Previously:
The gases continued and soon every car was releasing them. Donna was screaming and banging on the window, angry tears falling fast on her cheeks. Rose attempted to get the door open with the sonic screwdriver but nothing worked. She attempted again to turn of the ATMOS.
She stood in the middle of the road frozen, not sure how to save the world at all.
"ROSE!"
"He's gonna choke, ROSE!" Donna shrieked as Rose fiddled underneath the car trying to stop the ATMOS.
"It won't open!" Rose growled. She heard footsteps run past her and sat up to see Sylvia Noble run round the car and smash the front screen with an axe.
"Well don't just stand there! Get him out!" Sylvia shouted at Donna. Donna got moving and helped to pull Wilf out of the car. The pair began to help him walk towards the house with Rose following them.
"Thanks" Wilf muttered.
"I can't believe you got an axe!" Donna said.
"Well it works" Sylvia protested.
"Just get into the house. Close all the doors and windows" Rose advised them. A taxi drove up the curb and the window rolled down as Ross shoved his head out.
"Rose! This is all I could find without ATMOS" he shouted as Rose ran towards him.
"Donna are you coming?" she called.
"Yeah!"
"Donna don't go, look what happens every time that Rose girl appears. Stay with us please" Sylvia pleaded.
"Don't listen to her my darling. Go with her!" Wilf said pushing Donna towards the taxi.
"DAD!" Sylvia shrieked.
"Don't listen to her, go with Rose. That's my girl!" Donna climbed into the taxi with Rose and shut the door. "Bye!" Wilf shouted waving.
Donna smiled sadly back at him as the taxi drove away, Martha's words haunted her, she didn't want to have her family hurt because of her need to see the stars but she couldn't leave Rose either.
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Ross parked the car just before the barrier; Rose leaped out and held the door for Donna who slammed it shut.
"Ross look after yourself, stay in the building" Rose said.
"Will do" Ross said nodding before Rose strolled off with Donna by her side.
"The air is disgusting" Donna croaked out in between coughs.
"Doesn't bother me, get inside the TARDIS" Rose said looking concerned. Donna began to walk away when Rose called her back. "Oh! I haven't given you a key!" she pulled out a silver key from her pocket and passed it to Donna. "Yours, you're a permanent companion now. Would get all sentimental but since you're choking, we'll save that for later yeah?"
"Good idea" Donna said taking the key. Rose ran off towards the barrier. "Where are you going?" Donna shouted.
"To stop a war!" Rose called back before ducking under the barrier.
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"Right then, here I am" Rose shouted as she stalked into the base. "Whatever you do Colonel Mace, do not engage in battle with the Sontarans. There's nothing better than a war to get them hyper"
"And what do suggest we do?" Colonel Mace demanded.
"I got the TARDIS, I can get on their ship" Rose said calmly. She spotted Martha sitting on the end of the controls and walked up to her. "Come on" she whispered taking Martha's hand and pulling her up. She inwardly flinched, Martha's skin felt wrong, it was cooler and harder. She had a feeling this wasn't Martha Jones.
The pair ran to the alley where the TARDIS was supposed to be only to see the gas. Rose let go of Martha's hand and ran in to find there was literally nothing but gas.
"But where's the TARDIS?" Martha asked looking upset.
Rose shuddered when she felt something fizzy touch her skin, she stuck her tongue out and felt the tingles. "I can taste it, in the air! Blah! It's a sort of metal tang...teleport exchange." Rose walked back up to Martha "It's the Sontarans they've taken it. I'm stuck...on Earth...AGAIN! How rubbish is that? Sorry no offense but still!"
"So what do we do?" Martha asked taking a step forward to her.
"Well...a ship should never detect it" Rose murmured staring at Martha with suspicion. Martha turned round and glared at her.
"What?" she snapped.
"I was just wondering, have you told your family?" Rose asked.
"NO! What for?" Martha snapped. Rose knew immediately that this was not Martha Jones, Martha would have phoned her family, Martha wouldn't have snapped like this. For god sake Martha would do anything for her family.
