My Name is Rose Tyler.
For the first nineteen years of my life I lived on Earth, day by day. Then I met a man called the Doctor who showed me amazing things and took travelling in his magical blue box. We thought it was going to last my forever...then the Battle of Canary Wharf happened and he was taken from me. Never to be seen again.
I took his place in the universe, I had become his successor. My physiology no longer human but Time Lady. The TARDIS taught me ever bit knowledge that the Doctor himself had. I had companions, Martha Jones and Donna Noble. I was reunited to my brother like figure Jack and I was finally learning why the Doctor is the way he is.
But then the walls between universes collapsed.
Then the Earth was stolen along with 26 other planets.
And the Children of Time started to gather.
This is the story of how I died.
The TARDIS landed on a curb on a suburb road, Rose burst out and scanned her surroundings followed by Donna who was looking just as frantically...it was a nice sunny day.
"It's fine" Rose said quietly. "Nothing wrong, everything is ...fine"
A milk float drove past slowly.
"Excuse me!" Rose called out. "What day is it?"
"Saturday" the milkman shouted back.
"Saturday" Rose repeated. "I like Saturdays, nights out, lie ins, fried breakfast..."
"So I just met the Doctor?" Donna asked remembering the discussion the two had before Rose landed them back into present day Earth.
"Yeah"
"Bit skinny though. Can't see why you would want to snog that paper cut at all" Donna said shaking her head. "But I thought he was locked up in a parallel world"
"He is. But if he is able to cross he's parallel world into your parallel world then that means the walls have gone down again and that is not good" Rose said walking back into the TARDIS. Donna followed, closing the door behind her.
She walked up to Rose slowly who was fiddling with the console. "But Rose" she said quietly. "No matter what's happening – which is probably bad – but the Doctor is coming back. Isn't that good?"
Rose looked up and thought for awhile...was is it good? This was the man who held her hand and saved her life. This was the man who showed her the stars and how to be the best she can. But he was also the man that broke her heart repeatedly, the man that chose a French whore over her, the man that let go and fell into another world. The man that stupidly left his hand so giving someone the chance to clone him. But he was forever the man she dreamed of whenever she fell asleep, the man she craved for, the man she loved.
She smiled. "Yeah, yeah it is" she whispered.
Suddenly there was a loud noise and the TARDIS shook throwing both women down onto the floor.
"What the hell was that?" Donna shouted as she got up.
"That came outside!" Rose said sitting up. She ran to the TARDIS door and opened it to reveal...nothing. No Earth, just black space with the occasional asteroid drifting past.
"But we're in space" Donna whispered. "How did that happen?" Rose went back to the console. "What have you done now?"
"What makes you think I've done anything?" Rose asked innocently. "We haven't moved Donna. We're fixed...someone has taken the Earth"
Donna looked back to the empty space. "You have got to be kidding me" she said. "Talk about the heist of the century"
Meanwhile back on Earth the milkman stood there frozen looking at the sky in shock when there was a flash of blue light and a man in brown pinstripes stood there was a large gun strapped to his back.
"Oh now we're in trouble" he muttered. "Let the fun begin" he walked along and waved at the milkman. "Morning!"
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"But if the Earth's been moved, they've lost the sun! What about my Mum? And Granddad? They're dead, aren't they? Are they dead?" Donna asked looking worried, scared and very pale.
"I don't know, Donna, I just don't know, I'm sorry, I don't know..." Rose said reading the monitor.
"That's my family. My whole world." Donna whispered.
"Mine as well" Rose murmured. "Damn! There are no readings. Nothing. Not a trace. Not even a whisper. Oh, that is fantastic technology!"
"So what do we do?" Donna asked.
"We've got to get help." Rose said.
"From where?"
"Donna... I'm taking you to the Shadow Proclamation. Hold tight!" Rose said starting up a sequence on the console as the TARDIS engines started.
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He walked along a street where alarms were ringing, people were screaming in fear and some in drunken delight. He tutted, trust humans to react like this.
