Mars (WiDW short story)

Mars was the fourteenth and final short story exclusively published on the Who is Doctor Who? website in 2005 by the BBC Web Team to coincide with the broadcast of The Christmas Invasion. After Mars, the content on the Who is Doctor Who? website shifted to more interactive fiction, with live-action webcasts, video games, and even an alternate reality game.

Plot
Writing on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, Mickey Smith confides that he now thinks that Rose is gone for good, stung that after months of not hearing from her, she had turned up, talking about the world being in danger and that the the Doctor needing her help, and she had then left as suddenly as she had returned, leaving himself and Jackie standing alone in the road. Since then, Mickey notes, Rose hasn't made contact and he fears she's dead.

Mickey does explain that talking about Rose isn't why he's returned, but rather Daffodil has informed him about the Guinevere probe, which he admits to not having thought much of when he saw it on the telly, as his experiences with the "truth" makes a mere probe going to Mars seem unassuming. However, after Mickey had examined the Guinevere website, he became incredibly suspicious due to the motives behind the probe not aliging with the technology onboard and the involvement of the PM Harriet Jones. Mickey, powerless to investigate his suspicions any further, has no other choice but to wait until Christmas Day for more news, and in the meantime, tells his readers to remember the shop dummies and the aliens invading London, no matter what "they" claim.

Characters

 * Mickey Smith

Referenced only

 * Rose
 * The Doctor
 * Jackie
 * Daffodil
 * Harriet Jones

Continuity

 * Mickey's last encounter with Rose was in The Parting of the Ways.
 * Jackie is also known as "Jacks". (TV: Aliens of London, PROSE: Downtime: Child of the New World)
 * Daffodil previously contacted Mickey in PROSE: Dummy Massacre.
 * Mickey mentions the Dummy Massacre (TV: Rose, PROSE: Dummy Massacre) and the London UFO crash/Cardiff Earthquake. (TV: Aliens of London, World War Three, Boom Town, PROSE: Cardiff Earthquake)
 * Harriet Jones also appeared on Question Time in another universe. (AUDIO: The Endless Night)
 * Jackie and Mickey went through Christmas 2005 without Rose. (TV: Aliens of London, et al.)