Woohoo! Sarah Jane is here! And Reinette is coming. I'm particularly excited for her arrival into the adventure. Also, there's a surprise cameo in this chapter.
Up on the first floor, there is a change of class at Deffry Vale High School. The Doctor and Ella are undercover as a Physics teacher, and Ella, his assistant. The Doctor was wearing a brown suit and white sneakers, while Ella dressed in a navy blue blouse and some faded jeans along with flats, so if she had to run, it won't be in heels. Rose was working in the canteen as a lunch lady.
"Good morning, class. Are we sitting comfortably?" The Doctor asked cheerily. He then started writing on the board. "So, physics. Physics, eh? Physics. Physics. Physics! Physics. Physics, physics, physics, physics, physics, physics, physics. I hope one of you is getting all this down. Okay let's see what you know. Two identical strips of nylon are charged with static electricity and hung from a string so they can swing freely. What would happen if they were brought near each other?"
A young boy with spectacles puts his hand up. "Yes, er, what's your name?" Ella asked.
"Milo."
"Milo! Off you go," the Doctor said.
"They'd repel each other because they have the same charge."
"Correctamundo! A word I have never used before and hopefully never will again. Question two. I coil up a thin piece of microwire and place it in a glass of water. Then I turn on the electricity and measure to see if the water's temperature is affected. My question is this. How do I measure the electrical power going into the coil?" The Doctor said. Everyone except Milo looked bored out of their minds. Milo's hand shoots straight up. "Someone else. No? Okay, Milo, go for it."
"Measure the current and PDs in an ammeter and a voltmeter."
"Two to Milo. Right then, Milo, tell me this. True or false. The greater the dampening of the system, the quicker it loses energy to its surroundings," Ella said.
"False."
"What is non-coding DNA?" Ella asked in rapid fire.
"DNA that doesn't code for a protein." Everyone started to look shocked.
"Sixty five thousand nine hundred and eighty three times five?" The Doctor folded his arms and leant back on the bench behind him as his daughter fired out questions.
"Three hundred and twenty nine thousand nine hundred and fifteen."
"How do you travel faster than light?" Ella asked, thinking it would stump him. But he actually had an answer.
"By opening a quantum tunnel with an FTL factor of thirty six point seven recurring," Milo said, almost bored. The Doctor's and Ella's jaws drop. Once class was over, the pair headed to the canteen to eat. A pile of chips were dumped on Ella's plate and she looked up to see Rose glaring at her. Ella and her father went to eat and a few minutes later, Rose come over to 'clean' the table.
"Two days," Rose snapped.
"Sorry, could you just? There's a bit of gravy. No, no, just, just there," the Doctor teased Rose.
"Two days, we've been here," Rose complained.
"Blame your boyfriend. He's the one who put us onto this. And he was right. Boy in class this morning, got a knowledge way beyond planet Earth," Ella said.
"You eating those chips?" Rose asked.
"Yeah, they're a bit different," the Doctor stated.
"I think they're gorgeous. Wish I had school dinners like this," Rose said, stealing some chips from Ella's plate.
"It's very well behaved, this place," the Doctor noticed.
"Mmm."
"I thought there'd be happy slapping hoodies. Happy slapping hoodies with ASBOs. Happy slapping hoodies with ASBOs and ringtones. Huh? Huh? Oh, yeah. Don't tell me I don't fit in," the Doctor said.
"You don't fit in," Ella deadpanned.
The head dinner lady then came over and snapped at Rose, "You are not permitted to leave your station during a sitting."
"I was just talking to these teachers," Rose said, pointing at the Doctor and Ella.
"Hello," the father-daughter pair waved.
"They don't like the chips," Rose whispered loudly.
"The menu has been specifically designed by the headmaster to improve concentration and performance. Now, get back to work," head dinner lady said coldly.
"See? This is me. Dinner lady," Rose moaned.
