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A large ship travelled through the stars. It was a working ship, not one for pleasure. On the side of the ship were the words 'Van Balen Brothers'.
Inside the ship, a man with dark skin, brown eyes and black hair, wearing a white tank top and cargo pants was sleeping on a bunk. He was sleeping as there was a photo showing him, his brother and their father. The other brother was wearing a light green tank top and cargo pants and also sleeping. A third man with dark skin, brown eyes and black hair, also wearing a white tank top and cargo pants, but with a green cap over his head was sitting at a table polishing equipment. He had a barcode on his throat and his eyes zoomed in on his task like a computer. The ship's computer then began to beep.
"Incoming salvage, please validate," a feminine computerised voice announced, causing the third man to look at it, "Incoming salvage, please validate." He then walked away from what he was doing as the second man stood up and walked towards the computer, "Incoming salvage, please validate." The second man then sighed to himself as he looked at the computer, "Incoming salvage, please validate."
"Rusty garbage," the second man scoffed as he read the screen as the third man approached it and saw that it read 'Zero Salvage Value,' "It's not worth lacing up my boots."
"Wasting our time," the third man stated, his voice tinged with aspects of a robotic one, "There's no salvage this far out."
"You're a lucky boy, Tricky," the second man told him, "You're an android. You don't get bored."
"He won't turn back," Tricky stated as he looked back at the sleeping man, "Not with half a cargo."
"He's not captain," the second man told him, "We're equal partners."
"Yeah, right," Tricky muttered sarcastically as he grabbed a cup of a drink with his right hand and took a sip of it.
Meanwhile in space nearby, the TARDIS spun as it travelled through the area of space near the Van Balen Brothers' ship.
Inside the ship, Clara was wearing a red, short sleeved dress with black collars and biker boots, while the Doctor, Rose and Sydney had their jackets removed as Clara was walking around the console with arms crossed, while Rose and Sydney sat on the console's chairs.
"You said…" The Doctor said as he followed Clara eagerly, trying to persuade her.
"I know what I said," Clara told him, "I was the one who said it."
"You said it was looking at you funny," the Doctor stated before he crossed his arms.
"I was tired, overwrought, I didn't mean it," Clara told him, "It's an appliance. It does a job."
"Yes, pretty cool appliance," the Doctor said, agreeing with him as he tapped on the console with his right hand, "We're not talking cheese grater here."
"The TARDIS isn't just a machine, Clara," Rose told Clara as she looked up from her seat at her, "She's a living being. She thinks, and she cares for us in her own way. Trust me, I've seen her do things no ordinary machine could ever do."
"Mum's right, Clara," Sydney said, agreeing with his mother, "The TARDIS is special. She's saved us more times than I can count. Like when we saved Dad from that pocket universe with Hila not that long ago."
"The three of you are not getting me to talk to your ship," Clara told them, "That's properly bonkers."
"It's Okay," the Doctor assured the TARDIS as he stroked its console with his hands, "It's Okay."
"Doctor, you're like one of those guys who can't go out with a girl unless his mother approves," Clara remarked as she looked at him.
"Well, Clara, if you knew the TARDIS like we do, you'd understand," Rose told her as she rolled her eyes and smiled, "She's more than just a ship, she's family. And trust me, having her approval is a good thing. You never know what kind of adventures might change you."
"Rose is right about that, and it's also important to us that you get along with her," the Doctor added, agreeing with the Time Lady, "We could leave you alone together."
"Yeah, Clara, think of it as bonding time with the TARDIS," Sydney suggested as he chuckled.
"Now you're creeping me out, Doctor," Clara told him as she stopped walking.
"Take the wheel," the Doctor suggested, "Not the wheel. I'll make it easy." He then walked over to her side of the console, "Shut it down to basic mode for you." He then began working with the switches on the console with his right hand.
"Basic?" Clara repeated with disbelief in her voice as she leaned on the console, "Cos I'm a girl?"
"No," the Doctor answered as he looked at her.
"It's because you're human," Rose clarified gently, "The TARDIS can be a bit overwhelming if you're not used to her."
The Doctor and Rose both smirked at each other as Clara looked away from the console, but they wiped them from their faces when she glared at them as he turned a key that was inserted into the console with his left hand.
Back in the living area of the Van Balen Brothers' ship, the TARDIS appeared on the computer screen.
"Everyone suit up," the first man ordered the other two men as he was now awake and walked over to them, "It's good salvage. I can smell it."
"It's just trash," the second man stated as he was eating from a nearby table.
"No, look," Tricky argued as he noticed something on the computer screen, "There's something tasty in the magno-field."
The first man then leaned forward towards the computer and pressed a spot on the computer's screen with his right hand's index finger.
"Magno-grab ready," the computerised voice reported, "Engaging."
The large aft doors of the ship suddenly opened up, where there was blue coloured energy massing from within.
"Move yourself," the first man ordered the second man as he walked over to him before he walked away from him.
The three men then went over to their lockers and put on heavy duty books and cover-alls. Tricky was no longer wearing his cap as the first man took a device from the shelf of one of the lockers with his left hand and pressed a button on the top of the device with his right hand.
Suddenly, a beam shot out from the ship and towards the TARDIS as it began to encompass the Gallifreyan ship.
Back inside the TARDIS, Clara was smiling and enjoying her lesson as Rose and Sydney were now standing between her and the Doctor. The nanny then flipped a switch on the console with her left hand's index finger, causing the ship to go dark.
"What have I done?" Clara asked the three Gallifreyans before the lights began flashing red.
"Uh... Okay," the Doctor muttered to himself.
"That's never happened before," Rose stated as she widened her eyes with surprise.
"Yeah, Mum's right," Sydney said, agreeing with her as he looked around in confusion, "What did you do, Clara?"
"I have no idea, Sydney," Clara answered as the Doctor moved over to another section of the console and looked at the screen that was displaying their location and as he looked at it, the screen began cracking as Rose, Sydney and Clara walked over to him, "Doctor?"
"What's wrong, love?" Rose asked her husband.
"Yeah, is there a problem, Dad?" Sydney said, agreeing with his mother.
"All the electrical impulses are jammed," the Doctor answered as he flicked numerous switches along the section of the console they were at, "I can't get the shields back up!" He then walked over to a lever nearby and grunted as pushed on the lever as he tried pushing it upwards with his right hand, "She's completely vulnerable."
"I swear I just touched it," Clara told them.
