The Doctor, her companions and the Master all watched the screen. Nobody said a word as they kept their gazes forward.
The screen lights up, we see two young boys running through the streets of Gallifrey's Cidatel. The tallest boy has hazel eyes and is wearing a dark blue set of robes, the smaller one has brown eyes and is wearing orange robes.
The tallest boy grabs the smaller one's hand and pulls him along as they pick up their pace.
"Come on Theta! We're going to be late!"
"I'm coming! You know my legs are shorter!"
They both laugh as they run up a set of ornate, golden steps. At the top is a large white and gold building with red doors. The boys look around to make sure no one is watching and they sneak into the building.
"That's you? You looked so adorable!" Amy laughed as she saw her friend on screen. She was happy that the video seemed to be a nice one so far, after the sadness of the last video.
The room watched in amazement as the two boys on screen giggled and joked, not quite comprehending how they could grow up to be the two adults sitting in the room with them.
The Doctor nodded as she smiled, she loved this memory. This memory is what solidified her love for time travel and TARDISes. This adventure was by far one of her absolute favorites.
The Master watched the screen, not quite sure how to feel about the video that was about to play. One one hand he too loved this memory, on the other, he didn't want the humans to see it play out.
"Boys, what have I told you about running in the temple?" A woman with gray streaked, red hair walks up to them. A smile plays on her face as she watches the boys blush and mumble apologies. "It's alright don't worry, I know you're just excited for our trip."
The boys nod their heads and smile up at her, "Yes! Our first adventure in a TARDIS! We'll be just like the Doctor!" Koshei beams up at her and takes one of the hands she offers as Theta takes the other. They follow her up another short flight of stairs and listen as she lays down some ground rules.
"Yes you will, but even the Doctor has rules. First, no matter what, you don't interfere with the timeline. One small mistake can lead to serious consequences."
"The Doctor? What does that mean? How can you be talking about yourself?" Rose asked.
The alien in River's lap looked up with a grin, "The Priestesses used to tell us stories about a Time Lord that went on adventures. She never told us if the stories were real or not but we used to make up our own adventures and pretend to be the Doctor. That's one of the reasons I chose my name."
"What do you mean you chose your name?" Mickey looked at the blonde with a smile.
"Our birth names can only be known by our parents and spouses. So we get nicknames throughout our childhood. When we graduate from the Academy we have to choose a name that everyone will use when they refer to us. I chose the Doctor, mainly because I wanted to help people and bring hope to those who lost theirs, but also because of the stories the Priestesses told us when we were children."
"We were both going to call ourselves Doctor, but we found out that only one of us could have the name, so we had to decide who would get the name. Eventually we decided that the first one to get called up to the stage would take the name, naturally, he won." The Master huffed, silently he wondered if things would be different if he had been called first.
When no one said anything else, the video continued.
The boys nod and sit on a bench near a round table with a large pillar crystal above it. Two more women join them, both with gray streaks in their hair, one a brunette and one a blonde.
The brunette steps up and tells them the second rule, "Second, no matter what, do not tell anyone you're an alien. Where we're going people may not react to the news very well. Think of it like a game of secrets, the more you keep, the more likely you are to win."
The boys turn to each other with a grin on their faces, they loved to play secrets. Their friends always accused them of cheating but they didn't, they were just really good at keeping secrets.
The blonde steps forward as the other two start to walk around the table, "Third, have fun. The universe is a large and complex place, but there's always fun to be had, you just have to know where to look."
She too steps towards the table and starts to press different keys. A hologram appears above the table, below the crystal. The boys stand and walk up to the table to get a closer look.
Theta stands on his tip toes and asks, "When are we leaving? Do we have to sneak over to the docks to get to the TARDIS?"
The redhead laughs, and shakes her head. "No love, the temple is a TARDIS. She's the eldest TARDIS on Gallifrey."
Two sets of eyes widen as they look around the room, the whole temple was a TARDIS?
"Won't people realize we're gone then? I thought Priestesses weren't allowed to leave?"
