushes its way to the gates, which opens for the passenger.
"I'm being told that General Asquith is now entering the hospital," Tom relays after listening to his earpiece. "The building's been evacuated. The patients have been moved out onto the streets. The police still won't confirm the presence of an alien body contained inside those walls."
"Smart," Blake nods. "If they did say so, it would most likely bring more people and more annoyances."
Within the hospital, General Asquith, followed by more soldiers, marches into the mortuary. Stationary guards open the doors for him as he steps inside. A young woman wearing a lab coat looks up from her clipboard, her name tag reading 'Dr. Sato'.
"Let's have a look then," Asquith orders as he walks up to the covered body.
"Aww," Ruby frowns. "It's dead."
Qrow pats his niece's head. "Sorry, kiddo."
The physician places down her clipboard and gingerly lifts up the sheet for him to see.
"Good, God," he mutters.
"Let us see!" Yang cries. "Let's see!"
"It's almost like she's deliberately trying to keep us from seeing it," Blake pouts.
"And that's real? It's not a hoax, or a dummy, or…"
Dr. Sato shakes her head and places the sheet back over the body. "I've x-rayed the skull. It's wired up inside like nothing I've ever seen before. No one could make this up."
Asquith sighs. "We've got experts being flown in. Until they arrive, get that out of sight." She nods and pushes the cart into body chamber number 5 as the general exits.
However, when she is finished, she runs after him. "Excuse me sir?" She asks, causing the general and his soldiers to turn around. " I know it's a state of emergency and there's a lot of rumors flying around. But is it true what they're saying? About the Prime Minister?"
"The who?" Weiss frowns.
"Prime Minister," the Librarian explains. "He, or she, is elected by the people to run the executive branch of the British government. Sort of like Atlas' council."
Blake nods in understanding. "So what happened to the Prime Minister, then?"
"Who knows?"
Asquith doesn't answer. Instead, he turns and marches back out the door.
"Mystery still surrounds the whereabouts of the Prime Minister," a different reporter exposits. "He's not been seen since the emergency began."
"Well, that answers that," Yang chuckles.
"But why is he missing?" Blake asks with a frown. "This seems like the worst time for a government's leader to go missing."
Qrow takes a swig from his flask. "Sounds pretty normal to me. Rich politicians running into their own safe little bunkers at the first sign of trouble, leaving us to rot." He turns to Weiss. "Remind you of anyone?"
"The opposition are criticizing his lack of leadership. Hold on." The crowd behind him begins to move. Other cameramen and reporters start moving towards an incoming car. As it pulls up to the front of Downing, a portly man steps out. The reporter frowns. "Oh, that's Joseph Green, MP for Hartley Dale. He's Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the monitoring of sugar standards in exported confectionery."
Ruby drools slightly. "That sounds fun."
"He probably decides when there is too much sugar in something, Ruby," Blake explains. "And why would they be calling in someone of his stature during a global panic?"
"Maybe the alien likes sweets?" Yang offers.
The man, Joseph Green, gives a small nod to the clicking cameras and steps inside. "With respect, hardly the most important person right now."
Inside, suited men and women are running around. One man runs up to a confused Green and grabs his hand.
"Indra Ganesh, sir," he greets. "Junior secretary with the MOD. I'll be your liaison." He begins to escort Green through different walkways and corridors.
"Where the hell is he?" Green asks, referring to the Prime Minister.
Making a shushing motion, Ganesh whispers, "if we could talk in private, sir? Follow me upstairs." However, just as they were taking their first steps up the stairs, a woman taps Green's shoulder.
"Excuse me," she greets as the two men turn to face her. "Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North." Harriet Jones pulls out an ID card and holds it up beside her head, allowing them to see it.
"What is Flydale North?" Weiss inquires.
"Probably a small town," the Librarian explains. "I've never heard of it, but she's basically the representative for a city or town to the government."
"I'm sorry. Can it wait?" Ganesh asks.
Harriet Jones frowns. "But I did have an appointment at 3:15."
The junior secretary rolls his eyes. "Yes," he drolls, "and a spaceship crashed in the middle of London. I think the schedule might have changed."
"Yeah, lady," Yang smirks. "Shoo."
