The Doctor's Daughter.
The Doctor, Donna, Martha, and I were all clinging to the console as the TARDIS was flying violently through the vortex. The console room was shaking in every direction possible. The Doctor and I tried to regain some control but all we were rewarded with were sparks. "What the hell's it doing?" asked Donna.
"Controls aren't working!" said The Doctor. He tried pulling a lever but the console just sparked again and I was knocked to the floor.
I landed near the jar that held my uncle severed hand. The jar was bubbling like crazy, I looked at my uncle, "I don't know where we're going but your old hand's very excited about it!" Then I got to my feet and started to work on getting the TARDIS under control.
"I thought that was just some freaky alien thing!" said Donna, "You telling me it's his?"
"Well…" said The Doctor.
"It got cut off. He grew a new one!" said Martha.
"You are completely... Impossible!" said Donna.
"Not impossible, just... a bit unlikely!" said my uncle.
There was one last explosion of sparks and we were all knocked backwards. The Doctor and I landed in the jump seat, while Martha and Donna were thrown to the floor. We all looked at each other before my uncle and I made a mad dash to the door. When we got out we found ourselves in some underground tunnel, littered with junk and old equipment.
"Why would the TARDIS bring us here?" I asked.
"Oh, I love this bit," said Martha
"Thought you wanted to go home." said Donna.
"I know, but all the same… It's that feeling you get... "
"Like you swallowed a hamster?"
I laughed a little then we here a noise. We looked in the direction of the noise and saw a group of five soldiers came toward us, pointing their guns at us, "Don't move, stay where you are! Drop your weapons." said the lead solder.
We quickly up our hands up, "We're not armed! Look, no weapons." I said as The Doctor and I showed the solders the back and front of our hands.
"Never any weapons. We're safe," said my uncle.
"Look at their hands. They're clean," said one of the other solders.
"Alright, process them! Those two first.," said the lead soldier.
The four other soldiers moved toward us, grabbed my uncle & me, and pulled us toward a couple of strange machines, "What's wrong with clean hands?!" I asked.
"What's going on?" said Martha.
"Leave them alone!" said Donna.
The soldiers took The Doctor and I to our own machine. They took our left hands and forced them into our machine. "AAH!" I screamed as the machines started up.
"Something tells me this isn't about to check my blood pressure AAGGGH!" screamed my uncle.
"What're you doing to them?" asked Donna.
"Everyone gets processed," said the lead solder.
"It's taken a tissue sample. Ow ow ow ow ow ow!" said The Doctor.
"And extrapolated it!" I said, "OW! What is this? Some kind of accelerator?"
Then the machines let the Doctor and I go. We moved away from then and Donna and Martha came over to us. "Are you alright?" asked Martha
"Yeah…" I looked at the back of my hand and saw a Y-shaped graze on the back of my hand. Then I looked up at the machine that took my sample. Behind it was a set of doors.
"What on earth? That's just…" said The Doctor.
The doors opened, smoke was billowing everywhere and out stepped two blond haired women, wearing a simple green shirt, black pants and boots. The two women looked around curious about everything around them. One of the women looked a little like my uncle's 5th incarnation, she had her hair pulled back into a pony tail. The other looked a little like my real mother, she he had her hair pulled back into a messy bun. (A/N: Teddy's daughter looks like Emily Osment.)
"Arm yourselves!" said the lead solder as he hand each of them a gun. The women each took the guns that they handled naturally.
"Where did they come from?" asked Martha.
"From us…The Doctor and I," I said, starting to feel a little light headed as I watched the two of them arming their guns.
"From you and The Doctor?!" said Donna, "How? Who are they?"
"Well... they... well... They are our daughters…" said The Doctor.
Jenny, the woman, looks on with a smile on her face.
"Hello Dad…" said the one with a ponytail with an English accent.
"Hi, Mom…" said the one in the bun with an American accent. Then, I passed out…
As I was coming to I heard a voice saying, "Mom… Mom…"
I opened my eyes and saw my daughter, The Doctor, Donna, and Martha keeling next to me, "Are you all right?" asked Martha.
"Yeah…" I said as they helped me up, "I'm just a bit shocked at becoming a mother…"
My daughter smiled, "I'm glad your ok," then she went and joined the other solders.
I heard the lead solder say, "Are you two primed to take orders, ready to fight?"
"Instant mental download of all strategic and military protocols, sir," said The Doctor's Daughter.
"Generation 5000 soldier primed and in peak physical health. Oh, we're ready." said My Daughter.
"Did you say, daughters?" said Donna to my uncle.
"Mm. Technically," said The Doctor.
"Technically how?" said Martha.
"Progenation," I said, "Reproduction from a single organism. Means one parent is biological mother and father."
"You take a sample of diploid cells, split them into haploids, then recombine them in a different arrangement, and grow," said my uncle, "Very quickly, apparently."
"Something's coming!" said my cousin. Then we saw creatures with purple fish heads and green liquid tubes where their mouths would be. They started firing at us.
"It's the Hath!" said the lead solder, as the human soldiers shot back.
"Get down!" ordered my daughter. The Doctor, Donna and I found cover behind a crate.
"We have to blow the tunnel! Get the detonator!" said the lead soldier.
"We're not detonating anything!" shouted my uncle.
All of the sudden a Hath grabs Martha from behind and started to pull her away. While my daughter kicked another Hath and my cousin picked up the detonator.
