Important AN at the end! I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 29: Army of Ghosts
"Right! Here we are!" the Doctor called down the hallway. Rose, Marie, and Masen appeared, each carrying their own duffel bags full of dirty laundry.
"You do know we have a washing machine here," Freya said, amused.
"Mum likes being useful," Rose said with a shrug, making her way out of the TARDIS.
"And we don't argue with Jackie Tyler," Masen said solemnly, checking his phone as he threw open the TARDIS doors.
"How long have we been away this time?" Rose asked as she made her way out.
"A few months?" the Doctor asked, shrugging his shoulder. He threw his arms around Freya and pulled her out of the TARDIS as well, his entire posture screaming laid-back.
They all followed Rose up the stairs to her mother's flat as Rose threw open the door.
"Mum, it's us! We're back!" Rose shouted as they entered. Jackie Tyler came in from the kitchen, rolling her eyes.
"I don't know why you bother with that phone. You never use it!" Jackie complained as she moved towards Rose.
"Shut up, come here!" she said, gesturing for her mother to come towards her. Jackie wasted no time capturing her daughter in a hug.
"Oh, I love you!" Jackie cried.
"I love you too!" Rose cried right back with a laugh. Jackie releases Rose and pulls both Marie and Masen into one large hug. She latched onto Freya next, grabbing the back of the Doctor's jacket as he tried breezing past.
"Oh no, you don't. Come here!" Jackie called, pulling him in. She planted a kiss right on his mouth, causing him to sputter as she then pulled him into a hug, Freya still under one of her arms.
"Just put me down!" the Doctor protested. Jackie released both the Doctor and Freya and shot Freya an apologetic look.
"If I'd known you were coming, I'd have warned you. Your father's here. He's…I don't know why he's here. But he's here," Jackie said fretfully.
"It's okay Jackie. You couldn't have known we were coming," Freya told her gently.
"We've got loads of washing for you. And I got you this," Rose said after shoving her duffel bag over. She pulled out a small metal thing that Freya hadn't noticed her buying before.
"It's from the market on this asteroid bazaar. It's made of, er, what's it called?" Rose asked, turning to the Doctor.
"Bazoolium," the Doctor supplied. Rose nodded, turning back to her mum.
"Bazoolium. When it gets cold, yeah, it means it's going to rain. When it's hot, it's going to be sunny. You can use it to tell the weather," Rose said cheerfully.
"I've got a surprise for you all too," Jackie said, taking the trinket and setting it on a shelf absently.
"Oh, I get her bazoolium, she doesn't even say thanks," Rose muttered to herself.
"Guess who else's coming to visit? You're just in time. He'll be here at ten past. Who do you think it is?" Jackie asked Rose eagerly.
"I don't know," Rose said, frustrated.
"Oh, go on, guess," Jackie urged her.
"No, I hate guessing. Just tell me," Rose ordered.
"It's your granddad. Granddad Prentice. He's on his way any minute. Right! Cup of tea! Your father's in the kitchen, Freya dear," Jackie said, bustling out of the room. Rose's eyes went wide and she froze.
"She's gone mad," Rose said softly.
"Tell me something new," the Doctor mumbled, only for Rose to shake her head.
"Granddad Prentice, that's her dad. But he died, like, ten years ago. Oh, my God. She's lost it. Mum? What you just said about granddad," Rose started as she made her way into the kitchen. The rest of them followed. When they entered the kitchen, Freya was greeted with her father sitting at the table.
He was on his feet in an instant, staring at her.
"I didn't know you were visiting," he apologized, but Freya shook her head.
"It's fine. We didn't know we'd be visiting either. How are you?" Freya asked him.
"Your mother and I are doing fine. I was just asking Jackie if she'd heard from you in awhile. You're….you're still pregnant," he said, eyeing her.
"Yeah. Alien pregnancy. It'll last awhile longer," Freya said with a laugh, ignoring the way the Doctor tightened his grip on her.
"Any second now," Jackie said as leaned against the cabinet.
"But Mum, he passed away. His heart gave out. Do you remember that?" Rose asked her mother gently. Freya shot her father a worried look, but her father shook his head.
"Of course I do," Jackie said, as if she were speaking to a child.