"It's not your fault, Clara," Rose assured the nanny as she placed her right hand over Clara's left shoulder, "The TARDIS can be unpredictable sometimes. We'll figure this out together."
The Doctor then succeeded in moving the lever. However, sparks flew as the TARDIS lurched, throwing the Doctor, Rose, Sydney and Clara backwards.
"Magnetic overbuild!" The Doctor explained as he and Rose made their way back towards the console, "We're flying right into it! Clara, stay by us!"
"And Sydney, you stay with us as well!" Rose added as they reached the console and began operating the TARDIS' controls.
"Please tell me there's a button one of you can press to fix this," Clara pleaded with both older Gallifreyans as she gripped one of the side consoles.
"Oh, yes, big friendly button," the Doctor answered sarcastically.
"You're lying," Clara realised.
"Of course he is, Clara," Rose confirmed.
"In situations like this, lying is often better than telling the truth," Sydney added with a wry smile.
"To stop me freaking out?" Clara asked them.
"Is it working?" The Doctor inquired as his voice strained.
"Not so much," Clara answered.
Suddenly, a device similar to the one the man on the other ship had rolled across the floor. Clara noticed it and picked it up with her right hand, only for it to burn her hand. This caused her to drop it with a gasp. Just then, there was another explosion as the Doctor and Rose were both thrown back from the console with screams.
A while later, the TARDIS was brought into the ship's bay and was being brought deeper into the ship by a series of pincers with the men watching the ship's progress from a nearby viewing room.
"What is it?" Tricky asked the two men, "Some kind of escape pod."
"Come on," the first man ordered them before they left the room.
In the ship's hold, the TARDIS was lying on an angle atop a pile of wires and other pieces of salvage. The second man was holding a large sledgehammer in his hands, while the first man seemed to have a saw of some type in his hands.
"Crack it open," the first man ordered the second man.
The second man then climbed up to the TARDIS and stomped on the door with his right foot as he grunted. He then grunted again as he moved on to the sledgehammer and tried banging it on the door, only for it to not work. Soon after that, he took the first man's type of saw and used it on it with a type of laser being emitted from it..
"It's doing nothing," the second man reported to the first man as he looked at him.
"Use the thermo-charge and blast it," the first man suggested as he threw a device at the second man before the second man set the device on the TARDIS' door.
"No! No! No! Wait," Tricky protested as he ran over to the second man and put his right hand on the TARDIS, "It's like… It's alive. She's…" They then heard the TARDIS' whirring sound, "She's… She's suffering. I can feel it. I can feel it."
"It's just a robot, Bram," the first man told the second man.
"No, Gregor. He's right," Bram argued, "Looks like there is a broken fuel line."
"All right. All right, put it back," Gregor relented as Bram and Tricky scrambled down back to the floor as Bram walked back over to him, "No salvage today, boys. Open the bay doors."
"Wait!" Tricky protested as he spotted something and walked over towards the pile of wires and waved the others over with his left hand as his eyes zoomed in on two pairs of legs sticking out, "Somebodies are under that thing. The crew were still on board when we dragged her in."
"We did nothing," Gregor stated as he ushered the others out and away from the TARDIS, "If anyone asks, that ship was already busted. You got that?" He then looked at Tricky, "And you, make sure you keep your oily-mouth shut."
"It's rude to whisper," the Doctor whispered as he and Rose both suddenly walked up to them before they walked in front of them, "Hi. I'm the Doctor."
"And I'm his wife, Rose," the Time Lady introduced herself to them as she shook Gregor's hand.
"And you are, um…" the Doctor began to say as he shook Bram's hand and read his nametag as Rose let go of Gregor's hand, "Van Baalen and…" He then shook Gregor's hand, "Van Baalen." He then looked at both of them, "Van Baalen and Van Baalen. That's going to get confusing later."
"Same name on both nametags?" Rose chuckled, "Yeah, that's definitely going to get confusing."
"We found you both drifting," Gregor told both Gallifreyans.
"Yeah. Your ship was junked-up pretty bad," Bram added.
"What broke our ship was a magno-grab," the Doctor whispered to them before he held up the device that Gregor had earlier, "Found this remote in your pocket, eh? What are the chances, outlawed in most galaxies." He then walked back towards the TARDIS with Rose following him, "This little beastie can disable whole vessels unless you have shield oscillators." He then slapped his forehead with his right hand, "Which I turned off so that Clara could fly." He then threw the remote back and forth in his hands.
"Speaking of Clara, where is she?" Rose asked herself as she looked around for her, "And where's Sydney. They should be here with us."
"Damn it! Clara. Where is she?" The Doctor muttered to himself as he spun around, "A girl about…" He then held his left hand close to the length of where his armpits were, "So high. Feisty."
"And our son, Sydney, he's a bit taller than me. He has that typical teenager attitude that you usually see them have by their mid teens," Rose added as she moved her right hand a bit over her head, "They should have stayed close to us."
"They're still on board," the Doctor realised as he and Rose looked back at the TARDIS before they began to run for the TARDIS, only for Tricky to hold them back.
"No, wait," Tricky pleaded with both Gallifreyans, "Your pod is leaking fuel. If they're still in there, they're dead."
"Oh," the Doctor muttered as he turned around and looked into the lockers, "Ah. Respirators."
"That's just what we need," Rose said as they headed for the lockers.
"We can open the doors for a split second, reach in and grab them," Gregor told both Gallifreyans as they followed them..
"Trust us, we can't," the Doctor stated as he and Rose grabbed the respirators and headed back towards the TARDIS, "Now, please help us get them out."
"Yeah, we need all the help we can get to bring them back safely," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"I'm telling you, she fried…" Tricky began to say as they followed both Gallifreyans.
"Shut it, tin-mouth!" Gregor ordered Tricky before he looked at both Gallifreyans, "What sort of fee are we talking?"
"If you help us get them out, you get the machine," the Doctor answered as he and Rose stood by the TARDIS, "All the scrap, eh?"
"Yeah, you can have it all," Rose added, agreeing with her husband.
"It's not worth the risk," Bram stated, "Four feet of metal? Nah."
"What if we can guarantee you the best haul you've ever had?" The Doctor asked them.
"We promise it'll be worth your while," Rose added, agreeing with her husband.
"Bram, open the bay doors," Gregor ordered Bran before they began to walk away.
"No, no, please, stop. Listen, listen," the Doctor pleaded with them as he and Rose stepped towards them, "Right behind those doors is the salvage of a lifetime."
