Well that's me back again, here's chapter 20, The Parting of the Ways part three. I promise that this chapter will be longer than the last one.
"We've now got a force-field, so they can't blast us out of the sky." Jack said "But that doesn't stop the Daleks from physically invading."
"Do they know about the Delta Wave?" Davitch asked
"They'll have worked it out at the same time." Jack answered "So, they want to stop the Doctor. That means they've got to get to this level, 500. Now I can concentrate the extrapolator on the top six levels, 500 to 495. So they'll penetrate the station below that at level 494 and fight their way up."
"Who will they be fighting?" asked Davitch
"Us"
"What are we fighting with?"
"THe guards had guns with bastic bullets." Jack answered "That's enough to blow a Dalek wide open."
"There's five of us."
"Rose, love, you can help me." the Doctor said "I need all these wires stripping bare."
"Right, now there's four of us."
"Then lets move it." Jack said "Into the lift, isolate the lift controls"
Everyone split up, the two remaining members of staff went to the lift and Lynda went to the Doctor and Rose "Thank you for getting me out of there." she said
"You're welcome." the Doctor said "I couldn't let someone else die."
"I'm glad you saved me, cause now I can actually do something useful." she said "And I'm glad your wife is ok."
"Thanks." the Doctor said "Go, help Jack." he shook her hand and she walked off.
Jack joined them "It's been fun." he said "But I guess this is goodbye."
"Don't talk like that." Rose said "The Doctor's gonna do it, just you watch him."
"Rose." Jack said he held her head in his hands "You are the little sister I never had and you're worth fighting for." he kissed her forehead. He went to the Doctor "I wish I'd never met you, Doctor." he said as he hugged his friend (I'm sorry for changing a classic scene, but I couldn't write it for laughing) "I was much better off as a coward." he stepped between the couple "See you in Hell."
Rose looked at her husband "He's gonna be alright, isn't he?"
"I don't know." the Doctor said and the two of them got back to work.
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Jack was down on Floor 000. There were around 100 people in the room and they were all arguing. Jack stood on something to make himself seen but he knew that he wouldn't be heard over the din, so he raised his gun in the air and fired. That shut everyone up and they all turned to face him.
"One last time!" he shouted. "Any more voluteers? There's an army about to invade this station. I need every last citizen to mount a defence."
"Don't listen to him, there aren't any Daleks." said Rodrick. "The disappeared thousands of years ago."
A brunette woman joined Jack's group "Thanks." he said "As for the rest of you, the Daleks will enter the station at floor 494 and as far as I can tell, they'll head-up, not down. But that's not a promise. So here's a few words of advice. Keep quiet. And if you hear fighting up above, if you hear us dying... then tell me that the Daleks aren't real. Don't make a sound. Let's go."
Jack led his little group of people into the lift and headed up to Floor 494.
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Rose and the Doctor were working on the Delta Wave "Suppose..." said Rose
"What?" asked the Doctor
"Nothing." Rose answered.
"You said suppose."
"No, I was just thinking." Rose said "I mean, obviously you can't, but you've got a time machine. Why can't you just go back to last week and warn them?"
"As soon as the Tardis lands, in that second I become part of events." the Doctor said "Stuck in the timeline."
"Yeah, I thought it'd be something like that."
"There's another thing the Tardis could do." the Doctor said "It could take us away. We could leave. Let history take it's course. We could go to Marbella in 1989."
Rose smiled "Yeah, but you'd never do that." she said
"No, but you could ask." said the Doctor "Never even occurred to you, did it?"
"Well, I'm just too good." Rose said
There was a bleeping sound "The Delta Wave's started building" The Doctor said "How long does it need?"
The two of them got up off of the floor and ran to the computer, the Doctor sat in the chair and Rose stood beside him. He read whatever was on the screen and he looked disappointed.
"Is that bad?" Rose asked.
The Doctor's head dropped down almost to his hands "Okay, it's bad." Rose surmised "How bad is it?"
The Doctor stood up suddenly "Rose Tyler, you're a genius!" he praised and kissed her forehead "We can do it! If I use the Tardis to cross my own timeline.... Yes!"
He ran to the Tardis and Rose followed, he took out his key whn he reached the door and unlocked it and then the two of them ran inside. He showed Rose a button to press and said "Hold that down and keep postition."
"What's it do?""
"If I'm very clever, and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant, I might just save the world." the Doctor answered "Or rip it apart."
