Chapter 4: The Doctor Returns part 1
U.N.I.T. Headquarters, London, England 2015
Martha Jones, Jack Harkness, and Mickey Smith looked fearfully at the two Zygons that had just trapped them in an underground facility beneath U.N.I.T. Headquarters. One stood at the door and one stood at the opposite side of the room in front of three dentist style chairs with wires connected to a yellow sphere.
"What the hell are they?" Mickey asked, unfamiliar with this particular alien life form. Martha did not know either.
"Zygons." Jack said. "They're shape shifters."
"What do you want?" Martha asked.
"We want you." One of the Zygons said. "Isn't that obvious? That's why Tim got you to come here."
"Tim?" Jack asked.
"Me." The Zygon by the door said. "My brother's name is Jim."
"I bet that wasn't Clara we talked to last night then." Martha said.
"Correct." Jim said. "It was my brother in a clever disguise."
"Is the Doctor really dead?" Mickey asked.
"Unfortunately no." Jim said. "He's just difficult to catch. That's why we've settled for you three."
"Why?" Jack asked.
"So I can see my children again." Jim said.
Then, Jim pulled out a small laser gun that was sitting on the floor behind him. Martha, Jack, and Mickey were all too focused on figuring out what was happening to notice the weapon at first. Jim the Zygon aimed it at the three former time travelers. He pulled the trigger, but instead of firing a deadly laser, it fired a pink gas. Almost immediately upon impact, Martha, Mickey, and Jack smelled the gas and fainted. After a few seconds, the gas disappeared completely.
"Let's get them in the chairs." Tim said.
Jack awoke sometime later in the same room. However, he now found that he was sitting in one of the chairs and that his arms were strapped down. He couldn't get up. He looked to his left and saw Martha and Mickey unconscious in the other two chairs.
"Good morning sunshine." Jim the Zygon said as he walked into Jack's line of sight. Jack saw that the Zygon was now holding the yellow sphere in its hand. It was about the size of a baseball.
"What did you do to us?" Jack asked.
"We took your time energy." Tim said as he too walked into Jack's line of sight. "You three have all traveled through the time vortex. U.N.I.T.'s files say you were all former companions of the Doctor. Therefore, you have time energy, so we took it."
"The orb absorbed all of it." Jim said.
"Why?" Jack asked.
"Because this world isn't big enough for the both of us." Jim replied. "You may know that Kate Stewart is currently debating with Zygons upstairs about what to do now that our Zygon leaders have come out of their paintings."
"Let me guess." Jack said. "The Zygon leaders hired you two to kill all humans while we aren't paying attention."
"No." Tim said. "They hate us. The Zygons Kate Stewart is talking to are the leaders and politicians. They labeled us as criminals long ago."
"We've been here a long time, waiting for this moment." Jim said.
"Why am I so weak?" Jack asked.
"Your time energy is a part of you." Jim said. "We've just extracted it. You shouldn't even be awake. It should take you a few days to recover."
"I recover quicker than most people." Jack said. "You won't get away with this."
"Even if you're right and we don't get away with this," Jim said, "we have a plan B. We are going to take this planet and there's no one who can stop us."
Suddenly, there was a breeze in the room, which was odd because they were deep underground and the door was shut. Then, Jack and the two Zygons heard a loud wheezing type sound that they had all heard before. It was the unmistakeable sound of the Doctor's time machine. If anyone could stop the Zygon's, it was the Doctor, who was now arriving. Jack felt relieved. Jim and Tim stared angrily at the forming TARDIS, which neither of them had seen since 1992.