At that moment, two women, Cathica and Suki, I guess their names were, walked by. "We're gonna have to talk about what you can and can't tell me," He turned to them, "Erm, this is gonna sound daft, but can you tell us where we are?"

Cathica pointed at a sign, "Floor 139? Could they write it any bigger?" I snickered as he looked at the huge sign on top of a wall. "Well done, Captain Missing the Obvious," He scowled at me and looked at them with a forced grin.

"Floor 139 of what?"

"Satellite Five," I muttered, "Sorry, I didn't know that an inspection test meant that we had to act like idiots, it's my first time," I elbowed the Doctor as discreetly as I could, and he pulled out the psychic paper, seeming to understand.

"It's a management test and I'm your boss, I can do what I like!" He glared at me and I nodded, still uncertain.

"Right," The two of them straightened up as they saw his credentials. And mine, maybe, if he included my name in it.

"We were warned about this in basic training," Suki looked at Cathica, "All workers have to be well versed in company promotion,"

Cathica turned to us, looking confident and desperate to impress, "Right then, fire away. Ask your questions. If it gets me to Floor 500, I'll do anything,"

"Why, what happens on Floor 500?"

"The walls are made of gold," She said, as if it couldn't be more obvious, "And you should know, Mr Management," She grinned at him and walked forward, "So, this is what we do,"

We walked behind her to a row of screens all broadcasting the news. Cathica read out the headlines, and I frowned as she talked about the Bad Wolf channel. One, because it was the first mention of the Bad Wolf arc for me, and second, Jack could get pregnant. Although that was something that was on a more hilarious note. "Remember Bad Wolf," I murmured to the Doctor, and he nodded, frowning. "Why?"

"It's important," I hissed back and looked back at Cathica. After Cathica finished, he turned to her, "I get it. You broadcast the news,"

Catia looked at him, almost offended, "We are the news. We're the journalists. We package it, write it and sell it. Six hundred channels all coming out of Satellite Five. Nothing happens in the whole human empire without it going through us,"

At that moment, a klaxon bell sounded and everyone jumped off their seats and went to different places to work, probably. The Doctor then turned to the chairs, where Rose and Adam were looking around, confused. "Oi, Mutt and Jeff! Over here!" He turned to Cathica and Suki, "They're my junior assistants,"

"Ooh, Mutt and Jeff is a comic that used to come in the newspaper!" I told the Doctor, grinning, as Rose and Adam looked at us. Rose immediately came to us, while Adam hesitated. Probably keeping Rose's phone with him. I frowned and reminded myself to confiscate it from him.

"Well, she loves history, doesn't she?" The Doctor squeezed my hand, and I jumped, "Yeah?" He looked at me, concerned, "Cathica here said that nobody's used a newspaper in years, and I said you had them because you told me you love history,"

"Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right," I turned to Cathica and Suki, pretending to be unfazed, "I do love history, it's the best,"

"I do too," Cathica nodded, grinning, and I smiled at her. "Alright then," She turned toward a corridor, "I'm sure you wanna know how we work here,"

"Yeah, yeah, course we do," The Doctor grinned at her, and she smiled back. "Come on, I'll show you," Suki smiled at us awkwardly as she then went to follow Cathica, who was strutting forward already.

Rose and Adam followed, and I walked beside them, "Hey, Rose, do you think I could borrow your phone sometime? I left mine in the TARDIS,"

"What would you need a phone for?" The Doctor caught up to us, shoving his hands into his pockets. I shrugged, "What if we need to call someone for help?" The Doctor rolled his eyes, "Yeah, we're stuck in a Satellite in the year 200,000 and the first person we call for help is Ricky the idiot,"

"His name is Mickey!" I nudged the Doctor hard, "Ricky's a whole other person. Also why did you even assume that I was gonna call him? I don't even know him that well!" The Doctor raised an eyebrow at me. "Or, well, he doesn't know me that well- you get The point, don't you?"

At that moment, we entered a room with an octagonal thing and several people seated around a chair. I shuddered as I looked at the chair and put my hands on the railing. It was hot and I flinched, grasping. I immediately pulled them off, though, before they could start burning. Curse you, Jaguar-fez! Or whatever you're called!

"Now, everybody behave," Cathica looked at everyone in the room as they all turned to us, "We have a management inspection," She turned to us, "How do you want it, by the book?"

"Right from scratch, thanks," The Doctor said.

