Thanks to littleorion, Charmed2100 for following/faving my story.
"Nice storeroom", Kit commented when they left the box after it had materialized. She raised a brow when the Doctor shushed his sonic after it made a loud buzzing noise once he'd turned it on. Eventually he got the door open and the pair stepped out into some sort of waiting room and came face to face with at least 20 soldiers.
The moment the soldiers saw them, they leapt to their feet and pointed their guns at them. The Time Lord stepped in front the blackette protectively. It was a rather tense moment which was broken by a scream. "Defence plan delta!" the alien shouted at soldiers "Come on. Move! Move!"
He grabbed the teen's hand and they ran down the corridor with the soldiers following. The source of the scream was a Japanese woman whom the found cowering on the floor of the mortuary. "It's alive!" she exclaimed.
"Spread out. Tell the perimeter it's a lockdown", the Doctor ordered to the men that was behind him. Kit went over to the woman and knelt by her.
"My god. It's still alive", the injured woman gasped.
"It's ok", the blackette said softly, grabbing a cloth for the cut on her forehead.
"I swear it was dead", the woman insisted.
"It's all right now. My friend here will sort this out", Kit assured her, gently dabbing the cloth on the woman's cut "I'm Kit. What's your name?"
"Toshiko", the woman replied, calming down a little.
"Nice to meet you Toshiko", Kit said, politely.
"What did it look like?" the Doctor enquired to the shaken up scientist. She didn't have a chance to answer him due to something clattering behind them. Kit stayed with Toshiko while the Time Lord dropped to his knees and crawled around a desk. The 19 year old was startled when a pig wearing a spacesuit ran across the room. "Don't shoot!" the Doctor shouted at the solider who was in the room with them. The Time Lord quickly followed after the pig but he was too late to stop another solider from shooting it.
"Finally!" Rose cried, seeing the TARDIS materialise. She ran inside, her mother and Mickey hot on her heels. She did a double take at the strange girl who was sitting on the captain's seat, watching the Doctor with sparkling eyes.
"Alright so I lied", the Time Lord called over his shoulder "I went and had a look. But the whole crash landing's a fake. I thought so. Just too perfect. I, mean hitting Big Ben…come on. So I thought…lets go and have a look".
"Who is she?" the blonde demanded, crossing her arms with a small glare.
The Doctor looked up in confusion "What?" he asked. Rose didn't answer, she just glanced at the black haired teen. The Time Lord followed her glance "Oh, that's Kit. I found her…can I keep her?"
"Excuse me?" Kit snorted "I'm not a stray dog, Spaceman".
"Sure", he nodded in mock agreement before he noticed Jackie standing in his TARDIS "Oh, that's just what I need", the Time Lord grumbled "Dare you dare make this place domestic", he added warningly to Rose.
"You ruined my life, Doctor", Mickey accused. The two hearted alien turned around to face him "They thought she was dead. I was a murder suspect because of you".
"See what I mean?" the Doctor said to his companion "Domestic". The Time Lord spins back to face the computer screen. Kit pulled a leg up onto the captain's chair, resting her chin on her knee, watching Mickey take a couple of steps towards the Doctor.
"I bet you don't even remember my own name!" he said, still angry at having a whole year of being wrongly persecuted by Jackie Tyler. I do Kit thought Mickey Smith, the guy who'd got taken by the Wheelie Bin/Nestene Consciousness.
"Ricky", the Time Lord said, not even looking at him, causing the blackette to smirk.
"It's Mickey", Mickey corrected.
"No, it's Ricky", the Time Lord said, adamantly.
"I think I know my own name", the black man shot back.
"You THINK you know your own name?" the Doctor scoffed "How stupid are you?"
Kit let out a snort as she clapped a hand over her mouth to try and suppress her laughter. The TARDIS' pilot glanced over at her and grinned. By this time Jackie, who'd been looking around the ship with a bewildered expression, darts out of the blue box completely overwhelmed.
"Mum, don't!" Rose called after her mother. She turned to the Doctor "Don't go anywhere", she to him "especially not with her" the blonde pointed at the blackette "and don't start a fight", she added, glancing at Mickey before she too left the TARDIS.
As soon as she left, Kit hopped off the captain's chair "you know I've been thinking…" she began.
"Careful Earth Girl that can be rather dangerous", the Doctor said in mock warning.
The 19 year old rolled her eyes "I've been thinking", she repeated "It's a strange way to invade by putting the world on red alert. You'd have a much better time of taking over the planet if they didn't make a spectacle by crashing into Big Ben before landing in the Thames".
"That is a very good point", the Time Lord agreed "so what are they up to?"
