If you haven't seen already there is a new book with some information that will hold all my OCs (I have other Doctor Who books planned) if you need anything or have any questions about my OCs you can go and ask there if you wish.
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"Doctor." The Stone crossed her arms leaning against the console watching the Doctor fiddle with a couple of wires underneath the TARDIS. "What are we doing here?"

"Well if I told you that the surprise will be useless." He beamed at her jumping up grabbing the spacesuit helmet to go with the orange spacesuit he was currently wearing. The suit he used when they trapped 'the beast' in a black hole.

"With what happened on our last surprise you worry me." She gave him a serious look raising her eyebrows and crossing her arms once more after they dropped to her sides.

"You don't trust me?" He blinked sadness showing over his features on his face.

"Of course I trust you." She removed the helmet from his hands and cupped his cheek gently patting it before stepping away allowing her arms to fall to her sides while looking at him. "I just want to know, what on Earth am I doing in this spacesuit." She gestured to herself. "Doctor where are we?"

"Go look for yourself." He beamed handing her a helmet as she rolled her eyes placing it on then walking to the TARDIS doors and poking her head out.

"This isn't...?" She called back seeing him grin as he stepped forward walking out of the TARDIS with his arms wide. "The red planet!"

"Doctor, why did you bring us to Mars?" She raised a brow at him as he took her arm in his starting to stroll away from the TARDIS.

"Can I no longer take you anywhere nice without a reason?"

He retorted looking at her as she snorted a laugh. "With you, there is always a reason."

"Not this time, dear." He grinned. "Just decided to have a nice walk, the two of us."

"But it has been just the two of us, for quite some time now." She reminded.

"Yes." He nodded agreeing with her statement trying not to show the hint of sadness that matched hers in his own words. "But not the two of us alone, only a few days ago there was Christina and before that, there was the wedding-"

"We had time alone." She protested then smirked teasingly. "Need I remind you..."

"No, I remember." He cut her off his cheeks growing red as she laughed. "I don't need reminding of... that." He said taking a pause then letting out a long breath. "It hasn't been just us strolling around seeing planets together in a while."

"Doctor we went to Pluto after you kept reminding me that we needed some parts for the console after you broke the last ones."

"Yeah well, maybe the TARDIS should behave." He sniffed.

"She does behave."

"With you she does, not me."

"That's because you hit her with that hammer."

"Because she doesn't behave." He squeaked.

"I wonder why." The Stone rolled her eyes.

The Doctor let out a grumble. Why did both the Time Lady and the TARDIS always team up against him? It really wasn't fair that he had to put up with both of them at times, he knew that they enjoyed teaming and teasing him because he would never win against those two. "Plus, Pluto is a dwarf planet." He reminded her.

"That is still a planet-" She smirked at him.

"Dwarf-" He countered.

"Still a planet" She waved a finger in front of his face chuckling. "I can do this all day Doctor and you of all people should know that." She pointed at him walking backwards then spinning around as he fondly shook his head at her knowing just how persistent she could be. The Stone meanwhile found a small crater and peeked over it seeing a large dome-like base with five smaller domes coming off of it. "Oh look at that a base." She muttered before furrowing her brows. "We're on Mars... and there is a base..." She put the two together and wished that this wasn't what she thought it was for once she hoped to be wrong. "Doctor... what is the date?"  She asked over her shoulder as he moved up beside her looking over at the base murmuring to himself being completely oblivious to her question.

"Oh, beautiful." The Stone opened her mouth to repeat herself once he had finished being in awe over the base. That was until she jumped feeling a jabbing feeling in her back that definitely wasn't the Doctor who must have felt the same thing since his hand instantly grabbed hers.

They then heard a robotic voice warn them. "Rotate slowly." They did as asked and looked down seeing the small little robot on the ground. "You are under arrest for trespassing." It stated. "Gadget gadget." The Stone let out a sigh and looked over at the Doctor. They couldn't leave the TARDIS for ten minutes without getting into trouble.

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Standing with their arms raised in front of who they guessed was the captain who pointed her gun at both the Time Lords that had been stripped of their space suits and helmets leaving them in the usual attire of the Doctors blue suit and the Stones blazer, blouse and black trousers. "State your name, rank, and intention." The woman announced pointing the gun at the Doctor. "The Doctor. Doctor... Fun."

