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The Time Lord Oracle: yup very different from last time. And Rose is not going to take it well, not at all.
"Help me", Wilf gasped.
"Oh stupid Ali!" she said reprimanding herself as she remembered that she had powers. She'd forgotten all about them in the panic. "Wilf duck!" she shouted at Wilf. The moment the man ducked down, she raised her hand focusing on the windscreen.
She winced as the glass smashed. Now that they had a way to get Wilf out, the Doctor and Donna hauled him out of the car. "Thanks", Wilf gasped.
"You're welcome", Alyssa said rubbing her head.
"Get inside the house. Just try and close off the doors and windows", the Doctor instructed them.
A moment later Ross pulled up in a black taxi. The Doctor, Alyssa and Donna got in and soon they were on their way back to the warehouse.
"The air is disgusting", Donna coughed as they reached the TARDIS.
"It's not so bad for me", the Doctor said, keeping Alyssa close to him, covering her mouth and nose with his coat.
"Good for you", she mumbled, her voice muffled from the fabric.
"Go on, get inside the TARDIS, both of you" the Doctor said knowing that they would be safe from the gas inside the box "Oh, I've never given you a key!" he added pulling one of from his pocket "Keep that. Go on, that's yours. Quite a big moment really".
Donna took it "Yeah, maybe we can get sentimental after the world's finished choking to death", she said sarcastically.
"Good idea", the Doctor agreed.
"Where are you going?" Alyssa asked him.
"To stop a war", he replied running off. Alyssa unlocks the TARDIS and steps inside with Donna. Immediately both women took deep breaths of clean air.
"Much better", Alyssa sighed.
"Yeah, definitely", Donna agreed going over to the captain's chair and sitting down.
"I guess congratulations are in order in getting your TARDIS key", Alyssa said sitting next to her.
"Thanks", Donna said.
Alyssa opened her mouth to say something when the TARDIS shook "Sexy what happened?" she asked.
We've been teleported.
"Teleported where?" Alyssa questioned.
The Sontaran ship Alyssa's eyes widened at that.
"Oh", she said.
"Ali? What's wrong?" Donna asked seeing her expression.
"We're on board the Sontaran ship", Alyssa replied.
"Are we safe in here?" Donna questioned looking at the doors.
"Don't worry. The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through those doors", Alyssa assured her.
"So what do we do now?" Donna asked.
"We wait", Alyssa answered.
"That's it?" Donna asked staring at her in disbelief.
"I'm afraid so", Alyssa said.
"Surely you could figure something out other than waiting, you are brilliant after all"
"While that is true in some respects, I am out of my depth on this one", Alyssa confessed. She didn't like to just wait around either but what could she and Donna do? They were trapped on the Sontaran ship!
The women had no idea how long they were sitting there when the Doctor's voice came through the scanner. Alyssa and Donna got up and went over to it "This is the Doctor"
"Doctor, we're here. Can you hear us?" Donna asked seeing him sit there with Mace behind him.
"I don't think he can. I think he's broadcasting to the ship and we're on board so…" Alyssa began.
"We're picking it up too", Donna finished.
"Exactly", Alyssa agreed.
"Doctor, breathing your last?" Staal's voice came through the screen.
"My God, they're like trolls", Mace gaped.
"Yeah, loving the diplomacy, thanks. So, tell me, General Staal, since when did you lot become cowards?"
"How dare you!" Staal cried.
"Oh, that's diplomacy?" Colonel Mace remarked quietly.
"Doctor, you impugn my honour", Staal said offended.
"Good thing he didn't say belittle. The Doctor would have a field day with that", Alyssa remarked.
"How did you know he was going to say that?" Donna asked as the Doctor repeated what Alyssa had just said almost word for word. She knew Alyssa couldn't see the future, it wasn't one of her psychic abilities.
"I didn't. I just know him Donna", Alyssa said.
