A/N: I hope I can sustain the weekly rhythm of updates. The first five chapters are already written, therefore I've got a little bit of time to write the rest. But enough talking from me, let's get on with the story. And please leave a review. They encourage me to write faster.

Chapter 2 - It's Just You

You can do the things
That can't be done
You can win the fights
That can't be won
When you're on a mission
You see it through
'Cause this savin' the world thing
Is what you do
- It's Just You - LMNT -

After Shadow made sure that her nearest vicinity was free of threats, she flicked her ponytail of long, brown hair back over her shoulder. She wore her 'mission gear', as she liked to call it, black boots, black cargo pants, a dark green wool jumper and a black flak jacket. With the thought that her brown eyes are glowing with excitement, she pulled her multifunctional scanner out of her cargo pants and scanned for her target. She had to get a Tribophysical Waveform Macro-Kinetic Extrapolator.

That exact Extrapolator was the Extrapolator that would eventually end up in the Doctor's TARDIS.

Well, Shadow had inquired about the Extrapolator and the Doctor, when she had met Captain Jack Harkness, after he had told her stories about his adventures with the Doctor.

Afterwards she had tried to locate the whereabouts of the Extrapolator before it fell into the hands of Margaret "Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen" Blaine. But all she could find out was that it was stored in some high security prison in another galaxy. How the Extrapolator fell into the hands of Margaret the Slitheen, she couldn't find out. Not even with the help of Mister Smith.

Then, one day, there was a letter for her in the mail. When she opened it, she got the shock of her life. She was supposed to go and get the Extrapolator and then give it to Margaret the Slitheen. It was signed by herself. But how exactly she should achieve to actually get to the Stormcage Containment Facility, the high security prison where the Extrapolator was stored, wasn't said. But it was a start and she decided to do it.

And the trusty voice in her head told her that, if she didn't do it, it would have severe consequences for her own life. Meaning, she'd never been born. And that the preservation of the time lines was imperative.

When she had told Sarah Jane about it, she had seriously thought Shadow to be totally insane. Well, more than the usual amount of insane.

Then she went to Captain Jack to borrow his Vortex Manipulator, because she still had to get to the year 5125. And she couldn't just wait for the date to come. When Jack asked her where she was headed, she told him her plan and he in return told her everything he knew about Stormcage. It turned out that one couldn't just teleport into it via Vortex Manipulator, but if one gets near enough to the orbit of the planet, one could teleport onto its surface. But the buildings were all protected with nifty security systems and the guards were very swift with intruders. So she had to be careful.

Anyway, luckily the Extrapolator was in the building in front of Shadow, but she had to get through the entire building to reach the other side. So, first step, deactivating the security systems in the building as unnoticeable as possible. A few taps on her scanner and that was done. Easy as pie. Although pie wasn't that easy to make.

Next step, creating a diversion. It had to be a good one. Something like a spaceship with collision course onto the other side of the planet. Or even better, several spaceships on collision course. Yes, that would cause a lot of confusion and a bit of panic.

Shadow was very good at creating confusion. So, she started to merrily tap away, hacking into the scanning system of the planet. Stormcage was a prison planet after all. A little bit tweaking here and a bit of tweaking there and it was done. Now she had to wait a bit and...voilà. Lights turned on and she could see shuttles rush overhead.

She then sneaked forward towards an entrance. The door was locked. So she plugged her scanner, she loved that scanner, onto the keypad at the side of the door and in no time it had hacked the code and the door unlocked.

She slipped in and silently closed the door behind her. She scanned the area to find out which way she had to go. First left, then right, right again, second left, a long corridor till the end, then left again and the third door on the right. Shadow memorized the route and pocketed the scanner. Hopefully she wouldn't run into any of the guards. Then she set off in a light run. The faster she got this done the better.

After she had run for quite a while, she stopped and wondered if she had taken a wrong turn. She had passed the long corridor and turned left, but there weren't any doors. She checked her scanner again.

Did the rooms move? No, rooms couldn't move. That was impossible, except in the TARDIS.

Her scanner showed that she had to turn right at the next possibility and then left and the door should be the third on the left. Shadow pocketed her scanner again, shrugged and set off again. Until then she had not encountered any guards, for which she was grateful.

After a couple of minutes more, she wondered if she shouldn't see any doors by now. She looked around, centered herself and retraced her route, but didn't see any wrong turns she could've taken.

Suddenly she heard voices behind her and tried to find a place to hide. She ran into the next corridor, which looked like the corridor she could swear she had already passed twice.

She found a place to hide, although the corridor was a long, straight and broad one. It had the cells on one side and a blank wall on the other side. Between each cell, which were unusually big for normal cells, was a supporting beam. The prisoners were, gladly, sleeping. And Shadow did move exceptionally quiet.

Soon the voices came nearer and Shadow held her breath to not get caught. The guards, it were three, walked past and Shadow thought she had made it, when one of them turned around and spotted her among the shadows.

She reacted very fast and even before the first of them had drawn his gun, she had knocked him out. The other two followed suit. After that little encounter, she dragged each of them into a corner behind a beam and stood them upright against them and fixed them with very strong duct tape.

She took their key cards and transferred their data onto her scanner. Then she put the cards back into their place, she didn't want to get noticed or the guards into trouble for losing their key cards. And Shadow only needed the data anyway.

When she was finished she looked around and decided that she had cleaned up enough. Then she consulted her scanner again to get the way. She had to follow the corridor till the end, then turn right and it should be the second door on the left.

These rooms really seemed to move. But there was no use in standing around and complaining. If she ever wanted to get there, she had to get her rear in gear.

She was a bit out of breath from all the running and the fight, so she walked silently along the corridor. All of a sudden, she caught a movement out of the corner of her eye. Shadow took a closer look.

There really was a woman with blond, curly hair, leaning casually against the bars of her cell.

Shadow decided that that woman had something strange about her. She went over to the woman and stood in front of her cell, of course an arm's length away, there were always some crazy weirdo's that seemed harmless but still wanted to rip your head off.

Shadow assumed a casual pose herself and closely mustered the woman. There was definitely something...weird. Even the situation was weird.

Shadow was in the year 5125, breaking into the Stormcage Containment Facility and now standing in front of a cell as if she had come to make a social call. In the name of sanity, she was here to steal an Extrapolator, not to have a nice chat and some biscuits.

But Shadow couldn't help it that woman intrigued her.