I don't own Doctor Who


A couple of days after looking into the heart of the TARDIS, Sofia found herself in a strange room, on the floor, with a scrambled memory. A droid came up to her carrying a strange looking tube thingy.

"Welcome to Gladiator Games. You are our newest challenger. The rules are; the winner is the one who lives, if you can survive three matches, you get to live, and you cannot keep the laser sword. What is your name?" the Droid says.

"Sofia," Sofia admits, "What's going on? Where am I? And why can't I keep the laser sword?"

"You are the newest gladiator, you are on the game station run by the Bad Wolf Corporation, and the laser sword is powerful enough to cut through Dalekcanium, we cannot have the citizens of Earth running around with that kind of weaponry." The Droid answers.

"Well," Sofia comments, "You've got no sense of fun, do I get a laser sword for when I compete in the arena?" Her memories are coming back.

"This one is for you" the Droid presents her with the tube thingy.

Sofia takes it and presses the single button on it. A red beam comes out of it.

"It's a light saber!" Sofia laughs, "And I'm a Sith Lord, or would that be Lady?"

"It is a laser sword; light saber is trademarked, what is 'Sith'?"

"Screw copyright laws." As she says this, Sofia slices the Droid in half. "Gladiator Games, huh? The Universe has a twisted sense of humor/irony."[1]

Sofia finds her way to the door and uses her new light saber to cut it open. Now that she's outside the game, Sofia can see that there are no guards. She turns off the light saber since she has no idea how long it will stay powered for. Sofia sticks the light saber into her pocket and takes off looking for the Doctor, Rose and Jack with the hope that her 'intuition' will lead her the right way.

"I might get in your way." Lynda admits to the Doctor.

"I wouldn't mind if you did" the Doctor comments back.

"Oy!" A very annoyed and familiar voice calls out, "Stop flirting with someone other than my sister!"

"Sophie!" the Doctor cries.

Sofia is now close enough to be considered, by an outside observer, part of the little group.

"The Universe's sense of humor/irony is very sick." Sofia comments.

"How do you figure?" Lynda asks, intrigued.

"I ended up in Gladiator Games."

"How is that ironic?" Lynda inquires.

"Almost a year ago I was in ancient Rome and ended up fighting for my life as a gladiator." Sofia says a bit bitterly.

"What happened?"

"I'm alive, aren't I?" is Sofia's coldly spoken response.

"Oh" Lynda shuts up about it.

"There you guys are!" Jack announces his arrival. "Listen, we've got to find Rose, these games don't have a happy ending."

"We know that already!" Sofia snaps.

"Here," Jack hands the Doctor his vortex manipulator, "It's programmed to find her."

During the next couple of minutes, Jack and the Doctor agonize over trying to get the information out of the Station's computer.

"Got her!" the Doctor announces triumphantly.

Jack declares what floor Rose is on.

"Oh My God!" Lynda exclaims, "She's with the Anne-Droid! You have to get her out of there!"

The four of them race to find Rose. Once on the right floor, and outside the right door, the Doctor struggles to get the door open. It takes some time, but finally, the door opens.

"Doctor!" Rose calls "The Anne-Droid is armed!"

The Anne-Droid in question is turning towards the Doctor and getting ready to fire.

"Rose!" Sofia shouts in horror as Rose runs towards them and right before she gets hit with the Droid's extermination beam.

The Doctor hardly notices when security drags him and his companions away and takes their mug shots.

"Let's do this" the Doctor orders.

The Doctor, Jack, Lynda and Sofia charge out of their cell, grab their things, and head up to floor 500 where the ones running the Game Station are.

The Doctor runs in demanding answers.

"Could you put that down?" one of the workers asks nervously.

"Oh, like I was ever going to shoot!" the Doctor shoves the gun into the man's arms.

"Why won't she answer him?" Sofia asks.

"I've got his gun;" the man states.

"So shoot us," Sofia demands, "Why won't she answer."

"Can I put this down?"

"If you must," the Doctor says, "Just hurry up!"

The man puts the gun down before answering, "You're not a member of staff, so she can't recognize your existence.

"What's her name?"

"I don't know, she was installed when she was five, this is the only life she's ever known."

"Your games killed my sister!" Sofia is unable to contain her rage any longer.

"We were just doing our jobs!" A woman cries.

"And with that," the Doctor claims, "You just lost the right to talk to us!"

Jack heads over to archive six.

"Archive six is out of bounds!" the woman cries.

"Do I look like an out of bounds sort of guy?" Jack holds up to two large guns that he has on him.

When he opens archive six, he spies the TARDIS.

The Doctor starts going on about how someone's been shaping human history at least nearly 200 years.

"I found the TARDIS!" Jack exclaims as he exits archive six.

"We're not leaving." The Doctor says.

"I know," Jack admits, "But the TARDIS figured it out! Lynda, would you stand over there, please."

"I just want to go home." Lynda pleads.

"I'll do it," Sofia grumbles as she marches over to the designated area.

"Thank you" Jack says as he hits a button, and Sofia appears to have been disintegrated.

"You killed her!" the Doctor says in shock.

"Do you think?" Jack asks as he pushes a button and Sofia reappears next to the Doctor. "It's not a disintegrator beam. It's a transmat beam. Doctor, people don't get killed in the games; Rose is still alive!"

"So where are the people transmatted to?" Sofia asks.

Jack types the coordinates into the computer, and a patch of rather empty looking space shows up on the holographic screen.

"It's right on the edge of the galaxy." The Doctor informs.

"But there's nothing there." Jack exclaims.

"That's what this station is really transmitting. It's hiding whatever is there." The Doctor explains, "And if I turn the cloaking off..."

Several gear shaped ships appear on the screen.

"I know those ships!" Jack claims, "But that's impossible, they all died."

"Two hundred ships, with thousands on each ship." The Doctor says darkly.

"What are they?" the woman asks.

"Daleks" the Doctor mutters.

The image on the screen changes to that of a view of the inside of one of the ships. There are some Daleks there, but Rose is also there.

"I WILL SPEAK TO THE DOCTOR!" a Dalek screams.

"Oh, will you now," the Doctor responds, "That's nice."

"YOU WILL SURRENDER! THE DALEKS WILL TAKE THE EARTH!"

"Why?"

"WE HAVE YOUR ASSOCIATE, SHE WILL BE EXTERMINATED!"

"NO!" the Doctor counters.

"WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!" the Dalek demands.

"IT MEANS, NO!"

"EXPLAIN THIS NEGITAVE!"

"This is what I'm going to do!" the Doctor shouts, "I'm going rescue Rose Tyler, save the Earth, and just to top it off, I'M GOING TO WIPE EVERY STINKIN DALEK OUT OF THE SKY!"

"BUT YOU HAVE NO DEFENSES, NO PLAN, AND NO WEPONS!" the Dalek points out.

"Yeah," the Doctor concedes, "Doesn't that just scare you to death?! Rose, we're coming to get you."


[1] Technically, I'm the one with the twisted sense of humor and or irony, not the universe.