Remembering the Forgotten [2] (The Parallel Series) ✓

Utopia - Two

"All passengers prepare for boarding. I repeat all passengers prepare for immediate boarding." The voice through the speaker ordered signalling for everyone to head to the rocket. "Destination, Utopia." He announced while everyone in the lab rushed around.

The Doctor and Rita connected wires on a large clear circuit board. The Doctor looked at a wire fiddling with it in his hand before sniffing it. "Is this?"

"Yes, gluten extract." Yana nodded from the other side of the circuit board.

"It binds the neutralino map together," Rita muttered while nodding, impressed by the work.

"That's food." The Doctor stated looking at Yana. "You've built this system out of food and string and staples?"

"I'm very impressed." Rita breathed.

"Professor Yana, you're a genius."

"I second that." Rita chuckled.

"Says the two that made it work."

"Oh, it's easy coming in at the end, but you're stellar. This is, this is magnificent. And I don't often say that because, well, because of me, well unless you're my Stone here."

"Since when have I been your Stone?" Rita looked at him raising a brow.

"Since I met you all them years ago." He smiled kissing her cheek.

Yana coughed lightly bringing the attention back over to him. "Well, even my title is an affectation. There hasn't been such a thing as a university for over a thousand years. I've spent my life going from one refugee ship to another."

"If you'd been born in a different time, you'd be revered," Rita said only gaining a chuckle and a shake of Yana's head. "I mean it." He added. "Throughout the galaxies."

"Oh, those damned galaxies. They had to go and collapse. Some admiration would have been nice." He then muttered quietly. "Yes, just a little, just once."

"Well, you've got it now." The Doctor smiled before his face became serious again. "But that footprint engine thing. You can't activate it from onboard. It's got to be from here. You're staying behind."

"With Chantho," Yana explained said then added. "She won't leave without me. Simply refuses."

"You'd give your life so they could fly," Rita said sadly.

"Oh, I think I'm a little too old for Utopia." Yana sighed. "Time I had some sleep."

"Don't think you're ever too old for anything Professor, my best friend taught me that." She chuckled nudging the Doctor who laughed.

The Doctor opened his mouth the speak just as a voice came through the large speakers. "Professor, tell the Doctor and the Stone that we've found their blue box."

"Ah!" The Doctor beamed.

"Not mine." She shrugged.

"Oh, she's just as much as mind as she is yours." The Doctor took her hand as Jack beckoned them over to him nodding at the monitor. The Doctor grinned placing a hand on Yana's shoulder. "Professor, it's a wild stab in the dark, but we may just have found you a way out." He then pulled Rita away to help connect the wires as Yana continued to stare at the blue box.

A little while later the TARDIS appeared in the lab, The Doctor pulled out a large thick wire from under the console. "Extra power." Both Time Lords beamed rushing over.

"Although she might not like you after this for a while Doctor."

"What about you then?"

"She likes me." Rita grinned. "This is a little bit of a cheat." She frowned as the Doctor shrugged.