"Typical. I turn vegetarian and now I'm Bane munchies." Clyde comments as the two Bane close in on us. "Yeah, that must suck for you. Luke and I are also about to eaten." I remind him that neither of us has turned veggie. "What happened to Mrs. Wormwood?" Luke asked. "No idea. She either died by the other one, or she's coming to save us." I responded, getting very nervous. Clyde suddenly dashed to where the hose is kept in the corner of the garden. I grin at his idea and turn it on. "Nothing eats Clyde Langer without a fight." Clyde tells the Bane, spraying them with water. The water fight continued for a little while, or at least, until the Bane smacked it out of Clyde's hands. "I think they're done playing with their food." Clyde said. "You think?" I asked sarcastically. "Bane Kindred!" I heard Mrs. W call out to them. "Humans are off the menu!" She said, her ring glowing green. I ran and hid in the plants so that I don't get splatted when they explode. "Nice one, Mrs. W." I heard Clyde grit out. "Where did Asha go?" I heard Luke ask. "Here! I knew they were about to explode, so I hid." I explained, coming out."
"Luke!" I heard Sarah Jane shout, coming out of her car. "I told you to stay away from her!" She continued shouting, running up to us. "She saved our lives." Luke said innocently. "She did." I backed up his validity. "We were Bane bait. Then Mrs. W fixed them with her ring thing." Clyde explained, wiping the gunk off him. Rani, an older man and a black lady, who resembles Carla quite strongly, came up. "Saving human lives is becoming a bit of a habit with me." Mrs. W said, proud that she had saved three humans in one go. "I do hope that we can conclude our business together before I am scarred for life. Do you have the Scroll?" She asked. "Yes. We've got it." Sarah Jane confirmed. "Then give it to me." Mrs. W said, stretching her hand out to receive it from Sarah Jane. "Somehow, I don't think this is the right time." Sarah Jane exclaimed sounding frustrated. "It wasn't exactly a stealth operation." Rani pointed out. "Yes, half of your fellow members of UNIT would be after us!" Sarah Jane exclaimed. "I'm in medical." The black lady said. "Aunt Sam?" Clyde asked. She turned to him. "Oh brilliant. Sarah Jane Smith, you got my nephew involved?" She demanded. "Well, now you know your aunt's job." I informed Clyde. "And another child!" She shouted. "Not so loud please Mrs. Luculent. I'm Asha, friend of Clyde's." I introduced myself. "Sarah Jane is right. We should be on our way." The older man said. "And, um, who are you two?" She asked. "I'm Samantha Luculent. UNIT medic, specializing in anesthetics and alien medicine. Clyde's aunt. I'm also the one who gives Luke his checkups." Samantha said. "Oh, uh, Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, madam, at your service." The Brigadier said, holding out his arm for Mrs. W to shake. Rani cleared her throat while pulling his arm down. "I know the last place UNIT will look for us. Let's go!" Rani said, running towards Sarah Jane's car. "You know Rani, we can't go anywhere without you telling us where we're going?" Samantha asked, deadpanning. We all began running to the car. "Mum's shop." Rani called back.
"Hiding out in a flower shop?" Clyde asked sarcastically. "I think it's an excellent idea. Rani's right, it's the last place UNIT will look." Sarah Jane said, happy with Rani's idea. "Tea. Come on, mum's got a kettle out back." Rani said, the three of us walking out. I began boiling the kettle while Rani started hunting for the tea. Suddenly, this baked potato came in. "Surrender, for he honor of Sontar!" Ah, this must be a sontaran. "Kaagh?" Clyde asked furiously. "Silence, half form. This way, now." Kaagh snapped, but what got me scared, was the gun. "Get off me." I yelled when he grabbed my arm and pushed me into the main room. "Kaagh!" Sarah Jane exclaimed, confusion in her voice. "A sontaran always keeps an oath of vengeance." He said, stomping past and taking Sarah Jane's lipstick. He dropped it on the floor and stepped on it, smashing it to pieces. "You alien chaps never get the message, do you?" The Brigadier asked. "Nah, don't think they do." I said, answering his rhetorical question. "You will regret doing that, Kaagh." Sarah Jane shouted at him. "No. You shall regret robbing me of the honor of Sontar, for all eternity!" He replied, pointing his gun in Sarah Jane's face. "Kaagh and I both have a score to settle, Miss Smith. Our vengeance will span a galaxy." Ah. He has Horath's consciousness. "Kaagh has the consciousness of Horath." Sarah Jane and I said at the same time. "He is the Bane's agent. And you're both double-crossing them." Sarah Jane continued. Samantha started laughing. "What's so funny auntie Sammie?" Clyde asked, talking like he was two. "Do you really smashing the lipstick will stop us?" Samantha doubled over in laughter. "Aunt