Well. Here we go. This story is done. Just about two more chapters to post after this one. It's been a wild ride to get it done but I'm so proud of myself that I did. I feel very productive going into this New Year. After all I was also putting up our Christmas decorations as I was finishing this story. REVIEW!
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Mlle. Phoenix Fox
"Idris?" The Tenth Doctor asked as his ship turned human panted with worry marring her features.
"What? What? Idris, what's wrong?" Eleven asked rushing to her side.
"Bad Wolf...Beverely Barlowe...gone!" Idris said.
The Tenth Doctor's eyes widen as he looked around.
"Where's Rose?"
"I sent her to check on Trent and Zane." Henry said. The Tenth Doctor ran out of the lab.
"Rose!"
"Fargo find Jo. Tell her to shut down every exit!" Jack ordered as he rushed out of the lab to follow the Doctor. But Zane and Trent hadn't seen Rose. Nor did they have any answers on how to stop the autron levels from rising. They searched all over GD. But there was no sign of Rose. Or Beverly Barlowe. They all met back in the med lab after searching the building.
"How could she just walk in here and snatch Rose up?" The Tenth Doctor ranted as he and Eleven paced back and forth.
"The autron energy is affecting our security systems. I'm so sorry Doctor." Jo apologized.
"But Beverly must have disguised herself or she would have been arrested on sight. The whole town knows her crimes." Eleven said in thought.
"Why kidnap just Rose?" Zoe asked.
"Convenience. She was the only one alone." Allison said.
"But the Doctors and their companions have split up a lot since they've been here. Why wait to kidnap her when they could have grabbed anyone of you guys anytime?" Zoe asked.
"Oh! She's brilliant! I see the family resemblance." Eleven said stopping to point at Zoe with a grin.
"So they want Rose specifically. But for what?" Ten asked still pacing.
"Bad Wolf." Idris said in a trance.
"What?" Ten paled.
"Sorry. What's Bad Wolf?" Rory asked.
"To save the Ninth Doctor, Rose looked into the heart of the TARDIS, the Eye of Harmony itself. She became this bad ass entity that called herself Bad Wolf and that could see all of time and space at once. She turned the Daleks into dust!" Fargo explained, gushing just a bit.
"Wow. Rose is awesome." Amy said impressed.
"But we pulled the time vortex from her head! And there was nothing in her DNA to suggest Bad Wolf still exists." Ten insisted.
"But the Consortium doesn't know that. If they want the Eye of Harmony, they may be looking for someone to communicate with the Akashic Field. They tried to kidnap Kevin when he was connected to it." Henry said.
"So what do we do?" Jo asked.
"The plan we came up with before. Of letting them think they have what they want so we can find them." Jack said.
"But they have Rose! They have what they want." Ten said.
"Still a chance it could work." Eleven said.
"And risk Rose's life in the process! Easy for you to say." Ten said.
"What does that suppose to mean?" Eleven asked.
"Well you have all your companions don't you? Rose is all I have in this world that's familiar. That's mine! You even have your own human version of the TARDIS that you met! And you want to just be cavalier with Rose. Is one thousand years all it takes to forget what she meant to us?" Ten spat at his future self.
"I would be very careful if I were you..." the Eleventh Doctor warned his past self with a dangerous tone.
"Or what, Time Lord?" Ten asked getting into his fellow Doctor's face. The tension was palpable as the companions and the Eureka residents watched the two aliens.
"I may have called myself the Eleventh Doctor, but we both know that this was our twelfth face. I was at the end of the line. That makes a man think of every mistake, every lost, every regret. And losing Rose was near the top of the list. So don't you dare accuse me of being cavalier!" Eleven said, his tone of voice a terrifying and even growl. Jack even felt himself unconsciously put a hand to his revolver. For it was the first time he realized that the two men before him were as dangerous as his Whovian friends had said.
"And there he is! The Doctor that likes to make all the pretty speeches. Never thinking that he's wasting time when he could actually do something!" Ten said giving Eleven a shove. Eleven shoved back. They began fighting and wrestling with each other.
"Hey hey hey!" Jack cried as he and Zane started to restrain Eleven.
"Doctor stop it!" Rory said as he and Henry pulled Ten back.
"Okay! Okay! Settle down!" Jack said stepping between them. He continued,
"We are all worried for Rose, but turning on each other isn't going to help things. We have to work together."
Idris stepped forward, looking between her Thieves,
"The Sheriff is right! Now stop this foolish fighting at once."
"You are not my mother..." Ten muttered.
"And you are not my child. DNA signatures." Idris said.
"What?" Jack asked.
