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This Is Where It Gets Complicated.
A record was playing on the turntable as we all entered the cafeteria room through the thick plastic strips.
"No way." Buzzer said.
"I don't — I don't believe this." Cleaves muttered.
"They could've escaped through the service door in the back." Jimmy said.
"This is just like the Isle of Sheppey." Buzzer told us. The Doctor sits at the table and looks at a house of cards. My ganger takes out a hair band seeming to have an idea and uses it to tie her hair up in a ponytail.
"The storm has animated your ganger's." The Doctor said also noticing my ganger.
"They've ransacked everything." Cleaves told him.
"Not ransacked, searched." My ganger said. The whole room practically just looked at her for a moment.
"Through our stuff?" Buzzer asked.
"Their stuff." The Doctor and I corrected.
"Searching for what?" Jimmy asked.
"Confirmation. They need to know their memories are real." The Doctor said.
"Oh, so they've got flaming memories now." Buzzer rudely said.
"They feel compelled to connect to their lives, yeah." The Doctor told him.
"Their stolen lives." Jimmy said.
"No, bequeathed. You gave them this. You poured in your personalities, emotions, traits, memories, secrets-everything. You gave them your lives. Human lives are amazing. Are you surprised they walked off with them?" The Doctor told them.
"I'll say it again-Isle of Sheppey. Ganger got an electric shock, toddled off, killed his operator, right there in his harness. I've seen the photos. This bloke's ear was-" Buzzer started.
"Even if this has actually happened, they can't remain stable without us plumbed into them-can they, boss?" Jimmy asked.
"I guess we'll find out." Cleaves said. I smile she got that right. Jennifer gasps and Rory is at her side.
"Are you okay? Do you need some water?" Rory asked. I suddenly remembered that the ganger Jennifer killed the real one. Rory, ends up getting us all locked up. About to be killed. But that's later.
"I feel funny. I need the washroom." Jennifer said.
"I'll come with you." Rory said following her. I mean really? He has Amy, although she does call him stupid a lot.
"Sorry." Dicken said after sneezing. The Doctor leaned forward studying the cards.
"That's me. It's good to have a hobby. So, what, my ganger did that, all on its own?" Buzzer asked.
"Who taught you to do this?" I asked.
"Me granddad." Buzzer answered.
"Well, your ganger's granddad taught him to do it, too. You both have the same childhood memories, just as clear, just as real." The Doctor explained.
"No." Buzzer said knocking the cards over.
"They're scared, disorientated, struggling to come to terms with an entire life in their heads." The Doctor said then he turned to my ganger. "Well the other ganger's are,
Sapphire's isn't." The Doctor goes to the microwave while the everyone else is gathered around the table.
"We need to protect ourselves." Jimmy said.
"Are you a violent man, Jimmy?" The Doctor asked.
"No." Jimmy answered.
"Then why would the other Jimmy be?" My ganger asked I sat next to her. This was the part the ganger's were thought to be 'evil' and 'going to kill them'.
"Don't tell me you can eat at a time like this, Doctor?" Cleaves asked.
"When we all caught up you told me that we were out cold for a few minutes, Cleaves, when, in fact, it was an hour." The Doctor said.
"Sorry, I just assumed-" She began.
"Well, it's not your fault. Like I said, they're disorientated. Amy, when you got to the alcoves, who was in harness?" The Doctor asked. The timer on the microwave goes off and the Doctor takes out the plate using a towel.
"Um, Jimmy and Dicken were helping Buzzer out." Amy answered.
"Jennifer?" The Doctor asked. My ganger and I looked at each other both knowing.
"She was standing on her own when we got to her." Amy said. The Doctor hands the plate to Cleaves and she holds it in her bare hand.
"It's hot." The Doctor said. Ganger Cleaves hisses and drops the plate which shatters on the floor.
"Ah." She tried to cover up.
"The transmatter's still a little rubbery." He said examining her hand. "The nerve endings are not quite fused properly."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Ganger Cleaves said pulling her hand away.
"It's okay." The Doctor said.
"Why didn't I feel that?" She asked.
"You will. You'll stabilize." The Doctor answered.
"No, stop it. You're playing stupid games. Stop it!" Cleaves turned her back on him and the rest of us.
"You don't have to hide. Please, trust me. I'm the Doctor." The Doctor said trying to get the ganger to turn. Ganger Cleaves turns on the Doctor with a hiss, her face in its half-formed state. Buzzer, being an idiot, grabs a knife from the table and heads towards her. Jimmy holds him back.
"Where's the real Cleaves, you thing? What have you done with her?" Buzzer shouted.
