Justice for Suki!!

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"I only take the best. I have Lily and Rose."

- The Doctor

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Satellite Five
200,000

RIGHT AFTER THE TARDIS MATERIALIZED, THE TRIO QUICKLY STEPPED OUT. It was just them three as they tricked Adam into waiting for the non-existent signal that they were in the clear. Lily looked around at the space, seemingly a space shuttle, and grinned at the Doctor. "So, whatcha got?"

"So . ." The Doctor did a three-sixty spin. "It's two hundred thousand, and it's a spaceship. No, wait a minute-" He paused. "A space station!" He nodded to a gate. "How about you go and try that gate over there?"

"Two hundred thousand?" She asked and earned a nod from him, indicating that was correct. "Gotcha." She beamed and moved to open the TARDIS door. "Adam?"

Adam cautiously exited the blue box and gasped as she looked around, stunned at where they were. "Oh my god,"

"You'll get used to it." Rose smiled, stepping up to pat him on the shoulder.

"Where are we?" Adam asked Lily.

"Good question." Lily bit her lip and checked her surroundings. "So, judging by the architecture, I'd say we're around the year two hundred thousand. If you listen . ." She paused and let the rumbling sound fill the quiet space.

"Yeah?"

"Engines." She replied with a smile. "We're on some sort of space station. Yeah, definitely a space station." She unzipped her jacket. "It's a bit warm here. They could turn the heating down. Tell you what- let's try that gate." She pointed. "Come on!" On the way to the large metal gate, Lily wrapped an arm around Rose's shoulders. "Ro, it's your first spaceship! How does it feel?"

Rose leaned into her sister as they walked. "It feels like I could get used to this."

Lily gave her a very proud grin and playfully kissed the side of her head. Rose giggled and Lily let go of her. They found themselves in front of a massive viewing window, much like the one on Platform One. She was in awe as she looked down at the planet below them. She agreed with Rose's statement. "And here we go! This is-" she scrunched her nose. "I'll let the Doctor explain it."

The Doctor stepped up. They now stood as a four-person line in front of the window- Rose, Lily, Adam, and then the Doctor on the other end. "The Fourth great and bountiful Human Empire. And there it is, planet Earth at its height. Covered with mega-cities, five moons, population ninety-six billion." She had to compliment the Doctor on how well he summed everything up. "The hub of a galactic domain stretching across a million planets, a million species, with mankind right in the middle."

The sound of a body hit the floor and Lily looked down at Adam who had just fainted. Looking back up she noticed the Doctor giving her an amused expression. "He's your boyfriend."

Lily sighed and looked back to the Earth, hearing her sister holding back a snort. "Not anymore."

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"Come on, Adam, open your mind!" The Doctor tried to encourage him as he guided them down the corridor. "You're going to like this. Fantastic period of history!" He clasped a hand on his shoulder. "The human race at its most intelligent. Culture, art, politics. This era has got fine food, good manners-"

"Out of the way!" a man shouted, pushing past them.

Lily backed up when, out of absolutely nowhere, several people started bustling around them, opening up food vending stations and serving customers at their counters.

When she looked into the display case and saw the food, Lily cringed and gave the Doctor a confused look. "Did you get your timing right?"She asked, rejoining them. "'Cos this isn't what I imagined 'fine food' to be. And the people-" She frowned at a nearby couple arguing.

"My watch must be wrong?" The Doctor muttered, looking at it utterly confused. "No, it's fine. It's weird .. "

"That's what comes with showing off!" Rose punched his shoulder. "Your history's not as good as you thought it was."

"My history's perfect!"

Rose laughed over the noises. "Well, obviously not."

"They're all human." Adam's voice made Lily turn to him. "What about the millions of planets, the millions of species? Where are they?"

"That's a good question." Lily smiled and complimented him. "That is a very good question." She moved her gaze to the Doctor who was giving a look she had never seen before. "Isn't it Doctor?"

If the Doctor rolled his eyes any further back into his head they'd get stuck. "Yeah, sure. Adam!" He faced the human. "Me ole' mate, you must be starving?"

Adam furrowed his brows and held onto his stomach. "No, I'm just a bit "time" sick."

He laughed his off and wrapped a long arm over his shoulders. "No, you just need a bit of grub." The Doctor looked around and noticed the nearest vendor, nodding at its cook. "Oi, mate- how much is a kronkburger?"