"Okay," She turned to the people sitting down, "Ladies, gentlemen, multisex, undecided or robot- my name's Cathica Santini Khadeni," She turned to us, "That's Cathica with a C, in case you want to write to Floor 500 praising me, and please do," The Doctor and I grinned awkwardly as she turned back to them, "Now, feel free to ask any questions. The process of news gathering must be open, honest, and beyond bias," She turned to us again, a proud and confident smile on her face, "That's company policy,"

"Actually," Cathica seemed to deflate a bit as Suki, who was sitting down, piped up, "It's the law," She smiled at us shyly. I grinned back. Cathica, on the other hand, wasn't happy,

"Yes, thank you Suki," She gave her the death stare, and turned to everyone else. I frowned at that and at the expression Suki's face, which looked extremely familiar. I nodded and looked back at Cathica. "Okay, keep it calm, don't show off for the guests," She went and sat on the chair, "Here we go," She lay down, putting her hands on the armrests, "And, engage safety,"

The people around her held their palms on top of a concrete thing (the news transmitter, probably) as the lights turned on. Ah, brain time. I shuddered and moved back, not wanting to lose my breakfast. Which I had skipped. But still.

"Anything bad gonna happen now?" The Doctor leaned down toward me, "You look like you're gonna be sick,"

"Well, nothing bad, but something unsettling," Cathica clicked her fingers and I leaned back as her brain opened up. Rose and Adam leaned toward the railing, not believing what they were seeing, probably, and the Doctor remained calm, "Ah, poor you, almost losing your breakfast twice,"

"You mean the breakfast I skipped thanks to you," I muttered, scowling.

"And three, two, and spike," A blue beam of light entered her brain. I shuddered as I moved back even more. "Uurghh,"

"Compressed information," The Doctor remarked, pulling me forward as I backed off too much, "Streaming into her. Reports from every country, every city, every planet, and they all get packaged inside her head. She becomes part of the software. Her brain is the computer,"

"If it all goes through her, she must be a genius," Rose leaned toward Cathica.

I shrugged, "The way you described it, I'm picturing a blaster and a robotic voice saying 'You will be upgraded'," The Doctor frowned at me. "Why would you even make a comparison like that?!"

I shrugged again and turned to Cathica, who was literally getting information drilled into her head. No pun intended. Maybe. "Well, I'm bananas and obsessed with Cybermen for some weird reason,"

"Anyway, that won't happen, because she wouldn't remember any of it, and there's no Cybermen here unless there are and you're not telling me," He walked around the octagon. Rose followed him and sat down in between two of the people, "There's too much, her head would blow up,"

"That's a cheery thought to make me lose my nonexistent breakfast for the third time today and we've not even met the Jaguar-fez," I muttered, pulling my hair into a bun, scrunching up my face as I felt the sweat on my neck. "Also, I can assure you that there are no Cybermen here." The Doctor sighed and I grinned.

"So, what about these people around the edge?" Rose squatted in front of a couple of them.

"They've all got tiny little chips in their head, connecting them to her and they transmit six hundred channels," He walked back to Cathica, "Every single fact in the Empire beams about in this place. Now that's what I call power,"

"Really? I call that exam preparation," I walked beside him, "Every fact in the textbook crammed into your head the night before, only for you to forget everything right after you finish the exam because your brain will explode otherwise with all the useless information,"

"That's true, you know," Rose laughed from where she was. The Doctor looked at me, confused, "That's never happened to me,"

Adam stared at Cathica, not speaking at all. Rose walked toward him as I frowned. I really had to get either Rose's phone or the credit stick off him. "Are you alright?"

"I can see her brain,"

"Do you wanna get out?"

"No, no, this technology is amazing," He continued to stare at Cathica, fascinated.

"It's also localised to this time zone, cannot emphasise that more," I muttered, and the Doctor frowned, "This technology's wrong,"

Rose smiled at the Doctor, "Trouble?"

The Doctor grinned back, "Oh yeah," I looked at all the people in the room, and frowned as Suki flinched. Oh yeah- she was some sort of an impostor! And she had to go to Floor 500= I smiled as bits of the episode started coming back to me. And frowned again because- oh no.

If I was right then Suki would get a promotion- Suki jerked off the system, disconnecting everyone else. Cathica's brain thing closed, and she looked at Suki, extremely irritated. "Come off it, Suki! I wasn't even halfway, what was that for?"

