Rose was dragged kicking and screaming by the guards. She didn't know where they were going, she didn't really care; the only thing she was focusing on was trying as hard as possible to get to the Doctor who was being carried by one of the men. Despite her best efforts however the four men who had hold of her, just about managed to stop her from breaking loose.
"Let me go!" Rose cried for the millionth time flailing desperately in the grip of the men.
They marched her all the way to a large building and shoved her inside, the man carrying the Doctor another way. Rose was led along corridor after corridor until finally they came to a cell into which she was unceremoniously thrown and left.
She ran up to the bars of the cell and clutched at them hoping that somehow she'd be able to break free. Of course without the Sonic Screwdriver or something similar she had no chance.
"Let me out!" She shouted down the corridor after the men but they just ignored her. She turned to look around her prison in case there was another way out, but she couldn't find anything. Kicking the bars and cursing as she resulted in hurting her foot, she only hoped the Doctor was holding up better.
The man carrying the Doctor had slipped away from the others at the first possible chance. He ran as fast as he could, the Time Lord clutched in his arms, across the plains of the planet towards a makeshift cage he knew was positioned in the forest.
Other men met up with him as he ran into the clearing, speaking in low voices and checking the Doctor over, giving him several injections of different coloured liquids. They placed him in the cage before locking it securely and setting up sentries whilst they waited for the Doctor to regain consciousness.
The Doctor stirred after several hours and sat bolt upright banging his head on the top of the small cage and swearing loudly in ancient Gallifreyan. The guards outside the cage turned to look at him.
"Finally, you're awake," one of them said. The Doctor rubbed his head.
"Yeah, who are you?" He asked whilst looking around. He suddenly realised that a certain companion was missing. "Where's Rose?"
"I'm afraid the other side got her before we had a chance to intervene," the guard replied. "I'm Thax and this is Nox by the way."
"Pleased to meet you," the Doctor said dubiously.
"Of course we know all about you Doctor," Thax said causing the Doctor's head to snap up and whack the top of the cage again.
"For goodness sake!" He complained. "Can't you let me out of this thing?"
"Sorry, our boss would have our guts for garters," Nox replied apologetically. "It won't be long before he gets back. I'll need to alert him that you're awake and then he can prepare you for battle."
"Battle?" The Doctor sat up carefully, his neck bent awkwardly so as not to bang his head again.
"Yes, the Pothans will be training up their ally and you'll have to be ready to defend us," Thax said nodding enthusiastically. "It's supposed to be the battle of the century. There's so much hype and the media coverage will be huge!"
"Wait, you're telling me I'm supposed to fight for entertainment?" The Doctor asked, checking he had his facts right.
"Yeah," Nox said smiling. "Surely you must have seen the adverts for it? You must've known that we'd be sending out the signal for you?"
"You sent that signal to me on purpose?" The Doctor frowned. "Well that explains a lot. But no I don't get adverts where I live."
"Oh," Thax seemed to visibly droop. "Well yeah, they're everywhere. Bad Wolf versus The Oncoming Storm. Apparently there's expected to be over a trillion viewers from this galaxy alone watching."
"Whoa…" The Doctor paused. "Bad Wolf? But I can't fight her, she's my friend and how do you even know about the Oncoming Storm?"
"The Oncoming Storm is a legend woven throughout the universe," Thax said in a mystic voice obviously enjoying the chance to tell the tale. "It was a few years ago that we first tracked you down and we wanted to get you in our company, it would've made us millions of notons, but we needed something for people to watch. So we thought 'Hey, if the Oncoming Storm exists then his equal and soul mate the Bad Wolf must exist too!' so we tracked her down, through the were-wolf incident on Earth and now here we are."
"So why isn't Rose here now?" The Doctor asked his hearts thumping.
"Well this rival company found out what we were up to and they took our idea so we had to steal you and we've just sent out a message saying whichever one of you wins in this fight to death the loosing company will have to pack in their business," Nox said. "So they'll be training the Bad Wolf up as we speak and when our boss gets here, he'll help you prepare."
"No, I've already told you, I can't fight her," the Doctor said. "Especially not to the death. She's my friend, and her mother would kill me if anything happens to her."
"Well you don't have much choice," Thax said sadly. "Our boss has moles in the Pothans Company and they'll kill the Bad Wolf before the battle starts if you refuse."
"Her name is Rose Tyler," the Doctor growled. "And if you don't let me go so I can find her then I will destroy you."
"We can't, we've told you," Nox said exasperatedly. "You don't have a choice. The boss will find a way to make you fight her even if it means brainwashing you. Sorry."
"Right, one, you want to be aware that I'm being calm, very calm," the Doctor hissed dangerously. "Two, you cannot brain wash a Time Lord even I you had the technology for such a thing, which I doubt you do, and three even if by some miracle you did brainwash me you can't called upon the Oncoming Storm because it's not the sort of thing that can just be used for any old thing. I've only ever used it once and that was the biggest mistake of my life, even if I found a way of activating it again it wouldn't work because my brain would remember what happened last time and would worry about who could get hurt. Now let me go or I'm going to get angry."
"Ah, the Time Lord is feisty," Thax and Nox straightened up and looked at their boss gulping.
The Doctor stared darkly at the feet of his persecutor and decided it was a good job his looks couldn't kill like the Thirks, because the man in front of him would've died rather horribly. As he bent down to look at the Doctor though, the Doctor found that his stomach sinking as he gazed into the eyes of a man who was going to work very hard to keep the Time Lord in his power.
Men walked up and down the corridor past Rose's cell talking in hushed voices, but she couldn't understand what they were talking about. They kept mentioning some kind of battle. Maybe that's why they'd taken her and the Doctor? Because these people thought they were spies?
Either way Rose was getting bored, frustrated and worried, not a good combination for a hot headed Tyler. The next time the cell door was opened Rose kicked the guard right where it hurts and ran off down the corridor.
She didn't get very far though because there were three men coming round the corner who grabbed her and pinned her against the wall.
"Where do you think you're going?" One of them asked.
"To find my friend," Rose said kicking him as well, causing him to double over in pain. Before she could try and hit the other two however they caught her legs.
"I'm afraid little girl we need you here," the second guard said, struggling to hold her as the two men she'd kicked recovered. "You've got a battle top prepare for."
"I'm not a little girl!" Rose said struggling harder in the grip of the two men. "What battle?"
"Bad Wolf versus The Oncoming Storm of course!" The other guard holding her arms said. Rose stared, her breath catching in her throat. They couldn't mean who she thought they did.
What was she thinking? Even if they did mean the Doctor he wouldn't fight her. But what if they found a way to unleash the Bad Wolf and she lost control? She'd killed the Doctor once before, what if she did it again?