Sam…are you pregnant?" Clyde asked cautiously. "What's that got to do with anything?" She asked, now cross. "Last time you were this…odd, is when you were pregnant with Jonathan. So are you?" Clyde demanded, looking suspicious. "Three months in. Didn't Carla tell you?" Samantha asked, rolling her eyes. "Nope." Clyde said, barely suppressing the grin. "Enough talk." Baked Potato said. Fine, I know his name's Kaagh, but I don't feel like giving him his name. In my view, people need to earn their full names. He hasn't. "I could never return to Sontar. What sort of soldier is beaten by a female and half forms?" I shrugged. "A rubbish or compassionate one. You're the rubbish one, by the way. In case you haven't guessed. And what kind of soldier betrays his brothers?" I said, in a bout of typical me randomness. "Quiet, half form. You don't know anything about being a soldier." Kaagh yelled, glaring at me. "I was reduced to working as a mercenary for the Bane." He carried on his story. "Kaagh was carrying the Consciousness of Horath for the Bane, when he recognized me on a planet in the Snake Tongue Nebula." Samantha snorted. "Which planet? I went to the Snake Tongue Nebula on a uni trip once. Beautiful place." Mrs. W glared at her for interrupting her story. "Sorry. Carry on." "The Bane had put a high price on my head. But I encouraged Kaagh to see the bigger picture. A much bigger picture." Mrs. W said. Baked Potato looked confused. "Did you really? He doesn't seem to think so." I said, looking at the frowning Sontaran. "What, did you tell him that he could rule by your side? She's lying by the way." Samantha said, walking up and patting him on the shoulder. "You are officially my hero." I said, being stupid. "Get of me, female. You know nothing." Baked Potato sneered, pushing her hand off his shoulder. "I know a bit more than you mate, if you really believe that she'll let you rule by her side." Samantha said, moving back to her original place. "So," Mrs. W said, ignoring the conversation that we just had. "Give me the Scroll." Mrs. W stepped forwards, hand outstretched. "Don't do it Sarah Jane." Rani burst out with panic in her voice. "Oh, I suggest you do. Or Kaagh will disintegrate your friends, one at a time." She threatened, putting Sarah Jane under pressure. "You're mad!" Sarah Jane exclaimed, getting out the Scroll. "It will destroy you. It will destroy everything." "I hope you know you're doing." Samantha said to Mrs. W. Mrs. W did not earn her name. "Oh, really, Miss Smith, Mrs. Luculent, you're both so negative." Mrs. W said, taking the Scroll. "Well, you're about to try and destroy the galaxy. What do you expect? A joyful, 'Here's the Scroll. Three cheers for the destroyers of the Galaxy.' Sorry. You're hanging around with the wrong crowd." I said, mocking the comic duo. They are quite hilarious. "Power has such beauty, hasn't it, Kaagh?" Mrs. W said, showing Potato the Scroll, completely ignoring me. "Are you in love with the Scroll?" I comment randomly. "Silence, half form. Power is the most beautiful thing in the universe. Shall I destroy them now?" Baked Potato asked, pointing his gun at me, seeing as I'm the most annoying one, other than Samantha, who's pregnant. "No! Leave them alone, Mrs. Wormwood!" Luke said, pushing me behind him, knowing that he's the only one who won't get hurt, due to being Mrs. W' 'son'. "My mum's given you what you wanted, now get out!" Luke said, his anger evident in his voice. "Such a brave boy." Mrs. W said, shoving Baked Potato's gun away from Luke. "So much more than a boy." She continued. "Yeah. He's a teenager. A male teenager." I said, trying to irritate her. "Keep away from him!" Sarah Jane said, pulling him back from Mrs. W's caressing hand. "Luke, I will spare your friends, if you will come with me." Mrs. W said. She is obsessed with Luke. Honestly, it's slightly creepy. "No. He's going nowhere with you. He is my son!" Sarah Jane stepped forwards. "And I gave him the intelligence to make his own choices." Mrs. W argued. "Honestly, stop fighting you two. You're getting nowhere." I said, nudging Luke knowing he's the only one who could stop this. "Very well. Then you all die. Kaagh." Mrs. W said when Luke said nothing. Baked Potato pointed his gun at Rani next. "I'll come with you! But you don't hurt anyone. You have to promise." Luke said. "No, Luke!" Sarah Jane cried. "And I promise you, Sarah Jane Smith, that as long as you can resist that infuriating tendency to meddle, Luke will be safe. Take him away, Kaagh." Mrs. W said, happiness showing on her face. Potato pushed Luke out back. "Luke, I love you!" Sarah Jane called to her son. "And I love you!" Luke shouted back. "We are not finished Mrs. Wormwood!" Sarah Jane stood by the counter as Mrs. W stood by the door. "Oh, I think we are, Miss Smith." Mrs. W said, using her ring to knock us all unconscious.
