Boom Town
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Me: Honestly Tivia100, it just fit in with the story line *shrugs* but I'm going to lie and claim that I'm just THAT awesome! WOOP!
Legend-wait for it- Dary: Ignore the idiot that's typing she's had about 3 coffees in 2 hours.
Me: *runs screaming from room* MUST HAVE MORE COFFEE!
Legend-wait for it- Dary: *sighs* see what I mean? *follows*
Tory & Timmy: *enter room as they've being hiding from the high author.*
Tory: this story is rated T, this is because of sexual references,
Timmy: *interrupts* the actual sex is always placed in one-shots and posted separately!
Tory: *glares* I was getting to that! *takes calming breath* as I was saying, it is also T rated because of swearing. You have been warned.
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Tory sighed as she got off the train in Cardiff Central station, her brain translating the Welsh into English. She cracked her neck and looked around. She was here for a local holiday while Jordan was busy with U.N.I.T; the girl was insisting on coming on her next adventure so Tory was stuck waiting until Jordan had free time to go.
Tory blinked as the head of Mickey Smith caught her eye, she followed him out of the station, having nothing better to do. He led her into Millennium Centre Square and Tory grinned as she spotted the TARDIS parked in front of the silver water sculpture. She let Mickey keep the led as he knocked on the door. A young, ruggedly handsome, man poked his head out. He was more Jordan's type than Tory's.
"Who the hell are you?" the man demanded.
"What d'you mean, who the hell am I? Who the hell are you?" Mickey demanded rudely.
"Captain Jack Harkness. Whatever you're selling, we're not buying."
"Get out of my way!" Mickey barged passed him and into the TARDIS, Jack seemed to smirk and then closed the door to follow him. Tory grinned and walked a short distance away to sit down and wait for the four to leave the TARDIS.
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Me: *re-entering room with coffee in hand* Just to prevent any confusion the next section is in an almighty 3rd POV.
Legend-wait for it- Dary: and that makes four! We're not going to sleep tonight…..*sighs*
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Inside the TARDIS, just after Mickey has entered and Jack has closed the door.
"Don't tell me," Jack said, "this must be Mickey." The Doctor was up on the second level on a ladder with a red flashing light attached to his head, Rose was standing by the console.
"Here comes trouble!" the Doctor greeted him cheerily, "How're you doing, Ricky boy?"
"It's Mickey!"
"Don't listen to him," Rose told him, "he's winding you up."
"You look fantastic." They grinned broadly and hugged.
"Aww, sweet, look at these two. How come I never get any of that?" Jack asked.
"Buy me a drink first." The Doctor answered.
"You're such hard work." Jack answered, "I'd rather ask Tory." Jack said with a wink. The Doctor did a double take.
"No." he growled. Jack grinned in a rather self-satisfied way.
"Jealous much?" Jack teased.
"Did you manage to find it?" Rose asked Mickey quickly to prevent the argument that she knew the Doctor and Jack would get into over Tory. Jack wasn't actually interested in Tory in anyway, at least Rose thought so, however Jack could in his own words "see the potential for fan-fucking-tastic sex between the two, and if anyone needed a good stress reliever it was the Doctor!"
"There you go." Mickey handed over her passport. Rose grinned and brandished the little red book at the Doctor.
"I can go anywhere now!"
"I told you, you don't need a passport!" the Doctor told her.
"It's all very well going to platform one and Justicia and the Glass Pyramid of San Kloon but what if we end up in Brazil? I might need it. You see, I'm prepared for anything." She stuck her tongue out at him, grinning.
"Sounds like you're staying, then." Mickey stated. An awkward silence fell on the group. After a moment Mickey smiled and attempted to lighten the atmosphere. "So, what're you doing in Cardiff?" he asked, "And who the hell's Jumping Jack Flash? I mean, I don't mind you hanging out with big-ears up there."
"Oi!" the Doctor yelled down at him.
"Look in the mirror." Mickey returned. The Doctor shook his head and turned back to his work, "But this guy, I dunno, he's kinda..."
"Handsome?" Jack suggested with a smirk.
"More like cheesy." Mickey answered.
"Early 21st Century slang. Is cheesy good or bad?" Jack asked.
"It's bad."
"But bad means good, isn't that right?" Jack grinned.
"Are you saying I'm not handsome?" the Doctor asked as he climbed down the ladder he had been standing on to do repairs. Everyone ignored him.
