The universe was still. Countless stars and planets stood frozen in place, the odd star twinkling once or twice.

"It's amazing isn't it?" said Amy, her voice soft and barley a whisper.
"It is" said Rory, his voice also soft and barley a whisper.

He brushed back a strand of Amy's flaming red hair, tucking it behind her right ear. Rory looked into Amy's big brown eyes that had the power to melt his very soul and leaned forward, put his hands around her waist and, with his heart racing, puckered his lips. He closed his eyes slowly, not wanting to miss her face for a second.

Amy smiled at her husband lovingly and she leaned in too, wrapping her arms around his neck and closed her eyes. Amy and Rory inched closer and closer until their noses were touching. The sensation made them both shiver and they both smiled. Their lips brushed each other slowly, Rory's tongue aching to dance with Amy's.

CRASH!

Amy and Rory were thrown off balance and with a thud they landed on the TARDIS floor, with Amy on top of Rory.

"SORRY ABOUT THAT!" shouted a voice above them.

Amy and Rory groaned and got up off the ground and dusted themselves off. They looked at each other with a look of understanding and that what they were about to do had to be continued some other time. Rory held Amy's hand and together they went up to see the Doctor.

The Doctor was running around the TARDIS control panel, mashing blue, black, dark green buttons and fiddling with handles while looking at a 10 inch widescreen T.V that showed the outside of space. He stopped running for a second to fix his ruby red bowtie and looked around him almost like he was lost. When he remembered, he jumped and started pressing buttons again.

"Doctor, what was that?" Came Amy's voice and The Doctor glanced up.

Amy was wearing black jean shorts, a lilac V-neck, naked stockings with cowboy boots and an unzipped chocolate colored bomber jacket.
Holding her hand was Rory who was wearing a striped light green T-shirt, charcoal jeans and plain white trainers.

"Nice trainers!" said The Doctor smiling.
Rory looked down at his feet and back at the doctor. "Umm, thanks, I found them here"
"Did you really? And they were your size?" asked The Doctor who was looking at Amy because she had just had a faraway look in her eyes.
"Umm, yes surprisingly. Did you put them there?"
"Of course not, though then aga-"
"DOCTOR!" said Amy, raising her voice a little. "What was that crashing noise?"

The Doctor looked at them and jumped. "Oh right! Of course! That was what I was supposed to be doing" The Doctor started circling the control panel. "That crash noise was nothing serious, just us hitching a ride on a meteor that's heading to destroy Tawengay" said The Doctor nonchalantly and he stopped circling the control panel and turned to face Rory and Amy.

Their faces looked mystified.
"Don't worry; we aren't going to let it destroy Tawengay! That planet has had enough suffering as it is, let alone a meteor full of life forms trying to annihilate them all" and The Doctor turned back and looked at the Control panel.

"First, how are we on a meteor?" asked Rory stepping closer to The Doctor.
"I parked on it. Honestly Rory, you should know these things by now" said The Doctor and he punched a green button.
"Well I'm sorry that I never took notes. Second Question, What is a Tawengay?"
"Tawengay!" shouted The Doctor happily and he pushed a red button. Something like ticking started to play throughout the TARDIS but The Doctor didn't pay it any attention. "Tawengay is a planet, a suffering planet, that is sad and lonely and its inhabitants care very little for themselves but they would care if they died for no reason at all. Now the plan is to stop the people in the meteor by changing their minds"
"Right, that brings me to my third question. How are there living things on a meteor? Shouldn't it be . . . well dirt and rock?" Rory asked and he looked at Amy with a look that all too well said 'This man is crazy'.
"How was the world made Rory? How was I made? Why were you made? Why was any of this made? That is the mystery of the Galaxy" The Doctor said smiling faintly. "We've seen countless scary things and things on a meteor worry you more than them?"
"Well no-"But Rory was cut off when another CRASH almost knocked them all off their feet.
"I thought we already landed?" said Amy and she looked at The Doctor with a sarcastic look.

But the Doctor wasn't looking at Amy. He was looking at the TARDIS door with a mixture of confusion and understanding.
"We have company" said The Doctor and he walked towards the TARDIS door and opened it gently.

