Mistressnmoon: So I feel like this chapter is really long... It's about 8,600 words, which is pretty good for me. I decided that it would be better not to write the episode in two different chapters, but if you disagree and think it's just a lot to read for one chapter then let me know~ Due to that it might take me longer to get chapters out then if I just did about 1,000/2,000 words a chapter like other stories I've written in the past. But, since I'm on spring break this week I'm hoping that I'll be able to have a new chapter before next Sunday, but we'll see if that actually happens. Sorry to rant a bit, if you read this then thanks! If you didn't well... That's okay too!

Let me know what you think!


Chapter Two

Somehow, out of all the ways I had imagined that I might die, this wasn't one of them; even if I wouldn't technically be dead, just a creepy gas mask person… thing.

"Anyone have any brilliant ideas? Because I certainly don't." I noticed, from the corner of my eye, that both Rose and Jack shook their heads letting us know that they didn't have any ideas either.

"Maybe." I turned to the Doctor in shock.

"Then why the hell are we still standing here?" The Doctor gave me an annoyed look, before he turned back to the gas mask people and gave them a stern, parent like, look.

"Go to your room." My face showed my disbelief, this was his brilliant plan? Yelling at them? Though in the Doctor's defense, the gas mask people all paused, seeming to hesitate. "Go to your room!" Apparently this is his plan. It seems to be working though, because all the gas mask people all cocked their heads to the side, seeming to be listening to him. "I mean it! I am very, very angry with you. I am very, VERY cross! Go - to - your - ROOM!" I watched the Doctor point, almost violently, in a random direction. To my surprise all the gas mask people turned away, almost like a child would after being yelled at, and made their way into their beds. The Doctor let out a sigh of relief, before he told us,

"I'm really glad that worked. Those would've been TERRIBLE last words."
"I CANNOT believe that just worked. Talk about winging it much." I watched Rose slightly nod her head in agreement, before she walked over to sit near a bed in order to observe the gas mask people more. Personally I thought that she was too close for comfort, and all I wanted to do was run out of this building. But if I did that then who would keep the idiot in line?

"Why are they all wearing gas masks?" I gave a frown; I guess that Rose doesn't know that they aren't exactly human anymore.

"They're not. Those masks are flesh and bone."

"Jeez Jack, rude much?" If I had been next to Jack I would have smacked his head, but he was sitting in a chair and was closer to the gas mask people then I wanted to get.

"Sorry Red, but it's not exactly the time for manners." I opened my mouth, ready to tell Jack that manners are always important, regardless of the time, but the Doctor spoke before I could and clearly hadn't been listening to our conversation.

"How was your con supposed to work?"

"Simple enough, really. Find some harmless piece of space-junk... let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth. Convince him it's valuable, name a price. When he's put 50% up front - oops! A German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's paid for. Never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money, and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con. "

"Yeah. Perfect."
"You really need to work on your conning skills Jack, this makes two times it hasn't worked out." I nearly stuck my tongue out at Jack, but stopped myself; because if I did then I would just be encouraging his childish behavior.

"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners - Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it though, but you've got to set your alarm for volcano day." I pouted to myself, noticing that Jack had simply ignored what I had said. While I pouted, Jack laughed at his own joke, and the Doctor gave him an un-amused look. "Getting a hint of disapproval." Gee, Jack, I wonder why? Then again, even though I don't approve of Jack conning everyone, I do come running ever time he needs my help, so what does that say about me?

"Take a look around the room. This is what your 'harmless piece of space-junk' did." I shivered as I looked at the people around me, a little worried that they might suddenly come back to life. I might knowingly put my life in danger, but I really didn't want to die by turning into a gas mask person.

"It was a burnt-out medical transporter - it was empty."

"Sure it was Jack." I rolled my eyes as I spoke. I know it's hard to say you've done something wrong, but seriously, what else could have caused this? It's just too close together to be coincidence.

"Rose."

"We getting out of here? "

"We're going upstairs." Rose started following him, and I hesitated. I know I said he wasn't getting rid of me, but I wasn't sure if I should follow him if he had found Rose. The Doctor gave me a stern look before he added on, "You too Robin." I smiled at him and Rose, nodding my head and following them; figuring that Jack would follow as well, if not just because he's so stubborn. As I thought, Jack stood up from his chair and yelled towards the Doctor,

"I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living - I harmed no-one! I don't know what's happening here, but believe me - I had nothing to do with it."

"I'll tell you what's happening. You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's volcano day." Ironically the all-clear siren went off as soon as the Doctor finished speaking.

"What's that?"

"The all-clear."

"I wish." The Doctor then left the ward and I quickly followed behind him, glad to no longer be with the gas mask people, Jack and Rose also followed after the Doctor, they just left the room at a slower pace then myself. Due to their slower pace they lost the Doctor and myself as we went up a stair case. I chuckled to myself internally when I hear Jack yelling out,

"Mr. Spock? Robin?" Immediately followed by Rose calling out,

"Doctor?" The Doctor stuck his head out, and I mimicked his action with my head a foot or two below his since he was taller then myself.

