The full title of this chapter is called 'The Omni, The Dynacracker, The Noble One, Feline & Sky Too'.
She was having that dream again, the one where she was stuck on Utopia with no way out. They were cold, so cold...so desperate to escape Utopia. She was cold too, freezing. The clothes she wore barely kept her warm. No sun meant everything was iced over. And then they turned into Toclafane and they attacked her non-stop...
Jaime screamed awake, hitting out at nothing in particular, then somebody was holding her and soothing her as she sobbed. There was something that felt different to her. Her mind felt clear for the first time in weeks but she could still remember what happened to the twin planets of Fiction and Friction. She could still remember what she did. And she felt guilty about it all. "What's the last thing you remember?" A weird accented voice spoke up. "I'm only asking because you might have serious brain damage or memory loss." "Spiders," Jaime croaked. "Lots of Spiders." She remembered them alright. The creepy things kept coming after her. Then the pain...wait! The pain she felt. It was a blow-out but she should be dead. In fact where was she? She could feel a headache coming on and an odd inquiring from...
Panicked, the teenager pushed the person away from her and looked around, confused. She was in a medical bay that looked slightly different from the other medical bay. Then she looked at the person who had held her. She had waist length dark ginger hair and blue eyes. She wore a blue and orange shirt with sand coloured Wranglers along with blue and orange High Tops. Blue and orange? Why did that seem familiar? "Who are you?" Jaime croaked out. "Where am I?" The woman smiled. "I'm The Dynacracker and you're in the Medical Wing of my TARDIS." Her eyes widened a little. She knew it had felt like a TARDIS but it felt different. Had she been here before? And why did the 'Dynacracker' sound familiar? Why did blue and orange seem familiar too?
"Just lie back for a moment." The Dynacracker told her, gently easing her back down on the bed, then raised the head of the bed so that Jaime was sitting up. The teenager tried to read the other female in order to work out who she was. But she wasn't getting anything. All her emotions and feelings were hidden, just like those other Time Lords. She shivered and she was still trying to work out who this woman was until the image of a female with flyaway ginger hair and green eyes, wearing the colours blue and orange appeared in her mind. Jaime gasped. "Delta?" She asked. "You regenerated?" "That I did." The Dynacracker replied. "And only close friends call me Delta. I'm the Dynacracker to you. But you may call me Dyna." She was stern, just like the other Time Lords. Jaime shivered again. "Why can't I read you?" She asked suspiciously. "Why can't I even feel you?" "Psychic Shield," Dyna explained. "All Time Lords and Ladies should have them. When I say 'should' I mean the Doctor. He never seems to use his..." She was rambling on now.
"How did you find me?" Jaime interrupted. She only asked because the Tenth Doctor could never find her and she bumped into all the other incarnations. Dyna picked up the yellow and green Screwdriver from the bedside table. "With this!" She said. "A tracker in it was activated as soon as you picked it up. And it's a good thing we got to you in the nick of time or you could have been Spider food by now." The Sonic has a tracker? She should be angry at this, pissed off even. But she wasn't. Not even in the slightest. Something felt different in her mind. "What's wrong with my head?" Jaime asked next. "Why does it feel...I don't know..." "Less chaotic? Less angry?" Dyna finished for her. "I went into your mind and..." "Wait! You went into my mind without asking me?" "You were in a coma." The Time Lady Hybrid told her. "You could have just waited until..." "A deep coma you were never going to wake up from." Jaime stared, dumbstruck. That was bad, really bad. Just how bad had the haemorrhage gotten? "I think you should refrain from using any strenuous abilities from now on," Dyna told her. "No more forcing your way into anybody's mind, no more using certain parts of Telekinetic abilities and certainly no more Psionic Explosions." If Jaime's face hadn't already been pale it would have paled. So what was she supposed to do now? Was she only half an Omni-Psychic? Or just Psychic with missing abilities?
