The Doctor frowned and walked toward the nearest gas masked patient, frowning at them. "Go to your room."

They all stopped, looking at him. "Go to your room! I mean it." I whispered along with him as he yelled, smiling slightly. "I am very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross!" The patients looked at him, their heads tilted. "Go. To. Your. Room!"

All the patients turned away slowly, walking toward their beds. They slowly lay back down as Jack, Rose and I walked toward the Doctor. "I'm really glad that worked. Those would've been terrible last words." He then did a double take and turned to me, frowning. "Are you saying what I'm saying?"

My head snapped up to look at him. "Can you blame me? 90% of what you say in this episode is iconic, and when an iconic piece of dialogue pops up in an episode, I repeat it along with the characters."

He grinned at me, his eyes twinkling. "90%? Really?"

"Like I said, stop the goo-goo eyes," Jack walked toward us, "What the hell did you do?"

"They're being controlled by a kid, meaning, they have the mindset of a kid. He just yelled at a bunch of kids to go to their rooms. Got it, or should I go kindergarten level to explain it for you?"

"What?"

The Doctor started laughing and Jack scowled at the two of us.

"Why are they all wearing gas masks?" Rose was kneeling beside a bed, while I was leaning against a wall nearby. "They're not, Rose, their DNA rewrote itself such that the gas masks are now a part of their bodies."

I was waiting for Jack and the Doctor to have their conversation so that we could go upstairs after that. As my luck had it, the Doctor finally asked the question. "How was your con supposed to work?"

"Simple enough, really. Find some harmless piece of space junk, let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth, convince him it's valuable, name a price. When he's put fifty percent up front, oops! A German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's paid for, never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money, and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con."

"Yeah, perfect."

"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners. Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it though, but you've got to set your alarm for volcano day." I shuddered, thinking about how the Doctor was going to do the exact opposite a few years after this incident. The Time Lord in question was glaring at Jack, whose laughs became more and more tentative until the finally stopped. "Getting a hint of disapproval here."

"Take a look around the room! This was what your harmless piece of space junk did." I flinched at the yelling, but at least I kinda saw that coming.

"It was a burnt out medical transporter. It was empty."

"Really?" I pulled myself up and walked towards them. "You wanna bet on that? Although, I'd advise you not to because I already know the answer."

"Come on," The Doctor muttered, taking my hand. "Rose?" She turned around and started walking behind us. "Are we getting out of here?"

"We're going upstairs."

"I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living. I harmed no-one. I don't know what's happening here, but believe me, I had nothing to do with it."

The Doctor turned around, "I'll tell you what's happening. It's volcano day and you forgot to set your alarm clock."

At that moment, an alarm sounded. "What's that?" Rose asked.

"The all clear." Jack said. "I wish," The Doctor replied, walking away, Rose following him.

I turned to Jack. "He's just mad right now. Don't worry, it'll pass soon."

"I sure hope so. The man's scary when he's mad."

I chuckled, walking outside, him right behind me. "Believe me, you haven't seen anything."

We walked into the corridor, and I noticed that the Doctor and Rose were already a long ways ahead of us, near a flight of stairs. "Oh, great. First, it's running with him, and now it's running behind him."

I started running behind them, "Doc, what the hell?! Hold on a moment!"

I reached the foot of the stairs when the Doctor popped down. "Have you got a blaster?"

Jack slid in front of the stairs a moment later as I climbed up, trying to reach the Doctor. "Sure,"

I finally reached the top of the stairs and stopped beside the Doctor, in front of a metal door. Jack was right behind me, and he slid to a stop beside the Doctor. "The night your space junk landed here, someone got hurt. A kid, like Liza said. This was where they were taken."

"What happened?" Rose asked.

"Let's find out." He turned to Jack. "Get it open."

We backed away from Jack as he pointed his blaster at the lock of the door, shooting it.

"What's wrong with your sonic screwdriver?" Rose asked the Doctor, and he shrugged. "Nothing."

I smiled at that, and turned to Jack, who got the door open by obliterating the lock in a square shaped pattern. "Sonic blaster, fifty-first century. Weapon factories of Villengard?"

"You've been to the factories?"

The Doctor looked at me, a grin on his face. I grinned back, and we turned to Jack. "Once," We both said at the same time.