"Just trust us," Rose added, "We wouldn't be asking if it wasn't important."
Inside one of the TARDIS' corridors, the corridor was littered with debris as the cloister bell was ringing. It was glowing red under emergency lights. Wires were hanging from the ceiling with some being live and sparking. Clara was lying under a large piece of metal, while Sydney was unconscious and near one of the walls.
"Doctor?" Clara called out to the Time Lord before she pushed the piece off her and sat up, "Rose?" She then looked next to her and saw Sydney lying in front of one of the walls, "Sydney, are you all right?"
"Clara?" Sydney groaned as she regained consciousness and looked at her as he rubbed the back of his head with his right hand, "What happened?"
"I'm not sure, and I can't see the Doctor and Rose anywhere," Clara answered as she stood up and took a few steps towards him.
"Then we need to find them," Sydney said as he looked around the debris-filled corridor, "Mum and dad could be in trouble too."
As he spoke, Clara looked at her right hand from where she burned it on the device and saw markings on it before she blew on it to cool it off.
"What's wrong with your hand?" Sydney asked her as he stood up and approached her.
"I don't know," Clara answered as she shook her head and continued to look at her hand, "I touched something, and now it's… burning."
"We need to find Mum and Dad," Sydney suggested as he glanced around the corridor, "They might know what to do."
"Agreed," Clara said, agreeing with him before they walked down the corridor towards a closed door with a red light flashing above it, "Red flashing light… Means something bad. Get out of here fast. Or possibly, whatever you do, don't open this door."
"You might be right about that," Sydney muttered, hesitating slightly as he looked at the ominous door, "Maybe we should find another way around."
As the young Gallifreyan boy spoke, Clara pondered what he said for a moment before she pressed the button to the right of the door with her right hand. Suddenly, the door opened and there was an explosion on the other side of the door.
"Bad decision," Clara stated.
"You think?!" Sydney retorted before they ran down the corridor to escape the fire.
As Clara and Sydney evaded the fire, they found themselves in another corridor that was clear of debris. The two of them ducked through another doorway with Clara pressing the button to the door behind them with her left hand, causing the door to close behind them. Something on the wall caught their eyes. The thing that caught their attention was long scratch marks. She put her left hand up to it and traced the marks with her fingers, while Sydney furrowed his eyebrows as he looked at it before they heard distant growling sounds, causing them to look down the corridor.
Back in the ship's hold, the three men were putting on gear for going within the TARDIS. The Doctor, Rose and Tricky were standing at the lockers as Gregor and Bram walked away from them.
"Hey, are we really going to risk it?" Bram asked Gregor as he placed his right hand over his left shoulder before Gregor looked at him, "That thing is spewing poison. We should blow it back into space."
"Get your gear," Gregor ordered him.
"Hey! I don't take orders from my kid brother," Bram told him.
"Don't try and form sentences, all right?" Gregor warned him as the Doctor and Rose watched their exchange, "Stick to what you do best." He then handed him a tool before he tapped Bram on his left cheek with his right hand before leaving.
"Oh," Bram sighed as he walked back towards the lockers and past the Doctor and Rose as they watched as Tricky put his gear on.
"Tell me, since when does an android need a blast suit and a respirator?" The Doctor asked Tricky.
"Spot on," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "Never seen a metal man need breathing gear before. Odd, that."
"Flesh coating, same as us," Bram explained, "He'd burn up."
"No fear, no hate, no pain," Tricky added as he put the respirator over his nose and mouth before he followed Bram.
The Doctor and Rose then put their respirators over their noses and mouths and went over to the TARDIS. He stood on the ledge and inserted his key into the ship's keyhole.
"'Salvage of a lifetime'?" Gregor repeated with disbelief in his voice as he looked at the TARDIS.
"I feel pretty confident we can deliver on that," the Doctor assured him.
"It's bigger than you can imagine," Rose stated with a knowing smile on her face, "Trust us, you're in for a surprise."
"Here we go!" The Doctor said before he kicked the TARDIS' door open with his right foot as smoke billowed out as the three men slipped on their goggles and switched on their torches.
The Doctor entered the TARDIS first, followed by Rose and even though the TARDIS was lying on its side, it was not reflected inside.
"I don't get it," Gregor said with disbelief in his voice as he, Tricky and Bram entered the TARDIS, "I thought she was lying on her side."
"The TARDIS is special. She has her own gravity," the Doctor explained as he and Rose headed towards the console, "We'd explain if either of us had some charts and a board pen."
"It's all about dimensions," Rose added, "Let's just say her insides work a bit differently than the outsides. She always keeps things upright, no matter what."
"It's... It's… It's bigger…" Gregor began to say.
"On the inside," the Doctor finished for him as he typed on some of the keys on one section of the console with Rose standing next to him, "Do you know, we get that a lot."
"All the time," Rose added with a grin on her face, "It's kind of our thing."
"Whoa!" Bram said with disbelief in his voice, "Awesome."
"Well put. 'Whoa and awesome,'" the Doctor told him as Rose flicked a switch with her right hand's index finger, causing the smoke to be pulled through the vents, "Safe to breathe."
"Yeah, no worries about the air now," Rose assured them as everyone removed their respirators from their noses and mouths, "The TARDIS has got it all under control."
"Okay. Now," the Doctor said as he pulled his screwdriver out and activated it as he walked over to where Clara and Sydney were standing earlier, "The last thing I remember, you both were right here. Come on, Clara, talk to us."
"And where are you, Sydney?" Rose muttered to herself as she closed her eyes.
"How big is this baby?" Bram asked both Gallifreyans.
"Picture the biggest ship you've ever seen," the Doctor urged him as he walked past him, "Are you picturing it?"
"Yeah," Bram answered.
"Good. Now forget it," the Doctor told him, "This ship is infinite."
"It's another dimension, really," Rose explained as the Doctor walked to console and used its controls, "It's Time Lord science, way beyond anything you've seen before. Just roll with it, yeah?"
"It'd take you both hours to find your son and the girl," Gregor told both Gallifreyans.
"Days," the Doctor corrected him, "Plus the whole place is toxic. They could be dead by the time we reach her. So. Here's the mission. We're going to find her in one hour."
"We?" Gregor repeated with disbelief in his voice.
"Yes, we," Rose confirmed firmly, "You're going to help us find Clara and Sydney."
"And you're our guys for this," the Doctor added.
"That wasn't the deal," Gregor told them.
"'Tis now," the Doctor stated.
