Rani and Clyde wake up to find the entire human race has vanished — which, let’s be honest, sounds like a pretty good morning until the murderous alien robots show up.
Short Synopsis
It’s a normal day in Ealing… until it’s not. Rani and Clyde discover that every single person on Earth — including Sarah Jane, Luke, and even Mr. Smith — has mysteriously disappeared. The only ones left? The two of them, a random guy named Gavin, and a pair of giant robot peacekeepers who seem to have mistaken the planet for a missing-persons report.
Extended Storyline
Our story begins like any other: Clyde is goofing off, Rani is rolling her eyes, and Sarah Jane is off somewhere being impossibly competent. But when Clyde wakes up one morning, everything’s eerily quiet — no people, no cars, not even a grumpy shopkeeper yelling about “kids these days.” The entire human race is gone. Which, as far as Mondays go, is at least a change of pace.
Rani soon finds herself in the same predicament — she can’t find her parents, her neighbors, or even the perpetually lurking postal worker. The two quickly find each other and confirm the obvious: everyone else has vanished, and Sarah Jane isn’t answering her phone. Mr. Smith, naturally, has gone into lockdown, leaving only his smugly unhelpful voice to tell them “access denied.” (Even in the apocalypse, the AI is sassy.)
Clyde and Rani, now the last humans on Earth, do what any self-respecting teenagers would do: raid the local shop, eat junk food, and make sarcastic comments about how boring the end of the world is. That is, until they run into giant robots. These are the Judoon Peacekeeper droids — basically armored space traffic cops — scanning the planet for something, though their definition of “peacekeeping” involves a lot of loud stomping and threatening energy blasts.
As it turns out, the robots aren’t looking for humans to destroy… they’re looking for one specific human to protect. See, somewhere on Earth is the lost heir to an alien royal family — a half-human child of interstellar rulers who went missing years ago. The robots were sent to retrieve him, but when their scanners detected the entire population of Earth, they decided to remove the “unnecessary lifeforms” to speed up the search. (Alien logic: efficiency first, ethics later.)
Rani and Clyde eventually find a nervous young man named Gavin, who thinks he’s just your average bloke with commitment issues. Turns out, he’s half-alien royalty, hidden on Earth as a baby and now inadvertently the cause of a global abduction. Once Clyde and Rani convince him that this isn’t a prank, they bring him face to face with the towering Peacekeeper droids.
Through a combination of quick thinking, emotional pep talks, and Clyde’s classic “winging it while terrified” approach, they manage to communicate that Gavin is the one the robots are after. Once identified, the droids promptly reverse the “everyone vanish” protocol and beam the human race back into existence — presumably without anyone realizing they just spent the morning existing in storage.
Gavin, now destined for royal responsibilities lightyears away, says a teary goodbye and heads off to meet his alien parents, leaving Clyde and Rani to contemplate the weirdest day of their lives. Sarah Jane returns to find everything perfectly normal again (for her, anyway), and Clyde pretends that saving the world again was no big deal.