Full Circle

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“Zup Lucky, what’re you up to today?” I smirked, trying to hide any concern.

The Doctor pulled me towards the TARDIS, and for a split second I saw real fear in his eyes.

“What’s wrong?” I asked him.

Instead of answering me, the Doctor nervously looked around.

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The Doctor: “It’s fine. Everything’s fine. Nothing’s wrong, all fine. Excuse me. What day is it?

MILKMAN: “Saturday.

The Doctor: “Saturday. Good. Good, I like Saturdays.

Donna: “So, I just met Rose Tyler?

The Doctor: “Yeah.

Donna: “But she’s locked away in a parallel world.

The Doctor: “Exactly. If she can cross from her parallel world to your parallel world, than that means the walls of the universe are breaking down, which puts everything in danger. Everything. But how?”

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Donna: “The thing is, Doctor, no matter what’s happening, and I’m sure it’s bad, I get that but, Rose is coming back. Isn’t that good?

The Doctor: “Yeah.

(Bang! The TARDIS shakes.)

Donna: “What the hell was that?

The Doctor: “Don’t know. It came from outside.

(The Doctor opens the doors. There are just a few pieces of space rock floating nearby.)

Donna: “But we’re in space. How did that happen? What did you do?

(The Doctor checks the scanner readings.)

The Doctor: “We haven’t moved. We’re fixed. It can’t have. No. The TARDIS is still in the same place, but the Earth has gone. The entire planet. It’s gone.

Donna: “But if the Earth’s been moved, they’ve lost the Sun. What about my Mum? And Granddad? They’re dead, aren’t they? Are they dead?

The Doctor: “I don’t know, Donna. I just don’t know. I’m sorry, I don’t know.

Donna: “That’s my family. My whole world.

The Doctor: “There’s no readings. Nothing. Not a trace. Not even a whisper. Oh, that is fearsome technology.

Donna: “So what do we do?

The Doctor: “We’ve got to get help.

Donna: “From where?

The Doctor: “Donna, I’m taking you to the Shadow Proclamation. Hold tight.

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Donna: “So go on then, what is the Shadow Proclamation anyway?

The Doctor: “Posh name for police. Outer space police. Here we go.

(The TARDIS lands in an ordinary looking corridor somewhere in a complex built on three linked asteroids. They are greeted by an armed platoon.)

JUDOON: “Sco bo tro no flo jo ko fo to to.

The Doctor: “No bo ho sho ko ro to so. Bokodozogobofopojo.

(The Judoon come to attention.)

The Doctor: “Moho.

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(A silver-haired woman in a black gown is pacing.)

ARCHITECT: “Time Lords are the stuff of legend. They belong in the myths and whispers of the Higher Species. You cannot possibly exist.

The Doctor: “Yeah. More to the point, I’ve got a missing planet.

ARCHITECT: “Then you’re not as wise as the stories would say. The picture is far bigger than you imagine. The whole universe is in outrage, Doctor. Twenty four worlds have been taken from the sky.

The Doctor: “How many?. Which ones? Show me.

(He joins the woman at her computer screen.)

ARCHITECT: “Locations range far and wide, but all disappeared at the exact same moment, leaving no trace.

The Doctor: “Callufrax Minorr. Jahoo. Shallacatop. Woman Wept. Clom. Clom’s gone? Who’d want Clom?

ARCHITECT: “All different sizes. Some populated, some not. But all unconnected.

Donna: “What about Pyrovillia?

ARCHITECT: “Who is the female?

Donna: “Donna. I’m a human being. Maybe not the stuff of legend but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you. Way back, when we were in Pompeii, Lucius said Pyrovillia had gone missing.

JUDOON: “Pyrovillia is cold case. Not relevant.

Donna: “How do you mean, cold case?

ARCHITECT: “The planet Pyrovillia cannot be part of this. It disappeared over two thousand years ago.

Donna: “Yes, yes, hang on. But there’s the Adipose breeding planet, too. Miss Foster said that was lost, but that must’ve been a long time ago.

The Doctor: “That’s it! Donna, brilliant. Planets are being taken out of time as well as space. Let’s put this into 3-D.

(Holograms of the missing planets start to fill the room.)

The Doctor: “Now, if we add Pyrovillia and Adipose Three. Something missing. Where else, where else, where else? Where else lost, lost, lost, lost. Oh! The Lost Moon of Poosh.

(With the last sphere added, the representations suddenly reorganise themselves.)

ARCHITECT: “What did you do?

The Doctor: “Nothing. The planets rearranged themselves into the optimum pattern. Oh, look at that. Twenty seven planets in perfect balance. Come on, that is gorgeous.

Donna: “Oi, don’t get all spaceman. What does it mean?

