This story was inspired by LJ's clockwork-moon's Sam and Mercedes "Tardis Adventures" & a commentfic

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Mercedes Jones was pissed. like seriously, extremely pissed. Her usually well maintained hair, was totally ruined. and she was wearing a horrific orange onesie or something. either way it was terrible.

She missed Sam,very much. She knew he'd come find her, so she didn't worry about that. Mercedes knew with a kind of wild faith,that the Doctor and Jack would help him do so. Even though she'd only known them for a few hours, she knew they were do right kind of men.

She didn't understand a word her captors were saying which made her even more frustrated but she did make out the horrifying form of Nolonger-Holly Holiday.

"I should have choked her when I had the chance" Mercedes muttered to herself. she looked around at the room they kept her in. It was dingy,cold and slightly smelly.

After her kidnappers hosed her down and forced her into the tragic looking outfit, they'd stuck her in this room and hadn't bothered her since, so she wasn't scared just really pissed.

Atleast they'd let her keep Sam's guitar. That was her anchor from the tears, having something of his, knowing that he loved her.

She sat on the cold, unclean floor holding the guitar close, just waiting.

Mercedes saw enough movies to know that people didn't kidnap you without planning on doing something terrible to you for some reason or another. so she waited as her nerves set in.

It must have been an hour or 2 later when they did. Mercedes' had drifted off into an exhausted, twitchy sleep. She didn't even realize that they entered the room until it was too late.

Mercedes screamed as they dragged her into an even smellier, dank room.
it was too dim to see anything but odd shapes and shadows. but she thrashed about with all her might as they put metal clasps on her arms and feet. She whimpered as tubes were connected to her body by shadowy hands.

Mercedes began to hyperventilate when she heard a machine being powered up.
" I've got to stay calm, I need to know who's doing this and why so I could maybe change their minds?" Mercedes rationally thought to herself.

"Miss holiday are you there? please , why are you doing this? is it about your ship still? you can just record me singing, shouldn't that work? Mercedes pleaded in the direction that looked most like a body.

Only silence answered as the machine was switched on, ripping a tortured scream from Mercedes.


"without the coordinates, Jack, I'm sorry, but I can't locate her. theres nothing I can do but keep trying to see if theres any connection from the place that pretended to be Gobblox's bar to where they took her. they had to leave some sort of link because they used teleportation devices to leave in that sort of hurry" The Doctor blundered on not even waiting for Jack to get a word in edgewise.

The Doctor and Jack paced back and forth wracking their magnificent brains for answers. while Sam sat quietly reading through the notebook that he and Mercedes shared during classes when they wanted to talk without being told off. It made him feel close to her, touching the things that she touched, it kept him connected to her.

A faint smile crossed his lips as saw the drawing of stickfigure-Mercedes kicking stickfigure-Jesse in the taint. She never forgave him for that lazy comment on her audition.

She was the strongest girl he knew. and his heart ached for her.

Sam willed her to hold on until they found her.

" where is that horrible beeping sound coming from " Jack complained.

The doctor's ears perked up "thats my fax machine, Jack!"

" you've got a fax machine ...in a spaceship?" Jack asked skeptically.

"yea who doesn't?" The Doctor replied as if Jack was being dim on purpose.

"well where is this fax machine then?"Jack said with the patience of a saint.

the Doctor located it with a triumphant " HAH!" I knew we'd find a link somehow to er something? "he continued on alot less triumphant sounding.

"well just plug it in and we'll see where it goes" Jack said impatiently.

" good idea, lets just go wander in to an unknown area" the Doctor said looking entirely unsure.

"look at it this way, Doc. we had nothing before but now we have something. we owe it to Sam to check out every avenue to find her." Jack was not taking no for an answer, he already had his guns prepped and his great coat on.

The Doctor nodded,pulling at his unkept hair"yea, yea you're right,Jack. let's go get our girl" and he hurriedly typed in the coordinates.

When the door of the Tardis opened a few minutes later, they definitely didn't expect to see a giant sign in an otherwise starkly empty looking landscape. The sign read:

Hello Sweetie,

you really are hopeless without me,aren't you? ;-)
smooches,
RS
P.s you're welcome.

"uh Doc, who the hell is RS? and what do they mean by leading us here?" Jack said irritably. He wanted to find Mercedes and fast. Sam wasn't looking too good. Jack warily took in Sam's grim looking face, the way he clutched Mercedes' bag to his chest. This wouldn't end well for whoever took Sam's girlfriend and thats for sure.

"I haven't the foggiest, Jack. but what'd they mean by "you're welcome" I don't see anything to be grateful for. they just led us to an empty room, and THEN called me hopeless. ME. Hopeless.
who the bloody hell is this, RS?" The Doctor wailed, babbling on a list of all the people he knew with the same initials.

"is that a door?" Sam said in a flat,dry voice that was barely heard over the Doctor's yammering.

Both men stopped and turned to stare where Sam was looking. There was a faint outline of a door in the otherwise barren room. The Doctor led the way, using his screwdriver to scan as they threw the door open.

Sam pushed past him as he saw hundreds of photos covering,the stark white walls. There were picture after picture of teenagers in various stages of singing.

Sam looked over at Jack with a puzzled,concerned look on his face, as if seeking anexplanation that he wasn't sure he wanted to know, from the older man.

Jack inspected the pictures further, growing worried as he realized that some of the photos were of the same kids on different days, in various scenes.

Jack and Sam suddenly stopped. they found themselves staring at several photos of both him and Mercedes, seperately.

"Doctor, what is this?" Jack hissed,knowing instinctively that things just went from bad to worse..

The Doctor didn't answer, he simply reset the frequency on his sonic screwdriver and what they thought were photos became little snippets of video footage. various songs were being sung.

