"We're gonna lose aren't we?" Katy asked softly. The Doctor looked up at her from inside the grave.
"No," he said firmly. He knew she had been through a lot, and the negative attitude was understandable. He would help her get over it though. "You know what Miss Wilson? We'll not only win, we'll have saved the entire planet in doing so." Katy had to smile at him as he grinned. She had noticed previously that his grin was infectious. Jack sprinted out of the Tardis with many different coloured strands of wire.
"Didn't know which one you wanted," he said as he passed the wires to the Doctor. The Doctor nodded his thanks and disappeared into the grave. Jack and Katy stood there waiting. Katy looked into the sky and gasped. The Chifu ship was much bigger than before.
"Hurry, Doctor," she said quickly.
"I'm trying," he called back. She heard the buzz of the sonic screw driver as the Doctor changed the wiring. After a few seconds he reappeared and started shovelling dirt back into the grave. Jack and Katy both started to help him do so. They made quick work of the soil and the Doctor ran into the Tardis quickly. "Tell me when the light comes back."
"If..." Katy muttered, but she kept her eyes pealed for the red light. She silently prayed for the light to reappear. The seconds grew longer as they waited. The red light flashed above them once, and then it reappeared and stayed.
"Doctor," Jack shouted. "It's back." The Doctor stuck his head out of the Tardis doors and grinned.
"Good," he said. "We cut that too close."
"You're telling me," Katy said as she let out a breath she hadn't known she was holding. "What do we do know? Is it over?"
"No, we need to go talk to the Chifu again," The Doctor told them. Jack nodded and walked back into the Tardis. Katy gulped and looked at him. "We'll look after you." She nodded and walked into the Tardis, shutting the doors as she passed them. She grabbed onto the type of bar that ran towards the consol. The Doctor was eager to get this mission done, Katy figured. She knew she was. The now familiar sound of the Tardis in action comforted Katy slightly as they were transported to the Chifu ship. She hoped the Doctor and Jack knew what they were doing. The Tardis stopped whirring and Katy knew that meant that they had arrived. The Doctor walked towards her.
"I won't force you to go out there," he told her. "You have a good reason not to want to."
"I'm coming," she stated.
"You sure that's a good idea?" Jack asked her, coming towards them.
"I'm not gonna hide from everything all my life." The Doctor nodded gravely and walked out of the Tardis doors. Jack looked at her.
"It's ok to stay in here," he said softly. "No-one would think less of you."
"I'd think less of me, now let's go." She walked out of the Tardis with more confidence than she felt. She found that they were in the same area as they had been when they had…started to suck out her soul. Jack followed close behind her, ready to stop the Chifu from going near her. The Chifu hissed when they saw Katy.
"You have brought her back to us?" Katy assumed this was the leader. She looked at the Doctor sharply and was relieved to see he was shaking his head.
"Oh no, no way," he told them. "She's here because she wanted to face you again. Even though we told her she didn't have to. So you see, you don't scare anybody with your shadowy appearance and staged voice. We've made it impossible for you to cause Earth harm. What I am here to do though, is offer you a deal."
"Oh?" The leader said, the voice was less echo-y, Katy noticed. The Chifu circled closer towards them. Katy counted at least 18 of them. She wondered how many had actually been exiled. It was a large amount really; maybe some joined the cause before their planet was destroyed.
"Thought I'd get your attention," The Doctor said. "And thanks for lessening the voice effects, it was terribly irritating." He paused as the Chifu hissed at him. He waved a hand, as if to wave off the voice. "Anyway, the deal is this: never come to Earth again, though you can't harm her, it would be wrong to even darken her doorstep again. Never attempt to do the same to any other planet. In return I will help find you a Zionic state: a home planet, just for you. What do you say?" The Chifu turned to face each other and seemed to communicate.
"How come we can't understand what they're saying?" Katy asked.
