CHAPTER 2
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IS IT ALL REALLY JUST AN ACT?
Amy held her breath in nervous anticipation as the Daleks stared at her without speaking for a moment. Would they believe her? Could she truly have any chance at all of fooling the Doctor's oldest enemies who knew him better than anyone (except possibly the Master)?
"IDENTITY CONFIRMED. IT IS THE DOCTOR," One of the Daleks finally said.
Amy just barely controlled her reaction in time as she suppressed the shock and surprise that she felt and projected a smug confident attitude instead as she said, "Of course it's me. It certainly took you long enough. You lot are getting a bit slow these days aren't you? I remember a time when you could recognize the new me right away. Or is it just because I've become a girl? Is that what threw you for a loop? What's wrong with that, eh? I like being a girl. Tell me what you think of the new me and be honest with me now. Do you think I'm pretty?"
Amy then smiled the same mad grin that the Doctor always did as she pretended to actually be waiting for an answer. Like she actually cared what the Daleks thought of her!
"I wouldn't answer that if I were you," Clara joked as she finally joined into the banter now.
"YOU WILL REMAIN SILENT!" One of the Daleks shouted in what sounded like an irritated voice.
"Temper, temper! You're not going to get on my good side that way. You need to start being just a little bit nicer to me if you want us to start out on a better footing than we did in my last incarnation. By the way, you never did tell me if I was pretty or not. I'm still waiting," Amy said with a mischievous smile.
"YOU WILL STOP THESE GAMES, DOCTOR. COME WITH US PEACEFULLY OR YOUR COMPANION DIES. WE KNOW THAT YOU WON'T ALLOW ANY HARM TO COME TO YOUR FRIENDS," A Dalek said as several of them pointed their gunsticks at Clara.
Then another one put the tip of its manipulator arm on Clara's head. Amy stiffened as the Doctor's memories suddenly came flooding into her mind of seeing a Dalek use that arm to kill before by crushing a person's skull. She now feared that she had gone too far, and her friend would now pay the price for her stupidity.
"No! Wait! I'll go along without a fight. Just leave her alone," Amy said.
"SHE WILL REMAIN UNHARMED AS LONG AS YOU COOPERATE. NOW MOVE. YOU WILL FOLLOW US," A Dalek commanded.
As Amy and the others followed the Daleks, she asked them, "So where are we going? Are you going to try using a mind probe on me? You remember how successful that was before, don't you?"
Clara watched her pump the Daleks for information just like the Doctor would and was quite impressed. She really was getting into this act of hers quite easily.
A little too easily.
"WE ARE GOING TO TAKE YOU TO THE EMPEROR'S SHIP," One of the Daleks said.
"Ooh, so you've finally gotten a new emperor again, eh? I must say it's about time. I can see why no one wanted that job though after what happened to the last one. You don't have to be afraid of this one getting himself vaporized though this time because Rose isn't here. Go ahead then, boys. Take me to your leader. I always love saying that!" Amy said with a large smile on her face.
"Uh, Doctor, don't you think that you should tone it down just a bit? Considering that we're currently surrounded by a ton of these talking pepper pots, I don't think that we should be getting them any angrier than they already are right now, do you?" Clara said in an uncomfortable voice.
"Oh, relax, Oswald. They're not going to do anything to us. At least not right now anyway. They're currently under orders to bring us to the Emperor safe and sound. Isn't that right, boys?" Amy said confidently.
"THAT IS CORRECT," A Dalek answered.
"See? I know my Daleks very well, Clara," Amy said.
"How nice for you, Chin Girl. Right now I wish that I knew them a little bit less at the moment," Clara said.
Kate stared at Amy for a moment and then whispered, "I noticed that the explosions all around us have almost stopped now. All of this seems to have been a trap to bring the Doctor here. You need to be careful."
"I'm on it, Kate. I'm ready for whatever they have to throw at me," Amy whispered back.
"I certainly hope so," Kate said even as she was bothered by the fact that Amy had lost her fear of impersonating the Doctor just a little bit too quickly.
Soon Amy, Clara, Kate, and the UNIT soldiers were all led to the Emperor's ship where they finally found themselves in a large throne room filled with Daleks. The only thing missing was the Emperor.
"Suddenly I have a very bad feeling, Chin Girl," Clara whispered.
"So do I. Why do you keep calling me that anyway? I don't have a huge chin," Amy whispered back in a tone that sounded just a bit annoyed.
