Previously:
Suddenly smoke appeared and Rose groaned, the worst possible time for that to happen. It steadily got worse; the other cars on the street started to release smoke and Wilf climbed in the car (for what reason Rose wasn't sure) and got himself locked in.
Both her and the Doctor were on either side of the car using their sonic devices on the car doors, Donna was coughing loudly and Rose felt her newish respiratory bypass kick in.
The Doctor stepped away from the car and looked at the street in horror.
Out of the corner of Donna's eye, she could see a flash of blonde before an axe went through the windshield of the car. Before her, stood her mother panting slightly her hands holding the axe tightly.
"Well what are you three standing around for?" Sylvia Noble asked looking annoyed "help him out"
Donna and Rose immediately stepped forwards and helped Wilf out of the car while the Doctor stared at Sylvia is disbelieve…it was like looking at Jackie Tyler…he better stay away from Sylvia because the Noble slap might be genetic as well…
Donna and Sylvia helped Wilf towards the house.
"I can't believe you have an axe" Donna said
"Well what else I was supposed to do?" Sylvia snapped
"Get in the house; nail the windows and doors shut. Whatever you do don't leave the house" Rose said walking up from behind them.
A black taxi pulled up beside them on the road and Ross (a young and innocent UNIT worker that the Doctor got on with) let the window down.
"Doctor this is all I could find that didn't have the ATMOS" he shouted
The Doctor grabbed hold of Rose's hand and pulled her to the taxi opening the Door for her and pushing her in "Donna are you coming?" he called back
"Yeah" Donna shouted back
"Donna!" Sylvia gasped "don't go! Look what happens whenever that Doctor is around stay with us please"
"Don't listen to her darling" Wilf said
"Dad!"
"Go on, join the Doctor" Wilf said pushing Donna away from him slightly "that's my girl!" he shouted as Donna ran to the taxi.
Rose and the Doctor helped Donna in and slammed the door shut. "Glad you're coming" Rose murmured in her ear as the taxi speeded off towards the ATMOS factory.
The taxi pulled up just outside of the factory, the alarms could be heard and the outside was void of all people the gas spreading everywhere. The Doctor threw the door open and stepped aside letting Donna and Rose out.
"Get inside, don't go back out" the Doctor said to Ross
"Will do" Ross said before driving off and starting to talk through his walkie talkie
"The air is disgusting" Donna gasped in between coughs
"Not so bad for us" Rose said shrugging "we need to get you inside"
"Go in the TARDIS Donna" the Doctor said, Donna turned round towards the direction they parked the TARDIS "oh!" the Doctor started rummaging through his pocket, Donna turned round again "haven't give you a key. Here you are, big moment really. Rose almost cried the time I gave her, hers"
"No, I didn't" Rose said glaring
"Yeah, we can get sentimental and Rose can kill you after the world has finished choking to death" Donna said taking the key out of the Doctor's hand
"Good idea" the Doctor nodded "wait! What?"
Rose just snickered under her breath as she ran to the factory, the Doctor not so far behind her.
"Where are you two going?" Donna asked in between coughs
"To stop a war" the Doctor shouted ducking under the barrier that Rose was already over and attempted to catch her up.
Donna then turned round and ran to the TARDIS coughing loudly.
"Right then. Don't do anything" Rose shouted bursting in the control room of UNIT "don't do anything Colonel Mason"
The Doctor ran in "it's all right I'm here"
"And what exactly are you going to do?" Colonel Mason demanded
"I have my TARDIS. We can sneak on the Sontaran ship" the Doctor said confidently looking at the back of Martha's head who was at a control.
Rose tapped Martha on the shoulder "come on" she murmured in Martha's ear. Martha got up and followed her and the Doctor out.
The three ran into the alley only to find nothing.
"Where's the TARDIS?" Martha cried out
"Can you taste that? That…that…metal tang" the Doctor wagged his tongue out as if he was licking the air "teleport exchange…the Sontarans…they've taken it…I'm stuck on Earth like an ordinary person – how rubbish is that?"
"Watch it" Rose growled
"So what do you we do?" Martha asked
The Doctor stared at Martha strangely but before Rose could ask him what was wrong her phone went off.
"Hello?"
"Rose? Thank god. I am bored shitless"
"Gwen! Are you all right? How's the baby? Oh god please tell me you're not outside"
"So you're on Earth present time then" Gwen said ignoring Rose's questions "brilliant that means this will be over soon. Jack has locked me up in the Hub. He left Ianto to guard me. It's like he doesn't trust me to look after myself!"
