THE DOCTOR'S TRIPLE TROUBLE
Chapter Three The next morning Donna woke early. She showered, dressed in a black skirt, white blouse, black jacket and black heels with flesh colored hose. She ate a quick breakfast, fixed herself up and brushed her teeth. She was determined to wow everyone at the new job and secure her position there. Once she was finished with everything, she grabbed her purse and the car keys and headed out the door. She drove there, hoping and praying the whole way that things would go in her favor for once. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Good morning, Miss Noble, Mister Lucifer is waiting for you," the receptionist said, pointing to a cubicle at the back. "Lucifer?" Donna muttered to herself while she walked back there. "Wonderful name for a boss. I bet he'll be fun to work for." She reached the cubicle and looked inside. There was a small white table with several chairs around it and sitting near the wall on the right side was the blonde she saw the day before. "Hello," the blonde said, nodding. "Hi, I'm Donna." "I'm Rose." "Nice to meet ya," Donna said, sliding into the first seat on the left. "Are we the only people who applied?" "Dunno," Rose said, shrugging. "Well, I'm hoping this'll be long term," Donna said to her. "I need a job badly." Rose smiled and nodded politely. They looked over when a thin man in his early thirties walked up to them. He was dressed in a black pin striped suit with a white shirt and blood red tie. He had a small goatee and an oily smile. "Ladies, welcome, to Lucifer Industries," he said. "I'm Simon Lucifer, the CEO. It's nice to meet you both. You're…" "Donna." "Rose." He nodded. "Very good. Well, follow me and I'll drive you to the training site." "Wait, drive? We're not training here?" Donna said. "No." "Well, let me drive my car then. I have it parked right outside," Donna said. "I'm afraid that's not possible. We need to get special tags made for your vehicles in order for them to be allowed on company property. It's just this one time, ladies, I assure you. Now if you'll follow me, I'll take you to my car and we can get started." He stood and waited for them to get up. Rose and Donna glanced at each other and slowly rose from their seats. "Excellent, follow me," he said. He walked away and Donna leaned over to Rose. "First day of work and we're gettin' into a strange man's car?" she whispered to him. "I don't like this, Rose, do you?" "No, but…just stay by me, yeah?" "Stay by you? What are you gonna do? Karate chop em if he tries to rape us or something?" "Ladies, I'm waiting!" they heard him call out. "Just…stay close, Donna," Rose said. Donna shrugged, grabbed her purse and followed her. Lucifer was standing by the door smiling at them. "Follow me," he said to them. Donna noticed Rose reach for something inside her purse but rather than take something out of it she just withdrew her empty hand and put it down at her side. They went outside and went across the parking lot to a black Mercedes with tinted windows. Donna stared at it and red flags went off in her mind. She stopped. "Um…listen…" Both Rose and Lucifer stopped and looked at her. "I've…changed my mind. I'm not interested in this job anymore," Donna said, backing away. "I mean I'm sure you're a nice bloke and all but this isn't for me." "Donna, it's 15 quid an hour," Lucifer said to her. "Yeah and that's lovely but I'll look elsewhere, thanks." She turned around to go back to her car and that's when she caught a glimpse of him peeking around the back of the building at them. She saw the shocked look on his face that mirrored her own but he quickly ducked back behind the building before he was seen. "Doctor?" Donna murmured while she began to move towards him. She was so preoccupied with walking towards the building that she didn't realize Lucifer had run up behind her until she felt the truncheon coming down on her skull and then everything turned dark. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Donna groaned while she slowly came to. "Donna? Donna? Are you okay?" she heard Rose asking. " I will be once my bleedin' head stops throbbin' and I can see again," she muttered. She opened her eyes and noticed she was secured to a high back chair with leather straps. Rose was sitting next to her, also secured in a high back chair. She was staring at Donna with concern. "I'm sorry, Donna, I was hopin' I'd be the only one to apply," Rose said. "I wasn't countin' on you bein' here." "Yeah, well, right about now I'm thinking what a mistake it was to apply," Donna said. "He wanted me to come in here by myself so he could track them. He's known about Lucifer, what's been goin' on. But we didn't know where his headquarters was," Rose said. "He?" Then she pieced it together. "The Doctor, you mean?" Rose frowned. "You know him?" Donna stared at her. "Rose," she muttered. "Yeah?" Rose said. Her eyes widened. "His Rose? The Rose he lost?" Rose stared at her. "Did…you know him, Donna?" "I helped him a little over a year ago at Christmas." Rose's eyes widened. "Donna Noble?" "Yeah. He told you about me?" "He told me the story. Told me about the Racnoss and how you helped him defeat it," Rose said. "I didn't do anything. He did it all," Donna said softly. "You made him leave though." Donna looked at her. "How'd ya mean?" she