"That's rude, Yang," Blake hisses. "She did have an appointment. And who knows when she'll be able to get one again."
"... Fine."
He shakes his head and returns marching up the stairs, with Green following close behind. "Have you heard about the alien body?"
"Never mind that!" Green retorts. "Where is he? Where is the Prime Minister?"
The two make their war up the stars, rounding a corner with a sentry. "No one knows, sir. He's disappeared."
"How does someone that important just 'disappear'?" Ruby frowns. "He's got to have security and stuff, right?"
"Oh, definitely," the Librarian nods. "I think you might be onto something."
"I have to inform you that with the city gridlocked and the Cabinet stranded outside London, that makes you acting Prime Minister with immediate effect."
Weiss wrinkles her nose. "Him?"
"As much as I hate to say it," Qrow makes a choking sound, "but I gotta agree with the ice princess."
"Thank you… Wait-"
The two stop and Green pulls out a handkerchief. "Oh, Lord!" He gasps. "Oh, hold on." A gaseous ripping sound is heard as the acting PM leans forward.
"That's just disgusting," Blake frowns.
"When you gotta go, you gotta go," Yang nods. "But he could have tried to hold it in."
He quickly tries to cover it with a cough. "Pardon me. It's a nervous stomach. Anyway," he continues, turning a corner where a man and a suit, as well as a woman in a dress, are waiting.
"Margaret Blaine," Ganesh introduces, pointing to the woman. "She's with MI5."
The Librarian feels everyone's eyes peer at him. "MI5 is Britain's security force. Like the FBI or Hunters' Association."
"There's no more information sir," she sadly explains. "I personally escorted the Prime Minister from the cabinet room to his car. This is Oliver Charles, transport liaison." She turns to Charles, who nods briefly.
"The car's disappeared," he explains. "There's no record of it, sir. It literally vanished."
"Then someone either put him in the wrong car," Qrow thinks, "or this was an inside job."
"How could it be an inside job?" Ruby asks. "The aliens only just showed up
He shrugs his shoulders. "Just speaking from experience.
Green shakes his head and points to the doors behind Margaret and Charles. "Right. Inside. Tell me everything."
As the three make their way, Ganesh holds up the suitcase he's been carrying. "Er, sir," he interrupts as they turn around, holding out the container to Green. "The emergency protocols," Ganesh explains. "Detailing the actions to be taken by the government of Great Britain in the event of an alien incursion."
"That's smart," Yang nods. "Maybe it's gotta bunch of anti-alien weapons!"
"Or," Weiss offers, "perhaps it has evacuation plans in case they are put under siege."
The Librarian laughs. "I don't think they'll need a reminder on how to handle that. The English are some of the best and bravest evacuators I have ever seen."
"Right. Good!" he smiles, letting out another fart. "Blimey!" He winces. "Pardon me. Let's work, eh?"
Green takes the suitcase from Ganesh's hands and nods, turning back to the cabinet room. A small smile tugs on his lips for a moment as he closes the door. Walking over to the other side of the table, from where Margaret and Charles are standing, Green tosses the suitcase of protocols haphazardly onto one of the spots in front of a chair. All three look down at it for a moment before looking up with ever-growing smiles.
"I don't like the look of that," Ruby shudders.
Chuckling, Green's smile stretches across his face. The other two members of the room quickly follow, joining in with their own bouts of laughter and giggles.
"I think Qrow was right," Blake realizes. "These three probably planned this."
"How?" Ruby asks. "Is the spaceship a hoax, then?"
Weiss shakes her head. "Impossible. Dr. Sato studied the alien. Maybe they found one and are using its ship to overthrow the government?"
"Whoever it was, they deserve a smackdown!" Yang growls, smashing her fists together.
Outside of the Tyler family's flat, night has fallen and the Doctor has taken his chance to make his exit. He silently closes the door behind him and turns around, only for Rose to open it as he is walking away.
"Where do you think you're going?" She asks.
Qrow sighs. "He should've waited 'til she was asleep."
Yang gives her uncle a glare from the corner of her eye. He swears it shines red for a moment. "And how would you know that?"
"Uh, no idea. Did I say something?" Qrow gulps. That reminded me of when Raven caught me with…
Damn. He takes another swig from his flask.