A huge gust of wind whipped through the TARDIS and the ticking noise stopped.
The Doctor turned around and walked up to Rory and Amy, his tweed jacket hanging loosely off his shoulders, his bowtie now vertical. He took hold of their hands and walked back towards the door.
"On the count of three we jump" said The Doctor.
"Wait what do-

"One!"
"Come on Doctor this is-
"Two!"
"Wa-
"THREE, GERONIMO!" shouted The Doctor and as Rory and Amy closed their eyes and screamed, The Doctor jumped, pulling them both with him.
Crunch.
Rory and Amy opened their eyes slowly and saw that they had landed on their feet. They looked at each other and embraced.

"How are we still alive? We dropped from such a height" Rory whispered in Amy's ear.
"Did I not say that we parked on a meteor?" said The Doctor, who was hiding behind the TARDIS. "Parked means parked."
"Don't. Ever. Do. That. Again" Amy said walking up to The Doctor and started to punch his arm playfully. "We could have died!"
"Well you know that I wouldn't let you die Mrs. Pond" said The Doctor smiling and he stepped away from the TARDIS.

The Doctor looked around his surroundings and jumped up and down.
"It's springy with lots of goo right in the middle." He stopped abruptly. "I shouldn't have said that because now I want chocolate fondue."

BANG!

The Doctor, Amy and Rory all ducked and grouped together.

"What was that Doctor?" asked Amy, squinting to see if there was anything further out.
"From the sounds of it, it would be a high pressured dart gun" said The Doctor moving away from them and checking his hands, trousers and felt his neck. He turned around to face the TARDIS and then back at Rory and Amy who had also started checking themselves for any signs of cuts or wounds. When they looked back at him and shook their heads, The Doctor pulled out his Sonic Screwdriver from his tweed jacket. The emerald light lit from the sonic screwdriver and made a buzzing noise. The Doctor walked as far as he could without leaving Amy, Rory and the TARDIS from his sight. He raised the sonic screwdriver higher into the air and walked until he bumped into Rory.

"So where are we Doctor?" asked Amy, looking at the Doctor, expecting, no, hoping that it wasn't bad news. The Doctor looked at both Amy and Rory and smiled.
"Everything's fine"
"You're not lying are you?" Rory said looking at the Doctor skeptically but before the Doctor could answer, the meteor beneath them started to shake.
"Stay calm! Everything is fine" said The Doctor who had put his sonic screwdriver back in his tweed jacket and started pacing.
"State your business, before we destroy you" said a squeaky voice behind them.

When they all turned around, no one was there, just more meteor.
"State your business" said the squeaky voice again with such venom that Rory jumped.

The Doctor stopped pacing and had a look of self revelation.
"Of course! The reason why we can survive on this meteor is because it's not actually a meteor, it's a ship! And from the looks of it a really really big ship with a high tech cloaking ability" the Doctor said kneeling on the meteor and knocking on it.

Clank Clank Clank.

"That's nice Doctor, but can you, you know, state our business as to why we are here" said Rory nervously looking around him.

The Doctor got up from the ground, looked north and started walking.
Rory looked at Amy, took her hand and they followed after the Doctor.

"Do you think he knows what he's doing?" Rory asked Amy who in turned looked at the Doctor's back. It took her a while to answer but Amy tore her gaze away from the Doctor and looked at Rory.
"Of course he does, he's The Doctor, and if anyone knows how to save lives it's him."
"Stop! Stop stop stop stop stop!" said the Doctor turning to face them. "We are here to talk, not to harm, to talk!" said the Doctor raising his hands in the air and walking towards them.

Rory and Amy heard a swooshing noise from behind them and turned around.

There, standing at 3ft 5 were six purple humanoid looking lizards. Their slanted black eyes stared blankly at them, their purple tails wagging side to side and their slit like noses flaring while their webbed hands bald in to fist.

"Why are you here" they said in sync, their voices echoing.

Rory tightened his grip on Amy's hand and looked at the Doctor, who to his surprise, was smiling.

"Tiny little bunch aren't you? How do you work? No no, there is plenty of time for that later, you want to know why I, well, we" the Doctor pointed lazily at Rory and Amy. "Are here and I. will tell you now" The Doctor put down his hands and ran towards the Humanoid lizards and stopped when he was towering over all six of them. "We are here to stop you all from blowing up Tawengay because Tawengay may be a sad place! However it does not deserve to be wiped out, nor does any planet really and you know that deep down"
"You think this reason will stop us? What makes you think that this planet was our first?" the six lizards said in sync and circled the Doctor.
"That may be so but I wasn't around then, but I am now!" said the Doctor and he looked at each and every one of the lizards. He then brought his bowtie horizontal, from being vertical and shrugged his tweed jacket back on.

