Reunions abound! Review!
flames and kisses,
Mlle. Phoenix Fox
Daisy was a mini genius on a mission. Grabbing her iPad, her teddy bear, her crayons, her sonic screwdriver, some binoculars, a notebook, and a peanut butter sandwich, she walked out of the back door.
"Mom! I'm going to stake out the monsters from next door!" She called.
"Okay Sweetie. Have fun. Stay in the backyard." Her mother said, not looking up from the work on her laptop.
Section Five was on high alert. An hour ago a high surge of energy was detected. Zane Donavan held a guilder counter in his hand as he led a team of soldiers down the hall trying to track it down. He stopped before a door as the beeping got louder and louder. He nodded to one of the soldiers and then imputed his access code on the side panel. The door opened and the guards raised their guns.
Zane squinted as he took in the figure in the room. It was a curvy blond with a dark purple leather jacket and jeans. She turned and raised her hands in surrender. Her brown eyes were full of fear and defiance. Zane's were full of confusion.
"Rose Tyler?" He asked, scarcely believing what he was seeing.
"Who are you? Where's the Doctor?" The London Cockney demanded.
"No way..." Zane said.
Amelia Pond woke up with a gasp. The tall redhead looked around seeing she was in a dark, concrete tunnel. She got up on shaky legs. But looking down and seeing herself in a mini skirt and hoodie, she looked at her youthful hands and felt her wrinkle free face. She was young again. Looking at her long red locks in wonder. She heard someone coming and picked up an old pipe from the ground.
"Come out! Slowly! I'm warning you, I'm armed and very, very cross." She hissed in warning. Then she gasped again as the figure stepped out of the shadows.
"Yeah. I already know that." The young, dirty blond man with a prominent nose said in a shocked English accent.
"Rory? Rory is that you?" She asked tearing up.
"Amy..." He choked back a sob as he gathered his wife in his arms.
"Rory...we're alive. Alive and young again." Amy said before Rory pulled her close for a long and passionate kiss.
When they broke apart for air, Rory asked,
"How are we here? One minute I was in the hospital saying goodbye to you and the next..."
"I know. Do you think...do you think the Doctor has something to do with this?" Amy asked, speaking aloud the name she hadn't mentioned in years. They had spoken of him of course. With fondness. But they avoided using his name. For fear of his enemies that might take advantage of the Doctor being unable to see them. But mostly, it had just been too painful.
"This rather does have his MO written all over it." Rory sighed.
"Then where is he? Where's the TARDIS?" Amy asked.
Before Rory could reply, they heard a young woman call out,
"Doctor! Doctor where are you?"
"Come along Mr. Pond!" Amy said dragging her husband behind her, feeling rather like herself again. They ran down the hall and turned a corner. They cried out when they nearly bowled over a petite brunette in a navy shirt, red plaid skirt, black stockings and booties.
"Whoa! Whoa! Easy! We're not going to hurt you." Rory told the young woman with big brown eyes, wet from tears.
"Please. I don't know where I am. I don't know where I am!" She sobbed.
"Neither do we. But we're going to get out of here." Rory told her.
"What's your name?" Amy asked her gently.
"Clara. Clara Oswald." She sniffed.
"I'm Amelia. Amy for short."
"Amelia? That's the name the Doctor said. The first face his face saw." Clara realized.
"The Doctor? You know the Doctor?" The Scot asked.
"Yes." Clara nodded.
"What's the last thing you remember?" Rory asked.
"We were in the TARDIS. The Doctor...the Doctor was regenerating." Clara told them. Amy and Rory shared a look. They knew what the other was thinking. Their dear friend had been dying. Before they could say anything else, a team of soldiers came out of nowhere to surround them. Jo Lupo was in the front, armed with a gun leveled at them.
"Nobody move! Hands in the air!" She barked as the companions cooperated.
"Jo?" Zane's voice came over her walkie-talkie.
She took it off her belt and spoke into it,
"Zane...I found three more."
"Copy that. Bring them to the med ward. Allison will check them out too." Zane said.