"What makes you both think we'll help?" Gregor asked them, only for the Doctor to flip two levers with both of his hands, causing a countdown to begin on the screen that began at 59 minutes.
"I just activated the TARDIS self-destruct system," the Doctor explained, "One hour until this ship blows." Bram then ran for the door, only for it to slam shut before he could reach it, "Don't try to leave. The TARDIS is in lockdown. We'll open those doors when Clara and Sydney are by our side."
"Exactly," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "Our son and Clara are out there. We need to find them, and we're not leaving without them."
"You crazy lunatics!" Bram yelled at them.
"Our ship, our rules!" The Doctor explained as he turned towards Bram.
"You'll both kill us all," Gregor stated as he and Tricky approached him and Rose, "Your son and the girl."
"They're going to die if you don't help us," the Doctor told them, "Don't get into a spaceship with a madman and a madwoman." Gregor and Tricky then ran towards Bram and the door as they tried to force it open, "Didn't anyone ever teach you that? Okay, a little gentle persuasion." He then flicked some switches along the console with his right thumb, "Say 30 minutes."
"Thirty minutes sounds about right," Rose said, agreeing with him before the Doctor clicked a button on the console with his right hand's index finger, causing the countdown to change from an hour to 30 minutes, "Let's see how quickly you can move now."
"They'll die even quicker now," Bram told both Gallifreyans.
"We all perform better under pressure," the Doctor explained, "Anybody want to go for 15 minutes?" He then hovered his left hand's index finger over the button.
"Fifteen minutes sounds perfect," Rose told him, "Let's really put some fire under your feet."
"Whoa!" The men said as they held their hands out towards both Gallifreyans.
" It's your own time you're wasting," the Doctor told them, "Salvage of a lifetime. You meant the ship. We meant Clara and Sydney."
"Whether you like it or not, you're going to help us find them," Rose added, her eyes fierce, "They're our family, and we're getting them back."
As Sydney and Clara continued to explore the TARDIS' corridors, they heard growling sounds before they spotted a nearby door before Sydney opened it with his right hand. Clara then walked through the door and found herself in the TARDIS' storage room before Sydney followed her in and closed the door behind them. To Sydney's right was the cot that had been River's when she was born at Demon's Run. Clara noticed the cot and touched the mobile's stars and ran her right hand along the cot's edge.
"This cot… I remember Mum and Dad telling me stories about it," Sydney muttered as he looked at the cot with a fond smile on his face, "It was mine when I was a young Time Tot. I don't remember much from back then, but seeing it now, it feels familiar." He gently touched the cot with his right hand with his expression being a mix of nostalgia and wonder, "They used to tell me I'd climb out of it sometimes, and on very few occasions, despite how large the TARDIS is, I'd find my way to their bedroom to sleep with them in their bed."
"That's really sweet, Sydney," Clara said as she glanced at him with a soft smile on her face, "It's funny how the TARDIS keeps so many memories safe, isn't it?" She then paused and looked around the room, "Seems like this place has a way of bringing people together."
"Yeah, it does," Sydney muttered, agreeing with her as he looked around the room, "It's like a time capsule of our lives. Look at this." He then picked up the Fifth Doctor's cricket ball from a nearby shelf with his right hand, "Dad always talked about his love for cricket from when he was in his fifth incarnation. He has retained part of that love for it since then. I even remember playing catch with him sometimes."
"It's amazing how even the smallest items can hold so much history," Clara stated as she smiled warmly at him, "Every piece here seems to tell a story."
"Yeah, it's like every time I see something, I'm reminded of an adventure or a lesson," Sydney replied, "It makes me feel closer to them."
As Clara walked further in the room, she saw a toy TARDIS that Amy made when she was a child. She grabbed it with her hands and spun it in the air before putting it back down on a table. She then picked up the Doctor's magnifying glass with her right hand before setting it back down before she picked up one of the Seventh Doctor's umbrellas.
"This is incredible," Clara told him, "So many pieces of history all in one place. It must have been an adventure growing up here in the TARDIS."
"It was," Sydney confirmed, "Every day was like a new discovery."
Sydney then moved towards a small box and opened it to reveal a small, intricately designed locket. He gently opened the locket to see pictures he had never seen before. On the front showed his mother from when she was in her second incarnation, smiling warmly, and the other showed Jackie with a similar smile.
"Clara, look at this…" Sydney said, his voice trembling before Clara walked over to him, "This was Mum's. She must have put it away after the Battle of Canary Wharf. I've heard so many stories about that battle, but I've never seen this locket before. Seeing my Mum's second incarnation's face and step-grandma's together… it always makes me tear up a bit inside. I've never met my step-grandmother and can't because of the walls between universes."
"What's the Battle of Canary Wharf?" Clara asked him with a puzzled expression on his face.
"It was a big battle against Cybermen from another universe and the Daleks, led by the Cult of Skaro," Sydney explained with a sigh, "Mum was there with an alternate version of Pete, her stepfather, and its where she lost her stepmother, Jackie, to another universe, and soft of took the place of the Jackie who died as the previous time Mum and Dad went to his universe from being converted into a Cyberman. Our universe's Pete died when Mum's chameleon-arched self was only six months old, and she barely got to know him during that time of her life."
"That's… a lot to take in," Clara muttered as she looked at him with a soft expression on her face, "Your family's been through so much."
"I suppose it has," Sydney chuckled as he was still looking at the locket, "But to me, it's just family. There are very few Gallifreyans left due to the Time War, and they're all part of my family."
They weren't alone in the room as unbeknownst to them, there were two shadowy figures with glowing red eyes. Sydney and Clara gasped as they saw them and dropped the locket and umbrella as they ran from the room.
Inside one of the TARDIS' corridors, the Doctor was leading the way with his sonic screwdriver in both of his hands and having it activated. Behind them was Gregor as he lagged in the back with a hand-held scanner in his right hand.
"Report," Gregor said into his scanner, "What's on board this thing?"
"Dynomorphic generators, conceptual geometre, beam synthesiser, orthogonal engine filters," the scanner reported with a feminine voice.
"Guys, guys, look. I think we should split up," Gregor said as he caught up with the others as they went down another corridor, "It's our best chance of finding your son and the girl. You know it is."
"Don't touch a thing," the Doctor warned him as he checked his watch, "The TARDIS will get huffy if you mess."
"He's right. The TARDIS is very particular about who touches what," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "Trust me, it won't end well if you start fiddling with things."
