Chapter TWELVE: Explanations

When the Professor got into the TARDIS, he saw the Doctor by the console, preparing to take off; Mr Gold and Belle, sitting on the seats; and Amy and Rory standing by the console. The Doctor flipped a switch and the centre column started raising up and down, beginning the metallic thrumming sound. The Doctor asked, "So what did you have to do?"

"Mark the Dalek Prime Minister with this" the Professor said, holding up the medallion. "Now, Rumple, I need you to release it."

"Release what?" Amy asked.

"The Wraith," Mr Gold said. "Now, you have my dagger, don't you?"

"Of course I do. Something as precious as this needs to be guarded at all times," the Professor said, taking out the Dark One's dagger from his inside coat pocket. Once Mr Gold received the dagger, the Professor walked to the TARDIS doors. "Now, don't release it til I say so. And Dad, , let's make the TARDIS orbit Earth." The Doctor flipped some controls and the Professor opened the doors. "Now Rumple."

Mr Gold dropped the medallion on the TARDIS floor and raised the dagger above his head and said, "The Dark One summons thee." He bent down and stabbed the medallion and stood back. Then the Wraith slowly appeared; its red, glowing eyes taking in its surrounding before turning round to head out the TARDIS doors but the Professor stopped him.

"That is cool," Rory said.

"Hey. Wait," the Professor called out to the Wraith, which stopped. "You won't be protected out there. Let me put something on you." The Professor took the medallion from its neck and made it engulfed in purple smoke then put it back on the Wraith. "That will protect you from the universe and your instructions are in there too. Good Luck," And with that, the Wraith left the TARDIS and the Professor shut the doors.

"What's it gonna do?" the Doctor asked.

"Give the Daleks hell. It will suck out the Dalek Prime Minister's soul. To avenge Oswin."

"Won't the Daleks exterminate it though," Amy asked.

"You can't kill something that is already dead," the Professor said.

"Sounds like you've seen it before..." Amy said.

"I have. The last time, it was set out on Regina's soul and we had to banish it through a portal made by a hat. We did it, but at a terrible cost. It took Emma and Snow and a bit of me in it. Apparently, Emma calls it an Eldunarí, from the Inheritance Cycle. I can only connect with it when I am asleep however so everything is sketchy. Oh, that reminds me. Rumple, I need your dagger back."

"Why?" Mr Gold said, reluctantly handing the dagger back to the Professor.

"Like I said before, it needs to be protected." This made Mr Gold hand back the dagger. "Now, Dad. You know how you said I could put anything in that safe in the Time Rotor?"

"Yes," the Doctor said.

"Well I know what to put in it. We put the most special dagger in the most-safest safe." The Professor opened up the golden door to the safe just below the Time Rotor and carefully placed the dagger in it. He then shut the door and fiddled with the controls next to it. "Now Dad, just place your hand on the door." The Doctor did so and the light above went from red to green. "Now, its protected and Dad is the only person to open it."

"Why does it need to be protected though? Its just a dagger," Rory said.

"It's not just a dagger, Dearie. Its the Dark One's dagger. However has it can control the Dark One and I don't want to be controled," Mr Gold said.

"Who would control you?" Amy asked.

"Regina," Mr Gold said.

"Or her mother..." the Professor said.

"But Regina said she saw her dead body..."

"Cora must've played her."

"Well then," the Doctor said. "First stop: Storybrooke." And with that, the Doctor and the Professor fiddled with the controls of the TARDIS to set their destination to Storybrooke.