"I'll have the crumble," the Doctor teased.
"I'll have chocolate pudding," Ella added, laughing.
"I'm so going to kill you two," Rose said jokingly. A teacher walks over to a girl with a pony tail. Mr Wagner, Ella believed his name was.
"Melissa. You'll be joining my class for the next period. Milo's failed me, so it's time we moved you up to the top class. Kenny, not eating the chips?" Wagner said.
Kenny, who is a few of the classes Ella and the Doctor teach, is eating a home prepared lunch from a Tupperware box. "I'm not allowed."
"Luke. Extra class. Now," Wagner ordered. Luke and Melissa followed Mister Wagner out. Headmaster Finch stood on a balcony overlooking the canteen and watched it all.
There was another teacher that Ella could tell was undercover, her name was Toshiko Sato, and she taught science. The Doctor went to the staffroom and Ella decided to follow, just with Toshiko.
"Hi," Ella chirped, walking up behind Toshiko and surprising her. "I'm Ella Harkness, I'm the assistant teacher in Physics."
"Tosh," she answered after recovering from shock. "Science teacher." They walked slowly to the staffroom.
"So, sorry to burst your bubble, but why are you undercover here?" Ella asked, surprising Tosh with her bluntness.
"Alien activity was high in this area, I was the best candidate for the job. My team placed me here," Tosh said.
"Ahh, same reason as Dad and I," Ella realised. "If Jack were here he'd make the situation more sexual in some way or another," Ella added under her breath, but Tosh seemed to hear her. They had a pleasant conversation actually, until they arrived in the staffroom. Ella joined the Doctor while Tosh took a phonecall from someone named Jack.
"Yesterday, I had a twelve year old girl give me the exact height of the Walls of Troy in cubits," Mr Parsons said.
"And, it's ever since the new headmaster arrived?" The Doctor asked.
"Finch arrived three months ago. Next day, half the staff got flu. Finch replaced them with that lot, except for the teacher you replaced, and that was just plain weird, her winning the lottery like that," Parsons said.
"How's that weird?" Ella asked.
"She never played. Said the ticket was posted through her door at midnight," Parsons stated.
"Hmm. The world is very strange," the Doctor mused. The Headmaster entered with a woman next to him that Ella had seen in the TARDIS database. Sarah Jane Smith. Ella had also met Sarah Jane once, but it was several years ago and she barely remembered it.
"Is that?" Ella gasped, her eyes widening. The Doctor nodded with a massive grin on his face.
"Excuse me, colleagues. A moment of your time. May I introduce Miss Sarah Jane Smith. Miss Smith is a journalist who's writing a profile about me for the Sunday Times. I thought it might be useful for her to get a view from the trenches, so to speak. Don't spare my blushes," Finch said. He left not two seconds after. Sarah Jane then walked over to the Doctor and Ella and she eyed me, as if she was trying to remember me.
"Hello," Sarah Jane greeted.
"Oh, I should think so," the Doctor said excitedly. Ella elbowed him discreetly in the ribs.
"And, you are?" Sarah Jane asked.
"Hm? Er, Smith. John Smith," the Doctor stuttered.
"Ella Harkness," Ella said, shaking her hand. Sarah Jane's eyes widened as she recognized Ella. But not the Doctor for some reason.
"John Smith. I used to have a friend who sometimes went by that name," Sarah Jane said, smiling at the memories.
"Well, it's a very common name," the Doctor said.
"He was a very uncommon man. His daughter much the same. Nice to meet you," Sarah Jane reminisced.
"Nice to meet you. Yes, very nice. More than nice. Brilliant," the Doctor rambled.
"Er, so, er, have you worked here long?" Sarah Jane asked.
"No. Er, it's only our second day," Ella said.
"Oh, you're new, then. So, what do you think of the school? I mean, this new curriculum? So many children getting ill. Doesn't that strike you as odd?" Sarah asked, almost like she was investigating.
