Cold Blood- Part 2
Jack stayed in the courtroom of the Silurians while the Doctor, Mo, Malohkeh and I traveled to get Elliot out of his stasis pod. "Elliot. There you are!" The Doctor said.
"If you've harmed him in any way-" Mo started.
"Of course not. I only store the young."
"Why?" I asked.
"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?" The Doctor asked sadly.
"My family, through the millennia, and for the last three hundred years, just me. I never meant to harm your child." Malohkeh apologised.
"Malohkeh, I rather love you." The Doctor said.
"It's safe. We can wake him." Malohkeh unhooks Elliot from the wires. "Come."
"Elliot? Ell, it's Dad." Mo said.
Elliot smiled. "Dad."
"You're safe now." Mo said, hugging his son.
"Where are we?" Elliot asked.
"Well, I've got to be honest with you, son. We're in the centre of the Earth, and there are lizard men." Mo told Elliot.
"Hi." Malohkeh said.
"Wow!" Elliot exclaimed.
"Elliot. I'm sorry. I took my eye off you." The Doctor said.
"It's okay. I forgive you."
"You go on, Doctor. I'll catch up." Mo, Elliot, The Doctor and I began to walk back to the courtroom.
"Storage facility nineteen operational." The computerized voice said.
We entered the courtroom to see Nasreen, Amy, Jack, and Eldane bent over a computer holoprojector showing the Earth.
"Not bad for a first session. More similarities than differences." The Doctor said.
Something beeped. "The transport has returned. Your friends are here." Eldane remarked.
Rory appears in the doorway, followed by Ambrose, then Mack carrying Alaya's body wrapped in a blanket, followed closely by Jenny, Cline and Susan, all with white faces.
"Here they are." The doctor said.
"Mum!" Elliot yells and runs over to Ambrose.
"Rory!" Amy said.
"Something's wrong." The Doctor said.
"Doctor, what's he carrying?" Amy asked.
"No. Don't do this. Tell me you didn't do this." The Doctor pleaded. Mack lays Alaya on the floor. "What did you do?"
"It was me. I did it." Ambrose stated.
Elliot broke out of his Mother's hug, looking at her in horror, guessing what was in the blanket. "Mum?"
"I just wanted you back." Elliot backed away from his Mother.
"I'm sorry. I didn't know. You have to believe me, they're better than this." The Doctor pleaded.
"This is our planet!" Ambrose yelled.
"We had a chance here." The Doctor said, agrly.
"Leave us alone!"
"In future, when you talk about this, you tell people there was a chance but you were so much less than the best of humanity." The Doctor said.
Restac and her troops march in. "My sister. Oh! And you want us to trust these apes, Doctor?"
"One woman. She was scared for her family. She is not typical." The Doctor pleaded.
"I think she is." Restac hissed.
"One person let us down, but there is 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." Ambrose said, angrily.
"Why?"
"Our drill is set to start borrowing again in fifteen minutes." Ambrose said.
"What!?" Nasreen asked faintly.
"What choice did I have? They had Elliot."
"Don't do this. Don't call their bluff." The Doctor said.
"Let us go back. And you promise to never come to the surface ever again. We'll walk away, leave you alone." Ambrose said.
"Execute her!" Restac said, talking about Ambrose.
"No!" The Doctor says The Doctor grabs Ambrose and we run. "Everybody, back to the lab. Run!"
"Execute all the apes!" Restac yelled.
The Doctor and I take out our sonic screwdrivers and the Silurian weapons explode. "This is a deadly weapon. Stay back."
Both of us dodge a lashing tongue and run out, hoping we bought everyone enough time.
Take everyone to the lab. Susan and I cover you."
"Go. Go!" Rory yells and they all run except Jenny and Jack. Jack coming over and standing next to me.
"Jenny, what do you think you are doing?" The Doctor asked.
"Staying with you! I'm not going to lose you!"
"Jenny." The Doctor said in a quiet voice. "Is that what you are afraid of?" Suddenly Restac and other Silurians march up to us and stops because the Doctor, Jenny and I point our sonics at him. Jenny got a sonic as a gift right after my wedding. Her sonic was a future version of a swiss army knife that she kept hooked on her belt. "Ah, ah, Stop right there or I'll use my very deadly weapon again. One warning, that's all you get. 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." We turn and bolt into the Laboratory, sonicing the door closed. The Doctor seals the door. "Elliot, you and your dad keep your eyes on that screen. Let me know if we get company. Amy, keep reminding me how much time I haven't got."
"Okay. Um, er, twelve minutes till drill impact." Amy siad.
"Tony Mack. Sweaty forehead, dilated pupils. What are you hiding?" The Doctor said. The green veins are all across his chest.
"Tony, what happened?" Nasreen asked.
"Alaya's sting. She said there's no cure. I'm dying, aren't I?"
"You're not dying, you're mutating." Susan told him gently.
"How can I stop it?"
"Decontamination program. Might work. Don't know. Eldane, can you run the program on Tony?" I asked.
"Doctor, shedload of those creatures coming our way. We're surrounded in here." Mo warned us.
