Boom town
"So we're parked on top of the rift to soak up the radiation and that will make the Tardis work better?" Rose asked. The Tardis had been playing up for a few days so the Doctor suggested that they head to Cardiff to park the Tardis on top of the rift for a day a and the radiation would make it work again.
"So what are we going to do until tomorrow then?" Jack asked.
"We'll walk around Cardiff, see the sights, go for dinner at this really nice cafe on the sea front" the Doctor suggested.
"Cool" Alyssa piped up just as there was a knock at the door.
"I'll get it" Jack said, getting to his feet, running to the tardis door and opening it to reveal Mickey standing outside.
"Who the hell are you?" Jack asked him and Mickey gave him a look of both shock and annoyance.
"What do you mean, who the hell am I? Who the hell are you?" he asked.
"Captain Jack Harkness. Whatever your selling, we're not buying" Jack said before he went to shut the door on Mickey who just opened it again and barged past Jack, walking into the Tardis "don't tell me. This must be Mickey."
"Here comes trouble!" the Doctor called out as Mickey walked in "how're you doing, Ricky boy?."
"It's Mickey!" Mickey replied with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
'Mickey, Ricky, what's the difference" Alyssa teased, shrugging her shoulders as the Doctor grinned at her.
"Oi, watch it shorty" Mickey said, half annoyed, half jokingly, pointing a finger at Alyssa.
"They're just winding you up" Rose told him before the pair embraced in a hug.
"Ewww, get a room" Alyssa teased but the pair chose to ignore her.
"You look fantastic" Mickey told her and Rose grinned away, not saying anything.
" Aw, sweet, look at these two" Jack pointed out, watching Mickey and Rose hug before turning to the Doctor who was up a ladder, mending something "How come I never get any of that?."
"Buy me a drink first" the Doctor told him.
"You're such hard work" Jack implied as the Doctor grinned at him and pointed out that he was worth it and Mickey was handing Rose something which looked like a passport.
"I can go anywhere now" Rose said, showing the Doctor her passport.
" I told you, you don't need a passport" the Doctor told her.
"It's all very well going to Platform One and Justicia and the Glass Pyramid of San Kaloon, but what if we end up in Brazil? I might need it. You see, I'm prepared for anything" Rose explained.
"Sounds like your staying, then. So, what're you doing in Cardiff? And who the hell's Jumping Jack Flash?" Mickey asked, pointing at Jack " I mean, I don't mind you hanging out with that kid" he pointed over at Alyssa who was leaning against the console, arms folded "or big-ears up there."
"Oi! " the Doctor said, offended.
" Look in the mirror" Mickey told the Doctor before turning to Rose " but this guy, I don't know, he's kind of."
"Handsome? " Jack asked, with a grin.
"More like cheesy" Mickey pointed out.
"Early twenty first Century slang. Is cheesy good or bad? " Jack asked.
"It's bad" Alyssa stated "pretty bad."
"But bad means good, isn't that right? " Jack asked.
"So why the hell are you in Cardiff anyway?" Mickey asked.
"We just stopped off. We need to refuel. The thing is, Cardiff's got this rift running through the middle of the city. It's invisible, but it's like an earthquake fault between different dimensions" Rose explained.
" The rift was healed back in 1869" the Doctor added.
" Thanks to a girl named Gwyneth, because these creatures called the Gelth, they were using the rift as a gateway but she saved the world and closed it" Alyssa pointed out.
"But closing a rift always leaves a scar, and that scar generates energy, harmless to the human race" said Jack.
" But perfect for the Tardis, so just park it here for a couple of days right on top of the scar and" the Doctor began.
"Open up the engines, soak up the radiation" Jack continued.
" Like filling her up with petrol and off we go! " Rose added.
" Into time!" Jack said.
"And space! " Alyssa finished before she, the Doctor, Rose and Jack all high fived each other.
" My God, have you seen yourselves? You all think you're so clever, don't you? " Mickey asked and the four time travellers nodded.
"Right, shall we go outside and do some exploring?" the Doctor asked. Everyone nodded and the five of them stepped out of the Tardis and into the bright sunny streets of cardiff.
