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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
Following on from the end of "Bad Wolf", the [[Daleks]] turn on [[Rose]] and demand that she predict [[ | Following on from the end of "Bad Wolf", the [[Daleks]] turn on [[Rose]] and demand that she predict [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]]'s actions, but she refuses. The Daleks detect [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] flying in real space towards the saucer, and launch missiles against it. The missiles detonate, but thanks to the [[tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]] taken from [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]], [[Captain Jack Harkness|Jack]] has rigged up a force field around the TARDIS that protects it. The TARDIS materialises on board the Dalek saucer, around Rose and the single Dalek guarding her, which Jack destroys with the gun he improvised on the [[Satellite Five|Game Station]]. As the Doctor examines the wreckage of the Dalek, he muses that since it is now apparent that the Daleks survived [[Last Great Time War|the Time War]], the [[Time Lord]]s died for nothing. | ||
The travellers exit the TARDIS, and are immediately fired on by the surrounding Daleks, but the extrapolator's force field continues to protect them. The Doctor taunts the Daleks, reminding them that Dalek legends call him "The Oncoming Storm", and even though they claim to have eliminated all emotion, he is sure that, deep inside, the Daleks still feel fear when faced with him. He asks how they had survived the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], and is answered by a low, grating voice, "They survived… through me." The voice is that of the [[Dalek Emperor]], a Dalek mutant suspended in a transparent tank of fluid, flanked by panels of armour and topped by an equally gargantuan Dalek domed head. Around it floats an entourage of black-domed Daleks. | The travellers exit the TARDIS, and are immediately fired on by the surrounding Daleks, but the extrapolator's force field continues to protect them. The Doctor taunts the Daleks, reminding them that Dalek legends call him "The Oncoming Storm", and even though they claim to have eliminated all emotion, he is sure that, deep inside, the Daleks still feel fear when faced with him. He asks how they had survived the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], and is answered by a low, grating voice, "They survived… through me." The voice is that of the [[Dalek Emperor]], a Dalek mutant suspended in a transparent tank of fluid, flanked by panels of armour and topped by an equally gargantuan Dalek domed head. Around it floats an entourage of black-domed Daleks. | ||
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Jack runs out of ammunition and is exterminated at the doorway to Floor 500 just as the Doctor finishes readying the Delta Wave. The Daleks glide into the control room, and when the Doctor threatens to activate the wave, the Emperor dares him to do so, to become like it; "the Great Exterminator", to make the choice between coward and killer. The Doctor hesitates, and then says he would be a coward any day. As the Doctor prepares for extermination, the TARDIS materializes behind him. The doors open, the light from the TARDIS's heart spilling out into the control room, and in the middle of it all is Rose as [[Bad Wolf entity|Bad Wolf]], glowing brightly. In answer to the Doctor, Rose tells him she looked into the TARDIS and it into her. The Doctor tells her that she looked into the time vortex, something no one is supposed to see. | Jack runs out of ammunition and is exterminated at the doorway to Floor 500 just as the Doctor finishes readying the Delta Wave. The Daleks glide into the control room, and when the Doctor threatens to activate the wave, the Emperor dares him to do so, to become like it; "the Great Exterminator", to make the choice between coward and killer. The Doctor hesitates, and then says he would be a coward any day. As the Doctor prepares for extermination, the TARDIS materializes behind him. The doors open, the light from the TARDIS's heart spilling out into the control room, and in the middle of it all is Rose as [[Bad Wolf entity|Bad Wolf]], glowing brightly. In answer to the Doctor, Rose tells him she looked into the TARDIS and it into her. The Doctor tells her that she looked into the time vortex, something no one is supposed to see. | ||
Suffused with power, Rose easily stops a [[gunstick|Dalek blast]] | Suffused with power, Rose easily stops and diverts a [[gunstick|Dalek blast]]. As the Emperor calls her "the abomination", Rose explains that she is the [[Bad Wolf entity|Bad Wolf]] and proceeds to scatter the [[Bad Wolf meme|name]] of the Game Station's owners through time and space, to lead herself to this point. She can now see all of time and space: the past, present and all possible futures; all she wants is the Doctor to be safe and protected from the Daleks. The Emperor declares that she cannot hurt it as it is immortal, but Rose proves the Emperor wrong by waving her hand and killing him. All the Daleks - emperor, fleet and on those on Earth-are destroyed. Rose declares the Time War has ended. However, the power continues to stream through Rose, and she is unwilling to let go of the power of life and death, a power demonstrated when — outside the room and unseen by the Doctor — Captain Jack suddenly returns to life. The Doctor tries desperately to get her to relinquish what she has been given, but Rose weeps that she cannot cope with the power coursing through her body. | ||
The Doctor knows that the power will kill her, so he pulls her close and kisses her, drawing the energy into himself. As Rose falls unconscious, the Doctor releases the vortex energies back into the TARDIS. Jack makes it to the control room only to see the TARDIS dematerialize without him. | The Doctor knows that the power will kill her, so he pulls her close and kisses her, drawing the energy into himself. As Rose falls unconscious, the Doctor releases the vortex energies back into the TARDIS. Jack makes it to the control room only to see the TARDIS dematerialize without him. | ||
Onboard, Rose awakens, remembering little of what has transpired. As she tries to figure out what happened, the Doctor notices a small ripple of energy sweeping across the back of his hand and his expression clouds momentarily. Turning back to Rose, he tells her that he was going to take her to so many places, like [[Barcelona (planet)|Barcelona]] — the planet, not the city — and perhaps he will, just not as he is now. Rose does not understand what the Doctor is talking about, until he buckles over in pain. The Doctor tells her that the vortex energy is destroying every cell in his body. He will regenerate, but this incarnation will not see her again. The Ninth Doctor's last words to Rose are, "Before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I." | |||
With that, blazing energy courses through his body, and before Rose's astonished eyes, his features [[regenration|shift and change]]. The [[Tenth Doctor|new Doctor]] says "Hello," gulps, and adds, "New teeth. That's weird. Now, where was I?" | With that, blazing energy courses through his body, and before Rose's astonished eyes, his features [[regenration|shift and change]]. The [[Tenth Doctor|new Doctor]] says "Hello," gulps, and adds, "New teeth. That's weird. Now, where was I?" | ||
