CHAPTER 3
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This story takes place before Bad Wolves Chapter 34 because I want to make all of you Bad Wolves fans sweat about what's going to happen to Victoria.
As UNIT was assaulted by an army of Slabs and Headless Monks, Rani was caught in the middle of a war of her own as Kali established more and more of a hold on her mind. She was now forcing Rani to skip a whole day of school in order to make her find something that was very important to her. She was searching desperately for it whatever it was, but she wouldn't tell her a thing about it.
"You're going to get me kicked out of school," Rani said out loud to Kali. Clyde and Luke were in class so she was free to talk out loud to her tormentor without having to raise their suspicions.
Who cares? Once I succeed, I'm going to wipe you from my mind anyway. You can think of this as a fun little field trip that I've given you. I'm sure that you'll wind up being grateful to me that I've given you something to enjoy on one of your last days alive. Kali said in Rani's mind.
"I won't help you. I'll just sit here and not move," Rani said.
A wave of pain suddenly shot through Rani's mind, and she sank to the floor in agony.
I'll continue to do that until you learn to cooperate. Kali threatened.
"Stop! I'll do what you want. Please just stop," Rani said in excruciating pain.
Very good, Rani! Now you're learning. Obey my wishes, and you get to live a little longer. Disobey and there will be pain. So. Much. Pain! Kali promised in a hate filled voice.
"What do you want me to do?" Rani asked reluctantly.
Where did you put the fob watch? Kali asked.
"It's in the pocket of my other jacket," Rani said.
Good. Get it for me. Kali ordered.
It was then as she went to get the watch that Rani realized that Kali didn't know where she had put the watch. She had to ask her. Kali couldn't read her mind! She had no idea what she was thinking unless she communicated it to her directly. Rani was determined to use that to her advantage somehow.
Rani found the watch and opened it as she looked at it sadly. To think that this little thing had been all that it had taken to totally change her life forever. She wished that she had smashed it into a thousand pieces the instant that she first thought that she had heard it start calling to her.
Stop staring at it and open the back of it. Kali ordered.
Rani opened the back of the watch and found what looked like a key there. She pulled it out of the watch and looked at it in curiosity.
"What is this?" Rani asked.
It's the key to my TARDIS. Luckily for me, it can also be used to summon the TARDIS from wherever it is now to within a mile of my immediate area. Just push that triangular shaped button on the key to use it. I really should have invested in one with a remote control. Kali answered.
Rani complied, and then the key began to glow in her hands. It felt warm to the touch.
That shows that the TARDIS is somewhere nearby. The key will glow brighter and feel warmer the closer that you are to it. Follow it until you find it. Kali instructed.
As Rani went outside to start to follow the trail to Kali's TARDIS, Clyde and Luke emerged from the closet where they had been hiding at all morning. They had been watching Rani this entire time while she seemingly talked to herself. They had both thought that she had lost her mind until they saw the glowing TARDIS key. Now they weren't so sure.
"I think Rani's in trouble. We have to follow her," Clyde said.
"Whatever it is seems to have control over Rani. You saw what it did to her when she didn't obey it. What if she sees us? She might be forced to try to kill us even though she won't want to," Luke said.
"We'll just have to take that chance. I have to save Rani. I can't let anything happen to her," Clyde said in an emotional voice.
Luke almost smiled because Clyde was letting his true feelings slip out now that his guard was down. He had been right! What he had always suspected about how Clyde really felt about Rani had been true all along. He wondered if Rani felt the same way about him.
Clyde and Luke began to slowly follow Rani as she walked across the campus holding the glowing key out in front of her. It started to grow brighter and brighter the further she walked and began to attract the attention of many passersby. Ignoring the strange looks that she received, Rani continued to walk on ahead as she followed the key to the TARDIS' location.
Unfortunately for her, Rani happened to come across one of her teachers, Mr. Cobb. He stopped her right in the middle of crossing the road to another part of the campus and started to yell at her.
"I thought that you were sick, Miss Chandra! It looks like you've made a remarkable recovery. If you think that I'm going to let you get away with such a blatant disregard for my class, then you're sadly mistaken," Mr. Cobb shouted.
