A/N: Apparently it's bad if your a/n takes up 1/3 the content or more. . oh look a mildly amusing chapter

The Doctor left me alone in the TARDIS while he went to talk to... I don't know... guys. Some council was my guess. I gave up on my phone; it had no service and refused to find any. I stared at the control panel and determined that there was no phone - not one I should try to touch, that is. He had told me not to touch the controls anyway. That was probably for the better.

I turned on some music and tried to find an interesting looking book that wasn't in Gallifreyan. Supposedly, I'd be able to read anything else... after staring at it for a while...

If I survived, I could one day be better job fodder if that was true. Lord knows polyglots are useful.

And that was the extent of my optimism.

After looking through half the first book case, I began to regret not asking where the bathroom was earlier. I decided to try something. "Voice interface?"

A hologram of Eight appeared. "Voice interface enabled."

"Hello," I said. He stared at me. "Yes, um, where's the nearest toilet?"

"Follow me." The hologram turned and walked away. I quickly got up to follow.

"Can you do holograms of other people? Even if they've not been in here yet?"

"Yes."

"Rose Tyler?"

He morphed into Rose as he walked.

"Donna Noble?"

Rose morphed into Donna.

"Oh! Clara Oswin Oswald!"

Donna morphed into Clara.

"Wow, that's cool."

The nearest toilet was actually pretty far away, much to my annoyance.

"Can you turn into me?"

Clara flickered out and was replaced with me.

"Do you sound like me?"

"I have measured your voice and calibrated my system to match it."

"Getting chills. Can you do people who haven't ever been or will never be in here?"

"Yes, though I may not be able to properly calibrate the voice."

"My mother, Katherine Presly?"

The hologram of me became a hologram of my mother. I couldn't help it - I laughed.

"What about my best friend, Pierce Albrecht?"

The interface morphed into a tall, curly-haired redhead.

"Aw, I wish she was here. She'd love it. She'd be here if I had kept my big mouth shut for a little bit longer. She'll be annoyed I woke her up..." I sighed. "They're going to wonder where I went..."

She stopped abruptly and motioned to a door on the left. "Here is the toilet. Please flush when you are done." She disappeared, and I was alone.

The voice interface didn't particularly enjoy conversation - it kept insisting that it was a voice interface, and that the key word there was "interface." That was fine because I'd found a book that appeared to be written in some alien language. It took me a moment to figure out that it was upside down and backwards.

When I managed to get through the entire novel, I estimated that about four and a half hours had passed. I tried my phone again in a moment of insanity; it still showed nothing but the music and photos that were already on it. I fell asleep in the chair listening to a song on repeat.

The Doctor only had to shout at me once to wake me up. "Oi! Kaoru! Still here?"

"Yup!" I jumped up. He was already flipping switches. "Where to?"

He took a disc from his pocket and held his sonic screwdriver to it. "Skaro."

I shuddered. "Okay."

"Don't worry about it."

"I'm not worried!"

"You look worried."

"I always look like this." I tried not to hover although I was very interested in what was going on. "What can I do? Can I help?"

"Yes!" He placed the disc beneath the scanner screen. "We're going to Skaro to destroy as many of their progenerators as possible. I don't quite have their locations memorized, so if you could do the scans and tell me where they are, that would be lovely."

He produced two ear pieces from somewhere and handed one to me.

"Will do," I said. He showed me the controls; though, he pointed out, I would only need one button.

"All you do is press this one every few seconds to re-scan. And don't leave the TARDIS under any circumstances."

"Red button. Don't leave. Okay."

"This blue dot here-" He pointed at the screen. "-is you in the TARDIS. The red ones are Daleks. The green ones are progenerators. And in a moment you will see a yellow dot which will be me outside of the TARDIS."

"Gotcha." I looked up. "Um, good luck?"

He winked at me. "No problem, Presly." He left.

I pressed the red button. The screen showed a map of a large building with a ton of multi-colored dots - mostly red. We were in some sort of storage room or closet, but I certainly was not going to leave the TARDIS to find out.

"The first progenerator is down to the right, third door on the left. Two Daleks inside."

"Piece of cake," he said. I refreshed the scan. He was inside.

I heard a Dalek - "DOC-TOR!" - and he quickly said, "Oops, can you give me an empty room?"

I refreshed again. The green dot was gone. "Go left and then left again, and you'll see a little room." When I re-scanned he was inside of it, and the two red dots were north of him. "They've gone past."

