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Remnant Who

By ReaderWarrior

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The Doctor Dances (B)

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Guest: Yes, 13's run was not the greatest (and that, I feel, is mainly in part to the writing). But there were things I enjoyed. The Rosa Parks episode was pretty good in my opinion and the Amazon worker safety one did have some good commentary. I'm honestly excited now to write out her episodes just to have the cast recognize and react to it (to the shock of others who joined after 10 and hadn't met him). Do you mean Chibnall or Moffat? Both had their flaws but I feel that Chibnall dropped the ball more times than he caught it. Vise-versa for Moffat.

Honorary (dead) companions:

Clive, Raffalo, Moxx, Jabe, Sneed, Gwyneth, Ganesh, De Maggio, Suki, Pete Tyler

'Bigger on the inside!'s:

2 (Rose, Jackie)

Fantastic's:

9

Harriet Jones' greetings:

6

Exterminates!:

8

The Doctor, Rose, and Jack, bathed in darkness, march down Limehouse Green along a set of tracks. As they reach a stack of crates, Jack motions to them to hide before pointing out the fenced-in area.

"There it is," he says. Soldiers were still circling the perimeter, one of which caught Jack's eyes. "Hey, they've got Algy on duty. It must be important."

"That's the guy who caught Nancy!" Yang yelled, her eyes flashing red. "Get him!"

Qrow shook his head. "The man's just doing his job. But… I would like to see him get ruffled up a bit," he muttered, remembering how close he and Jack were.

"We've gotta get past," the Doctor hisses.

Rose gives a small smile. "Are the words 'Distract the guard' heading in my general direction?"

Wincing slightly, Jack says, "I don't think that'd be such a good idea."

"Don't worry," Rose says, "I can handle it."

"I've got to know Algy quite well since I've been in town," Jack explains, his gaze turning away from Rose and the Doctor. "Trust me, you're not his type."

Qrow smiled. "Is there anyone who isn't Jack's type?"

"The Doctor," Weiss countered.

"Yeah, I doubt that," the Librarian laughed. "Jack's the kind of guy to be attracted to everyone and everything."

"Even aliens?"

"Even aliens."

"I'll distract him. Don't wait up." Jack smiles as he leaves Rose with her jaw hanging down.

The Doctor glances at her and chuckles. "Relax, he's a fifty-first-century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing."

"I knew that's what dancing meant!" Blake yelled, slapping her armrest and jumping to her feet.

Ruby frowned. "What do you mean?"

A blush filled the girl's face. "It's um… When two people really enjoy time together-"

"They spend more time together!" Yang finished, casting a wide-eyed glance at Blake. Don't! she mentally screamed.

"How flexible?"

"Well," he says, a half smile on his face, "by his time, you lot have spread out across half the galaxy."

"Meaning?"

The half smile forms into a full one. "So many species, so little time."

Qrow quickly wrapped his hands around Ruby's ears. "Tai would kill me if he knew about this," he mumbled.

Rose's face goes almost as red as a Union Jack. "What, that's what we do when we get out there? That's our mission? We seek new life, and… and…"

"Dance." The Doctor chuckles.

Letting go of his niece's head, she let out a small tirade of (childish) curses. "I'm not a kid!" she pouted. "I drink milk!"

Jumping down from his pathway and landing on gravel with a loud crsh!, Jack walks past a train car and heads toward the guard across from him.

"Hey, tiger," he calls out. "How's it hanging?"

Algy pauses, just inside the gate's entrance, and turns around. He looks confused as he studies Jack. "Mummy?"

Everyone's eyes went wide. "He's infected!" Weiss screamed.

"But how?!" Ruby asked. "He didn't touch Jenkins, did he?"

"Maybe he did before Nancy showed up?" Qrow offered.

Blake shook her head. "No. We would have seen the mark on his hand. This isn't normal."

"Whatever's going on, Jack better get out of there quickly," Yang finished.

Jack stops dead in his tracks. "Algy, old sport, it's me," he says.

"Mummy?" the man asks.

"It's me, Jack!"

For a moment, some clarity returns to the man's eyes. "Jack?" Then, as quickly as it appeared, it was gone. "Are you my Mummy?"

He hunches over, coughing violently.

"Run!" Qrow yelled. "He's too far gone!"

A few members of the watching party shared a glance. "Oh no…" they muttered. "Not Jack… Please, not him."

"I've been hearing sarcasm since you were in diapers!" Qrow snapped.

Dropping to his knees, Algy's back bends backward as he opens his mouth wide. A large silver bit of metal begins to push its way out, morphing the man's lips as it births into the night air.

The Doctor, hearing the sound of Algy's eyes forming into goggles and his skin stretching into rubber, leaps up from his hiding spot as he notices a few guards moving towards their superior. "Stay back!"

"You men," Jack adds, "stay away!" He holds up his hands as Algy, at his feet, crumbles to the ground. By the time the Doctor and Rose made their way to them, he was no longer moving.

"The effect's become air-borne," he realizes. "Accelerating."

"Air-bourne?!" Blake repeated.

Weiss' eyes went wide. "But that means… That's why all these people are infected without being near Jamie."

"Then that means there's no stopping the Child now. And they're heading directly towards the source."

The air raid siren begins to start back up again as Rose looks down at the body. "What's keeping us safe?"

"Nothing," the Doctor answers.

"At least put on a mask!" the Librarian yelled.

"I doubt that's going to stop… whatever this is!" Yang countered.

