CHAPTER 37
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This story continues from Lily and Robin Chapter 53.
Silence Falls Over the Earth Part 4
The Bad Wolves had been away handling a very strange case involving zombies that turned out to be the Gelth in disguise while the Silence attacked the Earth. When they returned, they found that UNIT HQ had been heavily damaged, and several of the soldiers there had been kidnapped and brainwashed by Madame Kovarian. Things had certainly changed drastically almost overnight. Almost as soon as they had returned, Martha called.
"Martha, where are you? We were told that you disappeared with Rose during the fighting," Donna asked.
"I'm still with Rose on her TARDIS. I've been helping her to run the resistance against the Silence. Now we're ready to begin the final battle with them. In addition to that, Marissa has finally come up with a way to let everyone remember them at last. She found the secret in Leela's DNA. Now we can give that same ability to everyone on Earth. We just have to deliver it to them. Rose is going to be working with Lily and Oswin in order to take back the planet and to deliver that ability to the human race. This is the final push to drive the Silence out for good. What I'm calling you about though is that we've heard that Kovarian is up to some final plot to subjugate mankind for good so we need you and the Wolves to stop her now before it's too late," Martha said.
"Tell me what you need, and we'll be there," Donna said.
"We've heard that Kovarian is now at the UNIT Moon Base. The Silence took it over as well apparently, and they've been running some kind of secret experiment there. We don't really know anything except that she fled there straight from Peru," Martha said.
"So we're going to the Moon? I always wanted to go there. All of the places that I went with the Doctor, and he never once took me to the Moon," Donna said.
"Oh, it's beautiful. You really have to look at the Earth from there. You've never seen anything like it," Martha said as she thought back fondly to her time there.
"Oh, so he took you but not me. I like that," Donna said, sounding almost jealous.
"Not really, no. The Judoon took me there along with the entire hospital that I worked at," Martha explained.
"I should have known. So the Doctor had nothing to do with it. Why am I not surprised? He never takes someone anywhere exciting unless they're going to be running for their life there very soon," Donna said.
"Well, now's your chance," Martha said.
"Yeah, but I'm going to be running for my life so I doubt I'll have much time to enjoy it. Oh, well. I wanted this life so I guess I'll have to put up with a little certain death every now and then along with all of the perks," Donna said happily.
"Oh, and I'm sending your some reinforcements this time. Not that you really need any. One of them has been dying to go on this mission since he heard about it. He'll be showing up on the moon and ready to go probably even before you are," Martha said with a chuckle.
"Who is it?" Donna asked.
"You'll see," Martha said with a full out laugh now.
"Oi! Tell me who it is! What have you done, Martha?" Donna asked.
"Goodbye, Donna. Please don't hate me too much," Martha said as she ended the call.
"Wonderful! There's no telling who we're going to wind up partnered with. It'll probably be the Adipose with my luck," Donna said with a sigh.
Donna and the Wolves left for the Moon in her TARDIS and appeared just out of sight of the Moon Base's sensors and monitoring equipment. Now they just had to wait for the rest of their party that had been sent by Martha to arrive.
Donna's mouth fell open in surprise as a Sontaran, a Silurian, and a Human suddenly appeared inside of her TARDIS as they all held onto a Vortex Manipulator. She definitely hadn't been expecting that. She knew who they must be the minute that she saw them.
"You're Vastra, Jenny, and Strax, aren't you? The Doctor's told me a lot about you. It's nice to meet you," Donna said.
"I have no time for social niceties, Human. I have a war to fight. Finally at long last I get to declare war against those cursed Moonites! I warned everyone that they would attack one day if we didn't attack them first, but no one would listen to me. Finally, I have been proven right at last, and now they will fall to the might of the Sontarans!" Strax shouted in joy.
Vastra cleared her throat and glared at him.
"And to the Silurians and Humans as well, of course," Strax added.
"And to the Time Lords as well. As much as I hate to admit it, I'm not human anymore," Donna said.
"You still smell like a human to me. They have a very distinctive smell. Are you a female?" Strax asked as he looked at her intently.
"Yes. You mean you can't tell?" Donna asked in amazement.
