The long game
After the incident with the Dalek back in two thousand and twelve, the Tardis materilised on a space station and the Doctor, Rose and Alyssa except for Adam, got out and looked around to see where they had landed with the Doctor happily grinning away.
" So, it's two hundred thousand, and it's a spaceship. No, wait a minute, space station, and er, go and try that gate over there. Off you go" the Doctor pointed out, showing them a nearby door which probably let to another room on the station.
"Two hundred thousand?" Rose asked.
"Two hundred thousand" the Doctor added with a nod.
" Right" Rose said before opening the Tardis doors "Adam? Out you come. " Adam emerged from the Tardis, his mouth hnaging open in shock.
"Welcome to the future" Alyssa announced, extending her arm " please stay with the group at all times and the risk of getting lost will be very minimum."
" Oh, my God" Adam muttered as he gathered his surroundings.
" Don't worry, you'll get used to it" Rose reassured him.
"Where are we?" he asked, still looking around.
"Good question. Let's see. So, er, judging by the architecture, I'd say we're around the year two hundred thousand. If you listen, engines,We're on some sort of space station. Yeah, definitely a space station. It's a bit warm in here. They could turn the heating down. Tell you what - let's try that gate. Come on! " Rose said before leading the other three through a metal gate which led to a large viewing window where the Earth was hanging in orbit. The Doctor, Rose and Alyssa went straight up to the window but Adam stayed back a little bit.
"Here we go! And this is. I'll let the Doctor describe it" Rose told Adam before the Doctor began to explain things to the new passenger.
"The Fourth great and bountiful Human Empire. And there it is, planet Earth at it's height. Covered with mega-cities, five moons, population ninety six billion. The hub of a galactic domain stretching across a million planets, a million species, with mankind right in the middle" the Doctor explained as Adam fainted behind them in shock before turning to Rose "He's your boyfriend."
"Not anymore" Rose stated.
"I thought that Mickey boy was your boyfriend" Alyssa pointed out, narrowing her eyes. After Adam had come round, the four of them went to the central hub of the space station as the Doctor continued to explain to Adam about where they had landed.
"Come on, Adam. Open your mind. You're going to like this. Fantastic period of history. The human race at its most intelligent. Culture, art, politics. This era has got fine food, good manners" the Doctor explained before a man barged past him and soon the hub became busy and food vendors where opening and people were queuing up for food.
"Blimey it's like london during the Boxing day sales" Alyssa pointed out as she looked around at all the people and a chef was serving a queue of rather ignorant people who were pushing and shoving each other " yeah, definatly like the boxing day sales."
"Fine cuisine?" Rose asked.
"My watch must be wrong" the Doctor said, looking at his watch "No, it's fine. It's weird."
"That's what comes of showing off. Your history's not as good as you thought it was" Rose teased.
" My history's perfect" The Doctor defended.
"Well, obviously not" Rose teased again whilst Alyssa almost got knocked over by a woman who was eager to get to one of the food vendors.
"Hey watch it lady" Alyssa yelled but the woman ignored her " crikey, the nerve of some people."
"They're all human. What about the millions of planets, the millions of species? Where are they? " Adam asked as he looked at all the people.
"Good question. Actually, that is a good question. Adam, me old mate, you must be starving" the Doctor said, throwing his arm around Adam's shoulder.
"No, I'm just a bit time sick" the young boy insisted.
"No, you just need a bit of grub" the Doctor said before turning to one of the chefs in one of the food vendors "Oi, mate - how much is a kronkburger? ."
"Two credits twenty, sweetheart. Now join the queue" the Chef told him as he pointed to the back of the queue.
" Money. We need money. Let's use a cashpoint" the Doctor said and he, the girls and Adam went over to a nearby cashpoint and used his sonic screwdriver on it and a plastic card came out.
"There you go, pocket money. Don't spend it all on sweets" the Doctor said as he handed the plastic card over to Adam and he looked at it in confusion.
" How does it work?" he asked.
