by Cour M.
Out of instinct, Martha ran to the TARDIS doors, but they didn’t open.
“If you attempt to escape the TARDIS to assist us, we took precautions and you will not be able to leave until either we return or the TARDIS relocates. Which it shall, if we do not return in the time that we desire. Satsuki, you must not be disgruntled with my actions. Due to the danger of this mission, it was my prerogative to insure the safety of as many lives under my care.”
The hologram shifted and morphed into Ten.
“This recording is meant for Martha,” Ten’s image spoke. Martha turned to the recording and came forward.
“The last time he left me a message,” Martha explained, “it was when he had to make himself human, and many people died when we failed.”
“Martha, I speak to you now in elaboration of the plan. Yes, we released the heart of a dying star into the stratosphere of the planet. This eliminates any chance of me using it to become the heart of my TARDIS if we discover the location of the consul unit. Yet I swear, we will find another way. We always do.”
The recordings ended.
“So, we’re stuck in here,” Satsuki determined, “and they are out there. And we can’t help at all.”
“No, we can’t.”
“They never should have left us behind!”
“I know.”
Contrary to Ten’s concerns, Martha was not even thinking about him sacrificing the dying star to disable the windows. She understood that it had to be done. Yet he didn’t trust her to help. Of course, she was flattered that he wanted to protect her, but it was hard not to wonder if he didn’t believe that she was capable, even after she had proven herself to be so.
She was interrupted however, when they began to dematerialize.
“The TARDIS is leaving them behind!” Martha cried.
“No, no, no!” Satsuki tried to counteract this by pressing the controls, but they did nothing, “He’s paralyzed the stabilizers, so I can’t do anything!”
The TARDIS dematerialized and then they felt it land. They rushed to the doors again, opened them, and they found themselves outside of the Halls of Justice. There was a huge crowd of protestors again, but this time, the crowd was even larger than before. Air swept all around them as a plane swooped down and landed in the street. The protestors literally had to rush out of the way, and in the crowd, Martha saw Daphne.
As the plane landed, the doors to the Hall of Justice opened and a squad of guards emerged, with Ten and Eight in handcuffs, being led to the plane.
“They’ve been captured,” Satsuki cried.
Acting on an impulse, Martha rushed forward before Satsuki could grab her, and she ran to the back of the crowd of protestors, trying to make her way through.
“Doctor!” She cried, over all the commotion and the protestors shouting. “Doctors!”
“Martha, come back!” Satsuki cried, rushing after her.
As the Doctors were being led into the plane, Ten’s eyes scanned the crowd and he saw Martha there, shouting.
“Martha,” he mouthed, reassured.
“Doctor!” She cried. “I will save you!”
“I can’t hear you!” Ten cried back to her.
“I will save you!”
Ten and Eight were pushed into the plane, and Ten looked at Martha through the glass.
“I’m sorry,” he mouthed to her and then they were flown off. The Doctors were captured.
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From behind her, Satsuki saw some guards spot them. She rushed to Martha and pulled her back.
“Come on,” she cried, “we can’t save them now!”
Martha obeyed and they ran back to the TARDIS, being shot at all the while. Eventually, they made it back in, Martha closed the doors behind them, and Satsuki rushed back to the consul unit.
“Good, the controls are not suspended anymore. And at least I know how to dematerialize.”
She pressed the button and they had disappeared.
As they flew away, Martha looked on the monitor and she saw the aircraft that carried the Doctors, flying off into the distance.
The Doctors were captured.
They lost them both.
End of Book II[17]
Afterword
The History Between Eight and Martha Jones
With Eight and Martha, I first began to have an idea of when they met after my trilogy ‘The Time of the Companions’. For some reason, I was curious of what it would be like to write them together. At that point, Martha was married to Mickey, therefore he would have travelled along with them as well, making Eight another Doctor to travel with a married couple. I also liked the idea of Eight and Martha having a similar relationship to the Doctor and River, in regards to them meeting backwards. For some reason, I liked the concept of that. Here is a very brief history of the story of Eight with Martha and Mickey Smith.