"Nice day to go site seeing" Alyssa pointed out as she looked around.
" Should take another twenty four hours, which means we've got time to kill" the Doctor pointed out.
"That old lady's staring" Mickey implied.
"Probably wondering what five people could do inside a small wooden box" Jack pointed out.
" What are you captain of, the Innuendo Squad? " Mickey asked Jack who gave him the "whatever" sign in response.
"Wait, the Tardis, we can't just leave it. Doesn't it get noticed?" Mickey asked, gesturing to the Tardis's police box design.
" Yeah, what's with the police box? Why does it look like that? " Jack asked.
" It's a cloaking device" Rose implied.
"It's called a chameleon circuit" the Doctor explained "the Tardis is meant to disguise itself wherever it lands, like if this was Ancient Rome, it'd be a statue on a plinth or something. But I landed in the 1960s, it disguised itself as a police box, and the circuit got stuck. "
"So it copied a real thing? There actually was police boxes?" Mickey asked.
"Yeah, on street corners. Phone for help before they had radios and mobiles. If they arrested someone, they could shove them inside till help came, like a little prison cell" the Doctor explained.
"Why don't you just fix the circuit? " Jack asked
"I like it, don't you?" the Doctor pointed out.
" I love it" Rose said.
"Yeah, it's awesome" Alyssa stated.
" But that's what I meant. There's no police boxes anymore, so doesn't it get noticed?" Mickey asked and the Doctor pulled him to one side.
"Ricky, let me tell you something about the human race. You put a mysterious blue box slap bang in the middle of town, what do they do? Walk past it. Now, stop your nagging. Let's go and explore" he said gleefully.
"What's the plan? " Rose asked.
" I don't know. Cardiff, early twenty first century and the wind's coming from the east. Trust me. Safest place in the universe" the Doctor pointed out "so, shall we get some grub first before we start exploring."
"Yeah, I'm starving" Alyssa pointed out as she felt a small grumble in her stomach. The five of them then headed to a nearby cafe which was on the pier and when they arrived, they all sat down at a table which had enough chairs to seat them all.
"I can't decide what to have yet" Alyssa said as she scanned through the menu.
"Me neither,everything looks nice" Rose pointed out.
"Maybe I'll have the chicken burger" Alyssa decided "and a lemonade." After everyone had got their orders, Alyssa leaned back in her chair with a glass of lemonade in her hand as Jack began telling everyone a story about some kind of Alien he had encountered.
" I swear, six feet tall and with big tusks" he pointed out.
"You're lying through your teeth!" the Doctor teased.
"I'd have gone bonkers! That's the word - bonkers! " Rose stated.
" I mean, it turns out the white things are tusks and I mean tusks! And it's woken, and it's not happy" Jack continued.
" How could you not know it was there? " the Doctor asked.
" And we're standing there, fifteen of us, naked " Jack said.
"Ewwww" Alyssa said with a shudder.
" Naked?!" Rose asked, giggling.
"And I'm like, oh, no, no, it's got nothing to do with me. And then it roars, and we are running. Oh my God, we are running! And Brakovitch falls, so I turn to him and I say"
" I knew we should've turned left!" Mikcey said, finishing Jack's setence and everyone burst out in hysterical laughter.
"That's my line!" Jack defended.
" I don't believe you. I don't believe a word you say ever. That is so brilliant. Did you ever get your clothes back? " Rose asked, not noticing the Doctor getting up and taking a newspaper from another customer.
"No, I just picked him up went right for the ship, full throttle. Didn't stop until I hit the spacelanes. I was shaking. It was unbelievable. It freaked me out, and by the time I got fifteen light years away I realised I'm like this" Jack explained before they noticed the Doctor showing them the front page on the newspaper. It was a Photo of Margaret the Slitheen, saying that she was now the new mayor of Cardiff.
"Isn't that, the Slitheen lady?" Alyssa asked in shock.
"yeah and I was having such a nice day" the Doctor complained. The five of them then left the cafe and the Doctor suggested they should all head to town hall to see if they could find Margaret there.
