Travels with the Twelfth Doctor
The New Doctor
After crashing in prehistoric times, the new Doctor and Clara were chased by a Tyrannosaurus rex. They managed to escape into the TARDIS, which the dinosaur then swallowed. The TARDIS then relocated to Victorian London, bringing the dinosaur with them, which spat out the time machine onto the banks of the Thames after choking on it. The Doctor, suffering from severe post-regenerative confusion, stepped out and met Madame Vastra, Jenny, and Strax, joined by an equally befuddled Clara, before collapsing. Back at Paternoster Row, the Doctor was put to bed to recover. Vastra confronted Clara over her prejudiced attitude to the Doctor's new face, and Clara admitted that it was a big change for her. Upstairs, the Doctor escaped his room and attempted to communicate with the dinosaur in the Thames, when it suddenly burst into flames. Clara and the Gang left separately and ended up right next to him. The Doctor, still rather confused, disappeared into the Thames.
The next morning, Clara found a newspaper advertisement that called her the "Impossible Girl" and invited her to "dinner on the other side"... of the page, which turned out to be an advert for Mancini's Family Restaurant. Believing it was a message planted by the Doctor, Clara travelled to the restaurant and indeed found the Doctor there, though he denied leaving the message. Clara and the Doctor were taken down to the restaurant "larder" so that the droids could harvest their organs. After being separated from the Doctor, the Half-Face Man interrogated her with threats of death, but remembering what happened when she had unsuccessfully threatened her rebellious students, dared him to, calling him on his bluff and saying that if the new Doctor was really the Doctor, he'd save her. The Doctor suddenly revealed himself. She and the Doctor called the Paternoster Gang into action, and they began fighting off the droids. The Half-Face Man escaped, but the Doctor followed. Clara and the Gang seemed to be overpowered by the droids, but before they could be killed they all suddenly deactivated.
Clara and the Gang returned to Paternoster Row, finding that the Doctor and the TARDIS had vanished. Clara prepared to ask for a vacancy, believing the Doctor wouldn't come back. However, he did, and Clara happily ran to the TARDIS. Inside, she was surprised to find the Doctor, like his predecessors, had renovated the control room. He affirmed to Clara he was not her boyfriend. Still having great trouble dealing with the sudden changes to the Doctor's regenerated self, Clara showed trepidation to continue travelling with him when the TARDIS landed on Earth. Clara's phone started ringing. Stepping outside, Clara answered the phone and was shocked to hear the voice of the Eleventh Doctor. He told her he was calling from Trenzalore before he had finished regenerating. He told her the new Doctor would be just as scared after the change as she would be and urged her to help him, with the two of them finally exchanging a belated goodbye. This call finally convinced Clara to accept the new Doctor, and she gave him a big hug, despite him protesting he was no longer a "hugging person". The two then realised that instead of Clara's home, they had landed in Glasgow, and they set off to get coffee.
Continued Adventures
When the Doctor failed to return with the coffee, Clara returned to her teaching duties. Mr Armitage introduced her to a new maths teacher, Danny Pink, and following an awkward conversation, asked each other out. Clara returned to her office and found the Doctor with the coffee. The Doctor told her he needed her help and brought her aboard the TARDIS. He asked her if he was "a good man", but she told him she didn't know.
Aboard a ship called the Aristotle in the Ryzak solar system, Clara and the Doctor joined a team to be shrunk and deposited into a malfunctioning Dalek called "Rusty". The shrunken Doctor and Clara entered Rusty through its eyestalk in order to determine how it became good and attempt to repair the Dalek so that it could help the efforts of the resistance. When the Doctor's repairing of Rusty caused it to kill several of the Aristotle's soldiers, Clara entered the Dalek's memory banks and allowed the Doctor to link minds with it, causing it to turn against its kind and order a nearby Dalek ship to retreat. After this Clara and the Doctor returned to their normal size. The Doctor then returned Clara to Coal Hill School, again asking if he was a good man. Again she admitted she didn't know but pointed out that he tried to be, which was what really counted. Back at Coal Hill, she met up with Danny again, agreeing to go on a date with him and insisting she had nothing against soldiers.
The Doctor offered Clara the choice of their next visit. She requested to meet Robin Hood, having grown up reading the stories about him, despite the Doctor's insistence that he was a fictional character. They arrived in Sherwood Forest, to indeed find Robin Hood, but the Doctor refused to believe he was real. Following an archery contest, the Doctor, Clara and Robin were captured by the Sheriff of Nottingham and his robot knights, and taken to his castle, which was actually a spaceship. The Doctor and Robin argued in the cell, leading the guard to believe Clara was the most responsible and mature one of the three - and therefore their leader - so he took her out to the Sheriff. Clara tricked the Sheriff into revealing to her his plans to take over the kingdom. The Sheriff also revealed that he planned to make Clara his consort, and attempted to kiss her, which she avoided. She then warned the Sheriff that he'd "regret that" if he tried again. She managed to escape with Robin, who brought her to his campsite and demanded he tell her what the Doctor knew about the Robin Hood legends, though she ended up telling them about the Doctor's life as well, having been unable to stop once she started. They returned to the castle in the middle of a revolt led by the Doctor, where Robin defeated the Sheriff in a battle. Clara, the Doctor and Robin then teamed up to launch a golden arrow to allow the ship to fly into space. Clara and the Doctor farewelled Robin and set off on more adventures.
Clara went on a date with Danny, but some miscommunication caused her to storm off. Returning home, Clara met the Doctor, who convinced her to help him learn if there was a creature that can perfectly hide; he believed this to be why people talk out loud when alone. Using the telepathic circuits, Clara accidentally landed the TARDIS at the West Country Children's Home in the 1990s when a call from Danny distracted her. Clara and a young boy called Rupert Pink, who was a younger version of Danny, and they encountered a mysterious figure hidden by a bed sheet sitting on Rupert's bed. The Doctor, Clara and Rupert turned away from the figure as it left Rupert's bedroom, and they were unable to find out if it was a creature or a child playing a prank. Clara asked the Doctor to take her back to the moment she left Danny, so she could attempt patching things up. However, not only did she mess things up, but the Doctor called her back to the TARDIS, where she met Orson Pink, who came from 100 years later in Clara's timeline.