"I am sick, Mr. Cobb," Rani said with a smile on her face.
"What?" Mr. Cobb asked confused.
"I am sick. You haven't seen me all day. You've heard from some of the other students that I have the flu and that I'm in bed sick," Rani said as she stared intently into his eyes.
"Yes, poor Rani's sick in bed. I hope that she's going to be okay," Mr. Cobb said in complete bewilderment.
"She'll be fine. Just go back to your classroom and forget all about this, Mr. Cobb. You haven't seen me," Rani ordered.
"Yes, I'll go back to my class. Poor Rani! She's so sick," Mr. Cobb said as he walked away from Rani in a daze.
Clyde and Luke saw all of this from behind a tree and looked at each other in amazement. Since when could Rani do that?
"She just did a Jedi Mind Trick," Clyde whispered with a huge grin on his face.
That was fun, wasn't it? Admit it, Rani. Kali said in Rani's mind.
Yeah, it was. That doesn't mean that I like you any better though. Rani replied in her thoughts.
There's gratitude for you. Kali thought to her with a mental snort of derision.
Rani knew that Kali hadn't allowed her to use her power to help her but to help herself instead but said nothing. She continued to follow the key as it began to grow so hot that she could barely hold it, and the light coming from it had become almost blinding.
Then she saw a large oak tree ahead that she had passed several times a day every day since she had come to school here. It couldn't be that, could it?
That's it. Use the key. Open it. Kali ordered.
Rani inserted the key into a small hole in the front of the tree and turned it. An entire section of the tree opened up, and Rani walked inside. Bright lights instantly switched on and revealed a magnificent Console Room.
Clyde and Luke knew instantly that this was a TARDIS and looked at each other in amazement. How did Rani get the key to a TARDIS?
Just before Rani closed the door to the TARDIS behind her with a switch on the console, Clyde and Luke came rushing inside. The TARDIS door shut behind them, and the two boys stared at Rani waiting for her to speak as she looked at them in shock.
"Why did you follow me here?" Rani asked finally.
"You've been acting crazy lately, Rani. I needed to know why. I thought that Eldrad had done something to you. Now I find out that you have a TARDIS. What's going on? Where did this come from?" Clyde asked as he pointed at the TARDIS.
"You shouldn't have come here, Clyde," Rani said in a worried voice.
"What are you talking about?" Clyde asked.
"You know you really are quite thick, aren't you? You've just trapped yourselves alone inside of this TARDIS with little old me. You're never getting out of here alive, Mr. Langer," Kali said in Rani's voice.
"Rani?" Clyde asked in an uncertain voice. She looked and sounded nothing like the Rani that he knew at that moment.
"Guess again, Mr. Langer. My name's Kali. Rani's not home right now," Kali said as she started to use her powers on Clyde and Luke.
Clyde and Luke fell to the floor with pain shooting through their minds as Kali started to bombard their brains with a massage barrage of information from her superior Time Lord mind that was too much for even Luke's advanced brain to comprehend all at once. This instant information overload started to cause their brains to start shutting down instantly as they screamed.
"No!" Rani shouted as she stopped the attack with the force of her will.
What? Kali thought to herself with surprise as she suddenly found herself trapped in the back of Rani's mind as Rani regained control of herself once again.
"Are you two alright?" Rani asked Clyde and Luke as she helped them to stand up.
"What is going on here?" Clyde asked her in complete confusion.
"It's a long story," Rani said.
"We seem to have plenty of time since we're all playing hooky today in a TARDIS. Go ahead. Tell us everything, Rani. Uh, your other self isn't going to come back out anytime soon is she?" Clyde asked as he looked at her warily.
"I hope not," Rani said nervously.
"You'd better get explaining quickly then before she does," Clyde said.
Rani nodded and began to tell them the whole story of what had been happening to her lately while Clyde's eyes began to get wider and wider.
Back at UNIT HQ, the soldiers of UNIT could no longer keep the Headless Monks and Slabs completely out of the base anymore, and some of them began to break inside at last. Henry and Abby both ran to hide behind Sarah Jane in fear as they saw several Slabs suddenly start appearing only a few feet away from them now via transmat.