"The Stone. Dame." She hissed at her title. Why did the High council want 'thank' her for making all of those weapons for the Time War even when she made them years before? Her parents knew just how much she disagreed with it after having to leave the Doctor after only just deciding to stay for a couple of adventures. "Keeping the Doctor out of trouble."

A man ran into the dome area heavily breathing looking at the Time Lords shocked. "What the hell? It's a man and a woman. A man and a woman on Mars. How?"

"They were wearing these things." A woman held up the spacesuits. "I have never seen anything like it."

"What did Mission Control say?" The man looked at one of the women.

"They're out of range for ten hours with the solar flares."

"If we could cut the chat, everyone." The woman holding the gun spoke.

"Actually, chat's second on my list, the first being gun pointed at our heads." The Doctor glared at the weapon. "Which then puts our heads second and chat third, I think." He furrowed his brows. "Gun, head, chat, yeah. I hate lists." He looked at the Stone who was sniggering before he looked at the captain. "But you could hurt someone with that thing. Just put it down."

"Oh, you'd like that."

"Can you find me someone who wouldn't?" The Stone said. "Someone other than the Doctor."

"Why should I trust you?" She looked at the Time Lords.

"Because we give you our word. And forty million miles away from home, our word is all you've got." The Doctor countered.

"Keep Gadget covering them." She nodded at a young male with gloves on his hands.

"Gadget gadget." The robot said as the Stone gave a scold on her face. Of course it was quite impressive but not smooth. Something that disappointed the Time Lady.

"Oh right, so you control that thing." The Doctor looked at him. "Auto-glove response."

"You got it. To the right." He moved his hands a moment before Gadget moved.

"Gadget gadget."

"And to the left."

Again the Stone stared at the machine keeping her mouth shut. They were already intruding thanks to a certain Time Lord. She didn't want to make them angry... but he couldn't keep his mouth shut for a second. "It's a bit... flimsy."

"Gadget gadget."

Not able to hold her own mouth anymore the Stone piped up. "Does it have to keep saying that?"

"I think it's funny." He glared at her.

"I hate funny robots." The Doctor retorted looking disgusted.

"Excuse me, boss." The Time Lords heard a voice through the captain's comm. "Computer log says we've got two extra people on site. How's that possible?"

"Keep the Biodome closed." She replied. "And when using open comms, you call me Captain." The captain quickly added.

"Yeah, but who are they?" She asked. The captain quickly pressed a button not answering her question.

"They can't be a World State flight because we'd know about it." A man said to the captain. "Therefore, they have got to be from the independent, yeah? Was it the Branson inheritance lot? They've talked about a Mars shot for years."

"Right, yes, okay, you got us." The Doctor said to shut him up. "So, I'm the Doctor, this is the Stone and you are?"

"Oh, come on. We're the first off-world colonists in history." The captain said. "Everyone on planet Earth knows who we are."

"You're the first?" The Doctor and the Stone both raised a brow as the Doctor continued. "The very first humans on Mars?"

"Then this is..." The Time Lords both blinked as they finished the sentence with the captain. "Bowie Base One."

"Number one. Founded July 1st, 2058." The Doctor said.

"Established Bowie Base One in the Gusev Crater." The Stone cut in then frowned. "How long have you been here?"

"Seventeen months."

The Stone swallowed thickly as the Doctor started to become excited to the Stones slight worry. She would have been holding the same excitement as he was but something told her this was going to be Pompeii all over again... "2059. It's 2059, right now." The Doctor beamed then hit his head with the palm of his hand. "Oh! My head is so stupid. You're Captain Adelaide Brooke. And Ed. You're Deputy Edward Gold." He pointed at them.

"Tarak Ital, MD. Nurse Yuri Kerenski." The Stone cut in seeing the Doctor excited only made her excited before she stopped the Doctor not noticing moved around pointing and looking at each of the crew.

"Senior Technician Steffi Ehrlich. Junior Technician Roman Groom."

"Geologist Mia Bennett." The Stone looked at the young woman. "You're only twenty-seven years old."

