AN: Alright, so this is darker than my normal stuff, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Also, I'd like to express my extreme concern about the lack of stories about Rory! R&R!

Disclaimer: Doctor Who is not mine. I really wish it was, but sadly it's not.

Rory's POV

I screamed as once again the alien standing above me kicked me in the side. He demanded that I tell him where the Doctor was, yeah that would happen. I stayed silent knowing that worse torture would come. He kept asking and kicking. I still didn't say a word.

"Knowing the Doctor he's probably kissing that girlfriend of yours right now." The Alien laughed. I knew that was a lie, but it still gave me a pretty damn good excuse to be angry. I groaned as I stood up slowly keeping Amy's face in my mind. This was for her. I punched the alien in the...snout...Anyway I punched him. "The gods will have no mercy on you for assaulting the royal guard!"

"If your bloody gods approved of lying then they're asses." I coughed spitting up blood.

"Infidel!" He screamed shoving me back to the ground. He turned to the other guard. "Take him to the torture chamber, the Emperor will want to deal with this one himself."

If anything that sounded bad, really bad.

~o~O~o~

"What are we doing today, Doctor?" Amy asked running out into the control room and spinning around. "I want to get out of the TARDIS! It's so boring in here."

"Amy, calm down!" I called running after her. I'd just spent three hours helping Amy figure out what to wear. "He probably hasn't finished adjusting the TARDIS and us to the gravity pressure yet."

"Actually that's exactly what I'm in the middle of doing..." The Doctor muttered. He stood up and looked straight at me. He watched me for a second then pulled out the sonic screwdriver and ran a scan. Amy went to stand beside him and looked me up and down. "Well it's Rory. He's even human."

"Well than how'd he know what you were doing?" Amy asked.

"That's a good question." The Doctor stated they both looked at me.

"Did you think I just stood around for two thousand years?" I asked them. "By the way Doctor you may want to go to 108 AD and pick up the TARDIS' manual before someone else gets their hands on it."

"I threw that in a supernova..." The Doctor muttered. "How did it end up on earth?"

"Don't ask me, but I read it and you have the brakes off." Rory laughed.

"Great, now you and River can be back seat drivers together." The Doctor grumbled under his breath. He looked at the control panel and flicked a switch. "There. Happy?"

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I woke up in my cold dark cell. I must have passed out during the torture. The Emperor looked like the others only his snout was longer and he was green instead of teal. I'd also learned what they called themselves, the Forem. From the Latin I know from when I was a Roman Centurion I figured out that it means forest. Their name explains my surroundings. It explains the dirt below me and uncut and unbroken wood walls around me. I think I'm in a tree. I glanced out the door to make sure no one was there before I stood and went to knock on the wall. My experiment proved what I already knew. I'm underground, in a tree.

"He's awake!" The guard outside my cell yelled. Several guards appeared outside the door and from the center stepped out the Emperor. I shook my head in horror. They were getting more and more brutal with my torture. They unlocked the door and I turned towards the emperor still standing.

"You bow when in the presence of the Emperor, Infidel!" One guard barked at me. I glared down at the Emperor. He stared up in curiosity.

"Make him shorter than me!" The Emperor declared. A guard walked past the Emperor and slammed the middle section of his spear into the back of my knees forcing me to fall onto them. I winced at the pain as my hands landed on the ground to support myself. I got back up and glared back down at the little green Forem in front of me. "Infidel, you must kneel!"

"No." I croaked out. A guard grabbed each of my shoulders and attempted to force me to kneel, I didn't budge. I didn't even waiver.

"If he won't kneel willingly, then force will be necessary." The Emperor laughed gleefully. There was a twinkle in his eye that I'd seen while he was torturing me. He liked the feeling of absolute power over his prisoners and (I would assume) his subjects. "Break his legs then hold him up in a kneeling position. He will kneel. Break the arm he punched you with as well, Brothers Okley and Willden."

They dragged me out of the cell and down the hall to the only other room I'd seen of this place, the torture room. They pulled me in and tied me down to what looked like an old hospital bed. They brought over a huge clamp like object. My screams echoed through the corridors as I felt and heard several of my bones in both my legs and my right arm break. Tears spilled down my face.

"Where the bloody-hell are Amy and the Doctor?" I thought as they dragged me back to my cell and forced me to kneel in front of their Emperor.

AN: There is chapter one and there are still a lot of questions unanswered. For example: Where are the Doctor and Amy? How did Rory end up underground inside a tree? What is the Emperor's problem? And why are they after the Doctor? Review!