Jack looks upward, noticing the flecks of orange peppering the sky once more. "Ah, here they come again."

"All we need," Rose mutters. Then, realization dawns on her. She turns to Jack. "Didn't you say a bomb was going to land here?"

The Doctor glances back at her. "Never mind about that. If the contaminant's airborne now, there's hours left."

"For what?"

Turning to Jack, he answers "Till nothing. Forever! For the entire human race!"

"Every soldier that breathes becomes a new addition to their army," Qrow gulped, his eyes going wide.

Ruby's eyes had an equal level of horror in them. "And if they get touched, they get turned too."

"Rock-a-bye baby."

He pauses as his ears pick up a musical note drifting through the wind. "And can anyone else hear singing?" the Doctor asks.

"On the tree tops."

Inside the bomb site headquarters, the lifeless and masked body of Jenkins was slumped over the table as Nancy, doing her best not to move, sings. "When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. Down will come baby, cradle and all."

Yang slapped her forehead. "Duh!"

"What's happening?" Weiss asked.

"He's a kid! To get them to settle down, you sing them a lullaby." The blonde paused to look at her teammate. "Didn't you ever get a lullaby?"

Weiss never answered.

The door creaks open, causing Nancy to whirl around in a panic. It was only the Doctor who, upon realizing what she was doing and that she was cuffed to the table, waves his hand for her to continue.

She turns back around. "Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree tops. When the wind blows the cradle will rock." As she sings, the Doctor pulls out his sonic screwdriver and, with a quick flick of it, frees her from her chains.

"That's one problem solved," Blake said, wiping at her forehead.

Ruby nodded. "But we still need to figure out how to stop this…"

"Pandemic?" the Librarian offered.

"Yeah, that! They need to figure out how to stop Jamie."

With loud ca-chunk-ing, the floodlights turn on, alighting the bomb site. Jack and the Doctor pull off a large and heavy tarp, revealing the cylinder that was a Chula warship.

"You see?" Jack says. "Just an ambulance."

"That's an ambulance?" Nancy asks.

Rose, holding Nancy back and making sure she is safe, nods. "It's hard to explain. It's… it's from another world."

"So I guess we aren't keeping that a secret," Qrow mumbled.

"What's the point?" Yang asked. "The world's about to be masked and she already knows to keep people safe and this a secret. Why go out of their way to lie when it'll just cost them more time?"

Leaning over a panel, Jack's hand pauses over a set of saw marks. "They've been trying to get in."

"Of course they have," the Doctor says. "They think they've got their hands on Hitler's latest secret weapon."

Jack's hand reaches over the panel and starts pressing at it.

"What're you doing?"

"The sooner you see this thing is empty," he explains, "the sooner you'll know I had nothing to do with it."

"Personal honor," Weiss frowned. "The greatest push for men."

The Librarian raised his hands and cheered. "Personal honor! The greatest push!"

Sparks explode from the ambulance. Everyone jumps back in panic as an alarm begins to blare out - its sound echoing across the area.

"Didn't happen last time," Jack frowns.

The Doctor glares at him. "It hadn't crashed last time. There'll be emergency protocols."

"Doctor," Rose frowns. She steps forward and points to a part of the ship that was now blinking red. "What is that?"

"Whatever it is," Ruby gulped, "it can't be good."

Back at the Albion Hospital, the Empty Child froze in a hallway and turns to look through a window.

"Mummy."

Screaming, Ruby added, "what did I say?!"

"He's linked to the ship!" Qrow realized. "And if the ship is in need of protection-"

"Then it's calling for help," Yang gulped.

The patients in the hospital all begin to rise. Like soldiers being called to war. The masked victims move out of bed and march out the door, heading off into the London night.

Almost immediately, the doors to where Nancy was locked up earlier began to sway as something on the other side tries to push its way through.

"Doctor!" Rose yells, drawing his attention.

He looks up and points to the doors. "Captain," he orders, "secure those gates!"

"Why?"

"Just do it!" he and team RWBY snaps.

"Now is not the time to be asking questions!" Blake yelled.

Qrow agreed. "Get that butt moving soldier."

"Nancy," the Doctor turns, "how'd you get in here?"

She watches Jack run off before answering "Cut the wire."

"Show Rose." He tosses the blonde his screwdriver. "Setting two-thousand, four-hundred, and twenty-eight-D."

Rose catches it and looks at the device. "What?"

"Reattaches barbed wire!" the Doctor explains as he moves back to the tube. "Go!"

"Can it do that?!" Ruby exclaimed.

"In small bits, yes," the Librarian said. It can't create barbed wire, but it can act like a sort of soldering iron. And it's already a pre-programmed setting, it's not like he's trying to sonic something new."

Ruby nods in understanding. "That's why it would have taken a while to do the wall in the hospital."

Unbeknownst to them, the hospital doors were sent crashing open as row upon row of patients, all wearing masks, march their way forward.

The sonic buzzes loudly as it melts two sections of barbed wire back together. Gasping slightly in amazement, the two women move on to the next line, with Nancy holding the wire with her gloved hands and Rose using the screwdriver.

"Who are you?" the brunette asks. "Who are any of you?"

Rose casts her a glance. "You'd never believe me if I told ya."

"I still don't believe it, half the time," Yang agreed.

Weiss turns to her with an eyebrow raised. "We've literally been to another world."

"Yeah, but there's going places and then there's knowing how and where."

"Or in their case," Weiss mumbled, "when."