"Gas" Rose prompted "it's not safe outside"
"Of course! I will yeah" the fake Martha said "what about Donna? Where is she?"
"Oh...she's gone home" Rose lied. "She's not like you, she's not a soldier." It sickened Rose to see Martha's face look gleeful to that. "Right then, back we go" she said running off back to the base.
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"Change of plan!" Rose shouted as she kicked the doors open.
"Good to have you fighting along side us Ma'am" Colonel Mace said.
"I'm not fighting, I'm not fighting as in not fighting got it?" Rose said running along reading over people's shoulders. "Now, has anyone worked out what this gas is yet?"
"We're working on it" fake Martha said.
"It's dangerous not lethal till it reaches 80 density. We have reports of death in the middle of Tokyo city" said a blonde woman.
"Who are you?" Rose asked the woman.
The woman stood up and saluted. "Captain Marianne Price, Ma'am"
"Oh put your hand down" Rose said rolling her eyes. Running back to Colonel Mace's side.
"Local base has tracked the signal Ma'am. Coming from 5000 miles from the Earth, we're guessing that's what triggered the cars" Colonel Mace said. Showing Rose a screen of the Earth with a red blob and red signals coming out.
"That must be the Sontarans ship" Rose said.
"We're preparing for a strike" Colonel Mace said.
"You can't do that! You won't be able to scratch the surface" Rose said. "Let me talk to them"
"Are you even authorised to speak for the behalf of Earth?" Colonel Mace asked.
"Mate I spoke on behalf of Earth instead of Harriet Jones two years ago, I can do it again" Rose said glaring as she stuck the sonic screwdriver into the controls. "Calling to the Sontaran Command Ship" she shouted, opening up a screen. "On the paragraph two of the intergalactic rules of engagement. This is Rose Tyler"
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"I got a connection!" the Doctor shouted excitedly. "Rose!" he caught the sight of a redheaded woman, the same woman that night a couple weeks back before the dimension cannon sparked and the connection snapped. "DAMN! No! Just for one minute, one minute I could have spoken to her and the blasted thing breaks!"
"Mate calm down" Mickey said. "What did you see?"
"The inside of the TARDIS and that redhead" the Doctor said glumly.
"The readings on this is going wild Doc" Jake said holding up the battered dimension cannon. "Could it have been the TARDIS that did it?"
"Let me see them" the Doctor said ripping the dimension cannon out of Jake's hands.
"Oi! Didn't yer ma ever tell you not to snatch?" Jake growled.
The Doctor's eyes widened. "Impossible" he breathed.
"What? What is it?" Mickey asked.
"It says...the timelines they're...everything depends on..."
"Everything depends on what?" Jake asked.
"Donna Noble!"
"Who?" Mickey and Jake asked in unison looking confused.
"The redhead Rose is travelling with!"
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"Rose Tyler, breathing your last?" one of the Sontarans said.
"My god they're like trolls" Colonel Mace said looking disgusted and shocked.
"So they do!" Rose said. "So tell me General Staal. Since when did you lot become cowards?" she plonked herself into a chair, smirking, from the TARDIS memory banks she knows that the Doctor faced these and knew exactly how to wind them up.
"How dare you!" General Staal snarled.
"Oh that's diplomacy" Colonel Mace said sarcastically.
"Rose Tyler you in fume my honour!" General Staal shouted.
"Yeah, really glad you didn't say belittle because that I would have a field day with. But poison gas? That's a weapon of a coward and you know it. Staal you could blast this planet out of the sky but you're sitting up there in your ship watching it die! Where's the fight in that? Where's the honour? Or are you lot planning something else? This isn't normal Sontaran warfare, what are you lot up to?"
"It would be unwise to reveal your plan to the opposing party" Staal said stiffly.
"Ah! The war isn't going to well then" Rose said spinning side to side in her chair. "Losing are we?"
"Such a suggestion is impossible!" Staal snapped.
"What war?" Colonel Mace asked.
"The war between the Sontarans and the Rutans" Rose said. "Been raging across the stars for fifty thousand years. Fifty thousand years of bloodshed for what?" she spat out.