" According to intelligence, the target is the last surviving member of the Slitheen family, a criminal sect from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorious" Jack explained as they arrived at town Hall and walked inside "asquerading as a human being, zipped inside a skin suit. Okay, plan of attack, we assume a basic fifty seven fifty six strategy, covering all available exits on the ground floor. Doctor, you go face to face. That'll designate Exit One, I'll cover Exit Two. Rose,Alyssa you both Exit Three. Mickey Smith, you take Exit Four. Have you got that?"
"Excuse me. Who's in charge? " the Doctor asked, a little annoyed.
"Sorry" Jack apologized " Awaiting orders, sir."
"Right, here's the plan" the Doctor began before turning to Jack, grinning "Like he said. Nice plan. Anything else? "
"Present arms" Jack ordered and all of them, except for Alyssa pulled out a mobile phone. After a round of checks, the five of them went in seperate directions to see if they could track down Margaret. Alyssa went with Rose and the two girls began running down the corridor.
"What do you think her plan is?" Alyssa asked "how could she have survived the explosion at Ten downing street and not the others?"
"She must be really clever" Rose replied as her phone rang and she pulled it out of her pokcet to answer it.
"Slitheen heading north" Alyssa heard the Doctor say over the other end of the reciever.
"On our way" Rose said before grabbing Alyssa's hand "come on Ally, we've got a slitheen to catch." The two girls then turned around and ran out into the car park.
"There she is" Alyssa yelled, pointing over at the short plumb blonde haired woman who had also spotted them but she turned around and ran in the opposite direction as the two girls met up with the Doctor and Jack.
"Who's on Exit Four? " Jack asked.
" That was Mickey! " Rose implied as Mickey joined them.
"Mickey the idiot" the Doctor implied.
" Oh, be fair. she's not exactly going to outrun us, is she? " Rose asked when suddenly, Margaret Disappeared, leaving the five of them open mouthed.
"She's got a teleport! that's cheating!" Jack complained "now we're never going to get her."
"Don't worry, the Doctor's very good at teleports" Alyssa said as the Doctor held up his Sonic screwdriver and made Margaret reappear, only for her to disappear again and the Doctor kept making her appear everytime she disappeared until she got fed up.
"I could do this all day" the Doctor pointed out.
" This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?" Margaret asked.
"You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet" the Doctor pointed out.
" Apart from that" Margaret pointed out. The group headed back to City hall and went inside a large room where a large model of cardiff, with a nuclear power station in the middle.
"Now why is there a power station right there in the middle of Cardiff?" the Doctor asked.
"I've been building one if you want to know" Margaret replied.
"So tell me Margaret, how did you survive the explosion of Ten Downing street?" the Doctor asked her.
'I teleported myself out, my brothers however where unfortunate. I am the last surviving member of the Slitheen family" she explained.
" So, you're a Slitheen, you're on Earth, you're trapped. Your family get killed but you teleport out just in the nick of time. You have no means of escape. What do you do? You build a nuclear power station. But what for? " the Doctor asked.
"A philanthropic gesture. I've learnt the error of my ways" Margaret pointed out but none of them seemed too sure that she was telling the truth.
" And it just so happens to be right on top of the rift" the Doctor pointed out, gesturing the whereabouts of where the power station was located.
"What rift would that be? " Magaret asked, scrunching up her nose.
" A rift in space and time. If this power station went into meltdown, the entire planet would go" Jack explained before mimiking an explosion.
" This station is designed to explode the minute it reaches capacity" the Doctor explained.
"Didn't anyone notice?" Alyssa asked.
"Yeah,Isn't there someone in London checking this sort of stuff? " Rose asked.
" We're in Cardiff. London doesn't care" Margaret pointed out as the two girls glared at her "The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice. Oh. I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native. "
" But why would she do that? A great big explosion, she'd only end up killing herself" Mickey pointed out.
"She's got a name, you know" Margaret stated, giving Mickey an annoyed look.
"She's not even a she, she's a thing" Mickey stated.