"So. What is this place? Government think tank? Area 51? What?" The Tenth Doctor asked as Allison took a blood sample from his arm. He looked over the woman's head to see the Eleventh Doctor subtly tap a few keys on a computer keyboard before he resumed his pacing. They had been forced to coöperate at gunpoint. Thankfully this lot weren't the slice-them-and-dice-them type. Of course they had advanced equipment so a full alien autopsy wasn't necessary. Advanced equipment even for Torchwood or UNIT. Far too advanced for humans. But yet not alien tech. It was as if humans suddenly got super smart, super fast and advanced in leaps and bounds.
"Sorry. That's classified." Allison smirked.
"Ooh. Hear that Doctor? Must be a doozy of a secret to throw around the word 'classified'." Ten said holding gauze on his arm as Allison took his blood sample to a machine across the room.
"And yet not so secret that the town Sheriff can't know about it." Eleven added, waving to the man watching them on the other side of the two way mirror. He went to straighten his bow tie, only to pout and frown as he realized his tie was gone.
"Sorry boys. My lips are sealed." Allison said amused while looking into a microscope, not seeing the Eleventh Doctor punch a few keys again.
But when her expression dropped, the Tenth Doctor said as he put on his jacket again,
"And yet that look on your face tells a whole other story."
"Excuse me." Allison said, grabbing a file and leaving the room. The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors shared a look. Allison marched with determination as she went to the room next door. There was Jack and Henry, watching the two Doctors in the medical ward.
"Can they see us?" Jack asked Henry as the Eleventh Doctor leaned in, as if trying to look into a window.
"I wouldn't be surprised." Allison sighed.
"What'd you find?" Henry asked.
"They're robots right? Please tell me they're robots." Jack pleaded.
"They're not robots. But...they're not human either." Allison said handing Henry the file.
"You're kidding?" Jack said.
"You're not actually telling me they're Time Lords?" Henry asked skeptically.
"Time Lords?" Jack asked.
"That's the name of the Doctor's race on the show." Henry said.
"Little arrogant." Jack muttered, glancing at the Doctors who were causally pacing the room. The Tenth Doctor with his hands in his pockets while the Eleventh found his attention drawn to a skeleton in the corner. His attention was drawn back to Allison as she continued to explain.
"All I know is that while there are genetic similarities, their DNA isn't registering as human DNA. There are thousands of genomes versus the hundreds humans normally have. Plus their brain activity is off the chart." Allison said, not registering that the Eleventh Doctor had accidentally detached an arm off the skeleton in the next room. He began to frantically try to reattach it.
"So they are Time Lords?" Jack asked.
"Right down to their binary cardiovascular systems." Allison sighed as the Tenth Doctor noticed the Eleventh Doctor fumbling with the skeleton.
"Okay...binary means two...cardiovascular...wait. Two hearts?! They each have two hearts?" Jack cried as the Tenth Doctor started arguing with the Eleventh.
"Yup." Allison said as the two Time Lords in question shoved the broken skeleton in a closet.
"How can somebody have two hearts?" Jack asked, still not noticing the Doctors quickly hack into the computers.
"It's actually not unheard of. In heart transplant patients, they sometimes graft a donor heart into the chest cavity but wait to remove the defective heart until they're sure the body won't reject the new heart. They've even been know to pump blood at the same time. But eventually, the first heart is removed." Henry explained.
"But their hearts are all working fine. In fact in theory it should make them stronger and faster than humans with heightened senses." Allison said. Jack frowned in thought.
"Just like the show." Henry sighed as he looked back to see the Doctors innocently leaning against an examination table.
"It's incredible." Allison said.
"What do we tell them?" Jack said.
"We should wait until we know what they know. Then we can break the news to them." Henry suggested.
Meanwhile, in the med ward, the Tenth Doctor asked the Eleventh Doctor softly,
"What do you think?"
"The soldiers aren't to threaten us. It's to protect their secrets. Secrets humans aren't ready for yet." Eleven replied.
