Chapter 13 army of ghosts

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MICKEY: I could transport out of here, but it only carries one and I'm not leaving you.
ROSE: You'd follow me anywhere. What did I do to you all those years ago?
MICKEY: Guess I'm just stupid.
ROSE: You're the bravest man I've ever met.
MICKEY: What about the Doctor?
ROSE: Oh, all right. Bravest human.
MICKEY: Well, I can't think what the Daleks need with me. I'm nothing to them.
ROSE: You could be. Whatever's inside that Ark is waking up, and I've seen this happen before. Rose remembers her meeting with the chained last Dalek.)
ROSE [OC]: The first time I saw a Dalek, it was broken. It was dying. But I touched it. The moment I did that, I brought it back to life.
ROSE: As the Doctor said, when you travel in time in the Tardis, you soak up all this background radiation. It's harmless. It's just there. But in the Time War, the Daleks evolved so they could use it as a power supply.
MICKEY: I love it when you talk technical.
ROSE: Shut up. If the Daleks have got something inside that thing, and it needs waking up.
MICKEY: They need you.
ROSE: You've travelled in time. Either one of us would do.
MICKEY: But why would they build something they can't open themselves?
BLACK DALEK: The technology is stolen. The Ark is not of Dalek design.
ROSE: Then who built it?
BLACK DALEK: The Time Lords. This is all that survives of their Home World.
ROSE: What's inside?
BLACK DALEK: The future.

[Parallel Torchwood]

PETE: When you left this world, you warned us there'd be more Cybermen. So we sealed them inside the factories.
JAKE: Except people argued. Said they were living. We should help them.
PETE: And the debate went on. But all that time, the Cybermen made plans. Infiltrated this version of Torchwood, mapped themselves onto your world, and then vanished.
DOCTOR: When was this?
PETE: Three years ago.
DOCTOR: It's taken them three years to cross the void, but we can pop to and fro in a second. Must be the sheer mass of five million Cybermen crossing all at once.
PETE: Yeah, Mickey said you'd rattle off that sort of stuff.
DOCTOR: Oh, where is the Mickey boy?
PETE: He went ahead first. Any chance to go and find Miss Rose Tyler.
DOCTOR: She's your daughter. You do know that? Did Mickey explain?
PETE: She's not mine. She's the child of a dead man. Look at it, a world of peace. They're calling this The Golden Age.
DOCTOR: Who's the President now?
PETE: A woman called Harriet Jones.
DOCTOR: Oof. I'd keep an eye on her.
PETE: But it's a lie. Temperatures have risen by two degrees in the past six months. The ice caps are melting. They're saying all this is going to be flooded. That's not just global warming, is it?
DOCTOR: No.
PETE: It's the breach.
DOCTOR: I've been trying to tell you. Travel between parallel worlds is impossible. Then the Daleks break down the walls with a Sphere.
PETE: Daleks?
DOCTOR: Then the Cybermen travelled across, then you lot. Those discs. Every time you jump from one reality to another, you rip a hole in the universe. This planet is starting to boil. Keep going and both worlds will fall into the Void.
PETE: But you can stop it? The famous Doctor. You can seal the breach?
DOCTOR: Leaving five million Cybermen stranded on my Earth.
PETE: That's your problem. I'm protecting this world, and this world only.
DOCTOR: Hmm. Pete Tyler. I knew you when you were dead. Now here you are, fighting the fight alone. There is a chance, back on my world, Jackie Tyler might still be alive.
PETE: My wife died.
DOCTOR: Her husband died. Good match.
PETE: There's more important things at stake. Doctor, help us.
DOCTOR: What, close the breach? Stop the Cybermen? Defeat the Daleks? Do you believe I can do that?
PETE: Yes.
DOCTOR: Maybe that's all I need. Off we go, then!

[Lever room]

(The Doctor, Jake and Pete appear.)
DOCTOR: First of all, I need to make a phone call. You don't mind?
JAKE: You two, guard the door.

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