Aliens of London
The Tardis materilised in a courtyard full of blocks of flats and the Doctor, Rose and Alyssa stepped out and the tounger girl was gathering her new surroundings.
"Is this where you actually live?" she asked Rose.
"Yeah" Rose told her before turning to the Doctor "so, how long have I been gone?"
"About twelve hours" the Doctor replied and the three of them started giggling before Alyssa pointed out that it felt like they've been gone for only a few days.
" I won't be long. I just want to see my mum" Rose said as she began heading back to the flats.
" What're you going to tell her?" the Doctor asked.
" I don't know. I've been to the year 5 billion and only been gone, what, twelve hours? No, I'll just tell her I spent the night at Shareen's. See you later" she said as she turned around to go back to the flats before turning around again "oh, don't you two disappear." She then ran towards the flats whilst Alyssa pondered round the court yard.
"You know, it's quite nice to be back on earth for a change" she pointed out.
"And what's that supposed to mean young lady, don't you like travelling in time and space?" the Doctor teased.
"Are you kidding, this has been the best experience of my life, it's just nice to take a break every now and again" Alyssa replied as she walked over to a wall to see a poster sticking to it " erm, Doctor, I think you better come and look at this." The Doctor ran over to where she was stood and took a look at the poster she was looking at. On it was a photo of Rose with the words missing written in huge letters above the poster.
"It's a missing poster of Rose, it says she's been missing since March 2005" Alyssa implied.
"It can't be" the Doctor muttered before grabbing hold of Alyssa by the hand " come on." The pair of them then ran towards the flats and into the flat where Rose lived and Alyssa saw her being hugged by a woman who she assumed was her mum.
" It's not twelve hours, it's twelve months. You've been gone a whole year. Sorry" the Doctor told Rose whilst grinning nervously.
"Uh oh" was all Alyssa could say. Later that morning, a Police man was at the Tyler flat and Rose's mum, Jackie was walking round the room shouting and screaming at her daughter.
" The hours I've sat here, days and weeks and months, all on my own. I thought you were dead, and where were you? Travelling. What the hell does that mean, travelling? " Jackie demanded before turning to the Police man "that's no sort of answer. You ask her. She won't tell me. That's all she says. Travelling."
" That's what I was doing" Rose pointed out but Jackie didn't seem to believe her and Alyssa was too shocked to say anything.
"When your passport's still in the drawer?" Jackie screamed "It's just one lie after another."
"Do you think we should tell her?" Alyssa asked the Doctor in a hushed whipser.
"I don't think she'll believe us" the Doctor whispered back to her.
" I meant to phone. I really did. I just I forgot" Rose told her very angry and scary mother.
" What, for a year? You forgot for a year? And I am left sitting here. I just don't believe you. Why won't you tell me where you've been? " Jackie yelled, determined to get some answers from her daughter.
"Actually, it's my fault. I sort of er, employed Rose as my companion" the Doctor pointed out.
"When you say companion, is this a sexual relationship?" the Policeman aksed and Alyssa couldn't help but giggle a little at this but resisted from doing so because this wasn't the best time to have a little giggle right now.
"No" Rose and the Doctor said together.
"Then what is it?" Jackie aksed as she approached him, fury in her eyes "Because you, you waltz in here all charm and smiles, and the next thing I know, she vanishes off the face of the Earth and what about the little girl" she nodded in Alyssa's direction "she your daughter?"
"No she was travelling with me aswell" the Doctor replied.
"I can't believe this, not only do you swan off with my daughter without a word, but you take a little girl too, you pervert" she seethed.
"That's not fair, he isn't a pervert, he hasn't done anything to Alyssa" Rose pointed out but Jackie ignored her as she was still laying into the Doctor.
"How old are you anyway, Forty? Forty five? What, did you find her on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a doctor? " the angry woman demanded " did you do the same with the little girl too, talk to her on the internet pretending to be another kid her age."
"Actually, I'm trying to help that little girl get back to her mum and dad because she can't find them and yes I am a Doctor" the Doctor told Jackie.
