"The Six" AU
'Journeys Converge'
Chapter Four
- Triplets -

A/N: I don't own squat, except what I write.

Music: Hans Zimmer Mombasa

The atmosphere in the Vault was tense. Jack, Martha, Sarah Jane and Danielle were on their knees with their hands on their heads. Jack was looking at the Doctor for any indication as to what he was planning, as were Martha and Sarah Jane. Danielle on the other hand, was gaping at Martha in apparent shock.

~"Activate planetary alignment. that same deep Dalek voice ordered over whatever passed as loudspeakers in this place."Universal Reality Detonation in two hundred rels. 199, 198, 197..."~

"You can't!" the Doctor pleaded. "Davros, just listen to me. Just stop!"

'I feel the TARDIS,' Rose said. She distracted him from Caan's incessant, insane giggling. 'Will Donna be able to do anything?'

'I don't know,' the Doctor replied. 'There was that echo, but I'm completely out of ideas,' he confessed. 'If we can just delay them long enough... We have to get out of these cells!'

Davros interrupted them with a triumphant rant. "Nothing can stop the detonation! Nothing! And no one!" He degenerated into howling cackles.

Inside the TARDIS, a second Doctor in a blue suit was frantically putting the final touches on a gun like device in Donna's hands. "It's ready!" Left handed, he slammed a lever. "Maximum power!"

The sound of the engines ground out, and the second Doctor grinned at Donna. "Ready for this, earth-girl?"

"Oh, yes!" Donna shouted with a matching grin, as she threw the brake off.

With the countdown continuing, the Doctor was about to get Jack to try for a diversion when the air in the room started whipping about. Rose and the Doctor snapped their heads to the centre of the disturbance with matching grins. Jack stood up with a huge smile on his face.

"Impossible," Davros said, completely shocked.

The TARDIS materialized with a thunk. A split second later the door opened to reveal the second Doctor, who was backlit from the light of the time rotor. The Doctor frowned when he saw the gun like device in his double's hand, and recognized the look on his face.

"Brilliant," Jack gasped out.

'That has some possibilities,' Rose thought cheekily.

'Mind out of the gutter, Tyler,' the Doctor thought back with a hint of mirth. 'Besides, I don't share.'

'Spoilsport,' she ribbed him. 'It's so much fun down there.'

His eyes flicked over to meet hers. 'Mine,' he declared.

Smiling wide at his possessiveness, Rose nodded. 'Always.'

The second Doctor was oblivious to the exchange, and he ran out of the TARDIS aiming that gun thing at Davros.

Realizing what he was intending to do, the Doctor shouted at him. "Don't!"

Davros calmly lifted his hand and shot a bolt of electricity, hitting the second Doctor in the dead centre of his chest. The Doctor in blue fell hard, and the gun slid to the side. "Activate holding cell."

The second Doctor looked up to see a force cage descend around him. He was breathing heavily, slowly getting to his feet.

There was a clatter from the TARDIS, and Donna ran out with the door slamming shut behind her. "I got it," she said as she scooped up the gun, "But I don't know what to do!"

Davros shoots her with another bolt of electricity, flinging her backwards to crash behind the Dalek console.

"Donna!" the Doctor shouted fearfully.

"Destroy the weapon," Davros orders. One of the three Daleks in the room pivots and fries it with its blaster.

"Donna!" the Doctor shouted again. "Are you all right? Donna!"

Davros looked disappointed. "I was wrong about your warriors, Doctor. They are pathetic."

Rose looked over to see the Doctor in blue stand on shaky feet. "And just where did you spring from?"

The second Doctor held his right hand up and wiggled his fingers. "Human biological metacrisis."

"Never mind that," the Doctor said quietly. "We've no way of stopping the Reality Bomb."

'Human... is that why I can't...' Rose asked.

'Yep,' the Doctor replied. 'Shh.'

Martha and Jack both eyed the new Doctor, and had some similar thoughts running through them. While Jack's were lurid, Martha's were speculative. Martha still didn't notice Danielle staring at her. Sarah Jane simply didn't know what to think at this point.