"Blow that thing, blow the thing!" said the lead soldier.
"Martha!" I shouted as I saw her being dragged away.
"No! Don't!" said my uncle as his daughter pressed the button on the detonator. We ran for cover before the tunnel exploded. Once the dust cleared a little, we went back and saw the tunnel sealed shut.
"You've sealed off the tunnel," I said, then I turned to my cousin, " Why did you do that?!"
"They were trying to kill us!" she said.
"But, they've got our friend!" said The Doctor.
"Collateral damage," said my daughter, "At least you've still got her," she said as she nodded at Donna, "He lost four of his men," she nodded at the lead solder, "I'd say you came out ahead."
"Her name's Martha, and she's not collateral damage, not for anyone!" said Martha, "Have you got that, GI Jane?!"
"We're gonna find her," said The Doctor and started to move toward the blocked tunnel.
"But was stopped by the lead solider, "You're going nowhere. You don't make sense, you thee. No guns, no marks, no fight in you… I'm taking you to General Cobb. Now, move."
He marched us all through the tunnels, Donna walked up to The Doctor's Daughter, "I'm Donna, what's you name?"
"Don't know, it's not been assigned," she said.
"Well, if you don't know that, what do you know?"
"How to fight."
"Nothing else?"
"The machine must embed military history and tactics but no name," said my uncle, "She's a generated anomaly."
"Generated anomaly?" said Donna, "Jenny-rated. Well what about that? Jenny!"
"Jenny. Yeah, I like that, Jenny," said the newly dubbed Jenny, with a smile.
"What do you think, 'Dad'?"
"Good as anything, I suppose," said my uncle with a shrug.
"Not what you'd call a natural parent, are you?" said Donna.
"They stole a tissue sample at gunpoint and processed it, it's not what I call natural parentage."
"Rubbish! My friend Nerys fathered twins with a turkey baster, don't bother her."
"You can't extrapolate a relationship from a biological accident."
"Er, Child Support Agency can."
"Look, just cos I share certain physiological traits with simian primates doesn't make me a monkey's uncle, does it?"
"I'm not a monkey! Or a child," said Jenny.
My daughter walked next to me, "What about me?"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"What's my name?"
"Well… Gee… um… well. Jenny was derived from generated. What could we derive from anomaly.. Ann-omaly… Ann?"
My daughter made a face, "No…"
"Yeah," I said, "I don't care for it either…" I ran Ann through my head a couple of time. Then, a light bulb went off in my head, "I got it… Annabelle…"
"Annabelle," she said, then a smile came on he face, "I love it!"
I smiled and gave her a little side hug, "Annabelle Duncan it is!" Unlike my uncle, I was willing to accept the woman that came out of the machine as my daughter. She was born out of my cells, so she was my daughter.
Soon, we reached the human encampment, it was a huge underground room that looked like it was supposed to be a theater.
"So, where are we?" asked my uncle, "What planet's this?"
"Messaline. Well, what's left of it," said the lead soldier.
Over a loudspeaker we heard information about previous generations, "..663 – 75 deceased. Generation 6671 – Extinct. Generation 6672 – 46 deceased. Generation 6680 – 14 deceased. Generation …"
"But, this is a theatre!" said Donna.
"Maybe they're doing Miss Saigon." said my uncle.
"It's like a town, or a city, underground. But why? "
We saw the lead solder talking to a older man. Then, he walked over to us, "General Cobb, I presume? " said my uncle.
"Found in the Western tunnels, I'm told, with no marks," said General Cobb, "There was an outbreak of pacifism in the Eastern Zone, three generations back, before we lost contact, is that where you came from?"
"Eastern Zone, that's us, yeah. Yeah. I'm The Doctor, this is Donna, and my niece Teddy."
"And I'm Jenny." said The Doctor's daughter.
"And, I'm Annabelle," said my daughter.
"Don't think you can infect us with your peacemaking," said General Cobb, "We're committed to the fight, to the very end."
"Well, that's all right, I can't stay anyway. I've gotta go and find my friend," said The Doctor.
"That's not possible, all movement is regulated. We're at war. "
"Yes, I noticed," I said, "With the Hath. But tell me, because we are a bit out of the loop, Eastern Zone and all that, so, who exactly are the Hath?"
The General took us through the theater and explained what was going on, "Back at the dawn of this planet, these ancient halls were carved from the earth. Our ancestors dreamt of a new beginning, a colony where human and Hath could work and live together. "
"So what happened?"
"The dream died. Broken, along with Hath promises. They wanted it all for themselves. But those early pioneers, they fought back. They used the machines to produce soldiers instead of colonists, and began this battle for survival."
"There's nothing but earth outside, why's that?" asked Donna, as she looked out the windows, "Why build everything underground?"
"The surface is too dangerous." said the solder who brought us here.
"Well, then why build windows in the first place? And what does this mean?" she pointed to a number stamped on the wall, 60120717.
"The rites and symbols of our ancestors. The meanings... lost in time," said the General.
"How long's this war gone on for?" asked The Doctor.
"Longer than anyone can remember. Countless generations marked only by the dead."
"What, fighting all this time?" asked Donna.
"Because we must," said Jenny, "Every child of the machine is born with this knowledge."
"It's our inheritance," said Annabelle, "it's all we know… How to fight… And how to die…"
The General took us over to a holographic map, "Does this show the entire city, including the Hath zones?" asked The Doctor.
