CHAPTER 50

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REVENGE OF THE CARRIONITES

"Say the words, Sisters. Say the words together that will deliver the Earth to us at last," Sister Pestilence said.

"You have to find the right place though. This isn't the right place to say the spell. It's just a street," Donna said.

"Is it? Look again, Donna Noble. This street is surrounded on all sides by buildings of the same height, and when you put the roofs of each building together you get fourteen sides at this exact spot. This spot is the perfect place to recite our spell. Now, Sisters!" Sister Pestilence said.

The three Carrionites started to chant together, and a small rip in the fabric of space and time opened up behind them. Donna could see to her horror that it was slowly getting bigger and bigger the longer that the sisters spoke.

"It will only be a few minutes now until the portal opens," Lilith warned her.

"Can you do something to stop it?" Donna asked.

"Not by myself. I'd need two more sisters in order to perform a counterspell," Lilith said.

"Do they have to be Carrionites? Couldn't two of us help you do it?" Donna asked.

"I don't know. It's worth a try. Emmy, you and Amanda join hands with me and repeat what I say word for word," Lilith said.

Lilith began to chant as she held hands with Emmy and Amanda. She unconsciously shifted to her Carrionite form as she started to speak without meaning to, but the Wolves never even flinched. She smiled at them gratefully for that even as she continued to chant her counterspell.

The Carrionites glared at Lilith in anger for what she was doing but didn't stop chanting. They only spoke louder and louder as they attempted to force the portal open despite Lilith's best attempts to stop them.

Even as this was going on, all of the vampires on the team started attacking the Carrionites together in an attempt to stop one or more of them from talking. Incredibly the Carrionites continued to keep chanting even as they fought for their lives. They never even slowed down.

That was when Dorothy started to attack them with a burst of Vortex energy from her hands as she said, "This will shut those three old crones up."

Then she was completely surprised to find that her attack was deflected away before it could even reach the Carrionites. "What? How did they do that without casting another spell?" Dorothy asked in surprise.

They sound found out their answer as a Daemon appeared in front of the Carrionites. The Daemon had created the force field they now realized.

Michelle gestured at the Daemon and he instantly disappeared as she sent him to the Mirror Verse. Dorothy smiled as she said, "Now the old buzzards have had it."

She decided to take the Carrionites down in style as she started creating massive explosions all around them in an attempt to block out their chanting. Somehow they continued to keep the spell going though by shouting it over the sounds so that it could just barely be overheard.

"I've had enough of this. They're going down now," Victoria said as she snapped her fingers, and the three Carrionites started to fade away as she tried to teleport them straight into their old cells at UNIT.

Amazingly though, they actually started to come back. Somehow they were actually fighting Victoria's power.

"What's going on here? How are they doing this? Where did that Daemon come from anyway? It's just like they pulled him out of a hat or something," Donna said in exasperation.

"It's their sisters on the other side. The more that they open up the portal, the more that they can help them. They're the ones protecting them from the other side by casting spells for their defense," Rose said as she appeared out of nowhere with Martha Jones.

"That's funny they didn't do anything like that before in 1599. Shakespeare was able to come up with the right words to stop them then," Martha said.

"They've been planning this ever since that day. Now they're ready for anything that someone might try to stop them from coming through. This time they're all bound and determined to take the Earth. They actually think that they're going to win this time. Well, not on my watch," Rose said.

"They're coming through. The counterspell isn't working," Lilith said.

"Well, I figured that much. It looks like we're going to be up to our elbows in witches any minute now," Donna said.

"Maybe I should work a little magic of my own," Rose said as her body began to glow with energy.

Are you sure that we should do this? Drax said in Rose's mind.

I'm sure. It's the only way to prevent a Carrionite invasion now. Get ready, Drax. It's now or never. Rose said as she started walking toward the portal.

"What are you doing?" Donna asked.