"That's it, good. You remember. This is early flesh, the early stages of the technology. So much... to learn." The Doctor said stopping for a second to touch her.
"Doctor, what's happened to her?" Amy asked.
"She can't stabilize-she's shifting between half-formed and full-formed. For now, at least." The Doctor answered.
"I'm stabilized then?" My ganger asked.
"I think so." The Doctor answered.
"We are living!" Ganger Cleaves said as she lunges at the Doctor with a growl then runs from the room screaming.
"Let her go." The Doctor told everyone.
"Doctor, Rory." Amy panicked.
"He went with Jennifer. To the 'washroom'." I told her.
"Oh, Rory. Rory! Always with the Rory!" The Doctor said.
Soon the Doctor, Amy, The two versions of myself and Jimmy exit one of the buildings to find our way blocked by acid on the ground.
"The explosion must've ruptured the acid feeds. We're going to need the acid suits." Jimmy said.
"No, no, no, we haven't got time. Back, back, back." The Doctor said. We go in the opposite direction. We enter the washroom too late they have left and there's a hole in one of the stall things.
"Rory!" Amy cried.
"Of course. Jennifer's a ganger, too." The Doctor said turning to double check with me. Both versions of me nodded.
"Yep." We said at the same time.
"Doctor, you said they wouldn't be violent." Amy said.
"But I did say they were scared, and angry." The Doctor said.
"And early technology, is what you said. You seem to know something about the flesh." Jimmy said.
"Do you? Doctor?" Amy asked. I looked at my ganger knowing that he did. Then we both turned to the not yet known Amy ganger.
"You're no weatherman. Why are you really here?" Jimmy asked.
"I have to talk to them. I can fix this." The Doctor said both me and Amy ran straight away after him my ganger glanced at Jimmy before running after us.
"Wait! What's going on? Where's the real Jennifer?" Jimmy asked.
We reach the top of a set of stairs and as we head down the tunnel, steam bursts from a pipe. There is also acid on the ground.
"It is too dangerous out here with acid leaks!" The Doctor said annoyed.
"We have to find Rory." Amy said.
"He will be fine Amy trust me this is one of the um, things I know about." I tried to say without having to explain to the people here.
"Yes, I'm going back to the TARDIS. Wait for me in the dining hall. I want us to keep together, okay? No more wandering off." The Doctor said.
"Doctor I can save you some time, the TARDIS is stuck in acid and you will just get your shoes burnt off." My ganger said quickly he groaned annoyed even more.
"And what about Rory?" Amy asked
"Well, She said he'll be fine, it would be safer to look for Rory and Jennifer with the TARDIS. But as Sapphire said, stuck in acid." The Doctor complained a little.
Later Rory runs into Amy and the two of me. The Doctor had left after the TARDIS anyway just to check.
"Amy!" Rory cried. Amy whirls around with a gasp and then sighs when she sees who it is.
"You're okay. What happened?" Amy asked. Amy walked towards Rory but stops when Ganger Jennifer steps out from behind him.
"She needs protecting." Rory said.
"Good on you Rory." My ganger said. Dicken and Buzzer find us.
"Jen?" Dicken asked
"No, it's a ganger. Rory, listen-" Amy began.
"No, you listen — nobody touches her!" Rory said.
Ganger Jennifer sits on one side of the table when we all enter the dining room, Rory stands beside her. Across from her are Buzzer, Jimmy and Dicken. Amy stands across from
Rory. Me and my ganger are a little further away leaning against a wall.
"Where's Jen? What have you done with her?" Buzzer asked.
"I haven't seen her. I swear. But, look, I'm her. I'm just like her. I'm real." Jennifer said.
"She kills her." My ganger whispered to me. I nodded.
"You wont kill me right?" I laughed a little.
"Course not." She replied. When we next pay attention Amy is speaking.
"Okay, let's not do anything at all" She said the Doctor enters the room and both of me go towards him stopping when the other ganger's enter the room.
"This is-" Jimmy began.
"You're telling me." The ganger Jimmy said.
"All right, Doctor, you've brought us together-now what?" Ganger Cleaves asked.
"Before we do anything, I have one very important question. Has anybody got a pair of shoes I could borrow? Size 10. Although I should warn you... I have very wide feet." The Doctor asked I rolled my eyes.
"We told you it was stuck and you'd get your shoes burned off." Both of me said at the same time.
"Yeah well, one of you tied your hair back and I still don't know which is which. You never said which was which afterwards." He laughed.
"Oh, I'm the real one." I said the ganger of me nodded fixing her ponytail.
"Ah, ok. See now I'll know.