"Prove it. Stitch this, mate!" the scary furious woman barked before slapping the Doctor hard across the face.
"Woah" Alyssa said before Jackie turned to her.
"Don't you worry sweetheart, if that man did anything to you, you just tell the Policeman ok" Jackie told her.
"He didn't do anything to me and he hasn't done anything to Rose too" the little girl replied before she ran out of the flat and onto the roof where the Doctor joined her a few seconds later.
"Guess you didn't want to stay in that flat with that loud woman" he implied as he sat on the wall next to her.
"She was scary" Alyssa pointed out.
"You're telling me" the Doctor replied, rubbing his face.
"Does it hurt?" Alyssa asked.
"Yeah, tell you she doesn't half have on hell of a left hook for a female" he pointed out, rubbing the area where Jackie slapped him. Alyssa giggled as Rose came to join them on the roof after having a moment with Jackie.
"She still angry?" the Doctor asked.
"Not as much now" Rose replied " she kept asking me where I was all this time, I can't tell her. I can't even begin. She's never going to forgive me. And I missed a year. Was it good? " she asked.
" Middling" the Doctor replied.
"You're so useless" Rose implied as Alyssa giggled in amusement.
"Well, if it's this much trouble, are you going to stay here now? " he asked.
" I don't know. I can't do that to her again, though" Rose replied.
"Yeah if you ran out on her again, she might be alot angrier than she was back there" Alyssa stated, a playful smile on her face.
"Well, she's not coming with us" the Doctor implied before the three of them began giggling.
"No chance" Rose giggled.
"I don't do families" the Doctor said.
"She slapped you! " Rose chuckled as Alyssa covered her mouth to stop herself from snorting with laughter.
" Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother" the Doctor said, clearly not amused by being slapped in the face.
"Your face" Rose chuckled in amusement.
"It hurt" a not so very amused Doctor said in defence.
"You're so gay" Rose giggled before composing herself "When you say nine hundred years? ."
"That's my age" the Doctor replied.
"No way" Alyssa said, eyes widening "you look a lot younger than that."
" You're nine hundred years old" Rose pointed out, not believing it herself either.
"Yeah" the Doctor replied.
"My mum was right. That is one hell of an age gap" Rose said before jumping off the wall to look out at the city "every conversation with you just goes mental. There's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things, and me and Alyssa are the only people on planet Earth who knows they exist." All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a spaceship flew over their heads and around London before crashing into Big ben then making a dive bomb for the River thames.
"That was a spaceship" Alyssa whispered in amazement " a real life spaceship."
" Oh, that's just not fair" Rose pointed out as the Doctor began to laugh, grabbing the girls by the hands and running into the streets where the army had blocked off the roads towards the crash sight.
" It's blocked off" the Doctor pointed out as Alyssa jumped up and down to get a better look as she couldn't see properly due to her small size.
"We're miles from the centre. The city must be grid locked. The whole of London must be closing down" Rose pointed out.
" I know. I can't believe I'm here to see this. This is fantastic! " the Doctor pointed out in amusement.
" Did you know this was going to happen?" Rose asked.
" Nope" the Doctor replied with a grin.
" Do you recognise the ship?" Alyssa asked as she stood on her tip toes to get a better view but to no avail.
"Nope" the Doctor replied in the same excited tone.
" Do you know why it crashed? " Rose asked.
"Nope" the Doctor said again.
"So glad we've got you then" Rose muttered.
" I bet you are. This is what I travel for, Rose. To see history happening right in front of us" he replied as little Alyssa still attempted to get a better view of what was happening.
"Well, let's go and see it. Never mind the traffic, we've got the Tardis" Rose pointed out.
"yeah, I can't see anything standing here" Alyssa implied.
" Better not. They've already got one spaceship in the middle of London. I don't want to shove another one on top" the Doctor stated.
"Yeah, but yours looks like a big blue box. No one's going to notice" Rose implied.
