Flushed, Chapter 9: The Final Sanction

Flushed

I have finally finished my first multi-chapter fanfic. Thanks for staying with me for this one. I promise, I do have other things to write about (so long as I can keep the plot bunnies at bay). 

And, on to the final chapter.

Chapter 9: The Final Sanction

“Rose! Rose, where are you? Rose” Jamie pushed his way through the crowded sidewalk toward the large, damaged flat screen telly playing the final game of the World Cup in the middle of Rat London. His head bobbed above the crowd as he jumped, trying to scan the crowd for Rose and her family. Spotting Pete’s wheelchair and full body cast, he quickly changed directions and headed closer to the water.

Out of the corner of his eye, Jamie saw movement reflecting off the plastic window of one of the shops lining the street. Turning to follow it, he saw Rose tied up and dangling from a length of twine hanging from one of the upper pipes.

Thinking quickly, Jamie grabbed the latex glove balloon tied to a nearby food cart and a discarded handheld motorized fan. The balloon lifted him above the crowd and he used the fan to propel it toward Rose.

Within moments, Jamie had reached Rose and pulled her into his arms. While they were busy untying the twine, a mechanical lift rose on the other side of a nearby platform, revealing Rassilon, the Master and a large group of their subordinates.

“Get them!” Rassilon roared. Sec and Thay scurried to find a way to bring down the balloon before handing the Master a staple gun and backing away. The Master laughed in unholy glee as he rapidly shot staples at the yellow glove. A cheer ran through the assembled frogs as staples punctured the balloon, sending it careening around the pipe Rose had been tied to and flipping Rose and Jamie into the air.

They landed with a crash in the center of the platform, right at the webbed feet of Rassilon himself. Sec and Thay raced forward, pulling Rose and Jamie upright and blocking their path to the lift.

Rassilon strode forward, red robes billowing behind him. He glared at the Master, who was giggling madly, and quickly ascended the lift to a console covered with flashing buttons. The cable Rose had commandeered as a belt had been restored to its place on the panel and was crackling with electricity.

“And now, behold my genius! Prepare to witness the Final Sanction!” Rassilon slammed his slimy, green hand on a large red button, causing it to light up and the flood gate doors to creep open. “Watch as all the filthy lower life forms are flushed away! We toads will reclaim our place as the most powerful species in the sewers!”

Jamie met Rose’s eyes in horror. “My family’s down there!” Rose gasped, panicked.

“I promise, Rose. I won’t let that happen. We will stop him. Your family will be fine.” Jamie whispered in Rose’s ear, looking pointedly over his shoulder at the large tank of liquid nitrogen that Rassilon had hooked into his ice maker. Darting forward, Rose grabbed the hose, pulling it from the tank and pointed the spray at the frogs who were rushing to recapture the two rats. The liquid nitrogen froze the frogs in place, allowing Rose to drop the hose and make a run for the pipes.

Rassilon followed Rose onto the pipe, using his tongue to swing himself past Rose and block her escape.  She scampered back toward the platform only to be caught around the waist and wrenched back to Rassilon, still wrapped in coils of his tongue. He lifted her above his head and shouted out of the side of his mouth, “Master, grab the Doctor! He must not stop the Final Sanction! Where are my idiot minions? Sec! Thay! Protect the Master Cable!”

As the Master closed in on Jamie, he grabbed the incredulous frog by his waist. Jamie squeezed forcefully, causing the Master’s tongue to wrap around the pipe above Rose.

“Please let this work” Jamie muttered under his breath and jumped off the platform, swinging across the space. He grabbed Rose, using the momentum of the swing to pull her out of Rassilon’s slimy restraints.

“I have just one thing to say to you, Rassilon” Jamie shouted as they swung past the outraged toad. “See ya!”

Keeping one arm around Rose, Jamie let go of the Master. The two rats dropped to the pipe, causing it to crack at Rassilon’s feet, freezing his robe to the metal surface. The Master was propelled onto a junction in the pipe where his tongue wrapped him securely in place and froze onto the cold pipe.

Jamie jumped to his feet, loudly taunting Rassilon. “Look at you Mr. Thick! Mr. Thickety, thick, thick. From Thick-Town, Thick-sylvannia! I’ve never met anyone as thick as you!”

Enraged, Rassilon stomped forward, tugging the hem of his robe free. The pipe cracked further as he moved closer to Jamie, lining up his shot.

The distant sound of flushing echoed through the sewer. Rose turned horrified brown eyes to Jamie. Her voice cracked as she whispered “We’re too late.”

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In the crowd below, Pete Tyler turned away from the game, distracted by the noise of rushing water echoing over the shouts of “Go England!”

“Wave!” he yelled at the crowd, only to have the assembled fans do the wave across the sidewalk. “No! Wave!” he yelled again, this time accompanied by the roaring water.

A rat in a ‘the end is near’ sandwich board pointed at the approaching wave, yelling “I told you!” repeatedly.

“Shut it, Clive!” Captain Jack shouted back. “You’re not helping! We need to get everyone out of here!”

Jackie plunked a frightened Tony onto Pete’s lap and grabbed the back of the wheelchair, intending to push her family through the crowd and to safety, but the crush was too thick for the panicked group to move. Jackie wrapped her arms around her son and husband, determined to keep her family together, wave or no wave.

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Jamie danced to the side, lining his body up with the still moving, geared mechanism on top of the floodgate door. He ducked just in time as Rassilon’s tongue shot over Jamie’s head and into the gears, catapulting Rassilon back onto the pipe cracking it in half and flinging him onto the same pipe junction as the Master.

Jamie grabbed Rose’s paw, yelling “Run!” Once they reached the platform, he turned back watching the broken pipe fall lower and begin to pour liquid nitrogen into the air. “I hope this works,” he muttered as the wave hurtled down the tunnel.

Gallons of liquid nitrogen splashed onto the surface of the wave, freezing the water solid. The ice spread up the crest of the wave, stopping it in place just as it began to break over the Rat London sidewalk and the terrified crowd.

Shaking and laughing in relief, Jackie pointed to Rose and Jamie up on the platform. “They’ve saved us!”

Not to be outdone, Captain Jack Harkness shouted: “the Doctor and Rose saved the city!”

The crowd of rats celebrated, picking up the chant of “Doc-tor! Doc-tor!”

Rose turned to Jamie, pointing to the crowd. “You’re a hero. You saved everyone.”

“We saved everyone,” Jamie corrected. “Stuff of legends, that’s us.” Running a paw behind his ear, Jamie looked down shyly before meeting Rose’s eyes. “So, when you set off with the Bad Wolf II,” he started hesitantly. “Do you think you might need a first mate?”

“Come here, you!” Rose giggled pulling him into a hug. “How long you gonna stay with me?”

Jamie pulled back to look in her eyes before leaning forward and whispering “Forever” just before meeting her lips with his own.

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Jamie gazed out over Rat London contemplatively. Safe and sound after the World Cup and Rassilon’s madness.

“I still can’t believe England lost. I really thought we had it this time” Rose said as she wrapped her arms around him from behind. He leaned into her embrace, sighing. “You ready to set off?” she asked quietly, giving him one more squeeze before heading to the wheelhouse to get them underway.

“Oh, you’re stuck with me,” he replied, grinning at her and pulling up the anchor.

“Stuck with you? That’s not so bad. Better hang on Doctor,” Rose teased. Jamie grabbed her paw in his as she opened the throttle and gunned the Bad Wolf II down the nearest sewer tunnel. “Let’s see how far this baby can take us!” echoed off the walls as the Bad Wolf II and her crew set off on a new adventure.  

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