Chapter 9: The Final Battle part 2

They lost. The Sontarans were invading and there was no way to stop them. The Doctor was angry and upset. He honestly had no idea what to do. The only people who could help were turned into statues. The Doctor and Clara just watched although the bright beam of red light was making it difficult to see. That red beam of light was Kug's body. This got Clara thinking. The portal only opened when the beam of light shot into the sky. She had a laser gun. She wondered what would happen if she shot the beam of light. Clara couldn't think of anything else that could go wrong. So, she stepped in front of the Doctor.

"What are you doing!" he asked.

She didn't answer. She just carefully aimed her laser gun at the red beam of light and shot it. The beam then disintegrated and the large portal closed.

"Clara, how did you know that would work?" The Doctor asked very happily.

"I didn't." She replied with a smile. "So what do we do? The portal is gone, but there are still hundreds of these ships here."

The Doctor looked amongst the chaos and tried very hard to think of a plan. His moving head brought his gaze towards the original spot where Kug had been standing. The red diamond and the dimension jumper were laying there on the ground. The Doctor ran in a hurry to grab the red diamond. He picked it up and stared at it.

"Clara," he spoke still inspecting the small jewel. "I've got a plan."

The Doctor immediately stood up and ran inside the castle. Clara ran after him. Neither of them realized that they left the dimension jumper on the ground. They ran through the halls until they reached the grand hall again. Clara looked at all the fairytale creatures who had become her friends this past day. They were all dropped from the ceiling and turned to stone.

"Doctor, what are you planning?" Clara asked.

"This diamond turned them all into stone, and it can turn them back." He replied.

"You know how to use it?" Clara asked.

"Well, not exactly." He replied.

"What if you blow them up or something?"

"Clara, if I stopped and thought about everything before I did it, then where would we be right now?"

He had a point. Clara knew by now that the Doctor sort of just made things up as he went along. Yet even the Doctor had never used magic before. If he had and was trying to keep it a secret from her, he wasn't doing a great job.

"Doctor let me." Clara intervened.

"What makes you more qualified to do this?" He asked.

"I've seen it done before. I watched Rumplestiltskin turn you to stone and then I watched him turn you back. I don't think you've ever seen this done before." She replied.

"Fine." The Doctor muttered. He was really looking forward to getting to play with magic. However, these were lives and Clara did have more experience. Well, she had more experience in that she saw it done once. Yet he trusted her. Clara had proven that she could handle delicate and important situations before.

So he gave the red diamond to Clara. Clara took a deep breath and concentrated. How hard could magic be? It couldn't be too difficult to turn an entire room of statues back into living, breathing, people. Well they weren't exactly people, but that was beside the point. Clara held the red diamond in her right hand. She closed her eyes and concentrated. When she opened her eyes, her entire eyeballs glowed bright red. The power of the red diamond was flowing through her. She stood by the entrance and waved the red diamond around in a circle. Then, magic puffs of gray smoke surrounded the statues and they were all returned to normal. They all groaned in pain. The last thing they all remembered was being dropped from a thirty foot ceiling and watching the Sontaran commander turn them to stone.

"What happened?" Regina asked. "Where's my diamond and that stupid little troll?" she asked referring to Kug.

"You mean my diamond dearie." Rumplestiltskin said as he got to his feet. Then, he spotted Clara holding the red diamond. "I'll be taking that now. That was the deal."

"No," Clara said. "The deal was that if you help us defeat the Sontarans, then you will get the diamond."

"And I did." He replied.

Loud explosions could easily be heard from outside the castle walls.

"Why don't you look outside and tell me that the Sontarans have been defeated." The Doctor said.

Everyone in the room walked swiftly towards the front door of the castle. When they walked outside, they were shocked. They watched all the terror and destruction of the kingdom that Snow White and Prince Charming tried so hard to rebuild after Regina's harsh rein. Snow started to cry. Regina, however, was satisfied. She saw that the portal jumper that brought the Sontarans across the stars was lying on the ground. She picked it up and hid it within her dress while everyone was distracted by the alien incursion.

"What are we going to do?" Snow sobbed while being held tightly in her husband's arms.

"I have a plan." The Doctor said. "Regina and Rumplestiltskin, I need you."

They all walked back inside the castle and into the grand hall where the TARDIS was.

"How do you expect us to save the world from in here?" Regina asked in her usual sassy tone.

"I don't." The Doctor said. "Get in." He said to the Regina and Rumplestiltskin.

"In the magic blue box?" Rumplestiltskin asked.

"Yes." The Doctor replied. "Clara, give me the diamond."

"What? Why?" she replied.

"Please Clara just trust me. I need it."

Clara understood and gave the red diamond to the Doctor. Regina and Rumplestiltskin entered the TARDIS.

