After thanking Clive, I went back to the car where Mickey was still waiting for me. I climbed into the passenger seat, "All right, I'm back and he never even laid a hand on me," I said and let out a sigh. "I'm hungry, how do you feel about pizza?"
"Pizza," Mickey repeated.
"Maybe Chinese even," I said, looking out the window.
"Pizza," He repeated.
"Alright pizza it is then," I gave in and Mickey started driving.
... ...
Mickey and I got to a restaurant and set on a table, deciding on food. "What do you think is good? What do you think I should eat?" I asked, looking at the menu.
"So, where did you meet this Doctor?" Mickey asked all of a sudden.
"What?" I asked as I looked at him with a frown.
"Because I reckon it started back at the shop, am I right? Was he something to do with that?" Mickey asked.
"No," I lied.
"Come on," He said.
"Sort of," I muttered.
"What was he doing there?" He asked.
"I'm not going to talk about him. Listen I know it sounds daft, but I don't think he's safe. He's dangerous," I said.
"You can trust me, Sam, Sammy, Sammy. You can tell me anything. Tell me about the Doctor and what he's planning, and I can help you, Sammy. Because that's all I really want to do, Sam, Sammy, Sammy, Sam," He said.
"Are you okay?" I asked, frowning.
"Your champagne," A waiter said.
"We didn't order any champagne. Where's the Doctor?" Mickey asked and he grabbed my hand.
"Madam, your champagne," The waiter said again.
"It's not ours," I said. "Mickey, what is it? What are you talking about?"
"I need to find out how much he knows, so where is he?" Mickey asked.
"Doesn't anybody want this champagne?" The waiter asked.
"Look, we didn't order -" Mickey stopped in mid-sentence as he looked up at the waiter. "Ah. Gotcha."
I looked up to see that the waiter was The Doctor. He started shaking the champagne, "Don't mind me. I'm just toasting the beautiful friendship you guys have. On the house," The Doctor said and opened the champagne and the cork shot into Mickey's head. I jumped as he spit it out.
"Anyway," Mickey said then he got up and his hands into what almost looked like flat spatulas. I screamed as I got up from my seat. The Doctor ran over and grabbed Mickey. He began tugging on Mickey's head and pulled it off. The rest of the customers scream.
"Don't think that's going to stop me," Mickey's plastic head said. Mickey's headless body got up and I pulled down the fire alarm.
"Everyone out! Out now! Get out! Get out! Get out!" I said and everyone started to ran.
The Doctor and I ran out of the restaurant and into the alley and kept on running. The Doctor shut the door but I kept on running into a closed gate. I turned to him, "Open the gate! Use that tube thing."
"Sonic Screwdriver," The Doctor said.
"Well use it!" I demanded.
"Nah. Tell you what, let's go in here," He said as he walked towards the blue police box. He unlocked the door and stepped in.
"We can't hide inside a wooden box," I snapped but he didn't answered. The banging from the door behind me continued. I groaned, running back to the gate and tried to open it again. I gave up and ran into the police box but froze when I looked inside it.
I walked back out, looking at the police box and then walked around it and observed it. But it looked small. How can it be -
My thoughts were interrupted by the iron restaurant door was starting to break so I ran back into the police box. "It's going to follow us," I said as I closed the door.
"The assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now, shut up a minute," The Doctor explained as I looked around. I really couldn't believe that a small, blue police box could be so huge on the inside. "You see, the arm was too simple, but the head's perfect. I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source," He explained and turned to me. "Right. Where do you want to start?"
"The inside's bigger than the outside," I said.
"Yes," He said.
"Is it . . . alien?" I asked.
"Yeah," He said.
"Are you alien?" I asked.
"Yes," He replied. "Is that all right?"
I swallowed, nodding slowly, "Yeah."
"It's called the TARDIS. It stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space," The Doctor explained.
I nodded in response with tears in my eyes, "Did they kill him?" I asked and he looked at me in confusion. "Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?"
"Oh. I didn't think of that," He said.
"He's my best friend and my cousin's boyfriend. You pulled off his head. They copied him and you didn't even think?" I asked before looking behind him at the head that was starting to melt. "And now you're just going to let him melt?"