"So, question is, how we do stop the drill given we can't get there in time? Plus, also, how do we get out, given that we're surrounded? Nasreen, how do you feel about an energy pulse channelled up through the tunnels to the base of the drill?" The Doctor asked.
"To blow up my life's work?" Nasreen asked.
"Yes. Sorry. No nice way of putting that."
"Right, well, you're going to have to do it before the drill hits the city, in er-"
"Eleven minutes forty seconds." Amy said, looking at her watch.
"Yes. Squeaky bum time." The Doctor remarked.
"Yes, but the explosion is going to cave in all the surrounding tunnels, so we have to be out and on the surface by then."
"But we can't get past Restac's troops." Rory said.
"I can help with that. 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." Eldane said.
"You could end up killing your own people." Cline said.
"Only those foolish enough to follow Restac."
"Eldane, are you sure about this?" I asked him.
"My priority is my race's survival. The Earth isn't ready for us to return yet."
"No." The Doctor agreed.
"Ten minutes, Doctor." Amy warned.
"But maybe it should be. So, here's a deal. Everybody listening. Eldane, you activate shutdown. I'll amend the system, set your alarm for a thousand years time. A thousand years to sort the planet out. To be ready. Pass it on. As legend, or prophecy, or religion, but somehow make it known. This planet is to be shared." The Doctor looked down on Elliot.
"Yeah. I get you." Elliot smiled back at him.
"Nine minutes, seven seconds."
"Yes. Fluid controls, my favourite. Energy pulse. Timed, primed and set. Before we go, energy barricade. Need to cancel it out quickly." The Doctor said.
"Fumigation pre-launching." Eldane stated.
Rory moved closer to Amy. "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."
"Well, go. All of you, go." Mack said.
"No, we're not leaving you here." Ambrose said fiercely.
"Granddad." Elliot said, hugging him.
"Eight minutes ten seconds."
"Now you look after your mum. You mustn't blame her. She only did what she thought was right." Mack said.
"I'm not going to see you again, am I?" Elliot asked.
"I'll be here, always. I love you, boy. You be sure he gets home safe." Mack looks to Ambrose.
"This is my fault." Ambrose says.
"No, I can't go back up there. I'd be a freak show. The technology down here's my only hope."
"I love you, Dad." Ambrose chokes out.
"Go. Go."
"Come on!" Mo exclaimed.
"Go on!" Mack encouraged.
"Toxic fumigation initiated." The Computer stated. "Toxic fumigation initiated." The computer repeated.
"They're going. We're clear." Amy said.
"Okay, everyone follow Nasreen. Look for a blue box. Get ready to run."
"Return to cryo-chambers." The Computer said.
"I'm sorry." The Doctor told Eldane.
"I thought for a moment, our race and the humans-"
The Doctor nodded his head. "Yeah, me too."
"Doctor, We've got less than six minutes." Amy said.
"Go. Go! I'm right behind you. Let's go."
Amy and Jack ran out but I stayed behind with the Doctor as Nasreen said, "I'm not coming either."
The Doctor looked at Nasreen. "What?"
"We're going to hibernate with them, me and Tony." Nasreen said.
"Doctor, you must go." Eldane said.
"I can be decontaminated when we're woken. All the time in the world." Mack said.
"But, Nasreen, you-"
"No, this is perfect. I don't want to go. I've got what I was digging for. I can't leave when I've only just found it."
Amy and Jack run back in "Doctor!" Amy says.
"Susan." Jack said, in a dangerous tone telling us that we had little time left.
"Thank you, Doctor."
"The pleasure was all mine."
"Come and look for us." Nasreen said. We ran down the tunnel.
"Immediate evacuation." The computer stated.
Rory passes them, looking for Amy. "Other way, idiot!" Amy yelled and Rory skidded to a halt and turned around and started running to catch up with us.
"Toxic fumigation is about to commence. Immediate evacuation."
"Come on." The Doctor groaned.
"Toxic fumigation is about to commence."
We finally made it back to the TARDIS were Ambrose, Mo, Elliot, Jenny, Cline and Susan were waiting. "No questions, just get in. And yes, I know, it's big. Ambrose, sickbay up the stairs, left, then left again, Get yourself fixed up. Come on. Five minutes and counting." Everyone entered except for The Doctor, Rory, Amy, Jack and I "Not here."
There is a crack in the wall. "Not now. It's getting wider."
"The crack on my bedroom wall." Amy said faintly,.
"And the Byzantium. All through the universe, rips in the continuum." I said.
"Some sort of space-time cataclysm. An explosion, maybe. Big enough to put cracks in the universe. But what?" The Doctor asked.
"Four minutes fifty. We have to go."
"The Angels laughed when I didn't know. Prisoner Zero knew. Everybody knows except me." The Doctor said, curious and annoyed that he doesn't know.
"Doctor, just leave it." Amy told him.
"But where there's an explosion, there's shrapnel." The Doctor gets closer to the crack.
"Doctor, you can't put your hand in there!" Rory said.
