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Remnant Who

By ReaderWarrior

I do not own Doctor Who or RWBY.


The Parting of the Ways (B)


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Honorary (dead) companions:

Clive, Raffalo, Moxx, Jabe, Sneed, Gwyneth, Ganesh, De Maggio, Suki, Pete Tyler, the Controller

'Bigger on the inside!'s:

2 (Rose, Jackie)

Fantastic's:

12 (+1)

Harriet Jones' greetings:

6

Exterminate!'s:

21 (+10)


Mickey finds Rose at an empty playground, just across the road from the abandoned T.A.R.D.I.S. "You can't spend the rest of your life thinking about the Doctor," he says.

"But how do I forget him?" she asks.

"You've got to start living your own life. You know, a proper life, like the kind he's never had. The sort of life that you could have with me."

Weiss growled softly. "This is not the time for you to try and get together with your old flame, Mickey!"

"I don't think he is," Blake said. "He's trying to show her that the Doctor couldn't give her everything and that 'normal' life can still have surprises that she wouldn't be able to experience with him."

Rose's attention turns away from Mickey and back toward the play area's tarmac. There, on the ground and written in chalk, were the words 'Bad Wolf'. She jumps up and walks to the center of it and notices that all the graffiti on the walls around them also spells the same message

Bad Wolf.

Team RWBY shivered.

"What's doing this?" Ruby asked.

"The better question," Weiss frowned, "is what can do this."

"It's not the Daleks. Or at least they seem pretty intensively sure of it," Blake said.

Yang nodded. "I don't think they would have to lie. Especially not when they're about to kill the Doctor."

"Then that leaves, what, exactly?" Qrow asked. He scratched his chin and sighed. "For all we know, it's the Doctor from the future."

"But that would mean he's interfering in his own timeline," Ruby said.

"Over here," Rose gasps, running to the graffiti-covered wall. "It's over here as well!"

Mickey follows but rolls his eyes. "That's been there for years. It's just a phrase. It's just words."

"I thought it was a warning. Maybe it's the opposite. Maybe it's a message! The same words are written down now and two hundred thousand years in the future. It's a link between me and the Doctor. Bad Wolf here, Bad Wolf there."

"But if it's a message, what's it saying?"

"It's telling me I can get back," she realizes. Rose rushes back over to the T.A.R.D.I.S. "The least I can do is help him escape."

Ruby held her head in her hands. "But HOW?!"

"Maybe if she clicks her heels and says 'Bad Wolf' three times, it'll take her to him," the Librarian said.

"Really?"

"No."

"You're mean," she said.


Jack and his militia has fortified the entryway to Floor 499. Everything that wasn't attached to a wall or riveted down is now used in the creation of a barricade.

"Stand your ground, everyone," he says. "Follow my commands. And good luck."


"You were right." The monitor in front of Lynda shows small, red-highlighted Daleks making their way through a small passage near the top of the satellite. "They're forcing the airlock on four nine four."

Qrow nodded. "Smart of Jack to anticipate where the Daleks will attack from. And smart of them to prepare for it."

"Hopefully they can stop them before they have to resort to the Delta Wave," Weiss said.


"All the T.A.R.D.I.S needs to do is make a return trip," Rose says as she and Mickey stare at the console. "Just reverse."

He shakes his head. "Yeah, but we still can't do it."

"The Doctor always said the T.A.R.D.I.S was telepathic. This thing is alive. It can listen."

"It's not listening now, is it?"

Blake shook her head. "It is listening."

"Then they need to make it listen to them and not the Doctor," Yang said.

"But what will that do? Everyone will still die and it might fall into the Dalek's hands. Or suction-cup thingy."

Rose presses her hand against one of the console segments. "We need to get inside it. Last time I saw you, with the Slitheen, this middle bit opened. There was this light, and the Doctor said it was the heart of the T.A.R.D.I.S. If we can open it, I can make contact, I can tell it what to do."

"Rose, if you go back, you're going to die."

"That's a risk I've got to take cos there's nothing left for me here."

The watch party winces. "Ooh, that's got to hurt."

"Nothing?" Mickey asks.

"No."

The man pauses. "Okay, if that's what you think… let's get this thing open."

Weiss cocks her head to the side. "He's still going to help her?"

"Because he loves her," Ruby said. "Even if she doesn't love him. He will help her no matter what."

"And it would be him finally letting go," Qrow agreed. But if I were in his shoes, I'd maybe want her to fail or die trying.


Daleks continue down a corridor, leading to where a small band of Jack's group has gathered. The lead woman, the Weakest Link manager, holds her hand out close to a console.

