Chapter 10: Death to the Dalek

"Who are you?" Clara asked Jack.

"Captain Jack Harkness." He replied with a smile.

Goodness he was attractive. No matter how hard Clara tried to resist, she found herself being very physically attracted to this man.

"I'm glad the Doctor is here." Jack remarked.

"You know the Doctor?" Clara questioned.

"Of course I do. He's never mentioned me? Not once?" He asked Clara.

"No, I don't think so." She replied.

"The Doctor's a time traveller. For all I know he hasn't even met me yet. What does he look like?" He asked Clara.

"Oh he's tall and skinny." Clara replied.

"Brown hair?" Jack asked.

"Yes." Clara said.

That was how Jack had remembered the Doctor. He was a little hurt that the Doctor never even mentioned him.

"Ok so why did you come here?" Jack asked her.

"The TARDIS picked up an alert. The Doctor said that the rift was becoming extremely dangerous. I'm not entirely sure what the rift is, but apparently it's bad. Next thing I knew, we were being shot at by a Dalek." Clara replied.

"I'm with Torchwood. We monitor the rift." Jack replied.

"Torchwood?" Clara said sounding very confused.

"Really? He never even mentioned Torchwood?" Jack said. "Anyway it opened when a Minotaur crashed into the Rift Manipulator."

"A Minotaur? Where'd you get a Minotaur?" Clara asked.

"The Evil Queen." Jack replied.

"Regina!" Clara said.

"You know her?" Jack asked.

"We met once." Clara said.

"Oh that's right. The Sontarans. She was telling us about that." Jack said.

"But how can she be out of the Enchanted Forest?" Clara asked again.

"Ok I realize that you have a lot of questions, but we have to focus on whats important." Jack said.

"What's that?" Clara asked.

"Well there's a Dalek chasing the Doctor around the sky. Also, there's a Weeping Angel and a raging Minotaur somewhere in the city." Jack said.

"Right. That sounds more important." Clara responded.

The two then proceeded to go inside the tall building and descend down all the stairs.

"It's funny." Clara said to Jack. "I won't go into all the details, but I've seen all the Doctor's faces. Every one of his lives. But I didn't get to see all his former companions."

"Oh there's a lot of us. I've only met a few others myself. In fact I work with two of them." Jack said.

"Who?" Clara asked.

"Miss Martha Jones and Mister Mickey Smith." Jack responded.

Clara had never heard these names before. She wondered who else Jack knew of that traveled with the Doctor.

"Who else do you know?" Clara asked.

"Well there's also Donna Noble, Sarah Jane Smith, and Rose Tyler." Jack said.

"Nope. Haven't heard of any of them before." Clara remarked.

Jack and Clara finally made their way to the bottom of the building and walked outside. Cardiff had suddenly grown quiet. There were no screaming people running around anywhere.

"Cardiff is a rather big city right?" Clara questioned Jack.

"Yes." Jack replied.

"So where are all the people?" Clara asked.

"Well only minutes ago there was a Dalek here killing people. Anyone who wasn't dead got the hell out." Jack replied.

Suddenly, Jack and Clara heard the TARDIS flying up above. The Dalek was still right behind it. Jack readied his huge laser gun and aimed at the sky.

"What are you doing?" Clara asked.

"I need to shoot that Dalek." Jack said.

"What if you hit the TARDIS?" Clara asked.

"I won't." Jack reassured her.

He tried to aim at the Dalek, but it kept moving so fast. So, Jack fired two powerful laser blasts from the gun. He was convinced that at least one of them would hit the Dalek. He was right.

One of Jack's laser blasts hit and destroyed the Dalek completely. The Dalek exploded and illuminated the night sky for a brief moment. However, the second laser blast directly hit the TARDIS. Then, Jack and Clara could see smoke coming from the Doctor's flying time machine. The blue box was losing altitude. The TARDIS was going down.

Jack and Clara watched helplessly as the TARDIS started to fall out of the sky.