"You just told me that was an ambulance from another world." The second strand was finished so they moved to the third. "There are people running around with gas mask heads calling for their Mummy's, and the sky's full of Germans dropping bombs on me. Tell me, do you think there's anything left I couldn't believe?"

As the sonic finishes its tasks, Rose looks into the girl's eyes. "We're time travelers from the future," she answers.

"Mad you are," Nancy mutters.

"Well if you're not going to believe them, don't ask," Blake scolded.

"We have a time machine. Seriously."

"It's not that… All right, you've got a time machine, I believe ya. Believe anything, me." She pauses and looks upwards, the air-raid siren still singing along to the explosions in the sky. "But what future?"

Looking down at his drink, the current one non-alcoholic, realized what she meant. "She doesn't believe they can win. All that time she was giving those kinds a warm meal - she was expecting it to be their last before they lost."

Yang frowned. "That's messed up. But…" she remembered the number of planes in the sky. "Understandable."

Rose follows her gaze for a moment, then grabs the girl's shoulder. "Nancy, this isn't the end. I know how it looks, but it's not the end of the world or anything."

"How can you say that? Look at it!"

"Listen to me," Rose whispers. "I was born in this city. I'm from here, in like, fifty years time."

"From here?" Nancy asks.

"I'm a Londoner," she nods. "From your future."

"That's got to be weird," Weiss said. "Being in the same city you've lived in, but seeing it at a different time."

"It'd probably be both recognizable and alien," Blake agreed. "Like going to a house that you used to live in."

Nancy closes her eyes, swallowing the information. "But… but you're not…"

"What?"

"... German."

A smile tugs on Rose's lips. "Nancy, the Germans don't come here," she reveals. "They don't win. Don't tell anyone I told you so, but you know what? You win."

The Librarian sighed. "Imagine how that must feel to both of them."

"Nancy being told that they win, that the army at their door never breaks through," Yang agreed."

"And," Qrow added, "to Rose, who gets to tell this hopeless soul that they will make it to the light. Seeing that weight lifted off her shoulders. She's probably been scared to say it because it might affect the timeline, but at this moment she can."

"We win?" Nancy asks, her voice quiet.

Rose nods, earning a grateful breath from the girl. "Come on," she says, grabbing her hand and pulling her back towards the bomb site.

Sliding open a section of the ambulance, Jack reveals to the group what he was saying the entire time. "It's empty. Look at it."

The Doctor doesn't. "What do you expect in a Chula medical transporter? Bandages? Cough drops?"

Weiss gasped. "Oh my Gods, I was right."

"What?" Ruby asked. "Right about what?"

"Jamie, the Child, has Chula abilities. But he was human when he 'died'. Where could he have gotten those?"

Ruby frowned and thought for a moment. "From the ship, right? But how does- OH!"

"Rose?" he asks, as she returns with Nancy.

The girl shakes her head. "I don't know."

"Whatever was inside gave him those powers," Blake frowned. "But it wasn't anything that could have been noticed."

"Exactly!" Weiss said. "Something practically invisible."

"Until there's someone wounded," Yang realized.

Qrow realized it last. "Then it fixed him up and made him part-Chula!"

"Yes you do." He holds his hand out, palm up.

Rose snaps her fingers. "Nanogenes!"

"They found Jamie-" Ruby began.

Weiss nodded. "-fixed him up the best they could-"

"-leaving some inside of him because he should be a medic needing to help others-" Blake added, her ears twitching.

"-and that began to infect people," Yang concluded. "While they evolved to help others without physical touch."

Qrow gulped. "Jamie's turning everyone into mimics of him. All because of the nanogenes."

"It wasn't empty, captain," the Doctor explains, bringing his hand down and folding his arms. "There was enough nanogenes in there to rebuild a species."

His knees buckle slightly and Jack has to lean against the container. "Oh, God."

"Getting it now, are we? When the ship crashes, the nanogenes escape. Billions upon billions of them. Ready to fix all the cuts and bruises in the whole world. But what they find first is a dead child, probably killed earlier that night and wearing a gasmask."

"What killed him then?" Yang asked.

"Another bomb. Collapsing debris. A sick man with PTSD from the first war." Qrow held up a few fingers. "It's a warzone. It doesn't matter how, they do. The ones responsible are the ones who continue for themselves. They never care about the fragments they leave at their feet."

"And they brought him back to life?" Rose asks. "They can do that?"

The Doctor cocks his head. "What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. Nothing to a nanogene."

The Librarian scoffed. "As long as you discount the soul, or, you know, brain damage, memories, and other things. The computer can be fixed but not all the files can be found. They can be corrupted or lost."

"But Jamie's young," Ruby offered. "Maybe his mind was able to last longer."

"I guess."

"One problem, though," he continues. "These nanogenes, they're not like the ones on your ship. This lot have never seen a human being before. Don't know what a human being's supposed to look like. All they've got to go on is one little body and there's not a lot left. But they carry right on, they do what they're programmed to do - they patch it up. Can't tell what's gasmask and what's skull, but they do their best.

"Then off they fly, off they go, work to be done! Cos you see, now they think they know what people should look like. And it's time to fix all the rest. And they won't ever stop. They won't ever, ever stop. The entire human race is going to be torn down and rebuilt in the form of one terrified child looking for it's mother. And nothing in the world can stop it!"

At some point during the Doctor's rant, he turned to Jack. The man shivers slightly under the Doctor's gaze. "I didn't know!" he snaps back. Nancy then turns to look at him.