"Okay," Jack's voice speaks from a radio in her other hand, "activate internal lasers. Slice 'em up!"

The woman presses her palm into the console. However, nothing happens and the Daleks continue their advance.

The radio crackles as Lynda interrupts. "Defences have gone offline. The Daleks have overridden them."

Yang growled. "Damn it."

The floor manager quickly runs back to her squadron where they all wait for the Daleks to turn the corner. When they do, the group opens fire, spraying blastit bullets down the hall that seem to vanish mid-air.

No move to dodge comes from the aliens as a group of three Daleks stops in the middle of the corridor. The bullets do, in fact, vanish as they come in contact with their force fields. Not even a spark scratches against their paint.

"You lied to me!" the manager yells, grabbing her radio in between bursts. "The bullets don't work!"

Before Jack, or anyone else, can answer, a bluish-green beam of energy strikes her chest, making her skeleton glow before her body falls dead to the floor.

Ruby gasped. "He lied to them! Jack said their guns would hurt the Daleks!"

"He told his army what they needed to hear," the Librarian said. His face was as hard as stone but he too flinched as the woman died. "They wouldn't have helped if they knew they were going to die. Jack's doing what he can to stall for time."

"But they could have stayed down at Floor Zero!"

He shook his head. "Then they would die after they kill the Doctor."


A chain has been fastened between Mickey's car and the T.A.R.D.I.S console. Rose stands inside, the doors wide open with Jackie standing close by, as Mickey starts to press on the gas pedal. The chain goes taunt but the console doesn't budge.

"Faster!"

Mickey burns rubber, slamming his foot down and blowing smoke throughout the street. Jackie covers her eyes as Mickey slams his hands on the wheel.

"Come on!" he growls.

"It's not moving!" Rose yells just as the number holding the chain to Mickey's car rips away.

Mickey quickly slams on the brakes and looks back, only to see the chain on the ground and the console unopened. Rose kicks it in frustration.

"I doubt that a simple car could open up a time machine's 'heart' chamber," Weiss said. "They need something that's equal in strength to the rift."

Blake nodded. "Or, if it's the engine, they need to find a button that opens it. Like how you would open the hood of a car to check the dust levels."


A pile of electronics surrounds the Doctor as he frantically tries to work on the Delta Wave.

"Advance guard have made it to Four-Nine-Five," Lynda declares.

Qrow sighs. "Then they're all dead."

"Wrongful deaths," the Librarian said, placing his hand on the huntsman's shoulder.

"Let's hope the Doctor avenges them."

"Jack," the Doctor says, not even able to look up from his task, "how're we doing?"


The man smiles into his communicator. "Four-Five-Nine should be good. I like Four-Five-Nine."


The Daleks roll into the main chamber of Floor 459 and pause. "Identify yourself!" it declares as they surround another robotic-like creature in the center of the room.

It doesn't. The Anne Droid looks up at them and says "You are The Weakest Link. Goodbye!"

The mouthpiece opens, revealing the gun barrel, before firing quickly on the Daleks. All three of them vanish into ash in quick succession.


Jack watches from a screen in front of him. "Yes!"

Team RWBY lets out similar cheers.

"I never thought I'd be happy to see that thing," Yang smiled.

"Me neither," Ruby said. "but if they use it to hold them back, then they win!"

The blonde nodded. "But it's still just using the transmat system. It just sent the Daleks back to the ship."

"By the time they can come back, the Doctor will be done," Ruby said with hope.


More and more Daleks enter the chamber.

"You are The Weakest Link," the Anne Droid says, turning to her newest targets. "Good-"

The Daleks fire before it finishes. The robot's head explodes and the rest of it slouches forward. A small 'ding' echoes as the headpiece lands on the ground after being launched upward.

"Byeeeeeeee."

Blake clenched her fists. "They took it out almost immediately!"

"Hopefully those few seconds were enough," Qrow said.

The Dalek that fired turns to its brethren as they enter. "Proceed to next level."


"They're flying up the ventilation shafts," Lynda reports, studying her screen. Then she pauses. "No, wait a minute… God, why're they doing that?"

The panel shows a group of red dots heading toward the base of the satellite.

"They're going down!"

Weiss covered her mouth and tears filled her eyes. "Oh no."


"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

Those who elected to hide don't even get a chance to react as the doors open and the Daleks enter.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

Rays of radiation fire around the room, each one hitting its targets.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

The humans scream and try to run, but the Daleks surround them on all sides.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

Rodrick quickly hides behind the stack of crates. "You can't!" he yells. "You don't exist!"