"For victory!" Staal said. "Sontar-ha!"
"Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!" the other Sontarans chanted. Rose rolled her eyes and pulled out her sonic screwdriver and turned it over to Eastenders.
"Oh I haven't watched this in years" she exclaimed as Peggy Mitchell slapped someone. "Nothing ever changes"
"Miss Tyler, I seriously recommend you let someone with authorisation take over" Colonel Mace said scowling.
Rose ignored him and turned the channel back to the Sontarans. "Finished?" she asked.
"You wouldn't be so quick to ridicule if you have seen our prize" Staal said. "Behold! We are the first Sontarans in history to capture a TARDIS" Rose bit her lip when she saw the TARDIS behind Staal.
"Well as prizes go that's...Noble" Rose prayed that Donna could hear her and could help. "As they say in Latin Donna Nobis patruim. Did you ever wonder about that design, a phone box? It contains a phone, telephonic device you can use on occasion, rather symbolic. Only we could communicate you and I" she made a gesture to her ear and really hoped that Donna cottoned on to what she was saying.
"All you can communicate is your distress Rose Tyler" Staal said.
"Bit stupid showing it to me" Rose said, holding up her sonic screwdriver. "Because I got a remote control"
"Cease transmission!" Staal ordered.
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Rose snatched up the clipboard from fake Martha that had the results from the gas. "Carbon Monoxide, Hydrogen Carbons, Nitrates and 10 non-identified. Seems to be some sort of heavy gas. Seen anything like it?"
"Seems to be something the Sontarans invented" Rose said watching the gas in the tube. "It must be used for something else than just poison"
"On screen and active" Captain Price said.
"Positions ladies and gentlemen. Detcon 1 initiated" Colonel Mace shouted.
"OI!" Rose shouted stalking up to the Colonel. "I told you not to launch!"
"Gas is at 60 density, people are dying Ms Tyler, and we have no choice" Colonel Mace said.
"Launching in 60" Captain Price said. "59...58...57...Nuclear grid now co-ordinating...54...53"
"You're making a mistake Colonel, for once I hope the Sontarans are ahead of you" Rose spat out.
"America online, United Kingdom online, France online, India online, Pakistan online, China online, North Korea online. All systems locked and co-ordinated. Launching in 10" Captain Price said in monotone into her headset. "9, 8, 7, 6, 5..."
"God help us" Colonel Mace muttered.
"4, 3, 2, 1, 0" Captain Price said. Everyone held their breath but nothing seemed to be happening. Suddenly the screen switched off.
"What is it? What happened?" Colonel Mace asked. Rose glanced at the fake Martha who stood there expressionlessly. "Did we launch? Well did we?"
"Negative sir" Captain Price said. "Launch codes have been wiped sir. It must be the Sontarans"
"Can we override it?" Colonel Mace asked. Rose stepped up to fake Martha's side.
"Negative Sir" Captain Price answered.
"That nuclear weapon wouldn't have even dented the ship." Rose said calmly. "So why would the Sontarans be so keen to stop it? Any ideas?" Rose asked fake Martha.
"How should I know?" fake Martha shrugged.
Suddenly there was an announcement from Ross through the walkie talkies that the Sontarans were in the building. Colonel Mace commanded them to battle. Rose swallowed; she knew if the humans went into battle they would be slaughtered.
"Get them out of there" she whispered. "Please"
"All troops open fire" Colonel Mace barked out ignoring her.
Ross gave out a brutal running commentary on how their weapons weren't working and Rose flinched out the sounds of the men dying. They could hear a shooting sound and the walkie talkie crackled, no other sound could be heard.
"Greyhound 40 report over" Colonel Mace said looking concerned. "Greyhound 40 report! Greyhound 40 report!"
"His name wasn't Greyhound 40, it was Ross" Rose said quietly. "Now listen to me and GET THEM OUT OF THERE!"
