92
"Medical bay, meeting room, artefact room," Phil stopped and opened a door. "Cleaning closet." Turning away she continued walking. She had ventured off to see if there were any audio objects to use in another room.
There was nothing. All the possible useful equipment was back in the main hall like space.
"There is nothing, do you detect anything? Can you detect anything even if it's not useful? Did that make sense?"
"One question at a time." The little robotic voice said. Phil looked at K-9 and crouched down to sit in front of him.
"Can't you get in contact with the outside world?"
"I could." Phil's expression lit up. "But not without a scrambler."
"A signal scrambler? Gee, where do we get one of those from?" Phil huffed and put her head in her hands. "I don't know how to make one." She paused, she frowned and looked up at the ceiling. She was racking her brain to see if the TARDIS would give her any pointers.
Nothing.
Putting computers and things together, anything to do with technology, it came in handy for. But when Phil wanted to create something from out the blue, nothing. No help.
"Come on K-9, we may as well head back. There's clearly nothing here which can help us." Phil stuffed her hands in her pockets and shuffled back down the hall. K-9 moved beside her flicking his ears from side to side as he went.
"Anything?" Sarah Jane asked when she walked back through the door. Phil shook her head, Sarah Jane's smile dropped a fraction yet she nodded.
Walking past Phil walked over to where Jack and The Doctor were yet again having another discussion. "Scrambler."
"Oh hello Phil, what? Scrambler?"
"Face it, all the tech here is crap. No offence Jack, but it's crap. None of it is working."
"And your point?" Jack questioned while crossing his arms.
"We need to get in contact with U.N.I.T and Colonel Grouchy Grant. We can't use phones because they'll be traced."
"Do you know how to make a signal scrambler Phil? Because if so go straight ahead." Phil shook her head slowly. "It was a good idea though. We do need something to reroute any signal which we'd create here."
"The problem is," Jack said. "You create a signal scrambler it won't be powerful enough."
"Unless," The Doctor looked from Jack to Phil. "We use the TARDIS?"
"We still need to make one."
"Erm hello! Phil you're the one who more or less pointed out we're surrounded by useless technology!"
"We could make loads," Jack said while looking at a nearby disused computer.
"We'd need to make loads," The Doctor said while putting a hand to his chin in thought.
"Why?" Phil asked confused.
"Because the TARDIS will just short circuit them quickly. I doubt there'll be much life in them anyway. Putting a huge source of power through them will halve that life even more." He explained while clapping his hands together. "Right! Anyone who has a nearby computer you have permission to smash it up to get in at the juicy parts! Lets make some signal scramblers people!"
"We still don't know how to make them." Phil pointed out and then frowned when she had a hand waved at her. "Yes?"
"Use your phone. You have the internet on it correct?"
"Won't it get traced?"
"It'll only get traced if you call someone." Jack said simply while taking apart a nearby computer. Phil pulled her phone out of her pocket and took to searching the internet until she came up with a rather reliable site. Quickly explaining what was written she looked up.
"Well that was as clear as anything," she muttered and scratched her head in thought. She seemed to be the only one confused because everyone else had jumped into action. Putting her phone back in her pocket she pushed a computer off of a desk to watch it crash to the ground.
"Well that's one way of getting into it." Jack said simply, Phil crouched down and pulled the broken casing off. Pulling the hard drive out she turned it over in her hands. It seemed in good condition which meant it could be used.
"How many are we going to make?"
"Well I think we should make as many as possible." The Doctor answered while crouching down near her. "Are you feeling better?"
"Well I wasn't exactly feeling ill, or off. I was just..."
"Sad?"
"Yeah," Phil looked down and pulled more wires and that out of the computer. "But I'm better now."
"Good! That's great even! You being sad or unhappy makes me unhappy too."
"Aw, you two are so cute!" Jack giggled while leaning on the desk and looking down at them. Phil and The Doctor looked up at him and then at each other. "Alright alright, I'm going. I'll leave you two in peace."
"Peace doesn't exist when you're in a room with four other people and a robotic dog." Phil said while smiling, Jack laughed at her words and nodded agreeing with her.
"Twenty, that's a good number of scramblers." The Doctor said while looking down at the small devices which they'd all made.
"Twenty scramblers to direct and bounce off of twenty planets." Jack stated and fidgeted in the chair he was sitting in.
"Which planets though?" Sarah Jane questioned. "They can't be planets which are near to us."
"You mean we're keeping up the façade of not being on Earth?" Luke questioned confused.
"They'd expect us to be here," Phil said simply.
"You are all right. Yes twenty planets which aren't directly near to Earth will have to deal with our signal being directed to them. They will and possibly will not expect us to be here." The Doctor paused. "After all Earth at the moment is ground zero. They most likely wouldn't expect us to be on ground zero, because they wouldn't think we could do much from down here."
"You make it sound like they wouldn't know where we are." Luke said quietly.
"Well I kind of am Lukey boy. They know we escaped but not to where. We've not given our current position away so we could well and truly be anywhere in the universe."
"So do you like...have Grant on speed dial or somethin'?" Phil asked while putting her hands in her pockets. "I totally forgot to ask for his mobile number when we were leaving."
"Mainly because it looked like he was going to have has both locked up." The Doctor said and then shook his head and looked at her. "You wouldn't want his number anyway! It'd only be good for prank calls, speaking of which I am rather a pro at them."
"Perhaps tell us another time?" Jack asked while scooping up a few scramblers and turning to the TARDIS. Everyone followed suit carrying as many of the little objects as they could. Sitting on the stairs Phil looked at the scramblers surrounding her.
"How are we going to do this?" Luke asked while turning one of them over in his hand. Phil was glad he asked because she wanted to ask the same thing.
"Well," scratching his head The Doctor looked around at them. "I don't know." Phil ran a hand down her face, Jack didn't look at all surprised by his words, nor did Sarah Jane. The only person who seemed to have any sort of reaction was Luke.