"Melt?" The Doctor repeated and he turned around to see the head was melting. "Oh, no, no, no, no."
"What're you doing?" I asked.
"Following the signal," The Doctor said and the TARDIS started shaking. "Almost there. Almost there. Here we go." The TARDIS stopped shaking and The Doctor ran to the door.
"You can't go out there. It's not safe," I said before following him out and I froze, noticing that the location was different.
"I lost the signal, I got so close," He said.
"We've moved. Does it fly?" I asked.
"Disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand," He said.
"What about that headless thing?" I asked. "It's still on the loose."
"It melted with the head. Are you going to witter on all night?" He asked.
"Now I'll have to tell Rose," I said. The Doctor turned around and looked at me, frowning. "Mickey. I'll have to tell Rose that her boyfriend is dead. You forgot him again. You're right, you are alien."
"Look, if I did forget some kid called Mickey," He started.
"He's not a kid," I snapped.
"It's because I'm busy saving the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, all right?" He said.
"All right!?" I snapped.
"Yes, it is," The Doctor said.
"If you are an alien, how comes you sound like you're from the North?" I asked with a frown.
"Lots of planets have a north," He said.
"What's a police public call box?" I asked.
"It's a telephone box from the 1950s," He informed and smiled. "It's a disguise."
I let out a scoff, smiling a little bit as I shook my head slightly. "And this living plastic - What's it got against us?"
"Nothing," The Doctor said. "It loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. It's food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein plants rotted, so Earth, dinner."
"Any way of stopping it?" I asked.
"Anti-plastic," The Doctor said as he held up a vile. "Of coarse I got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?"
"Hide what?" I asked.
"The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal," He replied.
"What's it look like?" I asked with a frown.
"Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London. A huge circular metal structure like a dish, like a wheel. Radial. Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible," The Doctor said. I looked at the Ferris wheel as his back facing it. "What?" I nodded my head for him to turn around. The Doctor looked behind himself. "What?" He faced me again. I tilted my head to the side and nodded. He looked behind himself again. "What is it? What? Oh." I smiled, finally making him get it and he turned back to me, smiling, "Fantastic."
We started to ran to the Ferris Wheel, holding hands. We got down the stairs and we stopped. "Think of it, plastic all over the world, every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables," The Doctor listed. "We've found the transmitter now the Consciousness must be somewhere underneath."
I looked around and then ran to a railing and looked down. "What about down here?"
He ran over to me and we both looked down there, there was something that looked like a metal vent. "Looks good to me." We ran down to it and The Doctor opened it. He stepped in first and then I followed. He opened a door and we went in the other room. "There it is. The Consciousness. A living plastic creature," He said.
"Okay, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go," I said.
"I'm not here to kill it. I've got to give it a chance," He said and then rushed down towards the Consciousness. "I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." The Consciousness responded. "Thank you. If I might have permission to approach?"
I looked around before spotting Mickey, "Oh god," I said and ran towards him. "Mickey, it's me. It's okay. It's all right."
"That thing down there, the liquid. Sam, it can talk," Mickey said, grabbing my arms tightly.
"Doctor, they kept him alive," I informed.
"Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy," The Doctor said.
"You knew that and you never said anything?" I asked.
"Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you," The Doctor said and went closer to the Consciousness. "Am I addressing the Consciousness?" A face formed on the Consciousness. "Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilisation by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?" A sort of face formed in the Consciousness. "Oh, don't give me that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights." The Consciousness moved it's head. "I am talking!" The Consciousness settled. "This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf. Please, just go."
Two mannequins began walking to The Doctor. "Doctor, look out!" I yelled. The mannequins grabbed The Doctor and one of them took out the anti-plastic.
"That was just insurance," The Doctor said. "I wasn't going to use it." The Consciousness made another sound. "I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not." The Consciousness made a high squeal and the TARDIS appeared behind two doors. "Yes, that's my ship." The Consciousness spoke again. "That's not true. I should know, I was there. I fought in the war. It wasn't my fault. I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them." The Consciousness began moving out of control.
"What's it doing?" I asked.
"It's the TARDIS," The Doctor told me. "Just get out Samantha."