"Retract from all stations" Colonel Mace said steadily. "Retreat! Order imperative, retreat!" From the walkie talkie they could hear a battle going, people screaming and from their CCTV they knew the Sontarans had taken over the factory again. "They've taken the factory" Colonel Mace said stating the obvious.
"Why? Why do they need it?" Rose asked. "Why attack now? What are they up to? Times like this I could do with the Doctor"
"Don't we all Ma'am, don't we all." Colonel Mace said. "I saw the tape of Canary Wharf; it was a tragic way for him to go"
"Yes it was" Rose whispered.
"Launch grid online" Captain Price announced. Suddenly the screens turned off again. "They must be in the system sir; it's coming from UNIT itself"
"Trace it, find out where it's coming from and quickly. Gas levels?" Colonel Mace ordered.
"66 in major population areas in rising" Captain Price said.
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"Why are they only defending the factory after we're inside" Colonel Mace muttered as he scanned the sheets of paper in his office.
"Because they wanted UNIT here" Rose whispered. "You gave them something they needed. Something they now have hidden in the factory. Something precious"
"Then we got to recover it. This quandy signal thing, how does it work?"
"It's the bullets, it causes expansion on the ship" Rose said.
"I'm on it" Colonel Mace said walking out of his office.
"FOR THE BILLIONTH TIME YOU CAN'T FIGHT SONTARANS!" Rose shouted after him. She glared at the Colonel's back before she pulled out her mobile and settled into the corner. She dialled Donna's number, which she luckily added that day when Donna demanded Rose should in case of emergencies.
Donna answered immediately. "What happened? Where are you?"
"Still on Earth but don't worry I got my secret weapon" Rose said quietly.
"What's that?"
"You"
"Somehow that's not making me happy Blondie" Donna snapped into the phone. "Can't you just zap us back to Earth with that remote thing?"
"Yeah I don't have a remote. I really needed you on that ship, which is why I made them move the TARDIS. I'm sorry but I need you to go outside"
"But there's Sontruns out there!" Donna said in a childlike voice.
"Sontarans" Rose corrected. "They're not going to be hanging about drinking coffee; I can talk you through it."
"What if they find me?"
"I know, I know and I wouldn't ask but I have nothing else. The planet is choking Donna"
There was a pause before Donna replied. "What do you need me to do?" she asked.
"The Sontarans are in the factory which means they have a teleport on their ship and they deadlocked it. I need you to reopen the link" Rose said quickly.
"But I can't even mend a fuse!" Donna protested.
"Donna stop talking about yourself like that" Rose hissed into the phone. "If I a nineteen year old council estate kid could do something like that then you can as well!"
"You nineteen? Keep dreaming Blondie" Donna snorted into the phone.
"Yes well I'm not now obviously" Rose said rolling her eyes. There was moments pause.
"There's a Sontrun – Sontaran out there"
"Did he see you?"
"No he had his back to me"
"Right Donna on the back of his neck there's a plug like hole. A probic vent, one blow to the probic vent knocks him out"
"But he's going to kill me!"
"I'm sorry, I swear to god I am so sorry but you got to try!"
There was a long pause before Donna answered. "Back in the neck!" she said smugly.
"Oh! Now then you got to find the external junction to the teleport" Rose instructed Donna.
"Well what does it look like?"
"Erm circular panel. Looks a bit like a left t with a horizontal line in it with two fs back to back" Rose said scrunching her nose up in memory of the book she studied a long time ago.
"Well there's a door" Donna said weakly.
"Is there a switch by the side?"
"Yeah there is but it's Sontaran shape you need three fingers."
"You got three fingers" Rose pointed out with a frown.
"Oh yeah" there was a pause. "I'm through"
"You're fantastic you are" Rose said considering kissing the phone.
"Shut up!" Donna whispered. "Right...to the livery"
Rose spotted the Colonel coming back in. "got to go keep the line on" Rose whispered quickly before running out of the office. "I SAID YOU DON'T STAND A CHANCE!"
"Positions" Colonel Mace said throwing a gasmask at Rose. "That means everyone" Rose began to follow when the fake Martha came up to her.
"You're not going without me" she said.