"It is his fault," Blake gulped. "The reason all this happened. It was all Jack."

Qrow shook his head. "That's not what's important to her right now. Right now, he's the one who turned her brother into a monster."

The entire group fell silent as they all focused on their own tasks. Rose joins the Doctor, who is now fiddling with the nanogene container. Kicking himself mentally, Jack rubs his forehead and looks down at the ground. Nancy, unable to look at Jack, steps away towards the fence.

Marching towards that fence, the army of patients walked down the tracks. "Mummy! Mummy!" they cry. "Mummy. Mummy!"

"Shoot!" Ruby yelled. "That was quick."

"Well, they were right near each other," Weiss frowned. "But where's Jamie?"

"Rose!" Nancy yells, calling the blonde over to her. She does, then quickly runs back over to the Doctor who was fiddling with the whiring. The alarm was still sounding, still blinking.

"It's bringing the gas mask people here, isn't it?" she asks.

"The ship thinks it's under attack. It's calling up the troops. Standard protocol."

Rose frowns. "But the gas mask people aren't troops."

"They are now," he answers.

"Are all those guys going to be as strong as Jamie was?" Yang asked with a gulp.

Blake nodded her head slowly. "I'd imagine so. And probably whatever they touch will infect people too."

The Doctor slaps the tube. "This is a battle-field ambulance. The nanogenes don't just fix you up, they get you ready for the front line. Equip you, program you."

"That's why the Child's so strong," Rose realizes. "Why it could do that phoning thing."

"It's a fully-equipped Chula warrior, yes." He turns around to look at the approaching force. "All that weapons tech in the hands of a hysterical four-year-old looking for his Mummy. And now there's an army of them."

More cries of "Mummy!" echo around the area as masked people, wearing clothes ranging from dresses to suits to military uniforms, surround the barbed wire and fence.

"Now they're surrounded," Qrow frowned. "And if the nanogenes are airborne now, it's only a matter of time before they all get infected as well."

Ruby frowned. "What about the teleporter? On his ship? Can't they use that?"

"He said he needed to disable the computer for that, which he turned back on to get them there."

"But Jack can use that at any time," Ruby said.

"He won't," Qrow countered. "He's not that kind of guy."

Jack spins around. "Why don't they attack?"

"Good little soldiers, waiting for their commander," the Doctor answers.

"The Child?"

Nancy whirls around. "Jamie," she corrects.

"What?"

"Not 'the Child'. Jamie." A few tears well up in the girl's eyes.

Weiss felt her eyes dampen as well. "This must be torture for her."

"Knowing that her brother is now a slave to aliens, forced to be a soldier as he looks for their mom…" Yang muttered. "It's like… how can she not blame herself."

"So how long until the bomb falls?" Rose asks.

"Any second," Jack answers.

The Doctor steps towards him. "What's the matter, Captain? A bit close to the volcano for you?"

"Well, it's not as if he purposefully caused it to explode," Qrow frowned, glaring slightly at the Doctor.

"But he did purposefully drop an alien ambulance in a warzone," Weiss countered. "And wouldn't accept the blame as his own."

The huntsman rolled his eyes. "It's not his fault he didn't know."

Nancy's voice was small. "He's just a little boy," she whispers.

"I know," the Doctor says.

"He's just a little boy who wants his Mummy."

The Doctor nods. "I know. There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his Mummy. And this little boy can."

"Or little girl," Ruby added.

"So what're we going to do?" Rose asks as a bomb whistles somewhere in the distance before exploding with a loud crash.

Staring out towards the army around them, the Doctor whispers, "I don't know."

The tears that were gathering in Nancy's eyes begin to roll down her cheeks. "It's my fault," she cries.

"No," the Doctor immediately says.

Blake frowned. "What if she tells him where their mom is? Even if it's bad, wouldn't that make him stop?"

"But what if it makes him even more upset?" Yang asked. "I'd be pretty angry if I were lied to all my life." Qrow tried to ignore the burning sensation he felt in the side of his head as Yang glared at him.

"It is. It's all my fault."

He tries to give her a warm smile. "How can it be your-"

"Mummy!" the patients yell, their voices suddenly crying out in near-unison. "Mummy. Mummy! Mummy!"

The Doctor spins around (as do Rose and Jack) before looking back at the weeping Nancy. He freezes for a moment. "Nancy," he asks, "what age are you?"

"Now's not the time for that!" Weiss snapped.

"No," Ruby gasped. "Wait. I think he's on to something."

"Onto what?! That's she's old enough to die?"

"Twenty?" he continues to ask. "Twenty-one? Older than you look, yes?"

A bomb lands close to the fence. Its orange plume tossing rubble and dirt everywhere as the light elongates the masked people's shadows.

"Doctor," Jack exclaims, that bomb… We've got seconds."

"Maybe give us a specific time!" Yang yelled. "Instead of this 'time's almost up!' crap."

A second strike streaks down from a German plane and lands even closer.

"You can teleport us out," Rose offers.

Jack shakes his head. "Not you guys. The nav-com's back online. Going to take too long to override the protocols."

"So it's volcano day." The two turn to look at the Doctor, who keeps his eyes on Nancy as she struggles to meet his own gaze. His tone was cold and lifeless. "Do what you've got to do."

"What?!"

Rose turns back to the man who rescued her earlier that night. "Jack?"

He doesn't answer. Hi looks up at Rose with a guilty look and reaches into his pocket, pulling out a fob, and pressing it - disappearing in a flash of light.

