The Sontaran Stratagem
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It had been a couple of days since the Doctor discovered about his dear friend Ariana; aka Alice Noble. After shepassed out due to the amount pressure on her brain from what he had found out was from Time Lord abilities a human couldn't possibly use. But it broke him that he had to lie to the young woman, telling her that it was just exhaustion and a bad migraine. The Time Lord needed time to think things over about how he was going to break it to her about who and what she really was. Also there was the rest of her family to think about aswell.
Bring his thoughts back to the present the Doctor was letting Donna have ago at driving the TARDIS, while the other two watched, one in amusement and the other concerned. "I can't believe I'm doing this," she says enjoying it way too much.
"No. Neither can I," The Doctor says now thinking it was a bad idea for to let her have go.
"Me neither and to think it took her twelve times to pass her driving test," Alice tells about how long it took Donna to get her driving licence.
"Twelve really?" he asks her surprised how long it took the older Noble. Alice then nodding in reply.
"Whoa, whoa, careful," he helps her keep control by banging the bell on the console with a mallet and flicking the lever up next to it. "Left hand down. Left hand down!" he tells her but only gets through to her the second time he tells her frantically as she now pulls down with said hand making the ship jolt a little harshly making most nearly lose there balance. "Getting a bit too close to the 1980s," he tells her she was getting a bit too close to that time period.
"What am I gonna do, put a dent in 'em?" Donna asks sarcastically taking offence that she was not doing it right.
"Someone did," he mutters know well that was him that done that.
It was then after a few seconds that there's a ringing of a phone and in that instant the Doctor knows only of one person that could be calling. While Alice and Donna wonder where the sound is coming from. "Hold on...that's a phone!" Donna points out what the noise is as the Doctor goes round to take it out of the holder and stares at it not sure if he wanted to answer it or not.
"You've had a mobile? Since when?" Alice asks the Doctor surprised for somebody like him to one.
"It's not mine," he informed her that the mobile doesn't belong to him, hence why he had such a worried expression on his face before then flipping it open and accepting the call before sitting on the jump seat to reply to the call. "Hello."
-Doctor Who-
The TARDIS starts to materialize, the sound of the familiar engine filled the air. One that Martha Jones knew rather well as she now turned to see the blue box fully appear before her a grin on her face. And out steps the Doctor, looking for the young woman before he sees her standing a few meters away. As they now notice each other not sure what to do. While Alice and Donna let him have his moment to reconnect with the woman he had told them about.
"Martha Jones," The Doctor speaks her name for the first time in ages since he last said it to her.
"Doctor," she says before they then start walking towards each other slowly being cautious at first before then grinning silly and lifts her up into a hug. Before then laughing a little and put's her back down.
"You haven't changed a bit," he tells her she was still as he remembered her.
"Neither have you," Martha points the same out about him.
"How's the family?" he then asks if her family is ok. "You know, not so bad. Recovering" she then tell him they were all right but getting better.
"What about you?" The Doctor then asks if everything was all right with her before Alice and Donna come out of the Tardis the younger closing the door behind them as now being noticed over the Doctor's shoulder by Martha.
"Right. I should've known. Didn't take you long to replace me then," she looks to both women then back to the Doctor playfully hitting him on the arm.
"Now, don't start fighting," he then tells Martha in a hushed tone to behave herself. "Martha, Donna and Alice. Donna and Alice, Martha," he now introduces the women to each other., "Please don't fight. I can't bear fighting," he then tells them to be friendly to each other.
"You wish," the older Noble chuckles in the likely event that would never happen.
Then both shake Martha's hand Donna first then Alice, "We've heard all about you. He talks about you all the time," mentioning the older Noble that he's told her and her sister about Martha.
"I dread to think" she says back hoping nothing bad was said of her.
"No, no, no. He's said nice things, good things. Nice things. Really good things," the younger implies that not a bad word was said of Martha.
"Oh, my God! He's told you everything" Martha then feels slightly embarrassed about the fact that they knew about when she fancied the Doctor aswell.
