"I'd say you've got a fair bit to talk about."
The Doctor stands with his arms still around my waist.
"How so.." Eldane asks
"You both want the planet. You both have genuine claim to it."
"Are you authorised to negotiate on behalf of humanity?"
"Me? No! But they are!"
He points to Amy and Narseen
"What?!"
"No, we're not!"
"Course you are! Amy Pond and Nasreen Chaudhry, speaking for the planet! Humanity couldn't have better Ambassadors. Come on, who has more fun than us?"
Amy shoot up and ran to the Doctor and I.
"Is this what happen, in the future, the planet gets shared? Is that what we need to do?"
"What are you talking about?" Nasreen looks to us.
"Oh, Nasreen, sorry, probably worth mentioning at this stage, Amy, Maxy, and I travel in time, a bit."
"Anything else?"
"There are fixed points through time, where things must always stay the way they are."
I say and look to the Doctor. He smiles and kisses my forehead.
"This is not one of them." He continues. "This is opportunity, a temporal tipping point. Whatever happens today will change future events,"
"Create it's own timeline, it's own reality. Correct?"
"Yes. You learn fast Maxy. The future pivots around you. Here. Now. So do good. For humanity, and for Earth."
"Right. No pressure there, then."
Amy looks to me then to walks back to her spot.
"We can't share the planet. Nobody on the surface is going to go for this idea. It is just too big a leap!" Narseen looks to us.
"Come on. Be extraordinary."
"Oh… You…"
She sighs then smiles going back to the table.
"Okay." The Doctor pats the table. "Bringing things to order. The first meeting of representatives of the human race an Homo Reptilia is now in session. Ha! Never said that before. That's fab! Carry on! Now Mo let's go and get your son. Oh you know, humans and their predecessors, shooting the breeze. Never thought I'd see it."
"Sweetie?"
"Yes, dear?"
"Calm down."
He gives me a mock pout and I laugh as I kiss him..
You're not stopping me?
I thought I almost lost this once, I don't care that I'm working. You can kiss me all you want. As long as I get the same pleasure.
I smile up at him and wink. He blushes as we continue on.
"Elliot, there you are."
"If you've harmed him in anyway."
"Of course not! I only store the young." Malekko says.
"But why?"
The Doctor and I say together.
"I took samples of the young, slowed their lifecycles to a millionth of their normal rate, so I could study how they grew, what they needed, how they lived on the surface."
"You've been down here, working by yourself, all alone?"
"My family, through the millennia… for the last 300 years, just me. I never meant to harm your child."
"Malekko, I rather love you."
He bumps his fist with Malekko and I giggle.
"It's safe. We can wake him."
The door swings open and Malekko goes to take off the wires. He chuckles a bit.
"Come." He gestures to Mo.
"Elliot? Ell, it's dad"
"What? Dad."
They hug each other and the Doctor grabs my hand and squeezes it. I smile
"You're safe now."
"But where are we?"
"Well, I've got to be honest with you, son we're in the centre of the earth and there are lizardmen."
Elliot looks over to us and looks at Malekko.
"Hi."
"Wow."
The Doctor let's go of me and steps forward
"Elliot, I'm sorry. I took my eye off you."
"It's okay. I forgive you."
He shakes the Doctor's hand and looks to me. He leans forward towards the Doctor.
"Is that her?"
The Doctor twist his head around to look at me. He smiles then faces Elliot.
"Ya. It's is."
He smiles at me and the Doctor comes out.
"You told him about me?"
"He asked questions and I answered."
"What did he ask in order for you to mention me?"
"Oh nothing dear. Nothing at all."
He smiles and kisses my head.
"You go on, Doctor. I'll catch up." Malekko says.
The Doctor nods then takes my hand and we walk behind Elliot and Mo.
The Doctor applauses and smiles.
"Not bad for a fist session. More similarities than differences."
"The transport has returned. Your friends are here."
"Here they are."
Rory walks through the door as The Doctor waves.