"As for what was going on in your mind your IED was manifesting." Jaime looked confused. "You were one step away from gaining a split personality. So I bound it and locked it behind a wall. No chance of it ever getting out again." "Okay." She was confused as to whether to be thankful or not. She was in another TARDIS with another Time Lord who was previously human. "How long have I been asleep for?" "Three days." Dyna answered noticing Jaime grimace and rub her forehead. "Are you okay?" "My head hurts." The teenager whined. "Oh!" Dyna walked over to the other side of the Medical Wing that appeared to be a lab to retrieve something.
A cat jumped up onto the bed and Jaime was so startled by its appearance she screamed in fright. Dyna looked up and smiled at the reaction. "Oh, don't mind her, that's just Feline." She said. "You gave it a name?" Jaime still panicked. "What's wrong with it?" Dyna huffed, blue eyes cold. "Nothing is wrong with HER. She's just a rescue cat. Well, technically she's a CyberCat. A Mondasian CyberCat." The CyberCat in question had metal ears, a metal tail and a metal undercarriage. Her fur was tortoiseshell and her eyes were a brilliant orange. But the most creepiest thing about her was that her brain was on show. "A Mondasian CyberCat and you called...her...Feline? Like K9?" Jaime sounded very nervous as she stared at the cat. Dyna shrugged. "Couldn't think of anything else and she likes it."
The cat meowed and purred making Jaime giggle. She hesitantly reached forward and stroked the CyberCat's fur. "Don't make her angry because she has very sharp claws. The Doctor found that out the hard way." When Jaime checked this she saw that Feline had metal claws. They probably could do some serious damage! "Hello Feline," Jaime said, continuing to stroke the cat. "You're very...cute aren't you?" The CyberCat meowed in reply and Jaime giggled again. Dyna watched in astonishment as Jaime and Feline conversed by meowing to each other. "By Rassilon's Sash! That is amazing, truly amazing. You have Zoolingualism!" Jaime looked up with wide eyes. "Is there something else wrong with me?" Dyna felt her fear. "No, no. Nothing at all. Zoolingualism is the ability to speak to animals. It occurs completely naturally..." Well that was interesting. A completely natural ability that was all hers, unlike the Omni-Psychic-ness that was apparently not natural according to Carmen. "...and sometimes it's hereditary." "Huh?" Dyna rolled her eyes. "It means passed down from parent to child." "Oh, okay. Is that why I can speak to Weevils? Because I have the zoolin...thingy!?" "Zoolingualism." Dyna corrected. "Weevils?" She frowned. "Ah, yes. They're wild enough to be considered as animals." "Wow!" It meant she wasn't half Weevil after all!
Suddenly Jaime felt her nose running and wiped at it, revealing that her nose was randomly bleeding and her headache was worse. "Oh!" Dyna picked up a bottle from the lab table and a couple of absorbent tissues. "I believe these belong to you," she gave the bottle to Jaime, followed by the tissues. "I tested one and they contain an anti-haemorrhaging agent." The teenager took one and the headache went away while the bleeding stopped. She still used the tissue to wipe her nose. "Ding dong! I heard our guest was awake," spoke up a familiar Chiswick accented voice and Jaime's eyes widened. "And we thought she might be hungry so we made her something to eat." Jaime stared at the familiar dark ginger haired, bluey-green eyed figure of... "Donna?" Jaime croaked in shock.
They watched as Jaime hid her face in the bed covers, voice in complete panic. "She's not supposed to remember us!" Her voice was muffled. "She's going to die if she remembers!" Donna frowned as she walked further into the Medical Wing, still holding the tray of food. "I'm guessing parallel me doesn't remember the Doctor." She enquired. "Your guess would be correct Donna." Dyna replied. "It's still fairly early in their Timeline. Perhaps a couple of months since they dropped their Donna off home." Hearing this Jaime peered out from behind the covers. Even though it was Donna Noble from another Universe the former companion should be burning up. "What's going on?" She asked. "What happened?"
