This chapter contains bad language and mild choking.
Once everyone, apart from herself and The Rani, had escaped the processing room, Jaime closed the Portal and turned her attention to the scientist Time Lady. "Well, that just leaves you and me." The Scots-girl proclaimed to the unconscious Time Lady and approached her.
Once again she crouched in front of The Rani and placed her hand on the control collar. It was lucky that it was electronic but she could easily get rid of it if it hadn't been. Using her Cyberkinesis she was able to unlock it, take it off from around The Rani's neck and threw it halfway across the room. Next, she put both hands on The Rani's temples and healed her Mind.
This appeared to wake her up from her forced slumber and her blue eyes flashed open, widening when she realised what was happening. The Rani gasped and slapped Jaime's hands off her. In her fright she would have scooted backwards if it hadn't been for Jaime grabbing her wrist and holding onto it very tightly.
"Get your hand off me." She warned, yet Jaime remained where she was.
"Back tae normal are you?" She replied. "Well, what you would consider as normal."
Confusion and suspicion washed off The Rani as she narrowed her eyes. "What? What are you blabbering about?" She asked.
"48 years in solitary, cannae be too good for the Mind, can it!" Jaime answered back. "So I…helped you. And now we're goin' tae find where they stashed your TARDIS and get off this planet." She let go of The Rani's wrist but continued to hold the gaze of the Time Lady. "You can either be my friend or my enemy…what'll it be?"
The Rani glared in disbelief. She couldn't believe the temerity of this half-human, half-Time Lord…thing…calling the shots. But if she wanted to get off this hell hole of a planet she would have to…unfortunately…team with this thing. "You're no friend of mine," The Rani growled back. "But I would appreciate the help." She didn't trust this female one bit. Especially when she started grinning in a madcap kind of way.
"Fan-dabby-dozy!" Jaime uttered. "By the way. I'm a Hybrid and I'm proud of that." She stood up and turned her back on The Rani. "Now you best follow my lead and stand up, 'cause we're 'bout tae have a couple of guests."
"What?" The Time Lady deftly stood up just as the door opened and five Tetraps stormed into the room.
"What is the meaning of this?" The lead Tetrap demanded. "Where did they go? How did they escape?"
A huge grin appeared on Jaime's face. "They're safely away from here," she replied. "And so will we be once you tell me where you put The Rani's TARDIS."
The lead Tetrap snarled at them. "And who are you to request such a demand?" He growled the question.
This gave Jaime a good chuckle. "Who am I?" She answered. "I'll tell you who I am." And she brazenly took a step towards the Tetraps, a mischievous grin on her face and a dark look in her eyes. "I've been known by many names," she began. "The Fire-Bird, The Demon of The Sky, The Destroyer, The Darkness, The Shadow, The Manipulator of Minds. But you can jus' call me The Omni."
The Rani was astonished when the Tetraps took several steps back from the Hybrid, apparently fearful of her.
"The Great Scourge of the Universe." The lead Tetrap snarled, causing a surprised Jaime to raise her brows. It was just her rotten luck to find she had amassed yet another bad name. "Kill them, kill the both of them." The Tetrap ordered.
Eyes wide, The Rani panicked as the Tetraps with blasters raised them towards the two females. "Great! Do you have any other bright ideas?" The Rani snapped sarcastically.
Jaime wasn't particularly worried as she was able to send out a telekinetic EMP blast that disabled their weapons. She watched with a smirk when they squeezed the triggers and nothing happened. "Wee problem?" The Scots-girl questioned with a chuckle while the Tetraps continued to depress the triggers.
"They have been disabled!" One of the Tetraps stated after it checked why it's blaster wasn't working.
"Then if technology won't work then we shall use our own method of attack." The lead Tetrap growled.
Having the foresight of knowing what they were going to do, Jaime deflected the hypnotic attack with a telekinetic shield, protecting herself and The Rani. At the same time her Sonic Screwdriver appeared in her free hand from her pocket. She pressed the button on her Sonic and it whirred out a high pitched sound that caused quite the irritation for the Tetraps.
They screamed in pain and covered their ears in an attempt to block out the sound.
"Where'd you put the TARDIS?" Jaime demanded once she stopped using the Sonic.
"I will not tell you!" The lead Tetrap snarled back and tried to attack the two females again.
Luckily Jaime was quick and blasted them with her Sonic again. But what was even better was when she read their scrambled Minds she was able to find the location of The Rani's TARDIS. "Thank you, you've been a great help!" She exclaimed. "Come on, let's go!" Jaime uttered and scarpered out of the room with a confused Rani following behind.