"Mum!" Elliot runs to his mother and I glare at her, the Doctor looks at me and frowns.
"I'm so sorry Love."I whispered to him and his frown increases.
"Rory!"
Amy yells
When Rory didn't come to Amy he looks back at me then to them.
"Something's wrong.."
Tony came into the room, carrying something.
"Doctor, What's he carrying?"
Amy came closer to us, as he stepped further into the room. The Doctor steps forward.
"No."
"Love.."
I grab his hand and squeeze it.
"Don't do this. Tell me you didn't do this."
Still holding my hand he steps forward slowly and crouches down next to where Tony laid down what he was carrying. The Doctor sighs and squeezes my hand back. He throws the corner of the rug away and we see Alaya. He throws it back and his eyes go dark. I'm mad as well, but I know if we both lose it, nothing good would come for it.
"What did you do?"
"It was me." Ambrose says.
There wasn't even the slightest sound of regret in her voice.
"I did it."
"Mum?"
Elliot steps away from his mum to look at her.
"I just wanted you back."
He pushes her off and runs over to me. I place a hand on his shoulder and he looks away from his mum. She glances around then the Doctor let's go of my hand and pushes me and Elliot in front of him to stand next to Amy.
"I'm sorry. I didn't' know. You have to believe me, they're better than this." Eldane looks to the Doctor.
"This is our planet!"
Ambrose yelled
"Haven't you done enough! If I were you I would keep my mouth shut and stand over there and think of the best apology you can come up with, then think again! We had a chance here! A chance to a better life!" I feel the purple burning in my eyes. No not purple, black, pitch black.
"Leave us alone!"
Ambrose shouts ignoring me. The Doctor begins to walk toward her and I feel my mind clear. I hurry to push Elliot to Amy as I walk closer in order to bring the Doctor back, if he gets to much.
"In future, when you talk about this, you tell people there was a chance,but you were so much less,"
His eyes slowly lose color and they get darker as he steps closer Love come back to me.
"than the best of humanity." He stops and looks back to me with a nod. Then I heard the marching. Everyone is silent. They surround us and I feel Elliot's hand grab mine.
"The Doctor told me you were brave and strong. Will you protect us?" Elliot whispered and I look down to him. He's trying hard to keep a brave face on and I smile down at him and I shake his hand a little to get him to look at me.
"Of course."
He smiles and then sandwhiches himself between me and Amy.
"My sister." Restac walks into the room.
When she sees the rug in the floor her face changes. She lifts the corner up and wails.
"And you want us to trust these apes Doctor?"
"One woman. She was scared for her family. She's not typical."
Restac jumps up and turns to her
"I think she is."
"Restac, please listen to the Doctor."
I plead with her.
"One person let us down. But there's a whole race of dazzling, peaceful human beings up there. You were building something here. Come on, an alliance could work!"
"It's too late for that, Doctor."
I groan and glare at Ambrose. Now what?
"Why?"
"Our Drill is set to start borrowing again in.. fifteen minutes."
"What?"
Nesreen asks
"What choice did I have? They had Elliot."
Tony starts
"Don't do this. Don't call their bluff."
The Doctor tries.
"Let us go back. And you promise never come to the surface ever again. We'll walk away leave you alone."
Ambrose exclaimed.
Restac hissed and yelled
"Execute her."
"No!"
The Doctor and I each grab her arm and pull her down.
"Everybody, back to the lab! Run!"
"Execute all the apes!"
Restac yells
"This is a deadly weapon. Stay back!"
The Doctor sonics and the guns began to run down the hall and into the lab.
"Take everyone to the lab!"
The Doctor grabs my hand and we run through the tunnel to catch up to everyone. A laser shoots by as soon as we round the corner. Everyone is there waiting.
"I'll cover you! Go! Go!"
The Doctor lets go of my hand and pushes me to Rory. Rory locks his arms around me and begins to pull me away. The Doctor turns and pulls out his screwdriver.
"No. No! Rory let me go. Now!"
