The Sontaran Stratagem

For some time, Donna wanted to know how to fly the TARDIS. She was a bit surprised that we didn't just set the controls for a time and place, we actually had to fly the TARDIS through the Time Vortex. It took some convincing but my uncle agreed to let me teach Donna how to fly the TARDIS.

So, I put the TARDIS into basic mode with the shields on and showed Donna what to do. She was a bit nervous at first but after a few moments she started to get the hang of it and was doing a fair job of flying a semi-straight line through the Vortex. She smiled, "I can't believe I'm doing this!"

"No, neither can I." said The Doctor.

"Your doing great…" I said, "Whoa, be careful.. Lift that lever there…" I pointed to a lever on the console. She lifted the lever and I said, "OK… now left hand down…" She did as instructed and the TARDIS lurched to the left, "That was close."

"Getting a bit too close to the 1980s." said The Doctor.

"What am I gonna do, put a dent in 'em?" asked Donna, sarcastically.

"Well, someone did." Just then we heard a cell phone ring. I smiled.

"Hold on- that's a phone!" said Donna, as The Doctor walked around the console and pulled out Martha's cell phone. He just looked at it. "You've got a mobile? Since when?"

"It's not mine," said The Doctor.

"Well, are you going to look at it or answer it?" I said.

He opened the phone and put it on speaker, "Hello?"

"Doctor… It's Martha… And I'm bring you and Teddy back to Earth!"

I took control of the TARDIS, put her back into normal flight and locked onto the signal from Martha's cell phone. And with in no time we were back on Earth. I landed the TARDIS between a two buildings near Martha's current position. The Doctor and I went out first, and there to our left a little ways away from where we landed was Martha.

"Martha Jones," said my uncle.

"Doctor…" said Martha, "Teddy…"

"Martha…" I said.

We slowly walked toward each other but then Martha held out her arms and the three of us enjoyed a group hug.

"Ah, yeah!" said The Doctor as we broke up the hug, "You haven't changed a bit!"

"Neither have you!" said Martha.

"How's the family?" I asked.

"You know. Not so bad. Recovering," she said, "How's that fiancé of yours doing?"

I smiled when she brought up Jack, "He's great… Still hanging out with Torchwood, but he loves his work and I would never take that way from him. How are you doing?"

"I'm great…" said Martha, "Right. I should have known. Didn't take you two long to replace me."

I turned and saw that Donna had made her way out of the TARDIS, "Now, don't start a fight," said The Doctor, "Martha, Donna. Donna, Martha. Please don't fight. I can't bear fighting." I rolled my eyes when I thought about when Rose and Sarah Jane met for the first time.

"You wish. I've heard all about you," said Donna, as she shook Martha's hand, "They talks about you all the time."

"I dread to think," said Martha.

"No, no, no. They says nice things. Good things. Nice things. Really good things."

"Oh, my God, They told you everything."

I laughed a little and looked at Martha's hand as she brushed a stray hair out of her face, "Martha!" I said as I looked at her hand, I gave her a playful swat on the shoulder, "Why didn't you tell me?"

Donna smiled when she noticed what I noticed, "Congratulations, who's the lucky man?"

"What man? Lucky what?" said the Doctor.

I rolled my eyes, "She's engaged, you prawn." said Martha.

Martha wiggled the fingers of her left hand and The Doctor said, "Really? Who to?"

"Tom Milligan," I said with a smile.

"He's in pediatrics working out in Africa right now. And yes, I know, I've got a doctor who disappears off to distant places - tell me about it," said Martha.

"How did you know the name of her fiancé" asked the Doctor.

"Because, I unlike you I like to keep track of my friends…" I said.

"Is he skinny?" asked Donna.

"No, he's sort of... Strong." said Martha.

"He is too skinny for words," said Donna as he pointed at my uncle, "You give him a hug, you get a paper cut."

Martha and I chucked and The Doctor said, "I'd rather you were fighting."

I shook my head when we hear a woman's voice over a radio, "Dr Jones, report to base, please."

"Speaking of which…" said Martha, she took out a walkie talkie, "This is Dr Jones. Operation Blue Sky is go, go, go." She turned and walked way and we followed her, "I repeat, this is a go." As we walked we saw soldiers, Jeeps and a large truck come down the road.