"Didn't take long to get over it, though," Donna points out that she seemed to have now gotten over the Doctor seeing an engagement ring on her left hand. "Who's the lucky man?" she then asks.
"What man? The lucky what?" the Doctor gets a little confused to what they are talking about.
"She's engaged, pay attention would you," Alice tells him while trying to get him to focus on the Martha's news who now flashes the ring on her hand in front of him now getting it.
"Really? Who to?" he then asks getting it now wondering who the lucky fella was.
"Tom. That Tom Milligan. He's in paediatrics," she tells him who it's the man she met from that year they were apart, "Working out in Africa right now, and yes, I know, I've got a doctor who disappears off to distant places, "Tell me about it," say now she's got a doctor of her own that travels.
"Is he skinny?" Donna asks if Tom is similar build to the Doctor.
"No. He's sort of strong," she tells in reply while thinking of him.
"He is too skinny for words. You give him a hug, you get a paper cut," the older Noble jokes about the Doctor's weight making them both laugh making him feel a little offended by it.
"I don't think your that skinny," Alice compliments the Doctor in a whisper so the other three don't hear thinking that she found how he looked was somewhat attractive in someway and tried not to blush when she said it hoping none of them heard her.
"Oh, I thought you were fighting," the Doctor complains thinking they would have a go at each other.
"No. Speaking of which..." Martha starts as a walkie-talkie speaks for her attention.
"Dr Jones, report to base, please. Over," the woman calls to see if everything is in order.
"This is Dr Jones. Operation Blue Sky is go, go, go. I repeat this is a go," she reports back through the walkie-talkie indeed that everything is order now ahead of the Doctor, Alice and Donna who were left to walk behind her.
As they came out behind the building they saw soldiers, military grade vehicles along with a black lorry. "Unified Intelligence Task Force. Raise that barrier now," a solider commands to let them through then get to the factory getting all the workers to surrender while Martha was commanding this that to others through her walkie-talkie. While the Doctor, Alice and Donna follow her.
"What are you looking for?" the Time Lord asks Martha what all this commotion of raiding a factory with soldiers was in aid of.
"Illegal aliens," she tells him what it was all this was for before leaving them to help get everything under control. And what the Doctor had told of Martha to both the sister's she didn't seem like how she was anymore she was different more confident and assertive in herself like she was trying to impress somebody like the Doctor.
"Is this what you did turn her into a solider?" Alice asks if this change in Martha was his doing but he was unsure what to say in reply to this.
-Doctor Who-
Now Martha comes back over to them now that everything was under control the Doctor now noticing on the young woman's ID badge. "You're qualified now? You're a proper doctor?" he points out rather happy she was a doctor now like she wanted.
"UNIT rushed it through, given my experience in the field," she tell that the task force ran it through knowing how much she has done. "Here we go. We're establishing a field base on site," Martha informs them that they would be working from here. "They're are dying to meet you" she tells the Doctor that they can't wait to see him again but the Time Lord was less enthused about it.
"Wish I could say the same," he mutters not really looking forward to it as they all now step into the black lorry that was extended out to the side.
"Operation Blue Sky complete, sir. Thanks for letting me take the lead," the young doctor thanks her commander coming after coming through the Doctor and the two Nobles not far behind her. "And this is the Doctor," Martha now introduces him, "Doctor, Colonel Mace," she introduces the Doctor to the man in uniform.
"Sir," he salutes the Time Lord but he hated it now when they did that.
"Oh, don't salute," telling Colonel Mace to put his hand down taking offence of it.
"But it's an honour, sir. I've read all the files on you. Technically speaking your still on staff. You never resigned," he informs him that how great it was to have him here and done research on him. Also that he was still part of the co-operation.
"What? You used to work for them?" Donna then asks a little surprised that he used to be part of UNIT.
"Yeah, a long time ago. Back in the '70s. Or was it the '80s?" he tells here in reply that it was a different part of his life back then not being able to recall what time period it was. "But it was all a bit more homespun back then," he tells them how he remembers how different it all was when he worked for them.