"We just stopped off." Rose started to explain, "We need to refuel. Thing is, Cardiff's got this rift running through the middle of the city. It's invisible, but it's like an earthquake fault between different dimensions..."
"The rift was healed back in 1869..." the Doctor added.
"Thanks to a girl named Gwyneth," Rose continued, "'cos these creatures called the Gelth, they were using the rift as a gateway but she saved the world and closed it."
"But closing a rift always leaves a scar," Jack spoke up, "and that scar generates energy, harmless to the Human Race."
"But perfect for the TARDIS," the Doctor continued, "so just park it here for a couple of days right on top of the scar and..."
"Open up the engines, soak up the radiation..." Jack said excitedly.
"Like filling her up with petrol and off we go!" Rose dumbed it down. Jack hi-fived her.
"Into time!" he announced. The Doctor and Rose hi-fived before they spoke together.
"And space!"
"Whoo!" Rose yelled happily. Mickey just stared at them.
"My God, have you seen yourselves? You all think you're so clever, don't you?" the three glanced at each other.
"Yeah!" the Doctor grinned.
"Yeah!" Rose agreed.
"Yep !" Jack finished with a friendly slap to Mickey's cheek.
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Tory: and now back to me! *grins*
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Tory watched as the Doctor, Rose, Jack and Mickey all piled out of the TARDIS. The Doctor started glancing around as soon as he closed the door, as if sensing Tory.
Tory grinned and decided to go for the dramatic. She launched herself from the bench she was sitting on and ran towards the group.
"Doctor!" she cried happily. He spun around and grinned as he grabbed her into a hug.
"Speak of the devil." Jack muttered. Tory backed away from the Doctor and gave Jack a confused look.
"Do I know you?" she heard the Doctors snort of amusement behind her. Jack didn't even pause.
"No, but I know you and I'd love to get to know you better." He winked; the Doctor's arm around Tory's waist tightened slightly but she didn't notice.
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Me: I just need to say that at this point Tory has only slight romantic feelings towards the Doctor and she doesn't even realise it yet, the Doctor feels the same way and Jack noticed when he first met Tory, in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances which Tory hasn't done yet herself. Jack is trying to get the two to realise but it's not working yet, there will be no romance until 10 comes to call.
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"What are you captain of?" Mickey asked, "The Innuendo Squad?"
"Apparently." Tory drawled. Jack made a 'whatever' sign at the two and walked off a little way.
"I'm Victoria," Tory introduced herself to Mickey.
"Mickey Smith." He smiled.
"Mi'lady." The Doctor offered Tory his arm.
"Why thank you, my good sir." She took it and they started to walk off.
"Wait!" Mickey called after them, "Er, the TARDIS, we can't just leave it. Doesn't it get noticed?"
"Yeah," Jack agreed, having walked back into earshot, "what's with the police box? Why does it look like that?"
"It's a cloaking device." Rose explained.
"It's called a chameleon circuit." The Doctor started to explain only to get cut off by Tory.
"This is my area of expertise," the Doctor nodded and allowed her to continue, Jack muttering 'whipped' in Rose's ear, "The TARDIS is meant to disguise itself wherever it lands; what you would call sensors in the 'skin' of the TARDIS scan and recognise nearby objects that give the area a planet and time region, the TARDIS than takes on an appearance that will allow it to blend in; like if we were in Ancient Rome the TARDIS would probably be a statue on a plinth. I however have no idea why it looks like a 1960's police box." Tory finished looking questionably at the Doctor.
"I landed in the 1960s," the Doctor explained, "it disguised itself as a police box, and the circuit got stuck."
"She." Tory corrected, "Your TARDIS is a she."
"How do you know that?" Mickey asked.
"I'm a TARDIS myself." Tory answered.
"But you look human!" Mickey protested.
"And you look Time Lord." The Doctor and Tory answered at the same time with a grin, "We came first."
"Hang on, how can you be a ship and a Time….Lady?"
Tory very much wanted to answer 'magic' but restrained herself.
"I was conceived by a Time Lord and a human possessed by the heart of a TARDIS, its soul." Tory looked sad for a moment and the Doctor squeezed her hand.
"I'm sorry." Rose told her, remembering what the Doctor had told her about the war.
"It's okay," Tory grinned suddenly, surprising those unused to her mood swings, "I call myself a HTL-TARDIS." Jack snorted.
