Utopia Part 4
Ok guys i am so sorry about the long update, I was going to post this yesterday but my computer literally died on me, had to completely wipe the system so here it is the last chapter for Utopia
The Doctor and Jack found themselves bounding down the corridors of the silo. Their feet were clanging against the stone floors, their footsteps echoing around the empty rooms. The Doctor's trench coat was bellowing behind him as his long thin legs propelled his body forward, while Jack's coat was swaying behind him. Jack getting the feeling of familiarity as he ran. Memories of everything they had been through was coming back to haunt him. Having Rose at his side as he ran from numerous alien threats, and it felt so weird not being able to see her small blonde form next to him.
They rounded into a room which must have been the control room. Walls of switches and machines, littered the room. A young black man called Atillo was sitting by himself, his hands placed on his face while he held a look of panic and confusion.
"Lieutenant, get onboard the rocket! I promise you're gonna fly." The Doctor said to the young man, his eyes wide with adrenaline while his hands were on his shoulders. Jack was removing his coat as he looked down at the young pair
"The chamber's flooded!" Atillo defended, his hand motioning towards the room which was filled with Red light. The Doctor simply sighed while Jack had his eyebrows raised as he looked from his potion of the room. His hands adjusting his trousers as he sorted out his braces.
"Trust me. We've found a way of tripping the system. Run!" The Doctor shouted as he propelled the young man from the room and towards the Rocket. He simply frowned as he was pushed from the room. Leaving just the Doctor and Jack in the room. The Doctor took that moment to realise what Jack was doing. He had removed his coat and his navy shirt to be left with a single white T-shirt, his braces travelling over his shoulders as they held up his smart suit trousers.
"Wh-What are you taking your clothes off for?" The Doctor gasped as he tapped a dial on the computer, his eyebrows raised while his mouth was hanging open
"I'm going in." Jack simply said, his own eyebrows raised, his eyes twinkling with excitement
"Well by the looks of it, I'd say that stet radiation doesn't affect clothing, only flesh." The Doctor defended, his eyes littering back to the chamber, rethinking the moments he saw the other young man explode into ashes
"I look good though." He joked, flashing a large grin in the Doctor's direction, moving his head slightly as he walked over to the door "How long have you known?" He asked while he had his hand pressed onto the door handle, ignoring the glowing red light from the window.
"Ever since I ran away from you." The Doctor said in monotone while Jack looked over to him. The Doctor's hair perfectly sculptured on his head, his eyebrows raised as he spoke to his friend "Good luck." He finished. Jack simply rolled his eyes before heaving the door open and walking into the room. Heat exploded over his form and he breathed heavily as he closed the door shut again, protecting the Doctor from any of the stet radiation. He turned back around when he placed the door closed and looked around his surroundings. His moved his hands to close to the wall too feel them burn and he withdrew them almost immediately. He looked down in front of him to see the couplings and he walked over to them, while The Doctor walked over to the window of the room, his face filling half of the window, watching Jack as he worked
"When did you first realize?" The Doctor asked, his arm resting above his head on his right as he watched Jack pressing the buttons on the third coupling. His hair falling over his forehead slightly, his attractive features holding so much seriousness, Jack had to take a double take before he continued pressing the buttons of the coupling.
"Earth 1892. Got in a fight in Ellis Island. A man shot me through the heart."He stated as he looked up at the Doctor too see his eyebrows were raised "Then I woke up. Thought it was kinda strange. But then it never stopped. Fell off a cliff, trampled by horses, World War I, World War II, poison, strangulation, a stray javelin…" Jack continued as he shook his head and shoulders as he listed off the numerous ways he had died
"Oooh" The Doctor complained as he winced at the last one. His eyebrows frowning, creases on his forehead, but he still continued to listen to Jack.
"In the end, I got the message, I'm the man who can never die. And all that time you knew." Jack stated, his voice lowering until it was almost a whisper by the end of it. His eyes boring straight into the Doctor. He had moved his hand to the inside of the coupling at this point, his fist gripping the machine. His other hand was wrapped around his wrist as he began to pull at the coupling. His breathing stopping as he tugged at the metal.
"That's why I left you behind." The Doctor said speaking up, his elbow resting on the wall while his hand moved to the back of his head, stroking his hair slightly, all the while his eyes were focused on Jack, even if his head was angled slightly to the left and away from the indestructible man "It's not easy even just…just looking at you Jack, 'cause you're wrong." The Doctor finished, his hand resting on the back of his head, the top of his neck. His jaw guttering out slightly as he bore his own eyes into Jack.
