I'm on fire today. I am already half way done writing the NEXT chapter. I cannot wait to write chapter 29 :D
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"Exterminate!"
Sarah Jane glanced at the Doctor, who had a look of desperation and stress on his face, saying he had his hands tied. She glanced at Amy, who was pressed against the wall, squeezing her eyes shut waiting for Dalek Sec to fire. Her gaze fell on Martha and Mickey, husband and wife, as Martha had told her. Mickey and Martha exchanged terrified glances. They were terrified for Amy, but they must not have been able to think of what to do.
Sarah Jane glanced at each of them in turn a few times.
"Exterminate!" Dalek Sec screeched. Sarah Jane could tell he was about to fire, and at the last possible moment, she slipped her hand into her pocket. Her fingers closed around her lipstick. She pulled it out and yanked the cap off. She pointed it at a control panel, and her lipstick activated. Sparks flew out of it, causing everyone in the room to turn and look that way. Dalek Sec turned his gun away from Amy, and Sarah Jane used the Sonic again, causing more sparks to fly. She turned and opened the door which she, Amy and Martha had come through.
"Run!" she bellowed, taking off through the doorway. Amy and Martha were quick to follow her. Sarah Jane stopped outside the door and Amy and Martha ran past her and skidded to a stop a few feet away. Mickey and the Doctor were quick to appear, seizing the moment of surprise to escape. When they had gone though the doorway, Sarah Jane shut the door and locked it. She put the lipstick to the panel the Daleks had used to open it, and sparks flew from it.
"I've jammed it," she told them. "They can't open it. They'll have to either use the other door or blast through this one. We don't have much time." The others stared back at her. They all looked bewildered, even the Doctor. Sarah Jane glanced back at forth between them. "What are we waiting for? Go!"
The Daleks seemed to have recovered from the shock of Sarah Jane's lipstick, because as the gang was running away from the scene, Sarah Jane could hear one of them, most likely Dalek Sec, shouting orders. The group hurried along as fast as they could.
Sarah Jane managed to get to the front of the group, with Martha and Mickey taking up the rear. They heard a crash. Sarah Jane guessed that the Daleks had blasted a door open, so they ran as fast as they could, turning random corners, just trying to put as much distance between themselves and those Daleks as possible.
They heard the chatter of Daleks up ahead, and they skidded to a stop. They began to double back, but then they realized that there were Daleks in the other direction, too.
"We're trapped," Amy whispered.


Jack managed to get them to the control center without running into any Cybermen. It took about twenty minutes to get there, because they had to weave through the warehouses were upgrading was in progress and hide from passing guards, but they didn't get noticed, which was what was important.
They had passed many people who were in line for upgrading. They would have tried to sneak some victims out, but they were too heavily guarded by Cybermen. So they were forced to leave them behind and hope that they could shut down the Cybermen and the machine before there were too many more casualties.
After ducking a few more guards, they moved in between two warehouses (neither of which had upgrading going on in them), and Jack put his hand up to stop them.
"We're here," he murmured.
"Which one is it?" the Doctor asked.
"The one right around the corner."
The four of them peeked around the side cautiously. Maria breathed a sigh of relief. There was no sign of Cybermen guards.
"So what now?" Rose asked. "Do we just walk right in?"
"Sounds like as good a plan as anything else," Jack replied. "Let's go."
With lots of caution, they moved towards the warehouse. There was no sign of Cybermen, which relieved Maria. They reached the wall of the building, and Maria hissed, "Where's the door?"
"Around the side," Jack whispered, pointing ahead. He glanced at the Doctor.
"Allons-y," the Doctor whispered, and as he said, they began to move forward. They reached the side and saw the door. Maria's heart skipped a beat. She couldn't quite believe it; just an hour ago, she was among those to be upgraded, terrified and alone. She had gotten taken from the streets, where she lost her friend. No one had any idea where she was.
And then the Cybermen had pushed her into the death machine. She heard them say that it will 'upgrade' her, and at the time, she didn't know what that meant. As soon as she saw the blades, she knew they weren't just going to give her a haircut.
The blades began swiping at her face, and she thought she was going to die—until the floor had disappeared out from under her, and she ended up in the room with Rose.
Maria was jerked from her thoughts as she realized that they were moving again.
They crept around the side of the building cautiously, and reached the door without incident.
"Open it," Rose hissed at the Doctor unhelpfully. He threw her a look of annoyance as he took out his sonic and put it to the door. It swung open.
"Alright," the Doctor said as he pocketed his screwdriver. "We can—woah!"
The group looked through the door for the first time, and stumbled backwards as a Cyberman started to advance on them. It came out of the room.
"Trespassers will be upgraded!"
"And if we refuse?" Maria asked.
"Don't ask that question!" the Doctor hissed.
The Cybermen stared at them. "Then you are rouge elements," it trilled. "You will be deleted."
"DELETE!" shouted another voice. Maria spun around and noticed for the first time, a single Cybermen aiming its gun directly at them.
"There's another one!" she cried. The others spun around.
"Oh crap!" Jack exclaimed.
They were trapped between two Cybermen, both ready to kill them.


"A different girl helped you escape?" River asked. "Not Clara?"
"Well, she unlocked me and disappeared." He saw River opening her mouth again, and added, "I didn't see her face, before you ask. I was too loop-the-loop to..."
"I saw her disappear in a flash of blue light from the vent I was in. Thanks for that," she added towards Rory, River, and Donna. Then she said, "I pushed the vent in and found the Doctor holding—"
"This," the Doctor said, holding a little pill bottle up for the others to see. "It's Gallifreyan medicine. I don't know how she got her hands on it, but it fixed me right up."
"Gallifreyan medicine?" Donna repeated. "Do you think she was a Timelord, or Timelady or whatever?"
"Or perhaps half-Timelady like me," River said. Donna jerked her head towards River at this.
"Half-Timelady?" she repeated. "Rory's your father. Is he or Amy a Timelord?" She glared at the Doctor. "You told me you were the last of your kind!"
"I am!" the Doctor exclaimed throwing his hands up into the air.
"Amy and I are both human," Rory assured her. "She is part Timelady but—but—" he faltered.
"It's complicated," River put in. "Anyway, it's a long shot that the girl is a Timelady. She could have been in the TARDIS to get the medicine, or perhaps she's been to Gallifrey before the war. There are many possibilities. Do we know her name?"
"She rolled this torch into the vent where I was," Clara said, pulling out a piece of paper and handing it to River. "This was attached to it."
"Let me see the torch," River said, putting her hand out. Clara placed it in her hand, and River shined it onto the piece of paper.

Hope this will help you, Clara. Good luck :)
-SEC

"SEC?" River read aloud. To the Doctor she asked, "Have you ever met her before."
The Doctor shook his head. "I don't think so."
"Look, we're not getting anywhere with this SEC person," Donna interrupted. "So why don't we pocket this debate for later, and find our way out?"
"Good idea," River said, handing the torch and the note back to Clara. "Come on. I see two ways we can go. Down there," she pointed to the edge of the cave a few feet away leading down the pit. "Or we can see where this tunnel leads."
It was an easy decision. With Clara's torch lighting the way, the group started creeping down the tunnel.


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