"Michelle, let's send some of those rejects from a biker bar packing," Donna said.
Michelle Jones, the former Sister of Mine of the Family of Blood, gestured at the small army of Slabs in front of her and trapped them inside of the Mirror Verse, the universe that the Doctor had once trapped her in that existed within the reflection of all mirrors. They would remain there until Michelle let them out again.
Sarah Jane looked at Michelle in amazement as she watched her in action. Martha had told her that she was the little girl in the Family of Blood who had almost killed her and the Doctor once. It was amazing even to someone who had seen as much as Sarah had how someone could turn from a foe to a friend like that. She had always believed that anyone was capable of redemption, but that story had still surprised her when she had heard about it. Thinking about Michelle's story gave her renewed hope that maybe it wasn't too late for her to save Rani. She couldn't stop worrying about her even in the middle of all of this carnage.
Victoria Collins, who was a Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform or Werewolf, tore several of the Slabs into pieces with her bare hands as she ripped them limb from limb in a savage feral attack. It felt good to her to cut loose like that every once in a while and not have to worry about hurting anyone.
Sarah kept well away from Victoria and unconsciously backed away from her anytime that she got too near to her. Donna noticed this and said, "She's one of the nicest people that you'll ever meet, Sarah. Don't worry about her."
Sarah Jane was still going to err on the side of caution though. Victoria might well be a very sweet person normally, but in this form she still had an bestial side to her that could be totally unpredictable. She had heard from Rose what a single bite or scratch from one of the Haemovariforms could do, and she didn't fancy risking either herself or the children getting infected by her even by accident.
Ileana and Katherine, the two vampires of the group, also had some fun with the Slabs as they cut loose on the hapless machines right alongside their friend Vicky. Abraham Van Helsing took the sword that he usually used to kill vampires with and killed what seemed to be the equally undead Headless Monks instead with it. Dorothy, the older version of Ace, meanwhile just used her Vortex powers to disintegrate both Slabs and Monks left and right.
Donna watched her group tear through Mrs. Wormwood's little invasion party with obvious delight as she used her sonic screwdriver to take down quite a few Slabs herself right alongside Sarah Jane who was using her sonic lipstick. The two of them made quite the team together Sarah Jane thought to herself as they both used their sonic devices to protect Henry and Abby as they kept the two children in between them in a protective circle that they had formed around them.
The Brigadier wasn't doing too bad himself as he kept firing five rounds rapid right into the heart of every Slab or Monk who got within ten feet of him or the children. He was determined to show the Silence that even in old age that he was still someone who couldn't be ignored in a fight.
Sarah Jane thought that it was remarkable how the Brigadier still seemed to have the same reflexes and accuracy that he had when she had first met him. He had trouble walking now, but his skills with a gun were still legendary and not to underestimated.
Jo meanwhile had gone with Malcolm into the safety of Donna's TARDIS as everything quickly fell apart around them. Sarah wondered to herself how much longer it would be before they might have to follow them. It seemed like even with the added help of the Bad Wolves that the armies of Mrs. Wormwood were still managing to rapidly take over the entire base all around them.
Then things grew worse as several Daleks and Cybermen started to appear as well and surround them. Dorothy couldn't resist making them explode by over exciting the molecules in their bodies. She smiled as she thought back to when she used to kill Daleks with a baseball bat. Good times!
"Miss Smith, take the children and get into Miss Noble's TARDIS now. It's no longer even remotely safe for them out here," the Brigadier said.
"You said that we'd be safe," Abby argued.
"I didn't know that Daleks and Cybermen would be showing up as well. That changes everything," the Brigadier admitted.
"Make that a rule of thumb in the future, Brigadier. Always take the Daleks and Cybermen into account whenever you're making any plans. You never know when they might decide to just show up out of the blue I always say. Even if you're just planning on going to have a nice relaxing day at the beach, always make allowances for the Daleks showing up somehow," a very familiar voice said from behind them.
"Doctor, not everyone is like you where they run into Daleks when they're heading to the bathroom," the unmistakable voice of Rose Tyler said.
"That only happened once! How was I to know that Dalek snuck into the TARDIS?" the Doctor complained.