"You don't sound like someone just doing a profile," Ella stated.
"Well, no harm in a little investigation while I'm here," Sarah Jane smiled.
"No. Good for you," the Doctor said. Sarah moved away from us politely to talk to other teachers. "Good for you. Oh, good for you, Sarah Jane Smith."
After night fall, Rose, the Doctor, Mickey, and Ella went back to the school.
"Oh, it's weird seeing school at night. It just feels wrong. When I was a kid, I used to think all the teachers slept in school," Rose said.
"All right, team. Oh, I hate people who say team. Er, gang. Er, comrades. Anyway, Rose, go to the kitchen. Get a sample of that oil. Mickey, the new staff are all Maths teachers. Go and check out the Maths department. Ella and I are going to look in Finch's office. Be back here in ten minutes," the Doctor ordered.
The Doctor and Ella walked the halls and stopped outside the storeroom that the TARDIS was in as they had just spotted Sarah Jane enter. She walked out slowly and she turned around to see us watching her.
"Hello, Sarah Jane," the Doctor said, his hands in the pockets of his trenchcoat.
"It's you. Oh, Doctor Oh, my God, it's you, isn't it. You've regenerated. Ella, you look just as great as when I saw you as a time tot," Sarah Jane said.
"Yeah. Half a dozen times since we last met," the Doctor said.
"You look incredible," Sarah Jane complimented.
"So do you," Ella said.
"Huh. I got old. What are you doing here?" Sarah asked.
"Well, UFO sighting, school gets record results. I couldn't resist. What about you?" The Doctor asked, grinning a little.
"The same. I thought you'd died. I waited for you and you didn't come back, and I thought you must have died," Sarah Jane cried.
"Ella and I lived. Everyone else died," the Doctor stated.
"What do you mean?" Sarah Jane asked.
"Everyone died, Sarah," Ella said sadly.
"I can't believe it's you," Sarah Jane said. They heard a scream echo around the halls. "Okay, now I can!"
They took off running and ran into Rose on the way. "Did you hear that? Who's she?" Rose asked, glaring at Sarah Jane.
"Rose, Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane, Rose," the Doctor introduced.
"Hi. Nice to meet you. You can tell you're getting older. Your assistants are getting younger," Sarah Jane teased.
"I'm not his assistant," Rose said.
"Really? Got you, tiger."
They then continued running down the halls until they found Mickey.
"Sorry! Sorry, it was only me. You told me to investigate, so I started looking through some of these cupboards and all of these fell on me," Mickey said, breathing heavily.
"Oh, my God, they're rats. Dozens of rats. Vacuum packed rats," Rose muttered.
"It isn't like you haven't worse or anything, is it?" Ella said. Rose immediately shut up.
"And you decided to scream," the Doctor stated.
"It took me by surprise!" Mickey defended.
"Like a little girl?" The Doctor asked.
"It was dark! I was covered in rats!" Mickey protested.
"Nine, maybe ten years old. I'm seeing pigtails, frilly skirt," the Doctor teased. Mickey rolled his eyes, knowing that the Time Lord was joking.
"Hello, can we focus? Does anyone notice anything strange about this? Rats in school?" Rose asked.
"Well, obviously they use them in Biology lessons. They dissect them. Or maybe you haven't reached that bit yet. How old are you?" Sarah Jane asked.
"Excuse me, no one dissects rats in school anymore. They haven't done that for years. Where are you from, the dark ages?" Rose asked coldly. Ella kicked Rose's shin hard and she fell down, clutching her leg.
"Anyway, moving on. Everything started when Mister Finch arrived. We should go and check his office," Ella stated casually, pretending nothing happened. Rose was glaring at Ella, while Mickey, Sarah Jane and the Doctor were stifling laughter.
"I don't mean to be rude or anything, but who exactly are you?" Rose asked once she had recovered. They were walking down a corridor towards Finch's office.
