The Last Time Lord and The Impossible Girl Classic Edition Chapter 41: Doomsday, a doctor who fanfic

AN: Well, here we are. Rose's last story, at least as a regular character, ever. I myself was never ready for it, but too bad anyway. XD Please enjoy the Tyler swansong.

Doomsday

Some people, not everyone but definitely some, love to say that for every bit of good that happens in your life, there will come a day where you must make a sacrifice. No one would ever believe that, and why would they? I should have, but I never did. *Chuckles* Stupid Rose, look at where it got you in the long run. Still on planet Earth, that's for sure. But it is not your home. It is a stranger world, with familiar faces and a few people you can be with, but neither of THEM are there anymore. And here I am, standing on this beach and it is so…lonely. It is so very lonely here.

Bad Wolf Bay, Pete's World
7th November 2010

The beach itself, to Rose's sorrow filled and weary eyes, was indeed a very beautiful sight. The hills to her left were a nice calming sea of green while the waves of the ocean to her right were still as entrancing as any beach, despite the sea having almost a grey tinge to its waters, like any sea in the very early calm before a storm. Blame that on the conveniently cloudy day. Rose mused to herself. She stood alone, her unbrushed blonde hair billowing in the wind, having to constantly brush it away from her eyes to see, but that's what she gets since she forgot to bring a simple comb or a hairbrush. Even looking down at her own ensemble, it was rather plain. Gone were the bright colours of pink or blue she used to wear. Right now, she opted for a black leather jacket over a red top and black jeans. She turned to look behind her, seeing the only 3 close people she had left anymore, now that the Doctor and Clara were gone. Her mother, Jackie, had opted for a pink ensemble of winter clothes to keep her warm, since Norway was so bloody cold and windy. Mickey, still as cleanshaven both on his face and on his head as ever, was wearing a black and blue jacket and plain blue jeans as he leaned against the old Jeep they had travelled here in. Their driver and her new-found Dad, Peter Tyler, was wearing a grey shirt under a thick black jacket and black jeans as he held Jackie's hand close to him. The three of them were staring sadly at Rose, but Rose didn't say or signal anything to them. Instead, she stayed silent.

"Rose?"

Rose stared around helplessly, trying to find the source of the voices, trying to find any sign of her friends, but she couldn't. For they weren't here. She was alone.

When you end up traveling in silence for hundreds and hundreds of miles…it gets to you, whether you want to admit it or not. You want to reminisce about yourself, and you daydream about almost anything really. It could be about the next big hobby project you might do, or a future you have planned. Me? I take a trip on the nostalgia train, as Clara once referred to it. We had visited a planet far away from Earth. It was just a planet of rocks and water, the only creatures living on it were like flying manta rays, but the sound they made was rather like a bird screech, yet nowhere near as annoying as you'd think. It was still pretty to look at, a planet untouched by many species, luckily enough, but it still made me think back on my life. For the first 19 years of my life, nothing happened. I don't mean to make it sound ungrateful, for I was. I really was. My mother is the best woman in the entire world, and by far and away, the most terrifying when she wants to be. And I loved Mickey, I really did. It never did work out in the end, and I still feel bad for him, but he's moved on from it, as he's said repeatedly every time I brought it up. But he never regretted it, and neither did I. And the work at Henrik's, while it could be as monotonous and tedious as ever, it did provide something in life. But past all of that, nothing happened. I still remember finishing my job at 5, going to a nearby shop to grab some chips and snack on them on the bus back to our flat. Then, Mum would make me a nice dinner. Nothing out there, but it was nice and calming. We'd talk about our day for a little while, and then Mum would ramble on about whatever new topic grabbed her attention, and sometimes it made me fall asleep. Mum noticed and started using it as a method whenever I stayed out too late sometimes, rambling on and on until I slipped snoring away on my bed. But it all changed, when I met my two favourite friends in the whole world. The Doctor and Clara Oswald. The Doctor took my hand as I was surrounded by shop window dummies and he said one word: Run. Then the next night, I met Clara, his favourite girl in his whole world, save the TARDIS. Together, they gave me a free spot in the TARDIS, and they showed me the whole of Time and Space. Charles Dickens, the end of the Earth, a 51st Century ship stalking an 18th Century woman, who was absolutely besotted with them. Even a dead planet orbiting a Black Hole, all after the Doctor gave his life to save Earth, me, Clara and Captain Jack, and he changed his face. Gone was the northern accent U-boat Captain, in came a skinny man in a suit. Those two never fell out of love for each other, it just deepened, and I was there, watching and along for the ride, and I thought it would never end. And on that rocky planet, Clara saw me gazing off distantly, and she said, "Rose, you know the nostalgia train is incredibly expensive with time, so can you get off of it?" I laughed and she took my hand while the Doctor stood beside her and she asked one question, "How long are you going to stay with us?" I always thought about Mum, and she was always there for me, but she did keep reminding me over and over, "What happens when I'm gone, and I'm dead and buried? What are you going to do then?" I never knew how to answer that until that day, and I decided, I never want to leave my friends. Not for anything. These have been the best years of my life. So, I grasped Clara's hand tighter and I replied, "Forever." They just grinned, but I should have seen that small sad look in their eyes, because nothing lasts forever. And just as predicted, the army of ghosts came into the world. Then came Torchwood and the Daleks and the war, and that's where it all ended. This is the story of how I died.

Torchwood Tower, the TARDIS' World
7th November 2007

"Samuel, what are you doing?" Rajesh asked.

"The names Mickey. Mickey Smith, defending the Earth." Mickey retorted, cocking and loading the rifle as the trio stared up at the sphere as it peeled its layers away until they had reached the halfway point, still shining its white light up into the room. Then, a series of hovering sounds started as four eyestalks poked past the top of the sphere's lowering shell. "That's…that's not Cybermen." Mickey said with a frown.

Then, the eyestalks got higher and higher as four Daleks came up out of the sphere and into view, three the traditional dull golden and the one in front a pure jet black, yet all were facing forwards as they hovered in the air and started to descend to the ground, their eyestalks staring straight at the bewildered Rajesh, the confused yet defiant Mickey and the horrified Rose. "Oh my god." Rose muttered as the Daleks came to a stop on the ground.

"Location: Earth! Life forms detected! Exterminate!" The black Dalek screeched and then the three behind it joined in, screaming in unison as they bore closer upon the trio. "Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!"

"Daleks!" Rose exclaimed. Her sudden and strong voice halted the Daleks in their tracks, staying completely still and staring their blue eyestalks straight at Rose. "You're called Daleks!" She said again, and the Daleks still didn't move, not an inch. So, Rose moved up to stand before the Dalek Leader and took off her white lab coat before throwing it aside. "I know your name. Think about it, how can I know that? A Human who knows about the Daleks and the Time War. If you want to know how, then keep us alive. That's all I'm asking. Me and my friends."

"Yeah, Daleks." Mickey agreed, and the Dalek Leader turned its eyestalk towards Mickey. "Time War. Me too."

"Yeah, and me." Rajesh agreed.

The Dalek Leader just stared at them for a few silent moments before it turned its eyestalk back on Rose. "You will be necessary." It then turn its eyestalk around to look at its three Dalek comrades. "Dalek Jast, report. What is the status of the Genesis Ark?"

"Status: Hibernation." Dalek Jast, who had a lighter voice than the Dalek Leader, reported.

"Commence awakening! The Genesis Ark must be protected above all else!" The Daleks then turned around and encircled a large vessel, shaped rather similar to a Dalek but with four small pods on each side and complete with a dull brown colour. The three golden subordinates, excluding their Leader, moved in closer and placed their manipulation arms over the pods, before staying completely silent and motionless.

"The Daleks," Mickey whispered to Rose, "you said they were all dead."

Rose looked at him and shook her head. "Never mind that. What the hell's a "Genesis Ark"?"

"What's down there?" Jackie asked the Doctor and Clara, still surrounded by the Cybermen in the room as Yvonne was led back into her office by two Cybermen. "She was in that room with the sphere. What's happened to Rose?" Jackie asked again as the couple didn't answer.

"We don't know." The Doctor snapped. Jackie instantly brought her hand to her mouth to suppress a small sob, making the Doctor sigh as he and Clara moved to stand beside Jackie. "We'll find her." He said more gently. "We brought you here and we'll get you both out, you and your daughter." Jackie briefly glanced at them before involuntarily closing her eyes with a sniff.

"Jackie, look at us." Clara said but she still didn't. "Look at us." She repeated and Jackie gave in, glancing at the couple with her wide eyes of worry and terror. "We give you our word. Rose will be safe." Jackie didn't say anything, but her eyes changed into a thankful gaze that made them smile warmly at her.

The Cyber Leader walked straight past the trio to stand inside Yvonne's office as she was sitting at her desk, her gaze one of defiance, but the trio could barely see that it was a mask for her own fear of the Cybermen. "You will talk to your central world authority and order global surrender." The Leader said.