Suki looked apologetic as she raised her hands, "Sorry, it must've been a glitch,"

"Promotion," A screen opened up, with the word 'Promotion' written on it and the Doctor frowned. I smiled as I imagined Twelve in the situation, asking why the words and audio were there at the same time. Cathica looked at the screen and started begging it to be her.

"Promotion for Suki McRae Cantrell," I frowned and bit my lip as another piece of the episode came back. Floor 500 was frozen- and Suki was gonna die there. "No," I whispered, almost falling onto the railing. I had to at least try to prevent her death- especially as I'd let hundreds die when we were with the Dalek. The Doctor put a hand on my shoulder and pulled me back. "Careful."

"I don't believe it," Suki got up, her face literally glowing, "Floor 500,"

"Yeah, Floor 500," I murmured, looking down. I had to try and do something- maybe tell her it was a fake, or that Floor 500 wasn't actually what she thought it was- or maybe that there was a jelly blob monster up there waiting to kill her. The Doctor squeezed my shoulder as I moved back, still staring at Suki.

"How the hell did you manage that?" Cathica frowned at Suki, her jealousy and anger evident, "I'm above you!"

Suki was still staring at the screen, as she said, "I don't know, I just applied on the off chance and they said yes,"

I shook my head and bit my lip. Cathica, on the other hand, was a different kind of annoyed, "That's so not fair! I've been applying to Floor 500 for the past three years!"

"Be glad you haven't gotten in there," I muttered, frowning at the whole exchange. "What's in Floor 500, though? Other than the golden walls," I looked up at the Doctor who had asked me the question.

"Well, that's a spoiler, but I can guarantee that the walls are definitely not made of gold," I muttered, looking at Cathica and Suki. I straightened up and looked at the Doctor, who was frowning at me, "Well, we better keep the act as inspectors or whatever and see her off,"

The Doctor nodded, and the four of us followed Cathica and Suki to the hall with the elevator in it. "I'm gonna miss you, Cathica," She turned to us, smiling, "Floor 500, thank you,"

The Doctor smiled at her as I frowned, knowing what would happen next, "I didn't do anything,"

"Well, you're my lucky charm," She smiled, and he grinned at her, "Alright, I'll hug anyone," He hugged Suki, as I looked at Cathica, who was trying her best to suppress her anger and resentment. I shrugged at her as she stared at me, and looked over at something else. "Be careful, Suki, Floor 500's cooler than you think," I looked at her as she pulled away from the Doctor, "And not in the way you expect it to be. It's so cool that it could end up becoming cold," I shrugged, and caught the Doctor's eyes, "Freezing cool, even,"

She raised an eyebrow and smiled at me, probably thinking that I was telling her how awesome Floor 500 was, but the Doctor frowned at me and looked away. The elevator then came and opened. Suki looked behind, "Oh my God, I've got to go, I can't keep them waiting," She picked up her bag and ran toward the lift, "I'm sorry! Say goodbye to Steve for me!"

"Suki, remember what I said just now!" I yelled, as Suki yelled her goodbyes to us. The lift doors closed, and Suki disappeared. I took a deep breath and tugged the Doctor's sleeve. He looked down at me, an eyebrow raised. I held my hand out, "Sonic. Now,"

"Not until you tell me what's going on,"

I shrugged and shook my head, "Don't know if I can," I looked around at the three of them, "Where's Adam?"

"He's at the deck, he'll probably go back to the TARDIS for a while, why?" Rose folded her hands and frowned at me. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no- I ran a hand through my hair and spun around, groaning, "I can't believe it! The one thing I thought I could do!"

The Doctor put a hand on my shoulder. I looked up at him, scowling, "What?"

"What happened? You can tell me somewhat of it without revealing too much, it's clearly stressing you out!"

"What, and mess up your entire timeline?! No way!"

"What are the two of you even talking about?" I whirled around to see Cathica frowning at the two of us. Brilliant. Just brilliant. I'd made things even worse than they were. "It was a, er, test, you know, for the next promotion,"

"Yeah, for the news, you know, for you to, er, broadcast," I appreciated that the Doctor was helping me lie horribly, but the look on Cathica's face showed that she clearly had enough. She nodded skeptically, "Well, that's not gonna be in a while then, and I'll have to wait for years to see Suki again because she's been promoted earlier,"

"You're talking like you'll never see her again till you're promoted, she's only upstairs," The Doctor folded his hands.