"I can't. Doctor's orders."
I turn my hand so it could reach his side and I pinched him. His arms flying off me in surprise and I ran to stand next to the Doctor.
"Sorry Love. But you are not getting rid of me that easily."
He turned to look at me and smiled sheepishly. Then his face turned cold in an instant.
"You have nothing to defend yourself with. You're injured. You are leaving with them."
"I'm not leaving Doctor. You can forget it. I'm staying by your side, through every decision you make. And don't argue with me."
He nodded to Rory, who hesitated then directed everyone to continue. He grabbed my hand and squeezed it. He smiled as he lifted his sonic up.
I was hoping you'd say that
I gave him a smile and stood on my toes and kissed his cheek.
The creatures raced to the end of the hallway and the Doctor stuck his Sonic out. They dropped their weapons. Restac ran forward and he pointed his sonic at her.
"Ah-ah! Stop right there or I'll use my very deadly weapon again. One waring, that's all you get."
He ran his finger over my hand and I knew that that meant we were to start backing up soon.
"If there can be no deal, you go back into hibernation. All of you. Now. This ends here."
"No. It only ends with our victory."
Restac hissed.
"Like I said… one warning."
He starts the sonic again and the last of the weapons are gone. Restac gasp in shock and he turns us around and runs. They were close behind. He sonic the button and stood through the door.
"Elliot, you and your dad keep your eyes on that screen."
The Doctor kissed my hand then let go. Running past them.
"Let us know if we get company.'
I said to them.
"Amy, keep reminding me how much time I haven't got."
"Okay, 12 minutes till drill impact."
I glanced over to the others and noticed Tony.
Doctor. Tony.
He didn't even look, just gave a slight nod, that unless you were looking for it, it passed your head.
"Tony Mack, sweaty forehead, dilated pupils, What're you hiding?"
Tony opened his shirt for the Doctor to see.I came around next to him. Where he had been hit there were green lines going all through him.
"Tony! What happened?"
Nasreen whispered.
"Alaya's sting. She said there's no cure. I'm dying, aren't I?"
The Doctor sonic him and I grabbed his hand.
"Of course not Tony. The Doctor and I won't let that happen."
The Doctor placed his sonic on the screen so he could see the big picture of what was happening. Tony smiled at me.
"Thank you."
I nod as the Doctor began.
"You're not dying, you're mutating."
"How can I stop it?"
"Decontamination program! Might work, don't know. Eldane, can you run the program on Torny?"
"Doctor, shedload of those creatures coming our way! We're surrounded in here."
"So question is, How do we stop the drill, given that we can't get there in time? Plus, also, how do we get out given that we're surrounded? Nasreen how d'you feel about an energy pulse, channelled up through the tunnels to the base of the drill?"
Nasreen tilt forward and gave him a strange look.
"To blow up my life's work?"
"Yes. Sorry. No nice way of putting that."
"It's to save us Nasreen, to save the humans of the earth. Don't think negative of it. You'll be a hero, in a way."
I jump next to her and take her hand. I give her a small smile and squeeze. She looks at me, thinking.
"Right, well, you're going to have to do it before the drill hits the city, in…"
"Eleven minutes, forty seconds.."
Amy yells as the Doctor spins around. I hug Narseen and she smiles.
"Yes. Squeaky bum time!"
I come beside the Doctor and chuckle., he placed his hand in mine and smiled.
"Yes, but the explosion is going to cave in all the surrounding tunnels, so we have to be on the surface by then."
Nasreen explained
"But we can't get past Restac's troops."
Rory looked between the Doctor and I
"I can help with that…"
Eldane came away from Tony
"Toxic fumigation. An emergency failsafe meant to protect my species from infection. A warning signal to occupy cryo-chambers. After that, citywide fumigation, by toxic gas. Then the city shuts down."
The Doctor turns away, tugging me along as he paces, Amy steps towards Eldane at the same time the Doctor pulls me right up to him. He rest his head on mine.