"Oh, but she's clever" the Doctor pointed out as he pulled out the middle of the model, tunred it upside down to reveal some electronics " fantastic."
" Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator? " Jack asked, gesturing to the device that the Doctor was holding.
"Couldn't have put it better myself" he pointed out as Alyssa stood next to him to get a closer look.
" Oo, genius! You didn't build this?" Jack pointed out, looking at Margaret.
" I have my hobbies. A little tinkering" she pointed out.
"No, no, no. I mean, you really didn't build this. Way beyond you" Jack pointed out.
" I bet she stole it" Alyssa pointed out, glaring at Margaret.
" It fell into my hands" the female slitheen pointed out, ignoring the hard glare that the little girl was giving her.
" Is it a weapon? " Rose asked.
"It's transport. You see, if the reactor blows, the rift opens. Phenomenal cosmic disaster. But this thing shrouds you in a forcefield. You have this energy bubble, so you're safe. Then you feed it coordinates, stand on top, and ride the concussion all the way out of the solar system" Jack explained.
" It's a surfboard" Mickey pointed out.
"A pan-dimensional surfboard, yeah" Jack replied.
" And it would've worked" Margaret pointed out in an evil tone " I would have surfed away from this dead end dump and back to civilisation."
"You'd blow up a whole planet just to get a lift? " Mickey asked.
"Like stepping on an anthill" said Margaret.
"How'd you think of the name? " the Doctor asked, looking at the name of the project which was placed on the wall in big boald letters.
"What, Blaidd Drwg? It's Welsh" Margaret pointed out.
" I know, but how did you think of it?" the Doctor asked her, examining the title.
" I chose it at random, that's all. I don't know. It just sounded good. Does it matter? " Margaret asked.
"Blaidd Drwg" the Doctor pointed out and Rose asked him what it meant. The Doctor's response was that it meant BAD WOLF.
"But we've heard that before, Bad wolf, everywhere we've been" Alyssa pointed out, looking a little creeped out.
" Everywhere we go. Two words following us. Bad Wolf" the Doctor implied, looking a little disturbed himself.
" How can they be following us?" Rose asked.
"Just a coincidence. Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day. Never mind. Things to do. Margaret, we're going to take you home" the Doctor implied as he walked over to Margaret.
"Hold on, isn't that the easy option, like letting her go?" Jack asked.
"I don't believe it! We actually get to go to Raxa. Wait a minute! Raxacor" Rose said, struggling to say the name of Margaret's home planet.
" Raxacoricofallapatorius" the Doctor said as though he had said it everyday in his life.
" Raxacorico" Rose began.
" fallapatorius" the Doctor finished.
" Raxacoricofallapatorius" Rose said with a happy yell as she and Alyssa high fived.
"You said it" the little girl pointed out " I can't even say it, Raxacorocolafriedpotatoeroasty." Alyssa couldn't contain herself and burst out laughing, holding her sides.
"They have the death penalty" Margaret pointed out grimly, causing Alyssa to stop her giggling fit " the family Slitheen was tried in its absence many years ago and found guilty with no chance of appeal. According to the statutes of government, the moment I return, I am to be executed. What do you make of that, Doctor? Take me home and you take me to my death. "
"Not my problem" the Doctor pointed group then took Margaret back to the Tardis and she was amazed at the inside of it.
"This ship is impossible. It's superb. How do you get the outside around the inside? " she asked as she walked around, admiring the huge inside that had been fitted into a small police box.
" Like I'd give you the secret, yeah" the Doctor pointed out.
"What if she tries to escape?" Alyssa whispered to Rose.
"She won't, the Doctor willl make sure of that" Rose whispered back.
"I almost feel better about being defeated. I never stood a chance. This is the technology of the gods" Margaret pointed out.
" Don't worship me - I'd make a very bad god. You wouldn't get a day off, for starters" the Doctor told her before turning to Jack who was examing the extrapolator "Jack, how we doing, big fella?"
"This extrapolator's top of the range" Jack pointed out before turning to Margaret "Where did you get it?"
" Oh, I don't know. Some airlock sale?" Margaret replied.