The Doctor: “All those worlds fit together like pieces of an engine. It’s like a powerhouse. What for?

ARCHITECT: “Who could design such a thing?

The Doctor: “Someone tried to move the Earth once before. Long time ago. Can’t be.

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(Donna is sitting on the stairs while the Architect and the Doctor confer. She hears a heartbeat pounding. A white-haired, pink eyed young woman offers a tray.)

ALBINO: “You need sustenance. Take the water, it purifies.

Donna: “Thanks.

ALBINO: “There was something on your back.

Donna: “How do you know that?

ALBINO: “You are something new.

Donna: “Not me. I’m just a temp. Shorthand, filing, hundred words per minute. Fat lot of good that is now. I’m no use to anyone.

ALBINO: “I’m so sorry for your loss.

Donna: “Yeah. My whole planet’s gone.

ALBINO: “I mean the loss that is yet to come. God save you.

(The servant goes up the stairs. The Doctor walks over to Donna.)

The Doctor: “Donna, come on, think. Earth. There must’ve been some sort of warning. Was anything happening back in your day, like electrical storms, freak weather, patterns in the sky?

Donna: “Well, how should I know? Er, no. I don’t think so, no.

The Doctor: “Oh, okay, never mind.

Donna: “Although, there were the bees disappearing.

The Doctor: “The bees disappearing. The bees disappearing. The bees disappearing!

ARCHITECT: “How is that significant?

Donna: “On Earth we had these insects. Some people said it was pollution or mobile phone signals.

The Doctor: “Or, they were going back home.

Donna: “Back home where?

The Doctor: “Planet Melissa Majoria.

Donna: “Are you saying bees are aliens?.

The Doctor: “Don’t be so daft. Not all of them. But if the migrant bees felt something coming, some sort of danger, and escaped? Tandocca.

ARCHITECT: “The Tandocca Scale.

The Doctor: “Tandocca Scale is the series of wavelengths used as a carrier signals by migrant bees. Infinitely small. No wonder we didn’t see it. It’s like looking for a speck of cinnamon in the Sahara, but look, there it is. The Tandocca trail. The transmat that moved the planets was using the same wavelength, we can follow the path.

Donna: “And find the Earth?. Well, stop talking and do it.

The Doctor: “I am.

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The Doctor: “We’re a bit late. The signal’s scattered, but it’s a start.

(The Doctor puts his head out of the TARDIS door.)

The Doctor: “I’ve got a blip. It’s just a blip, But it’s definitely a blip.

ARCHITECT: “Then according to the Strictures of the Shadow Proclamation, I will have to seize your transport and your technology.

The Doctor: “Oh, really? What for?

ARCHITECT: “The planets were stolen with hostile intent. We are declaring war, Doctor, right across the universe, and you will lead us into battle.

The Doctor: “Right. Yes. Course I will. I’ll just go and get you the key.

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(The time rotor stops wheezing.)

The Doctor: “It’s stopped.

Donna: “What do you mean? Is that good or bad? Where are we?

The Doctor: “The Medusa Cascade. I came here when I was just a kid, ninety years old. It was the centre of a rift in time and space.

(It is a multi-coloured nebula.)

Donna: “So, where are the twenty seven planets?

The Doctor: “Nowhere. The Tandocca Trail stops dead. End of the line.

Donna: “So what do we do? Doctor, what do we do? Now don’t do this to me. No, don’t. Don’t do this to me. Not now. Tell me, what are we going do? You never give up. Please.

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The Doctor: “Phone!

Donna: “Doctor, phone.

The Doctor: “Martha, is that you?. It’s a signal.

Donna: “Can we follow it?

(The Doctor dons his stethoscope.)

The Doctor: “Oh, just watch me.

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The Doctor: “Got it. Locking on.

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(Bangs and flames here, too.)

The Doctor: “We’re travelling through time. One second in the future. The phone call’s pulling us through.

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The Doctor: “Three, two, one.

(The Doctor and Donna scream as the planets pop into existence around them. The TARDIS stops shaking.)

Donna: “Twenty seven planets. And there’s the Earth. But why couldn’t we see them?

The Doctor: “The entire Medusa Cascade has been put a second out of sync with the rest of the universe. Perfect hiding place. Tiny little pocket of time. But we found them. Ooo, ooo, ooo, what’s that? Hold on, hold on. Some sort of Subwave Network.

(The Doctor and Donna take Harriet’s quarter of the screen.)

Jack: “Where the hell have you been?

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(The one where Donna was supposed to get married?)

Donna: “Like a ghost town.

The Doctor: “Sarah Jane said they were taking the people. What for? Think, Donna. When you met Rose in that parallel world, what did she say?

Donna: “Just, the darkness is coming.

The Doctor: “Anything else?

Donna: “Why don’t you ask her yourself?