"Thanks." Jack simply muttered, his eyes falling back towards the coupling.
"You are, I can't help it." The Doctor defended, looking way from Jack and back into the room "I'm a Time Lord. It's instinct. It's in my guts." He continued, his hand now resting on the side of his head which was lifted slightly as he looked down at Jack, his hand scrunching up his ear slightly "You're a fixed point in time a space. You're a fact. That's never meant to happen." He said while Jack struggled with the coupling, both hands working hard while he tried to move his Vortex Manipulator out of the way. He had only been in possession of it for about 2 weeks as Rose had returned it too him. "Even the TARDIS reacted against you—tried to shake you off. Flew all the way to the end of the universe just to get rid of you." The Doctor said, finally stopping to move his head around and looked back towards Jack.
"So what you're saying is that you're, uh," He started, his eyebrows in a frown, head lifted slightly before finished the coupling, which locked into place. "prejudiced?"
"I never thought of it like that." The Doctor said after a slight pause. His eyes shining with humour as his mouth turned upwards slightly with a smile, the creases on his forehead still present
"Shame on you" Jack said as he looked through his eyelashes up at the Doctor as he typed the numbers onto the pad for the coupling.
"Yeah" he Doctor breathed, a slight laugh falling from his lips. He had moved his head so it was raised, his mouth open with a smile while he rubbed his right eyes, with the hand that was resting on the wall beside the door he was looking out off.
"Last thing I remember back when I was mortal…I was facing three Daleks. Death by extermination. And then I came back to life. What happened?" Jack asked as he gripped the second coupling, grunting slightly as he pulled and nothing happened. Jack all the while looking down at the coupling, not noticing the look of pain on the Doctor's face and in his voice.
"Rose." The Doctor simply stated. His eyes holding so much pain while his eyebrows had risen only slightly, moving close together as he tried to bite back the lump in his throat.
"I thought you sent her back home." Jack stated as he tried to comprehend this new information. His eyes holding so much love and loyalty to the woman he called his sister. A woman who meant the world to the Doctor and to himself. All the while Martha was listening on intently. Her eyes holding sadness and grief. Knowing now that Rose meant everything not just to The Doctor but the Captain as well. Her feelings towards Rose were becoming hostile again. It was like every man she knew was infatuated with her.
"She came back. Opened the heart of the TARDIS and absorbed the time vortex." The Doctor informed, his eyes holding so much love but so much sadness as he spoke about his wife
"What does that mean, exactly?" Jack questioned, his face scrunching up as he built up the pressure present on the coupling, it still refusing to move.
"No one's ever meant to have that power. If a Time Lord did that, he'd become a god, a vengeful god. But she was human" The Doctor stated. His face moving away from him for a second and then back towards Jack. His eyebrows rose as he continued to talk to Jack.
"Everything she did was so human." The Doctor admired while adjusting his stance. He was now standing right in the middle. His head cocked slightly in the air while his eyebrows had risen slightly, pushed together sadly as he though back to his wife. His mouth never closing, always hanging open slightly "She brought you back to life but she couldn't control it. She brought you back forever." He said to Jack, his eyes sad. "That's something, I suppose. The final act of the Time War was life." The Doctor said, suddenly snapping from his trail of thoughts. His voice rising slightly as he readjusted himself. Leaning the whole right side of his body on the door. He looked away out in front of him until the last two words of his sentence before looking over at Jack. His eyebrows raised his mouth open.
"Do you think she could change me back?" Jack grunted as he continued to pull at the coupling.
"I took the power out of her. She's gone, Jack." The Doctor stated. His eyes once again holding so much sadness as he looked over at Jack, whose eyes held the same emotion but feeling it for his friend. "Her mother and Mickey, got trapped on the Parallel universe... and I couldn't even protect her myself. " The Doctor said sadly, his face moving so he was looking down at the ground.
"This isn't your fault" Jack defended as he looked up at the Time Lord.
"Isn't it?" The Doctor suddenly stated, snapping his eyes towards Jack. "If I had been able to save her she wouldn't have had to travel the universe by herself. She has been on her own for so long and it terrifies me to know what she had been through. How do I know she even wants to find me and travel with me anymore Jack" The Doctor argued, his voice stern and harsh with emotion, his face showing Jack just how much these thoughts haunted him, and how much he wished Rose would just come back to him. Jack was smiling up at the Doctor.
"She knew you would say something like that" Jack said, the air from his lungs leaving slightly. The Doctor simply frowned.
