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A/N: Done! I have just finished this chapter and haven't proof read it so i'm sorry if they're any grammar or spelling errors. Thank you for the continued support of this story via reviews, alerts, favourites, ect. It really means a lot and really makes my day when I see one. So thank you! :) x
Year 2015- TARDIS
The 11th Doctor was sat in his study, his wife Gaia in his lap and a photo album in hand. They were both reminiscing of the companions and adventures of their past, something they didn't do often. Sitting, well lying, on the couch a short distance away from them was their eldest daughter. She too had a book in hand but her concentration in the text was beginning to waiver as her eyes started to droop. After the girl's 5th yawn Gaia had had enough.
"Alright time for bed Mrs." Gaia stated scaring their daughter awake.
"I'm not tired though." Their daughter proclaimed; both the Doctor and Gaia raised their eyebrows at the blatant lie. "Fine." She conceded knowing full well that she would lose if she tried to argue her parents. The girl heaved herself off of the couch and stumbled over to her parents. She gave them both a hug. "Night." She said as she kissed them both on the cheek.
"G'night." The Doctor replied not able to truly convey how much their daughter's simple gesture of saying goodnight meant to him.
"Good night Jenny." Gaia said and watched as her eldest living daughter shuffled to her bed.
Year 2008- TARDIS
The 10th Doctor clung tightly to Tardis console as the time machine span wildly out of control. "What the hell is it doing?" Donna yelled as she too hung onto the Tardis. Gaia tried to fiddle with one of the controls, trying anything to stable the flight.
"Controls aren't working!" She proclaimed trying to regain her grip. The console sparked as the Doctor tried to fiddle with the controls causing the Tardis to jolt and him to fall to the floor.
"I don't know where we're going but my old hand's very excited about it!" The Doctor stated, watching as his jarred hand bubbled wildly.
"I thought that was just some weird freaky alien thing! You telling me it's yours?" Donna shouted to him in shock.
"Well…" The Doctor dragged as she pulled himself back to his feet.
"It got cut off. He grew a new one." Martha answered.
"You are completely, impossible!" Donna yelled to the Doctor.
"Not impossible, just a bit unlikely." Gaia answered for the Doctor and the Doctor couldn't help but grin in agreement.
With a last explosion the Tardis gave a large jolt, sending all its occupants to the floor. The Doctor was the first to arise, with Gaia a close second and both of them ran to the Tardis door. Exiting the blue time machine, they found that it had landed in an underground tunnel of sorts. "Why would the TARDIS bring us here?" The Doctor asked and Gaia shrugged.
"Something's wrong though." Gaia stated.
"I know, the Tardis just went awol on me. Not that it hasn't happened before mind…" The Doctor rambled but Gaia cut him off.
"No, not with the TARDIS, the planet. It's like… I don't know, like there's no soul, no natural life… oh my god, there's no keeper." Gaia gasped and the Doctor looked up at her in shock.
Martha and Donna stepped out the TARDIS behind them.
"Oh, I love this bit." Martha said excitedly. Donna looked at her knowingly.
"Thought you wanted to go home." Donna commented and Martha shrugged.
"I know, but all the same." Martha started and at this point the Doctor and Gaia were riffling through the junk they seemed to be surrounded by. Gaia suddenly looked up and into the distance, her above average hearing having heard something approaching. "It's that feeling you get…" Martha continued and now both Donna and Martha looked up having heard something oncoming. The sight of soldiers comes into the eye sight.
"Like you swallowed a hamster?" Donna asked a mixture between sarcasm and fear.
The soldiers surrounded the Tardis crew, their weapons aimed at their heads. "Don't move, stay where you are! Drop your weapons." One of the male soldiers ordered. Everyone raised their hands, Gaia somewhat slowly hoping not to reveal her gun and holster in her jacket.
"We're not armed. Look, no weapons. Never any weapons. We're safe." The Doctor stated, although he knew it was probably a lie what with Gaia standing next to him.
"Look at their hands. They're clean." Another soldier stated and the Doctor eyed them confused.
"Alright, process them! Those two first." The original male soldier stated pointing to Gaia and the Doctor. The 4 soldiers who had accompanied the male surrounded both the Doctor and Gaia and force them towards a machine.
"Oi, oi! What's wrong with clean hands?" Gaia demanded.
"What's going on?" Martha shouted in protest as did Donna. Unfortunately their protests did little good and both the Doctor's and Gaia's hands were forced into the machine.
