A/N: I do not own Twilight or Doctor Who. I'm just playing in their universe. Original plot developed by i heart the doctor.

Chapter 16 Help

10th Doctor's POV

I felt a little better about myself. I still regretted getting Rose sucked into a parallel universe and not being all there for Martha, though she wanted more than I could ever give. But my biggest regret was having to erase Donna's mind. Bella could say all the pretty words she wanted to, but the fact remains that Donna could die if she ever remembers me or anything about our time together. She might have sought me out after our first encounter, but because of me she can never remember the adventure we had.

What is worse is those are just the last three companions I have had, I wonder how many others would have been better off had they never meet me. Or was Bella right, did they enjoy their time with me more than I would allow myself to believe. It is hard to say, but I am glad that in my final days I'll have one last companion. I guess I might have gone too far with the whole Mars incident and I know Sigma called me; it was surprising that his race has advanced to that level. I wonder how long it has been. I really should go see him.

No point dealing with it now, people need my help. Finally decided to set down didn't you sexy. I checked the monitor to find out where we are. Much to my surprise we were on a planet I haven't been to, a hundred thousand years from when we just left, and it looked like the planet was in an ice age, everything is frozen.

By the looks of there was a human colony or research post about a mile away. That must be were the distress signal was coming from. I wasn't sure how cold it was, but I knew I was going to need a thicker coat, but I only had one.

"Bella, I think you might need to wait here. I only have one coat and it is at least a mile to the settlement over there. It seems to be extremely cold out, so you might go into hypothermia, since you aren't exactly dressed for this kind of weather."

She laughed for a moment. "Sweet Doctor, first of all I am not affected by the weather, extremes don't bother me. Second I could make it to that structure in less than a second. So I appreciate your concern, but it is not necessary."

"Right, vampire, I keep forgetting that little tidbit of information. Alright then, shall we be off?"

"Would you like me to carry you?"

"I suppose in the interest of time that would be the fastest way."

"Come on."

"This is kind of embarrassing."

"What a grown man being carried by an eighteen year old girl?"

"You're eighteen?"

"Yup. Forever eighteen."

"OK, let's hurry."

She obliged and before I had time to think about it any further we were at the door.

"It's locked." She said. "I think I can fix that."

"Hold on a second." I got out my sonic screwdriver and started to manipulate the lock. A second later it clicked open.

"Neat, what is that?"

"A sonic screw driver, I can open locks, get readings from energy signals, and turn on the lights."

"So what are we doing here?"

"Well the message said something about a malfunction. This place is at least 100 thousand years in your future; it is a humanoid colony of some sort. I would venture to say that it is a terra-forming team; they come in to make the place breathable and livable, or some kind of exploration group. If I had to guess I would say that something went wrong with the equipment. Now they need help before it blows up."

"It sounds like you do this sort of stuff a lot."

"A bit, some, yeah, pretty often. I hate Sundays and nothing ever good happens on Mondays, I skip those altogether. Guess I only travel on days with adventures, so I don't have a choice but to do this sort of stuff."

"In other words you bring this on yourself."

"That is one way to look at it. The other way is 'what is the point of living and being in a position to help others if I take weeks and months off at a time?' I would rather be helping then getting a tan."

"Who are you? How did you get here?" A young woman asked.

"Ah, hello, I'm the Doctor and this is my companion Bella."

"If you have a way to leave you must do so immediately it isn't safe here."

"That is what we are here for, we came to help."

"No one can help us. They won't let us leave."

"They, they who."

"We don't know. When we scanned the planet to colonize it we didn't detect any life forms. But a week ago this blizzard came; it has gotten colder every day since. Then two days ago a member of a survey crew went missing. Our systems are freezing up, so we had decided to power up our ship yesterday, when we went to get on board it was destroyed."

"What did it and how?" Bella asked.

"Again we don't know, but the engines and cockpit were smashed beyond repair. No one has seen anything but shadows and we did another life signs scan of the area, but came back with only the now 10 inhabitants of this complex. We sent out a distress call, but it could take a month before help can arrive."

"Do you have another means to escape?"

"An escape pod, but it would only launch us into space and head for our home planet. It would take us 30 years, at best, to make it home. If the rescue ship has already been sent then we could survive long enough for it to intercept us, with the available food and water, but just barely."

