It was Eleven that broke the silence with a chuckle. "Right, right. Very nice. Now seriously," he said, turning back to the council, "we're the Doctor, we're who you're looking for."

"No. They're right. He's not a Time Lord. He's a human-hybrid biological meta-crisis. They're looking for the real deal. That's me," Ras put down her weapon and reached beneath her shirt to pull out the pendant she had been wearing around her neck. Everyone in the room fought the brief urge to look away before she ripped it from her neck, an odd shimmering coating the air surrounding her. In front of their eyes Ras had changed. Her hair, no longer blond, but a light red, was tightly curled close to her head. Her chin had become slightly bigger, and her eyes…

"Mobile perception filter," she said, tossing up and down in her hand, "nifty little thing."

"But you look just like…" Rose began, eyes wide.

"I never told you my name," she continued, turning to face River.

"But, Ras…" River started, still staring into those eyes she knew so well…

"Ras isn't my name. It's my initials. R-A-S. My Mum named me after the two bravest women she knew. My name is Rose Amelia. Rose Amelia Song," she turned now to face Eleven, "hey…Dad."

Ras looked from person to person in the room, beginning to feel awkward with all the attention focused on her. "So…how about that? Sontarens! Haven't seen you lot in a while! How's Strax?"

"Time Lord…" spat the lead Sontaren, raising his weapon to aim it at Ras. She immediately removed a small pen-shaped object and pointed it at the gun, a red light emitting from its end as the gun suddenly popped and fell from the Sontaren's hand.

"Now, now…these two handsome fellas aren't the only ones with a sonic screwdriver," she turned back to Eleven, who was still standing in the same spot, gaping at her. "Look, I know this is against the rules…wibbly-wobbly and all that…but, you give this to me for my thirteenth birthday, and I was just wondering if maybe you could come up with a different setting before you gave it to me?" She looked back at River, who was also rooted to the ground. "No? Worth a shot, now…I can see we're getting nowhere, so I'll guess I'll have to take care of this another way," She approached Eleven and reached out her hands to grasp either side of his face gently. "Sorry about this, Pops," she said as she headbutted him with incredible force.

A plethora of memories came flooding into the Doctor's mind, and it took him a brief moment before he realized the memories were not his own. River with an incredibly swollen belly. A chubby toddler waddling across the floor of the TARDIS. The Doctor, an immense smile on his face, picking up the child and whirling her around the console room. A child of about ten, pushing on of the levers on the TARDIS and turning to look up at him with his own eyes. Ras' eyes.

"There," said Ras, holding her hand to her head, regretting the fact that she hit in the same spot where she had run into the TARDIS that morning, "now you know I'm not lying."

Eleven looked up at her, disbelief swelling into a thousand emotions at once.

"You're not going to cry, are you? I can't do crying…" Ras looked at him uncertainly.

Eleven shook his head and looked at River, then back to Ras. "Aren't you going to show her?"

Ras turned to River and narrowed her eyes, "You want to tell him or should I?"

River's expression visibly softened as she brought her hands to her stomach. "I was going to tell you this morning, but we got…somewhat distracted," she smiled as he approached her. The spell seemed to be broken as Rose moved to stand next to Ten, a knowing smile already on his face as he wound his arm around Rose.

Eleven cautiously reached out a hand and River caught it and led it directly to her belly. His eyes shone as he shook his head in disbelief. "When?" was the only word he was able to get out.

She smiled at him mischievously, causing him to nod and smile as well.

"Picnic at Asgard," they both said in unison, chuckling to themselves.

"Um, ew. I'm standing right here," said Ras, crinkling her nose in disgust.

"I do so hate to interrupt such a touching moment," said the Sontaren, "but we were in the middle of trying to destroy you both."

Eleven and Ras turned to face the Sontaren, both their hands reaching up to brush through their hair identically.

"Any ideas?" asked Eleven.

"Six, so far," responded Ras, turning to him and smiling. "Oi, you two still with us?" she turned and addressed Rose and Ten, who quickly broke apart and began surreptitiously wiping their eyes.

"Wow, bright in here," said Ten, shuffling.

"Right, smoke in my eyes," said Rose, sniffing and straightening herself before approaching the group.

"What's the plan, Sweetie?" said River, brushing her finger across Ras' cheek.

"I can destroy the Pandorica remotely, but it's going to take a lot more energy than three sonic screwdrivers," Ras stepped forward and began removing her sweatshirt, throwing it to the ground.

"But it's impossible to produce that kind of energy. The only way you'd ever be able to do that would be to-" started Eleven.

"No," spat Ten, "absolutely not."

"You can't," said Eleven, pleading.

"I have to. I can do this," said Ras bending forward to pick up her discarded Dalek laser.

Eleven let out a shaky breath. For a moment, she thought he would stop her, but instead he nodded and said, "I know you can. I just don't want you to."

"Don't want to what? What is she going to do?" yelped River, stepping forward.

"A Time Lord is able to expel one intense blast of energy strong enough to destroy the Pandorica, but," Ten couldn't continue.

"What? What's wrong?" River looked back and forth at the two Doctors, not understanding.

"She's going to regenerate," said Rose, stepping forward to clasp River's hand.

"Over my dead body," said River, intent on stopping her. She was held fast when Ten and Eleven turned, each holding one of her shoulders.

"Over mine, actually," said Ras, her hands beginning to glow with an orange, ethereal light. It happened in an instant-a ray of light burst forth from Ras' hands as she immediately directed it at the entrance column of the Pandorica. The room filled with an unearthly white light as a massive explosion rang from the center of the room. Rose and River fell to the floor, covered by Ten and Eleven as debris fell atop them. When they rose from the floor, the room was empty-no entrance module, no council, no anything…only Ras-standing, wobbling atop the center ledge, giving one last smile before she fell to the floor.