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

A Dalek notices him and approaches.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

"It's not fair!" Rodrick's cries, back against a wall. "I won the game! I should be rich! I'm a winner! You can't do this to me!"

There's no pity in the Dalek's eyestalk as it rattles at him.

"Exterminate!"


The screams of both humans and Daleks alike echo throughout the observation gallery. Lynda tries to cover her ears but she can still hear it. Crying softly, she shuts off the audio on the panel and shakes her head.

"Floor Zero," she says. "They killed them all."

The silence in the theater hurt almost as much as the screaming. Ruby was curled up in a ball. Weiss had covered her eyes. Blake had turned away, clutching her ring in one hand and Yang's with the other. Even Yang couldn't watch, pressing her eyes shut tight.

The only one who hadn't turned away was Qrow. He looked to the Librarian for a moment and realized that he too was keeping his eyes shut. They're just kids… even him. He grabbed his niece's heads and kissed them. "The Doctor will fix this. I'm sure of it."

It had been a long time since he was sure of anything. But he knew that the Doctor would win in the end.


Rose has moved to the single chair in the room with her feet up and eyes closed as Jackie talks over her shoulder.

"It was never going to work, sweetheart. And the Doctor knew that. He just wanted you to be safe.

"I can't give up," Rose says.

"Lock the door," her mother says. "Walk away."

Ruby clutched her head like she had a headache. "Ugh! I want Rose to find the Doctor but I also know Jackie's just trying to keep her safe."

"I doubt Rose will ever give up," Blake said. "What Jackie should do is just leave her be."

Rose turns to her. "Dad wouldn't give up."

"Well, he's not here, is he? And even if he was, he'd say the same."

"No he wouldn't," she snaps. "He'd tell me to try anything. If I could save the Doctor's life, try anything."

Jackie pauses. "Well, we're never going to know."

"Well, I know. Cos I met him. I met Dad."

"I don't think this is the best time to reveal this to her, Rose," Weiss said.

Yang shrugged. "Better late than never. And Jackie needs to remember the man she married, not the father she made up for Rose."

"Don't be ridiculous," Jackie says.

Rose sits up and stares into her mother's eyes. "The Doctor took me back in time and I met Dad."

"Don't say that."

"Remember when Dad died? There was someone with him… A girl, a blonde girl." Tears start to fall down Rose's cheeks as she recounts the story. "She held his hand. You saw her from a distance, Mum, you saw her! Think about it. That was me. You saw me."

"Stop it." Tears filled her eyes too.

"That's how good the Doctor-"

Jackie steps towards the door and clutches her head. "Stop it! Just stop it!" She turns around and runs back outside, leaving Rose to cry alone.

"She needed to know," Blake said.

Weiss nodded. "But what'll it accomplish? Now, with Rose trying to leave her - after her own daughter claimed there was no reason to stay - Jackie is being reminded of the man that she loved and lost."

"Perhaps so she can understand how Rose must feel."


"Lynda!" the Doctor yells. "What's happening on Earth?"

The girl presses a few buttons. "The fleet's descending. They're bombing whole continents!"

The screen displays a map of the Earth. Then little icons to indicate bombings bloom over the different landmasses, distorting them to unrecognizable shapes. She looks up and sees it right outside the window, large explosions all around the world burning.

"Europa, Pacifica, the New American Alliance…" she lists with a gasp. "Australasia's just gone!"

"All those people… gone," Yang muttered angrily. "They're just killing them for no reason."

"Not for 'no' reason," Qrow said.

"Their reason is that they are racist, speciesist, monsters that love to kill! That's even worse!"


On the Dalek warship, the Emperor watches in satisfaction opposite to Lynda's horror. "This is perfection," he declares. "I have created heaven on Earth."

"He's making a new Skarro," the Librarian whispered.

Ruby's eyes widened. "They're taking away the Doctor's second home after destroying the first, and turning it into theirs."


Jack paces back and forth behind the wall that he, and the others, had made. They're sheltering behind it with gun barrels pocketing through small parts of changing fence, holes in barrels, and gaps in wooden planks.

"Floor Four-Nine-Nine, were the last defense," he says. "The bullets should work if you concentrate them on the Dalek's eyestalk. I've got the forcefield at maximum, so Dalek firepower should be at its weakest."

"Would that really work?" Weiss asked.

"Possibly," the Librarian answered. "It is where the Dalek's force fields are weakest."

"But…" She sighed. "It feels as if they're throwing rocks at a Nevermore to knock it out of the sky."

He raised an eyebrow. "One of those rocks might just hit it just right."