"As I said, Doctor, Stone, everyone knows our names."

"Oh, they'll never forget them." He beamed. "What's the date, today?" The Stones face then fell. She sensed it when they arrived but pushed it to the back of her mind. But now she felt it and knew exactly what was wrong. The date. "What is it?" The Doctor continued looking at each of the crew. "Tell me the exact date."

"November 21st, 2059." The Stone breathed. The Doctor spun around looking at her slightly terrified the others frowned only seeing the back of his head luckily not seeing the look he was giving her before he spun back around and nodded. "Right. Okay, fine."

"Is there something wrong?" Steffi asked.

"What's so important about my age?" Mia frowned at the Stone.

"We need to go." The Stone stepped forward taking the Doctors hand. "Right now." She looked up at him sorrow and hurt in her eyes. There was nothing they could do.

"Yes." Ne nodded in agreement not budging as he shifted his eyes to the crew before them after turning around. "We should go. We really should go. We're sorry. We're both sorry with all of our hearts, but it's one of those very rare times when we've got no choice." He said making the Stone wince a little. "It's been an honour." He said. "Seriously, a very great honour to meet you all. The Martian pioneers." He then moved around shaking all of their hands the Stone doing the same trying to wipe the look out of her eye so they didn't notice. She never thought for a single moment that she would meet these people on the day that they died. Then again when travelling in a machine able to go anywhere and everywhere that was the life you lived. The life of the impossible and unlikely. "Oh, thank you." The Doctor nodded then looked at Roman. "Ah." He settled on patting Gadgets head then saluted at captain Adelaide before taking the Stone's hand.

"Thank you." He nodded then frowned pausing. "There's the other two. Hold on. Margaret Cain and Andrew Stone."

Ed raised a brow then spoke into a comm looking at the Doctor then the Stone. "Maggie, if you want to meet the only new human beings that you're going to see in the next five years, better come take a look." They then heard a roar making the Stone tense. Of course, something always happened why could nothing be 'normal' a normal explosion not anything remotely alien or non-human for once just a small fire that had nothing to do with either Time Lord.

"What was that?" Mia looked up.

"Oh, we really should go." The Doctor muttered not moving.

"This is Central. Biodome report immediately." Ed hastily spoke into the comm.

"Show me the Biodome," Adelaide said running over to the monitor as the Time Lords watched.

"Internal cameras are down," Ed stated staring at the screen.

"Show me the exterior."

"I'm going over," Adelaide informed. "Doctor, Stone, with me."

"Yeah, I'm sorry." The Doctor said as the Stone cut in. "We would really love to help but we have to go I'm sorry but we're leaving right now."

"Take their spacesuits, lock them up," Adelaide ordered making the Stone tense. "This started as soon as you both arrived, so neither of you are going anywhere except with me." She stated as the Doctor ran his thumb soothingly over the Time Ladys hand knowing what she was thinking.

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"What's so important about Mia's age?" Adelaide questioned the Stone as they walked through the long tunnel. "You said she's only twenty-seven. Why does it matter?" She asked. "What did you mean?"

"Oh." The Time Lady blinked then looked at the Doctor for help who held the same expression as her. "Sometimes I just open my mouth and don't think of what I'm saying, which honestly when you think about it doesn't sound at all like me." She hummed. "Perhaps marrying him did that to me. To think we haven't been married for that long either. I dread to think what else I will pick up sooner or later." She muttered, the Doctor started smirking.

"You seem to be rambling dear." He teased making the Time lady groan as he chuckled wrapping an arm around her shoulders. "Neither of us seem to make sense." The Doctor remarked over his shoulder.

"Telling me," Tarak muttered

"Thank you, Doctor." The Doctor muttered to the man behind him.

"Anytime, Doctor," Tarak repeated in the same tone sounding annoyed.

"Gadget gadget." The robot added making the Stone hold in her laugh biting her tongue.

"I hate robots." The Doctor remarked. "Did I say?" He asked before wincing as the Stone swatted the back of his head.

"Rude and not ginger." She pointed at him warningly. "Be nice."

"Yeah, and he's not too fond of you." Roman cut in. "What's wrong with robots?"