"Yes. Why?" asked the General.
"Well, it'll help us find Martha." I said.
"We've more important things to do," said the young solder, "The Progenation Machines are powered down for the night shift, but soon as they're active, we could breed a whole platoon from you three."
"I'm not having sons and daughters by some great big flippin' machine!" said Donna. Then she looked at Jenny and Annabelle, "Sorry, no offence but you two aren't... well, I mean you two aren't real."
"You're no better than him!" said Jenny, as she pointed at the Doctor, "I have a body."
"I have a mind, We have independent thought, how am I not real?" said Annabelle.
"What makes you better than us?
"Well said, soldiers," said the General, "We need more like you two if ever we're to find the Source."
"Ooh, the Source, what's that then," said The Doctor, "What's a Source? I like a Source, what is it?"
"The Breath of Life."
"And that would be...?" I asked.
"In the beginning, the great one breathed life into the universe," said the young solder, "And then she looked at what she'd done, and she sighed."
"She? I like that." said Jenny.
"Right, so it's a creation myth," I said.
"It's not myth. It's real," said the General, "That sigh. From the beginning of time it was caught and kept as the Source. It was lost when the war started. But it's here, somewhere. Whoever holds the Source controls the destiny of the planet."
"Ah! I thought so!" said my uncle, "There's a suppressed layer of information in this map, if I can just…" he soniced the projector and more tunnels appeared on the map.
"What is it, what's it mean?" asked Donna.
"See? A whole complex of tunnels, hidden from sight."
"That must be the lost temple," said the General, "The source will be inside. You've shown us the way! And look, we're closer than the Hath! It's ours!" He turned and started to walk back into the encampment, with a small group of solders following him, "Tell them to prepare to move out. We'll progenate new soldiers on the morning shift, then we march. Once we reach the Temple, peace will be restored at long last. "
"Um, call me old-fashioned, but if you really wanted peace couldn't you just stop fighting?" I asked.
"Only when we have the Source. It'll give us the power to erase every stinking Hath from the face of this planet!"
"Hang on, hang on," said my uncle, "a second ago it was peace in our time, now you're talking about genocide!?"
"For us, that means the same thing," said the General
"Then you need to get yourself a better dictionary," I said, "When you do, look up genocide. You'll see a little picture of The Doctor and me there and the caption will read 'Over our dead bodies'!"
"And you're the one who showed us the path to victory. But you can consider the irony from your prison cell. Cline, at arms!"
Then the young man who brought us to the encampment pointed his gun at us.
"Oi, oi oi! All right! Cool the beans Rambo!" said Donna.
"Take them, I won't have them spreading treason. And if you try anything, Doctor, I'll see that your woman dies first."
"No, we're, we're not a couple," said The Doctor.
"I am not his woman!" said Donna.
"Come on. This way," Said Cline.
"We're going to stop you, Cobb, you need to know that." said The Doctor.
"I have an army and the breath of god on my side, Doctor, what'll you have?" asked the General.
"This," said my uncle as he pointed to his head.
"Lock them up, and guard them."
"What about the new soldiers?" asked Cline.
Jenny and Annabelle stepped forward, "Can't trust them… They're from pacifist stock." he pushed them into the Doctor and I's arms, "Take them all!"
Clive took us all to a cell and put us inside, "More numbers," said Donna, I looked and above the door there was another plaque with the numbers 60120716 "They've gotta mean something."
"Makes as much sense as the breath of life story," I said, as The Doctor and I sat down.
"You mean that's not true?" asked Annabelle.
"No, it's a myth. Isn't it, Doctor?" said Donna, as she sat next to us.
"Yes, but there could still be something real in that temple," said The Doctor, "something that's become a myth. A piece of technology, a weapon."
"So the Source could be a weapon and we've just given directions to Captain Nutjob?" asked Donna.
"Oh, yes," I said.
"Not good, is it?"
"That's why we need to get out of here, find Martha and stop Cobb from slaughtering the Hath," said the Doctor. Jenny and Annabelle were staring at The Doctor, inquisitively, "What, what are you, what are you…what are you staring at?"
"You keep insisting you're not a soldier. But look at you!" said Annabelle.
"Drawing up strategies like a proper general," said Jenny.
"No no, I'm trying to stop the fighting." said The Doctor.
"Isn't every soldier?" asked Annabelle.
Then he looked at our daughters and said, "Well. I suppose. But that's… that's… technically... I haven't got time for this! Donna, give me your phone! Time for an upgrade!"
Donna handed him her cell phone and he took out his soniced it, "And now you've got a weapon!" said Jenny.
"It's not a weapon,' I said as I took out my sonic.
"But you're using it to fight back!" laughed Jenny, then she turned to Annabelle, "We are gonna learn so much from him," Annabelle nodded, and Jenny looked at he father, "you are such a soldier!"
"Donna, will you tell her?" said my uncle.
"Oh, you are speechless, I'm loving this! You keep on, Jenny! You too, Annabelle!" said Donna.
Then, The Doctor looked at me, "Teddy?"
"They do make some good points…" I said.
The Doctor rolled his eyes, "Don't encourage them…" then he dialed Martha's phone number. When she answered, "Martha! You're alive!" he said as he and Donna stood up.
