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They all went out of the room and as they walked through a corridor "The Doctor. Old drinking buddy of Henry XII." Liz explained.
"When was that, Theta," Rose asked. "Before you met my chameleon arched self?"
"Uh, yeah, yeah it was," he said "Right after the Time War and within the hundred years before I met your chameleon arched self."
"Tea and scones with Liz Two,"liz went on. Vicky was a bit on the fence about the two of you, weren't she? Knighted and exiled you both on the same day for saving her from a Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform also known as a werewolf. And as for your friend Jack, tell him so much for the Virgin Queen, that bad, bad boy."
"I think I know who she is now," Rose said.
"Then who is she, Rose?" The Doctor asked.
"Queen Elizabeth X of the Royal House of Windsor," Rose explained.
"Yeah, I am," Liz said "Elizabeth the Tenth. And down!" They all ducked and she took out her guns and shot the Smilers with them and the Smilers fell on the ground. "I'm the bloody Queen, mate. Basically, I rule."
"There's a high-speed Vator through there," Liz said as they entered a room and heard a metallic clanking noise "Oh, yeah. There's these things," she added as they saw tentacles beating at the cage they were in. "Any ideas?"
"Doctor, I saw one of these up top," Amy said as the Doctor took out his screwdriver. "There was a hole in the road, like it had burst through like a root."
"Exactly like a root. It's all one creature, the same one we were inside, reaching out," he said It must be growing through the mechanisms of the entire ship."
"What, like an infestation?" Liz asked
"Yeah, Liz, exactly like an infestation," Rose as aid.
"Someone's helping it. Feeding it. Feeding my subjects to it. Come on. Got to keep moving," Liz said angrily as she walks away and Mandy follows.
Amy goes to follow but stops as she saw the Doctor and Rose were staring at the tentacles "Doctor? Rose?"
"Oh, Amy," he said as he looked at her for a second "We should never have come here."
"Yeah," Rose said "We never should have come here, Amelia."
The Doctor and Rose then follows Luz and Mandy and Amy follows them as well.
The Doctor, Rose, Amy and Mandy followed Liz to her headquarters and the doctor noticed a lot of glass cups and stepped in between them, "Why all the glasses?" He asked her.
"To remind me every single day that my government is up to something," Liz explained from her bed "and it's my duty to find out what."
"A queen going undercover to investigate her own kingdom?" He asked as he picked up the mask Liz wore when he and Rose met her.
"I agree, Doctor, I've never heard of a queen doing that," Rose said.
"Secrets are being kept from me," Liz explained, "I don't have a choice. Ten years I've been at this. My entire reign. And you both have achieved more in one afternoon."
"Liz, I'm curious, how old were you when you came to the throne of Britain?" Rose asked her.
"Forty," Liz answered. "Why?" She asked.
"What, you're fifty now? No way," Amy said in disbelief, approaching the bed and sitting on the couch that's in front of the bed.
"Yeah, they slowed my body clock. Keeps me looking like the stamps," Liz said.
"And you always wear this in public?" The Doctor asked, sitting in front of her on the bed and showing her the mask.
"Undercover's not easy when you're me," Liz told him. "The autographs, the bunting."
"Air-balanced porcelain," he noticed as he examines the mask further "Stays on by itself, 'cause it's perfectly sculpted to your face." He explained raising the mask up.
"Yeah? So what?" Liz asked him.
"Oh, Liz. So everything," he said and suddenly they heard a door open and a group of hooded men walked in.
"What are you doing?" Liz asked the hooded men, "How dare you come in here?"
The Doctor got off the bed and stared at the men "Ma'am, you have expressed interest in the interior workings of Starship UK," one of the hooded men said, "You will come with us now."
"Why would I do that?" Liz asked the hooded men and the man that was speaking suddenly rotated his head and became a Scowler.
"How can they be Smilers?" Amy asked.
"Exactly like cybermen right, Doctor?" Rose asked her husband.
"Your right, Rose," he answered "Half Smiler, half human, is what they are."
"Whatever you creatures are, I am still your queen," Liz said "On whose authority is this done?"