"When she first arrived she was so thrilled, and so happy she had finally made it to the right timeline. The way she spoke about you proved to me she still cared for you. Her eyes twinkling with life, with devotion. I have no doubt she will return to you Doctor. You are her life and she has sacrificed so much to be with you. She's waiting for you Doctor. She's in the right time, and she's waiting" Jack said to her. The Doctor was simply taken aback by the things Jack had just said. Did he really mean those things? Would Rose come rushing back into his life? Everything he had ever dreamed about for the last 5 years was having the comforting arms of his wife back in his life, in his hearts.
"She talked like you" Jack said, snapping the Doctor from his thoughts who just frowned at him
"What?"
"She kept going on about fix points in time. Reminded me off you" Jack said with a smile "She's grown up Doctor. And she is so much more beautiful from the 19 year old we knew and loved. She's intelligent, smart, and everything about Rose is so much more gorgeous than before. She's a good person" Jack smiled and was over the moon when he saw the Doctor's own face turn into a smile.
"I went back to her estate, in the 90s, just once or twice." Jack stated as he watched the Doctor moving his head back towards him. He was still struggling with the same coupling "Watched her growing up. Never said hello, timelines and all that." He said while nodding his head and shoulders. The Doctor simply looked at him, a slight smile playing on his lips as he looked at the man who meant so much to his wife, and in a way, she meant so much to Jack too. The last part of his sentence was full of struggle as Jack continued to pull at the coupling
"Do you wanna die?" The Doctor asked, his gaze never wavering
"Oh, this one's a little stuck." Jack said as he struggled with the coupling, his face looking away from the Doctor, trying to avoid he gaze
"Jack?" The Doctor said again, his forehead resting on the window
"I thought I did. I dunno." Jack stated as he looked up at the Doctor, his voice whispering slightly "But this lot, you see them out here surviving and that's fantastic." He finished, his face shining in such a dazzling smile, he noticed the Doctor's face also showed a smile which showed his pearly white teeth. Jack had finally pulled the coupling into place and he moved onto the last one
"You may be out there somewhere." The Doctor stated curious, his eyebrows raised once again
"I could go meet myself." Jack said happily, his own eyebrows raised while his eyes flickered all over the Doctor's face as the man in the other room adjusted himself so he was resting comfortable on the wall once again.
"Well, the only man you're ever gonna be happy with." The Doctor joked.
"This new regeneration, it's kinda cheeky." Jack said with a huge smile on his face. His admiration and devotion for the Doctor growing.
"Hmm." The Doctor sounded as he smiled over at the man. His eyebrows back in their normal place, his eyes holding so much friendship as he looked at his friend he used to travel with.
But both of them were pulled from their thoughts when Jack had finally released the last coupling, both of them smiling to each other, jumping into action.
"Yes!" Jack cried, a smile on his face again
"Now get out of there! Come on!" The Doctor instructed before jumping from his spot and moving quickly from the door, allowing Jack through. He was entering the control room as the Doctor had a phone pressed to his ear calling Atillo
"Lieutenant, everyone on board?" The Doctor asked as Jack shot passed him and immediately began to flick switches on the control panel at the other end of the room from the Doctor.
"Ready and waiting."
"Stand by! Two minutes to ignition." The Doctor commanded before hanging up
"Ready to launch. Outer doors sealed. Countdown commences T minus 99…98…" The voice was heard as the Doctor and Jack worked together, flicking switches, adjusting components, preparing the rocket for launch. The Doctor was at another work bench when Martha shot into the room.
"Ah, nearly there. The footprint is a gravity pulse. It stamps down, the rocket shoots up. Bit primitive. It's gonna take the both of us to keep it stable." The Doctor cried happily towards Martha as he babbled. She was simply looking up at him. But suddenly one of the consoles stated beeping and he moved from Martha and started pressing all kinds of buttons. Martha moved to press one of the buttons before angling her body in front of him and started to talk to him.
"Doctor, it's the professor. He's got this watch. He's got a fobwatch. It's the same as yours. Same writing on it. Same…everything." Martha started while the time lord was looking up and down at his hands. But at the mention of the fob watched everything in his body froze. He turned his gaze towards his companion a frown on his face as his eyes held so much concern.
"Don't be ridiculous." The Doctor cried quietly before turning his gaze back to Martha
"I asked him. He said he's had it all his life." Martha defended
"So he's got the same watch." Jack shouted from across the room as he flicked several switches, his face holding confusion
"Yeah, but it's not a watch. It's this chameleon thing." Martha whispered, her head cocking slightly towards the Doctor.
