"Ok?" Tegan asked as Graham stepped back into the room. He nodded once before looking at Kate.

"Ryan said he's heading back here with Donna and Martha."

"Donna?" Ten felt his pulses race. "She can't. She mustn't."

"Oh yeah." Thirteen shrugged. "You missed that bit. She remembers. Brain did not explode."

"What? What?"

"Don't understand it. But you, we. Me?" She paused, thinking. "Should never have wiped her memories. Especially without her consent. She asked you not to. Her brain did not implode. There was another way."

"Yeah." Graham nodded. "You just panicked. Understandable. I mean, Donna Noble is a force to be reckoned with that's for sure."

"She is." Ace smiled as she thought of her friend. "And with Martha and Ryan there's no stopping that girl."

"Donna verses the Sontarans." Dan laughed. "We could be taking the day off once she gets 'ere."

"Back of the neck!" Yaz laughed, remembering the story she had been told once she had stopped travelling with the Doctor. Ten smiled slightly.

"Yeah, yeah she is."

"Right. Well." Graham clapped his hands together. "What's the plan, Doc?"

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"So." Ryan asked as he got into the passenger seat of the 4x4 Donna was driving up to London. "What else 'ab I missed. What's me Grandad been up to?"

"Working for UNIT mostly." Donna smirked. "Him and me Grandad have been out for a few drinks. Mum says he is a bad influence."

"Wilf and Graham together." Martha laughed. "I wouldn't be able to tell who the bad influence was!"

Ryan laughed. "Yeah. They get on well."

"Yeah, they do." Donna smiled as she thought of Wilf. The man had always been her greatest supporter and she loved him dearly. She smirked slightly. "When he ain't with me Grandad, he's with Ace."

"Ace? He talks about her loads when I phone him."

"I bet."

"Go on? Is there something going on with them?"

"Ryan." Martha paused. "I don't know if there is. But Ace likes him. Like really likes him." She started as Donna smiled. "And I think the feeling is mutual. Only that he won't make a move because he thinks its betraying Grace."

"He's such an idiot." Ryan sighed. "Gran would want him to find someone who makes him happy. I mean, he ain't getting any younger, is 'e?"

"Maybe you should tell him that." Donna smiled as Ryan nodded.

"Ace is cool. I like her. Yeah, I'll have a word." He looked out of the window as Donna drove.

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"We need to get to their core base." Thirteen stated. "I can't risk any of you doing that."

"We can do it." Ten stated.

"Pardon me, but don't we get a say in this?" Graham asked as Ian rolled his eyes.

"Not when it could risk you getting killed." Thirteen looked over at the team stood around the room. "Dan, any luck with the Wok?"

"Yeah, but what good is that going to do? You gonna stir fry them away?"

Thirteen rolled her eyes. "No, its the back of it." She took the Wok from the table where Dan had left it earlier before starting to dismantle it.

"Me Mam is gonna have a fit."

"Your age and still worried about what your mother will do?" Ian smiled slightly.

"You have not met me Mam." Dan pulled a face as Ian and Tegan smirked. Ace frowned.

"Professor? What are you doing?"

"I am taking this handle off, look." She handed the handle to Kate. "The connection between the handle and the pan are the same as the gap in the back of the Sontaran's neck. You guys can use these while we are working out how to stop them."

"And what will you be doing?" Kate folded her arms watching both the Doctors in front of her. She knew whatever it was, she wasn't going to like it.

"We." Ten looked over at Thirteen. "Are going to stop them."

"How?"

"Work in progress." Thirteen shrugged as the TARDIS doors opened. "Come on." Ten followed her back into the TARDIS before the machine vanished into the ether.

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Kate swore under her breath as Ian decided tea was the next course of action. He left the room with Yaz as Dan picked up the Wok. He knew there was a very good chance the Sontarans would make it to Earth and this time he was going to be ready.

"Ace?" Graham watched as she grabbed her jacket. "You ok?"

"Me?" She nodded. "Yeah. Wish the Professor would just tell us what they are planning."

"True."

"Nothing changes." She sighed before heading outside. Graham was about to follow her when he felt Tegan rest a hand on his arm.

"Leave her a minute."

"But."

"You and I need to talk." Tegan sighed. "If Ace wont tell you then I have to."