The two producers share a glance as Jack moves into position on the wall. "I'm only here cos of you," Pavale says. "I joined the program cos you were on it."

"Am I supposed to say 'When this is all over and if we're still alive, maybe we could go for a drink'?" she asks, checking her scope.

Pavale shrugs. "That'd be nice."

"Yeah, well, tough." He looks at her and earns a wink. Pavale smiles and focuses down his line of fire, waiting for the Daleks to come.

"Why'd they have to make these two likable?!" Yang asked. "Now I'm going to feel bad if they die!"

"It just shows that people can change," Ruby said. "We wanted them to die before, remember?"

"That was when. Thought they were as bad as the Daleks!"

"Maybe… maybe no one is that evil. They- we, are just human. And there's more to us than good or bad."


"There's got to be something else we can do," Mickey says as he and Rose lean against his car (still missing a rear bumper) and stare at the T.A.R.D.I.S.

Rose sighs. "Mum was right. Maybe we should just lock the door and walk away."

"No!" everyone yelled.

"I'm not having that." Mickey shakes his head and grabs Rose's shoulders. "I'm not having you just… give up now. No way. We just need something stronger than my car. Something bigger. Something like that." His eyes were focusing on something behind her.

Turning around, Rose sees a big, yellow recovery truck turn the corner with lights flashing. It stops just in front of them and Jackie jumps out of the driver's seat.

Qrow whistled. "That's definitely going to be stronger than Mick's little car."

"Right, you've only got this until six o'clock, so get on with it."

Rose smiles. "Mum, where the hell did you get that from?"

"Rodrigo," Jackie says. "He owes me a favor. Never mind why, but you were right about your dad sweetheart. He was full of mad ideas, and it's exactly what he would've done. Now, get on with it before I change my mind."

She tosses Mickey the keys. He and Rose share a smile before they each, respectively, run off to the recovery truck and T.A.R.D.I.S.

"I pray that is enough," Weiss said.

Yang nodded. "I don't want to know what it'll take if it doesn't."


The elevator to Floor 499 opens and a flood of Daleks enter.

"Open fire!"

At Jack's command, a storm of bullets meets the alien invaders.


The Doctor, upon hearing the gunfire the flow before, rushes to plug in a massive power cable.

"How much longer is this Delta Wave going to take?!" Qrow asked.

"I think the Wave part is done," Weiss said. "But the Doctor just needs to make sure it's strong enough to spread all over the Earth."


There's no sign that the bullets are bouncing off the Dalek's armored suits. Like all those before them, they simply vanish as they reach the edge of the Dalek's shields.

"It's not working!" Pavale yells.

Jack pulls away from the wall. "Concentrate your fire," he says, his voice somehow booming over all the gunfire. Jack looks back through one of the openings. "Eyestalk, two o'clock!"

The group all point their guns at the lead Dalek and fire. After a few moments, the blue light inside of its 'eye' turns black.

"Eye vision is impaired!" it cries, turning left and right. "I cannot see."

Team RWBY cheered!

"Yes!"

"They have a chance!"

"The Doctor still has time."

"Who's getting exterminated now, Daleks?!"

"Get 'em!"

Pavale's friend cheers "We did it!" before a beam of radiation strikes her directly. She screams before falling dead, hanging off the fence like a doll.

"No!" Pavale screams.

His cry was echoed by the watching party.

Pavale jumps up from his position and sprays bullets wildly at the Daleks. "No!"

Then another blast hits him and he falls dead too.

Blake quickly hid her tears. "Wrongful deaths. All of them."

Qrow nodded. "Not exactly rightful lives. But at least they did their best at the end."


Something behind her door was making a noise. Lynda slowly turns to it and whispers "I've got a problem."

"Human female detected," a small Dalek voice whispers from the other side.

Lynda steps back against the console. "They've found me."

Ruby shuddered. "No, not here," she cried. "Not Lynda too!"

"You'll be alright, Lynda," the Doctor assures her. "That side of the station's reinforced against meteors."

"Hope so! You know what they say about Earth workmanship." Lynda's voice shakes as she hears the Dalek move around.


On the other side of the door, the Daleks move aside as a new one moves forward. Unlike the others, this one has a claw-like appendage instead of a plunger. The claw opens and it ignites.

The Dalek presses the appendage against the door and


Lynda watches as it slowly, but surely, cuts through the metal.

"If he had the T.A.R.D.I.S, he could rescue her," Weiss said.

"Rose would have never left the T.A.R.D.I.S if she knew the Doctor was going to go back after dropping her off," Yang said. "And he wouldn't want her to be here if he finishes the Wave."

