Rose was barely conscious when Jacob finally relented. He called several other men in and they started talking in animated voice. None of them took any notice of the golden glowing Rose.

"Get her to the arena and call Joshua," Jacob smiled smugly. "Tell him she's ready and to send out the Oncoming Storm."

Joshua returned to fetch the Doctor half an hour later and had him tied up and carried behind him to the preparation room. The Doctor rambled all the way there about how it was totally stupid to try and call upon the Oncoming Storm because it just wasn't gonna happen. When they reached the preparation room Joshua had the Doctor gagged.

"I've got a headache now Doctor and you won't like me when I'm snappy," Joshua said sitting down the opposite side of the table to the Doctor. "Now, I have something very unfortunate to tell you."

The Doctor frowned, pausing halfway through trying to chew his gag off.

"I'm afraid we've received news that Rose Tyler is dead," Joshua said solemnly. The Doctor froze and shook his head. That wasn't possible.

"Mmf gmmm nnn," he mumbled through the gag.

"She was refusing to cooperate so they killed her," Joshua said and the Doctor thought he detected a note of truth in his voice.

The Doctor instantly began to struggle with his bonds, anger and hurt turning his blood cold. Rose couldn't be dead, it just wasn't possible.

He had to get to her, prove it wasn't true.

"Stop, stop, you're going to hurt yourself," Joshua said quietly walking towards him and removing the Doctor's gag. "Look, we don't need you anymore, so we'll let you go."

The Doctor however, once he was released didn't move. He sat there considering his options and trying to decide what to do next.

"Take me to the rival company," he said quietly.

"You can't do anything Doctor," Joshua said smirking slightly when the Doctor wasn't looking. "She. Is. Dead."

"TAKE ME TO THE REIVAL COMPANY NOW!" The Doctor shouted and Joshua complied without any more qualms.

Rose meanwhile was being dragged into the arena, surrounded by thousands of people, journalists and camera's. She didn't notice much though; the Bad Wolf was concentrating on healing her mental wounds.

Jacob was waiting patiently, wondering how long it would take Joshua to agitate the Time Lord enough to get him over here.

Rose stood up gingerly after ten minutes or so, already starting to feel better, but with the situation looking as grim as this the Bad Wolf had taken over to protect her. She was chained to the floor of the arena to sop her escaping but she could walk six foot in all directions. Not much help when there was no way to reach the Doctor.

"Doctor," Jacob began running to keep up with the Doctor who was blazing and charging over to find out who had killed Rose. "They also said that Rose wanted a message passed on before they killed her."

The Doctor looked back, his brown eyes burning with an intense fire that no amount of regenerations could take away.

"What?" He asked.

"She said that she wished she'd never come with you," Jacob said apologetically. "She said it was the worst mistake of her life."

The Doctor should've realised the warning signs then. He should've known that Rose would never say but he was already angry and upset and getting closer and closer to the edge.

It wasn't going to take a lot to push him over and Jacob was very adept at pushing the Doctor.

They reached the arena within twenty minutes and the Doctor should've been able to sense trouble. Should've noticed the four men waiting for him. But he was overcome by human emotion and they grabbed him wiring him up to the same computer Rose ha been earlier. With his defences down it was easy for the men to penetrate his mind and bring forth the Oncoming Storm. The Doctor had been right in the fact that the Doctor would not be able to access it when he was worried about someone getting hurt, but he was under the assumption that Rose was dead, so there was no reason not to destroy everything in sight.

Rose wasn't stupid. She saw the commotion and knew instantly that it had something to do with the Doctor. She ran forward forgetting the restrains and cried with pain when she tripped over, unable to move any further forward.

She just had to reach the Doctor. If she could reach him everything would be alright. She had to break the bonds though. Sitting up she grabbed the bonds holding her and wrapped a hand round each of them, burning through.

The Doctor was pushed out into the arena when they finished with him and he caught sight of Rose, his whole body glowing silver. They stare at each other for a long moment, the sound of the crowed completely blocked out. Until-

"WELCOME TO THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY," A commentator shouted over the rowdy spectators. "BAD WOLF VERSUS THE ONCOMING STORM!"