My eyes fly open as I cough taking in deep breaths of air. I sit up, clutching my chest as it feels as if someone had been punching me for the last few minutes.

Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump.

I close my eyes listening to the steady beat of four which was thankfully being emitted from my chest. My hearts were finally beating at a steady rate and I didn't feel the electricity running through my veins anymore. I no longer feel as if I'm being burning alive and I haven't seen any regeneration energy being emitted from my lungs in the past minute.

"Thank the stars," I hear my father breath in a sigh of relief. I turn my head to the right to see him on his knees out of breath.

"Thanks," I tell him, breathing heavily. "We should probably go get Donna," I tell him as he starts to stand up.

"In a minute," he tells me as he offers a hand to me. I grab it and let him lift me to my feet before suddenly being embraced in his arms. My eyes widen in shock until I register what is going on. I wrap my arms around his thing frame holding him tightly, my head pressed against his chest. I breathe in the scent of bananas instantly being calmed.

Who knew dying was so tiring?

"Don't ever do that again," He mumbles then places a kiss on top my head. He pulls away bending down so that we're eye level. "Promise," He tells me and with that one look I can tell that my near death experience is having more effect on his than myself.

"Pinkie promise," I smile as I hold up my pink finger. He grins bringing his hand up locking his pinkie finger with mine.

"Pinkie promise," he laughs. He stands up straight as our hands drop back down to our sides. "Come one then, Ross. To Donna's."


At Donna's house, Dad rings the bell as the two of us stand side by side. Ross stands away from the house eyes surveying our surroundings as if something were to jump out at him.

"You would not believe the day I'm having," I say as soon as Donna opens the door.

"Why's his tie on your head," She asks a confused look on her face.

"Oh, forgot 'bout that," I laugh before untying it from my head.

"You're still bleeding," Dad states examining my head. "Donna you have a first aid kit," Dad asks her and she nods before quickly rushing back into the house as Dad and I follow her inside.

A few minutes later, I'm all bandaged up and the three of us our out the door. Dad and I go towards the Nobles' car and he bends down to check the ATMOS attached underneath. Ross, Donna and I stand nearby, Donna trying to ring Martha. Dad opens the hood and peers inside and I walk over and join him.

"I'll requisition us a vehicle," Ross says pulling out his phone.

"Anything without ATMOS. Don't point your gun at people," Dad quickly tells him. Ross runs off just as an elderly man comes from the house.

"Is it him? Is it him? Is it the Doctor?" He asks Donna and I look up offended.

"I'm here too, you know." He runs round the car and catches sight of Dad.

"Ah! It's you!"

"Who?" He looks up and sees Wilf pointing at him.

"Oh! It's you!" He exclaims making it obvious the two have met before.

"What, have you met before?!"

"Yeah, Christmas Eve. He disappeared right in front of me!"

"And you never said?!"

"Was that the Titanic," I ask as I look up at my Dad who nods his head. I was either in the TARDIS or dancing with that bloke. What was his name? Matt? I'm not sure.

"Well you never said! Wilf, sir. Wilfred Mott. You must be one of them aliens?!" He introduces extending a hand in his direction.

"Well - yeah, but don't shout it out." He shakes Wilf's hand. "Nice to meet you properly, Wilf. This is my daughter, Arcy."

I smile extending my hand towards him. He kindly takes it giving me a firm handshake. "Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Mott."

"Oh, an alien hand...!" I laugh shaking my head at his enthusiasm.

"Donna, anything?" Dad asks the ginger woman who was on her phone.

"She's not answering. What is it, Sontorans?"

"Sontarans. But there's got to be more to it, they can't be just remote controlling cars. That's not enough. Is anyone answering," I ask her.

"Hold on," She instructs as she brings her mobile to her ear once again. "Martha! Hold on, he's here." She gives the phone to Dad.

"Martha, tell Colonel Mace it's the Sontarans. They're in the file, Code Red, Sontarans. But if they're inside the factory tell them not to start shooting. UNIT will get massacred. I'll get back as soon as I can, you got that?" I pull out my sonic screwdriver and begin to mess with the engine and the ATMOS device attached. The end of the golden tube glows purple as it emits the familiar buzzing noise.