(Rose is walking down the street towards them. The Doctor runs to her.)

DALEK: “Exterminate.

(The Dalek’s ray grazes the Doctor, but still lights him up and knocks him down. Jack appears and blasts the Dalek. Rose gets to the Doctor first.)

Rose: “I’ve got you. It missed you. Look, it’s me, Doctor.

The Doctor: “Rose.

Rose: “Hi.

The Doctor: “Long time no see.

Rose: “Yeah. Been busy, you know. Don’t die. Oh, my God. Don’t die. Oh my god, don’t die.

Jack: “Get him into the TARDIS, quick. Move.

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Donna: “What, what do we do?. There must be some medicine or something.

Jack: “Just step back. Rose, do as I say, and get back. He’s dying and you know what happens next.

Donna: “What do you mean? He can’t.

Rose: “Oh, no. I came all this way.

Donna: “What do you mean, what happens next?

(The Doctor right hand begins to glow.)

The Doctor: “It’s starting.

Jack: “Here we go. Good luck, Doctor.

Donna: “Will someone please tell me what is going on?.

Rose: “When he’s dying, his er, his body, it repairs itself. It changes. But you can’t!

The Doctor: “I’m sorry, it’s too late. I’m regenerating.

(The Doctor has golden energy streaming from his hands and head, and he, Jack and Rose believe he is regenerating. With an effort, the Doctor turns and points both hands towards his spare hand in the jar by the time console. It absorbs it and he is released.)

The Doctor: “Now then. Where were we?

(Donna, Jack and Rose are stunned.)

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(The Doctor checks on his glowing spare hand.)

The Doctor: “There now.

(He blows on the jar and the glowing stops.)

The Doctor: “You see? Used the regeneration energy to heal myself, but soon as I was done, I didn’t need to change. I didn’t want to. Why would I? Look at me. So, to stop the energy going all the way, I siphoned off the rest into a handy bio-matching receptacle, namely my hand. My hand there. My handy spare hand. Remember? Christmas Day, Sycorax. Lost my hand in a sword fight? That’s my hand. What do you think?

Rose: “You’re still you?

The Doctor: “I’m still me.

(The Doctor and Rose hug. Donna turns to Jack.)

Donna: “You can hug me, if you want. No, really. You can hug me.

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(The power goes out.)

The Doctor: “They’ve got us. Power’s gone. Some kind of chronon loop.

(The TARDIS tilts with a jerk.)

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Jack: “There’s a massive Dalek ship at the centre of the planets. They’re calling it the Crucible. Guess that’s our destination.

Donna: “You said these planets were like an engine. But what for?

The Doctor: “Rose, you’ve been in a parallel world. That world’s running ahead of this universe. You’ve seen the future. What was it?

Rose: “It’s the darkness.

Donna: “The stars were going out.

Rose: “One by one. We looked up at the sky and they were just dying. Basically, we’ve been building this, er, this travel machine, this, this er, dimension cannon, so I could. Well, so I could

The Doctor: “What?

Rose: “So I could come back. Shut up. Anyway, suddenly, it started to work and the dimensions started to collapse. Not just in our world, not just in yours, but the whole of reality. Even the Void was dead. Something is destroying everything.

Donna: “In that parallel world, you said something about me.

Rose: “The dimension cannon could measure timelines, and it’s, it’s weird, Donna, but they all seemed to converge on you.

Donna: “But why me? I mean, what have I ever done? I’m a temp from Chiswick.

(The scanner beeps.)

The Doctor: “The Dalek Crucible. All aboard.

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The Doctor: “We’ll have to go out. Because if we don’t, they’ll get in.

Rose: “You told me nothing could get through those doors.

Jack: “You’ve got extrapolator shielding.

The Doctor: “Last time we fought the Daleks, they were scavengers and hybrids, and mad. But this is a fully-fledged Dalek Empire, at the height of its power. Experts at fighting TARDISes, they can do anything. Right now, that wooden door is just wood.

(Donna can hear a heartbeat thumping in her ears.)

Jack: “What about your dimension jump?

Rose: “It needs another twenty minutes. And anyway, I’m not leaving.

The Doctor: “What about your teleport?

Jack: “Went down with the power loss.

The Doctor: “Right then. All of us together. Yeah. Donna?

(Donna is staring at nothing. He snaps her out of it.)

The Doctor: “Donna?

Donna: “Yeah.

The Doctor: “I’m sorry. There’s nothing else we can do.

Donna: “No, I know.

Red Dalek: “Surrender, Doctor, and face your Dalek masters.

DALEK 3: “Crucible on maximum alert.

Rose: “Daleks.

Jack: “Oh, God.