"The end of the world mate" a drunken man said holding his beer up. "End of the stinking world"
"Have one on me" he said nodding. The moment the man turned round he rolled his eyes and carried on walking. He spotted electronics shop and saw two young men looting it. "Oi you two, get out of here" he shouted.
The men looked at him and laughed.
"A skinny prick like you? What are you going to do eh?" one of them asked.
"Well I don't want to do this but I do have a nice big shiny gun" he pulled the strap round to show the gun that Jackie practically stapled to him. "Do you like it?"
The men ran off terrified and he walked into the shop, putting on his glasses as he set up the laptop to show him a screen of 27 planets with spaceships moving towards the Earth. A message began to play.
"Ex-terminate! Ex-terminate!"
He glared at the laptop before shutting it and leaving the shop, just as he left the shop something explodes behind him causing him to stagger slightly. He doesn't look back, knowing full well that he was going to see fire if he did.
"Bloody daleks" he muttered under his breath.
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The TARDIS was shaking rather violently as they headed to the Shadow Proclamation. Donna was holding so tightly to the metal railing that her knuckles were turning white.
"So go on then, what is the Shadow Proclamation anyway?" she said as the TARDIS stopped.
"Posh name for police. Outer space police. Here we go!" Rose said opening the door and stepping out to have several Judoon standing there with their guns pointed at her. "Ah..."
"Sco Bo tro no flo Jo ko fo. To to!" the leader barked out.
"No bo ho sho ko ro to so. Bo-ko-do-zo-go-bo-fo-po-jo!" Rose snapped causing the Judoon to lower their guns. "Mo ho."
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"Time Lords are the stuff of legend. They belong in the myths and whispers of the Higher Species. You as a Time Lady cannot possibly exist. Especially one so young" the aging woman in black known as the Shadow Architect snapped.
"Yeah, more to the point, I've got a missing planet!" Rose said rolling her eyes. As she wandered round the Shadow Architect's office.
"Then you're not as wise as the stories would say. The picture is far bigger than you imagine. The whole universe is in outrage, Ms Tyler. 24 worlds have been taken from the sky." The Shadow Architect said tiredly.
"How many?! Which ones?! Show me!" Rose said running to a computer.
"Locations range far and wide. But all disappeared at the exact same moment. Leaving no trace." The Shadow Architect said.
"Callufrax Minorr. Jahoo. Shallacatop. Woman Wept oh not Woman Wept, I loved that place... Clom! Clom's gone! Who'd want Clom?!" Rose said reading out the names on the list.
"All different sizes, some populated, some not. But all unconnected." The Shadow Architect said sighing.
"What about Pryovile?" Donna asked suddenly.
"Who is the female?" the Shadow Architect asked.
"Donna! I'm a human being. Maybe not the stuff of legend but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you." Donna snapped looking annoyed, Rose watched her with a proud smile on her face,
"Way back when we were in Pompeii, Lucius said Pryovile had gone missing." Donna said reminding Rose.
"Pryovile is cold case. Not relevant!" a Judoon barked out.
"How d'you mean, cold case?" Donna asked.
"The planet Pryovile cannot be part of this, it disappeared over 2,000 years ago." The Shadow Architect said.
"Yes, yes, hang on... But there's the Adipose breeding planet too, Miss Foster said that was lost, but that must've been a long time ago." Donna pointed out.
"That's it! Donna, fantastic! Planets are being taken out of time as well as space... Let's put this into 3-D..." Rose fiddled with the computer causing holograms of the lost planets to appear in the air. "Now, if we add Pryovile... And Adipose 3... Something missing. Where else, where else, where else, where else... lost, lost, lost, lost... Oh! The Lost Moon of Poosh!"
she adds the last one and suddenly the holograms move and rearrange themselves.
"What did you do?" the Shadow Architect asked.
"Nothing. The planets rearranged themselves into the optimum pattern. Oh, look at that! 27 planets in perfect balance. Come on, that is gorgeous!" Rose babbled excitedly.
"Oi, don't get all Space-Girl, what does it mean?" Donna asked, hands on her hips.
"All those worlds fit together like pieces of an engine. It's like a powerhouse! What for?" Rose said mostly to herself, thinking what machine it could be.