"But you tried sonicing it before, you didn't find anything," Donna says as dad pulls out his own sonic doing the same after hanging up the phone.

"Yeah, but now we know it's Sontaran, we know what we're looking for."

Wilf speaks up, "The thing is, Doctor, is that Donna is my only grandchild. You gotta promise me you're gunna take care of her."

"She takes care of us," I laugh.

"Oh, yeah that's my Donna. Yeah, she was always bossing us around when she was tiny. The Little General we used to call her."

"Yeah, don't start," Donna says pointing a finger towards her grandfather.

"And some of the boys she used to turn up with, a different one every week! Yeah, who was that one with the nail varnish?"

"Matthew Richards. He lives in Kilbourn now. With a man," Donna tells us and I glance up at her a grin on my face before facing the engine one again. I let out a yelp of surprise and jump back as large sparks come from the ATMOS device. I take a few steps back hands up, sonic in one of them, as if surrendering. I died once today, I'm done with getting hurt.

"Woah! It's a temporal pocket! I knew there was something else in there. It's hidden just a second out of sync with real time," Dad tells us.

"But what's it hiding?"

"I don't know, men and their cars! Sometimes I think if I was a car," I hear and look to my left as I drop my hands to my sides. Sylvia was just coming from around the other side of the car. She catches sight of my father. "Oh, it's you! Doctor... what was it?"

"Yeah, that's me," Dad responds as he waves his hand from under the bonnet.

"What, have you met him as well?" Wilf asks.

"Why is it everyone knows you but not me?" I ask my father.

"Let's just keep that way."

"Dad! It's the man from the wedding! When you were laid up with Spanish flu! I'm warning you; last time that man turned up it was a disaster! That girl was there too!" Sylvia says to Wilf. Oh, so she does know me. The spikes from the ATMOS device suddenly let off a cloud of white gas.

"Get back!" Dad orders stepping away from the car and towards me arm outstretched as if to keep me from going towards it. Hah, like I'm going to go anywhere near that thing. He points his screwdriver towards the ATMOS device, pressing the button cause it buzz and glow blue. "That'll stop it!"

The sonic screwdriver finishes whirring as the smoke dies away. Dad then rushes back to peer under the hood again and I join him this time knowing it's safe.

"I told you! He's blown up the car! Who is he anyway?! What sort of doctor blows up cars?!" Sylvia exclaims obvious not taking liking to my father.

"Oh, not now Mum!"

"Oh, should I make an appointment?" Sylvia snaps. I can see where Donna gets her sass from. She stalks off back towards the house.

"That wasn't just exhaust fumes... Some sort of gas. Artificial gas," I inform the human.

"And it's aliens, is it? Aliens?"

"But if... if it's poisonous... then we've got poisonous gas in every car on Earth," Donna says in realization.

"It's not safe," Wilf says as he climbs into the driver seat. "I'm gonna get it off the street!"

"Wilf! Don't!" I exclaim. The car doors suddenly slam shut and the locks all click into place. The car turns on and smoke begins to pour from the exhaust pipe.

"Hold on!" Donna rushes to the car. "Turn it off! Granddad, get out of there!"

"I can't! It's not locked! It's them aliens again!"

Sounds like the story of my life.

Donna pulls at the car door, growing more frantic as fumes begin to seep into the car. Sylvia stops outside the front door and turns back in horror. "What's he doing? What's he done?" She shouts.

"They've activated it!"

Donna frantically pulls at the car door again as Wilf gasps and chokes. "There's gas inside the car! He's gonna choke! Doctor!" I rush around pointing my sonic at the door trying to unlock it, to no avail.

"It won't open," I tell her frantic. I turn and look at the street around, every car is spitting the poisonous fumes into the atmosphere. "It's the whole world..." I rush back to the car's engine as the Sontaran ship descends even closer to the Earth. I glance up at the blue sky in worry, unsure of what I should be doing at this point, only knowing that my main focus at the moment it to save Wilfred Mott.

I continue to run back and forth between the engine and the door as Dad does the same. We're trying to stop the gas and save Wilf at the same time but our sonics are useless on this technology and I can't figure out why.

"Get me out of here!" Sylvia rushes into the house, just as Wilf collapses inside the car.

I stand in the middle of the street next to Dad, powerless to stop the world from being consumed in the fumes.


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