Thanks to colorfulimagination123, mattw2017, Lady R. Joseph, MaidensTouchOfMadness for following/faving my story.
NicoleR85: thank you! Here's the first part to the next episode.
AN: I've reposted this chapter as I felt it was a bit rushed and wasn't particularly happy with how I had Ali be affected by the Angels. Didn't feel like it fit.
The Doctor was the first one to recover from their jump. "Up! Look up!" he ordered as he stood up, going over to where Alyssa sat and helped her to her feet.
"Are you ok?" the Doctor asked her.
Alyssa nodded "yeah, fine", she replied.
"You ok Amy?" River asked helping her up.
"What happened?" the ginger questioned.
"We jumped", River answered.
"Jumped where?" Amy asked.
"Up, Up, Look up!" the Doctor repeated. Amy did so but still couldn't understand. Alyssa on the other hand looked up and immediately understood where they were.
"We're on the hull of the ship", she stated "how is that possible?"
The Doctor crouched down, sonicing a circular hatch nearby "The ship crashed with the power still on, yeah? So what else is still on?"
The Time Lady thought for a second before she answered with "The gravity!"
"Yep" the Doctor said standing up "One good jump" he jumped on the spot "and up we fell. Shot out the grav globe to give us an updraft, and here we are", he explained.
"Doctor, the statues. They look more like Angels now", Octavian reported staring at the statues below.
"They're feeding on the radiation from the wreckage, draining all the power from the ship, restoring themselves", the Doctor explained as he continued to sonic the hatch "Within an hour, they'll be an army!"
The hatch opened up to reveal the inside of the ship. Suddenly one of the lights surrounding the hatch, exploded with a bang. "They're taking out the lights", the Doctor said "Look at them, Look at the Angels. Into the ship, now. Quickly, all of you!" and with that he dropped into the hole. Alyssa sat down by the hatch and started to lower herself into the hole. The Doctor reached up, put his hands on her waist and helped her down the rest of the way.
"Doctor! Ali!" Amy called down to them.
"It's just a corridor", the Doctor told her "The gravity orientates to the floor. Now, in here, all of you. Don't take your eyes off the Angels. Move, move, move!"
He walked over to a control panel, sonicing it as the others joined himself and Alyssa. "The Angels. Presumably they can jump up too?" Octavian asked. The hatch closed the moment they all entered the ship, the lights flickering.
"They're here, now. In the dark, we're finished", the Doctor stated feeling his hearts start to beat faster at the fact that the angels were getting closer to them, to Alyssa. A bulkhead further along the corridor starts to close. "Run!" he shouted, grabbing Alyssa's hand and running for it, the others hot on their heels. Unfortunately they didn't make it, the bulkhead closed trapping them.
"This whole place is a death trap!" Octavian shouted.
"No, it's a time bomb", the Doctor corrected him trying to stay calm "Well, it's a death trap and a time bomb. And now it's a dead end" he rambled "Nobody panic". As he said that, there was a banging on the hatch which told them that the Angels were trying to break in. The Doctor looked around at everyone and saw apart from himself, Alyssa was the only one who looked worried. "Oh, just me and Ali then. What's through here?" he asked gesturing to the bulkhead with his sonic.
"Secondary flight deck", River replied.
"Ok" Amy nodded "so we've basically run up the inside of a chimney, yeah?" she stated as River started to work on the panel near the bulkhead, trying to bypass the power "So what if the gravity fails?" Amy asked.
"I've thought about that", the Doctor admitted.
"And?" Amy pressed.
"And we'll all plunge to our deaths", he replied earning him a smack in the arm from his fiancé "ow! What was that for?" he asked rubbing his arm.
"For making her even more scared", Alyssa replied "Empath? Remember?" she pointed to herself.
"Sorry", the Doctor said to both her and Amy. He turned to the door "The security protocols are still live. There's no way to override them. It's impossible".
"How impossible?" River asked as she continued to work on the panel.
"2 minutes", the Doctor replied.
The hum of the engines powered down and the hatch they entered through opened up. "The hull is breached and the power's failing", Octavian stated. The lights went out for a brief moment and when they came back on, an Angel's arm appeared at the entrance.
"Sir, incoming!" Marco called.