"Times have changed, sir" The Colonel informs him that it has come a long way since his days with UNIT.
"That's enough of the 'sir'" the Doctor tells him stop calling him that as he didn't feel comfortable with the term.
"Yeah, that's enough of the 'sir'" he agrees telling the man to stop calling him that particular thing as he found it annoying.
"Come on now, Doctor. You've seen it. You've been on board the Valiant," Martha reminds him of the vessel they had been on together.
"We've got massive funding from the United Nations, all in the name of Homeworld Security," then informs him of the help they get from some very powerful people, "A modern UNIT for the modern world," the Colonel implies that it was best to keep it up with the world today.
"What, and that means arresting ordinary factory workers, in the street in broad daylight?" Donna then asks if that was right what they just did out there.
"It's more like Guantanamo Bay out there. Donna. By the way, Donna and Alice Noble, since you didn't ask. We'll have a salute," She then points out how bad it is out there before then asking for a salute and Mace looks to the Doctor seeing if he should or not and nods his head that he should do it.
"Ma'am's," Colonel Mace now salutes Donna while Alice tried to not laugh at the situation.
"So tell me, what's going on in the factory?" the Doctor asks about the factory wanting to know what was going on.
"Yesterday, 52 people died in identical circumstances, right across the world, in 11 different time zones," the Colonel then replies to the Doctor informing him of what has happened.
"5am in the UK, 6am in France, 8am in Moscow, 1pm in China..." the Colonel then tells him of the times the deaths happened on the screen.
"You mean they died simultaneously?" Alice then asked finding it rather odd indeed how that many people died at the same moment in different places. While the Doctor like before got annoyed when she took his words but this time he really didn't care in slightest.
"Exactly 52 deaths at the exact same moment worldwide," Mace replied to the young woman.
"How did they die?" the Time Lord asks what caused the people's deaths. "They were all inside their cars," the Colonel tells him.
"They were poisoned. I checked the biopsies, no toxins. Whatever it is left the system immediately," the Martha tells what else the cause of the deaths was a poison that disappeared after death wich made the Doctor rather interested indeed.
"What have the cars got in common?" the Doctor asks if there were anything similar about the cars.
"Completely different makes. They're all fitted with Atmos. And that is the Atmos factory" Martha replies to him that the cars are different makes but all had this system then nods to where the factory is.
"What is Atmos?" the Doctor asks wanting to know what it was.
"Well, come on, even I know that. Everyone's got Atmos," Donna then tells him she knows what it is so does the planet.
-Doctor Who-
"It stands for Atmospheric Omission System. The Atmos in you car reduces CO2 emissions to zero" Martha now tells the Doctor what it means and what it does to the a car as they walk across above the factory floor.
"Zero? No carbon, none at all?" the Doctor asks rather impressed by it.
"And you get a Sat Nav thrown in, plus twenty quid in shopping vouchers if you introduce a friend," Donna imput about the freebies that came with it.
"Bargain," Alice put simply how cheap it seems to be.
"And this is where they make it, Doctor. Shipping worldwide. Seventeen factories across the globe, but this is the central depot, sending Atmos to every country on Earth," Mace now explains showing the factory floor below them where workers are getting lined up.
"And you think Atmos is alien?" the Doctor asks if they knew if it was alien or not.
"It's our job to investigate that possibility. Doctor?" then Mace replies that it needs to be looked into more clearly before getting him to follow his lead.
They were now on the factory floor being taken to be shown the Atmos system so the Doctor could have a proper look at the object itself. "And here it is, laid bare," Mace points out the silver object on the plastic replica of an engine after coming through the plastic curtains.
"Atmos can be threaded through any and every make of car," Mace then goes on to explain about it's use.
"You must of checked it before it went on sale," the Doctor then wonders aloud if it got checked before being released to the public.
"We did. We found nothing," but Martha informs him that they had not found anything suspicious at that time. "That's why I thought we needed an expert," she then tells him being none the wiser that she's talking about him.