"We won't," She looked around, avoiding our gaze, "Once you go to Floor 500 you'll never come back,"

"And that seriously doesn't put you off?" I stared at her, while nudging the Doctor.

We walked through the cafeteria. The Doctor had stopped pestering me with questions, but he was still looking at me constantly judging by how restless I had become. I was biting my lip and praying that time would go faster such that I could drag the Doctor to Floor 500 and try to prevent Suki's death. "Have you ever been up there?" The Doctor asked Cathica.

"No she hasn't, they never shift floors," I muttered, pulling him along with me in a random direction, hopefully near the central heating place where we would get access to the elevator. "The elevator isn't all access, you know, we need a key,"

"Yeah, how did you not know that?"

"Management test, remember?" The Doctor looked at her like it was the most obvious thing ever. Cathica rolled her eyes and sighed, "Look, they only give us twenty minutes maintenance. Will you give it a rest?"

We were back in the octagon room, and the Doctor was sitting on the neural chair thing. "Doctor, let's just go, we're losing time," I muttered.

"For what?" He frowned at me, looking up, "Why can't you tell me why you're so frustrated?"

I ran a hand through my hair and took a deep breath, "Well, I can't tell you everything, but something is very wrong, actually, two things, and we need to get going! Also, the heating system's horrible!"

The Doctor frowned at me, while Cathica just looked confused. "What are you going on about? This doesn't sound like a management test,"

"Well, happy realisation, because it isn't!" I turned back to the Doctor, "Heating system. Massive clue. Also, if you don't figure it out quickly, I'm seriously dragging you with me,"

"Whatever you're doing, don't get me involved," Cathica put her hands up and was about to go away. "I don't know anything,"

"Don't you even ask?" The Doctor looked up at her.

"Why would I?"

"You're a journalist," He looked at her and then looked at me. "Let me ask you a question. Why is the entire crew human?"

"What's that got to do with anything?"

"There's no aliens on board. Why?" He looked up at me again, expecting an answer. I scowled at the two of them, "Guys, can we please stop the interrogation and hurry up? Suki's about to get killed now and I know I wasn't supposed to say that but she's gonna die and I would've done nothing to stop that!" I turned to Cathica, "Listen, I'm not gonna ramble but all I can say is that the Human Empire has gone all wonky and your heating problem thing is really important to solving the problem, and we need to get to Floor 500 really soon, so can we hurry up now?!"

I looked around at the three of them, and was met with completely confused looks. "What's the heating system to do with all this?!"

"Well, she's right, though, it's boiling," Rose complained. I looked at her and pointed a finger at her, "Exactly! Why? Let's find out! Cathica, maintenance place thing. Doctor, get your stupid brain to work. Rose, come on!"

"Give me one good reason as to how all this is even sane," Cathica stared at us. I groaned into my fist, "Seriously? Now you're asking questions? Now?!"

The Doctor got up and put an arm around me, "Cathica, the Human Empire is 90 years backward, and this is coming from a time traveller. When did Satellite Five start broadcasting?"

Cathica froze for a second, "91 years ago,"

"Exactly, and things are gonna get worse if we don't move it!" I pulled the Doctor's sleeve, "Maintenance room, now!"

I pulled the Doctor out of the room. "What is it with you and the central heating?" Cathica ran toward us while Rose frowned, "Liza, I know it's boiling, but is that really the biggest of concerns right now?"

"Yes, because it's got everything to do with what's going on here!" I pulled the Doctor out of the room, Cathica running in front of us as she tried to catch up.

"We're so gonna get in trouble," Cathica muttered, as the Doctor soniced a monitor to get a schematic. I stood beside him, looking over at what he was doing. I was biting my lip and tapping my foot on the ground, constantly looking at the camera from where the Jaguar-fez and that other guy with the white beard were looking at us. I didn't remember exactly what was happening, so that meant Suki could be dead or alive- but would die soon. And Adam- Oh my God, I forgot about Adam again! I was about to go and run to find him, but stopped myself

One thing at a time. Go find Adam after kicking the Doctor and Rose into the elevator.

"You're not allowed to touch the main frame, you'll get told off,"

"Rose, tell her to button it," The Doctor continued sonicing the door.

"You can't just vandalise the place, someone's gonna notice!"

"Well, someone is noticing, actually. That's the whole point," I muttered, and Cathica looked at me, scandalised.

"This has nothing to do with me, I'm going back to work," Cathica threw her hands up and walked back.

"Go on, then! See you!" The Doctor didn't even bat an eyelash.