"Go and find out. Stop nagging me. The thing is, Adam, time travel's like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guide book, you've got to throw yourself in. Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers. Or is that just me? Stop asking questions, go and do it. Off you go, then. Your first date" the Doctor teased as Adam and Rose began to explore.
" You're going to get a smack, you are" Rose chuckled as Alyssa joined them and pointed out it wouldn't be much of a romantic date if she was there. Alyssa and Adam sat down at one of the chairs and tables while Rose went to one of the vendors.
"So, how did you feel when you went travelling in time for the first time?" he asked Alyssa.
"I found it exciting, maybe that's because I'm a kid" she pointed out as Rose came back with something in a carton cup.
"Try this. It's called Zaphic. It's nice, it's like a, er, Slush Puppy" she pointed out.
"What flavour?" Adam asked and Rose took a suck at the straw before pulling a face,
"Sort of beef?" she pointed out and Adam pulled a face.
"Oh, my God. It's like everything's gone, home, family, everything" Adam pointed out as Alyssa tasted some of Rose's Zaphic and immedietly pulled a face at it and Rose got out her mobile phone.
"This helps. The Doctor gave it a bit of a top-up. Who's back home, your mum and dad? " she asked.
"Yeah" Adam replied.
" Phone them up" Rose said, holding the phone out to him.
" But that's one hundred and ninety eight thousand years ago" Adam pointed out.
"Honestly, try it. Go on" Rose said with the phone still held out and Adam took it from her, looking at it as though it was something strange.
"Is there a code for planet Earth?" he asked.
"Just dial" Rose told him. Adam dialled his phone number and he was taken straight to the answering machine so he left a message.
"It's er. Hi. It's me, I've sort of gone travelling. I met these people and we've gone travelling together, but, er, I'm fine, and I'll call you later. Love you. Bye. " he said before an alarm went off and the Doctor came walking over to them.
"Oi, you three over here" he called out and As Rose and Alyssa walked over to the Doctor, none of them noticed Adam slipping Rose's phone into his jeans pocket. They then followed a group of people into a large white room where they were sitting around a octagonal desk where a woman who's name was Cathica was stood in the middle, next to a chair with wires coming out of it.
"Now, everybody behave. We have a management inspection. How do you want it, by the book? " Cathica asked the people in the room.
"Right from scratch, thanks" the Doctor replied, grinning.
" Okay. So, ladies, gentlemen, multi-sex, undecided or robot,- my name is Cathica Santini Khadeni. That's Cathica with a C, in case you want to write to Floor five hundred praising me, and please do. Now, please feel free to ask any questions. The process of news gathering must be open, honest, and beyond bias. That's company policy. " Cathica explained to the group.
" Actually, it's the law" a young woman nmaed Suki pointed out.
"Yes, thank you, Suki. Okay, keep it calm. Don't show off for the guests. Here we go" Cathica said as she sat into the central chair "And engage safety."
"What is she doing?" Alyssa whispered as the seven people around her held their hands out on the palm prints around the desk and Cathica clikced her fingers, causing a portal to open in her forehead and this made Alyssa feel a little queasy.
"And three, two, and spike" Cathica siad and a beam of light began to shine into the portal in her forehead.
" Compressed information, streaming into her. Reports from every city, every country, every planet, and they all get packaged inside her head. She becomes part of the software. Her brain is the computer." the Doctor explained as they watched the process and Alyssa was backing away a little because she could see the brain inside the portal and it made her feel a little uneasy.
"If it all goes through her, she must be a genius" Rose pointed out.
"Nah, she wouldn't remember any of it. There's too much. Her head'd blow up. The brain's the processor. As soon as it closes, she forgets" the Doctor pointed out.
"So, what about all these people round the edge? " Rose asked.
"They've all got tiny little chips in their head, connecting them to her and they transmit six hundred channels. Every single fact in the Empire beams out of this place. Now that's what I call power" the Doctor replied before he tunred round to see Alyssa almost collasping to the floor and he rushed over to steady her " hey you okay there?"
