The Monsters Inside ( novel ) The Monsters Inside was the second Ninth Doctor novel released . Publisher ' s summary . The TARDIS takes the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler to a destination in deep space – Justicia , a prison camp stretched over seven planet s , where Earth colonies deal with their criminals . While Rose finds herself locked up in a teenage borstal , the Doctor is trapped in a scientific labour camp . Each is determined to find the other , and soon both Rose and the Doctor are risking life and limb to escape in their distinctive styles . But their dangerous plans are complicated by some old enemies . Are these creatures fellow prisoners as they claim , or staging a takeover for their own sinister purposes ? Plot . The TARDIS lands on a different planet , Justicia , and Rose " was , officially , Somewhere Else " . The Doctor isn ' t sure where they are , and says it was " like something in the area drew us down . . . " They walk to the lip of a rise , and see people building pyramid s . As they turn , four men , each with a whip and " futuristic space gun " , are creeping up behind them . A fight ensues , and the Doctor and Rose are captured and taken away in separate ships . The Doctor tells Rose , " Wherever they take you , I ' ll get you back . " The Doctor is taken to a plain grey room . He is scanned , found to be an alien , gassed , and sent away . He wakes to see a short woman who introduces herself as Senator Lazlee Flowers and tells him that he is at SCAT - house ( Species - led Creative and Advanced Technologies ) . She explains that they are on Justice Alpha of the Justica system , which is a prison , and that they should have seen the auto - beacons and deflection barrier warning them to stay away . Aliens go to this planet to work on projects , and can get time off their sentence or royalties for good results . Rose is put on a shuttle and taken to another planet . Warders Blanc and Norris tell her that she has been assigned to Detention Centre Six on Justica Beta . They tell her that she can put in a plea to the Governor , but right now she needs to leave the ship . She is attacked by a group of inmates , but rescued by Block - walker Dennel . The Doctor talks to Flowers . She says that his ship can ' t be entered or moved . He tells her " I put the handbrake on so we wouldn ' t go anywhere else in a hurry . " They discuss the difficulties of escape , and she tells him to find out . He puts his hand to a door , and grey globules descend from the roof and stick all over him , preventing him from moving . Flowers says they respond to anti - social behaviour as well . He is temporarily assigned a room with two Slitheen , Dram Fel Fotch Heppen - Bar Slitheen and his brother Ecktosca Fel Fotch Heppen - Bar Slitheen . They tell the Doctor that " the family " has gotten out of " the family business " . Dram and Ecktosca are searching for their ancestor ' s personal effects , including their compression fields . They were arrested after being tricked into breaking into a building on Justica Delta . After breakfast , Rose is assigned to work in the kitchens , where some of the other inmates cause trouble for which she is blamed . She is taken to see the governor , and sees a flickering blue light coming out of his office accompanied by a really bad smell . She is sure he is a raxacoricofallapatorian , especially since he is a large person , but she couldn ' t see a zipper and he claimed the flickering light was a malfunctioning desk lamp . He sentences Rose to a minimum of 25 years in prison . Next morning , the grey globs grab the Doctor and take him to a room with a variety of aliens working on a gravity experiment project . The Doctor and one of the other aliens ( a Sucrosian named Nesshalop ) come up with a breakthrough within a few minutes , but break the console in the process . The globs descended on both of them , causing pain as punishment for the destruction . The translation circuit is also broken , so only the Doctor can give the supervisors the solution . Rose ' s second day is much like her first , but the Governor is eating lunch in her block today . She starts a food fight , and in the confusion tackles him so she can look for a zipper . She doesn ' t find one , and is thrown into solitary confinement . Flowers goes to see Consul Issabel , who is the Technocrat Major of Justica Prime . Flowers tells her about the breakthrough , and that the Doctor insists that he needs his astrophysicist friend to finish solving the problem . Issabel says she will think on it . While the Doctor is back in his cell , he goes through the Slitheens ' nests , finds a home - made compression field , and deduce s that they must have escape plans , which Ecktosca confirms when he catches the Doctor looking at it . Rose is visited by Warder Norris , who says that he is an undercover agent , because people are vanishing , but hasn ' t heard from any of his superiors in months . Blanc comes in , kills him easily , and then unzips her head . Rose gets out of her cell , then realises that ' s what the Slitheen wanted all along . At the last moment , two other warders come along , because they ' d been sent by the Governor to fetch her . The Doctor was awoken during the night , and told to come to the meeting room . Flowers is there , and tells him that he will be talking to his expert over videolink . While they wait , they talk about the planetary orbits , and how they are perfect circles , and perfectly spaced for using an amplified gravity wave to open a warp - hole . Rose is brought into the Governor ' s office , and sat down to talk to the Doctor . The Doctor tells her that there is a test she needs to pass " with no help " . Flowers asks her the question , and the Doctor tells Rose that if the project works , they will " get a royalty that could bring in a lot of cash — and we ' re talking telephone numbers " . When told to be quiet , he tells Rose , " Mum ' s the word . " She tells the Doctor that someone might think he ' s " sending me a coded message " , and he responds , " No . No codes . " So Rose gives them her Mum ' s phone number , and Flowers says it ' s close , especially since it was a mental calculation , and then asks about the Warp overlay . The Doctor then sneaks the