"Human-Time Lord-TARDIS?" he asked, grinning.
"Obviously." Tory drawled, smirking; she quite liked this Jack.
"So it copied a real thing?" Mickey asked, bringing them back to the original topic, "There actually was police boxes?"
"Yeah, on street corners." The Doctor explained this time, "Phone for help before they had radios and mobiles. If they arrested someone, they could shove them inside until help came. Like a little prison cell."
"Why don't you just fix the circuit?" Jack asked, trying to move towards Tory but the Doctor turned her away subtlety. Jack grinned.
"I like it!" the Doctor grinned, "Don't you?"
"I LOVEit!" Rose exclaimed, patting the side of the box as she spoke.
"So does the TARDIS." Tory added.
"You talk about it like it's alive." Jack phrased the question as a statement.
"'Cause she is." Tory explained.
"There's no police boxes anymore, so doesn't it get noticed?" Mickey asked.
"Ricky, let me tell you something about the Human Race. You put a mysterious blue box slap bang in the middle of town and what do they do?" The Doctor asked seriously. Mickey opened his mouth to reply but the Doctor cut him off, "Walk past it. Now stop your nagging, let's go and explore!" he walked off taking Tory with him due to their link arms, Rose grabbed Mickey and pulled him along at a jog to catch up with Jack admired everyone's arse's from the rear.
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Me: Pun very much intended *winks*I love coffee.
Tory, Timmy and Legend-wait for it- Dary: *sigh*
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"What's the plan?" Rose asked happily as they walked.
"I don't know! Cardiff. Early 21st Century." He listed as Rose bounced up and down excitedly, "And the wind's coming from the... East. Trust me, safest place in the universe." Tory slapped him on the arm lightly.
"Now you've jinxed it!" she laughed.
They made their way into a restaurant along Cardiff bay and sat down near the window. Tory got up to go and order their food and the other four started to listen to one of Jack's stories.
"I swear, six feet tall and with tusks..." the group was laughing hard as Jack spoke when Troy returned.
"You're lying through your teeth!" the Doctor argued as Tory placed a huge place of chips in easy grabbing range of everyone at the table before pulling a jar of chocolate spread out of her pocket, with spoon, and eating it.
"I'd've gone bonkers! That's the word, bonkers!" Rose laughed.
"I mean," Jack continued as the group laughed, "it turns out the white things are tusks and I mean tusks!And it's woken, and it's not happy..."
"How could you not know it was there?" the Doctor asked. Tory reached into her pocket and pulled out the bag of Skittles, ignoring the strange looks she was getting from nearby customers, and the mother that was glaring as her son asked desperately to do the same thing, she poured the Skittles into the jar and continued to eat.
"And we're standing there, fifteen of us, naked..."
"Naked?!" Rose exclaimed.
"And I'm like, oh, no, no, it's got nothing to do with me! And then it roars, and we are running. Oh my God, we are running! And Brakovitch falls, so I turn to him and I say..."
"I knew we should've turned left!" Mickey interrupted making everyone laugh all the harder.
"That's my line!" Jack protested playfully.
"I don't believeyou, I don't believe a word you say ever, that is so brilliant!" Rose grinned. The Doctor was distracted as Jack kept talking, staring at a paper that a man across the room was reading. The smile vanished off the Doctors face. He stood, unnoticed by the humans but with Tory watching him. "Did you ever get your clothes back?" Rose asked.
"No," Jack answered, "I just picked him up went right for the ship, full throttle, didn't stop until I hit the spacelanes, I was shaking! It was unbelievable, I'm freaking out and by the time I got there I was fifteen light-years away I was like this!" Jack held out his hand to demonstrate as the Doctor walked away and grabbed the paper out of a man's hand, he stared at the front page before looking up and meeting Tory's gaze.
"And I was having such a nice day." He sighed causing the humans to fall silent and look over at him. He held up the paper it read; New Mayor, New Cardiff and had a picture of a rather fat blonde holding her hand as if to hide her face but failing, the picture was of Margaret Slitheen.
"Bugger," Tory sighed, "Jordan is going to kill me."
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Me: any italic's is texting!
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The five of them walked up and into the town hall like they owned the place. They paused in the entrance hall.