"It's not the robots, it's the people." The Stone said trying not to sound too rude as the Doctor raised his brow at her as if to ask why she can be rude and not him.

"Dressing them up and giving them silly voices." The Doctor cut in.  "Like you're reducing them."

"Need I remind you of K-9?" She asked making the Doctor shake his head at her.

"Friend of mine. She made her domestic robot look like a dog." Roman explained.

"Ah well, dogs." The Doctor nodded remembering the Stones remark. "That's different."

"But I adapted Gadget out of the worker drones. Those things are huge. They built this place when the shell was lowered down from orbit. They've got a strength capacity of fifteen tons."

"The channel is open for essential communications only." Adelaide reminded.

"Sorry." Roman nodded. "Love those drones."

"We've read all that stuff about you, Captain Adelaide." The Doctor spoke up. "But one thing they never said. Was it worth it, the mission?"

"We've got excellent results from the soil analysis."

"No, but all of it." He pressed on as the Stone looked at him warningly, something that he didn't notice. "Because they say you sacrificed everything. Devoted your whole life to get here."

"It's been chaos back home." She explained. "Forty long years. The climate, the ozone, the oil apocalypse. We almost reached extinction. Then to fly above that, to stand on a world with no smoke, where the only straight line is the sunlight? Yes. It's worth it."

"Ah. That's the Adelaide Brooke I always wanted to meet." He nodded grinning. "The woman with starlight in her soul." 

"You're not the only one Doctor." The Stone grinned. She always wanted to meet the woman as well but Timelines and knowing that she couldn't stop the events happening told her to stay away. Every single cell was screaming for her to grab the Doctor's hand and get out. To go back to the TARDIS and stay in the vortex for a day. To cry over knowing that this woman would die and there was nothing in the world that she or the Doctor could do to stop it. Because there were rules.

A couple of moments later Adelaide squinted her eyes and leant forward. "What's that?"  She said moving towards it before gasping and running towards the body. "It's Maggie!"

"Don't touch her!" The Time Lords shouted running after her as Tarak spoke over his shoulder. "I know the procedure. Maggie, can you hear me?" He asked slipping on a pair of white gloves. "It's Tarak. Maggie?" He asked again feeling her neck then slowly nodding. "It's okay, she's still breathing. She's alive." He grabbed the comm. "Yuri, I've got Margaret Cain, head trauma. I need a full medpack."

"I've got it." He called back. "Medpack on its way."

"I knew something was wrong." The Stone glanced at the Doctor telepathically speaking to him while watching Tarak and Adelaide care for Maggie. "As soon as I stepped onto Mars I knew something was wrong, something telling me to run back into the TARDIS."

"But you didn't say anything?" The Doctor looked at her.

"Doctor I know you." She lightly chuckled. "Saying that would make you want to go and explore it as well as edge me on further."

"Ah, you know me well."

"I did marry you." She remarked.

"So you did." He beamed loving every moment she mentioned it.

The two men soon joined running in with a med pack and a stretcher. "Don't touch her. Use the gloves." The Doctor warned, Tarak nodded. "Do what he says. Get her to Sickbay. Put her in isolation."

"We're going on to the Biodome," Adelaide informed. "Tarak, with me. Yuri can take care of her. Ed, go back. Gadget, stand guard. Keep an eye on this area."

"Gadget gadget."

"Captain, you're going to need me," Ed told her. "Andy is the only other crew member out here, and if that wasn't an accident, then he's gone wild."

"You've deserted your post." She snapped at him. "Consider that an official warning. Now get back to work. Doctor, Stone." She headed off the Time Lords following behind Tarak.

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"Captain, that sound we heard from the Biodome," Steffi said through the comms sounding heartbroken. "I've run it through diagnostics. According to the computer, it's, it's Andy." She took in a shaky breath. "It registers as the voice print of Andy Stone."

"Understood." She nodded pausing before adding. "Double check, thanks."

"Andrew?" Adelaide said through the comm as they walked through the dome. "Andrew Stone? It's Captain Brooke. Andy, report." She said now sounding desperate. "I need to see you. Where are you?"

The Doctor walked over to a computer terminal and flashed his sonic at it a moment before the lights flicked back on. "There you go."

