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A/N Thanks for the response on the last chapter. Shirtless Doctor was met with approval all around.

Part 2 is more of a filler, hence the short chapter. I hope you enjoy it regardless.

Happy Reading!

The Clone Wars: Battle Plans

Previously

"What the hell is that?" Rose murmured.

The green light came closer and Rose realised that they were a bunch of green-coloured, floating jellyfish. At least, that was what she thought they were until the Doctor tightened his grip on her.

"Oh no," he said.

"What is it? What are those things?" Rose asked.

The Doctor grimaced. "The Rutans."

"Identify yourselves," the Rutan in the lead said and Rose tried not to cringe at its voice. It was a horrible, tinny sound that reminded of a warbled radio connection combined with nails against a blackboard.

"Oh hello," said the Doctor cheerfully. "Don't mind us. We were just taking a walk along the cliffs, lovely night for a wander you see. But clumsy us, we lost our balance and ended up taking quite a tumble, didn't we Rose?"

"Yeah," said Rose quickly, since he evidently expected her to agree with him.

The Rutans listened to the Doctor's babble and the leader started shimmering. Rose's mouth fell open as the green jellyfish slowly morphed into an exact replica of the Doctor, down to the bare chest covered with bandages. "Identify yourselves," the Rutan-Doctor repeated in the Doctor's voice.

The Doctor's eyebrows shot up. "Your technology has certainly gone up in the world," he said, sounding a bit impressed. "And to answer you, I'm the Doctor and this is Rose Tyler. So, tell me, what are the Rutans doing on Maxim Beta? You're a fair distance away from your carnage with the Sontarans."

"It is none of your concern," Rutan-Doctor said firmly. "Come with us."

Having no choice left, the Doctor and Rose followed the Rutan-Doctor and the rest of the Rutans followed them, making a glugging sound as they moved.

Over on the Sontaran ship, Commander Styx approached the holding cell. "You!" he ordered, looking at Amy. "Get up!"

"No," said Rory, standing in front of Amy. "Ask me whatever you want. Leave her out of it."

"The woman-one will be interrogated first," Styx was adamant. "Our records indicate that they are the weaker ones."

"Oi!" shouted Amy as she got to her feet furiously. "Who are you calling 'weak', ugly?"

"Silence!" Styx commanded. "The woman-one shows courage. But she will still be the first one to be interrogated."

"Like hell," said Rory angrily.

Styx raised his gun and pointed it at Rory. "Any movements and you will be obliterated," he threatened as the hyperplex glass door swung open. "You! Woman-one! Come outside."

Amy gritted her teeth but started to move out. Rory grabbed her arm. "No, Amy," he said.

She gave him a reassuring smile. "I'll be fine," she said.

"Amy! Amy, no," Rory protested as Amy patted his arm and left with Styx. The cell door swung shut and Rory kicked it in frustration, yelping when it hurt. He reached into his pocket to check his mobile phone and was glad to see that it had a full signal.

Quick as he could, he dialled Rose's number and waited. He and Rose were the only ones who had a mobile phone, courtesy of the habit of their era. It rang twice before it was abruptly cut off. Rory scowled and disconnected the call, his worry intensifying. What had happened to those two?

"You didn't have to do that!" Rose protested as she looked at the large burn mark on her phone.

The Rutans ignored her and Rose glared at the Rutan-Doctor's back as she and the Doctor followed. Upon hearing her phone ring, the Rutan-Doctor had fired a small bolt at the phone, rendering it useless for the time being.

The Doctor still looked furious as they reached the Rutan ship. The bolt had fired too close to Rose and another inch or two would have meant that it would have hit her instead of the phone. He tightened his grip on her hand, being mindful of not crushing it since the bandages on her hand were still a dark beige.

The Rutan ship was quite magnificent in appearance with the glowing red crystalline surface on the outside. The inside was dark with occasional flashes of crimson that told the Doctor that they were running scans on the asteroid.

"Over here," the Rutan-Doctor ordered and the Doctor and Rose were asked to sit at a table. They sat down side-by-side, the Doctor glowering intensely at his double.

"Any reason why you have brought us here?" the Doctor demanded.

"State the purpose of your visit to Maxim Beta," commanded the Rutan-Doctor coldly.