"According to intelligence," Jack spoke purposefully, "the target is the last surviving member of the Slitheen family, a criminal sect from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorious, masquerading as a human being, zipped inside a skin suit. Okay, plan of attack, we assume a basic fifty seven/fifty six strategy, covering all available exits on the ground floor. Doctor, you go face-to-face, that'll designate Exit One, I'll cover Exit Two, Rose, you're Exit Three, Mickey Smith, you take Exit Four. Have you got that?"
"I'm going with Mickey." Tory stated. The Doctor glanced at her before returning to staring at Jack with mild surprise.
"Excuse me. Who's in charge?" the Doctor asked sternly.
"Sorry." Jack answered, "Awaiting orders, sir."
"Right." His voice deepened with authority, "Here's the plan." He paused and beamed, his voice returning to normal, "Like he said. Nice plan. Anything else?"
"Present arms." Jack ordered, the humans and the Doctor all pulled out mobile phones while Tory blinked at them.
"Ready!"
"Speed dial?" Jack checked. All the phones beeped.
"Yup."
"Ready."
"Check."
"See ya in hell." Jack said with a lazy grin before walking off to the right. The Doctor and Rose headed off in the same direction but parted as they reached a hallway. Mickey looked confused before Tory pulled him towards the left.
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"Slitheen heading North." The Doctor said over the phone.
"Oh my God." Mickey said stunned before Tory pulled him into a run. The managed to doge the cleaning lady and got outside just in time for Tory to launch herself at Margaret and grab her around the waist. The two females fell to the floor, shattering the teleport device Margaret was trying to build.
"Tory!" Jack yelled as he arrived on scene to find Mickey standing over Tory who had Margaret lying on the floor face down and was literally sitting on her back eating Skittles.
"Mickey the idiot." The Doctor greeted as he and Rose arrived.
"This is persecution." Margaret protested from the floor, "Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?"
"You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet." The Doctor answered.
"Apart from that." she said dismissively.
Jack pulled Tory to her feet and then lifted Margaret up, none too gently.
"Come on then." The Doctor smiled cheerily and led the way back inside. The group walked to the exhibition room and entered, a giant banner hung across the far wall proclaiming the name of the project and a model of a nuclear power station stood in the middle of the room.
"So, you're a Slitheen," the Doctor spoke, facing Margaret, "you're on Earth, you're trapped. Your family get killed but you teleport out, just in the nick of time. You have no means of escape. What do you do? You build a nuclear power station." He gestured at the model in the middle off the room drawing Jack and Rose's attention to it, "But what for?"
"A philanthropic gesture. I've learnt the error of my ways." Margaret tried to bluff.
"Doubt it." Tory snorted pulling out her phone to check her messages and finding one from Jordan.
Not in any trouble I hope?
Tory grinned before replying:
Me? Never! ;)
"And it just so happens to be right on top of the rift." The Doctor continued drawing Tory's attention back to the other people in the room.
"What rift would that be?" Margaret asked innocently.
"A rift in space and time." Jack explained, "If this power station went into meltdown, the entire planet would go schwwwupboom!"
"This station is designed to explode the minute it reaches capacity." The Doctor stated as he studied the model.
"Didn't anyone notice?" Rose asked incredulous, "Isn't there someone in London checkingthis sort of stuff?"
"U.N.I.T. might have had a look," Tory mused, "but they probably wouldn't have really noticed anything odd and it never passed my desk so I wouldn't have seen it either way."
"We're in Cardiff. London doesn't care!" Margaret scoffed, "The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice." She stopped suddenly horror dawning on her face, "... Oh... I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native."
Tory laughed at that.
"I like you." She announced, the Doctor gave her a look, "apart from the whole destroy the Earth thing, bad Margaret!" Tory tried to cover herself, earning an eye roll.
"But why would she dothat?" Mickey asked, "A great big explosion, she'd only end up killing herself."
"Blowing stuff up is therapeutic." Tory answered with a straight face, "Blowing up a planet is like shooting cans for some of the race's out there." Mickey glanced at her shocked.
"She's got a name, you know." Margaret snapped, bringing his attention back to her.
"She's not even a she, she's a... thing." Mickey muttered in disgust.
"Just like to point out that technically the Doctor, Jack and I are 'things' by you definition." Tory frowned at him. Mickey opened his mouth but stopped whatever he was going to say and just nodded at her.
"Oh, but she's clever..." the Doctor muttered eyeing Margaret before yanking the model apart and flipping the middle section over revealing a giant circuit board underneath, "Fantastic." He grinned.
"Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator?!" Jack moved closer excitedly.
"Couldn't have put it better myself." The Doctor agreed, Jack took it away for a better look.
"Ooh, genius!" he muttered. The Doctor moved away slightly looking at the banner holding the project name, 'Blaidd Drwg'. "You didn't build this." Jack spoke to Margaret.
"I have my hobbies. A little tinkering..." Margaret tried to brag.
"No, no, no, I mean, you reallydidn't build this. Way beyond you." Jack explained further. Tory's phone made a noise drawing her attention back to it.
Really?
I met the Doctor. Tory replied.
"I bet she stole it." Mickey spoke up suddenly.
"It fell into my hands." Margaret agreed.
"Is it a weapon?" Rose asked worried.
In Cardiff?
Yep.
Jack placed the extrapolator on the floor.
"It's transport." He explained, "You see, the reactor blows, the rift opens, phenomenal cosmic disaster, but thisthing shrouds you in a forcefield, you have this energy bubble, zzhum, so you're safe. Then you feed it coordinates, stand on top, and ride the concussion all the way out of the solar system."
"It's a surfboard!" Mickey realised.
Again?!
Yep.
"A pan-dimensional surfboard, yeah." Jack agreed.
"And it would've worked." Margaret started bitterly before Tory interrupted.
"If it wasn't for you meddling kids!" she grinned as Rose snorted, Jack smirked and the Doctor rolled his eyes.
"I would've surfed away from this dead-end dump and back to civilisation." Margaret continued as if Tory hadn't spoken making her pout.
"You'd blow up a whole planet just to get a lift?" Mickey asked incredulous.
"Like stepping on an anthill." Margaret sneered.
"Be careful," Tory snapped, "we call this 'anthill' home!"
"How'd you think of the name?" the Doctor asked suddenly, staring up at the banner.
"What, Blaidd Drwg?" Margaret shrugged, "It's Welsh."
"I know, but how did you think of it?"
"Chose it at random, that's all I dunno. Just sounded good. Does it matter?" she asked. The Doctor turned to face the group, a frown on his face.
"Blaidd Drwg." He muttered.
"What's it mean?" Rose asked.
"Bad Wolf." Tory answered. Rose span to face her, looking scared.
"But I've heard that before, Bad Wolf. I've heard that lots of times..."
"Everywhere we go." The Doctor mused, "Two words. Following us. Bad Wolf."
"How can they be following us?" Rose asked with actual fear in her voice. The Doctor stared into space for a few moments.
"Nah!" he exploded suddenly, making everyone in the room jump, "Just a coincidence! Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day. Never mind! Things to do." He clapped his hands together, "Margaret, we're gonna take you home."
"Hold on, isn't that the easy option, like letting her go?" Jack muttered in Tory's ear.
"No," she answered, quietly, "they have the death penalty." Jack didn't answer as they watched Rose and the Doctor joking around before Margaret interrupted them.
"They have the death penalty." She announced, no one spoke, "The family Slitheen was tried in its absence many years ago and found guilty. With no chance of appeal. According to the statutes of government, the moment I return, I am to be executed. What do you make of that, Doctor?" she held the Doctors stare, "Take me home and you take me to my death."
"Not my problem." He answered indifferently.
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They made it back to the TARDIS easily. The Doctor and Jack were messing with the extrapolator and the TARDIS console trying to get them to interact without damaging each other. Mickey and Rose stood to the side, leaning on the railing while Tory did the same on the railing next to the door, her phone in hand.
Doesn't he ever go anywhere else? Jordan had replied to Tory's last message.
Probably.
Do you want me to come down?
Nah, they'll be gone by morning and I'll be back tomorrow.
kk. See ya then.
Tory put her phone away and finally noticed the rather awkward atmosphere. She glanced around but no one met her eyes accept Margaret, Tory raised a questioning brow and Margaret smirked. Tory shrugged before walking out the door, the Doctor staring after her.
Outside was cool and dark, she wondered back down to the see front and leant on the railing with a sigh.
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Suddenly a rumbling noise made itself known, Tory jerked out of her thoughts and spun to face the TARDIS. The rift was opening and the TARDIS was screaming. Tory grabbed the side of her head and fell to her knees in shared pain as the telepathic machine made its agony known.