"Doctor! Lights", Amy said reaching out and grasping Alyssa's hand as the lights go out again. The Doctor used his sonic on the panel that River had been working on. The lights come on briefly to reveal an Angel making its way inside. The lights go out again for the third time. When they came on again, they were much brighter than before. They also revealed that there were now four Angels in the corridor with them.
"Clerics, keep watching them", Octavian ordered.
"And don't look at their eyes. Anywhere else. Not the eyes", the Doctor warned "Now, I've isolated the lighting grid. They can't drain the power now".
"Good work, Doctor", Octavian praised.
"Yes. Good, good, good. Good in many ways. Good you like it so far…"
"So far?" Amy asked eye brows raised.
"Well, there's only one way to open this door. I guess I'll need to route all the power in this section through the door control", the Doctor said.
"Good, Fine, Do it", Octavian ordered. He didn't care what the Doctor had to do to get the bulkhead door open as long as he did it.
"Including the lights", the Doctor added "All of them. I'll need to turn out the lights".
"How long for?" Alyssa asked.
"Fraction of a second", the Doctor replied fiddling with the sonic in his hands "Maybe longer. Maybe quite a bit longer".
"Maybe?" Octavian asked, incredulous.
"I'm guessing", the Doctor shot back "We're being attacked by statues in a crashed ship, there isn't a manual for this!" He knew it wasn't a good idea to get worked up but he couldn't help it. His fiancé was on a ship with four Weeping Angels and only the four clerics, himself and River standing between her and them. The Time Lady rubbed his arm, feeling how worried he was. She gave him a small smile when the Doctor looked at her. The Time Lord returned the smile.
"But Doctor, we lost the torches", Amy pointed out "We'll be in total darkness".
"No other way", the Doctor sighed and turned to Octavian "Bishop?"
"Doctor Song, I've lost good Clerics today. You trust this man?" Octavian asked River.
"I absolutely trust him", River replied.
"He's not some kind of madman, then?" Octavian continued.
"I absolutely trust him", River repeated.
"Excuse me", the Doctor said and went back to the door.
Octavian stepped closer to River "I'm taking your word, because you're the only one who can manage this guy", he said quietly "But that only works so long as he doesn't know who you are. You cost me any more men, and I might just tell him. Understood?"
"Understood", River nodded.
Octavian gave her a brief nod and turned back to the Doctor "Ok, Doctor. We've got your back", he said.
"Bless you Bishop", the Doctor said as he took a bundle of wires from Alyssa.
"Combat distance, ten feet", Octavian ordered "As soon as the lights go down, continuous fire. Full spread over the hostiles. Do not stop firing while the lights are out. Shot gun protocol. We don't have bullets to waste".
"Amy, when the lights go down, the wheel should release. Spin it clockwise four turns", the Doctor instructed moving the ginger over to the door.
"10", Amy nodded.
"No, 4 turns", the Doctor corrected her.
"Yeah, 4. I heard you", Amy repeated.
"Love, help her", the Doctor said, turning to her. Alyssa nodded. He moved over to the panel by the door that he'd opened up to gain access to the circuits to the bulkhead. "Ready!" the Doctor called and placed the sonic into the circuit.
"On my count, then", Octavian swallowed "God be with us all. Three…two…one" the lights went out "Fire!"
The clerics opened fire at the Weeping Angels. With each burst of fire, little flashes of light appeared showing the Angels moving closer and closer to the group. "Turn!" the Doctor shouted.
Alyssa and Amy struggled to get the door open. River stepped up next to them and gave them a hand. "Doctor, its opening. It's working!" Amy said as the bulkhead started to open. The three females squeeze through the opening.
"Fall back!" Octavian ordered to his clerics. The clerics hurry through followed by Octavian and the Doctor. The bulkhead clangs shut behind the Time Lord. They ran down a similar corridor until they reached a door. Using his sonic, the Doctor opened the door and held it open so that everyone could get through.
"Doctor, quickly", River called.
"Doctor!" Alyssa shouted. The Doctor stops sonicing the panel and darts inside just as the bulkhead closed. The secondary flight deck was a mess, exposed wires all over the console. The Doctor and River ran over to the controls.
"Doctor!" Amy shouted as the door's wheel started to spin. Octavian turned to the door and placed a device on it.
"What are you doing?" Alyssa asked as Octavian activated the device, stopping the wheel from turning.