"Unified Intelligence Taskforce, raise that barrier now!" said one of the soldiers. We watched as the soldiers and vehicles entered a large industrial factory, "Leave your safeties on, lads, it's non-hostiles!"

"All workers lay down your tools and surrender!" said another soldier over a bullhorn.

"Greyhound Six to Trap One. B Section, go, go, go!" said Martha into the walkie talkie, "Search the ground floor, grid pattern Delta."

"What are you searching for?" I asked.

"Illegal aliens," said Martha.

"This is a UNIT operation!" said the soldier over the bullhorn, "All workers lay down your tools and surrender immediately!"

We watched UNIT soldiers force the workers to their knees and put their hands over their heads, "B Section mobilized! E Section, F Section, on my command!" we watched as she ran off.

Donna turned to us, "Is that what you did to her, turned her into a soldier?" We really didn't know how to answer so we just waited for the situation to settle down and wait for Martha.

She walked back up to us and The Doctor noticed her name badge, "You're qualified now? You're a proper doctor."

"UNIT rushed it through, given my experience in the field. Here we go," said Martha as she lead us across the grounds, "We're establishing a field base on site. They're dying to meet you."

"Wish I could say the same," I muttered. The Doctor took my hand and I smiled.

Martha took us into the truck and inside was a complete mobile command center, Martha walked up to the commanding officer and said, "Operation Blue Sky complete, sir. Thanks for letting me take the lead. And this... this is the Doctor and his niece, Teddy. Doctor, Teddy. Colonel Mace.

Colonel Mace saluted, "Sir… Miss…"

I saluted back. I thought it was kind of cool to have people salute me, my uncle wasn't so keen on the idea, "Oh, don't salute." said My uncle.

"But it's an honor, sir. I've read all the files on you. Technically speaking, you're still on staff. You never resigned."

"What, you used to work for them?" asked Donna.

"Yeah. A long time ago, back in the 70s - or was it the 80s? It was all a bit more homespun back then."

"Times have changed, sir." said the Colonel.

"That's enough of the 'sir'." said my uncle.

"Come on though, Doctor," said Martha, "You've seen it. You've been on board the Valiant. We've got massive funding from the United Nations, all in the name of Homeworld Security."

"A modern UNIT for the modern world," said the Colonel.

"What, and that means arresting ordinary workers?" said Donna, "In the streets? In broad daylight? It's more like Guantanamo Bay out there. Donna, by the way. Donna Noble, since you didn't ask. I'll have a salute."

Colonel Mace looked at us and The Doctor and I both nodded, he saluted, Donna and said, "Ma'am."

"Thank you." said Donna. I laughed a little.

"Tell me what's going on in that factory," asked my uncle.

"Yesterday, fifty-two people died in identical circumstances right across the world, in 11 different time zones," said the Colonel, "5am in the UK, 6am in France, 8am in Moscow, 1pm in China-"

"You mean they died simultaneously?" I said.

"Exactly. 52 deaths at the exact same moment worldwide."

"How did they die?"

"They were all inside their cars."

"They were poisoned," said Martha, "I checked the biopsies. No toxins. Whatever it is, left the system immediately."

"What have the cars got in common?" asked The Doctor.

"Completely different makes but all fitted with ATMOS. And that is the ATMOS factory."

"What's ATMOS?" asked The Doctor, he looked at me and I shook my head. I hadn't heard of it.

"Oh come on, even I know that," said Donna. "Everyone's got ATMOS."

Martha took us inside and we walked along a catwalk above the factory floor, "Stands for 'Atmospheric Emission System'. The ATMOS in your car reduces CO2 emissions to zero."

"Zero?" I asked, "No carbon? None at all?"

"And you get sat-nav thrown in, plus 20 quid in shopping vouchers if you introduce a friend. Bargain," said Martha.

Colonel Mace joined us, "And this is where they make it, shipping worldwide. Seventeen factories across the globe but this is the central depot, sending ATMOS to every country on Earth."

"And you think ATMOS is alien?" asked The Doctor.

"It's our job to investigate that possibility." said the Colonel, "Doctor? Miss Duncan?"

"You can call me Teddy," I said. As he led us to an office were the ATMOS device was on display.

"And here it is, laid bare," said the Colonel, "ATMOS can be threaded through any and every make of car."

"You've must've checked it out before it went on sale," I said.

"We did," said Martha, "We found nothing. That's why I thought we needed an expert."

