I am going to finish this story! I super sonic-screwdriver swear!

Back in the Torchwood Base, the Empress was cooking up a plan B.

"Now that I have measured the bride's catalysis, I can force feed it." She declared. One of the robots began to force Lance to drink water that was poisoned with the Huon particles. "Drink the particles." The Empress hissed. "Become the key!"

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The Doctor darted back to the console and started turning a wheel frantically.

"What is it Doctor?" Rose asked.

"The Racnoss are hiding from the war! What's it doing?" The Doctor called. Outside, the rocks, dust and gas are all zooming towards the Racnoss ship as though drawn by a magnetic force.

"Exactly what you said." Donna said. The Doctor ran back to the door to look.

"Oh, they didn't just bury something at the centre of the Earth… they became the center of the Earth. The first rock." Suddenly, the TARDIS shuddered violently, and they were nearly knocked of their feet.

"What was that?" Rose as she slowly released her death grip on the railing.

"Trouble." The Doctor said, then slammed the doors shut.

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"My wonderful key!" The Empress hissed. "Now, my servants. Bind him!" Lance found himself held by two robots as he began to glow."

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The Doctor, Rose and Donna all struggled to keep their balance as the TARDIS shuddered and rocked violently.

"What the hell's it doing?" Donna screamed over the noise.

"Remember that little trick I pulled?" The Doctor called back. "Particles pulling particles. It works in reverse. They're pulling us back!" He was desperately trying to pilot, but it was beyond his control as they whirled through the Vortex.

"Well can't you stop it? Hasn't it got a handbrake? Can't you reverse of warp beam or something?" Donna demanded to know.

"Backseat driver." The Doctor accused her. "Oh! Wait a minute!" He exclaimed and dove beneath the console, coming up with the extrapolator.

"The extrapolator?" Rose asked. "What will that do?"

"It can't stop us." The Doctor said, busy plugging it into the console. "But it should give us a good bump." But it looked like it might be too late. Slowly the TARDIS began to dematerialize back within the chamber.

"The bride shall join her groom. What a wedding there shall be." The Empress said gleefully. But inside the TARDIS, the Doctor whacked the extrapolator.

"Now!" He cried. The TARDIS disappeared from the chamber, then rematerialized outside in the corridor. The Doctor, Rose and Donna emerged, looking around.

"We're about 200 yards to the right." The Doctor said. "Come on!" He grabbed Rose and Donna's hands and off they set, running down the corridor.

"She is close!" The Empress hissed. "The holy bride in white! Find her. Find her!" The Doctor, Rose and Donna had arrived at the doorway leading up to the Thames Flood barrier.

"But what do we do?" Donna panted, out of breath and scared. The Doctor pulled out a stethoscope and had placed it against the door.

"I don't know!" I make it up as I go along! But trust me, I've got a history." The Doctor said with a reassuring smile.

"He does it brilliantly." Rose said, grinning.

"But I still don't understand/ I'm full of particles. But what for?" Donna asked.

There's a Racnoss web at the center of the Earth, but my people unraveled their power source. The Huon particles ceased to exist but the Racnoss are stuck." But while The Doctor was talking, two robots came up behind Rose and Donna and grabbed them from behind, covering their mouths so they couldn't scream and dragged them away. The Doctor, who hadn't noticed, continued rambling. "They've just been in hibernation for billions of years. Frozen. Dead. Kaput! So you're the new key. Brand new particles. Living particles! They need you to open it. And you have never been so quiet…" The Doctor finally looked behind him and noticed that they were gone. He whipped his head around, looking up and down the empty corridor.

"Rose? Donna?" But there was no answer. He opened the door with his sonic screwdriver, only to confronted by an armed robot. Back in the chamber, Donna had joined Lance tied up in the web on the ceiling. Rose was being guarded by some of the robots on the ledge behind the Racnoss.

"I hate you." Donna told Lance, seething.