"You're going to ask Dr. Deacon about DNA signatures." Idris said.
"How do you know that?" Jack asked.
"Wait a mo. When we were trying to find the Doctors and they were getting chased by the fangirls, S.A.R.A.H tracked them using their heat signatures and DNA." Clara said.
"Great. I need to have another talk with our house." Jack sighed to Allison.
"Oh! We can access S.A.R.A.H from here! Her firewalls should be protecting her from the Autron energy." Fargo said.
"But finding Rose is half the battle. How are we going to get her out?" Ten asked.
"Brain thinking. Mouth hush." Idris said covering the Tenth Doctor's mouth with her hand.
"If only it were that easy..." Eleven said.
"Fingers on lips!" Idris said putting a finger on his confused lips.
"Henry? The transporter was used to help create the TARDIS right?" Jack asked.
"Right. So?" Henry nodded.
"So it used DNA to lock a person onto a location right? Could we use Rose's DNA to lock the TARDIS onto her location?" Jack asked.
Henry smiled, ever amazed by Carter's intelligence.
"He's right. We have Rose's DNA signature on file. We can use the TARDIS to latch onto her signal and transport ourselves there!" Henry said.
"Not you. Us." Eleven said taking Idris' hand away from his mouth.
"Doctor you can't do this alone." Allison said.
"I won't be alone. Right Doctor?" Eleven asked Ten. He extended a hand towards the Tenth Doctor. The Doctor looked at the hand and the remaining companions in thought. After losing Rose and Martha and Donna he thought he was better off alone. He remembered what Sarah Jane Smith had told him after facing off Davros and the Daleks. That for all his complaining about being lonely, he had the biggest family in the universe. Family. Another thing he hadn't had in a while.
He shook the Eleventh Doctor's hand and said,
"Right Doctor."
"Whoo hoo!" Fargo exclaimed.
"Wait hold on. If we use the TARDIS to transport us to Rose, how are we going to get back?" Rory said.
"Not you, us!" Eleven insisted.
"Allison's right. You can't go there alone. Not without a way out." Jack said.
"Unless, you're not planning a way out, are you?" Amy asked.
"Our lives for Rose. Fair trade if you ask me." Ten said.
"But Doctor it's a bad trade. With your anatomy the Consortium could create super soldiers that can't die! We're talking zombie apocalypse man." Zane said.
"Really?" Jo asked dryly.
"It's not impossible..." Zane muttered.
"What else can we do? With us they'd have what they want. A means to create an Eye of Harmony and someone to communicate with the Akashic Field." Eleven said.
"Doctor. You know we could get a working TARDIS again if you just let me back in the box." Idris reminded them.
"No! Not this time. Idris there's no reason we're going to give up your freedom as a person to be stuck in a box." Eleven told her, putting his hands on his shoulders.
"But I'm not free Doctor. And I'm dying. I only have about twenty five minutes left." Idris said.
"Then Dr. Deacon and Dr. Blake has twenty four minutes to save your life." Ten said.
"While you two give yourselves up to the Consortium." Jo said.
"There's no other way." Ten said.
"So we're going back to the original plan. Give them want they want so we can follow." Jack said.
"Jack..." Allison protested.
"Hang on. You have a plan don't you?" Clara asked Jack who smiled.
"Let me go!" Rose shouted as she struggled against the guards holding her. She had woken up in a large warehouse, full of guns for hire and scientists working at makeshift lab stations. Rose looked overhead and saw a massive telescope aimed towards the sky. Currently, she was being dragged to where Beverly Barlowe was overseeing the work being done on the floor.
"Ah, Miss Tyler. So glad you could join us." Beverly smirked.
"You won't get away with this! The Doctors will stop you!" Rose cried.
"Don't you even want to know why you're here?" Beverly asked.
"I don't bloody care. I'm just waiting for the Doctors to come save me so I can see them teach you why they're called, 'the Oncoming Storm'." Rose said defiantly.
"We're counting on it." Spoke up a man's voice. Rose craned her neck to see a blond haired man step down from the telescope's observation deck. He was middle aged, well dressed, moderately good looking, a little short, and Rose noted, a little smug.
"Miss Tyler. Welcome to the Consortium. Sorry about the rough treatment. Beverely's methods are a little heavy handed, but they get results." He said politely.
"And who are you? Father Christmas?" Rose asked sarcastically.
"I'm Dr. Warren King. And may I say? It's an honor to meet you. Truly. I'm a big fan." King smiled.
"Wish I could say the same, but I'm a bit tied up at the moment." Rose quipped, indicating her bound hands behind her back.