"…but poison gas? That's the weapon of a coward and you know it. Staal, you could blast this planet out of the sky and yet you're sitting up above watching it die. Where's the fight in that? Where's the honour? Or are you lot planning something else, because this isn't normal Sontaran warfare. What are you lot up to?"
"A general would be unwise to reveal his strategy to the opposing forces", Staal pointed out.
"Ah, the war's not going so well, then. Losing, are we?" the Doctor asked.
"What war is he talking about?" Donna asked and Alyssa shrugged. She didn't know what the Doctor was talking about.
"Such a suggestion is impossible", Staal scoffed.
"What war?" Colonel Mace asked.
"The war between the Sontarans and the Rutans. It's been raging, far out in the stars, for 50,000 years", the Doctor explained "50,000 years of bloodshed, and for what?"
"For victory", Staal replied "Sontar-ha!" he cheered.
Donna and Alyssa listened as more voices started chanting 'Sontar-ha'.
The Doctor rolled his eyes "Give me a break", he said pulling out his sonic. The scanner screen turned static.
"What happened?" Donna asked.
"He cut the connection. Probably to shut them up", Alyssa replied "it's what I would do".
A minute later the screen flickered on "Finished?" the Doctor asked.
"You will not be so quick to ridicule when you'll see our prize. Behold. We are the first Sontarans in history to capture a TARDIS", Staal said.
"Well, as prizes go, that's…brilliant", the Doctor remarked.
"He's talking about you", Donna said.
"As they say in Latin, Donna nobis pacem", the Doctor added.
"He knows we can see this", Alyssa said happily. Hopefully that meant he would tell them what to do.
"Did you never wonder about its design? It's a phone box. It contains a phone. A telephonic device for communication. Sort of symbolic. Like, if only we could communicate, you and I", the Doctor continued.
Alyssa's eyes widened and she dug in her pocket for her phone "All you have communicated is your distress, Doctor", Staal said.
"Big mistake though, showing it to me…" the Doctor began.
"He wants to phone someone. But who?" Donna asked as Alyssa pulled out her phone.
"Because I've got remote control", the Time Lord finished.
"Cease transmission!" Staal ordered and the screen went black.
"He wants us to call him", Alyssa stated.
"Does he even have a phone?" Donna asked.
"Yep", Alyssa replied.
"Then please tell me you have his number", Donna said.
Alyssa looked up from her phone "Donna do you really think I wouldn't have my own boyfriend's number?"
"Good point", Donna conceded.
Alyssa was about to hit the dial button on her phone, the TARDIS shook again this time both of them where knocked to the floor. "Are we being teleported again?" Donna asked.
No, I'm being physically moved
Alyssa relayed that information to Donna. When the shaking stopped, the pair got to their feet. Alyssa rung the Doctor before anything else happened. As it connected she stuck it on speaker so Donna could hear as well "Doctor what's happened, were are you?" Donna asked when the Time Lord picked up.
"Still on Earth. But don't worry, I've got my secret weapons", the Doctor said.
"What's that?" Donna asked.
"Us", Alyssa replied "you do mean us right?"
"Yes", the Doctor confirmed.
"Oh. Somehow that's not making me happy", Donna said "Can't you just zap us down to Earth with that remote thing?"
"Yeah, I haven't got a remote, though I really should. I need you on that ship. That's why I made them move the TARDIS", the Doctor said "I'm sorry but you've both got to go outside".
"But there's Sonteruns out there", Donna reminded them.
"Sontarans", the Doctor and Alyssa corrected her.
"But they'll all be on battle stations right now. They don't exactly walk about having coffee. I can talk you through it"
"But what if they find us?" Donna asked worried.
"If they do, I will protect you. If I'm able to stop Miss Foster's guards from killing us, I can stop a few potato heads", Alyssa assured.
Donna couldn't help but smile, slightly reassured by her words "What do you need us to do?" she asked.
"The Sontarans are inside the factory which means they've got a teleport link with the ship, but they'll have deadlocked it. I need you to reopen the link", the Doctor said.