Orson was a time traveller who had been trapped at the end of time, where the Doctor's theory seemed possible, as something wanted in. However, the Doctor was knocked out when the door opened and the oxygen field collapsed. Clara piloted the TARDIS via the telepathic circuits, accidentally landing in the Doctor's own childhood. Hiding under his bed, Clara convinced the young First Doctor it was a dream. Fear, she told him, can make one kind instead of cruel and cowardly, and a day would come when he was the most afraid. Inside the TARDIS, Orson asked the Doctor what was outside Orson's ship, but Clara entered and asked the Doctor what if there was nothing behind the door, or under everyone's beds, and "What if the big bad Time Lord doesn't want to admit he's just afraid of the dark?" Clara made the Doctor promise to leave and never find out where they had landed. She returned to the 21st century where she decided to make her relationship with Danny a romantic one. She leaned in and kissed Danny, allowing both of them to overcome their separate fears of becoming a couple.
Dating life and Companion life Collide
While Clara was preparing for a date with Danny, she refused to go sightseeing with the Doctor. However, when the Doctor received a call from an elderly Madame Karabraxos, who asked him to rescue the Teller and its imprisoned mate from the Bank of Karabraxos before the solar storm would destroy it, Clara joined the Doctor on the mission. The Doctor recruited Saibra and Psi and, disguising himself as "the Architect", orchestrated a bank heist for himself and his new team to commit. The Doctor, Clara and Saibra used memory worms to erase their recent memories, while Psi deleted his recent memories manually. This allowed them to break into the Bank of Karabraxos without revealing their plan to the Teller, who was forced to work as the bank's telepathic guard by Ms Delphox, the Head of Bank Security. Following the instructions left by the Architect, the team discovered six devices which they believed were atomic shredders. Preferring a quick and painless death, Saibra was soon forced to use one of them, as later was Psi.
Left alone, the Doctor and Clara entered the bank's vault, where they found the payment which the Architect had promised to Psi and Saibra. The pair were soon captured by the Teller and Ms Delphox, who ordered their execution. However, they were rescued by Saibra and Psi, who had survived and disguised themselves as guards. They revealed that the "atomic shredders" were actually teleporters. Reunited, the team ventured into the bank's private vault, where they discovered the bank's director, a younger Madame Karabraxos. Realising the true identity of the Architect, the Doctor wrote down his phone number and gave it to Karabraxos, who fled the bank. No longer subjected to Karabraxos, the Teller used its psychic powers to restore the Doctor's lost memories, allowing him to learn the true objective of their mission. After freeing the Teller and its mate, the Doctor and his team escaped the planet using the teleporters. Reunited with his TARDIS, the Doctor dropped the two creatures off on an isolated planet. After giving Psi and Saibra their payment and having a meal with them and Clara in the TARDIS, the Doctor returned his companions to their respective times and places, allowing Clara to be back home on time for her date.
At some point, the TARDIS had been lost in 22nd century London and kept a boy called Simon safe when the city had been taken over by wolves. At a time when Simon, the Doctor and Clara all needed help, Simon triggered the TARDIS' telepathic circuits and the TARDIS materialised around the Doctor and Clara just as they were "about to be turned into toast by an Aaaraanandal slime beast". They took Simon out of the danger zone to bring him to his parents in Bedfordshire, before leaving in the TARDIS.
Although the Doctor always returned her home soon after they left, leading a double life didn't prove to be easy for Clara. During one of their adventures, the Doctor and Clara were held prisoner on a desert planet. As a result, Clara acquired a tan, which surprised Danny. After meeting fish people with the Doctor, Clara turned up on a date with Danny in a wet dress and with seaweed in her hair. One day Danny came round to Clara's flat to go running with her, not knowing that she was already exhausted after running for her life on another outing with the Doctor. On another occasion, Danny saw Clara wearing a space helmet. By that time, the rumours of Clara's and Danny's romantic relationship were travelling among the students of Coal Hill School. Clara's two lives finally collided when one morning the Doctor informed her that they were not going to have an adventure that day, explaining that he had a "thing" to do. To her horror, when Clara arrived at Coal Hill School, Mr Armitage introduced her, Danny and other teachers to the school's new caretaker, who was actually the Doctor going undercover. He had discovered a Skovox Blitzer killer robot in the surrounding area and was planning to lure it into the school, where he was going to trap it using chronodyne generators and send it into the Time Vortex. However, his plans were spoiled when Danny, whom the Doctor didn't like and whom he claimed he didn't recognise, discovered and switched off some of the chronodyne generators.
The Doctor was still able to temporarily send the Blitzer into the Time Vortex. Noticing that Clara was familiar with the Doctor, Danny demanded explanations. Clara had to tell him the truth about her life with the Doctor. The Doctor's dislike for Danny increased when he learned that Danny was Clara's boyfriend. Declining his proposal to erase Danny's memories of these events, Clara took the shocked Danny home. Danny was uncomfortable with the fact that Clara "eloped" with the Doctor when he wasn't seeing her. This prompted her to give him an invisibility watch and take him with her into the TARDIS the next day so that he could observe her interactions with the Doctor. However, the Doctor sensed Danny's presence, and a heated confrontation arose between the two men. As Danny stormed out of the TARDIS, Clara reminded him that it was parents' evening at Coal Hill School that day, and the pair had to return to their duties.
During the parents' evening, the Skovox Blitzer suddenly emerged from the Time Vortex earlier than expected, which the Doctor detected. He summoned Clara and gave her his sonic screwdriver, instructing her to use it to attract the Blitzer's attention and lure it towards the TARDIS. The Doctor used the device that he had built to make the Blitzer think of him as of its superior. This accidentally triggered the Blitzer's self-destruct protocol. However, Danny appeared at the last moment and distracted it, giving the Doctor enough time to deactivate the Blitzer. The Doctor had to acknowledge that Danny had saved the world, while Danny claimed that he didn't need the Doctor to like him, but needed to prove himself a worthy boyfriend for Clara in the Doctor's eyes. Clara shared an evening with Danny. He told her that when he was a soldier, he knew officers like the Doctor, and made Clara promise to tell him if the Doctor ever pushed her too hard.
Clara volunteered to supervise a school ski trip with Danny, so the Doctor brought her to the planet Isen VI, which they discovered being terraformed by Kano Dollar and his company Dollar Intergalactic. The terraforming woke up a Hyperion named Rann-Korr. Clara had to use a ski-pole to fence with Eric the drone, reprogrammed by Rann-Korr, and helped the Doctor to revert an area of Isen VI around Rann-Korr to its original icy state, freezing Rann-Korr inside. This was Clara's first encounter with Hyperions.