"Wouldn't dream of it" Rose said.
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"Latest firing stock, what do you think?" Colonel Mace asked holding a large gun to Rose. "Ms Tyler?"
"Are you my mummy?" she couldn't resist, wearing the gasmask brought memories back. She wished Jack or the Doctor were here to laugh alongside her.
"If you can concentrate!" Colonel Mace snapped. "Bullets with a rad steal coating. No copper surface, should overcome the signal." He handed Rose one of the bullets.
"But the Sontarans have got lasers" Rose argued waving the bullet in the Colonel's face. "You can't even see in this fog, how will this work?"
"Thank you Ms Tyler" Colonel Mace said bitterly. "Thank you for your lack of faith but this time I'm not listening" he yanked off his gasmask and pulled his hat on. He began a rather inspiring speech, Rose had to give him credit for being a good leader even if he won't listen. Suddenly there was loud engine noise; she looked up to see the gas being cleared up by some sort of aircraft.
"It's the Valiant" Rose whispered remembering her time there. Remembering the Doctor for one moment. Remembering a trip when she herself was labelled Valiant Child, where she had been prophesised to die in a battle, well she was still alive and she no longer considered herself a child, so that prophecy is a lie...just like the Doctor told her it was.
She laughed loudly and pulled of her mask. "That's fantastic!"
"I take it you're impressed Ms Tyler?" Colonel Mace said with amusement.
"Yeah all right I'll admit it" Rose grumbled walking away.
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The bullets were working and UNIT were fighting the Sontarans as they managed to get back into the factory. Rose snuck of away from the Colonel and dragged the fake Martha with her, using the sonic screwdriver to find the signal she needed to follow.
"But shouldn't we follow the Colonel?" Martha asked.
"You and me Martha like old times. Come on!" Rose said cheerfully. The signal led them down the stairs and into a dark corridor which immediately lit up. "No Sontarans here, they can't resist a battle" Rose murmured. "Here we go" the signal led them to a door which Rose used the sonic screwdriver on to open.
They walked in to see Martha lying on a metal grid in a white hospital night gown. Rose ran to her side and landed on her knees as she cupped Martha's cheek. "Oh Martha I'm so sorry" she whispered. She slid her hand down to Martha's pulse. "Still alive." She heard footsteps and the click of a gun; she turned to see fake Martha holding a gun to her head. "Am I supposed to be impressed?"
"Wish you carry a gun now?" fake Martha asked.
"Not at all" Rose said.
"I've been stopping the nuclear launch all this time" fake Martha gloated.
"You did exactly what I wanted" Rose said standing up to face fake Martha. "I needed to stop them myself never mind the bleeding Sontarans. Didn't need Earth to start a war, you! Are a triple agent"
"When did you work it out?" fake Martha asked frowning.
"About you? Right from the start" Rose said calmly. "Martha always puts her family first, even before me. Also you stink! You might as well have worn a t-shirt saying CLONE...though not in front of Jack, you remember him don't you? Because you got all of her memories. That's why the Sontarans were protecting her, to get you inside of UNIT. Martha Jones is keeping you alive" Rose ripped the helmet of off Martha's head causing both girls to gasp.
The clone fell to the floor with her hand clutching her chest, dropping the gun. Rose kicked it across the floor and helped Martha up. "It's all right sweetie I got you" Rose said soothingly.
"There was this thing Rose, this alien thing with this head" Martha babbled panicky.
Rose's phone began to ring and Rose walked off to answer it. "Hold on Martha for a minute"
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The clone died slowly, she managed to tell Martha (who was now also wearing Rose's leather jacket) what was in the gas which Rose figured out it was clone feed which meant the Sontarans were converting Earth to be a breeding planet. Rose managed to fix up the teleport bringing back Donna just in time, who hugged Rose tightly while screaming how much she hated Rose. The three of them stepped into the teleport after Rose brought the TARDIS back.
"Here we go the old team back together, well new team, actually technically the new, new team."
"We're not going back on the ship are we?" Donna asked looking terrified.