"I'm fine it's just that I can see her brain" Alyssa pointed out, pointing at Cathica
"She's right, I can see her brain too" Adam pointed out. He too was looking a little queasy, like Alyssa.
"Do you both want to get out?" Rose asked them.
"No. No, this technology, it's amazing" Adam pointed out with Alyssa nodding in agreement. Despite the whole thing making her feels queasy, she found it amazing at the same time.
"This technology's wrong" the Doctor pointed out grimly.
"Trouble?" Rose asked.
"Oh, yeah" the Doctor replied before Suki yelled and pulled her hand away from the Desk like she had just recieved an electric shock and Cathica gave her an annoyed look.
"Come off it, Suki. I wasn't even halfway. What was that for?" she asked.
" Sorry. It must've been a glitch" Suki pointed out just as the Tannoy in the room announced that there was a promotion and a wall was lighting up with the word PROMOTION written on it.
"Come on. This is it. Come on. Oh God, make it me. Come on, say my name, say my name, say my name" Cathica whispered, her eyes closed and fingers crossed.
" Promotion for Suki Macrae Cantrell. Please proceed to Floor five hundred" the Tannoy announced.
"I don't believe it. Floor five hundred" Suki said in shock.
"How the hell did you manage that? I'm above you" A pretty annoyed Cathica pointed out.
" I don't know. I just applied on the off chance and they've said yes" a now happy Suki replied as she slowly got up out of her seat.
"That's so not fair. I've been applying to Floor five hundred for three years" Cathica moaned.
" What's Floor five hundred? " Rose asked.
"The walls are made of gold" the Doctor pointed out as his three companions looked at him, not knowing what he was talking about.
"So do you reckon it could like be the really expensive part of the station if the walls are made of gold or do you think it's all high tech up there?" Alyssa asked but Rose pointed out that she wasn't sure. A little while later, they were stood by the lifts where Suki was saying goodbye to everyone before she went up to floor five hundred.
"Cathica, I'm going to miss you" Suki siad, hugging Cathica before turning to the Doctor, beaming "Floor five hundred, thank you. "
" I didn't do anything" the Doctor replied.
"Well, you're my lucky charm" Suki pointed out.
"All right" the Doctor beamed " I'll hug anyone." He hugged Suki as Rose noticed that Adam was still looking a little shaken up from earlier.
" Come on, it's not that bad" she reassured him.
"What, with the head thing?" Adam asked.
"But she's closed it now" Alyssa said "it's ok ."
" Yeah, but. It's everything. It freaks me out" Adam told her "and I just need to. If I could just cool down. Sort of acclimatise."
"How do you mean?" Rose asked.
" Maybe I could just go and sit on the observation deck. Would that be all right? Soak it in, you know. Pretend I'm a citizen of the year two hundred thousand" Adam explained.
"Do you want me and Alyssa to come with you?" Rose suggested.
"No, no, you both stick with the Doctor" Adam told her "I'll be on the deck. "
"Here you go. Take the Tardis key" Rose said as she handed Adam the key to the Tardis "You know, just in case it gets a bit too much. "
" Yeah, like it's not weird in there" Adam pointed out just as the Tannoy made an announcement over the speakers.
"All staff are reminded that the sixteen forty break session has been shortened by ten minutes. Thank you. "
"Oh, my God, I've got to go. I can't keep them waiting. I'm sorry. Say goodbye to Steve for me. Bye! " Suki said as she walked into the elevator and doors closed.
"Good riddance" Cathica said matter o factly as the Doctor gave her a look.
"You're talking like you'll never see her again. She's only going upstairs" he pointed out, not knowing what was actually happening.
"We won't. Once you go to Floor five hundred you never come back" Cathica pointed out.
"What do you mean, what happens to the people who go up there?" Alyssa asked curiously.
"No one knows, but the people who have been sent up there never came back down again" Cathica replied as they walked through the cafe area.
"Have you ever been up there? " the Doctor asked.