In order to figure that out, he manoeuvred himself to lay underneath the console. He took out his sonic and held it between his teeth as he began to at tweak the wires. "So, what're you doing down there?" Mickey asked him. The Doctor removed the sonic from his mouth.
"Ricky. If I was to tell you what I was doing to the controls of my frankly magnificent time ship, would you even begin to understand?" the Time Lord countered.
"I suppose not", the young man answered.
"Well, shut it, then", the Doctor said, somewhat rudely. Kit frowned for a moment before she crouched down.
"You know, he was only curious", she lightly remarked "no need to be rude".
"But he wouldn't understand", the Time Lord repeated.
"Still no need to be rude", the blackette argued. She started to stand when the Doctor spoke again.
"Would you like to know what I'm doing?"
"Um…" Kit was tempted. Really, really tempted. She could learn something about the TARDIS…something she didn't know. The teenager shook her head.
"No, I'm good thanks", she declined. With the way Rose Tyler was giving her the death glare just for being present, it was better not to push it. The blackette ignored the blonde, opting to take in the rest of the console room. She was still awestruck by it and doubted that the feeling would go away anytime soon. And she felt something else too. Something she hadn't really felt since moving out. Home.
She felt like she was home. Kit lightly touched the console, half expecting to hear those voices again but there was nothing. Disappointment ran though her. Hearing just snippets of past Doctors made her feel like she was remembering old friends. Though technically it was one man…alien with many…many lives.
"Kit, you may want to see this", the Doctor piped up, breaking through her thoughts.
"Uh sure", she murmured. She joined him, Mickey and Rose by the scanner and watched the graphic on the screen.
"That's the spaceship on its way to Earth, see? Except. Hold on. See? The spaceship did a sling shot round the Earth before it landed", the Time Lord explained.
Kit frowned "but…that makes as much sense as a hairless cat".
"What?" Rose questioned, confused.
"What he's saying is that the ship didn't come from space. It was launched here on Earth", the asian teenager told her. She glanced at the Doctor. "The aliens hadn't just arrived", she added gravely "they've been here for a while".
A little later…
Kit, Rose and Mickey watched the Doctor as he switched between channels "How many channels do you get?" the black man asked.
"All the basic packages", the Time Lord replied.
"You get sports channels?" Mickey questioned.
"Yes, I get the football", the two hearted alien stated, somewhat dismissively. He stopped on one particular channel when he recognised a group of people "I know that lot".
"Who are they?" the blackette enquired.
"UNIT. United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. Good people", the Doctor replied. A flicker of recognition crossed Kit's face which thankfully the Time Lord didn't see.
"How do you know them?" Rose pressed, wanting to know more.
He worked for them Kit thought, recalling her dreams. Though she refrained from saying out loud as she didn't want to tell them how she knew that. "'Cos he's worked for them", Mickey answered "Oh yeah, don't think I sat on my backside for 12 months, Doctor. I read up on you. You look deep enough on the Internet or in the history books, and there's his name, followed by a list of the dead".
The Time Lord didn't seem fazed by his words. Or if he was, he certainly didn't show it. Instead he kept his focus on the scanner "That's nice. Good boy, Ricky", he said.
"If you know them, why don't you go and help?" Rose queried.
The Doctor shook his head "They wouldn't recognise me. I've changed a lot since the old days. Besides, the world's on a knife-edge. There's aliens out there and fake aliens. We want to keep this alien out of the mix. I'm going undercover…and eh, I'd better keep the TARDIS out of sight", he turned to Mickey "Ricky! You've got a car-you can do some driving".
"Where to?" Mickey asked rather annoyed that the Doctor wouldn't even call him by his proper name.
"The roads are clearing. Let's go and have a look at that spaceship", the Time Lord replied. The four of them stepped out of the TARDIS and were immediately blinded by a helicopter's search light. The time travellers were surrounded by police and soldiers.
"Raise your hands above your head. You are under arrest", a voice ordered over a loudspeaker.
"Take me to your leader", the Doctor said, after raising his hands Kit shot him a look of disbelief.
"Seriously?" she asked, holding her hands up too.
The alien just shrugged "Couldn't resist Earth Girl". The blackette rolled her eyes at his continued use of the moniker.
"This is a bit posh. If I knew it was going to be like this, being arrested, I would have done it years ago", Rose commented, taking in the car's interior.
"Rose we're being escorted, not arrested", the Doctor said correcting her.
"Where to?" the blonde asked.
"Where'd you think? Downing Street", the Time Lord replied, sounding rather excited at the prospect.
The 19 year old frowned "So why are we going to Downing Street?"