Yvonne scoffed, an act that made even Clara snigger. "Oh, do some goddamn research." She growled. "We haven't got a "Central World Authority"."

"You have now." The Leader simply said, which made their smiles fade. "I will speak on all global wavelengths." Yvonne, since they were completely surrounded by Cybermen, relented, and allowed the Leader to use her laptop to broadcast its message. "This broadcast is for Humankind. Cybermen now occupy every landmass on this planet. But you need not fear. Cybermen will remove fear. Cybermen will remove sex and class and colour and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us."

The Dalek Leader turned to look at the trio, moving up close until its eyestalk was mere inches from their faces. "Which of you is least important?!" It demanded.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Rose asked in a mix of defiance and puzzlement.

"Which of you is least important?!" It repeated.

Rose shook her head, still maintaining her tone. "Nah, we don't work like that. None of us."

"Designate the least important!"

"This is my responsibility." Rajesh interrupted with a small gulp, making Rose and Mickey look at him with a mixture of concern and "What are you doing?!"

"No, don't!" Rose said but Rajesh ignored her, moving around them to stand before the Dalek Leader, noticing from the corner of his eye that the three Daleks had paused their progress on the Ark and two of them were moving to surround him.

"I, uh…I represent the Torchwood Institute." Rajesh said, taking off and pocketing his reading glasses. "Anything you need, you…you come through me. Leave these two alone."

"You will kneel."

Rajesh blinked. "What for-"

"Kneel." The Dalek Leader interrupted. Rajesh relented, moving down to his knees and the three Daleks surrounded him in a sort of triangle, and they continued staring directly down at him, making his own heart race with nervousness. "The Daleks need information about current Earth history."

Rajesh gulped but held his head high. "Yeah, well, I can give you a certain amount of intelligence, but…nothing that will compromise homeland securit-"

"Speech is not necessary!" The Dalek Leader interrupted. "We will extract brainwaves!"

The three Daleks moved a few inches forward before their manipulator arms began to quickly extend towards his head. "No. Don't." He pleaded, their guns aimed squarely at him, keeping his quickly shaking form in place on the floor. " I'll tell you everything you need." He continued but they ignored him still. "No, don't." The manipulator arms of the Daleks closed in around his head and began to squeeze him tight like a soft apple, it's form quickly shattering and his screams muffled by the arms while Rose and Mickey watched on, angry and frightened but unable to help.

The Doctor, Clara, Yvonne and Jackie, all with their arms crossed, stood with the Leader by Yvonne's office window, looking out upon London, it's buildings and roads bursting into chaotic flames by the combat far below, between the Cybermen and Humanity's own protectors: Itself.

"I ordered surrender." The Leader stated, almost as if it was confused by Humanities actions.

"And they are not taking instructions!" Clara retorted with a snarl. "Don't you get it; you silver chrome dome moron?! You're on every street! You're in their homes! You've got their children! Of course they're gonna fight!"

The Leader turned to look straight at Clara. "Humanity will surrender and be upgraded, or they will die."

Clara clenched her jaw at him but before she could retort again, another Cyberman entered into the office and the Leader turned to look at it. "Scans have detected unknown technology active within sphere chamber."

"Cybermen must investigate." The Leader agreed, before pressing its fist to its chest, creating a small whirring noise within itself. "Units 1065 and 1066 will investigate sphere chamber." A small moment of silence passed, before the Leader spoke up again. "Units open visual link."

Yvonne's laptop brought up one of the Cybermen's view, who was marching down a corridor towards a corner door, but they stopped as a Dalek came out of the doorway and turned to look straight at them. "Identify yourselves!" It demanded. Clara unconsciously grabbed the Doctor's hand, said man now looking at the laptop with a horrified frown.

The three Daleks dropped the now smoking corpse of Rajesh down onto the floor, his head now only the crude remains of a scorched skull. "His mind spoke of a second species invading Earth, infected by the superstition of ghosts!" The Dalek Leader reported.

"You didn't need to kill him!" Rose cried, but she and Mickey unconsciously flinched as the four Daleks turned to stare at them.

"Neither did we need him alive." One of the Daleks said back to her, it's voice raspier than the Leader or Dalek Jast.

The Dalek Leader turned to look at the Dalek who just spoke up. "Dalek Thay, investigate outside." It ordered.

"I obey."

Dalek Thay rolled towards the door and exited the room, while the three remaining Daleks turned to look towards the golden wall, Rose and Mickey finding themselves bewildered at the missing presence of the sphere. "Where did-"

"We created it, and we can also destroy it!" The Dalek Leader interrupted without looking at her, causing Rose to shut her mouth while it continued. "Establish visual contact! Lower communications barrier!"

A large blue picture of Dalek Thay's view appeared on the golden wall, as it rolled out past a door and into a hallway, turning its eyestalk to see two Cybermen, who quickly halted their march upon the sight of Dalek Thay. "Identify yourselves!" Dalek Thay demanded.

"You will identify first." One of the Cybermen retorted.

"State your identity!"

"You will identify first."

"Identify!"

"It's like Stephen Hawking meets the Speaking Clock." Mickey whispered to Rose, earning a just barely contained snigger in return.

"That answer is without worth and illogical. You will modify."

"Daleks do not take orders!"

"You have identified as Daleks."

"Outline resembles the inferior species known as Cybermen!" The Dalek Leader deducted.

"Rose spoke about the Daleks." Jackie whispered to the Doctor and Clara as the Dalek and the Cybermen continued to retort and argue before them. "She was terrified of them." Jackie took a gulp, restraining herself from choking out a fearful sob. "What have they done to her? Is she dead?"

"One moment." Clara muttered, getting her phone out of her pocket and quickly dialling Rose's number. A short moment passed as she held it up to her ear before she nodded. "She's answered. She's alive."

Jackie barely restrained from beaming gratefully while the Doctor, who too echoed Jackie's expression with Clara, also frowned in puzzlement. "But…why haven't they killed her?" He asked.

Jackie blinked. "Well, don't complain-"

"No, Jackie." The Doctor interrupted. "If she's not dead, then they must need her for something."

"We must protect the Genesis Ark!" A Dalek suddenly yelled through Rose's connection, making Clara wince at its high-pitched voice, before she quickly frowned.

""Genesis Ark"?" She muttered, looking at a blinking Doctor.

"I…" The Doctor shook his head. "I've got no idea." They returned their attention to the laptop, while Clara kept her connection to Rose open.

"Our species are similar, though your design is inelegant." One of the Cybermen said, and the Dalek would have scoffed, if it was capable of that.

"Daleks have no concept of elegance!"

"This is obvious." The Cyberman retorted, making Clara, and even the Doctor, give a small snigger at that. "But consider, our technologies are compatible. Cybermen plus Daleks."

"No." The Doctor and Clara muttered in unison. "Don't do it."

"Together, we could upgrade the universe."

The Dalek paused for a moment as it clearly contemplated the idea before speaking up again. "You propose an alliance?"

"This is correct."

Not a single moment more passed before the Dalek retorted once more. "Request denied!"

The Cybermen in view immediately raised their right arms, aiming their blasters straight at the Dalek. "Hostile elements will be deleted!" The two Cybermen fired three laser red shots each at the Dalek, which just impacted on its shield before it retorted itself.

"Exterminate!" The Dalek then aimed its gun at them and fired two shots, one of the Cybermen's screams coming through the link before it went dead with static.

"Cybermen had created a visual link! Locate its source and take command!" The Dalek Leader demanded, quickly bringing up an image of the Cyber Leader in the main office.

"Daleks be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen." The Leader stated and the Dalek Leader rolled forward to be in front of its three subordinates.

"This is not war!" The Dalek Leader retorted. "This is pest control!"

"We have 5 million Cybermen. How many are you?"

"4."

"You would destroy the Cybermen with 4 Daleks?"

"We would destroy the Cybermen with 1 Dalek!" The Dalek Leader retorted. "You are superior in only one respect!"

"What is that?"

"You are better at dying! Raise communications barrier!" The Dalek Leader ordered before the Cyber Leader could retort, cutting the image into static just as the Doctor's head appeared in the corner of the frame.

"Wait!" Dalek Jast interrupted, causing a freeze frame of the last second of the feed to reappear, just as Rose looked down at her phone to see the line had been cut off, so she quickly pocketed it again. "Rewind image by 9 Rells!" The image rewound just enough to show the Doctor in the corner, his hand extended offscreen. "Identify Grid 7 Gamma Flame!" The image zoomed in, showing the Doctor at closer proximity. "This male registers as enemy!" Dalek Jast declared, Rose and Mickey smiling at the face of their friend.

"The Humans heartbeats have increased!" The Dalek Leader reported, turning around to look at the two.

"You wish." Rose and Mickey retorted in unison.

"Identify him!"