"Asha. Asha wake up." Samantha said, tapping me on my face. "What?" I asked, very confused. "We have to get Luke and the Scroll back." Se said, helping me up. We piled into Sarah Jane's car and began going back to Sarah Jane's house. "No sign of UNIT." Rani said, peeking around the van we were crouching behind. "No. They're soldiers, trained to disappear into the background." Samantha said. "I don't like soldiers." I whined. "Mr. Smith is our only chance of finding Luke and stopping Mrs. Wormwood." Sarah Jane reminded us. "Hang on! UNIT don't know me. Or Asha. We can go in and do a recce, see if he coast is really clear and they wouldn't suspect a thing. Clyde Langer, Super spy!" Clyde said. "I don't want to run the risk of meeting an armed soldier. I'll stay here." I protested. "Be careful Clyde. If you get hurt, I'll never forgive myself. Neither would your mum if she knew." Samantha said. Clyde walked up the driveway. We waited a minute before he called Sarah Jane. "Clyde? Be right there." She said into the phone. We all began walking to the house. "Where is he?" Rani asked, worried about Clyde. "This does not look good." Sarah Jane said, walking in. "Oh, the glass was from when the Bane were attacking. Don't worry." I said, making everyone relax. "Clyde?" Samantha called. Sarah Jane opened the door to the living room when we heard muffled shouting coming out of there. "Major, what the hell do you think you're doing? Let him go." The Brigadier ordered the guy had Clyde in a headlock. "I always follow orders." The Major said, shoving Clyde into the armchair. He loaded his gun. "I'm afraid all of you are under arrest." He said. "Major, I assure you, you are making an earth-shattering mistake." The Brig said. "Give me the Tunguska Scroll." The Major said, his hand shaking. "Major, please listen to me. We are trying to save the galaxy." Sarah Jane attempted to reason with him. "Honestly, Major. Who put you up to this?" Samantha asked sounding annoyed. "Can you not point the gun?" I asked, pushing myself against the doorway and away from the gun. "Just give me the scroll!" He shouted, ignoring my discomfort. "We haven't got it anymore." Rani shouted. "What?" He demanded furiously. "My son's been kidnapped. I'm trying to save him, can't you understand that?" Sarah Jane screamed at him, getting angrier by the minute. "My only concern is homeworld security." The Major said, pointing his weapon at everyone. "Yeah? It looks to me like you're sitting down on the job!" Clyde yelled, kicking the table into the Major's shins, causing him to fall on the sofa and drop his gun. "Finally!" I called, glad that he had lost the gun. Clyde pounced on the Major, making it impossible for him to move. "I'd stay where you are if I were you, Major. He's got worse than that." Rani stepped forwards and smirked. "You do what you have to do. I'll keep an eye on the Major." The Brigadier said to is, pointing his walking stick at the Major. "On it." I said, bounding up the stairs.
"I registered these energy readings from the Scroll. I need you to calibrate and initiate a tracker search across the UK." Sarah Jane put the watch on Mr. Smith's scanner tray and stepped back. "Satellite tracking now active." Mr. Smith showed us the progress he was making. "They could be anywhere. We've got no idea how much time we've got." Clyde pointed out. "So? We've got try." I said, hoping to lift his spirit. "We have one advantage. Luke. Remember that." Sarah Jane reminded us, smiling at us. "Target acquired. It is apparently mobile and heading along the A786 towards the village White-barrow." Mr. brought the conversation back on track. "The place with the Neolithic tomb?" I asked, hoping I remembered right. "We went there on a school trip." Clyde said. "Oh yeah. With Mrs. Pittman." I remembered. "It's 3000 years old. That must be where Horath is buried." Sarah Jane grabbed her watch while I began running downstairs.