"Stand witness, Time Lord," Davros said, sitting tall and proud. "Stand witness, Humans. Your strategies have failed; Your weapons are useless; And the end of the universe has come."

As the countdown neared completion, Rose and the Doctor grabbed a hold of each other mentally, with promises and vows slipping between them.

"Adeola Oshodi?" Danielle whispered to Martha.

The quiet question took Martha by surprise, and she looked to the young woman with a shake of the head. "My late cousin. I'm Dr. Martha Jones," she introduced herself.

"Oh," Danielle said softly, disappointed. "Danielle Smith. You look just like mum."

Shocked, Martha saw the outright disappointment on her face, and was about to comfort her when she realized that the countdown had gotten under twenty. Her left hand reached over to her, and Danielle grasped it tightly.

The countdown reached zero, and alarms sounded as the sounds of build up died away. A voice brought everyone's attention to the vacant console in the middle of the room.

"Aaaand, closing all Z-Neutrino relay loops with an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop," Donna looked down. "Oh yes, that button there!" She stabbed the button in question.

Over the loudspeakers, various Dalek voices could be heard. "SYSTEM IN SHUTDOWN!"

"DETONATION NEGATIVE!"

"What is happening?" the deeper voice growled in something resembling panic. "Explain! Explain! EXPLAIN!"

The Doctor stared at Donna with a touch of awe on his face. "Donna? But you can't even change a plug!"

"D'you wanna bet, Time Boy?" Donna said with a laughing grin on her face.

Davros wheeled forward. "You will suffer for this!" He raised his hand again, and shocks went up his own arm instead of outward to hit Donna, causing him to scream in pain.

Donna stared at him with mock pity. "Ohhhh, a bio-electric dampening field with a retrogressive arc inversion?" She grinned again. "Done that! Next?"

"Exterminate her!" Davros shouted in a panic.

The three Daleks that were guarding the others turned around. Donna simply arched a brow as her hands danced over the over-large keyboard toggle keys on the console.

The sounds of clicking caused the three Daleks to turn their eyestalks down to stare at their weapons, puzzled. "WEAPONS NONFUNCTIONAL!" one of them exclaimed.

"What," Donna said tauntingly. "Macro transmission of an K-filter wavelength blocking Dalek weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix?" She smiled wide. "Come on! Give me something difficult!"

While Rose was smiling wide with her arms crossed, the Doctor was completely beside himself. "But! How did you work that out? You, you, you're..."

"Time Lord," the other Doctor said smugly. "Part Time Lord."

"Part Human!" Donna shouted. "Oh yes! That was a two-way biological metacrisis: Half Doctor; Half Donna!"

The others got to their feet with Jack's help, all confused at what was happening. Rose, grinning her face off, stared at Donna. 'I can hear you,' she thought to her. Donna grinned back and winked at her.

The Doctor stood there, stunned and happy all at once. "The DoctorDonna, just like the Ood said remember? They saw it coming: The DoctorDonna."

Donna smiled at him, then tapped out another sequence shutting down the force cages. "Holding cells deactivated." She looked up at them. "Well, don't just stand there you skinny boys in suits! Get to work!"

Both Doctors shot forward and manned the other two stations at the console. Rose on the other hand, stepped over to Danielle and sucker punched her shoulder. "What did I tell you about wandering off?"

"Ow!" Danielle complained.

The Doctor looked over and smirked. "Doesn't work. I mean, look at you." He barely controlled the laugh that bubbled up, when she stuck her tongue out at him in annoyance.

"Stop them!" Davros shouted. The three Daleks turned about and extended their plungers.

Donna smirked. "Oh, I like this one. Watch this." She flicked two controls, and the three Daleks stuttered to a stop, croaking, squawking, jerking their short appendages about awkwardly as if they were being electrocuted.

"Annnnd spin," Donna said, turning a control. The three Daleks started turning in place. "Annnnd the other way," she said as she turned the dial the opposite direction.

