Chapter 3: The Sontarans' Revenge
(*PRESENT DAY IN THE ENCHANTED FOREST*)
"So how've you been Snow?" The Doctor asked.
"Oh good. I'm sort of queen now, so there's that. Who's this?" She responded pointing to Clara.
"Oh right sorry. This is Clara." He replied.
"Nice to meet you." Snow said shaking Clara's hand. "Where's Amy?" she then asked the Doctor.
"Who's Amy?" Clara asked.
"Don't worry about it. We have much more important matters to deal with." The Doctor responded.
"My name's Red by the way." The woman in the red cloak said as she introduced herself.
"No way!" Clara said with a bit of surprise in her voice. She approached the Doctor and whispered. "Is that Little Red Riding Hood?"
"It would appear so," he responded. "So if we could get to the matter at hand. There's a spaceship containing approximately one hundred Sontarans heading in that direction."
"The Sontarans are back!" Snow said in shock. "But how?"
"Well, how did they get here last time?" he replied.
"Regina!" Snow said with a tad bit of anger. "Her castle is in that direction." Snow said pointing in the direction which the spacecraft flew.
"Wait a minute. What's a Sontaran?" Red asked.
"Sontarans are creatures from another world. They're ruthless and terrible. They love war and fighting. They won't stop until they've conquered the entire realm. They look sort of like little potato men." Snow replied.
"We need to get over there, find out what they're doing, and stop them." The Doctor said.
"No we need to warn the kingdom! We have to assemble the council and prepare to defend our kingdom. Surely Doctor you must remember how they love to fight and kill." Snow snapped back at him.
"Ok. Well you do that and I'll go to Regina's castle." He replied.
Suddenly, two white horses approached them.
"There you two are!" Red said.
"These are my royal horses," Snow White began to explain. "We got off them to stretch. When the spaceship appeared and they ran off. But it seems they've found their way back to us."
"Right," the Doctor began. "Well two of us can take one horse to Regina's castle and the other two can take the other horse to Snow's castle and warn the kingdom. Ok so I'm going to the Evil Queen's castle which, in addition to her, will soon also host a group of angry warrior aliens. Who's coming with me?"
"I'll go." said Red after an awkward moment of silence. "You never know when my nose could come in handy."
"What's so special about your nose?" Clara asked.
"Well it's wolfs time. So at night, I'll be able to turn into a wolf." Red responded
"What?" Clara questioned.
"I'm a child of the moon. This means that during wolfs time or a full moon, I become a wolf. But not just any wolf. A large powerful animal." Red replied.
"Oh. Well in that case you probably should go with the Doctor to the Evil Queen's castle." Clara said.
"Meet us back at my castle. I'll be looking for your magic blue box." Snow said.
So Snow White and Clara got on one of the horses and headed towards her castle, while the Doctor and Red rode the other horse into true and powerful danger. It only occurred to the Doctor that Regina had brought the Sontarans to the Enchanted Forest because it would be almost impossible for them to get here themselves. Yet the word almost scared him a little. If the Sontarans did open a portal themselves, then something was wrong. Sontarans didn't have such technology. Yet the Doctor knew how his mind could wonder, so he didn't want to commit to one story without knowing the truth. However, if the story in his head was the right one, he wasn't sure how he would handle it
Either the horse was fast or the spaceship was slow because the Doctor and Red soon caught up with it while it was flying in the sky. It must have been because the Sontarans didn't exactly know where they were going. If that was the case, then they sure knew now because Regina's castle was becoming visible even to the Doctor and Red in the forest. However, Regina also saw him.
"Why is there a flying contraption coming towards my castle and why is the Doctor and that dog following behind them?" Regina asked her magic mirror with severity in her voice.
"You're not going to like this." The mirror replied.
"Spill it!" Regina demanded.
"It is a vessel built to travel across the stars to different worlds. Onboard are about a hundred angry Sontarans. The Doctor is following them." The mirror replied.
"So why are they coming here?" She asked.
"I don't know your majesty, but I can guarantee that it would be in your best interest to keep them out." The mirror said.
"Alright. So be it."
The Sontarans had increased their speed and were moving towards Regina's castle much faster. Suddenly, a massive magical force field was beginning to form around Regina's castle. It started at the very top of the castle, expanded, and fell down the sides of the castle to completely surround the palace. As it was falling, the Sontaran spacecraft increased speed once more and landed by the castle's front door before the force field had finished falling. However, The Doctor and Red were about to be separated from all the action. Their horse picked up speed, but it was still looking like they weren't going to make it. Faster and faster the horse galloped until it collapsed just a few feet from the falling force field. The Doctor and Red jumped off the horse and ran under the force field just seconds before it had finished forming. Regina' castle was now completely cut off. However, the intruders she wanted to keep out managed to get it.
The Doctor and Red were at the bottom of the castle stairs and the Sontaran ship had landed at the top of a seemingly endless flight of steps where the main castle doors were. As they looked up, they saw the aliens exiting their ship with laser guns, blasting open Regina's front door, and invading her castle.
"Why are they blasting down the door? Aren't they working with Regina?" Red asked
"Apparently not." The Doctor said in shock. "They're invading Regina's castle and they won't stop there. They'll wage war on this world and kill everything. We've got to get up there."
"How? There's those Sontaran things all over this place!" Red stated.
"I think there's a secret entrance that leads to the top of the castle somewhere over here." The Doctor said curiously.
