CHAPTER 27

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This story takes place before the recent events in War of the Guardians involving Rose.

The Vampire Cheetahs quickly surrounded the Bad Wolves and began to attack them. Alina, her sisters, the mind controlled Daemon, and the King of the Great Vampires stood in the background observing for now.

Alina wanted to know if the Vampire Cheetahs would fare any better than normal vampires would. This was her chance to see. It didn't matter to her that some or all of them might be destroyed. She didn't care one way or the other what happened to them. They were just means to an end for her.

Depending on how well they did today, she would decide on whether to go back and attempt to convert the population of their entire world. If they did well enough, she might make them her elite bodyguard.

She already had so many plans for the universe. She was going to have the King make her into a Great Vampire, and then she may or may not keep him around after that as her consort. She was also going to take Dracula's place as the ruler of all vampires which is why she didn't bring him back. Who needed him if she was going to be the leader after all?

Carmilla actually thought that she was going to be in charge now that she had returned, but she was so mistaken. If necessary, she could find a spider for Carmilla too. All she had to do was pay a visit to Metabelis Three and retrieve one or two as needed.

First and foremost though, she was going to get her revenge on Michelle and her friends. She had even made sure to leave a little trap for the ones who left to go to Iceworld so that they would be too distracted by that to come back here in time. She especially didn't want to deal with the Bad Wolf herself just yet. Her time would come soon enough later on.

Amanda and Elisabeta had sought cover inside of Donna's TARDIS so they would be safe at least no matter what happened. Donna, Dorothy, Ileana, Katherine, and Abraham were doing a good job at keeping most of the Vampire Cheetahs at bay while Victoria in her wolf form was doing a perfect job of keeping them all terrified. Victoria was now no longer as in control of herself as she had been. She felt her control slipping with all of these enemies that wanted to tear her apart around her. Their savagery and total lack of humanity only fueled the desire of the creature within her to take control in order to protect itself. She wished that K'anpo or Rose were here to help her because she was so afraid that she might totally lose control again during this particular battle.

"Hang on, Vicky," Donna said while she used her sonic screwdriver to make the Vampire Cheetahs throw up. Apparently it worked on the vampire kind too.

She saw that Victoria was losing control and was trying to appeal to the woman still inside of her. Victoria turned to her and had a pleading look for help in her eyes. She could see that Victoria was afraid and wanted her to help her.

Michelle could see this as well and decided to attempt to do something that she had never done before. Her eyes went transparent for a moment as she sent Victoria to the Mirror Verse.

"What did you do?" Donna asked in anger.

"I put her in the Mirror Verse, Donna. I'll bring her back after I ask her something first. Don't worry, Donna. I'd never do anything to hurt any of you. You should know me better than that by now," Michelle said.

"I thought that I did," Donna said.

Michelle ignored Donna for the moment and started to talk to Victoria in the Mirror Verse. She touched Donna's shoulder so that she could see what was happening.

Victoria was looking around in concern and was snarling and growling in fear.

"Vicky, it's okay. You're safe for the moment in the Mirror Verse. I brought you here to give you a choice. I think that I may be able to control the animal side of you after you come back out of there. I've always had the potential to be able to control someone after I've had them in my little pocket universe, but I've never tried to do it before because I didn't believe in it. I wish I could have done it with Alina that's for sure," Michelle said.

"Why couldn't you control her? She was in there for a long time," Donna asked.

"I don't know. I tried, but it didn't work. It must not work on vampires. I'm offering you a choice, Vicky. I can send you back and see if I can control the beast within you. It will have no control if this works, and you will be able to do whatever you want. I don't know how long it will last, however. Do you want me to do that?" Michelle asked.

Victoria nodded, and Michelle's eyes turned transparent again as she sent Victoria back to the fight. Victoria felt completely different now. She could think and actually felt like herself again. She still couldn't talk that well, but she was getting better at it.

"Thank . . . you," Victoria said to Michelle.

"Are you sure it's okay? I don't like doing this. I feel like I'm forcing my way into your mind," Michelle said guiltily.