I pulled out my phone and called Aunt Jackie. "Aunt Jackie," I said as soon as she picked up the phone.
"Oh, there you are. I was just going to phone," Aunt Jackie said.
"Where are you? Are you with Rose and Uncle Pete?" I asked.
"Pete at work. Rose and I in town," Aunt Jackie said.
"Go home. Just go home right now," I said.
"Sweetheart, you're breaking up. Listen, we're just going to do a bit of late night shopping. We'll see you later," Aunt Jackie said and then hang up.
"Aunt Jackie! Jackie!" I said and groaned.
There was a giant spark of electricity, "It's the activation signal. It's transmitting!" The Doctor said.
"It's the end of the world," I whispered.
"Get out, Samantha! Just get out! Run!" He said.
Mickey and I ran to where the stairs were but it was gone. "The stairs are gone," I said and Mickey and I ran to the TARDIS but couldn't get it open. "I don't have the key."
"We're gonna die!" Mickey yelled.
I looked around before staring at The Doctor, who was struggling and my friend gripping my tight and screamed.
The Doctor looked at me, it was like as a final goodbye. I shook my head, standing up and The Doctor looked back at me. "Just leave him, Sam!" Mickey yelled but I kept staring at him. "Leave him!"
"I can't!" I yelled and ran towards an ax.
I broke of part of a chain and grabbed onto it. I swung from it and knocked one of the mannequins into the Consciousness and then the other one along with the anti-plastic.
I swung back towards The Doctor and he caught me. "Now we're in trouble," The Doctor said and we began to run toward the TARDIS, where Mickey was holding on for dear life. The Doctor unlocked the TARDIS then the three of us went in.
Mickey stared in shock while the TARDIS shook before stopping. "Is it safe?" I asked.
"It is now," The Doctor said with a smile. I gave a small nod before walking out of the TARDIS with Mickey.
I pulled out my phone and called Aunt Jackie. She picked it up, "Sam, don't go out of the house. It's not safe. There's all of these things and they were shooting and they."
I smiled and shook my head before hanging up. Yep, they fine. I walked over to Mickey, who was whimpering as he pointed at The Doctor, who was leaning against the doorway of the TARDIS with his arms crossed across his chest.
I looked at The Doctor and he smiled, "Nestene Consciousness? Easy," He said, snapping his fingers.
"You were useless in there. You'd be dead if it wasn't for me," I said with a small smirk.
"Yes, I would. Thank you," The Doctor said and my smirk turned to smile. "Right then, I'll be off." My smile fell slowly. "Unless, I don't know, you could come with me. This box isn't just a London hopper, you know. It goes anywhere in the universe free of charge."
"Don't," Mickey told me. "He's an alien. He's a thing."
"He's not invited," The Doctor told me, pointing at Mickey. "What do you think? You could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go anywhere."
"Is it always this dangerous?" I asked.
"Yeah," The Doctor said, nodding.
Before I could answer, Mickey hugged me by the leg. "Yeah, I can't. I've um - I've got to go and find my family and someone's got to look after this stupid lump, so," I said, letting out a small fake chuckle.
The Doctor gave a small nod, "Okay. See you around."
I looked at him and smiled slightly but it was fake. The Doctor stepped back in and closed the door to the TARDIS. As the TARDIS engine started, I felt a sick feeling like I might have made the wrong choice but I couldn't take it back. Then, in front of my eyes, the TARIDS disappeared.
"Thank you, thank you, Sammy," Mickey said.
I let out a breath, "Come on, let's go," I said, helping Mickey up to his feet. We started walking away but I turned around slightly one final time but The Doctor and his TARDIS weren't there.
I fought back tears as I turned back around and started walking away with Mickey again. But then we stopped and turned around when we heard noises. The TARDIS came back and The Doctor's head popped out, "By the way, did I mention it also travels in time?"
He went back inside but left the door opened. I smiled and then looked at Mickey. "Thank you and look after Rose and her parents," I said before giving him a quick hug and then ran to the TARDIS, ignoring Mickey's calls.
I shut the door behind me and looked at The Doctor with a smile. He smiled back before setting the TARDIS to fly.