UNIT on Station
Clara sat in the empty classroom as one of the duty pupils came in with a note.
"Miss Oswald, this just came in from reception, a call from your Doctor," Clara looked up and thanked the student with a smile as she read the note, it was the Doctor all over. She grabbed her coat and ran from the school, it was past home time anyway as she mounted her motorbike and began to head towards the mar reference.
After riding through London Clara saw the TARDIS in the backdrop, without realising her smile had grown larger she reached the doors and snapped her figures causing the doors to open, she timed the stop perfectly coming to rest by the console.
"Draft," the Doctor calmly said causing her smile as she snapped her figures to close the door, as the doors closed be put down the book, clearly a Time Lord one. "Fancy a week in ancient Mesopotamia, followed by future Mars?"
"Will there be cocktails?"
"On the moon,"
The Doctor smirked at her as they laughed and ran into each overs arms, the Doctor closed his eyes as he buried his head in her hair and breathed in her heavenly, at least to him, scent.
"Missed you" he simply said as the broke apart.
She smiled back at him.
"How's the first day on the job, I remember Ian and Barbra taught at that school?" the Doctor smiled at her, his right arm still around her waist.
"Was alright, takes some getting used to-" Clara stopped as the TARDIS jolted to the side, Clara quickly grasped the only thing in range, that just happened to be the Doctor. "What was that?"
The Doctor struggled against the incline as a mobile began to ring, as he let go of Clara he span across the room to take hold of an old fold up phone.
"Hello,"
High over the skies of planet Earth on board the Defiant, the Valliant's sister ship, Brigadier General Bambera and Colonel Mace crossed over to UNITs chief scientific officer Dr Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.
"Ma'am, we have to report that the situation has become worse," Mace started handing over a report from Dr Malcom Taylor.
Kate skimmed the report, someone needed to stop Malcom naming things…
"General Bambera, what else have you to report?" Kate looked at the imposing woman who had according to the records encountered the Doctor in his seventh incarnation.
"We have the Doctor's TARDIS,"
Kate nodded as she took out her mobile and entered the number Martha Jones had left for her mobile.
"Doctor, we found the TARDIS in a field,"
As the Doctor answered the mobile he ran for the doors.
"I know!" he called back as he leaned out of the door frame so Kate could hear the helicopter overhead. "Next time would it kill you to knock?!"
"Doctor please stay inside, you're being taken to the Defiant, it's a sister ship to the Valiant."
The Doctor grumbled and swore in Gallifreyan as he re-entered the console room.
"So what's going on?" Clara asked standing in front of her bike.
"UNIT, Unified Intelligence Taskforce, we're being taken to one of their aircraft carriers." The Doctor answered as he sat down on the steps.
"What?" Clara was still confused.
"I worked for them in the seventies, or it might have been the eighties, me and the Brig," the Doctor trailed off nostalgia clear in his eyes.
As the TARDIS was brought in Colonel Mace, General Bambera and Kate Stewart stood to attention as the Doctor and his newest assistant came out of the doors, he took in Mace and Kate before seeing Bambera.
"Winifred Bambera?" the Doctor asked disbelief clear in his tone.
She smiled and stepped forward to shake his hand, which the Doctor took willingly.
However as she stepped back the rows of UNIT soldiers is the trademark red berets saluted him followed by Colonel Mace and Lieutenant Colonel Mike Yates, the Valliant's commanding officer stepped forward.
"So you've done it again?" Doctor, Yates stepped forward.
"Mike? Mike Yates isn't it?" the Doctor breathed a smile across his mouth that didn't quite reach his eyes.
"Yes Doctor and you're getting this salute whether you like it or not," Yates stood to attention and gave the Doctor a full salute while looking him in the eye, the Doctor nodded in response and gave his old fried a proper salute in turn.
"Okay so what's the problem that causes you to pick up my TARDIS instead of picking up the phone?" the Doctor asked thoroughly annoyed with the lack of trust implied in him.
"Doctor, at 08:00 GMT an object entered the solar system at high speed, it appears to be decelerating and will cross the solar system in a few hours, here's a long range photo via telescope." Kate said as she handed over the clipboard, when the Doctor saw the photos he started in fear.
"What is it?" Clara asked as she pushed over his shoulder, on the pictures was the grainy image of a black planetoid marred by scorch marks, but that wasn't what drew the Doctor's fear, as the planetoid was engraved by the great seal of Rassilon…