"It's . . . fine," Victoria reassured her.

Victoria then went off to join the others in fighting with the vampires. She was able to do a lot of damage now that she wasn't wildly swinging around in a feral fury and missing half of her targets. She just hoped that it lasted long enough. She didn't want to go back to having the wolf be in control again anytime soon.

Donna could see that Michelle felt terrible about what she was doing even though Victoria seemed to be happy with it. She put her hand on Michelle's shoulder and said, "It's okay, Shelly. You're not doing anything wrong. She asked you to do it. I'm sorry for not trusting you earlier. You just took me by surprise doing that. Tell me what you're going to do before you do it in the future, okay?"

"Alright, I'll be sure and do that. I would never want you to think that I would do anything to you, Donna. You and the others are the closest thing I have to a family. You and the others mean everything to me. It's my fault that you're all in danger, and I'm going to do something about it. I won't let anything happen to you. I just won't," Michelle said.

Donna didn't like the sound of that. She hoped that Michelle didn't do anything stupid.

The Vampire Cheetahs seemed to be much worse than the ordinary kind of vampires. They were stronger, faster, and seemed to be more resilient to damage. Even Ileana and Katherine seemed to be having a harder time than usual with them.

Finally the vampires scored their first real blow against the team as one of them broke Katherine's arm. Then they used Katherine's momentary distraction from her intense pain to push her down on the ground and pile on top of her. A large group of them were now mercilessly attacking her.

Amanda came running out of the TARDIS screaming, "Mum!" She had seen the whole thing on the TARDIS monitor.

Elisabeta quickly grabbed ahold of her and wrapped her arms around her tightly as she tried to keep her from running into danger. Amanda was using all of her strength to fight against her, but Elisabeta wouldn't let go. She dragged Amanda kicking and screaming back into the TARDIS and shut the doors.

Ileana went into a savage fury and started to rapidly drain the vampires attacking Katherine dry of all of their blood. Dorothy meanwhile was disintegrating the vampires left and right because she had finally lost her temper and had started blowing them up with her powers.

Abraham and Victoria fought side by side as they kept the vampires that Ileana wasn't currently attacking away from her so that she could free Katherine from them. Ileana had already drained half of the vampires attacking Katherine so completely of blood that they had actually turned to dust in her hands. She showed no signs of stopping either as she rapidly killed one vampire after another.

While the others were working to free Katherine, Donna had a large group of vampires fall on top of her as well and attack her. Michelle cried out Donna's name and created an army of men made out of dirt to pull the vampires off of her. The dirt creatures pulled Donna to safety, and Michelle could see that she was very badly bruised and cut up from just a minute or two of being under a pile of the Vampire Cheetahs. She could only imagine what had happened to Katherine who Ileana still hadn't freed yet.

Michelle came to a fateful decision then. She couldn't let his continue any longer. She had to unleash her true power now and hope that everyone could live with the consequences of that action.

She had her creatures bring a weakened Donna inside of the TARDIS and said, "I have to fix this, Donna. I just want you to know that I appreciate how good you've been to me."

"Shelly, do you remember what I just said? Don't do anything without talking to me about it first! Shelly! Michelle!" Donna shouted as Michelle left the TARDIS.

"Michelle, what are you doing?" Donna shouted again in growing fear, but Michelle could no longer hear her.

Donna didn't like the sound of that at all. She didn't even want to know what Michelle was planning. She was going to stop her before she could do it. She tried to get onto her feet only to discover that one of her ankles was swelling up where a vampire had twisted it. She couldn't walk.

"Elisabeta, stop her. Talk her out of this, please," Donna pleaded.

Elisabeta ran out of the TARDIS and said, "Donna doesn't want you to do anything, Michelle. Just stay out of this, and fight like you normally would. She'll never forgive herself if something happens to you. You know that she thinks a lot of you. She treats you like you're her little sister, Michelle. Don't do whatever you're planning on doing!"