Rose smiled. "All right, then. If you really want to know…that's the Doctor." The four Daleks instantly rolled back a few steps, making Rose and Mickey grin smugly. "5 million Cybermen, easy. 1 Doctor? Now you're scared." She taunted and the Daleks didn't even bother to respond or retort. They just stayed fearfully silent.

"Quarantine the sphere chamber." The Cyber Leader ordered to its troops in the room. "Start emergency upgrading. Begin with these personnel."

The Cybermen moved to escort the now struggling and screaming employees from the room, before one grabbed Yvonne to take her as well. "No, you can't do this!" She shrieked, trying and failing to escape from the Cyberman's clutches. "We surrendered! We surrendered!"

"Keep these two." The Leader ordered, and the Cybermen did not touch the Doctor or Clara. Instead, they continued to lead Yvonne from the room before one grabbed Jackie. "The female has already proved her worth to the Cybermen, and the male's increased adrenaline suggests that he has vital Dalek information."

"What are they doing?!" Jackie shrieked, as a Cyberman almost literally dragged her from the room. "Stop them!"

"Leave her alone!" Clara ordered. "I demand you to leave that woman alone!"

"She is necessary." The Leader simply responded.

"You promised me!" Jackie yelled. "Help me!"

"We won't help you if you don't leave her alone!" The Doctor exclaimed but the Cybermen continued to ignore them, as Jackie was dragged through the door and out of sight.

"Cyberthreat irrelevant." Dalek Thay informed as it re-entered the room. "Concentrate on the Genesis Ark." The Daleks moved to surround the Ark once more and resumed their work on the "Re-awakening".

"Why are we being kept alive?" Mickey whispered to Rose. Rose thought for a few moments on an answer, and when she didn't speak, Mickey took it as she has an idea forming in her head. "What? What is it?" He asked.

Rose blinked. "It's…not there yet." She said.

"Well, I can't think of what the Daleks need with me. I'm nothing to them." He shrugged.

Rose's self-forming realization began to become clearer and more focused in her head, so, she shook her head at Mickey's reasoning. "You might be. Whatever's inside that Ark is waking up and I've seen this happen before."

"Eh?" Mickey asked.

Rose sighed. "The first time I saw a Dalek, it was broken, and it was dying. Clara was…very sympathetic to it, as Clara usually is when it isn't a Cyberman." She added, making Mickey smirk. "But then, she touched it. And the moment she did that, she brought it back to life."

Mickey frowned. "How?"

"The Doctor and Clara once said that when you travel in Time in the TARDIS, you soak up all this, um…background radiation. It's…it's harmless, it's just there. But, in the Time War, the Daleks evolved so they could use it as a power supply. And if the Daleks have got something inside that thing and it needs waking up-"

"They need you." Mickey deducted.

Rose frowned with a blink. "You've travelled in time. Either one of us will do."

Mickey squinted his eyes at her in curious puzzlement. "But why would they build something they can't open themselves?"

"The technology is stolen!" The Dalek Leader exclaimed, making them jump slightly with a blink as they turned to look at it, almost feeling themselves shrink inwards to see the four Daleks all staring at them. "The Ark is not of Dalek design!"

"Then who built it?" Rose asked.

"The Time Lords! This is all that survives of their home world!" The four Daleks then loosened their grasp on the Ark's small pods before they moved anti-clockwise around and regripped onto the pods once more.

"What's inside?"

"The future!"

"No!" An employee screamed as within the plastic wall covered floor of the Torchwood Tower, a Cyberman pushed him through one of three open entrances in the plastic. "No! Please! Aaaaaaaaaah!" The man screamed in utter agony as the entrance lit up in an array of lights and a synchronized series of machinery worked away in ear piercing screeches, the screams of the man quickly becoming silenced.

Yvonne and Jackie, both of which were restrained by a single Cyberman, were the last from the line of offerings from the top floor to be converted. "What happens in there?" Jackie asked, both her and Yvonne looking at the entrances with terror over their faces. "What's "Upgrading" mean? What do they do?"

"I…I think they…they remove the…" Yvonne had to gulp back the whimpers in her voice, taking a shuddering breath as she did so. "Sorry, um…I think they remove the brain, and they put it in a suit of armour." She glanced up at the Cybermen guarding the entrances. "That's what these things are. They're us."

"Next." A Cyberman standing by them ordered, and the Cyberman restraining Yvonne hauled her towards the entrances and away from Jackie.

"This is your fault!" Jackie shrieked to Yvonne. "You and your Torchwood! You've killed us all!"

Yvonne didn't look back at Jackie, but she already felt the tears burning her eyes as she looked towards the entrance before her. "I did my duty, for Queen and country!" She cried, wrenching her arm out of the grasp of the Cyberman beside her, only to gulp at the revolting smell of blood and Human remains from within the conversion room. "I did my duty." She whimpered, taking a small step forward. "I did my duty. Oh god, I did my duty." She continued, almost like it was a prayer as she stepped inside, the lights above her head blaring blood red before two arms shot out from the wall and restrained her body and her head tight, forcing her to look straight at the wall before her. Then, she felt a large saw blade rest down against her head for a single moment before it lifted away, and it spun into action. All Yvonne could do now was scream. And it was the last thing she could do now, even as the saw cut her head open and the machinery took out her brain, letting the crimson remains of her body collapse onto the floor to be distributed away into the garbage, and all she could have done was scream.

Jackie was then hauled towards the third and last entrance in the hallway, as the two before them were currently "Occupied" before the Cyberman restraining her suddenly let go and turned to all the Cybermen in the room, making Jackie blink in puzzlement and confusion. "Cyber Leader One has been terminated." It then moved towards the nearest Cyberman, allowing Jackie to look around and she restrained the urge to give a breath of relief as she saw a hidden door behind a bad cut in the plastic right behind her. "Explain. Download shared files." It then raised its fist and pressed it against its fellow Cyberman's chest, the two creating a series of electronic beeping sounds for a moment. "I will be upgraded to Cyber Leader." Once it had said this, it pulled its hand back from the Cyberman before it, then it turned to look at Jackie, only it saw an open-door way and billowing, crumpled plastic in its place.

The Doctor and Clara stood alone by the window in Yvonne's office, and all they could do at the moment was hold each other in silent comfort, even as the city of London below them raged with the battles of the Cybermen. But they both knew that none of that would matter now. Not when there was a Dalek, let alone four of them, sitting right below them in the sphere chamber. The sudden stomping of the Cyber Leader drew them out of their brooding, turning around to glance at said Cyberman, who had entered the room. "You will impart information about the Daleks."

Clara raised her eyebrows at it in an incredibly tired and irritated manner. "You want advice?" She asked rhetorically, before, not even waiting for a possible response, she looked up at the Doctor, her expression quickly turning into sadness. "Tell them." She said, laying her head back into his chest.

The Doctor sighed, before he looked back at the Cyber Leader. "Come here, I'll give you my advice." He said as he cleared his throat, noticing with a small smile that the Cyber Leader actually stepped forward a few inches, but the smile quickly faded away. "We've got a ship, a spaceship, downstairs. She's called the "TARDIS" and you, me and Clara, just us three, we can get into the TARDIS and fly away." He said simply, having already told Clara through their hidden link that it would never happen either way, to which she heartily agreed. "Because there's nothing else we can do. In a few hours' time, this planet will be a ball of flame. All we can do is run away and watch it burn."

"You are both proof."

The couple blinked, the four words somehow bringing them out of their brooding state. "Of what?" The Doctor asked.

"That emotions destroy you."

The couple let loose a series of uncontrolled chuckles at that. "Yep, we are. Guilty as charged." Clara agreed.

The Doctor nodded, with a beaming smile. Then, he looked past the Cyber Leader and into the main office, and his eyebrows furrowed. Then, he pulled his "Void Specs" out of his pocket and placed them on, seeing what looked like a large mass of tiny tears in the world, causing the Void matter to come pouring out of it and the Doctor already managed to guess what it was. "Mind you, I quite like hope." The Doctor said as he took off his "Void Specs" and placed them over Clara's eyes, turning her head gently to look where he had been looking. "Hope's a good emotion, and here it comes."

Then, quite literally out of nowhere, a group of six Humans appeared, all dressed in black and wearing gas masks over their heads, each of them carrying six large pulse fire cannons. One of the men shouted an order that the couple couldn't hear, causing them all to fire streams of blue electrical light at the Cybermen, the group of them pausing and shuttering in their movements before their heads exploded into a million tiny pieces of burnt metal, before their bodies collapsed onto the floor. Then, the same man that gave the order turned to look at the Cyber Leader, causing the Doctor to unconsciously pull Clara behind him and into cover as they heard the Cyber Leader scream before its own head exploded and its body hit the floor with a loud thud. After a few moments, the Doctor, still hugging Clara close, moved slowly out from cover to look at the group of newcomers, now surrounded by the smoking corpses of the Cybermen. The leader of the group, who had a large silver pendant with a yellow circle, stepped from the group and lowered his rifle. "Doctor, Clara, good to see you again." The man took off his mask and placed it under his arm, before he sent them a small cheeky smirk.