I used the telepathic link The Doctor and I shared to listen in to what he was saying to Martha. "Doctor! Oh, am I glad to hear your voice! Are you all right?" said Martha.
"I'm with Donna and Teddy, we're fine, what about you?" said The Doctor.
"And, and Jenny and Annabelle, they're fine too!" said Donna.
"Yes all right," said my uncle, "and, and Jenny and Annabelle... Those are the women from the machines, the soldiers, my daughter and Teddy's daughter, except they aren't…" Jenny and I rolled our eyes at The Doctor. Annabelle just looked down at the floor, "They…They... Anyway! Where are you?"
I got up and walked over to Annabelle and Jenny. I put my arm around Annabelle and lifted her head up with my fingers, "Don't listen to him…You are my daughter…" Annabelle smiled at me and gave me a hug. Then I looked at Jenny, "And you are my cousin…" Jenny smiled at me.
While I was talking with Annabelle and Jenny, Martha said to my uncle, "I'm in the Hath camp. I'm OK, but, something's going on. The Hath are all marching off to some place that's appeared on this map thing."
"Ohhh... That was me," said The Doctor, "If both armies are heading that way, there's going to be a bloodbath."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Just stay where you are, if you're safe there then don't move, d'you hear?"
"But I can help."
Then the phone beeped and the connection was lost. We could hear the solders cheering and chanting in our prison cell, "They're getting ready to move out. We have to get past that guard."
"I can deal with him," said Jenny.
"No no no no. You're not going anywhere."
"What?" said Jenny.
"You and her" he said as he pointed at Annabelle, "belong here, with them."
I took Annabelle by the hand and walked up to my uncle, "They belong with us. They are our daughters!"
"They are soldiers," said The Doctor, "They came out of that machine!"
I rolled my eyes, "Yes… yes…I know that! Give me your stethoscope?" I held my hand out and he handed it to me, "Jenny… Annabelle… Come here…"
"What're you doing?" asked Jenny as she and her cousin stepped closer.
"It's all right," I said with a smile, "Just hold still." I put the stethoscope to Jenny's chest, first on the left and then on the right. I repeated the process with Annabelle. I smiled as I got confirmation on what I had expected. Then I looked at my uncle, "Come here. Listen. And then tell me where they belong."
I handed him the stethoscope and waited until he put them in his ears before placing it back to Jenny's chest on both sides and then Annabelle's chest on both sides. He stepped back and stared at Jenny and Annabelle.
"They both have two hearts."
I smiled, "Exactly."
"What's going on?" asked Jenny.
"Does that mean they are…? What do you call females Time Lords?" asked Donna.
"Time Ladies," I said.
"What's a Time Lord?" asked Annabelle.
"It's who we are," I said, "It's where I'm from."
"And we're from you and her," said Jenny.
"You two are echoes, that's all," said my uncle, "A Time Lord is so much more. A sum of knowledge. A code. A shared history. A shared suffering," he paused, "Only it's gone now. All of it. Gone forever."
"What happened?" asked Annabelle.
"There was a war," I said.
"Like this one?" asked Jenny.
He laughed lightly at the comparison, "Bigger. Much bigger."
"And you fought? And killed?" asked Annabelle.
I took a deep breath and nodded, "Yes… We both did…"
"Then how are we different?" asked Jenny.
"We aren't," I said with a smile.
The Doctor, Donna, Annabelle and I stood to one corner of the cell while Jenny went to the cell door to talk to Cline, "Hey." she said.
"I'm not supposed to talk to you, I'm on duty," said Cline.
"I know. Guarding me," she said with a smile, "So does that mean I'm dangerous? Or that I need protecting?"
"Protecting from what?"
"Oh, I don't know. Men like you?" she pulled him closer for a kiss and then grabbed his side arm and pointed it at him, "Keep quiet and open the door."
"I'd like to see you try that!" said Donna.
We tide up Cline and left him in the cell, Jenny took Cline's rifle and pistol. Then we walked down a flight a stairs and were about to turn a corner when we saw another guard.
"That's the way out," I said.
Jenny coked the pistol she took from Cline but the Doctor stopped her, "Don't you dare!
Donna stepped between the two of them, "Let me distract this one. I have picked up a few womanly wiles over the years."
The Doctor stopped her, "Let's... save your wiles for later. In case of emergency."
I rolled my eyes as he started looking through is pockets for something. He found a little wind-up mouse. He wound it up and put it on the floor. The guard heard the mouse and walked up to see what it was then Annabelle walked up behind him and gave him a quick chop to the back to knock him out, "I was gonna distract him, not clobber him!"
"Well, it worked, didn't it?" asked Annabelle.
"They must all have a copy of that new map," said The Doctor before he started to search the guard, "Just stay there, don't hurt anyone." The Doctor found the map and we headed out with Annabelle taking the guard's rifle.
A short time later, we were walking through a tunnel. The Doctor was looking at the map he took off the guard. Donna walked up to me, "I have to ask… You seem to be taking this very well, unlike him." she said as she pointed at my uncle.
I smiled, "It's the material instinct. Time Ladies bond with our children the instant they start growing. The moment Annabelle touched me back when we first saw her, when she helped you guys pick me up, we bonded… my body knew that we shared the same DNA… that's how I knew she was my child. She might not have grown in my womb for 9 months and she doesn't have any of Jack's DNA but she is still my child."