"The only thing that I can do. I've got to stop them somehow," Rose said as she continued to walk toward the portal despite a massive wind that suddenly sprang up to push her back that the Carrionites had conjured up.

"You may be the Bad Wolf, but are you sure that even you can take on all of the Carrionites and win?" Donna asked.

Rose said nothing. She just kept walking forward.

"Rose, there must be thousands of them at least. You can't go in there by yourself. It would be suicide," Martha said.

"Rose, listen to her. You can't do this," Donna said.

"Someone has to stop them, and I'm the only one who can. I'm the only person here who can keep them all from coming out. I have to stop them now before it's too late. Once they're out, we'll never get them back in. They've planned this too well," Rose said.

"Mum, you're not going in there. I won't let you," Dorothy said as she stood in front of her.

Rose stared Dorothy down as she said, "If I don't come back, tell the Doctor that I love him. Tell him to find someone else this time. Don't let him mourn me for the rest of his lives. He's already done that enough," Rose said.

"You're not going in there," Dorothy said firmly.

"I'm the only one who stands a chance of keeping them from coming out now," Rose said.

"No, you're not. I have the same power that you do. Want to see a sample of it?" Dorothy said.

Dorothy caused a huge explosion to go off in Rose's face that instantly knocked her unconscious but otherwise didn't harm her. Dorothy had learned to create such precise explosions long ago. She knew more about the power and effects of explosions than any person alive after all.

"I'm sorry, Mum," Dorothy said in a sorrowful voice as she kissed Rose's forehead.

"You're not going in there, Dorothy. She'd never forgive us if we just let you go in there without trying to stop you," Donna said.

"You can try, but you won't succeed," Dorothy said as she created a huge explosion that knocked both Donna and Martha off of their feet.

Dorothy moved toward the portal even as Sister Pestilence said, "It's too late now. The portal is open all of the way now and is being kept open by all of our sisters. No force on this planet can shut it now with all of them using their powers at once in order to keep it open. Even if you go inside, it won't do you any good. They'll fall upon you and kill you in an instant. You might as well flee to safety while you still can. Not that it will do you any good. The Earth is only the beginning. The Carrionites will soon spread throughout the universe!"

"That's what they think," Dorothy said as she entered the portal.

The Wolves started hearing massive explosions coming from the other side as soon as she entered. "I'm going in and help her," Donna said as she headed toward the portal.

"No, you're not. Not by yourself you're not. We're all going with you," Ileana said.

"No, I'm going in by myself and rescue Dorothy. No one else needs to come," Donna said.

"How do you think that you're going to stop a whole army full of Carrionites by yourself?" Michelle asked.

"I have my ways," Donna said with a smile as she pulled out her Vortex Laptop from her coat pocket.

She began typing on it as she walked toward the portal. Donna quickly entered it and was soon followed by the others despite her wishes. Soon all of the Wolves were inside of the portal battling it out with the Carrionites while Amanda stood outside it with Martha and the unconscious Rose.

Donna used her Vortex Laptop to drive the Carrionites away from them once they were inside by creating a force field that suddenly shoved them all back without warning. It also did something else. It finally stopped their chanting by taking them by surprise that way.

Then Donna commanded, "Alright, Lilith, see if the spell to shut the portal can be done better from the inside while we keep them all distracted. Why don't you use Victoria and Michelle to help you chant this time? Maybe their powers can boost your spell just enough to make it work now especially if we keep them from chanting again. Everyone else needs to concentrate on that and keep them from doing anything. Keep hitting them. Hard."

Meanwhile back outside the portal Martha and Amanda glared at Sister Pestilence who laughed at them as she said, "Their resistance is futile. They'll all be the first to perish before my sisters' might."

Martha feared that she was right as she could hear screams coming from inside of the portal. She was afraid to even think about what they meant. Was she listening to the end of her friends? She couldn't bear the thought of it.

"Oh, no. Mum," Amanda said in fear as she heard the screams.