"What?!"

Qrow seemed to be the most hurt by this. "Why that no good, backstabbing, cowardly, beautiful… Beowulf!"

"Uh, Uncle Qrow, one of those was a compliment," Ruby said.

"I know!"

The Doctor doesn't seem to notice or care. "How old were you five years ago?" he asks Nancy. "Fifteen? Sixteen? Old enough to give birth, anyway. He's not your brother, is he?"

"She's his mother!" Yang gasped.

Ruby nodded. "That's why she couldn't say! Because she spent her life lying to him but he knew in his heart."

Nancy sniffles, her eyes and cheeks red. "A teenage single mother in nineteen forty-one," the Doctor continues. "So you hid. You lied. You even lied to him."

Just as she nods, the gate bursts apart, its chains broken, revealing a squadron of masked soldiers. With Jamie up front.

"Are you my Mummy?" he asks.

"She is," Weiss whispered. "She is. This whole time, she was."

"But how does that help us?" Blake asked.

"Maybe his realization of that will cause the nanogenes to shut down?"

"He's going to keep asking, Nancy," the Doctor says as Jamie begins to step towards them. "He's never going to stop."

"Mummy?"

"Tell him."

Jamie and his army continue to march forward toward the Chula ambulance.

"Nancy, the future of the human race is in your hands. Trust me and tell him."

Sniffling away the tears, Nancy hears another "Are you my Mummy?" before the Doctor turns her around towards Jamie, her son.

"Are you my Mummy?" he asks, as they walk closer to each other. "Are you my Mummy?"

"Yes," Nancy says, her voice growing from a whisper. "Yes, I am your Mummy."

The Librarian shuddered. "Probably the first time she's ever said those words aloud."

"She must have wanted to say that for so long," Ruby whispered. "But she kept lying."

"His life would have probably been a lot worse if she told him the truth. But at the least, she'll be able to tell him this night."

Jamie's voice grows excited. "Mummy?"

"I'm here," she says, stopping a few yards away from the Doctor and Rose.

"Are you my Mummy?" Jamie asks.

"I'm here."

"Are you my Mummy?"

Nancy drops to her knees, looking into where his eyes should be. "Yes."

"Are you my Mummy?"

"He doesn't understand," the Doctor says, his face taunt. "There's not enough of him left."

"Then that's it?" Yang asked. "The bomb comes, the nanogenes spread, and the world ends?"

"No… No." Qrow turned to the Librarian. "That's not the point of this. The Doctor never gives up hope because there always is hope, even when it seems unlikely. That's the story you want us to learn."

He earned a wink in return.

Nancy doesn't hear him, or she just doesn't care. "I am your Mummy," she repeats. "I will always be your Mummy. I'm so sorry. I am so, so sorry." Holding her arms out, she reaches around her son and grabs him - pulling him into a hug.

As soon as they touch, yellow specks of light begin to pour out from Jamie, creating a cloud around mother and daughter.

"The nanogenese!" Blake gasped. "They're…" She paused, not at all knowing what they were doing.

Ruby gasped. "They're analyzing data! Maybe if the program was to find his mom, the program should end."

Rose, risking a glance at the Doctor, asks, "what's happening?" He doesn't answer as the cloud seems to grow thicker and thicker of microscopic robots flying around. "Doctor, it's changing her. We-"

"Shh!" he hisses, putting his hand in front of her. "Come on, please. Come on, you clever little nanogenes. Figure it out! The mother, she's the mother. It's got to be enough information. Figure it out."

Mother and son continue to hold each other as the nanogenes glow brighter.

"What's happening?"

The Doctor points at the cloud as it flashes between yellow and red. "See? Recognizing the same DNA."

"She's his mom!" Weiss realized. "Oh, my Gods!"

"What, what is it?" Yang asked.

Ruby shook in her seat, a smile on her face. "I was close. They're analyzing her. Now they can see where they went wrong with the DNA from Nancy and comparing it to Jamie."

"What does that mean?" Qrow frowned.

"It means," Blake said, mimicking Ruby's smile, "they can fix him!"

Jamie suddenly goes stiff and pushes Nancy back. She lands on her rump and looks up, as the lights dissipate.

Running up, the Doctor, and Rose, quickly help her to her feet.

"Oh, come on," he says. The smile on his face betrayed by the tremble of his hands. "Gimme a day like this. Gimme this one!" He then slowly, and carefully, grabs the vent of the mask and lifts up, removing the rubber and revealing a soot-stained, but very human and alive, Jamie.

"YES!" everyone cheered.

The Doctor laughs and smiles, lifting the boy into the air. "Ha-ha! Welcome back! Twenty years till pop music, you're gonna love it." He hugs the child with another laugh.

"What happened? Nancy asks. She was confused and crying but also sporting a large smile.

"The nanogenes recognized the superior information - the parent DNA. They didn't change you because you changed them! Ha-ha!" He places Jamie on the ground and pushes him to Nancy. "Mother knows best!"

Tears of joy roll down the woman's face. "Oh, Jamie."

"She has her son back!" Yang cries.

"And he's not a scary monster anymore," Qrow sighed as he fell back into his seat.

Yang punched her uncle in the arm. "That's not what's important right now."

Rose watches the family for a moment before flinching as another bomb, though unseen, is heard crashing close to them. "Doctor," she warns. "The bomb."

"Taken care of it," he smiles.

"How?"

"Psychology."

