Right, as promised, here's chapter four, I hope you're all still enjoying this fic, I know that I'm enjoying writing it, I promise that I will get back to updating series 3 with Rose as soon as I've reached School Reunion, so hopefully, that will be this weekend.
Previously...
"Hold on." said the Doctor "I've been here before."
"This is Satellite five."
The Doctor went to the lift "No guards," he said "makes a change. You'd think that a business as big as Satellite five would be armed to the teeth."
"No one's called it Satellite five in ages." said Lynda "It's the Game Station now. Hasn't been satellite five in about 100 years."
"100 years exactly, it's the year 200,100." said the Doctor "I was here before, Floor 139. The satellite was broadcasting news channels back then. Had a bit of trouble upstairs. Nothing too serious. Easy, gave them a hand, home in time for tea."
"Hundred years ago? What?" asked Lynda "You were here 100 years ago?"
"Yes." said the Doctor
"Well, you're looking good on it."
"I moisturise."
The whole time they had been talking the Doctor had been scanning doors "Funny sorts of reading." he said "All kinds of energy. The place is humming. It's weird, this goes beyond normal transmissions. What would they need all that power for?"
"I don't know, I think we're the first ever contestants to get outside."
"I had two people with me." the Doctor said "My wife and my friend, they must have gotten caught in the transmat, where would they be?"
"I don't know, they could have been allocated anywhere." Lynda answered "There's 100 different games."
"Like what?" the Doctor asked
"There's 10 floors of Big Brother, there's a different house behind each of these doors, beyond that there's all sorts of shows" Lynda said "It's non-stop. There's Call my Bluff, with real guns. Countdown, where you've got 30 seconds to stop the bomb going off. Ground Force, which is a nasty one, you get turned into compost. Wipeout, speaks for itself. Oh and Stars in their eyes, literally, stars in their eyes, if you don't sing you get blinded."
"And you watch this stuff?"
"Everyone does." Lynda said "How come you don't?"
"Never paid for my licence."
"Oh, my God, you get executed for that."
"Let them try."
"You keep saying things that don't make sense." Lynda said "Who are you, though, Doctor, really?"
"It doesn't matter." the Doctor said as he walked off.
"Well, it does to me." Lynda said "I've just put my life in your hands."
"I'm just a traveller, wandering past." answered the Doctor "Believe it or not, all I'm after is a quiet life. Okay, we've got to concentrate on getting out. To do that, you've got to know your enemy. Who's controlling it? Who's in charge of the Satellite now.?"
"Hold on." said Lynda and she ran and turned on some lights "Your lords and masters." she said pointing up at the words that had been following the Doctor since he had met Rose. Bad Wolf.
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Jack, who was now re-dressed, was making a rather large gun. "Compatible systems, just allign the wave signature. Attaboy!". He picked up the gun. "I've got my self a gun. Well, ladies, the pleasure was all mine. Which is the only thing that matters in the end." he said as he left the room.
He reached the lift and looked at his watch thing. "Okay, two hearts, that's him, which floor?" he entered the lift.
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The Doctor entered a very familliar room, it was the room that he'd shown Rose and Adam the Earth from the last time he'd been there. "Blimey!" said Lynda "I've never seen it for real before, not from orbit. Planet Earth."
"What's happened to it?"asked the Doctor.
"It's always been like that, ever since I was born." Lynda answered "See that there? That's the Great Atllantic Smog Storm, it's been going 20 years, we get news flashes telling us when its safe to breathe outside."
"So the population just sits there, half the world's too fat and half the world's too thin. And you lot just sit there and watch telly?"
"10,000 channels all beaming down from here."
"The human race." said the Doctor "Being fed on a diet of...Have they still got that programme where three people have to live with a bear?"
"Bear with me! I love that."
"The celebrity edition where the bear got in the bath."
The Doctor got serious again "But it's all gone wrong." he said "I mean, history's gone wrong again! This should be the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. I don't understand, the last time I was here, I put it right."
"No, but that's when it first went wrong." Lynda said "100 years ago. Like you said, all the news channels, they just shut down over night."