"Yeah. So. You're me huh? Nice to know I have a future." Ten said.
"Yeah. I even managed to live another thousand years with this face. Half my life." Eleven replied.
"A thousand years? With that chin?" Ten asked.
"Oi." Eleven said offended.
"What's the last thing you remember before ending up here?" Ten asked.
"I was regenerating. I was looking into my companion Clara's eyes. She was begging me not to change. First time I wished I couldn't..for someone else." Eleven mused.
"Last thing I remember was regenerating." Ten said.
"Right after dying of radiation poisoning?" Eleven guessed.
"Yeah. So we were pulled out of our timeline right before we regenerated. So how come we're not collapsing from the paradoxes?" Ten asked.
"Wouldn't be the first time." Eleven said.
"Right. What did you die of?" Ten asked.
"Old age."
"Again?"
"Took a fleet of Daleks out with regeneration energy." Eleven added with a shrug.
"Ooh...nice one Doctor." Ten said impressed.
"Thank you Doctor." Eleven grinned.
"You're welcome Doctor. Well. Guess we just have to hold tight until this lot tells us where the TARDIS is." Ten said.
"And Clara." The Eleventh Doctor added. The Tenth Doctor cocked his head to look at Eleven's face.
"She's a special one isn't she?" Ten asked.
"She's my Impossible Girl. Why do you ask?" Eleven replied.
"Only seen that look on our face when we looked at the special ones. Romana. Leena. Sarah Jane." Ten said.
"Rose." Eleven added. Ten was quiet a moment.
"Yeah. Rose." He said in thought.
"The special ones. The ones where we entertained certain thoughts about...you know." Eleven said.
"Yeah." Ten said as his attention was drawn to the two-way mirror where the Eureka team was still in quiet discussion.
Jo and Zane entered the viewing room and Zane said,
"Okay you know that spike of energy we've picked up when the experiments go missing? So the same energy spikes picked up when the Doctors showed up."
"So they're connected." Jack said.
"Wait there's more. At the same time you met them in the rotunda, four more spikes popped up in Section Five and the subterranean level. So we followed them." Zane added.
"And we found four of the Doctor's companions. We've got them in Med Ward 6." Jo said.
"What?!" Ten and Eleven cried. The Eureka crew looked at them in surprise.
"They can hear and see us." Jack stated.
"Opps." Ten winced.
"Time for Plan B Doctor!" Eleven said typing on the keyboard.
"Grab the companions and run!" Ten said typing on his own keyboard. Suddenly the door to the viewing room shut closed.
"No no no no no!" Jack cried as he, Zane and Jo tried to open the door.
"What are they doing?" Allison cried.
"They've hacked into GD's central computer mainframe. They have complete control of the building." Henry said trying to get into system with a computer panel on the wall.
"They can do that?" Jack asked, watching the pair run out of the med ward.
"They're the Doctor. They're clever." Henry said.
"Yeah. But so am I." Zane said taking Henry's place to work on the computer.
"They're lucky if they can still regenerate." Jo said.
"Why?" Henry asked.
"Because I'm going to kill them!" Jo growled grabbing her walkie talkie.
"Right." Jack sighed.
"Attention all security personnel! Two boogies loose in the building. Suspects are Caucasian male, six feet tall and...well they look like Matt Smith and David Tennant." Jo said reluctantly.
"You're kidding right?" Came the incredulous reply.
"No! Suspects are to be treated with caution. They are not a threat. I repeat, non violent suspects loose in the building." Jo said.
"They're not violent?" Jack asked.
"No the Doctor is known for being a pacifist." Allison said.
"Still the most dangerous man in the Universe." Zane pointed out, his eyes fixed on the screen.
"Why?" Jack asked.
"Because he only gives his enemies one chance." Jo said.
"But they always try to outsmart their enemies. They always try to make sure everybody lives." Henry stressed.
"But when his enemies give him...them...no other choice..." Allison said.
"They do what's best for the greater good. Yeah. I've been there." Jack nodded.
"Wow. It just occurred to me I'm back hacking the Doctor!" Zane grinned with delight.