The Doctor put his glasses on and started to examine the equipment, "Really? Who did you get?" I rolled my eyes and shook my head. He turned and saw the rest of us staring at him, "Oh, right! Me! Yes! Good."

Then Martha and the Colonel walked out of the room, "Okay, so why would aliens be so keen on cleaning up our atmosphere?" asked Donna.

"A Very good question…" I said as I put my glasses on and started to examine the ATMOS device.

"Maybe they want to help - get rid of pollution and stuff."

"Do you know how many cars there are on planet Earth?" asked The Doctor, "800 million. Imagine that. If you could control them, you'd have 800 million weapons."

We continued examining the device while Donna went to go to check out an idea she had. Martha and the Colonel came back in a little while later, "Ionising nano-membrane carbon dioxide converter," I said as I ran my sonic over the ATMOS device, "which means that ATMOS works. Filters the CO2 at a molecular level."

"We know about that," said the Colonel, "What's its origin? Is it alien?"

"No, but it's decades ahead of its time," said The Doctor, "Look, do you mind? Could you stand back a bit?"

"Sorry, have I done something wrong?

"You're carrying a gun. I don't like people with guns hanging around me or my niece, all right?"

"If you insist," said the Colonel. Then, he walked out of the room.

"Touchy," said Martha.

"Well, it's true," said The Doctor.

"He's a good man."

"People with guns are usually the enemy in my books. You seem quite at home," he said as he started examining the device with his sonic screwdriver.

"If anyone got me used to fighting, it's you."

"Oh right, so it's my fault."

"Well, you got me the job. Besides, look at me," my uncle turned off his sonic and looked at Martha, "Am I carrying a gun?"

"Suppose not," he said.

"It's all right for you. You can just come and go, but some of us have got to stay behind. So I've got to work from the inside and by staying inside, maybe I stand a chance of making them better."

"Yeah?" asked my uncle.

Then Martha smiled.

"That's more like Martha Jones," I said with a smile.

"I learnt from the best."

"Well…" said my uncle.

"Thanks, Teddy…" said Marthja

"Hey…" said my uncle

Martha and I laughed, as Donna entered the room, "Oi, you lot! All your storm troopers and your sonics - rubbish! Shoulda come with me."

"Where have you been?" I asked, as Colonel Mace reentered the room.

"Personnel," said Donna, "That's where the weird stuff's happening - in the paperwork. 'Cause I spent years working as a temp, I can find my way around an office blindfolded, and the first thing I noticed is an empty file."

"Why, what's inside it? Or what's not inside it?" asked my uncle.

"Sick days." she opened the file to show that it was empty, "There aren't any. Hundred of people working here, and no one's sick. Not one hangover, man flu, sneaky little shopping trip. Nothing. Not ever. They don't get ill."

"That can't be right," said the Colonel as he took the folder.

"You've been checking out the buildings, should've been checking out the workforce."

"I can see why they like you," said Martha.

"Hmm," said Donna as she looked at The Doctor and me.

"You are good."

"Super Temp."

"Dr Jones, set up a medical post, start examining the workers," said the Colonel, "I'll get them sent through."

"Come on, Donna, give me a hand," said Martha and she and Donna left.

The Doctor and I followed Colonel Mace out of the room, "So, this, this ATMOS thing, where'd it come from?" I asked.

"Luke Rattigan himself," said the Colonel

"And himself would be?" asked The Doctor.

I rolled my eyes, "I know this one…"

Colonel Mace took us to his office in the UNIT field base and brought up Luke Rattigan's profile on the computer, "Luke Rattigan. Child genius. Invented the Fountain 6 search engine when he was 12 years old. Millionaire overnight.

"Now runs the Rattigan Academy," said the Colonel, "A private school educating students handpicked from all over the world."

"A hothouse for geniuses - wouldn't mind going there," said The Doctor.

The Colonel looked at him with a puzzled look, "He gets lonely," I said.

We headed back to the docking bay of the factory, "You are not coming with us," said The Doctor, "We want to talk to this Luke Rattigan, not point a gun at him."

"It's ten miles outside London. How are you going to get there?" asked the Colonel.

"Then get us a Jeep."

"According to the records, you travel by TARDIS."

"Yeah, but, if there is a danger of hostile aliens, We think its best to keep a super-duper time travel machine away from the front lines," I said.