Donna put the tray on a table and pushed it towards Jaime. "Eat up. You haven't been eating properly and you look as skinny as the Doctor." Jaime just stared at the ginger human with wide eyes as she picked up the purring Feline from the bed. She couldn't get much from her either, no emotions or feelings and neither was she readable. "What's going on?" Jaime turned her attention to Dyna. "What did you do?" "Now she gets it." Donna spoke up. "As you can see, Donna is my companion," Dyna answered Jaime. "I accidentally met her in Pompeii when travelling with the 12th Incarnation of the Doctor, then I saw her again when I was travelling with the 10th incarnation of the Doctor and it didn't seem right for her to forget the Doctor like that. So I decided to help her..." "Two years after he took my memories away!" Donna interrupted. "...So after I persuaded Sylvia, Wilf and Shawn that I could help her. I took her to the Time Lords." Jaime's eyes were wide. "But...they forced the Doctor to regenerate...it was horrible." "And how do you know that?" Donna asked. "I was there! I saw it happen." Both Donna and Dyna looked stunned. "You were on Gallifrey during the time humans weren't allowed?" Donna asked. "And they didn't see you?" "I think what she's getting at is that she thinks Time Lords are evil." Dyna said to her friend. "They're not. You just arrived at a moment in time where they were strict. But through the years they became more down to earth. They were only too glad to help Donna."
Jaime frowned. It was so unfair. She couldn't feel their emotions yet they could feel her emotions. "There were few choices," Dyna continued. "They could either take the Doctor part out of her...only they felt it wouldn't be a good idea considering one of their Matrix Hard Drives were previously stolen." Dyna scowled, remembering the adventure she had in her First incarnation and with the 12th incarnation of the Doctor. "So it was a partial-full conversion." "A what? So Donna isn't human anymore?" "No, that's not it. She's like y... Like your J.D, like John Tyler-Smith. Meaning she's Half-Time Lord, Half Human. Only the Time Lord side is more dominant than the human side. Her Time Lord brain can now handle it." "What about you?" Jaime asked Dyna. "Are you like Donna as well?" Dyna smirked. "Sort of. Except Donna doesn't have two hearts and a respiratory bypass." Did that mean...? "So you're not human anymore?" "Oh, I'm still human." "10%" of her is human." Donna added and Dyna sighed. "Well it's better than nothing." Jaime looked back at Donna when she realised something. "So does that mean you're actually..." "The DoctorDonna?" The ginger half human said with a grin. "Too right I am! And it's just so Wizard." "On some planets she's known as the Noble One." Dyna added. "Yeah, the planets I saved from the Daleks." Donna replied.
The friendly banter between the two was amazing but Jaime felt curious. "So you're a female version of the Doctor?" Donna nodded, Dyna chuckled. "What does the Doctor think about this?" "He was okay with it when I told him." The Time Lady Hybrid answered. "By the time he was into his 14th incarnation he was a lot more happier and a lot more open to ideas." "And a lot more ginger." Donna added. Jaime just stared open mouthed, wondering what incarnation their Doctor was on...or perhaps Dyna and this version of Donna were from way into the future. "Don't just sit their catching flies," Donna told the teenager. "Eat your food." Jaime did so until the cat jumped down onto the bed and they started conversing again. Donna raised her brows and looked at Dyna with a questioning expression. "Turns out she has Zoolingualism!" She said. "What? Speaking to the animals? Like Dr. Dolittle?" Donna asked and Dyna nodded.