"The highest authority, Ma'am," the winder answered.
"I am the highest authority," Liz said
"Yes, ma'am," the winder said, "You must go now, Ma'am."
"Where?"
"The Tower, Ma'am," the Winder answered.
The half-human and half smilers left the room, not bothering to check if the queen was following them. Liz looked at the Doctor who gave a slight nod before following them.
"I think we should follow them," Rose said "Don't you agree, Doctor?"
"I think we should follow them as well," he said and they followed Liz and the winders to the Tower of London.
In the tower of London which looked medieval, but futuristic as there was a base of controls which powered a huge needle, shooting down electricity. There was also grates which were bolted shut but Amy soon discovered why. Giant roots were banging harshly against the grates.
"Doctor, Rose, where are we?" Amy asked.
"The lowest point of Starship UK," the Doctor answered "The dungeon."
"Ma'am." An elderly man, dressed in a brown cloak, same as the smilers but he had his hood down, so he was human, walked up to the Queen.
Liz pursed her lips as she recognized him. "Hawthorne," she said, greeting him in surprise "So this is where you hid yourself away. I think you've got some explaining to do."
"There's children down here. What's all that about?" The Doctor asked as he saw a group of children walking past them and patted a child of African descent on the head.
"Protesters and citizens of limited value are fed to the beast. For some reason, it won't eat the children," Hawthorne explained. "You're the first adults it's spared. You're very lucky."
Yeah, look at us. Torture chamber of the Tower of London. Lucky, lucky, lucky!" The Doctor said. "Except it's not a torture chamber, is it? Well, except it is. Except it isn't. Depends on your angle," he went on walking around.
They look down a hole with a brain showing in the middle of the room with a needle hanging over it, "What's that?" Liz asked.
"Well, like I say, it depends on the angle," the Doctor said. "It's either the exposed pain centre of big fella's brain, being tortured relentlessly."
"Or?" She asked him.
"Or it's the gas pedal, the accelerator. Starship UK's go faster button," he explained.
"I don't understand," Liz said.
"Don't you?" He said "Try to. Go on. The spaceship that could never fly. No vibration on deck. This creature, this poor, trapped, terrified creature. It's not infesting you, it's not invading, it's what you have instead of an engine. And this place down here is where you hurt it, where you torture it, day after day, just to keep it moving. Tell you what." He went over to a grate and took the top of the grate off "Normally, it's above the range of human hearing," he added and one of the tentacles came out and the Doctor took out his screwdriver and he flicked it and the screwdriver extended outwards. "This is the sound none of you wanted to hear."
The Doctor activates his sonic screwdriver on the tentacles and every non-Gallifreyan suddenly heard a loud roaring and high pitched shrieking scream.
"Stop it," Liz said, not able to handle the noise any longer, "Who did this?" She asked Hawthorne.
"We act on instructions from the highest authority," Hawthorne answered.
"I am the highest authority," Liz growled "The creature will be released, now. I said now! Is anyone listening to me?"
"Theta," Rose said and the Doctor looked at her "Should I tell her or should you?" She asked.
The Doctor approached Liz holding her mask "Liz. Your mask," he said.
"What about my mask?" Liz asked.
"Look at it," he said and threw it to her " It's old. At least two hundred years old, I'd say."
"Yeah? It's an antique. So?" Liz said not knowing what was important about her mask.
"Yeah, an antique made by craftsmen over two hundred years ago and perfectly sculpted to your face. They slowed your body clock, all right, but you're not fifty. Nearer three hundred. And it's been a long old reign," he explained to her.
"Nah, it's ten years," Liz said in disbelief, "I've been on this throne ten years."
"Ten years," he said "And the same ten years, over and over again, always leading you here." He added as he grabs her hand and took her towards a monitor with 2 buttons one saying 'FORGET' and the other saying 'ABDICATE'.
"What have you done?" Liz asked Hawthorne, horrified.