I burst into the living to see the Brig shoot the Bane. I'm assuming that it was the Major. His stick was a gun?! Samantha rounded on the Brig, a look of sheer fury on her face. "What did you do that for, sir? That was totally unnecessary. No wander aliens think of us as barbarians! There are 1001 ways we could have dealt with that, and none of them included shooting him!" But I wasn't really paying attention. I was staring at him in horror. "What? Why are you staring at me like that?" He asked. "I thought you were different." I said, walking out of the room, wiping away tears as they came. I sat on the bottom stairs until they came out to get in the car. "Let's go in my car. It's bigger." Samantha said, walking towards her car.
"Sorry about the car seat. Jonathan's only one." Samantha apologized, putting it in the back. "How is Jonathan?" Clyde asked as we left Bannerman Road. "He's fine. He was demanding you the other day." Samantha said. "How does a one year old demand for Clyde?" I asked, curious. "By screaming 'Kyde' over and over in my ear non stop." Samantha laughed, making Clyde go red. "Kyde! Kyde! Kyde!" I began saying. "Shut up Asha." Clyde snapped. "Fine. Kyde." I pouted, shutting up.
We were driving towards where the galaxy destroyers and Luke are, when an earthquake hit. "It's an earthquake." Rani stated, pointing out the obvious. "No really? Ugh." Samantha groaned, clutching her stomach. "Are you alright?" I asked, getting worried. "Normally, that's my job as a doctor. Yeah, I'm fine. Everyone else?" She laughed. "Completely." I responded. "We have to hurry. We may already be too late." Sarah Jane said, urging Samantha to drive.
"Luke!" Sarah Jane screamed, all of us getting out of the car. "Mum!" Luke ran towards us, hugging Sarah Jane. "You didn't get yourself killed. Well done." I said, hugging him. "It never looked like that when we came with the school." Clyde said as the grass in the circle fell away to reveal a portal into space. It was beautiful. Samantha whistled. "Whoops!" Clyde joked. "Bet the National Trust is going to be really pleased about that (!) A stone circle with a black hole in the middle." Rani said sarcastically. "I'd pay to see it." Clyde stated, contradicting what Rani said. "The portal. It's opened." Luke said, looking at Sarah Jane worriedly. "Luke. Come with me, Luke." Mrs. W said, pleading with my best friend. "I will show you things beyond even your imagination. Come to me, Luke." She said, putting her hand out for him to take. "Come to your mother." She raised her other hand in a volleyball low touch position. "No. Sarah Jane's my mother." Luke said, hugging Sarah Jane. "Do you hear that, Mrs. Wormwood? Luke is my son because I have cared for him and looked after him. Because I love him. And you don't understand love. People who understand love don't want to crush planets or take over the universe. Those people aren't people at all, they truly are monsters." Sarah Jane shouted. "Who! Go Sarah Jane!" I called, looking at Mrs. W's face, which was contorted in disgust. "You're right, Miss Smith." She said, her face loosing the disgust. "And it is so much more fun to embrace one's nature. And what more fun could there be than to destroy?" Mrs. W asked, raising her ring to blast us. "Studying." I said, making Rani groan. "With your deaths, the age of Wormwood shall begin!" "SONTAR-HA!" Kaagh screamed, charging at Mrs. W and pushing her into the portal. They both fell in and the portal closed from energy overload.
After standing up, I walked forwards a few steps as I realized that someone must have created the universe. I mean, everything I was taught or thought about the universe must be wrong. How could it not be? I've thought about it before. We're not alone. We never have been. And I don't just mean aliens. But I've never seen space in person. How could an explosion, something so random and messy, possibly create this? Mum and William are atheists, so I can't ask them about it. I'll talk to Samantha later. "Asha, are you alright?" Luke asked, putting his hand on my shoulder. "Yeah, I'm fine. Are you?" I asked. "Yeah. Now I know that I don't need to worry about Mrs. Wormwood ever again." He replied, freer than he had seemed since the second he had the nightmare this morning.