Glass shattered in the nearby buildings. Tory tore to her feet, trying to ignore the pain and ran back up to the TARDIS. She yanked the door open and saw Jack running around the console in a panic. She staggered up the ramp and grabbed hold of it for support.
Jack desperately ripped the connections between the TARDIS and the extrapolator trying to prevent whatever was happening.
"What the hell are you doing?" the Doctor yelled as he entered the ship.
"It just went crazy!" Jack yelled back. The Doctor ran up to the console, shooting a concerned look at Tory as she grabbed her head again.
"It's the rift!" he realised, "Time and space are ripping apart. The whole city's gonna disappear!" the console gave a small explosion.
"It's the extrapolator!" Jack yelled, "I've disconnected it but it's still feeding off the engine! It's usingthe TARDIS. I can't stop it!"
"Never mind Cardiff, it's gonna rip open the planet!" Rose burst in the doors.
"What is it? What's happening?!"
"Oh, just little me!" Margaret said gleefully one of her skin-suit arms dropping to the floor letting her grab Rose around the neck with her Slitheen claw. The Doctor tried to dart forward, "One wrong move and she snaps like a promise." She threatened.
"I might've known." The Doctor snarled.
"I've had you bleating all night," Margaret scoffed as she moved closer to the console, Rose still in her hand, "poor baby, now shut it." She turned to Jack, "You, fly boy, put the extrapolator at my feet." He hesitated and Margaret tightened her grip around Rose's throat. Jack looked to the Doctor for help and he nodded, Jack did as he was told, "Thank you." Margaret spoke pleasantly, "Just as I planned."
"I thought you needed to blow up the nuclear power station." Rose managed to gasp out.
"Failing that, if I were to be... arrested... then anyone capable of tracking me down would have considerable technology of their own. Therefore, they would be captivated by the extrapolator. Especially a magpie mind like yours, Doctor. So the extrapolator was programmed to go to Plan B!" she pulled Rose's hair roughly, making her whimper, "To lock onto the nearest alien power source and open the rift." She looked around the TARDIS is awe, "And what a power source it found... I'm back on schedule... thanks to you."
"The rift's gonna convulse." Jack spat, "She'll destroy the whole planet." Tory fell to her knees, no longer able to stand both men shot her concerned looks but were too afraid for Rose to move.
"And you with it!" she growled, she pushed Rose aside and stepped onto the extrapolator but still kept her claw around the blonde girls neck, "While I ride this board over the crest of the inferno all the way to freedom. Stand back boys... surf's up." Suddenly the panel in front of Margaret opened up a bright orange light flooded out of it, a tendril extending to Tory who jerked upright, her eyes glowing with the light.
"Opening the rift would destroy me." Tory spoke, her voice came out deeper than normal; like many voices all speaking at once.
"So sue me."
"It's not just any old power source." The Doctor explained with a smug grin, "It's the TARDIS. My TARDIS. The best ship in the universe."
"It'll make wonderful scrap."
"What's that light?" Rose struggled to see.
"My soul Rose Tyler," Tory spoke, but it wasn't Tory controlling her it was the TARDIS, "And you Margaret have laid it bear. The power of the vortex, the power of this body and my own shell unleashed." Tory's chin arched up proudly, "We are alive," Tory's own voice was more prominent now, speaking with the TARDIS, "Look at the light, look into us and see."
"It's ... so bright..." her voice was dreamy.
"Look at it, Margaret..." the Doctor spoke.
"... Beautiful..."
"Look inside, Blon Fel Fotch. Look at the light." She stared, transfixed her grip on Rose loosened and Jack darted forward pulling her out of the way. A blissful smile spread across her face she looked up at Tory and then the Doctor.
"Thank you..." she whispered before vanishing in a blast of light as her body-suit flopped to the floor.
The Doctor sprang into action, darting around the console.
"Don't look, stay there, close your eyes!" he ordered his companions while Tory stood perfectly still, her eyes still glowing but her Meridian particles flashing out around her like an aura. She held her hand out and the TARDIS energy flowed back down it and into the console, the panel slamming back down.
Tory swayed on the spot before falling into the waiting arms of the Doctor.
"That's gonna hurt in the morning." Tory gasped. Her Meridian particles still surrounding her, she started to fade at the edges as the silver light got stronger. Tory vanished leaving the Doctors arms empty.
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Me: updates from now on are probably going to be once a month but I will try and get them out faster.