"Only what you have ordered. We work for you, Ma'am. The Winders, the Smilers, all of us," Hawthorne explained and clicked a button on top of the monitor and an image of Liz appeared on the monitor
'If you are watching this. If I am watching this, then I have found my way to the Tower Of London,' the Liz on the monitor said as Liz sat down on a chair in front of the monitor 'The creature you are looking at is called a Star Whale,' she added as a diagram of a whale as appeared on the monitor 'Once, there were millions of them. They lived in the depths of space and, according to legend, guided the early space travellers through the asteroid belts. This one, as far as we are aware, is the last of its kind.' That phrase got the attention of the Doctor and Rose who were both the last of their kind.
'And what we have done to it breaks my heart,' the Liz in the monitor went on. 'The Earth was burning. Our sun had turned on us and every other nation had fled to the skies. Our children screamed as the skies grew hotter. And then it came, like a miracle. The last of the Star Whales. We trapped it, we built our ship around it, and we rode on its back to safety. If you wish our voyage to continue, then you must press the Forget button. Be again the heart of this nation, untainted. If not, press the other button. Your reign will end, the Star Whale will be released, and our ship will disintegrate. I hope I keep the strength to make the right decision.'
"I voted for this? Why would I do that?" Amy asked.
"Because you knew if we stayed here, I'd be faced with an impossible choice," the Doctor told her. "Humanity or the alien. You took it upon yourself to save me from that. And that was wrong. You don't ever decide what I need to know, Only Rose can."
"I don't even remember doing it," Amy said.
"You did it," He said, "That's what counts."
"I'm, I'm sorry," Amy pleaded and Rose grabbed Amy's hand and brought her to a corner "Don't bother him when he's like this he's in his 'Oncoming storm mood'. There will still be a way to stop him from comatising the star Whale." Rose explained.
The Doctor walked to the monitor and started working on it. "What are you doing?" Liz asked him.
"The worst thing I'll ever do. I'm going to pass a massive electrical charge through the Star Whale's brain. Should knock out all its higher functions, leave it a vegetable," he explained. "The ship will still fly, but the whale won't feel it."
Amy went up to him "That'll be like killing it," she said, horrified at what he's going to do.
"Look, three options. One, I let the Star Whale continue in unendurable agony for hundreds more years. Two, I kill everyone on this ship. Three, I murder a beautiful, innocent creature as painlessly as I can," he told her "And then I find a new name, possibly 'The Valeyard' 'cause I won't be 'the Doctor' any more."
"There must be something we can do, some other way," Liz said.
"Nobody talk to me," he said "Nobody human has anything to say to me today!" He suddenly shouts.
As the Doctor continues working with his plan Amy sat next to Mandy and Rose sat in a corner and as the Doctor rotates a switch on the console he was working on the door opened and children came in and Mandy recognized one and she ran towards him "Timmy!" She said calling the boy's name but he wasn't saying anything "you made it l!" She said "You're okay! It's me, Mandy."
Amy watched as a tentacle behind Mandy looks like its about to harm her but instead it tapped her on the shoulder and she looked behind her and started petting the tentacle and Amy remember the Doctor's words 'Come on use, your eyes notice everything.' She reeled back the entire adventure in her mind and remembered what Hawthorne said about the Star whale not eating the children and a lot of other important things as well.
Doctor stop." She said as she came back to reality "Whatever you're doing, stop it now!"
She took Liz's hand "Sorry your majesty, going to need a hand," she said to the queen and brought her over the the monitor where the two buttons were.
The Doctor knew what she was doing, "Amy, no no!" He yelled as Amy slammed Liz's hand on the button that says 'ABDICATE' and then the electricity stopped beaming down to the brain of the Star Whale and it started groaning and objects starts crashing and people start screaming all over the ship in fear.
"Amy, what have you done?" The Doctor asked her.
"Nothing at all. Am I right?" Amy asked.
"We've increased speed, Hawthorne said as his eyes widen in shock.
"Yeah, well, you've stopped torturing the pilot," Amy said "Got to help."
"It's still here," Liz said in confusion, "I don't understand."