The Doctor stops and turns. "Nowhere. It's just a bit human in there for me. History just happened and they're talking about where you can buy dodgy top-up cards for half price. I'm off on a wander, that's all."
"Right," Rose smirks. "There's a spaceship on the Thames and you're just wandering."
"Yeah," Weiss drolls. "I'm sure that's all he plans on doing. Just like when he ran off when he heard screams in 1869."
"Or when he went with Jabe on Platform One," Ruby smiles softly, remembering the tree-like woman.
He shakes his head. "Nothing to do with me. It's not an invasion. That was a genuine crash landing. Angle of descent, color of smoke, everything. It's perfect."
"Then what's going on with those politicians?!" Yang snaps.
The Librarian smiles. "They don't know about that. Watch and find out."
Rose frowns. "So?"
"So maybe this is it!" He explains. "First contact. The day mankind officially comes into contact with an alien race."
"Strange," the Librarian chuckles. "Picard said that happens in 2069."
"Who and what?" Qrow asks.
"Nothing. Just a joke for those of us who've traveled."
"I'm not interfering 'cause you've got to handle this on your own. That's when the human race finally grows up. Just this morning you were all tiny and small and made of clay. Now you can expand!" The Doctor laughs excitedly, earning a smile from Rose. "You don't need me. Go and celebrate history. Spend some time with your mum."
He turns away and takes a few steps forward, only to have Rose stop him again. "Promise you won't disappear?" She asks.
The Doctor pauses. Before turning around, he pats his jacket, reaching into one of its pockets. "Tell you what," he smiles, holding out a small golden-yellow object, "T.A.R.D.I.S key. About time you had one."
"Dibs!" Yang yells.
"You can't call dibs," Weiss scolds.
"I can if I do it before anyone else," the blonde smirks. "And if I use it to fly somewhere dope as hell."
Weiss glares at her. "Dang it," she mutters. "That's true."
"Not yet you don't," the Librarian smiles. "I'll decide when someone gets a key to my T.A.R.D.I.S."
"Fine," Yang grumbles.
The Doctor places the key onto Rose's hand before spinning back around and running off. "See you later."
As he walks away, Rose juggles the key in her hand and smiles before heading back inside.
Music plays loudly as the Doctor walks past a balcony where a group of teenagers has begun blaring music. A large, quickly hand-painted sign hangs over the edge. 'The aliens have landed,' it reads. They continue dancing as young of them, a young woman, yells down at the Doctor, "oi, gorgeous! Come back and join the party!"
The Doctor ignores her, walking past more sheets with writings drawn over them. 'Welcome to our world,' and 'Hello ET' are a few the Doctor notices as he walks by.
"I don't understand," Blake frowns. "This is how Earthlings react to an alien ship crashing? Partying?"
"I'm all for it!" Yang jokes.
"Besides," Qrow offers, raising his flask at the screen. "What else are you gonna do?"
"What's an ET?" Ruby asks.
"Extra-terrestrial," the Librarian explains. "It comes from a movie where a little kid finds an alien."
"Cool!"
Above him, Mickey steps onto his own balcony and grabs one of the shoes he's airing out.
"Who's this kid?" Qrow asks.
"I think his name was… Mickey?" Blake offers. "He was, is?, Rose's boyfriend."
He sniffs it (Ewww!), determining the jogger's cleanliness, and notices the Doctor walking to his T.A.R.D.I.S (which now has the words 'Bad Wolf' spray-painted on the side).
"Why would that kid do that?" Ruby whines.
"Notoriety," Weiss offers before freezing. "But wait, those words… Didn't Gwyneth warn Rose about the big bad wolf?"
"It's got to be a coincidence," Yang whispers. "Right?"
Qrow shakes his head. "Sorry, but I've never really seen a true coincidence before."
"But what does it mean?" Blake ponders.
Next to them, the Librarian cannot help but smile.
"Oh, my God!" Mickey whispers loudly as he watches the Doctor pull out a key and step inside his blue box. Grabbing the other shoe, he quickly bolts back into his flat.
The Doctor enters the T.A.R.D.I.S with glee, running up to the console and immediately flipping switches, pressing buttons, and turning dials. The T.A.R.D.I.S begins to wheeze as he rotates a crank before checking the monitor.