"But that was me." said the Doctor "I did that."
"There was nothing left in their place. No information." said Lynda "The whole planet just froze. The government, the economy, they collapsed. That was the start of it, 100 years of hell."
"Oh my..." said the Doctor "I made this world.
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Another contestant was disintegrated, leaving Rose and Rodrick. "That leaves Rose and Rodrick, you're going head to head. Let's play the weakest link."
"Right that's the end of tacticle voting." Rodrick said "You're on your own now."
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"Hey, handsome, good to see you." said Jack as he joined the Doctor "Any sign of Rose?"
"Can't you track her down?" the Doctor asked
"She must still be inside the games, all the rooms are sheilded."
"If I can just get inside this computer." said the Doctor, trying to open the computer up "She's got to be here somewhere."
"You'd better hurry up, these games don't have a happy ending."
"You think I don't know that?" said the Doctor "This is Rose were talking about, I know what's at stake here, Jack."
"There you go." Jack said handing him his watch thing "patch this thing in. It's programmed to find her."
"Thanks."
Jack then noticed Lynda "Hey there."
"Hello."
"Captain Jack Harkness."
"Lynda Moss."
"Nice to meet you Lynda Moss."
"Do you mind flirting outside." said the Doctor, who was beginning to get even more frustrated than he alreay was.
"I was just saying hello."
"For you, that's flirting." said the Doctor
"I'm not complaining." said Lynda
"Muchas gracias." Jack said as he kissed her hand
"It's not compatible." the Doctor said "This stupid system doesn't make sense." The Doctor and Jack ripped the front off of the computer "This place should be a basic broadcaster, but the system's twice as complicated. It's more than just television. This station's transmitting something else."
"Like what?" asked Jack
"I don't know." answered the Doctor "The whole Bad Wolf thing is tied up with me. Someone's manipulated my entire life. It's some sort of trap and Rose is stuck inside it."
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"Rose, in geography, the Grand Central Ravine is named after which ancient British city?"
"Is it York?"
"No, the correct answer is Sheffield
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"Found her, Floor 407." said the Doctor with a grin on his face.
"Oh, my God!" said Lynda "She's with the Anne Droid! You've got to get her out of there."
"Rodrick, it literature, the author of Lucky was Jackie who?"
"Stewart"
"No, the correct answer is Collins." said the Anne Droid "Rose, the oldest inhabitant of the Isop Galaxy is the face of what?"
"Boe, the Face of Boe."
"That is the correct answer."
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The Doctor was watching the numbers count up on the lift. "Come on."
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"Rodrick, in history, who was the President of the Red Velvets?"
"Hoshbin Frane."
"That is the correct answer."
"Rose, in food, the dish Gaffabeque originated on which planet?"
"Erm...is it...Mars?"
"No, the correct answer is Lucifer."
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"Rodrick, which measurement of length was said to have been defined by the Emperor Jate as the distance from his nose to his finger tip?"
"Would that be a goffle?"
"No, the correct answer is a paab."
"Rose, in fashion, Stella Pok Baint is famous for what?"
"Shoes." said Rose
"No, the correct answer is hats."
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"Game room 6, which one is it?"
"Over here." said Lynda and she led the two men to the room they were looking for.
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"San...Hazeldine."
"No the correct answer is San Chen."
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The Doctor tried to sonic the hand scanner on the door "Stand back, let me blast it." said Jack
"You can't," said the Doctor "it's a vital combination."
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"Rose, in history, which Icelandic city hosted Murder Spree 20?"
Rose hesitated for a few minutes "Reykjavik?"
"No, the correct answer is Pola Ventura."
Rose had lost, she was terrified of what was going to happen and it didn't help that Rodrick was gloating next to her, she just hoped that the Doctor would find her soon
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Outside the Doctor was still trying to get in.
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"Rodrick, you are the strongest link."
"I'm not meant to be here." Rose said
"You will be transported home with 1,600 cerdits."
"I need to find the Doctor." she shouted "He wouldn't just leave me."
