DEMONS RUN
Rose Tyler picked up her baby, her gorgeous daughter Annie Jacquelyn Sarah-Jane Tyler. Madame Kovarian was waiting near her with soldiers. "Two minutes" she warned, a smile playing on her face.
Rose kissed Annie on the forehead and glared at Madame Kovarian before turning back to her baby. "I wish I could tell you that you'll be loved," she said, her voice breaking slightly before continuing, "that you'll be safe and cared for and protected, but now is not a time for lies. What you are going to be Annie is very, very brave…" she paused and turned her gaze back to Madame Kovarian and her cronies "but not as brave as they are going to have to be, because someone is coming. I don't know where he is or what he's doing but trust me, he is on his way. There is a man who will never ever let us down, and not even an army can get in his way." At this point Madame Kovarian began to move towards her. "You leave her! Please leave her," Rose pleaded "you listen to me Annie!" she shouted, trying to clutch her child to her chest "he looks young but he has lived for hundreds of years and wherever they take you, however far I promise you will never be alone, because that man is your father. He has a name but the people of our world know him better, as The Doctor". And then Annie was wretched out of her arms and taken into a small white carrier, and Rose was shot with a sedation gun.
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The Doctor burst through the doors of one of the cyberships. He was greeted by several cybermen with standing around, attempting to look menacing. He just smiled a crooked smile at them, "Question. Where is Rose Tyler?" he asked, but was greeted with silence "Don't give me those blank looks. The 12th cyber legion monitors this entire quadrant. You hear everything. So tell me, where is she?!" Several of the cyber ships exploded in the distance behind him. "Would you like me to repeat the question?" he asked. That ought to get them talking.
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On Demons run two soldiers were discussing The Doctor as they walked through the base, busy with their daily duties
"I mean he just blew up a whole cyber legion just to prove a point!" said the shorter of the two
"We're paid to fight him not praise him," said the other man, as he rolled his eyes "Praising doesn't pay as well" he joked
"Oh shut up. I heard he chased the atraxi off of planet earth and then called them back purely to give them a good telling off!"
The taller man just laughed slightly, and the shorter man looked around as headless monks roamed around the area.
"Oi don't stare at them." The taller man warned "If they even think your trying to stare up their hood they'll kill you on the spot."
"Alright, alright." The shorter guy said, "Why are they called headless monks anyway? They can't really be headless." He said, his voice hinting at the absurdness of the thought. Suddenly out of the shadows, a girl with dark hair stepped forward.
"It's because they say the area of doubt is the head. Basically they think with their hearts, that's all" she said
"You're Lorna Bucket aren't you? You've met him." One of the men asked, eyeing her up and down
"Yeah once, I was just a kid though."
"But you're from the gamma forests aren't you?"
The girl nodded
"Well what are you doing here? I thought the gamma forest was neutral, besides The Doctor's been there."
"Yeah and that's all that ever happened there." She said, looking slightly disheartened
The solider rolled his eyes at the girl dismissing her.
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Elsewhere the doctor was making rounds. He needed an army to get Rose back. He picked up many friends who owed him debts, Madame Vastra and Jenny, Commander Strax, He even got some Judoon. He was going to need all the help he could get.
He piloted the TARDIS to Cardiff to send Rory off to get Jack and Jenny, but he set the time period specifically before Jenny was pregnant, he wasn't going to risk that, he would just have to remind them not to mention it to past him and rose. Rory walked through the town centre looking for torchwood. The Doctor had given him a vague idea, but it still took him about 10 minutes to find the perception filter guarded entrance. He found Jack sitting at a desk drinking coffee with Jenny looking at something on a River standing there too. Jack glanced up and smiled at Rory
"Hey there Rory," River said with a smile, Jack and Jenny looked confused, but river introduced him as one of The Doctor's companions. Jack winked as he stood up to greet Rory, shaking his hand. River started laughing, but stopped when Rory sighed,
"Jack this is serious. They've taken Rose and her and the doctor's baby, yeah they apparently have a baby now, no idea. The doctors getting some people together to save her but he needs you guys too. And also on top of all that, this is a future doctor in relation to you and Jenny, so when you see his tenth body and Rose in the next few months don't mention this. And River I don't know what's past and future with you so you'll probably have to let me know where you are"
"I'm in a good time, is this demons run?" River asked, with an eyebrow raised
"Yeah how did you know?" asked Rory.