second number to her by talking about the Fowlers ' Albert Square address from the " EastEnders " ( Rose had made the Doctor spend a day with her catching up on missed storylines ) . Issabel tells the Governor to send Rose there immediately . Meanwhile , alarms are going off on Justica Alpha , because the Slitheen have escaped . Rose is on the shuttle , when she sees smoke seeping out from under the bulkhead door . She bangs on the door to the cabin , and eventually the pilot comes out to investigate , and is dragged into the smokey hold when he opens the door . The alarm goes silent , and Block - walker Dennel comes out . He had seen what happened with Norris and Blanc , and thought he was rescuing Rose . They drag the unconscious pilot to the cabin door and use his hand to open the touchpad . The console starts beeping a countdown , wanting input from the pilot , and when Rose and Dennel try to move him , they realise he ' s got a zipper in his head . In order to keep the shuttle moving , they remove the hand skin from the Raxacoricofallapatorian , and use it like a glove to abort the countdown . It wakes up , and they run to the cabin and close the door . Unfortunately , Dennel is knocked against the controls , as the pilot beats on the door . They realise the ship is heading for a planet , and Dennel comments that " the big bad wolf ' s ready to blow our house down " . When the monster gets in , Rose tells him not to hurt Dennel , but to prevent the ship from crashing . It says that it has orders not to harm them , and starts to work on the controls In spite of its efforts , the ship crashes . The Doctor has the gravity workshop construction the core of amplifier when Flowers comes in . He asks her about the return of his sonic screwdriver , and then tells her that the orbits of the planets in this system have been changed . When Flowers goes to talk to Issabel , she accidentally sees her remove her skin to reveal a monster that is " bigger and paler than either Ecktosca or Dram Fel Fotch " . As Flowers tried to sneak away , Ermenshrew ( Issabel ) hears her and gives chase . She comes across the Doctor , and they take off for the systems hub . The corridor is very narrow , and Ermenshrew has trouble coming after them . Rose and Dennel are on Justice Delta . The monster tricks Rose into calling for help , knowing that there are no longer any humans on the planet , just more monsters like himself . He also tells her that he is a Blathereen , not a Slitheen . The Doctor tells Flowers to change the gravity settings to zero . As soon as she does so , the two of them float up to the ceiling shelves where the globs live . The Doctor tells her to switch on the sonic screwdriver ( which she had brought along to return to him ) for light . There are corridors between the shelves that connect the various rooms of SCAT - house . As they crawl through them , they find Ecktosca and Dram disguised as globs . Rose awakes Dennel , and the two of them take off through the trees . They come to a clearing that is filled with the remains of all the humans who had gone missing from Justica Beta . They find the monitoring station that the shuttle had crashed into when it landed , and by looking at all the screens , figure out what is happening . They see Warder Robsen appear in the clearing , and run out to get him . They find the portal that he came through , but are unable to make it work . Ecktosca tells the Doctor and Rose that there are warp - hole pathways joining all the worlds in Justica . The Blathereen are using the work done at SCAT - house to improve and make them larger . The Doctor realises that they are what drew the TARDIS . Flowers realises the portal must be in the aquaculture compound , which has been shut down for some months . The four of them make their way there , Ecktosca activates the portal , Dram follows , and then the Doctor and Flowers . They end up in a small room on Justice Delta , and the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to offset the portal and prevent Ermenshrew from following them . As he finishes , they are discovered . Meanwhile , back on Justica Beta , the prisoners stage a revolt . Rose , Dennel , and Robsen are running from the Blathereen , when the monitoring station comes crashing past them . They all jump in . Rose sees the Doctor on one of the monitoring screens , and they turn the volume up to hear what is happening . The Doctor , Flowers , Ecktosca and Dram are taken to the Blathereen leader , Don Arco . He tells them that what they want to do is create a super - portal that will allow them to move the entire Justica system . Then they will use its suns to burn another system into fissile material to sell . The prisoners remaining in the Justica system will be used to process the material . And then a monitoring platform crashes into the building , and another . The Doctor and Flowers take advantage of the aftermath to escape . Rose , Dennel and Robsen find that their station is moving faster now that it ' s out of the trees and approaching the building , so they decide to jump out . They see the Doctor and Flowers emerge from it , and when Rose jumps , the Doctor catches her , but they both fall . He grins and says , " Found you . " As they talk , Blathereen begin to emerge from the building , and all five take off running for the forest . Suddenly they hear " cheering and clattering and crashing and shrieking " and see hundreds of detention centre kids coming after the monsters . Another Slitheen shows up ( Callis , the aunt of Ecktosca and Dram ) , and the three of them , the Doctor , Rose , Robsen , and Flowers head back to Justice Alpha to destroy the work that was done at SCAT - house . Don Arco and Ermenshaw are there ahead of them , starting to activate the project . The Doctor has Rose and Flowers turn off the gravity again , while Ecktosca , Callis , and Robsen wreck the gravity warp equipment . Dram works on the compression field , and the Doctor heads back to the gravity workshop . They manage to sabotage the works , and when Ermenshrew hits the switch , the room explodes . The Doctor and Rose go back to the TARDIS and leave the system . Dram , Ecktosca and Callis celebrate the fall of the Blathereen and the beginning of " a new golden age of crime " for the Slitheen .