"Jake?" The Doctor and Clara asked in unison and he nodded.

"The Cybermen came through from one world to another, and so did we." The couple just stared at him, utterly speechless, to which he gave a nonchalant shrug before turning around to look back at his group. "Defend this room!" He ordered. "And monitor the communications. Kill one Cyber Leader, they'll just download into another. Move!" He ordered, and the group quickly moved to follow the orders, leaving him and the TARDIS couple alone in the room. He watched with a brief moment of amusement as the Doctor took the "Void Specs" off Clara's face before pocketing them. Then, they both glanced back at him and the Doctor ran a hand over his face.

"You can't just-just-just hop, from one world to another. You can't!" The Doctor denied, to which Clara nodded.

"We just did." Jake shrugged, taking out one of the pendants and tossing it to the Doctor. "With these." He then took out a second one and tossed it to Clara, both of the couple staring at the devices with frowns.

"But that's impossible." The Doctor muttered with a blink. "You can't have this sort of technology."

"We've got our own version of Torchwood. They developed it. Do you want to come and see?" They didn't answer, so Jake placed a finger on a small circular crown, rather like a watch, where he turned it three times and then he placed his fist against the yellow pad. The Doctor and Clara were about to protest, but it was never said, as they disappeared from one Torchwood Tower and reappeared in another. This Torchwood, in the alternate reality they had accidentally landed in a long time ago, had no lights on and was somewhat dark, and was a complete mess, with wires and technology and unused computers lying strewn about the large room. The two levers, despite the large golden silver bases still there in the room, had their lever handles missing, potentially removed much earlier. "Parallel Earth, parallel Torchwood. Except…" He started, the start of the sentence earning some attention from the couple as they continued to stare around the room with a frown, "we found out what the institute was doing, and the people's Republic took control."

"Cool." Clara nodded but not with a smile. "But we've got to get back. Rose is in danger and her mother."

"That would be Jackie." The three looked to the doorway to see the living Pete Tyler, who was dressed in a dark blue suit, stepping into the room with his hands in his pockets. "My wife from a parallel universe." He gave a small smile as he glanced up at the couple. "And as for you two, at least this time, I know who you are now. And since you're back, we can use your help again."

"What?" The Doctor asked with a frown. "Help you with something in your world?" He shook his head. "No, we've got to get back to our world right now."

Pete rolled his eyes with a dull look. "No, you're not in charge here, and you're not listening either. So, for once, you two can sit still, shut up, and listen." He admonished.

The Doctor and Clara just stared at him for a few small moments in a blend of amazement and pain, but not the literal kind. Then, they sighed, and they wrapped each other in a loose hug. "All right, then." The Doctor agreed after a moment of silence, to which Clara nodded.

Pete pointed to the wall at the far end of the room, and the couple walked up to inspect it. To their own eyes, to their sonics, to their own touch and even to the "Void Specs" it might as well have been an identical twin of the same white wall from their own world. "When you both left this world, you warned us there'd be more Cybermen. So, we sealed them inside the factories. Except…" Pete trailed off, so Jake stepped into finish the sentence.

"Except people argued. Said they were living. That we should help them."

Clara scoffed. "Then they're morons." She growled.

Pete and Jake shrugged. "Yeah, we agreed with that." Jake nodded.

"Either way, unfortunately, the debate kept going, and in all that time, the Cybermen were making plans. Then, out of nowhere with no warning, they infiltrated this version of Torchwood, mapped themselves onto your world and then vanished."

"When was this?" The Doctor asked as he rubbed Clara's shoulder to calm her down.

"3 years ago."

That answer made the Doctor's eyebrows raise slightly, and Clara echoed it after a moment's silence. "It's taken them 3 years to cross the Void, but we can pop to and fro in a second." The Doctor breathed out slightly as the four of them started to walk across the room towards the main office window. "Must be the sheer mass of 5 million Cybermen crossing all at once."

Pete nodded. "Yeah, Mickey said you'd rattle off that sort of stuff."

"Oh, where is the Mickey boy?" The Doctor asked, him and Clara sharing a smile about their friend.

"He went ahead first." Pete answered. "Something about scouting ahead, since he knew his world better than we do." Pete gave a small amused smile as he continued. "Also since he missed you two, and Miss Rose Tyler."

"But not in that way." Clara added, to which Pete nodded.

"She's your daughter." The Doctor inputted with a small smile, Pete only shaking his head in response. "You do know that? Did Mickey explain?"

"She's not mine." Pete declined. "She's the child of a dead man." The Doctor and Clara sighed at his response but decided not to continue the topic as they passed the glass doors and stood by the office window, looking out at the zeppelin filled, cloudy grey world beyond. "Look at it, a world at peace, even with the horrible weather. Now, they're calling this "The Golden Age"."

"Who's the President now?" Clara asked.

"A woman called "Harriet Jones"."

"Ugh. I'd keep an eye on her." The Doctor grumbled under his breath, earning a raised eyebrow from Clara.

"But it's a lie." Pete continued. "Temperatures have risen by two degrees in the past six months. The ice caps are melting. They're saying all of this is going to be flooded." He informed, nodding towards the city of London. "That's not just global warming, is it?" Pete asked.

"No." The couple answered in unison.

"It's the breach." Pete agreed.

The Doctor shook his head. "We've been trying to tell you, travel between parallel worlds is impossible. Then the Daleks go and break down the walls with their sphere."

"Daleks?" Pete muttered.

"Then the Cybermen travelled across." The Doctor continued, ignoring his question. "Then you lot. Those discs." He said, holding up the one in his hands. "Every time you jump from one reality to another, you rip a hole in the universe. This planet is starting to boil! Keep going and both worlds will fall into the Void!" He admonished as he and Clara walked back into the white room.

"But you can stop it?" Pete asked, him and Jake following them both. "The famous Doctor with Clara at his side, you both can seal the breach?"

"Leaving 5 million Cybermen stranded on our Earth?" Clara retorted with a small snarl.

"That's your problem." Pete retorted, himself still calm. "I am protecting this world and this world only."

Clara stared at him in small surprise for a few moments before she chuckled. "Pete Tyler." She muttered. "We knew you when you were dead. Now, here you are, fighting the fight…alone." Clara saw the Doctor send her a smirk, so she took a small step towards Pete. "There is a chance. Back on our world, Jackie Tyler might still be alive."

"My wife died." Pete simply said.

"Her husband died. Good match."

"There's more important things at stake." Pete declined. "I ask this once: Can you two help us?" His tone was not an order or admonishment, but instead, was purely a question for help.

Clara and the Doctor both exchanged a look before glancing back at Pete. "What, close the breach, stop the Cybermen, defeat the Daleks? Do you believe we can do that?" The Doctor asked, moving to stand beside Clara.

Pete just smiled. "Yes."

The Doctor glanced down at Clara. "What do you think?" He asked.

"I think that's all we'll need." She said and the two quickly began to share beaming grins. "Let's get a shift on." Clara and the Doctor took hold of their yellow discs, Jake and Pete doing the same, then they pressed them, disappearing from Pete's world and back into their world. "First of all, we need to make a phone call." Clara said, pulling out her phone. The Doctor leaned into her while Jake took watch of the door. "Come on, please be there." Clara muttered, dialling the number and holding the phone up for her and the Doctor, just as the line answered.

"Oh my god, help me!" Jackie cried, and the couple shared a breath of relief at her voice. "They tried to change me!"

"Jackie-"

"They tried to download me, but I ran away!"

"Jackie!" Clara almost snapped, momentarily silencing the frightened woman. "Listen, where are you?"

"I don't know. Staircase." Jackie answered.

The Doctor shot Clara a look, to which she just shrugged at. "Which one?" The Doctor asked into the phone. "Is there any sign? Anything to identify it?"

"Yes! A fire extinguisher!"

"Yeah, that helps." Clara inputted sarcastically.

"Oh wait!" There was a pause on the phone for a moment as they heard Jackie rushing down a few more steps. "It says: N3!"

"North corner, staircase 3." The Doctor deducted. "Just keep low, Jackie, we're trying out best."

"Wait, don't leave me!" Jackie cried.

"I'm sorry, but we've got to go." Clara apologized before hanging up her phone and placing it back into her pocket. Then, she and the Doctor looked up at Pete and smiled. "Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler."

"She's not my wife." Pete said, this time it was without the indifference from minutes earlier. Now, it was a bit more like he might be considering the idea, which he would blame it on hearing her voice again.

The Doctor scoffed. "We were at the wedding. You got her name wrong." The Doctor quipped before he moved over to Jake. "Now then, Jakey boy, if I may?" He asked and Jake handed him the rifle. "If I can open up the bonding chamber on this thing, it can work on polycarbide."

"What's "Polycarbide"?" Jake asked.