"Then how can he come back?" Rose persisted.
"Why don't you ask him yourself? Ten past. Here he comes," Jackie said happily as a ghostly shape appeared in the kitchen. Freya felt a chill pass through her body and she instinctively stepped closer to the Doctor.
"Here we are, then. Dad, say hello to Rose. Ain't she grown? And this is her cousin, her husband, and their friends," Jackie introduced, the widest smile Freya had ever seen plastered to her face.
The ghost-like creature just made Freya feel sick.
The Doctor immediately turned on his heel and took off running out of the flat.
"I hate it when he does that," Freya says with a sigh before she slowly jogs after him. Rose, Marie, and Masen followed instantly.
As they reached the ground level, Freya's eyes went wide.
It wasn't just one ghost-like apparition. It was hundreds. They were everywhere. It was like they had invaded.
And no one was reacting to them.
"They're everywhere!" the Doctor exclaimed.
"Doctor, look out!" Rose shouted as one of the creatures passed through the Doctor. It continued, and passed through Freya next. Freya felt the coldness from it, as if her entire skin had been encased in metal for the few seconds it had been inside her.
She didn't like the feeling one bit. And she sure didn't trust it.
"They haven't got long. Midday shift only lasts a couple of minutes. They're about to fade," Jackie explained, coming up behind the along with Freya's father.
"What do you mean, shift? Since when did ghosts have shifts? Since when did shifts have ghosts? What's going on?" the Doctor asked.
"Oh, he's not happy when I know more than him, is he?" Jackie asked Rose.
"Jackie, this is bad. This is bad and scary," Freya told her.
"No one's running or screaming or freaking out," the Doctor said, spinning around as he examined the street.
"Why should we? Here we go. Twelve minutes past," Jackie said as the ghosts faded to nothing before their very eyes.
"Is this really bad?" Marie asked Freya, and Freya couldn't stop herself from nodding.
"This is absolutely horrible. I know it is," Freya told her friend.
They all made their way back up to Jackie's flat, where the Doctor threw himself onto the couch and quickly turned on the telly.
"Quite like a bloke, enter a room and find a home on the couch," Marie whispered with a laugh.
"It's called gathering information," Freya corrected her as she sat next to the Doctor.
"What the hell's going on?" the Doctor asked in confusion as he flicked through channels. Every channel had to do with ghosts, but not the sort of panic that happens when the human race discovered something new. No – it was almost like acceptance. The human race had accepted the ghosts. It chilled Freya to come to that realization.
"Oh yes," Jackie said happily. Freya's father had yet to say anything.
"It's all over the world," the Doctor realized, horrified. He turned the TV off quickly.
"When did this start?" he asked Jackie.
"Well, first of all, Peggy heard this noise in the cellar, so she goes down," Jackie began but the Doctor cut her off.
"No, I mean worldwide," the Doctor interrupted. Jackie's eyes widened in realization.
"Oh. That was about two months ago. Just happened. Woke up one morning, and there they all were. Ghosts, everywhere. We all ran round screaming and that. Whole planet was panicking. No sign of you, thank you very much. Then it sort of sank in. It took us time to realize that we're lucky," Jackie explained happily.
"What makes you think it's granddad?" Rose asked her mother softly.
"It just feels like him. There's that smell, those old cigarettes. Can't you smell it?" she asked Rose anxiously. Freya glanced at her father, who was shaking his head behind Jackie's back.
"I wish I could, Mum, but I can't," Rose told her mother sadly.
"You've got to make an effort. You've got to want it, sweetheart," Jackie urged her daughter. Freya's gut twisted at her words. If the whole world was trying to force themselves to see what they wanted to see, no wonder they'd accepted the ghosts so easily.
"The more you want it, the stronger it gets," the Doctor said, nodding along.
"Sort of, yeah," Jackie nodded, realizing his words were right.
"Like a psychic link. Of course you want your old dad to be alive, but you're wishing him into existence. The ghosts are using that to pull themselves in," the Doctor said, a sorrowful look on his face.
"You're spoiling it," Jackie said. Freya could practically see the heartbreak on Jackie's face. She pushed herself off the couch and gave Jackie a warm hug before stepping aside, Rose replacing her. Marie joined in as well.