" I can't. You need a key for the lift, and you only get a key with promotion. No one gets to five hundred except for the chosen few" Cathica explained. They then walked back into the room where Cathica's forehead had opened and the Doctor had perched himself into the middle Chair.
" But you've never been to another floor? Not even one floor down?" he asked.
" I went to floor sixteen when I first arrived. That's medical. That's when I got my head done, and then I came straight here. Satellite Five, you work, eat and sleep on the same floor. That's it, that's all" Cathica explained before giving the Doctor an odd look "You're not management, are you.?"
"At last. She's clever" he told his two companions and Alyssa smiled in response.
"Yeah, well, whatever it is, don't involve me. I don't know anything" Cathica pointed out.
" Don't you even ask? " the Doctor asked her.
"Well, why would I?" Cathica asked.
" You're a journalist. Why's all the crew human?" the Doctor asked her.
"What's that got to do with anything? " Cathica aksed, shrugging her shoulders.
"I think he means that they're no Aliens on board" Alyssa said "how come?"
" I don't know. No real reason. They're not banned or anything" said Cathica, shruggingh er shoulders again.
"Then where are they?" the Doctor asked.
" I suppose immigration's tightened up. It's had to, what with all the threats" Cathica pointed out.
"What threats? " the Doctor asked.
" I don't know all of them. Usual stuff. And the price of space warp doubled so that kept the visitors away. Oh, and the government on Chavic Five's collapsed, so that lot stopped coming, you see. Just lots of little reasons, that's all " Cathica explained.
"Adding up to one great big fact, and you didn't even notice" the Doctor imlied.
"Doctor, I think if there was any kind of conspiracy, Satellite Five would have seen it. We see everything" Cathica told him.
" I can see better. This society's the wrong shape, even the technology" the Doctor said grimly.
" It's cutting edge" Cathica pointed out.
" It's backwards. There's a great big door in your head. You should've chucked this out years ago" the Doctor told her.
" So, what do you think's going on? " Rose asked.
" It's not just this space station, it's the whole attitude. It's the way people think. The great and bountiful Human Empire's stunted. Something's holding it back" the Doctor explained.
"And how would you know?" Cathica asked.
"Trust me, humanity's been set back about ninety years. When did Satellite Five start broadcasting? " he asked.
"Ninety one years ago" Cathica replied. The Doctor then grinned and jumped out of the chair and ran out of the room with the other three following behind him.
"What are you doing now?" Cathica asked as they followed him to the lifts.
"We're going to pay a little visit to floor five hundred" the Doctor replied as he took out his sonic screwdriver and began to bug the lift system with it.
"We are so going to get in trouble. You're not allowed to touch the mainframe. You're going to get told off" Cathica complained.
"One of you girls, tell her to button it" the Doctor told Rose and Alyssa as he continued to work on the lift.
"You can't just vandalise the place. Someone's going to notice! " Cathica pointed out as the doors opened.
"At last, we're in" the Doctor cheered as he walked into the lift and began messing with the nest of wirings.
"This is nothing to do with me. I'm going back to work" Cathica stated whilst Rose and Alyssa joined the Doctor in the lift.
"Go on, then. See you" the Doctor said.
"I can't just leave you, can I! " Cathica stated.
"If you want to be useful, get them to turn the heating down. It's boiling. What's wrong with this place? Can't they do something about it? " Rose pointed out.
" I don't know. We keep asking. Something to do with the turbine" Cathica pointed out.
" Something to do with the turbine" the Doctor said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"Well, I don't know! " Cathica replied, getting annnoyed now.
" Exactly. I give up on you, Cathica. Now, Rose. Look at Rose. Rose is asking the right kind of question" the Doctor pointed out as Rose smiled and Alyssa giggled.
"Oh, thank you" Rose replied.
"Why is it so hot? " the Doctor asked.
"yeah it's really hot in here" Alyssa pointed out, wiping the sweat from her forehead due to the heat.
" One minutes you're worried about the Empire and the next it's the central heating" Cathica pointed out.