"What's that device?" Adelaide questioned eyeing the sonic in his hand.

"Screwdriver." He placed it back in his suit pocket as Adelaide questioned while the three walked on. "Are you the Doctor or the janitor?"

The Stone snorted a laugh. "That does sound like him... when I'm not around which has been quite rare for a while now." She slightly tilted her head thinking back to the last time she hadn't been with the Doctor while was actually before the Time War and her escape from Gallifrey. "The maintenance man of the universe." She laughed making a jazz hand movement while the Doctor shook his head at her.

"You two stay with me." Adelaide pointed at them both, the Time Lords peering at the computer in front of them. "Don't step out of my sight. Tarak, go to External Door South. Make sure it's intact."

"Yes, ma'am." He nodded then headed off. The Time Lords followed the captain around the sort of forest like dome area.

"This is quite an achievement." The Stone nodded eyeing different kind of trees around them. "First flower on Mars in ten thousand years." She looked at a single flower.

"And you're growing veg!" The Doctor spun around looking at a small area by the dome wall where stacks of vegetables stood before he took the Stones' hand and caught up with the captain.

"It's that lot." She nodded back at the entrance. "They're already planning Christmas dinner. Last year it was dehydrated protein, this year they want the real thing."

"Still, fair enough. Christmas." The Doctor shrugged.

"If we must."

"You've got birds!" The Doctor looked up slowly spinning around with the Stone hearing the tweeting and chirping of multiple birds around them.

"It's part of the project, to keep the insect population down."

"Good sign." The Stone muttered

"In what way?" Adelaide frowned at the blonde.

"They're still alive." She bluntly added the Doctor nodding in agreement.

"Captain, good news," Yuri called through the comm. "It's Maggie. She's awake. She's back with us." He informed the Time Lords hearing him speak to the woman. "Hey. How are you, soldier? Just take it easy. Can you remember what happened?"

"What about Andy?" Adelaide said. "We can't find him. Was he all right?"

"I don't know," Maggie said. "I just-"

"If you remember anything, let me know straight away." She cut in.

"Yuri, does she know how she ended up in the tunnel?" Ed questioned.

"And keep the comms clear." Adelaide reminded them "Everything goes through me, got that?"

They continued to walk around for a couple of minutes before Yuri called through the comms sounding extremely shaken and terrified. "This is Sickbay. We have a situation. Maggie's condition has... I don't know. I don't know what it is. It's water, just pouring out." The Time Lords stopped dead in their tracks staring at the comm.

Picking up the comm Adelaide calmly spoke into it. "Yuri, calm down. Just tell me what's happened to her."

"The skin is sort of broken around the mouth." He described. "And she's exuding water like she's drowning."

"Tarak, this area's unsafe. We're going back." She said waiting for a reply. "Tarak?" She shouted. "Tarak!"

"Where was he?" The Stone asked before Adelaide took of the Time Lords following sprinting over what looked like a bridge.

The three came to a stop the Doctor grabbing the Stones arm, holding out his other stopping Adelaide. Andy stood almost over Tarak who was on his knees water pouring from them both as Andy held a hand to the other man's head.

"Andy, just leave him alone." The Doctor said in a calm voice being the complete opposite to Adelaide who shouted.

"Step away from him!"

"We can help, I promise." The Doctor held out a hand. "We can help. Just leave that man alone."

"I order you to stop," Adelaide demanded then held up her gun. "Stop, or I'll shoot."

"Adelaide don't!" The Time Lady warned.

"Andy, I'm asking you to take your hand away from him and listen to me." The Doctor said, a moment later Andy let go of Tarak. "There now, that's better, hmm?" The Doctor looked at him. "So, you must be Andy. Hello." Tarak then turned as well looking at them.

"Doctor, Adelaide... we've got to go." The Stone reminded.

"I agree." He grabbed her hand sprinting away Adelaide beside them with Andy and Tarak following behind water trailing after them. They ran to the airlock and sprinted inside the Doctor shouting at Adelaide. "Set the seals on maximum!" He shouted just before Andy spray a jet of water at the strong glass window.

"Captain, we need you back here," Steffi called.