One of the Daleks started whimpering. "Help me. Help me," which caused Jack and Rose to start laughing.

"What did you do?" the Doctor said. The other Doctor looked smug, nodding approvingly.

Donna grinned. "Used the biofeedback shielding to exacerbate the Dalekenium interface, thus inculcating a trip-stitch circuit-breaker in the psychokinetic threshold manipulator!"

"Brilliant," the other Doctor said admiringly. "Couldn't have done it better myself."

"That..." the Doctor stuttered. "That's BRILLIANT!" He looked over to the other Doctor. "Why didn't we think of that?"

The other Doctor arched his brow. "Leave me out of this, mate. I know what she did. You're just a Time Lord."

"Exactly!" Donna said. "Lacking that little bit of Human, that gut instinct that comes hand-in-hand with Planet Earth we can think of ideas you wouldn't dream up in a million years! Oh, the universe has been waiting for us! Now let's send that trip-stitch all over the ship!"

"Did we ever tell you?" the other Doctor said, as his hands paused over his controls.

"Best temp in Chiswick?" Donna said.

"Two hundred words per minute!" they both shouted, before running their fingers all over the controls rapidly. The Doctor looked back and forth between them and started laughing riotously.

All over the station, Daleks were quivering in place and shouting complaints. Spinning on the floor; Falling out of their hovering places; It's absolute chaos.

"SYSTEM MALFUNCTION!"

"OUT OF CONTROL!"

"MOTOR CASING INTERFERENCE!"

A red Dalek is shuddering back and forth on a raised pedestal. "What is happening? Explaaaaiiinnnnn!"

Laughing his head off, Jack ran into the TARDIS to grab some weapons. Donna and the second Doctor are coordinating their typing endeavours.

"Come on!" Donna said. "We've got twenty seven planets to send home!"

"Activate Magnetron!" the other Doctor shouted.

All three of them coordinate their efforts on the console, with only the Doctor a touch behind them but still fast.

Davros rolled forward. "Stop this at once!"

Danielle ran over and pulled her gun with her left hand. She planted it in the middle of Davros' forehead, which coincidentally was where his artificial eye was. "Try it!" she shouted. "Blind you, and have a new marble for my collection!" Her glare is absolute, and she appeared to be just waiting for an excuse.

Coming out of the TARDIS, Jack is carrying that defabricator gun he hobbled together quite a while back, and Rose's rather large rifle. "Rose!" he shouts, tossing it at her.

Jack kicked one Dalek out of the way while Sarah Jane does the same to another. She hip checked Rose when she came back. "Good to see you again. I hear you've been busy?"

"Yeah," Rose grinned, cocking her rifle. "Tin Man's got nothin' on me. Good to see you too."

"Ready?" the Doctor asks.

Donna and the other Doctor look at him. "Ready!"

Donna is wide eyed and giddy at this point. "Annnd... Reverse!"

"Off you go, Clom," the Doctor said with a smirk.

The other Doctor is all grins. "Back home, Adipose III!"

"Shallacatop, Pyrovillia and the Lost Moon of Poosh," Donna said loudly. "Sorted!"

"HAH!" the other Doctor shouts gleefully.

Sarah Jane went over to them. "Uhm. Pardon me, but could someone explain exactly what's happening?"

Donna eyed the other two, and split her focus as her hands are still in a whirl. "He poured all his regeneration energy into his spare hand, I touched the hand, and he grew out of that.

"But! That also fed back into me! It just stayed dormant in my head till the synapses got that extra little spark, kicking them into life. Thank you, Davros!" Donna shouted. "Part Human, part Time Lord, and I got the best bit of the Doctor I got his mind!"

"So there's three of you?" Sarah Jane asked.

"Three Doctors?" Jack exclaimed in shock. "Oh, I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now."

Martha went to stand next to the Doctor in blue, thumbing to him. "He's like Jenny?"

