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Donna stopped abruptly as the doors to the TARDIS slammed shut and you just about slammed into her. For a minute everything was quiet and then you and Donna started yelling for the Doctor to help. You could hear his voice yelling for the both of you and at your unseen enemy.
After a few moments of this, the TARDIS suddenly moved, throwing you and Donna off balance. You landed on your shoulder and Donna landed on her side. Parts of the TARDIS began exploding as you and Donna attempted to regain your footing.
Somehow, you and Donna managed to make your way to the console of the TARDIS while avoiding the small fires that had broken out all around the TARDIS. As the TARDIS shuddered again, you grabbed onto the console so tightly that you could see the whites of your knuckles. Donna wasn’t so lucky and fell to the floor; the way she landed, if she stretched she could touch…
“NO DONNA!” You cried out as she reached for the Doctor’s severed hand. Why he kept his hand after what had happened last time, you had no idea.
It was too late. Donna’s hand had touched the glass container and there was a flash of light. The light was exactly like the Doctor’s light when he almost regenerated.
*Scene change*
Qui-Gon didn’t hear The Doctor’s and Jack’s screams of pain and rage as they watched the TARDIS fall with you and Donna still inside. His fingernails dug into his palms as he stood frozen.
“She’s gone. They’re gone and I couldn’t do anything but watch.”
The helplessness grew and grew until it felt like Qui-Gon was paralysed.
“Why hadn’t they made it out? Oh, Force, why had we been here at all? Why did The Doctor involve us in this?”
Qui-Gon didn’t notice his breathing pick up as his mind focused on the one constant thing. The Doctor.
“It all comes back to him. These are his enemies and they fear him! Their fear caused them to attack, caused me to lose one of the people I care about the most. Why does everyone put so much faith in him? He’s not a hero and it’s all his fault!”
The Dark Side called to Qui-Gon, encouraging him to use his pain, anger, and grief. It encouraged him to lash out and destroy the beings responsible for his loss. He felt himself falling further and further into the Dark Side’s clutches then Qui-Gon closed his eyes and let himself fall as The Doctor expressed horror at what the Reality Bomb would do after Davros’ explanation.
Qui-Gon was only partially aware of Jack shooting at Davros only to fall and lay unmoving on the floor when Davros shot Jack. He barely noticed a transmission of a woman from Earth threatening to destroy the Earth and The Doctor’s appalled reaction when he understood what would happen.
Qui-Gon fell deeper into the Dark Side as the woman suddenly appeared next to him. A group of people including Jack were teleported next to him.
“Lay down your weapons and surrender!” Davros commanded in his scratchy voice, “Or I will alter the Reality Bomb to destroy all life on the Lost Moon of Poosh!”
Various weapons clattered to the floor as the group surrendered. With one command, Qui-Gon, Rose, Jack and The Doctor were contained in cells of energy.
“Behold the destruction of reality itself!” Davros cried, pointing a gnarled finger towards The Doctor.
Qui-Gon reached for the Force as the countdown began. The Dark Side eagerly swirled around him, waiting to serve him; waiting to destroy. Qui-Gon was just about to let it loose when the grinding noise of the TARDIS broke his concentration and the tiniest sliver of hope bloomed within him.
He turned around to see another Doctor race out of the TARDIS with a gun in his hands. This new Doctor was unable to fire a shot before Davros shocked him with electricity. Then Donna came racing out of the TARDIS and she managed to pick up the gun before she too was hit with electricity from Davros and sent crashing into the control panel.
“The man who abhors violence. Never carrying a gun. But this is the truth, Doctor! You take ordinary people and fashion them into weapons. Behold your Children of Time, transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor. You made this.” Davros began, pointing at The Doctor once again.
Davros continued talking and The Doctor’s face grew sadder and sadder. Satisfaction speared through Qui-Gon, “Finally. Now he sees the pain he inflicts upon others.”
“The Doctor. The man who keeps running, never looking back. Because he dares not. Out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you... yourself.”
“You are wrong. Actually, if it’s possible, you’ve passed wrong and at this point, you are woefully incorrect.”
Qui-Gon’s heart lifted at your voice and he spun around, afraid that it was a trick or illusion. But no, you were standing at the entrance of the TARDIS, alive and unarmed. Jack’s eyes lit up, a young blonde lady smiled and The Doctor looked less sad.
“Explain!” A Dalek commanded.
“You and countless others invade our home. You expect us just to comply or die. We are the human race and we will not allow you to destroy our home. When we hear stories of The Doctor, he gives us hope. At the end of the day, we choose to be the warriors to defend our home, our friends, and our families. There is nothing more powerful than hope and that is why you fear The Doctor because once you know that he’s present, you know you should run and you fear us because we can choose.”