Donna smiled and then my uncle said, "Wait! This is it. The hidden tunnel. There must be a control panel." The Doctor and I took our sonics and pointed them at the walls beside a locked door.
Donna looked up and said, "It's another one of those numbers. They're everywhere."
"The original builders must've left them," I said, "Some old cataloguing system. "
"You got a pen? Bit of paper? Cos, d'you see, the numbers are counting down," The Doctor reached into his pockets and handed her a pen and paper. Then she started to make some notes, "This one ends in 1-4, the prison cell said 1-6."
"Always thinking, the three of you. Who are you people?" asked Jenny.
"I told you. I'm the Doctor," said The Doctor as he went back to sonicing the wall.
"The Doctor? That's it?" asked Annabelle.
"That's all he ever says," said Donna.
"So, you don't have a name either? Are you an anomaly too?" asked Jenny.
"No." said my uncle.
"Oh, come off it!" said Donna, "You're the most anomalous bloke I've ever met!"
Then, the cover came off of the control panel., "Here it is!" I said. The Doctor started to work on getting the door opened.
"And Time Lords, what are they for exactly?" asked Jenny.
"For'? They're not... They're not 'for' anything."
"So what do you do?" asked Annabelle.
"We travel. Through time and space," I said.
"They saves planets, rescues civilizations, defeats terrible creatures. And run a lot. Seriously, there's an outrageous amount of running involved." said Donna.
Then, the door slid open, "Got it!" said my uncle.
Then we heard the voice of General Cobb in the distance, "Squad 5, with me!"
"Now, what were you saying about running?" asked The Doctor. We ran down a corridor but were stopped by red laser beams crisscrossing the tunnel in front of us, blocking their way.
"That's not mood lighting, is it?" asked Donna. The Doctor took the windup mouse out of his pocket and threw it toward the lasers then it burst into flame., "No, I didn't think so." said Donna.
"Arming device," said The Doctor as he walked over to the controls.
Then Donna noticed another set of numbers, "There's more of these. Always eight numbers, counting down, the closer we get…"
"Here we go!" said The Doctor, as he opened up the control panel.
"You better be quick!" I said as we here the voice of the General.
"The General!" said Jenny, as she and Annabelle turned to run back to engage the General, but The Doctor and I caught them
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"We can hold them up," said Jenny.
"No, we don't need any more dead," said The Doctor.
"But it's them or us," said Annabelle.
"It doesn't mean you have to kill them!" I said.
"We're trying to save your life!"
"Listen to me, the killing, after a while it infects you. And once it does you're never rid of it," said The Doctor.
"We don't have a choice." said Jenny.
"We always have a choice." I said.
Jenny and Annabelle looked at each other, "I'm sorry." said Jenny. Then she ran off.
"Me too," said Annabelle, as she joined her cousin.
"Jenny!" shouted The Doctor.
"Annabelle!" I shouted.
"This door! Now!" said a soldier
Then another soldier called out, "There they are! At arms!"
We heard shots being fired. Donna and I looked at each other with worry, "I told you. Nothing but soldiers," said The Doctor.
"They are trying to help," said Donna.
"Jenny! Annabelle! Come on!" I shouted
"We're coming!" shouted Annabelle.
We heard the general call out, "Cease fire! Cease fire!"
The gunfire stopped and at the same time, The Doctor turned of the lasers, "That's it!" said Donna.
"Jenny! Leave it! Annabelle! Let's go!" shouted my uncle, as Donna and I ran with him down the corridor.
As we ran we could here General Cobb, "You're children of the machine. You're on my side. Join us! Join us in the war against the Hath. It's in your blood, girls, don't deny it."
There was a pause and a shot. "Jenny! Annabelle! Come on!"
Then, they ran around the corner smiling and laughing, "That's it!" said The Doctor.
"Hurry up!" said Donna.
They were about to start down the corridor but then the red lasers turned back on. "No, no, no, no! The circuit's looped back!"
"Zap it back again!" said Donna.
"The controls are back there!" I said.
"They're coming!" said Annabelle.
"Wait!" said Donna, "J-Just...! There isn't...! Jenny… Annabelle… I can't!"
"We'll have to manage on our own,' said Jenny. She tossed her gun aside. Then, the two blonds started to talk. After a couple of seconds of discussion. Annabelle dropped her gun and took a step behind Jenny.
"Watch and learn, Father!" said Jenny.
"Here we come, Mom!" said Annabelle.
Jenny put her hands up and then started to do a series of handsprings down the blocked corridor. Annabelle waited a couple of seconds and then followed her cousin down the hall. The two of them looked like Olympic caliber gymnasts as they flipped down the hall.
"No way! But that's impossible!" said Donna.
"Not impossible…" I said with a big smile.
"Just a bit unlikely!" said my uncle with just as big of a smile.
When the two girls reached us I gave Annabelle a big hug and The Doctor hugged Jenny.
"Brilliant!" He said, "You two were brilliant!"
"Absolutely Brilliant!" I said.
"I didn't kill him," said Jenny, "General Cobb."
"She could have kill him, but she didn't," said Annabelle
"You were right. I had a choice."
Just then the soldiers arrived at the other end of the corridor. Donna and the girls ran ahead. The Doctor and I stopped for a moment,
"At arms!" said General Cobb.
"We warned you, Cobb," I said, "If the Source is a weapon, We're gonna make sure you never use it."
