Kimberley woke up a little groggy, but she seemed fine. After a few seconds she tries to get up, to find out that she was tied to a chair. Carefully she looks around and notices that she was in a large room. She then noticed the large machine that was in a shape of a sphere, floating in the middle of the room. From that sphere, hundreds, if not thousands, of cables seem to come off of it and went into the surrounding walls, ceiling, and floor.
"Well, someone is finally awake."
Kimberley turns and looks at the voice. Standing there was the young lady.
"You should have played, you know. It would have been interesting to know what you know."
"Look, lady! You're crazy!"
"That's all you have to say? I was really hoping that you would have something to say about the Doctor."
"Sorry, I don't know him really well."
"I bet you know more than you say you do."
"If I did, I would have thought he would have saved me, instead of leaving me there in the sand."
"What a pity. You don't see the truth. He will come and save you. He'll make the attempt. The only time he doesn't, is when the person is dead." Kimberley tenses up, thinking that was her fate. This causes the young lady to laugh. "I wouldn't kill you. Atleast not yet. Maybe when he is here standing in front of me. If I kill you, I know he'll do some serious damage somewhere else."
"So, what are you going to do to me?"
The young lady laughs again. "Nothing. Nothing at all. We'll just wait until he gets here. I'm sure, he'll show up."
"Okay."
"Is that it. You must never have been captured before. Usually you captured people chatter a lot more."
"Sorry, I'm not up to your standers."
"Awww. To tell the truth, it's new and refreshing. I like it." Both Kimberley and the young lady turn, to see the smiling Doctor there. "Granted, though, I can't tell what Xanxia is up too."
The young lady smiles. "And you'll never know."
"Well, actually, I've already figured it out.
"What?! How do you know?!"
"Oh, come on! A machine like this." The Doctor points up to the huge round sphere. He puts on his glasses and gets a good look at it. "It's a data convertior and I'm betting, each one of those cables splits up and connects to those game machines."
"That's right Doctor. So, very smart of you." Xanxia seems to coo.
While the Doctor and Queen Xanxia babbled away about all the mechanics, Kimberley felt a tug at her wrist. She looked up to see Donna Noble put her finger over her lips. Carefully Donna pulls the sonic screwdriver from a pocket and smiles. She lowers the sonic screwdriver to the binding and turns it on.
As Donna worked on the last binds, a voice calls out, "What are you doing with my hostage?"
Both Donna and Kimberley stand up. They noticed both the Doctor and Queen Xanxia looking at them. "Donna, what did I tell you? Don't get caught."
"Sorry, Doctor, but if you did a better job distracting her, I wouldn't have gotten caught!"
"Don't pin this on me!"
Kimberley grabs Donna's hand and points with her other one towards the ceiling. "Hey, look! A robot dog!"
Xanxia swivels towards were Kimberley points and gives off a hiss.
"Run for it!" the Doctor screams out, as he runs towards Donna and Kimberley. Kimberley at that time yanks Donna behind her as they head for the only open door. When they got through the door, they stop for a second. That was long enough for the Doctor to grab the sonic screwdriver from Donna and use it on the door. "There. That'll slow her down, but not for long." The Doctor then grabs Kimberley's hand and yanks her along. At that point, Kimberley felt like a rope.
They finally ran into another room and the Doctor closed and locked it. Slowly they all turn around to notice a bunch of machines. The Doctor gives off a big smile. "Now, that's more like it!"
"What's more like it?" Donna asks as she looks around.
The Doctor hurries over to the machines and starts to hit some buttons. He stares into the screen and begins to mumble. "Not good. Definitely not good."
"What's not good?" Kimberley asks.
"I think I know what Queen Xanxia plans to do."
"What's that?" Donna now asks.
"She has a large Data Translocatior on the premises. She's going to use it to pull all the consciences minds to her. She's trying to become a god with all that knowledge."
"Isn't there a way to stop her?" Kimberley tried to sound hopefully.
"Yes and we're going too." The Doctor throws some commands into the system and goes around to the back of the machine. He manages to get the back off and he runs the sonic screwdriver over the wires. He pulled the wires out and begins to twist them together in odd ways. "Donna!"
"Doctor."
"Oh, don't take that tone of voice with me. Just follow what I say, without any questions."
"Fine."
"Go to that data pad over there," the Doctor points to it acrossed the room. "Put in the code 4569437652."
"What?"
"Honestly, Donna! It's not that hard. 4569437652! Just go over and put it in. Now, everytime that screen starts to give a red warning off, just put that code in."
"Right."
"What am I to do, Doctor?" Kimberley questions.
The Doctor stands up suddenly and holds up a finger. "Just give me two ticks and I'll be right with you." The Doctor takes off across the room. He turns on the sonic screwdriver and seems to run it up and down the wall. All of a sudden a door to a switch board opens up. "Kimberley, come here."
"Alright." Kimberley runs over, next the Doctor.