"Have you got a blaster?" This time I chuckled out loud in a soft tone, knowing that my trigger-happy friend certainly had a blaster on him. I continued to chuckle softly as Jack and Rose skidded to a halt and backtracked to us.

"Sure!" We all then followed the Doctor up the stairs, quickly finding ourselves outside a door.

"The night your space-junk landed, someone was hurt. This was where they were taken."

"What happened?" Rose's question echoed my own thoughts, even though I knew a little more then her, I still didn't know anything that had actually happened.

"Let's find out. Get it open." I knew the last part of the Doctor's statement was directed to Jack, and smiled to myself. This ought to make Jack happen, for once someone was telling him to actually use that gun of his. Jack proved me right as he grinned and pulled out his gun. He then shot his gun, making a square hole around the door handle, which let the door creak open.

"Sonic blaster, 51st century. Weapon Factories of Villengard?" Ah I had been there once or twice, got my own sonic devices there, but now it was a lovely banana grove; which as much as I like them, I'm glad I have a hidden surplus of devices I bought when I was there. And by hidden I mean they're back in my room at home, in my own time.

"You've been to the factories?" The Doctor took the blaster from Jack, observing it as he responded,

"Once."

"Well, they gone now. Destroyed. The main reactor went critical. Vaporized the lot."

"Like I said - once. There's a banana grove there, now. I like bananas. Bananas are good." The Doctor then handed the blaster back to Jack, a pleasant smile on his face as he turned and entered the room. I turned and gave Jack a smile,

"Gotta admit Jack, those are some damn good bananas. Don't you wish you had stocked up like I suggested?" I briefly stuck my tongue out at Jack, before he stated,

"Put that back… Unless you plan on using it." I squirmed as he waggled his eyebrows at me. I swear, even in this type of situation he can flirt.

"Ew!" I winked at him before rushing into the room, briefly hearing Rose comment on how she liked his blaster pattern. Once Rose and Jack were in the room with us, the Doctor turned on the lights. I nearly flinched when I saw how damaged the room was, it looked like a tornado; the windows were all broken, and there was stuff all over the floor.

"What d'you think?"

"SOMETHING got out of here..." Something strong, and something that more then likely wasn't entirely human, had gotten out of here.

"Yeah. And?"

"Something powerful. Angry. "

"Something not entirely human." I chimed in, letting them know what I was thinking.

"Powerful and angry." I watched Jack wander into the side room, picking up a picture, before he said,

"A child? I suppose this explains 'mummy'."

"How could a child do this?"

"Do you know where you are?" I twirled around; surprised to hear Doctor Constantine's voice since he is now one of the many gas mask people.

"Are you my mummy?" I then realized that the Doctor had simply played the tape that was in the room.

"Are you aware of what's around you? Can you... see?"
"Are you my mummy?"

"What do you want? Do you know—"

"I want my mummy. Are you my mummy? I want my mummy! Are you my mummy?" I then noticed that all the pictures around the room were of, what I assume to be, the child's mother. "Are you my mummy? Mummy? Mummy?"

"Doctor, I've heard this voice before."

"Me too."
"Yeah, so have I…"

"Mummy?"

"Always, 'are you my mummy?'. Like he doesn't know."

"Mummy?" It was then that I noticed something… Why wasn't Doctor Constantine asking the child questions anymore? "Mummy?"

"Why doesn't he know?"

"Are you there, mummy? Mummy?" They wouldn't have recorded just the child speaking, asking for his mummy, for this long… Would they? And what the hell is that noise? It's driving me crazy. "Mummy? Please, mummy? Mummy?" I was momentarily distracted when the Doctor started to pace around the room.

"Doctor?" I glanced at Rose, still feeling like I was missing something here.

"Can you sense it?"

"Sense what?"

"Coming out of the walls, can you feel it?" I agreed with the Doctor, I just couldn't figure out what that feeling was. I muttered out my agreement,
"Something's wrong, I just can't figure out what it is…"

"Mummy?" The Doctor stopped walking, and stared at the three of us saying,

"Funny little human brains, how do you get around in those things?" Rose responded by telling Jack and I, well mainly Jack,

"When he's stressed, he likes to insult species." The Doctor then started pacing again,

"Rose, I'm thinking."

"Cuts himself shaving, does half an hour in life forms he's cleverer than... " Seriously, what is that noise? It sounds familiar… Like when you leave a tape on too long…

"There are these children living rough around the bomb site. They come out during air-raids looking for food."

"Mummy, please?" The tape is still running? I would have thought that it had already ran out, that they would have given up after the first few questions that the child hadn't answered.

"Suppose they were there when this thing - whatever it was - landed?" I bit my lip in thought, knowing that my eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. I was so close to figuring out what I was missing, but it was like it was just barely out of my grasp.

"It was a med-ship. It was harmless."

"Yes, you keep saying. 'Harmless'. Suppose one of them was affected - altered?"

"Altered how?"

"I'm here!" I let out a gasp, realizing that the tape hadn't been running this entire time… And if that's the case then… The gas mask child was here!

