DW: Ways Clara Oswald.... {Spoilers} (Non-Trek)

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Doctor Who: Ways Clara Oswald Survives the Raven
Ways that Clara Survives the Raven...

Regeneration
The Street
“Let me be brave,” Clara whispered. She looked down the street, and saw the raven flying towards her.

The Doctor looked on, his emotions in turmoil. How had it come to this? That Clara would be so reckless. He should have seen it coming. Should have stopped it. He should have found the Street by himself, and then called Clara and Rigsy in once he found Ashildr.

The raven approached Clara. Then penetrated her. It started doing it's work. She cried out, in pain. Such terrible pain. Smoke came from her mouth as she did so. She then fell to the ground. She was dead.

But after a few moments, something unexpected started to happen. “What?” the Doctor asked, hardly beleiving it.

“What is that?” Rigsy asked.

“Doctor!” Ashildr warned.

“I'm not doing it!” the Doctor said.

Golden energy had started emerging from Clara's body. She sat up. “Impossible!” she said, her voice weak.

The Doctor smiled weakly. “The Impossible Girl!” he said, quietly.

“Right...” Clara said. “I'm not a Time Lady!” She said as she stood up. She put her hands out. The regeneration energy continued to do it's work.

It finished. The new Clara collapsed. She looked completely different. The Doctor glared at Ashildr. The old Clara had still ended afterall.

“I'm sorry, Doctor,” Ashildr said. “I truly am.”

“What she said about not taking revenge. Do you know why she said that?” the Doctor asked.

“Wait,” Rigsy said, stepping between the two. “What just happened.”

“A miracle. Clara just went through what should be impossible for a human. River Song was a special case. I doubt Clara was.”

“River Who?” Risgy asked. “What haven't made sense.”

“It's a capability of the Time Lords, my people. Clara isn't a Time Lady. She shouldn't have been able to regenerate,” the Doctor explained. He turned back to Ashildr, he still had a great deal of ire directed at her, afterall. “Now, do you know why she said what she said?”

“She was saving you,” Ashildr answered.

“I was lost a long time ago. She was saving you. I'll do my best, but I strongly advise you to keep out of my way. You'll find that it's a very strong universe when I'm angry with you!”

Ashildr nodded.

The Doctor turned back to Rigsy. “Take care of Clara. Take her to the TARDIS.” He was about to say more, but the transport bracelet beeped and he was teleported away...

Rigsy looked to the new Clara, and back at Ashildr. “Take her, your memories won't be erased when you leave the street. But remember this, neither of you are welcome here!”

“Understood,” Rigsy said.


The TARDIS
Once clear of the Street, Risgy had called Jen and said that he was on his way home. First he dropped Clara in the console room. Immediately, she sat up. “I've survived! I've changed! More girly. I like that!” She pulled a strand of hair in front of her eyes. “A lighter brown. I thought it would be lighter still,” she said with a disappointed tone. “Rigsy!” She ran and hugged him.

He pushed her off him. “I have someone, remember,” he said, looking into the new Clara's bright green eyes.

“Oh yeah. You can go.”

Rigsy exited the TARDIS. He then saw, it start to disappear, as the new Clara attempted to make it fly....

 

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The TARDIS
The Street
The Doctor looked as Clara walked down the Street. “Let me be brave,” she said.

'No! There has to be a way to defeat a Quantum Shade! Just because a method hasn't been found, doesn't mean that they can't be defeated,' he thought. He brought out the sonic shades and put them on. Instantly he called the TARDIS and directed her to materialise around Clara. The Shade left it's cage, and started flying towards Clara. The Doctor smirked as the TARDIS materialised.

“What are you doing, Doctor?” Ashildr asked.

“What I do best! Improvising!” he said, as the TARDIS landed around Clara. He transmitted more instructions to the TARDIS, to stay ahead of the Quantum Shade in the Time Vortex.

The TARDIS then dematerialised, taking Clara with it.

“She will still die, Doctor,” Ashildr said.

“Not before I get back,” the Doctor said, as the Raven approached the place where the TARDIS had been.

“I'm sorry, Doctor,” Ashildr said. “I truly am.”

“What she said about not taking revenge. Do you know why she said that?” the Doctor asked. The Raven had vanished, following the TARDIS.

“She was saving you,” Ashildr answered.

“I was lost a long time ago. She was saving you. I'll do my best, but I strongly advise you to keep out of my way. You'll find that it's a very strong universe when I'm angry with you!”

Ashildr nodded and the transport bracelet beeped and he was teleported away...