"Oh, I don't know. When you kept hearing things blowing up that might have given you your first clue," Clara Oswald said with a giggle.
"Things blow up a lot in the TARDIS. She has old circuitry you know. Things just overload and pop sometimes. The Old Girl can't help it. Her best days are behind here I'm afraid," the Doctor said.
"It would help if you stopped constantly taking her apart and putting her back together wrong," Rose said with a warm grin.
"Doctor, I knew that you'd come. You always come when there's something like this going on," Sarah Jane said with a relieved look on her face.
"I had to come. The Silence want to get Henry here more than they've ever wanted to get anyone, and they must not reach him for his sake. If they do, it's going to be very, very bad," the Doctor said.
"What are you talking about?" Henry asked.
"You're a very intelligent little boy, Henry. In fact, you're much more intelligent than even you know. Locked deep inside of that mind of yours is a secret. It's a secret that must never be found. No one must ever get their hands on you or it," the Doctor said.
"What secret? I don't have any secrets," Henry said in confusion.
"You don't think that you do, but you do all the same, Henry. You see Mrs. Wormwood placed the combined knowledge of the Bane in your mind when she created you. You have knowledge that even you don't know about now. It's a forbidden piece of knowledge that the Silence have erased from every database in the universe recently including the Bane's. That knowledge wasn't erased from your brain though. That's the real reason that the Silence want you so badly, Henry. Yes, they want to use you to conquer the Earth, but they want to destroy the secret locked in your brain even more," the Doctor said.
"What secret?" Sarah Jane asked the Doctor.
"It's the exact location of a place that I must never go, and that no one else must ever find out about so that they can use it against me," the Doctor said.
"Tell them about it, Doctor. Tell them about Trenzalore," Mrs. Wormwood said as she suddenly appeared in front of them.
Henry began to go into a trance as he said, "Trenzalore, the future burial place of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. Trenzalore is located in . . ."
The Doctor put his hand over Henry's mouth to keep him quiet as he said, "No one needs to know where it is, especially not me."
"Henry, are you okay?" Abby asked the blank-eyed Henry in concern.
"No one must ever know where Trenzalore is or the entire universe could be destroyed. We must prevent that at all costs even if it means killing an innocent child," Mrs. Wormwood said as she suddenly held a blaster to Henry's head.
"No! I don't care what he knows. I'm not going to stand by and let you kill a child," Sarah Jane said as she used her sonic lipstick to make Mrs. Wormwood's blaster short circuit.
The gun started to overheat, and Mrs. Wormwood threw it in the middle of a large group of Slabs as it exploded and took them all with it in one blast. During all of this confusion, Mrs. Wormwood tried to slip away only to find herself halted in her tracks when a giant tree suddenly materialized out of thin air right in front of her.
Kali, now back in control of Rani, stepped out of her TARDIS; and Mrs. Wormwood went to her knees as Kali started to send a blast of pain through her mind once more. Mrs. Wormwood struggled to stay conscious as Kali continued to try to shut her mind down.
"I should have finished you when I had a chance. Here's where I make up for that mistake. Then I'll gladly take that secret from your mind, Henry. I can use it for all kinds of interesting things I'm sure. I mean if it's something that the Doctor fears so much then it must be something very, very good," Kali said with an evil grin.
"Kali?" the Doctor asked in disbelief.
"Hello, Theta. Long time no see. Now, everyone on their knees before me! It doesn't matter whether you're Silence, Monks, Daleks, Cybermen, Time Lords, or Humans; all will soon bow before the power of Kali, the future ruler of all of time and space!" Kali said as she began to attack the minds of everyone within a mile of her all at once.
As everyone around her fell to the ground writhing in agony, Kali looked back to the prostrate bodies of Clyde and Luke lying on the floor of the Console Room behind her. She almost felt bad about what she had done to them. Almost. They had gotten in her way after all. No one ever got in Kali's way if they wanted to live.
Next: It's Kali vs. everyone else with the secret of the location of Trenzalore and the life of Henry in the balance. What's happened to Rani? Is she gone for good? What did Kali do to Luke and Clyde? All of this will be resolved in the next chapter.