"Dear, I don't.."
"Love if Eldane wants to do this, it's not on you. This one won't be you. This will be him and him alone. This is all up for him to decide. It's his people and you tried my Love. You tried, and you gave them plenty of chances."
He looked at me and smiled. He kissed my forehead.
I love you my dear.
I love you too Doctor.
He let me go and turned to Eldane.
"Eldane, are you sure about this?"
"My priority is my race's survival. The earth isn't ready for us to return yet."
"No."
"Ten minutes, Doctor."
"But maybe it should be"
The Doctor looked at me
"So here's a deal."
We turn back to Eldane and smile.
"Everybody listening. Eldane, you activate shutdown, I'll amend the system." The Doctor instructs
"Set your alarm for one thousand years time. a thousand years, to sort the planet out.'' I join in
"To be ready. Pass it on. As legend, or prophecy, or religion, but somehow, make it know."
I bend down to Elliott's eye level, as the Doctor stands behind me.
"The planet is to be shared, can you share that Elliot, give them a good tale?"
"Yeah. I get you"
I smile as the Doctor nods and a snap of his finger.
"Nine minutes, seven seconds.'
''Yes, fluid controls, my favorite. Energy pulse times, primed, and set. Before we go, energy barricade, need to cancel it out quickly.''
He wiped his sonic out and pointed it to the screen.
''Fumigation Pre-Launching.''
Eldane informed.
''There's not much time, for us to get from here to the surface, Doctor.''
''Ah-ha, super-squeaky bum time. Get ready to run for your lives. Now...''
''But the decontamination program on your friend hasn't started yet.''
We look to Tony and the Doctor puts his head in his hands.
''Well. Go. All of you. Go.''
Tony stood and looked at us.
''We're not leaving you.''
"Granddad.''
Elliot ran to Tony and hugged him.
''Eight minutes, ten seconds.''
''Now, you look after your mum. You mustn't blame her. She only did what she thought was right."
"I'm not going to see you again, am I?"
"I'll be here."
Tony tapped the boys chest.
"Always. I love you boy."
Elliot flings himself to Tony and he holds him.
"You be sure he gets home safe!"
I give him a smile and a nod.
"This is my fault." Ambrose says.
You don't say!
Dear she's human. Be nice.
I'm hu… fine.
The Doctor squeezes my hand and smiles.
'No, I can't go back up there. I'd be a freak show. The technology down here is my only hope."
They hug each other
''I love you dad."
''Go. Go. Go on.''
The Doctor gives the okay to Eldane and he places his hand on the machine.
TOXIC FUMIGATION INITIATED. RETURN TO CRYO-CHAMBERS.
''They're going. We're clear.''
''Okay. Everyone follow Nasreen. Look for a blue box. Get ready to run.''
He sonics the door and grabs my hand tugging me along with him.
''I'm sorry.'' The Doctor turns to Eldane
''I thought for a moment, our race, and the humans..''
''Yeah. Us too.''
I cut in.
''Doctor, Max we have less than six minutes.''
''Go. GO. We're right behind you.''
The two shake hands and I give Eldane a hug.
''Let's go.''
The Doctor calls to Narseen.
''I'm not coming either''
''What.''
''We're going to hibernate with them, me and Tony.''
''Doctor, you and your lover must go.''
''I can be decontaminated when we're woken. All the time in the world.''
''But.. Nasreen.. You..''
''Doctor, she's staying with him… she loves him.''
''She's right. I don't want to go. Besides, I've got what I was digging for. I can't leave it when I've only just found it.''
''DOCTOR. MAX.''
Amy yells.
''Thank you Doctor, Max.''
''The pleasure was all ours.'
The Doctor gives her a hug and I nod to her.
'Come and look for us.'
The Doctor nods and grabs my hand as he, I, and Amy run down the hall.
IMMEDIATE EVACUATION.
"The other way, Idiot."
Amy and I call to Rory as he ran past us. We've caught up with the rest as the PA said
TOXIC FUMIGATION IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE.