"Zane! Focus!" Jo smacked him.
"Sorry..." Zane muttered.
Rose had looked up when a guard marched three strangers into the medical ward. A man, a short brunette and a tall redhead who was shouting,
"Oi! Watch it!"
"Eyes off the skirt Pal!" Rory threatened.
"Yeah, eyes front Soldier." Clara frowned.
"Just relax. Dr. Blake will be here soon to check you guys out." The guard said.
"Why are you holding us here?" Rose demanded stepping forward.
"You'll figure it out soon." The guard replied.
"Look! You just call Captain Jack Harkness of Torchwood. He'll vouch for me." Rose said.
"That'll be a good trick..." The guard muttered.
"Or Kate Stewart of UNIT! Tell her Code Nine." Clara tried.
"Code Nine? That's code for the Doctor. You know the Doctor?" Rose asked.
"Do you?" Rory asked.
Before Rose could reply, the guard's radio called out,
"Attention all personal. Suspects are headed for the North Wing lift on Section One. Repeat. All security personnel to the North Wing lift."
"Don't move." The guard ordered before leaving.
"Raggedy Man where are you?" Amy muttered.
The Doctors ran as fast as they could through the corridors. They stopped at a computer terminal to check for directions. The Tenth Doctor searched his pockets for his sonic screwdriver.
"Oh no you don't! Grr! I don't have my sonic." He growled.
"Neither do I. My pockets are suddenly not bigger on the inside. I wonder why?" Eleven said checking the way.
"They're trying to get control back over the building. I've got to shut them down. Get to the Med Ward." Ten told them. Eleven peeked around the corner and saw the guards searching the halls.
"Guards everywhere. Got to get them out of our way first." He said checking the map.
"Got a plan?" Ten asked.
"Of course. I'm the Doctor." Eleven grinned, going to straighten his bow tie again, only to remember it was gone. He went on, "See if you can hack their radios. Get them all to chase me...here."
Ten nodded at the place on the map Eleven pointed to,
"Brilliant!"
"Geronimo!" Eleven grinned before jumping around the corner.
"Geronimo?" Ten mouthed in confusion.
"Oi! You lot looking for me then?" Eleven called to the guards.
"Halt!" The guards said raising their weapons at him. Only for Eleven to turn on his heels and run down the hall.
"Stop!" The guards yelled running after him.
Once the coast was clear, Ten hacked into the radio and said in an Southern accent,
"Attention all personal. Suspects are headed for the North Wing lift on Section One. Repeat. All security personnel to the North Wing lift."
"They got them." Jo said back in the viewing room they were trapped in. Allison and Henry were trying to open the door by taking apart the controls in the walls, while Jack paced the room.
"Lift?" Jack said to himself in thought.
"I think I've almost got control back." Zane said.
"Wait! It's a trap. The guy on the radio said 'lift' not 'elevator'." Jack said.
"The Tenth Doctor can do accents." Allison groaned with realization.
"But he would have had to hack into our radio signal to do that which means..." Henry said. Suddenly the computer terminal went black, with just a single phrase on the screen in white letters.
Doctor Who?
"Uh oh." Zane went.
"Attention all personal! Disregard last message! Repeat! Disregard!" Jo tried her walkie talkie. But all she got was static.
"Our radio signals are connected to the wifi." Henry sighed.
And sure enough as they were speaking, all the guards entered the North elevator only for the Doctor to drop from the ceiling and shut the doors.
"HaHa! Gotcha!" Eleven cried punching commands on the terminal.
"Hey!" The guards yelled as the doors closed in their faces.
"Well. That's that." Eleven nodded as he took off down the halls. His coat flying behind him like a cape. They had done a fairly decent job of hacking the system. All the employees were locked in their labs like lab rats, leaving the halls empty.
"Clara!" The Eleventh Doctor called out upon reaching the Med Ward.
"Doctor! In here!" Clara cried rushing to the door. The Doctor opened the door and gathered Clara up in his arms. Rose's eyes went wide.