Clara and the Doctor later answered a distress call from an old friend of his, Tiger Maratha, leading them to meet his daughter Priyanka Maratha instead as Tiger had been dead for some time. It turned out that a family cult that worshipped Kali were working to resurrect her by murdering people and using their souls to power Kali's rebirth; they had tricked Tiger into collecting three of the four swords, but threatened to kill him when he claimed that the fourth was nowhere to be found. Clara was captured and used as bait to ensure the Doctor brought the fourth sword of Kali to them, in exchange for Clara's safety.
However, they double-crossed the Doctor and used Clara as the vessel of Kali's spirit, mutating her into Kali's form; Clara retained awareness of what was happening. When the Doctor returned, he managed to help free Clara briefly from Kali's control, saving him from being sliced to death. However, the Doctor had a backup plan; he had placed his sonic screwdriver in the fourth sword and tricked Kali into destroying her power source. The vengeful spirits forced Kali out of Clara, returning her to normal. Borrowing a shirt from Priyanka, Clara and the Doctor attended the Festival of Light with Priyanka and her new girlfriend Rani Jhulka, a time-displaced Amazon from 18th century Africa.
Earth was later invaded by the Fractures, creatures of the Void who sought Paul Foster, a scientist from another universe who had crossed into N-Space to join a version of his family that had lost his counterpart. The Doctor managed to banish the Fractures with Clara convincing him to allow Paul to remain. Clara had been given one of the Doctor's sonic screwdrivers during the course of the adventure but as he had forgotten to reclaim it, Clara kept it for herself.
On a jungle planet, Clara found a museum that held a record of the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors meeting. Seeking to prevent the dangerous paradoxes of a Multi-Doctor Event, Clara steered the TARDIS to Paris in 1923 to enlist the aid of Gabby Gonzalez and Alice Obiefune only for a future Gabby to arrive and warn that they were all falling into the trap of an alternate Twelfth Doctor who now ruled the Voord. Navigating around the traps, the group made their way to Marinus to confront their foe where Clara convinced the alternate Twelfth Doctor to revert the Voord lest they be destroyed. Only asking that Clara not forget him, the alternate Doctor complied. Having previously entered the Doctor's timestream, Clara's memories of this were erased soon after.
Shunning the Doctor
When the Doctor told Courtney that she wasn't special, she became upset and inconsolable. Noticing this, Clara asked the Doctor to tell Courtney that she was special, which prompted him to take both Clara and Courtney to the Moon in the year 2049 so that Courtney could become the first girl to step on the lunar surface. The TARDIS landed on board a space shuttle that Captain Lundvik and her crew were piloting to the Moon, which recently had been gaining weight and creating chaos on Earth due to its increasing gravity. Investigating an abandoned moonbase, the Doctor, Clara, Courtney and the astronauts were attacked by spider-like creatures, who soon killed Lundvik's crew.
After scanning the Moon's core, the Doctor discovered that the Moon was actually an egg that was about to hatch and release a giant creature. Believing that it was a threat to humanity, Lundvik desired to kill it using the nuclear bombs which her crew brought to the Moon in their shuttle. Unwilling to kill a yet-to-be-born and potentially innocent organism, Clara asked for the Doctor's advice - but to her horror, he proclaimed that it was not his place to decide the fate of Earth's Moon and departed in the TARDIS, leaving Clara, Courtney and Lundvik to make a decision on behalf of humankind.
Clara sent a video message to Earth, asking humanity to vote whether they should destroy the creature or not. Although the human race unanimously voted for killing it, Clara could not bear such a decision and cancelled the countdown. At the same moment, the TARDIS arrived back, and the Doctor took the three women to a beach on Earth. The creature harmlessly emerged from its egg, its eggshell dissolving without doing any damage to Earth, and laid another egg. He explained that the sight of such a creature being born would fascinate humanity and inspire it to pioneer into space and spread across the universe.
After the Doctor took Courtney back to Coal Hill School, Clara confronted the Doctor, demanding to know what he really knew and threatening to hit him "so hard he would regenerate". The Doctor replied that he knew that the creature wouldn't harm Earth and that Clara "would always make the right choice". Angered by the fact that the Doctor, whom she considered her friend, had put her in a terrible situation in which she nearly caused the death of an innocent creature, and tired of his patronising attitude, Clara told him to leave and never return for her, exiting the TARDIS in tears. When Danny came to see Clara in her class, she recounted the story to him. She claimed that she had finished with the Doctor, but Danny pointed out that she was still angry and stated that "you can never finish with anyone while they can still make you angry". He told Clara to calm down first, and only then tell the Doctor that their relationship was over.
Forgiving the Doctor
Clara remained angry at the Doctor for several weeks, but eventually, she realised that although she couldn't carry on travelling with him, she didn't want to part with him on bad terms, and agreed to make one final trip with him as "a goodbye to the good times". The Doctor took Clara to the space-bound recreation of the Orient Express, where they soon learned that one of the passengers, Mrs Pitt, had recently died. Theorising that she was killed by the mythical Foretold, the Doctor set off to investigate, while Clara followed Maisie, Mrs Pitt's granddaughter, to the luggage car, where the two got themselves trapped.
After several more people were killed by the Foretold, the Doctor discovered that the Orient Express was actually a trap orchestrated by Gus, the computer who controlled the train, to study the Foretold. Learning that Maisie would be the next victim and planning to make use of her death in order to study the Foretold, the Doctor phoned Clara and told her to bring Maisie to the lab, making Clara lie to her that the Doctor would be able to save her. Gus unlocked the luggage car door, allowing Clara and Maisie to the lab, where the Doctor admitted knowing all along, or at least suspecting, that this wouldn't be just a relaxing voyage. Clara realised that the Doctor had once again placed her in a dangerous situation. The Doctor was able to make the Foretold attack him instead of Maisie and, identifying it as an "ancient soldier being driven by malfunctioning tech", surrendered to it, allowing it to die. Having no more need for the scientists, Gus proceeded to remove all the air from the train, making Clara and the rest of the passengers pass out. The Doctor retained oxygen long enough to use the Foretold's teleport to rescue everyone on board.