As The Rani continued to follow The Omni, or The Fire-Bird or whatever her name was, along the prison corridors she felt she had to admire the girl's tenacity. She was confident…practically oozed it. Not to mention she was smart, wily and had her wits about her. Which really quite puzzled the Time Lady as to why the girl was even travelling with The Doctor. "So, the Scourge of the Universe? The Destroyer? The Darkness?" The Rani spoke up. "You have been a bad girl!"
Jaime winced as she Soniced a Tetrap heading towards them. She really didn't like being reminded of the awful things she did. She only said those things just to put the frighteners on them. "I was in a bad place!" Jaime replied. "I'm not proud of the stuff I did."
"And then along came The Doctor and made you all better?" The Rani asked with a sneer. Despite her fear of being Mind Controlled by the girl, she really wished she had come across her first.
"Aye, somethin' like that!" The Scots-girl replied, scowling at The Rani's thoughts. It was annoying how they always wanted to use her in some way.
"I don't believe that one bit," The Rani continued to sneer. "Nobody just turns good on a whim. I know The Doctor. The goody two shoes wouldn't let somebody like you aboard his ship."
Humoured by her words, Jaime smirked and snorted. "Fine, believe what you want, that's your prerogative," she answered the Time Lady. "But The Doctor taught me how tae control and use my abilities. He even adopted me and I'm happy tae call him my father." As several more Tetraps were buzzed by the Sonic, Jaime could feel waves of surprise washing off The Rani.
"Oh, really? Is that how you came to be a human/Time Lord Hybrid? The Doctor attempted to change your species? And what of that other man? How did he become a Hybrid?"
Jaime rolled her eyes as they turned a corner. "That's a long story and nowt tae do with The Doctor. As for John…he's my bond-mate…as well as my uncle."
This little revelation brought The Rani to a halt. "Your uncle?" She exclaimed, eyes widening when she realised that the half human Time Lord was The Doctor from the future. "He's a Metacrisis!" She realised. "An actual real life Metacrisis." Her blue eyes sparkled with glee.
Feeling that glee washing off The Rani, a very angry Jaime whirled on her in order to give her a good telling off. Only for her eyes to widen as a flash of danger was felt. "Duck!" She shouted and The Rani did what she was told. The Omni blasted back the three Tetraps back with icy water, followed by electrocuting them. Not wishing to stay, Jaime pulled the Time Lady to her feet. "Run!" She shouted, pushing her forward.
The two females ran together but The Rani was following Jaime. They soon made it to the area they needed to be in and Jaime ran towards the closed door of a cell whilst grabbing The Rani's wrist, concentrating. As she continued to run towards the door, she felt The Rani dragging behind. So she pulled with all her strength and they both ran through the closed door with the Time Lady screaming.
Puzzled, she stopped screaming and looked around once she realised she hadn't smacked face first into the cell door. "What just happened?" She asked.
Unfortunately she didn't get her question answered because she found herself being Force Choked. And then she spotted the Fire-Bird glaring angrily at her. Was it her imagination or was there a warm breeze blowing thought out the room. She could see the girl's hair being played at by said breeze.
"If I ever catch ye thinkin' 'bout experimentin' on my bond-mate again, I swear I'll rip yer fuckin' hearts right out of yer fuckin' chest!" An incensed Jaime snarled at The Rani as she continued to choke. "Ye fuckin' understand?"
The Rani managed to give a slight nod, and that was really hard to do while being Telekinetically choked.
"Good!" Jaime let her go and turned to the object in the room.
The Rani stumbled back against the wall and took in several deep breaths, her eyes also on the object. Her ship, which was in its original shape of a grey cylinder. Then she looked at the girl, who she had clearly under-estimated. She was strong and powerful. Far too powerful to mess about with.
Banging was heard on the cell door so Jaime looked over at The Rani. "Hurry up and open your TARDIS before that lot get in here." She ordered.
With an obedient nod, The Rani quickly approached her TARDIS, and to Jaime's surprise, put her hand on the door and it opened quite easily. Which was odd, because when she had attempted to open it all she'd sensed and felt was contempt and suspicion from the Time Machine.
They both ran into the TARDIS and Jaime was not that surprised to find the console room looked exactly like the set from 'Mark of The Rani'. There was the twirly ringed Time Rotor, shelves full of scientific equipment and jars full of creatures. She was curious as to where they'd put the dinosaur after it had fallen from its jar, but she thought it was best not to ask. "I thought you would have needed a key to get into the TARDIS?" Jaime asked as The Rani quickly set the co-ordinates and sent the TARDIS into the Vortex.
She snorted at the girl's question and she found it even funnier that The Doctor even had his companions calling the Time Capsule a 'TARDIS'. That wasn't even a proper name. "Unlike the Doctor's relic of a capsule, mine happens to be a Type 43. It opens to the touch of my DNA." She replied and noted that the girl was nodding her head in wonder. "Now don't do anything while I'm away." The Rani said before exiting into the inner TARDIS.