Clara smiled at that because at least Amy sounded like herself again instead of sounding like she was doing a very weird impersonation of the Doctor.
"Sorry, force of habit. I just feel better if I pretend that you're really him. I could call you Big Red instead. How about that?" Clara said with an evil smile.
"Let's just stick with Chin Girl," Amy said as she glared at her.
"I thought you'd feel that way," Clara said giggling.
Amy shook her head at her friend even as she said in character as the Doctor, "So where's the Emperor? I haven't got all day you know. I have places to go, people to meet, and a plate full of fish fingers and custard waiting for me back in the TARDIS."
"THE EMPEROR IS ALREADY HERE," A Dalek said.
Then the Daleks all turned to look at Amy. Amy felt both her old and her new hearts begin to suddenly start beating rapidly as she finally realized what was going on here at last.
"Yeah, I thought that it might be something like that," Amy said as she pulled the sonic screwdriver out of her pants pocket.
"What's going on?" Clara asked still not getting it.
"They want to make me into their new Emperor, Clara," Amy said.
"You mean like what happened to Oswin?" Clara asked in a horrified voice.
"I'm afraid so, yeah," Amy said.
"What are we going to do, Big Red? Please tell me that you have a plan," Clara asked as the Daleks started to close in on them.
"Yeah, of course I have a plan," Amy said as she warily eyed the Daleks that were now surrounding her on all sides.
"Care to enlighten us on exactly what it is, O Great and Wise Time Lady?" Clara said as several Daleks now surrounded her as well cutting her off from the others.
"Amy, you need to do something now!" Kate shouted as she and the soldiers were all lined up against the wall and a row of Daleks moved in front of them with their gunsticks all aimed at them.
"Clara, Kate, duck!" Amy suddenly yelled.
Then she proceeded to use the sonic to start blowing up every Dalek around her even as she used her now much more powerful leg muscles to leap out of the way of the massive explosions that quickly surrounded her. She then started to run toward Clara as fast as she could as she destroyed the Daleks surrounding her as well while pulling her to safety. Even as she did this, she ducked and dodged massive incoming Dalek fire from every Dalek in the room including the ones who were about to shoot Kate and the soldiers as they all turned their attention solely to her now.
"EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR! EXTERMINATE HER!" the Daleks all shouted in a chorus together as they realized that their plan was now coming apart at the seams.
Clara gasped in awe as Amy rapidly destroyed every Dalek around her with the sonic so quickly that it looked like they were standing still. Even while she completely tore through every Dalek that dared to get anywhere near her, she performed moves that would make an Olympic gymnast blush with envy as she continued to dodge and weave through massive Dalek blasts that would have completely destroyed anyone else. It seemed that becoming a Time Lord had given Amy almost supernatural agility and speed.
"Maybe I should start calling her Kangaroo Girl instead the way that she keeps jumping about," Clara mused to herself.
"It's incredible! I've never seen anyone move that fast. If these were the kind of warriors that were in the Time War, I can't understand how the Time Lords ever lost?" Kate said in disbelief.
Amy must have heard her because she said, "Oh, no. The Time Lords weren't anything like me. I'm a special case because I'm a unique mix of Time Lord and human, and that's made me the best of both of them. I'm like the uber Doctor!"
Clara sighed as she said, "There she goes again. She's not talking at all like Amy anymore."
"Yes, she seems to be becoming more and more like the Doctor by the moment. I'm afraid that we may be losing her," Kate said.
"Not if I can help it. I'm going to keep reminding her of exactly who she is as much as I can until the real Doctor is back," Clara said.
"I only hope that he still can come back," Kate said in an uncertain voice.
"Of course he's coming back. My Chin Boy always comes back for me. Always," Clara said confidently even as her eyes betrayed just a hint of fear to Kate.
"IT IS AS WE THOUGHT. SHE IS A COMBINATION OF AMELIA POND AND THE DOCTOR. WE MADE AN ERROR THINKING THAT WE COULD CONTROL HER EASIER THAN THE REAL DOCTOR BECAUSE OF THIS. IT IS AN ERROR THAT WE WILL NOW CORRECT," said a Dalek leader that was at the head of yet another new group of Daleks that had just entered the room.
As a massive army of Daleks lay all around her reduced to little more than smoking husks, Amy turned around with a glare of pure anger on her face to look at her latest opponents. Clara shuddered as she recognized that look. It especially looked very unnerving to her on Amy's face. It was the Oncoming Storm.