"Sarah Jane Smith. I used to travel with the Doctor."
"Oh. Well, he's never mentioned you," Rose said smugly.
"Yes he has. To me anyway," Ella said.
"Oh, I must've done. Sarah Jane. Mention her all the time."
"Hold on. Sorry. Never," Rose said, grinning.
"What, not even once? He didn't mention me even once?" Sarah Jane asked, looking upset.
"He did, just not to Rose," Ella stated. They arrived at Finch's office and Ella used her laser spanner to open the door. "Maybe those rats were food."
"Food for what?" Rose asked. Ella snuck a look in and saw thirteen giant bats hanging from the ceiling.
"Rose, you know you used to think all the teachers slept in the school? Well, they do," Ella stated, opening the door slightly wider for everyone to see bat like creatures hanging from the ceiling.
"No way!" Mickey gasped before running out of the room. Everyone else followed calmly and Ella shut the door. They all heard a screech behind them before they took off running. They all burst through the front doors of the school. "I am not going back in there. No way."
"Those were teachers," Rose gasped, taking deep breaths.
"When Finch arrived, he brought with him seven new teachers, four dinner ladies and a nurse. Thirteen. Thirteen big bat people. Come on," the Doctor said, heading back into the building. Rose going after him.
"Come on? You've got to be kidding!" Mickey yelled.
"I need the TARDIS. I've got to analyse that oil from the kitchen," the Doctor said.
Ella coughed and pointed at Sarah Jane. "She has something to help."
"I might be able to help you there. I've got something to show you," Sarah Jane said excitedly. She led everyone over to her car and opened the boot to reveal a mound covered with a thick plaid green blanket.
Dad pulled the blanket off to reveal a long lost friend in the form of a robot dog. "K9! Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, allow me to introduce K9. well, K9 Mark Three to be precise."
"Why does he look so disco?" Rose asked, obviously not very impressed.
"Oi! Listen, in the year five thousand, this was cutting edge. What's happened to him?" The Doctor asked.
"Oh, one day, he just, nothing," Sarah Jane sighed.
"Well, didn't you try and get him repaired?" The Doctor asked. Ella let out a loud sigh.
"Well, it's not like getting parts for a Mini Metro. Besides, the technology inside him could rewrite human science. She wouldn't have been able to show him to anyone," Ella said.
"Ooh, what's the nasty lady done to you, eh?" The Doctor asked, scratching K9's ears. He was getting rusty round the edges.
"Look, no offence, but could you two just stop petting for a minute? Never mind the tin dog. We're busy," Rose snapped.
Ella swung her leg back and hit Rose in the thigh, making her yell. "Shut up, Rose, stop being such a jealous bitch." Ella then shut the boot.
Sarah Jane drove them all to a bistro which was still open and they stopped there to fix K9. Ella was quietly doing a crossword puzzle that was in the paper in the corner of the bistro when the sound of machinery starting up captured her attention. Ella looked over at her Dad and Sarah Jane to see K9 was now working again.
"Oh, hey. Now we're in business," the Doctor cheered, capturing the attention of the humans in the room. They all then walked over and gathered around K9.
"Master," K9 said.
"He recognises me."
"Affirmative."
"That's adorable!" Ella gushed.
"Thank you, Mistress Ella," K9 said.
"He knows me!"
"Affirmative."
"Rose, give us the oil," the Doctor said.
"I wouldn't touch it, though. That dinner lady got all scorched," Rose said worriedly as she handed over the oil.
"I'm no dinner lady. And I don't often say that." The Doctor smeared a sample on to K9's probe. "Here we go. Come on, boy. Here we go."
"Oil. Ex-ex-ex-extract. Ana-ana-analysing."
"Listen to him, man. That's a voice," Mickey laughed.
"Careful. That's my dog," Sarah Jane said.
"Confirmation of analysis. Substance is Krillitane Oil."
"They're Krillitanes," Ella said gravely.