"Well, never underestimate plumbing. Plumbing's very important" the Doctor replied. He then opened up a monitor on the wall which showed the plumbing layout for Satellite Five "Here we go. Satellite Five, pipes and plumbing. Look at the layout. "
"This is ridiculous. You've got access to the computer's core. You can look at the archive, the news, the stock exchange and you're looking at pipes?" Cathica asked, raising her eyebrow at the Doctor.
" But there's something wrong" the Doctor pointed out as he scanned the monitor.
"What do you mean?" Alyssa asked, leaning over his shoulder to look at the screen "what's wrong?"
"The ventilation system. Cooling ducts, ice filters, all working flat out channelling massive amounts of heat down" Cathica replied.
"All the way from the top" the Doctor implied.
"Floor five hundred" Rose added.
"Something up there is generating tons and tons of heat" the Doctor explained.
" Well, I don't know about you, but I feel like I'm missing out on a party" Rose pointed out " It's all going on upstairs. Fancy a trip?."
"You can't. You need a key" Cathica told her but the Doctor began to bug the system again.
"Keys are just codes, and I've got the codes right here. Here we go. Override two one five point nine" the Doctor said as he used his Sonic screwdriver on the system and the computer gave him the code.
"How come it's given you the code?" Cathica asked.
"Someone up there likes me" the Doctor pointed out before he, Rose and Alyssa got into the lift, ready to go up to floor five hundred.
"Come on. Come with us" Rose offered but Cathica refused to go along with them as she didn't want to be invovled in what the Doctor and his two assistants were planning. The Doctor bid her goodbye and then closed the doors.
"That's her gone. Adam's given up. Looks like it's just you, me and Alyssa" the Doctor pointed out.
"Yeah" Alyssa said, nodding in agreement.
"Good" the Doctor said as Rose nodded in agreement. The ride up to floor five hundred was pretty quick and when the Elevator doors opened, they released that all the walls and floors where covered in ice.
"It's freezing" Alyssa said, the cold air emitting from her mouth as she breathed and she shivvered as she zipped her Jacket up.
"The walls are not made of gold" the Doctor stated as they stepped out of the lift " you two should go back downstairs."
"we're sticking with you, arn't we Rose?" Alyssa said, turning to Rose who agreed with what Alyssa had stated. They walked through the area and into a room full of computers with people working on them and stood in the middle was a white haired man in a blue suit who looked as though he had been waiting for them to arrive.
" I started without you. This is fascinating. Satellite Five contains every piece of information within the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Birth certificates, shopping habits, bank statements, but you three, you don't exist. Not a trace. No birth, no job, not the slightest kiss. How can you walk through the world and not leave a single footprint? " the man asked but Rose and Alyssa ignored him because they ran over to one of the workers who tunred out to be Suki and she she was unresponsive and staring at the computer screen.
"Suki. Suki! Hello? Can you hear me? Suki?" Rose asked but was unable to get a response from her.
"What have you done to her?" Alyssa asked the suited man " what have you done?"
"I think she's dead" the Doctor replied.
" She's working" Rose pointed out.
"How can she be doing that if she's dead?" Alyssa asked.
"They've all got chips in their head, and the chips keep going, like puppets" the Doctor explained.
"Oh! You're full of information" the man who Alyssa soon recognised as the Editor as she had seen this episode loads of times before she found herself being in the show after being knocked unconcious " but it's only fair we get some information back, because apparently, you're no one. It's so rare not to know something. Who are you? "
"It doesn't matter, because we're off. Nice to meet you" the Doctor replied before turning to the girls " Come on." They went to leave but Suki grabbed hold of Rose and Alyssa whilst two other zombies grabbed hold of the Doctor.
"Tell me who you are" the Editor told said as he slowly walked towards the Doctor.
"Since that information's keeping us alive, I'm hardly going to say, am I" the Doctor replied.
"Well, perhaps my Editor in Chief can convince you otherwise" the Editor replied as Alyssa glared at him whilst trying to break free from the dead Suki's grasp.
" And who's that? " the Doctor asked.