The humanoid lizards moved back to their original positions and looked blankly at the Doctor.

"And who exactly are you to stop us?"
"Now that, my friends, has been said to me time and time again!" said the Doctor and he turned his back on them and walked towards Rory and Amy. "My word, you two have been quiet!"
"We thought you could handle it" Amy said, her eyes looking from the Doctor to the lizards. "Doctor, what are they?"
"My, will you be quiet!" the Doctor said to a shocked Amy until he was in whispering distance. "They are Nageshi. Nasty little things really, all they do is destroy planets but they basically live on ships because they themselves don't have a planet that they can call home, which is why they cause so much disaster to other planets. Those six there are fresh Nageshi, which means that they are stronger than their elders, which we really do not need. And here is me thinking that I could solve this without violence. We need to warn the people of Tawengay. We need to prepare a strategy.
"You said this was a ship right?" Amy said looking into the Doctor's sparkling green eyes. "If it's a ship, then we can go to the mainframe and send a message to the people of Tawengay-
"Warning them so that they can put up some sort of a defense to stop the ship from attacking! Amy, that's amazing" interrupted Rory and he looked at the Doctor. "Isn't it Doctor?"

The doctor looked at Amy as if examining her for signs of delusions. His mind began to race with new ideas on how to fix Amy's timeline and how to get to the mainframe of this ship without hurting anyone. But the thought of losing Amy, and even Rory, his new friends that were so good, hurt the Doctor hard. He knows that there is only one way to restore Amy's timeline, but could he go through with it?

"Doctor?" The Doctor blinked twice and looked at Rory and Amy with a grin. "That is a brilliant idea Mrs. Pond. If you could excuse me for a minute" said the Doctor and he walked towards the Humanoid lizards.

"What do you think he's planning to do?" Rory asked Amy.
"Something good I hope" said Amy looking at the Doctor.

Amy watched as the Doctor's shoulders tensed and as he kicked the ships exterior.
She watched him circle the Nageshi and laugh and smile as if they had just told him a joke, but all Amy could see from their faces was nothing, nothing at all; they only stared blankly at where the Doctor once stood while their noses continued to flare.

But then things changed.
When the Doctor touched one of the Nageshi, its hands relaxed and its features softened, its eyes changed from being black to leafy green. The other Nageshi looked and crowded it.
What happened next was horrible.
Amy could hear so much slurping and chewing noises that she had to release her left hand from Rory's right and cover her ears and close her eyes.
The Doctor looked over to Rory and Amy and signaled them to run to the TARDIS.
The Doctor watched how hard Rory had to convince Amy to move and get to the TARDIS but when she opened her eyes and looked at the Doctor and he nodded at her, she seemed to find this unknown courage and she ran with Rory to the TARDIS.

The Doctor looked ahead. From this distance, he knew that it would take the Nageshi ship five hours sixty four minutes and four seconds to get to Tawengay, but he knew that he could get there in five minutes.
The Doctor turned his gaze away from the Nageshi that were still engrossed with the one he touched and tip toed to the TARDIS. When he reached it, he glanced back at the Nageshi and saw that they were still engrossed.

"Interesting" the Doctor said whispering to himself.
"What was that Doctor?" said Amy looking at the Doctor, obviously trying her hardest to not listen to the noises that were coming from behind them. But the Doctor simply looked up at her and down at his shoes.
"No gooey middle . . ." said the Doctor again and he looked at Amy's long flaming red hair. "Never mind, I'll explain when we're inside" and he opened the TARDIS door gently.
"But I thought we were going to go to the mainframe" Amy said, her eyes showing confusion. "Why aren't we going to the mainframe?"

The Doctor's eyes darted from Amy's brown eyes to her slender shoulders and her parted lips. He placed his hands on her shoulders and looked deep into her eyes.
"We have to leave right now Amy. I'll explain when we get in the TARDIS. I promise" said the Doctor and he gently led her into the TARDIS.

When they were all in the TARDIS the Doctor poked his head out to look at the Nageshi but they had gone. All that he could see was the meteor and even to him, it was hard to believe that such a thing could be a ship. He brought his head back and closed the TARDIS door.