"Yeah, listen to Rory, Doc." Jack said.
The Doctor puts a red handkerchief over his hand and reaches into the crack. "Why not?" The Doctor groanes, "Argh. I've got something!"
"What is it?" Amy asked.
He pulls his arm back out. "I don't know."
"Doctor?" Rory warned as Restac crawls in.
"She was there when the gas started. She must have been poisoned." Amy said.
"You." Restac hissed.
"Okay, get in the Tardis, the four of you!"
"You did this!" Restac raises her weapon.
"Doctor!" Rory pushes the Doctor out of the way and takes the full force of the blast.
"Rory!" Amy screamed as Rory fell to the ground.
"Rory, can you hear me?" The Doctor asked, kneeling next to him, as Amy did the Same. I leaned into Jack, crying. Jack wrapped his arms around me.
"I don't understand." Rory said.
"Shush. Don't talk. Doctor, is he okay? We have to get him onto the Tardis." Amy said, tears pouring down her cheeks.
"We were on the hill. I can't die here."
Amy shook her head. "Don't say that."
"You're so beautiful. I'm sorry." Rory dies.
"Doctor, help him!" Amy yelled.
Light from the crack reaches Rory's feet. "Amy, move away from the light. If it touches you, you'll be wiped from history. Amy, move away now!"
"No. I am not leaving him! We have to help him!"
"The light's already around him. We can't help him." The Doctor said, standing up and going around to Amy.
"I am not leaving him!"
"We have to."
"No!"
"I'm sorry." The Doctor picks up Amy.
"Get off me!" Amy kicks and screams. The Doctor drags Amy to the Tardis.
"I'm sorry."
"Get off me. No!"
The Doctor caries in a sobbing and screaming Amy. Jack shuts the door behind us.
The Doctor sonic's the Tardis door shut. Amy runs over to the door. "No! No! No! No! Let me out. Please let me out. I need to get to Rory. That light. If his body's absorbed, I'll forget him. He'll never have existed. You can't let that happen. What are you doing?"
The Doctor sets the Tardis in motion.
"Doctor, no! No! 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." The Doctor said.
"When we were on the Byzantium, I still remembered the Clerics because I am a time traveller now, you said."
"They weren't part of your world. This is different. This is your own history changing."
"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. Tell me about Rory, eh? Fantastic Rory. Funny Rory. Gorgeous Rory. Amy, listen to me. Do exactly as I say. Amy, please. Keep concentrating. You can do this."
"I can't."
"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's only alive in your memory. You must keep hold of him. Don't let anything distract you. Rory still lives in your mind."
The Tardis comes to a sudden halt and we are thrown to the floor. The ring box lands in front of the Doctor.
"What were you saying?" Amy asked, all fine.
I opened my mouth to say something and ended up throwing up all over the TARDIS floor, Jack came over and held back my hair, making circular motions on my back to try to calm me. I finished and wiped my mouth on my sleeve. "I'm fine. It's just the sudden halt, sorry Doctor."
The Doctor nodded at me, telling us he was fine with it.
"I have seen some things today, but this is beyond mad." Mo says as Mo, Ambrose, Elliott, Susan, Jenny and Cline come out of a hallway.
Amy looks down at her watch, Rory's death totally forgotten. "Doctor. Five seconds till it all goes up!"
We all rush in time to see the drilling derrick explode. "All Nasreen's work just erased." Amy said.
"Good thing she's not here to see it. She's going to give Tony hell when they wake up." Mo chuckled.
We all said goodbyes on the steps of the Church porch. "You could've let those things shoot me. You saved me." Ambrose stated.
"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." The Doctor said.
He left Ambrose on the porch and walked back to Amy, Jenny, Cline, Susan, Jack and I waiting for the Doctor a while away.
We walked back through the graveyard to get to the Tardis. "You're very quiet. Oh. Hey, look. There I am again. Hello, me." Amy said. A lone figure waves back from the other side of the valley.
"Are you okay?" The Doctor asked.
"I thought I saw someone else there for a second. I need a holiday. Didn't we talk about Rio?" Amy asked.
"You go in. Just need to fix this lock. Keeps jamming."
"You boys and your locksmithery." Amy goes into the Tardis followed by Jenny, Cline and Susan Forman.
I waited with Jack and watched as the Doctor discovers the shrapnel the Doctor pulled from the crack is a charred piece of the Tardis
Jack and I gave each other looks at that and walked into the Tardis, the Doctor following close behind and closing the door.
"Jenny, I think we need to have a chat." The Doctor said once he set the Tardis in space.
"Yeah, I think we do." Jenny responded.
We took the hint and Susan, Amy, Cline, Jack and I left the council room, Jack and I took the long way to our bedroom and talked all the way, everyone else splitting up to do different things.
Next:
On the Fifth Day, The Earth Will Be at War.
On the Fourth Day, The Government Will Conspire.
On the Third Day, The Sky Will Burn.
On the Second Day, Our Defenses will Fall.
On the First Day, It Will Start... When Our Children Stop.
WE ARE COMING.