"Keep in radio contact, all right?" Gregor asked Tricky as the Doctor and Rose continued to walk down the corridor before he nodded his head and followed both Gallifreyans down the corridor before he looked at Bram, "Get back to the console, strip it apart."
"Okay," Bram replied as they walked back down the way they came.
"All right," Gregor muttered as they split up with Bram walking back down towards the console, while Gregor walked down the corridor on his right.
As Sydney and Clara ran through the corridors being followed by the same creatures, they both panted from exhaustion of running. The creatures were ossified, one of them having its hands stuck to its face, while the other had its hands free. As they ran from them, they passed the TARDIS' observatory with a large telescope and the swimming pool. The creatures both snarled as they continued to run from them and ran through an open door.
They then ducked behind a shelf in the room that was bearing some small bottles. Clara looked at her burnt hand and could see letters forming. She then blew on it and looked up distractedly.
"Looks like the coast is clear," Sydney said as he looked over the shelf again and saw that the creatures were nowhere to be seen.
"Thank goodness we managed to escape them," Clara sighed before she stepped forward before she looked around her with a stunned expression on her face as she realised that they were in a large library consisting of five ornate levels, "Now that's just showing off."
"It's been a while since I've been in here," Sydney smiled as he looked around the room, "I can forget how magnificent it is."
As Bram reentered the TARDIS' console room, he walked straight up to the console and tried to open one of the console's panels with both of his hands. He strained as he pulled on the panel and after a few seconds, he finally succeeded and set the panel on the floor. We hear voices from the past as he walks around the console.
"I made up the name TARDIS from the initials," Bram heard Susan's voice say after her teachers barged into the TARDIS right before the Doctor's adventures began, "Time and Relative Dimension in Space."
"It's a bit of a mouthful, but it's home to us," he heard the voice of the Fifth Rose say after Victorian Clara first entered the TARDIS on Christmas of 1892.
"The TARDIS is dimensionally transcendental," Bram heard the voice of the Third Doctor say from after his companion, Jo Grant first entered the TARDIS as he walked around the console.
"What does that mean?" He heard the voice of Jo ask the Third Doctor.
"It's another dimension," he heard the voice of Rory say soon after he first stepped on board the TARDIS.
"That's trans-dimensional engineering," Bram heard the voice of the Fourth Doctor explain the mechanics of the TARDIS to his companion, Leela after she entered the TARDIS for the first time, "A key Time Lord discovery."
"The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door," he heard the voice of the Ninth Doctor tell Rose's chameleon-arched self as he stepped down to the level below the TARDIS' console, "And believe me, they've tried."
"It's alien," he heard the voice of the Second Rose say from when she was chameleon-arched after she first entered the TARDIS.
"The TARDIS isn't just a ship, she's alive," he heard the voice of the Third Rose say, "And she knows us better than we know ourselves."
"And she's more than a ship, and she's always been there for us," Bram heard the voice of the Tenth Doctor add as he reached the bottom section of the level underneath the console.
"It's just a box with that room crammed in!" He heard the voice of Martha say after she entered the TARDIS and walked around it not that long before she began travelling with the Tenth Doctor and the Second Rose.
"We are in space!" He heard the voice of Amy say when she began travelling with the Eleventh Doctor and Fourth Rose and before they found themselves on Starship UK.
"It can move anywhere in time and space?" He heard the voice of Ian Chesterton, one of the First Doctor's companions and Susan's science teacher ask the Doctor after he and fellow teacher, Barbara Wright barged into the TARDIS when they were worried about Susan.
"One of you have changed the desktop theme, haven't you?" He heard the voice of the Fifth Doctor ask the Tenth Doctor and Second Rose when he met them after his TARDIS merged with their TARDIS from his future after the Tenth Doctor and Second Rose dealt with the Master when he was the British Prime Minister and tried to take over Earth with the Toclafane.
Inside one of the TARDIS' corridors, Gregor was still scanning as he slowly walked down the corridor.
"Everything," his handheld scanner suddenly reported.
"What?" Gregor said as he stopped in front of a door, "Report."
"Everything behind that door," the handheld scanner explained.
"Everything?" Gregor repeated with confusion in his voice.
"Sensor detects everything you could possibly want," the handheld scanner explained.
With that said, Gregor walked towards the door and pushed the button to the side of the door with his right hand, causing it to slide open. And as he entered the room, Gregor saw that in front of him, hanging from the centre, were tendrils that looked to be both organic and metallic. On some of them were glowing crystals and looked almost like a tree with Gregor widening his eyes as he saw them.
"Everything," the handheld scanner repeated itself.
"I don't understand," Gregor admitted, "Give me a price tag."
"Incalculable," the scanner stated.
"What?" Gregor said with confusion in his voice.
"More valuable than the total sum of any currency," the scanner explained, "Living metal. Bespoke engineering. Whatever machine you require, this system will build it."
Gregor then put his computer away before he looked around carefully and edged his way towards one of the crystals. He put his hands on it when it suddenly went dark. He then picked up his laser saw and began to cut away at the tendrils.
"No! No, no, stop," the Doctor ordered Gregor as he suddenly ran into the room, followed by Rose and Tricky, causing Gregor to stop and lower his laser saw, "Please don't. Don't touch it. Please." He then stroked one of the crystals, "She won't let you touch it. I can feel a TARDIS tantrum coming on."
"Yeah, Gregor, the TARDIS is not something you want to upset," Rose told him, "Trust me, she can be quite… vengeful when provoked. Best to listen to him."
"What the hell is this place?" Gregor asked them.
"Architectural reconfiguration system," the Doctor answered, "It reconstructs particles according to your needs."
"A machine that makes machines?" Gregor asked him.
"Yes. Basically," the Doctor answered, causing Gregor to pick up the laser once again.
"What are you doing?" Tricky asked him.
"No, no, don't! Don't!" The Doctor warned him as he reached his hands out towards him, "If you walk out of here with that circuit, the TARDIS will try to stop you! Now listen to me. Look, the clock is ticking. We must find Clara and Sydney."
"He's right. The TARDIS won't let you walk out with that," Rose said, agreeing with him, "We need to find Clara and Sydney, now."
Suddenly, Gregor yanked the crystal free, causing the others to go dark for a moment before flickering back on. A high-pitch whined caused the Doctor, Rose and Tricky to cover their ears. Gregor put the crystal into his pack and headed for the door, or where the door had been, which was now missing.