"That… Lair!" Yang scowls, grabbing the armrests angrily.
Outside, Mickey is running towards the blue box, yelling, "oi! Doctor!" He sprints quickly towards the rapidly dematerializing time machine. Paint flakes fall off of the box as it disappears. "Doctor!" Mickey yells, reaching a hand out for the police box doors, only to sail through it and running straight into the corrugated steel of the building behind where the T.A.R.D.I.S was parked.
Rose and Qrow couldn't help but laugh at Mickey's accident, but Weiss, Blake, and Yang were still upset about the Doctor's betrayal.
"He left her!" Weiss hisses.
"Maybe he's just doing some recon?" Blake defends.
"Who cares?" Yang snarls. "He promised he wasn't going to go anywhere!"
Mickey falls flat on his back and quickly stands up. He brushes himself off before sheepishly walking back towards where he came.
The T.A.R.D.I.S crackles electricity as the Doctor pumps one of the many devices on the console. Frowning, he runs to the other side and pulls a few levers down, pressing some more buttons, and twisting another knob. When he notices the Time Rotor slowing down, the Doctor returns to his original position and pulls out a hammer from under the dash. He smacks it onto one of the panels, this one shaped like an audio-mixing console, earning a zap.
*Tap tap*
*Zap*
*Tap tap tap*
*Zap!*
The Time Rotor returns to its normal pace, to which the Doctor smiles and kisses the mallet.
"Ladies and gentleman, I give you the last of the Time Lords," the Librarian drolls sarcastically.
"That doesn't even seem remotely safe," Weiss nods. "Are we sure he knows what he is doing?"
"He's probably just found out this works best," Ruby offers. "Like when you hit your scroll against a corner when it freezes."
Weiss scoffs. "You might."
"I'm sorry," the Librarian smirks. "The rest of us aren't rich enough to buy new ones every few weeks."
Outside of the cabinet room, Ganesh is working on his laptop. Harriet Jones walks up to him with a small cup and sets it down in front of him. "I bet no one's brought you a coffee," she explains.
"Aw," Ruby sighs. "That's nice."
"It would be if she wasn't doing it to try and get into a meeting," Weiss frowns. "Father had dozens of people try this trick on me and my brother."
"Thank you," he smiles, grabbing the cup and taking a sip.
"My pleasure."
He sets the ceramic container down. "You still can't go in."
"Damn!" Harriet Jones smirks. "You've seen through my cunning plan."
Team RWBY-Q lets out a small laugh.
"Look, I'm sorry, it's just impossible," Ganesh explains as he gets up from his chair and walks over to another desk.
"Not even for two minutes?" she pleads. "I don't get many chances to walk these corridors. I'm hardly one of the Babes, just a faithful back bencher. And I know we've had a brave new world land right on our doorstep, and that's wonderful. I think that's probably wonderful. Nevertheless, ordinary life keeps ticking away. I need to enter this paper." She pulls out a small folder from her purse and holds it out for Ganesh, who has now returned to his seat and is continuing to ignore her.
"Look at her," Blake sighs. "She's just trying to do her job."
Just then, the door to the cabinet room swings open and the trio from earlier walk out.
"Oh, Mister Green, sir!" Harriet Jones cries, causing the man to stop and turn to face the MP for Flydale North. She turns to offer him her folder, while Ganesh tries to step in between them. "I know you're busy, but could you put this on the next Cabinet agenda?"
"Don't give it to them!" Yang yelps. "They're evil!"
"Sounds like a politician to me," Qrow smirks.
Green frowns. "What is it?"
Harriet Jones smiles. "Cottage hospitals. I've worked out a system whereby cottage hospitals do not have to be excluded from Centres of Excellence. You see, my mother's in the Flydale infirmary, that's my constituency, tiny little place, you wouldn't know it. But it's given me a chance to-"
"By all the saints, get some perspective, woman! I'm busy!" Green snaps.
Weiss frowns. "That's never a way to treat a guest. Especially not for one whose goals are that noble or kind."
"Welcome to the Jones train, Weiss," Ruby smiles, giving her best friend a sideways hug. "Where the MP for Flydale North flew right into our hearts."
