Two months had passed since they had left the planet Midnight. The events on the planet still gave him nightmares when he allowed himself to sleep, but the days were back to normal as he showed them time and space. He had taken Donna to New, New York and she had pulled him and Kiam from shop to shop until his arms were loaded with bags. When she tried to buy him a flannel looking shirt, he had put his foot down and insisted they head back to the Tardis and call it a day.
They had also gone to one of his favorite planets, the oriental planet of Shan Shen. They walked the streets and he got her to reluctantly try a foaming drink. He had walked over to check out one of the little shop's trinkets and when he turned back around she was gone.
"Rule one," he looked at Kiam and smiled. "I bet if I let go of your hand you wouldn't follow rule one either." To test his theory he releases Kiam's hand and the baby takes off. "Thought not," he says laughing as he runs after him. As he run's past a tent he hears Donna scream. He quickly catches up to Kiam and grabs him up and heads towards the tent.
"Everything all right?" He ask seeing a woman disappear through the back of the tent.
"Oh, God." Donna says and walks over and hugs him. She is pale and shaking. He hugs her back until she pulls away sheepishly.
"What was that for?"
"I don't know."
"What happened." She tells him the story the best she can remember and he notices a giant dead beetle still on the ground. He can't resist as he passes Kiam to Donna and starts to poke the beetle with a stick. He notices the look on her face and realizes he is smiling. He quickly stops and starts examining the beetle instead.
"I can't remember. It's slipping away. You know like when you try and think of a dream and it just sort of goes."
"Just got lucky, this thing. It's one of the Trickster's Brigade. Changes a life in tiny little ways. Most times, the universe just compensates around it, but with you? Great big parallel world."
"Hold on. You said parallel worlds are sealed off." She remembered the conversation about Rose clearly.
"They are. But you had one created around you. Funny thing is, seems to be happening a lot to you. Sometimes I think there's way too much coincidence around you, Donna. I met you once, then I met your grandfather, then I met you again. In the whole wide universe, I met you for a second time. It's like something's binding us together."
"Don't be so daft. I'm nothing special."
"Yes, you are. You're brilliant." He grinned up at her again.
"She said that," Donna remembered suddenly.
"Who did?"
"That woman. I can't remember."
"Well, she never existed now."
"No, but she said the stars. She said the stars are going out."
"Yeah, but that world's gone."
"No, but she said it was all worlds. Every world. She said the darkness is coming even here."
"No, no it can't be he thought." "Who was she?
"I don't know."
"What did she look like?"
"She was blonde." Rose. But it couldn't be Rose, she was in Pete's world. But she had done the impossible before when she had taken in the heart of the Tardis.
"What was her name?" He demanded to Donna, hoping that she would remember.
"I don't know. But she told me to warn you. She said two words."
"What two words? What were they? What did she say?" He asked her frantically.
"Bad Wolf." His eyes went wide. He had never told Donna that name." He stood up and ran outside as she called after him "Well, what does it mean?" He froze. Every where he looked the Tardis translated the written word to Bad Wolf. As he ran to the Tardis he noticed the outside no longer said Police Box, but Bad Wolf as well. "No," he kept saying to himself "This was impossible." but even as he said the words he knew it wasn't true.
He opens the doors and runs inside the Tardis and stops. The inside is lit by red emergency lighting, and he hears the cloister bell tolling.
"Doctor, what is it? What's Bad Wolf?" He hears Donna asking behind him as he stands in shock.
The walls between the dimensions were down again, reality was going collapse and he had to find a way to stop it. "It's the end of the universe." he finally said. He runs over to the console and sets the Tardis in motion to get back to earth.
"So what is Bad Wolf," She asks him again.
He slowly looks up at her, "Rose," and he hears her gasp. The Tardis lands on a street and he rushes out. Looking around quickly.
"It's fine. Everything's fine. Nothing's wrong, all fine. Excuse me. What day is it?" He calls to a gentleman nearby.
"Saturday."
"Saturday. Good. Good, I like Saturdays."
"So, I just met Rose Tyler?" Donna ask trying to continue there earlier conversation. He nods. "But she's locked away in a parallel world."
"Exactly. If she can cross from her parallel world to your parallel world, than that means the walls of the universe are breaking down, which puts everything in danger. Everything. But how?" He blocks Kiam who is trying to exit the Tardis and he and Donna head back on.
He heads over to the controls and starts setting the Tardis to run a scan.
"The thing is, Doctor, no matter what's happening, and I'm sure it's bad, I get that but, Rose is coming back. Isn't that good?"
He wanted Rose back more than anything. He tried not to think of her too much during the time she had been gone. But their son had made that hard, every time he looked in the boy's eyes he saw Rose looking back at him. But she was coming back now. He grinned at Donna happily.
"Yeah." He went back to setting the controls when they heard a loud bang outside. "What the hell was that?" Donna asked.
"Don't know. It came from outside." He grabbed Kiam and in the same motion handed him to Donna and then ran to the doors. He looked out and only saw blackness and a few rocks floating nearby. He ran quickly back to the scanner leaving the doors wide open.
"But we're in space. How did that happen? What did you do?"