The Doctor: “It’s been good, though, hasn’t it? All of us. All of it. Everything we did. (to Donna) You were brilliant. (to Jack) And you were brilliant. (to Rose) And you were brilliant. Blimey.

(The Doctor leads his companions out of the TARDIS. Donna is lagging behind.)

Red Dalek: “Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!

DALEKS: “Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks! Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!

(Donna stops inside the TARDIS, the heartbeat thumping in her ears. The Doctor looks up at the phalanxes of Daleks flying around.)

DALEKS: “Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks! Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks!

Red Dalek: “Behold, Doctor. Behold the might of the true Dalek race.

The Doctor: “Donna! You’re no safer in there.

(The TARDIS door slams shut, trapping Donna inside.)

The Doctor: “What?

Donna: “Doctor? What have you done?

The Doctor: “It wasn’t me. I didn’t do anything.

Donna: “Oi! Oi, I’m not staying behind!

The Doctor: “What did you do?!

Red Dalek: “This is not of Dalek origin.

Donna: “Doctor!

The Doctor: “Stop it! She’s my friend. Now open the door and let her out.

Red Dalek: “This is Time Lord treachery.

The Doctor: “Me? The door just closed on its own.

Red Dalek: “Nevertheless, the TARDIS is a weapon and it will be destroyed.

(A trapdoor opens under the TARDIS and it drops.)

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(The spare hand is lying on the floor, twitching. The golden energy surges out and builds a new body for it, which looks just like the old one.)

Donna: “It’s you!

Handy: “Oh, yes!

Donna: “You’re naked.

“Oh, yes.” The New Doctor and I said, though mine was more of a purr.

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Handy: “All repaired. Lovely. Shush. No one knows we’re here. Got to keep quiet. Silent running, like on submarines when you can’t even drop a spanner. Don’t drop a spanner! I like blue. What do you think?

Donna: “You are bonkers.

Handy: “Why? What’s wrong with blue?

Donna: “Is that what Time Lords do? Lop a bit off, grow another one? You’re like worms.

Handy: “No, no, no, no, no. I’m unique. Never been another like me. Because all that regeneration energy went into the hand. Look at my hand. I love that hand. But then you touched it. Wham! Shush. Instantaneous biological metacrisis. I grew out of you. Still, could be worse.

Donna: “Oi, watch it, spaceman.

Handy: “Oi, watch it, Earth girl. Ooo. I sound like you. I sound all, all sort of rough.

Donna: “Oi!

Handy: “Oi!

Donna: “Oi!

Handy: “Spanners. Shush. I must have picked up a bit of your voice, that’s all. Is it? Did I? No. Oh, you are kidding me. No way. One heart. I’ve only got one heart. This body has got only one heart.

Donna: “What, like you’re human?

Handy: “Oh, that’s disgusting.

Donna: “Oi!

Handy: “Oi!

Donna: “Stop it.

Handy: “No, wait. I’m part Time Lord, part human. Well, isn’t that wizard?

Donna: “I kept hearing that noise, that heartbeat.

Handy: “Oh, that was me. My single heart. Because I’m a complicated event in time and space. Must have rippled back, converging on you.

Donna: “But why me?

Handy: “Because you’re special.

Donna: “Oh, I keep telling you, I’m not.

Handy: “No, but you are. Oh. You really don’t believe that, do you? I can see, Donna, what you’re thinking. All that attitude, all that lip, because all this time you think you’re not worth it.

Donna: “Stop it.

Handy: “Shouting at the world because no one’s listening. Well, why should they?

Donna: “Doctor? Stop it.

Handy: “But look at what you did. No, it’s more than that. It’s like we were always heading for this. You came to the TARDIS. And you found me again. Your granddad. Your car. Donna, your car. You parked your car right where the TARDIS was going land. That’s not coincidence at all! We’ve been blind. Something’s been drawing us together for such a long time.

Donna: “But you’re talking like destiny. There’s no such thing. Is there?

Handy: “It’s still not finished. It’s like the pattern’s not complete. The strands are still drawing together. But heading for what?

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Handy: “It’s the planets. The twenty seven planets.

Handy: “Single string Z-neutrinos compressed. No way.

Donna: “What was it? Doctor, what did it do?

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(He builds a gizmo.)

Donna: “So what is this thing?

Handy: “It’s our only hope. A Z-neutrino biological inversion catalyser.

Donna: “Yeah. Earth girl, remember?

Handy: “Davros said he built those Daleks out of himself. His genetic code runs through the entire race. If I can use this to lock the Crucible’s transmission onto Davros himself

Donna: “It destroys the Daleks?

Handy: “Biggest backfire in history.

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(The gizmo is ready, and it looks like a gun.)

Handy: “Ready? Maximum power!

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(The TARDIS materialises and the new Doctor appears in the doorway.)

Jack: “Brilliant.