"So you knew all the time, didn't you? You knew that I wasn't the original Doctor and went along with me anyway in order to lure me into a trap. You actually thought that I would be much easier to control because I'm part human didn't you? Oh, you were so, so wrong! If you want to find out exactly how wrong, just come on over here!" Amy said in a voice filled with cold fury.
"Oh, Amy," Clara said so afraid for her because she didn't sound anything like herself at all anymore.
The humans in the room could only watch on in a mixture of admiration and fear as Amy tore every Dalek in the room apart almost effortlessly in a matter of minutes. Then she looked at them with a cocky grin on her face as she gave them all a bow.
"And that, Clara Oswald, was my plan," Amy said proudly.
"Amy, are you alright?" Clara asked even as she knew that she wasn't.
Amy walked up to her and surprised her by hugging her tightly and kissing her forehead just as the Doctor used to do. Then she smiled at her as she put a friendly arm around her.
"I'm perfect, Souffle Girl. I'm just wonderful. I've never felt so alive in all of my lives. I'm cool right now. Really cool," Amy said with a big goofy grin.
Then her face went wide with horror as a look of sudden realization came over it and she said, "No, no, no! I'm talking just like him now. I'm even thinking about fish fingers and custard like he does. He's bloody possessed me!"
She then turned to Clara and suddenly yanked her arm away from around her as she blushed in embarrassment while she said, "Clara, what I did just now was all him. That wasn't . . . I don't feel . . . I just think of you as a friend."
"It's okay. I know exactly what's going on and I'm going to keep reminding you of who you really are until you can get separated again, okay? Don't worry about a thing, Amy. It's going to be alright," Clara said in a sympathetic voice.
"That's easy for you to say. You're not the one who's becoming Mrs. Doctor . . . literally," Amy said in a scared voice.
"I'm sorry for being rude, Amy, but we don't have time for this right now. We're still right in the middle of a Dalek invasion," Kate reminded her.
Amy now smiled once more as she said, "Not anymore."
She then went to a control panel that had somehow remained untouched during her fight with the Daleks and used the sonic on it to gain access. She rapidly went through its menu and then smiled as she reached exactly what she was looking for.
"There. That ought to do it. I've fooled the computers of this ship and every other Dalek ship on Earth into thinking that they've just been recalled back to Skaro. They're all due to take off in a few minutes. I made the orders unable to be cancelled so that they can't be overridden. These ships won't stop until they go back home, and then once they're there the engines of each ship will shut down and refuse to restart. Am I clever or what? I'm the Queen of Cool!" Amy said happily.
"No, you're not! You're Amy. That's who you are. You're Amy Pond," Clara reminded her.
"Yeah, but can't I be Amy and still be cool too?" Amy asked.
"Of course you can, Red," Clara said with a sigh as Amy hugged her yet again.
This time she managed to stop herself just before she kissed Clara on the forehead again too. She looked at Clara apologetically as she silently pulled herself away from her.
"Sorry. I can't believe that I'm doing this," Amy said in a voice filled with repulsion.
"I don't mind telling you that I'm kind of insulted right now," Clara joked as she tried to make her feel better.
"Come on, Shorty. We need to get out of here before this ship leaves," Amy said with a smile as she led the others to the nearest transmat.
Once they got there, she quickly sent everyone back to the surface until it was just her and Clara there. She was just about to send Clara back too when they both heard a noise behind them.
They turned to see a young woman with dark hair staring at them with a pleading look on her face as she said, "Don't leave me here. Please take me with you."
Then she started to collapse right in front of them. Amy and Clara both raced to her side and caught her just in time before she hit the floor.
"Come on, Clara. Let's take her to the transmat. We've got to hurry. We don't have much time left," Amy said as the two of them sat her on top of the transmat.
Amy then quickly sent the mysterious woman, Clara, and herself back down on Earth in front of the TARDIS with just a minute to spare before the Dalek ships all left. As they all headed back toward Skaro, Amy and Clara watched them go with a triumphant smile on their faces.
"We did it, Chin Girl! We actually did it," Clara said in disbelief.
"What exactly do you mean by we, Shorty? I'm the one that did everything while you just stood around with your stupid jaw hanging open the entire time," Amy said with a smile on her face that said that she was just joking.
"Are you alright, Ames?" Clara asked with concern.
"So far. I feel like myself again for now. Come on. Let's go see if the TARDIS is back to normal again," Amy said.
They lifted the mysterious woman up and put her arms around their shoulders as Amy snapped her fingers and opened the TARDIS doors. Then they carried her inside with them and laid her in the Captain's Chair while Amy went to the console to check on the progress of the repairs to the ship.