The TARDIS
Clara tried to relax as the TARDIS took off, but she knew that the Quantum Shade was still following her. The TARDIS made some noises and a hologram of the Doctor appeared. “This is emergency program one. The TARDIS will continue to fly around the universe until I return from wherever 'Lady Me' sent me. I highly advise you to head to the Zero Room, where it would be less likely for the Quantum Shade to find you if it does penetrate the TARDIS' defenses.”

She recalled seeing the Zero Room. The Doctor had shown it to her some time after he had regenerated (but before she had met Danny). She then ran out of the console room, heading to the Zero Room.

The TARDIS was helping her, as she found the Zero Room less than a minute after leaving the console room. She opened one of the doors and slipped through, closing it behind her. Then she tried to relax in the simplistic environment.

The TARDIS knew when Clara entered the Zero Room. Until that point she had just been travelling forwards in the spatio-temporal presence of the Street .(It still existed centuries later.) She then raced away from Earth as she continued to charge into the future...

 

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Stasis Cube
The Street
The Doctor looked as Clara walked down the Street. “Let me be brave,” she said.

'No! There has to be a way to defeat a Quantum Shade! Just because a method hasn't been found, doesn't mean that they can't be defeated,' he thought. He brought out the sonic shades and put them on. Instantly he called the TARDIS, and directed her to materialise in front of him.

“What are you doing, Doctor?” Ashildr asked.

“What I do best! Improvising!” he said, as the TARDIS landed He clicked his fingers and the doors opened. He ran inside. He quickly emerged holding a small crystal cube.

“What's that?” Rigsy asked.

“A stasis cube. It was used by my people to hold things in a moment of time.”

Clara turned around. “That's your plan?” she asked.

“Yes, but we don't have time to argue,” the Doctor said.

“OK, Doctor,” Clara agreed.

The Doctor put on the sonic shades, and threw the cube at Clara...

Then instead of Clara standing in the street as the Quantum Shade approached in it's lurkworm-offered Raven appearance, there was what appeared to be a portrait of Clara. The Shade was confused.

“Now. That will give me plenty of time to defeat you, after I return from whereever it is I'm going.”

“I'm sorry, Doctor,” Ashildr said. “I truly am.”

“What she said about not taking revenge. Do you know why she said that?” the Doctor asked. The Shade was flying around the portrait of Clara.

“She was saving you,” Ashildr answered.

“I was lost a long time ago. She was saving you. I'll do my best, but I strongly advise you to keep out of my way. You'll find that it's a very small universe when I'm angry with you!”

Ashildr nodded and the transport bracelet beeped and he was teleported away...

“What now?” Rigsy asked.

“You can take the portrait into the TARDIS,” Ashildr answered. “Then you'll stay in there, while denizens of the Street carry it out. Once it's outside, you're free to go on your way. The Doctor will return, then he will be stymied by the fact that the stasis cube was only a reprieve.”

“He will find a way,” Rigsy said as he picked up the portrait. He carried it into the TARDIS.

 

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An Old Foe
The Street
The Doctor looked as Clara walked down the Street. “Let me be brave,” she said. His emotions were in turmoil. How had it come to this? That Clara would be so reckless. He should have seen it coming. Should have stopped it. He should have found the Street by himself, and then called Clara and Rigsy in once he found Ashildr.

The raven approached Clara. But something happened. A light lit up the street, between the raven and Clara. A Knight appeared. “What?” the Doctor asked. The lurkworms were hiding it, but he knew what it was.

“I have arrived at the Trap Street!” it said in a monotone. Internal lights flashed as it spoke. It unsheathed its sword and turned towards the raven. “Exterminate!”

It seemed that Ashildr knew what it was too. “No!”

Too late. The knight swung it's sword at the Raven. The raven disappeared. The Tattoo disappeared from Clara's neck.

“Why?” the Doctor asked.

“I obey Davros!” the disguised Dalek said.

That just gave the Doctor more to think about! Why would Davros want to save Clara from the Raven? “Capture it!” Ashildr ordered.

The disguised Dalek saw the Street denizens approaching. “Emergency Temporal Shift!” It then vanished.

“Davros!” Ashildr shouted.

“He has his reasons,” the Doctor said. He was about to say more, but the bracelet beeped and he was teleported away.

Ashildr turned to Clara. “You have to leave now!” She said.

“I don't want to stay any longer anyway.”

“What just happened?” Rigsy asked.

“A Dalek somehow killed the Quantum Shade! Davros has declared war on the Street! It's peace has been broken,” Ashildr said. “You need to leave now, for your own safety.”

“Right...” Clara considered.

“Go! Your memories won't be wiped.”

“Okay,” Clara said.