"I see. Then you do have weapons but you choose to keep them hidden. Jenkins?"

"Sir!" said the young shoulder who came over.

"You will accompany The Doctor and Teddy, and take orders from them."

"I don't do orders," said my uncle.

Then the Colonel, "Any sign of trouble get Jenkins to declare a Code Red. And good luck," He saluted and I saluted back.

"I said no salutes," said The Doctor.

"Now you're giving orders," said the Colonel with a smirk on his face, as he left.

"A bit cheeky, isn't he?" He asked me. I smiled.

Donna walked up to us, and said, "Doctor."

"Oh, just in time. Come on!" said my uncle as he grabbed her hand, "Come on, we're going to the country," he pulled her toward the Jeep, "Fresh air, geniuses, what more could you ask?"

"I'm not coming with you. I've been thinking. I'm sorry... I'm going home." she said.

"Really?" I said sounding kind of disappointed.

"I've got to," said Donna. Then, I understood what she meant, my uncle on the other hand…

"Well, if that's what you want," He said, " I mean, it's a bit soon. We had so many places we wanted to take you. The Fifteenth Broken Moon of the Medusa Cascade, the lightening skies of Cotter Palluni's World, the diamond coral reefs of Kaata Flo Ko... Thank you. Thank you, Donna Noble. It's been brilliant. You-you've saved my life in so many ways," Donna nodded at him and gave him a smirk. Then, he realized the same thing I did, "You're... You're-you're just popping home for a visit. That's what you mean."

"You dumbo," said Donna, as I smiled.

"And then you're coming back."

"Do you know what you are? A great, big, outer-space dunce."

"You know," I said, "I've said this before and I'll say it again. For a 900 year old Time Lord, you can be a real idiot sometimes."

"Yeah," he said.

Thankfully for my uncle, Jenkins called over to us, "Ready when you are, sir, miss."

"What's more, you can give me a lift. Come on," said Donna as we got in, "Broken moon of what?"

"I know. I know." he said as he got in and we started to drive away.

After dropping Donna off near her home, we headed to the Rattigan Academy. My uncle asked Jenkins what his first name was and he told us it was Ross. As we got closer to the school, Ross said, UNIT's been watching the Rattigan Academy for ages. It's all a bit Hitler Youth. Exercise at dawn and classes and special diets."

"Turn left," said the ATMOS navigation system

"Ross, one question," I said, "If UNIT think that ATMOS might be dangerous…"

"How come we've got it in the Jeeps?" replied Ross

"Yeah."

"Ha, tell me about it. They're fitted as standard on all government vehicles. We can't get rid of them until we can prove there's something wrong."

"Turn right," said the navigation.

"Drives me around the bend," said Ross, as he turned into the school driveway.

"Oh, nice one," I laughed.

"Timed that perfectly."

"Ha. Yeah. You did," laughed my uncle

"This is your final destination," said ATMOS.

We got out of the Jeep, and walked up the sidewalk. As we walked we saw students in red sweatsuits, running around the building. Then we saw Luke Rattigan standing in front of the school looking out over the grounds.

"Is it PE?" asked my uncle, "I wouldn't mind a kick-around. Got me daps on."

Luke turned towards us and said, "I suppose you're the Doctor."

"Hello."

"And you must be Teddy…" He said with a sly smile.

I could tell by the way he looked at me that he was attracted to me, but I pretended to be nice to him"Nice to meet you." I said,

"Your commanding officer phoned ahead," said Luke.

"Oh, we haven't got a commanding officer," said my uncle, "Have you? Oh, this is Ross. Say hello, Ross."

"Afternoon, sir," said Ross.

The Doctor then ran up to the main doors, "Let's have a look, then! I can smell genius... in a good way."

We went inside and Luke took us to a lab where many of the students were working on advanced projects. The Doctor and I started to wander around as different things caught our eyes. "Oh, now... that's clever! Look!" said my uncle as he put his glasses on, "Single-molecule fabric. How thin is that?! You could pack a tent in a thimble."

"Look at this," I said as I saw a few interesting projects, "Gravity simulators.. Terraforming… biospheres… nano-tech steel construction… Very impressive."

"But y'know with equipment like this, you could, oh, I dunno... move to another planet or something," said my uncle, as he took his glasses off

"If only that was possible," said Luke.