"I'm sorry Jackie, but there's no smell, there's no cigarettes. Just a memory," the Doctor told her.
"But if they're not ghosts, what are they then?" Rose asked worriedly.
"Yeah, but they're human! You can see them! They look human," Jackie argued.
"She's got a point. I mean, they're all sort of blurred, but they're definitely people," Rose agreed.
"But they don't feel like people," Freya said slowly. The Doctor nodded as well.
"Maybe not. They're pressing themselves into the surface of the world. But a footprint doesn't look like a boot," the Doctor told them as he stood up.
"Let's get to the TARDIS and figure this out," the Doctor said, pulling Freya along after him. Rose grabbed a newspaper from her mother's flat before following them. Freya's father and Jackie stayed outside the TARDIS, along with Masen who had his phone out already.
"According to the paper, they've elected a ghost as MP for Leds. Now don't tell me you're going to sit back and do nothing," Rose said as the Doctor started digging under the grating for something or another.
After a moment he popped up with some sort of machine.
"Who you gonna call?" he sang as he did. Marie let out a snort.
"Ghostbusters!" Freya shouted along with Rose, shooting her cousin a grin.
"I ain't afraid of no ghosts," the Doctor sang with a wide grin on his face before bounding out of the TARDIS, his equipment in hand.
"When's the next shift?" the Doctor asked Jackie as he started setting up three metal cones linked by wires on the grass of the playground they'd landed in.
"Quarter to. But don't go causing trouble. What's that lot do?" Jackie demanded.
"He's trying to fix this, Jackie," Freya's father told Jackie, but Jackie ignored him.
"Hey…where'd Masen go?" Marie asked just as Masen walked around the side of the TARDIS, looking grim. He didn't say a word though, which unsettled Freya. Something was wrong. Something to do with his work? Possibly. Freya was almost scared to find out.
"Triangulates their point of origin," the Doctor explained aloud.
"It couldn't be the Gelth. It looks nothing like the Gelth, and it doesn't possess bodies. Could it be of some relation to the Gelth?" Freya asked the Doctor.
"Nah. They were just coming through one little rift. This lot are transposing themselves over the whole planet. Like tracing paper," the Doctor explained.
"You're always doing this. Reducing it to science. Why can't it be real? Just think of it, though. All the people we've lost, our families, coming back home. Don't you think it's beautiful?" Jackie asked the Doctor. He just stared at her for a moment.
"I think it's horrific. Freya, Rose, give us a hand," the Doctor shouted. Freya turned to Jackie and offered her a sympathetic smile before following the Doctor back into the TARDIS.
The Doctor plugged a power cable into the TARDIS console as Jackie, Marie, Masen and Freya's father followed them inside, closing the door behind them.
"As soon as the cones activate, if that line goes red, press that button there," the Doctor told Rose, pointing to a button.
"If it doesn't stop, Freya, setting fifteen B. Hold it against the port, eight seconds and stop," the Doctor said, handing his screwdriver to Freya. Freya took it carefully, holding it close and nodded to him.
"Fifteen B, eight seconds," she said. The Doctor turned to Marie.
"If it goes into the blue, activate the deep scan on the left," the Doctor told Marie, who merely placed both hands on her hips, waiting for an explanation.
"I know that one. Push that one," Rose guessed, pointing at a lever. The Doctor shook his head.
"Close," he admitted.
"That one?' Freya guessed, pointing at a different lever.
"Now you've just killed us all," the Doctor admitted.
"The TARDIS wouldn't let me do that," Freya argued with a grin. She didn't want to say it aloud, but she was having fun. Real, honest fun.
"That one right there, Marie. Now, what've we got. Two minutes to go?" the Doctor asked after pointing to a button for Marie.
Jackie nodded as the Doctor bound out of the TARDIS. Masen looked quite nervous, and Freya's father just…uneasy.
"What's the line doing?" the Doctor shouted.
"It's all right! It's holding!" Rose responded.
"You three even look like him," Jackie said sadly. This caught all three girls' attention.
"What you do mean? How do we look like him?" Marie asked.
"You three. You've changed so much," Jackie said sadly.