(Then he runs across the floor.)

The Doctor: “Don’t!

(Davros zaps the new Doctor. He drops the gizmo in pain.)

Davros: “Activate holding cell.

(Donna runs out of the TARDIS and grabs the gizmo.)

“Hello Dalek Crucible!” I cheered.

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(Davros zaps Terra, sending her flying backwards. Once again the gizmo drops to the floor.)

The Doctor: “Terra! Terra! Are you alright, Terra?

Davros: “Destroy the weapon.

(A Dalek obeys.)

Davros: “I was wrong about your warriors, Doctor. They are pathetic.

Rose: “How comes there are two of you?

The Doctor: “Human biological metacrisis. Never mind that. Now we’ve got no way of stopping the Reality Bomb.

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Davros: “Stand witness, Time Lord. Stand witness, humans. Your strategies have failed, your weapons are useless, and. Oh. The end of the universe has come.

RED DALEK [OC]: “Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. (An alarm sounds.)

Terra: “Mmm, closing all Z-neutrino relay loops using an internalised synchronous backfeed reversal loop. That button there.” (She presses a button on the panel she was thrown against.)

The Doctor: “Terra, you can’t even change a plug.

Terra: “You want to bet, Lucky?

Davros: “You’ll suffer for this.”

“I suffer every time you talk.” I snarked. “Your voice is really annoying.”

(Terra lifts a lever and Davros’ electrical zap travels up his arm.)

Davros: “Argh!

Terra: “Oh, bio-electric dampening field with a retrograde field arc inversion.

Davros: “Exterminate her!

DALEKS: “Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.

(Terra works more controls on the panel.)

DALEK: “Weapons non-functional.

Terra: “Phwor. Macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength blocking Dalek weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix.

The Doctor: “How did you work that out? You’re

Handy: “Time Lord. Part Time Lord.

Terra: “Part human. Oh, yes. That was a two-way biological metacrisis. Half Doctor, half Donna, all me.

The Doctor: “The DoctorTerraDonna. Just like the Ood said, remember? They saw it coming. The DoctorTerraDonna.

Terra: “Holding cells deactivated. And seal the Vault. Well, don’t just stand there, you skinny boys in suits. Get to work.

Davros: “Stop them! Get them away from the controls.

Terra: “And spin.

(The Daleks spin around on the spot.)

DALEK: “Help me. Help me!

Terra: “And the other way.

Handy: “What did you do?”

Terra: “Trip switch circuit-breaker in the psychokinetic threshold manipulator.

Handy: “But that’s brilliant!

The Doctor: “Why did we never think of that?”

Terra: “Because you two were just Time Lords, you dumbos, lacking that little bit of human. That gut instinct that comes hand in hand with Planet Earth.” I grinned, looking over at Donna. “Right Donna?”

She seemed confused by the sudden attention. “What are you talking about?”

“You really think I got the brains from these two knuckleheads?” I waved at the two Doctors. Instead of looking offended, they turned to Donna with astonished smiles. “This all came from the Donna part of me.”

I grinned, suddenly. “Oh. I liked that. The Donna part of me.”

“But, I’m not-”

I hushed her. “Donna Noble, you are the most important woman in the universe.” I stressed. “At Adipose industries, who gave us that second capsule?”

Donna shrugged. “Me.”

“In Pompeii, who helped remind him that he could save people even amongst the pain?” I asked.

Donna seemed to be humoring me. “Me.”

“At the Messaline, who figured out it was a week long war?” I asked.

“Me!” Donna snapped. “But so what? Those were all accidents!”

I scoffed. “So was penicillin, and corn flakes.” The ginger still didn’t believe. “Donna, you are not nothing. You’re everything.”

These words apparently reached through to Donna. She smiled, brightly. I smiled back, turning back to the Doctors.

“Back to work.” I sighed, grinning smugly. “Oh, I can think of ideas you two couldn’t dream of in a million years. Ah, the universe has been waiting for me. Now, let’s send that trip switch all over the ship.” I smirked, holding up my hands. “Best hacker in the universe, sitting right here.”

Handy: “Ha!

(Jack runs into the TARDIS.)

Donna: “Come on then, boys. We’ve got twenty seven planets to send home. Activate magnetron.

Davros: “Stop this at once!

(Jack comes out of the TARDIS with the honking big guns.)

Jack: “Mickey!

Davros: “You will desist!

(Mickey points his gun at Davros, point blank range.)

Mickey: “Just stay where you are, mister.

Jack: “Out of the way.

(He pushes a spinning Dalek down a corridor, while Sarah and Rose manhandle another one.)

Sarah Jane: “Good to see you again.

Rose: “Oh, you too.

Terra: “Ready? And reverse.

(Donna and the Doctors pull out pairs of rods, and the planets disappear one by one.)