"No we're going to..." Rose typed in the code and they were teleported. "Here the Rattigan Academy, owned by-"
Rattigan came out looking panicked while holding a gun at them "it wasn't my fault! They lied to me!"
Rose sighed and yanked the gun out of Rattigan's hand. "This is becoming a theme" she grumbled.
"Nice jacket, it suits you" Donna said as her and Martha strolled past Rattigan.
"I prefer my red one to be honest. Used to wear it on all of my trips with Rose"
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Rose had managed to build a device to clean the atmosphere. She, Martha and Donna embraced one another in victory while Rattigan looked awed.
"You're a genius" he cried out to her.
"She's brilliant" Martha said.
Rose simply picked up the device and ran back to the building. "We're in trouble now" she said as the others followed. She stepped into the teleport and looked back at the three. "Right, so...Donna thank you for everything. Martha you too, really you have done so much for me, oh so many times. Luke do something clever with your life"
"You're saying goodbye" Donna whispered.
"Sontarans are never defeated." Rose said, pressing a few buttons on her device. "They'll be preparing for war, I...well I made this to recalibrate Sontaran air so..."
"You're going to ignite them" Martha said quietly.
"You'll kill yourself!" Donna said feeling dread and horror.
"Just send it up by itself" Martha pleaded. "Put it on a delay"
"I can't" Rose whispered.
"Why not?" Donna asked.
"I got to give them a choice" Rose said, tears building up in her eyes. "It's what the Doctor would have wanted, to give them a chance. Tell Jack that I'm sorry, tell him and Sarah Jane I said goodbye" she then pressed down on the teleport and disappeared.
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"Oh excellent" Staal said as Rose appeared.
Rose held the button up to him. "General Staal you know what this is" she said. "You got one other option, you can leave. Just leave, no one would ever have to know"
"You're strategy would be wise if Sontarans feared death" Staal said. "We do not!
"I'll do this Staal, if it saves the Earth I'll do it" Rose said.
"Then why haven't you?"
"Because I'm giving you a chance. I'm warning you"
"But I'm saluting you! Take aim"
The Sontarans had the weapons trained on her; they had missiles trained on Earth.
"THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE!" she shouted.
"Do it then! You'll die too"
Rose shook, she couldn't do it, she couldn't kill them but she had to. They started their battle chant and dance. The weapons were about to be fired to Earth. Suddenly the next thing she knew the teleport was working and she was gone.
She landed back at Rattigan's Academy. She panted heavily and pushed her blonde hair out of her face, as she struggled up she got swept up by Martha into a huge hug. Martha then settled her down when she noticed that Rose was shivering. Donna walked up slowly and slapped Rose's arm, hard. Before kneeling before her and taking her hand.
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That night the three of them had a glass of wine at Martha's flat and toasted to the brave Luke Rattigan who finally did something clever. The next morning Martha walked them to the TARDIS.
"You can come with us" Rose said quietly. "I want you back, I've missed you"
"I can't Rose, I've got Tom and UNIT" Martha said sadly. "But I do miss you, you are my best friend. You're welcome to my place anytime, in fact you should come back soon, meet Tom...maybe be my maid in honour?"
"I would love to!" Rose said hugging Martha. "Are you sure you don't want to have one more trip?"
"Rose I had my one more trip a long time ago" Martha said smiling. She turned to Donna. "You take care of her; she's a bit reckless as you've seen. And I want you to be at my wedding as well. Rose said she'll give you my number, so ring anytime"
"Oh I will" Donna said pulling Martha into a hug. "It was nice meeting you Martha Jones."
"Right then" Rose said clapping her hands. "Off we go. I think Donna we should put the TARDIS on random again, what do you think?"
"Way ahead of you Space-Girl. I'm driving" Donna said running into the TARDIS.
Rose laughed as she hugged Martha one last time. "I am so proud of you Martha Jones. I'll see you around yeah?"
"Goodbye Rose" Martha said pulling away and Rose ran into the TARDIS Martha watched as it faded away. "Good luck, I think you'll need it" Martha whispered before walking away.