Mercedes Jones' voice carried the furthest. Sam visibly stiffened.

"It seems that Miss Holiday has been telling fibs" The Doctor replied ominously. He peered closer to the time stamps at the bottom of each film. " from the dates this has been going on for several years now, all over earth."

"we have to FIND her" Sam insisted. Jack nodded briskly, but before he had a chance to vent, another door opened, leading to another dismal looking room.

"whoever this RS person is, I'm mighty grateful to her" Jack murmured as he surveyed the new room.

"how'd you know its a woman?" Sam asked trying to take his mind off the nasty feeling he was getting as he followed Jack inside.

"well the sweetie and the smooches are quite obvious, but it was the 'hopeless without me' part that cinched the deal for me. Women are always saving the Doctor. its kind of his thing." Jacksaid not unkindly.

"HAH! I got it, they're trying to create a soundwave powered transmorphic radiation weapon. At this rate, if they get it working they'd be able to wipe out whole species without harming the planet. which I'm assuming they want." The Doctor explained as he searched through more files.

"why do they need Mercedes for then? why did they need those other kids?" Sam questioned

Jack looked up, quickly closing the file he was looking at,confirming his worst fear. Inside were detailed images of the same kids. It was definitely just photos,this time. Autopsy Photos.

He was furious and there would be hell to pay.

"Sam, they plan on using Mercedes to power the weapon. just like they used all those other innocent kids." Jack answered honestly.

A mixture of horror and pure rage flooded Sam's handsome face.

Meanwhile The Doctor finally located what he was looking put together like a present, just for him. He knew it was the work of the mystery RS. He grinned as he scanned the filesto the screwdriver .

" ooh, I bet I like you" he murmured wistfully as he read an additional filename titled "Go Get Her" which only listed coordinates within.


"She's got a powerful set of lungs on her. But,we don't need her to sing to be able to activate the weapon" Captor #1 who was green,remarked wickedly, to the other 4 people in the room. "She just simply needs to scream"

" apparently We lucked out. we didn't need the both of them to finish the project.. yes, she won't last out much longer but we'll have what we need by then" The thing that was once Holly Holiday announced coldly.

"once the weapon is activated, we'll wipe out earth first to cover our tracks and just in case anyone would seek vengence for our unwilling benefactor, it would take care of that as well " The miserable looking Bartender, who was the obvious mastermind, mused.

" noone will seek revenge for her, she's a nobody. while I was undercover, she barely had anyone notice her let alone avenge her untimely demise. same as that boy of hers." HorridHolly smugly detailed.

A glorious whooshing sound filled the room.

"what in the universe is that sound?" said captor #2 who was a mangy looking purple.

They all looked at each other suddenly alarmed

The Tardis' materialized with a final whoosh, that filled their ugly little hearts with dread.

"I'll grab the specimen, you ready the weapon. Prepare to leave at once" The Bartender commanded immediately,fleeing.

The Tardis door sprang open with Jack at the helm, giant gun primed. Sam came charging , holding a bat since the doctor refused him a gun. The doctor came out last pointing his sonic screwdriver.

In a flash and a blur, Jack shot the one pointing a strange device at him, the doctor followed up by deactivating it.

Sam battered the one he once knew as Miss Holiday. he didn't stop until The doctor pulled him off.

Jack chased down the remaining two. Jack neutralized the green alien easily.

But when he finally found the Bartender, he had Mercedes' unconscious body held up like a puppet.

Jack aimed his gun, as Sam and the Doctor skidded to a stop behind him.

" omg, Mercedes. oh no" Sam rushed towards her, but the Doctor held him back.

" Kill him,Jack. Just DO IT. look at her, look what he's done to her!" Sam screamed, furious that he couldn't touch her, but that monster could.

"put her down gently, and come with us. you've lost" The Doctor said calmly, as he held Sam back.

"I could rip her apart in an instant, long before you've figured out where to aim" The bartender threatened nastily.

Sam blanched as he noticed its bulging rocklike arms with its razor sharp claws, for the first time. " oh my god he's going to kill her. please just set her down, I can take her place. I'll go willingly,just let her go and leave her alone" he pleaded, his voice cracking with emotion.

He pushed the doctor off him, ignoring both Jack and The Doctor's warnings to stay back, he edged slowly towards Mercedes and the Bartender with his arms outstretched.

She hadn't moved, not once. and Sam noticed, his eyes welled up with tears, " please just leave her be, and i'll take her place"

The Bartender seemed to consider it, as tears streamed down Sam's face. Sam moved ever closer repeating the mantra of " please just leave her and i'll take her place"

Greed is a hell of a thing. and he was very greedy. The Bartender planned on snatching them both, but he'd have to lower his grasp on Mercedes to do so.

He hesitated for an instant, then lowered Mercedes' slumped form as he reached towards Sam's outstretched arms.

Jack took this opportunity to riddle his body with bullets.

He dropped Mercedes heavily to the ground, as he charged towards Jack.

Sam dived to Mercedes, clutching her oddly cold body to his warm one. He sobbed in to her matted hair,willing her to wake up

" baby I just want to see those gorgeous eyes of yours. come on baby, just open them and look at me. if you could smile too, I'd love that. you have the best smile in the world, Mercedes. just open those pretty eyes" He cradled her body in his arms, rocking back and forth, just whispering to her sweetly.

Sam didn't even look up when the Doctor crouched next to him to feel for a pulse " she's not dead,Sam, lets get her into the tardis, quick sharp" Sam looked up blearily at the Doctor, not really hearing his words.

" Sam, she's not dead, but she needs to get into the tardis, as soon as possible "The doctor repeated.

Sam stood up quickly after that, and carried Mercedes into the Tardis, refusing any help, passing Jack without a word, as he stood over the lifeless form of the Bartender.