"I have to fix my mistakes, Beta. Go back in there, and take care of them. I might be alright. I don't know yet. At seems I'm going to do a lot of things today that I've never done before," Michelle said cryptically.

Elisabeta started to get closer to Michelle in an attempt to stop her, but the dirt creatures stood in front of her and blocked her way. Elisabeta watched in a mixture of shock and surprise as Michelle began to glow, and her hands started firing bolts of energy at the vampires.

The vampires that the bolts hit fell to pieces as parts of them vanished into the Mirror Verse, and the rest of them stayed in the real world. What was left of the vampires turned into dust before they could even hit the ground.

The vampires saw Michelle as the greatest threat now, and they rushed at her only to be completely disintegrated as she blasted them with bolts of her Mirror Verse energy. Michelle was tearing through their ranks now, and she had noticeably thinned their numbers within minutes.

Elisabeta noticed though that Michelle started looking weaker and weaker the more she used these new powers. She suddenly knew that Michelle was somehow killing herself to help save the rest of them.

"Stop! Don't do this!" Elisabeta screamed.

"How very interesting, Sister of Mine. I never knew that you had it in you. Maybe I'll keep you alive after all if you survive. You seem to have a whole bag of tricks that you never told anyone about. If I could turn you to my side, what a coup that would be! Capture her alive!" Alina ordered her vampire servants.

Most of the vampires now concentrated on Michelle and began to surround her in ever increasing numbers as she continued to tear through their ranks with her bolts of Mirror Verse energy. She was fighting with everything that she had now, but she was beginning to falter and stumble.

She had never done this before because she knew that her human body wouldn't be able to contain the energies of the Mirror Verse for long without it starting to kill her. Humans just weren't made to direct such energies without there being serious consequences to them afterwards. She was doing this to protect her friends though. They were worth all of the pain that she was currently going through. They were even worth dying for if she had to.

Meanwhile on Iceworld, Rose, Mel, K'anpo, and Glitz were about to get into some major trouble of their own. Rose had been talking to K'anpo about old times and had only just now started to move the topic around to talk of significant others. Mel felt like hiding under the table and felt her face begin to turn red.

Both Rose and Mel had noticed though that K'anpo's eyes briefly darted to Mel when Rose first asked him if he had anyone special in his life. K'anpo never looked at Mel again, however, as Rose continued to talk about how lost she had been without the Doctor and how hard she had tried to get back to him.

K'anpo knew what she was doing, and he wasn't going to be suckered into admitting his feelings for Mel that easily. What if she didn't feel the same way after all?

He didn't want to keep talking about this anymore and actually found himself hoping that something would happen to distract Rose from her current matchmaking attempts. When had she started doing such things anyway? She had never been such a busybody back when he had known her before on Gallifrey.

As if in answer to K'anpo's secret wish, the entire ship rocked as something attacked it. It continued to rock and things started to break and fall apart inside of it as the mysterious attacks continued.

An angry, snarling face then appeared on everything capable of transmitting an image on the ship. It was a tough looking man with a huge scar across one cheek and what looked like burn marks on top of his head. He looked like he had been through a war.

"I am Alexander Roberts. I believe some of you have probably heard of me. I demand that you give me a ransom of a billion credits, or I will continue to attack your ship until I blow it to pieces. Give me the money within thirty minutes, or you'll all be pieces of debris floating in orbit around this miserable backwater planet!" the man threatened.

"Space pirates!" Glitz said and began to curse.

"This could be interesting. I've never fought pirates before," Rose said with eagerness on her face.

"I can't believe you're actually getting excited about being attacked by pirates," Mel said with a groan.

"I'm not letting them get this ship. I think it's time that we use some of those Time Lord gadgets of yours at last, K'anpo. If they want a fight, we'll give it to them. They have no idea what this little lady can do when she gets riled up," Glitz said proudly as he began to get ready for a fight.

Next: Iceworld shows what it can do for the first time as it takes on the space pirates. Meanwhile, Michelle's body gets weaker and weaker as she continues to push it way beyond its limits in order to save her team. Will she survive?