He pushes away from Harriet Jones and marches off, followed quickly by Margaret and Charles. Ganesh tosses on his jacket and follows as well, leaving Harriet Jones alone.
She looks down and sighs, staring at her folder. Looking over her shoulder, she notices the cabinet doors left wide open and slowly, after a glance behind her, walks inside. Harriet Jones closes the doors behind her and walks over to the table, placing her folder atop the emergency protocol suitcase.
"Heh," Qrow chuckles. "You go, girl. Show 'em who's boss."
"Isn't that illegal, though?" Ruby asks.
"Only if you get caught."
The red-hooded girl frowns. "But isn't it her report?"
Realization dawns on her and Harriey Jones grabs the folder and opens the briefcase. She tosses it inside and begins to close it, only for the emergency protocols to catch her eye. She reaches inside slowly and grabs them. Harriet Jones then opens the folder and pulls out the first paper, reading it intently.
"Now that is definitely illegal," Weiss scolds.
Yang shrugs. "I dunno. She seems to be the only one that's looking through them."
Back in the hospital morgue, Dr. Sato is reviewing her notes when she hears a loud thud.
Everyone jumps.
"Oh, please don't let that be what I think it is," Blake groans.
She turns around and looks behind her. The noise returns, a thumping sound originating from body chamber 5.
Blake sighs. "It is."
"I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty sure even I could tell the difference between life and death," Qrow nods.
"Maybe she just thought it was dead?" Ruby offers. "I mean, what if the alien doesn't have a heart, so no heartbeat?"
"Nice guess," the Librarian smiles.
Standing slowly, the physician makes her way over to the chamber, pausing with each thud.
Meanwhile, in a storage room, the Doctor opens the T.A.R.D.I.S doors and almost walks into a cart. Frowning, he squeezes past it, walks up the door and jiggles the handle. Without any luck, the Doctor pulls out his sonic screwdriver and activates it (earning a squeal from Ruby). When the device whirrs, he frantically switches it off and shushes it before pointing it at the door handle.
Dr. Sato continues her approach slowly. The thumbing no longer has any pause, making it sound as if the creature inside is knocking.
"Why doesn't she go get help?" Weiss asks.
"Alien landing, late at night, fear of a zombie-alien," the Librarian lists. "Yeah, I'm sure she's thinking clearly."
The door's lock clicks and the Doctor shuts off the screwdriver, pocketing it. He then opens the door, stepping inside to see a small regiment of red beret-wearing soldiers.
"Oh, shit," Yang groans.
"He could not have picked a worse place to land," Blake agrees.
For a moment, nothing happens. The soldiers look up at the Doctor, and he looks back. Cigarettes still lit and canteens in the midst of being passed around all froze. Then, they burst into action, grabbing their weapons and raising them at the unknown civilian who somehow got past them and into the service closet.
With lights and barrels pointed at him, the Doctor can do nothing but smile wildly.
Qrow begins to laugh. "Ok, now this is fun."
"What, having guns waved in the Doctor's face?" Yang frowns.
"No," he chuckles, "it's how little they mean to him. All of these soldiers and their guns mean nothing to this guy. And I doubt it's the first time to happen, too."
The creature begins to breathe heavily as Dr. Sato reaches for the handle. However, before she could open it, the door crashed open, causing the woman to scream in terror and surprise.
"Moron," Weiss sighs.
The Doctor, hearing the shout, bursts into action. "Defence plan: Delta!" He orders, running through the soldiers. "Come on! Move, move, move!" Recognizing his level of authority, the regiment follows the Doctor. They burst through doors, letting the Doctor lead the charge.
Everyone's jaws drop.
"How?!" Yang practically screeches.
Blake rubs her eyes. "He's so authoritative."
"Down, kitty," the Librarian whispers, earning a glare from the Faunus.
"Are we sure he isn't the General?" Weiss jokes.
This earns another round of jaw-dropping.
Crashing into the room, the Doctor notices Sato cowering behind her desk as the soldiers sweep the room.
"It's alive!" she yells as the Doctor leans towards her.
He turns back to the regiment. "Spread out," he orders. "Tell the perimeter it's a lockdown." However, they all remain still as the Doctor checks on Sato, who has a cut on her head. He looks back at the soldiers and snaps, "do it!"
