Alright, this chapter is going to be a bit crazy, so just bare with me. And we're also not checking in with Eleven, River, Rory, Clara, and Donna in this chapter.
Here you go! I had fun writing this chapter.
A young man hurried across the road, his heart pounding. He ran up the drive of Number 13 to the doorstep and pushed through the door, which had been left unlocked. Once inside, he closed it behind him, and bolted up the stairs.
There are too many floors to this house, he thought, his heart pounding. He ran up the stairs to the attic and burst through the door, panting. Three other people turned and saw him.
"Where have you been?" Luke Smith demanded. Clyde Langer put a finger into the air, signaling for them to give him a minute. He panted really hard, bending down with his hands on his knees.
"So many stairs," he murmured. "This place could do with a lift."
Luke rolled his eyes and turned back to the supercomputer sticking out of the wall. "Is there any sign of her, Mr. Smith?"
"I regret that I cannot find Sarah Jane in the London area," the computer responded.
"Anything could be happening to her," Sky Smith murmured, sitting herself onto the step in front of Mr. Smith. She looked up at her brother and her friends, all with matching worried expressions on their faces.
Clyde finally recovered from his run. "What's going on? Luke sent me a text to get over here as fast as possible."
"Mr. Smith found a shielded ship outside earth's orbit with a teleport leading to a metal factory in Russia," Rani Chandra said. "Mr. Smith hacked into the metal factory computer system and found coordinates for the ship. Sarah Jane used a one-way one-person teleport to get her up there. She said she'd figure out how to come back."
"What species is in the ship?" Clyde asked. Rani shrugged.
"Mr. Smith couldn't identify it," he responded.
"So Sarah Jane decided to go up there without any idea how to get back?"
"She said she hates not knowing," Luke said. "Besides, she always manages to get out of trouble."
"Still, not her best decision," Clyde said. "And why couldn't you have waited for me?"
"You were across town!" Luke said. "We thought it was urgent."
"She's been gone for about half an hour," Rani told him. "We haven't got any word from her."
"So what are we going to do?" Clyde asked. "Are we just going to sit on our bums and do nothing?"
"There's nothing we can do," Luke said. "We've just got to wait."
And at that moment, Luke's phone began to ring. He pulled it up. "It's Mum!" he exclaimed. He put it to his ear. Sky jumped up off the step and joined the group.
"Hello? Mum, are you alright? Hold on, I'll get you a visual." Luke hurried up to Mr. Smith, and hooked his phone into the computer. After a moment, Sarah Jane's face appeared on Mr. Smith's screen.
"Sarah Jane, are you alright?" Rani asked. Then she noticed the people around her.
A rather pretty red haired woman looked closer at the screen. "Where are they?" she asked in a Scottish accent.
"My attic," Sarah Jane replied. "With a supercomputer."
Sarah Jane held the phone out in front of her, so that the other people in the room could see her friends and children.
"Who are they?" Rani asked.
"My name's Martha," said a dark skinned woman. "And that's my husband, Mickey." She pointed towards a dark skinned man. He waved.
"I'm Amy," said the red haired woman.
"I'm the Doctor," said a man with particularly large ears and a northern accent.
"That can't be the Doctor," Clyde hissed.
"Regeneration, duh," Rani whispered back. "Hey, Doctor!"
Sarah Jane shook her head. "This is earlier in his timeline. He hasn't met you yet."
"What?"
"It's complicated."
"Ok," Rani said uncertainly. "My name's Rani."
"Clyde," said Clyde.
"I'm Luke, and this is my sister, Sky," Luke introduced. "Sarah Jane's our mum."
"You have kids?" the Doctor asked. "You didn't tell me that."
"Never came up," Sarah Jane said. "Anyway, we need help."
The group was suddenly alert.
"What's going on?" Rani asked. "Where are you?"
"I'm still on the ship," Sarah Jane told them. "And this is a Dalek ship." The group gasped, except for Sky.
"What are Daleks?" Sky asked. Rani thought for a moment, then hurried over to Sarah Jane's PC and pulled a picture off the wall.
"Careful with that!" Sarah Jane called, as Rani brought the picture to Sky.
"This is a Dalek." Sky scanned the paper.
"It looks like a pepper shaker with wheels," she remarked, causing a bunch of them to burst out laughing. Rani returned the picture to the wall and hurried back towards the group.