"Just a precaution until you and the Doctors realize what we're trying to do here." King said.
"What's that then?" Rose asked.
King pursed his lips in thought, hands in his pockets. Finally, he replied,
"You know, when Doctor Who premiered fifty years ago, it was right after the Kennedy Assassination? And even in Britain hardly anyone wanted to watch a show about a time traveling alien when such a popular United States President had been killed. And back then it started out as a educational kids show. It was doomed to fail...until the Doctor first met the Daleks.
Britain became memorized by this clever madman who outsmarted the bad guys. Especially at a time when a bad guy had just killed one of the good guys. They needed a nonviolent hero. And the Doctor was that hero. And from then on the Doctor inspired generations of kids to be more clever than the bad guys. To invent amazing machines to bring peace.
But guess what? The bad guys used our machines to make weapons. Nuclear Warheads. Land Mines. Even cyber warfare. But what if we were smarter? What if we could tap into the secrets of the universe? All of the knowledge of time and space. The Doctors can help us."
"By communicating with the Eye of Harmony." Rose guessed.
"The Akastic Field to be precise. The Eye of Harmony is just the antenna. Theorectical psychists says that the Field is God Himself." King said.
"Last time I checked, anyone can talk to God." Rose said.
"But God doesn't want us to know His secrets. Communicating with the field will change all that." King said.
"Last bloke that tried that, ended up in Hell." Rose warned him.
"Oh but the Devil never had what we have, Miss Tyler." King smirked.
"What?" Rose asked.
"You. And your Bad Wolf alter ego." King said. If he noticed Rose's furrowed brow, he ignored it. He stepped close to her and asked, "Can't you feel it? Buried deep inside you? All that power that touched the universe. Surely it left a mark. And you certainly aren't leaving here until we find it."
Now Rose was scared.
"This better work." Trent sighed.
"Have faith Dr. Rockwell. We've had far worst plans than this and it came off without a hitch." The Tenth Doctor reassured the scientist. They had hooked up their computers and monitoring equipment to the TARDIS. Jack looked over at the Eleventh Doctor whose arms were tangled in a mess of wires, a pair of goggles on his forehead. They had sent Zoe, Holly, Grace and Taggart to the underground bunkers to check on and reassure the people of Eureka.
"If this does work, I'm so contacting the Doctor Who Experience." Fargo declared as he and Zane furiously wrote code on the computer.
"I wonder. If we're real now, does that mean we get a share of the royalties from the show?" Amy mused.
"Wow. That would be a lot of money after fifty years." Rory thought.
"Unfortunately you can't expose your existence without exposing Eureka. And to do so would violate that secrecy agreement you signed." Allison told them.
"Did we actually sign one of those?" Ten asked Eleven.
"Remember when Jo twisted our arms behind our backs and slammed our faces to the table until we signed a piece of paper?" Eleven prompted him.
"Oh yeah..." Ten nodded.
"And I won't hesitate to do that again." Jo told them with a hint of threat.
"Why are you marrying her?" Clara asked Zane.
"The violent streak turns me on." Zane said.
"I get that." Eleven spoke up. Everyone looked at him in surprise.
"What? I married River remember?" he asked as everyone nodded.
"Henry? Will this work?" Jack asked his best friend who was inserting a pain killer in Idris' arm. Idris squeezed Jack's hand with a little mew of pain. Idris had insisted on being by her Thieves sides. So they had set up a gurney and Henry was working on helping her while the others got the TARDIS ready.
Henry heaved a heavy sigh,
"If It doesn't, I don't know what will."
Jack nodded as Henry turned to monitor Idris' vitals when she said,
"Sheriff? Why did you shoot the lights?"
"What? I didn't do that." Jack shook his head.
"Oh of course. You're going to." Idris said.
"What?" Jack asked.
"We're ready." Trent said.
"Here goes nothing." Ten said as he and the Eleventh Doctor walked into the blue box.
"Be careful." Amy said rushing up to give them both a hug.
"Always Amy Pond." Ten said giving her a wink.
"Come back to me." Clara told Eleven as she hugged him.
"Always Oswald." Eleven told her, booping her on her pert little nose with his finger. The girls stepped back and the Doctors shut the door. The scientists started up their generators. Zane cracked his knuckles.
"Here we go." Zane said.
"So what's going to happen?" Jack asked.
"The TARDIS is a transporter right now. It's locked onto Rose's DNA and will hopefully transport the Doctors and the TARDIS to her location." Henry explained.
"If it doesn't burst into flames first..."Fargo muttered.