The Doctor grabs her hands and puts them both on a switch. "When I tell you too, pull this switch with all your might. After you throw that switch, don't move you hear me?"
"Alright."
"Same goes for you too, Donna. When she pulls this switch, don't move."
"Alright, Space Man."
The Doctor runs back over to the backside of the control panels and starts to pull out the wires again. He pulls them out, runs the sonic screwdriver over them, and continues to reconnect them in different ways. After a few minutes, he starts to stuff the wires back into their spots and begins to shut the back of the control panel. He goes around to the front of the control panel and begins to put in commands. "Alright, Kimberley. On my mark." He holds up one finger, as to pause her in the moment, as the other hand ran across the keys of the command console. "Now!" he hollers as he points at her.
Kimberley tightens her grip and begins to pull down with all her might. After what seemed like a few agonising seconds, the switch finally locked down into place. She blinked, trying to decided if she died, seeing that it went completely black. A Flashlight's beam flares up and over the Doctor's face.
"Right! Let's go!"
Kimberley grabs his hand as he came over and with her other hand she grabs Donna's when they run over to her. "Why did you have us stay where we were?" Donna askes as they raced through the hallways, with only the flashlight as a guide.
"Ahw, I was expecting more of a bang, than just a power outage. This will do, though," replied the Doctor.
"What did you do?" Kimberley asks.
"I told the machine to start up the process, but it wasn't up to full power, so it fried out its circuits."
"Oh, I thought you would say something like you reversed it's polarity."
The Doctor snorts. "Please Donna. Anyone could tell you that reversing the polarity on machines is a little dated. Most machines have a program in them to stop that from happening." From out of nowhere there was a crashing noise. "Company has arrived!"
Kimberley just managed to look back to see the zombie like people chasing after them. Only to look back in the Doctor's direction, to run into the back of him. Before she could ask him what happened, he yanks both her and Donna into the Tardis. He slams the doors shut, then runs over to the console. Soon he begins to push buttons, turn dials, and pulls levelers. "What are you doing Doctor?" Kimberley asks.
"We're getting out of here, before Xanxia captures us."
"What about all those innocent people out there?" Donna demands more than asks.
"They're dead."
Kimberley just gaspes as Donna yells, "You're just going to kill them!"
"No, they already died. They're nothing more than robots."
"What if other people come to this planet? Are you going to let them die too!" Donna screams at him.
"It won't come to that. The command I kept having you put in is going to cause the planet to explode, so that way no one will ever come here."
"We still have to save someone! Anyone!" Kimberley exclaims with a little hesitation in her voice.
"There is no one left to save!" the Doctor says with steel in his voice.
"Yes, there is. Just one."
Xanxia stood in the control room, screaming. Everything was going wrong. How was it that the Doctor had done this to here again. She couldn't believe he took her power away, again. As she let her hate boil, she began to feel a tug at the back of her mind. She tried to push it away, but the tug got harder and harder. Finally it got so hard that it pulled her digital form out and she could feel herself being pull through the cables. She then felt as she slammed into a body, losing a large part of knowledge from it. She tried to flee the body, but the escape was cut off. She openned the body's eyes to stare up into three faces. One was the hopeful girl, another the smug woman, and the anger of the Doctor's. "What have you done to me!" Xanxia seethed.
"Just be glad I saved your life. I was going to leave you to die."
"And why would you do such a kind and noble act, like that."
The Doctor turns and looks at Kimberley. "Thank her." Xanxia just gives the girl an evil glare. "Okay then, we need to get out of here, now." He and Donna reach down and hauls the body up by the arms. They drag it into the Tardis and close the door. The Tardis slowly begins to fade in and out, until it disappears altogether.
The Doctor, Donna, and Kimberley walked back into the Tardis, after dropping Xanxia at the local authorities. The Doctor explained to them, what she did and they were glad to take her in. The Doctor wanders over to the seat, sits down, and puts his feet up on the console. Kimberley goes over to one of the pillars, which Jellybean seemed to made it over too. She looks over at Donna, then the Doctor and notice they were both smiling at her. "What?"
"How would you like to stay on as a full time companion?" the Doctor asks.
"Do I have a choice?"
"Of coarse you do," Donna says steadily.
"I really don't have anywhere else to go, do I?"
"Actually, if you want to go to Earth, you can."
"I don't have any connections there. It'll be like I didn't exist."
The Doctor frowns just a little. "I do have connections there. I can get information on you that you can start a life and build on it, if you like."
Kimberley glances over to her side to see the pink bunny rabbit just sitting there. She gets a big smile and looks over at the Doctor. "I think I'll stay. Jellybean maybe looking after you, but you don't do to good of a job taking care of him. I'll stay until his owner get's back. You need someone like me around here."
The Doctor stands up and gives off a big smile. "Glad to hear it." He turns towards the console and looks over. "Where shall we go? How about the Draconian Empire."
"Wait just one second, Space Man! You promised me someplace nice to eat!"
Kimberley just smiled as the Doctor and Donna started arguing, just glad to know that they cared.