"Just tell me that Maggie is contained. Can you confirm, Ed?"

"Confirmed." He replied. "She's locked in."

"Keep surveillance till I get back." She informed, the Doctor and the Stone watched Andy and Tarak.

"And close down all water supplies. All pipes and outlets. Don't consume anything. Have you got that, everyone?" She asked her crew. "That's an order. Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop."

"Can you talk?" The Doctor asked.

"Human beings are sixty percent water, which makes them the perfect host." The Stone muttered in thought.

"What for?" Adelaide asked.

"I don't know." She shrugged.

"We never will." The Doctor added. "Because we've got to go. Whatever's started here, we can't see it to the end. we can't." He said looking at the Stone who nodded. He was telling her but it sounded like he was mostly telling himself. She opened her mouth to say something before Andy and Tarak started to jet water at the seals. "This thing's airtight, yeah?" The Doctor asked.

"And therefore watertight," Adelaide added.

"It depends on how clever the water is." The Doctor muttered before there was a loud bang.

"They're fusing the system," Adelaide informed.

"Abandon ship!" The Doctor shouted pushing the Stone out of into the walkway before Adelaide and then he left a moment before Andy and Tarak got in. The chase began again the three sprinting away from Andy and Tarak who were behind. The Doctor and the Stone skidded to a stop where Gadget waited. The Time Lords brought out their sonics the Doctor working on one side of Gadget as the Stone fiddled with the wires flashing her sonic at them every now and then.

"Doctor, Stone we haven't got time," Adelaide said glancing over her shoulder.

"They can run faster than us." The Doctor said. "We need a lift." He then finished with what he was doing and jumped on.

"Sorry Roman." The Stone winced knowing this was definitely going to hurt the poor man as she jumped on behind the Doctor having to press herself against him so Adelaide could then get on.

"Gadget gadget."

"Adelaide time to go." The Stone called to the woman.

"That thing goes at two miles an hour."

"Not anymore." The Doctor said over his shoulder.

"Trust us." The Stone added before the woman climbed on.

"Gadget gadget."

"Gadget gadget." The Doctor remarked before flames came out of the robots exhaust. The robot sped off leaving burning tyre marks behind. The Stone laughed then shouted to the Doctor over the wind. "Possible to go any faster sweetheart?" She asked a moment before the Doctor grinned and made the robot even faster. Gadget soon came to a halt

"The Central Dome airlocks have got Hardinger seals." Adelaide ran to the airlock. "There's no way they can get in."

"Come on." The Doctor called to Gadget after running inside the lock. "Come on."

"Gadget gadget."

"Come on. Come on."

"I thought you hated robots," Adelaide asked raising a brow.

"I do." He said as Gadget rolled inside. The airlock shut just as Andy and Tarak arrived looking into the lock, staring between the three.

"We're safe." Adelaide breathed. "It's hermetically sealed. They can't get in."

"Water is patient, Adelaide." The Stone stared at the creatures on the other side. "Water just waits."

"It wears down the clifftops, the mountains, the whole of the world." The Doctor cut in. "Water always wins. Come on."

"Biodome Tunnel is out of bounds. Andy and Tarak are infected." Adelaide informed as they started to walk through another long tunnel. "Repeat, infected. Make no contact. And if they make the slightest move, tell me. I'm going to the Medical Dome."

"Blimey, it's a distance." The Doctor squinted his eyes to see the other end of the tunnel. "You could do with bikes in this place."

"Or super fast robots." The Stone chuckled.

"Every pound in weight equals three tons of fuel." Adelaide looked at them.

"Yeah, I know." The Doctor nodded. "But bikes."

"Super fast robots." The Stone hummed while Adelaide opened the door to the medical bay.

"Has that door got a Hardinger seal?" She asked eyeing the door to where Maggie stood inside the glass area her hands pressed against it staring at the group.

"No, just basic," Ed informed.

"Then the moment she heads for the door, we evacuate," Adelaide ordered. "Got that?"

Ed looked at a monitor the Time Lords looked over his shoulder to see. "Pulse is low. Electrical activity in the brain seems to be going haywire."

"Can she talk?"

