Note: Apologies for the slight delay in getting this chapter out. I had the perfect storm of massive writer's block in general, massive writer's block for Leanna in particular, and a giant schedule overload.

Chapter 10: It All Falls Down (Day 13, Part 2)

Leanna's Instructions for Disabling the Mothership (excerpt)

6) (…) Oh, and by the way, considering you've just turned off the power to the fleet, the 12 will be on high alert. I would lie to you and pretend you stood any reasonable chance of getting out of there, but this was your idea Amy, so you should know, this is the part where you probably get captured.

FLIGHT RECORDING – The Beacon: Command Center (continued)
Universal Time Marker: 54.20.13-3
Transcript retained for historical significance

CYBERUNIT #43: Admiral. Cause of the power drain detected. The power was drained from onboard our ship at computer terminal 31. Security has been alerted.

MORGAN: Trojan horse.

CYBERUNIT #43: It does not appear that a Trojan horse was used to disable the fleet's power.

MORGAN: No, no 43. The story. The Trojans let in a giant wooden horse that the Greeks had made, not realizing that along with it they were letting in an army. We let the Professor onboard, not realizing we were letting in saboteurs.

CYBERUNIT #43: No other life forms entered the ship with the Professor.

MORGAN: None that the guards noticed. But the Professor is Gallifreyan. She might be able to cobble together some rudimentary technology fairly quickly. And on Gallifrey, a perception filter is rudimentary. 43, I want you to go through the ships logs detailing the Professor's arrival. See if there were any life signs other than the Professor's.

CYBERUNIT #43: I obey.

MORGAN: I know you do. Admiral Morgan to ship's security. Be alert. The intruders are likely wearing perception filters.

FLIGHT RECORDING – The Beacon: Cell 34
Universal Time Marker: 54.20.13-3
Transcript retained for historical significance

SECURITY CHIEF WELLIAS FOXTER: Professor. My name is Security Chief Wellias Foxter. I am going to ask you a few questions.

PROFESSOR: A Borthan interrogator. How nice.

WELLIAS: You snuck aboard this ship –

PROFESSOR: Technically I was invited up.

WELLIAS: – You snuck aboard this ship at least one other person, probably wearing a perception filter, who has just disabled the power to most of our fleet. We know this.

PROFESSOR: Actually no, you don't.

WELLIAS: Yes, we do. Who else could have disabled the ship?

PROFESSOR: Accident? A traitor among your ranks? Freak systems failure? I'll admit your theory is the most plausible but it is by no means the only possible one.

WELLIAS: So you do not deny doing this.

PROFESSOR: All I want to know is what is going on. The Borthans were the smallest military power among the Twelve when the Alliance of Thirteen was formed. And now you're standing tall – or at least what I assume you imagine to be tall – invading an alien world with Humans and Cybermen. None of this makes a bit of sense.

WELLIAS: What is your name?

PROFESSOR: Unimportant. You wouldn't have heard of me. I was born in the later stages of the Time War. I was too young to remember it, let alone get a reputation.

WELLIAS: Then give me your name. I don't want to call you "Professor" all the time.

PROFESSOR: You did it all the time with Time Lords. Or do you think "The President" was actually named "The President".

WELLIAS: You are not a Time Lord.

PROFESSOR: True. But this fascination with my name is puzzling. What do you care? If my name were, say Exart, what would that tell you?

WELLIAS: Very well, "Professor". Then I have a simple question for you. Where are the saboteurs aboard The Beacon?

PROFESSOR: I thought we'd established that it wasn't confirmed I even knew who they were.

Leanna's Instructions for Disabling the Mothership (excerpt)

7) Oh, I should probably tell you where you're going. You're going to make a slight detour. You see, we need to give the Wexler some way of fighting back if the Twelve ever decide to come back here. Head over to the weapons systems. This is the hard part.

8) So, if by some small miracle you made it to step 8, then congratulations! You have official survived much longer than I had ever dreamed to suspect. Amy you grab a gun. There should be one near the weapons. Oh yes, and there should also be somebody actually by the weapons systems. If this is a human vessel the gun you have should have some sort of "stun" setting, as well as a "silent" setting in the menu of it's OS. That will all drain the battery, so try not to fire too many shots.

