Oh I'm sorry I haven't updated in a long time. I'm totally stupid! Sorry, I haven't been writing that much and I'm so sorry! But I'm gonna try to make it up to you by writing a lot. I'll do my best!
Amy stumbled as she felt herself become solid again. It was a really strange sensation. The Doctor appeared next to her wearing his leather jacket, but unlike her, he became solid and immediately began to walk around a control panel as if he were used to it.
Amy glanced around in wonder at the inside of the 9th Doctor's TARDIS as the Doctor ran around the console, pressing buttons. The TARDIS rotor moved up and down like it does in her usual TARDIS, making that familiar sound.
"Wait a minute!" Amy exclaimed, spinning around to face the Doctor. "This is the control room the TARDIS bought us to in that pocket universe! When the TARDIS-" she caught herself, biting her lip to keep herself from giving any more information away. The Doctor raised an eyebrow.
"What?"
"Spoilers?" Amy replied hesitantly. "No, wait, forget I said that!" she cried, mentally kicking herself for giving him another spoiler, which was the word 'Spoilers'. She turned around and stomped away, and the Doctor stared at her until she rested on one of the weird shaped pillars. She noticed him watching her and sighed. "Keeping my mouth shut sure is difficult," she mumbled.
"Alright then," The Doctor murmured after a moment, for once in his long life at lost for words. He turned to the console again and pressed a button. The TARDIS groaned again as it materialized. Amy watched him intently as he looked at some readings on a screen.
"So what's the plan?" she asked. The Doctor looked up.
"March out and make some noise," he declared with a smile. A rather insane smile, actually, and that made Amy nervous.
"Wait," Amy realized something. "Where-where are we?" The Doctor's smile widened.
"Aboard the Dalek ship!" Amy's eyes widened, and the Doctor grinned bigger, and marched right outside the TARDIS doors.
Rose shoved him, as hard as she could, sending the Doctor spiraling onto the floor. He yelped slightly as his head slapped the wall on the way down, making his neck bend in an unnatural position. Everything blurred as the egg on his head from when he first got to Hartford was bothered.
"Doctor, are you alright?" Jack's voice came. He didn't remember getting up, but the next thing he knew, he was sitting on the bed, rubbing the pained area in his neck, telling Jack to go bring Rose back.
His head pounding, he pulled himself to his feet and followed Jack, who ran after her a minute before.
"Delete!" He heard a patrolling Cyberman cry. His pulse quickened, his headache forgotten, as he tore down the steps and out the door of the warehouse. He glanced back and forth, trying to figure out which way they went when someone shouted.
"Help!" Rose screamed. The Doctor hurried around the side of the warehouse to find Jack charging up his blaster as a Cyberman advanced on Rose.
"Hey! Rust bucket!" Jack yelled, as his gun came to full power. "Upgrade this!"
"Delete!" The Cyberman replied, holding up his arm, and firing at the same time as Jack. The Cyberman exploded on impact. Jack wasn't so lucky.
The Cyberman's shot struck Jack square in the chest, spreading electricity all over his body. For a moment, the Doctor could see Jack's skeleton through his skin, when suddenly, he collapsed with a yelp. The Doctor hurried down beside him.
"Oh my g-d!" Rose cried, stumbling to the ground next to Jack. She rested her fingers on his throat, her face going white. She looked up at the Doctor.
"He's dead!" she whispered, her voice breaking. "Oh my g-d…"
"Just grab him," the Doctor instructed, sliding his hands between Jack's armpits. Surprisingly, Rose obeyed gripping his legs and helping the Doctor carry him back to the warehouse. The stomps of the Cybermen back up troops could be heard as the Doctor shut and bolted the door. He grabbed Jack, and with Rose's help, carried him up the stairs.
"What was the point of that, John?" Rose asked, realizing suddenly as they set him down on the floor. "He's dead!"
The Doctor stood up and stepped away, leaning against the wall. Rose watched him curiously, but cautiously.
"Wait for it," the Doctor murmured. Rose yelped loudly, lunging backwards, as Jack drew a sharp breath, sitting up, gasping for air.
"Woah!" Jack cried, coughing. He rubbed his chest over his heart. "Woah… that's gonna hurt in the morning."
"Clara, how did you get here?" the ginger woman asked.
"I took a dare, went to the site, and the ground collapsed under me. Next thing I knew, I was here," Clara replied, still panting. She sniffed. "Who are you, and how did YOU get here?"
"Well, I'm Donna, Donna Noble," the ginger woman said.
"I'm Rory," the man behind her said. "Rory Williams."
"River Song," said one of the two figures behind him.
"I'm the Doctor," said the figure farthest up the stairs. Clara raised an eyebrow.
"Doctor what?"
"Just the Doctor."
"Ok?" Clara glanced at Donna and Rory.
"It's all he ever says," Rory spoke up. Clara gave a confused nod.
"Ok?"
"Ok."
Clara looked back and forth from the lot of them. "How did you get here?"
There was a clatter coming from the bottom of the stairs that made everyone tense up. There was low sound as the grinding sounded again, and Clara's heart lurched.
"Clara, how did you find us?!" Donna asked, fear in her voice.
"Er—the wall slid up!"
"But, Doctor, we locked it!" River's voice came floating down.
"Something must have made it malfunction!" The Doctor cried. "Clara, what did you do?"
"I just walked near it!" Clara moaned. "Before I was in some room, and after I came out, technology started screwing up around me!"
The Doctor whipped something out of his pocket. It made a whirring sound followed by a loud, high pitched squeal.
Everyone threw their hands over their ears and the Doctor turned off the object and stuck it in his pocket.
"Temporal engines," he grumbled.
"You mean like on Apalapachia?" Rory asked, recovering from the Doctor's device.
"Exactly."
The grinding got louder, and Clara's pulse began to quicken.
"Doctor, we need to run!" Donna cried.
"Right, yes, right!"
The line started moving up quickly, as there was a clatter at the bottom of the impossibly long stairs and the sound of rapid footsteps.
Clara's heart pounded, as they pushed up the stairs.
After a few moments the line stopped.
"What's happening?" Clara called, fear in her voice.
"There's a wall here!" The Doctor replied.
"Sonic it, then!" Donna yelled.
"Temporal engines screwed the Sonic up!" he snapped. "Pun intended," he added.
"Enough of the puns, Doctor!" Rory said. "Open the door!"
"I can't!" The Doctor battled. "It's locked!"
Right there and then there was a sharp grinding noise, and they were all blinded with bright light.
Sorry if it is a bit confusing that Clara's point of view is now in the third person instead of the first person (which makes me wonder, what's the second person?), but I put it in the first person so that Clara's identity could be a secret for the duration of the chapter. :) I'm going to try to post more in a couple days.