"I can't just leave you, can I?" She came back, obviously conflicted. I shook my head at her and looked at the Doctor again, "Hurry up, we're losing time-"

He turned around, scowling at me, "And you! You're just as helpful! If things are so dire, why can't you just tell us?!"

"Because I don't know whether I should! Everyone's so taboo about telling people their future!" I threw my hands up and scowled at him.

"Then why are you constantly hurrying me like this! There was nobody doing that in your show, was there?!"

"Well, no, but there's so much that could be avoided if you just hurried up and figured out things sooner!"

"Then why can't you just tell me whatever's gonna happen if you're so hung up on avoiding things?!"

"Because you told me not to tell you anything about the future, mainly yours!" My hands were clenched into fists, and the blood was flowing all the way to my face, making me a little dizzy.

"Then stop giving me sneak peeks about some big bad nonsense and then not tell me any details! You did the exact same thing with Van Statten!" He turned to me and pointed the screwdriver accusingly, "Honestly, I don't know whether to believe you or not! What if you're just doing this for attention? You've been yammering on for a while now but you haven't done anything about it!"

A lump in my throat started forming and I turned away. I swallowed and took a deep breath. Don't cry. I stormed away, trying to keep the tears in. "Where are you going now?" Cathica yelled behind me.

"To do something!"

"What?"

"That's none of your business!"

"Probably to just go and cause some more drama with everyone else since that's all she's good for!" The Doctor said, and probably used the sonic on something. I took another deep breath and continued to storm away, not looking back.

I swallowed, trying to keep the tears at bay. Way to go, Liza, your own role model hates you. Of course he would, why wouldn't he? Even I hated me. And it's not even like it was his fault. I was an idiot who couldn't do anything. Well, at least I was trying to fix that now- or was I?

I looked around the deck full of people to see if I could spot Adam anywhere. There were many people there- not Adam, though. I sighed and turned around to go find the lift. He was probably at the med bay. Maybe I could get him to not get brain surgery and at least try to help the Doctor in some way.

I turned back and went toward the elevator. Please don't tell me that- oh brilliant. Just my luck. The Doctor and Rose were entering the elevator with Cathica following. I was about to turn around and try to leave, unnoticed, but as usual, I had the worst timing in the whole of time and space. "Liza?"

I turned back as the Doctor had already noticed me, "What are you doing here?"

"I needed to use the elevator, but it's alright, you really don't need to-"

He held the elevator behind with his sonic, "You were right about the heating, we're going to Floor 500! Come on,"

"No, it's fine, you really don't have to-"

"Please," He looked at me, a little sadly, and I threw my hands up and sighed. "You know what? Fine," He cracked a small smile at that. At least he was happy. Ish. Or at least looked happy.

I walked into the elevator, avoiding the Doctor's gaze, and folded my hands. "Come on! Come with us!" Rose said to Cathica, who refused.

"No way,"

"Bye!" The Doctor said as the doors slowly started closing.

"Don't mention my name. When you get in trouble, don't involve me,"

"Just make sure you use what you know when you need a solution Cathica," I said softly, but she seemed to have heard it as she raised an eyebrow, "You'll find that it helps a lot,"

Cathica just shook her head and walked away, and I went to lean against the wall of the elevator. "That's her gone. Looks like Adam's given up," No he hasn't, and he's gonna cause horrible things to happen, and it'll all be my fault. Again, "Looks like it's just the three of us. Right, Liza?"

He looked back at me, but I looked away and stared at the wall, "Yeah, I guess," I murmured,

"You were right, you know," He said, as he placed the sonic in the elevator, "About the heating system,"

"Well, I know what happens in the future," I sighed and folded my hands again, "It would be the peak of my idiocy if I didn't know that despite having watched the episode,"

"No it wouldn't, you would've just forgotten, that's all- there's nothing wrong with forgetting," He came to stand beside me.

I scoffed and went forward, as we neared Floor 500, "Yeah, right. And I'll become even more useless than I am,"

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A/N: God, I love making them fight (I'm not sadistic I swear-maybe)! Anyway, only one more chapter and then, an original adventure! I honestly can't wait for that!

Now, answers to reviews (idk if we can reply to them on , I'm kinda new here)

Scourge13: Thank you! I always thought of the TARDIS to be like a mom to everyone ever since The Doctor's Wife!

ReakaDraws: Thank you so much! I'm glad you could relate to Liza!