"No question, just get in. And yes, I know it's big. Ambros, sickbay up the stairs, left, then left again. Get yourself fixed up." The newcomers scramble inside.
He looked at me and noticed my smile.
"What?"
"You showed off."
"Ya, sorry bit of a hurry. Why are you smiling, Where's Amy and Rory?"
I smirked as I walked over to stand in front of him.I reached up and straightened his bowtie.
"I love it when you do that."
He smiled at me and wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. I stand up on my toes and kiss him. He smiles as he returns it and pulls away.
"I should do it more often."
I smile and move away as Rory and Amy come running down the hall.
"Come on. Five minutes and counting…"
We turn as a light begins to shine.
"Not here. Not now. It's getting wider."
The Doctor grabs my hand and pulls me closer to him. I look to the crack and then to the others.
"Amy, is this the crack in your wall?"
She nods.
"And the Byzantium. All through the universe rips in the continuum. Some sort of space-time cataclysm- and explosion, maybe. Big enough to put cracks in the universe. But what?"
He bends down to the crack pulling me down too.
"Four minutes, fifty. We have to go!"
Amy yells behind us.
"The angels laughed when I didn't know. Prisoner zero knew. Everybody knows, except me!"
"Love it's okay. We need to go. You have human beings to look after right now"
"Doctor. Just leave it!"
Amy joins me.
"But where there's an explosion.. "
"No."
"There's shrapnel."
"You are not sticking your hand in that thing!"
"Doctor, you can't put your hand in there!"
Rory joins me this time.
"Why not?"
I promise I'll be fine dear.
I nod my head and he kisses my forehead. When he reaches his hand in he lets out a cry.
"Doctor take your hand out now!"
It shines more and he looks at me.
"I've got something!"
"What is it?"
He pulls his hand away and falls to the ground, The thing in his hand smoking.
"I don't know."
"Doctor!"
Restac crawls forward from behind the rock.
"She was there, when the gas started."
He jumps up from the ground and stands in front of me protectively. Moving me to Rory
"She must've been poisoned."
"You!"
Restac gasp.
"Okay get in the TARDS, all of you."
He reaches in his jacket for the sonic.
"You did this."
She lifts the gun and points it at The Doctor.
"Doctor!"
Rory and I both yell. I take a step towards him when Rory throws me back. Running forward, in to the line of fire. He screams as the red blast hits him.
"Rory!"
Amy yells as he falls to the ground.
"Rory can you hear me?"
He groans on the ground and tries frantically to breath. The Doctor sonics him and look to me sadly.
"I don't understand."
"Shh-Shh. Don't talk. Doctor, is he okay? We have to get him onto the TARDIS."
"We were on the hill. I can't die here."
"Don't say that."
"You're so beautiful."
His face scrunches up in pain.
"I'm sorry."
And then he stopped. His face relaxed and he was gone. I run to Amy's side and I hold her.
"Doctor, help him."
I look back and the Doctor follows my gaze. The light from the crack was attaching to Rory.
"Amy, Max, Move away from the light.. If it touches you, you'll be wiped from history."
I try to lift her up with me, but she refused.
"Amy, move away now.'
"No! I am not leaving him! We have to help him!"
"Amy he's gone."
I try to pull her up again.
"The light's already around him. We can't help him."
The Doctor grabs her shoulders
"I am not leaving him!"
"Amy we have too."
"No."
The Doctor looks at me and I nod as I let her go and grab the TARDIS door.
"Sorry!"
He says as he lifts her off the ground.
"Get off me!"
"Sorry."
He repeats it as he drags her back to the TARDIS. He pushes me in as I grab his sonic, shut the door and lock it with the screwdriver.
"No! No! No! No!"
The Doctor grabs my hand and pulls me away from Amy as she pounds on the door. He pull us to the control panel.
"Let me out, please let me out. I need to get to Rory."
He shakes his head and leans on the controls. He looks to me and I nod. We begin to flip switches and push buttons. I only know what to do from watching him so much.