"Well, they're gone now. Destroyed. The main reactor went critical. Vapourised the lot."

I giggled, Jack and Rose looking at me quizzically. "Like we said, we went there once," I responded to Jack's raised eyebrow.

"There's a banana grove there now, I like bananas. Bananas are good," I muttered along with him as I walked into the room first. He walked in with me, looking around. "Another iconic line, then?"

I hummed, looking around. The desk in front of the window was a World War Two version of mine, minus the broken window- stuff strewn all about. The chairs were turned about, and there was a whole load of electronic equipment around.

"What do you think?"

"Something got out of here." Jack said. "Something angry."

"Something powerful and angry."

"And very emotional." I murmured, running my hand along the table as Jack and Rose went to the other side of the observation window.

"How could a child do this?" Rose asked, as the Doctor turned on an old tape machine.

"Do you know where you are?" Doctor Constantine's voice sounded from the tape.

"Are you my mummy?"

I closed my eyes, taking a deep breath. He sounded so scared.

"Are you aware of what's around you? Can you see?"

"Are you my mummy?"

I felt the Doctor put an arm around my shoulders, pulling me closer to him. "Don't worry, we'll help him all we can."

I nodded against his chest as Jamie's next response sounded in the room. "Doctor, I've heard that voice before."

"So have I," He murmured, as I pulled away from him.

"It's always 'Are you my mummy'. Like he doesn't know."

"He doesn't. He was looking for his mother at that bomb site."

The Doctor started pacing around the room, trying to make sense out of everything, "Can you sense it?"

"Sense what?" Jack asked, walking into the end of the room we were in.

"It's coming out of the walls, can you feel it?"

"Doc, I'm already half freaked out because of this episode and you're not helping matters." I said, and muttered to myself. "Although, I did know you were gonna say it, so that's on me, I guess."

He turned to us. "Funny little human brains, how do you get around in those things?"

I rolled my eyes as Rose turned to a very confused Jack. "When he's stressed, he likes to insult species."

"Rose, I'm thinking." He then turned to me, and pointed to me. "You!"

"Me." I frowned, backing away a little.

"He cuts himself shaving, he does half an hour on life forms he's cleverer than."

"And that's not even a quarter of the list." I muttered.

"You asked Jack if he wanted to bet on the ambulance being empty."

"Yeah?" I said, folding my hands. The tape was still running in the background, and I shuddered. It was gonna end soon.

"And then there are these children living rough round the bomb sites. They come out looking for food in the air raids." He looked at me for confirmation, and I nodded.

"Suppose they were there when the medical transporter landed?"

"I'm telling you, it was harmless." Jack defended, looking around at us for support. Rose looked away and I shrugged. "I just told you that the thing isn't empty."

"And how do you know that?"

I sighed, exasperated. "We really don't have the time for this right now." I rubbed my head as the Doctor walked around the place, rambling on. The man seemed to have understood that I was about to go on a tangent and had picked up on the fact that I'd started rambling as much as him, and it would ruin our sanity if any of us listened to the other talking non stop all the time.

Jack, on the other hand, frowned at me. "You don't even know who I am!"

I groaned and turned towards him. "You really wanna go that way, huh?"

"What way?"

I took a deep breath and walked to stand next to him, muttering so that only he could hear. "You're from the Boeshane Peninsula and they call you the Face of Boe, you had a brother called Grey and you blame yourself for his death, you worked at the Time Agency where you spent five years locked in a time loop with John Hart, a colleague of yours with whom you had a brief relationship, you had two years of memories wiped by the Time Agency, and your real name isn't Jack Harkness, you stole it from a soldier who died in World War Two."

I looked up at his wide eyes. "How do you know all that?" He then narrowed his eyes. "Do you work for the Time Agency? Did they give you access to my files or something?"

I rolled my eyes and was about to answer, when the Doctor turned to me. "Oi, pretty boy, are you done interrogating Liza?"

"Actually-"

"Not my problem, anyway, I think I figured out what's going on. The kid that got affected was looking for his mother, which was its last conscious thought before whatever was in the ship altered it. And Liza said it was a mutant of some kind, with powers. Combine that with the greatest superpower of all time-"

"Which is?" Jack asked. I stiffened, as I heard the background noise. The tape had run out.

