It became apparent right around then that London was more or less crawling with murderous, scavenging Roboforms dressed up like Father Christmas. Donna didn't see a problem with much of anything except missing her wedding until the cab driver turned out to be one of this Roboforms, with no intention of getting her to the church. Thankfully, the Doctor wasn't far behind, using the TARDIS in a rare and taxing way, actually flying along a motorway in order to catch up with this new, temporary companion of his. He eventually coaxed Donna into jumping from the moving taxi into the equally-moving TARDIS before flying away to park on a roof somewhere in London. There, with smoke bellowing from the time machine's interior, Donna gloomily sat on the edge of the roof to lament missing her wedding. Never mind that she'd nearly lost her life. Her honeymoon would now be just a vacation and they'd have to schedule another date.
The Doctor, still baffled over Donna's trouble and adamantly not from Mars, as she kept saying, managed to get her to the site of her wedding reception only to find it was a roaring party without her. Donna's initial rage at everyone involved was soon turned back at her, assuming her disappearance had been an intentional show for attention. A few quick, fake sobs got things quieted down for the moment, though, and the party continued, until a look at the wedding footage made the Doctor realize the biodampening ring he'd given Donna to hide her from the Roboforms wouldn't work. She was infested with huon particles, a form of energy so old it shouldn't exist anymore. Thus, the Robo-Santas were still aware of Donna's presence and, verily, on their way to get her. The reception was interrupted when one of them pulled out a remote control to activate tiny bombs posing as Christmas tree ornaments. Things would have gotten much worse just then if the Doctor hadn't thought quick and destroyed the Roboforms. Finding the remote and a still-active commanding signal in the remains, he dashed off to find the source, running outside only to find it was something in Earth's orbit. The Doctor, Donna, and Lance all went to the H.C. Clements offices to look for information, where the Doctor worked to explain Donna's arrival in the TARDIS while he worked out other things. When active inside a living host, huon particles attract other huon particles. The high adrenaline levels involved in walking down the aisle and the TARDIS' chance close location were what drew one huon-infested thing to another. The image the Doctor used to explain it to Donna was that she was a pencil in a mug, an odd metaphor that's always stuck with her as being more applicable to her dull life than he even knew.
Traveling down to a subterranean floor not on the building plans, the trio found a Torchwood base hidden under the Thames barrier. It was there the huon particles had been being artificially recreated for some time now. Lance sneaked off just about then, while the Doctor and Donna were faced with a gigantic spider, the Empress of the Racnoss, an all-but-extinct ancient race. While she did a typical villain speech, it was revealed that Lance had been working for her all along, adding the huon particles from this lab into Donna's coffee daily to make her useful for the Empress' grand plan. The Doctor's typically quick thinking managed to reverse the pull of the huon particles so that the TARDIS would materialize around him and one very stunned, hurt Donna Noble. A quick trip back in time to the creation of Earth – a sight no human had ever seen before, it should be noted, making Donna one very special lady – revealed that the Empress needed hosted huon energy to wake up her baby Racnoss, at the centre of the planet since the beginning of its existence. Then, it was only a matter of the day being saved in typical Doctor Who Christmas Special fashion, with Lance being lost and the Empress' plans foiled. The Doctor would have destroyed the Empress entirely were it not for Donna, who yelled at him to stop, he'd done enough. The Empress went back to her ship where some sort of army – assumedly the Doctor-related military organization of UNIT – shot it out of the sky.
Donna Noble | Doctor Who | 3/?
The Doctor, still baffled over Donna's trouble and adamantly not from Mars, as she kept saying, managed to get her to the site of her wedding reception only to find it was a roaring party without her. Donna's initial rage at everyone involved was soon turned back at her, assuming her disappearance had been an intentional show for attention. A few quick, fake sobs got things quieted down for the moment, though, and the party continued, until a look at the wedding footage made the Doctor realize the biodampening ring he'd given Donna to hide her from the Roboforms wouldn't work. She was infested with huon particles, a form of energy so old it shouldn't exist anymore. Thus, the Robo-Santas were still aware of Donna's presence and, verily, on their way to get her. The reception was interrupted when one of them pulled out a remote control to activate tiny bombs posing as Christmas tree ornaments. Things would have gotten much worse just then if the Doctor hadn't thought quick and destroyed the Roboforms. Finding the remote and a still-active commanding signal in the remains, he dashed off to find the source, running outside only to find it was something in Earth's orbit. The Doctor, Donna, and Lance all went to the H.C. Clements offices to look for information, where the Doctor worked to explain Donna's arrival in the TARDIS while he worked out other things. When active inside a living host, huon particles attract other huon particles. The high adrenaline levels involved in walking down the aisle and the TARDIS' chance close location were what drew one huon-infested thing to another. The image the Doctor used to explain it to Donna was that she was a pencil in a mug, an odd metaphor that's always stuck with her as being more applicable to her dull life than he even knew.
Traveling down to a subterranean floor not on the building plans, the trio found a Torchwood base hidden under the Thames barrier. It was there the huon particles had been being artificially recreated for some time now. Lance sneaked off just about then, while the Doctor and Donna were faced with a gigantic spider, the Empress of the Racnoss, an all-but-extinct ancient race. While she did a typical villain speech, it was revealed that Lance had been working for her all along, adding the huon particles from this lab into Donna's coffee daily to make her useful for the Empress' grand plan. The Doctor's typically quick thinking managed to reverse the pull of the huon particles so that the TARDIS would materialize around him and one very stunned, hurt Donna Noble. A quick trip back in time to the creation of Earth – a sight no human had ever seen before, it should be noted, making Donna one very special lady – revealed that the Empress needed hosted huon energy to wake up her baby Racnoss, at the centre of the planet since the beginning of its existence. Then, it was only a matter of the day being saved in typical Doctor Who Christmas Special fashion, with Lance being lost and the Empress' plans foiled. The Doctor would have destroyed the Empress entirely were it not for Donna, who yelled at him to stop, he'd done enough. The Empress went back to her ship where some sort of army – assumedly the Doctor-related military organization of UNIT – shot it out of the sky.