"I told you already," snapped the Doctor. "We landed here and decided to go off on a wander."

"Do not lie!" snapped the Rutan-Doctor. "We know you are here for the segment."

The Doctor tensed and exchanged a worried glance with Rose. "The segment?" the Doctor asked.

The Rutan-Doctor glared at them both. "The Rutans have claimed the segment in their name. No one else shall have it. Neither you humanoids nor the Sontaran rabble."

"What segment is this?" the Doctor asked, a contemplative gleam appearing in his eyes.

"Do not play the innocent fool," snapped the Rutan-Doctor. "We know you are here for the Heleonic segment."

"Heleonic?" the Doctor asked, wondering why that sounded familiar. "No," he said, once he realised what it was. "You can't possibly..."

"Why? What is it?" Rose asked curiously, her original relief over the segment of the Key to Time giving way to wariness over the Doctor's horror.

"The Heleonic segment has a very unique property," the Doctor explained, keeping his eye fixed on the double who was glaring at him. "It can be harnessed to create a beam that can transform matter into anti-matter."

"Purpose confirmed," the Rutan-Doctor proclaimed. "You shall now be obliterated."

"No, no, no, wait," said the Doctor, quickly. "You mentioned the Sontarans. Are they here too?"

"The rabble has parked their ship on the other side of no-man's land," spat the Rutan-Doctor in disgust.

"No-man's land, eh?" murmured the Doctor.

"And we landed the TARDIS right in the middle of it," Rose whispered back to him.

"Look," said the Doctor to his Rutan double. "We have no interest in the Heleonic segment. We are obviously in the wrong place at the wrong time. Seems to happen a lot to me, I have to tell you. But," his voice became more focused. "I am guessing that the segment is also in the no-man's land which is why you haven't got it yet."

The Rutan-Doctor glared at the Doctor. "Your point?" he demanded.

"My point is," said the Doctor eagerly. "We don't want anything to do with your war with the Sontarans. If you let us go, we can fetch the segment for you in exchange for our freedom."

"How do we know you will not try to escape?" demanded the Rutan-Doctor.

"Oh, you can send a small contingent of Rutans with us," said the Doctor with a wide smile. "In fact, we insist on it."

The Rutan-Doctor looked suspicious for a moment before nodding. "Fine, wait here," he said and then morphed back into his original form.

Rose was inordinately relieved when that happened. It was getting really weird watching two Doctors argue back and forth. And the Rutan-Doctor was very creepy.

"Rose, I need your phone," whispered the Doctor in her ear.

"But it's broken," Rose whispered back.

The Doctor looked insistent so Rose passed him the phone. He used his coat to hide what he was doing and began to fiddle with the phone with his sonic screwdriver. Rose wondered what he was doing and asked him so. "Trying something," he answered unhelpfully. "I just hope this works."

"Doctor," said Rose, exasperated. "Can you just tell me what hare-brained scheme you have come up with?"

"I am sending a little message to Rory," he said, managing to connect the phone's system enough to send a message. "If we are lucky, they have been captured by Sontarans."

"How is that lucky?" Rose hissed.

"It's lucky because once the Sontarans read this message, then they will undoubtedly be on their way to collect the segment," said the Doctor. "Aha," he murmured. "Here we go."

"That's your plan?" Rose asked. "Get the Sontarans and Rutans in the same place at the same time?"

"Brilliant, isn't it?" he asked with a quick grin. "Let them fight it out while we escape."

"Or die in the crossfire," muttered Rose. "You nutter, you sure you didn't hit your head on the way down?"

The Doctor gave her a wounded look. "Rose, it is a brilliant idea and I admit it's risky but it's the best we have so far."

"And what if they haven't been captured by Sontarans, hmm?" Rose asked in a furious whisper.

"Then they are back in the TARDIS and we can join them once the Rutans have let us go," he said.

"And what about the segment?" Rose asked.

"Which one?" he asked with a grin, and sobered up when Rose glared at him. "The Heleonic segment is useless. The Rutans will not be able to create the anti-matter beam even if they do get the segment. It's way beyond them. As for the key, well, once the Sontarans and Rutans sort out their differences, we can resume our search," he explained. "There, done!"

Rose sighed and shook her head. "I only hope you are right," she muttered. "Otherwise we are all doomed."