said. "You made him leave. You told him he had to go. You snapped him to his senses because he was grievin' over me and didn't realize the water was rising as fast as it was. If you hadn't said anything, you and him might have drowned. He's grateful to ya for doin' that and so am I." Donna was stunned. "I had no idea I did that. Saved his life, I mean." "Yes, you did. He was devastated after I went through the void." "Yeah, I knew that, knew he'd lost you, I mean." "Well, I hate to say it but for the longest time he had a kind of…death wish," Rose said, lowering her eyes to the floor. Donna stared at her sadly. "How'd ya get back then?" she asked. "It's a long story and I'm sure I won't have time to tell it now," Rose said. She lowered her voice to almost a whisper. "But there's a tracking device in my purse. If he took it with him when he took us then the Doctor will be able to track us and help us escape." "And if he didn't take the purse?" Rose gave her a determined look. "Then you and I improvise and get the hell outta here by ourselves," she said to her. Donna nodded. They shut up when they heard a door open behind them. Lucifer walked up between the chairs. "Welcome, ladies, to your training session," he said with an evil smile. "What are ya gonna do to us?" Donna demanded. "Like I said, Miss Noble, we're going to train you and Miss Tyler to work for our company here. Of course we're doing something a bit more significant than taking orders for computers. No, our work is far more important than that," he said. "You'll never get away with this!" Rose said. "Oh? And how did you arrive at that conclusion, Miss Tyler?" "Because Donna and I have a secret weapon!" "Yeah, we do!" Donna said. Lucifer laughed. "You don't scare me. You can threaten me with this secret weapon all you want but it won't work. In a few moments you'll be a couple of mindless slaves and then you'll both have what you've always wanted. Job security…for the rest of your lives!" He laughed when both Rose and Donna struggled against their bonds. "That won't do you any good, my loyal servants. I have you secured tightly in these chairs and you're not going anywhere. And as for this so-called secret weapon, show it to me. I dare you." He paused and waited with his hands behind his back but nothing happened. "Well, where is it, my slaves? Where is your salvation? I'm waiting for it." He chuckled when they stared at him in silence. "You see, I chose to call your bluff and this is what happens. You both remain my captives and in a few minutes you will be hypnotized permanently. And now because you failed to show me your secret weapon, I will show you what will become of you." They continued to struggle while he walked to a door at the back of the room. Rose desperately tried to call to the Doctor through their mind link but he didn't answer back. She was beginning to panic, wondering if something had happened to him. She had allowed herself to be knocked out before Donna so that Lucifer would bring her here. She knew the Doctor had been behind the building watching them, what if someone had spotted him, snuck up behind him and knocked him out too? What if he was lying somewhere knocked out and helpless in the building and by the time he got free it would be too late for all of them? Rose's heart raced and she sent up a silent prayer that the Doctor was okay and would help them. Just then Lucifer walked back between the chairs with a brainwashed "slave". Both women stared at the Doctor in shock. He was standing there between them, rigid with a blank look on his face. "This is what you'll look like when you are finished with the process," Lucifer said, pointing to him. For one heart-stopping moment, Rose thought the Doctor actually had been brainwashed before them but when Lucifer turned his back for a moment, the Doctor glanced at her, smiled a warm smile and winked. He glanced at Donna and stared at her with wide eyes before he quickly faced forward with the blank look on his face. Lucifer stared at him for a moment and then moved to another door on the left side of the room. The Doctor stuck his tongue out at him and flipped him off while Rose fought to keep from laughing. She bit her lip when the Doctor once again stared at Donna with wide eyes. "Will you quit that?" Donna growled softly. He glanced at Lucifer. He had opened the door and was rummaging around inside the room. He looked at Donna and bent down. "What are you doing here, Donna?" he whispered to her. "I was looking for a job," Donna whispered back. "Um…no jobs here unless you wanna be a mindless slave." "Yeah, I figured that out already, Space Boy, thanks." "Never fear, I'll have you both outta here in a mo," the Doctor whispered. He quickly went rigid and stared ahead blankly while Lucifer pushed a tall thin waist high console out of the room. The top of the console had a speaker on it surrounded by switches and dials and buttons. He pushed it until it was a few feet directly in front of Rose and Donna. Then he stopped and smiled at his captives. "This device emits a special high frequency sound wave that will put you into a state of hypnosis. If I leave it on long enough you will become like our friend here and then I will be able to give you any command I want. And then you will be put to work." "Doing