Davros lifted his hand and pointed towards you. You made no move to run, hide and you didn’t beg for your life. Qui-Gon’s breath hitched and the hope within him flickered, “Am I going to have to watch you die?”
The electricity leapt from Davros’ finger only to rebound and strike Davros. The Daleks were just as stunned as everyone else until Donna piped up and explained that when the new Doctor had been created, she had become a metacrisis Time Lady.
The Daleks were confused and one spun towards you, “I’m sure that your logically wired, computational brains have figured out that I was the diversion but that doesn’t mean that what I said wasn’t true.” You stated as you pushed yourself away from the TARDIS and ran to the left of the Dalek causing it to spin to try and locate you.
*POV Change*
“MARTHA!” You cried happily as she danced around the Dalek.
“Good to see you too!” She yelled back as you pushed the Dalek into the wall causing it to explode.
The familiar hum of Qui-Gon’s lightsabre from behind you was definitely reassuring and you turned to see Qui-Gon slice through the plunger and destroy the weapons system.
“I AM DEFENCELESS! WEAPONS UNUSABLE! WEAPONS OFFLINE!” Qui-Gon’s lightsabre did not stop and sliced the Dalek from top to bottom.
You had no time to analyse what had just happened as another Dalek charged at you. You dodged out of the way causing the Dalek to crash into Davros.
The three Doctors were working at the control panel when a Dalek appeared and fired at it. Jack shot the Dalek in retaliation but it was too late, the control panel began to spark and the original Doctor ran off into the TARDIS.
The new Doctor flicked some switches and Daleks began to explode. The Doctor ran out of the TARDIS and saw what was happening. Rage crossed his features as he screamed at his doppelgänger, demanding to know what he’d done.
Whatever the new Doctor answered with did not make the original Doctor happy and he screamed for everyone to get into the TARDIS. Qui-Gon appeared at your side and together you ran into the TARDIS, just behind Martha.
The Doctor reappeared a few moments later visibly shaken but quickly schooled his features before calling Torchwood and putting in another call to a young boy who had a robotic dog. Once they had done what he wanted, The Doctor smiled and moved around the TARDIS directing people how to fly her.
When it came to Jackie, he shook his head and requested that she not touch anything. When it came to Qui-Gon, he didn’t say anything and just moved to you, directing you to hold onto a lever.
The Doctor’s smile didn’t leave his face as he exclaimed, “We've got the Torchwood Rift, looped around the Tardis by Mr Smith, and we're gonna fly Planet Earth back home! Right then! Off we go!”
The TARDIS shuddered as she flew and you knew that if the TARDIS had a window that you could look out of, you would see the Earth flying behind you, being pulled by the TARDIS and the Torchwood Rift.
The mood in the TARDIS was triumphant as she flew and in what felt like no time at all, the TARDIS and the Earth were back in the Solar System. You don’t know who let out the first cheer but you felt yourself being spun around into Qui-Gon’s arms where he held you tightly.
Jack was the next to hug you. Then it was Rose who hugged you just as tightly as Qui-Gon had and then Martha was the last to hug you.
Martha looked at you and you both burst into happy laughter. You watched Donna nudged a brunette woman out of Jack’s embrace only to take her place in Jack’s arms. When the TARDIS reached Earth, the brunette woman was the first to leave.
You, Jack, Qui-Gon and Martha were the next to leave. Jack was held up by The Doctor once again destroying his vortex manipulator and you turned into Qui-Gon’s side to hide the large grin that broke across your face.
The Doctor called out to Martha, “Oh, and Martha, get rid of that Osterhagen thing. Save the world, one more time!”
“Consider it done!” Martha yelled back as she caught up with Jack and he offered her his arm, “D’you know, I’m not so sure about UNIT these days. Maybe there’s something else you could be doing…”
You chuckled at Jack’s attempt to recruit Martha to Torchwood and Qui-Gon offered you his arm. As you took it, Mickey ran up to you, “Hey, you four -!”
Jack turned around, “Oh I thought I'd got rid of you...” He said teasingly as you walked to Torchwood headquarters.
*Time skip*
The adrenalin from your adventure wore off pretty quickly when you were back at Torchwood and you almost collapsed onto the floor if not for Qui-Gon holding you around your middle.
Martha came back from inspecting the kitchen, “That is huge!” She exclaimed, “We never had a kitchen like this at UNIT. In fact, we didn’t have a kitchen at all!”
“So, let me get this straight. You have to save the universe at UNIT from all types of aliens and bring your own food? That’s unbelievable!” Ianto cried.
“Sure, that’s what’s unbelievable about that scenario.” You quipped.
Qui-Gon’s chest rumbled as he laughed.