The Doctor: “Off you go, Clom.

Handy: “Back home, Adipose Three.

Terra: “Shallacatop, Pyrovillia and the Lost Moon of Poosh. Sorted. Ha!

Handy: “Ha!

The Doctor: “We need more power!

Rose: “Is anyone going to tell us what’s going on?

Terra: “He poured all his regeneration energy into his spare hand. I touched the hand, and he grew out of that but that fed back into me. But, it just stayed dormant in my head till the synapses got that little extra spark, kicking them into life. Thank you, Davros! Part human, part Time Lord, and then me. And I got one of his better qualities, his mind.”

“Oi!” Handy said. “You sayin’ my mind isn’t my best quality?”

I stopped what I was doing, leaning towards him and giving him a flirty grin. “I think your face is your best quality.”

Handy gave me a smug look back.

“You two!” The Doctor scolded. “Can we do the flirting thing later?”

“You said that to Shakespeare, and look how that turned out.” I argued.

Sarah Jane: “So there’s three of you?

Rose: “Three Doctors?

Jack: “I can’t tell you what I’m thinking right now.”

“It’s like someone peeked at my Christmas list.” I cheered, clapping my hands in my excitement.

The Doctor: “You’re so unique the timelines were converging on you. Human being with a Time Lord brain.

Davros: “But you promised me, Dalek Caan. Why did you not foresee this?

The Doctor: “Oh, I think he did. Something’s been manipulating the timelines for ages, getting Donna Noble to the right place at the right time.”

Caan: “This would always have happened. I only helped, Doctor.”

Then the Doctor grinned. “Getting Terra there too.”

I snapped my gaze to the Time Lord. “Hold on. You’re saying that he was the reason I was dressed in my pajamas when I met Queen Elizabeth?” I glared at the Dalek. “Ah’ll kill ya for that!”

Davros: “You betrayed the Daleks.”

Caan: “I saw the Daleks. What we have done, throughout time and space, I saw the truth of us, Creator, and I decreed, no more!”

(Jack runs into the TARDIS.) Jack: “Heads up!

Red Dalek: “Davros, you have betrayed us.

Davros: “It was Dalek Caan.

Red Dalek: “The Vault will be purged. You will all be exterminated.

(The Red Dalek zaps the control panel.)

Jack: “Like I was saying, feel this!

(Jack fires an extended pulse from his big gun and the Red Dalek explodes.)

The Doctor: “Oh, we’ve lost the magnetron. And there’s only one planet left. Oh, guess which one. But we can use the TARDIS.

(The Doctor runs into the TARDIS.)

Handy: “Holding Earth stability. Maintaining atmospheric shell.

Caan: “The prophecy must complete.

Davros: “Don’t listen to him.

Caan: “I have seen the end of everything Dalek, and you must make it happen, Doctor.

Handy: “He’s right. Because with or without a Reality bomb, this Dalek Empire’s big enough to slaughter the cosmos. They’ve got to be stopped.

Donna: “Just, just wait for the Doctor.

Handy: “I am the Doctor. Maximising Dalekanium power feeds. Blasting them back!

(Daleks start exploding all over the Crucible and all over the Medusa Cascade. The Doctor runs out of the TARDIS.)

The Doctor: “What have you done?

Handy: “Fulfilling the prophecy.

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The Doctor: “Do you know what you’ve done? Now get in the TARDIS! Everyone! All of you, inside! Run! In! In! In! In!

Handy: “Sarah Jane! Rose! Jackie! Jack! Mickey!

(Explosions are starting to wreck the Vault.)

The Doctor: “Davros? Come with me. I promise I can save you.

Davros: “Never forget, Doctor, you did this. I name you. Forever, you are the Destroyer of the Worlds!

(A wall of flames leaps up and Davros gurgles his last scream.)

Caan: “One will still die.

The Doctor: “And off we go.

(The TARDIS dematerialises. The Crucible goes KaBOOM!)

Sarah Jane: “But what about the Earth? It’s stuck in the wrong part of space.

The Doctor: “I’m on it. Torchwood Hub, this is the Doctor. Are you receiving me?

“This is Torchwood Headquarters.” I said. “My name is Meredith Gafford, how might I be of service today?”

Gwen: “Is Jack there?”

“Of course he is.” Meredith said. “If Jack died, I’d kill him, and he knows exactly why.”

The Doctor: “Can’t get rid of him. Jack, what’s her name?

Jack: “Gwen Cooper.

The Doctor: “Tell me, Gwen Cooper, are you from an old Cardiff family?

Gwen: “Yes, all the way back to the eighteen hundreds.

The Doctor: “Ah, thought so. Spatial genetic multiplicity.

Rose: “Oh, yeah.

