Luke appeared in a blue flash of light in the middle of the Shadow Proclamation where The TARDIS was parked once during the 27 planets incident. He half glanced at River's vortex minipulator strapped onto his wrist nervously, before looking up to see a brigade of Judoon pointing guns in front of him.
"Jo No Fro So Ho Clo Ma-Ho-Jo!" One Judoon chanted. Luke rolled his eyes and grumbled to himself, striding forward and pulling it's scanner from it's belt.
"English." Luke said quickly into it, sticking it into the port onto it's chest.
"English, Earth. Language assimilated." The Judoon said.
"The Doctor sent me." Luke said sternly, looking at them all.
"Ho Lo Fro No Jo Scho Cro." The chief Judoon barked and they all lowered their guns.
"Luke Smith." The Shadow Architect pushed past all The Judoon, staring eagerly at him.
"I need to look at your systems."
"The whole universe is in a panic right now, the whole of the time war is about to come flying through us. Earth is getting slaughtered by the time lords, they're technically dead!"
"You know I need to see this. You know I do. The Doctor's down on Earth trying to find out what's going on, and you need us."
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"Mr Smith." Mai said breathlessly, pacing the attic as the others kept trying to get her to sit down. "How am I doing?"
"You are 15% dialated." Mr Smith replied.
"Gonna be a long wait-" Sarah Jane sighed.
"No not the labour!" Mai snapped, interupting them all. "My hearts, what's going on how much longer do I have?"
"With no regret, there's no way to tell."
"Brilliant." She muttered. "Where's my screwdriver?" She murmered to herself, picking up her sonic, fiddling with it in her hands. "You know there's only one way out of this." She sighed, looking at the others.
"No way." Sarah-Jane said immediately.
"It'd give him a chance Sarah-Jane." Mai said sternly.
"I don't care, no."
"The whole of the time war is about to be unleashed on the universe, I watched millions upon millions die on Gallifrey, and I'm not gonna let it happen to the rest of the universe, cause I don't know how long we'll last. It's our only chance of getting out of here anyway. Mr Smith and K-9 will look after the house."
"Anyone want to explain what were possibly doing or not doing?" Clyde piped up, laughing nervously.
"We give the control of the time bubble back to Torchwood, and get out of here."
"But we have no teleport?" Sky said.
"I know that." Mai said, breathing sharply.
"So, your saying we literally run down the road away from the timelords, yes?" Rani said sarcastically.
"Sorry but do you have any other plan?" Mai asked them.
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"Oh no no no!" Luke cried out, looking at all the screens in front of him, The Shadow Architect peering over his shoulder. He dug his hand into his pocket and pulled out a small microphone headset and attached it to his ear. "Doctor, she's taking off the time bubble, she's gonna make a run for it!"
"WHAT?" The Doctor's shouts echoed through the earpiece.
"Can you override it?" River's calm voice asked.
"Trying." Luke muttered, gritting his teeth as he typed away. "She's cleverer than me, never thought I'd say that."
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"Oh no you don't!" Mai cried out, sonicing Mr Smith. Sparks flew across the room, as steam left Mr Smith. "Sorry Luke but you have to let me do this!"
"Luke?" Sky asked, as her and the others dodged the explosions. "I thought you said this was The Shadow Proclamation doing this?"
"Come off it Sky, who else do you think it is?" She said, spinning round to look at them. "I can teleport us out of here, and put the time bubble back on after so they think were still in here, but it's gonna be dangerous."
"Just do it!" Clyde shouted, pulling Rani back from a spark.
"Ready?" She called, turning back to Mr Smith. "Do it Mr Smith!"
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"Gotcha." The Doctor caught Sky as they appeared in a white flash of light. They all got to their feet, greeted by The Doctor and River.
"Where's Mai?" They all said at the same time.
"I thought she was with you!" The Doctor said.
"She was, she teleported out with us, isn't she here?" Sarah-Jane spluttered.
"Oh god, this is gonna be fun." River murmered.
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