"What?!" Clara cried right before Fargo and Zane each hit enter on their keyboards. A bright flash of light filled the room and before Jack knew it, there was a box shaped pile of dust where the TARDIS had been.
"Oh my gawd! They're dead, they're dead, they're dead!" Amy worried.
"No it's okay! That's just dirt that's filtered out and left behind. We've seen this before, right Henry?" Jack said as the dust dissolved. When he got no response, he looked to his right and saw Henry was frozen in time.
"Oh no..." Jack said.
"What happened to them?" Clara asked looking around and seeing the same thing had happened to the rest of them. Jo, Fargo, Allison, Trent, Henry and Zane were all frozen in place. Just Jack and the companions were mobile.
"The power generated to transport the TARDIS and the Doctors interfered with the EM shield and the autron energy. It froze them in space time." Idris explained, detacting herself from the monitoring equipment.
"Did they know this would happen?" Jack asked going to caress his wife's cheek.
"They didn't want you to worry." Idris said holding her side as she hobbled over to the equipment.
"Well now I'm very worried!" Jack cried.
"But that means the Doctors knew this would happen too." Rory said watching as Idris began working on the equipment herself.
"Ooh...They are both getting such a smack..." Amy growled.
"So why aren't we frozen?" Clara asked.
"Autron energy. You lot are dripping with it. It protected you from the blast." Idris said cutting two lines and them reconnecting them as if she were hotwiring a car.
"Even me?" Jack asked confused.
"You have time traveled more than anyone in Eureka." Idris said.
"I'm covered in autron energy. Great." Jack nodded.
"A cop's best friend." Idris said.
"What?" Jack asked.
"You said it. Or you're going to say it." Idris said.
"What are you doing?" Rory asked in concern at the sweat on Idris brow.
"I'm rigging up the system to transport us. With the generators down the second half of the plan won't work for long. We have to go help the Doctors." Idris said.
"Works for me." Clara nodded.
"Wait! Is that even safe?" Jack asked.
"He has a point considering you're dying." Rory pointed out.
"I know. In Ten minutes and forty eight seconds. Which is why we must hurry." Idris said pulling them all together in a circle and making them all lock arms.
"What are you going to do?" Jack asked.
"This." Idris said connecting two cords together.
"Wait!" Jack cried before they dissappeared in a flash of light, the cords dropping to the floor.
Rose gasped as a bright flash of light filled the room and she smiled upon seeing a familiar sight. King stepped forward to see the TARDIS itself smoking from the transport. The side with the door was facing away from them, so King watched the door open out and the Eleventh Doctor stepped out adjusting his cuffs with a practiced swagger. As did the Tenth Doctor who had his hands in the pockets of his camel trench coat.
"Fantastic entrance. I mean you two are effectively screwed, but still. Bravo." King clapped.
"Let Rose go." the Tenth Doctor said.
"Or what? Is this the part where you give us one last chance?" Beverly asked.
"Close. We're offering a trade. Us for Rose." Eleven said.
"Hmm. Tempting. Or we'll just keep all of you." King said.
"But we'll cooperate more if you let Rose go." Ten said glancing at a pair of lab techs that appeared on the floor in baseball caps, hoodies and full lab coats.
"Or if I threaten to kill her unless you do. I mean all I have to do is shoot her before she regenerates right?" King said. Rose saw the look of fury in her Tenth Doctor's eyes. But it was the look in the Eleventh Doctor's calm and cool eyes that terrified her. He was a man who knew how to keep his anger bubbling vindictively under the surface.
"Now this is the part where we give you one last chance." Eleven said in an even tone.
"Or what? Look around you Doc! You're surrounded. You're companion's life hangs in the balance and you don't have a fully functioning time machine. What could you possibly do to stop us?" King asked.
"Well..." Ten began. Only he was interrupted when another bright light filled the room and there stood Jack Carter, Idris and the Companions. Rory raised his hands at the sight of the guns, while Jack glared down at Idris.
"Oh dear. My aim appears to be off." Idris blinked up at him.
"Ya think?!" Jack cried.
"Oh no no no! What are you lot doing here?!" Eleven whined. Rose glanced at two lab techs with a furrow in her brow, seeing how one grabbed his partner by the arm as if to still him. Their backs were turned to the action. They hadn't even reacted when the companions transported.
"Sheriff Carter! Great to see you." King said.
Jack looked at King in confusion,
"Warren King?"
"You know each other?" Clara asked.
"He was the director of GD when I first came to town seven years ago." Jack explained.
"Until you got me fired." King said bitterly.
"It's not my fault one of your scientists built a doomsday device without your knowledge." Jack said.