"Skin of a Dalek." The Doctor answered. "Of course, for this plan to work, we will need the Cybermen as well." He glanced wordlessly at Clara.

Clara sighed. "Let me handle that." She said as she moved to stand beside the Doctor. "But you will have to go in there alone."

The Doctor blinked. "What? No-"

"Doctor." Clara interrupted. "Daleks don't know me and, if they could, they wouldn't care. They only know you. So it has to be only you." She explained.

The Doctor just stared at her blankly for a few silent moments before he sighed dejectedly, and he wrapped her in a hug and placed a kiss on her head. "Keep safe."

"You too."

"Final stage of awakening!" Dalek Jast proclaimed as the four Daleks removed themselves from the Ark, the four small pods were now glowing neon red and the Dalek Leader turned to look at the two Humans in the room.

"Your handprint will open the Ark." The Dalek Leader said to Rose.

Rose scoffed. "Well, tough, cause I'm not doing it."

"Obey, or the male will die!"

"And then you will kill me either way." Rose rolled her eyes.

"Place your hand upon the gasket!"

"All right!" Rose growled. "Jesus Christ, your louder than infants." She muttered under her breath. I won't do it anyway. They'll just kill us whether I do it or not. Besides, if I'm going to die, might as well do it…smugly. Rose smiled to herself mischievously and she moved to stand directly before the Dalek Leader. "If you, um…escaped the Time war, don't you want to know what happened?"

"Place your hand-"

"What happened to the Emperor?" Rose interrupted.

The Dalek Leader paused for a moment and the three Daleks around them moved a micro inch closer, almost like children gathering around for a story at night. "The Emperor survived?"

Rose smiled. "Till he met me. Cause if these are going to be my last words, then you're going to listen. I met the Emperor. And I took the Time Vortex, poured it into his head and turned him into dust. Do you get that?" She asked rhetorically and the Dalek Leader didn't answer. "The god of all Daleks…and I destroyed him. Ha!" She laughed.

"You will be exterminated!" The Dalek Leader proclaimed, and Rose set her jaw in a clench-

"Oh, now, hold on! Wait a minute!" The Doctor called from the entrance to the room, wearing his "Void Specs", and immediately earning the attention of everyone. Rose and Mickey grinned while the Daleks turned around to look at him.

"Alert! Alert! You are the Doctor!" The Dalek Leader proclaimed as the Doctor stepped away from the now closing door of the room and towards Rose and Mickey.

"Sensors report he is unarmed!" Dalek Jast reported, and the Doctor shrugged.

"That's me. Always."

"Then you are powerless!" The Dalek Leader said.

The Doctor scoffed. "Not me. Never." He removed and pocketed his "Void Specs" before looking at the Human duo, and he smiled. "How are you?" He asked Rose.

Rose shrugged. "Oh, same old, you know."

"Good. And Mickety McMickey! Nice to see ya!" The Doctor beamed as he bumped fists with Mickey.

"And you, boss." Mickey greeted.

"Social interaction will cease!" Dalek Jast ordered.

"How did you survive the Time War?" The Dalek Leader asked.

"By fighting, on the front line." The Doctor said. "I was there at the fall of Arcadia. Someday I might even come to terms with that. But you lot ran away." The Doctor said, looking at the four Daleks around them.

"We had to survive!"

"The last four Daleks in existence. So, what's so special about you?" The Doctor asked.

"Doctor, they've got names." Rose inputted, making the Doctor frown. "I mean…Daleks don't have names, do they?"

"No." The Doctor shook his head.

"Well, one of them said they were-"

"I am Dalek Thay!" Dalek Thay interrupted in some form of greeting.

"Dalek Sec!" The Dalek Leader echoed.

"Dalek Jast!"

"Dalek Caan!" The last Dalek spoke up, it's voice much deeper than the other three in the room.

The Doctor blinked for a few moments before a small smile of almost nostalgic approval spread across his face. "So that's it. At last. The Cult of Skaro. I thought you were just a legend."

"Who are they?" Rose asked.

"A secret order." The Doctor answered as he began to pace around the Daleks and the Ark, all of the Daleks not removing their gazes from him, not even for a second. "They were above and beyond the Emperor himself. Their job was to imagine. Think as the enemy thinks. Even dared to have names. All to find new ways of killing." He finished, standing once again before Dalek Sec.

"But that thing," Mickey inputted as he nodded to the Ark, "they said it was yours. I mean Time Lords, that they built it. What does it do?"

The Doctor shrugged. "I don't know." He said earnestly. "Never seen it before."

"But it's…Time Lord." Rose added with a nod.

The Doctor shrugged again. "Both sides had secrets." He said simply before he looked back at Dalek Sec. "What is it? What have you done?" He asked.

"Time Lord science will restore Dalek supremacy!"

The Doctor frowned. "What does that mean? What sort of Time Lord science? What do you mean?"

"They said one touch from a time traveller will wake it up." Rose inputted.

The Doctor slowly gave an "Ooh" face. "Technology using the one thing a Dalek can't do: Touch." He looked at Dalek Sec, and he leaned in, until it's eyestalk was mere inches from the Doctor's face, it's blue light shining directly into the Doctor's eyes. "Sealed inside your casing, not feeling anything, ever. From birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage, completely alone." For a brief moment, the Doctor gave a small chuckle and he arched one eyebrow. "That explains your voice. No wonder you scream." He taunted.

"The Doctor will open the Ark!" Dalek Sec exclaimed, its sudden burst doing nothing to the Doctor, who quickly chuckled, shaking his head as he moved into the centre of the Daleks.

"The Doctor will not." The Doctor denied.

"You have no way of resisting." Dalek Sec pointed out.

The Doctor shrugged. "Well, you got me there. Although…" He added as he reached into his pocket and pulled out his sonic, "there is always this."

"A sonic probe?"

The Doctor pulled a face. "That's screwdriver." He corrected.

"It is harmless."

The Doctor nodded. "Oh yes. "Harmless" is just the word. That's why I like it. Doesn't kill, doesn't wound, doesn't maim. Doesn't even work on wood." He added slyly. "But I'll tell you what it does do: It is very good at opening doors." He then pressed the button. On his end, it would do nothing but send a message to Clara outside. Right on cue, the door exploded in flames and large shards of burnt metal, the Daleks attention being transferred to a group of Cybermen stomping into the room, a few of them wielding pulse cannon rifles, and one of them fired at Dalek Thay.

"Alert! Casing impact! Casing impact!" Dalek Thay exclaimed and upon that, the chaos of fire from the Cybermen ensued within the room, while the Daleks slowly moved around, all four of them being momentarily stunned from the firepower.

"Firepower insufficient! Firepower insufficient!" Dalek Sec exclaimed.

"Daleks will be deleted. Delete! Delete!" The Cyber Leader said.

"Rose! Mickey! Get out!" The Doctor called above the chaos. He saw Mickey grabbing his rifle from the ground while Rose stumbled for a moment until Pete came rushing into the room and helped her off her feet. The Doctor then sprinted away from the gunfire range and out of the room, where Clara immediately brought him into a hug.

"Mickey!" Rose called as Pete helped her through the ruined doorway. "Mickey, come on!"

"Adapt to weaponry!" Dalek Thay called as Mickey stumbled against the Ark, his hand pressing against its surface before he pulled away and ran out of the room to re-join the group, who immediately began to sprint down the hallway.

"Firepower restored!" Now they were glad to be out of the room, as Dalek firepower began to blast and echo through the hallway, accompanied with the deathly screams of the Cybermen.

"Mickey?" The Doctor asked as said man kept shaking his hand as if he was in pain.

"I just fell." He said. "I just fell. I didn't mean it."

"Mickey, without us, they'd have opened it by force." The Doctor explained. "To do that, they'd have blown up the sun, so you've done us a favour. Now run!"

"Where are we going?" Rose asked.

"You've got to find Jackie." Clara answered. "I've got to get to the warehouse."

"What?" Rose asked. "Why?"

"We'll explain later!" The Doctor said. "Now, come on!" He ordered and everyone began to follow him up the stairwell while Clara rushed down the hallway and bounded into the warehouse, all on her own, while Cybermen and Torchwood soldiers created a fortification at the front of the room.

Come on, Clara. Think. Where were they at?

The group rushed out of the stairwell and into a long hallway, looking left and right before spotting two Cybermen with their backs turned to them. So, they rushed up and Pete took Mickey's rifle as they heard the Cybermen gaining on a familiar female voice.

"You will be upgraded."

"No, you can't! Please!" Jackie cried and Pete fired at the two Cybermen, causing them to scream as they dropped to their knees, their heads exploding into shrapnel before their smoking dead bodies collapsed to the ground. Pete lowered the rifle as he waited for the smoke from the bodies to dissipate, where he then saw Jackie, staring at him in confused amazement. "Pete?" She asked.

Pete smiled while Rose placed her hands over her mouth. "Hello, Jacks." He greeted.

