He had a small group gathered in the control room. He had one more person to pick up before heading to Demon's Run. He landed the Tardis to pick up Vastra, a Silurian who he had saved from the London underground. At her request he had taken her to live in London 1888. He opened the door and didn't look up as she entered and closed the door behind her.
"All right," he said flicking the switch to head to Demon's run. He looked up and his hearts stopped. "Jenny." he said almost breathless.
"Dad," She said and ran into his arms.
"Dad?" Rose asked behind him.
"It's a long story, I will tell you later," He said letting go of Jenny.
"You better."
He ignored her and turned to the rest. "We are going to Demon's Run to take control of the base and rescue Donna. I want every life spared. You hear me," He looked specifically at Strax and then Jack," everyone." He quickly explained the parts that everyone would take. He turned the Tardis silent and invisible as he landed various place on the military compound until only Rose, Kiam and him stood in the control room.
"You better come back in one piece." She said helping him into the long robes.
"I promise." He said kissing Kiam on the head and then kissing her passionately before pulling away and heading to the Tardis doors. He looked at her one last time before slipping out and closing the doors tightly behind him.
He fell in line with the Headless Monks walking behind a Colonel. He walked onto the stage with them and stood with his head down listening.
"On this day, in this place, the Doctor will fall." The Colonel announced.
"Hoo Rah!" His solider's responded.
"The man who talks, the man who reasons, the man who lies, will meet the perfect answer." The Colonel started again and he rolled his eyes. "Some of you have wondered why have we have allied ourselves with the Headless Monks. Perhaps you should have wondered why we call them Headless. It's time you knew what these guys have sacrificed for faith. Because these guys never can be persuaded. They never can be afraid. And they can never, ever be..."
He threw back his hood and smiled at the soldiers. He watched as they all raised there guns at him and he put his hands up. "Please, point a gun at me if it helps you relax. You're only human." He told them and watched as the headless monks stepped forward with their swords raised. He hoped the rest were in their positions otherwise he was in trouble.
"Doctor, you will come with me right now." The Colonel stepped forward. He smiled at the man. He looked up and saw Donna watching from the window behind the army.
"Donna, Get your coat!" He said happily and the lights went off. About time he thought but out loud he said. "Three minutes forty seconds." as he put his hood back up and headed to the door.
"Doctor? Doctor, show yourself." The Colonel cried as the lights came back on. He could hear people beginning to panic and a shot is fired. "Weapons down! Do not fire!" The man was desperately trying to regain control over the soldiers. "Do not fire. Nobody discharge their weapon in this room. Nobody! Do not fire!"
He got to the door and soniced it open and headed down the hall and up the set of stairs he was told would be there.
"We are not fools. We are not fools. We are not fools." He hears them chanting and stops himself from laughing out loud. He makes it up to the platform and watches as Silurians called by Vastra appear. Strax strolls up to the Colonel gun in hand.
"This base is now under our command." Strax tells him.
"I have a fleet out there. If Demon's Run goes down, there's an automatic distress call." The Colonel announces.
"Not if we knock out your communications array. And you've got incoming." He announced finally drawing their attention to where he stood.
"Jackie Boy to the Doctor. Jackie Boy to the Doctor." He hears over the intercom.
"Give 'em hell." He replies and listens as the communications array are knocked down. One minute, remained. Just enough time to get to the office. He headed there and took a seat in the chair and waited.
After a few moments Strax came in with the Colonel at gun point. "All airlocks sealed. Resistance neutralized." Strax told him.
"Sorry, Colonel. I lied. Three minutes forty two seconds."
"Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw." Strax tells him.
"No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away."
"You what?"
"Enough," He hears a new voice say and a bolt of electricity flashes and the Colonel falls to the floor dead.
"You didn't have to kill him." He told the Master angrily as he stood up.
"Would you prefer I killed her instead." The Master said turning as Jenny entered the room.
"Koschei, look at me." He said desperately and was relieved when he turned his head. "What do you want with Donna?"
"I wanted to know why Donna didn't change when I managed to change everyone else." The Master replied at him.