"Don't know." Yuri shrugged. "She was talking before we noticed the change, but-"

"Maggie, can you hear me?" Adelaide cut in. "Do you know who I am? Your commanding officer, Captain Adelaide Brooke. Can you tell me what happened?"

"Hoorghwall in schtochman ahn warrellinsh och fortabellan iin hoorgwahn." The Doctor said staring at Maggie who turned to him, her lips looked all cracked just like Andy and Taraks.

"What language is that?" Ed looked at him.

"Ancient North Martian." The Stone answered.

"Don't be ridiculous." Adelaide scoffed at them both.

"It's like she recognised it." Ed frowned.

"And her eyes are different." The Stone pointed out. "They're clear like she's closer to human."

"Not close enough for me." Ed retorted.

The Doctor stared at the woman for a moment watching the water trickle down the glass. "Where do you get your water from?"

"The ice field." She answered. "That's why we chose the crater. We're on top of an underground glacier

"Tons of water." The Doctor murmured thinking to himself. "Marvellous."

Yuri shook his head. "But every single drop is filtered. It's screened. It's safe."

"Looks like it, yeah."

"If something was frozen down there. A viral life form held on the ice for all those years." Ed suggested.

"Look at her mouth." The Doctor pointed out. "All blackened, like there's some sort of fission. This thing, whatever it is, doesn't just hide in water, it creates water." He said leaning closer much to the Stones disliking. "Tell me what you want."

"She was looking at the screen," Yuri said to him. "At Earth. She wanted Earth. A world full of water."

"Captain, With me." Ed turned away from the others with Adelaide as the Time Lords listened in from a distance. "I'm sorry, but it's an unknown infection and it's spreading. That demands Action Procedure One."

"Do you think I don't know that?" She hissed.

"I think you need reminding."

"Yeah."

"Well, at least I'm good for something." He said.

"Now and again."

"That's almost a compliment. Things must be serious."

"Sorry, sorry, but, Action One, that means evacuation, yeah?" The Doctor popped up the Stone beside him.

"We're going home." She nodded making the Time Lords look at each other. "This is Captain Brooke. I'm declaring Action One. Repeat to all crewmembers, this is Action One with immediate effect. Evacuate the base. Steffi, what's your estimate of shuttle viability?"

"It's a nine-month flight." He informed. "It'll take us at least three hours to load up everything we need."

"You've got twenty minutes. And give me a report on Andy and Tarak."

"Still in the Biodome tunnel. They're just standing there like they're waiting."

"Keep an eye on them."

"And make that twenty minutes fifteen. Ed, line up the shuttle. Go straight to ignition status." She ordered.

"Doing it now he ran out heading to the shuttle as the Time Lords watched.

"But what about Maggie?"

"She stays behind," Adelaide said flatly. "We've got no way to contain her on board. Close this place down. I want the power directed to the shuttle

"Of course, the only problem is-"

"Thank you, Doctor." Adelaide cut him off making the Stone groan. "Your spacesuits will be returned. And good luck to you both."

"The problem is, this thing is clever." The Stone cut in not letting the woman cut her off. "It didn't infect the birds or the insects in the biodome, it chose the humans. You were chosen. And I told you, Adelaide, water can wait."

"Tarak changed straight away, but when Maggie was infected it stayed hidden inside her, no doubt so it could infiltrate the Central Dome." The Doctor cut in. "Which means..."

"Anyone of us could already be infected." Her eyes widened in horror. "We've all been drinking the same water."

"And if you take that back to Earth, one drop. Just one drop."

"But we're only presuming infection." She said trying to think of a way. "If we can find out how this thing got through. When it got through. Yuri, continue with Action One. I'm going to inspect the ice field."

"Right. we should leave. Finally, we should leave." He nodded at the Stone who slowly nodded with him. "Yuri, me old mate, no point in me seeing the ice field."

"Doctor." She gave him a warning look. "Please don't be an idiot. Don't let it convince you to stay any longer."

"No point at all." He murmured completely ignoring the Time Ladys words. "No. Adelaide!" He shouted running off.

"Oh dear." The Time Lady whispered watching him go. "This isn't going to end well..." she muttered before slowly following. "Oh, sweetheart I hope you know what you're doing, for your own sake." She sighed before running to catch up with him.

