A/N Happy Family Day everyone! It may not be Family Day in other countries but it is in Canada, so even if you're not Canadian hang out with your family even more today! It is also international fanworks day! Have a wonderful day and enjoy!
Zmije Ship
Kara stood up holding her head, she was experiencing the worst headache of her life. She blinked her eyes a few times to clear her vision and saw J'onn getting up off the ground but the Doctor looked unaffected. He was closely analyzing the walls of what looked like a cell with a thing that was making a buzzing noise. It was making her headache worse.
"Doctor, could you stop that?" She asked.
"Oh, sorry," He said stopping the buzzing noise, "Forgot Zmije teleports can have nasty side effects. How are you doing?"
"I'm fine. I've just got a really bad headache."
"Don't worry, it will pass. How are you doing J'onn?"
"I'm telepathic and mostly unaffected by rough teleports."
The Doctor paused for a moment, then smacked his forehead, "Of course! You're a Green Martian! With a name like J'onn J'onzz and telepathic capabilities, how could I miss that!"
J'onn and Supergirl looked at each other.
"Sorry, I can be a bit thick sometimes. My question is where are the others?"
"I have a few more questions than that." Supergirl said, "Like why did they separate us? Why did they choose the groups that they did?"
"I can answer that one Supergirl," J'onn said, "I think they separated the humans from the aliens."
The Doctor looked a little surprised while J'onn and Supergirl looked offended. The Doctor's brain was trying to figure out a way out of this one, Kryptonians did not like Time Lords.
"Well... You're right about that," The Doctor said scratching his chin. Then the room filled with an awkward silence.
"Are you going to tell us your species?" Supergirl asked.
"I'd rather not," The Doctor said turning back to the wall and pulling out his sonic screwdriver. Supergirl was now very pissed off, between losing Alex and now this 'Doctor' hiding something major from them, she lost her temper. She stormed across the room and shoved the Doctor up against the wall.
"Oi!" He shouted.
"I will not ask you again, what species are you?"
"Well, you just contradicted yourself and asked me again," Supergirl just shoved him up against the wall harder, "Alright alright. You can stop, I don't like violence. Let me go and I'll tell you."
Supergirl held him against the wall, she did not want to let him go.
"Supergirl," J'onn warned. As much as J'onn didn't trust the Doctor he had a feeling he was telling the truth. Supergirl didn't want to let him go, she had a feeling that he would cause them problems, but she relented and let him go.
"Thank you," The Doctor said stringing his jacket, "You've got to know, I'm not like my people," The Doctor paused. During the pause, J'onn's and Kara's brains were thinking about what species needed an introduction like that. They certainly weren't expecting the answer they received.
"I'm a Time Lord."
Lab
Winn's heart was racing, "How are they monitoring us? it doesn't make any sense. W-we have no leads on us. Did they put an implant in us?"
Martha and Alex exchanged a look, they had the same questions that Winn had but they weren't freaking out. It was evident by their heartbeats on the screen.
"Winn, calm down," Alex said, "Panicking isn't going to help. We have to focus on finding Kara."
Martha could tell that Alex was really worried, of course, Martha was worried about the Doctor but she knew he would find a way out, he always did.
"Our first step to finding Kara, J'onn and the Doctor is finding a way out of this room. Winn, you take a look at the tech and see if you can find anything useful. Martha, can you scan the walls and see if I missed a door or another exit point."
"On it," Martha said slowly walking around the room.
Winn made his way over to a table and started looking at all of the tech, he was unfamiliar with Zmije technology but he had to find a weapon or something to get us out of the room.
Alex made her way over to the computer, she had noticed something weird on the ceiling; it was like a half-dome with 3 short prongs sticking out of it. She had two theories to what it could be, it was either what was monitoring them or what teleported them in here.
Prison Cell
Supergirl shoved the Doctor up against the wall again, "You could have saved Krypton!"
"Supergirl, let him go," J'onn said.
