Here we are! The first major plot change and new chapter! Enjoy!

Still not mine.

CHAPTER 6

Rose wandered down a dark corridor so large that the light from her torch was soon swallowed up by the darkness. The further she wandered from the rescue, the quieter it became. Soon, she heard nothing except her quiet footsteps and her breathing. There was nothing else. None of the daleks had even followed her.

Soon the light of her torch flickered and went out. The batteries were dead. Then she remembered that she still had the sonic screwdriver. She whipped it out, pressed the button and heard the familiar whirring noise, but no light emitted from the device. This darkness was unnatural. Rose swallowed a lump in her throat. She had discovered darkness like this before, back when she traveled with Tentoo in the parallel world. The daleks of that world had discovered how to manipulate light waves in order to conceal their greatest secrets.

With her sense of sight lost, she began to be able to rely on her other senses as they became stronger. She listened. The room she was in was still and quiet. All she could hear was the sound of her own breathing. She held her breath, and that's when she heard it: the quiet rumble of a motor. She quietly walked in the direction of the sound with her arms outstretched. Her hands found something tall and made of metal and glass. The coolness of the glass was incongruent with the atmosphere of the room, which Rose was aware was quickly increasing in temperature. The offensive smell of burnt flesh assaulted her nostrils. The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end as she had this uncanny sensation that she was no longer alone. She resisted the urge to run away.

"Hello?" She whispered. "Anyone here?" She knew that if the presence was a dalek that she'd be dead already, so it was likely someone else, and that someone else might turn out to be a friend instead of a foe. But there was no need to announce to all the daleks that she was there by shouting.

"Who's there?" A gruff voice responded, also in a whisper. The voice didn't sound menacing, just gruff, and she thought, a bit Scottish.

"I could ask you the same thing." She hissed back. "We are in the most dangerous place in the universe, and I need to know if you are friend or foe.

"I am the Doctor." The voice replied. "Now I'll know if you are friend or foe."

"Doctor? Which one?" She didn't recognize this voice. Still she somehow believed him. "So the rescue attempt was a success then? It's me, Doctor. It's me, Rose."

"Rose?!" He continued to whisper, though his disbelief was evident. "As in Rose Tyler? But... it's impossible! You're in a parallel world!"

"I was... until the TARDIS brought me on board a few days ago for a big reunion with all of your faces since the Time War..." She paused, suddenly realizing that if this voice truly belonged to the Doctor, he would have known that.

"You have the TARDIS?!" came the reply. "But, I lost her as well! Something happened when I regenerated, and I lost my bloody ship!"

"You're him." She realized. "The next face of the Doctor!" In the darkness, she reached out towards the sound of the voice, but all she felt was the glass. If only she could see! "Where are you?" She whispered.

"I seem to be trapped in this glass capsule. No idea how I ended up here. But it would be easy work to get out, except that I also appear to have lost my sonic."

Rose smiled, even though she knew that he couldn't see. "Guess it's a good thing I brought this along then!" She made fast work of the capsule with her borrowed sonic and let him out.

"Rose Tyler, you are amazing!" He responded, a little too loudly.

Suddenly, the lights came on, blinding them both for a few seconds.

"THE DOCTOR HAS ESCAPED! IT IS THE ABOMINATION! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"

Her eyes still adjusting to the light, she took a glance at her new partner before grabbing his hand and smiling at him cheekily. "Run!" Oh. She had missed this! As they ran, she took in his older appearance, and bushy eyebrows. He looked different, and he appeared to be sterner than his previous incarnations, but one look in his eyes, and there was no doubt: This man was the twelfth Doctor!

Meanwhile, back on the TARDIS...

"That was HOT!" Jack said. "Woo-eee did you ladies just give me enough to fuel my fantasies for a very long time!"

"Shut up, Jack!" Said well, everyone.

Mickey was embracing Martha and telling her how amazing she was. Rory just looked at Amy with complete awe and adoration. River, Clara, and Donna went to the kitchen to brew some tea. The Doctors, however, were in a state. They had counted heads and came up one short. Ten and Tentoo looked at each other in alarm. "Where's Rose?" They asked simultaneously.

Nine looked up from the console. "She wandered off again, didn't she? Fantastic. That's just fantastic. She'll never learn, will she?"

Eleven motioned for the others to join him. "Hang on. She still has a sonic. If I can just track its signal... Yes! Found her! It appears that she is underground, not too far from where we were imprisoned. I think I can... Yes, we're materializing right next to her!"

"Allons-y!" Shouted Ten and Tentoo, grabbing their sonics (Tentoo had a spare since Rose had his) and rushing out the door. They weren't even aware of the other. All they knew was that Rose was probably in trouble and each believed that he was the one she needed to save her. Eleven and Nine looked at each other and sprinted after them. They weren't going to miss out on the action, especially when Rose might be in danger!

The remaining companions watched all of this with great trepidation. "Ladies and gentlemen. May the games begin!" Jack proclaimed, big grin on his face. The others just turned and looked at him. No one wanted to admit that they were thinking the same thing, though maybe not in those exact words. River chuckled and moved the TARDIS further away, just to see what would happen. Her parents didn't stop her.

Rose and Twelve were running for their lives from the Daleks when they heard the TARDIS materialize nearby. They ran in the direction of the sound and almost ran over Ten and Tentoo as they had burst through the doors and started running towards Rose. Nine and Eleven did run into the backs of the twins as they did not see them stop. All four younger Doctors looked at the man whose fingers were entwined with Rose's and scowled at the stranger in jealous anger.

Rose groaned. The looks on her Doctors' faces had not gone unnoticed, and she was not happy! She was not some kind of prize to be won! She turned to the rescue team. "Doctors, met your future self." Then she turned to Twelve. "Doctor, remember these faces? You used to have them." She then addressed them all. "Ok?! Now there is an army of Daleks pursuing us. I suggest, Doctor, that either you come up with one of your brilliant plans, or we resume running!"

They choose to run. Luckily, the TARDIS wasn't far. Except that it wasn't where they had thought it was.

"Alright! What'd you do with her?" Nine yelled, accusing Eleven.

"Me?! You must have forgotten to put the parking break on!" Eleven cried.

"Since when does the TARDIS have a parking break?!" one of the Tens cried, exasperated. Rose was dumbfounded that she couldn't tell which was her husband and which was the original at the moment. They were both, no, all five of them, were acting so... alien!

"Since she redecorated, of course!" Twelve added his two cents.

"Yeah, I noticed that she did, by the way. I don't like it!" added the other twin.

The five of them continued to argue in a similar fashion for several minutes. Rose developed a headache and she almost wished that a Dalek would come and take her out of her misery. Funny. Where were the Daleks anyway?

"Doctor!" she cried. All five stopped their arguing and five heads turned and looked at her, suddenly ashamed. "While you were arguing with yourself about where you parked the TARDIS, I couldn't help but notice that the Daleks haven't found us yet. Anyone find that a bit odd?!"