In unison the Doctor and Gaia yelled in pain. "This isn't going to check our blood pressure is it?" Gaia asked the Doctor gritting her teeth, the Doctor shook his head. They yelled in pain.
"What're you doing to them?" Donna demanded angrily.
"Everyone gets processed." The male soldier stated and Donna turned back to face the in pain Doctor and Gaia.
"It's taken a tissue sample. Ow, ow, ow! And extrapolated it! Some kind of accelerator?" The Doctor questioned to himself rambling as he endured the pain.
Seconds later, a sound of releasing hydraulics sounded freeing the Doctor and Gaia from the machine. Gaia stumbled over to the Doctor's side and grabbed the Doctor's hand, comparing the matching y-shaped grazes they now had. Martha and Donna also ran over to the pair.
"Are you alright?" Martha asked, but the Doctor and Gaia's attention was back on the machine they had just been released from. The door at the machines centre opened revealing a cloud of smoke.
"What on earth? That's just…" The Doctor breathed and a young woman stepped out of the machine.
The young woman looked no older than 16, she had long blonde hair that was up in a high ponytail and was dressed in all green military garb. Her eyes were a bright dazzling shade of green and her lips a subtle red.
The commanding soldier was the first to speak and handed the new woman a gun. "Arm yourself." He stated and the woman took the gun and prepared it like a natural.
"Where did she come from?" Martha asked, also looking at the woman in shock.
"From me, well us." The Doctor stated gobsmacked.
"From you? How? Who is she?" Donna asked. The Doctor lowered his still entwined hand with Gaia, their matching grazes next to each other.
"Well… she's…" The Doctor began not able to get his tongue around the words.
"She's our daughter." Gaia said shocked and surprised herself. Their `daughter` looked up at them as Gaia said this.
"Hello Mum and Dad." She said with a smile.
The Doctor's and Gaia's daughter walked over to the other soldiers, leaving the Doctor, Gaia, Donna and Martha by the machine. "You primed to take orders, ready to fight?" The commanding soldier, Cline, asked. The young woman nodded.
"Instant mental download of all strategic and military protocols, sir. Generation 5000 soldier primed and in peak physical health. Oh, I'm ready." The young woman boasted.
The Doctor, Gaia, Martha and Donna watched the conversation from afar. "Did you say daughter?" Donna asked shocked looking back and forth between the young woman and the apparent new parents.
"Mm. Technically." The Doctor stated, watching his new `daughter` with a detached interest.
"Technically how?" Martha asked confused. It was Gaia who answered this time.
"50th century reproduction. Take two diploid cells, split into haploid cells, rearrange them in a different arrangement and grow. Very quickly. It allowed same sex couples to have a child." Gaia explained, also watching her `daughter`.
"Something's coming!" The young woman said and fish like creatures appeared in the distance, also carrying guns and shooting at the humans.
"It's the Hath!" A soldier declared.
"Get down!" The woman ordered and the humans returned fire.
"We have to blow the tunnel! Get the detonator!" The commanding soldier stated, but all the soldiers were either dead or occupied with the oncoming Hath.
"I'm not detonating anything!" The Doctor argued angrily, but the soldier didn't respond, now too busy with the Hath. A rogue Hath managed to break the soldiers' line and grabbed Martha around the waist, pulling her away from the group. The young woman spotted this but didn't seem to care and picked up the detonator.
"Blow that thing!" The commanding officer shouted hurriedly.
"Martha!" Gaia shouted to the medic, but it was too late. The woman slammed the detonator and they had no other choice but to run for cover.
When the dust had settled the Doctor and Gaia ran out from their hiding place. They found the tunnel blocked and no sign of Martha anywhere. "You've sealed off the tunnel!" Gaia shouted at the woman angrily, the woman flinched a little.
"Why did you do that?" The Doctor demanded.
"They were trying to kill us!" The woman stated. Gaia sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose, she could concede that the girl had a point, the Doctor on the other hand didn't…
"But they've got my friend!" The Doctor argued.
"Collateral damage. At least you've still got those two, he lost both his men, I'd say you came out ahead." The woman stated and this sent Donna fuming, but Gaia got there first.
"Her name's Martha Jones and she's not collateral damage, not got anyone! Have you got that?" Gaia demanded angrily. The woman cowered a way a little at Gaia's shout, seemingly scared a little at Gaia's anger. Meekly the blond woman gave a nod.