"You never even met me before. How do you know I've changed so much?" Freya asked, confused.
"But I met you right after you met him. I can tell the difference. I don't even know how long you four were gone, but the three of you act just like him now. It's scary how much you've changed," Jackie said.
"But it's for the better," Rose said immediately.
"I suppose," Jackie said, but she sounded more unsure than anything else. Rose turned from the console, staring at her mother.
"Mum, I used to work in a shop," Rose pointed out.
"I've worked in shops. What's wrong with that?" Jackie retorted immediately.
"I never would have met any of you, or Masen, had it not been for the Doctor," Marie piped up.
"Mum, I didn't mean there was anything wrong with working in a shop," Rose said, trying to get out of the hole she was digging in Jackie's eyes.
"I know what you mean. But what happens when I'm gone, Rose?" Jackie asked.
"Don't talk like that," Marie snapped immediately. Freya winced. Marie's parents had died rather recently, from what Marie had been telling Freya. And Marie didn't want to think of anyone else she cared about being gone.
"No, but really. When I'm dead and buried, you four won't have any reason to come back home. What happens then? The four of you, travelling the stars forever?" Jackie asked them.
"I don't know," Rose mumbled.
"Do you think you'll ever settle down?" Jackie persisted.
"Of course they will," Freya interrupted.
"I don't want to," Rose said firmly.
"If you keep travelling, you'll keep on changing, Rose. And in forty years time, fifty, there'll be this woman, this strange woman, walking through the marketplace on some planet a billion miles from Earth, but she won't be Rose Tyler," Jackie said sadly. Rose didn't even turn to face her mother.
"The scanner's working. It says delta one six," Rose shouted at the Doctor as she discreetly wiped her eye.
"Got one!" the Doctor shouted happily. Freya's father moved towards her, standing next to her as he examined the console.
"Are you going to lecture me too?" Freya asked quietly. She didn't want to hear another fight. Not right now. And she was certain Rose and Marie didn't need to hear another fight. Her father shook her head.
"He's doing you good. He's better for you than I ever was," her father admitted.
The Doctor interrupted them when he bound back in the TARDIS, carrying the cones.
"I said so! Those ghosts have been forced into existence from one specific point, and I can track down the source. Allons-y!" the Doctor shouted as he dumped the cones onto the floor and slammed the TARDIS door shut. He ran his way around the console, flipping levers and ignoring everyone else for a second.
"I like that. Allons-y. I should say allons-y more often. Allons-y. Watch out, wife, allons-y! And then, it would be really brilliant if I met someone called Alonso, because then I could say, allons-y Alonso, every time. Why is everyone staring at me?" the Doctor finished, glancing between Rose, Marie, and Freya.
"My Mum's aboard," Rose said with a grin.
"And so's my Dad," Freya added, watching the look of horror that flashed across the Doctor's face. He turned towards where Jackie was, where Freya's father had also gravitated.
"If we end up on Mars, I'm going to kill you," Jackie declared. The Doctor glanced back at the scanner only to frown. Freya moved next to him, her own eyes widening.
"Oh, well, there goes the advantage of surprise. Still, cuts to the chase. Stay in here, look after Jackie," the Doctor said, heading for the door.
"We're not looking after Rose's Mum!" Marie declared.
"Well, you lot brought her," the Doctor pointed out.
"I was kidnapped!" Jackie protested vehemently.
"Doctor, they have guns," Freya pointed out. The Doctor turned to her, placing both hands on her shoulders.
"And I haven't. Which makes me the better person, don't you think? They can shoot me dead, but the moral high ground is mine," the Doctor told her with a quick peck on the lips.
He then regarded all of them.
"Right. Freya is staying aboard, no matter what. Understand? We don't know who they are, so no matter what, Freya stays aboard," the Doctor said sternly. Freya opened her mouth to protest but closed it once more. She didn't know who the people were. The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS, while the others crowded around the door.
Masen grabbed Freya's arm, dragging her a ways from the others.
"They know about you. And the others. They'll demand you come out too. We can say Rose is you. They know what Marie looks like. And if we need a distraction, we'll bring out Jackie and your father, so they don't get suspicious. If that happens, please stay aboard. You have no idea what sort of things are out there," Masen pleaded with her.
