Disclaimer: I own nothing except my OC. If I did then Snape would have been my chemistry teacher.
Author's note: Sorry I'm a day late but I forgot to publish the chapter yesterday. At least Hex gets to have some fun with the Doctor.
The Tardis lands and the Doctor rushes out. Hex rushes out after him while Rose hesitates a moment before going out as well. "I lost the signal, I got so close" the Doctor complained to no one specifically. "We've moved. Does it fly?" Rose asked once she was out of the box and had a good look at her surroundings. "Disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand" the Doctor explained. "It travels through the time vortex doesn't it?" Hex asked innocently, causing the Doctor to freeze for a second before glancing at her. Oh, I'm having so much fun with this. I bet he's pretty freaked out by now if not completely intrigued.
"If we're somewhere else, what about the headless thing? It's still on the loose" Rose argued. "It melted with the head. Are you going to witter on all night?" the Doctor asked. Hex reached out and hit his arm "Ow!". "Rude!" Hex said, before going over to Rose and putting an around her as best as she could. "I'm sure he's fine. They probably needed a conscious feed for the plastic duplicate, which means they would have had to keep him alive" Hex explained to a distraught Rose. Rose looked at her and hesitantly nodded. The Doctor gave them a blank look. "Who are you two talking about?" the Doctor asked. Rose gave him an unreadable look. "Micky. You just went and forgot him, again! You were right, you are alien" Rose almost shouted. Hex tried to calm down her unofficial older sister as best she could.
"Look, if I did forget some kid called Micky" the Doctor tried to defend himself. "Yeah, he's not a kid" Rose interrupted, really irritated by the way the Doctor was talking about her boyfriend. "It's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, all right?" the Doctor continued as if he hadn't been interrupted by Rose. Hex reached over again and smacked him, while sending him a glare to which he just rolled his eyes. "All right" Rose said. "Yes, it is!" the Doctor answered in exasperation. "If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the North" Hex asked, trying to change the subject. "Lots of planets have a north" the Doctor answered as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "How about we get down to the important stuff now?" Hex asked, causing both of them to look at her. I just want to get to the dangerous bit. Hex looked at them and noticed that both of them had expectant looks on their faces. Hex sighed. "The living plastic that wants to take over the world? We need a way of stopping it" Hex explained.
The Doctor grinned and pulled out a tube with a blue liquid in it from his leather jacket pocket. "Anti-plastic" the Doctor explained to the two girls, although Hex already knew exactly what it was. "Anti-plastic" Rose repeated. "Yeah, great lot of good that does if we don't find the source. To find that we have to find the transmitter. Taking over the world will need a big one so I suggest we try over there" Hex said, pointing to the London eye behind the Doctor, who looked somewhat confused before turning around and realising what she meant. "Oh. Fantastic!" the Doctor exclaimed. Grabbing one hand of each of the girls and dragging them down the bridge. The whole way Hex explained the whole thing about the transmitter to Rose who actually understood most of what she meant for once.
Hex let the Doctor and Rose do their thing while she headed to the manhole where she knew the entrance to the Nestene chamber would be. It didn't take too long for the Doctor and Rose to join her. The Doctor gave her a bit of a sceptical look before going to open the entrance. Hex was making sure that Rose was ok, giving the Doctor the chance to scan her with his sonic without her noticing. He read the results on his was down the steps, the girls following closely behind him. The Docotr furrowed his brows in confusion at the readings on his sonic but let it go once he spotted the Nestene Consciousness.
The Doctor wasn't sure what to make of Hex. She was definitely a genius, but that didn't explain how she seemed to know things that she really shouldn't. She also seemed far too calm throughout the whole thing. If the Doctor didn't know any better, he would say that she knows a lot more than she lets on, and that could be dangerous. He would have to do a proper scan once they were back on the Tardis or maybe even confront the girl if he still didn't get any clear results. His results from his sonic were inconclusive and that had rarely ever happened before. Hex definitely intrigued him.
The Doctor looked over the railing at the creature that had been giving him problems lately. "The Nestene Consciousness. That's it, inside the vat. A living plastic creature" the Doctor explained. Rose seemed intrigued but Hex looked a little bored. Maybe she really was a psychic and already knew about this? No. No one can just see the future. It doesn't work like that. The Doctor thought. "Well, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go" Rose said. "We need to give it a chance first, Rose. That is a living creature, we can't just kill it" Hex argued. The Doctor glanced at Hex. She at least had the right mind-set. "Like she said. I'm not here to kill it. I've got to give it a chance" the Doctor agreed, walking a little closer towards the Nestene Consciousness. "I seek audience with the ….." Hex tuned out the rest of what was going on, finding it a little surprising that she could understand the Nestene Consciousness when it replied but telling herself that was probably either due to the Tardis translation matrix or whatever her pocket watch had done to her.
Hex nudged Rose in the side and pointed over at Micky who was huddled in a little ball against a wall in the lower levels. "Oh, God! Micky, it's me! It's all right" Rose exclaimed as she rushed over to her boyfriend's side followed by Hex who crouched down on his other side. "That thing down there, the liquid. Rose, Hex, it can talk!" Micky managed to get out. He looked like he was on the verge of a panic attack but Hex didn't really blame him. He wasn't all that tough and when kidnapped by living plastic one should be allowed to freak out a little. "You're stinking. You were right Hex, they kept him alive" Rose exclaimed happily. "Well, I told you before. I'm kind of a psychic. You should really listen to me more often you know" Hex grumbled. "Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?" the Doctor asked as he continued to inch closer to the Consciousness. Hex helped Rose look over Micky for any injuries although she already knew that there probably wouldn't be any. In the meantime the Doctor had his little chat with the Nestene Consciousness and the Tardis was revealed. Hex let out a sigh of relief. She knew that the Tardis would have been fine, but she couldn't help but worry about her. She really liked the Tardis.
"Doctor, what's it doing?" Rose asked as the Consciousness started thrashing around. "It's the Tardis! The Nestene's identified it as superior technology. It's terrified. It's going to the final phase. It's starting the invasion! Get out, Rose and Hex! Just leg it now!" the Doctor said. Hex only just noticed that there were two Autons holding onto the Doctor with one of them holding the tube of Anti-plastic in the other hand.
While Rose decided that it was a good time to call Jackie, Hex got up to where the chain was and freed it. Good thing I did so many types of sports back home. Hex got ready to swing. She waited for the right moment, watching as the stairs back up collapsed and Rose and Micky made for the Tardis which wouldn't open. That was when Hex took her chance and swung, knocking both Autons into the vat on her way down and with them the Anti-plastic. On the way back the Doctor catches her and helps steady her. Hex blushes from the close proximity. No. You were over and done with relationships. The Doctor is supposed to fall in love with Rose anyway. You don't have a chance with him Hex. You're only human. "Now we're in trouble" the Doctor comments, running to the Tardis with Hex. Before the Doctor gets the chance to take out his key though, Hex puts her hand on the door which clicks and opens. Rose and Micky rush inside, while the Doctor takes a couple seconds to look shocked before following Hex inside.
Hello again Sexy. Hex greeted, happy to be back in the Tardis. The Tardis felt so welcoming and comforting to her. Hello Alexis, having fun? The Tardis asked. Of course I am. Running and danger. That just spells fun doesn't it? Hex replied. She wasn't being sarcastic. She had always gotten some kind of strange excitement out of danger and she loved sports. Maybe that was why she always ended up with the wrong kind of guy. She always went for the dangerous ones.