"I'm going to find her." The Doctor stated and took a step forward. He was met with the end of a gun. Gaia was tempted to bring her own out and point it at the man, but she knew that would be useless if they wanted to have a chance at finding Martha.
"You're going nowhere. You don't make sense, you 3. No guns, no marks, no fight in you… I'm taking you to General Cobb. Now move." The commanding soldier stated and nudged them along the tunnel.
A little later on, whilst walking down one of the tunnels, Donna approached the young woman who was apparently the Doctor's and Gaia's daughter. "I'm Donna." She introduced. "What's your name?" She asked curiously, but the woman shrugged.
"Don't know it's not been assigned." The woman stated. Donna looked at her shocked.
"Well if you don't know that, what do you know?" Donna asked.
"How to fight." The woman answered honestly.
"Nothing else?" Donna added hopefully, looking at the Doctor for an explanation.
"The machine must embed military history and tactics but no name." Gaia stated.
"She's a generated anomaly." The Doctor added and Donna started to play with his wording.
"Generated anomaly? Jenny-rated. Well what about that? Jenny!" Donna proclaimed happily at the young woman.
"Jenny. Yeah, I like that, Jenny." The newly named Jenny exclaimed happily and Donna smiled, falling back to speak to the `new parents`.
"What do you think, `Mum` and `Dad`?" Donna asked stressing their newly created titles.
"Good as anything, I suppose." The Doctor answered with disinterest and Gaia proceeded in slapping him in the chest. He looked at her shocked, but quickly retreated when he saw the look in her eyes.
"Not what you'd call a natural parent, are you?" Donna stated, her statement obviously being directed at the Doctor.
"They stole a tissue sample at gun point and processed it; it's not what I call natural parentage." The Doctor exclaimed. Donna raised her eyebrows at him and was about to make a retort when Gaia stepped in.
"Your not saying that you're not a parent though. Whether we like it or not, we are parents and Jenny is our child." Gaia stated to the Doctor, but he refused it.
"Look, just cos I share certain physiological traits with simian primates doesn't make me a monkey's uncle, does it?" The Doctor stated and earned himself another slap from Gaia. At this point Jenny had also fallen back and was shocked at her `father's` statement.
"I'm not a monkey!" She exclaimed shocked. Gaia rubbed her arm sympathetically.
"Ignore him." She said softly and then proceeded to follow the Doctor into the human encampment they had reached.
"So, where are we? What planet's this?" The Doctor asked the soldier leading the group.
"Messaline. Well, what's left of it." The soldier answered. A loud tannoy sounded through the encampment listing the dead, none of the soldiers had names though, just numbers. Gaia is quickly caught up in the surroundings of it all. The room was a mixture of a factory and barracks. There were hundreds of cots, medical supplies and weaponry strewn around the room, showing the military mind set these people had. Yet against every wall, there were large machines similar to that in the tunnel. Each machine had two long lines of people in front of them, all of them willing to donate a sample of skin cells to create more people and in theory, their own children. Gaia felt slightly nauseous at the idea.
"General Cobb, I presume?" The Doctor asked as on older soldier made his way over to the group. The General skips introductions.
"Found in the Western tunnels, I'm told, with no marks. There was an outbreak of pacifism in the Eastern zone, three generations back, before we lost contact, is that where you came from?" The General asked. Gaia would have said he looked old, but she knew better. He probably wasn't older than 2, maybe 3 days. Everyone person here, bar the Doctor, Donna and herself, were products of those machines. There wasn't a single member of the original species left.
"Eastern Zone, that's us, yeah. I'm the Doctor, this is Gaia and Donna." The Doctor stated, lying quite easily to the general.
"And I'm Jenny." Jenny stated happily and Gaia couldn't help but give the girl a soft smile. The General ignored her.
"Don't think you can infect us with your peacemaking. We're committed to the fight, to the very end." Cobb stated; Gaia was the one to reply to that.
"Well, that's alright. We won't be staying. We've got to go find our friend." Gaia replied, not at all intimidated by the man.
"That's not possible, all movement is regulated. We're at war." Cobb said, his tone that of a military officer- sharp and to the point.
"Yes, I noticed." The Doctor began his tone much more casual and relaxed. "With the Hath. But tell me, cos we got a bit out of circulation, Eastern Zone and all that, what exactly are the Hath?" The Doctor asked.