The blonde reaches over an taps him on the nose, "No Koshei, we'll leave, but we'll come back to the second after we leave, it'll look like we were here the whole time. No one will notice, I promise."
"Woah, why weren't they allowed to leave?" Bill turned to her mentor and offered her some popcorn as she waited for an answer. The Doctor reached across Donna and grabbed a handful.
"There was a legend on Gallifrey, it said that when the Priestesses left, the planet would fall to chaos. So the High Counsil decided to imprison the Priestesses in the temple. There were guards that watched the perimeter, day and night to make sure they stayed indoors."
The Master snorted, "It worked pretty well until they met the captains of the units in charge of keeping them inside."
Bill turned to the man with a curious look, "What does that mean?"
"There were three Captains, there was Wyndaria, she was a Time Lord but her TARDIS was seized when she broke the interference laws to save a child. Then there was Raxellios, he joined the military traight out of the Academy, he always had a story or two to share. And finally there was, Vexolus, he also joined the military after graduating." The Doctor spoke with a smile.
"Yeah, and all three of the idiots were in love with the Priestesses but never said anything. They were a bit more lax with the rules and allowed the Priestesses to leave the temple."
The group listened as the aliens reminisced.
"They weren't on Gallifrey either."
"Too bad, they would've stopped you."
"Probably."
The three women tell the boys to take a seat as the crystal begins to glow before rising and falling. The room around them starts to become smaller until it's half the size it was before. The women laugh as their eyes gleam with mischief. The crystal stops and the redhead walks up to the boys.
"Are you ready for your first adventure?"
"But we haven't gone moved yet?"
"Why don't you come with me and look?"
They walk to the door and look through the glass panes, outside the world is full of machines they've never seen before, and the people were wearing strange clothes.
Koshei looked up at the woman with a confused look, "What are they wearing?"
"That's just what people wear on this planet and in this time period."
"Won't we stick out?"
The woman leads them back to the center of the room and points to the right, "Through there, turn right, then left, it'll be the first door on your right. You can choose any outfit from there."
The boys nod and run in the direction they were pointed to. The blonde walks up and asks, "Is this a good idea?"
"Don't worry, I checked, he's not here, he's off world. We'll be fine."
"Are you certain?"
"Yes! There are no TARDIS readings on Earth or in orbit! Honestly, Rosie, it's like you have no faith in me."
"Rosie? Like the little girl? The one with the creepy statue?" Yaz turned shocked eyes to the room. The blonde alien sat up in surprize, how could they be the same little girls? She and the Master knew the names of the sisters, they had begged for months to know.
The three women had finally caved when she and the Master told them that they viewed them as family. That since Priestesses weren't allowed to get married, they wouldn't have anyone to tell their names to. It had taken almost her entire time at the Academy, but three months before graduating the Priestesses had summoned them to the temple and spoken their names.
They told the Doctor and Master that they were named after some important women in their parents' lives. The Doctor scolded herself for not recognizing the names sooner. This is why she didn't do emotion! Every time she got emotional, she stopped thinking rationally.
The blonde shakes her head and rolls her eyes as the boys walk back into the console room. Koshei is wearing a bright neon purple shirt with cartoon characters, blue jeans and green Converse shoes. Theta is wearing a small white suit with a pink ruffled shirt, black dress shoes and a baseball cap. The three women giggle at the sight while the boys show off their outfits.
The room erupted in laughter as they saw the outfits the boys were wearing, the two Time Lords blushed and avoided everyone's eyes.
"TARDIS? Would you mind, somehow printing this off? I need this picture forever!" Martha laughed as the ship hummed happily and a glossy picture of the two boys appeared on her lap.
The TARDIS was always happy to share funny things with the companions. At the Doctor's expense, of course.
The brunette, Rynn, recovers from her giggles before the other two. "Okay boys, when we step out of the TARDIS, you are to stay with us. Do not leave our side. If you see something and want to get a closer look, ask one of us and we will take you, alright?"
"Yes ma'am."
The five Gallifreyans step out of the TARDIS and the boys get their first look at London in the evening. The boys' jaws drop as they take in the Tower of London and all the cars passing by. A few people stare as they walk past, it's hard not to when there's two boys dressed so sharply.
