CHAPTER 30

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

Xanxia smiled as she looked at what seemed to her to be a helpless ship drifting in space. If this was the best that the humans had for a defense of their world, then she should be able to take it easily. She hadn't met the Bad Wolves yet however. She also hadn't seen what Iceworld could really do either. She was about to get a taste of both.

"This ship's about had it. I really don't want to lose another Nosferatu. Isn't there some kind of neat trick or fancy gadget that you could use to save it not to mention us?" Glitz asked K'anpo.

"Oh, you should know me well enough by now to not even have to ask that question, Glitz," K'anpo said with an evil grin on his face.

"What are you up to?" Mel asked with a warm smile.

Mel knew that face oh so well. That was the face that he always wore when he was about to do something very clever and devious.

"I'm about to give us a fighting chance, Mel, that's what I'm up to," K'anpo replied as he headed over to a nearby computer console that had popped out of the wall earlier at his touch and started to turn knobs and flip switches.

As Rose observed the two of them together, she knew even if they didn't that they made a perfect couple together. She could tell just how much Mel loved K'anpo just by the expression that was on her face right now.

Donna could see that K'anpo had some kind of plan to fix things onboard Iceworld so she decided to take the fight to Xanxia with her group instead of waiting around the ship doing nothing of value. The Wolves all entered Donna's TARDIS as they prepared to perform a sneak attack on her vessel. Rose decided to join them. She always liked to meet all of the Doctor's enemies at least once so that when they inevitably came back that she would know what to expect from them.

Xanxia could detect Donna's TARDIS before it had even arrived and was well prepared for it. Almost being killed by a Time Lord once before had made her research them and become ready for them if any of them should ever come to try to stop her again.

As soon as Donna's TARDIS landed, Donna was confronted by several pirates with what looked like water guns in their hands. At a gesture from Xanxia, the pirates sprayed Donna all over with something that was definitely not water. It was sticky and gooey and stuck to her skin like glue.

"Oi! What is this?" Donna shouted out in fear.

"That, my dear Time Lady, is a deadly poison taken from the sap of the Judas Tree. It's known to be able to kill even a Time Lord and to prevent their regeneration once it is absorbed into the skin. You've just been soaked in so much of it that the time you have left may be even shorter," Xanxia said with an evil laugh.

That was when Rose came out of the TARDIS with an extremely angry look on her face. The pirates tried to spray her with the poison as well, but they yelped in pain and quickly dropped the guns as they started to melt in their hands after Rose's eyes briefly glowed with golden energy.

"Ah, you're something more than a Time Lord even though my sensors still register you as one. What are you exactly?" Xanxia said intrigued by Rose.

"I could ask the same thing about you. You're not a regular native of Zanak that's for sure," Rose said as she seemed to be studying the former Queen intently.

"I don't really care what she is. I feel sick, Rose. Is this it? Am I dying?" Donna asked worried.

Rose hit herself in the head and said, "I'm so sorry, Donna. I forgot to tell you that the Judas Tree poison won't kill you. It will only make you sick for a little while. You'll be okay I promise."

"Impossible. I was assured that the poison would kill a Time Lord permanently," Xanxia said in anger.

"A regular Time Lord, yes. Donna was made into a Time Lord by me though. I managed to tweak her a little bit and improve her somewhat from the standard model," Rose said with a grin.

"Are you sure it won't kill me? I'm not feeling so well," Donna said.

"You'll be sick as a dog for the next few hours, but you'll be fine, Donna. Somebody help her back inside the TARDIS so that she can lie down," Rose said to the others.

Elisabeta took her arm, and Donna threw up before she could reach the doors. Donna looked at Rose in anger and fear as she said, "That doesn't look like I'm going to be okay! That looks like lunch!"

"Sorry. It's better than being dead though, isn't it?" Rose asked.

"I'm not so sure at the moment," Donna complained as she managed to make it inside of the TARDIS with Elisabeta's help.

"You have such power as to be above even the Time Lords, and yet you concern yourself with the feelings of those who are lesser than you. Interesting," Xanxia said.

"Donna is my friend. Furthermore, I don't consider anyone to be beneath me. Those beliefs might not mean anything to you, but they mean everything to me and so does Donna," Rose said.

"Donna means a lot to all of us as well. If anything does happen to her, then I'll rip your heart out myself," Ileana threatened as her eyes began to glow and her fangs extended.

The pirates stepped back in fear of her as whispers of 'vampire' began to quickly circle around the ship. Xanxia, however, just laughed at her.

"That's right, isn't it? You don't have any blood for her to drink, do you?" Rose asked with a smirk.