"Well consider how you two met…"
"It's not my fault!"
"Gwen you were hanging on to a barrage balloon fifty feet up in the air during a bomb raid"
"Well what does that have anything to do with the gas?" Gwen demanded
"Nothing, nothing. Just stay inside please. We know whose behind it, it's some sort of race called Sontarans, the Doctor has faced them before. Just please stay inside. I got to go"
"But-"
Rose hang up quickly just in time to catch the Doctor say "you she's not like you, she's not a soldier" she glanced over at Martha who was nodding. And it hit her; the woman standing in front of her was not Martha Jones. She looked and sounded like Martha but it wasn't her. The Doctor knew this and he was planning something.
"Change of plan!" the Doctor exclaimed as he ran back into the control room, Rose not far behind him.
"Good to have you fighting beside us Doctor" Colonel Mason said
"I'm not fighting" the Doctor snapped "now, anyone know what's in this gas?"
"We're working on it" a woman said "it's dangerous not lethal till it reaches 80 density. We have reports of death in the middle of Tokyo city"
"Who are you?" the Doctor asked running to her
The woman stood up and saluted "Captain Marianne Price sir"
"Oh put your hand down" the Doctor said rolling his eyes and walking away from her.
Rose's phone went off again, Rose sighed and answered it "yes Gwen?"
"What's happening now? Not something dangerous because you answered"
"Gwen this is ridiculous"
"I need something interesting"
"Then watch Eastenders or Coronation Street or whatever"
"I said interesting not something our Mum would watch. And let's face it, Mum's idea of interesting was a new chippy opening round the corner. The only thing I found entertaining was when she slapped the Doctor"
Rose let out a small snigger but stifled it when the Doctor glanced over at her from his work "now really Gwen I have to go"
"Nooooooooo don't leave me please!" Gwen begged "Ianto is driving me insane. He's put the news on, on one telly and he put a How-To-Plan-A-Baby-Shower type of programme on another one. Like I'm having a Baby Shower"
"Look I really can't stay and talk. The TARDIS is missing; the world is slowly choking to death. Martha might not be Martha and I haven't got a clue what happened to Donna"
"See! That's all I needed. A little action. WAIT! What do you mean the TARDIS is missing? You're not stuck in 1969 again are you?"
"Present time Gwen" Rose said rolling her eyes
"Oh…whose Donna?"
"Hmm?"
"Donna who is she?"
Rose looked over to the Doctor to see him lounging on a chair with his feet up on the controls while pointing his sonic screwdriver at a screen.
"Gwen I got to go. Speak to you later" she hung up before Gwen could say another word and walked up behind the Doctor to see him watching a cartoon. "Bit too old for that aren't you?" she said teasingly playing with his hair
"Finished gossiping with Gwen?" the Doctor asked in a bored tone
"We weren't gossiping. Gwen's locked in the Hub. Jack's refusing the let her out to help solve the ATMOS situation and she's going insane" Rose said flatly
"Uhuh" the Doctor said switching the channel to a bunch of potato looking people "done now?"
"You would not be so ready to ridicule if you were to see our prize" a potato snapped "behold! We are the first Sontarans in history to capture a TARDIS"
"Crap" Rose muttered under her breath
"Well as prizes go that's…Noble"
"You better know what you're doing" Rose hissed in the Doctor's ear "because if Donna gets hurt I'll let Sylvia attack you with the axe"
The Doctor started to babble about Donna's name and phone boxes and Rose growled in frustration when her phone rang again.
"WHAT!"
"Jeeze don't bite my head of" Gwen said sounding taken back
"Gwen I know you're bored but please listen to me. The Sontarans have the TARDIS. I think Martha is being possessed or something and a friend is in danger. Then we have the whole world choking and having you phone me every five minutes is not helping" Rose whispered down the phone looking cautiously at Martha who wasn't paying her the slightest bit of attention.
"What the Sontaran thingies have possessed Martha?"
"Think so. She's acting like Martha but there's something a bit off…she hasn't warned her family or anything"
"Hope you save her soon. Tom won't be happy if he comes home to find his fiancée possessed or worse dead"
"You know us Gwen, we'll save her."
"And who is this Donna?"
"Loud redhead who slaps the Doctor a lot. Remember the bride I told you about?"
"The one that was going to be sacrificed to a red spider or something?"
"Yes. Well that's Donna. She joined us on our journeys."