"Who could design such a thing?" the Shadow Architect asked.
"I have no idea" Rose said.
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Donna sat there on the stairs holding her cup tightly, the servant had really creeped her out by saying how she'll have losses in the future. When Rose walked up to her and sat down by her.
"Think about it Donna" she said quietly. "Has something strange been happening? Electrical storms, freak weather, patterns in the sky. That sort of thing"
"Well, how should I know? Um... no, I don't think so, no." Donna said shaking her head.
"Oh, OK, never mind."
"Although... there were the bees disappearing."
"The bees disappearing... The bees disappearing." Rose eyes widened as she realised something. "The bees, disappearing!" she ran back to the computer.
"How is that significant?" the Shadow Architect asked as she and Donna followed Rose to the computer.
"On Earth we have these insects. Some people said it was pollution, or mobile phone signals." Donna said waving her hand.
"Or - they were going back home!" Rose muttered.
"Back home where?" Donna asked.
"Planet Melissa Majoria!"
"Are you saying bees are aliens?!" Donna said disbelievingly.
"Don't be so daft. Not all of them. But if the migrant bees felt something coming, some sort of danger, and escaped... Tandocca!" Rose babbled.
"The Tandocca Scale!" the Shadow Architect exclaimed.
"Tandocca Scale is the series of wavelengths used as a carrier signals by migrant bees. Infinitely small, no wonder we didn't see it! Like looking for a speck of cinnamon in the Sahara, but look! There it is. The Tandocca trail. The transmit that moved the planets was using the same wavelength, we can follow the path!" Rose shouted happily.
"And find the Earth?! Well, stop talking and do it!" Donna bellowed making her way to the TARDIS
"I am!" Rose shouted following her. She bursts into the TARDIS and begins to fiddles with the controls "We're a bit late, the signals scattered. But it's a start!" she runs out to the Shadow Architect. "I've got a blip! It's just a blip! But it's definitely a blip!"
"Then according to the Strictures of the Shadow Proclamation, I will have to seize your transport and your technology." The Shadow Architect said flatly.
"What! Why?" Rose asked, taken back.
"The planets were stolen with hostile intent. We are declaring war, Ms Tyler. Right across the universe. And you will lead us into battle!" the Shadow Architect explained.
"Right, yes, course I will. I'll just go and... get you the key..." Rose said shiftily as she went back inside. She ran to the console winking at Donna, she couldn't take the Shadow Proclamation with her; a bloodbath would start if that happens. She pulls a lever and the TARDIS starts to dematerialise.
"Ms Tyler! Come back! By the Holy Writ of the Shadow Proclamation, I order you to stop!" the Shadow Architect bellowed.
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Wilf and Sylvia were watching the daleks take the humans away when an electronic voice shouted at them.
"Halt! You will come with me!" a dalek barked out.
"Will I heck!" Wilf spat out. He aims his paint gun at the dalek and fires causing a yellow splodge of paint land on the dalek's eye stalk. But suddenly the paint boils away.
"My vision is not impaired" the dalek said.
"I warned you Dad!" Sylvia shouted.
"Hostility will not be tolerated. Ex-terminate! Ex-terminate! Ex-ter-"
Suddenly the whole top half of the dalek blows up and the father and daughter look up to see the Doctor holding a gun.
"Do you wanna swap?" Wilf asked holding his paint gun up.
"Love to!" the Doctor said beaming. "I hate guns, hate them, hate them, hate them, brilliant idea you had there, shame it didn't work. The only way to stop a dalek is to completely destroy it. I'm the Doctor by the way. I'm looking for Donna Noble's family"
Both Wilf and Sylvia held their hands up weakly.
"Oh that is brilliant. Think you could make me a cup of tea? I'm thirsty as hell"
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The TARDIS suddenly stops moving and Rose and Donna stand there in silence for a moment.
"She stopped" Rose whispered.
"What do you mean? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Donna asked.
"The Medusa Cascade...never been here but it's supposed to oh so beautiful" Rose said quietly staring at the screen.
"So where are the 27 planets?" Donna asked.