"You have to stay here Clara." The Doctor said.

"Why?" she replied.

"I'm taking the TARDIS out into the open. My plan can only work from outside." He replied.

"And what exactly is your plan." She asked.

"We don't have time to chat Clara just trust me. You'll be much safer inside the castle." The Doctor said.

Clara again understood. She hugged the Doctor tightly. Every inch of her wished he would've just kissed her. He was going into danger. He may not come back. The least he could do was fulfill her fantasy. But alas, he did not and then the Doctor stepped into the TARDIS. Soon, the magic blue box disappeared, leaving Clara and a variety of fairytale creatures alone in the castle.

Suddenly, lasers and screams were heard from down the hall.

"Oh no." Clara said.

"It's the Sontarans!" The Blue Fairy said.

They were in no condition to fight another wave of Sontaran fighters especially without Regina, Rumplestiltskin, or the red diamond.

"Everybody run!" Grumpy yelled.

Everyone was in agreement. The split up and ran through the various doors that lead to other hallways and other rooms. The team spirit had left them. It was now every man, woman, princess, fairy, dwarf, and wolf for themselves.

Clara just kept running through the castle by herself. She didn't know where anything was. It was like running through a maze. She came upon a hallway filled with doors. Suddenly, she heard the voices of Sontarans from down the other hall. They were coming closer. So, she opened a random door, ran inside, and shut the door. When Clara caught her breath and looked around, she saw that she was in a pink room filled with toys, a crib, a tea set, and a closet. This wasn't just any normal room. This was a nursery.

She heard the Sontarans rushing through the halls on the other side of the door. She ran towards the closet, opened it, got inside, closed the door, hid behind some dresses, and waited. Her heart was racing. Even now, she could hear the Sontarans marching closer and closer. Suddenly, they blasted the door open into the nursery open. The Sontarans were in the room and they were ready to kill.


Meanwhile in the TARDIS, The Doctor, Regina, Rumplestiltskin, and Jiminy Cricket were flying through the time vortex.

"So will you tell us your plan now?" Regina asked.

"The red diamond is the most powerful object in this land and my blue box is one of the most powerful objects of any land. If you two," he said facing Rumplestiltskin and Regina. "can activate the red diamond and focus all your energy on the thought of the Sontarans while I activate the TARDIS, then the TARDIS engines will react with the red diamond and send the Sontarans back to their home world where they can never come back here."

"Wait what's a TARDIS?" Regina asked.

"And how will that stop them from returning?" Rumplestiltskin asked. "Don't they still have that dimension jumper thing?" Rumplestiltskin asked.

"As far as I know, it overloaded when Kug combined it with the red diamond to open the portal. I don't know where it is, but if the Sontarans have it, there's no way they could ever use it again to go anywhere." The Doctor replied.

The TARDIS landed in the forest. All around the magic blue box, frightened people were running through the forest screaming. Sontarans were on the ground shooting people and their large battleships were in the night sky shooting and killing from up above.

"Alright." The Doctor said. "Let's do this."

"Good luck to you all." Jiminy Cricket said.

Rumplestiltskin and Regina stood inside the TARDIS facing each other with a few feet of distance between them. The Doctor placed the red diamond on the ground in the middle of them.

"Ok. Just put your hands out and focus on the Sontarans." The Doctor instructed.

That's what they did. Rumplestiltskin and Regina extended their arms and opened their hands as if to push something. Then, the red diamond started levitating off the ground. It stopped levitating, when it was about eye level with both the Evil Queen and the Dark One. The Doctor stood at the TARDIS console waiting for the right moment. Regina and Rumplestiltskin closed their eyes and a red aura surrounded them. When they opened their eyes, their eyeballs were glowing bright red. The moment had arrived. The Dark One and the Evil Queen were both thinking only about the Sontarans, while the power of the red diamond was flowing through them. The Doctor then activated the TARDIS engines. The magic blue box then prepared for takeoff. It made that wheezing noise that it always made. However, the TARDIS wasn't disappearing. Instead, it was the Sontarans and all of their spaceships. The bulb on top of the TARDIS turned red and connected with each individual Sontaran all across the planet and with each ship across the sky. The magic of the red diamond and the power of the TARDIS made the Sontarans start to vanish and transport them all the way across the universe and back to Sontar.


Clara remained scared in the closet. She stayed there feeling like her heart was going to beat out of her chest. However, out of nowhere, the Sontarans started to disappear. Literally as if by magic, they just simply vanished. She heard no more Sontaran war cries. She heard no more explosions outside. All the evil brought on by the Sontarans vanished. She walked outside the closet and into the nursery. She was relieved. While Clara resumed mental stability, she managed to whisper, "Thank you Doctor."