"Really? Who'd you get?" He then asks who they are slipping on his glasses that Alice found rather attractive when he had them on and turns to see them looking at him giving him the hint.
"Oh, right! Me, yes. Good," he says now knowing it was him. Then Mace and Martha leave them for a bit.
"Ok, so why would aliens be so keen on cleaning up our atmosphere?" Donna now asks the Doctor now coming over to him wondering there has to be something odd about this.
"A very good question," the Doctor tells he that it was a well thought out question as he looked at the Sat Nav.
"Maybe they want help, get rid of pollution and stuff," Alice suggests that they maybe want to help Earth.
"Do you know how many cars there are on planet Earth?" he asks the sisters, "Eight hundred million. Imagine that. If you could control them, you'd have eight hundred million weapons," but is too quick and answers for them about what danger it would cause if all the cars are weapons. But unknown to them in the basement there was strange things going on. Not only that things were about to get way more dangerous than they realised.
While Donna had told Alice she was going to have snoop around the offices so she stayed with the Doctor, Martha and Colonel Mace. "Ionising nano-membrane carbon dioxide converter, which means Atmos works, filters the CO2 at the molecular level," he explains holding the device while Alice frowns not understanding a word of it but admiring him for how smart he was. And also how distracting his hair was thinking about wanting to run her hands through it blushing at the thought before shaking her head wondering when it entered her head. But not realising Martha seemed to of noticed it remembering how she used to look at the Doctor like that.
"We know all that. But what's its origin Is it alien?" the Colonel asked the Doctor if he could tell him anything more as the Time Lord went back over to the replica engine putting it back on top.
"No, but it's decades ahead of its time," the Doctor replies it's not but then starts to get uncomfortable with the Colonel nearby him as he had a gun. "Look, do you mind? Could you stand back a bit?" he asks of him.
"Sorry. Have I done something wrong?" Colonel Mace asks wondering if he was offending the Doctor in some way.
"You're carrying a gun," the Doctor points out in reply a little on edge, "I don't like people with guns hanging around me, all right?" he informs the Colonel.
"If you insist," he then understands leaving the room passing the young Noble who was watching from the side surprised at the Doctor's behaviour towards the man who he was helping.
"Tetchy," Martha points out how annoyed he was being about having the Colonel near him.
"Well, it's true," he says in a way that he couldn't help it.
"He's a good man," she tells him firmly Mace means no harm to him now as he picks up the Atmos and scans it with his sonic.
"People with guns are usually the enemy in my books. You seem quite at home," he tells her how he sees it that she was used to it.
"If anyone got me used to fighting, it's you," but tells him that it was him that taught her this.
"Oh, right. So it's my fault," he then says back sarcastically thinking he was to blame still scanning the Atmos.
"Well, you got me the job. Besides, look at me," Martha then implies it was him that got her in with UNIT and gets him to look. "Am I carrying a gun?" she asks him if she looked armed now turning off his sonic to look.
"I suppose not," he says after looking.
"It's all right for you. You can just come and go, but some of us have got to stay behind" Alice then hears Martha point out making the young woman wonder would the Doctor just leave her and Donna behind one day and just forget them let them get on with there lives it hurt to think about it. "So I've got to work from the inside. And by staying inside, maybe I stand a chance of making them better" Martha tells him she could help them out being here.
"Yeah," he agrees a big smile now appearing on his face, "That's more like Martha Jones," the Doctor says happily to see that side of her that he thought was gone.
"I learnt from the best," Martha points out.
"Well..." the Doctor starts to say rather taken by her comment before then Donna shows up.
"Oi, you lot," she gets the attention of the room and Colonel Mace who comes back through. "All your storm troopers and sonics, rubbish" she tells that nothing they could do would help. "You should've come with me" telling in a way that sounded interesting to her.
"Oh, where have you been?" the Doctor asked wondering where she had gotten to.
"Personnel. That's where the weird stuffs happening. In the paperwork. 'Cause I spent years working as a temp, I can find myself around an office blindfold. And the first thing I noticed is an empty file" Donna explains her office experience before showing the file to them.