Then they both turned with hopeful looks on their faces as they heard the familiar sound of the TARDIS materializing nearby. The Doctor came running out of it with concern on his face as he saw Rose lying there unconscious and the Carrionites standing near the open portal with huge grins on their faces.

Martha quickly told him what had been happening, and the Doctor began scanning the portal with his sonic screwdriver.

"I don't know what they're doing in there, but the portal is closing. It's closing a little too quickly as a matter of fact. It's about to seal them up with the Carrionites any second now," the Doctor said in alarm.

"Can't you take the TARDIS in there and get them out?" Martha asked in a panic.

"I think it's probably too late. It's already closing. They're going to be trapped in there forever with all of the Carrionites," the Doctor said in a horrified voice.

"I don't think so, Thete," Drax said through Rose.

"Don't do that, Drax. It's weird," the Doctor said.

"I'm afraid I have to take over Arkytior, Thete. She's the only one with enough power to save the others, and she's still unconscious. I have to use her to go in there and rescue them. See you in a little bit, Thete. I hope," Drax said.

As he rushed into the rapidly closing portal, the Doctor shouted, "Wait. You'll get trapped too."

"I have to take that chance. The woman that I love in is there. I can't let her be trapped forever," Drax said.

"You don't mind taking the woman that I love along with you though," the Doctor complained.

"Fine. All of you come along then. All except the child," Drax said.

"I'm coming too," Amanda protested.

"No, you're not. You'll get into the TARDIS and not come out again until one of us tells you to," Martha said firmly.

Amanda nodded and ran into the Doctor's TARDIS and locked the door. She wanted to go in there too, but she knew that it would be a losing battle to try to convince the others to let her. She almost wondered if she shouldn't have remained an adult. Maybe then she would be going in there too.

Then she realized that it wasn't her age as much as her lack of maturity that was really keeping her from getting to join the others. Even someone as intelligent as she was could make stupid mistakes, and she had been making one after another lately. She knew that she was going to have to start acting more mature from now on instead of acting without thinking.

Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted as she heard a voice say, "Amanda, where are the others?"

Amanda looked up to see Donna and the other Bad Wolves now standing in the Console Room. She had no idea what was going on here, but she ran to hug her mother anyway.

"We used Mirror Girl to get us all out of there in a hurry by sending us to the Mirror Verse as Lilith used her counterspell to close the portal from the inside. We kept them so off balance that they never could stop the spell. Then we realized that the Doctor was here and came out of the mirror in the Wardrobe Room. We did a good job, girls," Donna said proudly.

"Wait though. The Doctor, Martha, and Rose or Drax or whoever she is now went in there to rescue you though," Amanda warned.

"That stupid Spaceman! Now I have to rescue him before it's too late. Leave it to him to mess things up," Donna said in anger.

"Actually it was more Drax's idea. He went in there to save you," Amanda said.

"Why am I not surprised? From what the Doctor remembers of him, he always was a headstrong idiot who did things without thinking and based on emotion. That kind of behavior landed him in prison before on Earth when he stole things to repair his TARDIS after it crashed there, and this is where it lands him now," Donna said.

He sounds just like me. I really have to change. Amanda thought to herself.

"We have to go now, Donna. If we don't, then I'm not even sure the TARDIS will be able to get us inside," Lilith said.

Donna nodded as she dematerialized the TARDIS and set off to rescue the others. Meanwhile back inside the portal, the Doctor, Drax, and Martha realized very quickly that they had made a huge mistake as they didn't see the Wolves anywhere and were quickly cut off from the portal by a group of Carrionites suddenly moving in front of it.

"At least we will finally have our revenge on the ones who kept us from leaving originally. That will be some consolation in the long, long years ahead, Sisters," one of the Carrionites said as they all began to surround the three of them.

"It's usually nice to be recognized, Doctor, but not this time," Martha said.

"I'm sorry, Martha, Doctor. I should have known that Donna would figure a way out of here before it closed. She's too smart to go charging into a place like this without a plan. Unlike me," Drax said.

