On the Powell Estate Jackie come out with the rest of the food and see a blue glow surrounding the Tardis.
"Rose?"
The Tardis is beamed up.
"Rose!"There's an odd pattern on the scanner.
"Maybe it's a distress signal." Mickey says.
"A fat lot of good that's going to do." Rose tells him
"Are you going to be a misery all the time?" Kyraiah says coming up behind the slightly shorter girl.
"Yes." Rose says flatlt.
"You should look at it from my point of view, stuck in here with your mum's cooking." Mickey jokes.
"Where is she? I'm gonna go see where she is and give her a hand. It might start raining missiles out there. Safer if I go out rather than you two." Ky tells the pair.
"Tell her anything from a tin, that's fine." Mickey jokes.
"Why don't you tell her yourself?" Rose says from beside him.
"I'm not that brave." Mickey tells her.
"Oh, I don't know." Ky said from the door and winks at him. As she steps outside and she is grabbed by a Sycorax. She shouts at him. "Oi get your bloody hands off of me."
"Raiah"
"Kyrai"
Both humans shout for her at her out burst. Mickey drops the open flask of tea near where the Doctor is lying on his way out."Get off! Get off me!" Ky shouts, she doesn't like being manhandled.
Mickey and Rose run out.
"The door! Close the bloody door!" The Irish woman shouts.
Mickey gets there just before a Sycorax. The tea drips down onto Tardis workings underneath the time console. The Sycorax cheer.
"Rose. Rose! I've got you. My Lord. Oh, my precious thing. The Doctor, is he with you? And who's she?" The prime minister says to her.
"No. But we're not on our own. That's Kyraiah, his daughter." Rose tells her. Harriet Jones just blinks. His daughter? How? When? What?
"The red girl. She has the clever blue box. Therefore, she speaks for your planet." A man says next to her, reading off of a tablet.
"Yes, I know what he said. But thank you for informing everyone else." Ky says to them. Again Harriet just blinks. She can understand them.
"But she can't." Harriet says, she doesn't even know this girl and now she was speaking for the planet.
"Yeah, I can." Ky says.
"Don't you dare." Both Mickey and Rose tells her.
"Someone's got to be the Doctor. Think I qualify, don't you. I am his daughter after all." She says with a smirk. That was something Rose hadn't seen her do recently. Not since ending up on the game station.
"They'll kill you." Harriet told the girl.
"Eh they can try. Never stopped my dad though. I address the Sycorax according to Article Fifteen of the Shadow Proclamation. I command you to leave this world. Now, leave this planet in peace! In peace. This is a level 5 planet. You can't just come in here and steal it. It's not yours. I'm here and I'm gonna protect it...." The Sycorax all burst into laughter cutting her off.
"You are very, very funny. And now you're going to die." The man translates.
"Leave her alone!" Harriet says.
"Don't touch her!" Mickey and Rose shout.
"Leave her alone." Harriet tries again.
Harriet, Rose and Mickey are held back as the leader walks up to Kyraiah.
"Did you think you were clever with your words? We are the Sycorax, we stride the darkness. Next to us you are but a wailing child. If you are the best your planet can offer as a champion" the man translates.
"Then your world will be gutted" the Sycorax says clear as day to everyone else.
"Then your world will be gutted" translator man says again.
"And your people enslaved." The Sycorax says.
"Hold on, that's English."
"He's talking English."
"You're talking English."
"I would never dirty my tongue with your primitive bile."
"That's English. Can you hear English?" Rose asks everyone.
"Yeah, that's English."
"Definitely English."
"I speak only Sycoraxic!"
"If you lot can hear English, then it's being translated. Which means it's working. Which means..." Ky say to them.
Everyone turns to look at the Tardis. The Doctor opens the doors. "....I knew I'd just had to keep talking. See I was just the distraction. He's who you really want to talk to." Ky says looking straight at the Sycorax leader.
"Did you miss me?" The Doctor asks walking up to his daughter and slinging an arm around her shoulders.The Sycorax cracks his whip. The Doctor catches the end and pulls it out of his hand. "You could have someone's eye out with that." The Doctor said.
"How dare!" The Sycorax leader says. Another Sycorax goes to swing a thick club at them and Ky flicks her fingers inwards and it fly out of his grasp towards her. She stops it and clenches her fist, causing it to explode.