"Oh we have a ship; we could take you all if needed. But first let's try and find out what is going on."

"Doctor, shouldn't we play it safe and get everyone out of here before you go exploring.

"Yes I suppose it would be best."

"Lilum, have you seen, Drake?"

"No, I though he went out with Blake and Chloe."

"He did, they came back, said they got separated at the pass. He told them to go on, he was going around. That was five hours ago and it should only have taken him 2 hours extra in this weather, 3 at the absolute most. And who are these people?"

"The Doctor and Bella."

"Well Doctor and Bella, I'm Captain Alexander, it is a pleasure to see you, do you have a ship? It would be very advantageous for us to get off this rock as soon as possible."

"We do, just out that door there and back about a mile."

"That is suicide. How could you have possibly come in from that way?"

"We ran, why?"

"That is where our first crew man went missing and several of the crew has said they have seen shadows out that way."

"I didn't see anything, or smell anything." Bella said. "I'll take another look."

"Bella, don't be crazy. You might have the name of the great warrior, but there is no reason to get yourself killed."

"Well I am no warrior, but I don't plan on going far enough to get killed either, I'll just take a step outside and have a look around; I'll stay close."

She went and I wanted to get to the bottom of this so we headed to the control room. I got out my screw driver and did a quick scan. Sure enough the system was freezing. Not that the computers themselves were actually freezing as it was a pleasant 25 degrees Celsius in here. It was the line on the outer walls and the antenna array on the roof. Even a hundred thousand years in the future and they are still using these lines.

I turned up the juice on one of the arrays and it started to come to life. I did a scan to see what I could find, scanning the area Bella was. Sure enough there were no life signs besides those in the habitat. I widened the search for more variations of life. "Found you. What in the world are you doing way out here?"

"Did you find something Doctor?"

"Yes. It would seem that your scans were not set up to find cold weather creatures. This is an ancient race of begins from the planet Mars, a once proud and mighty warrior race that eventually became peaceful beings. Though time caught up with them and they died off; however, it would seem that not all of them died. These are Lorican Ice Warriors, and there seems to be about a dozen."

"Doctor, I could see some movement. Nothing near the TARDIS But they are moving in the shadows and through the snow."

"Yes, we found them. But what do they want? Why are they here? Why are you here, what did you come for?"

"The ore of course. It can be used to power our cities for a millennium. But it is buried deep within the core of the planet. It has taken us three years to bore a shaft to the deposits."

"And how long after the hole was completed did the storm come?"

"A couple days before we finished the shaft the blizzard hit."

"Is this the first time a blizzard has come?"

"Yes, we found what appears to be several blizzards in the ore shaft. Every century or so one comes, and lasts for years, dumping several meters of snow and ice on the planet. Even around our habitat the snow has risen nearly half a meter already."

"So it is likely that this habitat will be buried in a month. Your escape pod, how long will that take to get ready and is it in danger of being buried?"

"No it is at the highest point of the structure. It will take some time to get prepared, given the freezing temperatures outside."

"Yes, better hold off on that." The Doctor said.

"Why, should we not prepare it for departure?"

"Might be best to wait, I think your ship was attacked because it produced heat."

"But this structure is producing heat, it has never been attacked."

"Captain, you said that you have seen shadows around, I think they are surrounding this place, before moving against you."

"You said that these Ice Warrior people are peaceful."

"That was tens of thousands of years ago, before they were believed to become extinct. I can only assume some didn't agree with peace and left to find their own path. They may think that you have come to attack them. The heat makes them weak. It is the opposite of reptiles on Earth. Earth reptiles needed the sun to keep their blood warm and flowing. Ice Warriors need the cold to live. If it gets to warm they can hibernate, I am guessing that is the reason they came to this planet."

"So they are going to attack us and they attacked our ship because it was producing heat?"

"That about sums it up. I don't know why they came or what they want, but long long ago they were a feared race of warriors. Over time the galaxies around them grew in strength and technology. Eventually others became more powerful and the Ice Warriors turned to peaceful negotiations. They lived a long time before a cataclysmic event destroyed most of their planet. The few survivors could not keep the species going and they died off a few millenniums years later."

"You think these are part of the peaceful race that escaped."

I shook my head. "I would guess a part of the warrior race that did not like the peaceful ideals their kind came to embrace."

"So they didn't attack the ship to keep us here, but because it was weakening them." Lilum asked.