"You'd be surprised" the Doctor replied "emergency like this, there'll be all kinds of people watching. Trust me. The Tardis stays where it is. "
" So history's happening and we're stuck here" Rose said.
"Yes, we are" the Doctor implied.
"We could always do what everybody else does" Rose suggested as the Doctor and Alyssa both looked at her "We could watch it on TV." Later that morning, the three of them had retunred to Rose's flat and the Doctor was trying to watch the news report on the spaceship crash but the flat had become a lively atmosphere as Rose's relatives where there aswell.
" Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash lands in Central London. Police reinforcements are drafted in from across the country to control widespread panic, looting and civil disturbance. A state of national emergency has been declared" a news reporter said on the news channel as the Doctor listened on as Jackie walked into the front room, bad mouthing him but the Doctor chose to ignore this as he continued to listen to the news report as it had just stated that a body had been recovered from the wreckage.
"Do you think it could be an alien?" Alyssa whispered.
"Possibly, I'm going to find out" the Doctor said as he got up from the chair and headed towards the front door. Rose followed after him as did Alyssa but was stopped by Jackie.
"I think you better stay here until we can get hold of your parents" Jackie told her "if that man took you away from your parents, just like he did with my Rose then there is no reason for you to go following him about now is there."
"Look, he didn't take me, I was sat at home watching tv when these two guys came into my house, hit me over the head and when I woke up, the first people I saw was the Doctor and Rose and he promised to help me get back home" Alyssa explained but Jackie was convinced that he probably sent them men round to snatch her but Alyssa told her that they were trying to break into her dad's safe and that she tried to stop them so one of them chased her up the stairs and hit her over the head, probably to stop her from getting help.
"Well, even if that is true or not, I'm not letting a little girl like you go anywhere with the person who stole away my daughter, now you sit yourself down and I'll get you a drink" Jackie told her but Alyssa didn't listen, instead she turned around and headed out the front door to see the Doctor giving Rose a key to the Tardis.
"Why don't I get one of them?" she asked as approached them both.
"Well you and Rose can share that one" he implied "what are you doing out here anyway."
"The scary lady still reckons you abducted me and Rose so I walked out" Alyssa stated " so I was wondering if I can come along with you to look at that alien."
"Yeah ok, but stay close to me ok because things might get a little dangerous" the Doctor told her before turning to Rose " we'll be right back. Go and spend some time with your mother."
"Ok, but don't you two go disapearring" Rose told them before heading back indoors. The Doctor and Alyssa looked at each other and giggled a little before heading back to the tardis.
"So do you think these Aliens have crashed her accidently?" Alyssa asked as the Doctor set up the console.
"Possibly" he replied as the tardis swayed from side to side and the Doctor had to angrily smash the console with a hammer before it stopped swaying. A little while later, the tardis came to a halt and the two of them stepped outside.
"Where are we?" Alyssa asked in a hushed whisper.
"Albion hospital, this is where the Alien was brought" he replied as he used his sonic screwdriver on the door lock. When the door opened, the Doctor and Alyssa found themselves in a room full of soilders in red berets and when they saw the two intruders, they put up their guns.
"I'd lower them guns if I was you, you're pointing them at a little girl" the Doctor stated, gesturing towards Alyssa who was standing close to him. They did so and suddenly, there was a crashing noise coming from somewhere down the corridor "Defence plan delta! Come on. Move! Move! ." The Doctor grabbed hold of Alyssa's hand and they ran down the corridor, into an examantion room where they saw a japanese lady cowering by a desk.
"It's alive!" she gasped as the Doctor ran over to her before turning to the soilders.
"Spread out. Tell the perimeter it's a lockdown"" he told them.
" My god. It's still alive" she gasped.
"Do it" the Doctor barked at the soilders who nodded and ran out the room. Alyssa then came walking over to where the woman was cowering.
" I swear it was dead" she stated in the same shaky voice.