"So what were you doing on Metabelis 3 in that period of time?" Donna Temple-Noble asked the teen who was busy drinking a glass of chocolate milk. "Huh?" Jaime looked confused. The name sounded familiar, like it had been mentioned before. "The planet we rescued you on," Dyna reiterated. "The one with the Spiders." Oh! That was Metabelis 3, all blue and scary. "I kind of connected to the TARDIS and got onto the planet that way." Jaime replied. "Connected to the TARDIS? How exactly can you do that?" Donna asked. "I don't know, I just can." She replied. "It's one of the many wonders of the universe." Dyna spoke up. "Jaime, as an Omni-Psychic, can connect to any version of the Doctor's TARDIS and teleport into it..." Donna realised it sounded familiar. "...she's probably the only person in the universe, perhaps even Multi-verse, who can do it." "Hold on! Does that mean she's full of Huon particles...like I was?" Jaime was following the conversation between the two Time Ladies. "No. She's just different. Uniquely different." Dyna told her and appeared to be thinking. "You know, I once went to Metabelis 3 with the Doctor and Jack. It was really quite interesting and..." "Oh no, don't! Don't you dare," Donna warned. "Jaime doesn't need to know what you, Captain Jack and the Doctor got up to there." The teenager was even more confused. "What did you go to Metabelis 3 for?" She asked. "For Bayan seeds," That was something else that sounded familiar to Jaime. "It was basically a Paradox Loop, except we ran into some Pigmy Amazons." And she left it at that.
Dyna looked up at the monitors to see how the teenager was doing. "Well you've just about got the all clear." Jaime put the glass down, frowning. "What do you mean?" She asked. "You were very sick by the time we rescued you from Metabelis 3. You had a chest infection caused by Gemini Tree Spores..." "What? How did that happen?" She asked in confusion. "When threatened a Gemini Tree emits a cloud of mildly toxic, strong smelling spores. They'll then float about the body causing infections until the spores disappear on their own. By that time the victims are extremely sick." Jaime shivered, not liking the sound of that. And she thought it had just been bad breath. "Then you were bitten by two Spiders whilst you were unconscious," Dyna continued. "And given a double dose of their toxin which is really quite deadly. With the Artron Chamber over there," she pointed and Jaime looked at the machine. "We managed to deal with both toxins in your system. But the Spider toxin wasn't fully eradicated and it's still in your system as a mild toxin. I know you have the ability to regenerate Telekinetically, so perhaps your body can deal with the rest of it." Yeah, she could regenerate with Telekinesis but she wasn't sure she could heal from toxins, could she?
"Have you got anything else on your mind? Any questions?" Dyna asked, sensing something from Jaime. The girl shook her head. "Right, since you've been up long enough Donna can help you to the shower room." It was at the other end of the Medical Wing. "Oh!" The teen let Donna help her to her feet considering she'd been sleeping for three days. At first she stumbled a little until she gained her feet. But she had something on her mind after all. "And then what?" Jaime suddenly asked. "Excuse me?" Dyna furrowed her brow. "What happens next?" Jaime reiterated. "Ah, I see. We take you back to the Doctor." Her eyes widened. "No! You can't, you can't make me." She shouted, pushing Donna off her who was wincing at the loudness of Jaime's voice. Dyna raised her brows and folded her arms. "Oh? And why shouldn't I?" "Because he lied to me, they all did. They didn't even tell me what I did on Planet Friction. I would rather keep on moving than go back to them and..."
The Medical Wing suddenly took on a noticeable chill and their breaths were coming out in clouds. "Uh-oh, now you've done it." Donna said and stepped away from Jaime. The girl shivered when she noticed Dyna's blue eyes had become as cold as the Antarctic. "The only reason why they didn't want to tell you was because they thought you might not take it well," Dyna replied quite coolly though Donna could tell she was really, really angry. "And clearly they were right because you went gallivanting around the Universe without a care in the world." "But I..." "I am TALKING!" The Time Lady Hybrid raised her voice making Jaime jump in shock, eyes going wide. "Not stopping to think about the consequences. When you see Wolf ask her who Bill Gates is, or even Neil Armstrong, then you'll understand." Jaime frowned in confusion. "And you will be going back to the Doctor and you will give him a chance to explain. Do you understand?" The teen nodded silently and Dyna smiled warmly, the room going back to its normal temperature. "Good."