"That is my guess."

"What can we do? If we power the escape pod the heat will surely attract them and it will be destroyed. We cannot stay out in the weather for too long and there is no way we could fight in that kind of weather with the survival gear we would need to wear." Lilum was scared.

"I can keep them off the escape pod, until you lift off." Bella said.

"But you're just a child." The Captain replied.

"Not really. I am, well I didn't exactly live through the last eighty years, but I have existed for nearly 100 years now. I guess I just age gracefully." Bella responded.

"Alright I guess the first thing we need to do is get everyone together and prepped."

The door bust open. "Captain, Carmen just left to find Drake."

"Have Chloe stop her."

"She tried; she is in the infirmary with a busted lip."

"Damn it. We need to leave. Go get everyone from the shaft and bring them here, we are declaring an emergency and using the pod."

"Captain, what is going on and who are these people and where did they come from?" The guy asked.

"I'm the doctor, this is Bella, and we are here to help you."

"Thanks, I'm Blake. I hope you know what you got yourself into."

"Not idea, isn't it grand?" I was smiling now. This is what I live for.

"You seem happy." Bella said.

"I am in my element. So, to business, Captain, get your crew here and we'll load up your pod. Send your intentions to your home planet and prepare for takeoff."

"Will you be able to make it to your ship?" Lilum asked.

"Yes, don't worry about that, we can make it." Bella answered.

The Captain started to contact his planet.

"Doctor, should I go look for Carmen?"

"Will you be OK?"

"Not sure, never meet an Ice Warrior before."

"Well, just take a quick look and hurry back. They have claws and sonic weapons; at least they did thousands of years ago."

"I'll be safe."

Vampire Bella's POV

I walked over to the back exit, the opposite side from where we came in. I could smell the human's blood immediately. I got her scent and went outside. It was already fading in the heavy snow. At faster than a human pace I followed her trail.

I ended up about a half mile out when I saw a group of these Lorican Ice Warrior people. I smelled the air and their scent was all around the smell of the woman I was tracking. They had her bound and were carrying her somewhere. I decided to follow, not knowing what else to do and hoping that they would lead me to the other one that was lost.

It took about 20 minutes before they finally reached a little cave in the side of a mountain. I could see several guards and wondered if they could see me. The Doctor was right about my cloths. I was still wearing a pair of blue jeans, t-shirt and parka with my sneakers. To say I stood out like a sore thumb was an understatement.

Since no one came to challenge me I waited until they went in then ran at full speed to avoid them seeing me. They might be reptilian in some sense, but I doubted they were as fast as I was, at least I hoped.

I made it in and could smell many more than a dozen, a few hundred at the very least.

"Why are you here?" Someone hissed.

"I came to find my husband." A scared woman called out.

"NO, why are you here, on this planet."

"To mine the ore, it will be an energy source for our people to survive." She whispered.

"We can't allow outsiders to know we live here. She must be punished." Another male Martian called out.

I can't believe these are Martians. I mean people from Mars, real live people that came from Mars.

"Kill her kill her." A large group started chanting.

Well no time to dwell on that now.

"Bury her in the snow." The original guy said. "Beside the other one."

"The other, is it a man?"

"Yes, you will see him soon."

I heard footsteps coming this way. I hide in a corner until they past then followed. Out the way we came in, to the right was a hidden cove. They used some kind of weapon to dig a hole. I was guessing that is the sonic weapon the doctor warned me about. They shot her with it then tossed the girl in. Her heartbeat became erratic, but didn't stop.

They went back in their hide out and I went to get Carmen. I ran to the hole they tossed her in and a couple feet to the side was a man with a pack and the same clothes as the crew members, he had no heartbeat. I guessed it would be best to bring him back, so they could at least give him a proper burial. I jumped in grabbed him then her and ran full speed back to the habitat.

When we got back there was a flurry of activity. Everyone seemed to be loading the pod. I stepped back in and one of the guys came rushing over.

"What happened?"

"She was shot with something, she is alive, take her to the infirmary at once. He didn't make it."

The guy grabbed Carmen and ran to the infirmary, I followed with Drake. I placed him on an empty stretcher and placed a sheet over him. They were working on the girl and Chloe was helping, unfortunately she did smell really good right about now, with her bloody lip.

I took my leave and headed to the control room to warn the doctor.