The Doctor Of War ³

The Zygon Inversion (Pt.2)

In Clara's flat the alarm clock shows the time backwards at first, then correctly. 6:26. Clara gets up and walks along the corridor to the bathroom. She opens the cabinet and takes out a tube labelled This Is Toothpaste, then squeezes some onto her toothbrush, dropping it in the sink when she sees that it is black.

"Clara. Clara!" Clara goes to the living room.

"You're breaking up!" the television screen is crackling with a static signal.

"The invasion has happened. You're probably surrounded by Zygons. Get to the TARDIS, get yourself safe. Apparently, our plane is never going to land. Let's see what we can do about that!"

"I'm sorry, but Clara's dead" Clara runs to the front door and opens it, but there is only a blank wall behind it. She goes to the window in the living room and opens the curtains. Blank.

"Dream checks" the newspaper print is gibberish "dream checks, dream checks" Clara mumbles.

"It's your decision, Doctor" Clara turns more pages to read "truth or consequences" the television now shows Clara-Zygon's viewpoint, through the missile launcher to the Doctor's aeroplane. Clara leaps up and jolts the TV. Bonnie's arm jerks and the missile misses the plane. In the plane, Osgood is looking out of a window.

"Doctor? Seer?" the plane rocks as the missile zooms past.

"Missed!" the Doctor says, Bonnie reloads and aims. Clara strains to move the TV again, but it won't budge. Instead, she shapes her hand as if it is on the trigger and tries to stop her counterpart from squeezing. She bites it and Bonnie fires the missile. The plane explodes, and Bonnie turns away, satisfied.

*Time skip*

The beach is littered with bits of wreckage from the place. Osgood sits up, still wearing the parachute harness. She feels around her for her spectacles and finds they have broken at the bridge.

"Doctor? Seer!" Osgood shrugs off her harness and goes over to where the two are getting out of theirs.

"Any questions?" I ask fixing up my sonic sunglasses.

"Why do you both have a Union Jack parachute?" Osgood asks.

"Er, camouflage."

"Camouflage?"

"Yes, we're in Britain. Oh, your specs are broken. I'll fix them. You can wear mine, they're sonic" I say handing my glasses to Osgood.

"Sonic specs?"

"Yeah."

"Isn't that a bit pointless? Like a visual hearing aid?"

"What's wrong with pointless? I once invented an invisible watch. Spot the design flaw" the Doctor says.

"You're talking nonsense to distract me from being really scared. It's one of your known character traits" Osgood says as she puts my sonic sunglasses on.

"Don't look at my browser history" I say just as the sunglasses beep.

"Whoa!"

"Yeah, I said don't" we reach the concrete jetty leading up off the beach and walk up it.

"Why didn't that Zygon blow us up with her big bazooka?"

"She did blow us up with her big bazooka. This is us being blown up with a big bazooka" the Doctor says extending his arms.

"But, I mean, she seems to know what she's doing. The first thing I'd do if I wanted to invade the world would be to kill you two."

"Thanks."