She smiled as she said, "Yes! She's good as new again. Now all we have to do is get the Doctor back out of my body, and we can all return to normal. Come on, stupid Raggedy Man. Wake up already!"
"Hopefully his alarm clock will go off soon enough, Amelia. Let's just hope that he didn't hit the snooze button. Don't worry about that right now though. I'd like to know who this is that we just saved first and what she was doing on a Dalek ship," Clara said as they both finally took a close look at the woman in the chair at last.
Amy then gasped as she finally recognized her at last. She was older than she was when the Doctor had last seen her, but it was undeniably her.
"Susan," Amy said.
Clara now finally recognized her as well from the memories of her echo who had told the Doctor which TARDIS to pick so very long ago. This was Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter!
As they both stood there watching her, Susan opened her eyes and looked around her at the TARDIS with a mixture of surprise and absolute joy on her face that made Clara smile. There was a clear expression on Susan's face that even a non-telepath like Clara could read. It meant 'home'!
Susan then finally seemed to notice the two of them for the first time as she looked at them both with a smile of absolute happiness on her face. A smile that Clara quickly realized was directed entirely at her.
"Grandmother!" Susan shouted as she tried to get out of the chair and hug Clara.
She quickly fell back into the chair though and obviously decided just to lie there instead. She was too weak to do anything else at the moment but just stare at Clara with a huge smile on her face.
"I'm so happy to see you again, Grandmother! How are you still alive?" Susan asked.
"Huh? What's she talking about?" Clara said with a perplexed look on her face.
Amy then finally realized something as a set of memories that the Doctor had kept hidden even from her suddenly unlocked, and she gasped in astonishment at what they revealed. No wonder he was always so affectionate with Souffle Girl!
"Susan, this isn't your grandmother. At least not exactly anyway," Amy said.
"I don't understand. How can she not be my grandmother? She looks exactly like her," Susan said which made Clara gasp in surprise.
"Look closer at her, Susan. Try to touch her mind," Amy said.
Susan's face filled with disappointment and she began to cry as she said, "You're not her. You're human. Unless . . ."
Susan started to check Clara's pockets as Clara said, "What are you doing?"
"She doesn't have a fob watch, Arkytior. She's really human. Her name is Clara Oswald, and she's a friend of your grandfather's," Amy said.
"How do you know my real name? Who are . . .?" Susan started to ask and then she stopped in mid-sentence as she looked at Amy closely.
"Oh, Grandfather, what have you done?" Susan said.
"Tell me about it. I'm Amy Pond by the way. I'm another friend of the Doctor's. Amy and I travel with him. At least we did until he was badly hurt and merged with me to save us all. Now I can't set him free, and I'm becoming more and more like him. Can you help me?" Amy pleaded.
"I can try when I feel better. Right now I'm too weak to do anything. Sorry," Susan said.
"That's alright. I can wait. At least I hope I can," Amy said.
Clara was still looking at Amy with eyes filled with questions as she said, "What do you mean that I'm not her grandmother exactly? Why do I look like her for?"
"Clara, the Doctor kept it from me for a long time, but now I finally know the truth about you. That's why he was so obsessed with you and was trying so hard to find you again after you died on him twice, Clara. He realized as soon as he saw Governess Clara that you were the spitting image of his dead wife. He wanted to know if you were her somehow or had some kind of connection to her. Then he finally figured it all out after you jumped into his timestream at Trenzalore. That was when he finally knew once and for all exactly who you were," Amy said.
Susan looked at Clara in amazement as she said, "You jumped into my Grandfather's timestream and survived?! That explains everything then."
"Not to me. What aren't you two telling me? Come on, Red. Spit it out!" Clara demanded.
Amy and Susan looked at each other for a moment and then Amy finally said, "Clara, Susan's grandmother was one of your echoes! Part of you was the Doctor's first wife back on Gallifrey."
Clara looked at her with her jaw hanging open yet again as she tried to process this shocking new piece of information. As Susan looked at her with concern, Amy put a comforting hand on her back and smiled reassuringly at her.
"Don't worry about her, Susie. She always does that," Amy said with a grin.
Next: Susan explains what she was doing on the Dalek ship and how she survived the Time War while Clara tries to come to terms with the shocking revelation that Amy has just revealed to her. Also Susan will tell Amy and a still numb Clara the whole story of her grandmother's life. Can Susan finally help Amy separate herself from the Doctor again at last?