"There's still a chance that we can get out of here. Donna has to know that we're here by now. Maybe she can still get to us before it's too late," the Doctor said optimistically.

"You mean in the TARDIS? Why didn't you do that in the first place?" Martha asked.

"I thought it was too late. Then someone went and took my wife inside of the portal before I had time to understand that it wasn't. In fact if someone hadn't gone charging in without thinking, we'd probably be with Donna and the others right now," the Doctor criticized.

"Okay, I get the point. You can stop with the guilt trip already. We just have to hope that Donna's on the way," Drax said.

"The portal will be closed in a matter of seconds, Time Lord. I seriously doubt that your friends can reach you once it does. You really shouldn't worry about it. You'll be dead soon anyway. Kill them, sisters!" one of the Carrionites said as they all rushed forward with murderous intent in their eyes.

Meanwhile Donna realized that she wasn't going to get into the Deep Darkness, where the Carrionites were trapped, before the portal closed. The portal simply wasn't big enough for the TARDIS to fit through anymore. She hurried to try to calculate the coordinates for the Deep Darkness itself in her head, but she wasn't sure if she was doing them right or not. The Deep Darkness was not a part of normal space and so it was very tricky to get there without precise coordinates and even harder to get to an exact place there. She might end up lost inside of it forever and never find the others if she did it wrong. Still she had to try.

"I'm so sorry, Martha," the Doctor said as he tried to stand protectively in between her and the Carrionites just moments before they were about to reach them.

"I'm the one who's sorry. This is all my fault," Drax said as he tried to drive the Carrionites back with Rose's powers with little success since he was so unskilled in using them.

Suddenly Drax smiled, and then the Doctor did too as the unmistakable body language of Rose Tyler reasserted itself as she regained control of her body once more. She looked at the Carrionites with disdain as she said, "You really do get me into the worst messes, Doctor!"

Martha began to smile as she realized immediately from the return of her Cockney accent that Rose was back in charge. Now they at least had a fighting chance to survive.

Rose drove the Carrionites back with a massive burst of Vortex energy that sent them all running in terror. They weren't about to give up yet though.

One of them tried to use the power of the name on Rose as she said, "You will surely die before striking any more blows just as surely as your name is Rose."

The Carrionites were dumbfounded as Rose was seemingly unaffected by this. They looked at each other in complete disbelief and were suddenly filled with doubt over their ability to stop her for the first time now.

"This is not possible. The power of the name should have worked. Rose Tyler is her true name now. It should have killed her," a Carrionite complained.

"Maybe it would have if there weren't somebody else stuck in this old noggin as well. You didn't see me in here quickly taking control again though, did you?" Drax bragged.

"There is another consciousness. Quickly, sisters, we must discover its name," a Carrionite said.

Suddenly Drax disappeared and Rose regained control as she said, "Doctor, I'm going to have to do something that I don't want to. Promise me that you'll pull me back from the brink if I start to get lost."

"No, you can't do that, Rose. That will only make things worse," the Doctor said.

"We're about to be killed, Doctor. It can't get much worse. I don't think that the power of the name will work on my energy self. I have to do this," Rose said as she began to glow brighter and brighter.

"What's she talking about?" Martha asked.

"I hope that you'll never have to see that for yourself, Martha. You definitely won't today anyway because here comes the cavalry," the Doctor said with a smile.

The TARDIS materialized around the three of them, and then immediately dematerialized before the Carrionites could stop them. Donna then quickly brought them all back to Earth to the exact spot where the Carrionites had ambushed them earlier.

Donna quickly ran out of the TARDIS to find that Sister Pestilence, Mother Bloodtide, and Mother Doomfinger were all gone, and the portal had finally closed for good. She groaned in anger while Lilith was quietly relieved.