"She doesn't deserve this. All Lynda wanted to do was escape."

She panics and spins back around to look out the window. To her horror, a trio of Daleks floats in the void of space right outside and practically presses themselves against the glass.

The lights on the leader's head flash. Once, then three more times in quick succession, before the glass shatters and Lynda screams.

Then her voice goes silent.

For what felt like the hundredth time, Ruby and her team began to cry.

"This isn't fair," Blake whispered. "She was just a girl. She didn't deserve this."

Ruby's face was almost as red as her cloak. "The Daleks don't care. They kill people just for existing, no matter if you're as pure as Lynda or as rotten as Rodrick."

"It's life," the Librarian said. "The worst parts of it in one suit of armor."

"That means the Doctor is the best right?"

He doesn't answer.


The Doctor hears the glass shatter and her scream. And he hears the silence of her death. His hands shake for a moment as he strings wires together and his face turns to sorrow.

Then it hardens and he gets back to work.


Gun in hand and firing wildly, Jack runs backward down rust-stained halls, yelling, "Last man standing! For God's sake, Doctor, finish that thing and kill them!"

The Dalek Emperor's voice booms through the entire satellite. "Finish that thing and kill mankind."

"It would be a mercy," Yang growled. "One second rather than the carnage you will bring!"

"But he'd still be killing everyone," Weiss said.


Once again, Rose, Jackie, and Mickey take their places. The chain is in place and the engine is on. Rose gives a signal, which her mother repeats, and Mickey nods. His foot presses down on the pedal and the recovery truck inches forward. The chain goes taunt and the truck stops in place.

"Keep going!" Rose yells.

"Put your foot down," Jackie adds.

"Faster!"

Mickey does so, easing down on the gas slowly so as to not break the machine. The chain creaks and the console groans.

"He's doing it!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Don't give up!" Weiss said.

Blake held her hands together. "Give it all it's got!"

"Pedal to the metal, Mickey the Idiot!" Yang cheered.

Rose notices the centerpiece shudder. "Faster!"

"Give it some more, Mickey!"

"Keep going!"

"Come on, come on!"

"Keep going!" Rose yells one more time.

"Give it some more," Jackie adds.

The three of them yell together. Even the truck seems to scream.

Then, the chain snaps. And the console piece flies open.

"YES!"

Mickey slams on the brake as the truck lunges forward. He turns around to see Rose step in front of the yellow energy now spilling forth. It starts to pour into her eyes as the T.A.R.D.I.S doors slam shut.

"Rose!" Mickey yells, leaping out of the truck and over to Jackie. They are pushed back as the wind picks up and the T.A.R.D.I.S begins to dematerialize. This time, however, golden light shines from every corner of the blue box.

"She's doing it!" Blake cheered. "She's got it working."

Yang grabbed her hand and smiled. "She's going to save the Doctor!"


"Doctor, you've got twenty seconds maximum," Jack yells as he runs, backward, down a corner. The Daleks chase him slowly. They don't have to run, he can't escape.


The control room's floor is covered in cords and cables as the Doctor pushes wires into the device in the center of the room.


Flying at speeds almost too fast to see, the T.A.R.D.I.S rockets through time and space. It spins with golden light with Rose at its center. More and more energy continues to flow into her eyes.

"They're communicating," Ruby realized.


The bullets in Jack's gun run out. He tosses away the machine gun and pulls out a pistol. Then, shortly after a few seconds of firing, that too is empty. He throws it aside as the Daleks stop in front of him. Jack sticks his chin out and stares them down.

"Exterminate!" it rattles.

"I kind of figured that." Jack holds his arm wide, awaiting the blow.

It comes and knocks him against the rusted wall. Red-like blood.

"No!" Qrow roared. "You BASTARDS!"

The room shook, knocking everyone out of their seats.

"Keep your semblance in check," the Librarian warned. "There's no telling what will happen to this ship if you throw us out of the Fold."

Qrow grabbed the Librarian and threw him onto his seat. "And be like you? You don't seem to feel a damn thing!"

"I feel it every time. From the first with my mother and father, to now with you." He brushed his jacket off and helped Weiss sit down. "I just know how the story ends."


The Doctor pulls up on the plunger and a hum vibrates through the satellite. "It's ready!" But no one is left to hear him.

No one, except, the Daleks. They swarm into the room from every entrance, surrounding him and his floor of cables.

"You really want to think about this," he warns. "Cos if I activate the signal, every living creature dies."

"There's no one left anyways," Yang whispered.

Blake nudged her. "There's the human on the surface."

"The surface that got bombed?"