Upon waking up, Clara found herself with the Doctor on a beach on a nearby planet. He explained that he was unable to save the other passengers from the Foretold and that there was a big chance that he wouldn't be able to save Maisie as well, but he still had to risk her life to stop the Foretold, because "sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose". Back in the TARDIS, Clara asked the Doctor if he loved the fact that his life was full of dangerous situations and hard decisions, and whether it was like an addiction for him, to which he replied that you couldn't tell if something was an addiction until you tried to give it up. Upon receiving a call from Danny, Clara indicated to him that she had finally parted ways with the Doctor. However, unable to really give up her life in the TARDIS, she lied to the Doctor that Danny wouldn't mind if she continued travelling with the Doctor as long as he brought her home safe and on time, and much to his joy and delight, asked him to take her on a new adventure.
Secret Adventures
The Doctor landed on the Pollyanna, the first of the Ninth Era sunships, which had been on an expedition to circumnavigate the Sun. Because the temperature was kept cold in spite of the Doctor telling Clara he was taking her "somewhere warm", Clara went back inside the TARDIS to change in warmer clothing, while the Doctor ran off without her. Clara met the boss of the expedition, the egotistical "handsome quadrillionaire" Rudy Zoom, and was shown the Pollyanna's flight deck. When the Umbra, a group of "psychic predators" who fed off self-loathing, began attacking the Pollyanna, Clara used the TARDIS to translate a looped signal Sandy Tanaka had been trying to decode. The signal was a message recorded by an alien scientist whom had created the Umbra. He said that originally, the Umbra had been a psychic fabric fashioned into a cloak which drained guilt. However, the Umbra gained intelligence and devoured his people's "spirits".
The scientist as a last ditch effort tried burning them in the Sun, but they survived, trapped inside the Sun's chromosphere. The Umbra began swarming the Pollyanna, anchoring the ship to the Sun to try and hijack it and use it as a way of reaching Earth. As the rest of the crew on the flight deck headed to auxiliary control, Clara destroyed the navigation system, stopping the Umbra from finding Earth. After the crew was surrounded, Clara realised that Rudy was too much of a narcissist to have any self-loathing in his mind for the Umbra to feed on, and sent him to speak to the Umbra. As a result, the inside of Rudy's mind was "like poison" to the Umbra and the Umbra on board were destroyed while trying to feed on his mind. Meanwhile, the Doctor had used the graviton inverter on the Pollyanna to destroy the Umbra which had swarmed on the ship's hull by freezing them to death.
While attempting to return Clara home, the Doctor accidentally took the TARDIS to Bristol, and the pair discovered that the TARDIS exterior had reduced in size. Staying behind in the TARDIS to investigate the effect, the Doctor sent Clara to look around and find the cause. Clara met Rigsy and his community service crew and learned that people had been disappearing in the area, with murals of them appearing on the walls of a pedestrian tunnel. On returning Clara discovered that the TARDIS had shrunk further, preventing the Doctor from getting out. However, the doorway was still large enough for him to pass Clara his sonic screwdriver, his psychic paper and a nanotechnological device that allowed him to communicate with Clara and see through her eyes. Putting the small TARDIS in her handbag, Clara set off to find the source of the dimensional leeching.
Clara once again met Rigsy, and they investigated the disappearances. The Doctor realised that they were dealing with beings from a two-dimensional universe, who were sucking people into flat surfaces. As the two-dimensional entities were advancing on Clara and Rigsy, Clara received a call from Danny and, telling him that she was busy helping a community worker find his missing aunt, quickly hung up. Clara and Rigsy escaped the danger and, when the Doctor realised that the murals were actually the creatures taking forms of their victims, Clara and the rest of the community service crew at the tunnel hid in a nearby engine repair warehouse. While the group was confused and disorientated, Clara became the leader and attempted to bring them to safety. As the creatures had gradually picked off the community service workers, Clara, Fenton and Rigsy became the only survivors. The Doctor claimed that he had discovered a way to send the creatures back to their dimension but didn't have enough power to do so. In the chaos, the TARDIS was dropped down a shaft onto a railway. Fleeing from the creatures, Clara found the TARDIS in siege mode on the tracks and devised a plan to restore its power. She asked Rigsy to paint a fake door with a flattened handle and placed the TARDIS behind it. Attempting to de-flatten the fake handle so that they could open the "door", the creatures unknowingly pumped dimensional energy into the TARDIS, restoring it to its proper size and full power. The Doctor emerged from the TARDIS and, taking his sonic screwdriver back from Clara, sent them back to their dimension. When the threat was over, the Doctor took the survivors to the surface.
The Doctor tried taking Clara to the frost fair in 1641, but instead, was drawn off course and landed in the Sahara Desert in 1941, where they were captured by Nazis. After the Doctor spoke to their field marshal, Erwin Rommel, and learnt of Germany's Tuareg allies making friends with "men from the stars", Clara stayed behind at the base because of the Tuareg's hostility towards women. Eventually, though, after the Rutan spy Heinz Bruckner framed the Doctor and Clara as spies, Clara was taken prisoner and joined Bruckner, ostensibly in a mission to find the Doctor and Field Marshall Rommel. Instead, Bruckner drove to the site of the Sontaran world engine weapon, the Warsong, using the chronal energy inside Clara to pinpoint the location of the Warsong so he could claim it for the Rutans. The Doctor and Rommel broke through the defences of the Warsong, but Bruckner held Clara hostage. The Doctor stopped Bruckner from conducting the millennia-old preset programming of the Warsong by using a Sontaran osmic projector to send Bruckner's trigger mechanism through time, and Clara broke free. Rommel threw Bruckner into the Warsong, killing him, while the Doctor destroyed the "orchestra" of the Warsong by using his sonic screwdriver to blow it up. Afterwards, he brought Clara to the frost fair.
Clara and Danny chaperoned a school trip to a museum, and upon leaving, discovered a forest had grown all over the world. One of the students, Maebh Arden was missing. Clara, Danny and the students met up with the Doctor at Trafalgar Square, and she and the Doctor set off to find Maebh. Following a trail that Maebh left, they caught up to her but were trapped by a tiger. Danny saved them. Maebh claimed to have been behind the forest, and the solar flare headed for Earth that had come to her in the thoughts Maebh found after her sister Annabel went missing. Believing there was no hope for humanity, Clara convinced the Doctor to leave her and Earth behind. The Doctor began to leave but realised the trees were protecting Earth, rather than destroying it with the solar flare. With the Doctor's help, Maebh sent out a message to humanity urging them to leave the trees alone. The Doctor and Clara then watched as Earth was shielded from the solar flare by the trees. Back at her flat, the Doctor stated to Clara that humanity would forget the incident.