"I knew it! She's a machine, isn't she? I don't smell anything organic about her," Ileana said.

"You're half right. She isn't organic. She's not a machine either though. She's a hologram, a being made out of light instead of matter or metal," Rose explained.

"How is she able to exist without something to project her? I don't know much about holograms, but I didn't think that that was possible," Ileana said.

"It isn't most of the time, but somehow Xanxia accomplished it. Of course when the Doctor last saw her, she had to have her original physical body stay alive in order to exist. So how are you doing it this time? Is it like in Star Trek where you have a mobile holo-emitter strapped to you somewhere?" Rose asked in excitement.

"Someone's letting their inner fangirl come out just a little too much," Dorothy said with a laugh.

"I'm not a fangirl! I just heard about it a lot from Mickey growing up that's all," Rose said.

"Sure, M- , uh, Rose," Dorothy said as her face went red.

Rose looked at her curiously but decided to let it go for now. Dorothy was horrified at herself for coming so close to letting Rose's own personal future slip out like that. She didn't want her future relationship with Rose to come about as a result of Rose feeling like she had to maintain the future but because Rose actually felt that way naturally on her own in her own time.

"What's Star Trek?" Katherine asked.

"It's a TV show and now a bunch of movies," Ileana explained.

"What?" Katherine asked, totally clueless as she had no idea what TV or movies even were.

"I really need to let you get out more. I swear that I'm taking you and Amanda to see a movie after all of this is over. The two of you have just been going from one case to another and haven't seen a thing of the modern world," Ileana said.

"They haven't missed much if you ask me," Elisabeta said.

"I never asked you. I swear you've become a real fuddy duddy in your old age," Ileana said.

"Fuddy duddy? Now who sounds old!" Elisabeta said.

"Ladies! Ladies! I'm trying to have a conversation with the evil maniac out to destroy the world. I have to get her to tell me all about her latest plan so I can stop her," Rose said impatiently.

"Does that ever work?" Michelle asked her.

"Not so far, but I keep hoping that one day someone will actually come clean about what they're up to. It'll save me so much time and trouble," Rose said with a grin.

"To answer your earlier question, I was made a permanent hologram by the same people who saved my life. They sent someone back in time to rescue both my original body and my hologram form from the explosion that would have killed me. Then they somehow solidified my hologram form using a futuristic technology unknown to me. They gave me immortality, and I plan on paying them back by helping them to take back this planet," Xanxia said.

"Who would they be when they're at home?" Rose asked.

"I'm not about to tell you that right now. You'll find out soon enough when you're kneeling before them. I promised them the Earth, and in return for that I will regain Zanak along with thousands of other worlds," Xanxia said.

"I wouldn't count on them keeping their side of the deal if I were you. People like that rarely do," Rose warned.

"I think this time that they will because we both want the same thing. We both want to destroy the Doctor!" Xanxia said.

"It's good to know that the Doctor is as popular as ever," Rose quipped.

"The Earth will fall before me, and I will give it to my new allies so that they will use it to help them to destroy our common foe," Xanxia said.

"Sorry but my friends and I aren't about to let that happen," Rose said.

"You're not going to have much choice about it," Xanxia said as she gestured to her men to attack.

The pirates began to fire at the Wolves with their blasters, but they were soon sent running in fear when a fighting mad snarling Victoria came flying out of the TARDIS after them. She had fully embraced her inner wolf and was determined to make the pirates pay for making Donna so ill.

"I'll rip you all to shreds!" Victoria said in a guttural voice.

The fact that this huge wolf was actually speaking to them made the pirates panic even more as they knew that she was intelligent and deliberately out to get them. They fired wildly in Victoria's direction as they fled from her in a frenzy of terror.

"Vicky, stop!" Ileana shouted.

She didn't want Victoria to do something that she would later come to regret. She knew that the human Vicky was a very tender hearted person and would fall apart if she ever killed anyone as the wolf no matter how much they might deserve it.

Victoria looked at Ileana and then back at the pirates as she hesitated. She had stopped moving for now, but she continued to stand and howl in fury at the still retreating pirates.

"You have quite a motley crew assembled here, Time Lady. I may keep them alive and use them in my armies to help me in my conquests," Xanxia said.

"Somehow I doubt that. These girls kind of go their own way. No one could ever tame them!" Rose said proudly.

"Ahem!" Abraham said as he pretended to clear his throat.

"Sorry, Abraham! I wasn't calling you a girl obviously," Rose said with a grin.