Theta turned and looked at Lily, "Where are we?"
"London, April 26th, 2008. Earth, to be more specific. I figured, we'd try some food, check out some shops and watch a film?"
The boys cheer as they each grab ahold of her hands. The group walks along the side walk as the women fill the boys in on everything they see.
"That so cute! You're both their companions!" Clara said with a slight grin both aliens turned to her, one with a smile and the other with a glare. Bill laughed at Clara's words, agreeing with them one hundred percent.
Back on the TARDIS, a screen lights up on the console, two messages appear one after the other. "Warning: Artron energy detected." "Warning: The Doctor is near."
The five aliens walk into a little Fish and Chips shop and order, Koshei looks apprehensive as he tries the food and is pleasantly surprised by the flavor. Theta inhales the food so quickly that the older women have to remind him to chew so he doesn't choke.
As Rosie takes the boys to the bins to throw away their trash, a woman walks over to Lily and taps her on the shoulder, "Your grandsons are just the cutest things! How old are they?"
Lily blinks in shock before answering, "Thank you. They're seven."
"That's a good age, old enough to be independent but still young enough to think you're cool." The woman and Lily laugh.
The woman turns to leave and we see her face, Sara Jane Smith. Just before she steps out of the door she hears one of the boys say, "That was delicious. Why don't we have food like that on Gallifrey?" She turns quickly to look at the group once more and sees Lily looking at her. The redhead nods with a smile as her sister answers the question, Sara Jane's eyes widen and a grin grows on her face.
"Small world, small universe. How silly is that?" Sarah Jane leaves with a wistful look on her face.
"Doctor, that was Sara Jane!" Rose, Mickey, Martha, Donna and Jack shouted, happy to see their friend once more. The Doctor quietly responded as she thought back to that day, "Yes it was. I wonder if I crossed paths with anyone else before I met them?"
The group walk for a while and find a market, they look around the booths and buy a few things for the boys. Suddenly, a scream is heard as a person falls to the ground.
Lily and Rynn grab ahold of the boys and run towards the commotion. On the ground is a woman with lumps running around under her clothes, more and more people start to fall to the ground causing others to run and scream.
Theta and Koshei look around in concern before Koshei points and draws everyone's attention, "Look! Those little creatures just crawled out of that woman's clothes!"
The Doctor and Donna looked at each other with a grin, this was the day they found each other again. The day Donna officially joined the Doctor on the TARDIS.
Behind him Rosie looks at Lily with a glare, "He's not here is he? How do you explain this?"
"Oh shut up! We have to get back to the TARDIS!"
The five aliens start to run back through the chaos and towards their TARDIS. They can see the TARDIS ahead of them by about twenty yards when a ship appears above them. Rynn yells out, "That's the nursery ship. We don't have much time left, we have to go!"
They pick up their pace and run into the TARDIS, Lily runs up to the controls and throws them into the Time Vortex. They all pant and catch their breath for a moment.
"What were those things?" Koshei asks as the two remaining women start to herd the boys towards the console.
Rose sits on one of the seats, "Those were Adipose. Small creatures, children, made of fat. It's illegal to seed a level five planet, so it's likely that things wouldn't have ended well."
Theta looks at her in confusion, "Shouldn't we have stopped it? That's what the Doctor would do."
Rynn laughs and places a hand on the boy's head, ruffling his hair, he lost his baseball cap at some point during their escape.
"I'm sure he is dealing with it as we speak. But since this was a fixed point in time, if we had done anything we would've probably made things worse."
Lily nods and before the boys can ask what the fixed point was she says, "You'll learn about fixed points during your lessons at the Academy. For now, we just have to go back to Gallifrey. Did you two enjoy our outing despite how short it was?"
"Yes!" Both boys exclaim as they start to fill the sisters in on their favorite parts of their excursion. Lily lands the TARDIS and the boys step out with their gifts, they wave goodbye and take off back to their homes.
"Adipose. How could you not have noticed the date?"
"Oh enough. We had fun, stop being so sour."