When the Doctor took Clara to Las Vegas in 1963, he quickly won her a fortune only to be escorted away by enforcers of the casino's owner. Left to her own devices, Clara quickly won the affections of the Wolf Pack who promised to help her find the Doctor before the Cybock Imperium invaded. Imprisoned with the artists at the Cosmos Casino, Clara managed to extort information from the conquerors, distracting them long enough for the Doctor to arrive. The Doctor eventually managed to convince the Cybock to play a game of Rassilon's roulette with the Time-Gun of Rassilon, resulting in the Cybock wiping themselves from history, the Doctor revealing that the gun couldn't fire on Gallifreyan DNA. Afterwards, Clara attended a show by the Wolf Pack, being mortified to discover that they considered the Doctor her "sugar daddy".
Next materialising in Derbyshire in 1845, though aiming for Margate, the Doctor and Clara were brought to North Lees Hall where they freed the residents from the thrall of an Aranox, which burnt to death along with the castle. As the residents all left, Clara was delighted to learn that they'd given Charlotte Brontë the inspiration for Jane Eyre.
Losing Danny
During the "invasion of the trees" Danny learned about Clara's secret adventures with the Doctor. After marking her student's schoolwork and writing some sticky notes, Clara was prepared to tell Danny the truth. While he was out walking, she phoned him. She began to tell him about her recent travels with the Doctor and that she loved him, however, the line fell silent during the call. A panicked woman took the call and informed her that Danny had been hit by a car. Clara rushed to the scene in time to see Danny's lifeless body being taken away by paramedics. Several days later, Clara attempted and failed to blackmail the Doctor to save Danny's life. The Doctor still agreed to use the telepathic circuits to find a way to save Danny. The TARDIS took them to 3W. They were greeted by Missy, who said that she was a greeting droid and passed them on to Dr Chang. Dr Chang established a communication with the Nethersphere, and the voice of Danny came through. The Doctor left with Chang to investigate the centre while Clara spoke with Danny. Clara asked Danny to say something which only he could say so that she knew that it was definitely him. She vowed to find a way to be with him, even if it meant taking her own life. In fear that she would die for him, Danny repeatedly told Clara he loved her, prompting her to end the call. Turning around, she found that the dark water had drained from the tank containing Dr Skarosa, revealing him to be a Cyberman.
To save herself, Clara used her knowledge of the Doctor to try to convince the Cybermen that she was him but ultimately failed. However, another Cyberman stunned her, killed the others and took her to a graveyard. In the graveyard, Clara avoided the Cybermen rising from their graves and her saviour revealed itself to be Danny. However, Danny couldn't stand the pain of being a Cyberman and asked Clara to activate his inhibitor for him. Clara activated his inhibitor to allow Danny to clearly see the Cybermen's plan and afterwards hugged Danny who retained control even with the inhibitor due to his love for her. As Clara hugged Danny, Missy, who was in fact a female incarnation of the Doctor's boyhood friend the Master, arrived to reveal her plan was to convert all of humanity and have them march across the universe, conquering and converting, an unstoppable army, with the only question being whether that army spread on its own or the Doctor took control of it himself. During the confrontation, Clara got ahold of Missy's weapon, while the Doctor handed control of the army to Danny. Danny then sacrificed himself to stop Missy's plans. However, the devastated Clara decided to kill her out of revenge. The Doctor decided to do it to spare Clara from being tainted, but they were both spared when a rogue Cyberman appeared to disintegrate Missy with his wrist blaster.
Two weeks later, Clara awoke to Danny's voice and followed it to a portal. Clara was excited as the Doctor had told her that Missy's bracelet, which Danny had on him, would thus allow him to come back. However, Danny chose to send back the boy he killed, asking Clara to get him home as there was only enough power left for one trip for one person. Meeting with the Doctor, Clara nearly told him about what happened with Danny when the Doctor assumed he returned and she would be ending her adventures with him for a life with Danny. However, she stopped herself when he told her that he had found Gallifrey. Clara said goodbye to the Doctor and watched him depart once more as she didn't want to spoil his happiness.
Second Chance with the Doctor
When Clara was attacked by a dream crab who slowly fed on her brain, she had a dream where she became an old woman filled with regrets. She turned down many marriage proposals, taught in every school in Europe and learnt how to fly an aeroplane. She was then attacked by a dream crab, and in the dream within the dream was a young woman who saw Santa Claus' sleigh crash on her roof. The Doctor arrived and invited Clara into the TARDIS, and they arrived at a base on the North Pole on Christmas Eve. The Doctor, Clara and the scientists at the polar base were again attacked by dream crabs and had a dream within this dream where Santa saved everybody's life. Clara told the Doctor that Danny was, in fact, dead, while the Doctor explained that he lied about finding Gallifrey. While trying to fetch a dream crab specimen for the Doctor to examine, Clara realised the specimen had come to life, and attacked her face, causing her to have a dream within this dream. In the dream, Clara had woken up on Christmas morning to an alive Danny, and the Doctor had used a dream crab to enter this dream. Clara assured the Danny in the dream that she would miss him for five minutes every day while for the rest of the time she would "get the hell on with it".
After leaving Danny, the Doctor realised that the dream crab had left no wound on either of them and everyone at the polar base still had the pain in a spot on the head, which meant that they were still dreaming. The Doctor, Clara and the scientists woke up, but before they left, Clara asked the Doctor how Santa could have been on her roof if he was a part of the dream. Ashley Carter signalled Santa with a flare to get them away from the dream constructs that were psychic representations of the dream crabs' attack, and as they rode on Santa's sleigh, the base's scientists, who weren't actually scientists, woke up in the real world. Inside Clara's dream as an old woman, the Doctor pulled the dream crab off her face while she failed to wake up, and he realised that he had arrived sixty-two years after he had last met her. As Clara told the Doctor about her life and the Doctor wished he could have come back for her earlier, Santa arrived, asking the Doctor, "How much do you wish that?" The Doctor woke up again, and pulled the dream crab off of Clara's face again at her home, revealing a young Clara. The Doctor offered Clara to travel through time and space in the TARDIS again, and she agreed.