"Clara! My Clara!" He said lifting her feet off the ground.
"You're still young! How'd you do that?" Clara asked pulling back, remembering seeing a middle-aged man with gray hair and blue eyes who didn't like the color of his kidneys.
The Doctor winced putting her on her feet again,
"Eh...still working that one out."
"Doctor?" Amy said stepping forward.
The Doctor stilled and slowly turned to regard the couple sealed onto his hearts.
"Amelia?" He whispered, eyes glistening.
"Hullo. Raggedy Man." Amy sniffed.
"PONDS!" Eleven cried rushing forward to crush them both in a hug.
"Oof!" Amy cried.
"Doctor! Can't...breathe..." Rory gasped.
The Doctor pulled back and whipped his head back and forth to drink his friends in.
"How? How are you here?" He asked.
"We were kinda hoping you knew." Rory said.
"Oh he'll figure it out. He always does." Rose said.
The Doctor stilled again. He looked to Rose in shock. Clara frowned. Who was this girl that he could make her Doctor get that look on his face? Amy just wondered why Clara was frowning.
"Rose Tyler..." Eleven said.
"Hullo Doctor. Remember me?" Rose said, trying not to let her disappointment shine through. After all he was still the Doctor.
He stood before her and said,
"As if I could ever forget you."
She laughed as he pulled her close for a tight hug. She pulled back and said,
"You regenerated again."
He nodded,
"Yeah. I did."
"Blimey. You sure got a chin this time about didn't ya?" Rose smiled, her tongue poking through her teeth.
"Oi! What's wrong with my chin?" The Doctor asked.
"Well..." Clara began.
"Don't you start!" The Doctor pointed a warning finger at his most current companion as she smirked at him.
"Keep him in line do you?" Rose asked Clara.
"Someone has to." Clara said.
"I like you." Amy said to Clara.
"Me too." Rose agreed.
"Rory! They're ganging up on me!" The Doctor appealed to the other male in the room.
"Don't look at me Doctor!" Rory said throwing up his hands.
"Better get used to it Raggedy Man." Amy grinned as the other women giggled.
"Oh well, at least we won't be outnumbered for long...ooh. Dear. This is going to be awkward." The Eleventh Doctor winced again, looking down at Rose.
"Why? Why is it awkward?" Rose asked.
Before Eleven could even begin to think of an explanation, the Tenth Doctor rushed to the Ward, checking the hall.
"Okay Doctor! I bought us some time. But we've got to hurry. These people are very, very clever!" He said.
"Um...Doctor?" Eleven began as Rose stared in shock.
"But why are they so clever? Humans advanced far beyond their time." Ten paced in thought.
"Doctor..." Eleven tried again.
Ten ignored him to stand before Rory and say rhetorically,
"I'm missing something. I can feel it. It's staring me right in the face."
"Some things never change." Rory commented with a shake of his head.
"Doctor?" Rose asked. Ten whipped his head around, staring at her with wide eyes,
"Rose?" He whispered.
"Oh my stars, not again!" Clara groaned looking between the two Doctors.
"I take it he's the Doctor too?" Rory asked Clara.
"I should know..." Clara sighed.
"Guess there's a story there." Amy said looking at her sheepish Doctor.
"Doctor? Is that really you?" Rose asked her Doctor. Her Doctor.
"Rose..." Ten said stepping forward. Only to get slapped across the face.
"Ow! What was that for?" He cried, holding his cheek.
"You left me...standing on a beach in a parallel universe with your bloody clone while you left me behind!" Rose yelled channeling her mother. And a little Donna Nobel.
"Well that didn't stop you from snogging him did it?" Ten retorted as Rose narrowed her glare.
"Doctor!" Amy said to her Doctor in surprise.
"So the TARDIS is a snog box. I knew it." Clara said.
"Shut up. She's not a snog box!" Eleven protested with a blush.
"Except for all the times I kissed Amy inside her." Rory pointed out.
"Blimey she is a snog box." Eleven realized as Clara rolled her eyes.