High above them, a German soldier presses a button. And as he does, it releases his payload. A bomb capable of destroying a small city block fell towards its historically accurate target.

But, unlike in history, a second ship, alien and sleek, flies out from the night sky and grabs it with a light field. The bomb freezes in the ship's grasp, just a few hundred feet above the Doctor and his friends.

They all look up to see, riding astride the bomb, Captain Jack Harkness.

"Yes!" Qrow cheered. "Yes, yes yes! I knew it!"

"But he left. He could have run away and claimed innocence," Blake said.

The Librarian nodded. "But he didn't. The Doctor showed him the right path."

"Doctor!" Jack yells, waving to them.

The Doctor smiles. "Good lad!"

"The bomb's already commenced detonation. I've put it in stasis but it won't last long." [1]

"Change of plan," he says. "Don't need the bomb."

"But what about the ambulance?" Ruby asked.

"And the army of infected people?" Weiss added. "Wouldn't destroying the source fix that? Or, at least, prevent the airborne variants?"

"He's got to have a plan."

"Can you get rid of it, safely as you can?" The Doctor asks.

He nods. "Rose?"

The blonde catches his gaze. "Yeah?"

"Goodbye." He, and the bomb disappear, leaving a confused Rose looking up. Then, as quickly as he left, Jack returns. "By the way… loved the t-shirt."

And then he was gone again. This time, however, the light field retracts as well and the Chula warship points up into the sky and flies away.

Yang frowned. "Wait, why did he say goodbye? Can't he get rid of it?"

"Not without hurting others, I bet," Blake whispered. "They're in a major city, there's probably nowhere to get to quick enough to drop it."

"Except upward," the blond muttered.

Blake grabbed her partner's hand. "Maybe he's got a way out."

As Rose blushes, looking down at her shirt, the Doctor looks down at his hands. The fingers outstretch and wiggle slightly as he walks over to where the Empty Child was last. Another smile stretches across his face as nanogenes, the same ones that left Jamie's body, rise up from the ground and begin to dance once more in his hand.

"What are you doing?" Rose asks.

The Doctor's fingers continue to move within a cloud of medical nanite. "Software patch. Going to e-mail the upgrade. You want moves, Rose? I'll give you moves."

With a motion like he was throwing something from his chest, he waves the nanogenes forward. They flare brightly as they fly forward, striking into the still-moving and (former) army standing there.

The nanites glow as they fly around every single person, every single victim, of their accidental changes. When one person falls to the ground with a groan, they move on. One-by-one until every single masked man, woman, and child has fallen to the ground.

"Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once! Everybody lives!"

The entire theatre let out a roar of cheer.

"He's saved everyone!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Every single person," Weiss smiled. "All those infected and 'killed'."

"Even Jamie!" Blake smiled.

Yang pumped her fist and gave a loud shout. "He is the Doctor!"

Everyone, Qrow thought, except Jack.

Everyone who fell to the ground now rises. Some help each other up, while others seem to do fine on their own, albeit dazed about their new surroundings. Not a single mask to be found or a single scar to be seen.

The Doctor runs forward and helps a familiar face rise to their feet. "Doctor Constantine," he greets. "Never left his patients." He gives the man a laugh as Constantine reaches for a cane no longer there and no longer needed. "Back on your feet, constant doctor. The world doesn't want to get by without you just yet and I don't blame it one bit. These are your patients. All better now."

"The Doctor and the doctor!" Blake smiled. "He's okay."

"And he's standing on his own," Weiss noticed. "Is it possible that when the nanogenes transformed everyone, they also fixed their own ailments?"

"Yes," Constantine gasps, looking across the sea of people, most he recognizes from his hospital, and nods. "Yes, so it seems. They also seem to be standing around in a disused railway station. Is there any particular reason for that?"

Still smiling, the Doctor says, "yeah, well, you know, cutbacks." Both old men chuckle. "Listen, whatever was wrong with them in the past, you're probably going to find that they're cured. Just tell 'em what a great doctor you are. Don't make a big thing of it. Okay?"

Before the man could answer, the Doctor was already running off.

"He never wants to be thanked," Ruby giggled.

"He never stays around long enough to be," Yang agreed.

"At least they'll know."

A woman pushes her way through the mob and hobbles up to the man. "Doctor Constantine," she says.

He turns around and looks down at her feet. "Mrs. Harcourt, how much better you're looking."

"My leg's grown back!" she exclaims in amazement. "When I come to the hospital, I had one leg!"

"Well, there is a war on, is it possible you miscounted?"

Qrow snorted. "And the gaslighting continues. But I guess it's fine if it's for the better."

Now standing atop the Chula ambulance, the Doctor calls out to the mass of Londoners around him. "Right! You lot! Lots to do. Beat the Germans, save the world, don't forget the welfare state!"

Constantine nods and smiles before helping usher Mrs. Harcourt, as well as others, back to the hospital.

"Setting this to self-destruct, soon as everybody's clear," the Doctor explains as he fiddles with the panel. He turns to Rose with a goofy smile. "History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?"

"Usually the first in line," she counters, earning another broad grin from her companion.

"Wait, but if the explosion needed to go happen, then why did Jack need to take the bomb away?" Ruby asked. "He could have just held it in stasis until he fixed everything."

The Librarian smirked. "Well, for one, they didn't know how long stasis would hold. And two… I'll explain that in a bit."