The Doctor shook his head. "No, no. These two are an Event! Brand new creation!" He stared at Donna in admiration. "The Time Lines were converging on you. Human Being with a Time Lord Brain."

Davros was beyond upset. "But you promised me! Caan! Why did you not foresee this?" The only response to that was Caan giggling even louder, turning into cackling.

"Ohh, I think he did," the other Doctor said with a grin.

"Something's been manipulating the Time Lines for ages," the Doctor said, nodding.

Donna grinned. "Got me to the right spot."

Caan's laughter ceased, and he actually sounded coherent. "This would always have happened. I only helped, Doctors."

Davros, unwilling to turn for the fear of a bullet from Danielle's gun, was appalled. "You betrayed the Daleks!"

"I saw the Daleks!" Caan countered. "What we have done throughout Time And Space. I saw the Truth of us, Creator, and I decreed: No More!"

"Head's up!" Jack shouted.

"Davros!" the descending red Dalek called out. "You have betrayed us!"

Rose looked up and scowled. Bringing her rifle to bear, she shot the commanding Dalek out of the air. "Oh shut up," she glowered at the falling chassis and metal bits. It didn't even scream.

"Nice shot," Jack praised, getting a grin out of Rose.

"THAT'S IT!" the Doctor shouted. "They're all home! Everyone in the TARDIS!"

"Suppose I should thank you," Danielle said quietly to Davros.

"And why is that, child?" he asked.

"If it wasn't for your creations, my mother never would've met my father," she grinned at him coldly. "So, thanks for giving me a chance to be born, I guess."

He looked startled.

"Danielle!" Rose shouted. "Inside!"

Backing away from Davros, Danielle kept her gun trained on him.

With the others inside, Rose watched Donna and the other Doctor locking the console.

"The prophecy must complete," Caan said.

Davros swivelled and rolled forward. "Don't listen to him!"

Thinking he was about to shoot someone with his hand again, Danielle's gun went off causing Davros' artificial eye to explode. He fell back screaming. Donna, Rose and the other Doctor whipped their heads around to stare at Danielle in shock.

"He moved," Danielle breathed, shaking her head and starting to shake at what she did.

"I have seen the end of everything Dalek," Caan said, interrupting them. "You must make it happen Doctors!"

Donna and the other Doctor stared at each other, while Rose guided a stunned Danielle back into the TARDIS. "He's right," Donna said.

"With or without the Reality Bomb," the other Doctor said quietly, "this fleet is big enough to slaughter the entire cosmos."

Nodding grimly at each other, Donna and the Doctor typed out one last sequence. "Maximising Dalekenium power feeds," Donna said quietly.

"Reversing the power flow," the other Doctor said.

Looking at each other again, they gave each other a single nod. "Blasting them back!" they shouted.

The three Daleks in the room all exploded, and the sounds of screams filled the vault. Ships that were docked with the Crucible detonated, rocking the place.

The Doctor stuck his head out of the TARDIS. "What have you done!"

Donna and the other Doctor stared at him, grim faced. "Fulfilled the prophecy," they stated flatly.

Donna left the console and forced the Doctor back into the TARDIS. The other Doctor looked at Davros sadly.

"YOU DID THIS!" Davros shouted blindly. "Never forget, Doctor. I name you," he threw his arm about wildly as he tried to point at him. "Forever! You! Are the Destroyer of Worlds!"

"Get some new material," the new Doctor said, causing Davros to turn to face him. "Named me that in the War. Goodbye Davros. Tried to save you so many times, but I think this is a fitting end to your madness: Blind amongst your children. Farewell."

Caan's voice was clear and quiet. "One will still die."

Giving the place a final look, the new Doctor ignored Davros' raving incoherent screams and entered the TARDIS, closing the door behind him with a click.

Doing a head count and nodding, the new Doctor looked at Donna. "Get us out of here." Donna was grim as she went around the console, starting up the ship.

The engines started up, and the TARDIS faded while Davros wailed. Two seconds after the TARDIS left, the Crucible exploded.