"I hate to say it, but Mickey was right. Over the years I've visited this planet a lot of times, and I've been…uh…noticed", the two hearted alien admitted.
Kit bit her lip to prevent a snort from coming out. She was all too aware of that fact due to her dreams. "So…we're being escorted to Downing Street because you're an expert on aliens", she stated.
"I'm not just an expert, Earth Girl…I'm the expert", the Doctor corrected her.
"You just have to be, dontcha Spaceman?" the blackette teased and the Time Lord grinned at her. Rose on the other hand, scoffed under her breath. She didn't like the fact that the Doctor seemed to be getting along really well with an apparent stranger.
"Who's the Prime Minister now?" the blonde asked.
"Tony Blair", Kit replied.
When the car pulled up to 10 Downing Street, the trio exited to cameras taking their photographs. The trio joins the group of people, the alien experts were gathered. A man standing by a door, Indra Ganesh, was handing out ID cards to the experts as they filed through into another room. "Here is your ID card", he said giving one to the Doctor. The man turned to Kit holding out an ID card for her "here's your one miss". The young woman took it, though she was a bit confused as to why she had clearance. She wasn't an alien expert, unlike the Doctor of the people from UNIT. "I'm sorry, but your other companion doesn't have clearance", Indra added nodding to Rose.
"Why do I have clearance then?" Kit asked.
"You're Kit Vulpes, right?" Indra countered.
"Yes I am", the blackette confirmed.
"A man from UNIT turned up about a couple of hours ago and told me that I was to give you clearance. He stated that you and the Doctor were the top alien experts", the man explained. He'd been very surprised when an older Scottish man with bushy eyebrows showed up and told him that he was to give clearance to Kit Vulpes, stating that she was second to the Doctor when it came to aliens. Unlike the Time Lord, he'd never heard of her.
In all honesty seeing the teenager now, she looked far too young to be an expert. He found it hard to believe what the Scottish man had said but if he claimed that Kit was an expert and was entitled to be in the meeting, who was he to argue?
"I don't go anywhere without both of them", the Doctor insisted.
Rose looked at him incredulously. Had he forgotten that he just picked up a complete stranger…took her to see the alien instead of herself, his companion? "You're the code nine", Indra said "I'm sorry, Doctor, your blonde friend has to stay outside".
"It's all right. You two go", the blonde said though she was very, very annoyed that Kit was allowed and she wasn't. whoever that 'Scottish man' was from UNIT needs his head examined. Kit was not an alien expert. She highly doubted that the blackette had even heard of the Doctor until now. An older woman approached them but the man who gave them the ID cards just waved her away.
"What's your name?" Kit said as the Time Lord went through the door to join the meeting. The man was surprised that she even asked but told her anyway.
"Indra Ganesh"
"Nice to meet you Indra", the 19 year old said giving him a smile. She entered the room and sat down next to the Doctor. She picked up the booklet and a slip of paper fell out. Kit bent down and picked it up. On the paper was a short note addressed to her.
Little dreamer, use ID card on Slitheen's collar. It can hurt them.
The blackette frowned at the message, confused. Little dreamer…that was the moniker that John often used…was he the author of this note? And what on Earth is a Slitheen? "Now, ladies and gentlemen, if I could have your attention, please", General Asquith said catching hers and everyone else's attention "As you can see from the summaries in front of you, the ship had one porcine occupant…"
"Of course, the really interesting bit happened three days ago, see", the Doctor said, interrupting him. He stood up and walked toward the front desk talking "filed away under 'Any Other Business'. The North Sea. A satellite detected a signal, a little blip of radiation, at one hundred fathoms, like there's something down there" he turned around to face everyone in the room "You were just about to investigate and the next thing you know, this happens. Spaceships, pigs, massive diversion. From what?"
The asian teenager glanced around the room at all the experts. Why gather all the experts in one room? Unless….her eyes widened when it hit her "it's a trap", she breathed.
The Time Lord also realised at the same time she did "This is all about us" all the experts looked intrigued "Alien experts, the only people with knowledge how to fight them gathered together in one room" There was a rather loud fart from the man, Joseph Green, sitting down at the front desk. "Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?" the two hearted alien asked, clearly not impressed.
"Would you rather silent but deadly?" Joseph retorted smirking. Everyone in the room stared as the general removed his cap and starts to unzip his forehead, Joseph laughing manically as the general did so. Kit wanted to look away from the sight in front of her but she couldn't.
"We are the Slitheen", General Asquith rasped when he was fully out of his skin suit.
Joseph stood up and pulled something out of his pocket. "Thank you all for wearing your ID cards. They'll help to identify the bodies", he said pressing a button. The ID cards emit electric shocks to everyone. Everyone except Kit.