Bursting through the doors of the T.A.R.D.I.S, the Doctor, with renewed energy, runs to the console and starts pacing around it. "The nanogenes will clean up the mess and switch themselves off cos I just told them to. Nancy and Jamie will go to Dr. Constantine for help - ditto. All in all, all things considered, fantastic!"

"Yeah!"

"Look at you," Rose smiles, closing the door behind her. "Beaming away like you're father Christmas."

"Who says I'm not? Red bicycle when you were twelve?" he grins.

Rose pauses. "What?"

Weiss frowned. "Who and what?"

"Father Christmas, most commonly known as Santa Claus, is a figure of both historical, religious, and mythological significance that brings gifts to good boys, girls, and non/multi-genders on Christmas day," ELI explained, her voice chirping for the first time in a while.

"Sounds kinda creepy," the heiress grimaced.

"It's no different than Huntsing Peppermint!" Yang exclaimed. "Does he give you Dust if you've been good?"

"Actually, we get coal when we've been bad," the Librarian laughed. "Not everyone relies on dust as a fuel source."

"And everybody lives, Rose," the Doctor repeats, his hands outstretched as he looks up as if he were being bathed in heavenly light. "Everybody lives! I need more days like this." He starts running around the console, pressing buttons and bells and switches and knobs.

Rose steps forward. "Doctor?"

He smiles back at her. "Go on, ask me anything. I'm on fire!"

"What about Jack? Why'd he say goodbye?"

"Speaking of on fire," Blake muttered. This earned her a flick on her nose by Yang. "Hey!"

The Doctor doesn't answer. He looks down and focuses on the T.A.R.D.I.S controls.

Somewhere in the stars, the Chula warship, Jack, and the German bomb, race towards a shining nebula.

"OK computer," Jack says as he pushes past the bomb and back into his chair. "How long can we keep the bomb in stasis?"

"Stasis decaying at ninety-percent cycle. Detonation in three minutes."

He grimaces. "Can we jettison it?"

"Any attempt to jettison the device will precipitate detonation. One hundred percent probability."

"We could stick it in an escape pod," he offers.

A button flashes as the computer talks. "There is no escape pod on board."

"What kind of spaceship doesn't have any escape pods?" Qrow exclaimed. "What kind of idiot design is that?!"

"If I were to guess, it's how he got the ship," the Librarian sighed. "He probably tricked the crew into leaving and never bothered to restock."

"Well, it's their fault for not having enough!"

Jack leans forward. "Okay, see the flaw in that. I'll get in the escape pod."

"There is no escape pod on board," it repeats.

"Did you check everywhere?"

"Affirmative."

"Under the sink?!" he snaps.

"Affirmative."

Weiss raised an eyebrow. "Certainly not where I would keep one."

"Wanna guess where mine is?" the Librarian asked.

"... Where?"

"The fridge."

"Okay…" Jack leans back and closes his eyes. "Out of one hundred, exactly how dead am I?"

Exactly no time was needed to calculate the answer. "Termination of Captain Jack Harkness in under two minutes, one-hundred-percent probability."

A loud sigh escapes his lips. "Lovely, thanks," he whispers. "Good to know the numbers."

"You're welcome," the computer chirps.

Ruby frowned and crossed her arms. "What good is an AI that can't help?"

"Hey!" ELI exclaimed.

"Not you!" the huntress yelled back. "You're awesome! Jack's sucks."

"Okay then," Jack sighs. "Think we'd better initiate emergency protocol four-one-seven."

"Affirmative."

In a sparkle of light, a martini glass appears. Jack quickly reaches for it and leans back, sipping it and almost immediately spitting it out.

"Oh, a little too much vermouth. See if I come here again."

Qrow practically fell to his knees. "A man after my own heart," he whispered, reaching for the one glass he hadn't touched yet - a martini from the 007 bar stand.

Jack fingers the edge of the glass and chuckles. "Funny thing… Last time I was sentenced to death, I ordered four hyper-vodkas for my breakfast. All a bit of a blur after that. Woke up in bed with both my executioners. Mmm, lovely couple. They stayed in touch. Can't say that about most executioners." He took out the olive from his drink and tossed it into his mouth. "Anyway… Thanks for everything, computer… It's been great."

Tears began to fall in the room as Jack took one more sip of his martini.

"I know I didn't like him before…" Weiss whispered. "But I don't want him to go."

Yang nodded. "He did good! And he deserves to be rewarded for that!"

"And he needs to find out what the Time Agency took from him! There's so much left he has to do!"

As Captain Jack Harkness laid down his glass and prepared to die, he heard something.

A familiar song - Moonlight Serenade.

Jack looks towards the tail-end of his ship, where a blue box was resting with its doors wide open, Rose on the other end in the Doctor's arms.

"Well hurry up then!" she yells.

Once more, there was a loud cry of "YES"!

The Librarian laughed. "That's why he had him take away the bomb. Because there was no way the Doctor was going to let Jack keep a Chula warship that can travel through time and space."

"And it just so happens that he'd need a ride, huh?" Yang smirked.

"Maybe," he winked.

Qrow grabbed the Librarian's shoulder. "Does that mean… Jack's gonna stick around?"

"Watch and find out."

Leaping up from his chair, Jack runs down the length of his ship - careful not to touch the German bomb hanging there - and runs into the T.A.R.D.I.S.

He freezes immediately upon the sight.

"Much better than your hunk of junk!" Ruby exclaimed with a large smile.

Barely paying him any mind, Rose and the Doctor, hand on shoulder and hand on waist, continue to dance to the music.