"Magnetized the door", Octavian replied "Nothing could turn that wheel now".
"Yeah?" the Doctor asked looking up from the controls he was working at. The wheel turned though slower than before.
"Dear God!" Octavian gasped.
"Ah, now you're getting it!" the Doctor said "You've bought us time though. That's good. I am good with time".
"Doctor!" Alyssa called as a wheel on another door to the right of the main one started to turn. She then winced from another dull ache from her head. She rubbed her temples and when she brought her hands away, they were stone! She closed her eyes tightly and opened them, relaxing when she saw that her hands were back to normal. "Ali, are you alright?" Amy asked.
"I think so", Alyssa said, unsure. Why was she getting this pain in her head? And why on earth was she imagining her hands as stone? Was it just her body's way of saying that she needed more sleep? Though that didn't make much sense as A: she was now a Time Lady and didn't require as much sleep anymore and B: she already slept prior to this trip. So what the heck was going on?!
"Seal that door. Seal it now", Octavian ordered and Macro complied.
"We're surrounded", River stated as the wheel on the third door started to spin. It too was sealed with a device.
"Doctor, how long have we got?" Octavian asked.
"5 minutes, max", the Doctor replied.
"9", Amy said.
"We need another way out of here", River stated.
"There isn't one", Octavian said.
"Yeah, there is. Course there is", the Doctor countered "This is a galaxy class ship. Goes for years between planet falls. So…" he snapped his fingers "what do they need?"
"Of course", River breathed, realising what he was getting at. The Doctor snapped his fingers again.
"Of course what? What do they need?" Amy asked not understanding. She wasn't the only one, Alyssa as a little confused too.
"Can we get in there?" Octavian questioned.
The Doctor turned to the back wall "Well, it's a sealed unit, but they must have installed it somehow", he explained. He pressed against various points on the wall saying "This whole wall should slide up" then he noticed the clamps "There's clamps. Release the clamps!" the Doctor flashed his sonic over the clamps.
"What's through there?" Amy asked "What do they need?"
"They need to breathe", River told her. The Doctor smiled as the wall slowly rose upwards. Alyssa and Amy stare, awestruck at the lush green forest that was revealed behind the wall.
"But that's….that's a…." Amy tried to say but couldn't get the words out she was that amazed.
Alyssa opened her mouth to say something when she heard the TARDIS's voice speak very quietly.
"Sweetie…"
"Sexy?" Alyssa said aloud earning her looks from everyone. The Time Lady walked away from them all, keeping her back to the group so that they couldn't see her talking. "How can I hear you so far from well…you?" she asked in a hushed tone.
"We became one, remember? This means that we have a far stronger bond than before", the TARDIS told her "don't act alarmed but you have an Angel in your mind" the red head eye's widened "I'm working on walling it off. Stay strong sweetie".
"Love, are you ok?" the Doctor asked wondering if he should be worried. Alyssa turned to him.
"Yeah, I'm fine", Alyssa lied "just a little surprised to hear from Sexy that's all. First time hearing it so far away from her. Anyway you were showing us the forest?" she said, quickly changing the subject.
"Yes…I was", the Doctor said, getting the feeling his fiancé had just lied to him but he wasn't going to press the matter. They walked back to the others. "As River was saying, this is an oxygen factory AND if we're lucky, an escape route", the Doctor picking up where they left off before Alyssa wandered off.
Amy smiled "8", she agreed.
"Is there another exit? Scan the architecture, we don't have time to get lost in there", the Doctor said to Octavian.
"On it!" Octavian stepped into the forest "Stay where you are until I've checked the Rad levels".
"But trees, on a space ship?" Amy asked. Not the weirdest thing we found on a spaceship Alyssa thought remembering 'Arthur' from the ship with all the Time Windows.
"Oh, more than trees. Way better than trees. You two are going to love this" the Doctor stepped into the forest "Treeborgs…." he opened a section of peat moss to reveal circuitry "Trees plus technology. Branches become cables become sensors on the hull. A forest sucking in starlight, breathing out air. It even rains. There's a whole mini-climate. This vault is an ecopod running right through the heart of the ship" the Doctor turned and walked back over to them "A forest in a bottle on a space ship in a maze. Have I impressed you two yet?"