Soon The Doctor is sitting on the edge of the table and he's now wearing brown boots. Amy stands behind him. Me and my ganger stand beside him. To one side are the Originals and on the other, the Ganger's. Ganger Jennifer just stands next to Rory.
"The flesh was never merely moss. These are not copies. The storm has hard-wired them. They are becoming people." The Doctor said.
"With souls?" Jimmy asked.
"Rubbish. Ah-choo!" Dicken sneezed.
"Bless you." Ganger Dicken said then Ganger Cleaves looked at him. "What?"
"We were all jelly, once. Little jelly eggs, sitting in goop." The Doctor said.
"Yeah, thanks. Too much information." Amy complained.
"Yeah, this isn't some sort of biology lesson." I laughed.
"We are not talking about an accident that needs to be mopped up. We are talking about sacred life. Do you understand? Good. Now, the TARDIS is trapped in an acid pool. Once I can reach her, I can get you all off this island, humans and ganger's, eh, how does that sound?" The Doctor explained.
"Can we get home for Adam's birthday?" Jimmy asked, oh yeah Jimmy was the one with a son.
"What about me? He's my son, too." Ganger Jimmy protested.
"You? You really think that?" Jimmy asked his ganger.
"I feel it." The Ganger replied.
"Oh, so you were there when he was born, were you?" Jimmy asked.
"Yeah. I drank about 8 pints of tea and they told me I had a wee boy and I just burst out laughing. No idea why. I miss home. As much as you." Ganger Jimmy said almost in a far away look.
"Look, I'm not going to lie to you. It's a right odd mess, this. But, as you might say up north, 'oh, well, I'll just go to t' foot of the stairs.' Ha ha ha. Eh, bye bye, gone. Or not. Good. Right. The first step is we get everyone together, then get everyone safe, then get everyone out of here." The Doctor said.
"But we're still missing Jennifer and Cleaves." Amy said.
"Not for long." Me and my ganger muttered.
"I'll go and look for them." Jimmy said.
"I'll give you a hand, if you like. Cover more ground." Ganger Jimmy joined the other Jimmy.
"Yeah. Okay. Thanks." With everyone watching both Jimmy's, they don't see the real Cleaves enter behind them.
"This circus has gone on long enough!" Cleaves shouted. There is a crackle of electricity from the device in her hand. Which I have forgotten what it was anyway. I moved in front of my ganger.
"Don't die on me." I whispered to my ganger. She laughed.
"I wont." My Ganger said.
"Oh, great. You see, that is just so typically me." The Ganger Cleaves said.
"Doctor, tell it to shut up." Cleaves said.
"Please, no. No! No!" The Doctor shouted.
"Circuit probe. Fires about, oh, 40,000 volts. It would kill any one of us, so I guess she'll work on ganger's, just the same." Cleaves said. That's what it was called...
"It's interesting you refer to them as "it," but you call a glorified cattle prod a 'she.'" The Doctor said.
"You call the TARDIS a 'she'." My ganger laughed.
"Yeah but she was actually in a human body for a while and was a woman so it doesn't count." I told her.
"Fair point." My ganger replied.
"When the real people are safely off this island, then I'll happily talk philosophy over a pint with you, Doctor." Cleaves said.
"What are you going to do to them?" Amy asked.
"Sorry, they're monsters, mistakes. They have to be destroyed." Cleaves said.
"Give me the probe, Cleaves." The Doctor said trying to take charge.
"We always have to take charge, don't we, Miranda? Even when we don't really know what the hell is going on." Ganger Cleaves said, I said she was Miranda earlier didn't I?
Ganger Buzzer charges at Cleaves and she fires at him three times. He falls to the ground. The Doctor ran over to him and knelt checking him.
"Stop! Oh! Ah! He's dead!" He said.
"We call it 'decommissioned.'" Someone said, I wasn't paying attention I was looking at my ganger. Just to see if she would join the ganger's side. Cleaves moved the probe around in the air and ganger Jennifer gasps and ducks when it is aimed in her direction.
"You stopped his heart. He had a heart! Aorta, valves a real, human heart! And you stopped it." The Doctor said annoyed at Cleaves. I walked forwards, she pointed the thing at me, she didn't know if I was a ganger or not.
"Put the weapon down." I said.
"No." She said still pointing it at me.
"I'm not the ganger and I wont let you hurt my ganger so just put it down now." I asked as Rory was busy being all love-y dove-y with Jennifer's ganger.
"What happened to Buzz will happen to us all, if we trust you!" Ganger Jennifer exclaimed.
"Wait, wait. Just wait." The Doctor said trying to get everyone to pay attention and get along. I noticed Cleaves not looking at me for the moment and swiped away the weapon, probe thing. The Ganger's take advantage of the situation and run from the room.
