Doctor Who vs. the System Lords
Part 2: The impudence of youth
Daniel drifted through the realm the Ancients called home, deep in thought. His unscheduled meeting with the Doctor had left him shaken: he had always considered the Ancients benevolent, if a little aloof.
But Oma's confession of her peoples refusal to act during the never-to-be-mentioned-again-under-penalty-of-exial Time War, and the price the Time Lords had thus paid, had shaken that belief to its very core. Oma had been unable to shead any light on just who or what Allie had been, and seemed to be unusualy intresed in the young girl.
Daniel needed advice, and knew the one place he could find it.
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"Nothing but net!" O'Neill smiled as the scrunched up sheet of paper into the bin of the other side of his office. He smiled at the concept that here he was, surrounded by some of the most advanced technology on the planet, yet the Air Force refused to move onto the paperless office.
"I'm glad I'm not interrupting." Daniel smiled as he made his presence known, "It's good to see you again Jack."
"Daniel!" O'Neill gave a look of fax-shock, then smiled, "Always a pleasure. So, is this a social call?"
"No, I need some advice, and some information."
"You coming to me for information? That's got to be a turn up for the books. Wouldn't Carter be a better choice?"
"Stop selling yourself short Jack; you're smarter than you like to let on and we both know it. I need anything you can find on someone named Allison Clarke. She appears to be a little girl, maybe ten years old at most. Somewhere around the Pacific Northwest."
"You're going to make me use the computer, aren't you?" O'Neill pushed his chair across to the other computer, "The good news is we've been given access to the U.N.I.T. database: it's almost doubled our knowledge of other races in this area of space, although it looks like the Doc removed a lot of information when he left…" the Colonel looked at the screen, "That's odd."
"What is it?" Daniel moved over so he could look over his friends shoulder.
"Well, U.N.I.T. has an active file on an Allison Clarke from Seattle, but there's almost nothing in it besides a note saying that the Pentagon has refused to release any information on her…" O'Neill opened another system, "Let's see if being 2IC of Stargate Command can get me anywhere."
The screen went blank
"Did you do that?" O'Neill looked over his shoulder at his friend.
"No." Daniel shook his head, "Something's going on here…"
The words 'Project Bad Wolf' appeared on the computer screen, followed by a prompt for a password.
"The Bad Wolf strikes again…" Daniel's face fell, "The Doctor told me he'd encountered it. He seems to think that something major is happening."
"He said nothing about it when we saw him." O'Neill typed his regular access code into the computer.
ACCESS DENIED
"Ok then." O'Neill reached for his phone and pressed one of the speed dial buttons.
"Major Carter." The familiar voice on the other end responded.
"Carter, I need your help with a little computer problem." O'Neill didn't take his eyes off the screen.
"Can't you call tech-support for once?"
"It's not that sort of problem. It's a big, blue phone-box sort of problem."
"Is he there?"
"No, but it's something that involves him."
"I'm on my way."
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"And to think, you once accused me of playing with them." The Doctor moved his Knight across the board, "Check."
"I do not consider my actions to be 'playing' with anyone." Thor countered with his Bishop, "You always had too much fun at the expense of the humans to be objective in your work."
"True." The Doctor took the Bishop with his Queen, "Checkmate."
Thor looked at the chessboard for a moment, then nodded, "I must study this game in greater detail: I can never remember how the little horses are supposed to move."
"It's an acquired skill. You sure Rose is going to be ok with the others?"
"I do not see why not: they only want to see if your hypothesis is true."
"Ok, just don't upset her: I'd never hear the end of it."
"And how is Allie?"
"Fine, fine: she misses her family, which I can fully understand, but she's learning quickly."
"She is one of the Old Ones more promising experiments: their evolved consciousness with a humans emotional depth, may well be the answer they are looking for."
"True, but they could have been a bit more sympathetic when it came to how they went about everything. Still, she does have potential…"
"You still hope that she will become a Time Lord?"
"I'm the last of my kind: no matter how long lived my people are, we are not immortal, and we can't ascend as the Ancients did: the price we paid for our knowledge of time. I want to know that there will be someone left to carry on. Allie has powers that surpass anything I have ever seen, besides those of The Watcher: time would be safe in her hands."
"And the Bad Wolf?"
"Daniel Jackson is looking into it for me.
"I hope he succeeds." Thor reset the board, "Now let's try this one more time…"
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"N.I.D." Carter said after she had finally gotten over her shock at seeing Daniel, "It's defiantly an N.I.D. operation."
"Please tell me its Rogue N.I.D." O'Neill rolled his eyes.
"That's a negative, Sir; this one has presidential clearance." Carter started to type, "I may be able to circumvent the encryption…"
"Try 'Buffalo'." A voice suggested from the other side of the room, "That normally works."
There was a moment silence as O'Neill, Carter and Daniel looked at each other, before slowly turning round.
"Hi." Allie smiled.
"Hi…" Daniel blinked, "Allie, what you doing here?"
"I was passing." The little girl smiled, "Who are your friends?"
"Um, yeah: Allie, meet Colonel Jack O'Neill and Major Samantha Carter." Daniel nodded as he made the introductions, "Guys, this is Allison Clark."
"Hi." O'Neill nodded.
"Nice to meet you." Carter smiled, still having trouble dealing with everything.
"Buffalo." Allie nodded, "It's the Doctors password from when he was in U.N.I.T."
"O.K then." O'Neill turned round and typed in the password, "So, Allie, where are you from?"
"Seattle." The little girl smiled, stilling on a table against the wall, "My parents still live there. They're why I popped by to see you."
"Is something wrong?" Carter asked, "Are they ok?"
"I don't know." Allie looked a little sad, "I can't go see them; it would cause too much trouble."
"You want us to check in on them, make sure they're ok?" Daniel asked.
"If you would be so kind." Allie looked at her watch, "I have to go."
There was a flash of light, and she was gone.
"Wow!" O'Neill blinked, then turned to look at his computer, which was displaying the N.I.D. files, "Wow!"
"What you got?" Carter asked.
"Everything." Daniel blinked, "Every dirty little game the NID ever played on anyone, every cover-up, every power game, every backroom deal, everything."
"But what to they have on Allie?" O'Neill opened up the Project Bad Wolf files, "Ok, this looks like it's the very first N.I.D. operation, back when the agency was founded, back when it was still run by the Air Force out of Area 51. It appears that one of Allie's maternal great-grandfather's was an alien, something visibly similar, but much more powerful, than the Asgard…"
TBC
Harry2: this is going to be a little AU, so the Bad Wolf could be anyone or anything…
Agent-G: you're entitled to your opinion, and I'm entitled to ignore it. I already sent you an email explaining everything.
Rankokunalpha1, avatar5005 & k8: Thank you; thou there is method to my work, there is also madness…
Majin Gojira: the new Doctor is very direct, and would think nothing of yelling at Anubis. You also have to understand just how powerful The Doctor is…
Aaron: I've got a very full workload at the moment, so sorry but I can't work on anything else.