She didn't want her mothers to hurt anyone of course, but part of her was glad that they were free. She hated the idea of them being imprisoned somewhere. She hoped that maybe they would all give up on freeing the other Carrionites, but somehow she doubted it.

"Oh, well. Other than losing the Carrionites this was a pretty good day. I guess I'm not such a bad leader after all," Donna said.

Suddenly Ileana slapped Donna hard in the face, and Donna looked at her in shock as she said, "Oi! What was that about, Fang Gal?"

"That was for leaving us. Don't ever do that again or I'll do more than slap you," Ileana said with an angry look on her face.

Then she hugged Donna as she momentarily showed her true feelings for her in a very rare display of emotion for her. Donna realized that she must have hurt the others just as much by leaving them like she did.

"I'm sorry. I let my low self-esteem get to me and convince me that I was worthless. I need to stop doing that. I've more than proven myself over and over again. I mean I even saved the entire universe once," Donna said to the others.

"You just saved me too, and I don't just mean from the Carrionites. Thank you for that," Rose said as she hugged Donna too now.

"What is this? Why are all of the tough girls suddenly going soft today?" Donna said with a grin.

"I was never a tough girl in my life," Rose said as she shook her head at her.

"Tell that to the Daleks or my aching face," the Doctor joked.

"Well, anyone's tougher than you are, Spaceman. You're the most helpless person that I've ever met. If it wasn't for your companions, you'd have been dead a long time ago. They're always having to save you," Donna joked.

"They are not. Name one time where that happened," the Doctor protested.

"The Gamestation," Rose said in between coughs.

"That was different. I had the whole Dalek army on my hands. No one could have stopped that by themselves," the Doctor said.

Rose cleared her throat very loud, and the Doctor immediately said, "Well, you cheated. You used your cosmic powers which I didn't even know that you had back then. If I had super duper cosmic powers then I could beat a whole Dalek army too. I dare any of you to name another time where someone else saved me."

"I saved you from the Master," Martha reminded him.

"I defeated Davros and the Daleks while two of you failed to do anything to them. Of course, Donald did blow them up afterwards so he does get bonus points," Donna said.

"I'm sure that your other companions could name plenty of times too," Rose teased.

"None of those count," the Doctor said pouting.

"Why not?" Rose challenged him.

"They just don't. That's all. Those were all special circumstances," the Doctor protested.

Luckily for the Doctor's dignity, this mass teasing by his former companions was interrupted by the arrival of Lee who came running up to Donna and kissed her as he held her tightly. Donna could see that Lee was terrified for her.

"I-I-I'm so glad that you're okay, Donna. I was s-s-so worried about you," Lee said in an upset voice.

"It's okay, Lee. I'm just fine. It turns out that I'm not as incompetent as I thought that I was after all," Donna said as she kissed him back.

"I c-c-could have told you that," Lee said with a loving smile.

"Yeah, I guess you could. From now on, I'll listen to you, Lee," Donna promised.

Rose turned to look at Lee with a very serious look on her face as she said, "I believe that I have something in my head that belongs to you or rather someone. I like Drax but I really don't want him in my mind any longer than necessary."

"I d-d-don't want to die," Lee said in a frightened voice.

"You won't. If anyone knows what it's like to want to stay human, it's me. Trust me," Rose said.

Lee looked at Donna for confirmation of this, and she nodded as she said, "I trust Rose, and so can you."

Lee slowly walked up to Rose, and she put her hands on the sides of his head as she said in a calm voice, "It's alright. I promise. Now we're going to do a Time Lord mind meld. I'm linking my thoughts to your thoughts, my mind to your mind."

"Honestly, Rose. You really watch too much television," the Doctor said as he rolled his eyes at her.

"Mickey watched Star Trek a lot when we were growing up. He made me watch too," Rose said even as she started to transfer Drax's consciousness and Time Lord essence into Lee's body as she transformed him back into his true self even without his watch.

"Yeah, right," the Doctor said.

"He does watch it a lot," Martha said.