"We helped you in the war! And you let us perish!"
"Kara!" J'onn shouted.
Supergirl reluctantly let the Doctor go, but she wanted to punch him so hard.
"I'm so sorry about Krypton. I really am-"
"Your people were never sorry about anything, don't lie to me." Supergirl was staring daggers at the Doctor, her hands clenched in fists beside her, "As soon as you mentioned your TARDIS I should have known you were a self-entitled Time Lord."
J'onn had just been watching the interaction; he had heard whispers Time Lords and the Last Great Time War but he didn't know as much as Kara did. He looked at the Doctor and saw an expression of sadness cover his face and a hint of pain in his eyes. There was a lot more to this man than meet the eye.
"Listen, I just want to save Martha and your friends, then I'll be gone. You can forget I ever came here."
"I doubt you're capable of saving anybody," Supergirl snorted.
J'onn saw the layer of pain grow in the Doctor's eyes, despite his attempt to hide it. Now there was a hint of anger in there as well.
The Doctor was doing his best to keep from lashing out, but it wasn't easy. His people had betrayed the Kryptonians and he wasn't able to save it. And some days it felt like he wasn't capable of saving anybody.
"Martha is a good friend of mine, I'm not going to let anything happen to her. If you don't want to help me that's fine, but don't get in my way," The Doctor said in a very cold tone.
Supergirl was about to take another jab at the Doctor when J'onn stepped in, "How can we trust you, Doctor. From everything Supergirl has said and rumours I've heard, I'm not inclined to trust you either."
The Doctor sighed, "Read my mind, J'onn. I'm not lying."
J'onn began to read the Doctor's mind, he could see how concerned he was for Martha and the plans he was forming. His mind moved really fast. J'onn also felt the effects Kara's words had on the Doctor, waves of pain, sorrow, and guilt. But the Doctor wasn't lying, he wanted to save Martha, Winn, and Alex and he wanted to send the Zmije away from Earth. J'onn wanted to figure out why and pushed further, but he hit a wall. I don't want you in my memories, J'onn. The Doctor said to him, and he understood, he wouldn't want the Doctor in his memories either.
When J'onn started to read the Doctor's mind, the Doctor tried to read J'onn's thoughts. He couldn't help it, but all he got was a sense of J'onn's curiosity. Perhaps if he pushed harder he could get some sort of information from him but he decided not to in case J'onn caught him.
"I trust him, Kara. He's not lying."
Kara looked a bit baffled, she knew the Time Lords as a back-stabbing race.
The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and started scanning one of the walls, "Do you guys know anything about Zmije's ships?"
"No."
"Well, the ships usually travel in fleets with the main ship and smaller side ships used for recon or storing things not needed often."
"Like prisoners?" Supergirl asked.
"Exactly. Because of this format, they needed a way to travel between the ships-"
"So they made a teleport system," J'onn said.
"Yup," the Doctor said moving to another wall.
"But why not keep the smaller ships in the bigger one then?" Kara asked.
"The Zmije had a hard time creating a shielding system. So they used the smaller ships as shields."
"If the ships were filled with prisoners then the attackers could kill the people they're trying to save," Supergirl said.
"Exactly! You're a smart one, Supergirl. To prevent other species from using their teleport system they used one that tunes to DNA. If they don't like the species that enter the teleport then it will change their destination. Which is why we ended up in here and our human friends are elsewhere."
"You certainly know a lot about the Zmije, Doctor."
"Not really, I just know a lot about their technology. Ah-ha!" The Doctor stopped the beeping of the sonic screwdriver and a door opened.
"How did you open that?" J'onn asked.
"With my sonic screwdriver."
"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'this could be more sonic'?" Supergirl asked.
"I did."
Supergirl just looked at the Doctor, she still didn't trust him completely, but he had just gotten them out of their cell. A show of good intentions was all it was, he was still a back-stabbing Time Lord.