"The old stories about that place, you hear a lot when you travel the universe saving people and whatnot… 'Demons run where a good man goes to war' I heard the myths. The battle of Demons Run. The Doctor's darkest hour. He'll rise higher than ever before and then fall ten times further..." she trailed off
"Are they true?" Jenny asked
"No idea, they're just stories. We're in Rory. Let's go"
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Madame Kovarian and Colonel Maton went and paid a visit to their old 'friend' Dorium Maldovar.
"Your closing down Dorium," she said as she walked in "what have you heard?" she asked, her tone turning from playful to serious in a split second. She would not let anything go wrong in her plan.
"Only that you've pricked the side of a beast Madame Kovarian and you have failed to run" Dorium sighed, as he pulled up a chair and gestured for Madame Kovarian to do the same.
"We've waited a month. He's done nothing" said Madame Kovarian as she rolled her eyes
"You really think so? 1000's in this universe owe that man a debt. You've taken the woman he loves and his child. I think several of them will have fond a blue box waiting for them. Poor devils"
"You think he's raising an army?" the colonel asked, intrigued.
"You think he isn't? God help you" said Dorium with a chuckle
"Why?"
"Madame Kovarian, all those stories you've heard about him. They aren't stories, they're true"
"Let's leave he's wasting our time" said the colonel.
"Agreed" said Madame Kovarian as she began to leave, followed by the colonel and the guards that had escorted them there.
"Your base," Dorium interrupted "demons run, why do you think it's called that?"
"How do you know our location?" the colonel asked suspiciously
"Headless monks, old customers of mine." Dorium said waving his hands dismissively, but carried on with his point "There's an old saying, the very oldest. Demons run where a good man goes to war"
With that Madame Kovarian, colonel Matson and the guards left, leaving Dorium alone to close up.
Just as Madame Kovarian was out the door, the TARDIS materialized. "No no," shouted Doriom "not me, you don't need me, I'm old and fat and blue. Not me!"
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Back on Demons run Rose was watching from the window as the colonel was making a speech to his soldiers.
"He is not the devil, or a god. He is not a goblin or phantom or trickster. The Doctor is a living breathing man, and looking around me I know. We sure as hell are going to fix that" the soldiers cheered. Rose sighed at his arrogance; The Doctor could wipe them all out with one breath, even though he never would.
Lorna came into the room Rose was being kept in, and Rose snapped out of her chain of thought as she felt someone else's presence enter.
"Hey, erm sorry it's just I'm meant to be down there but. I wanted to see if you're okay, you know if-" Lorna stuttered
"Can I borrow your gun?" Rose interrupted
"Why?"
"Because I have a feeling you're going to keep talking."
Lorna started to walk away but Rose kept on talking, looking out of the window as the colonel continued his speech.
"They talk like he's famous. The doctor isn't famous"
"He meets a lot of people. Some of them remember. He's sort of like a dark legend"
"Dark? Have you met him?"
"Yeah, I was just a kid though"
"Me too sort of, I was only nineteen"
"You've been with him for a long time then?"
"Sort of, yeah. We were, separated for a while but I got back to him- and now somewhere out there he's coming back for me, for us."
"You must be very special" said Lorna
"It's just, you can wait for a long time for the doctor but he's worth it okay? The thing is he's coming, no question about it. And when he gets here, just make sure you're on the right side okay? Not for my sake. For yours"
She turned back to the window to see the rest of the colonel's speech as Lorna ran down.