The Doctor searched around until he found a large rock in front of one of the palace walls. He and Red rolled the rock over and an opening in the palace wall was revealed. Dear god that rock was heavy. They needed a minute to recuperate before heading into the entrance. Once they walked in, they saw only one long staircase leading up to the top of the castle. Almost out of breath from moving that rock the Doctor managed to mutter a single word: "Geronimo."
And so they began their long journey up the stairs of the Evil Queen's palace.
The Sontarans moved quickly up Regina's castle. As Regina stood there at top of her house, she started to show fear only for a moment until she realized something. She remembered that when she first brought Sontarans to the Enchanted Forest, it took only seconds for her to paralyze them, rip out their hearts, and control them. She was sure that she could do it again. This time, she would have a small army of them and the rest of the kingdom wouldn't stand a chance. She could take back her land and finally get her revenge on Snow White. So she waited patiently, gathering her strength so that she could use magic on them.
Regina also thought about using her red diamond. The red diamond was a small magical jewel which she put on a chain, and wore around her neck as a necklace. She won it from Rumplestiltskin years ago. It was the most powerful object in the land. She could use it to destroy the planet. Obviously she wouldn't because it wouldn't benefit her in any way. She never used the power of the red diamond before because Regina knew that all magic comes with a price and magic with this much power must have a price that she wouldn't be willing to pay. So she kept it. The red diamond had immense power and so did the blue diamond. The blue diamond also belonged to Rumplestiltskin, but when Regina was able to acquire the red diamond from him, he sent it away to a different world to keep it safe. This placed more importance on the red diamond because it was truly the only object in the Enchanted Forest with power beyond belief.
The Sontarans blasted open the door to the top of the castle and surrounded Regina before she had a chance to fight them. They aimed at her with their laser guns as their general, Kug, entered the room.
"Hello Regina." He said.
"Hello Captain Potato." She responded viciously.
"We have some unfinished business." Kug said.
"Do we? I can't say that I've ever seen you before." She stated. This was only a half serious sentence because all Sontarans looked the same to her. Yet Kug was different. He had a special fire in his eyes. The kind of fire she'd grown to recognize in herself.
"Yes, we do." Kug began. "Some time ago, three members of my platoon disappeared out of nowhere. Something you may not know about us is that all Sontarans have a tracking chip installed at birth. We tracked them to this castle on this far away world. You took them Regina and in doing so, you declared war on the Sontaran Empire.
"Oops." Regina said with no sincerity
"This land was so far from our planet that our ships lacked the technology to get here. So, we sent a small team to the Torchwood Institute on Earth and stole the last of their dimension jumpers. We arrived after the Battle of Canary Wharf and it had gotten damaged during the battle. It took us a few years to get it to work. We couldn't get it to cross dimensions, but a portal to a far away planet was just as good. Since we only have one, we could only take this smaller ship, but we have a plan to get the rest of our fleet here." Kug said.
"And you need my help?" Regina questioned.
"No," Kug began. "We need the red diamond. Legends of its abilities have traveled beyond this realm. We need it and we will get it. But before that, you will explain what happened to the three soldiers you kidnapped. A Sontaran's tracking chip is still active even after death, yet we couldn't locate them soon after they arrived here. The chip will always give off a signal unless the body is not intact. So, where are they?"
"Dead. Snow White killed them." Regina snapped back obviously looking for a fight.
"Fire!" Kug commanded to his small army of Sontarans.
Before they even could pull the triggers, Regina levitated all of them. Their weapons fell from their hands and Regina threw the Sontarans around the room with magic until they crashed on the floor.
"Wonderful." Regina smirked. "Did you really think you could kill me?" She said while approaching Kug.
With great speed, Kug took his laser gun and fired at the ceiling above them. Large chunks of the ceiling came crushing down on Regina. It happened so fast that she wasn't able to stop it. She was only able to use magic to brace herself, which ended up saving her life. Her lower body was buried under the ceiling chunks while her upper body lied there on the floor barely conscious. Kug walked over and ripped the red diamond necklace from her neck.
"Killing you now would be an honorable death. However, you are without honor and you will be left here to suffer and die while you watch the mighty Sontaran Empire conquer your world." Kug said to her.
The rest of the Sontarans got on their feet, grabbed their weapons, and stormed out on their way back to their ship. It did not take them long to blast through Regina's force field, especially since they now had the red diamond. It was at this moment that the Doctor and Red arrived at the top of the castle through a door at the top of the endless stairs. They saw Regina half buried and rushed to her aid.
"What happened?" The Doctor asked while he and Red simultaneously moved the ceiling chunks and helped Regina to her feet.
"The Sontarans. Doctor, they took the red diamond from me." The Evil Queen said.
"What's the red diamond?" The Doctor asked.
"It's the most powerful object in the land." Red said. "They could do anything with it. They could make us their slaves or destroy the planet."
"They need it to bring the rest of their fleet here." Regina said.
"What? How?" The Doctor said.
"I don't know. They wouldn't tell me how." She snapped back.
"Well do you know how they got here in the first place?" The Doctor asked her.
"Yes. They said with a dimension jumper. They stole it from the…um…Torchwood Institute I think it was. They said they only had one so they could only take one small ship here and that they needed the red diamond to bring their fleet here and conquer the world." Regina replied.
"But why would they do that?" Red asked. "What have we ever done to them?"
"It's my fault." Regina said. "When I brought three Sontarans here before, apparently I declared war on the Sontaran Empire."
"We need to get to Snow's castle and tell them everything." The Doctor said.
"I know," Regina smirked. "Let's take the magic blue box."
"No Regina. You're going to transport us there with magic." The Doctor responded.
"Why can't we take the box?" Red asked.
"Because of what Regina did last time." The Doctor responded.