"It's afraid. Terribly afraid, and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do." I gave the Doctor a wide-eyed look, terrified by my realization. The Doctor's reaction was the opposite of my own, as he let out a small chuckle continuing with, "It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room." A loud crackling filled the room, and snapped me out of my panic. With my panic gone, I slapped the Doctor on his arm,

"Idiot! This isn't something to be excited about!"

"Doctor…" I could tell from her tone that Rose was scared about what was happening, but I don't think she had reached the same conclusion as I had… Not yet at least.

"I'm here. Can't you see me?"

"What's that noise?" I watched the Doctor's smile fade from his face as he started to speak,

"End of the tape. It ran out about 30 seconds ago."

"I'm here, now. Can't you see me?"

"I sent it to it's room. THIS is its room." I fought back a shriek as I noticed the child standing near the tape machine. It was only seconds later when the Doctor twirled around and noticed the child as well.

"Are you my mummy?" He then cocked his head to the side and stared and myself, before turning towards Rose and staring at her. "Mummy?"

"Doctor?"

"Okay... on my signal... make for the door." And what exactly was Jack going to use as a signal? Flirting with Rose? Or shooting the child? "NOW!" Apparently it was the second choice, because he suddenly reached for his gun from his pocket, only to violently pull out a banana. I glanced towards the Doctor, knowing that I wasn't responsible for Jack's gun going missing… at least I wasn't responsible for it this time. The Doctor gave me a grin, and pointed Jack's blaster at the wall, producing a square hole in the wall.

"Go! Now! Don't drop the banana!" I scrambled through the hole in the wall, following Rose out of the room, followed by the Doctor and Jack.

"Why not?"

"Good source of potassium!" I chuckled at the Doctor, before the chuckle died in my throat. The child was staring at us through the hole in the wall, and was coming closer to the hole.

"Give me that!" I briefly glanced at Jack, noticing that he grabbed his blaster back from the Doctor, and was pointing it at the wall again.

"Are you my mummy?" Jack the pulled the trigger on his blaster, which made the wall reassemble, making the child locked in the room.

"Digital rewind." I watched Jack toss the banana back to the Doctor, "Nice switch."

"It's from the Groves of Villengard. I thought it was appropriate."

"Beautiful grove, we really should go sometime Jack." Jack gave me nod and a wink before saying,

"Sure thing sweetheart." He then turned towards the Doctor, "There's really a banana grove in the heart of Villengard and you did that?"

"Bananas are good." I flinched as the child banged on the wall, creating cracks in the wall.

"Doctor!"
"Come on!" We all rushed after the Doctor, going down a short stairwell before running down another corridor. A shriek escaped my lips when I saw the gas mask patients coming out of the ward in front of us, and I twirled around to run back the way we came, as did the rest of our group, and ran back through the corridor and up the staircase.

I gasped after seeing that there were more gas mask people in the other direction, making us unable to escape. We were right back where we had started, and the child had almost broken through the wall.

"It's keeping us here so it can get at us." Jack pointed his blaster in one direction, before turning slightly and pointing it in the other direction. I bit my lip, panicking about the fact that I was about to be turned into a gas mask person.

"It's controlling them?"

"It ISthem. It's every living thing in this hospital."

"Okay. This can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and a triple-enfolded sonic disrupter. Doc, Red, what you got?" I shrugged, even though I knew Jack couldn't see me shrugging,

"I've just got my usual. I don't think it'll help us though."

"Never know, Red." Again I shrugged, but instead watched the Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver, but Jack was too busy trying to act tough and manly by brandishing his blaster at the gas mask people.

"A sonic, er... oh, never mind."

"What?"

"It's sonic, okay? Let's leave it at that." I sighed, something telling me that these two were going to constantly at each other's necks. With that thought in mind, I pulled out my gloves that were resting in my back pants pocket, and tugged them onto my hands.

"Disrupter? Cannon? What?" Naturally Jack only thinks of weapons for sonic devices, not of the things like sonic pens and screwdrivers.

"It's sonic! Totally sonic! I am sonic-ed up!"

"A sonic WHAT?"

"SCREWDRIVER!" Jack whirled around in shock, staring at the Doctor for a moment. Right after the Doctor screamed at Jack, the child finally broke through the wall. I stared in horror as the child began climbing through the hole.

"Going down!" I was about to ask Rose what the hell she meant, but instead a shriek escaped my lips as I tumbled down into the room below us, landing in an awkward pile with the other three in our group. Jack quickly detached himself from the pile, and pointed his gun at the ceiling in order to close the hole so the gas mask people, as well as the child, wouldn't be able to follow us.

"Doctor, are you okay?"

"Could've used a warning...!"

"Ugh, the gratitude."
"I agree, but thanks Rose…" Rose gave me a small smile, before she got up and dusted herself off. Sighing softly to myself, I followed her and the Doctor's example and stood up.

"Who has a sonic screwdriver?"

"I do!"
"I, for one, happen to think it's very cool Jack." I noticed, for the corner of my eye, that Rose was looking around the room as she said,

"Light!" Jack seemed to ignore both Rose and I as he stated,

"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'oohoo, this could be a little more sonic'?"

"What, you've never been bored?" It seems that Rose was ignoring them, and was still looking for the light,

"There's gotta be a light switch!"

"Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?" Rose finally found that light switch she was looking for, because the lights suddenly came on, which made all the gas mask people in the beds suddenly sit up saying 'mummy'.

"Door." I listened to Jack's advice, and rushed towards the door, seeing the gas mask people starting to climb out of their beds. Jack tried to use his blaster on the door, but it seems that he's over used it because nothing happened. "Damn it!" He took a step back, giving the Doctor the room to use his sonic screwdriver to open the door, before angrily hitting his blaster.

"It's the special features, they really drain the battery." I warned Jack that he should get smaller, or different, sonic device because of the crappy battery life on this one… but did he listen to me? No. It's not like he ever does.

"The battery?" The Doctor then opened the door, and we all rushed through it. "That's so LAME." The Doctor, the last one out of the door, slammed it shut and locked it with his screwdriver.

"I was gonna send for another one, like Red suggested, but SOMEBODY'S gonna blow up the factory." I chuckled at Jack, as he glared at the Doctor, knowing that I had another gun that I was planning on giving to Jack on his next birthday back at my house, but it doesn't look like he's going to be getting that present anymore. Unless we manage to make it out of this alive…

"Oh, I know - first day I met him, he blew my job up. That's practically how he communicates."

"Okay, that door should hold it for a bit."

"The door? The WALL didn't stop it!"

"Well, it's gotta FIND us first! Come on, we're not done yet! Assets, assets!"

"Well, I've got a banana, and at a pinch you could put up some shelves. And Red's to terrified of them to be of any help." I blushed, embarrassed that my fear was stopping me from being of any help, but like I told Jack before it's not like my sonic device would be of any help against gas mask people. Gas mask people who can't die, and have super strength at that.

"Window—"

"Barred, sheer drop outside. Seven stories."

"And no other exits."

"Not unless you want to become a gas mask person." Jack sat down in the chair, a comfy looking one at that.

"Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?" I smack the back of his head, for being rude, before sitting down on the ground cross-legged beside Jack's chair. I eyed Jack, as he rubbed the back of his head lightly, but didn't complain about me hitting him.

"So, where'd you pick this one up, then?" Rose seemed to warn him not to say anything as she said,

"Doctor…"

"She was hanging from a barrage balloon, I had an invisible spaceship. I never stood a CHANCE." Noticing that Rose looked a little uncomfortable, I tapped Jack's leg lightly to warn him not to make her any more uncomfortable. Jack suddenly grabbed onto my arm as the Doctor started to speak,

"Okay, one, we want to get out of here." And suddenly I was being transported. Once the transport was done, I was laying flat on my back with Jack standing next to me.

"What the hell Jack!" I stood up as quick as I could, and wacked him on the back of his head as hard as I could.

"Ow!" I just continued to glare at Jack as he nursed the back of his head.

"How dare you leave them behind!"

"The security is set for our molecular structures, I couldn't bring them!"

"Then I could have transported them with my watch!" Jack gave me an annoyed look, before slapping his hand over my mouth, I tried to protest, but he spoke before I could remove his hands.

"First, you know your watch is glitchy and doesn't transport more than one person. Second, if you would so kind as to let me explain, I'm going to change the security settings and beam them on board. Okay?" I nodded my head at Jack, a little embarrassed that I hadn't listened to Jack in the least, but glad that I had hit him. He certainly deserved it for not properly explaining in the first place. He removed his hand from my face, before telling me, "You look terrible, why don't you go clean up and rest for a bit?" I opened my mouth to argue with him, only for a yawn to come out of my mouth. Sighing lightly, I nodded my head, and turned towards the chair in the corner.

"If ever he was a captain, he's been defrocked." I looked up, my eyes widened, as I saw the Doctor and Rose in close proximity of each other.

"Yeah? Shame I missed that." I hadn't even realized that I had spaced out, and wasn't paying any attention to Jack and their conversation, until they were teleported onto the ship. I suppose this just shows how much I really need the nap I've been craving. Or that I should start sleeping between time jump, either way I need to get sleep as soon as possible.

"Actually, I quit. Nobody takes my frock." They both looked up in surprise at Jack and I, before quickly taking a step away from each other. "Most people notice when they've been teleported. You guys are so sweet. Sorry about the delay. I had to take the nav-com offline to override the teleport security."

"You can spend ten minutes overriding your own protocols? Maybe you should remember whose ship it is."

"Oh, I do. She was GORGEOUS." I saw Rose smiling from the corner of my eye, before standing up, pout on my face, telling Jack,

"Aw, tell me you didn't? I liked her." Jack turned my direction, smiling at me,

"Finally awake Sleeping Beauty? And sorry, didn't know." I smiled at Jack, as he turned back to tell the Doctor, "Like I told her - be back in five minutes." He then ducked under the console, but I wasn't entirely certain on what he was trying to do. But I suppose it didn't matter much, because Rose clearly doesn't know either and the Doctor was just looking around the ship.

"This is a Chula ship." Ah, so that's why he was looking around. Though it was a little obvious that it was Chula, not to mention the fact that Jack used a Chula medical ship. But maybe I just know Jack too well.