"Yeah, I think we've gone a bit beyond that now, sweetheart." Lance replied.

"My golden couple." The Empress hissed. "Together at last. Your awful wedded life. Tell me, do you want to be released?"

"YES!" Shouted both Donna and Lance.

"You're supposed to say, 'I do.'" The Empress laughed.

"Ha. No chance." Lane said.

"Say it!" The Empress ordered.

Lance hesitated, then looked at Donna. "I do." He finally said.

"I do." Donna echoed him.

"I don't!" The Empress cackled. Activate the particles. Purge every last one!" Donna, Lance and Rose all began to glow again. "And release!" The particles extracted themselves from Donna and Lance and zoomed down the hole in the ground. However, Rose still continued to glow. "What is this?" The Empress demanded to know as she realized that Rose was still glowing. "Why do the particles still remain within you?"

"Inside me is something you can never conquer." Rose said defiantly. "The whole of Time and Space itself." The Empress hissed angrily.

"It is no matter! The secret heart unlocks! And they will waken from their sleep of Ages!"

"Who will?" Donna demanded to know. "What's down there?"

"How thick are you?" Lance asked her, unbelieving that she still wasn't getting it.

"My children." The Empress said. "The long lost Racnoss now will be born to feast on flesh!" The chirping of the spiders and the pattering of their feet could now be heard coming up the hole. "The web-star shall now come to me." Outside, high in the sky, the web-star began to float towards Earth. "My babies will be hungry." The Empress said. "They need sustenance. Perish the web."

"Use her!" Lance cried. "Not me! Use her!"

"No! You can't do this!" Rose pled but the Empress ignored her.

"Oh my funny little Lance. But you are quite impolite to your lady-friend. The Empress does not approve." With her words, the web around Lance loosened and he tumbled down the hole.

"No!" Rose cried.

"Laaaaaaaaane!" Donna screamed.

Outside, the star descended, closer and closer, over the Thames. The confused Londoners pointed up at it in wonder and awe.

"Harvest the humans! Reduce them to meat!" The Empress cried. Immediately, what looked like bolts of lightning shot out of the points of the stars, killing all they touched. Instantly there was chaos as the crowd scattered, running for cover and screaming. Back inside the chamber, one of the robots was ascending the stairs. "My children are climbing towards me." The Empress said. "And none shall stop me." She hissed then turned to the climbing robot. "So you might as well unmask, my clever little doctor-man." The Doctor removed the mask and cloak he was wearing.

"Oh well. Nice try."

"Doctor!" Rose called, sighing with relief.

"In trouble again there Rose?" The Doctor asked cheekily.

"Not as much as you're going to be in if you don't get me down from here!" Donna yelled from the ceiling.

"I've got you Donna!" He called back, aiming his sonic screwdriver and the web around her loosened.

"I'm gonna fall!" She screeched.

"You're gonna swing!" The Doctor reassured her. Sure enough, as the web ripped, she grabbed hold of one of the web strands and swung right over the hole towards the Doctor.

"I've got ya!" The Doctor called, his arms outstretch. Donna screamed and swung right underneath the Doctor and smashed into the wall with a dull bang. The Empress smirked and Rose flinched with an,

"Ouch."

"Oh… Sorry." The Doctor apologized looking down where Donna was sprawled on her back below him.

"Thanks for nothing." Donna said sarcastically.

"The doctor-man amuses me." The Empress hissed, in what sounded like laughter.

"Empress of the Racnoss. I give you one last chance. I can find you a planet. I can find you a place in the Universe to coexist. Take that offer and end this now." The Doctor pled with her, and also keeping an eye on where Rose was still being held by the two robots.

"These men are so funny." The Empress laughed.

"What's your answer?" The Doctor asked again.

"Oh…I'm afraid I have to decline." The Empress laughed again.

"You really don't want to do that." Rose said quietly. "Please just end this!"

"There is nothing you or the funny little doctor-man can do to stop me!" The Racnoss hissed menacingly.

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