"Anyway," Sarah Jane interrupted, a hint of a smile still on her face. "I need Mr. Smith to get a map of the ship to me."
"But Sarah Jane, the ship is shielded. The Dalek network is the one thing I cannot hack into." Mr. Smith told her.
"But you can get into the Metal Factory," Luke pointed out. "That's how you got the coordinates for the ship. Can't you search for a map in the Metal Factory database?"
"I can try," Mr. Smith confirmed. "Search in progress."
"Yes!" Sarah Jane cried in triumph. The people on the ship with her smiled.
"Luke, you have an incoming call," Mr. Smith informed him.
"From who?"
"Your mobile does not recognize the number." A series of numbers flashed on the screen above Sarah Jane's image.
"Ignore it then," Luke said. The number disappeared off the screen.
A few seconds later, Clyde's mobile started to ring. He pulled it out. "Guys, it's the same number," he told them.
"If they know both Luke's number and Clyde's number, then it might be someone we know," Sarah Jane said.
"Then answer it!" Rani told him. Clyde did as he was told.
"Hello?"
"Oh, Clyde!" came a female voice from the other end. "Rose let me borrow her mobile. I called Sarah Jane, but the line was busy, then I called Luke and got sent straight to voicemail. I'm so glad to hear your voice! I need your help!"
"Maria?" At this name, everyone in the attic turned to look at Clyde. Luke beckoned Clyde forward.
"Bring it here," he said. "Mr. Smith can put her on the screen. That way Mum can see her too."
Clyde relayed to Maria what they were going to do, and then handed Luke the mobile. Luke hooked it into the console, and after a moment, Sarah Jane's image moved to the side, which made room for another image to appear.
They could suddenly see Maria, along with a young blond woman along with—
"Doctor!" Rani, Luke, Clyde, Sarah Jane, Martha, and Mickey exclaimed at the same time.
Then Sarah Jane, Mickey, Martha, and the Big Eared Doctor exclaimed, "Rose!"
Clyde decided that the blond woman must have been Rose.
Sarah Jane's image shook as the Big Eared Doctor made a grab for it. Suddenly all they could see was him.
"Oh my gosh, Rose!" he half—shouted. "You're alive!" He turned to Amy. "You were right, she's alive!"
Rose exclaimed, "Where are you?"
"I'm on the Dalek ship now," he said (Maria's eyes widened at the mention of Daleks). "Where are you?"
"Hartford, Connecticut on the same date as you," she said. "I have no idea how I got here."
The Big Eared Doctor thought for a moment. "I think that when the teleport tried to send you to the TARDIS and failed, it must have sent you to the wrong place."
"That's how you ended up here," said the spiky haired Doctor. The Big Eared Doctor glanced at him.
"Who are you?"
"I'm the Doctor," he said.
"So am I."
"I remember you, or rather, being you," he said. "The 9th Doctor. I'm the one who comes next. I didn't not expect to see you today."
"Same here," Nine said.
"Guys, as weird as this is, we don't have time for this," Maria spoke up. "We're in trouble and we need help!"
"So are we," Sarah Jane said, peering over Nine's shoulder. "We need to find our way to the weapon control so we can blow this place up!"
"Wait," Clyde butted in. "How are you going to get off it."
"With the TARDIS," she replied. Clyde noticed Nine and Amy's faces go white.
"Er—" Amy said.
"We kind of lost the TARDIS…"
Sarah Jane's mouth dropped open. "How could you lose the TARDIS?"
"We sent it back to earth," Amy said. "But this dumbo forgot that he used all of his teleports on his machine. Why couldn't you give the machine to the Daleks?" she asked as an afterthought.
"This is a rare thing, given to me by a friend because he knew I'd probably need it," Nine explained quickly. "If the Daleks got their hands on it, even if it is out of power, bad things can happen."
Rani, Clyde, Luke, and Sky didn't bother asking for details.
"How are you going to get back?" Rani asked.
"I don't know," Sarah Jane answered. "But we need to blow up this ship. If we don't, bad things could happen."
"So we need to blow the place up," Martha realized, "with us inside."
"What?" Sky cried.
"No!" Luke exclaimed.
"You can't!" Rani yelled. She turned to Ten's image. "You obviously got out of this. You're a later regeneration. How did you get out of this?!"
'I—I—" Ten stuttered. "I don't remember."