"I got that." He said circling slowly to place himself in front of Jenny. He wasn't about to let her die again to save him.
"She became my companion, as you call it." The Master smiled at him.
"How did you bring her memories back." He asked.
"Oh Theta, Theta, Theta. Like I would tell you that." He turned and started to walk away.
"I can't let you leave."
"You don't really have a choice." He stepped forward and the Master hit him with a bolt of electricity throwing him off of his feet and hard into the console.
"Dad," Jenny screamed and rushed over to him as the Master disappeared out of the door. He got to his feet as quickly as he could and rushed out of the door, but The Master was gone. "Strax, find him." He yelled behind him as he grabbed Jenny's hand and ran to where Donna was being kept.
He heard someone over the speakers announcing the retreat of the solider's but he didn't stop running until he reached Donna's room. He let go of Jenny's hand and pulled out his sonic. Opening the door quickly.
"Spaceman," He heard Donna say, before he was nearly knocked to the floor with her arms wrapped around him.
"Donna," He said smiling so big his face hurt. His face fell though as he looked over her shoulder and saw an empty bassinet. "Donna, are you a mother?" He asked quietly.
"Cyril, has our baby." She told him. "He said he would be right back."
"Oh, Donna," He said sadly.
"What?"
He reached out his hand and gently touched her arm. "Cyril isn't coming back." He said softly.
"Of Course he is." She said with her old fireyness that he loved.
"Donna," He said softly. "Cyril is a Timelord named the Master. My oldest friend and my greatest enemy." He saw dawning cross her face.
"He used me?" She asked and pain crossed his eyes. "No, he said he loved me."
"I know," He said and tried to wrap his arms around her and she pulled away.
"He wanted to get married and raise our daughter."
"I am sorry, I am so, so sorry." He said sadly.
"No, NO, NO," She screamed out as he managed to wrap his arms around her and fell to his knees with her as she cried. He held tightly to her as she sobbed. Finally she managed to ask.
"What about Melody."
"I will find her." He told Donna and she looked away. He reached out and turned her face back. "I found you, I can find her."
Vastra appeared at the door and he heard Jenny squeal and run to her. "Doctor? Take a look. They're leaving. Demon's Run is ours without a drop of blood spilled. My friend, you have never risen higher." She told him proudly but at that moment he didn't think he could have felt worse.
He escorted the Donna down to the main level to the Tardis and went on it. Rose rushed to him and he hugged her and then swapped out the robes for his long brown coat. He turned off the cloaking of the Tardis and turned on a force field as he left. Leaving Rose and Kiam inside again.
"The Silurians have escorted the Clerics out of the quadrant. Captain Avery and his men are going." Strax reported.
"Doctor, we need you in the main control room." Vastra said over the speakers.
"Be right there!" He called back and then looked at Donna. "Things to do. I've still got to work out what this base is for. We can't leave till we know."
He headed up to the main control room. "You've hacked into their software, then?" He asked Mickey impressed. "So what have we learned?"
"That anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake." Vastra replied.
"I'm sorry?" He asked turning away from the screens and to her instead.
"The words of an old friend who once found me in the London Underground, attempting to avenge my sisters on perfectly innocent tunnel diggers."
"Well, you were very angry at the time."
"As you were today, old friend. Point taken, I hope. Now, I have a question. A simple one. Is Melody human?" She asked him.
"No, she is probably like Kiam, part human, part Timelord." He looked at the readouts that Mickey pulled up on the baby. "Except Melody there only has one heart, show me her DNA scan." He said knowing the Master would have done one. Sure enough she had the same extra helix indicating she was part Timelord.
"I see you accessed our files." The Master said appearing on the screen." Do you understand yet? Oh, don't worry, I'm a long way away. But I like to keep tabs on you. The child, then. What do you think?"
"Give her back to Donna, why do you want a child anyways?" He asked the Master confused.
"She is the end to this endless, bitter war against you, Doctor." He taunted him.
"A child is not a weapon!"
"Oh, give me time. She can be. She will be." Screams and then the sound of gunfire from down below. "Oh look Doctor, it's begun all ready." and the screen went dark.