"Yeah, just like that medical transporter. Only, this one IS dangerous." I watched in confusion as the Doctor snapped his finger, and the nanogenes in the ship surrounded his hand.

"They're what fixed my hands up! Jack called 'em, um…"

"Nanobots? Nanogenes."

"Nanogenes, yeah."

"Sub-atomic robots. There's millions of them in here, see? Burned my hand on the console when we landed - all better now. They activate when the bulk head's sealed. Check you out for damage, fix any physical flaws."
"Quite handy after a sword fight, when you get stabbed in the gut. Happened the second time I met that idiot." I gestured towards Jack, smiling teasingly at him. Meanwhile, the Doctor waved his hand making all the nanogenes disperse. The Doctor frowned at Jack, but didn't respond to my comment. Instead he told Jack,

"Take us to the crash site. I need to see your space junk."

"As soon as I get the nav-com back online." I nearly chuckled since Jack sounded like an annoyed child, but decided that it was probably best that I don't laugh; after all this is a serious matter.

"Make yourself comfortable. Carry on with whatever it was you were..." Jack gave a gesture towards Rose and the Doctor, clearly trying suggest something,"... doing."

"We were talking about dancing!" Even though the Doctor sounded innocent, I didn't quite feel like it was dancing, seemed much more intimate.

"It didn't look like talking." And it seems that Jack shares my thoughts,

"Didn't feel like dancing."

I'm not really sure when it happened, but at some point Rose had sat down next to Jack, and was talking with him. The Doctor was also sitting in a chair, but he was farther away from the other two; he was sitting in the chair next to me, not talking to any of us.

"So, you used to BE a Time Agent - now you're trying to con them?

"Robin was also part of the Time Agency, though she doesn't con them on her own. And if it makes me sound any better, it's not for the money."

"You were a Time Agent?" I turned, with a frown on my face, towards the Doctor so that I respond to him.

"Yes. Got a problem with it? Cause if you do then that just sucks for you; because that's how I started traveling in time, and as much as I hate the Time Agency, I owe them. If it weren't for them I wouldn't be traveling in time, and I wouldn't get to see all these exciting new places and races." The Doctor stared at me for a moment, before nodding and telling me,

"No, no problem."

"They stole your memories?" I glanced back towards Rose and Jack, as did the Doctor, when we heard that. I knew the Doctor had been listening into their conversation, even though he was talking with me, because he clearly doesn't trust Jack. Not in the least.

"Two years of my life. No idea what I did. Your friend over there doesn't trust me. And for all I know... he's right not to." I shook my head, ready to tell Jack that even though he's an idiot he still was an amazing person, no matter if he remembers those two years or not; when the computer started to bleep. "Okay, we're good to go." When the Doctor simply looked up at him, Jack continued by saying, "Crash site?"


Once we were at the crash site, which hadn't taken nearly as long as thought it would, we peered over the barbed wire to see the actual site.

"There it is." I watched a man pace up in down the path for a moment, before Jack told us, "Ay, they've got Algy on duty. Must be important."

"We've gotta get past."

"As if that wasn't obvious." I muttered to myself, getting an annoyed look from the Doctor. I was spared from the Doctor's look when Rose stated,

"The words 'distract the guard' head in my general direction."

"I don't think that'd be such a good idea."

"Don't worry... I can handle it."

"I've got to know Algy quite well since I've been in town. Trust me. You're not his type. I'll distract him." I chuckled to myself, knowing that Jack meant that Algy wasn't 'straight. Jack started walking away, while telling us, "Don't wait up."

"Relax, he's a 51st century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing."

"HOW flexible?"

"Well, by his time, you lot have spread out across half the galaxy."

"So many species, so little time..." I frowned at him, taking some offence from his statement, but I didn't hit him since I knew from personal experience that there were many different human-hybrids out there. Why else would the Time Agency want people like me?

"What, that's what we do when we get out there? That's our mission? We seek new life, and... and..."

"Dance." The Doctor sniggered at Rose, and possibly myself, because of our reaction to their conversation. I looked back towards the bomb site when I heard Jack land on the train tracks near Algy.

"Hey, tiger! How's it hanging?" The man turned to look at Jack, looking very inquisitive.

"Mummy?" Did he just say 'mummy'? I really hope that I heard him wrong…

"Algy, old sport, it's me."

"Mummy?" How? He doesn't have a gas mask, so he isn't a gas mask person. Maybe the mutation has changed? I really really hope that isn't the case.

"It's me, Jack."

"Jack?" He paused, cocking his head to the side much like a confused child would, "Are you my... mummy?" I stared in horror, as the man dropped to his knees, knowing that I was wrong and the mutation hasn't changed. I flinched and looked away from the man, once again unable to watch the process of becoming a gas mask person. I glanced back up when I heard the Doctor shout out,

"Stay back!"

"You men! Stay away!" I rushed over, along with Rose and the Doctor, towards Jack.

"The effect's become air-borne. Accelerating."

"What's keeping US safe?"

"Nothing." Suddenly the air raid sirens started to sound, making me flinch. I suppose Jack had gotten use to them, because he simply looked up and stated,

"Ah, here they come again."