Jackie sighed. "I said there were ghosts, but that's not fair. Why him?" She asked.

His gaze darted from side to side for a moment before he shrugged. "I'm not a ghost." He said obviously.

"But you're dead." Jackie said. "You died 20 years ago, Pete."

"It's Pete from a different universe." The Doctor inputted, Pete giving Jackie a dull look while she glared at the Doctor in return. "There are parallel worlds, Jackie. Every single decision we make creates a parallel existence, a different dimension where-"

"Oh, you can shut up." Jackie interrupted with a growl, causing the Doctor to nod as he backed off and Pete gave her a thankful look. She just sighed, her expression quickly becoming solemn. "You look old."

"You don't." He said simply and she blushed, vehemently shaking her head.

"How can you be standing there?" Jackie asked.

"Just got lucky." He said with a shrug. "Lived my life. You were…left on your own." He said sadly. "You didn't marry again, or…"

She shook her head. "There was never anyone else." She answered, catching the Doctor and Mickey rolling their eyes out of the corner of hers. "20 years, though. Look at me, I never left that flat. Did nothing with myself."

Pete shook his head. "You brought her up." He nodded to Rose. "Rose Tyler. That's not bad."

Jackie smiled. "Yeah."

"In my world…it worked. All those daft little plans of mine, they worked. Made me rich." He added with a smirk.

"I don't care about that." Jackie blinked. "How rich?"

Pete smiled. "Very."

"I don't care about that." Jackie blinked. "How very?"

Rose rolled her eyes while Pete and Jackie shared a chuckle for a moment before they started to try to look anywhere that wasn't each other. "Thing is, though, Jacks, you're…you're not my wife." Jackie nodded, but their eyes still couldn't meet. "I'm sorry, but you're not. I mean…we both…" He trailed off, but she nodded anyway as he cleared his throat. "You know, it's just sort of…" He took a breath and just looked at her and she smiled. "Oh, come here." He said, tossing the rifle aside and the two rushed at each over, diving right into each other's arms in a warm, tight hug.

Rose smiled at them while Mickey nodded. "Good on him." Mickey muttered, glancing towards the Doctor, who was just staring off into the middle distance. "Doctor?"

He took a sharp breath. "I need Clara back."

"Exterminate!" Dalek Sec called, Clara doving back behind cover, carrying the two black clamps with her as the chaos resumed inside the warehouse, Clara having to place her hands over her ears to protect her own hearing.

"Delete!"

"Exterminate!"

"Delete! Delete!"

"Get back! Get back!"

Clara kept her gaze darting around her, Humans and Cybermen falling left and right as the Daleks and the Ark moved into the exact centre of the warehouse. "Screw this." She muttered under her breath and she grabbed both of the clamps and sprinted right towards the doors, her presence going unnoticed by everyone in the warehouse. Doving right through the doors, she found the Doctor waiting for her on the other side, and he immediately wrapped her in a hug.

"You're not going alone anymore today. You hear me?" The Doctor asked and she nodded. "Good."

"Override roof mechanism!" Dalek Sec ordered, the chaos within the warehouse having grown less in noise level, making the group part the doors just enough to stare within.

"Elevate!" Dalek Jast said, and the Daleks began to return fire within the warehouse as Dalek Sec and the Ark hovered off the ground for a moment before they began to fly up and out of sight.

"We've got to see what it's doing." The Doctor said, closing the doors and the group started to sprint down the hallway, the Doctor and Clara remaining hand in hand while their unused hands were carrying the two clamps. "We've got to go back up! Come on! All of you, top floor!"

"That's 45 floors up!" Jackie reminded. "Believe me, I've done them all!"

"Oi!" The group slowed down, turning around to see Jake having stopped beside an open doorway. "We could always take the lift." He said with a smirk.

"Good thinking." The Doctor complimented as they all clambered inside the elevator, waiting in nervous agitation as the elevator moved up the floors of the Torchwood Tower until they reached their required destination. The doors slid open and they rushed out, moving quickly into the white room, where the Doctor and Clara placed the clamps upon Yvonne's desk and they stood beside the window, seeing Dalek Sec and the Ark hovering in a small distance from the Tower. The Ark, however, was spinning around frantically, spitting out hundreds upon hundreds of Daleks as it did. "Time Lord science." The Doctor realized. "It's bigger on the inside."

"It's a prison ship, isn't it?" Clara asked, she also was staring outside with wide eyes of horror, and the Doctor nodded. "How many Daleks?" Clara asked with a small gulp, fearing the answer.

"Millions." The Doctor said simply, the group watching in silence as the massive Dalek army began to descend upon London.

"I'm sorry, but you've had it." Pete said, walking back into the white room, followed by most of the group except for the Doctor and Clara. "This world's going to crash and burn. There's nothing we can do. We're going home. Jacks, take this." Pete said, tossing her a yellow disc. "You're coming with us."

"But they're destroying the city." Jackie argued.

Pete chuckled sadly. "I'd forgotten you could argue. It's not just London, it's the whole world. But there's another world, just waiting for you, Jacks, and it's safe. As long as the Doctor and Clara close the breach." Pete glanced over to the TARDIS couple, who were just staring at each other in silence. "Doctor? Clara?"

The two slowly turned their heads to look at everyone and they grinned. "Oh, we're ready." The Doctor said proudly as he and Clara raced through them and began to dash about the room in a frenzy, causing everyone to almost lose focus as to what they were doing. "We have our own equipment right here. Thank you, Torchwood. Slam it down and close off both universes." The Doctor said as he clacked away at one of the computers before putting on his "Void Specs".

"But we can't just leave." Rose protested. "What about the Daleks? And the Cybermen?"

"They're part of the problem and THAT makes them part of the solution. Oh yes!" The Doctor beamed. Everyone smiled but they stared at him and Clara in silence. "Well? Isn't anyone going to ask? "What is it with the glasses?"" He said, pointing to the "Void Specs" he had on.

"What is it with the glasses?" Rose asked with a grin.

"We can see." Clara beamed. "That's what the glasses are about." She said as she moved to clack away at another computer.

"Clara." He whined.

"No." She said simply. "I did the exposition last time."

"Fine." The Doctor grumbled.

"What?"

"Nothing." He squeaked, turning his attention back to the group, who were looking at them with…some amusement. "Right. Remember, we've got two separate worlds, but in between the two separate worlds, we've got the Void. That's where the Daleks were hiding and the Cybermen travelled through the Void to get here. And you lot!" He motioned to Pete, Mickey and Jake. "One world to another, via the Void. Ooh." He said with a smile. "I like that. "Via the Void". Here." He took off the "Void Specs" and gave them to Rose. "We've been through it. Do you see?"

"What is it?" Rose asked as she stared through the 3D glasses.

"Void matter." Clara inputted as she moved to stand beside the Doctor. "Or Void stuff. Whatever." She shrugged.

"Like, um…background radiation." Rose said with a click of her fingers.

"That's it." Clara nodded, grabbing Rose by her arms and turning her around to look at the rest of the group. "Look at them. The only one who hasn't been through the Void…your mother. First time she's looked normal in her life." Clara quipped.

"Oi!"

"But you see, the Daleks lived inside the void. They're bristling with it." The Doctor said as he raced up to the white wall, Clara just walking calmly behind with her arms crossed. "Cybermen, all of them. We just open the Void and reverse. The Void stuff gets sucked back inside."

Clara chuckled and placed her fingers together with a mischievous smile. "Mmm, my latest safari in the Void has yielded spectacular finds." She said slyly. The Doctor just frowned at her and she gave him a dull glare. "That was a Warframe reference, Doctor. You're welcome." She growled.

"Sorry." Mickey interrupted. "What's the Void?"

"The dead space." The Doctor explained. "Some people call it Hell."

"So…you both are sending the Daleks and the Cybermen to Hell?" He placed his yellow disc around his neck, and he sent Jake a smile. "Man, I told you they were good."

"But it's…it's like you said. We've all got Void stuff." Rose pointed out, the Doctor and Clara slowly walking up to her. "Me too, because we went to that parallel world." She glanced down at herself for a moment before she looked up, the Doctor taking the glasses off her and pocketing them again. "We're all contaminated. We'll get pulled in."

"That's why you've got to go." The Doctor said, Rose furrowing her eyebrows at them in response. "Back to Pete's world. Hey, we should call it that. Pete's world." He added with a smile, earning a shrug from Pete.

"Rose, we're opening the Void, but only on this side." Clara added. "You'll be safe on that side."

"And then you close it?" Pete inputted. "For good?"

"The breach itself is soaked in Void stuff." Clara answered. "In the end, it'll close itself. And that's it."

"Kaput." The Doctor added.

"But you two stay on this side?" Rose asked worriedly. "You'll get pulled in."

The Doctor slowly shook his head, as Clara raced back into Yvonne's office and grabbed both of the black clamps, giving one to the Doctor. "That's why I got us these." Clara said, patting the one she had in her grasp. "We'll just have to hold on tight, eh?"