"How do you know all this?" Freya asked.
"MASEN! Get out here!" a voice shouted. Masen winced.
"Sorry," he told her before heading for the door, grabbing Marie as he went and pulling her out. Freya quickly moved to the scanner, watching outside. She watched as the Doctor pulled Jackie out, then slowly Rose. Freya's father also stumbled out at Masen's insistence.
Freya's blood ran cold.
Masen worked for wherever they were. Freya quickly tried fiddling with a few levers, trying to find the volume. A few seconds later, their words filled the TARDIS.
"Welcome to Torchwood," the woman said as she led them away.
Torchwood….that sounded familiar.
Where had she heard that name before?
Her eyes widened.
It was the name of the house she now owned in Scotland. Where they met Queen Victoria.
Where she knighted them before banishing the Doctor.
And they now had the Doctor.
Freya quickly made her way over to the coral where the Doctor kept his coat when he didn't wear it. She shrugged it on quickly, digging through the pockets for his psychic paper. She also managed to find the spare sonic screwdriver, shoving them both into her own pockets.
She wanted to wear his jacket out there, but she had a feeling that if they knew as much about the Doctor as she guessed they did, they'd recognize his coat. She didn't want them recognizing her.
She made her way to the door and hesitated. The Doctor had told her to stay there. Masen had told her to stay there. But she had to get to them. Something bad was going on there, and she planned on figuring out what it was.
She slid out of the TARDIS doors carefully, ducking behind it as she examined the area. No one was paying attention to her, or even looking her way. She noticed a white lab coat sitting on a table near her and quickly threw that on over her clothes. She wrapped it around her carefully, hoping to conceal her stomach.
Freya noticed a scientist walking alone down a hallway. She could follow him, get a feel for the area. She followed him quickly until she felt as though she was somewhere important. The baby reached out to her, tossing and turning a bit in the womb. Yes. That was the place. She needed to go there. Freya examined the door, noting the ID badge scanner. She pulled out the psychic paper and said a quick prayer before pressing it against the scanner.
The door slid open and Freya instantly had to get rid of the nerve to run away. In the center of the room was a giant sphere. The sphere felt so ominous, so scary, she wanted to run away.
The baby. He did too. He didn't want her entering the room. He wanted her far away from it.
"Can I help you?" a man asked her. Freya shook her head, unable to pry her eyes from the sphere.
"I took a wrong turn. I'm sorry," Freya managed to get out, finally tearing her eyes from the sphere and onto the man next to her. He was wearing an ID badge that said Rajesh on it.
"Try not to look. It does that to everyone. Can I see your authorization? We can't have random people stumbling in here," he said. Freya nodded and handed out the psychic paper. The man stared at it for a moment before handing it back to her and gesturing behind him.
"That's lucky. You see, everyone at Torchwood has at least a basic level of psychic training. This paper is blank, and you're a fake. Seal the room, call security. Jim, secure her. Samuel, can you check the door locks? She just walked right in," Rajesh said. A man grabbed Freya's arms from behind, but it didn't feel as tight as it probably ought to have, given that someone was supposed to be restraining her.
Her eyes caught a glimpse of someone walking towards the doors. Someone familiar. No.
Mickey?
"Doing it right now, sir," Mickey said, winking at Freya.
"Well, if you'd like to take a seat. Jim, you're on guard duty. Keep her away from anything of importance. It'll take a few minutes to contact Yvonne. She was in the middle of her tour," Rajesh said. The man behind her pulled her over to a seat and sat her down before sitting right next to her.
"If you don't move too much, I won't have to restrain you," a familiar voice said. Freya's head whipped around so fast her hair blinded her for a moment.
"James?" Freya hissed with wide eyes. He gave her a grin before masking it.
"What are you doing here?" Freya hissed at him.
"We had to get through. A few of us came over to find the Cybermen. They escaped and we followed them here," James explained.
"The Cybermen are here?" Freya asked, eyes going wide. James nodded grimly.
"Aye," he affirmed.
"The ghosts," Freya whispered in horror. James nodded slowly.
"That's what we think. We were in the middle of the fight against them and all of a sudden, they just vanished. We made this sort of dimension jumper and I volunteered to test it out," James explained.