"On this day, in this place The Doctor will fall. The man who talks, and reasons and lies will meet the perfect answer. Some of you have wondered why we allied ourselves with the headless monks. You should have wondered why we call them headless. Its time you knew what these guys have sacrificed for faith. As you know it is punishable by death to lower the robe of a headless monk. But on this occasion I have been given clearance to show you the truth. Because they can never be persuaded," he lowered the robe of the first monk. Where its head should have been was a twisted knot. "They can never be afraid" he lowered another one. The whole audience and Rose were gasping and gagging. The kernel came to the last monk. "They can never be…"
but as he lowered the robe it was not a twisted knot. It was the doctor. "Surprised." He finished with a grin
Rose grinned a real smile for the first time in almost a month, and looked down at all of the shocked soldiers were shocked. Lorna smiled unknown to the crowd.
"Doctor I'm up here" Rose was shouting and banging on the glass, but he couldn't hear her.
"Hello everyone," the doctor said cheerfully "guess who. Please point a gun at me if it helps you relax" all the soldiers pointed their guns at him. "You're only human" he gulped.
Up in the control room Madame Vastra and Jenny had the two soldiers tied up. "Now dear," jenny asked sweetly "which one controls the lights?"
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"Doctor," the colonel said pointing his gun at the doctor "you will come with me right now,"
"Oh I don't think so," The Doctor smiled, "Now if you don't mind, Rose Tyler GET YOUR COAT we are leaving!" he shouted as he put his hood back up and the lights went out.
"I'm not a phantom, and I'm not a trickster I'm a monk" he said. Many of the soldiers started pointing their guns at the monks and the monks were lighting up their electric swords. Only Lorna saw one monk slip away and open a door with a sonic screwdriver.
The colonel was shouting at his men to cease fire after several of them had been killed by monks. He was shouting that he was not a fool and lowering his weapon. Many of the soldiers began to copy.
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Up in the control room Madame Vastra and Jenny were watching the events unfold via the cameras.
"Clever isn't he," jenny remarked
"And rather attractive,"
"You do realise he's a man"
"Mammals you all look the same"
"Oh thanks," jenny scoffed
"I'm sorry dear, was I being insensitive again? I don't know why you put up with me."
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The soldiers were now all chanting 'we are not fools' and disabling their weapons. But as soon as they were all unarmed Judoon swarmed and Silurians appeared, and cornered them. Commander Strax appeared with his gun pointed at the colonel. "You will surrender" he ordered.
"We have a fleet out there. Demons run goes down and we call them in," the colonel remarked
The doctor's voice came in over a microphone. "Not if we knock out your communications ray."
A signal came through saying "Danny boy to the doctor, were ready"
"Give 'em hell Danny boy" said The Doctor with a smile as he heard explosions
Lorna could see Madame Kovarian with Annie and two soldiers preparing to board an escape hatch. "You go down there with the rest of them. I'll take my shuttle from here, The Doctor may have gotten the army but I will get this child off of this base. The monks are waiting, so if we lose the child they will attack."
Lorna looked shocked and quickly left as the guards left Madame Kovarian to board the shuttle. She was about to open the doors when suddenly Rory and Jack and Jenny appeared from inside the shuttle. "Oh I don't think so!" said Jack as he pointed his gun at Madame Kovarian. "I have a crew of twenty," she laughed "how do you expect to take control of my ship?" no sooner had she said the words Captain Avery and his crew came through the doors. "Your ship is ours m'lady" Avery said, as his pirates brandished their swords. Jack smirked at Madame Kovarian slowly raised her hands up.
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Strax led Kernel Manson to the doctor who was in the control room with Doriom, Madame Vastra and Jenny.
"Colonel Manton you will give orders for your men to withdraw." Stated Strax
"No you won't," The Doctor interrupted "I want you to tell them to run away."