"Oh hush it! All of you." Rose snapped.
"Rose. I left you on that beach so you could be happy. Doesn't that deserve a little understanding?" Ten asked.
"Maybe..." Rose admitted.
"Forgive me?" He asked giving her his puppy dog eyes. Rose could never resist his puppy dog eyes.
"Always." She smiled. Then she laughed as he picked her up for a hug.
"Excellent. Now that we're all reunited, introductions! Clara, Amy, Rory. This is my prior incarnation, the Tenth Doctor. And his...our...companion Rose Tyler. Rose, Doctor, this is Clara Oswin Oswald and Mr. and Mrs. Amelia Pond." Eleven said.
"Hullo. Again." Rose nodded.
"Just Clara Oswald." Clara added.
"And it's Williams! Amy and Rory Williams." Rory protested.
"Oh Williams is a history teacher. Pond is a superhero! Amelia Pond! I love it! Sounds like a name from a fairy tale." Ten grinned shaking the other companions hands.
"Now I know you're the same bloke." Amy said.
But the reunion was cut short when an alarm began to ring through the building.
"What's that?" Rose asked.
"Time to go!" Ten said grabbing Rose's hand and pulling her out. Eleven grabbed Clara's hand and called over his shoulder,
"Come along Ponds! Gawd I missed saying that!"
Amy laughed as she and Rory followed them out. Only for Eleven to double back to grab a wire coat hanger from a nearby closet. He caught up with the group as they started out towards the front of the building. They burst out of the front doors and into the open air.
"We're in the middle of nowhere. How are we going to get out of here?" Clara asked looking at the building surrounded by miles of tall trees.
"We'll take the Sheriff's car. That way we can listen to the scanner too." The Eleventh Doctor replied untwisting the coat hanger and inserting it in the window of the brown jeep.
"Haven't had to do this for a while." Ten said waiting by his side.
"What? Drive a car?" Rory asked.
"No, steal a car!" Ten said as Eleven opened the door and Ten ducked down to pry off the panel beneath the steering wheel. Meanwhile, Rose had reached through to unlock the back seat and then got in to unlock the other doors.
They all climbed inside as Eleven told Ten from the passenger seat,
"Come on! What's the hold up Doctor?"
"I'm disabling the tracking chip. Blimey,it's like this car was built by a NASA engineer!" Ten said fiddling with the wires to hot-wire the car. Finally with a spark and a whiff of ozone, the engine roared to life. Ten shut the driver's side door and shifted the jeep into gear, taking off down the road. But as they crossed an old bridge, they saw a shimmer around the car. Eleven looked back to see that the building had disappeared.
"Did we just pass through a perception filter?" Ten asked looking in the rear view.
"Yup." Eleven nodded.
"Huh."
Back at Global, Henry had finally gotten them free, but Jo was leading the efforts to free the rest. Now they were in Henry's office that overlooked the rotunda. They were joined by Henry's wife Grace. She shook her head as they watched the security footage of the Doctors and their companions escaping.
"They stole my jeep." Jack growled as he walked into the room.
"Fictional characters becoming real people. Unbelievable." Grace said.
"And it's the Doctor! Both number Ten and Eleven! How cool is that?" Fargo gushed.
"I know!" Zane cooed giving him a high-five.
"But why'd they run?" Allison asked.
"Well we didn't tell them the truth. So they're still playing by the rules of the show. And if I were an alien that suddenly found myself in a top-secret scientific lab I'd run too." Jack said.
"So we have to find them and tell them what's going on." Henry said.
"There might be a problem with that." Zane said.
"What problem?" Jack asked.
"The only way out-of-town is through Main Street. Eureka Con is on Main Street." Zane said.
"And Eureka Con kicked off an hour ago." Grace sighed.
"Which means they're going to find out about the show the hard way. Okay, Ally? I need to borrow your car, I have to find them. I'll call Andy on the way, see if he can intercept them." Jack said grabbing the car keys from his wife. Allison fell into step beside him.
"I'm coming with you. I'm still the DOD liaison." Allison said.