"One of us is gonna die today and it won't be me." He opened fire and we ran off to join our family.
We continued walking through the corridors, The Doctor and I lead the way while the girls talked with Donna.
"So, you travel together, but you an my dad are not... 'together'?" asked Jenny
"What?" said Donna, "No, no! No way! No, no. We're friends. That's all. I mean, we're not even the same species, there's probably laws against it."
Jenny and Annabelle laughed, "And what's it like, the travelling?" asked Annabelle.
"Ah, never a dull moment. Can be terrifying, brilliant and funny - sometimes all at the same time. I've seen some amazing things though. Whole new worlds."
"Oh, I'd love to see new worlds," said Jenny.
"Me too," said Annabelle.
"You will. Won't they, Doctor?"
"Hm?" he said.
"D'you think Jenny and Annabelle will see any new worlds?"
"I suppose so,' said The Doctor with a smile, I smiled as well
"You mean... You mean, you'll take us with you?" asked Jenny.
"Of course!" I said, "We can't leave you here, can we?"
Annabelle and Jenny hugged us both, "Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" They said together.
"Come on!" said Annabelle.
"Let's get a move on!" said Jenny
Then, the two of them ran ahead. "Careful, there might be traps!" I called out.
"Kids! They never listen!" said Donna. I looked at my uncle and his face still looked troubled. Donna noticed this and said, "Oh, I know that look. See it a lot round our way. Blokes with pushchairs and frowns. You've got dad-shock."
"Dad-shock?" he said.
"Sudden, unexpected fatherhood. Take a bit of getting used to."
"No, it's not that."
"Well, what is it then? Having Jenny in the TARDIS is that it? What's she gonna do, cramp your style? Like you've got a sports car and she's gonna turn it into a people-carrier?"
"Donna, I've been a father before."
"What?"
"I lost all that a long time ago. Along with everything else."
"I'm sorry. I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me? You talk all the time, but you don't say anything."
"I know. I'm just... When I look at her now I can see them. The hole they left, all the pain that filled it. I just don't know if I can face that every day."
"It won't stay like that. She'll help you. We all will."
"But when they died, that part of me died with them. It'll never come back. Not now."
"I tell you something, Doctor, something I've never told you before. I think you're wrong."
"I know his wrong… and I tell that to him all the time," I said.
He looked at me and smiled. But then we herd the sound of shooting, Annabelle and Jenny came from around the corner.
"They've blasted through the beams, time to run again," said Annabelle.
"Love the running! Yeah?" asked Jenny.
"Love the running," said The Doctor.
Then we started running again, but we reached a dead end.
"We're trapped," said Donna.
"Can't be. This must be the temple," said The Doctor, as he touches a panel of the wall, "This is a door." He took out his sonic and looked for the control panel for the door.
Donna looked up and saw another set of numbers, "And again! We're down to 1-2 now…"
"I've got it!" said The Doctor.
"I can hear them!" said Annabelle.
"Nearly done!"
I looked at the numbers that Donna had written down, "These can't be a cataloguing system…" I said.
"They're getting closer!" said Jenny.
"Then get back here!" said The Doctor.
"Right…they're too similar," said Donna to me, "Too familiar."
"Not yet," said Annabelle.
"Now!" yelled my uncle, then the door slid open, "Got it!"
We ran in and Jenny called out, "They're coming!" once she was inside she said, "Close the door!" The Doctor pressed some buttons and the door slid closed.
"Oh, that was close!" said Annabelle.
"No fun otherwise!" I said.
As we continued to run Donna looked around, "It's not what I'd call a temple…"
We came to a stop, and Jenny said, "It looks more like…"
"Fusion-drive transport," said my uncle, "It's a spaceship!"
"What, the original one? The one the first colonists arrived in?" asked Donna.
"Well, it could be, but the power cells would have run down after all that time. This one's still powered-up and functioning. Come on!" We followed my uncle up as set of stairs and we se saw someone cutting through another door.
"It's the Hath!" said Annabelle. "That door's not gonna last much longer."
"And if General Cobb gets through down there, war's gonna break out," said Jenny.
The Doctor ran over to a computer and put his glasses on, "Look, look, look, look, look! Ship's log!" he started tapping on the controls, "'First wave of Human/Hath co-colonisation of planet Messaline'."
"So it is the original ship," said Jenny.
"What happened?" asked Donna.
I put my glasses on and read the screen, "'Phase one. Construction.' They used robot drones to build the city."
"But, does it mention the war?
He scrolled down the list, "Final entry... 'Mission commander dead. Still no agreement on who should assume leadership. Hath and humans have divided into factions.' That must be it! A power vacuum."
"The crew divided into two factions and turned on each other," I said, "They started using the progenation machines and suddenly you've got two armies fighting a never-ending war!"
"Two armies who are now both outside," said Annabelle.
"Look at that," said Donna.
We turned and saw Donna looking at a digital readout that was showing a set of numbers similar to the ones we saw on the walls, "It's like the numbers in the tunnels," I said.
"No, no, no, no, but listen... I spent six months working as a temp in Hounslow Library, and I mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days flat. I'm good with numbers! It's staring us in the face!"
"What is?" asked Jenny.
"It's the date! Assuming the first two numbers are some big old space date, then you've got year, month, day. It's the other way round, like it is in America!"
The Doctor stepped up, "Ohhh! It's the New Byzantine Calendar!"