"What the…" Tricky said as he looked at where the door had been and walked over towards where it had been, "Where's the door gone?"
"Ever see a spaceship get ugly?" The Doctor asked them.
"Yeah, it's not a pretty sight," Rose added, "The TARDIS doesn't take kindly to being messed with."
"This isn't happening," Tricky said as he placed his hands on the wall from where the door used to be and tried to find a way out.
"She won't relinquish it," the Doctor stated, "Her basic genetic material."
"Exactly. She's not just a ship, but a living being," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "Right now, she sees us as viruses, and she's the antibody trying to protect herself."
"Torch it," Gregor ordered Tricky as he threw a device at him before Tricky caught the device with his right hand in a hesitant manner, "I said torch it."
"Can't you feel it, Gregor?" Tricky asked him, "The ship's… The ship's in torment. Like Rose said, it's a living thing. You can't hurt it."
Gregor then took the device back from him and activated it as he approached the wall again, causing the door to reappear and slide open.
"What's the matter, TARDIS?" Gregor asked the ship, "Scared to fight me?"
Gregor then strode out, followed by Tricky with the Doctor and Rose exchanging a look as they watched them leave before they followed them out of the room.
Back inside the TARDIS' library, a book on a stand caught Clara's attention as she and Sydney walked towards it. The book's title was 'The History of the Time War' and was none other than the book that the Second Rose was reading when she and the Tenth Doctor were at the Royal Hope Hospital when they met Martha and before they dealt with the Judoon. She opened it and turned a few pages as Sydney stood guard beside her as she leaned in as she read.
"So that's who they…" Clara began to say.
She and Sydney suddenly heard the growlings again and ducked behind a nearby bookshelf. The creatures entered the room as Clara and Sydney crawled over to another row of shelves. On one of the shelves above them were bottles containing Encyclopedia Gallifreyae as they heard very faint voices from the past. She peeked out and saw the creatures getting closer. She then pulled back, knocking one of the bottles loose. They then heard very faint whispers from the spilled bottle of the Tenth Doctor and the Third Rose speaking before they both stood up to fan it away. The creatures then came closer but then ran past them.
"Clara, we need to go before they come back," Sydney whispered urgently.
"Agreed," Clara replied, "Let's move quietly."
With that said, they quickly ran back out the way they came in.
Back in the TARDIS' corridors, the Doctor and Rose both led Gregor and Tricky through the corridors before they soon ended up in the same intersection again and walked through it as Gregor stopped in the centre of the intersection as both Gallifreyans continued on before they ended up in the same intersection yet again as well and stopped next to him.
"It's the same," Tricky stated, "It's just the same."
"It's diverting us," the Doctor realised, "Spinning a maze around us. We will never reach Clara and Sydney in time."
"He's right. The TARDIS is trying to keep us away from them," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "We need to figure out another way to reach Clara and Sydney."
Gregor then glared at the Doctor and Rose before he took the right corridor and walked down it.
"Hey! Hey!" The Doctor called out to him as he, Rose and Tricky followed him before they found themselves in the exact same spot from the left side of the corridor.
"It's just the same again," Tricky told them.
"No point in building walls. You'll just know how to smash them down," the Doctor stated, "It's found other ways of controlling you. Smart bunch, Time Lords. No dress sense, dreadful hats, but smart. If you want to get out of here, let that circuit go. It is creating a labyrinth."
"Exactly. Time Lords are clever like that, and Time Ladies, well, they certainly had better dress sense, but they're just as smart," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "If you want to get out of here, Gregor, do as the Doctor says and let that circuit go."
"Bram, Bram, can you hear me?" Tricky asked into his radio as he stepped away from them.
"Bram, the ship is alive," Tricky said from Bram's radio as Bram opened a section under the console with his right hand to reveal a shaft with a ladder down one side and running down the centre were glowing wires, "Get out of there. Bram, don't touch anything."
"You're just the sweetest thing ever," Bram muttered to himself before he climbed into the shaft.
As Sydney and Clara walked through one of the TARDIS' corridors, they walked through a doorway and found themselves in the console room and smiled. But the console room didn't look like the one Bram was in as its panels were intact and hadn't been removed from the console.
"Oh, thank you," Clara muttered with a laugh as she spun around and clasped her hands together, "Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"Yeah, finally we're back in the console room," Sydney said with relief in his voice, "I hope Mum and Dad are okay too."
"Agreed. It's such a relief to be back here," Clara stated, agreeing with him before she laughed as they ran up the steps to the console before she kissed it, "Ah! Mwah!" She then looked around, "No."
"Oh, no," Sydney muttered as he looked at where the TARDIS' door should be and saw that it had somehow vanished, "Where's the door?" He then pointed his right hand's index finger at the TARDIS' doorway, "It should be right there."
"The door?" Clara said as she ran towards the TARDIS' doorway before she grunted and placed her hands over the wall, "Where's the door gone now?"
"Are we trapped again?" Sydney asked himself as he looked up at the TARDIS' ceiling.
"You can't do this!" Clara yelled at the TARDIS as she turned around towards the console.
"Bram?" Tricky said from Bram's radio as Bram blimbed down the ladder under the TARDIS' console room, "You've got to get out of there fast."
As Bram continued to climb down the ladder, his back suddenly touched the wires behind him, causing him to grunt in pain. This caused him to let go of the ladder and fall to the floor below. He coughed as he slowly stood back up and brushed himself off.
He looked up and saw a creature in the corridor ahead of him. The creature rushed towards him with a growl. It knocked him to the floor. Bram then screamed as he struggled to get away from the creature. He soon fell silent and still as steam rose from the body.
Back in the corridor with both Gallifreyans, Tricky and Gregor, Tricky was listening for a response from Bram as the Doctor pulled his screwdriver back out with his right hand and began to scan ahead with it as Rose stood next to him.
"Channel's dead," Tricky reported to them, "You've got to help him. Gregor, do something." He then pulled him around towards him with his right hand, "Do something!"
"It's too late. He's gone!" Gregor told him, "Let's just worry about the salvage!"
"You care more about the circuit than you do about him," Tricky said with disgust in his voice as he shoved him forward with his left hand before the Doctor and Rose both came back towards them and pulled them apart.
"Your concern for your brother is really touching," the Doctor muttered sarcastically, "The android is more cut up about it than you. Now will you two stop bickering and listen! There is something else down there."
"He's right. We need to stop messing about with the circuits and figure out what's down there," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "Think, Gregor, before it's too late. We don't have time for your petty squabbles."