"That light. If his body's absorbed I'll forget him. He'll never have existed. You can't let that happen."
The Doctor looks to me and lays his hand on top of the leaver. I put mine on top of his and squeeze. We push it down and Amy comes running.
"What are you doing? Doctor! NO!"
The TARDIS takes off and Amy tries to stop it. The Doctor tries to stop her from pounding on him.
"No! No! Doctor, we can't just leave him there. "
"Keep him in your mind. Don't forget him. If you forget him, you'll lose him forever."
She stops hitting him and begins to sob.
"On the Byzantium, I still remember the clerics, because I am a time traveler now, you said. "
"They weren't part of your world. This is different, this is your own history changing. "
I can hear it in his voice, hows he's fighting off a sob.
"Don't tell me it's going to be okay. You have to make it okay."
"It's going to be hard, but you can do it Amy."
He kisses her forehead and pulls her away from the console.
"Tell me about Rory. Fantastic Rory, funny Rory, gorgeous Rory."
He sits the two of them down on the stairs and I drive the TARDIS.
"Amy listen to me. Do exactly as I say. Amy, please keep concentrating. You can do this."
"I can't."
She whispered.
"You can. You can do it. I can't help you unless you do, Come on. We can still save his memory. Come on Amy. Please. Come on, Amy, come on. Amy, please. Don't let anything distract you. Remember Rory. Keep remembering. Rory is only alive in your memory. You must keep hold of him. Don't let anything distract you. Rory still lives in your mind."
There's a sharp pain running through my head and I cry out. I fall to the ground my hand catching the landing button. The TARDIS shock with the impact.
"What were you saying?"
Amy's cheerful voice came to me and I forced my eyes to open. I stand up and lean against the rail.
The Doctor and Amy on the floor and then Moe and the others appear.
"I have seen some things today, but this is beyond mad."
"Doctor! Five seconds till it all goes up!"
Amy and him both jump up. He looks to me and I frown.
She's forgotten hasn't she…
I'm afraid so.. are you okay dear?
Lets not talk about it now.
He nods slightly and reaches for my hand as we run outside. We watch as it all goes up in flames.
"All Nasreen's work just erased."
"Good thing she's not here to see it. She's going to give Tony hell when they wake up."
I watch Amy, Moe, and Elliot walk by as the Doctor, Ambros, and I stand in an arch way.
"You two could've let those things shoot me. You saved me."
"An eye for an eye. It's never the way. Now you show your son how wrong you were. How there's another way. You make him the best of humanity… In the way you couldn't be."
She nods and the Doctor takes my hand and pulls me off the ledge. He turns to smile at her and then we head in the direction of Amy.
"You two are very quite. Are you talking to each other with that weird voice thing inside the others head? Oh! Hey! Look! There I am again!. HELLO ME!"
I look over to see Amy and the pounding in my head starts up again.
"Are you okay?"
I look at Amy to see she's crying.
"I thought I saw someone else there for a second. I need a holiday. Didn't' we talk about Rio?"
"You go in. Just fix this lock, keeps jamming."
"You boys and your locksmithery… and I'm guessing Max is staying out for a bit of alone time."
She laughs and shuts the door. The Doctor and I stand there for a bit. Before he reaches in his pocket for the object he pulled out of the crack. I take a shaky breath as I see a bit of the TARDIS. I drop his hand as I go inside. Amy is already up the stairs and gone. I close my eyes and put my hands over my ears. I crouch to the floor as the chanting starts.
The women is there again and we are in the park.
"The man with green eyes who travels through time. He's the love of your life. And one day, he'll lose you completely, but he won't remember the girl who saved his life…"
Her mouth is still moving, but I can't hear her. She reaches out to put a hand on mine. Then she stands and wipes my tears away. She disappeared and I'm left with darkness once more.
I know this is a long one. But it's what happened. I don't know how. Anywho that should be all for the night. Goodnight guys.
~Maxy