"Hey," she smirked. "You humans are resilient. I'm sure there are some already fighting the Daleks in their own way."

"I am immortal." The Dalek Emperor appears on screen once more.

The Doctor places a hand on the device. "Do you want to put that to the test?"

"I want to see you become like me," it answers. "Hail the Doctor, the Great Exterminator!"

Weiss' eyes widened. "He would make a good Dalek. That's what the one before said. He's about to prove it right."

"He has to," Ruby said. "To stop them from killing more people."

"And to get revenge on those they've already killed," Qrow growled.

One of those is heroic, the heiress frowned. The other sounds like Dalek reasoning.

Both of his hands grip the plunger. "I'll do it!" he warns.

"Then prove yourself, Doctor - what are you, coward or killer?"

Arms shaking and teeth gnashing, the Doctor tries to push down on the device. But he stops. His hands slide off the plunger and he looks up from the device and into the Dalek's eye.

"Coward," he answers. "Any day."

"What are you doing?!" Qrow yelled. "Push it! It's the right thing to do."

"It may be the right thing," Yang realized. "But it's not the Doctor thing."

The Librarian nodded. "He's been here before already. Surrounded by Daleks, hands on a button that will end everything once and for all."

"And the Doctor has regretted that decision every day since," Ruby said.

"He killed his people," Blake said. "They pushed him to it, but he pressed the button."

"So how can we expect him to make the worst decision of his life, again?" Weiss asks with a soft smile.

"He's going to die!"

They all nodded.

"But it'll be on his terms."

"Mankind will be harvested because of your weakness," the Emperor says.

"And what about me?" he asks. "Am I becoming one of your angels?"

"You are the Heathen. You will be exterminated."

The Doctor gives a dead man's smile. "Maybe it's time."

"'Everything has its time'," Blake remembered.

Yang nodded. "'And everything dies.'"

"Not this time," the Librarian whispered.

Closing his eyes, the Doctor waits for the inevitable strike of his extermination. However, unlike with Jack, it doesn't come.

Instead, the wind picks up and something begins to give off a mechanical wheeze. Daleks and Time Lord alike turn to see the rectangular shape of a police box appear behind them.

"Alert!" a Dalek cries. "T.A.R.D.I.S materializing!"

Everyone cheered.

"Just in time, Rose," Ruby smiled.

Weiss clutched her chest. "I thought it was over."

"We forgot about Rose," Blake said. "They all did. And now it's going to cost them."

"They don't even need to fight," Yang realized. Her hands shook in excitement. "All the Doctor has to do is get in and they can run away."

Qrow's eyebrows furrowed even more. "But what about everyone they lost just to get here?"

"You will not escape!" the Emperor says.

The doors burst open and golden light floods out. Tendrils of yellow energy snake across the room as Rose's silhouette stands at its center. The Doctor stumbles back as she vanishes, only to reappear a few seconds later directly in front of him.

"What's happening?!" Weiss yelled as they covered their eyes.

Ruby shrugged. "How am I supposed to know?"

"You're the prodigy!"

"Not in time travel!"

"What've you done?" the Doctor gasps.

"I looked into the T.A.R.D.I.S, and the T.A.R.D.I.S looked into me." There's an echo to Rose's voice, as if dozens of herself were all speaking at the same time.

"You looked into the time vortex," he realizes. "Rose, no one's meant to see that."

"This is the Abomination!" the Emperor roars.

One of the soldiers shakes. "Exterminate!"it says before firing.

"No!"

However, Rose catches the beam in her hand. Her eyes flash golden and the energy beam rewinds backward into the Dalek as if it had never fired.

"HUH?!"

"I am the Bad Wolf," she explains. "I create myself. I take the words -" Rose waves her hand and the letters of the corporation's name fly off the wall "- and I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here."

Small, golden portals open and the letters fly through them.

To the name of a Slitheen project.

To the side of the T.A.R.D.I.S as a kid with a spray can walks up.

One of a man at a microphone as a helicopter flies overhead and another into an alien's mouth at a party.

Another shows a near-empty barn with an ornate box.

And, of course, the parking lot over dozens of different moments.

"What?!" Everyone turned to the Librarian. His dark demeanor seemed to have been burned away in the light, returning him to his normal self.

"She's become a fourth-dimensional being," he explained. Skipping herself from the moment she was standing in the door, to the moment she would be in front of the Doctor. Taking the phrase 'bad wolf' and throwing it throughout all of their adventures."

"But isn't that interfering with events?" Ruby asked.

"Not if those events were always going to happen that way. The Bad Wolf created those references. It's a living Bootstrap Paradox."

