Sarah Jane never realized how Daleks could actually have panic attacks. As soon as the Doctor pulled that switch, the Daleks cried out angrily.
The entire ship shuddered as one missile fired. A few seconds later, the entire ship shuddered again as the other one fired. And she knew that one would just make a U-turn and come right back at them. Her stomach clenched. Whatever let the next Doctor live through this, she hoped it was about to happen.
"Doctor!" she heard Martha cry. "How much time do we have?"
"Three minutes at the most!"
The Daleks around her began to spin around and scatter like mice, but Dalek Sec stayed next to Sarah Jane. It raised its weapon, and trilled, "There is no reason to keep you alive. EXTERMINATE!"
The word rattled inside her head as the reality set in. Her heart began to pound extremely hard. She squeezed her eyes tightly shut and looked away.
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
"Oh, Luke," she whispered. "I'm sorry."
Suddenly, there was a grinding noise, and a hand grabbed her arm. It yanked, and before she realized it, Sarah Jane fell down to the floor. Something dragged her forward, and she heard the grinding noise again. Sarah Jane opened her eyes in time to see the door closing at her feet.
She heard the angered cry of Dalek Sec at her escape and quickly pulled herself into a sitting position. Her face split into a smile as she saw Amy, Mickey, Martha, and the Doctor gathered around her. Amy helped her up.
"I am so, so sorry for not realizing you fell."
"Oh, Amy it's ok!" She pulled her into a hug, relieved that her death wasn't going to be implemented by a Dalek. "Thank you!"
When the Doctor announced, "Two minutes," Sarah Jane suddenly remembered the missiles, which she had forgotten in the heat of the moment when Amy saved her. All that Amy had done was delay her death by literally two minutes.
She was never going to see Luke again.
She quickly pulled out her mobile and dialed Luke's number. He picked up after the second ring.
"Hold on," he said to her. She heard the sound of buttons being pressed and she knew he must have been hooking his phone up to Mr. Smith. She weakly smiled. She took her phone from her ear and held it out in front of her. The other four didn't try to get in the screen with her. Quickly, Luke's number disappeared off the screen and was replaced by a small image of him, Rani, Clyde, and Sky.
"Mum, what's going on?" Luke demanded. "Did you get to the weapons room?"
Sarah Jane nodded weakly. "I did." Rani, Clyde, and Sky exchanged hopeful glances. Not Luke though. She could tell he knew something was wrong.
"Mum, what is it?"
"The Daleks disabled the teleports." A look of dread crossed over all their faces.
"Don't tell us you fired the missile," Rani said, horrified.
A small tear formed on Sarah Jane's eye. "We had to."
"No!" Sky cried.
"There are enough Daleks on this ship to destroy the universe," Sarah Jane told them. "It was us, or you." She sniffed. "We couldn't let anyone die."
"No..." Luke whispered. "No. Mum, no!"
"I'm sorry, Luke. We only have a minute left." She tried not to look at their horrified faces. "You guys were amazing. Just-"
She was cut off by a loud wheezing sound. Martha, Amy, Mickey, the Doctor, and Sarah Jane spun on their heels. Sarah Jane's mouth dropped open.
"I have to be dreaming," she whispered.
"Doctor," Amy said, "How is that possible?"
"I...don't know..."
"MUM!" Luke shouted. "What's happening?!"
Sarah Jane didn't answer. She could only hang her mouth open in surprise as the TARDIS materialized right in front of her.


"JACK, NOW!" the Doctor shouted suddenly, and the man leapt into action.
Jack kicked the knee of the Cyberman behind him, causing it to fall. It's arm gun was raised to shoot him, but Jack grabbed it and aimed it a different way.
"Maria, duck!" he shouted. Maria dove to the floor as the shot fired. Maria rolled over onto her back in time to see the Cyberleader get enveloped in crackling electricity. Maria had to roll out of the way to avoid the deactivated Cyberleader falling on her.
All of this was happening so fast that the other ten Cybermen in the room didn't have time to react.
"Maria!" the Doctor shouted. "Pulsar the Cyberman behind you!" he pulled he weapon out of his trench coat pocket and tossed it to her.
Maria was quick to turn and see the Cyberman staring at the ceiling, trilling, "Downloading! Downloading!"
Not hesitating about the Doctor's instructions, Maria slapped the pulsar to the Cyberman's chest. Sparks flew from the pulsar, causing Maria to yank her hand away and stumble back. The pulsar stayed on the Cyberman's chest.
Rose caught Maria and steadied her, then the two women watched. Jack appeared behind them, but the Doctor stayed where he was.
The Cyberman stood shaking, the pulsar still blowing sparks. Electricity popped at its joints, and the bad smell of burning rubber filled the air. Maria wrinkled her nose . The Cyberman's limbs were fried a bit more before it finally collapsed.
And suddenly, every other Cyberman in the room blew sparks. Maria, Rose, and Jack dove to the floor to keep sparks from hitting them. Jack covered them, since he was immortal.
Maria flinched as loud crackling filled the air. The air heated up, and the smell of burning rubber made her want to gag. Then, one by one, the Cybermen fell with loud thunks.
The crackling stopped, and the three of them pulled themselves to their feet. The Doctor had already jumped towards a control panel and was pulling levers.
"And the upgrading chambers," he said, flicking a switch and typing "Kronos" into the computer. "Are down!" He turned to his companions. "The people who were in the upgrading lines are free to go."
"What the hell just happened?" Rose asked.
The Doctor strode happily towards them. "Jack killed the Cyberleader. Whenever a Cyberleader is killed, the nearest high rank Cyberman is upgraded to Cyberleader. The Cyberman who led us here must have been a high rank in order to get in here."
"Yes, but what did the pulsar do?" Maria questioned.
"I told Jack to shoot the Cyberleader, and then I had you pulsar the new one," the Doctor explained. "When a new Cyberman becomes Cyberleader, a message is transmitted wirelessly to every Cyberman from the new Cyberleader about its new authority. It was transmitting that message when you fried it."
"And the pulsar's power was transmitted along with the message," Rose finished.
"That was brilliant!" Maria exclaimed.
"Yep," the Doctor replied, popping the 'p'. "And I just disabled the upgrading chambers, so the people in the chambers are free. They'll all escape." He glanced at Jack. "I trust Torchwood will handle this?"
"Yeah," Jack said. "I'll call in a favor from a few friends, and they'll have the Cybermen cleared out and destroyed. We can't just leave hundreds of deactivated Cybermen laying around."
"What about us?" Rose asked. "What do we do now?"
"We go back to the TARDIS," the Doctor said. "I know where and when Donna is, so I can get her. Then I can get you back to your Doctor..." he trailed off. He looked as if he just realized something.
"What is it, Doctor?" Maria asked.
"Nothing," he replied. "Let's go. I've got to take you home Maria, but do you mind coming with us to get Donna?"
Maria nodded. "No problem."
The Doctor glanced at Jack. "Do you want to come?"
Jack shook his head. "I got work to do here. But it was great seeing you, Doctor." He shook his hand.
"I'm sure we'll see each other again," said the Doctor.
"Bye, Jack," Rose said.
"It was nice meeting you," Maria said. Jack turned around and began to get to work, and the Doctor, Maria, and Rose left him to it.
"By the way, why can't Jack die?" Maria asked as they went through the doors.
"It's a long story," the Doctor replied.
Jack took out his cell phone and dialed a number he knows by heart. He put it to his ear. On the second ring, the call was answered.
"Gwen? Ianto? The Doctor showed his face. The Cybermen have been taken care of..."