"Why, what's inside it?" the Doctor asks.
"What's not inside it?" the young Noble asks seeing nothing in it. Donna then shows the spine of the folder.
"Sick days," she speaks said name on it before then opening it showing it to be entirely empty. "There aren't any. Hundreds of people working here and no one's sick. Not one hangover, man 'flu, sneaky little shopping trip. Nothing. Not ever. They don't get ill," Donna tells how odd this all is.
"That can't be right," the Colonel comes to get the folder from Donna, "You've been checking out the building, you should've been checking out the workforce," Donna tells that they should have done a more thorough job.
"I can see why he likes you. You are good," Martha now rather impressed of Donna.
"Super temp," she jokes cheerily.
"Dr jones, set up a medical post. Start examining the workers. I'll get them sent through," the Mace now orders Martha handing the folder to her, "Come on, Donna, Alice. Give me a hand," she asks of the Nobles assistance while the Doctor leaves with Mace.
-Doctor Who-
Donna now places a chair by the desk Martha was at and Alice leaned on the wall near it, "Do you think I should warm our mum? About the Atmos in her car," the younger Noble asks Martha with concern for both of their mothers safety.
"Better safe than sorry," Martha replies thinking it would be a good idea.
"I'll give her a call," Donna then suggests she call her Alice now moving off the wall wanting to also speak to her mother as she can't remember the last time she heard her voice . The sisters almost leave the room before Martha catches them.
"Donna, Alice, do they know where you both are? Your family? I mean, that you're travelling with the Doctor?" she asks both of the women if there family knew where they are.
"Not really," Alice replies guilty of not telling her mother where she was.
"No. Although granddad sort of waved us off. But we didn't have time to explain," Donna then replies feeling just as guilty as her sister. "You just left him behind?" she asks them both.
"Yeah," they both reply sadly.
"I didn't tell my family. I kept it all so secret. It almost destroyed them" Martha tells how she hid it from her family that it hurt them.
"In what way?" Donna asks wanting to know.
"They ended up imprisoned. They were tortured. My mum, my dad, my sister," she then replies explains how bad it got leaving the women shocked, "It wasn't the Doctor's fault, but you need to be careful," but put's it right that it wasn't his doing, "Cause' you know the Doctor. He's wonderful, he's brilliant, but he's like fire. Stand too close and people get burnt," Martha warns them not to get to attached to him for he harms people's lives.
Alice and Donna agreed seeing as they weren't far from home, that a visit was in order to collect their thoughts. Whether they still wanted to continue their travels with the Doctor. They both go looking for him and find him in the loading bay after Colonel Mace walks past them with an annoyed look on his face.
"Doctor," the younger gets his attention as he now sees them coming down the ramp coming up it to grab both there hands an excited look on his face.
"Oh, just in time both of you. Come on. Come on, we're going to the country," he starts to pull them with him to the Jeep. "Fresh air and geniuses. What more could you ask?" he tells and asks them excitedly hoping that would like it aswell. But the she stops him getting him to look at her and Donna who was standing behind her.
"We're not coming with you," she informs him sadly speaking for herself and her sister, "Me and Donna have been talking and I'm sorry but we're going home," she puts to him nicely as possibly as she could.
"Really?" he asks a little taken back by this news from the sisters.
"We got to" Donna then says.
"Well, if that's what you want," he says if this was their plan even not catching on just yet that they were just only going home.
"I mean it's a bit soon. I had so many places I wanted to you both" he tells them sad they were going but had so much more for them to see. "The Fifteenth Broken Moon of the Medusa Cascade. The lightning skies of Cotter Palluni's world. The Diamond Coral Reefs of Kataa Flo Ko" he the tells of the places he wants them to see. "Thank you, Donna and Alice Noble. It's been brilliant. You've... you both have saved my life in so many ways" he tells them how grateful he is but inside was hurting a little that he might ever see Ariana again. But then the young woman is trying to will herself not burst into giggles. "You're...You're just popping home for a visit that's what you mean" the Doctor then realises this isn't a found farewell.