"Oh right. Well I'm looking forwards to meeting her; you should come round as soon as this mess is sorted out"
Rose looked up to see the Doctor shouting at the Colonel and then everyone looking at the screens confused. "Gwen I have to go again" she hung up before Gwen could say anything.
She walked up to the Doctor's side "what's happening" she murmured
"They're planning to send nuclear missiles at the Sontarans but someone keeps stopping them"
"Martha?"
"I think so"
"She's not our Martha"
"I know"
They watched the missiles being blocked each time and Rose glanced over at Martha whose head was bent over her work. The Sontarans and UNIT soldier battled it out in the factory and Rose felt a stray tear fall when they heard Ross get shot. The Doctor shouted at the Colonel and he put a stop the fighting. The Doctor and the Colonel had a meeting but nothing was working. The Colonel wouldn't listen.
"Rose, I need your phone" the Doctor grumbled rubbing his face before Rose could pass her phone over it rang and the pair of them groaned. The Doctor stormed off to borrow someone else's phone while Rose answered hers.
"Yes?"
"So what's happening now?"
"Gwen this is becoming an annoyance. And I'm not in the mood for this a lot of UNIT soldiers have died, the Colonel Mason won't listen to us and we're no where near saving the world just yet"
"Colonel Mason? You won't get anything done with him around. Torchwood had to work with him a few years back, according to Jack the Colonel is so uptight that a ruler must have been shoved up his arse when he was a child"
"Yes I'm not surprised that Jack would be so crude" Rose muttered
"Anyway, you're not going to get anything done with him around. Jack says the only one who can appeal to the Colonel is Captain Marianne Price but even she can't convince the Colonel anything. If she could then they would have been married by now"
"Not very helpful"
"Sorry that's all I know."
The Doctor magically appeared at Rose's side "Donna has sorted out the teleport" he murmured in her ear "tell Gwen it's almost sorted and to join a knitting club or something"
"Gwen, I got to go, the Doctor says it's almost over and join a knitting club. Bye" Rose hung up just as Gwen begun to grumble about how she isn't a grandma.
The Doctor led Rose out and she glared at him through her mask when he mucked about. They cheered slightly when they saw the Valiant (only slightly both of them were still remembering the year they spent on that ship) and the Doctor tricked the fake Martha and saved the real one who was on some kind of metal grid. They ended up killing the clone.
With the help of Donna and Rattigan they managed to clean the air and kill the Sontarans. They couldn't help but mourn the many loses while Donna slapped the Doctor for scaring them.
Rose's phone went off again and both Rose and the Doctor groaned.
"Hello Gwen"
"Not Gwen it's Jack"
"Oh hello Jack. Good to hear from you"
"Gwen's been annoying you all afternoon then?"
"Yes!"
"Don't worry she's fallen asleep, just phoned to say thanks for stopping the ATMOS things and don't worry I'll find something to entertain Gwen when I'm not around"
"That's good. I missed a lot today because of Gwen. You know what; tell her to not phone me, I'll phone her. Got to go and sort Martha out. Bye"
"Bye Rose, say hello to the Doctor and Martha for me" Jack said before Rose hanged up on him.
The next day, Martha was preparing to say goodbye. She had stayed over night talking to Donna and Rose (while the Doctor muttered darkly about women ganging up on him while fixing the console) and it was time for the other three to move on.
She hugged the Doctor tightly "thank you so much for saving me"
"You're welcome. Now take care and if this Tom bloke hurts you just give me a ring and I'll set Donna and Rose on him"
Martha chuckled "Jack said something a bit like that. Don't worry he's the right guy"
Rose then pulled Martha into an embrace "next time you call me please don't let it be an emergency. We don't hear from you that often"
"Yes Mum I'll phone more often" Martha said rolling her eyes
Rose pulled away and gave Martha a light slap on the shoulder "enough cheek young lady" she teased back
Donna then pushed Rose to the side and hugged Martha tightly "nice meeting you, shame we couldn't have met under nicer circumstances. See you soon yeah?"
"Of course, it was lovely meeting you" Martha said hugging Donna back before pulling away and walking towards the open TARDIS doors.
Suddenly the doors slammed shut and the TARDIS engines started.
"LET ME OUT!" Martha shrieked "DOCTOR WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"I'm not doing anything!" the Doctor protested attempting to stop the TARDIS only to be flung back on to the floor as the TARDIS began to rock side to side harshly. By the console he could see his hand in it's jar bubbling away…