"I'd go for the first one."
"Me, too." said the Doctor "Now, I've just got to go and power up the Game Station. Hold on!" he ran out of the Tardis. He stopped and turned around, then took out the sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the Tardis.
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Inside the Tardis, Rose was still holding the button. The Tardis suddenly started up "Doctor, what are you doing?" she shouted "Can I take my hand off? It'moving." She let go of the button and ran to the door "Doctor, let me out." she shouted whilst thinking 'I'm so going to kill him'
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The Doctor watched as the Tardis disappeared taking his wife with it.
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Rose was standing at the doors trying to open them when a hologram of the Doctor appeared "This is Emergency Programme One." the hologram said "Rose, now listen, this is important." Rose turned around. "If this message is activated then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape."
"No!"
"And that's okay." the hologram continued "Hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you and that's what I'm doing. (AN: I'm saying that he recorded this right after the incident with the Slitheen in Downing Street and hasn't had a chance to make a new recording since.) The Tardis is taking you home."
Rose walked up the ramp towards him "I won't let you!"
"And I bet you're fussing and moaning !" the hologram said "But hold on and just listen a bit more. The Tarids can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do, let the Tardis die. Just let this ld box gather dust. No one can open it, no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years the years the world will move on and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all. One thing." The hologram turned to look at her "Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life."
The hologram disappeared, leaving a devastated and confused Rose staring at the place where it had been moments before. "You can't do this to me." she said "You can't". As she knew that she was going home, she removed her wedding and engagement rings and put them on the chain that hung around her neck. She then ran to the console "Take me back!" she shouted "Take me back!" The Tardis stopped, she was home. "No!"
She ran to the door and opened it. She stepped out into the Powell Estate, not too far away from her mother's flat. She ran back inside the Tardis "Come on, fly." she said to the ship "How do you fly?" She tried flipping switches, pulling levers and pressing buttons, but nothing worked "Come on, help me!"
She gave up and left the ship, she walked around the outside and leant against the side, fighting to hold back her tears.
Suddenly she heard Mickey's voice "I knew it!" he said "I was all the way down Clifton Parad and I heard the engines. I thought, 'There;s only one thing that makes a noise like that.'"
Rose finally let the tears she had been fighting fall "What is it?" Mickey asked her as he hugged her
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"Rose, I've called up the internal laser codes." Jack said "There should be a different number on every screen. Can you read them out to me?"
"She's not here." the Doctor replied
"Of all the times to take a leak!" Jack said over the communication system "When she gets back, tell her to read me the codes."
"She's not coming back."
"What do you mean?" Jack asked "Where did she go?"
"Just get one with your work."
"You took her home, didn't you?" Jack asked.
"Yeah."
Jack took a deep breath "The Delta Wave." he said "Is it ever gonna be ready?"
"Tell him the truth, Doctor." The Dalek Emperor said "There is every possiblity the Delta Wave could be complete but no possibility of refining it. The Delta Wave must kill every living thing in its path, with no distinction between human and Dalek. All things will die. By your hand."
"Doctor, the range of this transmitter covers the entire Earth."
"You would destroy Daleks and humans together. If I am God, the creator of all things, then what does that make you, Doctor?"
"There are colonies out there." the Doctor said "The human race would survive in some shape or for,/ But you're the only Daleks in existence. The whole universe is in danger if I let you live. Do you see, Jack? That's the decision I've got to make for every living thing. Die as a human or live as a Dalek. What would you do?"
"You sent her home. She's save." Jack said "keep working"
" But he wil exterminate you!"
"Never doubted him, never will."
The Doctor grinned and stood up, he walked to the screen "Now, you tell me, God of all Daleks, 'cause there's one thing I never worked out." the Doctor said "The words, 'Bad Wolf', spread across time and space, everywhere, drawing me in. How did you manage that?"
"I did nothing."
"Come on, there's no secrets now, Your Worship."
"They are not part of my design. This is the truth of God"
The Doctor was really confused, if the Daleks didn't spread the words through space and time, then who did? Were they friend or foe?
Ok, this seems like a good place to stop, I'm going for my lunch now, cause it's 10 past 12, I'll be putting up the next chapter as soon as I've finished it. I'm sorry for leaving you hanging again, but I've got to otherwise this chapter's gonna be around 5000 words I want to keep this as five parts, so the next chapter will likely be longer than this one and so will the fifth one.
TTFN
Julie