"What?" Colonel Manton asked confused, as Jack, Rory and Madame Kovarian entered, with Annie
"You heard me. Those exact words. I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Runaway. I want children laughing outside your door because they've found the house of Colonel Runaway. And when people come to you asking to get to me through the people I love, I want you to tell them your name," The Doctor was stoop upright shouting and snarling in his face. He quickly realised what he was doing and stepped back "Oh look I'm angry, that's new, and I'm really not sure what is going to happen now." He said looking into the Colonel's scared eyes.
"The anger of a good man is not a problem," said Madame Kovarian "good men have too many rules"
"Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many."
Madame Kovarian sighed in defeat. "Give the order Colonel" she said
"What?" he asked astonished.
"Give them the order, Colonel Runaway"
The doctor just smiled to himself.
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There was a knocking on Rose's door. She quickly picked up a white pointy looking stick and shouted. "Who's there, because I am armed and, and dangerous and very very cross"
"Like we don't know that" The Doctor's voice said with a chuckle
"Doctor is that you?" she asked warily, not getting her hopes up in case it was just a trick.
"Yep, it's me, the others are on their way too, the TARDIS team."
Rose sighed in relief, but then felt worry take over her as she said, "Doctor they took her, they took our baby."
"Now Rose," said The Doctor as the door opened. Annie was in his arms "that will never, ever happen. You hear me?"
Rose grinned in delight, with tears rolling down her face and she took the baby.
"Is she okay, what have they done to her?"
"She's okay, she's perfect. I checked."
"Oh come here you,"
Rose was well aware that both she and The Doctor were crying now as she kissed him. Jack and Jenny came in, shortly followed by river and Jack cringed. "Kissing and crying ew, I'll come back later." Jack said with a laugh
"Oh come here you," laughed Rose.
She gave Annie back to the doctor and hugged the three of them. "Thank you, I love all of you, you know. Where are Amy and Rory?"
"Here we are!" said Amy as she and Rory came through the doors. Rory quickly put his sword on his back and Amy tossed her gun to the floor as she ran over and hugged Rose.
"So who's this then?" Rory asked gesturing to the baby in Rose's arms
"This is little Annie Jacquelyn Sarah-Jane Tyler, our daughter" said Rose, as she beamed. It still sounded odd to say, that her and The Doctor had a baby, especially considering she didn't even know she was pregnant.
"She's beautiful" Jenny cooed "A real sister, never thought I'd have one of these"
Rose grinned, and then raised an eyebrow "weren't you pre-?" she started to ask, but The Doctor quickly cut her off, saying "hasn't happened yet." Earing some confused looks from Jack.
"Weren't I what?" Jenny asked
"Oh nothing, just a surprise coming at you soon" Rose said cryptically, Jack raised an eyebrow.
Soon Madame Vastra entered. "They are leaving doctor. Demons run is ours without a single drop of blood spilled. My friend you have never risen higher." Jack and Rory and River exchanged worried looks, dreading to think what was coming as The Doctor smiled, thinking it was all over.
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Everyone got together downstairs and they cleared everyone out. "The Judoon have escorted them all out of the quadrant, everybody's going back to their own time stream, just us now." River said.
"Is she alright?" Jenny asked, gesturing to her sister who was crying.
"Yeah she's just hungry I think" said Rose, rocking Annie gently in her arms
"She's not hungry she's tired" said the doctor, as he came out of the TARDIS with an old cot.
"What's this?" asked Rose excitedly
"It's a cot." Said The Doctor, as he placed it on top of a box.
"It's old though, like really old." Said Rory as he and Amy and Jack and jenny walked over.
"Yeah, it's so old." River said, as she fingered the wooden starry mobile.
"Of course it's old, it's mine. It was my cot" said The Doctor. Rose gasped and stroked it, looking at the beautiful Gallifreyan carvings on the side, and lowering her baby in.
"Doctor you're needed in the main control room," called Madame Vastra.