"Not usually no. I am getting better though. I finally got one right. I have to admit that you threw me for a moment though. You act like a male but smell like a female. It's very confusing," Strax said.
"I think I've just been insulted," Donna said with a grimace.
"No. That's just his way. He still thinks I'm a man I think," Jenny admitted.
"You're not?!" Strax asked in astonishment.
"I'm going to hurt you, Martha. A lot!" Donna said with a sigh.
"Are you sure that you're a female?" Strax said to Jenny.
"Strax, if you're quite done with your basic human anatomy lesson for today, we have a battle ahead of us. We have to finish Madame Kovarian once and for all. We still owe her for what happened to you the last time that we met her," Vastra said.
"Yes, if it wasn't for that mighty warrior, the Bad Wolf, I would still be dead instead of about to enjoy a glorious battle that will go down in the history of Sontar. The Bad Wolf is female, correct?" Strax asked.
"Yes," Jenny said.
"Thank you, boy! You see? I'm getting better. I've gotten two right today," Strax said happily.
"It's really going to hurt, Martha," Donna said to herself.
"I like him," Ileana said.
"You would," Donna said.
"Are we going now? I'm really looking forward to blowing something up. Preferably with Kovarian still in it," Dorothy said in annoyance.
"That's the spirit! We will destroy the enemy at the cost of our own lives if necessary. It will be glorious!" Strax shouted with undisguised joy.
"You know I'm starting to like him too now. He's pretty wicked. There's a word that I haven't used in a while, but it fits him so much," Dorothy said with a mad grin.
"Traitor," Donna said with a scowl.
"What is this, the Strax Appreciation Society?" Vastra asked with a groan.
"Now her I like," Donna said with a grin.
"Sorry, I'm already taken," Vastra said.
"I don't think that she meant it like that," Jenny said with a giggle.
"Oh, sorry," Vastra said.
Donna shook her head and went to the console to dematerialize her TARDIS. She'd much rather face Kovarian right now than this.
She began to regret that thought as soon as she appeared inside of the Moon Base. As soon as the TARDIS materialized, it started to shake and tremble. Then it started to shake more and more as a dark ball of energy appeared inside of the Console Room.
"Is that Rose's little commando team I spy with my little eye?" Kovarian said as she suddenly appeared in the middle of the dark ball.
"Oh, great! I guess we know what Kovarian's evil plot was now," Ileana said.
"That's right, little vampire girl. Rose and her gang aren't the only Vortex users in town anymore. Now it's time for all of you to find that out firsthand," Kovarian said.
"Watch who you call little!" Ileana said.
"You're all little to me now. You're so insignificant and small. I'm truly going to enjoy crushing you!" Kovarian said.
She held out her hand, and Ileana began to scream as she started to strip her of her connection to the Vortex. As she did so, she began aging rapidly.
"Ileana!" Abraham screamed as he fired several crossbow bolts straight into Kovarian's heart.
Kovarian gestured at the bolts, and they disintegrated long before they ever reached her. She then sent Abraham to his knees as she started to undo the Vortex's effects on him as well, and he too began to age.
"Stop this!" Michelle said as she gestured at Kovarian in an attempt to send her into the Mirror Verse.
"That doesn't work on me, Sister of Mine. Oh, yes. I know all about you. I've been studying all of you. I know all about your powers, and I've figured out ways to counteract all of them especially when I have the full power of the Space-Time Vortex at my command. You've come too late. The final plan has already been finished. Now I am supreme. Silence will never fall now because I will wipe you and all of the Doctor's other friends off of the face of the universe!" Kovarian said as she laughed maniacally.
She fired a massive bolt of dark energy into Michelle and sent her to her knees in agony as she started to undo what Rose had done to her. Michelle screamed as she felt herself becoming a member of the Family of Blood once more.
"No! Don't take my humanity away!" Michelle pleaded.
Kovarian laughed as she continued to change Michelle. She stopped laughing as Dorothy's eyes glowed with golden energy, and she exploded into a million pieces!
"Now that takes me back. I haven't caused an explosion that good in a long time," Dorothy said with a grin.
Kovarian began to laugh again though as she quickly reformed and began draining Dorothy of all of her strength. Dorothy suddenly felt weaker than she ever had in her life as she could feel Kovarian draining the Vortex energy from her.
