We now return to completely original storytelling, though this chapter is dependent on the ones preceding it. Thank you for your reviews, follows, and favorites! I hope that I healed some of the bad feels that the season finale left you with. Osgood's alive, we know that North Korea didn't agree to the Doctor's Presidency, Clara didn't inadvertently tell Danny that she cared for the Doctor more than she did him, no heartbreaking lies in a coffee shop between the Doctor and Clara, no Afghan boy exists to make Danny a murderer and/or sacrifice himself... Oh yeah. The portal. We didn't cover that yet. ;)

My hobby is filling plotholes left behind by those who own Doctor Who. I'm not them.

CHAPTER 26

Clara was beside herself with grief. Not only were most of her friends gone, but she had lost the one man she could ever love. River and the Roses tried to comfort her, but they weren't much help, being that they were grieving as well. Jack was hiding somewhere on the TARDIS, embarrassed and a bit confused by his enlarged head. He was also grieving as well.

The Doctors, however, were on a mission: save their family. Because that, the Doctors realized, were who their companions were. Not friends, but family. And families do not give up on each other. Sure, they had presumably died, were resurrected as Cybermen, and died again in a giant, Earth saving explosion, but that doesn't mean that they're dead dead, right? The Roses caught a whiff of their musings and joined them in the console room. They were going to figure this out together.

"Okay. Let's start by looking at what we know." Nine started. "We were all together on the TARDIS when she decided to bring us to London."

"Right. And we decided to split off into small groups." Ten continued.

"The eight of us young ins went out to eat." Tentoo picked up the narrative. "They still don't wrap the chips in newspaper, you know. What rubbish!"

"Doctor! Stay focused!" Rose 10.2 scolded him, though she had difficulty hiding her smile.

"Right... And suddenly we were covered with regeneration energy and woke up as Cybermen." Eleven finished.

"Wait, you all regenerated into Cybermen at the exact same moment?" Twelve asked.

"Technically, I didn't. I... I think I died first. Though how, I've got no idea." Tentoo corrected.

"But did you die at the exact same moment that the others regenerated?" Rose 12 asked. She was starting to percolate an idea.

"Yeah, I think so." He replied.

"That's weird." Ten remarked. "It's like something happened to trigger a chain reaction."

"And I think I know what it was." Rose 12 said, softly.

"It was Danny, wasn't it?!" No one had even noticed that Clara had entered the room. "When Danny died, so did everyone else!" Tears were starting to fall again. "That means that this is all your fault!" She pointed an accusing finger at the eldest Rose. "You were supposed to be watching him!"

"Do I look like your boyfriend's babysitter?!" Rose 12 cried.

"Alright, alright, everyone stay calm." Rose 10, ever the mediator, interrupted. "Let's not waste time by arguing over whose fault it is or who is in charge of whom. Let's just focus on the goal, bringing Danny and the others back."

"She's right, though." Rose 11 agreed. "It does appear that Danny's death is the trigger."

"Oh, I believe that he is more than that." Tentoo jumped in.

Twelve raised his eyebrows. "How so?"

"Well, when I first realized that I was a Cyberman, I was aware that I was still in control of my own mind. However, there was a small voice in the back of my mind that seemed to want to claim me: to make me part of a collective. I assumed that it was the hive mind. But what if it wasn't?"

"Now I'm completely confused!" Rose 9 interjected.

"Did any of you experience that feeling?" Tentoo asked the other Doctors and Roses that had become Cyber. They all shook their heads.

"I suspected as much. I think it was my human side kicking in. There was definitely a force that beckoned me to join it, but I'm time lord just enough to resist it. But the others didn't have that resistance. What if they joined the mind?"

"But what kind of mind, if it wasn't the hive mind?" Nine asked.

"Well..." Tentoo said, drawing it out like his twin was known to do. "This might sound crazy, but I had heard a voice. And it sounded like Danny."

"What?! But that's impossible!" Clara cried. "You're making it sound like he was controlling the others!"

"But think about it." Tentoo replied. "If they were completely in control of their own minds, why did they fly off when he did?"

The room grew silent. No one knew what to say to that.

"Look. I'm not saying he did it intentionally. He probably wasn't even aware that he had done it. But it makes sense." Tentoo said apologetically. "He didn't control many. Just those who had known us while they were alive."

"Ok." Eleven said. "That's all well and good, but how does that help us bring everyone back?"

"The bracelet!" Rose 12 squealed. "Didn't you say that it had the power to raise the dead?"

"Sure it does." Ten answered. "But Danny was wearing it when he exploded. Surely it's destroyed now."

"Oh, but what if it's not?!" Eleven stated, flapping his arms about and bouncing around with joy. "We activate the bracelet, bring Danny back, and the others should follow!"

"And even if they don't, at least we'd have Danny back." Rose 10.2 said, wrapping her arm around Clara in a supportive side hug.

"Do it." Clara demanded.

It took some time for the Doctors to figure out how to activate the bracelet. Missy had been thorough in her design. But eventually, they thought that they figured it out. Twelve invited Clara to come forward and press the button.

"Ready?" He asked, gently. This gentleness was a new side to him, and Clara appreciated it now.

"Ready." She replied and hit the button that activated the bracelet. Suddenly, there was a bright white light at the other end of the room.

"Clara?" It was Danny's voice. "Clara?"

"I'm here, Danny! Just come through!"

He did. And as he came through, six other figures were pulled through with him: Mickey, Martha, Shaun, Donna, Rory, and Amy: and all were devoid of Cybermen parts.

Clara ran to Danny and he embraced her and spun her around a few times before meeting her lips in a very long and passionate kiss. Everyone cheered.

Just then, River ran into the room. "I don't know what you lot just did, but I'm no longer a hologram!"

Jack burst in through the other end of the room. "My head! It's back to normal! I'm finally back to my insanely handsome, unbelievably charming, undeniably talented self!"

"Funny. His head still seems big to me..." Donna remarked. The entire room burst into laughter.