"They tell legends of Mars from long ago, of a fine and noble race who built an empire out of snow. The Ice Warriors." The Doctor said as the Stone finally found him.

"I haven't got time for stories."

"Perhaps they found something down there." The Stone nodded at the layer of ice making the Doctor turn to her as she shot him a concerned look.

"Used their might and their wisdom to freeze it." He nodded.

"Doctor, Stone, we need to find any sort of change in the water process." She told them. "We've got to date the infection."

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"You two don't look like cowards, but all you've wanted to do is leave." Adelaide eyed them both. "You know so much about us." She said making the Time Lady tense up.

"Well, you're famous." The Stone shrugged trying to not look so worried.

"It's like you know more." She hummed.

"This moment, this precise moment in time, it's like... I mean, it's only a theory, what do I know, but I think certain moments in time are fixed." The Doctor said making the Time Lady look at him alarmed. "Tiny, precious moments. Everything else is in flux, anything can happen, but those certain moments, they have to stand. This base on Mars with you, Adelaide Brooke, this is one vital moment. What happens here must always happen."

"Doctor." She telepathically warned him.

"Which is what?" Adelaide questioned.

"I don't know." He muttered. "I think something wonderful happens. Something that started fifty years ago," he asked making the Stone glare at him. This was wrong. He couldn't tell her. "Isn't that right?"

"I've never told anyone that."

"You told your daughter. And maybe one day she tells the story to her daughter. The day the Earth was stolen and moved across the universe. And you-"

"I saw the Daleks." She cut in. "We looked up. The sky had changed. Everyone was running and screaming. And my father took hold of me." She breathed. "I never saw him again. Nor my mother. They were never found. But out on the streets, there was panic and burning. I went to the window, and there, in the sky, I saw it, Doctor. And it saw me. It stared at me. It looked right into me." She said as if she was reliving the memory. "And then it simply went away. I knew, that night, I knew I would follow it."

"But not for revenge." He stated.

"What would be the point of that?"

The Time Lords smiled as the Doctor made a remark. "That's what makes you remarkable. And that's how you create history." The Stones face fell her eyes glaring at him once again.

"What do you mean?"

"Imagine it, Adelaide, if you began a journey that takes the human race all the way out to the stars. It begins with you, and then your granddaughter, you inspire her, so that in thirty years Susie Fontana Brooke is the pilot of the first lightspeed ship to Proxima Centauri." He said smiling. "And then everywhere, with her children, and her children's children forging the way. To the Dragon Star, the Celestial Belt of the Winter Queen, the Map of the Watersnake Wormholes. One day a Brooke will even fall in love with a Tandonian prince, that's the start of a whole new species. But everything starts with you, Adelaide. From fifty years ago to right here, today. Imagine."

"Who are you? Why are you telling me this? Doctor, why tell me?"

"As consolation." He said.

"Doctor." The Stone narrowed her eyes at him going to continue, the maintenance log popped up on screen gaining her attention.

"Andy Stone. He logged on yesterday." Adelaide read it off the screen before a video popped up.

"Maintenance log, twenty-one twenty, November 2059." Andy announced. "Number three water filter's bust. And guess what? The spares they sent don't fit. What a surprise." He tossed it down. "Over and out."

"A filter! One tiny little filter and then the Flood."

"But that means the infection arrived today, and the water's only cycled out of the biodome after a week. The rest of us can't be infected." She beamed. "We can leave. Ed, we're clean." She said in her comm. "How are we doing?"

"Shuttle's active. Stage one. I haven't got time to convey the protein packs. If you want food you're going to have to carry it by hand. Start loading, right now." He ordered.

The Time Lords and Adelaide ran through the tunnel heading back to the central dome. "You were right, Doctor." She looked at him.

He frowned not understanding. "What about?"

"Bikes!"

"No super fast robots?" The Stone raised a brow not able to help herself. Of course, she was angry. They could have left and be in the Vortex or wondering around another planet by now but the Doctor, of course, being himself couldn't help wanting to find out about this new life. So did the Stone but her mind was shouting, screaming at her. Much stronger than the wonder of what this was.