"Don't be so dramatic, Rose," said the Doctor with a grin. "You'll see. Nothing can go wrong."

Rose groaned. "You just had to say that, didn't you?"

"What is this device?" Styx asked Rory.

"It's a mobile," Rory said.

Styx had interrogated Amy and then him, but they had both told him the same thing. They were not here for the Heleonic segment. Whatever the hell that was. But then, Rory's phone had buzzed with a message. The phone that Styx was now holding.

Rutans are moving in to get the segment.

"I knew it!" Styx declared. "Rutan scum!"

"What's going on?" Amy muttered to Rory.

"The Doctor's work, no doubt," Rory whispered back. "It's going to get us killed."

"Or not," Amy muttered. "Oi, Potato-face!" she called. Styx glared at her and she waved cheekily. "The Rutans are moving in. Aren't you lot going to march over there to stop them? Or are you too much of cowards to face them?"

"You insult us, woman-one?" Styx roared. "Open cell! You two shall accompany us and watch the Sontarans crush the Rutan scum."

Still shaking with anger, Styx rallied his troops and glared at Amy and Rory to follow. Amy winked at Rory. "Like taking a candy from a baby," she murmured.

Rory's lips twitched. "What do you think the Doctor's up to?"

"My guess? He's getting the jellyfish and potatoheads in one place and waiting for the powder keg to blow itself up," Amy said as they followed the Sontarans out of the ship.

"And how do we avoid getting killed?" Rory asked.

"Believe me," smirked Amy. "When Rutans and Sontarans come face to face, we could dance around them wearing bulls-eyes and they still wouldn't shoot at us."

"I just hope you are right," said Rory. "Where is this segment anyway?"

"I'm guessing in the same area that they were firing in," said Amy. "The TARDIS is somewhere down there," said Amy, pointing to their right where it sloped downwards.

"Do you think it's weird that they are taking us to the same place where the core was pointing at before?" Rory asked.

"Do you mean, is the the Heleonic segment the fourth segment of the key?" Amy guessed. "I don't know. I hope not, anyway. It would make this much more complicated."

"Take formation!" Styx ordered and Amy and Rory saw a large depression in the ground. The Sontarans stood around it, their guns ready. "The segment," Commander Styx said. "Is in the catacombs. Begin descent."

At his command, the Sontarans started to jump into the hole one after another. Styx looked at Amy and Rory. "Jump, human scum!"

"Yeah, no," said Rory. "That looks way too deep."

Styx grumbled about weaklings before asking one of the soldiers to hand him a length of coil. He gave it to them. "Use this!" he ordered.

Rory raised his eyebrows before tying one end of the coil to one of the large boulders near the hole. He tossed the rest of it down. "Can you climb down?" he asked Amy.

"Course," answered Amy. She gripped it tightly and using the surrounding surface of the hole as leverage, began to descend downwards. Thankfully, it was only a small way down and she gave a shout to Rory once she was down. Rory followed soon after and Commander Styx rolled his eyes before jumping into the hole after them.

"To the left!" Commander Styx commanded and the Sontarans, and Amy and Rory began their trek through the narrow passageways under the surface of the asteroid to get to the segment.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Rose had followed the Rutans on a path through a cave in the cliffs and into the catacombs. They were moving right steadily, towards the segment. The Doctor was holding Rose's hand as they walked, both of them being mindful of the fact that any corner they turned at could have the Sontarans waiting to ambush them.

In the deepest of the caves where the Heleonic segment was resting, its guardians cackled in amusement as they watched the Sontarans and Rutans try and enter their domain through opposite ends.

"Soon," said their leader as the rest of them laughed loudly. "They shall be here soon. And we shall be avenged at last."

A/N End of Part 2. Thanks for reading.

So, what did you think? The Sontarans and Rutans are a bit too easy to rile up and fool. Clone races raised for war, not too bright.

The Rutan technology is a bit of an upgrade from the TV show. In the TV episode, they had to kill their subject before assuming their form, but now they can do that instantly.

And there is a third enemy entering the bunch. Once again, they are known Doctor Who aliens. Connected to the Sontarans.

Part 3 will see them meeting and sparks flying. Not in the fun way though. See you then!

~ Phoenix