"The Star Whale didn't come like a miracle all those years ago. It volunteered. You didn't have to trap it or torture it. That was all just you. It came because it couldn't stand to watch your children cry. What if you were really old, and really kind and alone? Your whole race dead. No future. What couldn't you do then? If you were that old, and that kind, and close to the very last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry," Amy explained and turned to Rose "Right, Rose?"
"Yep, you are correct, Amy," Rose said smiling, sticking her tongue between her teeth.
Both Liz and Hawthorne looked down looking mournfully.
Later the Doctor and Rose were in a glass corridor standing "So, Arkytior you helped Amy figure out what to do?" He asked his wife
"No. not necessarily helped her figure out to do I just told her about your 'Oncoming Storm' persona and said that there was another way to do it than comatising the Star Whale." She answered.
"Thank you Arkytior, my Rose." He muttered to her as he flirted with her and kissed her.
Woah, I don't want to know what that was about, Amy said interrupting both Gallifreyans, "But what I came here for is that her majesty says that there will be no more secrets on Starship UK," she added, showing them Liz's mask.
"Amy, you could have killed everyone on this ship," he said.
"You could have killed a Star Whale," she countered.
"And you saved it," he said, "I know, I know."
"Amazing though," Amy said, "don't either of you think? The Star Whale. All that pain and misery and loneliness, and it just made it kind."
The Doctor looks at her 'cause he knew that feeling back when he still had big ears and wore leather jackets before he met Rose's chameleon arched self. "But you couldn't have known how it would react," he said.
"You couldn't," Amy said, "But I've seen it before. Very old and very kind, and nearly the last of it's kind. Sound a bit familiar?"
He smiled as Amy said that and hugged Amy who then hugs Rose.
Soon they were walking back to the Tardis, through the London Market. "Shouldn't we say goodbye? Won't they wonder where we went?" Amy asked.
"For the rest of their lives," he answered. "Oh, the songs they'll write."
"Definitely," Rose said at the same time.
"Never mind them," he went on, "Big day tomorrow."
"Sorry, what?" Amy asked.
"Well, it's always a big day tomorrow," he said turning around as he approached the Tardis, "We've got a time machine. We skip the little ones."
"You both know what I said about getting back for tomorrow morning?" She asked them. "Have either of you ever run away from something because you were scared, or not ready, or just…" She trailed off "just because you could?"
"Once, a long time ago," was all he said.
"What happened?" Amy asked him.
"Hello," was the reply he said.
"Right," Amy said as the Doctor approached the Tardis "There's something I haven't told either of you." She then heard the phone and Amy had the same expression of when Rose's chameleon-arched self first found out that the Tardis had a phone, right after blowing up Downing street "No hang on is that a phone ringing?" She asked and both the Doctor and Rose entered the Tardis and Amy followed.
"People phone you?" She asked.
"Well, it's a phone box," he said.
Amy would you mind answering it for us." Rose asked as she and the Doctor went to the controls of the console.
Amy then picked up the phone and answered it "Hello?" "Sorry, who?" She asked not knowing who it was on the phone "No, seriously. who?" She repeated herself then she put the phone off her ear and said "Says he's the Prime Minister. First the Queen now the Prime Minister. The two of you get about dont you?"
"Which Prime Minister?" He asked.
Amy put the phone back on her ear and asked as she pulls down a lever "Er, which Prime Minister?" She asked and Amy put the phone off her ear again "The British one." She said.
"Amy, which British Prime Minister is it calling us?" Rose asked.
Amy put the phone back on her ear and asked "Which British one?" Amy asked and then handed the phone to the Doctor, "Winston Churchill for you, Doctor."
He took the phone and put it on his ear, "Oh! Hello, dear. What's up?"
"Tricky situation, Doctor," Churchill said, "Potentially very dangerous. I think I'm going to need you and your wife, Rose."
"Don't worry about a thing, Prime Minister," the Doctor said. "We're on our way." He then hung up the phone and put it back where it is when not being used and the three of them chuckled as the tardis dematerialized.
Please review and tell me if I'm making Rose sound like well… Rose Because I still don't know how to write her properly and I need a beta-reader.
Wednesday is my High School graduation so I might not be able to upload till Thursday.