"You idiot!" Cleaves shouted.
"Wait!" The Doctor hopelessly called after the ganger's.
"Look at what you've done, Cleaves." the Doctor said.
"If it's war, then it's war. You don't get it, Doctor. How can you? It's us and them now. Us... And them." Miranda Cleaves said as she turned to Jimmy and Dickens.
"Us and them." Dickens agreed.
"Us and them." Jimmy sighed not really wanting to agree. The Doctor sighed, unhappy at the turn things have taken.
Soon Amy and RORY are kneeling on the floor having a whispered discussion as they cover up Ganger Buzzer. The real Buzzer, Jimmy and Cleaves are also having their own conversation. The Doctor, and me are having our own conversation with my ganger until he decides to ask Cleaves something.
"The most fortified and defendable room in the monastery? Cleaves! The most fortified and defendable room in the monastery?" He asked.
"The chapel." She answered.
"Thank you." The Doctor said.
"Only one way in, stone walls, 2 feet thick." Cleaves told him.
"You've crossed one hell of a line, Cleaves. You've killed one of them. They're coming back. In a big way." The Doctor said.
"And they have all the acid suits." my ganger complained.
We decide to look for Jennifer as we head to the safe room.
"What about the flares?" Jimmy asked.
"We'll worry about the flares when we're locked inside." The Doctor said.
"Great plan Doctor." My ganger laughs as she goes in the room the Doctor, Amy and Rory stop at the door while everyone else goes in. I stay as well.
"Rory Pond." The Doctor said trying to grab his attention. Rory hears Jennifer's scream and hesitates. Now she's dead, the real one is dead now, brilliant.
"Rory? Come on." Amy said confused almost jealous.
"Jen's out there. She's out there and she's on her own." Rory said heading after Jennifer.
"Well, if she's got any sense, then she's hiding. Rory!" The Doctor said urgently.
"I can't leave her out there!" Rory's voice travelled.
"Rory!" The Doctor shouted after him.
"Get in here. Get in here!" Amy shouted as the Ganger's appear at the end of the hallway and Rory is gone.
"There they are!" Cleaves shouts alerting us. I grab Amy's shoulders and start to drag her in.
"Amy, come on." The Doctor said. The Doctor helps and we get her inside.
"Rory!" Amy shouted. The Doctor slams the door while I held her in place. I turned to my ganger and when we let go we looked around at the shadows in the back of the room. We hardly notice anything that's going on. Trying to find movement of the ganger Doctor.
"Amy, Amy, they are not after him, they're after us." The Doctor said. From one of the dark corners the ganger Doctors voice comes.
"Why? Why?" I looked over at my ganger, and she had turned to me. Two Doctors...
"Show yourself. Show yourself!" The Doctor said clearly not getting it.
"Ah!" The Voice shouted in pain. Still trying to deal with the 900 years of knowledge and regenerations, no wonder it was quicker with mine. I only had what 18 years now? I arrived at 17 and there's the whole year with the Master making it 18 years... I also have been in the TARDIS for a few months it would have been my birthday... so my ganger only had one regeneration and 18 or 19 years to deal with...
The workers from this place are building a blockade against the door. The Doctor cautiously approaches the corner.
"Doctor!" Amy calls out. But the others keep asking her to help pass things over to block the doors.
"Doctor you remember what we said earlier?" Me and my ganger asked.
"This is insane! We're fighting ourselves." Jimmy shouted.
"Yes, it's insane and it's about to get even more insanerer." The three, meaning myself, The Doctor and my ganger all said at once.
"Is that a word?" The Doctor said to me, I shrugged before he turned back to his ganger in the shadows. "Show yourself! Right now!"
"Doctor! We are trapped in here and Rory is out there, with them. Hello! We can't get to the TARDIS and we can't even leave the island." Amy said panicking slightly. The Doctor's ganger speaks in his voice confusing anyone who doesn't know. Both versions of me smiled and the real Doctor looked at us confused.
"Correct, Pond. It's frightening, unexpected, frankly, a total, utter, splattering mess on the carpet, but I'm certain, 100% certain, that we can work this out." The ganger Doctor appears with the half formed face. "Trust me. I'm the Doctor." He said winking and fixing his bow-tie.
Me and my ganger look at each other about to laugh, it's funny, there seems to be a lot of episodes with multiple Doctors. There was the Meta-crisis, even Donna was part Doctor! But one thing's for certain, and I quote from the things that have been said before on this show... 'This is where it gets complicated'...
AAAAAND THERES THE END! Not the end of this whole story don't worry no nothing like that just the end of this chapter! XD
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