The Inferno has Thirteen Levels
The Eighth Doctor accidentally runs into Martha and Mickey Smith just as his TARDIS summons him away to a planet. When they first met, the Doctor was drowning in debris, and Martha pulled him out of it, knowing him while he didn’t yet know her.
When summoned to a planet, the planet is directly pulling his TARDIS there. When it lands, they emerge from the TARDIS to investigate but the TARDIS immediately disappears. The people on the first level who meet them were the ones who found a way to signal his TARDIS, because they needed his help, but they were hoping to contact him before his TARDIS was taken. To summon him, they had used Huon particles. They inform the Doctor that their society is built on 13 levels and each level has been overrun by a monster who is controlled by one main villain who is at the bottom level. For example, one level is overrun by Gelem warriors, another has rogue Silurians, the third level are overrun by Macra, then there’s cybermen, then even some brainwashed Daleks, some Sontarans, Electric Demons (aliens who travel through electricity), some Quarks, Velgrin Angels, a human race called the Future Kind who love to eat people, the mechanoids, etc. All the while, the victims of each level call the overall villain, the Master, so the Doctor thinks that is who he is dealing with, but it turns out to be the Great Intelligence. Most levels, the Doctor succeeds, assisted by Martha and Mickey. On the cyberman level, where the people are rebelling against the cybermen for trying to harvest humans from their supply and ones from other planets, Eight helps and he saves a woman named Madge Orwell, who he hasn’t met yet, but she remembers him from ‘The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe’. Also, he re-meets an old companion of his, Peri. Each time the Doctor and his gang make it to another level, they defeat some, but other times they lose. But they eventually prove victorious and get the TARDIS back.
After these adventures, they travel some more and then meet Satsuki, who Martha saves from getting killed in an Imitation Game of the Witch Trials.
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[1] Drachmas are their version of currency, which are silver coins. It is also identical to ancient Greek currency.
[2] This is in reference to the fact that Nine did visit World War II in ‘The Empty Child’, and Eleven did visit World War II in ‘Victory of the Daleks’.
[3] The Empire Stadium of England is now known as the Wembley Stadium. Also, twenty-five different sports venues were used to for the 1948 Olympic Games, but Empire Stadium was the main venue.
[4] This is a mirror line to the Eleventh Doctor’s speech to the Daleks in his regeneration episode, ‘The Time of the Doctor’.
[5] This is a mirror quote from when the Eighth Doctor was resurrected in the mini episode, ‘The Night of the Doctor’.
[6] ‘Judge Dredd’ started out as a Comic Book series, and then eventually it got adapted to film twice. The last film, titled ‘Dredd’ was actually pretty amazing. Really, go see it.
[7] River Song taught her. In the future, they will meet when Martha needs to save the Eleventh Doctor’s life. This takes place in my other novel series, ‘The Time of the Companions’.
[8] Ten’s thought here is a mirro
r of what Eleven said at the end of ‘Day of the Doctor’, when he hoped that they all were successful in saving Gallifrey.
[9] This is all in reference to the last Star Wars Film in the original trilogy. A character named Princess Leia strangled a large alien named Java the Hut, while wearing lovely attire.
[10] The first time that Eight met Martha, it was in the other trilogy ‘The Time of the Companions’, when Eight came to help her save the Eleventh Doctor’s life.
[11] Those last lines are the same lines that Clara and Eleven said to each other in ‘Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS’.
[12] Eleven used his flying motorcycle in ‘The Bells of Saint John’, when he was saving Clara.
[13] Martha and the Doctor lived together in the episode ‘Blink’.
[14] Grace was Eight’s first companion in ‘Doctor Who: the movie’.
[15] The black coat Eight wears is the same black coat he wears in ‘The Night of the Doctor’.
[16] The Clockwork Droids were the villains who the Doctor met in ‘The Girl in the Fireplace’.
[17] Behind this is an Afterword of the history between Eight and Martha Jones.