"He can dance!" Blake exclaimed.

"Okay. And right… and turn," Rose guides. He tries to spin her but ends up wrapping her arm around her back and causing her to let go with a yelp. "Okay, okay, try and spin me again, but this time don't get my arm up my back. No extra points for a half-nelson."

Yang smirked. "There's always extra points for a half-nelson."

"I'm sure I used to know this stuff," the Doctor mutters.

"Just needs a bit of time," Weiss said.

Or a new regeneration, the Librarian thought.

He waves at Jack and steps away from Rose. " Close the door, will you? Your ship's about to blow up. There's going to be a draught."

Jack does so, slamming the doors shut and looking back into the majesty of the Doctor's vehicle.

"Welcome to the T.A.R.D.I.S," the Doctor smiles, pressing a lever and causing the time rotor to pump.

Stepping forward, those familiar words flow from Jack's mouth. "Much bigger on the inside," he gasps.

"He said the thing!"

The Doctor gives a small glare to their newest addition. "You'd better be."

Jack pauses, confused and slightly worried.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Qrow asked.

"I think," Ruby answered, "that the Doctor wants Jack to be better. To be able to grow from who he was and who he can be. Adam's probably fresh in his mind and he hasn't forgotten about what Jack's done."

"But he's giving him a second chance."

"Yup!"

Rose clears her throat. "I think what the Doctor's trying to say is-" she holds out a hand "-you may cut in."

Before they could get anywhere, though, the Doctor looks up from his monitor. "Rose!" he calls out.

"What?"

"I've just remembered." He presses a button and music begins to play. Instead of Jack's slow-paced seduction, a loud and happy celebration of music and jazz begins to play throughout the console room. "I can dance!"

"Another Glen Miller song," ELI said. "This one is called 'In the Mood'."

The Doctor begins to snap his fingers, sashaying from side to side as he moves toward Rose. "I can dance!"

"Actually, Doctor," she says, "I thought Jack might like this dance."

"I'm sure he would, Rose," the Time Lord smirks. He smiles at Jack who steps up next to the blonde. "I'm absolutely certain… but who with?"

"Why not both?" Qrow asked.

The Librarian laughed. "Both. Both is good."

Unable to take the goofiness of his smile, Rose snickers and laughs, letting herself be pulled into his arms as they dance again. Instead of the slow dance, they shake their hips with every beat. Jack watches in amazement, his foot tapping on the floor, as the Doctor takes Rose and spins her - successfully. Then he spins her again before pulling her close to her chest.

They move around the time rotor, snapping their fingers, smiling, and laughing. Warming up to this, Jack begins to bob his head to the music as they return to where they begin. Though, this time, the Doctor takes her hands and bends her backward before pulling her up.

And the three laugh.

The lights in the theatre begin to slowly return to normal brightness.

"That's it?!" Yang asked. "I wanted to see more!"

"We watched four episodes!" Blake countered, getting to her feet and stretching. "I think we need a break."

"But the Doctor… and Jack… They need to dance too."

Qrow, grabbing his empty cups, glasses, and cans, moved toward a trash can. "Yeah!"

Ruby slid Crescent Rose into its 'sheathed' form around her back. "That was just… So many emotions! So little way to describe them!"

"I cannot believe that the Doctor was able to think his way out of everything," Weiss added. She cracked her neck. "But even with that, he needed everyone's help to save the day."

One by one, the Remnants all moved towards the slip-slope controls.

"Where are you guys going?" the Librarian asked. He hadn't gotten up, so they could only see the back of his head.

"Well… we need a break," Ruby said, rubbing the back of her head. "That was a long watch and I need to get moving."

Yang nodded and punched her fists together, the bracelets on her arms elongating and unfolding into her bracers. "Yeah! Let's go punch some more aliens!"

"Or, at least, explore a new world," Blake said.

"Perhaps a new culture?" Weiss offered. Or perhaps let us fly the T.A.R.D.I.S

Qrow cracked his knuckled. "All the above."

"I see." Their guide still hadn't moved. "But there's just one thing I have to ask you…"

"What's that?" they all asked.

"Are you my Mummy?" The Librarian turned around with a black gas mask on his face. The lights suddenly turned dim as he rose to his feet and shuffled toward the group.

The screams that rose from team RWBY's (and Qrow's) mouths would echo throughout the T.A.R.D.I.S for years.

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[1] - These bombs didn't have timed detonation! They exploded on impact. That's why unexploded bombs were fairly common. I know, I'm nitpicking. But that's only because I love this episode so much!

Total 'Are you my Mummy?'s:

Empty Child (A) - 3

Empty Child (B) - 3

Doctor Dances (A) - 13

Doctor Dances (B) - 8

Total - 27!

Happy Halloween everyone! It's finally here, it's finally over. I spent an entire month slaving away for you lot, so you better be grateful!

I'm joking. I really enjoyed doing this. It was great to be able to focus on this and really make a lot of headway on Series 1 (honestly, 3 episodes to go!).

We probably won't be getting to see David Tennant playing 10th until 2023 (hey, just like current DW), as I will be taking November to focus on school and outlining the breakaway chapter. I might do Boom Town for Christmas - both parts - but don't count your luck.

Uhhh, and I think that's about it. I'm really happy to see how much you guys have enjoyed this rapid-upload month. Scary episodes = scary month, right? I can't wait to work on what comes next and grow steadily more excited for 9's conclusion (and team RWBY's reaction to it).

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