On the double, they follow his orders and leave the room.
"These guys are following a random's orders without him even pulling rank," Qrow laughs. "If James were here, I'm pretty sure they would all be court-martialed."
"Then you'd buy them a drink?" the Librarian asks.
"Darn right."
"Mick, Terry, side rooms. Now!" one yells as the footsteps dissipate.
"Clear!"
The Doctor turns back to Sato, who's shaking her head in disbelief. "I swear," she whispers in between shallow breaths, "it was dead."
"Coma, shock, hibernation, anything," he explains, listing reasons for her to have misdiagnosed the alien.
"Guess Ruby was right," Yang sighs.
Her sister pouts. "Why do you make it sound like I'm never right?"
"What does it look like?" he asks. Before she could answer, something metallic clangs behind them, causing both the Doctor and doctor to turn around. "It's still here," the former realizes.
"They didn't sweep the room?!" Weiss yells.
He quickly stands up and backs towards the door, waving at one of the soldiers to guard the door. The Doctor then continues through the room, crouching as more metal clanks. He drops to his hands and knees. Now crawling, the Doctor makes his way past a table and over to a filing cabinet. Slowly, the alien steps around the corner as well, grunting quietly as it comes face-to-face with the Doctor.
It looked like a pig. However, it was on its hind legs and wearing a deep-blue suit.
"Aw!" Team RWBY sighs. "It's cute."
"It's a pig," Qrow chuckles.
"It's cute," Ruby repeats, with a dark undertone.
"It's… a cute pig."
"Hello," the Doctor smiles. However, the alien panics and screams, bolting away from the traveler. It runs towards the exit, where the guard rises to his feet and raises his gun. It cocks loudly as he aims down towards the creature
"Don't shoot!" the Doctor orders. The guard lowers his weapon slowly as the alien runs past, squealing in terror. The Doctor quickly gets to his feet and chases after it.
"It's just scared," Blake realizes. "Does it not know where it is?"
"Probably not," the Librarian explains. "A crash like that probably knocked it unconscious. And without a translator, this is a completely foreign world."
"But doesn't the T.A.R.D.I.S translate every language to Earth's?" Ruby frowns.
"... Yes. Something's not right, then."
Down the hall, the soldiers hear the screams of the alien as it runs at them from a dark corner. It runs through a set of strip curtains before turning towards one of the guards. Squealing, it bounds towards him.
The guard, taken aback, raises his weapon. When the alien makes no motion to stop, surrender or move, the guard fires a single shot and the squealing stops.
"No!" RWBY cries.
"He was just trying to run away!" Yang yells. "He meant no threat!"
"Think about it from the soldier's perspective," Qrow explains. "A 'threat' was charging at him. And he didn't know if it had a weapon or not. In their line of duty, when something comes running at you, you make it stop.
"Sometimes the only way you know how."
The alien falls to the ground just as the Doctor arrives.
"What did you do that for?" he snaps. "It was scared!" The Doctor leans down and strokes the creature's snout as it whispers one last grunt, an audience of soldiers being the only ones left to see the alien as it dies.
"It was scared."
"It was scared," Ruby repeats."He was scared, too."
Weiss nods. "It would seem. I feel sorry for the pig-alien."
"But how do the three government people fit into it?" Blake asks.
"Who cares," Yang snarls. "They're up to something and need to pay."
"I can't believe I'm actually enjoying this," Qrow mutters.
The Librarian leans over to the man. "It's better sober."
"Ha! Yeah right."
[1] The showrunner for the time, as well as the scriptwriter, Russel T. Davies, is actually gay and specifically wrote this so that it would fit the time better. He wanted to bring awareness to the harsh slang people used during the early 2000's.
[2] I looked it up and this post from the Reddit user, Drajac I believe has the best answer:
'Early BBC production notes indicate the average expected lifespan of The Doctor is 500 years. This is semi-confirmed with Eleventh Doctor and the events of The Impossible Astronaut (where he ages 200 years without visibly changing) and The Time Of The Doctor, where he ages 300 years defending Christmas. At the end, he admits his time is up, and he is about to die of old age.
Time Lords are known to have 12 regenerations… 500 * 12 = 6000.'