" It may interest you to know that this is not the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. In fact, it's not actually human at all. It's merely a place where humans happen to live" the Editor told him before a snarl was heard from above " Yeah. Yeah, sorry. It's a place where humans are allowed to live by kind permission of my client. " The Editor then pointed up to the ceiling and the other three looked up to see a strange blob like creature with sharp teeth and it was snarling at them.
"That's ugly" Alyssa pointed out, pulling a face.
"What is that? " Rose asked.
"You mean that thing's in charge of Satellite Five?" the Doctor asked.
"That thing, as you put it, is in charge of the human race. For almost a hundred years, mankind has been shaped and guided, his knowledge and ambition strictly controlled by it's broadcast news, edited by my superior, your master, and humanity's guiding light, the mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe. I call him Max" the Editor told them before telling his undead staff to restrain them and pretty soon, the Doctor, Rose and Alyssa found themselves held in hefty sets of mangles.
"Are we in trouble now?" Alyssa whipsered.
"Don't worry, the Doctor will figure a way out of this, he always does" Rose whispered back as the Editor paced up and down, telling them about what had become of the human race.
" Create a climate of fear and it's easy to keep the borders closed. It's just a matter of emphasis. The right word in the right broadcast repeated often enough can destabilise an economy, invent an enemy, change a vote" he explained.
"So all the people on Earth are like, slaves" Alyssa pointed out.
"Well, now, there's an interesting point. Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved?" the Editor asked.
"Yes" the Doctor replied matter o'factly.
" Oh. I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I'm going to get? Yes?" the Editor asked before putting on what could be described as a mock pout but the Doctor remained serious.
"Yes" the timelord replied again in the same manner.
"You're no fun" the Editor replied, mock pouting again and Alyssa rolled her eyes at him.
" Let me out of these manacles. You'll find out how much fun I am" the Doctor said, shaking at his restrains.
"Oh, he's tough, isn't he" the Editor said to the two girls before turning to the Doctor " But, come on. Isn't it a great system? You've got to admire it, just a little bit."
" You can't hide something on this scale. Somebody must have noticed" Rose pointed out.
"From time to time, someone, yes, but the computer chip system allows me to see inside their brains. I can see the smallest doubt and crush it" the Editor explained in an evil manner " then they just carry on, living the life, strutting about downstairs and all over the surface of the Earth like they're so individual, when of course, they're not. They're just cattle. In that respect, the Jagrafess hasn't changed a thing. "
"What about you? " Alyssa asked " You're not a Jagrabelly."
"Jagrafess" the Doctor corrected her.
"Jagrafess" Alyssa repeated with a sigh "You're not a Jagrafess. You're human."
"Yeah, well, simply being human doesn't pay very well" the Editor replied.
"But you couldn't have done this all on your own" Rose pointed out.
"No. I represent a consortium of banks. Money prefers a long-term investment. Also, the Jagrafess needed a little hand to install himself" the Editor pointed out.
"No wonder, a creature that size. What's his life span? " the Doctor asked.
"Three thousand years" the Editor said and the Doctor pulled a face in disbelievement.
"That's one hell of a metabolism generating all that heat" he pointed out "That's why Satellite Five's so hot. You pump it out of the creature, channel it downstairs. Jagrafess stays cool, it stays alive. Satellite Five is one great big life support system."
" But that's why you're so dangerous. Knowledge is power, but you remain unknown. Who are you? " the Editor asked before clicking his fingers and enegy began to surge through the mangles.
"Make it stop" Alyssa squelaed, pain emitting across her face.
"Leave them alone" the Doctor yelled "I'm the Doctor,the older one is Rose tyler and the younger one is Alyssa Benson and she's only a Twelve year old girl,We're nothing, we're just wandering."
" Tell me who you are!" the Editor told them again.
" I just said! " the Doctor yelled again.
"Yes, but who do you work for? Who sent you? Who knows about us? Who exactly" the Editor demanded before the Jagrafess growled above them and the Editor then turned to the Doctor with an evil smirk "Time Lord."