" Coma, shock, hibernation, anything. What does it look like?" he asked her before there was a crashing sound from inside the room "It's still here." The Doctor then got on his hands a knees and started crawling along the floor whilst Alyssa stayed with the woman, watching him. She then heard him say something before there came a screeching and a pig in a spacesuit came running from out behind the filing cabinet on two legs.
" Don't shoot!" the Doctor said to one of the soilders who had his gun raised. Alyssa jumped up to her feet and ran out into the corridor just in time to see the pig being shot and she squealed in shock.
" What did you do that for?" the Doctor asked the soilder who shot the pig in a very angry tone "It was scared!." Alyssa went back into the room where the woman was slowly getting on her feet.
"What's happened"" she asked.
"They shot the pig" Alyssa replied " the Doctor told them not to but they didn't listen and shot it." The Doctor then came walking back into the room, carrying the now dead pig and placing it on the surgical table that was in the middle of the room with out looking at the other two as he did so.
"This pig isn't an alien" he explained " it's a real earth pig that has been experimented on by aliens" he then turned around and faced the woman " you, what's your name?"
"Toshiko sato" she replied as she came walking over to were the pig was laying.
"Nice to meet you Toshiko, I'm the Doctor and this little lady here is Alyssa" the Doctor beamed, patting Alyssa on the shoulders "so, you thought that this Pig was actually an Alien?"
" I just assumed that's what aliens look like, but you're saying it's an ordinary pig from Earth" Tosh stated as Alyssa joined them at looked at the pig and pointed out that it must be a very high tech pig wearing that suit and walking on it's hind legs instead of all fours.
"More like a mermaid. Victorian showmen used to draw the crowds by taking the skull of a cat, gluing it to a fish and calling it a mermaid. Now someone's taken a pig, opened up it's brain, stuck bits on, then they've strapped it in that ship and made it dive bomb. It must've been terrified. They've taken this animal and turned it into a joke" the Doctor explained.
" So it's a fake, a pretend, like the mermaid. But the technology augmenting its brain, it's like nothing on Earth. It's alien. Aliens are faking aliens. But why would they do that? Doctor? " she looked round to see that both the Doctor and Alyssa where now gone and she ran out into the corridor to hear the Tardis dematerilising and both the Doctor and Alyssa had disappeared.
Back in the tardis, Alyssa was asking the Doctor about where they were going now.
"Where going back to Rose's flat" he replied " inform her that the crash landing was faked and then we'll go to crash sight to get a proper look in."
"Wouldn't it still be blocked off by all the traffic?" she asked as she perched herself onto the on the railings.
"Nah, probably be cleared up by now" the Doctor replied as the Tardis came to a stop and a few seconds later, Rose came walking in, followed by Mickey and Jackie.
"All right, so I lied. I went and had a look. But the whole crash landing's a fake. I thought so. Just too perfect. I mean, hitting Big Ben. Come on, so I thought let's go and have a look " the Doctor explained as Rose came walking over to him, informing him that her mum was here and the Doctor tunred around to see an angry looking Mickey and a shocked Jackie "Oh, that's just what I need. Don't you dare make this place domestic. "
"You ruined my life, Doctor. They thought she was dead. I was a murder suspect because of you" Mickey stated angrily, pointign an accusing finger at the Doctor.
"You see what I mean? Domestic" the Doctor pointed out.
" I bet you don't even remember my name" Mickey said.
"Ricky" the Doctor replied.
"It's Mickey" Mickey said angrily.
" No, it's Ricky" the Doctor stated as Alyssa tried to hold in her giggles.
" I think I know my own name" Mickey argued just as Jackie ran out of the Tardis and Rose ran after her, telling her something before coming back inside.
"That was a real spaceship" she implied as she came walking back over to the console.
"Yep" the Doctor replied as he attempted to fix his little tv screen on the console.
"So it's all a pack of lies? What is it, then? Are they invading? " Rose asked.
" Funny way to invade, putting the world on red alert" Alyssa pointed out as she stood on her tip toes to get a look at the tv screen just as the Doctor finished fixing it.