"Doctor why do they want our baby?" Rose asked
"I don't know but we can't leave until we find out." The doctor said, looking Rose into the eyes
"And this is where I was? The whole time I was on the TARDIS I was here?" she asked worriedly, looking around. The doctor just hugged her gently.
"You were on the TARDIS too in mind and soul and spirit. But physically yes you were here. For quite a while too. They must have taken you a while back. Before America" he said
"Doctor!" Madame Vastra called.
"Coming! Jenny, Jack and River with me." Said The Doctor giving Rose a quick kiss before he walked away with Jenny and Jack, leaving Rose with Amy and Rory, Madame Vastra, Strax and the other Jenny and Annie.
"Doctor," jack asked as soon as they were in there "if Rose was flesh that whole time how were they projecting the flesh signal into the TARDIS and through time and space. How did they do that?"
"Because they are very, very clever."
"Who are?" River asked
"Whoever want's my baby. Oooh that sounds weird doesn't it, my baby."
Jack just rolled his eyes, "but why do they want her?" he asked.
"Exactly my question…" Said The Doctor, as he walked into the control room "So Dorium, you've hacked into the software then? What have we learnt?"
"Right well I have a simple question, is your daughter human?"
"Well I don't think so, I'm obviously not and I'm not exactly sure what Rose is, I don't really like to use the term 'hybrid' but technically that's what she is. So I'm not sure what Annie is exactly."
"I am not a hybrid!" he heard Rose's voice say, as it came in over the intercom
"Oi nosy, stop listening. Of course you're not a hybrid." Said The Doctor with a smile, as he rolled his eyes. He heard Rose laugh and click off the intercom.
"Well they've been scanning her since she was born and I think they have found what they were looking for. Almost complete timelord DNA but look. An extra strand. It's part of the time vortex, the same part found inside the TARDIS." Said Dorium
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Downstairs Lorna had been found by Strax, she was hiding behind some boxes, so she could warn them- and maybe help in some way… she just wasn't sure how and was trying to work it out when Strax found her.
She pleaded with Amy Rory and Rose "you've got to listen to me; I heard her talking this is a trap."
"And why should we believe you? I mean look at your uniform" said Rory.
"I know but I only joined to meet the doctor."
The lights suddenly went out "it's starting you've got to listen, it's the monks, Kovarian said that if you managed to get the baby back the monks would kill you all, and take her!" Lorna pleaded.
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In the control room everyone was asking the doctor questions. "How is she part of the TARDIS?"
"Could she regenerate?"
"I don't know," said the doctor "timelords became what they are by prolonged exposure to the time vortex. The un-tempered schism and all that. It can't just happen through my DNA. Rose has a strand of TARDIS DNA in there, but that was only by emergency measures that the TARDIS did to stop her from dying, she is still mostly human and I thought the baby would just be a sort of human timelord. The TARDIS DNA is not hereditary as far as I know, so how did it happen?"
"Which leads to the question," Madame Vastra said "when did it happen?"
"You what?" The Doctor asked confused. Jack and River were trying and failing to disguise their snickering at The Doctor being thrown into this uncomfortable situation. And Jenny was cringing.
"Doctor I'm trying to be delicate here, I know how you can blush. When did this baby, begin as such?"
"Oh, OH you mean... right well I don't know. I'm sure Rose knows. She didn't even tell me she was pregnant! I overheard" The Doctor rambled with a blush
"Could it have happened within the time vortex?" Madame Vastra pressed
"Ha impossible." The Doctor said with a laugh "Well, highly unlikely. Well, maybe plausible. Well let's do the maths. Time vortex, the only possible occurrence would have to be. Oh"
"When doctor?"
"Possibly, probably exactly ten months ago." He said quickly, looking around
"Oh brilliant," river said "And those are perfect dates too. Nine months of pregnancy and then a month here you do pick your bloody timing don't you doctor." She rolled her eyes
"I hate to but in but why did they give in so easily? This is much too easy there's got to be something wrong" said Dorium.