"What?" the Doctor asked, a look of confusion spreading across his face.
" Oh, yes. The last of the Time Lords in his travelling machine. Oh, with his little human girlies from long ago " the Editor replied in a mocking manner.
" You don't know what you're talking about" the Doctor replied but the Editor just grinned at him again and pointed out that he was talking about Time travel but the Doctor didn't believe him.
" Someone's been telling you lies" he pointed out.
"Young master Adam Mitchell?" the Editor asked before brining up a holo-monitor which showed Adam sitting in a broadcast chair with a beam of light coming from his head, just like with Cathica.
"Oh, my God. His head!" Rose whispered.
"What the hell's he done? What the hell's he gone and done?" the Doctor asked furiously "they're reading his mind. He's telling them everything."
" And through him, I know everything about you" the Editor replied in an evil manner as Alyssa kicked at him but he moved further away to avoid being kicked by the young girl " every piece of information in his head is now mine. And you have infinite knowledge, Doctor. The Human Empire is tiny compared to what you've seen in you S. Tardis. "
"Well, you'll never get your hands on it. I'll die first" the Doctor pointed out.
" Die all you like. I don't need you. I've got the key" the Editor replied, snapping his fingers and the Doctor and the girls watched as the Tardis key began to rise from Adam's pocket.
"You and your boyfriends! " the Doctor said to Rose in an annoyed manner.
" Today, we are the headlines. We can rewrite history. We could prevent mankind from ever developing" the Editor explained.
"You're evil you evil person" Alyssa spat "you should be locked away in a high security prison cell you evil man."
" And no one's going to stop you because you've bred a human race that doesn't bother to ask questions. Stupid little slaves, believing every lie. They'll just trot right into the slaughter house if they're told it's made of gold." the Doctor implied as the Jagrafess began growling in a distressted manner
" What's happening?" the Editor asked.
"Don't look at us, we don't know" Alyssa pointed out.
"Someone's disengaged the safety. Who's that? " the Editor asked bringing up the holo-monitor to see Cathica sitting in another broadcast chair.
"It's Cathica" Rose stated with a grin.
"And she's thinking. She's using what she knows" the Doctor implied.
"Then she'll be able to get us out of this mess" Alyssa pointed out " my wrists are starting to ache."
"Terminate her access" the Editor said to Suki.
" Everything I told her about Satellite Five. The pipes, the filters, she's reversing it. Look at that' the Doctor said and the girls looked up at the ceiling to see the icicles were now melting "It's getting hot."
" I said, terminate. Burn out her mind" the Editor yelled to Suki but the console exploded and all the dead operators collapsed whilst Rose mananed to free herself before attempting to free the Doctor and Alyssa from their restrains.
"She's venting the heat up here. The Jagrafess needs to stay cool and now it's sitting on top of a volcano" the Doctor implied as the Jagrafess continued to growl in pain.
"Yes, I'm trying, sir, but I don't know how she did it. It's impossible. A member of staff with an idea" the Editor yelled as he threw Suki's corpse aside and sat in her seat whilst Rose still tried to free the Doctor and Alyssa.
"Take my Sonic Screwdriver" the Doctor told her and Rose took it from his pocket.
" What do I do?" she asked, holding the screwdriver in her hands whilst Alyssa begged her to hurry up.
" Flick the switch!" the Doctor told her before focusing his attention to the Editor "Oi, mate, want to bank on a certainty? Massive heat in a massive body, massive bang. See you in the headlines!." After Rose had managed to get him and Alyssa free, they ran out of the room as more ice fell from the ceiling and they ran to where Cathica was sitting with the light shining from her forehead and the Doctor snapped his fingers, making the portal in her forehead close.
"Is it all over now?" Alyssa whispered.
"Yeah, it is" Rose replied, resting a hand on the young girl's shoulder. The next morning, The Doctor, Rose, Alyssa and Cathica were back on level 139 and it was now early morning.
