The Bells of Saint John- Part 2
Clara's eyes widened, "Oh. Oh, that's weird. I know all about computers now in my head. Where did all that come from?"
"You were uploaded for a while. Wherever you were, you brought something extra back, which I very much doubt you'll be allowed to keep."
"All of you and me, inside that box, now. " The Doctor said standing up and putting Clara's laptop on the short table in front of him. I sniggered.
Clara stood up and looked at The Doctor like he was insane,"I'm sorry?"
The Doctor sighed. "Look, just get inside." Jack, Amelia and I stood up and began to make our way to the Tardis.
"Both of us?"
"Oh, trust me. You'll understand once we're in there." The Doctor said, reaching out for Clara's arm.
Clara snatched her arm away and took a step back, "I bet I will. What is that box, anyway? Why have you got a box? Is it like a snogging booth?"
The Doctor stopped and stared at Clara. "Clara. A what?"
"Is that what you do, bring a booth? There is such a thing as too keen." Clara snapped. Bedroom lights start to go on in the street. Jack and I noticed but Lia was still watching the conversation happening with Clara and The Doctor.
"Clara, look around you." I said.
Finally Clara and Lia started to notice what was happening with the lights, "What's going on? What's happening? Is the wifi switching on the lights?"
"No, people are switching on the lights." Jack said, "The wifi is switching on the people." The head on the man across the road turns around.
Clara gasps, "What is that thing?"
"A walking base station." I said to Clara, "You saw one earlier."
Clara shakes her head, "I saw a little girl."
"It must have taken an image from your subconscious, thrown it back at you. Ah! Active camouflage. They could be everywhere." The Doctor said.
"Doctor? Doctor." Clara asked, frightened as the lights behind the house are going out, "What's going on? Our lights are on and everyone else's off. Why?"
There is a distant droning sound that gets louder and louder.
"Some planes have wifi." Jack said and I could hear a hint of horror in his voice.
Lia's eyes widened, "Shit." She breathed. At this moment, I didn't bother reprimanding her for her language.
"I'm sorry?"
"We must be one hell of a target right now." I got out.
Lights appear in the sky, approaching rapidly. "We're going in that box, right now." The Doctor ordered, dragging Clara into the Tardis, followed by Jack, Lia and I, after I had grabbed Clara's laptop. I knew how planes worked and knew that if you pulled back on the controls would do nothing. The wifi had hijacked the plane. None of the controls would respond unless someone else re-hacked into the plane to change it's course.
Clara stood, almost spinning in circles, her eyes wide and her mouth hanging open. "Yes, it's a spaceship. Yes, it's bigger on the inside. Now, I don't have time to talk about it." The Doctor said.
"But, but, but, but it's-" Clara tried to speak.
The Doctor ran to the console and began fiddling with the buttons and knobs, "Shut up, please. Short hops are difficult." I ran to help The Doctor fly the Tardis.
Clara, still in her stunned mode,"Bigger on the inside. Actually bigger."
"Right, come on." The Doctor said, running back to the door, Clara following.
"We're going to go back out there?" Clara practically yelled in frustration.
The Doctor turned to Clara and put his hands on Clara's shoulders, "We've moved. It's a spaceship. We flew away."
"Away from the plane?" Clara asked.
The Doctor winced, "Not exactly." Then opened the doors to reveal the inside of a plane.
"Lia, stay inside the Tardis. Jack, look after her." I said, running after The Doctor and clara.
"Not fair!" I heard Lia yell after me.
"How did we get here?" Clara said, still holding her forgotten cup of hot chocolate.
The Doctor rolled his eyes, "It's a ship. I told you. It's all very sciency." We were still running toward the cockpit.
"This is the plane? The actual plane? Are they all dead?" Clara said, looking at the unconscious passengers.
The Doctor takes out his sonic screwdriver, "Asleep. Switched off by the wifi. Never mind them." The Doctor sonicked his way into the cockpit. I had sat myself down and was currently hacking into the planes system and fighting the people who had control over the plane. Fiddling with the controls of the cockpit was no uses if the plane was being hijacked from the across the wifi.
"What is going on? Is this real? Please, tell me what is happening!"