"If only that were possible," I said, "Conditional clause."

"I think you'd better come with me," said Luke.

Luke took us to his room and said, "You're smarter than the usual UNIT grunts, I'll give you that."

The Doctor looked a Ross, "He called you a grunt."

"Don't call Ross a grunt, he's nice. We like Ross," I said.

Then my uncle started looking around the room, "Look at this place…"

Luke started to get aggravated, "What exactly do you want?"

"Well, we were just thinking, what a responsible 18 year old. Inventing zero-carbon cars, saving the world…"

"It takes a man with vision," said Luke.

"Kind of a narrow vision," I said, "Because ATMOS means more people driving, more cars on the road, more gasoline being used. The end result: the oil's gonna run out faster than ever. The ATMOS system could make things worse."

"Yeah, well, that's a tautology. You can't say ATMOS 'system' 'cause it stands for Atmospheric Emission System. So you're saying 'Atmospheric Emission System System'. Do you see, Miss Conditional Clause?"

I stood there bewildered for a moment. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. He completely overlooked my whole argument that ATMOS could do more harm than good. Instead he was nitpicking over me calling it 'the ATMOS system. "It's been a long time since anyone's said no to you, isn't it?"

"I'm still right, though," he said.

Then my uncle stepped in, "Not easy, is it, being clever? You look at the world and you connect things - random things - and think, 'why can't anyone else see it? The rest of the world is so slow'."

"Yeah."

"And you're on your own."

"I know."

"But not with this," said The Doctor as he reached into his coat pocket and pulls out an ATMOS device. "'Cause there's no way you invented this single-handed. It might be Earth technology, but that's like finding a mobile phone in the Middle Ages." he tossed the teleport to me and walked over to what looked like a hollowed out cube, "No, no, I'll tell you what it's like! It's like finding this in someone's front room. Albeit, a very big front room."

"Why? What is it?" asked Ross.

"Yeah, just looks like a thing, doesn't it?" I said, "People don't question things. They just think, 'Oh, it's a thing'."

"Leave it alone!" shouted Luke.

"Teddy and me, we make these connections," said The Doctor as he and I walked inside, "and this to me looks like…" he started to press buttons, " ...a teleport pod."

All of the sudden we found ourselves on a Sontarn spaceship with fully armored Sontarnas, "If we survive this, I'm going to kill you," I whispered to my uncle.

"Orbit now holding at 556.3, sector 270." we heard over the PA

"Oh," said The Doctor.

The Sontarans noticed us and the one of them raised his staff. "We have an intruder!"

"How did he get in? In-tru-da window?" Said my uncle.

The Sontarans advanced toward us, "Bye!" I said as I pressed a button and we disappeared.

He pushes a button and disappears on the run.

We returned to the Rattigan Academy and ran out of the teleport, "Ross, get out! Luke, you'd better come with us!" I said.

Then the Sontaran with the staff appeared in the teleport and my uncle used his sonic screwdriver to short out the controls, "Sontaran! That's your name, isn't it? How did I know that, eh?" He put away his sonic screwdriver, "Fascinating, isn't it? Isn't that worth keeping me alive?"

Ross pointed his gun at the Sontaran, "I order you to surrender in the name of the Unified Intelligence Taskforce.

DOCTOR

(to ROSS)

"That's not gonna work," said the Doctor to Ross. Then he looked at the Sontaran, "Cordalaine signal, am I right?" he looked back at Ross, "Copper excitation stopping the bullets."

"How do you know so much?" asked the Sontaran.

"Well…" he said as he walked around the room.

He walks around the room.

The Sontaran looked at Luke, "Who is he?"

"He didn't give his name." then Luke pointed at me, "But she is Teddy Duncan…"

"I have not heard of any such person… She is of no importance…"

"Well… Nice to know where I stand in the universe," I mumbled. Honestly I wasn't surprised, I hadn't had a much exposure to alien races as my uncle. I'm was sure the day would come that I wish I could go by unknown.

"This isn't typical Sontaran behavior, is it?" asked my uncle, "Hiding? Using teenagers? Stopping bullets? A Sontaran should face bullets with dignity! Shame on you!"

"You dishonor me!" said the Sontaran.

"Then show yourself."

"I will look into my enemy's eyes." the Sontaran then removed his helmet to reveal a brow dome-shaped head with no visible neck.