"Is that bad?" Rose asked.
"Very. Think of how bad things could possibly be, and add another suitcase full of bad," the Doctor said. Ella huffed at her father's dramatics, but he wouldn't be her father if he wasn't dramatic.
"And what are Krillitanes?" Sarah Jane asked.
"They're a composite race. Just like your culture is a mixture of traditions from all sorts of countries, people you've invaded or have been invaded by. You've got bits of Viking, bits of France, bits of whatever. The Krillitanes are the same. An amalgam of the races they've conquered. But they take physical aspects as well. They cherry pick the best bits from the people they destroy. That's why I didn't recognise them. The last time Dad and I saw Krillitanes, they looked just like us except they had really long necks," Ella explained.
"What're they doing here?" Rose asked.
"It's the children. They're doing something to the children," the Doctor realised. Sarah Jane and Mickey went to put K9 back in the car while Ella stuck with her father. The two walked out of the shop with Rose fuming behind us.
"How many of us have there been travelling with you?" Rose asked.
"Does it matter?" The Doctor asked.
"Yeah, it does, if I'm just the latest in a long line," Rose said angrily.
"As opposed to what?" The Doctor asked.
"I thought you and me were. I obviously got it wrong. I've been to the year five billion, right, but this? Now this is really seeing the future. You just leave us behind. Is that what you're going to do to me?" Rose asked.
"No, not to you."
"But Sarah Jane? You were that close to her once, and now you never even mention her. Why not?" Rose asked.
"Ella and I don't age. We regenerate. But humans decay. You wither and you die. Imagine watching that happen to someone who you…"
"What, Doctor?" Rose asked. The two Time Lords just walked off. "Oi, I'm talking to you!" The Doctor stopped and turned to look at the blonde.
"You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on. Alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords," the Doctor explained angrily.
"Time Lord," a voice hissed from above. They looked up in time to see a giant bat swoop down and for them all to duck and it flew off.
"Was that a Krillitane?" Sarah Jane asked.
"But it didn't even touch her. It just flew off. What did it do that for?" Lynda asked. We all slept at Sarah Jane's house and the next morning, we headed to the school to investigate.
"Rose and Sarah, you go to the Maths room. Crack open those computers, I need to see the hardware inside. Here, you might need this," the Doctor said, handing his sonic to Sarah Jane, Rose had her hand out expectantly and dropped it when she saw Sarah Jane had the sonic in her hand. "Mickey, surveillance. I want you outside."
"Just stand outside?" Mickey asked incredulously.
"Here, take these you can keep K9 company," Sarah Jane said. She threw Mickey her car keys.
"Don't forget to leave the window open a crack," the Doctor yelled.
"But he's metal!" Mickey yelled back.
"He didn't mean for him. He meant for you," Ella said loudly.
"What're you going to do?" Rose asked.
"It's time Ella and I had a word with Mister Finch," the Doctor said. They all walked off in different directions. The Doctor and Ella spotted Finch on the floor below them and glared at him when he looked up. Finch walked off and the pair headed downstairs to the swimming pool.
Finch stood at the opposite end of the pool than the Time Lords. "Who are you?" The Doctor asked.
"My name is Brother Lassa. And you?"
"The Doctor, and my daughter Ella. Since when did Krillitanes have wings?" The Doctor asked.
"It's been our form for nearly ten generations now. Our ancestors invaded Bessan. The people there had some rather lovely wings. They made a million widows in one day. Just imagine."
"And now you're shaped human," Ella stated.
"A personal favourite, that's all."
"And the others?" Ella asked.
"My brothers remain bat form. What you see is a simple morphic illusion. Scratch the surface and the true Krillitane lies beneath. And what of the Time Lords? I always thought of you as such a pompous race. Ancient, dusty senators, so frightened of change and chaos. And of course, they're all but extinct. Only you two. The last."