"Well even if Annie is a half time-lord half TARDIS baby, what would they want her for?" jenny asked
"A weapon?" said Madame Vastra
"Why would a timelord be a weapon?" The Doctor asked
"Well they've seen you. They fear you. And Rose, she's the bad wolf after all."
"Me? Rose?"
"Your right this was too easy. We should get back to the others" Jack said worriedly, gesturing to the door.
They all ran down stairs apart from The Doctor who was pacing worriedly up and down. Suddenly Madame Kovarian appeared on the screen.
"I see you've accessed our files." She said
"What is she?" the doctor growled
"Part time lord, part TARDIS, a lovely little hybrid"
"Why do you need her?"
"She will become a weapon"
"A weapon? What kind of weapon?"
"A weapon of hope. Hope in this bitter endless war."
"War against who?"
"Against you. The monks are being given the order as we speak, they will slaughter everyone down there and then they will take the child, and give her to me. We know how slippery you are doctor, so the best weapon to use? Your own offspring. Easy" she laughed
"Now Kovarian, you just assume that that lot down there are what? Victims? Collateral damage? That's your downfall Kovarian, never routing for the underdog, because those people down there, the little humans, and that Silurian and that sontarans commander and that immortal man and my daughter and my wife? Have you never heard of the big bad wolf? You assume that they are nothing but victims, but they are not- they are fighters and I BELIEVE IN THEM!" he shouted as he soniced the screen off and ran down the stairs to fight with his family.
He ran into a scene of chaos. He was right, his family were fighters. Monks lay around, dead, although there were some casualties. Dorium had finally crossed to many people and the monks had well, beheaded him. A girl named Lorna had been stabbed. She lay on some stairs, with Jack next to her and The Doctor ran over.
"Are you okay?" he asked
"Oh it's really you. I never thought I'd see you again. You probably don't remember me, I was just a kid. But the gamma forests. You were there." She said
"Of course I remember you, how could I ever forget, we ran didn't we?"
"Yeah we did" smiled Lorna as she slowly slipped away. The doctor laid her body on the stairs. Jack had joined him.
"Who was she?"
"I don't know doc, she came and warned us about the trap. I don't even know her name, but she fought right until the end, now go- I'm sure Rose wants to see you"
The Doctor nodded and quickly ran around the corner, where Rose was standing leaning against some boxes, placing Annie in the doctors cot, which surprisingly had stayed intact throughout the battle.
She looked up and saw The Doctor standing there. She took in a deep breath and then just as he thought she was about to hug him or something, she slapped him, hard. "Where the hell were you?" she asked angrily
"Well firstly, OUCH." The Doctor screamed, rubbing his red face "and secondly, I was shouting at Madame Kovarian. Nobody tried to take my family without at least a good telling off. She somehow managed to escape- and I will find her and make her pay- but I knew that you lots would win against the monks, I believed in all of them, and nobody more than you Rose." He said as he took her hands and looked into her eyes.
She eventually gave him a smile and a lot more kissing and crying came about.
"Oh it's all about the kissing and crying today isn't it?" said Jack as he walked over
"How comes I don't get any of that?" Jenny asked Jack cheekily
"Honestly Jennifer," Jack mocked "In front of your parents? Shameful behaviour" he said, but winked all the sae and added "Maybe later, if you're lucky. Now I don't want to spend one more minute at this base so let's all head back home yeah? Come on, I'll buy you all chips- my treat" he said with a wink.
"Wow Jack, you do know how to please a girl don't you?" said Rose with a laugh as she hugged him. "Thank you for today Jack, it meant a lot."
"Any time sweetheart, I'm always here for when you get kidnapped, which seems to happen more often than normal…" he said, giving her a kiss on the forehead. But he couldn't help but worry about the rumours surrounding Demon's run, and the things that had and more importantly hadn't happened there. They could be, like River said- just stories, but he wasn't too sure. Something darker was coming.
I just freaking love this episode so much, so of course I had to do it. 4,500 words though Jesus Christ!
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