Chapter 9: Back in the TARDIS

Donna leaned against the TARDIS console with a ham sandwich in her hand. "Mut I mwill mwon't undershhtand Mwoctor…how can mwhere be sctwo of you?" she asked, taking another bite of her sandwich. "Don't' speak with food in your mouth." he snapped "There are two alternate universes colliding causing my time stream to overlap on itself." He explained, putting on his glasses and checking something on the monitor. "Right…" Donna nodded, pretending to understand. "The eleventh Doctor still hasn't come back yet and it's been a day. I'm starting to get worried." Clara mumbled. Coincidentally, a few seconds later the TARDIS door opened and the eleventh Doctor came staggering into the room, "Hello!" he said cheerfully adjusting his bowtie. "Doctor! It's been ages! We thought we'd lost you!" Clara hugged him tightly.

"You're shaking." She said.

"Am I? I didn't realise."

"Yes, and you're pale."

"I'm completely fine!"

Clara looked at him suspiciously. She had sworn she had just seen his eyes flash red but shrugged it off.

"What happened?" Rory asked looking worried. The Doctor began to explain what had happened; from the door closing, to his conversation with the Darkness. "He told me he had a weapon." he said grimly.

"And then?" The Tenth Doctor questioned.

"And then I don't remember."

"You don't remember anything from that point?"

"No. One minute I was there and the next I was here in the TARDIS!"

The tenth Doctor paced around in circles. "It just doesn't make any sense!"he said, trying to rack his brain for an explanation. He took his glasses off and sighed.

"I think we should just forget about all the confusing mysteries for now." River said. "We should concentrate on what to do with the Darkness."

There were many rooms in the TARDIS. Some appeared randomly, some disappeared, in this case the group were in a room that was hardly ever used; the study. The study was a circular room with a wall covered with computer monitors of various sizes. Stacks of paper and unorganised folders filled the room and a round table sat in the middle with seven chairs, occupied by the Doctors and their five companions.

"I think we should stay hidden in here until the Darkness gives up." suggested Clara taking a piece of paper from the pile next to her and scribbling down her idea. "No, that won't work." Sighed River writing her idea below Clara's; "I think we should set out a trap, pretending that we've given up." Rory shook his head and took the paper from her. "Why don't we just try to be friends with the Darkness…" Everyone stared at him, clearly not convinced by his idea. "I know!" Amy chimed, "We should hack into some of the old machines in the laboratory and make them into cool robots to use against the Darkness!" Amy smiled but Donna yanked the piece of paper from her hand and crossed through all the ideas with a permanent marker. "That's way to complicated!" she exclaimed, "Why don't we just get that Darkness thing is one place and set off a load off TNT!"

"That's a really bad idea Donna." The tenth Doctor pointed out.

"Oi! Watch it Spaceman!"

"Where on earth will we get TNT from?"

"I found some in that room down there." Donna pointed over her shoulder and the tenth Doctor's face reddened,

"I told you specifically not to go in that room!"

Everyone began to argue, and the voices began the raise slowly. "FINGERS ON LIPS!" the eleventh Doctor burst out, making everyone suddenly go silent. "I have a better plan."

The plan was as follows; Rory and Clara would locate the Darkness and tell them that they had surrendered to cause a diversion whilst River set out a cage trap in the corner of the laboratory. Then Donna would set off a TNT explosion, which would surprise the Darkness who would then hopefully rush to the laboratory. As the Darkness entered the room, River would set off her trap hopefully trapping the Darkness inside. Meanwhile; both doctors and Amy would have stolen some sort of machinery, taken it into the TARDIS and hacked into it creating a robot that would be able to destroy the Darkness with a nuclear blaster. They would carry out the plan in two days.