As the women stepped back into their TARDIS, the doors closed behind them with a soft click.
The screen went black and the group stood and stretched. Everyone chatted about what they had just seen as they walked towards the kitchen, leaving the two Time Lords alone in the theater. "We're going to take a quick break, Doctor. Don't watch any more videos without us!" Bill called out as she walked away.
The blonde got comfortable in her seat and stared after her friends, she kept her eyes on the open door as she quietly spoke. "You really wouldn't have hurt them?"
"I wouldn't have. I loved them too."
"Thank you."
When the humans got back from their break, snacks and drinks refreshed, they sat in their seats. Once again Donna and River took their seats up front with the Doctor in her wife's lap.
The screen lit up once more, Donna gasped as she saw her face on screen.
Donna walks down a sidewalk, looking very official and carrying a few files. The Doctor also walks down a sidewalk, looking casual with his hands in his pockets.
Donna walks into a tall glass building, in front is a sign that reads, "Adipose Industries Inc." the Doctor walks into the same building but from the back service entrance.
"I guess we're going to see how the Doctor handled the situation from the last video?" Jack asked as he read the name of the building.
Donna nods, "Yeah, speaking of which, what made you look into Adipose, Spaceman?"
"I remembered the date from the first video, and figured I would take a look into what happened. Never figured I would be in the middle of it, or that I'd see you again."
Nardole decided to speak up, once more. "You always get into the middle of things, Sir. It's your speciality."
"Oi! Hush you, shouldn't you be getting me a packet of crisps?"
"Sweetie be nice. You two had met before this then?"
The Doctor nodded, "Yeah, during Christmas, Donna originally told me she wasn't going to travel with me."
"I regretted it as soon as I walked through the door. But, I'm glad we found each other again."
"Me too."
Donna introduces herself as health and safety as she walks through security. The Doctor also introduces himself as health and safety as he passes a security guard.
In a theater a woman stands and presents Adipose, a weight loss pill that is guaranteed to work. A reporter questions her and she snarks back before presenting a video. Donna is in the audience and the Doctor is in the projection room.
"My god, this is going to be a series of times where we were near each other but didn't know it, isn't it?!" Donna sighed as she covered her face. The rest of the group laughed as they watched the Doctor giggle childishly.
Ms. Foster tells the reporter that the company already has one million customers within the greater London area and that they will start selling nation wide within a week.
The screen changes and we see a bunch of people cold calling random numbers to sell the product. Donna walks up to a young man and introduces herself quietly.
The Doctor walks up to a young woman and also introduces himself quietly, the woman turns in her seat and gives him an appreciating glance.
As Donna waits for the sales rep to get off the phone she picks up a necklace with a pill shaped charm on it.
The Doctor picks up a necklace as well and starts to play with it.
They both tell their respective reps that they have to keep the necklace for testing. They ask for a list of customers. Donna stands and looks for the machine before sitting back down, just as her head disappears the Doctor stands and looks as well.
"Oh dear god, this is so embarrassing!" Donna cried out.
Donna stands again and asks if the printer needs a code, it doesn't, she sits back down. The Doctor stands and asks if it has paper, it does, he also sits back down.
"That's hilarious, how long did it take for you two to find each other?" Rory asked as he chuckled.
The Doctor responded, "Too long."
Ms. Foster walks in and demands that people start selling more pills, or there will be consequences. When Ms. Foster leaves, Donna decides that it's a fine time to leave and grabs the papers off the printer as she goes. The Doctor gets detained from getting to the printer by the sales rep, she hands him her number and flirts. He gets away and walks to the printer but the list is missing so he has to go back.
"Seriously Spaceman?! We missed each other because someone was flirting with you?!" Donna threw her arms up and shook her head with a smile.
The Doctor stammered a reply as River whispered into her ear, "I certainly hope you didn't call her Doctor, the only one you should be playing with is me."
Donna walks up to a door and knocks, a woman, Stacy Campbell, opens the door and Donna introduces herself as a representative of Adipose.
The Doctor introduces himself as a representative of Adipose industries to a Mr. Rodger Davy.
