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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
[[Ruby Sunday]] boards [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], and looks around, amazed. She tries to get a handle on the new situation she's found herself entering into, asking about [[Fifteenth Doctor|The Doctor]]'s past to a certain extent, what his actual name is - she can't just call him "The Doctor". He says that [[Time Lord|the species]] that adopted him, wiped out all but him, tended to use titles, and if you use one for long enough that just becomes your name. | [[Ruby Sunday]] boards [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], and looks around, amazed. She tries to get a handle on the new situation she's found herself entering into, asking about [[Fifteenth Doctor|The Doctor]]'s past to a certain extent, what his actual name is - she can't just call him "The Doctor". He says that [[Time Lord|the species]] that adopted him, wiped out all but him, tended to use titles, and if you use one for long enough that just becomes your name. | ||
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The Doctor and Ruby follow the pram to a control center filled with other babies in automated prams, all excited to see mummy and daddy, all determined to show how good they've been at running the station while they've been gone, using jury-rigged contraptions and bits of string to hit buttons and pull levers to keep it in order. The Doctor and Ruby regrettably explain that they're not mummy and daddy, and express their sympathy to the crew, such as it is. The Doctor tries to go through the station's logs, and finds that the actual crew just abandoned ship, leaving the parthenogenesis machine running when they did so. Ruby asks how the babies how they've survived so long on their own, but the babies say they're not alone, they have [[Jocelyn Sancerre|Nanny]], and a computerized voice comes on over the intercom, greeting the two visitors, as well as telling the babies that it's time for their noses to be blown. 'Alright, babies, a Nanny', the Doctor asks, 'is downstairs a dog?' The babies freak out, saying that downstairs is the [[Bogeyman (Space Babies)|Bogeyman]]. In their state of panic, the Doctor finds a private line to Nanny and tries to talk to her, trying to diagnose the deeper underlying issues with the station. Nanny repeatedly insists he go to a storage unit on the floor, and finally he relents, Ruby following. | The Doctor and Ruby follow the pram to a control center filled with other babies in automated prams, all excited to see mummy and daddy, all determined to show how good they've been at running the station while they've been gone, using jury-rigged contraptions and bits of string to hit buttons and pull levers to keep it in order. The Doctor and Ruby regrettably explain that they're not mummy and daddy, and express their sympathy to the crew, such as it is. The Doctor tries to go through the station's logs, and finds that the actual crew just abandoned ship, leaving the parthenogenesis machine running when they did so. Ruby asks how the babies how they've survived so long on their own, but the babies say they're not alone, they have [[Jocelyn Sancerre|Nanny]], and a computerized voice comes on over the intercom, greeting the two visitors, as well as telling the babies that it's time for their noses to be blown. 'Alright, babies, a Nanny', the Doctor asks, 'is downstairs a dog?' The babies freak out, saying that downstairs is the [[Bogeyman (Space Babies)|Bogeyman]]. In their state of panic, the Doctor finds a private line to Nanny and tries to talk to her, trying to diagnose the deeper underlying issues with the station. Nanny repeatedly insists he go to a storage unit on the floor, and finally he relents, Ruby following. | ||
As the two find head to the unit, they find themselves talking about Ruby's past, and how she was left in the snow on a Church, on Ruby Road. The Doctor's mind flashes back to the memory he has of going there to save her, not so long ago, but this time things are different, rather than walking away the hooded figure who left Ruby there, as it departs, turns to him, points at him, and vanishes, fading away. Coming out of the memory, The Doctor and Ruby find themselves immersed in snowfall, on the space station. Shaking the situation off, a woman darts out from a nearby storage cupboard and insists they enter, Nanny. Once inside the pair watch a series of videos of the former crew protesting their forced departure from Baby Station Beta, the recession causing it to be shut down, but the law forcing the parthenogenesis machine to be kept running. Nanny, Jocelyn, has been trying to take care of the babies for the past six years, as the station has been collapsing around her, the education software running amok, food and air slowly running out bit by bit. Looking at a map of the [[solar system (Space Babies)]], a planet farther out is a [[DuBlarry DuPlessy]] world, that takes in refugees. But the group would need to get there first. Now, they have the TARDIS, and can get there, but between them and the TARDIS is the bogeyman - which Jocelyn has no greater understanding of, it just showed up six years ago. | As the two find head to the unit, they find themselves talking about Ruby's past, and how she was left in the snow on a Church, on Ruby Road. The Doctor's mind flashes back to the memory he has of going there to save her, not so long ago, but this time things are different, rather than walking away the hooded figure who left Ruby there, as it departs, turns to him, points at him, and vanishes, fading away. Coming out of the memory, The Doctor and Ruby find themselves immersed in snowfall, on the space station. Shaking the situation off, a woman darts out from a nearby storage cupboard and insists they enter, Nanny. Once inside the pair watch a series of videos of the former crew protesting their forced departure from Baby Station Beta, the recession causing it to be shut down, but the law forcing the parthenogenesis machine to be kept running. Nanny, Jocelyn, has been trying to take care of the babies for the past six years, as the station has been collapsing around her, the education software running amok, food and air slowly running out bit by bit. Looking at a map of the [[solar system (Space Babies)|solar system]], a planet farther out is a [[DuBlarry DuPlessy]] [[Mondo Caroon|world]], that takes in refugees. But the group would need to get there first. Now, they have the TARDIS, and can get there, but between them and the TARDIS is the bogeyman - which Jocelyn has no greater understanding of, it just showed up six years ago. | ||
As the trio is talking, they notice on the screen that Eric has gone down into the bowls of the space station to confront the bogeyman, just as if this entire situation was like a fairytale and he was the hero. Over the intercom Jocelyn insists that he has to leave, but he refuses. Ruby and the Doctor dash downstairs and manage to find Eric as the three hide and flee from the bogeyman. Eric is sent back to the upper level, the Doctor and Ruby staying in the area below to figure out what's going on with the bogeyman. They find it leaving large amounts of [[sputum]] throughout the underground, and take a sample to a terminal of the parthenogenesis machine nearby, where they analyze the composition of the material - finally getting results, the bogeyman was generated from the [[snot]] of the babies, and was built by the education system that had run amok, trying to tell a real story, generating a real fairytale monster that the babies could learn from. | As the trio is talking, they notice on the screen that Eric, one of the babies has gone down into the bowls of the space station to confront the bogeyman, just as if this entire situation was like a fairytale and he was the hero. Over the intercom Jocelyn insists that he has to leave, but he refuses. Ruby and the Doctor dash downstairs and manage to find Eric as the three hide and flee from the bogeyman. Eric is sent back to the upper level, the Doctor and Ruby staying in the area below to figure out what's going on with the bogeyman. They find it leaving large amounts of [[sputum]] throughout the underground, and take a sample to a terminal of the parthenogenesis machine nearby, where they analyze the composition of the material - finally getting results, the bogeyman was generated from the [[snot]] of the babies, and was built by the education system that had run amok, trying to tell a real story, generating a real fairytale monster that the babies could learn from. The bogeyman finds the pair, and chases after them, but Jocelyn manages to lead the pair through the maze below, closing off doors to maneuver the bogeyman into an airlock, which she opens, determined to force the monster out, to protect her children | ||
The Doctor insists that she shouldn't do this, that the bogeyman is just the same, that it is one of her children, but Jocelyn refuses to listen. He sends Ruby up to stop her as he dives into the airlock himself, hitting the emergency close switch. Back atop with Jocelyn and the babies finally united with each other, he shows them all that the bogeyman is safe and sound in the airlock, but unable to hurt them. He also shows them the nearby world that's willing to take them, and says that part of the ship's problems have come from the buildup of [[methane]] from old nappies, so he releases the methane as propulsion, sending them towards their new home. | |||
The pair, the Doctor and Ruby, depart, Ruby being given a [[TARDIS key]], traveling back to Christmas, to Ruby's flat and to her mother, Carla, appearing in the middle of her kitchen. As the Doctor departs the TARDIS, to join Ruby and Carla and explain things, a scanner blinks in the background, analyzing Ruby's DNA, bit by bit. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||