Blake scratched her ears. "Then… how did the first Rose do it if she hadn't have any of the clues?"

"She did have them. She did before, therefore she'd have it later," the Librarian chuckled. "It's a tough concept to understand. I barely understand it."

"Oh, that's good," Yang smiled. "I thought I was the only one hearing gibberish there."

"Rose, you've got to stop this, you've got to stop this now!" The Doctor is still on the floor, surrounded by Daleks, but his focus is all on her. "You've got the entire vortex running through your head. You're gonna burn!"

She looks down at him with golden eyes. "I want you safe." He stares back. "My Doctor… protected from the false god."

"You cannot hurt me," the Dalek Emperor says. "I am immortal."

"You are tiny!" she, along with hundreds of other Rose's yell. "I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence… and I divide them."

Clenching her fist, the Bad Wolf's body glows and the energy expands. The Daleks surrounding them begin to fall apart, pieces of them floating off and becoming smaller.

"She's ripping their molecules apart," Qrow gasped. "Turning them into… nothing."

Yang patted him on the shoulder. "How's that for vengeance?"

More and more of the monsters begin to turn from Dalek into sand.

"Everything must come to dust. All things. Everything dies." The Bad Wolf raises her hands and golden energy bursts forth, exploding from the entire station. "The Time War ends."


The energy ripples across the entire planet. Daleks everywhere turn to dust. Even the fleet is not safe, the ships crumbling away as the Emperor stomps around inside.

"I will not die!" it screams. "I cannot die!"

But it too turns to dust in a burst of golden energy.

"They did it!" Ruby cheered. "They actually stopped them!"

Weiss smiled. "The Time Lord is over. The Doctor can finally move on."

"But what about Rose?" Blake asked.

"Rose? She kicked Dalek butt!" Yang smiled.

Qrow shook her head. "No. The Bad Wolf did that. But what's going to happen to Rose?"


Thus, only the Doctor and her are left.

"Rose, you've done it," he pleads. "Now stop. Just let it go."

However, she remains frozen in place. "How can I let go of this? I bring life."


Somewhere, against a rusted wall, Captain Jack Harkness breathes again."

"Holy shit," Qrow gasped.


"But this is wrong! You can't control life and death!"

"But I can. The sun and the moon, the day and the night." The Bad Wolf continues to glow and tears stream down her cheeks. She looks down at the Doctor. "But why do they hurt?"

"Because no one can handle becoming a fourth-dimension being," the Librarian explained. "It'll burn her inside out until she is lost in the streams of time."

"But that means…" Ruby's joy changed into horror. "She's dying."

"The power's going to kill you and it's my fault!" he sobs.

"I can see everything… All that is… All that was… All that ever could be."

The Doctor's eyes widened. "That's what I see." He jumps to his feet. "All the time. And doesn't it drive you mad?"

Yang grabbed her armrest and gasped. "That speech in the first episode! He's a Time Lord!"

"That's right!" Weiss said. "He can handle it!"

Unable to move, the Bad Wolf continues to cry. "My head…"

"Come here," he says, taking her hands.

"It's killing me!"

Slowly, the last of the Time Lords pulls his companion close. "I think you need a doctor," he whispers before leaning down and placing his lips to hers. The Doctor and Rose kiss in the glow of the time Vortex.

And as they each close their eyes, the energy transfers from her to him.

"Yes, yes, YES, YES, YES!" Blake yelled, holding her hands in the air.

Yang whistled and laughed. "It's about damn time!"

"I certainly hope she's enjoying even just half of you two," Weiss smirked.

"It's love, Weiss!" Ruby smiled. "Love saved Rose!"

When the stream ends, Rose goes limp in the Doctor's arms. He lays her on the ground carefully and then stands back up. Now it's his eyes that are glowing with power.

But unlike Rose, he gives it up.

The Doctor exhales and the energy returns back to the T.A.R.D.I.S. The glow from within the police box fades and slowly returns to normal. As the Doctor steps back, smiling softly, the doors close with one last final creak.

"Then… it worked, right?" Ruby asked. "He fixed it?"

"I think so?" Weiss said.


When Rose opens her eyes, she's back in the T.A.R.D.I.S. Like nothing has happened. The Doctor's at the controls and the ship's rotor is pumping at a steady pace.

"What happened?"

"Don't you remember?"

"It's like…" Rose struggles to sit up. "There was this singing?"

The Doctor smiles. "That's right. I sang a song and the Daleks ran away."

"I was at home… No, I wasn't. I was in the T.A.R.D.I.S." Rose shakes her head. "And there was this light… I can't remember anything else."