As they finished speaking, they heard a distant growling sound as the Doctor reactivated his screwdriver as he began scanning the area with it again.
"We've got to get out of here," Tricky stated as they approached one of the corridors' doorways with the Doctor aiming his screwdriver towards one of the doorways, "Gregor, give it back. Give it back to her." He then reached for Gregor's pack.
"What are you doing?" Gregor asked him as he pushed Tricky against the wall, "You're always on the side of the machines!"
"Fellas!" The Doctor called out to Tricky and Gregor as he shook his screwdriver open, "Multiple life forms on board the TARDIS with us." He and Rose then backed up until they were with the others, "I am getting a massive signal."
"These things shouldn't exist," Rose stated as she widened her eyes with her voice taking on a more serious tone, "They're like creatures from our people's myths and legends. They're not supposed to be real, not here in the TARDIS. We need to find out what's happening and fast, before they get to us."
"Where are they?" Tricky asked them.
"Oh, you're not going to like the answer," the Doctor told him before he whispered to them, "About two steps away. One step."
"Stay sharp, everyone!" Rose ordered everyone as she darted her eyes around, trying to pinpoint the source of where the creatures were.
They slowly turned around and screamed as they saw the creature. This one seemed to be two fused together. It reached for them and growled.
"Tricky! Gregor!" The Doctor called out to them as Gregor ran down the hall opposite them and was knocked to the floor by the creature, "Look out! Careful! Gregor!" Gregor then ran down the hall opposite of them, "No! We have to stay together! Come on, come. Tricky, run!" Tricky then ran down the corridor, "I'm sorry."
"And I'm sorry as well," Rose apologised to the creature, "I'm so sorry."
With that said, both Gallifreyans ran after Tricky down the corridor he had ran down.
Clara and Sydney both made their way down a red-lit corridor until they found themselves in the same console room as before. The nanny pointed at the entrance and then at the console, while Sydney had a confused expression on his face before they left again, puzzled. As they walked out of the console room, they walked down another corridor and turned a corner and reentered the console room again before they ran back out again. Clara and Sydney both stopped by the doorway as she scratched her head with her right hand, while he placed his hands over his hips as he sighed before they ran down another corridor.
"Why are you doing this?" Clara asked the TARDIS as she and Sydney ran into the console room again and up the steps.
"Yeah, why aren't we in the regular console room?" Sydney said, agreeing with her, "What's the point of all this?"
Tricky, Rose and the Doctor entered the console room. But it was not the one Bram was in nor was it the one that Clara and Sydney were in.
"Back where we started," Tricky stated as he looked at both Gallifreyans.
"No. It's an echo," the Doctor explained before he ran up to the console with Rose and Tricky following him, "The console room is the safest place on the ship." He then ran around the console as he flipped some switches on it down, "It can replicate itself any number of times. It's trying to protect us."
"Exactly," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "The TARDIS is trying to keep us safe."
"Because I tried to give back the circuit?" Tricky asked them.
"Team TARDIS," the Doctor muttered as he patted him on both sides of his face.
"Yes, and it's brilliant," Rose confirmed, "We're on the right track, thanks to you."
The Doctor then began fiddling with the TARDIS' controls with Rose and Tricky watching him when he suddenly knocked a piece loose.
In the other echo of the TARDIS' console room, Clara was sitting disconsolate on one of the room's seats, while Sydney stood next to her as a piece suddenly fell from the console.
"Where did…" tricky began to ask as he, Rose and the Doctor noticed that the piece from the TARDIS' console had vanished, "Where did that go?"
"That's what I was wondering," Rose told him.
"There's more than one echo room," the Doctor realised as he looked around the room and saw two shadows move and pointed at them with his right hand's index finger, "Hey! Look, look."
In their echo room of the TARDIS' console room, Clara and Sydney both slowly walked around the console.
"The TARDIS has got Clara and Sydney safe," the Doctor realised, "That was them. That was them there." He then kissed his fingers and pressed them against the console's time rotor's column, "Thank you, thank you, thank you."
"Yes, thank you, old girl," Rose said, agreeing with her husband in a relieved tone with a smile on her face, "We knew we could count on you."
"But why can't we see her?" Tricky asked them.
"Well, it's like a light switch, two positions, flickering at super-infinite speeds," the Doctor explained as he mimicked light switches flickering on and off with his right hand, "We're only together for a brief second."
"It's like Clara and Sydney's echo room is a few milliseconds out of sync with ours," Rose added, "Different versions of the room existing at the same time, all wibbly-wobbly and out of phase."
Back in their echo room, Clara and Sydney slowly backed away as they gasped as they sensed something close by.
"Shh!" The Doctor urged Rose and Tricky as he listened to Clara and Sydney's movements from their echo room.
Clara gasped from her and Sydney's echo room as Sydney panted before they looked around the room as they sensed the Doctor, Rose and Sydney from their echo room.
Back in the Doctor, Rose and Tricky's echo room, the Time Lord slowly walked around the console.
"I can hear them," the Doctor told them.
"As can I," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
Back in their echo room, Clara and Sydney both backed away towards the room's stairs.
Back in the other echo room, the Doctor continued to listen for Clara and Sydney as he heard them panting.
Back in Clara and Sydney's echo room, the nanny ran towards one of the console room's doors and pressed the button next to the door with her right hand, causing the door to slide open as she walked away from it and unbeknownst to her, there was another creature there. It then ran in before she turned around as it growled at her, causing her to scream as she ran up to the console towards Sydney as he began breathing heavily with fear on his face.
Back in the other echo room, the Doctor, Rose and Tricky all heard their screams and the creature's growling, but in a muffled tone instead.
"One of them has let it in," the Doctor realised as he began working on the TARDIS' controls with Rose helping him, "One of them has let it in!"
"You're right," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "One of them must have accidentally let the creature in."
"Get away from us!" Sydney ordered the creature as he and Clara kept their echo console between themselves and the creature and as they did so, the creature seemed to mimic her movements, almost as if it was a zombified version of her.
"Uh, if we can just isolate their positions, we can nudge the alternation, reach in and grab them," the Doctor stated as he and Rose worked different controls along their echo room of the console room.
"Yeah," Rose added, "We need to adjust the timing just right to synchronise with their echo room and pull them back."
Back in the other echo room, Clara and Sydney ran over towards the other side of the console before she tilted her head with the creature doing the same with its head, almost as if they were the same person in different points in time.