"Oh, my God," said Ross.

"And your name?" asked The Doctor.

"General Staal of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet. Staal the Undefeated."

"That's not a very good nickname. What if you do get defeated? 'Staal-The-Not-Quite-So- Undefeated-Anymore-But-Never-Mind'?"

Ross scoffed, "Looks like a potato, a baked potato. A talking baked potato."

"Now, Ross, don't be rude," I said, "You look like a pink weasel to him."

The Doctor picked up a tennis racket and bounced a ball on it, then he said, "The Sontarans are the finest soldiers in the galaxy." He leaned on Ross' shoulder, "Dedicated to a life of warfare." he twirled the racket, "A clone race grown in batches of millions with only one weakness-"

"Sontarans have no weakness!" said Staal.

"But, it's a good weakness," I said.

"Aren't you two meant to be clever? Only idiots would provoke him."

"You see, the Sontarans are fed by a probic vent in the back of the neck. That's their weak spot, which means they always have to face their enemy in battle. Isn't that brilliant? They can never turn their backs!"

"We stare into the face of death!" said Stall

"Yeah? Well, stare at this!" shouted my uncle, as he hits the tennis ball with the racket. It bounced off the teleport pod and hits Staal's probic vent, he staggered and The Doctor and I pushed Ross toward the door.

"Out! Out! Out!" said my uncle as we ran out of the room. We ran outside and jumped into the Jeep and drove off.

On our way back to London, The Doctor picked up the radio, and spoke in it, "Greyhound Forty to Trap One. Repeat: can you hear me? Over."

"Why is it not working?" asked Ross.

"Must be the Sontarans," I said, "If they can trace that, they can isolate the ATMOS."

"Turn left," said the ATMOS.

"Try going right," said my uncle.

"It says left," said Ross.

"I know. So go right."

Ross removed his hand from the wheel, "I've got no control. It's driving itself. It won't stop." Then he tried the door, "The doors are locked!"

I tried my sonic screwdriver, on the ATMOS screen "Argh! It's deadlocked! I can't stop it!"

"Turn left," said the ATMOS. Then the Jeep swerved left.

"The sat-nav's just a box, wired through the whole car," said The Doctor.

Then the Jeep swerves off the road and Ross said, "We're heading for the river!"

"ATMOS, are you programmed to contradict my orders?" asked my uncle.

"Confirmed," said ATMOS

"Anything I say, you'll ignore it?"

"Confirmed."

"Then drive into the river!" Ross just stared at him, "I order you to drive into the river! Do it! Drive into the river!"

The Jeep's breaks squealed to a halt right at the river's edge. The three of us jumped out of the Jeep and ran for it. We could hear the ATMOS, "Turn right. Left. Left. Right."

"Get down!" I shouted. The three of us dove to the ground expecting a giant explosion.

We heard the ATMOS start to malfunction as it's voice got higher and higher, "Left. Right. Left. Right. Left. Right. Left. Right." Then, there was a small pop.

We looked up and just saw smoke coming from the Jeep, "Oh, is that it?" said my uncle, surprised and a bit disappointed. Honestly, I was surprised as well.

Luckily, we were close to Donna's house. We went up to the front door and rang the bell when Donna answered my uncle said, "You would not believe the day we've been having."

Donna went with us out to her family's car. The Doctor looked under car and under the hood at the ATMOS devices. While I tried to reach Martha on Donna's cell phone.

"I'll requisition us a vehicle," said Ross.

"Anything without ATMOS." I said.

"And don't point your gun at people!" shouted my uncle.

Then we heard a voice coming from Donna's front door and toward us, "Is it them? Is it them? Is it The Doctor and Teddy?"

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was the old man that ran the newspaper stand in London when we were on the Titanic. "Ah, it's you!"

"What?!" I said.

Then he looked at The Doctor, "and you!"

"Who?" then he recognized him, "Oh... it's you!"

The Doctor walked over to us and Donna said, "What, have you lot met before?"

"Yeah, Christmas Eve. He disappeared right in front of me," said the old man.

"And you never said?!"

"Well, you never said," the old man. Then he looked at The Doctor and me, "Wilf, sir, miss. Wilfred Mott. You must be two of them aliens."

"Well, yeah, but don't go shouting it out," I said, as The Doctor and I shook hands with him, "Nice to meet finally meet you, Wilf. Donna talks about you all the time."