"I'm guessing fear," I said, taking a deep breath, and the Doctor nodded. "Yeah, basically. Anyway, like I was saying, it's powerful, afraid, and doesn't know what it can do, but it will do." He laughed, "It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to it's room."

"Doctor?" Rose called out, and the Doctor looked at her. "What's wrong?"

"I'm here, can't you see me?" I jumped and held onto the arm of the person closest to me, who happened to be Jack. The Doctor frowned at him, and turned to me. Jack, on the other hand, was smirking at the Doctor.

"The tape ran out. Thirty seconds ago," I whispered, awkwardly letting go of Jack. Everyone looked at me, wide eyed. Well, everyone except for the Doctor, who seemed to have a neutral face.

"I'm here now! Can't you see me?" I bit my lip and clenched my hands into fists.

"I sent it to its room. This is it's room." The Doctor said, realising what happened after I had turned around, only to come face to face with said child.

"Are you my mummy?" Jamie tilted his head, and Rose gasped. "Doctor?"

"Okay, on my signal, make for the door." Jack said as we all stared at the child, speechless. A small smile made its way onto my face as I remembered what was about to happen. A moment later, Jack pointed a banana at Jamie. "NOW!"

I bit my lip hard to hold back from bursting into hysterics as the Doctor pulled the actual sonic blaster from his pockets (how he managed to do that was beyond me, since every other time he tried to fish something out, a bunch of other nonsense usually got unearthed instead) and shot the wall. "Go, now! Don't drop the banana!"

"Why not?!" Jack yelled as he pushed Rose outside and got out himself. I grabbed onto the Doctor's free hand and pulled him along with me, yelling with him, "It's a good source of potassium!"

We got out, and Jack grabbed the gun from the Doctor. "Give me that!"

He shot at the wall, the square wavy thingies fixing it. I sighed, pulling my hair into a ponytail, sliding the hair tie off my wrist and tying it around.

"Digital rewind. Nice switch," I had to duck to avoid being hit by the banana Jack threw towards the Doctor.

The Doctor caught it and grinned. "It's from the groves of Villengard. Thought it was appropriate."

I let out a laugh, although at that point it would've sounded like I had asthma, thanks to all the panting and the adrenaline.

"There's really a banana grove in the heart of Villengard and you did that?"

"Bananas are good," We both said at the same time, and the Doctor looked at Jack. "See? Even she agrees with me, and we hardly ever agree on anything!"

"You did agree to bully me," He muttered. However, before anyone else could say anything, the wall started cracking.

"Run!" I yelled, dashing toward god knows where. It wouldn't have mattered anyway, because I knew that wherever we'd go, we'd be facing a new batch of masked patients. And my prediction came true.

"Liza!" Rose and the Doctor yelled, as the doors in front of me opened and a horde of patients started to walk out. We all turned around and ran through another corridor. More patients.

As we ran across yet another corridor, I yelled, "Guys, there's no use in running around, we're gonna be cornered anyway!"

We all backed up against a wall as Jack pulled out his blaster and started shooting at the patients. "Okay. This can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and as a triple-enfolded sonic disrupter. Doc, what you got?"

"Hey, only I call him that!" I protested, as the Doctor pulled out the sonic screwdriver. "I've got a sonic- oh, never mind,"

"A sonic what?"

"It's sonic, let's leave it at that!" He turned around and started flailing the sonic around like he was about to Stupefy the patients around. Except he wasn't. Although, Stunning them would've helped a lot at that time.

"Disrupter? Cannon? What?"

"It's sonic! Totally sonic! I am soniced up!"

"A sonic what?!" Jack yelled.

"SCREWDRIVER!" The Doctor yelled back, and Jack turned to look at him with a weirded out expression.

I jumped as the kid broke open the wall, and the patients started advancing, when Rose grabbed the sonic blaster and pointed it down. "Going down!"

I felt like I was falling off a drop on a rollercoaster as we fell into the level below, landing on my back with a thud, my head missing the bottom of a bed by inches. After Jack took the blaster back from Rose, he shot up, sealing the ceiling (or floor, from the patients' perspective, whatever). "Is everybody okay?"