The two women went to the door of the TARDIS and peeked out. "There's a Sontaran out there", Donna said.
"Did he see you?" the Doctor asked.
"No, he's got his back to us", Donna replied. She then noticed Alyssa searching for something by the console "Ali what are you looking for?"
Alyssa produced a mallet "this", she said standing up "I'll be right back". Donna watched her creep up to the Sontaran and whacked him hard on the back of the neck. The Sontaran drops to the floor, unconscious. "Back of the neck!" she cheered.
"Nice one Ali", Donna said coming out to join her now that the Sontaran guard had been taken care of.
"What happened?" the Doctor asked.
"She just hit the Sontaran with a mallet", Donna replied.
"That's one potato head down. Where do we go next?" Alyssa said.
"You've got to find the external junction feed to the teleport", the Doctor told them as they started to walk.
"What's it look like?" Donna asked.
"A circular panel on the wall. Big symbol on the front, like a, like a letter T with a horizontal line through it. Or, or, two Fs back to back", the Doctor said describing it.
"Oh. Well, there's a door", Donna said when they reached a closed door blocking their way.
"Should be a switch by the side", the Doctor said.
Alyssa looked "yeah there is", she confirmed.
"But its Sontaran shaped, you need three fingers", Donna pointed out.
"Donna we have three fingers", Alyssa reminded her holding up her hand.
"Oh, yeah", Donna said.
Alyssa put her hand into the pattern and the door slide open "We're through", she reported.
"Oh, you two are brilliant", the Doctor said.
"We know", Donna and Alyssa said together causing them both to smile at each other.
"Right, T with a line through it", Alyssa said.
"Got to go. Keep the line open", the Doctor said. Donna took the phone of speaker and stuck it in her pocket. The pair continued walking the through the ship, Alyssa pulling Donna into the shadowy corner when she sensed a bunch of Sontarans coming their way.
Eventually they found the teleport link "let the Doctor know we've found it", Alyssa set setting down the mallet. She kept an eye out while Donna rung the Doctor.
"Oh! Blimey, I'm busy", the Doctor said "Got it?"
"Yes. Now hurry up!" Donna shouted.
"Take off the covering. All the blue switches inside. Flick them up like a fuse box, and that should get the teleport working", the Doctor told her. Donna relayed that to Alyssa who got to work. As she finished another door slid open and Sontaran's march in.
"Blue switches done, but they've found us", Donna reported.
"Donna get into the teleport, now", Alyssa said raising her hands and focusing on creating a wall to stop the Sontarans. Donna quickly ran into the teleport pod.
Once the ginger was there, Alyssa pushed the wall forwards, knocking the Sontaran's back. She then ran into the teleport pod. A second later they disappeared in a flash of light.
They reappeared in some sort of lab. Donna ran out and attacked the Doctor with a hug "Have I ever told you how much I hate you?" she asked.
"All right, get off me", the Doctor said wanting to make sure Alyssa was all right as well as his unborn child. He turned to his girlfriend who was rubbing her head "you used your powers again didn't you?"
"Yep", Alyssa replied.
"Why did you do that? You know it hurts whenever you do", the Doctor said.
"It was either use them or let the Sontarans shoot us AND our baby. Personally I prefer the former even if the consequence is this headache", Alyssa said.
"Once this is over, I'll get you something for that" he turned to the teleport and sonics it, beaming the TARDIS back down to where it was before. They then stepped inside the teleport pod and the Doctor teleported them all the Rattigan Academy. Where they were greeted by Luke who was pointing a gun at them.
The Doctor strode forward and yanked the weapon out of his hands. He'd seriously had it with people and aliens pointing guns his way. And the fact that Alyssa was there…. he was not having any of it "If I see one more gun…" he didn't even bother to finish his threat as he tossed the gun away. He'd leave it to Luke's imagination.