FLIGHT RECORDING – The Beacon: Command Center (continued)
Universal Time Marker: 54.20.13-4
Transcript retained for historical significance

CYBERUNIT #43: Admiral Morgan. Life signs confirmed. Two of them. Most likely human judging by heart rate and blood pressure.

MORGAN: Two intruders. Tell security. Tell Security Chief Wellias.

CYBERUNIT #43: Already done.

MORGAN: Well done 43. We are going to catch these suckers.

FLIGHT RECORDING – The Beacon: Cell 34
Universal Time Marker: 54.20.13-4
Transcript retained for historical significance

WELLIAS: It has been confirmed. The two intruders arrived with you. Who are they? Why are they here? Where are they?

PROFESSOR: All right. Fine. Who are they? Just a pair of humans I ran into on Earth in the 20th Century. Though they're actually from the 21st. Why are they here? To commit acts of sabotage which I won't be specifying here. Where are they? If I knew, I wouldn't tell you.

WELLIAS: You must know. You must tell us.

PROFESSOR: I "must" know. How presumptuous is that? I'm just the distraction, I'm sure you've worked that much out. They're the saboteurs. What makes you think I even know what their plan is?

WELLIAS: Because you're the Gallifreyan. They're just humans from the 21st Century, by your admission. There's no way they're the brains behind this operation.

PROFESSOR: They travelled for a long time with the Doctor.

WELLIAS: The Doctor, somewhat famously, doesn't tend to give his companions a lot of technical lessons.

PROFESSOR: Good point.

Leanna's Instructions for Disabling the Mothership (excerpt)

9) If you are reading this you have successfully incapacitated the weapons systems operator. Congratulations. At this point, I am inclined to believe that some deity or other has decided to give us a helping hand. Rory, you'll handle this part, you're better with the science. Amy, keep a lookout. Rory, I need you to download all of the technical specs for the weapons aboard all of the Twelve's ships onto the hard drive attached to your perception field generator. Oh, I should mention there's a hard drive on your perception field generator. That's why it's bulkier. Simply insert the hard drive onto the corresponding slot on the terminal. Then on the system you will want to enter the following code, which will, probably, download the required specs:

{DS}_Mainframe_Systems-Data

{MSD}_Weapons_Systems

…

FLIGHT RECORDING – The Beacon: Command Center (continued)
Universal Time Marker: 54.20.13-6
Transcript retained for historical significance

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER TARIX OLARIA: Admiral Morgan there's some strange activity going on at a weapons systems terminal on Deck 12.

MORGAN: What kind of strange activity?

TARIX: Looks like a major download in progress sir.

MORGAN: Subadmiral 43, alert a security team, and remind them that the intruders will be wearing perception filters.

CYBERUNIT #43: I obey.

MORGAN: What are they downloading?

TARIX: Looks like they're downloading weapons specs sir. Weapons specs from every single weapon aboard the fleet.

MORGAN: Professor, I do believe you and your friends have just made your first mistake. Should have kept the download small. Now you're just giving us time to catch them.

[…]

Universal Time Marker: 54.20.13-7

Communication window opened

SECURITY OFFICER BRYAN ALVAREZ: Admiral Morgan, Security Officer Bryan Alvarez reporting sir!

MORGAN: Go ahead officer.

ALVAREZ: We've captured the intruders successfully sir. A man and a woman. Both human by the looks of them.

MORGAN: Go find them a cell and keep them apart. Have you informed the Security Chief yet officer?

ALVAREZ: Foxter…I mean Chief Wellias asked that he not be disturbed during interrogation except by your orders sir.

MORGAN: Well go ahead and give him the good news. Officer Tarix.

TARIX: Yes sir!

MORGAN: Did they finish downloading the weapons specs?

TARIX: It does not appear so sir. And in any case they've had no time to send whatever information they've collected off The Beacon.

MORGAN: Thank you Officer Tarix. Well Professor. Your people tried your best. But it would seem you've lost.