To celebrate Clara's birthday, the Doctor threw her an "Infinite Clarabration" attended by herself as a child and an old woman along with Oswin and Clara Oswin Oswald. When Clara was shocked at the violation of the First Law of Time, the Doctor revealed that the guests were, respectively, a ganger, an Ood in a wig, a Zygon and the Teselecta, sending them all out and explaining that he'd already paid for the "Infinite Clarabration" banner.
The Doctor later took Clara to an auction where they purchased the living portrait of Lady Josephine, who was destined to become the Eighth Doctor's companion Josie Day. Depositing her in the Doctor's cottage, the two later returned to check up on the two, Clara teasing the Twelfth Doctor about his sentimentality.
When the Doctor took her to San Diego Comic-Con, a selfie that Clara took of herself and the Doctor allowed them to discover and thwart a plot by the Lady of Neverness.
The Doctor and Clara travelled to a galactic auction in Earth's orbit where unclaimed storage was being bid on. One of the storage pods belonged to the reclusive collector Hyphen T Hyphen. When the pod was opened, a mother Rigellan Hyper-Kraken emerged and began killing everyone. Her eggs were jolted after being transported with the station's dimensional shunt and began to hatch. Clara helped distract the Hyper-Kraken along with the station's auctioneer as the Doctor safely transported the Hyper-Kraken, her eggs and the storage pods to a backwater world.
The Doctor and Clara went on a tour of Snowcap University in Antarctica in 2048. While taking a helicopter ride, they learnt that one of the students, Polly Evans, had stayed behind at the end of term to join the classified Project Sub-Zero. When another student, Quinn Norton, who also a part of Project Sub-Zero, was killed in a helicopter crash the Doctor and Clara narrowly avoided being on along with Polly's father George, they returned to Snowcap U to investigate. Clara met a research graduate called Winnie Clarence, short for "Oswin Clarence". Winnie looked exactly like Clara and recalled dreams of living a thousand lives in a thousand places. Winnie overheard a discussion between the Doctor and Clara over whether or not this meant she was one of her splinters who was born to die based on a decision Clara made and ran off on a snowmobile. Clara tried following after Winnie but the two fell down a crevasse into an ice cavern where the missing students had been experimented on, engineered by Dr Patricia Audley to survive in extreme cold. Along with the spy Paul South, Winnie released most of the imprisoned humans from captivity.
The Doctor transmitted a signal with his sonic causing Dr Audley's animals to go wild. After feigning betrayal of the two, Winnie threw the Doctor the key to free the hybrid subjects from their cells and saved the Doctor's life by pulling Dr Audley into a vat of liquid ice after Audley pulled a gun on him. Dr Audley was killed, and Winnie appeared to have sacrificed herself, once again, for the Doctor. When Winnie's mother arrived on the scene, Clara, struck with guilt over the death of Winnie, made the decision to live out her life as Winnie to spare Winnie's mother the pain of losing her daughter. Fortunately, Clara did not have to do this as Winnie survived when she unwittingly had a syringe of Dr Audley's experimental blue blood serum injected into her, allowing her to live inside the ice. Clara realised that this meant that not all of the splinters died saving the Doctor, and many of them had lives of their own. The Doctor said that Clara was able to release some of her inner demons as a result of this knowledge.
The Doctor and Clara visited Paris in 1944 just after it was liberated from the Germans. After foiling a plot by the Darapok Empire, the Doctor and Clara joined in on the liberation celebrations.
Clara joined the Doctor in a mission to help Mr Hitch recover the sentient superweapon the Hadax Ura. The Hadax Ura shot down the landing craft the team were inside, revealing the weapon's location on the planet Unnamed BX-4, but the team were able to escape using jetpacks. While piloting a jetpack, Clara got separated from the team when she was attacked by pterosaurs, causing her to fall into the Jungle.
Clara met the Jungle's organic avatar, who took the form of Danny in an attempt to get Clara to trust him. Although this didn't work, the Doctor found Clara and the organic avatar, and the avatar told them that the Hadax Ura had been "devouring" the Jungle, and turning its indigenous life into an army, and asked them either to destroy the weapon or to take it elsewhere. The Doctor realised that this meant it intended to end the war between the Hub Alliance and the Axis Worlds, and the Hadax Ura began augmenting the crew to become its foot soldiers. Believing it had augmented Clara as well, the Hadax Ura had actually linked the Jungle's computer systems to its own after augmenting the avatar. The avatar appeared to shut down the Hadax Ura and its augmented soldiers, but in fact, the Hadax Ura had tricked Hitch's team to bring it on board the lander as a means of escape for the Hadax Ura. With Clara surrounded by the converted Gela and Wiremu and about to be killed by them, the avatar saved her life by destroying them with the entire Jungle's wildlife. When the Doctor returned, Clara kissed goodbye to the Danny avatar, who told her he would always be in her memories.
The Doctor and Clara encountered a vampire-like race called the Corvids in Highgate Cemetery in 1972, who had petrified the TARDIS. They tried consuming Clara's psychic essence but found her toxic due to her unique connection to the time-space vortex where she splintered into a million Claras. The Doctor discovered that the Corvids exposing themselves to Clara left a psychic corridor open, and using the psychic signature of the dead amplified by the ley line the cemetery was built on, the Doctor banished the Corvids back to the time vortex.
The Doctor and Clara arrived in a forest on a planet, where the TARDIS was stolen by dragons. Navigating to a nearby village, they learned from the Lord Mortigan that they were on a planet designed to resemble medieval times, with the dragons being the planet's natural inhabitants, which had been genetically modified. The dragons had been freed from being inhibited by inhibitor chips by a person known as the Dragon Lord, who aimed to wipe out the townspeople, having already killed the royalty. Although the Doctor declared his intent to leave and let the townspeople get what they "deserved" for enslaving the dragons, Clara reminded him that he shouldn't decide which lives were worth saving. The Doctor, Clara and the town's remaining lords set off to reason with the Dragon Lord. Along the way, they ran into a baby hatchling, but Lord Mortigan killed it, causing its parents to attack the party. The Doctor was separated from Clara in the chaos, and reuniting with Clara at the Red Castle, they found that the Dragon Lord had been killed, believing they would have been grateful to him for liberating them. The Doctor and Clara retrieved the TARDIS from the dragons' treasure hoard and left, calling rescue ships to evacuate the planet of humans to allow the dragons to live in peace.