"I'm the Doctor, this is Susan Harkness. We're aliens from outer space. I'm a thousand years old, she's thirty-nine, still a time-tot according to the lifespan of my species. We've got two hearts and I can't fly a plane! Can you?" The Doctor yelled.
"No." Clara says in an 'are-you-kidding-me-right-now' tone.
"I can." I said, from my position on the the floor, not looking up from the laptop screen. The Doctor stares at me, "Had to learn for Torchwood."
"Torchwood?!" Clara yelped, immediately knowing what my job was because of the Queen revealing aliens about a year ago and creating Earth's first governmental body specifically built for dealing with aliens and outer space, "Do you mean THE Torchwood?"
"Not now Clara." I said sharply.
"What the hell are you doing?" The Doctor asked/yelled at me.
"Pulling back on the yoke won't work if the cockpit controls have been hacked into. Right now, I'm hacking into the encrypted transmission protocols while locking out the wifi. Then I have to return the power of the controls back to the cockpit and then you can pull back on the yoke, that is the steering system for the airplane."
"What?" Clara asked in a shocked and panicked voice.
"And, done." I exclaimed, scrambling up and making for the cockpit, pushing The Doctor and Clara aside. I grabbed onto the yoke and pulled back, skimming over the rooftops and back up into the air, then I leveled off, moving the yoke back into it's normal position. "And that, is how you correctly get out of that situation."
The passengers and pilots began to wake up, "What the hell's going on?" The pilot exclaimed seeing three, supposedly passengers, in the cockpit area.
"I blocked off your wifi so you're waking up, for a start. Next time, put more decent firewalls around your plane's wifi. Anyone could hack in." I said, picking up Clara's laptop, "Tell you what, do you want to drive?" I asked. I then turned around and started the walk back to the Tardis, a stunned Doctor and Clara following after me.
"Okay. When are you going to explain to me what the hell is going on?" Clara asked sharply. We were all back inside the Tardis. The Doctor was fiddling with the controls while Clara stood next to him. Jack was standing next to me while I was leaning up against the railing. Lia was watching the conversation a couple feet away from us, also leaning up against the railing. "I know Susan said Torchwood. Torchwood works with aliens." Her eyes widened. "Is this an invasion?"
"Breakfast." The Doctor said, looking up from the console at Clara.
"What? I ain't waiting till breakfast."
"It's a time machine. You never have to wait for breakfast." The Doctor said.
"Doctor," I said before the Doctor went out to the South Bank.
The Doctor turned around, "Yes, Susan?"
"We're going to take the vortex manipulator. We'll meet you there and save two spots." I said.
The Doctor nodded. "See you there."
We appeared in an alleyway just around the corner from the shop The Doctor said to meet us at. Lia groaned and massaged her neck, "I'll never get used to traveling like that. Hate it."
"Come on. Let's get a seat." I said, grabbing Jack's hand and all three of us walked out of the alleyway and into the street.
Rooftop Terrace
We could see a view of St. Paul's Cathedral dome with The Shard just beyond it. The Doctor had just arrived with Clara and had placed Clara's laptop on the table. "So if we can travel anywhere in time and space, why did we travel to the morning. What's the point in that?" Clara asked.
Jack rolled his eyes, "Whoever's after us spent the whole night looking for us. Are you tired?"
"Yes."
The Doctor opens Clara's laptop and begins typing, "What? Then imagine how they feel. They came the long way round. They've got to be close. Definitely London going by the signal distribution. I can hack the lowest level of their operating system but I can't establish a physical location. The security's too good."
"Are you an alien?" Clara asked.
I rolled my eyes, "Didn't The Doctor tell you that on the plane?"
"I am. Susan is. Her daughter, Lia is as well. Yes, okay with that?"
"Oh, yeah. Think I'm fine. What about Susan's husband? Is he an alien as well?"
"Oh, Jack? Human but immortal."
Clara's eyes widened. "Okay. So, what happens if you do find them? The people who are taking over the wifi. What happens then?"
"I don't know. I can't tell the future, I just work there." The Doctor said, still typing.
Clara eyed him, "You don't have a plan?"
"Oh, you know what I always say about plans."
"What?"
"I don't have one."