"You're telling me… That after waiting for over twelve episodes, the Doctor and Rose finally kiss, AND SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER A THING?!" Blake roared in anger and lunged at the Librarian.

Yang caught her and pulled her back. "It's a side effect, right? It's not his fault. And he can always tell her what happened."

Blake hissed. "But she still won't remember!"

"She'll know he loves her," the blonde smiled. "And she knows how she feels too."

As Rose tries to piece together her missing few minutes, the Doctor notices that the veins in his hand are glowing. He quickly hides it.

"What's that?" Ruby asked.

The Librarian remained silent.

"You promised us no more secrets."

"I never actually said 'I promise'," he smiled.

The Doctor turns to his companion and smiles. "Rose Tyler… I was going to take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You'd love it. Fantastic place. They've got dogs with no noses. Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's still funny."

"Then why can't we go?" Rose asks as the Doctor's laugh fades.

"Maybe you will, and maybe I will, but not like this."

Weiss frowned. "What does that mean?"

"You're not making sense." Rose slowly stands back up.

"I might never make sense again," he smiles. "I might have two heads or no head! Imagine me with no head. And don't say that's an improvement." The Doctor shakes his head but keeps his grin. "But it's a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you're going to end up with."

"Did the vortex energy mess with his head?" Blake asked.

Suddenly, he convulses backward and clutches his chest.

Rose reaches for him. "Doctor!"

"Stay away!" he snaps, keeping his distance.

"Doctor, tell me what's going on."

"I absorbed all the energy of the time vortex," he explains, wincing in pain, "and no one's meant to do that. Every cell in my body's dying."

"Can't you do something?!"

"Yeah, I'm doin' it now."

"You're standing around doing nothing!" Yang yelled. "Is the T.A.R.D.I.S taking them someplace for him to get treated?"

"Time Lords have this little trick," he explains, "it's… sort of a way of cheating death. Except… It means I'm going to change. I'm not going to see you again. Not like this, not with this daft old face. And before I go-"

Rose cuts him off. "Don't say that." Her eyes flicker between fear and worry.

"Rose." The Doctor looks up at her and smiles proudly. "Before I go, I just want to tell you that you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic! And you know what?

"So was I!"

"He's finally accepting himself," Qrow realized. "He's dropping the hate for himself from the Time War. But why? What's about to-?"

Violent radiation and energy explodes from the Doctor, exploding out from his arms, legs, and head. He leans back as it consumes his entire body in a similar color to that of the time vortex.

Team RWBY began to scream.

Rose covers her eyes and stumbles back. The energy rises as the Doctor becomes shorter. His nose shrinks and hair explodes out from the top of his head.

Then, as quickly as it began, the energy fades and he leans forward.

A new man, with a new voice, looks at Rose. "Hello," he says in a new voice, pausing as his tongue moves under his lips. "Okay… Oh, new teeth. That's weird. Where was I?" The man shakes his head and smiles at Rose who's now partially hidden behind one of the T.A.R.D.I.S' cloral columns.

"Oh, that's right. Barcelona."

"… WHAT?!"


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So… the one thing that bothers me about this episode is the fact that Rose survives. Now, that's not to say I want her to die, but there's no reason for why she lives. Rose held the time vortex a lot longer than the Doctor did but all she got was some short-term amnesia. Meanwhile, the Doctor, this Doctor, dies from it and is forced to regenerate.

How does that make sense?

Anyway, I had some time on my flight and figured I might as well get this chapter over with. I mean, surely no one is looking forward to this episode. Nothing HUGE happens, especially not the first appearance of (the majority of) the fan's favorite character… Naaaaaah.

Jokes aside, I did want to get this out because I'd hate to go a long time without updating in the middle of an episode that's why I felt so comfortable not rushing Chapter 36 because it wouldn't mean the end half, just the beginning. And once I did that, I'd have to do this.

So here you are. It's finally happened. The ways have parted and left us with David Tennant. It's only taken 37 chapters haha.

Yes, I'm leaving this one on a bit of a cliffhanger. Yes, you can imagine everyone doing the Tennant 'what?!' And yes, I will probably do the minisode that takes place right after this. Seriously, I think you guys are more excited for that than the chapter! I'm just having trouble figuring out where to put it.

But that's on me to decide, so please do not spam my DM's about it. Instead, tell what you think everyone will do to the Librarian for keeping another secret!

This'll be my last post of the year (probably). I'm sorry I wasn't as productive in 2023 as I was in previous years. Thank you to everyone who commented and made sure I was still alive, haha. You guys are great.

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