The Doctor and Clara were summoned by Harry Houdini and found themselves in a computer program inside a crystal ball which fed on their despair. The program set up theatrical death traps with no way out so their minds could be ripened for it, but the Doctor, Clara and Houdini escaped. The Doctor revealed the virtual environment with his sonic screwdriver. The Doctor, Clara and Houdini then fought back by imagining what made them feel the most free, which shattered the prison and returned them to the real world. They found the owner of the crystal ball prison, Diamanda, had been completely consumed by the crystal ball's power and killed. When Houdini regretted his inability to commune with the dead, the Doctor and Clara reassured him that his legacy would be remembered forever.
Wanting to raise funds for an IT suite at Coal Hill School in memory of Danny, Clara came up with the idea of a Halloween Fayre. However, few people had actually turned up. As part of the Fayre's witch hunt, the time traveller Miss Chief, intending to create mischief, brought the Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins to find Clara. When he did so, Miss Chief sent them back in time to the 17th century, where Hopkins captured Clara, in costume as the witch, throwing her into the water to see if she floated. Miss Chief saved Clara from drowning, and Clara later found a mob was accusing a woman called Agnes Leech of being a witch. Trying to save Agnes' life and prove her innocence, Clara was captured by Hopkins again. Clara and Agnes were framed as witches; imprisoned and left to starve and be deprived of sleep in solitary confinement until they confessed.
A hallucination of Danny convinced Clara to confess to being a witch and escape, rather than remain in the dungeon. Clara accidentally identified the Doctor, who had come to rescue Clara, as a witch, and both were to be executed. Miss Chief brought them back to the 21st century before they could be hanged. The Doctor and Clara convinced Miss Chief to bring them back to retrieve the TARDIS and save Agnes from the dungeons, and unwittingly brought the missing cat Smudge with them. Clara convinced the mob that Hopkins was a witch and Smudge was his familiar, but the Doctor prevented them from murdering Hopkins by sneakily putting Miss Chief's time travelling Marotte in his belt, forcing Miss Chief to save his life. The Doctor and Clara escaped and returned to Coal Hill. Because of the Doctor and Miss Chief bringing extinct animals and rare artefacts to the 21st century as part of Miss Chief's scavenger hunt game and her making superstitions coming true, the publicity from paranormal, wildlife and antique experts made Clara's fundraiser at the Halloween Fayre a success, and a few months later, Clara opened the Danny Pink IT Suite, which the Doctor was also present at.
In the summer of 2015, the Doctor and Clara returned to Earth to find it conquered by the Hyperions. When Clara had befriended a fireman named Sam, he led them to the remainder of London's population where they found Kate Stewart waiting for them. Joined by Sam, the Doctor and Clara tried to destroy the Sussex Firewall only to wind up letting the transformed Colonel Weir into the TARDIS. Armed with Weir's knowledge, the trio flew to the sun only to be confronted by a Hyperion who revealed how their race had survived. After escaping back to Earth, the Doctor and Clara led a resistance movement before shifting the fusion web around the sun to the year 5000000000, collapsing it as the star went nova.
At some point, Clara and the Doctor met novelist Jane Austen. Clara befriended Austen and the two would play pranks on each other. She once confided in her class that Austen was "a phenomenal kisser", and later told Rigsy, "I love her," before teasing him with the statement, "Take that how you like."
The Glory Days
When all the planes of Earth were frozen, UNIT requested Clara's help due to being unable to contact the Doctor. With Clara acting on his behalf, they eventually discovered that Missy was behind the freezing of the planes. Missy proposed a meeting with Clara. However, she would not reveal how she was still alive. Clara and Missy managed to track the Doctor down to Essex in 1138, and Missy used vortex manipulators to get them there.
After finding out that the Doctor had been having a 3-week party there, they were captured by Colony Sarff who imprisoned the three in a hospital building on Skaro, and later took the Doctor to Davros. After escaping, Clara and Missy were captured by a Dalek and taken to the Supreme Dalek who ordered for their "extermination".
Despite the appearance that she had been killed, Clara ended up far away from the Dalek City with Missy. The latter led them into a Dalek burial ground, where she attacked and killed a Dalek. She told Clara to get in it, and so she obliged, leading Missy through the city as her "prisoner". When she was found by the Doctor, Missy attempted to convince him that the Dalek that, in fact, was Clara had murdered Clara. In trying to convince the Doctor not to kill her, Clara caused the casing to say "mercy," rousing the Doctor's suspicions. Telling Clara how to open the casing, the Doctor found her inside it and told Missy to run. Retreating to the Dalek control room, the Doctor revealed his new sonic sunglasses and rematrialised the TARDIS around them, carrying them to safety beyond the city. Standing on a mountain, the two watched the Dalek city descend into chaos with the Doctor asking Clara how she'd caused the casing to say "mercy". When Clara confessed that she didn't know, the Doctor realised what he had to do and led her back to the TARDIS.
Shortly after leaving Skaro, the two fell into a trap set by the Celestial Toymaker who sought the TARDIS. Much to Clara's horror, the Doctor casually handed over his ship only to reveal to Clara that he'd merely surrendered the Zero Room, allowing the Toymaker to have his peace.
When the TARDIS' friction contrafibulator needed repairs, the Doctor set down on Planet Karaoke. Not hearing the Doctor's warning that the translation circuits would be offline, Clara tried her hand at singing but wound up offending the Karaokean monarch enough that she and the Doctor were arrested. Performing for their lives in Battle of the Bands Beyond the Stars, the Doctor and Clara were shocked to discover that five incarnations of the Master had co-opted the show. After the Master's ego had led to their incarnations arguing over which one should rule the galaxy and they were disqualified, Clara and the Doctor made their way onto the stage, where Clara simply cut the operation's power, killing the show's ratings, before the two ran back to the TARDIS, flying off to get some chips.
She travelled with the Doctor to the Drum, an underwater mining base in Scotland, in the year 2119, where they were met with a group of murderous ghosts, who had been repeating coordinates to the location of a stasis pod inside a nearby church. After the ghosts were captured inside a Faraday cage, the pod was brought inside. Meanwhile, the ghosts' meddling with the Drum's day-night cycle caused the base to be flooded and cutting Clara off from the Doctor. As the Doctor travelled back to before the nearby town was flooded, Clara saw a ghostly Doctor outside in the water, who was actually a hologram created by the Doctor's sonic sunglasses, and gave the Doctor the idea to hide in the stasis pod in 1980 to be released that night, which the Doctor told his ghostly doppelganger to do so because he was told via Clara's phone that the ghost was saying, "The chamber will open," a bootstrap paradox. The Doctor saved Clara and the Drum's crewmembers using Security Protocol 712.