Jaime watched her go before turning her attention to the Time Machine. "Okay, TARDIS…" She began, but halted when she sensed that the machine felt indignant at being called a TARDIS. The Scots-girl rolled her eyes. "Fine…Time Machine…I've just rescued your pilot. Now I want tae save her life." She paced around the Console Room, thinking. "Sometime in the future, your future, there is goin' tae be a very big and very bad Time War involvin' the Time Lords and the Daleks. It got bad, very bad. And the Time Lords recalled everyone back tae Gallifrey in order tae fight." She could feel that the Time Machine didn't believe her. "You're a Time Capsule, you can see all of time before certain things happen. Look it up!"
The Type 43 did just that, and then a short time later Jaime literally felt the Time Machine shudder in revulsion, followed by a low moan.
"You believe me now?" She asked. "That's why I want tae save The Rani. And tae do that I need you tae activate the Chameleon Arch." Another low moan from the machine. "I know, I'm sorry. But it's the only solution."
The machine sighed sadly and a switch started blinking on the control panel.
"Ah-ha!" Jaime flicked it and watched as the Chameleon Arch came down. "And a Fob-watch," she said next. "It'll be up to you tae give her a history." A little drawer opened from underneath the console and she pulled out a Fob-watch. It was different colour to the Doctor's Fob-watch. "Fan-dabby-dozy!" Jaime exclaimed and began to fit it to the Chameleon headset.
Six point four seconds later The Rani strode back into the Console Room having changed her clothes, yet looked no different. She saw what Jaime was doing and halted in her steps. "What are you doing, you silly child?" She demanded, walking around the console.
A scowl appeared on Jaime's face. "I'm 124 years old!" She replied, registering surprise washing off the Time Lady. "I'm also savin' your life."
Once again The Rani snorted. "I don't need saving. Especially from some well of a Hybrid." She growled.
"From the Time War." Jaime added.
A frown appeared on The Rani's face. "You mentioned this Time War before. What is it?"
But Jaime just shook her head. "You really wouldnae want tae know." Was her answer. She couldn't reveal too much, so she only explained the basics.
However, the Scientific Time Lady grinned maliciously, thinking of all the illicit experiments she could do. "What if I want to join in on this war?" She asked.
Jaime sighed and shook her head. "You cannae." She explained and felt waves of anger wash off The Rani.
"Oh?" She took a step towards Jaime. "Why not?"
The Scots-girl's stance took on an awkward appearance and she thought about what she should say before looking back at The Rani. "Because The Doctor never saw you there," Jaime answered back, having looked through the ancient memories of The Doctor that were buried deep in her Mind. "You were never part of the Time War, and I think I know why." She rattled the Chameleon Arch she held and The Rani stared at it with wide eyes.
"It's a Paradox." The Time Lady uttered in disbelief. And being a Time Lord, she knew she couldn't ignore those. It would mean untold damage to the Universe.
"So now do you understand?" Jaime asked.
The Rani silently nodded her head.
"You have tae do this." Jaime told the Time Lady and gasped when the Arch was snatched off her.
"I'm well aware of that!" The Rani snapped and glared at the instrument when she saw it was set to 'Human'. "Oh, great!" She uttered, disgust washing off her.
Resigned to her fate, The Rani put the Arch on her head. "What's your name?" She asked the Scots-girl. "Your real name." She added. "It's only fair, considering you know mine…somehow."
A hint of a smile appeared on Jaime's face. "It's Jaime." She replied.
"Ok, Jaime. Thank you for 'saving me'." The Rani said, air-quoting her words.
"No problem. Once the Time War ends in your future, me and John will…hopefully…find you and return you tae your Time Lady self."
The Rani smirked at this. "Thank you!"
She actually sounded grateful and Jaime could tell she wasn't lying. But then the Chameleon Arch activated and she took several steps back with a grimace as The Rani screamed in pain. She was thankful she had her shields raised her, but the screaming was horrible. This must be how Martha had felt when she watched The Doctor doing this.
Once the transition from Time Lord to Human was completed, the Chameleon Arch switched off and a groan came from The Rani before she collapsed into unconsciousness. Moving quickly, Jaime picked up the now human Time Lady and placed her on a sofa that had appeared in the Console Room. Taking the Fob-watch from the Arch she then put it in The Rani's pocket.
"Right, that's done!" Jaime uttered and began to find a connection to The Doctor's TARDIS in order to join up with John and her mum. "You can take her anywhere you can think of," she spoke to the Time Machine. "Except Earth. Oh, and keep yourself hidden from the Time Lords." As she heard the Time Machine agree with her, she found a connection to the right TARDIS. She frowned, confused. "Hmm, what are they doin' there?" She wondered before teleporting out of the Time Machine.