"Who are you?" Clara asked the creature.
"It can't be…" Sydney murmured as he widened his eyes in shock and realisation.
"Console room, echo imprint of the original," the Doctor, Rose and Tricky heard Gregor's handheld computer say before they turned around to see him directly behind them with his computer in his right hand.
"You're both coming with me," Gregor ordered both Gallifreyans as he aimed his handheld computer at the Doctor, "I need you both to get me out of here."
With that said, Rose pulled out her screwdriver with her right hand before she aimed it at the computer as she activated and used it on the computer.
"Scanning for female human," the computer announced, "And for male Gallifreyan."
Back in Sydney and Clara's echo room, the creature stared at them before it charged at them, causing them to gasp as they found themselves backed against the wall TARDIS' door would be.
Back in the other echo room, Gregor walked around the console with the scanner with the Doctor and Rose following him.
"Scanning for female human," the computer repeated itself, "And for male Gallifreyan."
Back in Clara and Sydney's echo room, the creature growled as it slowly approached them with steam rising from its right hand.
"Unidentified human and Gallifreyan," Gregor's computer reported as he continued to walk around the other echo room's console with it in his hand as they heard muffled growling from the other echo room of the TARDIS' console room.
"It doesn't know Lancashire," the Doctor realised as he took the computer from Gregor with his right hand and walked towards the area where the doorway should be with Rose.
"And it doesn't even know South East England," Rose added.
"What?" Tricky asked them with confusion in his voice.
"It doesn't know sass and occasional rebelliousness," the Doctor explained as he held his screwdriver in his right hand as the computer began working for him, "Yes! It's found Clara and Sydney. It's found them. They're right…" He then activated his screwdriver towards the wall of where the door should be, "There."
As he continued to use his screwdriver towards the wall, an image of Clara and Sydney pressed against the wall began to come through.
Back in their echo room, Clara screamed, while Sydney began gasping more frequently than before as the creature came towards them.
Back in the other echo room, the Doctor put his screwdriver into his left hand, while Rose held both of her hands forward as they pulled Clara and Sydney free. Clara screamed as he held her, while Rose pulled Sydney into a hug. Suddenly, Clara and Sydney both pulled away and spun around, taking deep breaths.
"It's all right, Clara," the Doctor assured the nanny, "We're so, so sorry. Please, please forgive us."
"Sydney, I'm so sorry about all this," Rose said, her voice filled with concern and warmth as her motherly instincts kicked in as she gently placed her hands over Sydney's shoulders, "You've been so brave, and we're here now. We'll make sure you're safe."
"I… I knew you and Dad would come for us," Sydney told her, his voice steady but shaken as he took a deep breath, "Thank you, Mum."
Just then, Clara punched the Doctor in his left arm with her right fist with a grunt before walked away as Sydney hugged his mother back.
"Ow!" The Doctor muttered as he rubbed his left arm with his right hand as Rose and Sydney stopped hugging, Okay. Ao we're not doing hugging like Rose and Sydney are." He then placed Gregor's computer on the TARDIS' console, "I get that now."
"What do you and Rose keep in here?" Clara asked him, "Why have you and her got zombie creatures? Good guys do not have zombie creatures. Rule one." She then hit him again, "Basic storytelling."
"They're not ours, Clara," Sydney interjected, "The zombie creatures aren't Mum and Dad's."
"Then whose are they?" Clara asked them, "And how did they get on board?"
"Not in front of the guests," the Doctor told her as he pointed at Gregor and Tricky with his right hand's index finger before Clara and Sydney looked over at them as Tricky gave them a little wave with his right hand.
"Who are they?" Clara asked them as she pointed at Gregor and tricky with her right hand's index finger.
"Yeah, who are they?" Sydney said, agreeing with the nanny.
"Friends," the Doctor answered, "Well, people who aren't trying to kill us. So I don't need punching again."
"And they helped us rescue the two of you," Rose added as she looked at Clara and Sydney.
Clara then glared at the Doctor and walked off to lean against the rail behind him.
"All right, all right, a deal's a deal," Gregor said as he and Tricky approached them, "You both got the girl and your son back. Now cancel the self-destruct."
"Ha. Ah!" The Doctor chuckled as he clapped his right hand over Gregor's left shoulder, "You know, we've got to tell you, neither of us won't be needing you in our quiz team."
"Indeed, we won't," Rose said, agreeing with him with a smile on her face.
"What?" Gregor asked them with confusion in his voice.
"There is no self-destruct," the Doctor explained before he joke-punched Gregor with both of his hands as Rose giggled, "Hey! Hey! Hey! Had you going, though, boys, didn't we?" He then rubbed Gregor's head with his right hand, 'I just wiggled a few buttons. The old wiggly-button trick. And the faces. You've both got to do the face. 'Save them or we all die.' I thought we rushed it a bit, but…"
"So you're telling us we're safe?" Tricky asked them.
"Ish! Apart from the monsters and the TARDIS reinventing the architecture every five minutes," the Doctor answered, "Guys, don't worry. The countdown's a fake. Look! just give me just a second, I'll turn it off." He then began flicking the TARDIS console's switches, "I only made it look as though the engine was actually exploding." Just then, an alarm suddenly went off, "Ah." He then looked at the screen and saw that it read 'Engine Overload', "Okay, that's not good." He then began pressing other controls along the console as the reading appeared on the TARDIS's monitor and held it with both of his hands, "Okay, don't panic, or maybe panic."
"Something you want to share with the rest of us?" Clara asked him as he lowered the console onto the console.
"Yes, please, do share," Rose said, agreeing with Clara.
"Yeah, we deserve to know what's happening, Dad," Sydney muttered, agreeing with them.
"It appears the engine was damaged," the Doctor answered, "We're in trouble. Proper trouble." Clara, Rose and Sydney then looked up at him, "It needs fixing or we're toast."
"So now would be a good time to use that big friendly button, right?" Clara asked him as he ran down to the TARDIS' lower level as she, Rose, Sydney, Gregor and Tricky followed him.
"Yes, sorry, we should have had one built in," the Doctor answered.
"We really should have had one built in by now," Rose said, agreeing with the Doctor.
"Hopefully we get a chance to," Sydney told them as the Doctor pulled his screwdriver back out and used it on one of the walls' panels.
"Where are we going?" Tricky asked them.
"Detour," the Doctor answered as the panel fell inward and knelt in front of it, "The centre of the TARDIS."
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