"Donna, Jenny," He yelled running down to where the Tardis was parked.
He runs into the room to see Jack, Ianto, Strax and Jenny fighting the Headless monks. He looks around for Donna and sees her crouching behind some boxes with Martha, holding tightly to a little piece of cloth. He pulls out his sonic and sonic's a nearby console making it spark and electrocute one of the Monks.
The gun shots fade and he hears Jack yell "Stand down." He looks around to see the Monks laying dead on the floor and Strax is nearby wounded.
"It's strange. I have often dreamed of dying in combat. I'm not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped." Strax says.
"Come on, Strax. Don't give up." Martha says trying to tend to his wounds."
"It's all right. I've had a good life. I'm nearly twelve."
"Listen to me. You'll be back on your feet in no time. You're a warrior." She says hopefully.
"Martha, I'm a nurse." He replies before falling over. She puts her fingers to his neck.
"He's still alive." She says and continues to tend to him.
"Doctor, there's someone who wants to speak to you." He heads over to Vastra to see her kneeling beside a young woman. "Her name is Lorna. She came to warn us." He kneels down in front of her and scans her with the sonic. Reading the results he frowns to see she is dying.
"Hello." He says
"Doctor."
"You helped my friends. Thank you." He tells her.
"I met you once, in the Gamma Forests. You don't remember me."
"Hey, of course I remember." He lied as she looked at him sadly. I remember everyone. Hey, we ran, you and me. Didn't we run, Lorna?" He asks her making a mental note to visit the Gamma Forest and run with the young girl. He watches sadly as she passes away.
"Who was she?" He asks Vastra.
"I don't know, but she was very brave" She replied.
"They're always brave." He tells her.
"So, what now?" Vastra asked.
"It's already too late." He says standing up and turning away.
"You're giving up? You never do that." Vastra says surprised.
"Yeah, and don't you sometimes wish I did?" He replies heading back towards the Tardis.
"Well then, soldier. How goes the day?" River says appearing out of nowhere.
"Where the hell have you been? Every time you've asked, I have been there."
"Doctor," Jack said warningly.
"Where the hell were you today?" He angrily ask as he storms up to River.
"I couldn't have prevented this." She tells him.
"You could have tried!" He spats.
"And so, could you." She looks around him to Donna. "I know you're not all right. But hold tight, Donna, because you're going to be."
"You think I wanted this? I didn't do this. This, this wasn't me!" He yells angrily.
"This was exactly you. All this. All of it. You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name. Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word Doctor means mighty warrior. How far you've come. And now he's taken a child, the child of your best friend, and he's going to turn her into a weapon just to bring you down. And all this in fear of you." She tells him
"Who are you?" He ask and she tries to go around him to Donna. "No you Don't who are you."
"Donna, do you have the prayer leaf that Lorna made." She asks and Donna clutches the little piece of cloth in her hand tighter. "Show him." River says kindly. He holds out his hand and she hands him the cloth. He looks at it and makes out the words Song Nobel. He looks up at her confused.
"I was adopted by a couple with the last name of Pond but in the Gamma Forest the only body of water is the River." She tells him and he finally gets it. The baby is her. He takes down the force field around the Tardis.
Jenny, Vastra, Donna, can you wait for me on board." He asks them and watches as Vastra gently picks up Strax and heads aboard the Tardis.
He leads River away from Jack and Ianto. "What do I do now?" He asks River and for once she answers him. "Find the little girl."
"Where?"
"You know where, because you have all ready found her once before," She tells him.
"But you weren't raised by Donna," He says. "I can change that. I can protect you."
"Don't you dare." She tells him. "Don't you change one line."
"Where do I take her?"
She leaned over and kissed his cheek. "Talk to Donna." She says.
"Right." He heads back to the Tardis. "River till we meet again. Jack can you get you and Ianto home?"
"Can do, Doctor."
He closes the door and sends the Tardis into the vortex.
"I believe you owe me an explanation." Rose says coming over.
"It can wait until morning." He says and takes her hand and leads her to their room. They would have a lot to discuss come morning but for now he needed to rest.