"We're just going to go. I hate tidying up. Too many questions. You'll manage" the Doctor told Cathica.
"You'll have to stay and explain it. No one's going to believe me" Cathica told him.
"Oh, they might start believing a lot of things now. The human race should accelerate. All back to normal" the Doctor explained.
"What about your friend?" Cathica asked, gesturing to Adam who came walking towards them, his forehead now closed.
"He's not my friend" the Doctor pointed out as Adam joined them.
"Now, don't " Rose warned the Doctor as Adam looked at them all with a relaxed expression.
"I'm all right now. Much better. And I've got the key. Look, it's. It all worked out for the best, didn't it? You know, it's not actually my fault, because you were in charge" Adam pointed out before the Doctor pushed him into the Tardis.
"So, where are we going now?" he aksed but the Doctor ignored him and began setting up the coordinates and Adam was now confused about why the Doctor wasn't speaking to him and why the girls where staring at him. When the Tardis came to a stop, the Doctor grabbed hold of Adam again and pushed him out of the Tardis, into a living room.
" It's my house. I'm home! Oh, my God, I'm home! Blimey. I thought you were going to chuck me out of an airlock" Adam pointed out.
" Is there something else you want to tell me? " the Doctor asked.
"No. What do you mean?" Adam asked as the Doctor picked up the answering machine which was lying on the coffee table, examing it.
"The archive of Satellite Five. One second of that message could've changed the world" the Doctpr explained as he listened to the message that Adam had left on the machine before taking the Sonic screwdriver to it, making it explode "that's it, then. See you."
" How do you mean, see you? " Adam asked as the Doctor and the girls went to go in the Tardis.
" As in goodbye" the Doctor told him.
"But what about me? You can't just go. I've got my head. I've got a chip type two. My head opens" Adam pointed out.
" What, like this? " the Doctor asked, clicking his fingers and making the portal in Adam's forehead open. Alyssa giggled.
" Don't" Adam said, closing the portal.
"Don't do what? " the Doctor asked before making Adam's forehead opena gain and Alyssa was now almost in hysterics.
"Stop it" Adam warned him, closing his forehead again.
" All right now, Doctor, that's enough. Stop it" Rose told the Doctor sternly and he stopped.
"Thank you" Adam said in relieve just before Alyssa gave her fingers a click, making his forehead open again and she laughed hysterically.
"Oi, don't you start" Adam told the little girl before making his forehead close, only for Rose to make it open again, making Alyssa laugh even harder that her eyes were watering "Oi."
"Sorry, I couldn't resist" Rose giggled as Adam closed his forehead again.
" The whole of history could have changed because of you" the Doctor told Adam sternly.
" I just wanted to help" Adam pointed out.
"You were helping yourself" the Doctor implied.
"And I'm sorry. I've said I'm sorry, and I am, I really am, but you can't just leave me like this" said Adam.
"Yes I can" the Doctor told him "because if you show that head to anyone, they'll dissect you in seconds. You'll have to live a very quiet life. Keep out of trouble. Be average, unseen. Good luck."
" But I want to come with you" Adam stated.
" I only take the best. I've got Rose and Alyssa" the Doctor stated.
"But she's just a little kid" Adam said, gesturing to Alyssa right before they heard the front door opening and Adam now look worried "Oh, my God. "
"Who's that? Geoff, is that you?" a woman's voice yelled from the hallway.
" It's me, mum. Don't come in. Wait there a minute" Adam yelled before turning to Rose "Rose, take me with you." Rose however doesn't answering him and steps into the Tardis.
"Right then, were shall we go next?" the Doctor asked Rose who slowly walked towards him and announced that she wanted to go a see her Dad.
"Okay, we can just go back to 2005 and we can go visit your dad" the Doctor stated "where was he anyway when we went back to your estate, away working?"
"He's dead" Rose pointed out " my dad died when I was really young and I never even met him."
"So you're telling me that you want to go back I time and meet your dad before he died?" the Doctor asked and Rose nodded whilst Alyssa sat on the pilot chair, listening silently.