Xanxia laughed as giant laser guns popped out of the roof and started blasting the wolves. It seemed that she had quickly found a replacement for her cowardly pirates. The guns continued to fire on the Wolves, but their blasts never reached any of them as they were reflected back on the gun turrets by Michelle. Michelle's eyes had turned transparent, and she was reflecting the lasers back with her outstretched hand just as if it were a mirror.

"One of your new powers I take it?" Donna asked from the doorway of her TARDIS.

"Are you feeling better?" Ileana asked Donna with concern.

"Oh, yeah. I'm only throwing up once every two or three minutes now. I'm much better," Donna said sarcastically.

Xanxia continued to grow more and more frustrated as her pirates were too afraid of Victoria to even try attacking the Wolves any further, and her lasers had just been permanently taken care of Michelle. She decided to play her last card and hope that it would be enough to stop them.

"If you don't surrender now, I'll use my deadliest weapon. I have on board this ship a Vortex Cannon. It's the deadliest weapon in the universe. I wasn't intending on using it, but I will if I have to. If you don't surrender now, I'll set it on self-destruct and use it to destroy my ship, the ship that you just came from, and very probably the Earth itself as well!" Xanxia threatened.

"You'd never destroy the Earth. You just said that the people who brought you back wanted it for themselves," Rose said.

"True but I'm willing to change the plan if it means saving myself. Don't you think that they'll find a way to destroy me if I don't stop you? They don't accept failure lightly. If they think that I died along with you in an accidental explosion, then they won't be looking for me to kill me," Xanxia said.

"It doesn't have to be that way, Xanxia. We could fight them together whoever they are," Donna said.

"I don't want or need your help, Time Lady. I'd sacrifice a thousand worlds in order to save myself. I did it before, and I'll do it again," Xanxia said.

"She's totally around the bend," Dorothy said.

"ENEMY SHIP SHOWING SUDDEN INCREASED ENERGY OUTPUT," the ship's computer suddenly reported.

"What? That ship was too damaged to do anything. It was helpless in space," Xanxia protested.

"That's what they wanted you to think so that you would stop attacking them," Rose said with a grin.

"Just what was K'anpo up to?" Donna asked.

"I'm not totally sure, but I was trying to buy him enough time to carry it out whatever it was," Rose said.

"He certainly cuts things close, doesn't he?" Donna complained.

"Yeah, most Time Lords seem to do that. Or at least the crazier ones do," Rose said with a chuckle.

"You do realize that you're insulting both of us when you say cracks like that about Time Lords, don't you?" Donna asked her.

"Not really. We're not crazy, and we don't really count as Time Lords. We're both human in our hearts," Rose said seriously.

"I always thought that you still felt that way. I know that I still don't think of myself as a Time Lord," Donna admitted with a conspiratorial grin.

"I'll let you in on a little secret, Donna. Neither do I," Rose said as she winked at Donna.

"What are your friends on the other ship doing?" Xanxia demanded with her voice filled with worry.

"You're about to find out, mate," Rose said with a giggle.

"Fire the Vortex Cannon at them now before they can do anything to us first!" Xanxia ordered the ship's computer.

They could all hear an enormous noise coming from all around them as the cannon began to power up. The Wolves began to look at each other as they wondered what to do now. Dorothy started to glow as she prepared to disable the cannon with her powers.

"There's no need for that," Rose said to Dorothy in a low voice.

Dorothy looked at her with a questioning look, and Rose smiled at her as she said, "Watch!"

From the viewport of Xanxia's ship, they could see that Iceworld was glowing with energy now. They could actually see it reforming right in front of their eyes!

"What's happening?" Donna asked in disbelief.

"Iceworld is regenerating!" Rose said with a wide grin all over her face.

"What? You mean you lot can regenerate ships too?" Donna asked.

"Not most ships, no. TARDISes, however, are a different story," Rose said.

"Iceworld is not a TARDIS," Dorothy said.

"Not when you lived there. K'anpo obviously made a great deal of changes to the place since then though. He's linked his TARDIS to Iceworld and made it all into one huge living organism. His TARDIS must have become interconnected to the original ship and grown over it making it a part of itself. Iceworld is now a TARDIS, and it is restructuring and reconfiguring itself. You could call a regeneration of sorts if you want to," Rose said.

"Fire! Fire now!" Xanxia shouted to the ship's computer.

"VORTEX CANNON STILL NOT FULLY OPERATIONAL AT THE MOMENT. POWER STILL NEEDS TO BUILD UP TO PROPER LEVELS IN ORDER TO FIRE," the ship's computer said.

"No! Fire!" Xanxia shouted in impotent fury.