"I'm definitely impressed, dear", she replied "Treeborgs…" she laughed "wonders never cease".
Amy smiled too "7", she chuckled.
"Why did you say that?" Alyssa asked Amy.
"Say what?" Amy asked confused.
"7", the Doctor said, studying the ginger's face.
"No. I didn't", Amy insisted.
"Yes. You did", River spoke up.
"Doctor", Octavian called "there's an exit, far end of the ship, into the Primary Flight Deck".
"Good. That's where we need to go", the Doctor said.
"Plotting a safe path now", Octavian said.
"Quick as you like", the Doctor called back, still studying Amy's face.
The radio suddenly crackled to life "Doctor? Excuse me? Hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir".
"Ah. There you are, Angel Bob", the Doctor said going over to white chair and plopped down into it "How's life?" he asked "Sorry, bad subject", he added.
"The Angels are wondering what you hope to achieve", Angel Bob said.
"Achieve?" the Doctor asked "We're not achieving anything. We're just hanging. It's nice in here", he remarked "Consoles, comfy chairs, a forest. How's things with you?"
"The Angels are feasting, sir", Angel Bob said "Soon we will be able to absorb enough power to consume this vessel, this world. And all the stars and worlds beyond".
"Well, we've got comfy chairs", the Doctor retorted "Did I mention?"
"We have no need of comfy chairs", Angel Bob said.
The Doctor grinned "I made him say comfy chairs!"
Alyssa smiled, shaking her head. He was such a child sometimes! But she would never want him to change. "6", Amy laughed.
"Okay, Bob, enough chat. Here's what I want to know. What have you done to Amy" the Doctor demanded jumping to his feet.
"There is something in Amy's eye", Angel Bob replied.
"What's is it?" the Doctor questioned.
"We are", Angel Bob said.
"What's he talking about?" Amy asked not understanding what was going on "Ali's got a bad headache all of a sudden and I'm 5" everyone stares at her, including Alyssa. Why didn't Sexy tell me that Amy had an Angel in her eye too? She thought. It was possible that the TARDIS didn't know, considering that she didn't have a connection to the ginger.
"I mean, 5", Amy repeated. Then she realised what she'd just said "Fine! I'm fine".
"You're counting", River said slowly.
"Counting?" Amy repeated.
"You're counting down from ten", the Doctor said "You have been for a couple of minutes".
"Why?" Amy asked.
"I don't know", the Doctor replied.
"Well, counting down to what?" Amy demanded.
"I don't know", the Doctor admitted.
"We shall take her. We shall take all of you", Angel Bob said "We shall have dominion over all time and space".
The Doctor raised the radio to his mouth "Get a life, Bob", he snapped "Oops, sorry again. There's power on this ship, but nowhere near that much".
"With respect, sir, there's more power on this ship than you yet understand"
A screeching sound echoed around the room forcing them all to cover their ears "Dear God, what is it?" River asked.
"They're back", Octavian stated.
"It's hard to put in your terms, Doctor Song, but as best I understand it, the Angels are laughing", Angel Bob told them.
"Laughing?" the Doctor asked with a frown.
"Because you haven't noticed yet, sir. The Doctor in the TARDIS hasn't noticed", Angel Bob said.
The Doctor turned to see the crack, his eyes widening.
"That's…that's, that's like the crack from my bedroom wall from when I was a little girl", Amy breathed staring at it as it grew wider causing the room to shake.
"Yes", the Doctor agreed. The room shook more violently, everyone having to grab hold of something to stay on their feet.
"Ok, enough. We're moving out", Octavian said deciding they'd stayed there long enough.
"Agreed", River said "Doctor?"
"Yeah, fine", the Doctor said but he didn't move. Instead he got out his sonic from his pocket and started using it on the crack.
"Doctor, what are you doing?" Alyssa asked.
"Right with you", the Doctor said not looking away from the crack nor did he stop scanning it with the sonic.
"We're not leaving without you!" Alyssa said, unwilling to go.
"Yes, you are" the Doctor glanced back at Alyssa, River and Amy "Bishop?"
"Miss Pond, Miss Palmer, Doctor Song, now!" Octavian shouted from the forest.
River grabbed Amy's arm and pulled her away. Alysa followed them, though not without casting a look at her fiancé.