"This plan of yours. What is it?" The Doctor asked. Finch, the Doctor and Ella were only metres away from each other now.
"You don't know," Finch stated.
"That's why I'm asking." Ella coughed. "We're asking," the Doctor corrected.
"Well, show me how clever you are. Work it out," Finch challenged.
"If I don't like it, then it will stop," the Doctor threatened.
"Fascinating. Your people were peaceful to the point of indolence. You seem to be something new. Would you declare war on us, Doctor?"
"I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy. You get one warning. That was it," the Doctor said. The two went to leave but stopped when Finch spoke.
"But we're not even enemies. Soon you will embrace us. The next time we meet, you will join with me. I promise you," Finch guaranteed. He then breezed past us and out of the room as the bell rang. The Doctor headed to an IT room to see Rose and Sarah Jane laughing.
"How's it going?" Ella asked. They kept laughing.
"What? Listen, I need to find out what's programmed inside these," the Doctor said urgently. The hysteria was setting in. "What? Stop it!" A klaxon echoed around the halls. Rose turned children away at the door.
"No, no. This classroom's out of bounds. You've all got to go to the South Hall. Off you go. South Hall!" Rose announced. The Doctor does his old trick of looping wires around his neck and shoulders as he tried to get inside the CPU.
"I can't shift it," the Doctor said frustratedly.
"I thought the sonic screwdriver could open anything!" Sarah Jane said.
"Anything except a deadlock seal. There's got to be something inside here. What're they teaching those kids?" Ella muttered. The screens in the room all turned green and some symbols are displayed, the column on the side moving swiftly.
"You wanted the programme? There it is," Sarah Jane said.
"Some sort of code," the Doctor muttered. Ella did her own mini version of the academy in the TARDIS and 'Codes of the Universe' was a subject she chose that the Doctor did not do at the actual academy. The TARDIS taught Ella everything. Ella recognized the code immediately and her eyes widened.
"No. No, that can't be," Ella muttered. "The Skasis Paradigm. They're trying to crack the Skasis Paradigm, Dad!"
"The Skasis what?" Rose asked.
"The God maker. The universal theory. Crack that equation and you've got control of the building blocks of the universe. Time and space and matter, yours to control," Ella explained.
"What, and the kids are like a giant computer?" Rose asked.
"Yes. And their learning power is being accelerated by the oil. That oil from the kitchens, it works as a...as a conducting agent. Makes the kids cleverer," Ella said. She was walking around the lab anxiously.
"But that oil's on the chips. I've been eating them," Rose said.
"What's fifty nine times thirty five?" Ella asked. The Doctor was off to the side letting Ella do all the work.
"Two thousand and sixty five," Rose said quickly. Ella tilted her head in a 'I said so' motion.
"Oh, my God," Rose muttered.
"But why use children? Can't they use adults?" Sarah Jane asked.
"No, it's got to be children. The God maker needs imagination to crack it. They're not just using the children's brains to break the code, they're using their souls," Ella stated.
The Headmaster entered the room. "Let the lesson begin. Think of it, Doctor. With the Paradigm solved, reality becomes clay in our hands. We can shape the universe and improve it."
"Oh yeah? The whole of creation with the face of Mister Finch? Call me old fashioned, but I like things as they are," the Doctor said.
"You act like such a radical, and yet all you want to do is preserve the old order? Think of the changes that could be made if this power was used for good," Finch stated.
"What, by someone like you?" Ella scoffed.
"No, someone like you. The Paradigm gives us power, but you could give us wisdom. Become a God at my side. Imagine what you could do. Think of the civilisations you could save. Perganon, Assinta. Your own people, Doctor, standing tall. The Time Lords reborn," Finch said.
"Ella, Doctor, don't listen to him," Sarah Jane warned.
"And you could be with them throughout eternity. Young, fresh, never wither, never age, never die. Their lives are so fleeting. So many goodbyes. How lonely you must be, Ella. Join us," Finch said.