On another adventure with the Doctor, she spent too long in the Spider Mines and ended up with a Love Sprite crawling up her spacesuit. She was rescued by the Doctor, and they landed on Earth where they were captured by Vikings and brought to their village. Clara met Ashildr, a Viking girl, and they were transported to the spaceship of the Mire, where Ashildr foolishly declared war on the Mire and their leader, who was disguised as Odin. The Doctor trained the Vikings to fight against the Mire and used Clara's phone to record their humiliation and retreat. After returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor revealed that the Viking girl he saved, Ashildr, may have become immortal.
Clara later asked the Doctor to help one of her students, Evie Hubbard, with her homework. As the assignment was an imaginary interview with Winston Churchill, the Doctor decided to just take Evie to meet Winston and ask him his thoughts.
When the Doctor returned for her, Clara showed him a selfie she took with Evie as a gift for helping her homework. Clara cited the Doctor basically cheated, while he defended that Evie should have stressed "imaginary". Clara was oblivious to the fact that Ashildr was in the background of her selife.
In her apartment building, she checked her iPhone and saw that she had missed 127 calls from the Doctor. At the top of the building's stairs, she met Sandeep, a child who lived in the building. Sandeep was sad because he couldn't find his mummy and daddy. Entering his apartment, Clara found his "mum", who was actually a Zygon. She was then attacked by the aliens and replaced with Bonnie.
Maintaining a live link with Bonnie inside a Zygon pod, Clara caused Bonnie to stall for long enough to allow the Doctor and Osgood to escape Boat One before it was destroyed by a rocket launcher Bonnie fired from. She then used Bonnie's fingers to secretly send a text message to the Doctor's phone to say she was still alive, and in a video call between the Doctor and Bonnie, manipulated Bonnie's eyelids to inform the Doctor that she was being kept in a tunnel under London. Bonnie successfully got the location of the Osgood Boxes in the Black Archive from Clara, and Clara revealed that her body-print, and therefore Bonnie's as well, was the key to enter the Black Archive with. When the Doctor convinced both Bonnie and Kate Stewart not to use either Osgood Box, which were, in fact, both empty, he explained that Bonnie let Clara get inside her head.
At some point while the Doctor was off on a solo adventure, Clara took a leave of absence from Coal Hill in order to take on an English teaching job at the Scottish private school Ravenscaur, in order to investigate the disappearance of one of its teachers, Christel Dean, who had attended teaching school with Clara. She was joined by the Doctor and encouraged by him to continue her undercover work as he helped investigate, leading to the uncovering of a conspiracy involving the Sea Devils that led to the unmasking of the then-current UK prime minister as one. During this time, Clara was bemused, if not outright annoyed, by the Doctor's decision to take on what he claimed to be a new companion - a stuffed swordfish he named Sonny. During the adventure, Clara briefly gained superhuman-like powers - including the power of flight - due to the Doctor providing her with technology to augment her mental abilities in order to combat the Sea Devils, one of whom she appeared to kill by dropping a chandelier on him, a rare documented case of Clara using deadly force on anyone. Afterwards, Clara told the Doctor outright that she now considered the TARDIS her home.
The Doctor and Clara landed on the space station Le Verrier in the 38th century, where the Morpheus pods which created Sandmen on board were used by Gagan Rassmussen, the creator of Morpheus, to put on a show for dramatic effect where he sent a video of the adventure containing an encoded message that could create further Sandmen out of the sleep dust in humans' eyes throughout the solar system by altering the humans' brain chemistry.
The Doctor and Clara joined a rescue mission on Le Verrier looking for Rassmussen, but eventually got split off, until only the Doctor, Clara and Chief Nagata were left. Nagata apparently killed Rassmussen when he apparently tried to get the Sandmen to spread from Le Verrier to other planets and moons, and the Doctor blew up the station's gravity shields so that the Doctor, Clara and Nagata got past the Sandmen blocking the way to the TARDIS to get to Triton to destroy every last Morpheus pod there.
When the Doctor detected strange energy emissions in London, the chase led them to a comic book store where the Doctor was outraged to discover Time Surgeon, a comic based on him and Clara, even if Clara herself was greatly amused. When she turned her head however, she found that the Doctor had disappeared with the staff showing her that everyone was being absorbed into the comics. When Clara saw Luke being absorbed, she realised that the Boneless had returned and she led Molly back to the TARDIS, following the Doctor's instructions to use the telepathic circuits to create a spatial/temporal flux that disrupted the fourth wall and returned the Boneless to their dimension. After the Doctor had gotten his new friend Natalie a job, he turned to an invisible audience and told them to leave, to Clara's visible confusion.
After a series of adventures in extremely cold locales, the Doctor came down with the common cold, Clara withering his melodramatic attitude. They later went to Beachelguese, the oldest beach in the universe, with the Doctor travelling to the dawn of time to truly be the first ones on the beach. When they landed on the planet Dyssiopeia, Clara, despite the natives communicating exclusively through insults, managed to utter something so insulting and foul that they were chased out. To her dismay, Clara then introduced the Doctor to the world of online forums where he could insult others without consequences.
Trap Street
After Clara saved the Doctor from a marriage to a sentient plant on the "second most beautiful garden in all of time and space", they received a call from Rigsy, who had lost a day of memory and had a strange tattoo on the back of his neck. The Doctor and Clara found that the tattoo which was counting down was a chronolock counting down to Rigsy's death, because of Rigsy being accused of murder in the trap street. Clara willingly took Rigsy's chronolock to buy time, but this changed the terms of Ashildr's agreement with the Quantum Shade, and Ashildr was not able to remove it, because she had been cut out of the deal. Upon knowing the Doctor could not do anything to stop the inevitable, Clara told the Doctor not to let her demise change him, to be a doctor, and not to get revenge for her, and declared she would die and no one on Trap Street or anywhere else would suffer. The Doctor asked how he would cope with her death, and Clara replied they would both have to be brave. She chose to face her end on her own and wished the Doctor goodbye, trying to be as brave as she knew how to be. The Quantum Shade then flew to kill her.