Everyone watched as the Doctor started creating something with bits and pieces in Luke's Lab. "That's why the Sontarans had to stop the missiles. They were holding back", he explained as he worked "Because caesofine gas is volatile, that's why they had to use you to stop the nuclear attack. Ground to air engagement could spark off the whole thing".
"What, like set fire to the atmosphere?" Alyssa asked.
"Yeah. They need all the gas intact to breed their clone army. And all the time we had Luke here in his dream factory. Planning a little trip, were we?"
"They promised me a new world", Luke admitted.
"You were building equipment, ready to terraform El Mondo Luko so that humans could live there and breathe the air with this. An atmospheric converter", the Doctor said.
The Doctor picks up the atmospheric converter and runs outside "That's London. You can't even see it. My family's in there", Donna said looking at the vast area of land blanketed by a thick yellow fog.
"Mine too", Alyssa said feeling a pang of guilt at how she never even phoned her mother to warn her. She really hoped she was ok.
"If I can get this on the right setting…" the Doctor said as he knelt on the floor, fiddling with the device.
"Doctor, hold on. You said the atmosphere would ignite", Martha said.
"Yeah, I did, didn't I?" he pressed a button and a flame shoots up into the sky, igniting it. Alyssa took his hand as they watched the flames race across the sky, burning up all the poison gas.
"He's a genius!" Luke proclaimed.
"Just brilliant", Martha agreed.
"Now we're in trouble!" the Doctor said picking up his converter and runs back into the building. The others hurried after him. Alyssa watched with a frown on her face as the Doctor stepped into the teleport pod, atmospheric converter in his arms. "Right...so, Donna, thank you for everything. Martha, you too. Oh…so many times. Luke, do something clever with your life. Ali…" the Doctor trailed off unable to say the right words.
"You're saying goodbye", Donna said.
"Sontarans are never defeated. They'll be getting ready for war. And, well, you know, I've recalibrated this for Sontaran air, so…" the Doctor trailed off.
"You're going to ignite them", Alyssa finished tears starting to build in her eyes as she realised what that meant. He was going to sacrifice himself to save the rest of them.
"You'll kill yourself", Donna stated putting an arm around Alyssa who was trying to hold it together.
"Just send that thing up on it's own. I don't know…put it on a delay", Martha suggested. She knew how much the pair meant to each other. She knew it was going to tear Alyssa apart if he was killed.
"I can't", the Doctor said quietly. His hearts ached to see Alyssa getting upset, he never liked to see that. But this time was worse as it was he was the cause. However, he knew this was the right thing to do. He had to keep her safe…he had to keep their child safe… even if it meant that he had give up his lives to do that.
"Why not?" Donna asked.
"I've got to give them a choice", the Doctor replied before teleporting away. The second he was gone, Alyssa collapsed to the floor taking Donna down with her. Martha sat down on her other side putting her arms around her too. The pair hugged Alyssa as she sobbed, her heart breaking at the Doctor's decision.
Luke watched the red head cry, clinging onto the other two woman like they were her lifelines. He knew what he had to do. He walked to the teleport pod and started to fiddle with it. "What are you doing?" Martha asked noticing.
"Something clever", Luke replied and teleported out. A second later, the Doctor appears in the teleport pod looking rather confused. He didn't know what had happened, one moment he was on the ship and the next he was back at the academy. Then he noticed that Luke was missing. Now he knew what had happened. Luke had gone in his place. Sacrificed himself so that the earth would keep on turning.
He was broken out of his thoughts when Alyssa nearly threw herself at him, causing him to stumble. Immediately, his arms went around her, holding her tightly. Alyssa buried her face into his neck as fresh set of tears ran down her face. "Don't do anything like that again", she sobbed "I can't lose you…I cannot rise this baby without you".
The Doctor didn't say anything, just held her close as she cried. One thing he knew for certain, he wasn't going to do anything like that again. Unless her life or their child's life was on the line then he most definitely would. She was everything to him. And he would do anything to keep her and their baby safe.