"Must've been a great big heist. It's stacked with power" Jack pointed out.
"But we can use it for fuel? " the Doctor asked.
" It's not compatible, but it should knock off about twelve hours. We'll be ready to go by morning" said Jack.
"So that means we'll be stuck here over night?" Alyssa asked.
"I'm in no hurry" Margaret implied.
"We've got a prisoner. The police box is really a police box" Rose pointed out, grinning.
"That is brilliant" Alyssa said in excitement.
"You're not just police, though. Since you're taking me to my death, that makes you my executioners. Each and every one of you" said Margaret, glaring at the five of them.
"So what, you deserve it" Alyssa implied, shrugging her shoulders "you've been a very bad Alien."
"You're very quick to say so. You're very quick to soak your hands in my blood, which makes you better than me, how, exactly ? Long night ahead Let's see who can look me in the eye" Margaret said and waited for one of the others to look at her, but all five of them avoided eye contact. A little while later, Rose and Mickey went outside whilst the Doctor, Jack, Alyssa and Margaret remained inside. The Doctor went to his tv monitor and was watching Rose and Mickey talking for a little while then walking away.
"So, what's on?" Jack asked as the Doctor turned off the Monior and he pointed out that there was nothing on. Margaret was sitting on the floor, next to the railing, her back turned to the other three.
" I gather it's not always like this, having to wait. I bet you're always the first to leave, Doctor. Never mind the consequences, off you go. You butchered my family and then ran for the stars, am I right? But not this time. At last you have consequences. How does it feel?" she asked in a menacing tone.
" I didn't butcher them" the Doctor pointed out.
" Don't answer back. That's what she wants" jack told the Doctor.
" I didn't" the Doctor replied before turning back to Margaret "What about you? You had an emergency teleport. You didn't zap them to safety, did you?."
"It only carries one. I had to fly without coordinates. I ended up on a skip in the Isle of Dogs" Margaret said as the other three started giggling and she turned to them with an annoyed look " It wasn't funny."
" Sorry" the Doctor apologized before giggling again "It is a bit funny."
"Very funny more like" Alyssa chuckled.
" Do I get a last request?" Margaret asked.
" Depends what it is" the Doctor said.
"I grew quite fond of my little human life. All those rituals. The brushing of the teeth, and the complicated way they cook things. There's a little restaurant just round the Bay. It became quite a favorite of mine" Margaret explained.
" Is that what you want, a last meal? " the Doctor asked.
"Don't I have rights?" Margaret asked.
"Oh, like she's not going to try to escape" Jack said.
"Except I can never escape the Doctor, so where's the danger?" Margaret asked before focusing her sight on the Doctor "I wonder if you could do it? To sit with a creature you're about to kill and take supper. How strong is your stomach? ?
"Strong enough" the Doctor pointed out.
"I wonder. I've seen you fight your enemies, now dine with them" Margaret said, trying to sound threatening.
"The Doctor isn't scared of you, he isn't scared of anything" Alyssa pointed out.
"And you won't change my mind" the Doctor added.
"Prove it" said Margaret.
" There are people out there. If you slip away just for one second, they'll be in danger" the Doctor explained.
"Except I've got these" Jack pointed out, holding up a pair of bangles "You both wear one. If she moves more than ten feet away, she gets zapped by ten thousand volts. " Liking this idea, the Doctor grinned and turned to Margaret who was now leaning against the console.
"Margaret, would you like to come out to dinner? My treat" he said with a grin.
" Dinner in bondage. Works for me" Margaret said with a grin and she and the Doctor left the Tardis to have dinner whilst Jack and Alyssa stayed behind to fix it.
"So how did you first meet the Doctor then?" Jack asked Alyssa who was now sitting in the pilots chair, tossing a ball up and down.
"It's quite a funny story actually" the youngster pointed out.
"Well I would like to hear it" Jack implied, grinning at her.
"Well it was like this, I was sat at home in my front room all alone after my parents went out to a work do" she began.
"And they left you on your own?" Jack asked, sounding shocked.