"Do you remember that little trick that the Thorn did to you when she turned the younger you into a Vortex Vampire, Dorothy? Well, I finally perfected it. I can now drain the power and strength from any Vortex user, but I don't have the bloodlust or the extreme hair loss that you had. It's the best of both worlds," Kovarian said.
"I don't remember you being able to do this before," Dorothy said in surprise.
"Things change, and so does time. I'm going to win this time around, and the future that you know will be nothing but a forgotten memory," Kovarian said as Dorothy fell unconscious on the floor in front of her.
"Die, foul creature! For the glory of Sontar! Sontar-Ha! Sontar-Ha!" Strax said as he raced forward with his gun and started blasting Kovarian.
"Ha, indeed!" Kovarian said as a burst of dark energy came out of her eyes and made Strax crumple to the floor instantly.
"Strax!" Vastra said as she and Jenny began to attack Kovarian together.
"Pitiful! If you are the best that the Doctor has to send against me, then I have already won!" Kovarian said as she sent both women flying away from her with her outstretched hand.
"You don't know anything about me yet. I'm kind of new after all in a matter of speaking," Victoria said.
"Oh, yes! I actually do know of you. I also know your weakness," Kovarian said as her eyes glowed with energy.
Victoria changed into her wolf form against her will, and she instantly had to start fighting an urge to attack everyone in sight as a sudden blood lust overwhelmed her. No matter how much she kept trying to change back to her human form she couldn't. Kovarian was blocking her somehow.
"You're going to lose control soon, and then your friends are all going to be your next meal instead," Kovarian said with a chuckle.
"Fix her back!" Donna shouted as she held out her sonic screwdriver toward her.
"I also know you. The DoctorDonna, the most important woman in the universe so they say. That's going to be my title from now on. Good-bye, Donna Noble. Let's see how you like being human again," Kovarian said as her eyes glowed once more.
"No! No!" Donna screamed as she felt herself changing back into a human, and the memories in her mind started to burn out her brain once more.
"Leave them alone now!" Lilith said as she stepped forward to protect Donna.
"Oh, and what are you going to do to me, witch girl? Cast a spell on me? I'm afraid that you're particular brand of word magic won't work on me. I know about you as well," Kovarian said.
"Do you? Do you really?" Lilith said as she laughed maniacally.
She flew straight toward Kovarian as if she was about to plow right into her. Instead though she ripped out a piece of her hair at the last minute and disappeared into thin air. Then she reappeared hovering in front of Kovarian with a doll that looked like her with her hair attached to it in her hands.
"Excuse the crude craftsmanship of my little doll. It may not look like much, but it'll still get the job done," Lilith said as she stuck a huge knife into the heart of the doll.
Kovarian began to scream in pain now as Rose's daughter, Cassiopeia, suddenly appeared in front of her and sent a pulse of energy into her body that set her on fire. Kovarian screamed as flames raged all over her body.
That was all that Victoria needed to allow her to break Kovarian's hold on her. She quickly undid all of Kovarian's changes to her friends now with a single snap of her fingers as she regained her human form.
"Let's show her what we can really do, girls!" Donna said.
Michelle began to attack her with her powers as she began to send bits and pieces of her into the Mirror Verse as she found that they would work on her now in her weakened state. At the same time, Victoria began to make the flames all over her body even worse as she increased their magnitude by a thousand. Kovarian began to resemble a walking skeleton more than a person now.
"Let's put her out of her misery, girls!" Dorothy said.
Dorothy made the Vortex energy inside of her implode, and Kovarian's body was taken with it. She imploded inwards with such intensity that she made the entire room shake. There was now nothing left of her it seemed. Not even dust.
"That was my first implosion. I like it," Dorothy said with a mad grin on her face.
"Thank you, Lilith! We'd all be goners right now if it wasn't for you," Donna said.
"It's the least that I could do. I couldn't let anything happen to my friends, could I?" Lilith said with a warm smile.
"That's amazing. A Carrionite working together with a Time Lord. That was unheard of back when I was a kid. Of course a lot of things have changed since then thank goodness," Cassiopeia said.
"You're Cassiopeia, aren't you?" Donna asked.