Clara and Rigsy returned to the TARDIS.

“What are you doing now?” Rigsy asked.

“I have to find where he was sent,” Clara answered.

“What about what that lady said.”

“Lady Me?” Clara asked. “About Davros declaring war on the Street. I don't know. I don't know what to do about it. I'll have to find the Doctor and ask him.”

“I see,” Rigsy siad.

After they said goodbye, Clara went into the TARDIS and tried to make it fly. The ship eventually disappeared.

 

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A Not so old friend
Clara considered what Rump had said. She went to talk to Rigsy.

“You're serious?” he asked. “You actually expect me to give you my death sentence?”

Clara shushed him. She didn't want the Doctor to know. “Go on. I've always wanted a tatoo. You know, something small, discreet,” she joked.

“Clara, cut it out!”

“Weren't you listening? I'm under the mayor's personal protection. And it's absolute apparently. Look, she controls the Raven, so I will never have to face it. This is clever,” Clara said.

“But this is putting you in danger,” Rigsy objected.

“No, this is us talking the opposition in their own trap,” Clara returned. “This is Doctor 101. We're buying time. We get all of the aliens on our side in the next half an hour, and then we reveal I've got the chronolock, not you, and boom! We buy ourselves time to find the real killer.”

“The Doctor would never let you do this,” Rigsy objections.

“Doctor 102. Never tell anyone your actual plan. He'll have a tantrum when he finds out. And then, when we confront Ashildr, she'll want the chronolock off just to shut him up,” Clara paused. “What happens if you don't go home tonight to Jen and Lucy, eh? If you never go home? You really want your little girl growing up without a father just because he wouldn't take a risk? You trusted us to save you, so trust us. Come on.”

“Okay. All right. Right, how do we do this, then?”

“Well, I was kind of hoping that would be it. I say I want it, you say, you can have it. You know, done deal. Hey, turn around, let me see.”

Rigsy turned around. Then they heard someone call out, “Wait!” very close by.

Clara turned and saw a young looking man nearby. “What?”

“The Quantum Shade doesn't work that way!” the man said. He had an American accent.

“And you know this how?” Clara asked. “Who are you?”

“An old friend of the Doctor's,” he answered. “I have had experiences with these things before,”

“How do I know that you are who you say you are.”

“You just have to trust me,” the mysterious man said.

Clara was going to object, but something told her that he was telling the truth about being an old friend of the Doctor's. “You say that the Quantum Shade doesn't work that way. What do you mean?” she asked.

“If it's taken off Mr. Riggins here, the Shade's contract with Lady Me would be broken. She would not be able to take it off.”

“So you're saying that if I took it, that I would then die?” Clara asked.

“That's exactly what I am saying.”

“I'm willing to take the risk! The Doctor can come up with a way to stop it.”

“I'm sorry Clara, but the Doctor doesn't always save the people close to him.”

“You know my name, but I don't know yours.”

“You can call me Jack.”

“Jack. How do I know what you are saying is true?”

“We're wasting time here,” Rigsy said. “And how did you know my name?”

“The same way I know Clara's,” Jack answered Rigsy. He then answered Clara's question. “You will just have to trust me.”

“Then what would we do?”

“I will take it,” Jack answered.

“Wouldn't you die instead?” Clara asked.

“That is what I am willing to face,” Jack said darkly.

There was something that told Clara that Jack had something up his sleeve, that would allow him to survive, where she wouldn't. She wasn't able to define it... “Go ahead then,” she said.

“Wait!” Rigsy said.

“It's either you or me,” Jack said to Rigsy. “Trust me.”

“Are you sure?” Rigsy asked.

“What did I just tell Clara?”

“That you're willing to face death?” Rigsy asked.

“Yes,” Jack said.

And, as with Clara, there was something that told Rigsy that Jack thought he would somehow survive. “Right, do it then.” He turned around.



Soon, the tattoo was on Jack's neck instead of Rigsy's. The Raven cawed.

…

“I'll find her, I'll find the key,” Anahson said.

“No, Anahson, stay here,” the Doctor said. “There's a reason that the Mayor's gone AWOL. She means for us to release your mother, but she doesn't want us to use her key. She wants to use mine.”

He held up his TARDIS key.

“The TARDIS, that's what this is about,” Clara said.

The Doctor, then started to unlock the stasis chamber.

“Doctor, wait!” Clara called out.

“This girl needs her mother,” the Doctor said. He then cried out. He pulled his arm out with his other arm and found thata bracelet had been firmly clamped upon his forearm.

Rigsy and Anahson caught Anah as she fell.

“Mum, Mum, are you okay?”