Clara scoffed, "People always have plans."
"Yes. Yes, I suppose they do. So tell me, how long have you been looking after those kids?"
Clara winced, "About a year, since their mum died."
"Okay. Why you? Family friend, I get that, but there must have been others. Why did it have to be you? You don't really seem like a nanny."
"Gimme." she grabs the laptop. He grabs it back.
"Sorry. What?"
"You need to know where they physically are. Their exact location." Clara said.
"Yes."
"I can do it." Clara tugs harder on her laptop.
"Oi, hang on. I need that."
Clara rolled her eyes, "You've hacked the lower operating system, yeah? I'll have their physical location in under five minutes. Pop off and get us a coffee."
"If I can't find them, you definitely can't. Susan sould try first."
"Don't bring me into this!"I said, putting both hands up.
Clara glared at The Doctor, "They uploaded me, remember? I've got computing stuff in my head."
The Doctor tries to yank the computer back from Clara, but Clara is still holding on, "So do I."
"I have insane hacking skills."
"I'm from space and the future with two hearts and twenty seven brains." The Doctor argued, making it up.
"And I can find them in under five minutes plus photographs. Twenty seven?" Clara stops and starts at The Doctor.
The Doctor sighs, "Okay, slight exaggeration."
"It's only one brain." I said.
"Coffee, go get. Five minutes, I promise." Clara finally gets the laptop.
"The security is absolute." The Doctor said.
"It's never about the security, it's about the people." Clara's fingers are a blur on the keyboard.
"Why do you keep looking at me like that?" Clara asked. The Doctor looked away from Clara.
"Sorry, no, it's nothing. It's just, you're a nanny. Isn't that a bit, well, Victorian?" The Doctor asked. Lia inhaled sharply.
"Victorian?"
"You're young. Shouldn't you be doing, you know, young things, with young people?" The Doctor said, standing up.
"You mean like you, for instance? Down, boy." Clara said, smirking, but not moving her eyes from the screen.
"No. No. I didn't. Shut up." The Doctor said.
"Jack go with Lia. Get her something to eat." I said, pulling out my phone, and checking my texts, trying to look busy."
"Susan." Jack said in that tone that said 'I-know-what-you-are-doing'.
"Jack please," I glanced at Lia then back at my husband, "I'll have a toasted bagel with jelly."
Jack took a deep breath. Thankfully Lia didn't realize anything was wrong yet, "Alright." You better stay safe. Jack thought to me. "Back in a minute. Come on, Lia."
Jack and Lia left after The Doctor.
The Doctor and Jack come out of the coffee shop after a couple minutes.
"I did it. I really did. I did it. I did it Susan! I found them." Clara said, staring at the laptop screen.
"You found them." The Doctor said, monotone.
"The Shard. They're in the Shard. Floor sixty five." Clara said, typing again, not looking up.
"Hey, Jack, where's Amelia?" I asked the walking base station that I knew was impersonating my husband. I looked around and realized we were alone.
"Floor sixty five." The Doctor repeated what Clara last said.
"Where's Amelia?" Jack asked in the same monotone as The Doctor.
"Are you listening to me, Doctor? I found them." Clara finally looks up at The Doctor.
"I'm listening to you. You found them." The Doctor's and Jack's head turn around to reveal that they is actually a walking base station. The walking base station that is Jack shoots a blue electricity beam at me and before I could respond, I cried out in pain and fell against the table, unconscious.
Constellation of Synthia
Planet- Drax Three
Outskirts of Draxiar- The Harkness Estate
My eyelids fluttered open. I was in my bed back at our house on Drax Three. I looked at the clock and it said 11:34 pm. I heard a sound of flushing and saw Jack come out of the bathroom, turning the lights off. "You're awake." Jack said, "That base station did a number on you. It apparently knew you were a Time Lady and set the setting accordingly. It could only knock you out and not download you because you hadn't clicked on that wifi."
I sighed, "Somehow or another I always end up unconscious."
Jack climbed into bed and snuggled up against me, "Yeah." Jack said into my shoulder, "You gotta stop doing that."
I smiled and closed my eyes, "If it means protecting you or Lia, of course I will keep doing that."
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