"You just can't get the staff. Now, you, just wait. I'm busy. Mickey, hello! And Harriet Jones MP for Flydale North. Blimey, it's like This Is Your Life. Tea! That's all I needed, a good cup of tea! Superheated infusion of free radicals and tannin. Just the thing for healing the synapses. Now, first thing's first. Be honest, how do I look?" The Doctor says, asking Rose the last bit.
"Er, different."
Good different or bad different?"
"Just different."
"Am I ginger?"
"No, you're just sort of brown."
"No fair Kyraiahs ginger. I wanted to be ginger. I've never been ginger. And you, Rose Tyler, fat lot of good you were. You gave up on me, and you gave up on Ky too. Oh, that's rude. That's the sort of man I am now, am I? Rude. Rude and not ginger."
"I'm sorry. Who is this?" Harriet asks.
"I'm the Doctor."
"He's the Doctor."
"But what happened to my Doctor? Or is it a title that's just passed on?"
"I'm him. I'm literally him. Same man, new face. Well, new everything."
"But you can't be."
"Harriet Jones, we were trapped in Downing Street and the one thing that scared you wasn't the aliens, it wasn't the war, it was the thought of your mother being on her own."
"Oh, my God."
"Did you win the election?"
"Landslide majority."
"If I might interrupt." The Sycorax leader says.
"Yes, sorry. Hello, big fellow." The Doctor says turning to him.
"Who exactly are you?" The red alien asks him.
"Well, that's the question." The Doctor tells him.
"I demand to know who you are!" The alien basically shouts at him.
"I don't know!" The Doctor says back in the same tone. "See, there's the thing. I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy?" He winks at Rose and Kyraiah scrunches her nose. "A good dad?" He says looking at Ky, who despite this man being new to her, she nods at him. He will always be a good dad to her, no matter what he looks like. Unless he became a woman"Right old misery? Life and soul? Right handed? Left handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob. Just like my daughter, well isn't that fun, And how am I going to react when I see this, a great big threatening button. A great big threatening button which must not be pressed under any circumstances, am I right? Let me guess. It's some sort of control matrix, hmm? Hold on, what's feeding it?"
The Doctor opens the base of the pillar under the button.
"And what've we got here? Blood? Yeah, definitely blood. Human blood. A Positive, with just a dash of iron. Ah, but that means blood control. Blood control!" He's says after sticking his finger in and tasting it. "Oh, I haven't seen blood control for years. You're controlling all the A Positives. Which leaves us with a great big stinking problem. Because I really don't know who I am. I don't know when to stop. So if I see a great big threatening button which should never, ever, ever be pressed, then I just want to do this." He hits the button.
"No!" Rose and Harriet shout.
"You killed them!" The random man shouts.
"What do you think, big fellow? Are they dead?" The Doctor asks the sycorax leader.
"We allow them to live." He says.
"Allow? You've no choice. I mean, that's all blood control is. A cheap bit of voodoo. Scares the pants off you, but that's as far as it goes. It's like hypnosis. You can hypnotise someone to walk like a chicken or sing like Elvis. You can't hypnotise them to death. Survival instinct's too strong." Ky says walking up to join her dad.
"Blood control was just one form of conquest. I can summon the armada and take this world by force." The Sycorax says.
"Well, yeah, you could, yeah, you could do that, of course you could. But why? Look at these people. These human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet and blinking step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen. More to do than. No, hold on. Sorry, that's The Lion King. But the point still stands. Leave them alone!" The Doctor shouts.
"Or what?" The leader asks him.
"Or..."The Doctor takes a sword from an aide and runs back towards the Tardis, Ky following him. He pushed her behind him slightly. "...I challenge you..."
The Sycorax all laugh "...Oh, that struck a chord. Am I right that the sanctified rules of combat still apply?"
"You stand as this world's champion." The leader asks him.
"Thank you. I've no idea who I am, but you just summed me up." The Doctor says as he throws his dressing gown to Rose.
"So, you accept my challenge? Or are you just a cranak pel casacree salvak?" This insult makes up the leader's mind.
"For the planet?"
"For the planet."
They clash swords.
"Look out!" Rose shouts
"Oh, yeah, that helps. Wouldn't have thought of that otherwise, thanks." The Doctor sarcastically says.
The leader is the more experienced swordsman. The Doctor retreats up a tunnel.
"Bit of fresh air?" The Doctor asks.
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Last Timelady In Space
FanfictionThe Doctor has just regenerated, and now he and Kyraiah have to navigate their relationship whilst the Doctor figures out who he is exactly. Book two in the Last Lady Of Time series.