“She'll be perfectly fine in a few moment, I assure you.” Ashildr had arrived.

“There are easier ways to steal a key, you know,” the Doctor said.

“I don't want your TARDIS,” Ashildr said. “That's not what this is about. Rigsy, come here. I'll remove your chronolock.”

“What is this, Ashildr? You can't possibly think this is going to keep me here.”

“It's not a restraint. It's a teleport bracelet.”

“What?” Clara asked.

“I'll give you time to say goodbye, don't worry. No one will be hurt,” Ashildr explained.

“Where are you sending me?” the Doctor asked.

“I made a deal to protect the Street. They take you. I take the key so you can't be traced. I do as they tell me and Street is safe.”

“They?” the Doctor asked. “Who are they?”

“One more thing. Your confession dial. They have other means of procuring it, but I understand it's likely on your person. Please, no resistance. You've already lost.”

The Doctor handed the confession dial to Ashildr.

“What is it?” Ashildr asked.

“In your terms, my last will and testament,” the Doctor answered.

“How does it work?” Ashildr asked.

“I've no idea,” the Doctor said.

“Well, thank you anyway,” Ashildr said. She put the confession dial on a mantelpiece. “Rigsy, your neck.”

“I don't have it!” Rigsy said, he turned around, showing that he didn't have it.

“Who has it?” the Doctor asked. “Clara?”

“She doesn't have it!” Jack's voice intruded upon the proceedings.

Ashildr turned in the direction of his voice. “You!” she said with more than a hint of hostility.

“Relax, Lady Me. I'm not here on Torchwood business,” Captain Jack Harkness said. He turned around, showing that he was the one with the chronolock.

“Jack? What are you doing?” the Doctor asked.

“Better me than Clara,” the Jack said.

“You're about to run out of time,” Ashildr said dangerously.

“What do you mean?” the Doctor asked, Jack.

“Clara was going to take the Chronolock off Rigsy,” Jack answered.

“Why am I not surprised,” the Doctor said. “We're going to have a serious talk.”

“You haven't time, Doctor,” Ashildr said.

“Why not?” the Doctor asked.

“Time is almost up, and after the contract is fulfilled, they will take you.”

“Who are they?” the Doctor asked.

“They promised not to interefere with the Street, if they could take you.”

“And once I come back, this street will be over.”

“No it won't. Clara isn't dying.”

“No, she isn't. But for Jack's intervention, she could have.”

“Stop! Doctor!” Jack said.

“No, This place shouldn't be here. It wasn't here before I landed in a Viking village and saved a young storyteller. Overall history is the same, but some details are different. Once upon a time, there was no Torchwood, now there is. And you remember what happened with the Master, 'The Year that never was'. This Street would have put a major kink in the Master's plan to be sure.”

“Now you're just ranting,” Clara said.

The Raven cawed.

“It's time,” Ashildr said, waving off what the Doctor just said.

“I'm ready,” Jack said to the Raven.

The Raven launched itself from the perch. It approached Jack, then penetrated him. He cried out in pain, such terrible pain, and then collapsed...

“There, he's dead,” Ashildr said simply.

The Doctor gave her a shot of annoyance, just before he was teleported away.


Ashildr turned to Clara and Rigsy. “You have to leave now!” She said.

“I don't want to stay any longer anyway,” Clara said.

There was a breath behind her. Jack stood up! “How?” Ashildr asked, in shock.

“I'm a fact of the universe, Lady Me. It would take more than a Quantum Shade to put me out of commission.” He walked up to Clara and Rigsy. “Are you ready to leave the Street?”

“What just happened?” Rigsy asked.

“It was Rose, wasn't it?” Clara asked.

“Time to leave!” Ashildr interupted.

“Good thing I have this,” Jack said to Clara, pointing to his vortex manipulator.

“I've used one,” Clara said, as Jack activated it.



They found themselves outside the Street, next to the TARDIS. “Seriously, what's happening?” Rigsy asked. “How did you come back from the dead?”

“It's complicated,” Jack answered.

“And how did we leave the Street?”

“Vortex Manipulator. Like a space hopper, compared to the Sports Car,” Jack said, pointing to the TARDIS.

“So it's a time machine,” Rigsy stated.

“Yes,” Jack said. “What will you do now?” he asked Clara.

“I will take the TARDIS, and look for the Doctor.”

“You can fly the TARDIS?” Jack asked.

“Not well, but I can,” Clara said.

“I see. I would like to learn more, Clara, but I have to get back to Cardiff,” Jack said. He activated the vortex manipulator again and vanished.

“I'm going to look for the Doctor now,” Clara said to Rigsy.