"All we need. Didn't you say a bomb was gonna land... HERE?" I glared at Jack, wondering just how stupid he was. Seriously, if we were on a time restraint then he really should have mentioned it sooner.

"Never mind about that. If the contaminants air-borne now, there's hours left." Was someone…. Singing? Because I think I faintly can hear singing, and I doubt it's just in my head.

"For what?"

"'Til nothing. 'Til forever. For the entire human race. And can anyone else hear singing?"

"Good, it's not just in my head. So where is that singing coming from?" The Doctor glanced around from a moment before he told me,

"The shed." I gaped as he suddenly turned around and made his way towards the shed. I briefly thought about following him, but decided that it was better if only one person went; joining in might make the situation worse. I awkwardly stood next to Jack and Rose for a few minutes, before the Doctor came back out with another person. I smiled, waving towards Nancy, glad that she was still okay.


When we finally reached the ship, it had a tarpaulin covering in order to keep it from site. The Doctor and Jack quickly fixed that, by pulling the tarpaulin off of the medical ship.

"You see? Just an ambulance."

"That's an ambulance?" I watched Rose place a comforting around Nancy, and bit my tongue to stop myself from blurting out anything that would too overwhelming for Nancy.

"It's hard to explain, it's... it's from another world."

"They've been trying to get in." I raised my eyebrow at Jack, wondering just how oblivious he really was.

"Of COURSE they have."

"Why the hell wouldn't they?" Jack pretty much just ignored us, and started to enter the code to the ship; in order to open it and show the Doctor that 'nothing' is in there.

"They think they've got their hands on Hitler's latest secret weapon. What're you doing?"

"Well, the sooner you see this thing is empty, the sooner you'll see I had nothing to do with it." Suddenly the controls exploded, and an alarm started to sound. I gave Jack a glare, wondering what the hell he had done this time? "Didn't happen last time."

"It hadn't crashed last time. They're the emergency protocols."

"Doctor, what IS that?" I watched a red light flash on the control panel, wondering what exactly the security system was doing.

"Doctor!" I suppose Rose was trying to warn the Doctor about shaking gates on the other side of the bomb site. The Doctor seemed to take her warning as he told Jack,

"Captain, secure those gates!"

"Why?"

"Just do it!" For once Jack seems to have listened to the Doctor, as he ran off towards the gate. After Jack had left the Doctor turned towards Nancy and asked her,

"Nancy, how'd you get in here?"

"I cut the wire."

"Show Rose." He tossed her his sonic screwdriver, I assume to fix the hole, and told her, "Setting two thousand four hundred and twenty eight D."

"What?"
"Reattaches barbed wire. Go!" I jumped when I heard a slam, only to see that it was only Jack slamming the gate shut. Once he was finished with that, he came to join the Doctor and I near the war ship. Then it only took him a few more minutes to finally open the ship, still trying to prove to the Doctor, and the rest of us, that the ship was empty and had been the whole time.

"It's empty. Look at it." I noticed the two other girls joining us, and threw a small smile in their direction.

"What do you expect in a Chula medical transporter? Bandages? Cough drops? Rose? Robin?" I bit my lip, ready to chuckle, because the Chula only use nanogenes to heal, there could never have been anything that the Earth uses to heal people. If I weren't debating weither I should laugh at the situation, or beat Jack senseless, I would have answered the Doctor's question; but since I was debating it, Rose answered his question,

"I dunno."

"Yes, you do." The Doctor snapped, or pretended to, in order to mimic earlier when he was looking at the nanogenes on Jack's ship.

"Nanogenes!"

"It wasn't empty, Captain. There was enough nanogenes in there to rebuild a species." Jack's face went white as a sheet as he finally understood what the Doctor had been saying all along; this was his fault.

"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."

"And they brought him back to life? They can DO that?"

"What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. Nothing to a nanogene. One problem, though - 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." Meaning that they thought that the little boy they found earlier was how humans were suppose to look… Crap. The nanogenes just think that they're doing their job, don't they?

"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 gonna be torn down and rebuilt in the form of one terrified child looking for its mother, and NOTHING in the world can stop it!" As the Doctor had spoken, his voice had risen, meaning that by the end he was nearly yelling.

"I didn't know." Even though I could see that Jack was clearly shaken up, and felt guilty, he was still able to sound defiant. And to sound entirely stupid and naive. I suppose the Doctor wasn't very impressed by Jack's answer, because he gave Jack an icy stare. After a moment of more or less glaring at Jack, the Doctor went back to observing the med-ship, using his sonic screwdriver.

"Rose?" Nancy sounded scare. Very scared. Due to that I followed where she was looking, only to see an army of gas mask people assembling. They weren't that close yet, but they were getting pretty damn close. Rose rushed back towards the medical ship, and stared at the red blinking light for a moment before asking the Doctor,

"It's bringing the gasmask people here, isn't it?"

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

"But... the gasmask people aren't troops..."
"They are now, Rose." Rose glanced at me in confusion, not understanding what I meant in the least. And why should she? It's not like she has any advanced knowledge on nanogenes or the Chula race. Seeing Rose's confused expression the Doctor decided to explain further,

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

"That's why the Child's so strong. Why it could do that phoning thing."
"It's a fully equipped Chula warrior, yes. 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." I glanced over, a little nervously, only to see that the gas mask people were standing by the fence, waiting for something.