"Well not technically because my older sister was in the house with me but she had shut herself in her room because she was in a foul mood after my mum wouldn't let her go on a night out as she wanted her to look after me. So anyway, I was sat downstairs about to watch a favourite tv show of mine" she paused for a minute to mumble something about actually being in it right now which Jack didn't take notice of before continuing "and I suddenly heard two voices I didn't recognize in the kitchen so I hid behind the curtain and two men in balcavas walked in, looking for my dad's safe."
"So what happened next then? " Jack asked as he continued repairing the Tardis.
'Well I was foolishly trying to be brave and I jumped out, holding my dad's baseball bat and telling them to get away from my dad's safe but one of them grabbed it off me and chased me up the stairs and then the next minute I'm waking up in the Tardis, feeling really confused" she finished.
"So you have no idea how you ended up in the Tardis?" Jack asked " maybe the Doctor was in your house, saw you were in trouble and took you into the Tardis before those thugs could do no more damage to you."
"Well he did seem quite surprised when he found me" Alyssa explained "but to be honest, I don't want to go home Just yet."
"What do you mean?" Jack aksed.
"I've quite enjoyed the whole time travelling stuff so I think I might stick around for a while longer and if I want to go home, the Doctor could just return me to the same night my house got burgled and they won't even know I've gone" she explained. Suddenly there was a strange noise and the Tardis began to shake with such an almighty force that Alyssa fell out of her seat.
"What's happening?" she yelled as Jack rushed over to help her to her feet.
"I'm not sure, some kind of earthquake" Jack replied as the Tardis continued to shake, making it impossible for the pair of them to stay standing. Jack was doing his best to keep Alyssa from falling over but he too was having trouble standing up.
"I'm really scared" Alyssa screamed.
"It's okay" Jack reassured her. He put the little girl up against the railing and told her to hold on tight whilst he went to the Console as sparks where beginning to fly from it as Alyssa watched on, terrified.
"What's going on Jack?" Alyssa yelled above the commotion.
"Something is wrong, very very wrong" Jack replied. The Tardis was lurched to one side and Alyssa was thrown off her feet and she saw a crack beginning to appear in the ground.
"JACK" she screamed as the crack grew larger and Jack saw this too and he rushed over to the fallen child, scooped her up and placed her on one of the Tardis shelves so she was out of danger.
"Don't worry Alyssa, everything is going to be fine" the American reassured her just as the Doctor and Margaret came running back in.
"What the hell are you doing?" the doctor asked when he saw what was happening inside the Tardis.
" It just went crazy" Jack told him.
" It's the rift. Time and space are ripping apart. The whole city's going to disappear" the Doctor explained.
" It's the extrapolator. I've disconnected it but it's still feeding off the engine! It's using the Tardis. I can't stop it!" Jack explained.
"Never mind Cardiff, it's going to rip open the planet" the Doctor explained just as Rose ran in, asking what was going on.
" Oh, just little me" Margaret said evilly before ripping her Slitheen arm from her body suit and grabbing Rose.
"Let her go" Alyssa screamed as the Doctor and Jack moved forward but Margaret walked further back with Rose.
" One wrong move and she snaps like a promise" Margaret threatened.
" I might've known" the Doctor said, horrified.
" I've had you bleating all night, poor baby, now shut it" Margaret said in a mocking tone before turning to Jack "You, fly boy, put the extrapolator at my feet. " She tightened her grip on a terrified Rose and Jack did as he was told "thank you. Just as I planned."
" I thought you needed to blow up the nuclear power station" Rose implied, gasping for breath.
"Failing that, if I were to be arrested, then anyone capable of tracking me down would have considerable technology of their own. Therefore, they would be captivated by the extrapolator. Especially a magpie mind like yours, Doctor. So the extrapolator was programmed to go to plan B. To lock onto the nearest alien power source and open the rift. And what a power source it found. I'm back on schedule, thanks to you" Margaret explained with an evil smirk.
" The rift's going to convulse. You'll destroy the whole planet" Jack told her.