Calcon pointed her gun at them.
"I am sick and tired of running into you people," she snapped. "What's it going to take to kill you, Doctor?"
The Doctor slowly raised his hands in the air. "If I had a quid for every time I heard the question-"
"Shut up," Calcon snapped. "And move it. All of you."
The five friends, along with Eldane slowly moved down the hallway with Calcon's gun pointing at their backs. Donna saw River fingering her gun. Part of her wondered why River wasn't using it. The other part of her knew why. Calcon knew they were there. She could fire before River takes care of her.
Donna walked down the hall with her hands on her head, her heart pounding like a drum.
"Turn left," Calcon growled from behind them, and the group turned.
"Where are you taking us?" Donna croaked.
"Shut up and move."
Donna clamped her mouth shut and kept moving.
Clara walked next to her, her head down. She was shaking. Donna bit her lip. Clara was just a normal girl. She probably had never seen an alien face to face before. Donna sure was terrified when she first saw the Racnoss. That incident made her loath spiders.
Rory and River walked in front of them, while the Doctor trailed behind. If Donna had to guess, Calcon had the barrel of her gun pressed against his spine. Just the very thought of Calcon fingering the trigger was enough to make her heart rate increase by a mile.
After what felt life forever, Calcon told them to stop. She walked passed them and pushed a pair of large doors open.
"Go in, apes," she snapped. The five of them, plus Eldane moved through the doors, and Calcon closed them behind her.
The room was lined with Silurians, and a large table was in the middle of the room. Elegant looking columns held the high ceiling up, and the walls were lined with dark vines and green leaves. Donna would have thought the room was beautiful, had she not been worried about what was to come.
Calcon stared at them for a moment, before snapping, "Tie them all up; the apes, and the traitor, Eldane."
Several guards stepped forward and grabbed them from behind. The guard that grabbed Donna's arms bent them in an uncomfortable way as he dragged her to a column. "OI!" she snapped. "Careful!" The guard ignored her as she wrapped her arms around the column and tightly bounded her hands on the other side.
All of the others were tied up too. She saw the guard next to River holding her gun, so there goes that secret weapon.
"You will wait here," Calcon thundered. "I'll be back to deal with you. Guards, do not take your eyes off them!"
Calcon stepped out of the room and disappeared.
After a moment of silence, River whispered, "I'm sorry for dragging you both into this, and for getting Amy killed."
Rory choked a bit at her words, but the Doctor replied, "It wasn't your fault. You were just trying to help. And Donna," Donna glanced up at the mention of her name. The Doctor went on. "I am so glad that I got to see you again."
"Oi, spaceman," Donna whispered. "Don't get all sentimental on me."
The Doctor chuckled.
"You're very brave, Doctor," Clara said out of the blue. "I'm so glad that I got to meet you all, even if it does mean getting tied up by lizards." She bit her lip. "I just wish that there could have been a different ending to this adventure."
A guard snapped at them to be quiet, and they did as they were told.
Calcon's presence was announced by the sound of rapid footsteps coming towards the room. She appeared three seconds later, bearing a large gun.
"Untie the Doctor," she snapped at one of the guards. He took a knife and went behind the Doctor's column.
"Careful there," the Doctor reminded the guard. They heard a snapping noise, and the Doctor pulled his arms forward and rubbed his wrists.
"Bring him over here," Calcon commanded. Two guards came up behind the Doctor and walked him forward so that he was five feet away from Calcon. The guards quickly moved away from them. Calcon quickly raised her gun, causing Donna to gasp.
"This time, it's on the kill setting," Calcon told him. "One shot, and I never have to worry about you again. I will have avenged my sisters, and then we shall take our beloved planet back from your hideous race of apes." She smirked at him. "Good bye, Doctor."
There was a cry of anger as Calcon fired her gun.


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