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Interlude – Into the Future

The streets of Cardiff were empty at five o'clock in the morning, which was why Rani had chosen today to get her Tardis back. Dressed in a fitted black leather jacket, red silk t-shirt, tight black jeans and topped off with heeled knee high black boots. She had looked at the clothes she's chosen and remarked "Earth's fashions have certainly improved"

She walked close to the parking garage close to where her human persona's flat was, where her clone was right now. She withdrew a small gadget from her coat pocket which disabled the security cameras, she didn't want to appear on CCTV and raise some unwanted questions as to why Gwen Cooper was in two places at once.

She approached her human persona's car and withdrew a skeleton key she'd made and used it to unlock the door. She climbed in and shut the door.

Once she locked the car door she removed the air vent on the driver's side door and pressed her finger on the top of the small vent.

There was a moment were nothing happened but then the car's insides began to be distorted by waves of light passing around Rani who sat calmly in the centre of the storm

Rani closed her eyes and when she opened them, she saw the control room of her Tardis.

Her control room was very different to the Doctor's. It resembled a chestnut panelled laboratory, with comfortable large chairs and tables piled with ordered notes and scattered scientific equipment. There was no ceiling as such, but rather a 3D display of this galaxy, which would change to resemble whatever galaxy she was in.

The way she had hidden her Tardis was an invention of hers that she liked to refer to as the Advanced Camouflage Unit, unlike a normal chameleon circuit which changed the outside of the Tardis to resemble something else, the advanced unit could literally turn the Tardis into something else on the outside while the inside remained intact and the only way to deactivate the unit was to trip the system with an ID scanner concealed in the object. Designed to be a means of hiding a Tardis for an extended period of time with a reduced chance of getting discovered

Rani moved to the centre console where she started to start up the main systems, and opened the engines to get some more fuel. Once the engines were warmed up she set the co-ordinates and started her up.

With the difference of a few seconds Rani's Tardis reappeared in UNIT HQ in London, now shaped as a large cabinet.

Miles, Sally and Lucy who were all waiting in the room stood up at the sudden appearance and waited

Rani appeared from out of the door and said to them "Expecting someone else?" with a smile at Miles, who had never seen a Tardis before and startled at its sudden appearance

She opened the door wide and stood clear to let her three charges enter the Tardis, their reactions to the great insides were vastly different

Lucy had been in the Doctor's Tardis and explored some of the Type 40 he favoured so she showed the same curiosity that one might have viewing a new house

Sally had also see the Doctor's Tardis but had only seen his coral based control room so to seeing the grandness of the Rani's had her astonished

But Miles had the greatest reaction of all, his jaw dropped as he saw the interior of the Tardis and he had to hit on the back by Sally before he remembered to breathe

"Well then" Rani said, closing the door now that they had been ushered inside and moving to the controls

"What are doing?" Lucy asked

"Well I thought we take a little trip" Rani said

Miles asked "What about the timebabies?" while he thought 'She can't mean to leave them behind'

"Well I made a little side trip before coming here and materialised my Tardis around the pods, they're stored in a holding bay onboard" Rani reassured him

"So where are we going?" Sally said excited she had never travelled in time before and was eager to see what was out there

"Late twenty second century" Rani said as she pulled a level that started the centre column moving

Just an interlude for the moment, chapter is forthcoming

The Rani's Control room is inspired by the 1996 8th Doctor Movie control room