The Doctor: “Yeah, it’s a funny old world. Now, Torchwood, I want you to open up that Rift Manipulator. Send all the power to me.

Ianto: “Doing it now, sir.

Donna: “What’s that for?

The Doctor: “It’s a tow rope. Now then. Sarah, what was your son’s name?

Sarah Jane: “Luke. He’s called Luke. And the computer’s called Mister Smith.

The Doctor: “Calling Luke and Mister Smith. This is the Doctor. Come on, Luke. Shake a leg.

LUKE: “Is Mum there?

The Doctor: “Oh, she’s fine and dandy.

Sarah Jane: “Yes! Yes!

The Doctor: “Now, Mister Smith, I want you to harness the Rift power and loop it around the TARDIS. You got that?

MR SMITH: “I regret I will need remote access to TARDIS base code numerals.

The Doctor: “Oh, blimey, that’s going to take a while.

Sarah Jane: “No, no, no. Let me. K9, out you come!

(K9 beams in beside Luke.) K9: “Affirmative, Mistress.

The Doctor: “Oh! Oh ho! Oh, good dog! K9, give Mister Smith the base code.

K9: “Master. TARDIS base code now being transferred. The process is simple.”

“Oh, that is so Lucky’s dog.” I joked.

The Doctor: “Now then, you lot. Sarah, hold that down. Mickey, you hold that. Because you know why this TARDIS always is always rattling about the place? Rose? That, there. It’s designed to have six pilots, and I have to do it single handed. Martha, keep that level. But not any more. Jack, there you go. Steady that. Now we can fly this thing. No, Jackie. No, no. Not you. Don’t touch anything. Just stand back. Like it’s meant to be flown. We’ve got the Torchwood Rift looped around the TARDIS by Mister Smith, and we’re going to fly Planet Earth back home. Right then. Off we go.

(The TARDIS takes the strain on the tow rope, then pulls Earth out of the Cascade. Everyone on Earth hangs on for the ride. Donna walks around the console, supervising the flight.)

Donna: “That’s really good, Jack. I think you’re the best.

(The TARDIS drops the Earth off by the Moon, and everyone celebrates.)

Jackie: “Good job!

(Donna pulls Jack off Sarah and hugs him herself. On Earth, the news tickers report the obvious, and fireworks celebrations happen without any set up or planning whatsoever.)

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(The Doctor unmends Jack’s teleport bracelet.)

The Doctor: “I told you, no teleport. And, Martha, get rid of that Osterhagen thing, eh? Save the world one more time.

MARTHA: “Consider it done.

(They both salute the Doctor, and he returns it. Jack and Martha walk away.)

Jack: “You know, I’m not sure about UNIT these days. Maybe there’s something else you could be doing?

(Mickey comes out of the TARDIS.)

The Doctor: “Oi, where are you going?

Mickey: “Well, I’m not stupid. I can work out what happens next. And hey, I had a good time in that parallel world, but my gran passed away. Nice and peaceful. She spent her last years living in a mansion. There’s nothing there for me now, certainly not Rose.

The Doctor: “What will you do?

Mickey: “Anything. Brand new life. Just you watch. See you, boss. Hey, you two!

(Mickey catches up with Jack and Martha.)

Jack: “Oh. Thought I’d got rid of you.

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“You saved Gray?” I asked the blonde woman, wondering what happened to us. I knew that she didn’t have on the manipulator. What I didn’t know was when.”

She just smiled. “I saved more than just Gray.”

I gasped. “Who?” I asked excitedly.

“Owen Harper and Tosh Sato.” Future Me answered.

I gasped. Future Me, without being confined by the manipulator, was able to do Torchwood. She had saved them both. I was really looking forward to hearing that she saved Ianto. Or, at least I hope she did. “Oh my gosh! You’re amazing!”

“And don’t I know it.” Future Me smirked, her green eyes glinting trouble. She winked at me. Was I flirting with myself? Screw it.

She was probably using those glasses as a shimmer. They added a blue tint to her eyes so the Doctor wouldn’t realize it was her. I wonder why she would do that.

Might as well play along.

I pretended to look her over, as if confused. “Who are you, again?”

“Meredith Gafford.” She answered.

My jaw dropped. Okay. This is like she wasn’t even trying. “Meredith Gafford?” Future Me nodded. “Wow.” I pretended to gap, like I had just figured out who she was. “Meredith Gafford. I’m meeting Meredith Gafford.” I frowned at her, trying to look apologetic. “Whatever the Doctor’s been doing to you, I’m sorry!”

Future Me just smiled kindly, shrugging it off. “No problem. He’s a bloody wanker when he’s on his own. No reason to beat yourself up.”

I squealed, still pretending to be excited. Okay I was, just not for the same reasons as the others. “You’re amazing! How did you do it?”