Donna and Alice nod their heads. "You dumbo," the older says mocking him.
"And then you're coming back," he then says understanding now.
"You know what you are? A great, big, outer-space dunce" the young now points out for fun he's not as smart as he thought he was.
"Yeah," he then agrees.
"I think I'll make you hat just to make my point," Alice then says making fun even more.
"Now then that's going to far," he points out not needing any more stick about it.
"Ready when you are, sir," the young UNIT soldier sees if the Doctor is ready.
"What's more, you can give us a lift. Come on," Donna points out Alice goes to get in the back. "Broken Moon of what?" Donna then asks confused about one of the places he mentioned.
"I know. I know," he replies back getting in after her knowing he was being silly at the time before they then set off unknown to them that two of the guards had been put under the control of a deadly force. And Martha would soon be in danger too.
-Doctor Who-
They arrive at the street that was the home of Alice and Donna the Doctor getting out to let older out the front and going to the younger out the back. "We'll walk the rest of the way" Donna tells to leave both of them here. "See you back at the factory, ok?" she asks that they will meet later.
"Bye," the Doctor bids to them getting in closing the door.
"And be careful!" Alice calls to behave himself.
"Aren't I always!" he called back cheekily giving her a wink before then driving off leaving the young woman blushing slightly.
"This is weird, I feel like we haven't been here for weeks," Alice now tells her sister looking down their street.
"I know me too," she agrees with her before they start walking down it an old woman who lives in their street sees them passing.
"Haven't seen you two for days," she points it's been ages since seeing them.
"Been away," Donna tells here both of the sisters smile at her before she then goes on.
Then a little blonde boy comes out kicking about with his football and both sisters forgot how normal that was to see such a thing being thankful for the life they have. They go back remembering everything that's happened to them the most amazing and beautiful things they have seen and done since joining the then they breaking from their memory's they see him their good old granddad coming out the house brining out the rubbish before he then spots his two granddaughters from afar. He waves to them seeing if their really here Alice gasps in happiness and so does Donna before they go into a run towards him before then giving them a hug so glad that he was to see them again.
"I said so, didn't I? Aliens! I said, they was real, " About an hour later there granddad was just excited about it actually being true now as they had tea and biscuits, "I just didn't expect them to come in a blue box," But think all spaceships were like the one the girls have been in.
"It's bigger on the inside," Donna tells it's deceiving how it looks from the outside.
"Yeah, but is it safe? This Doctor. Are you both safe with him? then he asks out of concern that this man was protecting them.
"He's amazing gramps," Donna tells him first in reply.
"He's just dazzling," then the younger replies blushing just thinking of him, "And never tell him we said any on this," Alice gets him not to say a word of this to the Doctor.
"No," he promises he won't.
"But I trust him with our lives" Donna tells that she and Alice believe the Doctor would not betray them.
"Hold up. I thought that was my job," there granddad says offended a little.
"You still come first gramps," Alice tells him that he always top priority.
"For God's sake, don't tell you mother either of you," granddad says it would be best not for her to know about this.
"I don't know. I mean, this is massive," Donna then tells him it's kind of a big deal.
"It's sort of not being fair on mum if she doesn't know," Alice points out how hard it would be to keep this secret and it made them both feel guilty.
"Doesn't know what? And who's she? The cat's mother?" their mother asks coming in with the washing wanting know what they are not telling her and starts folding the washing.
"And where have you been these past few days, lady?" she asks Donna.
"After that silly little trick with the car keys, I phoned Veena and she said she hadn't seen hide nor hair," She then goes on not happy with Donna in the slightest.
"And you too young lady disappearing off the face of the Earth, I've been worried sick," She tells her younger daughter she has not seen her either making Alice feel like she should of called her tell her she was ok.