"Why don't they attack?"

"Good little soldiers. Waiting for their commander."

"The child."

"Jamie."

"What?"

"Not 'the child'. Jamie." I glanced at Nancy, surprised she was so protective over her little brother… They must have been really close.

"So, how long until the bomb falls?"

"Any second."

"What's the matter, Captain? Bit close to the volcano for you?"

"He's just a little boy."

"I know."

"He's just a little boy who wants his mummy." Nancy sounded so upset, her voice had dropped and she looked like she was ready to cry. I frowned, not sure how to properly comfort someone whose little brother had been killed and brought back to life trying to find his mother… it's not like I've ever been in this situation before. Though it seems the Doctor knows how to comfort someone better then myself,

"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."

"So what're we gonna DO?"

"I don't know." Rose heaved a sigh, while Nancy had tears in her eyes. I wonder what exactly happened to their mother, after all Nancy was probably old enough to be seen as a mother figure to Jamie.

"It's all my fault."

"No."

"Nancy, this isn't your fault."

"It is. It's all my fault." The Doctor seemed to become more gentle when he spoke to Nancy, I suppose in an attempt to comfort her.

"How can it be your—" I blinked in confusion when the Doctor suddenly stopped speaking, and spun around to look at the gas mask people calling for their 'mummy'. He then turned back to Nancy, who had started to sob uncontrollably, and stared at her for a moment before he started speaking again, "Nancy, what age are you? Twenty? Twenty-one? Older than you look, yes?" Suddenly a bomb landed near us, making Jack, Rose, and myself flinch.

"Doctor - that bomb. We've got seconds." Yet another bomb dropped near us, making me flinch again.

"You can teleport us out." I glanced at the Doctor, wondering if he knew that Jack couldn't get them out of here, seeing as Rose didn't, but his eyes were stuck on the still sobbing Nancy.

"Not you or the Doctor. The nav-com's back online. Gonna take too long to override the protocols." Still staring at Nancy, the Doctor responded,

"So it's volcano day. Do what you've got to do."

"I'm staying here." I stared at the Doctor, not planning to let him and Rose deal with this alone.

"Jack?" I could hear the betrayal in her voice as she spoke to Jack, and I sure hope he doesn't leave like this, it would ruin any trust Rose has for him. It seems that Jack doesn't care about Rose's trust, because after throwing her an apologetic look, before he teleported back to his ship. I guess some things never change.

"How old were you five years ago? Fifteen? Sixteen? Old enough to give birth, anyway." Nancy glanced over towards the Doctor, still sobbing, before glancing away with a look of shame on her face. Then…. Does this mean that Jamie is her child, not her brother? I gave Nancy a wide-eyed look, while my face probably reflected my shock, as the Doctor continued speaking, "He's not your brother, is he?"

Nancy shook her head, letting us know that the Doctor was right in pretty much saying that Jamie wasn't her brother, that he was her son. "A teenage single mother in 1941. So you hid. You lied. You even lied to him." Suddenly the gates swung open, making me flinch, and Jamie was standing in front of the army of gas mask people.

"Are you my mummy?"

"He's gonna keep asking, Nancy. He's never gonna stop. Tell him." Nancy didn't answer, instead she stayed silent, and the gas mask people started to walk toward us. " Nancy... the future of the human race is in your hands. Trust me... and tell him." In response to the Doctor's statement, Nancy sniffled with tears still in her eyes. Then Jamie walked closer to us, asking once more,

"Are you my mummy?" The Doctor gave Nancy a gentle shove towards Jamie, once more telling Nancy that Jamie needs to know who his mother is. "Are you my mummy? Are you my mummy?" I smiled as Nancy finally spoke again, even if it was only a whisper,

"Yes." She spoke again, this time her voice coming out much louder and clearer, "Yes. I AMyour mummy." Jamie slowly started walking toward her,

"Mummy?"

"I'm here."

"Are you my mummy?" Nancy kneeled before Jamie, telling him,

"I'm here."

"Are you my mummy?"

"Yes."

"He doesn't understand. There's not enough of him left." I glanced at the Doctor, knowing he had lowered his voice so that Nancy wouldn't hear him, and gave him a frown while muttering out,

"There has to be something we can do…"

"I am your mummy. I will always be your mummy. I'm so sorry." Nancy then pulled Jamie into her arms, giving him a hug, no longer caring about what could happen to her. A gasp escaped my lips as I watched the nanogenes surround the two, covering them with a golden light. "I am so, so sorry." Rose gave the Doctor and myself a glance before she asked,

"What's happening? Doctor, it's changing her, we should-"
"Shh!" The Doctor stared at the two, clearly feeling excited, before he said, "Come on, please. Come on, you CLEVER little nanogenes - figure it out! The mother. She's the mother! There's gotta be enough information, figure it out!"
"Then this might work out after all!" Nancy might get her little boy back… There just might be a happy ending after all, if the nanogenes can work everything out.