"No, no, no. It's this… This thing, this device, it rewrites biology, changes a Time Lord into a human." The Doctor said slightly flustered, his hands forever moving, his face showing a range of different emotions as he began to think about what this really meant.
"And it's the same watch." Martha shouted slightly frustrated
"It can't be." The Doctor said as he looked right into her eyes. But he was pulled from his thoughts when the alarms began to blare. The Doctor took in a huge lungful of air and ran toward the beeping to try and fix it.
"That means he could be a Time Lord. You might not be the last one." Jack cried as he waved his hand towards the Doctor.
"Jack, keep it level!" The Doctor cried, pushing Jack from his thoughts who then moved to his left and began pushing switches that was on the surface in front of him.
"But that's brilliant, isn't it?" Martha complained, her arms waving in the air slightly
"Yes, it is. Course it is. Depends which one. Brilliant, fantastic, yeah." The Doctor started, trying to push the pain in his voice away as he continued to flick thousand of switches. "But they died, the Time Lords. All of them, they died." The Doctor cried, his voice holding the pain he had tried to push away. His eyes looking down at the ground as he said it, his arms still on the buttons
"Not if he was human." Jack said as he looked up from his work and towards the Doctor, knowing how hard this must be for him
"What did he say, Martha?" The Doctor asked as he looked at her, his eyebrows raised, his eyes wide with panic and sadness before he yelled at the young woman "What did he say?" he yelled as he moved towards her. Martha simply backed away slightly, never having seen the Doctor like this. His breathing coming through his gritted teeth, one of his eyebrows raised as his eyes bored frantically into hers.
"He looked at the watch like he could hardly see it. Like that perception filter thing." Martha gasped, barely able to get the words out due to the intensity of the Doctor's gaze.
"What about now? Can he see it now?" The Doctor asked, his voice dropping considerably as he looked at her, his whole chest heaving as he tried to regain his composure and emotions.
"If he escaped the Time War then it's the perfect place to hide. The end of the universe." Jack cried as he ran down the corridor handing the Doctor a key who was saying nothing, his focus back on the task at hand
"Think of what the Face of Boe said. His dying words. He said…" Martha started, Jack looking down at her with a frown on his face, recognition filling his features with that name but the Doctor turned the keys and launched the Rocket. A bright white light shone through the window and both Martha and Jack cried in alarm as they stumbled back. Jack had helped Martha regain her balance while the Doctor was simply staring right in front of him. Feeling the power of a Time Lord flowing right back into the host. Everything in his body ran cold as he gained all the information, the identity everything from his mind. He was remembering the words said by the face of Boe and making the connection.
" Lieutenant, have you achieved velocity? Have you done it? Lieutenant! Have you done it?"The Doctor yelled down the phone. His eyebrows raised as his other hand helped his to cling up onto the wall.
"Affirmative. We'll see you in Utopia."
"Good luck." The Doctor stated before hanging up the phone and running from the control room. Martha followed while Jack grabbed his coat and pulled it on, all the while running for the panicked Time Lord.
But as soon as the Doctor had reached the door, the metal door closed on the trio. The Doctor hurriedly pulled his sonic screwdriver from his blazer pocket and aimed it to the left hand corner, the blue light and buzzing sound was emitted from it while Jack attacked the key pad.
" Get it open! Get it open!" The Doctor yelled over his shoulder, his heart beats quickening. After a few stomach wrenching moments Jack pressed the right combination and the door slowly opened. The Doctor tucking in his slim form through the door while it was still opening. Martha and Jack looked at each other before bolting from their spots to try and keep up with the determined Time Lord.
As they rounded corner after corner, Martha's heart was beating in her chest. This memory was bringing back images of things that had already happened. Imagining these corridors to be sewers placed Martha back in Manhattan and the Daleks. But as they rounded another corner the Doctor skidded to a halt as the Futurekind rounded the corner forcing the Doctor to sigh in frustration, snapping his body around and ran in the other direction. Jack and Martha left trailing behind while the Futurekind chased them around the silo.
Jack had finally taken the lead when he stopped only for less than a second when he came to an intersecting hallway.
"This way!" Jack bellowed, his air coming out of his lungs painfully while the Doctor rounded the corner after him, Martha struggling to keep up, a frown on her face. But as they continued they finally arrived at the locked lab door. Jack went straight to the keypad, typing in random numbers while The Doctor started banging on the door looking through the window.