She went over to a cupboard and pulled out a pile of clothes along with a pair of converse, bringing them to Jaime. "It's rather interesting. I've only ever seen these used in the Celestial Intervention Agency. Where did you get them from?" Dyna asked about the Chameleon Clothes. "I got them from the Sixth Doctor's TARDIS wardrobe." Jaime replied, taking the clothes. "Ah, right. There'll be towels in the shower room. Go on!" Donna helped the teen to the shower room. "Good thing you agreed, kid." Donna told her. "They don't call her 'The Ice-storm' for nothing." Jaime gulped and asked; "Who's Wolf?" "That would be this Universe's Rose Tyler." Donna answered and Jaime frowned. "Well, she could hardly call her 'Rose Two' could she!" It was an odd answer. Did that mean they knew her in the future?
Once she was freshly showered and dressed Jaime was given one last quick check up before leaving the Medical Wing with Dyna. Donna had gone off somewhere and the cat was sleeping on the bed. The corridors of this TARDIS were very different to the corridors of the Doctor's TARDIS. Then she wondered how many rooms or what kind of rooms the Time-ship had. When they entered the console room Jaime stopped and gasped. The walls were brown with blue-orange round things, the console was on a raised platform and there was a Sofa on he other side of the room. She had been in this console room before! "How did..." Jaime looked around, stunned. "I can only connect to a Type 40. And I'm guessing this one isn't. What did you do?" She asked Dyna who was leaning against the console with a smile.
"Your guess would be right. Sky is a Type 2000 MK 5 TT Capsule. But the interesting thing about her is that she can mimic older TARDIS's. That's how I got..." She stopped when she heard giggling. "What?" She asked. "What is it?" Jaime shook her head. "Sorry, but you named your TARDIS 'Sky'?" Dyna narrowed her eyes. "Nothing wrong with that. My First incarnation had a metallic blue Nissan Qashqai called 'Sky Blue'." She now had a faraway look in her eyes. "Are you okay?" Jaime asked and Dyna snapped out of her thoughts. "Of course, Sky isn't just any TARDIS. She's a teaching TARDIS." "Teaching?" Jaime raised her brows. "What do you teach?" "Human Studies, that's new, and Self Defence. But I also give driving lessons to students who are about to fly their own TARDIS." That was rather surprising to Jaime and she watched as the Time Lady Hybrid turned to the console. "Let's go!" She programmed some co-ordinates and flipped a lever. The TARDIS jerked a little and hummed quietly on its journey. Jaime had to admit, she did miss the familiar wheezing/groaning of the Doctor's TARDIS. The journey to where-ever they were didn't take long and Jaime followed the older female out of the door once they landed.
They stepped out onto a Grecian Monument which both Jaime and Dyna recognised immediately. The teenager gasped when she noticed the English countryside. "We're in Sunderland in the 20th Century, 1995!" Dyna raised her brows. "And this is Penshaw Monument!" "Well, somebody got their Time sense working early." Dyna said and Jaime would have noticed the comment had she not been staring at a certain part of the countryside. "But what's that?" She pointed out towards a big black hillside. "That's the Durham Coalfield. I suppose you'll remember it as Herrington Country Park." Jaime nodded her head. It was so amazing seeing that part of the area look how it was before it was developed. "My dad was a miner." Dyna suddenly stated and when Jaime looked at her she noticed that far away expression was back. "He was one of the few that didn't strike." Even though she couldn't feel the Time Lady's emotions Jaime could see it in her eyes. She was melancholic. "And that's never an easy decision when you're the only American down the pits."
Jaime thought it was a good time to distract her. "Did you ever figure out why you kept ending up in different universes when you piloted the Doctor's TARDIS?" Dyna grinned. "Oh yes. The small amount of Huon particles that found their way inside me belonged to a Type 2000 TARDIS, mine. And when I regenerated they transferred to the TARDIS. And when I did regenerate my Cryokinesis and Wolfy's Pyrokinesis merged to become Cryo-Pyrokinesis. The odd thing about it is I can't use it when I'm shapeshifting. I can still use them separately." The teen gasped. "You can shapeshift? As in Telekinetically?" Dyna nodded. Another thought came to Jaime. "How did you regenerate?" Was her next question but she didn't get an answer. It then occurred to her just how old was Dyna? Would she answer that?