"Someone should have told you that Vortex Cannons take forever to power up before they can fire because of all the energy that they have to use," Rose said with a chuckle.

Iceworld finished glowing at that exact moment, and then fired a massive energy beam at Xanxia's ship. All of the power on the ship immediately went out except for life support. Then Iceworld fired another series of blasts that disabled the engines, the Vortex Cannon, and all of the other weapons on board the ship in one move.

K'anpo had done it! Rose knew if she bought him enough time that whatever he was up to would quickly stop Xanxia in her tracks, and she was so glad to be proven right.

"I will not lose. I'll still score points with them if I bring you in," Xanxia said to Rose as she rushed towards her and clamped a small device on Rose's back before she realized what was happening.

Rose screamed as strange energy enveloped her and made her pass out on the floor. As the Wolves looked on in horror, Rose started to fade away right before their eyes. Xanxia looked on in triumph. She would deliver this powerful Time Lady to her new friends, and then they would still look upon her in favor.

Just before Rose completely faded, Dorothy disintegrated the device on her body with her powers. Rose came back immediately, and Xanxia howled in anger at her plan being spoiled.

"Curse you! I won't die because of this. I must live. I will not die!" Xanxia shouted.

"Probably not, but I would certainly love to shut you up. I think I'll see if I can or not," Michelle said.

She reached out with her powers as her eyes turned transparent, and Xanxia could feel herself beginning to break up. She looked at Michelle in horror.

"What are you doing to me?" Xanxia asked.

"Mirrors can reflect light, and you're made of it now. I'm reflecting you away from here and back to your ship's original departure point. Let's let your mysterious friends deal with you," Michelle said.

"No! Don't send me back there!" Xanxia shouted before she completely broke up and disappeared.

"Another new power, eh? Show off!" Donna said to Michelle.

Alexander Roberts, the pirate captain from before on the other ship that originally attacked Iceworld, now appeared hesitantly in front of the pirates as Victoria growled at him. He held up his hands in surrender. and the other pirates followed his lead.

"We place our lives in your hands now. Have mercy on my men even if you do not on me," Roberts said.

"I think that you'll have to ask the Earth authorities about that. We're just their errand girls. I'll send in a call to UNIT and tell them that you're all surrendering. They might take it into consideration that you turned yourselves in and be more lenient towards you, but I can't promise anything," Donna said.

"I don't care what they do to me as long as they take that into consideration for them," Roberts said.

Donna had to smile at that. Roberts was scum, but he did have one redeeming quality at least.

It was all over with at last. The pirates had surrendered, Xanxia was gone who knew where, and Iceworld and the Earth were safe.

There was still one nagging question though. Who was Xanxia working for, and how could she just drop Rose like that?

When Donna asked Alina about it, the former vampire said that she had no idea. She claimed to have just contacted the pirates while traveling through space but had no idea that Xanxia or her bosses had anything to do with them. Michelle believed her, but Donna still wasn't about to trust her after what she had just put them all through earlier.

When Rose finally woke up, she felt very weak but quickly recovered her strength. She had no idea what the device Xanxia had used on her was, but she never wanted to experience it ever again whatever it was. That had felt like it was about to kill her!

The Wolves went back to Iceworld and decided to stay there for a while on a two week vacation. They felt like they had earned one after all that they had been through.

Rose still wanted to fix Mel and K'anpo up, and she vowed to return and try it again. Mel hoped that it wasn't anytime soon. She didn't have to worry about it. Coming events would keep Rose way too busy to worry with Mel's love life.

Deep in space, Xanxia faced Madame Kovarian's disapproving stare as the Silence wrapped special clamps that could even contain a hologram around her arms and legs.

"You have failed, but you have at least proved that the device that Davros created to remove Arkytior's Vortex abilities works. If it had not been destroyed, it would have severed her connection with the Vortex and removed her powers. Davros will be most pleased to hear this. Perhaps a device similar to this if used long enough will finish her for good or at least remove her as a major threat to us. Because of this and only because of this we will allow you to live . . . for now. Fail us again however, and we will make sure that time follows its proper course. We will make sure that you die just as you were originally supposed to!" Kovarian threatened.

"I will not fail next time," Xanxia promised.

"I hope not for your sake. The Doctor must be stopped, and he must be cut off from his precious Earth in order to accomplish this. We must destroy him before it is too late! Silence will still fall!" Kovarian said.

Next: Ileana keeps her promise as she takes Katherine and Amanda to see a movie. You know that nothing with the Wolves is ever going to go as planned though. Watch as a simple evening at the movies turns into something quite different!