"The codes are completion dates for each section. They finish it, they stamp the date on! So the numbers aren't counting down, they're going out, from here, day by day, as the city got built."
"Good work, Donna!" I said.
"Yeah!" said Donna, "But you're, you're still not getting it. The first number I saw back there, was 6012-07-17. Well, look at the date today!"
"07-24. No!" he said.
"It can't be!" I said, as I realized what the date meant.
"What does it mean?" asked Annabelle.
"Seven days." said my uncle.
"That's it! Seven days!" said Donna.
"Just seven days?!" I said.
"What do you mean, seven days?" asked Jenny.
"Seven days since war broke out," said The Doctor.
"This war started seven days ago! Just a week! A week!" said Donna.
"But, they said years!" said Annabelle.
"No. They said generations. And if they're all like you, and they're products of those machines…"
"They could have 20 generations in a day!" I said, "Each generation gets killed in the war, passes on the legend! Donna, you're a genius!"
"But all the buildings, the encampments, they're in ruins," said Jenny.
"No, they're not ruined, they're just empty!" said my uncle, "Waiting to be populated! Oh, they've mythologized their entire history! The Source must be part of that too. Come on!"
We started running again, we turned a corner and their in front of us was Martha. "Doctor! Teddy!" she said.
"Martha!" we said as we ran to hug her.
"I should've known you wouldn't stay away from the excitement!" said The Doctor.
"Donna!" said Martha.
Donna ran over to hug her as well, "Oooh, you're filthy, what happened?!"
"I, erm, took the surface route."
Then we heard the voices of soldiers, "That's the general!" said The Doctor, "We haven't got much time."
"We don't even know what we're looking for!" said Donna.
"Is it me, or can you smell flowers?" said Martha.
I took a deep breath and said, "That's Bougainvillea…"
"I say we follow our nose!" said The Doctor. We followed him to a place that looks like a huge greenhouse inside the spaceship filled with palms and other exotic plants, "Oh, yes! Yes! Isn't this brilliant?" he said as he took his coat off.
We walked over to a pedestal in the center of the room with a glass sphere with a shining, sparkling, colorful gas inside.
"Is that the Source?" asked Donna.
"It's beautiful," said Annabelle.
"What is it?" asked Martha.
"Terraforming! It's a third generation terraforming device!" said The Doctor.
"So why are we suddenly in Kew Gardens?" asked Donna.
"Because that's what it does," I said, "All this, only bigger. Much bigger! It's in a transit state. Producing all this must help keep it stable before they finally…"
Before I could finish, Hath and human soldiers appered on either side of us, cocking their guns as they caught sight of each other."
"Stop! Hold your fire!" said my uncle.
"What is this? Some kind of trap?" asked The General.
"You said you wanted this war over" I said.
"I want this war won."
"You can't win. No one can. You don't even know why you're here. Your whole history, it's just Chinese whispers. Getting more distorted the more it's passed on," I said.
The Doctor pointed to the sphere, "This is the Source. This is what you're fighting over. A device to rejuvenate a planet's ecosystem. It's nothing mystical. It's from a laboratory, not some creator. It's a bubble of gases. A cocktail of stuff for accelerated evolution. Methane, hydrogen, ammonia, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids. It's used to make barren planets habitable."
"Look around you! It's not for killing, it's bringing life. If you allow it, it can lift you out of these dark tunnels and into the bright, bright sunlight! No more fighting. No more killing."
The Doctor picked up the sphere, "I'm The Doctor and I declare this war is over!" I threw it on the ground. The glass ball shattered and the gases escaped, shining in gold and green as they spread out in the air. Amazed by the sight, The humans and The Hath both put their guns to the ground.
Annabelle and Jenny came over to me and The Doctor, "What's happening?" asked my daughter.
"The gases will escape and trigger the terraforming process," I said.
"What does that mean?" asked Jenny.
"It means a new world," said The Doctor.
Jenny and Annabelle laughed with delight, but then Annabelle looked at General Cobb, he pointed his gun at me, Annabelle stepped in front of me and shouted, "No!" she shouted. He fired and shot her in the chest. She collapsed in my arms while the human soldiers held the general down and took away his gun.
"Annabelle? Annabelle!" I said as I lowered Annabelle and myself down to the floor. I looked down at my daughter dying in my arms, "Talk to me, Annabelle!"
Martha came over and checked her pulse and wound, "Is she gonna be all right?" asked Donna. Martha shook her head.
"A new world. It's beautiful." whispered Annabelle.
"Annabelle? You've got to be strong, now," I said, "You need to hold on. Do you hear me? We've got things to do, you and me. Hey? Hey? We can go anywhere. Everywhere. You choose."
"That sounds good." Then she groaned, "It hurts so much, Mommy…" she said.
I smiled, "I know, Baby… But, the pain will be gone soon… Listen I you need to concentrate… Us Time Ladies have a power that helps us heal when we are hurt as bad as you are… It's called regeneration… You need to relax and the process will start…"
"OK…" she said, as she tried to relax, "Nothing's happening…"
I thought for a moment, I knew she had the power within her… I could feel it inside her… But, then I realized what was going on… She was scared of dying… She didn't grow up knowing not to fear death because regeneration… And because she was so scared she was inadvertently resisting regenerating… I had to put her mind at ease. So, pressed my forehead against hers. I shared with her everything that I had learned in my almost 200 years. It only took a few seconds. But, when we were finished, I could tell that she wasn't afraid anymore. I brought my head back up she looked up at me and smiled and through our telepathic link she said, "Thank you, Mom…"
I smiled back, "Your welcome, Theta…"
She looked at me confused, "Theta?"