"We've been... travelling," she informs her mother somewhat truthfully, "Oh, hark at you both, Michael Palin now are we. Are you staying for tea? 'Cause I haven't got anything in. I've been trying to keep your granddad on that macrobiotic diet but he sneaks off and gets pork pies at the petrol station," She the mocks before waffling on about grandad cheating on his diet.
He tries to protest about it but it dose him no good, "Don't deny it. I've seen the wrappers in the car. Oh, I don't miss a trick," she tells him off before he and his two granddaughters share a knowing smile that this was so her moaning from dusk till dawn, "Now then, what were you both gonna tell me? What don't I know?" she asks her first question from before looking to her daughters. "Nothing. Just...nothing," Donna replies that it wasn't something to bother her with. "Good. Right, then. You can both sit there and cut out those coupons. Every penny helps. This new mortgage won't pay for itself. Dad, kettle on," She moves on from it getting the girls to help her out while grandad done the tea.
-Doctor Who-
I was about an hour or so later that the Doctor had a run in with the aliens behind helping the young boy destroy the Earth were the Sontarans. And nearly getting himself killed in the Jeep that had the Atmos installed. Now here he was at the Noble's front door ringing the door bell. And young Alice is the one to answer the door opening to very stressed out looking Doctor.
"You alright Doctor,?" She looks him over.
"Alice, you would not believe the day I'm having," he tells her a sounding little worse for wear.
It was then ten minutes or so later that he examines the family's car looking under it tapping the Atmos device under the car before then coming back up to open the bonnet of the blue car while Donna tried to get hold of Martha on her mobile. "I'll requisition us a vehicle" the solider Alice learned was named Ross suggests in getting different transport.
"Anything without ATMOS. And don't point your gun at people," the Doctor calls to him before the young man charges off.
"Is it him? Is it him? Is it the Doctor?" Wilf asks in excitement coming out of the house seeing if said man was here as he approaches noticing the man under the bonnet of the car immediately. "Ah, it's you!" He calls in recognition.
"Who?" Asks the Doctor before looking up from under the car bonnet remembering the man instantly from Christmas last year. "Oh... it's you!" He recalls coming over to where Alice and Donna were with him.
"What, have you met before?" the older asks shocked by this.
"Yeah, Christmas Eve. He disappeared right in front of me," He replies telling her when.
"And you never said?!" Donna surprised he never told her about this.
"Well, you never said," he informs her she never told about the Doctor at that time, "Wilf, sir. Wilfred Mott. You must be one of them aliens," he then introduces himself to the Doctor and excited by the fact of him being from outer space.
"Well, yeah, but don't shout it out," the Doctor says he is what Wilf says but not want others to hear, "Nice to meet you properly, Wilf," he now shakes the mans hand kindly before going back to the car.
"Ah, an alien hand," the older man speaks excited of shaking the Doctor's hand.
"Donna, anything?" He looks to her seeing if Martha picked up yet.
"She's not answering. What's it, 'Sonterruns'?" She says there's no luck yet but asks about the aliens getting the name wrong.
"It's Sontarans dummy," Alice corrects her.
"But there's got to be more to it. They can't be just remote-controlling cars. That's not enough," He wonders aloud that there has to be something tying all this together, "Is anyone answering?" He checks again about getting through to Martha.
"Hold on," she then puts her finger up saying Martha has now answered, "Martha, hold on, he's here," She then passes the mobile to the Doctor.
"Martha, tell Col Mace it's the Sontarans. They're in the file, Code Red Sontarans. But if they're inside the factory, tell him not to start shooting, UNIT will get massacred. I'll get back as soon as I can. You got that?" the Doctor asks of her to warn the Colonel not realising he's talking to her clone who would not pass on the message.
He was now back under the bonnet if the car with the sonic screwdriver out and glasses on searching for a clue, "You've tried sonicing it before. You didn't find anything," Donna mentions that he already tried using the sonic.
"Yeah, but now I know it's Sontaran, I know what I'm looking for," he informs her.
"The thing is, Doctor, that Donna and Alice are my only grandchildren. You gotta promise me you're gonna take care of them," Wilf wants the Doctors word of protecting them.
