Chapter Thirteen: Solo


"When all else fails blow it up."


Ivy was staring at the war wheel her sistter had unveiled.

"This is one of the objects that don't make sense. Pseudo-Sontaran technology in World War Two Europe. Wrong universe. An object worth keeping. And we found out that it was sent back in time, well the blueprints anyway, that makes it even more interesting. And an agent sent in time in order correct the timeline. Fascinating. Except we didn't send you, and the timeline wasn't returned to the original. We have a record of the original. It didn't have war wheels in it. So how did the war wheels get there? Well, fortunately the agent who wasn't supposed to be there figured it out and told the agent who was supposed to be there. We have a traitor in our midst." Lily explained.

"Well who is it?" Ivy asked.

"We don't know." Lily answered.

"You've had decades to find out, how can you not know!" Ivy shouted.

"We didn't know when the traitor would do the betraying, and it would have caused an uproar if we started searching for the perpetrator of a crime that hadn't been committed yet. But now it has been committed and we can investigate." Lily told her.

"So you had to wait for me to tell you that I had been in the past." Ivy reasoned.

"Yes and no. First I had to wait for you to be born." Lily said.

"Right so, what do we know about this not Sontaran… thing?" Ivy asked.

"It's been modified. Someone made it less deadly then the original and it's built entirely out of materials easily obtained on earth." Lily replied.

"So what do we do?" Ivy questioned.

"We don't do anything. You are going to this thing's universe of origin to track down the traitor, stop whatever they were trying to do, and get back whatever they traded to the Sontarans before those overgrown baked potatoes get a chance to use it." Lily answered.

Ivy gaped at her. "By myself?" she asked.

Yes." Lily said.

"Why me?" Ivy asked, a whine making it's way into her voice.

"You're as close to outside as we can get while still remaining inside." Lily explained.

"What about the League?" Ivy asked.

"Sick Week?" Lily suggested.

Ivy rolled her eyes.


Ivy was currently in London. Not the London of the Adler Home Universe, no she was in a new universe that had been dubbed "The Doctor's Universe" after the man that had saved it so many, many times. Ivy was in London because London is the place were weird things happened. It's like the place has a giant neon sign that says "Hostile Aliens Land Here." Well, that and the agents most likely to have had contact with Sontarans were there.

There used to be ten agents in the area but Daleks, Cybermen, Autons, Blowfish, a rogue swarm of Vashta Nerada, and a very strange incident with a front loading washing machine, three oranges, a sheep, a rubber boot, and six point two ounces of petroleum jelly reduced their numbers and left only two Agents for Ivy to interview.

After a few minutes of Ivy arrived at the Apartment of Agent Elena Fuentes. The Dones d'aigua, or water maiden, was in charge of monitoring alien activity, Torchwood, and The Doctor.

The door to Elena's apartment was already open.

"Well that's rarely a good sign." Ivy commented as she entered the apartment. It didn't take long to find Elena. The dark haired woman was lying face down on the kitchen floor. The rest of the apartment had been ransacked and there was a gaping hole in the wall.

"Oh, Elena." Ivy sighed. She pulled out a phone and made a call.

Twenty minutes later, a team from Spero had arrived and moved the body out. Cause of death was a single shot from a Sontaran Blaster. While the team from Spero were searching the apartment for clues, Ivy headed toward the next agent's home. On the way out she checked the perception filter that kept people away.


Ivy's next stop was the apartment of Evan Stidolph. The werewolf was in charge of collecting alien technology the was abandoned on earth before UNIT or Torchwood found it and turning it over to Spero.

The door to Evan's apartment was open. It wasn't forced open like Elena's, but seemed as if someone had forgotten to close it. Ivy entered slowly. The apartment was littered with alien technology of various origins, Evan obviously hadn't been turning over the tech he'd been collecting.

Ivy turned a corner and froze as she came face to face with a Dalek. She sighed in relief when she realized that the armor was empty.

On a table next to the Dalek armor Ivy found a logbook containing information about the sales of various alien tech. The redhead heard movement in the bedroom and went to investigate. A man with brown hair, amber eyes, and wearing a t-shirt and jeans was frantically packing a bag.

"What's the rush, Evan?" Ivy asked from the doorway. She was forced to dodge as Evan lunged for her. There wasn't much room in the small apartment, and while Ivy was able to evade the first attack, she had no where to go when he moved for a second attack. Evan used his bulk to tackle Ivy to the floor. He wrapped his hands around her neck and started choking her. Ivy sent a low powered fireball into her attackers chest. Evan was blasted off of her and the smell of burnt cloth and flesh filled the air.

Ivy got up a moved towards Evan. He had his eyes shut and was moaning in pain. She kicked him in the side.

"What the hell was that about?" The redhead growled as soon as Evan was looking at her.

"I have to get out of here. The Sontarans." Evan answered.

"What did you give them?" Ivy asked.