"See?" Rose said.

"They're all out to get me," the Doctor muttered under his breath.

Then Rose pulled back as Lee glowed with energy and became a Time Lord once more. Donna watched him nervously as she said, "How do you feel?"

"I-I-I feel different and yet I also feel exactly the same. I remember b-b-being Drax and I know everything that he does, but I still feel like me. How did that happen?" Lee asked.

"So you're still Lee?" Donna asked in a happy voice.

"Y-y-yes. S-s-sorry that you'll have to keep listening to me stutter," Lee said.

"I don't mind it. Not at all," Donna said as she gave him a tender kiss.

"How did you do that?" the Doctor asked curiously.

"I buried Drax's personality under Lee's. It's still there but dormant now. Drax wanted it that way. He said that he liked being Lee. He got into less trouble that way and finally found the love of his life. He thought that maybe staying Lee wouldn't be all that bad," Rose said.

"So Drax is still in there? Does that mean that he'll come out from time to time?" Donna asked.

"Probably if he's needed. The rest of the time I think that he'll just let Lee handle things especially after he almost got the three of us killed like he did," Rose said.

"I don't want him to hide himself. I don't want to lose Lee either though," Donna said conflicted.

"They're both there, and they'll both show themselves at different times and in different ways. Don't worry," Rose reassured her.

Lee suddenly got down on one knee then and surprised everyone as he pulled a ring out of his pocket as he said, "Both of us h-h-have a question to ask you. Donna Noble, w-w-will y-y-you . . ."

Lee suddenly froze as he became so nervous that he couldn't speak. Donna smiled at him as she said, "Yes! Yes, I'll marry you . . . again. That is what you were asking, right?"

"Y-y-yes," Lee said.

"Then yes. Definitely yes," Donna said as she kissed him passionately.

The others all smiled at them as they seemed to forget that they were even there. Then Lee pulled away in embarrassment as he finally remembered that they were being watch.

He tried to change the subject by saying, "When do you want to have the wedding?"

"Soon, Lee. We have to prepare for it first though. Don't worry. We'll have the wedding soon, and this will be the one that takes. This is my last wedding ever I swear. I won't let anything mess it up this time. Got it, Spaceman? Nothing," Donna said.

"What are you looking at me for?" the Doctor asked.

"That's because she knows you oh so well, Doctor. That's why," Rose said.

"I'll have you know that I really resent that. I would never interrupt one of Donna's weddings. Not again anyhow. Besides that wasn't my fault anyway," the Doctor said.

"Donna, I just remembered. I know all of the i-i-identities of the heads of the C.I.A. now. I have to go tell the High Council. I need to put them out of business right away before it's too l-l-late," Lee said.

"I guess the wedding planning is definitely going to have to wait until that's over with. I think it'll be worth it to finally get rid of the lot of them though," Donna said.

"I just hope that they don't send someone to try and kill us before we get there," Ileana said.

Everyone looked at Ileana as she said, "What?"

"Thanks for jinxing us, Lana," Donna said.

"Admit it, Donna. You like the danger. It's more fun that way," Ileana said.

"Yeah, you're right, Fang Girl. I have to admit that in my own way that I've become almost as bad as the Doctor," Donna said.

"Oi!" the Doctor protested.

"Oh, pipe down, Spaceman!" Donna said.

"I wouldn't have you any other way, Donna. You're absolutely perfect just the way that you are," Lee said as he kissed her.

Donna smiled as she realized that for the first time in her life she was really and truly happy. She had finally found someone who made her feel like she was special and who made her see herself as everyone else had always seen her. She would always love Lee for that. Always.

Next: Lee and Donna are indeed stopped on the way to see the High Council by a menace sent against them by the C.I.A. to stop Lee from ever talking. Who or what will it be? See? I did do something about a wedding even if it wasn't the actual wedding itself just yet. The tradition of the 50th chapter of one of my titles having something to do with weddings continues.