While everyone was saying goodbye to the Brigadier, I was off to the side. I still haven't forgiven him for being so comfortable with a gun. "You alright, Asha?" Samantha asked, coming up beside me. "Yeah. I'm fine. Just wondering. When we were with the Bane, were you armed?" Samantha looked me in the eye, suddenly very serious. "Yes." "Are you still armed?" "Yes." "With a gun?" "What?! No! Course not!" She looked completely scandalized. "I'm a doctor! Not a killer. The most lethal thing in my possession is this pen." She pulled a bog standard clicky pen out of her pocket. "Sure, it shoots knockout darts, but they just just knock you out for a few hours, and maybe a bruise, but nothing that kills." I nodded. "There's something else that's bothering you. Is it to do with the moment you had back at the portal?" She asked. "Who created the universe? I mean, the big bang theory never really had me convinced, so I always believed that there must've been another way for the universe to have been made. But I need to know who?" I asked feeling confused. "God." She said, laying a hand on my shoulder. "Which one? There are so many different religions, so how do I know which one to believe?" I was overwhelmed. "Well, I think I should start out by saying that I'm a Christian. I am not necessarily trying to "evangelize" you. I am going to say what I believe, and why I believe it, I believe that there is only one God. God. Singular. I mean, it's hard enough to decide what to have for dinner as a group. Can you imagine trying to decide the template for the universe in harmony?" She laughed, looking down at her muddy trainers. "But in the Greek mythology, which was their religion, Prometheus did it by himself. He made the humans out of clay and then gave them life." I countered, hoping that I didn't sound like a know-it-all. "That's true. But he made the humans. What about the Bane? The Time Lords? The Zygons?" "Time Lords? Zygons? What are those? I mean, aliens, duh, but what do you mean?" "Mythology, at least Earth mythology, never accounts for the existence of other life, life outside of Earth. Besides, it is really dodgy. Whenever they find something new, they make a new god. Did you know that the Greeks and the Egyptians once got into an argument concerning religion? The solution they came to was to merge the main gods of each religion and worship the "new and improved" god Amun-Ra. If you can change your gods, how are they gods? You cannot decide to change your race, ethnicity, appearance, and personality. How can you change a gods', who is supposedly more powerful?" I grinned at her passion. "Can I borrow a bible?" I asked, wanting to know more. "No. You cannot borrow a Bible. I'll give you one to keep. Hey, we are having a meeting at my church next Friday. It's a questions and answers meeting. Do you want to come? I can pick you up and drop you back home if transportation is an issue?" She looks at me. I see the genuine hope in her eyes. "Yes please." I said without hesitating. She breaks out into a massive grin. "That's brilliant news! Get a notebook and pen with you, I recommend. Make sure to write all of your questions down, so you don't forget any. I believe you are in luck. The theme next time is the existence of God, and the Friday after is the Holy Trinity. Why don't you come to these sessions, and see how you feel later?" She pulls me into a massive hug when her phone starts ringing. She pulls it out of her pocket. "It's my husband. I have to go now. I'll pick you up at five. Bye!" "Samantha!" I called, wanting to say something. "You know when I said you were my hero in the shop? I was joking, but now, I mean it. Thank you." I said, walking home.
I burst through the door of my house and heard mum and William in the living room. "MUM! I'm vegetarian now!" I yell, beginning to walk up the stairs. "Nice joke Asha." Mum called. I sighed, turned around and lent against the door frame of the living room. "No, I'm being serious. I'm vegetarian." I watched in delight as William's face turned redder and redder as he realized that I was completely serious. "No, you're not." Mum argued. "Uh, yeah I am." I snapped back. "I'm not going to cook anything different for you." She warned. "Fine. It's not like you do anyways." I said, showing the hurt that has been building up for years at the fact that she's rarely ever at home, due to her job at the hospital. She works any hours, odd hours, day shifts; you name it, because it pays better. "I won't buy you any supplements." She continued, ignoring my previous quip. "I wasn't expecting you to." I said, knowing that she wouldn't care as much. "Any required supplements come out of your own pocket money." Mum said. "Fine." "If you get sick because of it, you are going straight back on meat. I don't care about your arguments." She said. "I'll make sure that I don't get ill then." I said frostily. I turned back around and went slowly up the stairs, grinning. "Don't worry too much. My sister decided to go vegetarian once. She lasted a week until she saw us eating sausages, then she gave up." William said quietly to my mum. "I won't give up! I'm being serious!" I call, still smiling. "That's what she said at the time, too." William whispered. I could hear the smug grin in his voice. My mum giggles. He probably came closer to her and started tickling her. I roll my eyes. I run up he rest of the stairs, quickly get changed into my pajamas, and decided to pray for the first time in my life. I looked up the Lord's prayer on the internet, as I was unsure of how to start, and I had heard said that it was a template given by Jesus. So I began. "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name…"
an: That's the end of season 2. On to season 3. As usual, I don't own Sarah Jane. Also, the better written parts are written by my sister./p