"You haven't even traveled with the Doctor yet and you're already thinking like him, impressive." Rose laughs as she watches the duo on screen.
Stacy tells Donna that she lost eleven pounds in five days. Donna asks if she's noticed any side effects but Stacy tells her she hasn't.
Rodger tells the Doctor he's been taking the pills for two weeks and has lost fourteen kilos. The same amount every day, that technically he's lost a kilo by one ten in the morning.
Martha and Rory grimaced and glanced at each other, "That's fast." Rory said, "Way too fast, dangerously fast." Came Martha's reply.
Stacy tells Donna that's she's breaking up with her boyfriend before asking Donna to keep an eye out for a cab.
Rodger tells the Doctor that the burglar alarm goes off every night at one ten in the morning. Outside the Doctor asks if he has a cat flap, he does.
"I'm not a cat person."
"No I've met cat people, you're nothing like them."
Donna pulls the necklace out and starts to play with it. Upstairs, Stacy's stomach starts to growl and an Adipose falls into the sink.
In Ms. Foster's office, the alarms start to blare and she sends a team out to recover the Adipose.
The Doctor leaves Rodger's home and tells him to lay off the pills for a couple of weeks. One of his gizmos starts to bleep and he runs in the direction it points him to.
Donna asks if stacy is okay, and stacy says she is. Ms. Foster sees that the adipose was witnessed and activates full parthenogenesis. Donna starts to walk around the room and heads upstairs.
Stacy screams and Donna breaks the door down. Stacy's clothes are on the floor and an Adipose waves from the window before it leaves.
The recovery van appears and the Adipose are taken away. Donna runs out and tells the taxi driver that Stacy is gone and he leaves, she runs to the end of the road. The Doctor also runs to the end of the road but stops before he gets hit by the van. Donna and the Doctor are feet away from each other and still don't see each other.
"Seriously! That's just insane!" Amy and the other laughed.
Ms. Foster says they have a case of espionage, she watches the security feed, Donna's back is to the camera, the Doctor's face pops up on screen too. As she watches she says that someone is a thief, she stops the video and says she found the thief.
"Oh no, you've been caught!" Bill turned and looked at Donna, the redhead smiles and shrugged knowingly before turning and looking at the screen.
Donna walks into her house and is immediately greeted by her mother's scolding, after a while Donna asks where her grandfather is. He's on the hill. She goes to visit him and he tells her about Venus.
"Wilf! Oh I love him! How is the old soldier?" The Doctor asked with a smile.
"He's doing well, Kate is taking care of him."
"Kate's caring for him? Oh that's brilliant, truly, brilliant."
Donna tells Wilf that if he ever sees a blue box flying around in the sky that he should shout for her. She says that she's waiting for a man, Wilf jokes and she tells him that she met him once but she let him fly away.
On the TARDIS, the Doctor investigates the necklace and starts to speak out loud before he notices that he's alone.
The companions watched sadly as the Doctor stood in his TARDIS alone. They all knew he didn't do well with being alone and started to worry about how things were going to go. So far the video had been funny, but it was only a matter of time. Especially when the Doctor was involved.
The next morning, Donna gets into the car despite her mother's complaint. The Doctor starts to pilot the TARDIS to another location. Donna parks in an alleyway and leaves, the TARDIS materializes behind her car and the Doctor follows. They still haven't noticed each other.
Donna hides in the women's bathroom and the Doctor hides in a closet in the service entrance. Ms. Foster tells the guards to keep an eye out for the woman she's looking for. The employees leave and The Doctor leaves his closet. Donna walks out of the stall before getting a phone call and running back in. Her mother is calling asking about the car.
The restroom door slams open, Donna hangs up the phone and pulls her feet up onto the toilet. Ms. Foster sends the guards to open the stalls. The guard kicks the stall open and inside is the reporter, Ms. Foster has the guard grab her and they leave.
Donna steps out and follows.
On the roof the Doctor climbs into a window cleaning box and heads down.
Ms. Foster leads Penny, the reporter to her office and has her placed on a chair. The Doctor pulls out his stethoscope and holds it to the window. Ms. Foster tells penny what the pills do and Donna walks up to the door to look in the window. Donna and the Doctor finally see each other and start to mime to each other from across the room.
