Parallel: From Another World [1] (The Parallel Series) ✓

Rise of the Cyberman

"Cheeky" he shoved her a little. "Sorry about the TARDIS" he shrugged. "Guess it wouldn't have mattered if we took the long path with Madame de pompadour now" he chuckled. "Still stuck somewhere now"

"Ah but Doctor there is always Rose and Mickey." She raised a finger.

"I hate domestics" he scrunched his nose up at the thought.

"Of course you would, anyone would if they had a ship that travelled though time and space with almost infinite rooms and endless possibilities." He smiled at her finding it unbelievable how she was explaining the TARDIS like this. "We'll get out of here though" she grinned sheepishly. "Whoops that was a secret"

The Doctor and Rose turned their heads to the TARDIS doors they had heard shut. The Doctor noticed it was only Mickey and grumbled "I told you to keep an eye on her." He basically shouted at the man.

"She's all right." Mickey protested.

The Doctor huffed arguing with the man. "She goes wandering off! Parallel world, it's like a gingerbread house. All those temptations calling out."

"Oh, so it's just Rose, then? Nothing out there to tempt me or Rita?"

"Well, I don't know, I can't worry about everything plus Rita knows all about parallel worlds." He stood up and walked over to the console. "If I could just get this thing to..." he then gave it a strong kick and gritted his teeth a little.

"Did that help?" Mickey asked.

"Yes."

"Did that hurt?" Mickey looked at him smugly.

"Yes. Ow." He groaned shaking his leg a little. Rita giggled making her remember 'the episode' where the Doctor was hopping around on one foot to try and get rid of the radiation he absorbed.

The Doctor sat back down next to Rita still grumbling with a slight pain in his foot.
"We're not meant to be here. The TARDIS draws its power from the universe, but it's the wrong universe. It's like diesel in a petrol engine."

"Poor girl" Rita mumbled standing up then patting the console. The Doctor smiled a little at how much she cared.

"But I've seen it in comics." Mickey started. "People go hopping from one alternative world to another. It's easy didn't Rita do that?"

"No she didn't, I don't know what happened there but she didn't do that. You can't do that anymore. Not in the real world. It used to be easy. When the Time Lords kept their eye on everything, you could hop between realities, home in time for tea." Rita slowly made her way over to him sitting back down in the jump seat knowing where he was going with this. "Then they died, and took it all with them. The walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed. Everything became that bit less kind."

"Then how did we get here?" Mickey asked.

"I don't know. Accident? Should've been impossible. Now we're trapped. What's that?" He suddenly looked down and noticed a little green light.

"What?" Mickey frowned. Rita beamed leaning closer to the light.

"That, there." He pointed to it. Mickey leant in. "Is that a reflection? It's a light!" The Doctor shouted happily. "Is it? Is that a light? I think that's a light." The Doctor removed the grate "That's all we need. We've got power! Rita, Mickey, we've got power! Ha!" He grinned staring at the light.