"Thank you so much."
"This game is illegal, I'm telling you to stop!"
"Rose!" shouted the Doctor "Stop this game, I'm ordering you to stop this Game."
The Anne Droid was speaking, but Rose wasn't listening "Watch out for the Anne Droid." Rose shouted to her husband "It's armed."
Rose ran from her podium, trying to get to her husband, but just before she could get near him, she was disintegrated.
The Doctor fell to the floor where she had been and shut down. He was devastated, his wife was gone... Suddenly someone grabbed his leather jacket and pulled him to his feet, he knew that the person was holding a gun to his head, but he didn't care. The man was saying something to him, but he wasn't even listening.
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The three of them had been arrested, Jack and Lynda had been put in a cell and the Doctor was currently being searched "Can you tell us the pupose of this deivce, sir?"
The Doctor said nothing.
Soon the three of them were sitting side by side in the cell "Can you tell us how you got on board?"
"Just leave him alone, he's just lost his wife." Lynda said, the man who had arrested the Doctor grabbed her face.
"I'm asking him." he turned back to the Doctor "Sir? Can you tell us who you are?"
The Doctor still said nothing.
They took mug shots of him and then put him back in the cell with Jack and Lynda "You will be taken from this place to the Lunar Penal Colony, there to be held without trail. You may not appeal against this sentence. Is that understood?" The man headed out of the cell.
"Let's do it." said the Doctor, speaking for the first time since they had been in room 6.
Jack broke them out of the cell and the Doctor and Lynda walked out behind them. The Doctor shoved a guard into the wall and grabbed his sonic screwdriver, Jack grabbed his gun and the three of them left the cell. On the way out, Jack grabbed more guns.
The three of them entered the lift and headed to the top floor. The Doctor had Jack's gun and Jack had two guns.
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The lift finally reached Floor 500. The Doctor and Jack exited. "Okay, move away from the desk." said Jack "Nobody try anything clever. Everybody clear, stand to the side and stay there."
"Who's in charge of this place?" the Doctor asked. "This satellite is more than a Game Station"
"...79...80..."
"Who killed Rose Tyler?" asked the Doctor "I want answers."
"All staff are reminded that..."
"She can't reply." said one of the men who worked on Floor 500. "Don't shoot."
"Don't be so thick." said the Doctor "like I was ever gonna shoot." he trew the gun at to the man. "Captain, we've got more guards on the way up. Secure the exits."
"Yes, sir."
"You, what were you saying?"
"But, I've got your gun."
"Okay, so shoot me." said the Doctor "Why can't she answer?"
"She's...can I put this down?"
"If you want, just hurry up."
"Thanks." said the man "Sorry. The Controller is linked into the transmissions. The entire output goes through her brain. You're not a member of staff so she doesn't recognise your existance."
"What's her name?"
"I don't know." the man answered "She was installed when she was five. It's the only life she's ever known."
"Doors sealed. We should be safe for about 10 minutes."
"Keep an eye on them." the Doctor told Jack
"What you were saying about the Game Station, I think you're right. I've kept a log. Unauthorised transmats, encrypted 's been going on for years."
"Show me." said the Doctor
Jack was trying to get into a room
"You're not allowed in there Archive 6 is out of bounds." said a woman
Jack held up his guns "Do I look like an out of bounds sort of guy?" Jack opened the door. The Tardis was in the room behind the door. Jack smiled and took out his key. He unlocked the door and walked inside. He closed the door behind him and paused when he saw Rose's Jacket on the rail. He went to the monitor and his eyes widened when he looked at it. "What the hell?"
Well, I'm going to my bed now, I'm not at college tomorrow, so I'll update tomorrow at some point before I normally do on a Tuesday, but I've got some maquettes to make for my sculpture project. I know that in series three with Rose I do episodes in three or four parts but I think that these last two Christopher Eccleston episodes should in five parts, mostly to create suspense at the end of each chapter, but, I know that you're probably annoyed with me for this so I'll get the next chapter up when I get up in the morning.
TTFN
Julie