"What's happening?" The Doctor then pointed at Nancy, Jamie, and the nanogenes, telling Rose,

"See? Recognizing the same DNA." I gasped, when the nanogenes had left Nancy fell to the ground, away from Jamie. Rose rushed towards Nancy, check to make sure she was okay, while the Doctor rushed towards Jamie, trying not to be too hopeful about Jamie being normal again. "Oh, come on. Give me a day like this. Give me this one." I followed the two over, and peered at Jamie as the Doctor reached out towards the gas mask. I smiled in delight as I saw the gas mask pull away from Jamie's face, showing an adorable little boy. I joined the Doctor in his ecstatic laughter, overjoyed that Jamie was okay. My smile broadened as I watched the Doctor lift Jamie into the air, and swinging him around. "Ah-ha-ha! Welcome back! Twenty years 'til pop music - you're gonna love it." The Doctor gave Jamie a hug, still laughing.

"What happened?" I smiled at Nancy, momentarily enjoying her wonderment.

"The nanogenes recognised the superior information - the parent DNA. They didn't change YOU because YOU changed them! Haha!" The Doctor gave her a bright smile, placing Jamie back down in front of her. "Mother knows best!" Nancy seemed near tears as she stared at Jamie,

"Jamie...!" Suddenly a bomb dropped near us, and I flinched yet again. Rose seemed to agree that the bomb was too close because she reminded the Doctor of the bomb,

"Doctor, that bomb..."

"Taken care of it."

"How?" The Doctor gestured towards Jamie and Nancy while telling Rose,
"Psychology!"

"Ah, so you tricked him then?" I smiled at the Doctor, figuring he had tricked Jack into doing something. I gulped as the bomb dropped towards us, hoping that the Doctor was right about Jack doing something. Apparently he was because the bomb was snatched out of the air by a brilliant blue force field, before Jack appeared hovering in the light tunnel.

"Doctor!"

"Good lad!"

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

"Change of plan - don't need the bomb. Can you get rid of it? Safely as you can?"

"Rose?"

"Yeah?"

"Goodbye." Jack then disappeared, making Rose's face drop, before he suddenly reappeared, "By the way - love the tee-shirt." Jack flashed her a grin, which she returned while pulling on her shirt embarrassed. I watched with a frown as Jack ship zoomed off into the night. Didn't he know that he wouldn't make it out of that alive? The idiot…

"Think you two can get along fine without me?" I gave them both a grin and a wink before I continued speaking, "Because I don't think that idiot can get along without me." A few seconds later the Doctor nodded at me, letting me know that they would be fine without me. I grinned at them, while I hit the needed buttons on my watch to teleport onto Jack's ship. "Nice meeting you two!" And with that I was on Jack's ship, hearing him say,

"Anyway. Thanks for everything, computer. It's been great."
"Hey, what about me you idiot!" I grinned at Jack, as he turned to look at me in shock.

"Red, what are you doing here?"
"Can't leave you alone to die, can I?" Suddenly the song Moonlight Serenade started playing, and I glanced at Jack in confusion. Instead of answering me, Jack looked over my shoulder at something. I turned around, seeing the Doctor's ship sitting snugly in the back of Jack's small ship. The Doctor and Rose seemed to be in an awkward position, but Rose still called out,

"Well, hurry up then you two!" I smiled when I saw that they were dancing, before realizing just how large the inside of the ship is. It's bigger on the inside! The inside of the ship was just too beautiful for words; it practically took my breath away.

"Right, and turn..." I finally peeled my eyes away from the ship, and focused back on Rose and the Doctor, grinning at them as they danced. "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."

"I'm SURE I used to know this stuff." The Doctor then spoke to Jack, who was standing closer to the door then I was, "Close the door, will you. Your ship's about to blow up - there's gonna be a draft." Rose leaned against one of the pillars, grinning at Jack while the Doctor started the ships engines.

"Welcome to the TARDIS."
"She's much more beautiful then I imagined." I was still grinning, while looking around the ship with a sense of wonder. It seems that Jack was still stuck on the fact that it's bigger on the inside then the outside because he said,

"Much bigger on the inside..."

"You'd better be."

"I think what the Doctor's TRYING to say is... you may cut in." Rose then grabbed Jack's hand, preparing to dance with him, when suddenly the Doctor exclaimed,

"Rose! I've just remembered!"

"What?" The song In The Mood suddenly started blaring from somewhere in the ship, and lights started flashing, while the Doctor moved towards Rose; clicking his fingers.
"I can dance!"

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

"I'm sure he would, Rose. I'm absolutely certain. But who with?" Rose and I both sniggered, and Rose hopped up the steps to take the Doctor's hand. I watched him spin Rose perfectly, and wondered to myself if he was just pretending to not know how to dance before. The two of them were nearly perfect partners, as they danced around the console. Rose let out a squeal of delight as the Doctor dipped her. I glanced at Jack from the corner of my eyes, and saw that while he was still smiling at them, he was no longer looking at other two.

"Hey Jack, think we should show these two up?" Jack gave me a chuckle, while taking my hand.

"Sure thing Red."