AN: Happy Day-Before-Easter! Sorry, i would have updated earlier, but there was some issue with the website... And look! Bold is back!

The Doctor was now strapped to the same stretcher Kat had been on a few minutes before. She was standing beside Bill with the rest of the Alphas and Clara.

"Is this really necessary?" The Doctor asked, pulling at his wrist to see how well it was restricted.

"We don't want you to press any buttons!" Hector replied. "Do we?" The Ardives, who had been silent, all roared in agreement.

The Doctor had seen Clara flinch when the Ardives started to growl. He met her eyes and gave her a reassuring look. The corners of Clara's mouth turned upward. The Doctor turned away from Clara and back to Hector Dearborne.

"You think you're the leader here, don't you?" The Doctor said, faking incredulousness.

Hector chuckled and leaned against one of the control panels. "I am their leader! They made me specifically for that purpose,"

"What about him? Over there? That big Ardive? The one that's more blue than the others?" The Doctor said.

"Who?" Hector turned his head. "Oh! Big Blue? That's what I call him, since he's big and blue. He doesn't mind! In fact, he wanted me to take his position!" When Hector said this, Big Blue's eyes narrowed and his large pointy ears went flat on his head.

"It doesn't look like that to me," the Doctor commented.

Hector batted a hand. "Oh, that's the Ardives' way of showing, uh, gratitude! I would do it back, but my ears don't do that flippy thing," Hector moved his hand at the wrist to demonstrate. "Words can't express how grateful he is that I'm the leader. But, I want to know what I've gotten myself into. Prove that you can help me win this war."

"I shouldn't need to! You've already traded me for Kat, you've decided for yourself that I can help," the Doctor pointed out.

"Do you think I'm an idiot?" Hector's joking demeanor dissipated. "I didn't trade you because I knew you could help, I had realized that you're their leader! Without a good leader, even the best armies fall. They're going to be like a ten year-old taking the final to become a doctor. They won't know what to do!" Hector cackled. He waved a hand and several purple-feathered Ardives moved to surround the Alphas and Clara.

"Don't you hurt them!" The Doctor warned.

Hector walked to where the Doctor was strapped and put his face inches away from the Doctor's. "Or what? What can you do? You're stuck there! YOU SIR," Hector jabbed a long bony finger into the Doctor's chest. "CANNOT WIN. I WILL."

"Sometimes winning is no fun at all," the Doctor responded, his voice holding no emotion. "You want to know why? Because you might win against me, but you will not win this war. The Lodnads and the Codroccians will send out all of their gun ships and even get help from some allies, all to make sure every Ardive is wiped out of the universe!" The Doctor'a voice grew bitter as he talked.

Hector's eye twitched, but his face remained blank. "You're lying." The Doctor shook his head. "You are! I have the upper hand! Thousands of humans on Earth are getting turned into Alpha-Ardives as we speak, and they will all get beamed straight into our holding cell to be released onto Codroc. They will never see it coming."

"You're right, they haven't seen it coming," the Doctor said. Clara noticed him wiggling his left arm. He kept moving it until the tip of the sonic screwdriver poked out. Clara inhaled sharply, realizing what he was about to do.

The sonic screwdriver was firmly in the Doctor's hand now. He pressed the button. "But they know now!" He cried triumphantly. Orange buttons started flashing on all of the control boards.

Hector growled and glared at the Doctor before stalking to one of the panels. "It's too late anyways! The Alphas are coming..."

A red beam of light was being emitted from the front of the ship. Irregular beeping was coming from the control panels. It got faster and faster.

"You hear that?" Hector asked. "Those beeps are the sounds of Alphas entering our ship. Even the ones who didn't even know they had any abilities. Thousands of people..." Hector seemed awed by his own plan.

"How exactly are you planning on getting those people to do what you want? If there's ones thing I know about humans, Alpha or no, it's that they won't volunteer for something like this," the Doctor spoke up.

"They will once I threaten to kill them!" Hector snarled. The Doctor chuckled, and his laugh grew into a full out guffaw.

"What are you laughing at?" Asked Hector, incredulous.

"You think," the Doctor paused for breath. "You think that I'm going to just let you change a fixed point! That just doesn't happen! A lot of times, I've been the one to create them! I don't think you understand just who I am! I am the DOCTOR, the last of the TIME LORDS! You may have heard of me, but probably not, because I've been deleted from every database in the universe. And I," the Doctor ripped his arms out of the straps and untied his ankles. "Am not going to let you get away with this!" He marched forward.

Clara clapped wildly but stopped when she saw everyone staring at her. The Doctor looked at Clara and smiled. The Doctor hadn't really been serious when he was talking to Hector, but he seemed somewhat frightened.

"Enough of that, now you're going to let them all go," the Doctor dropped his I-am-the-king-of-everything guise and became serious again.

"What makes you think that?" Hector replied in the same tone as the Doctor.

"Oh...no reason..." the Doctor said nonchalantly.

"Wha-?" Hector was confused.

"Oh, Hector, you know as much as I do that when the missile alarms go off, especially in space ships manned by living beings, not robots, that they have to all congregate in the nearest airlock in case they need a fast escape." The Doctor explained.

"So?" Hector still didn't understand and Clara and the Alphas didn't either.

"Where is he going with this?" Kat whispered to Clara. She let out a small yelp as one of the Ardives jabbed her with its finger. It looked at her sympathetically for a moment afterwards.

"So, if someone were to release all of those escape pods filled with Codroccians and Lodnads at once and have programmed the coordinates of an enemy spaceship into them, perhaps, they would fly straight here... With all of the weapons they were carrying beforehand... And these Codroccians are HUGE, let me tell you. You wouldn't have a very good chance, since your one ship is puny compared to the hundreds of Lodnad ones they've been sharing. But I mean... That's only if someone were to have done that." The Doctor finished. He winked at Clara. Clara winked back. She began whispering in the Alphas ears, giving them instructions.

"Now!" Clara cried. Nina quickly pushed all of the surrounding them, making them line up against the far wall. As more Ardives swarmed in, Kat and Bill fought them off with their martial arts skills. Clara ran to the nearest control panel and hacked her way into the Lodnad ships, causing their missile alarms to sound.

AN: Oooooh, Hetor Dearborne is so evil! But the Doctor will save the day. Won't he?