"That's me. Has Mum told everyone about me?" Cassiopeia said happily.
"Just about. She's very proud of you," Donna said.
"Not yet but I swear one day she will be," Cassiopeia said sadly.
"Hey, don't beat yourself up. You helped save our lives too. You did good, kid," Donna said encouragingly.
"It's not enough. I need to do so much more to make up for what I've done. One day, I'll make my Mum so proud of me," Cassiopeia said.
"I already am, sweetheart," Rose said as she appeared out of a golden burst of energy.
She hugged her daughter tightly and then said, "The war is over. Marissa spread the ability to remember the Silence to every human being on Earth through the air. Now the Silence can't manipulate the human race anymore. Their time on Earth is through! They've all either fled or been captured. The Earth is free!"
The Doctor now appeared in the TARDIS, and he stepped out of it with a golden crown on his head. He was actually pouting instead of being happy.
"What's wrong with you? Aren't you happy that humanity is safe?" Rose asked.
"Now that everything's over, I can't wear my crown anymore. I love my crown," the Doctor said in a childish voice.
Rose sighed while everyone else had a much needed laugh. The war was over at last or was it?
Kovarian used the last of her rapidly fading powers to reform her body several feet away from the others where they couldn't see her. Her link to the Vortex had been shattered for good by Dorothy's attack on her that made the power itself into her enemy.
She was now powerless, but at least she was still alive. She made it to a transmat and sent herself to her ship. She quickly left the Moon Base with no one else being the wiser. She had failed to take the Earth, but she still hadn't given up yet. She was not going to let silence fall if she could help it. She still had time to kill the Doctor even if she couldn't keep any of his friends from being kidnapped and used against him to bring him there.
She knew that the Doctor would go to Trenzalore soon now, but he could still be killed before he made silence fall. She had failed so far, but she could not fail in that. If she didn't, then the entire universe would be destroyed.
Silence would still fall if she didn't stop it.
Back on the Moon Base, Strax smiled with joy as he said, "That was a glorious victory! I only wish that I could have delivered the killing blow to our enemy. At least I was there to witness it at least, and I can share in the glory of such a monumental battle. You men are all worthy of being Sontarans. I shall request that you be made honorary members of the Sontaran Battle Fleet. The Bad Wolves are indeed worthy of this most incredible honor."
"Strax, all of the Wolves but one are women," Jenny said.
Strax looked stunned as he said, "My apologies to all of you. I was doing so well. I shall have to study anatomy more. Thank you for correcting my mistake, boy. I did not wish to offend anyone."
Jenny winced as he unintentionally offended her, and then she just shrugged as she gave him an affectionate hug. Strax looked uncomfortable and wondered if he had gotten Jenny's gender wrong again. He was so sure that she was a male. Oh, well. He would figure it out eventually.
"Come along, Strax. I am going to give you a lesson on the birds and bees human style later on so that you'll stop making that mistake," Vastra said.
"What do these birds and bees have to do with anything? Are they our next enemies? Shall we declare war on them as we did the terrible Moonites?" Strax asked with eagerness.
"No, Strax. They're both an entirely benevolent species," Vastra said.
"I wouldn't say that bees are. One made me swell up once when it stung me," Jenny said.
"So the bees are our enemies! I will declare war on them immediately. The mighty bee armadas will rue the day that they crossed paths with Strax the Mighty!" Strax said.
"Let's go, Strax," Vastra said with a sigh.
"Yes, I must go and plan my battle strategy against their mighty swarms. They will never see it coming," Strax said.
"Good bye, everyone," Jenny said as the three of them disappeared using the Vortex Manipulator that brought them there.
"It makes you wonder if he was the one that endangered the bees," Donna said to herself.
"Could be," Dorothy said with a knowing grin.
Their celebration was cut short though by the arrival of a massive army of Daleks who appeared out of nowhere inside of the base and took Cassiopeia by surprise as several of them blasted her simultaneously. Before Cassiopeia could even hit the floor, she was snatched by one of the Daleks and disappeared.
"Cassiopeia!" the Doctor and Rose both screamed out together as one of their worst nightmares was now coming true right in front of them.