"I could save everyone. I could save Mum, Gorangi, Rue, Mjadi. I could save Jack," Ella whispered.
"Yes," Finch assured.
"I could stop the war," Ella muttered, thinking of the haunting memories of when she was younger.
"No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship, everything has its time. And everything ends," Sarah Jane said. Ella stared at the paradigm.
"But…" Ella whispered, my voice breaking. "I want Jack back." Ella then made up her mind and inhaled deeply before grabbing a chair and throwing it at the screen. "Get out!" They all ran out of the room but Ella poked her head back in the room to look at Finch. "Sorry, I really would love too. But Sarah Jane is right." Ella then took off running and caught up quickly with the others. When Ella reached them, they had Mickey and a boy named Kenny with them.
"What is going on?" Mickey asked. They saw a few Krillitanes coming down the hallway and they ran down a different hallway the canteen. They tried to open the doors leading outside but they were locked and the Doctor couldn't get out his sonic, and Ella her laser spanner. Finch walked in followed by the bats.
"Are they my teachers?" Kenny asked.
"Yeah. Sorry," the Doctor apologized.
"We need the Doctor and Ella alive. As for the others? You can feast," Finch said evilly. The Krillitanes swooped at them all and they hid under the tables. Suddenly a laser beam shot at one of the bats. Finch screeched furiously.
"K9!" Sarah Jane cried.
"Suggest you engage running mode, mistress," K9 said.
"Come on!" The Doctor yelled. Everyone ran into the hallway on the side. "K9, hold them back!"
"Affirmative, master. Maximum defence mode," K9 said, shooting at all the bats. The Doctor sealed the doors behind him. Ella saw that we had ended up in a classroom.
"It's the oil. Krillitane life forms can't handle the oil. That's it! They've changed their physiology so often, even their own oil is toxic to them. How much was there in the kitchens?" Ella asked Rose.
"Barrels of it," Rose stated. The Krillitanes were battering at the door.
"Okay, we need to get to the kitchens. Mickey," the Doctor started.
"What now, hold the coats?" Mickey asked sarcastically.
"Get all the children unplugged and out of the school. Now then, bats, bats, bats. How do we fight bats?" Dad wondered. Mickeys looked shock at how much faith was being put into his hands right then. Kenny set off the fire alarm. The noise hurt the Krillitane's and all of them were able to escape.
"Master," K9's voice chirped.
"Come on, boy. Good boy," the Doctor said, giving K9 a quick pat. They got to the kitchens and the Doctor tried his sonic screwdriver on the barrels of oil. "They've been deadlock sealed. Finch must've done that. I can't open them."
"The vats would not withstand a direct hit from my laser, but my batteries are failing," K9 said, sounding a bit sad.
"Right. Everyone out the back door. K9, stay with me," the Doctor said. Sarah Jane, Rose and Ella ran out of the building via the back door. The Doctor ran out of the building and sealed the door behind him.
"Where's K9?" Sarah Jane asked.
"We need to run," the Doctor said.
"Where is he? What have you done?!" Sarah Jane cried. The Doctor wrapped his arms around her torso and practically dragged her out of there with me following. Sarah Jane then finally started to run and grabbed the Doctor's hand doing so.
"Come on, guys! Let's go, let's go! Run!" Mickey yelled. The school went KaBOOM! and the children rejoiced as paper rained down on them.
"Yes!" Kenny cheered.
"Did you have something to do with it?" A girl Ella knew as Melissa asked.
"Yeah, I did," Kenny said. Melissa's jaw dropped.
"Oh my God. Kenny blew up the school! It was Kenny!" Melissa yelled.
"Yay! Kenny! Kenny! Kenny! Kenny!" The children cheered.
"I'm sorry," the Doctor said to Sarah Jane.