"More like Donna takes care of him," Alice points out.
"Oh, yeah, that's my Donna. She was always bossing us around even when she was tiny. 'The Little General' we used to call her," the older man recalls how she was then as a child.
"Yeah. Don't start," she tells him not to embarrass her.
"And some of the boys she used to turn up with, a different one every week," he goes on.
"Yeah some of them were right weird," Alice recalls.
"Here. Who was that one with the nail varnish?" he asks about.
"Matthew Richards. He lives in Kilburn now...with a man" she tells him. It's then when the Doctor triggers the plate to have spikes appear.
"Whoa! It's a temporal pocket I knew there was something else in there," he now says glad of what he's discovered. "It's hidden just a second out of sync with real-time" he tells the others.
"But what's it hiding?" Donna asks that there had to be something else.
"I don't know. Men and their cars," the girl's mother comes out to see what's going on. "Sometimes I think if I was a car..,." she starts to imply.
"Mum really" Alice moans in disgust at her, everyone else looking at her. Then their mother notices who the man under the bonnet is. "Oh, it's you. Doctor, what was it?" she asks not really that pleased to see him.
"Yeah, that's me," he waves to her while once again sonicing the car not paying attention.
"What have you met him as well?" Granddad Wilf asks surprised by this.
"Dad, it's the man from the wedding when you were laid up with Spanish 'flu" she tells him but he obviously forgot about it. "I'm warning you. Last time that man turned up, it was a disaster" she tells him that bad things happen when he's around then as if on cue the Doctor activates something as it now emits smoke.
"Get back," he tells them getting them away from it slightly meaning the smoke might be dangerous. Now the Doctor not knowing that his actions would now cause utter chaos across the of Earth. "That'll stop it" the Doctor stops the smoke coming from the point the sonic at making it spark before going out completely.
"I told you. He's blown up the car," the mother complains he's damaged it, "Who is he anyway? What sort of Doctor blows up cars?" she then asks thinking he was crazy person.
"Oh, not now, Mum," Donna tells her to leave be.
"Yeah, Mum not you," Alice put in.
"Oh, should I make an appointment?" she then suggests before going into the house thinking the lot of them are crazy.
"That wasn't just exhaust fumes. It's some sort of gas, artificial gas," the Doctor figures out what the smoke could be.
"And it's aliens. Is it aliens?" Wilf asks if this was work of space people.
"If this is poisonous?" Donna then asks if it is harmful.
"Then there's poisonous gas in every car on Earth," Alice puts in realising how bad this was not before hearing granddad was now moving the car but it automatically closes and locks him in and the engine starts by itself and lights.
"No, don't," Donna comes to stop him not realising he hasn't started the car.
"Granddad!" Alice calls out in panic trying to open the other door while the same white smoke starts billowing out the exhaust pipe.
"Turn it off," Donna tells him to turn off the engine, "Granddad, get out of there," she begs him now.
"I can't. It's locked," then he shows her the keys in his hands. "It's them aliens again," he points out that it has to be them.
"Doctor do something," Alice begs to him still trying to get the door open. The car starts honking on its own then their mother sees the commotion going on.
"What's he doing? What's he doing?" she asks thinking that this is all the Doctor's doing.
"They've isolated it" saying that it's now under the Sontarans control as every car on Earth now starts emitting the smoke there alarms going off.
"There's smoke in side the car. He's going to choke. Doctor!" Donna panics trying to get help and the Doctor comes over trying to open the door with the sonic but it's no use.
"It won't open," he struggles with it as much as he could. "It's the whole world," he realised looking at the other cars nearby before going back to under the bonnet of the Nobles pulling out wires trying to see if it would help but it was no good. He goes back to trying the door once again as Alice tried the other like she had done for a while now on her knees crying not wanting to lose her granddad.
"Doctor!" Alice calls out pleading for help to the Doctor now who stands in the middle of the road feeling so lost and unsure what to do to save Earth from its doom. And it was going to get so much worse than he thought.