"Nowhere. The Tandocca Trail stops dead." Rose sighed in defeat. "End of the line."
"So what do you we do Rose?" Donna asked. "What do we do?" her voice was getting louder.
"Nothing...I'm not the Doctor, Donna" Rose said looking defeated.
Now don't do this to me. No, don't, don't do this to me. Not now. Tell me, what are we going do? You never give up. Please." Donna begged but Rose only stood there silently.
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The Doctor and Wilf were explaining to Sylvia about Donna's travels with Rose when a female voice could be heard from the laptop. The Doctor ran to it and got it up working to see Harriet Jones admonishing Jack for giving up.
"Harriet Jones, long time, no see" the Doctor cried out. "Have you lot got a webcam I could use?" he asked Wilf.
"No, she wouldn't let me, she said they're naughty." Wilf said sulky pointing at his daughter.
"I can't speak to her then, can I?" the Doctor groaned frustrated. Suddenly three windows popped up. One of Harriet who looked stressed yet more relaxed in her causal clothes. Sarah Jane and a young boy and Jack with two other people.
"The fourth contact seems to be having some trouble getting through." Harriet said frowning.
"That's me! Harriet! That's me!" the Doctor shouted excitedly. "God you have know idea how proud of you all I am!"
"I'll just boost the signal..." Harriet said as if the Doctor never spoken. She typed in some codes and suddenly a black woman appeared on the screen.
"Hello?" she called out
"Martha Jones!" Jack laughed in relief.
"Who's she? I want to get through!" the Doctor said pouting.
"Martha, where are you?!" Jack asked.
I guess Project Indigo was more clever than we thought. One second I was in Manhattan... Next second...Maybe Indigo tapped into my mind. Cos I ended up in the one place that I wanted to be"
"You came home... At the end of the world, you came back to me." Another woman said wrapping an arm round Martha.
"But then all of a sudden, it's like the laptop turned itself on." Martha said.
"It did. That was me." She flashes her ID "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."
"Yes, I know who you are." Martha said rolling her eyes.
"Rude!" the Doctor admonished. "She's in the presence of one of the greatest women in this history of the planet and she's rude to her, I would never...actually forget that"
"I thought it was about time we all met. Given the current crisis. Torchwood, this is Sarah Jane Smith." Harriet said.
"I've been following your work. Nice job with the Slitheen." Jack said complementing Sarah Jane causing the Doctor to groan.
"Yeah, well I've been staying away from you lot. Too many guns!" Sarah Jane said darkly causing the Doctor to cheer.
"All the same, might I say, looking good, ma'am." Jack said winking.
"Really? Oh." Sarah Jane said blushing.
"Stop it Harkness, she's off limits" the Doctor snapped.
"Not now, Captain. And Martha Jones, former companion to Rose." Harriet said rolling her eyes.
"Oi! I've been saving the universe for centuries where's my introduction?" the Doctor shouted.
"But how did you find me?" Martha asked.
"This, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Subwave Network. A sentient piece of software, programmed to seek out anyone and everyone who can help to contact Rose" Harriet explained.
"What if the Daleks can hear us?" Sarah Jane asked.
"No, that's the beauty of the Subwave, it's undetectable." Harriet said smugly.
"A-and you invented it?" Sarah Jane asked looking impressed.
"I developed it. It was created by the Mr Copper Foundation." Harriet said flatly.
"Yeah, but what we need right now is a weapon. Martha, back there at UNIT, what - what did they give you, what was that key thing?" Jack said.
"The Osterhagen Key." Martha said.
"That key is not to be used, Dr Jones. Not under any circumstances!" Harriet shouted.
"But what is an Osterhagen Key?" Jack asked.
"Forget about the key and that's an order! All we need is Rose Tyler, we could use the Doctor as well but the prat had to let himself be dragged into another universe"
"OI!"
"Oh excuse me, Harriet, but, well the thing is, if you're looking for Rose... didn't she help depose you?" Sarah Jane asked curiously.