"And you with it!" Margaret spat as she stepped on the extrapolator, still holding Rose captive "While I ride this board over the crest of the inferno all the way to freedom. Stand back, boys. Surf's up." The Tardis console suddenly cracked open and a bright light emitted from it, straight into Margaret and even Alyssa was getting a glimpse of it and she covered her eyes as it was really bright.
" Of course, opening the rift means you'll pull this ship apart" the Doctor explained.
"So sue me" Margaret spat.
" It's not just any old power source. It's the Tardis. My Tardis. The best ship in the universe" the Doctor told her.
" It'll make wonderful scrap" Margaret told him in an evil tone.
" What's that light? " Rose asked, squinting her eyes and turning her head away.
"The heart of the Tardis. This ship's alive. You've opened its soul" the Doctor explained.
"It's so bright" Margaret pointed out as she gazed at the bright light.
"Look at it, Margaret" the Doctor told her and Margaret was now becoming more transfixed by it " Look inside, Blon Fel Fotch. Look at the light." Margaret let go of Rose and she ran over to the Doctor, smiling up at him as Jack lifted Alyssa back down from the shelf and set her back down on the ground as Margaret lifted her head up and smiled at the four of them.
" Thank you" she said in a whisper before she disappeared into the light and the body suit lay crumpled on the extrapolator.
"Don't look. Stay there. Close your eyes! " the Doctor told his companions as the bright light was still emitting from the Tardis and he ran over to close it. After he had closed it, the shaking suddenly stopped and Alyssa was the first to notice that Margaret had disappeared.
" What happened to Margaret? " the little girl asked.
"Must have got burnt up. Carried out her own death sentence" Jack replied.
"No, I don't think she's dead" the Doctor pointed out.
" Then where'd she go? " Rose asked.
"She looked into the heart of the Tardis. Even I don't know how strong that is. And the ship's telepathic, like I told you, Rose. Gets inside your head. Translates alien languages. Maybe the raw energy can translate all sorts of thoughts" the Doctor explained as he pulled back the body suit to reveal an egg with dreadlocks "Here she is."
"She's an egg? " Alyssa asked.
"Regressed to her childhood" the Doctor pointed out.
"She's an egg?" Jack asked.
"She can start again. Live her life from scratch. If we take her home, give her to a different family, tell them to bring her up properly, she might be all right!" the Doctor suggested.
"Or she might be worse" Jack pointed out.
"That's her choice" the Doctor replied.
"She's an egg" Rose pointed out.
"She's an egg" the Doctor replied in agreement. Rose then mumbled something about Mickey before running outside to see if she could find him as Alyssa knelt down next to the egg, studying it.
"Is that really Margaret in there?" she asked innocently.
"Yeah, been reduced to nothing but an egg" the Doctor replied as Jack informed that the Tardis was now fully powered up as Rose walked back in.
"We're all powered up. We can leave. Opening the rift filled us up with energy. We can go, if that's all right" the Doctor told her.
"Yeah, fine" Rose replied, looking a little disappointed.
"How's Mickey? " the Doctor asked.
"He's okay. He's gone" Rose replied.
"Do you want to go and find him? We'll wait" the Doctor said.
"No need. He deserves better" Rose replied, just stopping herself from crying.
"Off we go, then. Always moving on" the Doctor cheered as he danced around the console, pressing various buttons along the way as Alyssa giggled at him.
" Next stop, Raxacoricofallapatorius. Now you don't often get to say that" Jack pointed out.
"We'll just stop by and pop her in the hatchery. Margaret the Slitheen can live her life again. A second chance" the Doctor pointed out.
"That'd be nice" Rose said solemnly as the Doctor set the coordinates for Raxacoricofallapatorius to take the egg back. After they dropped the egg off, they decided to visit Japan in 1336 but the whole trip ended in disater which involved an organisation who stole women and children and they had targeted Rose and Alyssa but they managed to escape back to the Tardis.
" Don't think we'll go back there again" the Doctor chuckled. Alyssa was about to say something when she was suddenly surrounded by a bright light and she could feel herself being dragged away. She reached her arm out and try to call out to the other three but she couldn't hear her voice and she could feel herself being pulled further and further away from them until everything went black.