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Before I can continue with my morbid train of thought, Jack's voice interrupts.
"There's a massive Dalek ship at the centre of the planets. They're calling it the Crucible. Guess that's our destination."
"You said these planets were like an engine. But what for?"
And the Doctor thought Rose always asked the right questions. Not that she didn't, by she's not the only one. Martha did from time to time and all Donna does is ask questions.
"Rose, you two have been in a parallel world."
The Doctor indicted to me as he speaks to Rose.
"That world's running ahead of this universe. You've seen the future. What was it?"
"It's the darkness," she says.
"The stars were going out," I add.
"One by one. We looked up at the sky and they were just dying. Basically, we've been building this, er, this travel machine, this, this er, dimension cannon, so I could. Well, so I could..."
She filters and I roll my eyes. Why can't these two just get over the secret crush phase? It's not even a secret! To anyone!
"What?"
"So I could come back."
He gives a goofy grin and I resist the urge to facepalm. On screen it was cute. Here in person, it's sickening sweet. Just kiss already like normal people! But I say nothing because we are in the middle of a very big problem.
"Shut up. Anyway, suddenly, it started to work and the dimensions started to collapse. Not just in our world, not just in yours, but the whole of reality. Even the Void was dead. Something is destroying everything."
Donna interrupts.
"In that parallel world, you said something about me."
"The dimension cannon could measure timelines, and it's, it's weird, Donna, but they all seemed to converge on you."
The cannon isn't the only thing that can see time lines. But Rose, the time lady, would be hard pressed to mention it. I'm still waiting for the Doctor to notice. There's a lot going on but you would think he would notice. But no. He's just thick. He's Mr. Thickety-thick from thick...you know where I'm going with this and I don't have time to finish the thought.
"But why me? I mean, what have I ever done? I'm a temp from Chiswick."
"Oh Donna, when are you going to stop selling yourself short."
Before anyone can remark on my exasperated comment, we are distracted. The scanner beeps, and then the Doctor makes an ominous statement.
"The Dalek Crucible. All aboard."
We can hear the mechanical voices of the enemy just outside.
"The Tardis is secured."
"Doctor, you will step forth or die."
"We'll have to go out. Because if we don't, they'll get in."
"You told me nothing could get through those doors."
"You've got extrapolator shielding."
"Last time we fought the Daleks, they were scavengers and hybrids, and mad."
I don't want to be left out of the conversation so I pick up the rest of it.
This is a full on Dalek Empire, at the height of its power. Experts at fighting Tardises, they can do anything. Right now, that wooden door is just wood."
In my head I add that the sonic screwdriver doesn't work on wood but it's not exactly pertinent information. Rose is nodding at me to say that she understands. Jack looks I just I just said something really inappropriate for anything outside of a bedroom. One track mind, seriously. The Doctor looks stunned, interested, and put out all at the same time. I did just steal the words out of his mouth so i can understand. Donna stands unhearing and unseeing. I know what she must be hearing and I clench my teeth. Donna lives.
Jack shakes himself from his daydream an looks to Rose. "What about your dimension jump?"
"It needs another twenty minutes. And anyway, I'm not leaving."
"What about your teleport?"
"Went down with the power loss."
I snort. "So much for advanced technology."
"Right then. All of us together. Yeah. Donna?"
She's staring off into space.
"Donna?"
"Yeah."
"I'm sorry. There's nothing else we can do."
Maybe the Doctor can't. But I can.
"No, I know."
"Surrender, Doctor, and face your Dalek masters."
"Crucible on maximum alert."
"Daleks."
"Oh, God."
"It's been good, though, hasn't it? All of us. All of it. Everything we did."
He indicates to all of us in turn.
"You were brilliant. And you were brilliant. And you were brilliant. And I bet you would've been brilliant. Blimey."
I shake my head in annoyance.
"For God's sake, we're not dead yet."
All of their faces convey that try believe that we are. We're dead. Rose is the only one who looks at me with a little hope. I haven't steered her wrong yet. Why start now. Though it does seem rather hopeless.
The Doctor opens the door and Jack and Rose follow him out. Donna moves to follow but seems to get distracted. I move to push her out but the voice outside stops me.
"Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!"
"Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks! Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!"
If I push her out now, they might shoot her instead of Jack. Or any other number of things could happen. I can deviate, but only so much. If I go too far, I might make things worse not better.
"Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks! Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!"
"Behold, Doctor. Behold the might of the true Dalek race."
"Donna! You're no safer in there."
I hear Rose call my name before the doors slam shut. Donna snaps out of it and rushes forward.
"Doctor? What have you done?"
His voice comes from the other side.
"It wasn't me. I didn't do anything."
"Oi! Oi, I'm not staying behind!"
"It's not his fault Donna."
She ignores me. We start to de materialize.
"Doctor!"
She seems to fade out again and then turns toward the hand, which is glowing and twitching. I take a deep breath and go to move toward it. But something stops me. It's like an invisible wall separating me from Donna and the hand.
I begin to frantically run my hands over it. I'm looking for an opening but there isn't even a crack. Donna is still moving toward it.
"Donna! No! Don't touch it! Get away! Donna!"
I'm shouting and bagging but she is oblivious. She has no idea what's going on. She has no idea what is happening. And I don't either. Not like this. I sob as I know what it will mean for her. I scratch at the wall. What is it? Why is it here? I hear a hum in my mind and I feel the vibrations around me. The TARDIS is doing this? Why? But she can't answer me.
As Donna reaches forward I shout again as more tears pour forth. The glow increases. I can't help but watch in awe as a body grows from the single appendage. And then he's sitting there. The meta crisis, and Donna is back in her self.
"It's you!"
"Oh, yes!"
"You're naked."
"Oh, yes."
If I hadn't been so preoccupied with how I needed to change the plan, I would have laughed. But I was preoccupied. Plan A, letting it work itself out, wasn't going to work for me. Plan 2...No... B, take Donna's place. That hadn't worked for some reason the TARDIS couldn't tell me. It was time for Plan C.