"Two credits twenty, sweetheart," he replied with a forced smile before waving a hand out to the line that had formed that the Doctor and Adam cut. "Now join the queue!"

The Doctor steered Adam back to the girls. "Money! We need money!" He let go of Adam and led them around the vendor to a futuristic-looking atm. "Let's use a cashpoint."

A man over a PA system announced something Lily couldn't make out. She rested a hip on the machine and crossed her arms, looking down at the Doctor using his sonic screwdriver to hack the machine. When it produced a thin metal bar, about three fingers long, and handed it to Adam with a grin. "There yah go- pocket money! Don't go spending it all on sweets."

Adam examined it, turning it over in his hand. "How does it work?"

"Go find out. Stop nagging me!" The Doctor gave a pained expression and waved him off, which earned him a raised brow from Lily. "The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guidebook, you've got to throw yourself in. Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double, and end up kissing complete strangers. Or is that just me?" Lily and Rose shared a giggle at the face the Doctor made. "Stop asking questions, go and do it. Off you go, then."

Before Adam went too far he turned back and looked at Lily. "Lily?" He waved the bar up with a hopeful look. "Mind if you helped? You know more about this than me."

"Oh! Um.." Lily moved off the atm and looked at the Doctor but she couldn't read his face. "Sure, yeah." She shrugged and uncrossed her arms, walking up to Adam.

"Awe!" Rose placed a hand over her heart. "Your first date."

Lily was lucky Adam was too far away in the distance to hear Rose. Lily returned her teasing with a stuck-out tongue and then pointed a finger at the Doctor. "Watch out for my sister. She's more trouble than she looks."

Rose gasped. "I'll remember that!" Lily laughed as she turned back around and slowly jogged to the vendor Adam was in line for.

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Rose rolled her eyes and twirled on one foot back to the Doctor who was still looking at where Lily disappeared. Before Rose asked if he was okay he shook his head and seemed to come back to, giving the blonde an inviting grin "Let's go, Ro." And she softly smiled when he used her nickname for the first time.

She walked with him to a pair of women and stood to the side, letting him decide how to approach them verbally. Er, this is going to sound daft," The woman looked at him as he spoke. "But can you tell me where I am?"

The darker-skinned of the two with braided hair scoffed. "Floor 139." Pointing her thumb at a large sign above a door that the Doctor and Rose took notice of. "Could they write it any bigger?"

"Floor 139 of what?" Rose chimed in. "What is this place?

The same woman let out a chuckle. "Must've been one hell of a party."

"You're on Satellite Five." The other lady, lighter skinned with shorter hair, answered.

"What's Satellite Five?" The Doctor asked.

"Come on." The dark-skinned woman protested. "How could you get on board without knowing where you are?"

"Look at me, I'm stupid!" The Doctor said, holding out his arms.

"He is." Rose shrugged.

"Hold on, wait a minute." The light-skinned one-eyed them both, studying them head to toe. "Are you a test?" She asked warily. "Some sort of management test kind of thing?"

The Doctor and Rose shared a quick look then turned back to the duo. "You got us." he lied. "Well done. You're too clever for us." He held up his psychic paper and whatever it showed the women worked in their favor.

The light-skinned woman looked back to her accomplice and spoke low. "We were warned about this in basic training. All workers have to be versed in company promotion."

The dark-skinned woman seemed flustered at first but regained her composure. "Right, fire away, ask your questions." She lifted her chin. "If it gets me to Floor 500, I'll do anything."

"Why?" Rose started. "What happens on Floor 500?"

"The walls are made of gold." She replied and smirked at the Doctor. "And you should know, Mr. Management." When she was met by blank stares from both Rose and the Doctor she gave them an annoyed groan. "So, this is what we do." She steered them over to a wall monitor, which showed off various new channels. "Latest news, sandstorms on the new Venus archipelago. Two hundred dead. Glasgow water riots into their third day. Space Lane seventy-seven closed by sunspot activity. And over on the Bad Wolf channel, the Face of Bo has just announced he's pregnant. "

"Ah, I get it." Rose nodded. "You broadcast the news."

"We are the news." she corrected. "We're the journalists. We write it, package it, and sell it. Six hundred channels, all coming out of Satellite Five, broadcasting everywhere." She smirked and folded her arms- a sense of pride radiated off of her. "Nothing happens in the whole human empire without it going through us."

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