"Got it! Ha, ha! Patched in the radar, looped it back twelve hours so we can follow the flight of that spaceship. Here we go. Hold on. Come on" the Doctor yelled and the other three gathered round to look at the screen where they saw the spaceship flying round the Earth "that's the spaceship on its way to Earth, see? Except. Hold on. See? The spaceship did a sling shot round the Earth before it landed."
"What does that mean?" Rose asked.
"Yeah, what does it mean?" Alyssa asked.
"It means it came from Earth in the first place. It went up and came back down. Whoever those aliens are, they haven't just arrived, they've been here for a while. The question is, what have they been doing?" the Doctor said, hand on his chin before flicking through all the news channels where most of them where still telling the same story about the spaceship crash.
" How many channels do you get? " Mickey asked.
"All the basic packages" the Doctor replied.
"You get sports channels?" Mickey asked.
"Yes I get the football" the Doctor replied before noticing something on the tv screen "hold on, I know that lot, UNIT. United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. Good people. "
"How do you know them?" Rose asked.
"Because he worked for them" Mickey pointed out " Oh yeah, don't think I sat on my backside for twelve months, Doctor. I read up on you. You look deep enough on the Internet or in the history books, and there's his name, followed by a list of the dead. "
" That's nice. Good boy, Ricky" the Doctor replied sarcasticly as Alyssa giggled slightly.
"If you know them, why don't you go and help? " Rose asked.
"They wouldn't recognise me. I've changed a lot since the old days. Besides, the world's on a knife-edge. There's aliens out there and fake aliens. We want to keep this alien out of the mix. I'm going undercover. And er, I'd better keep the Tardis out of sight" the Doctor said before heading to the doors "Ricky, you've got a car. You can do some driving. "
"Where to? " Mickey asked.
"The roads are clearing. Let's go and have a look at that spaceship" the Doctor replied and the four of the Tardis, straight into a helicopter spotlight and they found themselves surrounded by Police.
" Do not move! Step away from the box and raise your hands above your heads" they spoke out as Mickey ran to hide behind some dustbins " Raise your hands above your head. You are under arrest. "
"Take me to your leader" the Doctor said with a grin as he, Rose and Alyssa raised their hands in the air.
"We come on peace" Alyssa called out with a grin. The three of them where then huddled into a Police car and driven away from the estate.
"This is a bit posh. If I knew it was going to be like this, being arrested, I would have done it years ago" Rose pointed out.
"We're not being arrested, we're being escorted" the Doctor replied.
" Where to? " Rose asked.
" Where'd you think? Downing Street" the Doctor replied with a smile.
" You're kidding" Rose inquired.
" I'm not" the Doctor said.
"No way" Alyssa said, eyes widening in amazement "10 Downing Street? "
"That's the one" the Doctor replied as both girls giggled in exictment.
"Oh, my God" Rose giggled. "we're going to 10 Downing Street? How come? "
" I hate to say it, but Mickey was right. Over the years I've visited this planet a lot of times, and I've been, er, noticed" the Doctor announced, feeling proud of himself.
"Now they need you?" Rose asked.
" Like it said on the news. They're gathering experts in alien knowledge. And who's the biggest expert of the lot?" he asked, smiling again.
"Patrick Moore?" Rose asked.
"Apart from him" the Doctor replied.
"Oh, don't you just love it" Rose replied with a grin.
" I'm telling you. Lloyd George, he used to drink me under the table. Who's the Prime Minister now? " he asked.
"I'm not sure, I'm not sure if this is all a dream or some big hallucination from the blow to the head I recieved before waking up in your Tardis" Alyssa pointed out and the Doctor just grinned at her and ruffled her hair.
"You sure have got one hell of an imagination" he pointed out before turning to Rose "what about you, do you know."
" How should I know? I missed a year" Rose inquired. The car then pulled up out 10 downing street and the three of them got out with cameras flashing, taking pictures and the Doctor grinned and waved whilst Rose and Alyssa looked around in amazement.