"Well, I've been doing it all my life." The Doctor quipped.

"I'm supposed to go?" Rose asked.

"Yeah." They said in unison as they placed the clamps down on one of the desks.

"To another world, and then it gets sealed off."

"Yeah."

"Forever." They said nothing, so Rose just shook her head with a small chuckle. "That's not going to happen." She denied.

The building gave a sudden shake, causing Pete to growl low in his throat as he took charge. "We haven't got time to argue anymore. The plan works, we're going. All of us."

"No, I'm not leaving them!" Rose denied.

"I'm not going without her." Jackie growled.

"Oh my god, we're going!" Pete ordered.

"I've had 20 years without you, so button it. I'm not leaving her!" Jackie denied.

"Mum, you've got to." Rose said, taking her hand.

"Well, that's tough!"

"Mum…" Rose started, allowing Jackie a moment to calm down, "I've had a life, a wonderful life with you for 19 years. But then I met the Doctor and Clara. And…they're my best friends." She said earnestly as Clara, out of her sight, handed Pete her disc while the Doctor took out his own. "And all the things I've seen them do for me, for you, for all of us, for the whole…stupid planet and every planet out there. But they do it alone, Mum. But not anymore." Rose said with a sad smile. "Everyone needs a friend, Mum, and they have me." Without warning, the Doctor placed his disc around her neck and stepped away, while Pete pressed the button and they all disappeared, leaving the TARDIS couple alone.

"Clara?" The Doctor said, taking her hand as she stared sadly at the spot Rose had stood in. "She'll be fine." He said, rubbing her arm with his other hand.

"I know." Clara nodded. "Come on. We need to do this fast." She said, her and the Doctor returning to work.

"Do what fast?" Rose asked as she appeared again within the room. "I think I found the "On" switch." She quipped lightly, taking the disc off her neck, Clara stepping back to grasp Rose's arms.

"Once the breach collapses, that's it!" Clara growled. "You will never be able to see her again, your own mother!"

"I made my choice." Rose simply said in a sad tone. "I'm never going to leave you two." Clara just stared at her, while Rose took Clara's hands in her own. "So, what can I do to help?" She asked.

Clara just gave her a dull glare, but she decided to relent. They couldn't trick her again, and she won't go on her own choice. "Those coordinates on that computer…" She pointed to the far most desk on the right wall, "set them all at 6. And hurry up!" Clara growled, Rose moving silently to work while Clara took a moment to calm herself down.

Jackie moved to use her yellow disc, but Pete ripped it off her neck before she could press it. "But I've got to go back!" She cried.

"They both said that every time we use one of these, it damages the whole world! Now, that's it!" Pete ordered, taking everyone's yellow disc away from them.

"She's your daughter!"

"She's your daughter, not mine!" Pete said.

"Mickey, tell him!" Jackie cried. "Mickey!" Said man just remained silent, despite his sad expression, and Jackie began to weep for her daughter.

"Jackie." Pete muttered sadly, moving up to her. "Jackie, we can't-"

"Get away from me!" Jackie cried, pushing Pete away before he could wrap her in a hug, and she continued to weep to herself.

"We've got Cybermen on the way up." Rose pointed out from her computer, Clara racing over while the Doctor just gazed at Clara with worry.

"How many floors down?" Clara asked.

"Just one." Rose answered. Clara turned on the audio to hear what the Cybermen were saying.

"We will retreat through the breach." The Cyber Leader said as it marched up the stairs. "Regain the home world."

To Clara's surprise, a Cyberman carrying a rifle stepped in front of the doorway to their floor and pointed the weapon at the Cybermen. "You will not pass."

"What is the meaning of this?"

"I did my duty for Queen and country, and you will not pass." The Cyberman began to fire the rifle at the Cybermen before Clara quickly shut off the view of the security camera. She sighed sadly but she decided not to say anything.

"There we go." The Doctor beamed. "Levers are operational." He announced, him and Clara sharing a bright grin.

"That's more like it." Rose grinned. "Bit of a smile."

"Yeah." Clara nodded. "What kind of team are we then?" She asked.

The Doctor shrugged. "I don't know. The three musketeers?"

"Nah." Clara shook her head. "Was always a Richelieu fan."

The Doctor shrugged at her before they picked up the clamps and placed them against the opposite walls by the glass office. "When it starts, hold on tight. Shouldn't be too bad for us." He said to Rose.

"What's Clara going to hang on to?" Rose asked.

"His clamp." She said. "I'm small enough as it is." She quipped and the Doctor laughed. "But the Daleks and the Cybermen, well…they won't be all right." She and Rose raced to the levers, kneeling on the floor and grasping onto the handles. "You ready?" She asked.

"Yeah." Rose nodded.

"Let's do it!" Clara and Rose lifted their respective levers until they were standing upright, and the white wall began to glow and brighten with light. Rose rushed and wrapped an elbow through her clamp while Clara ran to the Doctor and wrapped herself through him and their clamp. Then, without warning, a sudden wind began to rush through the room, the force pushing the three back slightly as they held on for dear life. Yvonne's office window smashed suddenly, and a small group of Daleks flew screaming into the room and off through the wall, disappearing without a trace.

"The breach is open! Into the Void!" The Doctor laughed.

"Hold on tight!" Clara called. The Daleks and the Cybermen began to fly through the window and into the room, screaming and shouting, their words becoming incoherent babble to the trio, Clara having to bury her face into the Doctor as the blur of the thousands of Cybermen and Daleks started to swirl her mind.

"I've got you!" The Doctor said to Clara, holding her hands through the clamp.

"No!" Rose cried and the couple heard a loud spark, and the blur began to slow down enough so that they could see Rose, and her lever had begun to lower itself back down.

"Rose!" Clara called as Rose reached out her arms and almost jumped onto the lever, grasping hold onto it but her body had slid over the floor to the other side and away from the clamp.

"I've got to get it upright!" Rose cried.

"Rose!" The Doctor called as Rose struggled and struggled, lifting the lever inch by inch as the Void's pull began to take its toll on her already, but she managed to get it upright, the blur returning into an inconsistency, as for moments they could still see Rose hanging onto the lever for dear life. "Rose, hold on!"

"Rose!" Clara called, as Rose's body was lifted off the ground and into the air, the force of the pull starting to loosen her grip on the handle. "Rose, please!"

"No!" Rose cried as her hands were pulled off the handle and she began to fly towards the wall, screaming and looking at the couple helplessly as she did.

"No! Rose!" Clara cried. The couple were about to keep calling out to Rose, but Pete appeared out of the blue and caught Rose into his arms, his teeth gritted as he fought the pull of the Void. Rose was able to shoot them one last worried and concerned look before Pete pressed his disc again and the two vanished. Then, slowly but surely, the Void portal began to close in on itself, and it slowly disappeared, and the system deactivated. But all the couple could do was stare helplessly at the now grey dead wall of the room.

"Take me back!" Rose sobbed as she kept slamming and slapping her hand against the wall of Pete's world fruitlessly. "Take me back! Take me back!"

Pete pulled off his disc and looked at it sadly, Jackie and Mickey by his side and echoing his own expression as they gazed sorrowfully at Rose. "It's stopped working." He informed, placing the disc down on a wire strewn desk. "They did it. They closed the breach."

Rose continued to sob and cry, leaning her forehead against the wall, her tears streaming down her face. Then, for a small moment, she calmed down enough to realize that something was pressing against the wall on the other side. It wasn't much to go on, but Rose knew that someone, or someone's were pressing their hands against the wall. Rose involuntarily couldn't help it, and she pressed her own hand flat against the wall, trying to feel the warm presence for just a few short moments, and then, it disappeared, leaving her alone again.

"I'm sorry, Rose." Clara whispered, leaning her forehead against the wall. The Doctor removed himself from the wall and they wrapped each other in a hug, the two of them silently sobbing at the loss of their best friend. "There must be a way." Clara whimpered to the Doctor in his chest. "Please. There must be a way."

"I'm sorry." He said sadly, hugging her tighter.

"Then can we say goodbye? Is there a way for that? Just for that?" Clara asked, looking up at him with her wide, tear filled brown eyes and he nodded, pressing his forehead against hers.

"Yes. There is."

"Rose."

Rose shot up out of her new bed in the Tyler Mansion, looking around with wide eyes with a gasp, trying to find the presence, the two voices of her friends, but there was nothing in the dark room. Nothing at all, and she placed herself back down onto her bed for a few moments, letting out a small whimpering sob. There was a knock on her door and Jackie solemnly entered. "Rose?" She asked. "You all right?"

Rose, no matter how hard she tried to hold it in, began to sob, and Jackie wrapped her in a warm hug at once. "I'm sorry." She cried.

"I know, sweetheart." Jackie cooed, placing a kiss on Rose's forehead.

"I miss them so much." She cried.