"No the Doctor did it by himself. And I've wondered about that for a long time. Whether I was wrong, but I stand by my actions, to this day. Because I knew, I knew that one day, the Earth would be in danger, and the Doctor would fail to appear. I told him so myself. And he didn't listen." Harriet said looking angry and concerned at the same time.
"But I am here" the Doctor said getting annoyed.
"But I've been trying to find Rose. Rose has a phone on the TARDIS, but I can't get through." Martha said changing the subject.
"Nor me, and I was here first!" the Doctor said bitterly.
"That's why we need the Subwave. To bring us all together, combine forces. Rose Tyler's secret army." Harriet said.
"Wait a minute... we boost the signal! That's it! We transmit that telephone number through Torchwood itself, using all the power of the Rift..." Jack said wonderingly.
"And we've got Mr Smith! He can link up with every telephone exchange on the Earth. He can get the whole world to call the same number, all at the same time! Billions of phones, calling out, all at once!" the small boy said.
"Haha, brilliant! Who's the kid?" Jack asked.
"That's my son!" Sarah Jane said proudly.
"WHAT!" the Doctor shouted. "You little liar Sarah Jane, you told me that you didn't have kids!"
A welsh man in a suit stepped in front of Jack "Excuse me, sorry, sorry, hello, Ianto Jones. Um, if we start transmitting, then this Subwave Network is going to become visible. I mean, to the Daleks."
"Yes, and they'll trace it back to me. But my life doesn't matter. Not if it saves the Earth." Harriet said looking determined.
"Oh Harriet" the Doctor whispered.
"Ma'am." Jack saluted her.
"Thank you, Captain. But there are people out there dying, on the streets." Harriet said blushing slightly.
"Marvellous woman. I voted for her." Wilf said proudly.
"You did not." Sylvia snapped.
"Now enough of words. Let's begin!" Harriet shouted. Everyone began to work frantically their voice overlapping one another.
"Rift power activated!"
"All terminals coordinated!"
"National grid online... giving you everything we've got!"
"Connecting you to Mr Smith!"
"All telephone networks combined!"
"Sending you the number... now!"
"Opening Subwave Network to maximum."
"Mr Smith... make that call!"
"Calling Rose Tyler" an electronic voice said.
"So am I!" the Doctor muttered pulling out the mobile Jackie and Pete practically threw at him when he had first began to settle down in that world.
"Aaand sending!" Jack shouted happily.
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Suddenly Rose's phone began to ring in her pocket. She pulled it out and answered it. "Martha? Jack? Sarah Jane?" she shouted down but no answer. however... "There's a signal" she murmured.
"Can we follow it?" Donna asked.
"Oh you just watch me!" Rose shouted moving round the console. "Got it, locking onto it" the TARDIS began to shake violently again. The TARDIS lights turned red and a fire started. "We're travelling through time, roughly one second. The signal is pulling us through!" Rose shouted. "One...two...three"
Suddenly the TARDIS stopped shaking and one the screen appeared all 27 planets.
"27 planets - and there's the Earth! Why couldn't we see them?!" Donna asked.
"The entire Medusa Cascade has been put a second out of sync with the rest of the universe. Perfect hiding place, tiny little pocket of time. But we found them! Oh, oh, what's that? Hold on, hold on, some sort of Subwave Network..." Rose babbled playing with the monitor when suddenly Jack, Sarah Jane and Martha appeared on the screen.
"Where the hell have you been Rose Marion Tyler?" Jack shouted. "it's the daleks!"
"She's nice" Gwen commented. "Though I thought she would be older"
"She's a bloody kid!" Ianto exclaimed.
"It's the daleks" Sarah Jane said "they're taking the people..."
"...And it's not just dalek Caan" Martha finished.
"I did not get that at all" Rose said shaking her head.
"That's Donna!" Sylvia shouted looking over the Doctor's shoulder.
"That's my girl!" Wilf said puffing his chest out in pride.
"Sarah Jane and Luke! That must be Torchwood. Aren't they brilliant? Look at you all, you clever people!" Rose said grinning.
"That's Martha. And who's..." Donna said pointing at Jack "he?"
"Captain Jack Harkness, a brother to me, so don't. Just... don't." Rose said shaking her head.
