The Tenth Impact

Rise of the Cybermen

Two weeks of traveling in space time with Mickey. The guy wasn't that bad. He had some funny stories if you let him finish it.

Sometimes though, Mickey would start a story before being overshadowed by the Doctor and Rose. Their stories were...bigger than his.

I was in my usual spot, watching it all unfold.

"And that weird munchkin lady with the big eyes? Do you remember?" The Doctor laughed. Rose laughed too. "The way she looked at you! And then she opens her mouth and fire comes out!"

"I thought I was going to get frazzled!" Rose cackled.

"Yeah. One minute she's standing there, and the next minute roar!" The Doctor recalled.

"Yeah. where was that, then?" Mickey asked, in delight. The Doctor and Rose's laughter faded off. "What happened?"

"There was a asteroid about three thousand years in the future." I explained to him from my spot. Mickey looked up at me. "Whole society up there. The woman in charge- turns out she hates it when people walk in her path. She was the munchkin lady."

Mickey snorted. "And what, none of you know?"

"She was dressed in rags! Which to their culture are apparently riches." I explained, grinning myself.

"Then you must've been a god to them." Mickey teased.

I gawked at him. "You...twerp!"

"Er, what're you doing that for?" The Doctor asked. He was pointing towards Mickey, and the button he was pushing.

"Because you told me to." Mickey answered, confused.

The Doctor winced. "When was that?"

Mickey shrugged. "About half an hour ago."

"Er, you can let go now." The Doctor stated. Rose was doing a bad job of hiding her snickers. I bit my lip, looking down in shame.

"Well, how long's it been since I could've stopped?" He asked.

"Ten minutes? Twenty?" The Doctor scratched the back of his head. "Twenty nine?"

"You just forgot me!" Mickey shouted, offended.

"No, no, no. I was just, I was, I was calibrating." I held to the coral I was leaning against. "I was just. No, I know exactly what I'm doing."

The console lit up in sparks.

The TARDIS tilted.

I held tighter to the coral. Everyone floor level was screaming as the toppled around.

"What's happened?" Rose shouted over the roar of the sparks.

"The time vortex is gone. That's impossible. It's just gone." The Doctor reported. "Brace yourself! We're going to crash!"

One more time, I held the coral. My legs bent to hold the metal flooring beneath me. In my mind I heard the whirring noise of the TARDIS loudly. If you didn't know better, you'd wonder if she was screaming. I knew better. I knew that she actually was.

Instead of the violent crash they were expecting, the TARDIS just came to a hard stop.

Gas masks fell from the ceiling, in precarious places where we'd been standing. One almost hit my head.

"Everyone all right? Rose? Mickey?" The Doctor looked up at me. "Terra? You're still up-"

"No more words for you!" I shouted at him. "Words are banned for you forever!" Moving one arm, I moved it angrily in his direction. "When you speak things like this happen!"