"I know. I know." Jackie cooed, just placing her hand on Rose's back and softly rubbing up and down in an attempt to comfort her daughter, all the while she just sobbed into Jackie's shoulder. After a few moments, when Rose finally calmed down just enough, but still sniffing out her tears, she removed her head from Jackie's shoulder to look at her. "What is it?" Jackie asked.

"I…I had a dream." She admitted with a sniff. "I heard them."

Jackie stared at her and she nodded. "Come on."

Last night, I had a dream. I was standing alone on a beach, and I heard two voices, one male, one female, and they were calling my name. They were telling me to follow their voices, that was it. I told Mum and Dad and Mickey. Anyone else would have thought that I was mad, but not those three. They believed it because they've met the Doctor and Clara. So, Mum took me downstairs into the living room, Dad lit the fire to warm us up, Mickey brought in a few cups of tea and they listened to the dream. A few hours later, we packed a few bags, got into Dad's old Jeep, and off we went, just like the dream said. We kept on driving for hundreds and hundreds of miles, just following the voices. And now, here I am, at last, standing on a beach in Norway. This wasn't just the story of how I died. This was the story of how I lost my friends forever.

Bad Wolf Bay, Pete's World
7th November 2010

Rose kept her gaze darting about the beach, for now, she could hear the distant whooshing of the TARDIS, that beautiful old ship, but she knew it would not come here. It never would.

"Rose."

The voices were more pronounced, much clearer and refined than the ones in her dream, but still with a slight echo to it. Rose turned around and her heart leapt into her throat. There, standing before her, even with the ghost like haze to their forms, was her best and greatest friends: The Doctor and Clara Oswald. "Where are you?" She asked in a low, sad voice.

"Inside the TARDIS." The Doctor said, returning her tone. "There's one tiny little gap, one small crack in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. We're in orbit around a supernova."

Rose blinked. "Eh?"

Clara smiled softly. "We're burning up a sun so we could say goodbye."

Rose gulped, still unable to believe her eyes. "You…you both look like ghosts."

They frowned slightly before Clara blinked. "Oh. Oops. Wrong setting." She disappeared for a moment, the Doctor looking somewhere Rose couldn't see with a puzzled frown before Clara reappeared and their forms, at least to Rose, no longer became see through. Now, they looked like pure flesh and blood, solid and real. "That better?" Clara asked, and her voice was now devoid of the ghostly echo it previously bore.

Rose walked up to them, trying her best to contain her urge to grin or to sob. Instead, she reached out her hands as if to grasp theirs. "Can I?"

They shook their heads. "We're still just images. No touch." Clara answered.

"Can't you come through properly?" Rose asked.

"The whole thing would fracture." The Doctor answered. "Two universes would collapse."

Rose couldn't help it. She had to. "So?" She quipped and the three of them exchanged a warm laugh, but it did not dissipate any of the sadness they felt within them.

"Where are we, by the way?" The Doctor asked, him and Clara staring around at the beach in confusion. "Where did the gap come out?"

"We're in Norway."

"Norway." The Doctor muttered, then him and Clara shared a small shrug. "Ah, okay. Don't mind Norway."

"We're about fifty miles out of Bergen and…it's called "Darlig Ulv Stranden"."

""Dalek"?" They asked in unison and she quickly shook her head.

""Darlig"." She corrected. "It's Norwegian for "Bad"."

The realization slowly crept over their faces. "No." They muttered.

"Yep." Rose smiled, but the tears were starting to return to her eyes again. "This translates as "Bad Wolf Bay"." The smile she bore quickly melted away into quivering lips and she struggled to contain the sobs. "How long have we got?" She whimpered.

"About two minutes." Clara said softly.

Rose ran her gloved hand through her billowing hair, unintentionally choking out a small sob. "I can't think of what to say." She admitted.

The two nodded, right as Clara saw sight of Jackie, Pete and Mickey, standing silently by themselves by Pete's old wagon. "You've still got them, eh? You won't be alone."

"Well, there's five of us now." Rose nodded. "Mum, Dad, me, Mickey and the baby."

The couple's jaws slowly dropped incredulously. "You're not-"

"No." She admonished lightly. "It's Mum."

"Oh, of course." Clara rolled her eyes with a smile.

"She's three months gone. And there'll be more Tylers on the way, since they go at it almost as much as you two-"

"Okay, we don't want to know about that." The Doctor quickly stammered out, Clara nodding her head vehemently with a blush.

"And what about you?" Clara asked. "Are you…what are you up to now?"

Rose nodded. "Yeah, I'm back working in the shop."

Clara smirked. "Oh, good for you."

"Fuck off." Rose said and the two just laughed softly at her before Rose continued. "There's still a Torchwood on this planet, and it's open for business. Think I know a thing or two about aliens."

The couple smiled proudly at her. "Rose Tyler. Defender of the Earth." The Doctor smiled, to which Rose just smiled before she sniffed again. "You're dead." The Doctor said without the smile. "Officially, back home. So many people died that day and you went missing with Jackie. You're on the list of the dead." Rose nodded, but the tears were already starting to stream slowly from her eyes, and she had to wipe them away.

"But here you are." Clara inputted. "Living a life, day after day. The one adventure I can never have again. I gave that up a long time ago."

Rose sobbed, having to press her hand against her eyes for a moment. "Am I ever going to see you two again?" She cried.

"You can't." Clara shook her head, tears also prickling hers and the Doctor's eyes, but they just remained calm for her.

Rose sniffed. "What are you going to do?"

"Oh, we've got the TARDIS." Clara said sadly.

"And George." The Doctor inputted.

Clara nodded. "And George. Traveling about, the same old life."

"Yeah." The Doctor agreed. "The last of the Time Lords and…and his carer." He looked at Clara lovingly, despite the tears in his eyes. "That'll be you, eh? My Carer. Lord knows I need one." He admitted.

Rose smiled, but it never could reach her own burning eyes. "All on your own?" They said nothing and she just glanced down at the sand beneath her feet for a moment before looking up at them again. "I…I love you." They blinked for a moment, but she interrupted. "Not in that way…you morons." She quipped despite her broken voice and they gave her a soft smile. "But you were my best friends, and I love everything that I did with you two." She said earnestly.

Clara blinked, having to wipe a few stray tears from her cheeks before she refocused her attention on Rose. "Quite right too." She said softly.

"Well, I suppose…" The Doctor started, "if it's our last chance to say it…" He trailed off, looking at Clara and she nodded.

"Rose Tyler…" They started in unison and then, they just vanished, gone from the beach and gone from Rose's new world. Rose gave in at that very moment, completely broken down into her shaking sobs, which just increased as she suddenly felt two pairs of arms wrap around her, belonging to her Mum and her Dad. After a few moments, even Mickey joined in and all Rose could do was cry her ruined heart away on the beach.

Even when the couple stood together inside the warm and welcoming TARDIS console room, Clara gave in and let her own soft torrent of sobs out, and the Doctor immediately wrapped her in a hug, the two of them simply grieving for their lost friend. "I miss her already." She whimpered into his chest, while he just stroked her back and ran his hand through her hair.

"I know." He returned, still hugging her tight as he led her to sit down with him in the Captain's chair, the TARDIS taking automatic flight control as they sat together, even past the point where Clara stopped sobbing, and they kept themselves wrapped in the embrace. "I'm sorry, Clara." He muttered, placing a kiss on her forehead.

"It wasn't your fault. It was my fault as well." She said, burying her face in his neck. "But I didn't want to lose her like this." She admitted.

"I know." For them inside the TARDIS, minutes upon minutes passed and not once had they parted from their embrace until the TARDIS notified them that they had to return to piloting her again. So, despite their heavy hearts, or in Clara's case, her heavy soul, they conceded, keeping close to each other as they piloted the TARDIS again, pacing around the console in silence and passed the figure in a wedding dress as they walked around- "What?" The Doctor blinked, him and Clara sharing a look as they looked up from the console and towards the wedding dress figure standing there, their back turned to them. Then, the figure turned around, revealing itself to be a 37-year-old red headed woman, with green eyes and standing at 5ft 6, who was staring at them with a puzzled, bewildered frown.

"Oh." She gasped, blinking as she took in her suddenly new surroundings.

"What?" The couple asked in unison.

"Who are you?" The woman asked.

"But…what?"

"Where am I?" She asked again, her voice clearly laced with irritation.

"What?"

"What the hell is this place?!"

"What?!"

AN: And…we're done. Ugh, I'm going to miss Rose. I mean, yes, she is coming back just like in the show, no real spoilers there, but still, I will miss her. And, let me say, it was still just as sad writing the ending as it was to re-watch it. Ugh, tugs on the heart. Either way, for now, we're about to have our first time with everyone's favourite temp from Chiswick. True, Martha's the next "Companion", but Donna has got one in her first. This, hopefully because of what just happened, should be a relaxer instead of a heartbreaker. Anyway, as always, thanks for reading and leave a review if you wish. :)