Chapter 16: The Valiant

The Moonray landed on the landing ramp of the massive Valiant. The giant flying aircraft carrier hovered above British airspace towards the Dalek flagship. The gaint ship that was UNITS biggest ship silently stalked closer to the Dalek flagship. It's engines were a quite hum as the crew prepared for the possible fight against the Dalek fleet. Men and women from different countries manned the ship as the Moonray landed on the ships runway like a normal fighter jet would. It's wings angling to bring a smooth landing. The crew that were a dressed in black uniform looked up as the blue and silver jet rolled to a stop beside a UNIT jet, but they did not linger as they all had work to do.

The door of the Moonray slid open and the Doctor followed by Jack raced out of Nightshade's jet. The door slammed shut and the jets massive afterburners kicked back to life. The Moonray like the British Harrier lifted off of the Valiant and straight back to the Dalek flagship to pick up not only Nightshade and Dalek Sec but also the TARDIS. The Moonray shimmered out of sight before it was even above the Valiant that prowled closer to X's ship.

The Doctor lead the way through the inwards of the Valiant with Jack following behind him. Soldiers and sailors alike moved out of his way as he ran through the narrow corridors of the Valiant. Jack was still on his heels. All around them they could hear shouts from soldiers as they prepared for the onslaught of the flagship of the Dalek fleet.

The Doctor weaved in and out of the crowds of sailors as he got closer to the bridge. The bridge that would not doubt allow him to get in touch with both UNIT and Torchwood. Men and women were wise enough to step the side when he ran past them. Some of the women even giggled when Jack flashed them a quick smile, and some of the men as well.

Bursting into the bridge of the Valiant attracted everyone's attention as the Doctor stomped over to the captain of the ship. He was an old man, having just reached his six decade he was old for a human. He wore a standard captains uniform and his nearly cut goatee was well maintained even after months of at sea. He was one of many officers that Kate had kept when she took over UNIT after he father died. The Captain stepped to the side as the Doctor came to a skidding stop at his side.

"Doctor! Here to help us push these pests back to the void that they came from?" he asked smiling as he watched the Doctor type away as if there was not going to be a tomorrow. "Doctor?" he asked when the Time Lord began to take the machine apart peice by peice.

The Doctor looked up from his rewiring to the captain. "Oh, the goatee is coming along fine! I was thinking of having a regeneration that had a goatee but I thought against it thinking to much of the Master! But it suits!" the Doctor tried to complement before going to disassembling the Valiant's computer system.

"Doctor?" the captain asked again. He was getting annoyed with the Time Lord not talking to him. "Doctor?" he asked once again. This time the Doctor looked up to see the captain glaring at him. "What are you doing?" he asked.

Standing up from his position on the floor the Doctor finished his rewiring. "Nothing much just increasing the comm. system of the Valiant! We need to be able to talk with the rest of UNIT along with Torchwood and SHIELD!" the Doctor replied.

"Why would we want to work with Torchwood? They won't be able to help!" he snarled looking at Captain Jack. "Wasn't it because of Torchwood that both Daleks and Cybermen?" he asked still looking at the immortal leader of Torchwood.

"That was the old Torchwood, Sir!" Jack said from where he stood beside the Doctor. "Its changed since then!" he snarled.

The Captain of the Valiant glared at Captain Jack before looking back at the Doctor. "And where is Nightshade? I thought Kate had said that she was with you?" the captain of the Valiant asked.

"She's bringing down a Dalek flagship! We however need to destroy a machine that is about to destroy Earth's sun!" the Doctor replied.

Jack then spoke up, "And how do we do that?"

The Doctor looked back at Jack. "Torchwood and UNIT both have the technology to shot up into space thanks to us both dealing with aliens!" the Doctor replied. "And we only have a little time left before the Star Bane fires!" he finished as he called Torchwood. Gwen and Ianto both came onto the massive screen. The two Torchwood agents looked at the Doctor and Jack.

"Jack what's going on? Are the Daleks defeated yet?" Gwen asked.

Jack stepped up to the screen. "No, Gwen! The Daleks are still standing! But we have a way to bring them down! We need the beams that we used during the Christmas invasion, the one where the Doctor lost his hand!" Jack said. He kept glancing at the Doctor who was rolling his eyes at him. He had to talk about the invasion that he had stopped in his pyjamas.

Gwen nodded her head. She had seen the Christmas invasion on the news on Christmas day. People of a certain blood type stood on the rooftops of buildings all around the world. Torchwood had been badly effected by the invasion with a great majority of their number on the rooftops and were ready to take the leap. The alien ship was destroyed by a beam that Torchwood had organised by order of Prime Minster Harriet Jones. That had not gone well with the Doctor. But this time the Doctor was wanting the Star Bane to be destroyed with that beam.

"I'll contact the London and Glasgow bases to get it all sorted!" Gwen said. She nodded her head over to Ianto, who started to work on getting in touch with the two UNIT bases that were going to help them in destroying the Star Bane.

"How long will it take for everything to be ready?" Jack asked Gwen. Behind him the Doctor had taken the Valiant's captains phone and was calling someone from UNIT.

Gwen looked over at Ianto who was still at his computer with a phone at his ear. "It'll take the weapons to be charged in around ten minutes!" Gwen finally said after Ianto explained what was happening.

"Speed it up!" Jack shouted before the screen switched off. The screen flickered back on to show a firery hell hole. A black figure came into the screen. Two red eyes glowed in the darkness as the figure did not stand to well in the bright orange flames of the Dalek flagships engine.

"Whoever is calling better have a good reason for doing so!" Nightshade snarled as the ship titled to the side. "Sec would you stop that!" she snarled at the other black blob in the back of the screen.

The Doctor smirked as the captain and the crew of the Valiant stared at the figure on the screen. "How's it looking on your end Nightshade?" he asked as the humans just stared. UNIT had been around Nightshade since she joined in the 1970s and only a select few had seen her true form. The Doctor was one of the select few to have seen Nightshade's true form including the Brigadier before he died.

"Sec has the ship under his controls. All that's left now is to drop this peice of junk into the North Sea and then we can focus on destroying the Star Bane!" she replied. The entire ship shock again as Dalek Sec caused Dalek X and Seth a great amount od problems.

The Doctor looked at Jack and the leader of Torchwood nodded his head. The Time Lord looked back at the screen. "Nightshade brining down the ship! We'll focus on the Star Bane! You and Dalek Sec annoy the hell out of Dalek X!" the Doctor ordered.

The hiss that followed caused many of the UNIT sailors to jump back in primal fear. "Nightshade listen!" the Doctor shouted before Nightshade could say anything. "The Star Bane is already charging and we already have a way to destroy it! Nightshade take out the Dalek fleet!" he ordered before ending the call with the shapeshifter.

"Sir!" a sailor shouted from where he sat. Both the captain and the Doctor looked over at the young man. The sailor shrank into himself when they both looked at him. "The British Royal Airforce is heading towards the flagship!" he said.

The Doctor looked back at Jack. "Any word from Torchwood?" he asked the immortal leader of Torchwood.

"Any minute now, Doctor!" Jack shouted. He was once again on the phone to Gwen who was keeping up to date with the other Torchwood bases in the UK.

The Doctor watched as a green beam raced past the Valiant and towards the Star Bane. He looked up to see an orange beam shot from the Star Bane towards the sun. "No!" he shouted as the Star Bane was destroyed.

"Doctor what now?" Jack asked as the sky suddenly went blood red.

"We need the TARDIS and the Moonray!" he said.

"Lets hope that Dalek Sec is close to sending that flagship to the bottom of the ocean!" Jack said where he stood beside the Doctor.