"Oh my god" Rose pointed out.
"This is so cool" Alyssa said as they were led into the building and then into a waiting room where there were some more people.
"Wonder what's going to happen now" Alyssa whipsered to Rose.
"I'm not sure" Rose whispered back to her as a middle aged woamn with short light brown hair walked in, introducing herself as Harriet Jones to some security guards before walking in just before a man came walking in.
" Ladies and gentlemen, can we convene? Quick as we can, please. It's this way on the right, and can I remind you ID cards are to be worn at all times" he announced before hnading the Doctor his ID card "Here's your ID card. I'm sorry, your companions don't have a clearance."
"I don't go anywhere without them" the Doctor inquired.
"You're the code nine, not the older girl and the little girl is too young to come in" the man implied not noticing the look that Alyssa was giving him "I'm sorry, Doctor. It is the Doctor, isn't it? they'll have to stay outside."
"They're staying with me, both of them" the Doctor insisted.
" Look, even I don't have clearance to go in there. I can't let them in and that's a fact" he implied.
"It's all right. You go" Rose told him just as Harriet jones came rushing over to them.
" Excuse me. Are you the Doctor? " she asked.
"Sure" the Doctor replied.
"Not now. We're busy. Can't you go home?" the man asked her in an annoyed tone of voice.
"Well arn't we rude" Alyssa inquired, arms folded but the man chose to ignore the young girls comment.
"I just need a word in private" Harriet insisted.
"You haven't got clearance. Now leave it" the man told Harriet before tunring to Rose and Alyssa "I'm going to have to leave you both with security." he then began to lead the two girls away but Harriet offered to look after them so he left both girls with Harriet and she led them out of the room, telling them both to carry on walking and not to look round. Alyssa couldn't quite figure it out but this Harriet woman was clearly jumpy about something.
"So, this friend of yours, he's an expert, is that right? He knows about aliens? " Harriet asked.
"Why do you want to know? " Rose asked but Harriet didn't answer her, instead she burst into tears. Alyssa took out a hankerchief from her jeans pocket and hnaded it over to her.
"Thank you dear" Harriet replied, drying her eyes "come with me both of you, but stay close to me, I have something to show you." She then began to lead the pair down the corridor and into cabinet room where Harriet walked into the middle of the room and picked up a skin suit which looked like it had once been human. Alyssa squealed and jumped back in fear.
"They turned the body into a suit. A disguise for the thing inside! " Harriet explained before she bursted into tears again.
" It's all right. I believe you. It's, it's alien. They must have some serious technology behind this. If we could find it, we could use it" Rose explained as she opened a cupboard door and a dead man fell out, causing Alyssa to squeal again.
" Oh, my God! Is that the" Rose stated but was interupted as the same man from earlier came marching in with a clealry annoyed look on his face.
" Harriet, for God's sake. This has gone beyond a joke. You cannot just wander" he stated before seeing the dead body on the floor "Oh, my God. That's the Prime Minister!." Rose and Alyssa looked at each other and Alyssa huddled next to Rose because she was begining to get the feeling that something bad was about to happen and she was right because a short plump woman came walking into the cabinet room with a menacing look on her face.
"Oh! Has someone been naughty?" she asked in a teasing voice as she closed the doors behind her and advanced towards the other four in the room with that same menacing expression.
"That's impossible. He left this afternoon. The Prime Minister left Downing Street. He was driven away! " the man inquired, looking at the short woman with a suspicious expression.
"And who told you that, hmm?" she aksed in the same teasing voice " me." She then pushed her hair back and began running her finger along the top of her head and nothing could prepare them for what happend next. The short plumb woman was actually a body suit and inside it was an eight foot tall green Alien with big black eyes with a baby like face and after it had squeezed itself out of the body suit, it flexed it's claws in relief before turning to the four humans who where watching in shocked.
" I am a Slitheen" it giggled before grabbing hold of the man with it's claws and held him up against the wall and all Harriet, Rose and Alyssa could do was watch, not knowing what to do.