Cobb led the group over to a projection desk and brought up a picture of a Hath. "Back at the dawn of this planet, these ancient halls were carved from the earth. Our ancestors dreamt of a new beginning, a colony where humans and Hath could work and live together." Cobb began.
"So what happened?" Donna asked, intrigued by the story.
"The dream died. Broken, along with Hath promised. They wanted it all from themselves. But those early pioneers fought back. They used the machines to produce soldiers instead of colonists, and began this battle for survival." Cobb continued.
"How long's this war gone on for?" The Doctor asked his tone now grim and heavy with his own burden of war.
"Longer than anyone can remember. Countless generations marked only by the dead." Cobb answered and the Doctor nodded solemnly.
"What, fighting all this time?" Donna asked shocked. She had not been exposed to the cruelty of war that the Doctor and Gaia had.
"Because we must." Jenny answered as if it were obvious; Gaia looked up at the girl in alarm. "Every child of the machine is born with this knowledge. It's our inheritance, it's all we know. How to fight and how to die." Jenny stated and Gaia looked on at her shocked.
A little while later, the Doctor and Gaia are studying a holographic map of the catacombs and tunnels in this sector of Messaline. "Does this show the entire city, including the Hath zone?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes, why?" Cobb asked confused.
"Well it'll help us find Martha." Gaia stated not taking here eyes off the map.
"We've got more important things to do. The reproduction machines are powered down for the night shift, but as soon as they're active, we could breed a whole platoon from you three." The soldier stated and Donna looked at them in shock and Gaia's ears pricked up, interested at Donna's response to that.
"I'm not having sons and daughters by some flippin' machine!" Donna started and turned to face Jenny. "Sorry no offence, but you're not… well I mean you're not real." Both Jenny and Gaia looked at her in shock, the former even more so. Gaia didn't get the chance to retort, because Jenny got their first.
"You're no better than him!" Jenny exclaimed. "I have a body, I have a mind, I have independent thought, how am I not real? What makes you better than me?" Jenny demanded and Gaia held back a smirk.
"Like mother, like daughter." The Doctor whispered in her ear and Gaia whacked him on the chest.
"Well said, soldier. We need more like you if we're ever to find the Source." Cobb stated and perked the Doctor's interest.
"Ooh, the Source, what's that then, what's a source? I like a Source, what is it?" The Doctor asked curiously.
"The Breath of Life." Cobb answered.
"And that would be…?" Gaia dragged.
"In the beginning the great on breathed life into the universe. And then she looked at what she'd done and she sighed." Cobb stated. Jenny laughed.
"She? I like that." She said and Gaia couldn't help but flicker her gaze over to the Doctor. He would have said that.
"Right, so it's a creation myth." The man in question stated. Cobb shook his head.
"It's not a myth. It's real. That sigh. From the beginning of time it was caught and kept as the Source. It was lost when war started. But it's here, somewhere. Whoever holds the Source controls the destiny of the planet." Cobb stated, but the Doctor seemed to ignore him as he had gone back to fiddling with the map. Several other tunnels, suddenly appear on the map, as does another large spacious area.
"I though so!" The Doctor announced. "There's a suppressed layer or information in this map." He stated and studied the newly improved map.
"That must be the lost temple." Cobb declared and Gaia watched as the Doctor rolled his eyes. "The Source will be inside. You've shown us the way! And look, we're closer than the Hath! It's ours." Cobb stated gleefully and then ordered the soldiers to move out.
"Um, call me old-fashioned, but if you really wanted peace couldn't you just stop fighting?" The Doctor stated.
"Only when we have the Source. It'll give us the power to erase every stinking Hath from the face of this planet!" Cobb declared and the Doctor and Gaia looked at him in shock.
"What happened to peace in our time?" The Doctor began.
"Because that's genocide!" Gaia finished angrily.
"For us, that's means the same thing." Cobb stated helping to pack some of the weaponry. The Doctor's anger grew exponentially.
"Then you need a better dictionary. When you do, look up genocide. You'll see a little picture of me there and the caption will read `Over my dead body`!" The Doctor argued angrily. It was Cobb who was calm in conversation this time.
"And you're the one who showed us the path to victory. But you can consider the irony from your prison cell. Cline, at arms!" Cobb ordered and the soldier who was with them, now named as Cline, pointed his gun at the trio.
"Oi,oi. Cool the beans Rambo!" Donna shouted, uncomfortable with the gun pointed at her head.
