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

Rise of the Cyberman

"Well come on then!" Rita took the grate from the Doctor. "We need to get that light don't we?" Rita asked.

"Yes we do" he grinned happily as if it was Christmas. He then began to pull things out of underneath the TARDIS. He continued to pull things out of the TARDIS then jumped down into the hole he had created getting closer and closer to the small green light. "It's alive!" He beamed managing to reach the light, picking it up smiling at it like an idiot carefully holding it in both hands. Jumping out of the hole.

"What is it?" Mickey asked watching the Doctor who had a look of awe on his face.

"It's nothing. It's tiny. One of those insignificant little power cells that no one ever bothers about, and it's clinging onto life, with one little ounce of reality, tucked away inside."

"It's beautiful." Rita said in awe staring at the light with the same expression as the Doctor her head resting on his shoulder on her tiptoes.

"Enough to get us home?" Mickey asked.

"Not yet. I need to charge it up."

"We could go outside and lash it up to the National Grid," Mickey suggested.

Rita shook her head slightly moving the Doctors shoulder in the process. "Wrong sort of energy. It's got to come from our universe, well yours."

"But we don't have anything." Mickey frowned.

"There's me." The Doctor turned his head slightly watching Rita stare at the light. Her eyes shining in the green glow and her skin tinted slightly green. He turned back to the light leaning down to it a little and gently blowing on it the light glowing brighter a little.

"I just gave away ten years of my life." He gleamed at it speaking softly as if it was a small child sleeping. "Worth every second."

"Honestly it's amazing that it's clinging on to life." Rita thought aloud. The light then diminished a little and Mickey slightly frowned.

"It's going out. Is that okay?" He asked looking at the Doctor concerned.

"It's on a recharging cycle. It'll loop round, power back up and be ready to take us home in, oo, twenty-four hours?" He looked at Rita for confirmation.

"About that yeah" she nodded her chin still on his shoulder.

"So that gives us twenty-four hours on a parallel world?" Mickey asked his eyes brightening in excitement a little.

"Shore leave." The Doctor said a little bluntly. "As long as we keep our heads down. Easy. No problem. Let's go and tell her." He said meaning Rose. Rita moved her head off his shoulder and stood normally again with her feet firmly on the floor and not on her tiptoes like she was when her head was on his shoulder.

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"There you are." The Doctor said brightly. "You all right?" He asked getting no answer. "No applause. I fixed it. Twenty-four hours, then we're flying back to reality." Rita rolled her eyes at how much he wasn't paying attention at the clearly upset blonde sitting before him. "What is it?" He asked the joy in his voice disappearing in an instant.

"My phone connected." She held her phone up a little. "There's this Cybus Network. It finds your phone. It gave me Internet access."