"This room isn't empty."

I frowned. "It was on the scanner." I refreshed the scan. There was still only a yellow dot inside. "Still just you. Why? What's in there?"

"A really big computer. A big, dangerous, bad-news-bearing one, no doubt." He paused. "It's a tracker - uh oh. Re-scan and make sure there aren't any Daleks near you!"

I pressed the button. "Just the two that were chasing you, and they're headed back to the progenerator room."

"Good. This computer can track Huon particles, meaning it can track the TARDIS. If they check it, they'll know you're there."

"Oh, lovely." I re-scanned. "One of those Daleks is coming back - headed for you."

"Let me just-" I could hear his sonic through the ear piece. There was a small explosion.

"He's about to turn."

"Where's the next one?"

"Straight ahead, third left hall, second left door." I tapped on the button. "That Dalek is going the same way, and there's one in the next progenerator room."

"Not too bad," he said. I kept pressing the button. The second green dot disappeared, but the red dots were converging on the Doctor.

"Four Daleks coming from the left, one still following you. Uh, there's another door in there according to the floor plans, almost behind the machine. Another empty room."

He'd gone through it by the time I re-scanned.

"All right, then?"

"You know, you sound worried."

"Yeah, well, are you all right?"

"Fine. I can hear them." I could, too, they were so loud. "Where's the next one?"

"Go out, second left hallway. They're starting to cut you off."

"Don't forget to make sure that there aren't any near you."

I glanced down. "I'm fine; all good down here. Third door on the right. Nothing inside. They're all out looking for you."

"Or you." I tried not to swallow nervously too loudly; I heard him sonic open a door. He heard me swallow anyway. "Probably me," he said quickly.

"Um, right, go straight, then turn at the end of the hallway. The next one is the first door on the right - oh, I've got incoming." There were five red dots two rooms down from where the TARDIS was parked.

"No problem, we'll just move you into one of the non-functioning progenerators. Grab that disc I left in there and put it in. Just enter the coordinates of the first progenerator."

I nodded despite his inability to see me at that moment and stuck the disc in the scanner. "Okay, got it." The TARDIS began to rumble. The blue dot shifted across the hall and three rooms down.

Meanwhile, the Doctor was somehow sneaking past some Daleks. I waited until he was clear of them before saying anything. "Only two more on the scan."

"Excellent."

"Straight shot. Turn left at the end."

Another green dot disappeared.

"Of course, there are quite a few other bases just on Skaro that I need to take down."

Joy. "Why not blow the planet up? The Time Lords have those sort of resources, right?"

He didn't say anything for a moment. "Because the longer I delay an all-out war, the better. If I sneak around like this, they may think that I'm just attacking on a whim rather than on orders."

"Right." I scratched my head. "The last one is just across the hall if you go out the other door in that room. The door is in the next hall over, though."

"All right."

I re-scanned, and the dot was gone, but the Doctor hadn't even reached the room yet. "How'd you do that?" I said.

"Do what?"

"The green dot is gone."

"I haven't touched it yet."

I pressed the button a few more times. "Well, it's still gone."

"Odd, but all right, directions to where you are, then?"

"Go past that first hallway and take the second. Go all the way to the end. There'll be a door on your left. Inside of that room is another door which, again, comes out right behind the machine. No Daleks in your way - they're all searching for you in the east side of the building."

Soon enough, the doors swung open, and the Doctor was turning knobs and telling me which buttons to press.

"So that was mildly stressing," I said.

"Lunch?" he said.

"Nice job, by the way," the Doctor said.

"Thanks." He handed me what appeared to be a bowl of custard.

"Have you done that sort of thing before?"

"Not unless video games count." And by video games, I meant "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon with an action replay."

"No respawns."

"Figured that."

"You really do sound worried constantly."

"I said so."

"Do the things you say often turn out to be true?"

"To many people's surprise, yes."

He laughed. "I know how that feels."

"I'd imagine so. People call it Cassandra Truth."

"Cassandra?"

"Greek mythology. She could see the future, but Apollo cursed her so that no one would ever believe her."

"Yeah, that sounds familiar."

"Doesn't always being right really suck sometimes?"

"Mmhm."

I'm sorry I used the word "re-scanned" so much. New one Thursday. Hopefully. Already have end written because if I ever go in the right order... Well... Bluh...