"Donna?!"
"Doctor!"
"What are you doing here?"
"Oh. My. God!"
"How?"
"It's me!"
"Yes, I can see that."
"Oh this is brilliant!"
"What the hell are you doing there?"
"I was looking for you!"
"What for?"
"I was reading, on the internet. Looking for something weird. I I followed them, and I heard them talking. I looked up and there…"
Donna looks over and notices Ms. Foster staring at them.
"Are we interrupting you?"
Everyone burst into laughter at the duo and the situation they found themselves in. "Of course you'd get caught! That hilarious!" Rory said through his giggles.
The Doctor uses his sonic to keep the guards from getting to Donna before using it to send the box back up to the roof. The duo meet up in the stairwell and hug before running again.
"I thought, 'How do you find the Doctor?' And then I just thought, 'Look for trouble, and he'll just turn up. So I looked everywhere, you name it. UFO sightings, crop circles, sea monsters. I looked, I found them all. Then I read something about the bees disappearing, I thought, 'I bet he's connected.' The thing is, Doctor, I believe it all now. You opened my eyes to all those amazing things out there. I believ them all. Well, apart from that replica of the titanic flying over Buckingham Palace on Christmas Day. I mean that's got to be a hoax!"
"What do you mean, the bees are disappearing?"
"I don't know. That's what it says on the internet. On the same site there was all these conspiracy theories about Adipose Industries and I thought, 'Let's have a look.'"
Donna gets into the box and the Doctor mentions that he locked the controls and it's very unlikely that Ms. Foster has a sonic.
Inside, Ms. Foster uses a sonic to open the doors to the roof. She sonics the controls and the box starts to fall, the Doctor uses his sonic to stop the box. He then tries to sonic the window open and Ms. Foster has it deadlocked. Ms. foster cuts the cable and the box tilts, causing Donna to fall out. Donna grabs ahold of a piece of metal and hangs.
The Doctor climbs back up to the other side of the box and uses his sonic to knock Ms. Foster's out of her hand so he can open the window. He tells Donna to hang on before climbing in.
The Doctor runs into the Ms. Fosters office and opens the window so he can help Donna inside. He tells Penny to make something up when she asks what's going on.
Donna pulls her blazer down and pushes the hair out of her face.
"I was right. It's always like this with you, isn't it?"
"Oh yes! And off we go."
The duo run out of the room before the Doctor pops his head back in and unties Penny, he tells her to leave before running back out.
By the phone rep stations, the Doctor and Donna run into Ms. Foster and her guards. The Doctor and Donna introduce themselves and she mentions the Doctor's sonic.
He pulls her sonic out and compliments it while showing it to Donna who agrees. He asks who Ms. Foster really is.
"Matron Cofelia of the Five-Straighten Classabindi Nursery Fleet. Intergalactic Class."
"A wet nurse. Using humans as surrogates."
"I've been employed by the Adiposian First Family to foster a new generation after their breeding planet was lost."
"What do you mean lost? How do you lose a planet?"
The people who had been involved with the planets in the sky, looked at each other with grim faces. Donna and the Doctor turned to each other with wide eyes, they hadn't realized just how long that mess had been going on for.
"How do you lose a planet?" Bill asked.
"Daleks." Came the reply from those involved.
"So those little things, they're made out of fat, yeah? But that woman, Stacy Campbell, there was nothing left of her."
"Oh! In a crisis, the Adipose can convert bone and hair and internal organs. It makes them a little bit sick, poor things."
"What about poor Stacy?"
The Doctor starts to speak.
"Seeding a level five planet is against intergalactic law."
"Are you threatening me?"
"I'm trying to help you, Mateon. This is your one chance. 'Cause if you don't call this off, then I'll have to stop you."
Matron Cofelia tells her guards to aim at the duo and Donna steps back towards the Doctor. He scrambles and pulls out his own sonic.
"No, hold on, hold on, hold on! One more thing, before dying. Do you know what happens if you hold two identical sonic devices against each other?"