"How can you not remember?" Maria turned and yelled at him.
"My Mum can't die on this ship," Luke thundered. "So you'd better remember, and you'd better remember fast!"
"I can't," Ten said. "I'm sorry!"
Rani scoffed angrily.
"Can't we teleport off somehow?" Martha asked. "The teleport we used is busted."
"The Dalek teleports!" Amy shouted. "Can't we use those?"
Nine was silent for a moment, and then, slowly, he nodded. A smile started forming on his face. "That might just work!"
"Great, but we still need help," Maria put in. "Thousands of lives are at stake."
"What do you need?" Luke questioned. Maria took the phone and changed the angle to show the group a small contraption.
"It's a pulsar," Maria said. "We're dealing with Cybermen—" Several of the people who knew what Cybermen were gasped ("What are Cybermen?" Sky asked). "And this pulsar will knock them all out. Doctor, can you explain?"
Ten took the phone and stared into it, so that everyone could see him. "We're going to transmit the power of the pulsar to all of the Cybermen through the control center, where we are right now," he explained. "It will deactivate every last Cyberman in the area, and give us time to shut down the upgrading machines. But the pulsar is too weak, even with my screwdriver. We need to boost the signal."
"Mr. Smith can help with that," Luke said. "Mr. Smith? The Doctor is going to send you some coordinates and you need to send a power boost to that location."
"I shall do it," Mr. Smith said.
"Incoming coordinates," Ten reported, typing something into the phone he was holding. Clyde's phone beeped, signaling a text, and some numbers flashed onto Mr. Smith's screen.
"Sending power boost now," Mr. Smith said. A few seconds later, sparks flew from the console with pulsar next to it, and Ten's image spiraled as he shoved the phone into someone's hand.
Maria reappeared on the screen. She looked at Ten, who was fumbling with the controls.
"Is it working?" Rose asked desperately.
"Just about," the Doctor reported. "The boost was just what we needed—whoa!"
More sparks flew, and there was a low buzzing.
"I've gotta go!" Maria shouted. Then she let out a shriek and dropped the phone. Clyde and Rani exchanged strange glances as Maria shouted, "Oh my flipping heck! He's alive!"
"Oh!" they heard a male voice say. "That hurt. What did I miss?"
The people in the attic, along with the Sarah Jane, Amy, and Nine exchanged weird glances.
"What the hell was that?" Amy asked Rose.
"Long story," Rose said over the sound of Maria freaking out.
"Jack there?" Martha and Mickey asked in unison. Rose opened her mouth slightly.
"How'd ya know?" Martha and Mickey exchanged glances. "Long story," Martha repeated.
"Rose! I need you!"
"Maria will call you back."
"Rose," said Nine, "I will find you."
Rose smiled, and the phone call cut out. The image from the Dalek ship enlarged as the other image faded away.
"That was so weird," Clyde murmured.
"It was to me, too," Sarah Jane commented, still looking over Nine's shoulder. To Nine, she said, "Can I have my phone back?" Nine handed it back to her, and Sarah Jane held it up. "Mr. Smith? Do you have the map?"
"I just acquired them, Sarah Jane. I can track your location on the map and tell you where to go."
Sarah Jane nodded. "Sounds good. Are you guys ready?" she asked towards the people with her. "We're going to need to be quick."
"I'll go check and see if the Daleks outside have gone," Martha said. She disappeared out of the screen. She declared it 'all clear' a few moments later.
"Let's go."
"Mum?" Sky said, speaking for the first time in a very long time. Sarah Jane stopped and looked back into the screen at Sky's worried face.
"Just be careful." Sky warned.
"I will," Sarah Jane assured her. "But I'm going to go. Mr. Smith will send me messages telling us where to go. His voice would just make us risk getting caught. But I'll be home later, I promise."
Luke and Sky nodded. Clyde and Rani exchanged nervous glances. They hoped it would go well.
Sarah Jane gave one last smile and the image cut out. It was replaced by an instant message screen and a map with a red dot marking Sarah Jane's location.
Mr. Smith's first instruction showed up on the message screen, and the red dot moved.
Now all that the gang could do was wait.
I know it was crazy. Did you like it though? Can I just note that it was a lot of fun to write Jack coming back to life?
And this chapter marks the 100th Page on Microsoft Word, and 50,000 words! This the longest story I've ever written, and it is not done yet!
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