"Professor!" The Doctor yelled as he pounded on the window. Jack and Martha were standing close to him, Jack looking back at the futurekind worried while Martha had fear swimming around her body "Professor, let me in! Let me in! Jack, get the door open!" The Doctor yelled
"Professor! Professor, where are you? Professor! Professor, are you there? Please, I need to explain! Whatever you do, don't open that watch!" The Doctor continued to scream as he worked the screwdriver on the door, Jack punching numbers into the door.
"They're coming!" Martha screamed, so terrified of dying in the future. Afraid of having to leave her family without having said goodbye
"Open the door, please! I'm begging you, Professor! Please! Listen to me! Open the door, please!" The Doctor continued to yell. His panic and his worry settling in his stomach. His need to get back into the room. To face the new time lord. Terrified of what he could do with the unlocked TARDIS. Afraid of what this meant, needing to explain to him where Gallifrey was, to tell him everything that had happened in the last hundred or so years. Jack had had enough. He grabbed his gun and hit the butt of it against the lock. The panel sparked angrily but the door slowly opened and the Doctor rushed inside and suddenly stopped as he faced a man he now recognised. The Master was standing in front of his TARDIS. A face scrunched up in pain due to the laser shot fired from Chantho. The Doctor suddenly bolted forward, trying to talk to him, but the Master slowly slithered back into the TARDIS. The Doctor hurriedly pulled out his key and placed it shakily in the lock, but that didn't work. The Master must have flicked the switch so the key wouldn't work. The Doctor once again pulled out his screwdriver and started working that on the lock but suddenly the Doctor heard something he hadn't in years. The Master had pressed the button on the console which prevented that from working as well. The TARDIS was protected. The Doctor wasn't able to get into the one place he called home. The one place which held so many memories of Rose.
"Let me in!" The Doctor whispered, holding so much raw emotion it broke Martha's heart "Let me in!" The Doctor yelled again, this time pounding on the door of his TARDIS
"She's dead." Martha whispered as she checked Chantho for a pulse.
" I've broken the lock! Give me a hand!" Jack cried as he struggled to keep the door closed. The futurekind piling on pressure as Martha rushed over to help, all the while the Doctor looked at his TARDIS, a few steps away from it. Everything in his being had gone cold. His hearts broken. He had no way of finding Rose again. He would never see her, and she would have to live her life all alone, just waiting for him.
"I'm begging you! Everything's changed! It's only the two of us! We're the only ones left!" The Doctor yelled. His eyes wide, water filling them with unshed tears. His stance shaking, his arms held out to his side. Martha had now managed to cling onto the door to help Jack hold it closed.
"Just let me in!" The Doctor cried. But suddenly the windows of the TRADIS began to flare orange. The Doctor was breathing heavily. His whole chest heaving with the task. His face scrunched up in agony. He could hear the scream as the man regenerated. But the futurekind had arrived at the door as both Martha and Jack tried to hold them back as the door wasn't fully back.
"Doctor! You'd better think of something!" Jack bellowed, his face red as he pushed the door. Martha screaming as she curled into his side. But the Doctor had no idea. Everything and anything he could do involved the TARDIS. He was breathing heavily still, his eyebrows now different heights. One risen one not, his mouth hanging open in despair.
" Doctor—ooh, new voice." A young voice sounded over the speaker of the TARDIS. The Doctor's eyebrows started to sink as realisation covered his features. "Hello, hello, hello." The voice sounded, his voice changing from high, to low to back to normal for each word "Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me? I don't think!" The voice rambled, the Doctor's breathing getting heavier and more frantic as he realised what this meant. What this one man could do to the entire galaxy.
"Hold on! I know that voice!" Martha stated while the futurekind chieftan reached his arm through the door, causing Martha to flinch back further into Jack's side.
"I'm asking you really properly! Just stop! Just think!" The Doctor argued, begging for the Master to think within reason.
"Use my name." The Master asked, making sure to have a smile present in his voice. All the while the Doctor was looking on distraught.
"Master. I'm sorry." The Doctor said, no more than a whisper. His mouth shaking at the sides as he tried to get a control on his emotions.
"Tough!" The Master yelled before starting up the controls.
"I can't hold out much longer, Doctor!" Jack cried while the Doctor held one of his eyebrows raised the other lowered, all the while holding a frown on his beautiful features while holding out the sonic screwdriver in front of him.
"Oh, no you don't!" The Master yelled as he tried to get the control column moving again " End of the universe. Have fun. Bye bye!" The Master cried happily as the TARDIS continued to dematerialise.
"Doctor, stop him!" Martha yelled over her shoulder as both her and Jack tried to fight off the futurekind. All the while the Doctor could do nothing more than watch as his TARDIS... his home dematerialised.
To be continued