Before Rose could act against them, another of the Daleks used a Vortex Destroyer on her that made her scream as it started to sever her connection to the Vortex once more. The Doctor made the Dalek self-destruct with his sonic screwdriver just in time to stop it from finishing the disconnection and killing her.
The other Daleks disappeared now as quickly as they came. They had already fulfilled their mission and didn't need to stay any longer.
"Rose, are you okay?" the Doctor asked with worry all over his face.
"Yes, I will be, but I can't use my powers. I probably won't be able to for a while yet. I need to regain my strength. I can't go save her, Doctor. I don't even know where she is," Rose said in anguish.
"I think I do. Trenzalore. It's Davros, Rose. He's the one who wants to make me go there and fulfill the Silence's prophecy. He kidnapped Cassiopeia in order to make me come there. He knew that would make me do it when nothing else would," the Doctor said sadly.
"You can't go there, Doctor. You don't even know where it is. Even if you did, you shouldn't. What if Kovarian is actually right and you do cause the destruction of everything by going there?" Rose asked.
"I'll find out where it is somehow. I have to go there now, Rose. I've already lost Cassiopeia once. I won't lose her again. Nothing is going to take her away from me now after I've found her once more. Nothing and no one," the Doctor said in a cold, emotionless voice.
"Wait, take me with you," Rose said.
"You're too weak. I'll have to do this alone," the Doctor said.
"No, you won't. I'm going too," Clara said as she stepped out of the Doctor's TARDIS.
"Clara, stay here with Rose. This is too dangerous," the Doctor said.
"I have to go. Rose said that I was there before or at least Oswin was. I may need to be there again in order to keep you safe," Clara said.
"Clara, I don't want you to do this," the Doctor pleaded.
"I don't care what you want. All I care about is making sure that you're okay at the end of the day. You're my best friend," Clara said with tears in her eyes.
"I'm going too," Rose said as she shakily made her way toward the TARDIS.
Clara helped her inside, and the Doctor sighed as he marveled at the stubbornness of the two women. He both appreciated and hated that quality in them at the same time now.
"Doctor, do you need my help?" Donna asked.
"No, not this time. I think that between me, Rose, and Clara we've got it covered. Thank you for the offer though," the Doctor said.
"I'm going, Doctor. You're going to need help," Donna insisted.
"So am I, Professor," Dorothy said.
"Why are all of my friends so stubborn?" the Doctor asked with a sigh.
"You're just lucky I guess," Donna said as she smiled at him.
"Come on then," the Doctor said as he beckoned for them to come inside the TARDIS with him.
"Take my TARDIS back to Earth and help UNIT in rebuilding the base. I'm sure that we'll have Davros whipped and sent crying home to his mother in no time. I've done it before," Donna said confidently.
The rest of the Bad Wolves did as Donna asked, and they took her TARDIS back to Earth as Donna and Dorothy accompanied the Doctor, Rose, and Clara as they set out to see if they could find the location of Trenzalore. Dorothy already knew the location of course, but she couldn't tell anyone else that. The Doctor would have to find that out by himself.
Unknown to anyone else, Davros himself didn't know the location yet, but he was very close to finding out. He had just captured the boy created by the Bane named Henry Barnes, who did know the planet's secret location, along with Sarah Jane Smith, Rani, Clyde, and Luke as soon as they had stepped out of Rani's TARDIS on the planet Peladon.
He hadn't gotten it out of the boy yet, but it was only a matter of time. He would find out exactly where it was, and then he would make the Doctor follow him there. He had even known the perfect way of convincing him to go there.
He smiled as his Daleks brought the unconscious Cassiopeia to him. He knew that the Doctor would follow his long lost daughter anywhere. What better way to get him to walk into his greatest trap for him?
Soon all of the Doctor's victories against the Daleks would be undone. Then the universe would bow before them, and they would reign supreme. The long war between the Doctor and the Daleks would then finally be over at last, and Davros would be its victor!
Next for this overall story arc: My version of Trenzalore begins in And The Story Goes On . . . Forever Chapter 6 as Davros, the Doctor, and Kovarian each try to find the location of Trenzalore in their own way and for their own reasons.
Next for this title: Dracula returns, and he wants Alina back! Alina's not going anywhere though if Michelle and Amanda have anything to say about it!