"No."
"Nor me. Let's find out!"
Yaz, Ryan, and Clara laughed after Bill snapped her fingers and said, "Chaotic Vibes!"
The sonics let out a loud, high pitched sound that locks Mateon Cofelia and her guards off their feet. Donna pushes the Doctor and they start to run once more. Matron Cofelia advances the birth plan and heads off. Back in her office, Penny still hasn't left. Matron Cofelia once again has her tied to the chair.
The Doctor and Donna run to the room that he hid in, the Doctor tells her that they been hacking into the Matron's computer core that's hidden behind a false wall. He couldn't get into it earlier but now he has her sonic.
Matron Cofelia opens a false wall in her office, she tells Penny that the machine behind it is an induced. They had planned to seed millions but that the Doctor has probably already alerted the authorities.
In the room where Donna and the Doctor are, the Doctor connects two wires to shock the guards and knock them unconscious. Donna tells him he looks older and asks him if he's still on his own. He tells her about Martha and mentions that he ruined half her life.
Martha smiled sadly, she didn't blame the Doctor, at the time she had been upset and hadn't understood. But now, now she did. She only blamed the Master. He's the one who tortured her and her family. He's the one that committed horrible acts.
"I don't blame you, Doctor, so please stop blaming yourself."
"Martha…"
"No, no arguing. Just stop."
Donna asks about Rose and he tells her she's still lost. After a few moments he asks her about traveling the world.
"Easier said than done. It's like I had that one day with you, and I was going to change. I was going to do so much. Then I woke up the next morning, same old life. It's like you were never there. And I tried, I did try. I went to Egypt. I was going to go barefoot and everything. And then it's all bus trips and guidebooks and 'Don't drink the water' and two weeks later you're back home."
The Doctor stands and she hands him a wire before he sonics the machine.
"It's nothing like being with you. I must've been mad turning down that offer."
"What offer?"
"To come with you."
"Come with me?"
"Oh! Yes, please?"
Before the Doctor can say anything else a mechanical voice cuts him off. The voice tells him that the inducer has been activated. The Doctor starts to panic.
Matron Cofelia tells Penny to mark the date because one million children will be born.
Donna's mom is at a restaurant with friends when her friend starts to act strangely. Other people in the restaurant start to act strange too. The Adipose are starting to appear. People start to panic as the Adipose emerge and run out of the restaurant onto the road.
There are thousands of Adipose running around, they're headed to the Adipose building.
The Doctor tells Donna that the Matron set it to emergency parthenogenesis and a million people are going to die.
The Doctor pulls the necklace he stole, out of his pocket and inserts it into the computer core. The Matron sees that he's trying to cancel the signal and boosts it. Donna asks what he needs and he tells her he needs another necklace, Donna pulls out the one she stole and they laugh before he shuts the signal down completely.
Matron Cofelia walks to the window as the nursery ship appears.
Donna's mom hears the ship and runs out to see what it is.
On the hill, Wilf had his headphones on and is listening to music while facing away from the city. He's missing everything.
The Doctor and Donna stay behind to read the instructions from the Adiposian First Family.
Matron Cofelia addresses the children and tells them that they're going home. The ship starts to lift them in a levitation beam.
The Doctor tells Donna that Matron Cofelia is in trouble and they run out of the room.
Matron Cofelia starts to rise with the children. The Doctor and Donna get to the roof and watch the children fly up into the ship. She asks if he's going to blow them up and he says they're just children.
"Oh that makes a change from last time. That Martha must've done you good."
"Yeah, she did. Yeah. Yeah. She did. She fancied me."
"Mad Martha, that one. Blind Martha. Charity Martha."
Donna winced before turning to look at Martha with an apologetic look. Martha just shook her head and laughed before grabbing Mickey's hand and laying her head on his shoulder.
The little Adipose from the window appears and waves at Donna, she and the Doctor wave back as it flies away.
"I'm waving at fat!"
Matron Cofelia rises past them and they run to the edge of the roof. The Doctor tells her to move over to him, that he's trying to help her. He tells her that the Adiposian First Family know that what they're doing is illegal and now that they have their babies they don't need her.