He checked the scanner readings feeling annoyed at her accusation that he had done something wrong. "We haven't moved. We're fixed. It can't have. No. The Tardis is still in the same place, but the Earth has gone. The entire planet. It's gone."
"But if the Earth's been moved, they've lost the Sun. What about my Mum? And Granddad? They're dead, aren't they? Are they dead?"
She looked so sad and broken that he wanted to tell her a comforting lie, but he couldn't lie to her. "I don't know, Donna. I just don't know. I'm sorry, I don't know."
She hugged Kiam close to her for comfort. "That's my family. My whole world."
He went back to the scanners "There's no readings. Nothing. Not a trace. Not even a whisper. Oh, that is fearsome technology."
"So what do we do?"
"We've got to get help."
"From where?" She asked.
"Donna, I'm taking you to the Shadow Proclamation. Hold tight." He pulled on the lever and the Tardis jerked in it's take off.
"So go on then, what is the Shadow Proclamation anyway?"
"Posh name for police. Outer space police. Here we go."
-DW-
Having discovered from the Shadow Proclamation that Earth was only one of twenty seven planets that had been taken from space and time, he was
now following the trail of the Bees. Donna was amazed to find out that some of the bee's were actually aliens from the planet Melissa Majoria. Their trail was infinitely small but he was able to find it using the Tardis. Though the trail was scattered and hard to follow.
At last the Tardis came to stop. "It's stopped." He told Donna.
"What do you mean? Is that good or bad? Where are we?" she asked.
"The Medusa Cascade. I came here when I was just a kid, ninety years old. It was the center of a rift in time and space."
"So, where are the twenty seven planets?"
"Nowhere. The Tandocca Trail stops dead. End of the line."
"So what do we do? Doctor, what do we do?" He looked down sadly. He didn't know what to do. The trail had been his last hope and the trail was gone. He heard Donna pleading with him not to give up. She wanted her family back. He understood that. He had come to call the Earth his home as well and he felt as helpless as when he had watched Gallifrey burn. But that had been done by his own hands. He looked down at his hands as though they had betrayed him. A ringing sound snaps him out of his stupor.
"Phone!" He says happily and answers it. "Martha, is that you?." he asks as he brings the phone to his ear but all he hears is a buzzing noise. "It's a signal." He tells Donna.
"Can we follow it?" she ask him.
He pulls out his stethoscope to hear it better. "Oh, just watch me." Got it. Locking on. We're travelling through time. One second in the future. The phone call's pulling us through." The Tardis shakes violently as the signal pulls them into the Medusa Cascade. The shaking stops and he looks at the scanner again
"The entire Medusa Cascade has been put a second out of sync with the rest of the universe. Perfect hiding place. Tiny little pocket of time. But we found them." He notices another signal hidden underneath the first, visible now that they were back in sync with the planet Earth. "What's that? Hold on." He hits more buttons to bring it up. "Some sort of Subwave Network."
The screen changes before them and to his happiness he sees his old companions staring back at him.
"Where the hell have you been? Doctor, it's the Daleks." Jack says.
"It's the Daleks. They're taking people to their spaceship."
"Sarah Jane. Who's that boy?" He says looking at her corner of the screen and then looks at another corner and points to it. That must be Torchwood. Oh, they're brilliant. Look at you all, you clever people."
"That's Martha." Donna says. "It's like an outer space Facebook.
"Everyone except Rose." He says sadly as the scanner goes blank.
"We've lost them."
"There's another signal coming through. There's someone else out there." He tries to pull it up, "Hello? Can you hear me?" Then he adds hopefully. "Rose?"
"Your voice is different, and yet its arrogance is unchanged. Welcome to my new Empire, Doctor. It is only fitting that you should bear witness to the resurrection and the triumph of Davros, lord and creator of the Dalek race."
He freezes. He can't breath. No, no it can't be him. Not again.
"Doctor?" Donna sounds concerned.
"Have you nothing to say?" Davros taunts him.
"Doctor, it's all right. We're, we're in the Tardis. We're safe." But he knew they were not. Not if Davros was alive.
"But you were destroyed. In the very first year of the Time War, at the Gates of Elysium. I saw your command ship fly into the jaws of the Nightmare Child. I tried to save you." He tells Davros finding his voice at last.
"But it took one stronger than you. Dalek Caan himself. Emergency Temporal Shift took him back into the Time War itself."
"But that's impossible. The entire War is timelocked."
"And yet he succeeded. Oh, it cost him his mind, but imagine. A single, simple Dalek succeeded where Emperors and Time Lords have failed. A testament, don't you think, to my remarkable creations?"
"And you made a new race of Daleks?" He asked but he all ready knew the answer.
"I gave myself to them, quite literally. Each one grown from a cell of my own body." He tries not to wince as Davros opens up his tunic to reveal his bare ribs with just a few nerve endings over them, and his internal organs inside. He feels sick. " New Daleks. True Daleks. I have my children, Doctor. What do you have, now?"
He doesn't answer his last question, Davros didn't need to know. "After all this time, everything we saw, everything we lost, I have only one thing to say to you." He throws a lever on the Tardis and it takes off. "Bye!"