A/N Here is the next installment of my fic! It's mostly filler but I promise the next chapter will be exciting! Thank you for reading this, you officially made it 10 chapters in! Please enjoy!


Zmije Ship

"Doctor are you alright?" Martha asked doing her best to keep up with the Doctor.

"Of course I'm alright, why wouldn't I be?" The Doctor said keeping a straight face but there was darkness in his eyes.

"It looks like something happened between you and Supergirl. So am I going to have to ask her what happened or..."

The Doctor sighed, he knew Martha wouldn't stop asking until he gave her answers, "She thinks that my people, the Time Lords, could have saved her planet. We could've, I could've but with the war in its final days... there was nothing we- nothing I could do," the Doctor paused to suppress memories of the war that were trying to surface, "A lot of planets were lost because of the war, Krypton was just one of them."

Martha was silent, it was rare to hear the Doctor talk about the war or his past in general. She could see how sad he was but he did his best to hide it, Martha could only imagine what the war must have been like.

"She's one of the lucky ones too," The Doctor said nodding, "Not only did she survive with her cousin, but other species still know that Krypton existed. That's luckier than some other species..."

The Doctor went silent again. He took a deep breath and cleared all of the bad memories that were popping up. He wiped away the emotions of pain and guilt and sorrow off of his face. He could deal with those later.

He had been telling himself that ever since he ended the war all those years ago.

Neither of them noticed Winn eavesdropping on their entire conversation.

They rounded the corner and saw J'onn waiting by the TARDIS for the rest of the group to catch up.

"It's really a spaceship then," Winn said gesturing to the TARDIS.

"Yes she is, she's a marvellous one too."

"But how does it even fly? It's too small to contain a propulsion system and two passengers?"

"Well," the Doctor began but was cut off.

"I have a plan B," Supergirl announced coming around the corner, "What if we force the ship to leave Earth's orbit and lock the controls?'

"I like that idea," Winn said, "But I don't know my way around Zmije tech too well."

"You figured out how to use their computer back in the lab, I'm sure you could figure out the controls," Martha said.

Winn smiled.

"You know what I find odd," the Doctor said, "We haven't seen any Zmije guards or heard any alarms. You'd think they'd be keeping a closer eye on us."

Everyone went silent.

"This is probably what they want," Alex said, "For us to go and challenge them."

"But we don't have any other choice," Supergirl said, "We take the fight to them."

"Agreed," J'onn said, "But let's stick with our plan A, we don't know what kind of firepower they have or how many Zmije will be in the control room."

"Alright, let's do this," Supergirl said.

The Doctor contemplated asking Martha to stay behind in the TARDIS but the determined look on her face stopped him. Besides she would take his side if things went pear-shaped.

Winn was processing what the Doctor had said about the war, how could you be lucky that your planet was destroyed? What did he mean by other species still know that Krypton existed? What did he have to do with it? There was a lot more to the Doctor than met the eye, that was for sure.

He wanted to tell Kara but this definitely wasn't the time, she was already angry enough that the Time Lords didn't save Krypton, she didn't have to know that the Doctor could have. There was also no way he could keep this to himself. Sometimes he hated his big mouth.

Martha was nervous and excited at the same time, it was always like this travelling with the Doctor and it's why she loved it. She still couldn't believe there was a whole agency dedicated to the extraterrestrial. But it made sense, Earth isn't the only planet the Doctor protects, he can't be here all the time even though he has a time machine. The DEO was a lot more professional and orderly than the Doctor with a clear mission and objective. The Doctor just shows up, acts like he owns the place, and solves whatever problems happen to arise. What would it be like to work for the DEO? She thought.

The Doctor would usually be full of energy like a child confronting an alien race but not this time, he was too tired. All of Kara's comments and the memories that they brought out were wearing him down. He wanted to shout at her, he wanted to get angry with her but he couldn't. Doing that would mean reliving the Time War and he didn't want to deal with those memories. Besides, now wasn't the time, he had another planet to save.

Kara was just trying to push down her feelings of resentment and hatred away. She hated the Time Lords and everything they stood for, but Earth needed her right now; she couldn't give up on it. She would do everything she could to save her new home. To save Winn's home. To save Alex's home. She would not let it be destroyed like Krypton, she didn't want Alex and Winn to live through losing their home planet. She didn't want anyone else to go through that pain.

Alex was worried about Kara, she could be a hothead sometimes and now was no time for her to lose her temper. She felt bad for snapping at Kara back in the lab but there were-and are-more pressing concerns. She just hoped that Kara would not lose her temper when it mattered most.

They all gathered outside the control room door, everyone pushing aside their thoughts to get ready for whatever lies ahead. Alex pulled out her Zmije blaster and the Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver. Winn and Martha stood behind everyone else as they had no weapons of their own and were just there as tech support and motivation.

"Ready?" The Doctor asked.

J'onn nodded and Supergirl straightened her back making herself look more imposing than her clothing would suggest.

The Doctor used his sonic to open the door and they walked into the control room.