what?" Donna demanded. He chuckled. "Building biological weapons to annihilate every living thing on this miserable rock. Then my kind can come in, strip it of its resources and then break it apart until it's a bunch of tiny hunks of dirt and boulders for use in building projects on our planet. See, it may surprise you to learn that I'm not like you. Oh no, I'm an alien from outer space and you, my brainless homo sapiens are about to join a greater, better cause than being a couple of secretaries for a computer company. Of course when it's finished, you and all of the other workers will be put inside the missile that will carry the weapon and you'll die when the biological agent is released. I hate to tell you this, but we have no real use for you on our planet except as freak show curiosities and we already have several humans filling that position. So, now that you know what your duties entail, let's get started with the training, shall we? Slave, come to me." They watched while the Doctor walked over to him. "Stand here by the machine since I need to brainwash you as well." He reached up underneath his jacket and pulled a revolver out of his trouser waistband. "I know all my slaves. I've indoctrinated them personally and I've never seen you before," he said, pointing the gun at his head. "Blast and I was hoping you'd cooperate with me and surrender without a fight," the Doctor said. "Ah well, it's a fair cop, you've seen through my little ruse. Bravo. Now…why don't we discuss freeing my friends, freeing all the slaves, dismantling the bomb and having you leave this miserable rock, as you put it, before I get really, really cross?" Lucifer snorted. "You don't scare me. You're just as pathetic as the two females. So on your knees, slave, and accept your fate along with them." The Doctor put his hands behind his back and rocked back and forth on his heels. "Well? Do as I say or all of you will die!" "Do you know who I am?" the Doctor said. "I don't care who you are. In a moment you'll be a pathetic little slave, now on your knees." "I said, do you know who I am?" Lucifer sighed. "Who are you?" "I'm the Doctor, the last of the Time Lords." He stared at him for a moment and then snorted. "Impossible, the Time Lords were a myth." The Doctor brought his hand up, pinched the back of it and lowered his hand back to his side. "Wow, I'm pretty solid seeing how I'm a myth and all," he said to him. "You don't scare me. I don't fear you." He neared closer to him and stared at him intently. "If you don't stop what you're doing and free everyone and leave, I will give you a very good reason to fear me," he said in a low voice. He stared at Lucifer intently while Rose and Donna watched silently. Suddenly Lucifer lunged at the on switch on the console. The Doctor lunged forward caught his hands and jerked the hand with the gun up to the ceiling when he tried to put a bullet in his head. The Doctor fell with him to the ground and they rolled around wrestling for a few minutes. Finally, the Doctor managed to wrench the gun out of his hand and used the butt of it to knock him out. He sighed while he stood up and looked at his friends. "Are you alright?" he asked them. "Apart from the severe headache, yeah," Donna said. The Doctor grinned at her. "You haven't changed a bit, have ya, Donna Noble?" he said to her. "Just get us outta here, Alien Boy," Donna replied. The Doctor chuckled and quickly freed them. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX After making sure the rest of the slaves further back in the building were alright and the bomb had been deactivated, the Doctor made an anonymous call to the police to let them know what had happened and to tell them to bring UNIT in to take care of the bomb and paramedics to take the former slaves to the hospital for evaluation. The Doctor and his friends grabbed Lucifer's unconscious body and they carried him out of the building. They carried him towards the TARDIS he had parked nearby after tracking them to the building. "You think everyone will be alright?" Rose asked while they carried Lucifer. "I think so. If UNIT is there they can take the victims after they've been treated for any injuries, work with them to counteract the effects of the hypnosis and bring them back to normal. And they can dismantle that bomb they made and make sure it doesn't harm anyone. As for this git, I think a nice long stay on a prison planet will do the trick." He smiled at Donna. "If you don't mind, we'd like it if you helped us get him inside the TARDIS. Then once that's done you can be on your way and…" "No." The Doctor and Rose stared at her. "No?" the Doctor said. "Doctor, I…I wanna come with you." He frowned. "I thought you didn't want to come with me. I frightened you, remember?" "Well, I've had over a year to think about it and I decided that I was a bit too hasty, not to mention stupid. So could I come with you?" The Doctor looked at Rose. "Rose? Wanna take another on board with us?" Rose smiled. "Sure, why not? More the merrier, right?" He smiled at her. "You're in…unless you wanna decline again." "Not on your life. I'm tagging along this time," Donna said to him. The Doctor chuckled and smiled warmly at her while they walked with Lucifer towards the TARDIS.
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