The beam shuts off and Matron Cofelia falls to the ground. Donna hides her face in the Doctor's shoulder and the ship flies away.
Below, the Doctor throws the Matron's sonic pen away and Penny runs out, still tied to the chair.
"Oi! You two! You're just mad! You hear me? Mad! And I'm going to report you for…. Madness!"
"Good luck with that!" Jack laughed.
Donna pulls the Doctor to the alley where she parked and he walks towards the TARDIS, Donna notices that he's parked near her car. She opens the hatch and starts to pull out boxes and other luggage.
"I packed ages ago, just in case. 'Cause I thought, 'Hot weather. Cold weather. No weather. He goes anywhere. I've got to be prepared.'"
"You've got a… a hatbox."
"Planet of the hats, I'm ready!"
She asks if she needs injections and starts to panic when the Doctor doesn't speak. She thinks he's changed his mind.
"It's a funny old life, in the TARDIS."
"You don't want me."
"I'm not saying that."
"But you asked me. Would you rather be on your own?"
"No. Actually, no. But… The last time, with Martha, like I said, it… it got complicated. And that was all my fault. I… I just want a mate."
"You just want to mate!"
The group, including the Master, broke out into laughter at Donna's words. All of them laughing at the miscommunication on screen.
"I just want 'a' mate."
"You're not mating with me, sunshine!"
"'A' mate! I want 'a' mate!"
"We'll just as well, because I won't be having any of that nonsense. I mean, you're just a long streak of nothing. You know, alien nothing."
"There we are, then. Okay."
"I can come?"
"Yeah. Of course you can, yeah. I'd love it."
Donna runs to hug him but remembers that she still has the car keys. She calls her mom and tells her she's putting them in a trash can on the corner of Brook Street.
She runs up to a blonde woman and tells her to point the bin out to her mom when she gets there. The woman turns around and it's, Rose. Rose walks away and disappears.
"Was that one of the first times you traveled back?"
"Yeah, that was the first test run. I didn't realize that was Donna or I would've gotten the message to you sooner!" Rose chuckled.
Donna runs into the TARDIS and the Doctor starts to introduce them, she interrupts and tells him he could turn the heat up. He asks where she wants to go and she points before telling him she wants to go "two and a half miles, that way."
On the hill, Wilf looks up and sees the TARDIS. He yells out for Donna before looking through his telescope and seein Donna with the Doctor. He throws his hat in the air and starts dancing.
The room smiled at the old man's joy as the screen went black. Everyone sat up and started chatting as they waited for the next video to play.
"There's more shadows than there were before. Are you sure the plan will work?" CAL asked the brunette on her screen.
"Of course I'm sure, she just has to rile them up a bit. When she does she'll signal us and we'll turn the program on. You just have to make sure all the lights are on in The Library. If even one light is off, the plan won't work."
"Okay, I'll check." Charlotte ran into another room and flicked the switches on the wall to the 'on' position before running out. As she rounded to corner to head back to the office she ran into a pair of legs.
"River! What are you doing?"
River stared down at the little girl before helping her up, "I should be asking you that. What's going on out there?"
"N-no-nothing! Nothing at all. You should be going now. Bye!" The little girl pushed past her and closed the door behind her.
River walked up to the door and placed her ear to it but couldn't hear anything. She stepped away and walked towards the living room and turned the television on. She flipped through channels until she came upon the one she wanted.
Inside the main room of The Library was a readheaded woman near a phone box. She turned up the volume and listened.
"Weeeelllll, that's the part you may not like…"
Goodness, this chapter was intimidating. I was a bit apprehensive about writing about the Doctor and Master's first trip with the girls. I'm still not too sure about it since I still wanted to keep it written as if it were an actual episode. I hope I did it justice though!
would you all like to read a series of the girls' adventures once you all learn who they are? If you would, please let me know, I have so many adventures I plan on taking them on but only so little time to actually show you everything in each chapter.
I hope you liked this chapter, if you did, please let me know.
Anyway, I'll see you in the next update!