Journey's End gone Wibbly- Chapter 4, Inside the TARDIS
As Donna hung onto the hand rail for dear life, the only thought flashing through her head apart from
'HOLY FUCKING HELL!' was 'What would the Doctor do? Ah fly the TARDIS to safety. The TARDIS stopped moving, and suddenly there were fire all over the time machine. She coughed from the smoke, and stumbled to the control panel. A map of the crucible handily sprung up on the scanner, as the TARDIS lights flashed urgently, and highlighted one spot on the map, which flashed red. Thinking back to her lessons with the Doctor, she ran around the console like her teacher, then finally stopped to admire herself for a moment, almost forgetting her situation. The co-ordinates had been changed, and levers were adjusted and pulled, and Donna screamed in relief. The TARDIS disappeared from the pit of fire.
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Donna laughed exhausted and gleefully. Her joy was cut short by what appeared to be some invisible force pushing her towards the doors, which flew open. The message was clear enough. "Get out there now, don't think you're using me as a shield!" As soon as she was out of the door, she lunged sideways, realising it appeared she was diving out of nothing, hiding herself behind what appeared to be some sort of control panel. Nobody said anything, so she assumed she had succeeded in not attracting any attention to herself. She became aware of what was…Davros? talking. No, not talking, counting down. These controls looked important… maybe there was something she could do? And suddenly she was back in I.T night class. Slapping the keyboard with her hands, hoping she might do something useful. The hologram floating above her head vanished, and she didn't dare breathe.
"Explain! Explain!" squealed Davros. She exhaled deeply, and slumped against the control board. She was about to smile, when she heard a metallic whining, coming ever closer, and her heart skipped a beat as she realised… the Daliks made that sound. Daliks? No… Daleks. She considered her options. She could stand up and reveal herself, and most likely get shot, she could sneak around the panel and come into full view of the entire room, or she could learn to teleport. She was screwed. She decided to go with option one, and was about to stand up, when the TARDIS materialised, or threw off its invisibility thing or whatever. Filling her with confidence, as everyone gasped, she stood up.
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"Hello!" she chirped brightly. "Sorry I messed up you bomb thing or whatever you were counting down to. Feel free not to send me the damages bill!" and she slapped her hands on some more controls.
"But Donna…" the Doctor asked completely confused, "You can't even change a plug!" Donna rolled her eyes, but never stopped grinning.
"Well just you watch me spaceman!" and she flipped what she had figured out to be the controls that controlled the…
"GET HER AWAY FROM THE CONTROLS!" Davros screeched, and she readied herself in case her plan hadn't worked.
"Weapons non-functional!" they reported back. Donna secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Doctor! Help me!" she cried, looking at the mass of switches, figuring she had run out of luck, and didn't want to risk it with any more.
"I can't!" he called back. And hit the holding cell wall with his fist.
"Mickey!" Jack called, running out of the TARDIS, holding both of the very large guns, miraculously not damaged in the fire. He tossed Mickey the gun before running over to the control panel, smiling at her, and tapping away at various controls, and suddenly Rose and the Doctor were beside her, and the Doctor had pulled her into a bone-crushing hug.
"You clever, clever girl!" he cried gleefully. "What did you do?" he asked releasing her.
"I have no idea! It all happened so fast! The TARDIS started helping me all by itself-"
"Herself!" Jack interrupted, slipping her hand into his, and smiling. She smiled back, and continued.
"And she flew out of the fiery place, but did sustain some damage, sorry about that- then she arrived here, but was invisible or something, and I jumped out, Nobody saw me thank gawd, and then I just randomly started flipping switches, and well… yeah!" she finished and beamed, just as Jackie ran towards her daughter, who tripped, and shot out a hand, onto the control panel, with as much luck as Donna had had, flipped the right switches. She pulled herself up, and the daleks began to explode.
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They all cheered, and hugged each other, dashing around the TARDIS console to celebrate together. Donna cheered at first and smiled, but realisation hit her, and her smile vanished. Hoping nobody would notice, she slipped down the corridor to her room. But somebody did notice.