The Time Lady Hybrid in question turned away from the view of the coalfield and walked to the middle of the Monument with Jaime following. "I've sent a message to the Doctor's Psychic Paper and they should be arriving soon." She told the teen. "In the meantime..." Dyna gave Jaime the green and yellow Sonic Screwdriver with the yellow tip. Jaime was confused. "Why are you giving me this?" She asked. "It's yours apparently. It's got Isomorphic Controls which means only you can use it. And if its anything like mine it'll most likely work on wood and deadlocks." "Wow!" Jaime gasped and put the Sonic in her trouser pocket. Dyna reached into her jacket pocket and brought out a couple of items. "You'll want this too." She said, giving Jaime the circular object. It had circular Gallifreyan writing on it and nothing else. "When I went into your mind I noticed you had a problem with combat training. That is a HSP...Holographic Sparring Partner. It opens up Telepathically. Some of my students use them in Self Defence classes." Jaime was stunned speechless. "Oh, and give this to the Doctor," she gave Jaime something that resembled a pen drive. "That's your medical file, I've modified it so it'll work on a Type 40. And you might need these." This last item was several self cleaning tissues.
Jaime felt confused as to why she was given the tissues. It then dawned on the teen that Dyna was about to leave. "Hey? Where are you going?" She asked, eyes wide with worry. "It's probably not the best idea to stick around." The Time Lady Hybrid said to her. Jaime furrowed her brow, thinking. "Is that because you know us in the future?" She asked and saw Dyna smile. "You do?" "It seems you've always been smart." She said. "It's rather unusual. I got a message on the Psychic Paper and it turned out to be you. You were surprised to find I had regenerated because you were looking for my First incarnation...again. Hmm!" Dyna frowned and appeared to be thinking. Then she took out a piece of paper and a pen, writing on it. "Just a small change in the Timeline. No harm done." She gave the piece of paper to Jaime. That's the number to call the TARDIS. Call it when-ever you feel ready." Jaime looked at the number with furrowed brows. "But I could just find Delta...the First you!" Only Dyna shook her head. "As far as I'm aware you only met my First incarnation twice." This surprised Jaime. "Really? How did I find her?" She asked, remembering the note Melody had given her. "Ah, sorry, that shall remain a mystery." Dyna said and Jaime sighed sadly.
"I feel you have something else to ask me?" Jaime looked nervous. "Do you ever get people...like me...in your Universe?" "What? 'Whovians' you mean?" She air quoted the word and the teen was surprised she knew the word. "Oh, all the time," she said. "About half a dozen a year at the least. It got worse when the cracks appeared." She blamed that on River Song as the main culprit. "Anyway, the Doctor doesn't want to be bothered by them so I tend to send them back to their own Universe or if they're too dangerous I take them to Gallifrey where they're given proper training." Jaime stared, open mouthed. "Actually, there's only one Whovian the Doctor can tolerate and he's actually a really nice guy." Dyna added. "If you can do that for them, why not me?" Jaime asked. "That would be the most bloody obvious thing to do, wouldn't it? But no, that would likely cause a Paradox and we certainly don't need anymore of those!"
Dyna frowned and looked around the Monument. "Now where is she?" She whistled an odd tune and a door sprung open on one of the columns. She approached her TARDIS but stopped and chuckled. "Whovian. No matter how many times I hear that word I can't help thinking it sounds like some weird alien race." The Time Lady Hybrid looked back at Jaime. "Whovians from the planet Whovia. Anyway, good luck Fire-Bird..." Jaime flinched. "...I'm sure the reunion will go well." With that said Dyna entered Sky the TARDIS, the door shut afterwards and a wind kicked up as it quietly dematerialised. Jaime sighed and sat down, leaning against one of the columns, doing her best to ignore the pins and needles in her fingers and the upset stomach while she waited for the Doctor, John and Rose to arrive.