"Take them. I won't have them spreading treason. And if you try anything Doctor, I'll see that your woman dies first." Cobb stated indicating at Gaia.
"No we're not a couple." The Doctor stated, although his tone could be pin pointed at anger, almost disappointment.
"Come on, this way." Cline ordered.
"Lock them up and guard them," Cobb ordered.
"What about the new soldier?" Cline asked nodding his head towards Jenny. She stepped forward to Cobb, but he pushed her away into the Doctor's arms.
"Can't trust her, she's from pacifist stock. Take them all!" Cobb stated and Cline led the group away.
As the group were pushed into their cell, Donna noticed the numbers on the wall. The Doctor didn't like it, just as he didn't like the Source myth Cobb had told them. The Doctor then proceeded to call Martha from Donna's upgraded phone, much to the delight of Jenny, and she explained to them the situation in the Hath camp she found herself in. Unfortunately, the connection quickly broke, just as Cobb made his speech to his troops.
"The doors that have been closed will be open to us now. The door to the Temple, to the Source and to victory!" Cobb shouted and the soldiers cheered. "Come the dawn cycle we march."
The Doctor ran his hands through his hair. "They're getting ready to move out. We have to get past that guard." The Doctor stated and Jenny stepped up.
"I can deal with him." Both the Doctor and Gaia argued.
"No, no, no, no." They both said, but the end of their statements differed. Gaia's being: "You're doing nothing of a sort." And the Doctor's: "You're not going anywhere." Jenny looked between her two `parents` slightly startled. It took Gaia a minute to realise what the Doctor had said before she turned on him.
"What?" She questioned.
"She belongs here, with them." The Doctor stated and Gaia looked horrified.
"She belongs with us. She's our daughter!" Gaia argued.
"She's a soldier. She came out of that machine!" The Doctor retorted and Gaia shook her head.
"When we landed what was the first thing I said?" Gaia asked.
"Do we really…" The Doctor began but Gaia cut him off.
"Answer the question." The Doctor sighed in defeat.
"You said that the something felt wrong, that this planet didn't have a keeper." The Doctor resigned and Gaia nodded.
"Well now the planet does. Already you'll find the harsh conditions on the planet's surface are starting to lessen." Gaia stated. "And do you know who the keeper is?" Gaia asked and turned to face Jenny.
Jenny looked between her parents in a mixture of worry and confusion. "You want more proof, that she is in fact your daughter as well." Gaia stated and shoved her hand into the Doctor's pocket. She pulled out a stethoscope.
"What're you doing?" Jenny asked.
"It's all right sweetheart. Just hold still." Gaia instructed and placed the stethoscope of Jenny's chest and then moved it over to the other side. With a smile she turned back to the Doctor and handed him the device. "Listen." She ordered him and he complied. He fell back in shock at what he heard.
"Two hearts." He muttered.
"Exactly." Gaia agreed. Donna looked at Jenny in a mixture of shock and awe.
"Does that mean she's a…? What do you call a Planet Keeper and Time Lord child?" Donna asked the Doctor and Gaia.
"What are they?" Jenny asked them all in confusion.
"It's who we are. Gaia is a Planet Keeper and I'm a Time Lord." The Doctor stated.
"And I'm from you." Jenny stated.
"You're an echo, that's all." The Doctor began his rant but was quickly cut off by a whack in the chest from Gaia. It knocked the wind out of him and he stumbled back a step.
"Apologise. Now." Gaia ordered in a fury the Doctor had never heard from her. He muttered a quiet sorry, unable to raise his voice much louder as he over came the throbbing in his chest from Gaia's whack.
Gaia then turned back to face Jenny. "A planet keeper watches over planets, there are connected to it mentally. They allow the planet to grow and develop. I'm connected to a planet called Earth and although not fully yet, you would be this planet's keeper." Gaia stated, now holding Jenny's hand.
"But how, I don't know how to look after a planet? I didn't even have a name until Donna gave me one." Jenny said worriedly. Gaia smiled softly and brushed a piece of Jenny's hair out of her face.
"You'll learn and I'll teach you." Gaia replied honestly and Jenny looked up at her with a smile.
"Really?" Jenny asked and Gaia nodded. Jenny then swooped in and gave Gaia a hug, which Gaia happily returned. "Thanks Mum." Jenny whispered and Gaia thought her heart might just burst.