Future Me almost frowned, looking at the ground before looking at me. “Come on, you know I love my secrets.”

I groaned. That was a cheap way of saying spoilers.

“Terra.” The Doctor’s voice called out.

I looked over at the Doctor. He had just had some words with Sarah Jane, and was looking at Future Me with such distrust. It was like he didn’t like her.

He didn’t like me.

He ran up to the two of us, smiling at me. “How about you go into the TARDIS? We need to get Rose back.”

I frowned. He was trying to get me away from here. He wanted to yell at Future Me for something. Something he didn’t want me here to hear. “But, Meredith! Gafford!” I said as if it explained everything. Which, it kinda did.

“Terra, it’s alright.” Future Me said to me, giving me a kind look. It was resigned, too, like she had been expecting it. “You’ll understand soon.”

I smirked, skipping off towards the TARDIS. “I have a soon.” I giggled.

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The Doctor: “Just time for one last trip. Dårlig Ulv Stranden. Better known as

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(The TARDIS materialises on the beach of Bad Wolf Bay. The New Doctor and Jackie are first out.)

Jackie: “Oh, fat lot of good this is. Back of beyond. Bloody Norway? I’m going to have to phone your father. He’s on the nursery run. I was pregnant, do you remember? Had a baby boy.

Handy: “Oh, brilliant. What did you call him?

Jackie: “Doctor.

Handy: “Really?

Jackie: “No, you plum. He’s called Tony.

Rose: “Hold on, this is the parallel universe, right?

The Doctor: “You’re back home.

Donna: “And the walls of the world are closing again, now that the Reality Bomb never happened. It’s dimensional retroclosure. See, I really get that stuff now.

Rose: “No, but I spent all that time trying to find you. I’m not going back now.

The Doctor: “But you’ve got to. Because we saved the universe, but at a cost. And the cost is him. He destroyed the Daleks. He committed genocide. He’s too dangerous to be left on his own.

Handy: “You made me.

The Doctor: “Exactly. You were born in battle, full of blood and anger and revenge. Remind you of someone? That’s me, when we first met. And you made me better. Now you can do the same for him.

Rose: “But he’s not you.

The Doctor: “He needs you. That’s very me.

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“Ohh. Handy.” I decided.

“Handy?” The Doctor asked. “Why do I have to be Handy?”

I just looked above his head. “Stretch out your arms.” He did. “Because this girl needs a helping hand.”

A raspberry pink portal appeared above him. There was a small flash, then a woman was pushed out. She was wearing a black dress, with a raspberry pink skirt with a light black drape over it. She had on fishnet stockings, with black boots. Her neck had just two necklaces, a black choker with a pink heart, and a heart locket.

She fell from the portal, landing right in Handy’s arms. She looked fairly dizzy, but got over it once she saw who was holding her. “Hello.”

Handy just looked so confused. He looked at Terra, then me.

“Come on, that was funny.” I chuckled.

“What? Do I get not a greeting?” Terra scoffed. “How ru-”

He pulled her up, kissing her.

Terra looked surprised, but then got into it.

I turned to Rose. “Rosita, I can’t watch the Doctor alone. I need you to help him, help them.” I stressed. “He’s basically an overgrown child. And that version of me, she’s young. Help her, please.”

Rose nodded.

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“She broke a rule.” I grumbled, looking over the console for one last time.

“Who?” The Doctor asked, voice quiet.

I looked up at him, giving him a bittersweet smile. Meredith had broken a rule, the only rule Future Me’s had.

“She said I had a soon.”

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A sad laugh came out. “I’ve been bleeding out for an hour.”

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The Doctor held me tightly, as if holding me would fix me. I could only tearfully smile.

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“Don’t stop being a Doctor, okay?” I said. “Ten is absolute rubbish on his own, but you need to remember that you’re a Doctor.”

“No. No.” The Doctor said. “Cause you’re going to be here. You’re going to be fine. That thing’s broken before. You were fine.”

“It’s completely dead this time. Shorted out with the Metacrisis.” I snorted. “No chance of getting that deposit back now.” I joked.

The Doctor smiled, that heartbroken look in his eyes. “

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“These are my dying words, let me have some fun with it!”

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Terra: “I was going to be with you forever.

The Doctor: “I know.

Terra: “The rest of my life, travelling in the TARDIS. The Doctor Terra. No. Oh my god. I can’t go back. Don’t make me go back. Doctor, please, please don’t make me go back.”

The Doctor: “Terra. Oh, Terra Song. I am so sorry. But we had the best of times.”

“Yeah.” I hiccuped, feeling another tear fall. “Doc,

With a weak hand, I grabbed the back of the Doctor’s head. Before he could stop me I pulled him in for one last kiss.

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That was when it all went black.