"It's all right. He was just a daft metal dog. It's fine, really," Sarah Jae said before bursting into tears. The Doctor tried to comfort the old companion. Sarah Jane went home while the Doctor, Rose, Mickey and Ella went back to the TARDIS. The next morning, they had relocated the TARDIS to Belle Vue Park. Ella was sitting on the captain's chair. Ella had rebuilt K9 with the Doctor overnight so Sarah Jane could still have a reminder of her adventures.
"You've redecorated," Sarah Jane stated once she saw the new desktop.
"Do you like it?" the Doctor asked, grinning.
"Oh, I, I do. Yeah. I preferred it as it was, but er, yeah. It'll do," Sarah Jane said, exploring the layout.
"I love it," Rose grinned.
"Hey, you what's forty seven times three hundred and sixty nine?" Sarah Jane asked Rose.
"No idea. It's gone now. The oil's faded," Rose said.
"But you're still clever. More than a match for him," Sarah Jane complimented. Rose grinned.
"You and me both. Doctor?" Rose asked.
"Er, we're about to head off, but you could come with us," the Doctor offered.
"No. I can't do this anymore. Besides, I've got a much bigger adventure ahead. Time I stopped waiting for you and found a life of my own," Sarah Jane said.
"Can I come?" Mickey asked, Sarah Jane looked at him and he started to clear it up. "No, not with you, I mean with you. Because I'm not the tin dog, and I want to see what's out there."
"Oh, go on, Doctor. Sarah Jane Smith, a Mickey Smith. You need a Smith on board," Sarah Jane helped Mickey with his cause.
"Okay then, I could do with a laugh," the Doctor agreed.
"Ella, is that okay?" Mickey asked.
"Of course it is. I'd love for you to come," Ella said, hugging Mickey tightly. Rose looked slightly put off.
"Well, I'd better go," Sarah Jane said. Ella and her father led Sarah Jane out of the TARDIS. "It's daft, but I haven't ever thanked you for that time. And like I said, I wouldn't have missed it for the world."
"Something to tell the grandkids," Ella said.
"Oh, I think it'll be someone else's grandkids now," Sarah Jane said.
"Right. Yes, sorry. I didn't get a chance to ask. You haven't? There hasn't been anyone? You know," the Doctor asked.
"Well, there was this one guy. I travelled with him for a while, but he was a tough act to follow. Goodbye, Doctor," Sarah Jane said.
"Oh, it's not goodbye," the Doctor grinned.
"Do say it. Please. This time. Say it," Sarah Jane said, a little sad.
"Goodbye, my Sarah Jane," the Doctor grinned. He lifted her off her feet in a big hug, then headed back inside the TARDIS.
"So you lost your boyfriend recently, huh? What was his name?"
"Jack Harkness," Ella smiled sadly.
"I swear I've heard that name somewhere," Sarah Jane stated.
"So everyone says. See you, Sarah Jane," Ella said, giving the human a hug. She followed the Doctor into the TARDIS and shut the doors behind her.
"So," Ella said, her hands on the door handles behind her. "Where to next?"
Captain Jack Harkness was reading a newspaper article about the explosion at Deffry Vale High School, where Tosh had gone undercover. The picture contained a photo of the explosion with two people in front of it, and one of them was Ella.
"I met her," Tosh said, spotting the article.
"Really?" Jack asked, interested to hear about Ella.
"Yeah, she mentioned a Jack. Add in that her last name was Harkness and you'd think you would've met her," Tosh stated.
"I have," Jack said. "She was my girl. Still is, I hope. Her father left me stranded and she was screaming for me. I could hear it through the doors of their ship."
"Oh," Tosh said, surprised to be hearing so much about her boss' life. "Well she seems lovely. She was very friendly. A bit sad though, as if she had lost someone recently."
"Thanks Tosh. You can all go home now," Jack dismissed. Tosh left quietly and within minutes, Torchwood was all locked up.
"Please come back soon, Ella," Jack said, before letting his head fall onto the desk.