"That's your true Gallifreain name… I named you after your Great Uncle Theta…"
She brought her hand up to her face, I could see it start to glow orange with regeneration energy, She smiled and looked up at me, "I love you, Mom…"
I looked at her, "I love you too, Annabelle…"I then I laid her on the floor and I stood up into my uncle's arms. I looked at Martha and Donna… "Back up… we need to give her some space…" We took a few steps back and then Annabelle's body exploded with regeneration energy. Once it was finished I knelt back down next to Annabelle. (A/N: Annabelle now looks like Dove Cameron.) Her hair was a bit blonder than before and it was no longer in a bun it was free and went a few inches past her shoulders. She looked like she was a few years younger than her previous self. If she were human she looked like she was 18, which was about a year younger than my human age. She opened her green eyes and smiled, "I'm alive…"
I smiled back, "Yes you are… How do you feel?"
"Tired…" she said.
"You rest, we'll get you back to the TARDIS soon. Okay?"
"Okay." I stood up and looked at the general who was still on his knees. Then, I looked at my uncle, "Do you trust me?"
"Of course…"
"Then, Don't stop me…" I marched up to General Cobb and picks up his gun. I stood there, panting from anger, I pointed the gun at the General's head for several seconds then I lowered it and crouched down next to him.
"I never would. Have you got that? I never would!" Then I stood up, and looked at the two armies, "When you start this new world. This world of Human and Hath... remember that! Make the foundation of this society. A woman who never would!" Then I threw the gun away and went back to my daughter.
We all went back to the theatre room that used to be the human encampment. Annabelle was still tired from her regeneration so we stopped and took a break. As we stopped, beams of light started to come through the windows.
"It's happening," said Martha, "The terraforming."
"Build a city, nice and safe underground. Strip away the top soil. And there it is." said Donna.
The Doctor looked at Cline, "Well.. We had better be off. Good luck with everything…"
Cline shook The Doctor's hand, "Thank you, Doctor…"
We all started to walk back to the TARDIS when Jenny said, "Dad…Would… Would it be all right if I stayed?"
"I thought you wanted to see new worlds?" he asked.
"I did," she said, "But there's a lot to be done here… I want this planet to thrive in your memory." Then, she looked at me, "I want it to be everything that you are Teddy…" I smiled.
The Doctor smiled at his daughter, with tears in his eyes, "You're my daughter and we've only just got started…" He sighed, and continued, "You're gonna be great. You're gonna be more than great. You're gonna be amazing!" Then the two hugged.
We made our way back to the TARDIS, Annabelle and I were sitting on the Jump Seat while, The Doctor was setting the controls, "Jenny and Annabelle were the reason for the TARDIS bringing us here. It just got here too soon, which then created Jenny and Annabelle in the first place. Paradox. An endless paradox."
I looked at Annabelle and smiled, "A wonderful paradox…" I gave her a hug and she hugged me back.
"Time to go home?" asked The Doctor to Martha.
"Yeah. Home." said Martha.
We landed the TARDIS just down the road from Martha's house. Annabelle was feeling better so she asked if she could go find something else to wear in the wardrobe. I told her it was ok and she headed to the wardrobe while the rest of us went to say good-bye to Martha. Donna and Martha walked a little ahead of the Doctor and I
"You sure about this?" Donna asked Martha.
"Yeah, positive. I can't do this any more. You'll be the same one day." said Martha.
"Not me. Never! How could I ever go back to normal life after seeing all this?" Donna looked back at us, then back at Donna, "I'm gonna travel with that man for ever."
They hugged each other, then Martha said, "Good luck."
"And you," said Donna.
The Doctor and I caught up with our two companions. Donna stepped back while we walked and talked with Martha, "We're making a habit of this." I said.
"Yeah. And you'd think it'd get easier." said Martha. She and I hugged, and she said, "Bye, Teddy."
"Until next time," I said.
Then she and the Doctor hugged, Bye, Doctor," she said.
"Goodbye. Doctor Jones." said my uncle.
Then, The Doctor, Donna and I walked back to the TARDIS. Once we got inside. We saw Annabelle standing at the console preparing the TARDIS for departure. She was wearing a red and white stripped tank top, a black blazer with the cuffs rolled up, a pair of blue jeans, and a pair of red sneakers. I smiled, "Everything set, Annabelle?" as I put my fedora on the hat rack.
"Yep," she said, "The TARDIS is ready to go."
"Hold on," said Donna, "She is like less than a day old… How can she know how to fly the TARDIS?"
The Doctor, Annabelle, and I looked at each other and smiled, Then I said, "It's a long story…"
A/N: I hope you all liked the twist in this story. At first, Annabelle wasn't going to regenerate. But, one of my reviewers, John Chubb, mentioned in one of his reviews about Teddy regeneration after she takes Jenny's bullet. He also mentioned Dove Cameron playing a future regeneration of Teddy. I loved this idea, but I didn't want Teddy to regenerate yet, if she regenerates at all. So, I adapted it for Annabelle. I hope you guys are still enjoying this story. Please let me know what you think of it… It keeps me going…