Evan ignored her. "Elena figured it out. What I was doing. What they were doing. It's all in the safe." he gestured toward the bed. There was a wall safe that had bits of drywall attached to it sitting on edge of the bed.. It had been forced open. Ivy examined the contents. There was evidence of Evan's misconduct. Photos of a building. Blueprints and thermal images of the same building. Pages and pages of notes. One page in particular caught Ivy's eye. It had one word, larger that the rest scrawled across it. Jericho. Ivy's eyes widened in shock. She turned to Evan.

"Jericho! You gave them Jericho!" she snarled. The temperature in the room began to rise.

"I only gave them the blueprints, I didn't think they'd be able to get it set up so quickly." Evan explained.

"Damn it. Damn it all." Ivy hissed. She called for someone to pick up Evan and confiscate the alien tech. As soon as the investigators arrived Ivy headed for the building that had apparently been built by the Sontarans.


JCTV that's what the sign o the building said. Apparently it was a satellite TV company. Ivy thought that a better name would be "Jericho Satellite Television: We're going to kill you all." But whatever. Time to take down the satellite grid and the control tower (the JCTV building) by blowing it all to kingdom come, then go home. Sounds like a perfectly simple, if extremely destructive, plan right? Well it would have been if a certain Doctor hadn't show up. Apparently he, along with a loud red-haired woman name Donna, and a Torchwood Agent that introduced himself as Captain Jack Harkness, were investigating the mysterious disappearances/deaths of some employees at JCTV who had apparently been too nosy and figured out that the company that they worked for was run by aliens who wanted to take over/destroy the planet.

Not realizing that the Sontarans were watching everything in the building with security cameras (Actually, the Doctor probably didn't realize the Sontarans were there at all otherwise he wouldn't have just walked in, but who knows, this is the Doctor we're talking about) the Doctor walked up to the receptionist, presented her with the psychic paper, and claimed that he was a building inspector and that Donna and Jack were his assistants. The watching Sontarans recognized the Doctor immediately. At the same time Ivy was trying to get in by impersonating local law enforcement. The Sontarans had the receptionist lead them in, then they imprisoned the Doctor, Donna, Jack, and Ivy, (Who they wrongly assumed was a part of the Doctor's group, but hey whatever keeps you alive.) so they then could bare witness to the enslavement of the earth. But first they killed the receptionist and confiscated all of Ivy explosives.

So now Ivy was sitting in a prison cell of a Sontaran ship, with three people who ruined her plans to stop the Sontaran.

"Ivy Adler." Ivy introduced.

"That's not the name you gave the receptionist." Donna pointed out.

"That's because the name was not mine. Neither was the badge. I just needed to get into the building so that I could access to the controls and shut down the satellite network and blow up the building before the Sontarans bring the Jericho System online." Ivy explained.

"What's the Jericho System?" Jack asked.

It was the Doctor who answered. "It's ancient technology. A satellite network is used to create a laser grid in order to rip apart planets and steal resources. The race that designed it stole land, water, and mineral deposits in order to build a new planet in another dimension."

"Actually there's no way they could have built that version with building the beginnings of a whole new planet. They built the version that just destroys cities, but it's kind of hard to set up because you need to set up the control system on planet then launch the satellites in the atmosphere and people tend to notice that kind of thing, so the satellite TV was a pretty good cover." Ivy stated.

"How do you know that?" the Doctor asked.

"My ancestors were part of a collaboration of outcast races that designed the thing." Ivy explained.

Any further conversation was interrupted by some Sontarans coming in and taking them to the bridge. Or they would have, presumably to gloat about their assured victory, but Ivy incinerated their faces with fireballs before they could. Jack picked up one of their guns and the group pretty much picked a random direction and ran because they were soon being chased by angry potato people, I mean Sontarans. But they do look like especially unhappy baked potatoes.

So after about five minutes of running, shooting, and fireball shooting, Ivy found her confiscated explosives. After another five minutes they found the Sontaran teleporter room and barricaded the door while the Doctor hacked the teleporter. While the Doctor was hacking the teleporter, Ivy was setting a bomb up so the that the Sontarans wouldn't be able to follow them because they'd be, well, you know, dead.

"Got it!" the Doctor shouted, right before Ivy found herself in the JCTV building.

They found themselves in front of the main computer terminal, because that's where the transporter had been set to in the first place and the doctor didn't change the coordinates. The computer had three screens and was attached to a mass of pipes and wires and ran straight through the center of the building.

"Doctor, can you hack that thing and disable the satellites? I'm bad with computers." Ivy said.

"Shouldn't we be worried about the Sontarans coming after us?" Donna asked.

"Nah, I left a bomb that should be destroying transporter and a good portion of their hull, right about… now." Ivy stated.

Meanwhile, a good portion a the Sontarans ship was in the process of exploding.

"Yeah, so Doctor, you go hack the giant computer, and I'll blow up the building." Ivy said.

"What if there are still people in the building?" Jack said.

"Go find a fire alarm and pull it." Ivy suggested as she got to work.


"My god, that's beautiful." Ivy commented as she watched the JCTV burn from a block away.

"Is every member of your race this destructive?" the Doctor asked.

"No." Ivy replied.

"Good." said the Doctor.

"So… I know this bar nearby…" began Jack.

"Lead the way." Ivy said.


Take a guess at what happened in the bar. I honestly have no clue.