I slowly got up, taking support of the bed, rubbing my back. Damn, it hurt. I tried to ignore the feeling, judging by the fact that my back wasn't really the biggest of priorities at that point in time.

"Could've used a warning," The Doctor complained as he got up.

"The gratitude," Rose scoffed, getting up herself.

"Who has a sonic screwdriver?!" Jack asked.

"I do!" The Doctor said, and at the same time, I said, "He does."

"Who looks at a screwdriver and says, 'ooh, this could be more sonic,'?"

I punched his arm and he looked down at me. "Don't diss the sonic! At least it doesn't have a drainable battery life!"

"What?"

"Spoilers," I shrugged.

"What the hell does that mean?!"

"It means spoilers!" I then heard a light switch turn on, and saw that all the lights had come on. Oh no, how could I forget?!

The patients in that ward sat up and started asking for their mummies. They slowly started to walk off their beds as the four of us ran toward the door. Jack tried to use the blaster, but it conked out. I smirked as he started giving excuses to Rose while the Doctor used the screwdriver on the door, successfully opening it.

We all ran into the storage room as the Doctor locked the door behind us.

"That's so lame!" Rose exclaimed, as the Doctor and I turned on the lights.

"I was gonna send for another one, but somebody's gotta blow up the factory!"

"Oh, I know. First day I met him, he blew my job up. It's practically his way of communicating."

"Okay, the door should hold it for a bit," The Doctor said, coming inside.

"The door? The wall didn't stop it!"

"Well, I mean, you fixed the wall, he fixed the door." I muttered, and Jack scowled at me. "What was that?"

I put my hands up, catching the Doctor's eye. "Nothing,"

"Anyway, it's gotta find us first," The Doctor walked towards the window, "Come on, then, assets, assets! I mean, we've got a girl with foreknowledge, but everything she says about the future is either Oracle of Dephi style or 'spoilers','"

"Oi!"

"Well, I've got a banana and in a pinch, you could put up some shelves."

"Window," The Doctor said, not turning around.

"Barred. Sheer drop outside. Seven stories."

"And no other exits."

"Well, that puts an end to the assets conversation. Went in a flash, didn't it?"

The Doctor turned to Rose. "Where did you pick this one up, then?"

"She was hanging from a barrage balloon, I had an invisible spaceship. I stood no chance."

Rose blushed and turned away. I knew Jack was about to go to his spaceship and use it to rescue everyone, but what I didn't expect was him grabbing my hand as he turned on his space hopper- er, vortex manipulator. The last thing I saw was the Doctor talking about something he was missing, when I landed in a small Chula warship full of wires. And an actual one, that too.

A/N: Hey guys! I'm sorry for updating kinda late, but I'm glad I did it the day after I last updated - also, a long chapter after a while! Finally! Honestly, tho, rn, I really want to finish writing this asap so that I can start Ten soon (mainly because this is when a lot of interesting stuff happens), and I hope I'll be able to update more often (not making any promises, though, I'll still be busy, despite my vacation starting, but I'll TRY).

Anyway, I really did not expect the chapter to end the way it did- the original plan was for Liza to be laughing at the Doctor's awkwardness while Rose tried to make him dance, but I figured that she'd spilled too much to Jack about his past, meaning he would definitely want to interrogate her.

I'm in the process of writing the next chapter, which I really hope I can upload soon, so crossing my fingers for that!

Replies to reviews:

NeoMulder: (I'm replying to both your reviews in 2 paragraphs) I hope everything was good at school and work, and hope your performance went well! I loved writing that scene as well (although I love writing banter in general, so that's nothing new there)!

Lol I loved that line too! I think I've made Liza go really hard on Jack for some reason because she's frustrated that he was so oblivious to what was happening and mainly concentrated on telling everyone that he had nothing to do with it (honestly, I was also surprised to see that he was like this during his first introduction). And regarding Rose, she was just jealous because the Doctor seemed to be fixated on Jack hitting on (or attempting to hit on) Liza, which was why she was glaring lol

Rose Frost42: Thank you! I'm glad to know you're enjoying the story! Also he kinda was jealous in the chapter, and I feel like he doesn't realise why, because this is when he starts having feelings for her or smth :)

FAN BOY NUMBER 12: haha honestly that's true, I wish I'd thought of that lol. And I'm so glad you're enjoying the story so far!