Chapter 3

"Darius, how did you know I was a Time Lord?" asked the Doctor.

Darius thought about it for a minute and said, "Doctor, my mother was a Time Lady so that makes me half Time Lord."

"How is that possible? The Time..."

"The Time Lords died in the Time War. I know that. She was recalled when I was just a child. I can barely remember her."

The Doctor walked up to Darius and asked, "Why should I believe you?"

Darius said, "I built this Doctor. I built the Time Matrix powering the ship."

"You built it?" asked the Doctor.

"Yes, but the other thing is going to be a little hard to show you. I have two hearts," Darius said.

The Doctor's eyes widened and he said, "Let me take your pulse."

Darius held out his wrist and the Doctor took the pulse and sure enought there were two hearts beating. The Doctor was still wary of Darius, but still said, "Okay, you're at least part Time Lord, but that doesn't mean I have to trust you."

"I know, but give me a chance," said Darius. He never met a Time Lord before and didn't know what one would do when one would come. He wasn't going to take any chances.

The Doctor wasn't going to turn his back on Darius now. He walked back to the Time Matrix and he put his hands on the Matrix. His hair and clothes became weightless and started to float. There was light surrounding the Doctor. His face was intense and his eyes had a fire in them more than they had before. A light started to pulsate from the Matrix and the Doctor's face flushed with fear. He let go of the Time Matrix. He looked at Darius and said with horror in his voice, "Oh my God!"

"What is it?" asked Darius.

"Darius, the Time Matrix is overloading. It's going to explode in about an hour," the Doctor said.

"What!" asked Darius loudly, "That means this entire system we're in will be destroyed!"
"I know," said the Doctor, "I don't understand how it could do that. You put in all the safeguards, but it's like someone or something hacked into it and made it start to overload."

"Why would anyone do that?" asked Darius.

"Don't ask me," said the Doctor.

"We can use your ship to escape, can't we?" asked Darius.

"Maybe, but the TARDIS locked itself and I can't get back in," said the Doctor, "We need to get back and find a way to stop it."

"Can't we just stay here?" asked Darius.

The Doctor was going to answer, but he then said, "No, we can't, Darius."

"Why?" asked Darius.

"The Weeping Angels are here," said the Doctor.

"I know," Darius said.

"They're behind me aren't they?" asked the Doctor.

"Yes, and they're behind you too," Darius answered.

"Darius, close your eyes," said the Doctor, "Don't ask. Just do it."

Darius did. The Doctor was ready for the Angels to come and get him. Darius popped his eyes opened again. Darius froze as he saw the Angels right behind the Doctor reaching for him. Darius said, "Doctor."

"I know," said the Doctor, "One of them has my jacket."

Without taking his eyes off of the Angels behind Darius, the Doctor forced his jacket out of the stone hand of the Weeping Angel holding him. The Doctor moved up side by side with Darius. The Doctor said, "Darius, close your eyes again."

Darius did and the Doctor turned around. The Angels weren't interested in them. They wanted the Time Matrix. Darius asked, "Can I open my eyes now?"
"Do it," the Doctor said, "They're not interested in us, but are interested in the Matrix. When I say go, Darius, go and go fast."

"Got it," said Darius.

After a few seconds, the Doctor yelled, "Let's go!"

The Doctor and Darius bolted off and ran towards the exit. The two of the ran throught the maze of Weeping Angels and they ran out into the hallway. The Doctor took out his screwdriver and used it on the door. The door shut and locked. Then the two of them ran towards the room where the others were barricaded in.

Inside the Time Matrix room, the Weeping Angels all went to the Time Matrix. Several Weeping Angels touched the Matrix and the overloading power source shot a wave of energy through them. The Angels exploded and the others stopped going towards it and they just stayed inside the range of the leaking time energy. One of the Weeping Angels turned its head towards the direction where the Doctor and Darius ran off to. It sensed another source of time energy and started to move towards it. The Angels had found a source of time energy, but they couldn't get inside. Everything they did, the blue box wouldn't let them in so they just gave up on it and went to the Matrix. Now that the Matrix was too dangerous to try and take its power. The Time Matrix was going to kill the others if they tried to take it. The Angel and a few others went with it. This source of time energy was a living creature. It was new too. It wasn't on the ship until today.

In another part of the ship, the Doctor and Darius were running towards the place where the others were and they were pushed to the ground violently. Air rushed by them and the Doctor stood up and looked. There was a single Weeping Angel frozen there in running stance. The Doctor panicked and said, "The Angels are moving!"

"Why?" asked Darius.

"The Matrix must be too much for the Angels and it destroyed the ones that touched it. They would then go to the next source of time energy," the Doctor said.

"What's the source of the time energy? Is you TARDIS that way?" asked Darius.

"No, but..." the Doctor's eyes widened in terror, "Oh no."

"What is it?" asked Darius, "What's the source of time energy that the Angels are going to?"

"No! I left her defenseless," the Doctor said. He ran off as fast as he could towards the others.

"What are you talking about?" asked Darius. He followed the Doctor.

"My companion Alex Russo is the source of time energy!" the Doctor yelled, "They're going towards the others."

The two of them ran as fast as they could, but then they heard bullets and the sound of the robots blasting away. The Doctor called Alex on his phone. The phone was answered, but all he heard was crashing and screaming. He heard Alex screaming at Harper and he heard the robotic voice of 476. He heard Alex again. She said some spell and then there was silence. The Doctor's eyes grew wide and he screamed into the phone, "ALEX!"