"Rose, it's me, I came back." The Doctor said waving wildly at the screen.
"It's like an outer space Facebook." Donna commented.
"Everyone except them..." Rose whispered thinking of her Mum, Mickey and the Doctor.
"Oh Rose" the Doctor whispered reaching out to touch her image, when suddenly the screen turned white and fuzzy. "NO!"
"Ah..." Rose said blinking.
"We've lost them!" Donna shouted.
"No, no, no, no, there's another signal coming through, there's someone else out there." Rose said banging on the monitor "Hello? Can you hear me?"she called. "Doctor? Mickey? Mum?"
"So young, so innocent and yet it is the Abomination" a croaky voice came across the sound speaker.
"No. But he's dead..." Sarah Jane whispered looking horrified.
"Damn it Davros" the Doctor hissed as the man's (if he could be called that) image appeared on the screen.
"I welcome you to my new Empire Ms Tyler" Davros said. "It is only fitting that you should bear witness to the resurrection, and the triumph, of Davros. Lord and creator of the Dalek Race!"
"The True God" Rose whispered remembering so much knowledge from a time she faced a dalek Emperor. "I thought you were dead, the TARDIS thought you were dead"
"Dalek Caan rescued me." Davros said smirking.
"I flew into the wild and fire; I danced and died a thousand times." Dalek Caan said in a sing song voice.
"Emergency Temporal Shift took him back into the Time War itself." Davros explained more clearly.
"But that's impossible! The entire War is timelocked!" Rose cried out remembering what the TARDIS had told her.
"And yet he succeeded. Oh, it cost him his mind. But imagine a single, simple Dalek succeeded where Emperors and Time Lords have failed. A testament, don't you think, to my remarkable creations?" Davros said.
"And you made a new race of Daleks?" Rose growled.
"I gave myself to them. Quite literally. Each one grown from a cell of my own body." he showed his tunic where the skin was ripped off and you could see his ribs and heart. "New Daleks. True Daleks. I have my children, Ms Tyler. What do you have, now?"
"You think you have all the power don't you?" Rose said quietly. "You think you got me trembling in my sneakers. Well let me tell you Davros, I faced a dalek on my own when I was nineteen and ended up befriending it. I turned the Dalek Emperor, the False God and his fleet to dust. I tangoed with the Cult of Skaro not once but twice and lived the tale...I'm going to find you and I'm going to stop you. I will give you a reason to be scared off me. Now I have one last thing to tell you, just one..." Rose's hand went out to the lever. "BYE!" she pulled it down and the screens turned off.
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Donna and Rose stepped out of the TARDIS to find themselves outside by a church in an abandoned street, cars were left scattered on the road with their doors hanging open.
"It's like a ghost town" Donna breathed.
Rose turned to face her. "Sarah Jane said they were taking people but why? What do they need? Donna what did the Doctor tell you? In that world of yours"
Donna shrugged. "Just that the darkness was coming and the stars were going out"
"Please Donna think harder. There must have been more than that!" Rose growled in frustration.
A small sly smile grew on Donna's face. "Well then, why don't you ask him yourself?"
Rose's breath caught in her throat as the meaning of Donna's words got to her. She let out a shaky breath as she turned round slowly to see him standing there in his brown suit and trench coat, his hands were shoved in his pockets, and he gave her a cheeky grin.
"Doctor?" Rose whispered slowly walking towards him, he was walking towards her and suddenly they both broke into a run.
Neither of them noticed the dalek until it was too late.
"EX-TERMINATE!"
A green laser beam shot out and hit Rose who tumbled to the ground.
"ROSE!" the Doctor shouted.
Jack suddenly appeared and shot the dalek, blowing it up. Donna was running to Rose's side.
The Doctor stood there frozen. Rose was dead. After all that time...she was dead.
Meanwhile up above in the dalek ship called the Crucible, Davros tapped his metal fingers against his shell, smirking. "Caan, read me that last line of the prophecy again"
"The Valiant Child, so very far from home, will die in battle so very soon" Caan said in his sing song voice.
Authors note: if you kill me, I will not be able to update.