"Can you communicate telepathically?" The Doctor asked her pointedly. Katy shook her head. "Well then how can the Tardis translate it for you? You know how to talk, so the Tardis translates speech, you know how to read so the Tardis translates words." Katy thought about it, she supposed it did make sense on some level. "I, on the other hand, can and therefore I know exactly what they're thinking."
"And that would be?" Katy asked.
"Oh it's not brilliant," the Doctor started. "At first they wondered if they could somehow distract us enough to be able to steal you away from us. I don't know if they agreed they could or not, so be careful. Then they moved onto the good points and the bad points of the deal." Katy nodded, taking it in. She had wondered if they would try to take her away from them, either to use as bait or to continue their soul sucking procedure. She hoped they had decided against it though, she knew she was still quite weak, and no match for the aliens. The Chifu turned back to face the trio.
"We have questions," The leader announced. The Doctor nodded, he glanced back at Jack and Katy.
"You know what, just to be on the safe side, which is always a good side, if a little boring, Katy, go back into the Tardis." Katy would have protested under any other conditions but she just nodded and walked into the Tardis. "Now ask away." The Doctor said. Some of the other Chifu hissed as Katy disappeared into the Tardis.
"Why are you prepared to do this?"
"Well, I like to see myself as some sort of humanitarian, for lack of a better world," he said, running a hand through his hair. "I don't want to wipe out the Chifu all together, but as a last resort I would do what was necessary" The Chifu appeared to nod. Katy watched from just inside the Tardis doors. "Anymore?"
"Where?"
"There is a planet in the 4-X-Alpha-4 system, it's hospitable and uninhabited."
"We accept," The leader stated. The Doctor grinned.
"I'm glad that's over with," Katy said. They had dropped the Chifu off on the planet in the galaxy the Doctor had told them about. Katy felt relieved to know that Earth was safe from them. They were sitting in the a park nearby to the graveyard.
"How does it feel Miss Wilson," The Doctor started. "to know you helped save the world?"
"Well I didn't really do anything…but pretty good anyway," Katy said happily. She still felt some of the effects of the soul sucking ritual, but the euphoric feeling of stopping the world as they knew it from ending was enough to alleviate the majority of it. She was sprawled over the grass enjoying the view of the countryside. "But…what are you gonna do now?"
"Same as I normally do I guess," The Doctor said, staring into the cloudy sky. "Travel through time and space, save the unsave-able, solve the unsolvable." Katy giggled at the Doctor's comments and was joined by Jack's deep laugh. "There's a lot for one man to see in the universe, in a Time Lord."
"So you're going on your own?" Katy asked sadly. She had assumed Jack would go with him.
"Well…unless…you could come with me?" The Doctor asked, feeling vulnerable.
"I don't know what to say," Katy replied. Part of her would be thrilled to travel with the Doctor, she had craved freedom for so long but now she was being offered it she felt she couldn't take it. She had responsibilities at home, at work. She looked after her dad after everything that had happened. He would be on his own if she left him. She knew that her little brother was still alive, but he wouldn't be any help to their dad, him being mentally ill and all. She shivered at the thought, the last time she had visited him he didn't remember who they were. "I would love to; believe me I would, but what about my dad? I'm all he has left."
"You forget the Tardis travels in time," Jack stated. "You'd be back before he knew you were gone." Katy thought about it, she had forgotten.
"No, I owe it to my dad to at least tell him," The Doctor nodded, respecting her even more.
"Think about it," he said. "The whole universe, I could take you to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, to the beginning of time." Katy smiled, it sounded so appealing.
"Yes," she said simply. "I will Doctor, but I wanna go home and tell my dad face to face and possibly grab some essentials while I'm there."
"How about you Jack?" The Doctor asked grinning. "Going back to Torchwood?"
"I think I may hang around a little longer, if that's alright Doc?" The Doctor nodded and Katy grinned.
Thats adventure one finished. If you thought it was good then review! If you thought it was stupid...still review :P Now how do you want this...the adventures to all be in this fic or seperated into many?