The Doctor watched the conversation from a far. Although he still wasn't overly sure of Jenny, he couldn't make her stay here now. With the knowledge of what happened to Gaia's first daughter, and with himself partially to blame for that, he would truly be the monster if he broke up Jenny and Gaia now. After ruining her first chance at being a mother, the Doctor wasn't going to forcibly take away a second.
No longer than an hour later, Gaia, the Doctor, Donna and Jenny had escaped the cell and arrived at the `Temple`, the Doctor and Jenny doing a lot of bonding along the way. "Oh, that was close." Jenny said breathless and the Doctor smiled at her.
"No fun otherwise." He stated happily and Jenny returned the gesture, their smiles mirroring one another.
"It's not what I'd call a temple…" Donna stated.
"It looks more like…" Gaia started.
"Fusion-drive transport. It's a spaceship!" The Doctor finished.
"What, the original one? The one the first colonists arrived in?" Donna asked.
"It would appear so." Gaia answered.
"But the power cells would have run down after all that time. This one's still powered-up and functioning." The Doctor stated and rubbed his chin. Suddenly the sound of banging could be heard from the other door.
"It's the Hath! That door's not going to last much longer. And if General Cobb gets through down there, war's gonna break out." Jenny stated and the Doctor nodded taking it all in.
This was when Donna noticed a set of automated numbers on the wall. Set in the same style as all the others they had seen, but this time in a digital form. "It's like the numbers in the tunnels." The Doctor stated as he followed Donna's eye line.
"It's staring us in the face!" Donna exclaimed recognising the number layout.
"What is?" Jenny asked confused.
"The date." Donna answered. "Assuming the first two numbers are some bid old space date, then you've got year, month, day. It's the other way round, like it is in America!" Donna explained and the Doctor smacked his forehead.
"Ohhh! It's the new Byzantium calendar!" He exclaimed.
"So the codes were completion date for each section. They finish it, they stamp the date on! So the numbers aren't counting down, they're going out, from here, day by day, as the city got built." Gaia realised and Donna nodded.
"But you're still not getting it." Donna added. "The first number I saw back there was 6012-07-17. Well, look at today's date." Donna said.
"07-24. No!" The Doctor exclaimed. Jenny looked at him confused.
"What does it mean?" She asked.
"Seven days." Gaia muttered.
"What d'you mean seven days?" Jenny asked again.
"Seven days since war broke out." The Doctor answered.
"But they said years!" Jenny stated and Gaia shook her head.
"No they said generations. And by using those machines you can have 20 machines in a day. Each generation gets killed and passes on the legend." Gaia explained.
"But all thee building, the encampments, they're in ruins." Jenny said.
"No, they're no ruined. Just empty! Waiting to be populated. They've mythologized their entire history. The Source must be part of that too. Come on." The Doctor yelled now already halfway across the grating.
Turning the corner they bumped into Martha. "Doctor!" She exclaimed happily.
"Martha!" the Doctor replied just as happy. "I should have know you wouldn't stay away from the excitement." He said as they hugged.
"Gaia!" Martha said and her hugged her and Donna as well. During this meeting, the sound of soldiers are carried up to them.
"That's the general. We haven't got much time." The Doctor stated.
"We don't even know what we're looking for." Donna replied rather pessimistic.
"Is it me or can you smell flowers?" Martha asked and everyone sniffed.
"Yes! Bougainvillea!" Gaia stated, letting the familiar scent fill her nostrils.
"I say we follow our noses." The Doctor said and followed the pleasant smell.
The group end up running into a rather large green house. There were green plants, flowers and shrubberies everywhere and at its centre stood a glowing glass sphere atop a pedestal.
"Is that the Source?" Donna asked.
"It's beautiful!" Jenny stated in awe.
"What is it?" Martha asked.
"Terraforming!" Gaia answered happily.
"It's a 3rd generation Terraforming device!" The Doctor added. Before anyone could say anything else though, they were surrounded by Hath and Humans, both species pointing their guns at the Doctor.
"Stop, hold your fire!" The Doctor shouted and no one shot.
"What is this? Some kind of trap?" Cobb asked angrily.
"You said you wanted this war over." The Doctor stated and Cobb shook his head.
"I want this war won." Cobb corrected.