"Why?" Freya blurted out.
"To see you again. Wow, that came out wrong," James said awkwardly. He took a deep breath.
"Well, sort of to see you. There was nothing left in that world. I knew that, if I got stranded here, you and the Doctor'd help me out, get me set up," James explained.
"So you and Freya didn't get back together?" Freya asked sadly. James shook his head negatively.
"She's off searching for your Doctor's lookalike, thinking she'll find him and convince him to have her. Caused a right uproar with the press, she did. Plus, I figured if all else failed, I'd be able to spend time with Rose," James said with a grin.
"So apparently it works, since Mickey's here too," Freya said, nodding towards Mickey. James nodded.
"It works. Him and me are here. I have a device, a signaling device I'll activate to get the others to come. Jake and Pete'll be coming as backups," James explained to her. He showed her both the dimension jumper and the signaling device. He then pulled out a second signaling device and slipped it into Freya's pocket.
"If you get lost or separated from us and need help, push the button on the top of it. It'll signal me, and I'll be there to rescue you," James told her.
"Why?" Freya managed to ask. James could only smile at her.
"Because even if we aren't romantically involved, I do still care about you and want to see you safe. And you do tend to have a knack for getting into trouble," he said with a chuckle.
"So the sphere thing. It has to do with the Cybermen?" Freya asked. James nodded grimly.
"We believe so. Not sure what's inside. Mickey thinks it's some kind of Cybercontroller, but I'm not too sure. All I know is that I'm getting a horrible feeling from it," James told her. Freya could only nod in agreement.
"Jim, bring her over here. Finally got contact with Yvonne," Rajesh called. James stood and grabbed Freya's arm. He looked as if he were being rough, but Freya could barely feel his grip on her arm. He sat her down next to Rajesh and moved to the other side, just out of sight of the webcam.
"Yvonne? I think you should see this. We've got a visitor. We don't know who she is, but funnily enough, she arrived at the same time as the Doctor," Rajesh said, shooting Freya a glare. The woman on the screen turned the laptop to face the Doctor. The whole group was standing behind him, eyes wide.
"She one of yours?" Yvonne asked.
"Never seen her before in my life," the Doctor lied instantly.
"Good. Then we can have her shot," Yvonne said crassly. Freya's eyes went wide and they darted over to James, to see what he would do. His knuckled were white in the fist he had made.
"Oh all right then. It was worth a try. That's Freya. My wife Freya," the Doctor said quickly.
"Well, if that's Freya, who's she?" Yvonne asked, pointing at Rose.
"That's Rose Tyler. And that's her mother," the Doctor said, pointing at Jackie. Why did he have to specify that? What had he told them?
"You travel with their parents?" Yvonne asked in disbelief.
"He kidnapped me," Jackie interrupted.
"Please, when Torchwood comes to write my complete history, don't tell people I travelled through time and space with their parents," the Doctor begged.
"Don't flatter yourself. We wouldn't write up your complete history. It's Freya's we care about," Yvonne scoffed. Freya's eyes went wide.
"What?" she asked, her breath leaving her in a sudden whoosh.
"You missed the whole talk. Oh dear. I hate repeating myself," Yvonne said.
"We'll explain it to her," Rajesh told Yvonne. Yvonne's eyes went wide and she spun around.
"Excuse me? Everyone? I thought I said stop the ghost shift. Who started the program? But I ordered you to stop! Who's doing that?" Yvonne barked, eyes wide as she left the camera's view.
"What's going on?" Rajesh asked in alarm.
"Stop the levers!" Yvonne shouted.
"What's she doing?" the Doctor asked.
"Addy, step away from the desk. Listen to me. Step away from the desk," Yvonne said.
Rajesh pulled Freya from the webcam.
"Something's going on upstairs. Jim, guard her and explain to her Torchwood," Rajesh ordered as he swiftly went to a separate computer.
"Yvonne, I thought you said the next Ghost Shift was cancelled. What's going on? Yvonne?" Rajesh tried, but all they heard was a large crash. Rajesh checked the computer screen before his eyes widened in horror.
"It can't be. It's active!" he cried in shock, turning to stare at the sphere. James pulled Freya back as far as they could get from the sphere.