"Ah, alien hands," said Wilf.

"Teddy, anything?" asked The Doctor.

"She's not answering," I said. I was kind of worried.

"What's it, 'Sontiruns'?" asked Donna.

"Sontarans," said The Doctor, "But there's got to be more to it. They can't be just remote-controlling cars. That's not enough." he looked at me, "Is anyone answering?"

"Hold on," I said as I heard someone pick up, "Martha, It's Teddy, tell Col. Mace it's the Sontarans. They're in the file, Code Red Sontarans. But if they're inside the factory, tell him not to start shooting, UNIT will get massacred. We'll get back as soon as we can. You got that?"

"Code Red Sontarans. Gotcha," said Martha, then she hung up. Something didn't seem right with Martha… But, we didn't have time to worry about it right then. I handed the phone back to Donna as they watched him us his sonic screwdriver on the ATMOS under the hood.

"You've tried sonicking it before," said Donna, "You didn't find anything."

"Yeah, but now I know it's Sontaran, I know what I'm looking for," said The Doctor.

"The thing is, Doctor, that Donna is my only grandchild," said Wilf, "You gotta promise me you're gonna take care of her."

I put a hand on Wilf's shoulder, "She takes care of us…" I said with a smile

"Oh, yeah, that's my Donna," said Wilf, "She was always bossing us around even when she was tiny. 'The Little General' we used to call her."

"Yeah. Don't start." said Donna.

"And some of the boys she used to turn up with - a different one every week. Yeah, who was that one with the nail varnish?"

"Matthew Richards. He lives in Kilburn now - with a man."

All of the sudden spikes shot out of the holes in the top of the device, "Whoa!" said The Doctor, "It's a temporal pocket! I knew there was something else in there. It's hidden just a second out of sync with real time."

"But what's it hiding?" asked Donna.

Then I heard a familiar voice getting closer, the voice of Donna's mother, Sylvia, "I dunno, men and their cars! Sometimes I think if I was a car…" then she saw us, "Oh, it's you! Teddy and Doctor-what was it?"

"Yeah, that's me," said The Doctor, as he waved a hand without looking.

"Really?" I said, "I thought you were Doctor Who… Not Doctor Whatwasit?' He glared at me and I smiled Then he went back to work.

"Have you met him as well?" asked Wilf.

"Dad, it's the man from the wedding!" said Sylvia, "When you were laid up with Spanish flu. I'm warning you, last time that man turned up, it was a disaster!"

Just then gas started to shoot out of the ATMOS device, "Get back!" I shouted.

The Doctor used his sonic on the car, "That'll stop it," He said, then the car sparked and the gas stopped.

"I told you!" said Sylvia, "He's blown up the car! Who is he anyway? What sort of doctor blows up cars?"

"Oh, not now, Mum!" said Donna.

"Oh, should I make an appointment?" said Sylvia, as she marched off.

"That wasn't just exhaust fumes," I said, That was some sort of artificial gas."

"And it's aliens, is it? Aliens?" asked Wilf.

"But if it's poisonous... Then they've got poisonous gas in every car on Earth." said Donna.

The Doctor and I looked around at the cars parked on the street. We saw ATMOS stickers in the windows of all of them.

"It's not safe. I'm gonna get it off the street," said Wilf, as he got into the car.

"No, don't!" said Donna and I as we saw him get in. But it was too late. The door shut behind him, automatically locked, and then started up, with a thick yellowish exhaust comes out the tailpipe.

"Turn it off!" shouted Donna. Wilf shook his head, "Granddad, get out of there!" She shouted as she tried to open the door.

"I can't! It's locked!" said Wilf as he held up the key, "It's the aliens again!" Then he started banging on the window.

"I've isolated it!" Shouted the Doctor.

"There's gas inside the car! He's gonna choke!" Shouted Donna.

I tried opening the door with my sonic screwdriver, "It won't open!" I shouted. I heard car alarms and saw all the other cars emitting the gas, "It's the whole world."

"Help me!" said Wilf weakly

The Doctor and I ran back to check the engine to see if there was anything we could do to stop it. The Doctor yanked out some wires but it didn't help. We moved the car to the middle of the road and just stood there as we watched helplessly as the smoke billowed around us.

We could hear Donna shouting at us, "Doctor! Teddy!"

To Be Continued…