"No but the report you wrote for Sheriff Cobb made it clear that it happened on my watch. So the DOD let me go before I could complete our work." King said.
"So you were with the Consortium this whole time?" Jack asked.
"I run the Consortium. No one is higher up in the Consortium than me." King said. He frowned when the Tenth Doctor began to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Beverly asked.
"I just figured out who you lot are. You're the losers! You lot of the big bad Consortium are just a bunch of losers that couldn't cut it in the scientific community without lying and cheating and weaseling your way up to the top. No wonder you try to steal secrets from scientists who actually try to strive for world peace. Because it is beyond your grasp of understanding morality." Ten ranted.
"And yet. You're our prisoners." King smirked.
"Oh my...my other kidney just failed." Idris said before collapsing in Jack's arms. He and Rory lowered her to the ground while Rose noted that the Doctors didn't rush to her side like they had in the past.
Jack looked up at King and said,
"Warren you have to stop this. She's dying. Eureka's going to be frozen in space time. We have to stop it."
"Oh we will. With the Doctors helping us. Or they watch their companions die one...by...one." King threatened.
"Beverly is this what your father wanted when he helped Dr. Grant start the Consortium? A legacy of bloodshed?" Eleven asked.
"My father spent half his life in prison for his beliefs. He would have done whatever it takes. Just like I am. Just like I have." Beverly stressed.
"Peacekeeper..." Jack heard Idris whisper. He looked down to see her looking at him.
"What?" he asked.
"I did it because I love them...Peacekeeper...set me free..." Idris whispered. Her eyes glanced upwards. Jack looked up seeing the florescent lighting overhead.
"It's over Doctors. Kill Carter first." King ordered.
"No!" Amy said as she and the other companions stepped between Jack and the gunmen. Rose watched as one of the lab techs she had been watching raised a familiar sonic screwdriver and the Doctors became a pulse of energy that flew forward and zapped the gunmen and the guards that held her, unconscious.
"What?" King asked confused. Then he and Beverly gaped as the lab techs turned from their computers and shed their coats, hats and hoodies to reveal that they were in fact the Tenth and the Eleventh Doctors. In the flesh.
"Gotta love a hologram. Hullo Rose." The Tenth Doctor grinned.
"Hullo!" Rose grinned crossing over to join his side.
"Miss me?" he asked.
"Always." Rose said.
"Quite right too." the Tenth Doctor said using his sonic to remove the cuffs from behind her back.
"What just happened?" Beverly asked.
"Oh the Doctor and I transported here, but we sent the TARDIS here and us to a spot less crowded with heat signatures. Thanks to one smart house. Then we borrowed a disguise and sent our holograms out to have a lovely chat with you." the Eleventh Doctor explained.
"Then we converted our holograms to an electric pulse to knock out your henchmen. Simple." Ten shrugged.
"You should have agreed to our deal. Now we have no choice." Eleven said.
"No choice?" King asked.
"We're going to stop you." Ten said.
"How?" Beverly asked.
"By asking the oldest question in the universe." Eleven grinned. That's when all the computer screens went blank and only a signal message in white letters appeared.
Doctor Who?
"Now Jack!" Ten said. Jack pulled his gun and shot out the lights, leaving them to fumble in the dark. Beverly looked and saw the only light came from the glow of the TARDIS. Seeing the Doctors and the Companions and Jack Carter duck inside, Beverly picked up a machine gun and began to open fire.
The Doctors closed the doors as the girls cried out and ducked from the shots, Rory protecting them. Jack covered Idris' prone form with his own.
"The TARDIS will protect us right?" Amy asked over the gun fire.
"Not for long! Without a TARDIS matrix to control the shields, they'll fail soon!" The Eleventh Doctor called out.
"What do we do?!" Clara asked.
Jack's head raised in realization. He turned Idris' face to him and said,
"Idris, you're free."
"Jack what are you telling her?" Ten asked.
"You have to let her go Doctor. She has to go back inside the box." Jack told him.
"But..." Eleven said.
"Trust me." Jack said. Eleven and Ten shared a pained look before nodding.
"You hear that Idris? The Doctors said it's okay. You can go home now." Jack told her gently. Then he watched in shock as her body convulsed and a stream of golden dust flowed from her mouth and into the machine itself like ribbons dancing in the wind. He watched as Idris' body disappeared and then looked up as the glass column of the time rotor lit up and started to pulse.
"That's more like it!" The Tenth Doctor said triumph as he and the Eleventh Doctor started to whiz around the controls. Rose and the other companions grinned as the familiar sound of the TARDIS taking off in flight filled the control room.
Vworp! Vworp! Vworp!