"What were the talking about?" Freya asked James quickly.
"The Torchwood here was founded to protect you and your offspring from the Doctor and essentially keep you safe from any aliens possible," James said, eyes glued to the sphere.
"Me? Why me?" Freya squeaked.
"Because other people have noticed how special you are and how dangerous the Doctor's life is. Stay back," James warned Freya.
"Yvonne, for God's sake. The sphere is active! The readings are going wild. It's got weight, it's got mass, an electromagnetic field. It exists!" Rajesh shouted.
"What does he mean, it exists?" Freya asked James.
"It had none of those things before. That was why it was here. To figure out why it had nothing to show it was truly here," James explained to her, pulled out a gun from his pocket. A gun of which he then unfolded.
"The door's sealed. Automatic quarantine. We can't get out!" Rajesh panicked.
"It's all right, Freya. We've beaten them before, we can beat them again. That's why we're here. The fight goes on," Mickey said, moving over to stand next to James in front of her. In front of them, the sphere began to shake more violently. Freya clutched the back of James's jacket tightly as she watched it. The baby was kicking and moving around way too much.
Whatever this was, it wasn't good. It wasn't good at all.
"We had them beaten, but then they escaped. The Cybermen just vanished. They found a way through to this world, but so did we," Mickey bragged.
"I already told her that, Mickey the Idiot," James said gruffly. Mickey just gave James a light punch before aiming the gun back at the sphere.
"It's nice to see you again," Freya told Mickey. Mickey paused and glanced at her, giving her a good once-over.
"Yeah. It's good to see you too. You're looking more pregnant," he said. Freya nodded.
"I'm feeling more pregnant," she complained.
"Alternate Freya had the baby. Don't think James woulda told you that," Mickey said conversationally.
"Really? We're going to talk about this now?" James complained, but Mickey only shook his head.
"You're just mad you never get to see the child," Mickey said. James didn't respond to his words.
"She won't let you see your baby?" Freya asked sadly.
"Claims it isn't his baby. They're saying it's her sister. But when she left to travel, she took both her and Tony with her," Mickey said. James's grip on the gun tightened and Freya quickly laid her hand on his arm.
"Everything will be okay," she told him with a smile.
"No time for the sap. Whatever that thing is, it's deadly. And it's coming out at us any minute," Mickey said, turning his attention to the sphere in front of them. Rajesh was still freaking out by the computer.
"Can anyone hear me? Come on, I need help down here!" Rajesh shouted at the computer as the sphere began to crack open.
"Calm down," James barked at Rajesh.
"Yeah. We know what's in there, and we're ready for them. We have just the thing," Mickey said with a grin as he pulled a massive gun, one bigger than James's, from underneath a platform.
"Samuel, Jim, what are you doing?" Rajesh asked in alarm.
"The name's Mickey, Mickey Smith. And he's really James McCrimmon. And we're defending the Earth," Mickey said with a grin.
The Sphere faded in a bright light. And Freya gasped in fear.
Floating out of the area where the sphere had been were four Daleks, four massive Daleks.
"That's not Cybermen," Mickey said slowly as Freya grasped onto both Mickey and James.
"Oh my God," Freya breathed in horror. They were dead. She'd killed the last of them. She knew she had. Why were they back?
"Location, Earth. Life forms detected. Exterminate!" one of the Daleks said.
"Exterminate!"
A.N. Okay guys, you have one chapter left. One. And then the sequel. The sequel is going to be called Of New Horizons and Thoughts of Flight. I will post the last chapter of this story when I finish writing up the first chapter of the sequel, so I can post it at the same time. Don't worry. I'm already 1500 words into the first chapter of the sequel.
I do want to warn you. A sequel promises nothing. That doesn't mean there will be a happy ending. After all, my friends, after reading my writing, nicknamed me Moffat Jr. You've been forewarned.
Leave me a review if you wish. I did hit the goal I was hoping for I believe, so I'll take as many reviews as you want to leave but I'm not pushing for them. Just spread the word of my story. I've gotten generally positive feedback and if everyone likes it as well as they say they do, I'd like others to get the chance to read it.
Stay tuned in for Doomsday!
Andi