Parallel world (Turn Left): Difference between revisions

'''Donna's World''' was, according to the [[Tenth Doctor]], a "great big [[Parallel universe|parallel world]]" — although parallel worlds were normally sealed off, [[Donna Noble]] had such a world "created around [her]" by the [[Time Beetle]], one of the [[Trickster's Brigade]]. This was unusual, as most times when the Brigade changed time, the [[universe]] just compensated around it. In this world, Donna turned right instead of left while deciding which of two different job interviews to attend. As a result, the Tenth Doctor never met Donna and died underneath the [[Thames]] on [[24 December|Christmas Eve]] [[2007]]. These events resulted in devastating effects for [[Earth]]. Using the surface technology of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], Donna [[Time travel|travelled back in time]] from [[2009]] to make her younger self turn left again. According to both the Doctor and Donna, this world subsequently ceased to exist. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')

On [[Christmas Eve]] 2007, the [[Tenth Doctor]] tracked down the [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)|Empress of the Racnoss]] to the [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]] base underneath the [[Thames Flood Barrier]] and blew it up, causing the Thames to be drained into the abandoned Torchwood base. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'') Although he succeeded in defeating and [[drowning]] the Racnoss and its offspring, the Doctor drowned with them. For some reason, he didn't [[regenerate]]. It was speculated that he drowned too fast to regenerate. His body was retrieved by [[UNIT]] soldiers and [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] was salvaged from under the Thames, later being sent to a UNIT base in [[Leeds]]. Donna stumbled across [[Rose Tyler]], who arrived on the scene too late to do anything. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')

[[File:The last person.jpg|thumb|[[Oliver Morgenstern]], the last survivor of the Royal Hospital tells the World what has happened on the Moon. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')]]

In [[2008]], the [[Judoon]] used an [[H₂O scoop]] to teleport the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] to [[the Moon]] because they wanted to find [[Florence Finnegan|a Plasmavore criminal]] and her [[Slab]] accomplices. Although they found and killed the alien criminals, the Plasmavore had already armed the [[MRI]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'') [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Luke Smith]], [[Maria Jackson]], and [[Clyde Langer]], who had been in the hospital when it was transported, disarmed the MRI, but they died, along with the rest of the hospital, when their [[oxygen]] ran out. The only survivor was [[Oliver Morgenstern]], who was passed the last oxygen tank by medical student [[Martha Jones]], who gave up her life to save him.

[[File:London destroyed.jpg|thumb|left|The mushroom cloud from ''[[Titanic (spaceship)|Titanic's]]'' impact. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')]]

Rose visited Donna and advised her to persuade her family to spend [[Christmas]] some place other than London. On Christmas morning, [[Titanic (spaceship)|a replica of the ''Titanic'']] crash-landed onto [[Buckingham Palace]]. It destroyed the [[London|Greater London Area]] and flooded the whole of Southern [[England]] with [[radiation]]. Donna's family, who did decide not to stay in London for Christmas, having won a luxury getaway in a raffle, watched the events on television and were able to see the mushroom cloud of the explosion from a distance.

[[File:Adipose usa destroyed.jpg|thumb|The [[Adipose]] wreak havoc in the [[United States]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')]]

Britain went under martial law in order to deal with the crisis caused by the nuclear explosion. Many citizens fled to [[France]], until France closed its borders. The [[United States]] promised fifty billion pounds in financial help for [[Great Britain]] but this plan was abandoned when in [[2009]], sixty million Americans were killed and fully converted into [[Adipose]] children. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')

The [[Sontaran]]s activated the [[ATMOS]] devices in the cars to convert [[Earth]] into a [[Sontaran breeding planet|breeding ground]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'' / ''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]'') The [[Torchwood Three]] team, Captain [[Jack Harkness]], [[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Ianto Jones]], worked to stop the scheme. The team destroyed the Sontaran flagship and successfully reverted the atmosphere to its previous state, but Gwen and Ianto died in the attempt; Jack, being immortal, survived and was captured by the Sontarans and transported to [[Sontar]] as a prisoner. Britain was largely unaffected due to its poverty and hence its lack of petrol. Rose once more appeared to Donna, telling her that Donna knew the Doctor and travelled with him "in [[N-Space|a different world]]", and Donna was "meant to be there" under the Thames — the Doctor needed someone to stop him and save his life, and that was Donna. Rose asked Donna to come with her. Donna refused, but Rose told Donna that she will agree to come along in three weeks' time and that she was going to die. Rose subsequently disappeared.

Roughly three weeks after the Sontaran invasion, the British government made a new law ("England for the English") forcing all non-British citizens in Britain to go to "labour camps". Donna's grandfather [[Wilfred Mott|Wilfred]] lamented that labour camps was "what they called them last time", and "it's happening again." ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')

UNIT and Rose sent Donna back to the point where Donna made her decision. According to Rose, Donna had to make her past self turn left instead of right at the point where she decided whether to follow her mother's advice or her own instincts on Little Sutton Street. Donna arrived in 2007, but too far away from her past self to directly influence her; instead, she orchestrated an accident by stepping out in front of a [[lorry]], which blocked [[road traffic|traffic]] and forced the earlier Donna to turn left. Just before Donna's death, Rose appeared and whispered a message for her to give the Doctor. Donna woke up on Shan Shen, and the Time Beetle was forced off her back. The fortune teller ran away, questioning what Donna would become. Both the Doctor and Donna believed that the world created by the Time Beetle ceased to exist. Donna couldn't remember much of her world, "like when you try and think of a [[dream]], and it just sort of goes"; the Doctor stating this was because nothing Donna experienced happened. However, Donna remembered Rose telling her that the Doctor thought she was brilliant. Not knowing Rose's name, Donna told the Doctor about the blonde woman at the lorry who said to warn the Doctor about the end of the universe with two words: "[[Bad Wolf meme|Bad Wolf]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')