"You can't win. No one can. You don't even know why you're here. Your whole history, it's just Chinese whispers. Getting more distorted the more it's passed on. (pointing to the sphere)This is the Source. This is what you're fighting over. A device to rejuvenate a planet's ecosystem. It's nothing mystical. It's from a laboratory, not some creator. It's a bubble of gases. A cocktail of stuff for accelerated evolution. Methane, hydrogen, ammonia, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids. It's used to make barren planets habitable. Look around you! It's not for killing, it's bringing life. If you allow it, it can lift you out of these dark tunnels and into the bright, bright sunlight! No more fighting. No more killing." The Doctor said and lifted up the sphere. "I'm the Doctor and I declare this war over!" He yelled and smashed the sphere on the ground, allowing the gases to escape.
Both Human and Hath alike are amazed at the sight of the gases being released and lower their guns to the ground. Jenny walks over to stand beside her parents. "What's happening?" She asks them.
"The gases will escape and trigger the Terraforming process."The Doctor answered.
"What does that mean?" Jenny asked again.
"It means a whole new world, your new world." Gaia said happily. Jenny laughed happily at that, still not use to the idea of the planet being eventually bonded to her- she had to be two days old for the bonding to take place, she was only a matter of hours.
As she laughed though she caught sight of General Cobb, he wasn't watching the air with awe; instead he started to raise his gun at the Doctor. Without hesitation Jenny stepped in the way.
"No!" She chocked and the bullet hits her in the chest. She collapses into the Doctor's arms and the surrounding soldiers hold down Cobb, taking away his gun.
"Jenny? Jenny, talk to me now!" Gaia said frantically, now on her knees next to Jenny. Martha crouches next to the Doctor and checks Jenny pulse. Her eyes downcast.
"A new world. It's beautiful." Jenny whispered, tears in her eyes. Gaia is also crying, but she be damned if she was going to watch another daughter die.
"Your beautiful world Jenny. All yours." Gaia said as she focused on the Earth made bullet in Jenny's chest. With her power now fuelled by her emotions, the bullet disintegrated into air with ease, removing the foreign body in Jenny's chest.
"Jenny? Be strong now." The Doctor began, himself in tears over his daughter. "You need to hold on. D'you hear me? We've got thing to do, you, me and your Mum. We can anywhere, everywhere, you choose." The Doctor said pleading with his daughter to stay awake.
"That sounds good." Jenny breathes.
"You're our daughter." The Doctor said, finally admitting what Gaia had been telling him for hours. "And we've only got started. You're gonna be great. You're gonna be more than great. You're going to be amazing! You hear me? Jenny?" The Doctor sobbed, but Jenny didn't respond. Gently she closed her eyes and her breathing stopped.
Gaia doesn't hear the rest of the conversation the Doctor has. Her eyes seem to remain fixed on her dead daughter, but in all honesty, they've glazed over. She doesn't want to have to go through that grief again. She doesn't want to be a useless wreck for years. In all honesty she still hasn't truly recovered from Luna's death and she doubts she ever will, but seeing this. Her second daughter, a perfect mix of herself and the Doctor, so young and naïve, killed by the Human's she created. It was too much and she couldn't face it.
A Planet Keeper's mind is much like a Time Lord's in a way, only far more expansive allowing a connection to their planet to reside there. But akin to a Time Lord's mind, they can lock stuff away. Place it behind a door which only they can open. This is what Gaia did. She didn't want to feel the pain again.
When Gaia finally came back to her senses, she was back in the Tardis. She still knew of Jenny's death, but any emotion attachment she felt for the girl had been placed under lock and key. Hence she didn't hesitate when the Doctor took her home. When she slyly said "Goodbye Honey" in the same suggestive tone River Song used on her, or when she gave the blushing Time Lord a quick peck on the lips. She loved it, revelled in the Doctor's awkwardness. The only thing she was truly worried about was explaining her disappearance to Jack and the team; it would make a good story for how she missed Gwen's wedding…
Messaline, several seconds after the Doctor left in the TARDIS…
As the signature wheezing sound of the Tardis faded, a flash of white light appeared and an all too familiar woman came out of no where, now quite a bit older than when she left. She took off running in an instant, apparently not disorientated by her method of travel. Running through the maze and catacombs of Messaline, she steadily saw a young blonde girl approaching her dead on, the girl's face on the floor ensuring she didn't fall or stumble over anything.
As the two met the in the centre, the familiar woman grabbed the girl by the arm and spun her around, making the two face each other. "Mum!" The girl squealed and wrapped her arms around the woman's neck.
"Hello sweetheart." Gaia replied, hugging her daughter back. "Let's get out of her." Gaia suggested and Jenny nodded. In a flash of white light, they were gone.