And we're back with Pilot's pov
"Whoa!" the Captain exclaimed and slammed the Tardis door shut as quickly as she had opened it.
"What?" I questioned concernedly.
"There's a weeping angel out there!" she answered.
"Great," I said sarcastically. "So it's gonna be one of those days."
I jumped as there was a knock from the other side of the door. "It's okay, you guys can come out now." Emily's muffled voice said through the door.
I shrugged and we hesitantly stepped out of the Tardis. I closed and locked the door in an instant. I warily eyed the weeping angel and stuck my tongue out at it's snarling face.
"It's fine I got a dalek on it," Emily said. I glance over at the dalek which had it's eyestalk fixed on the angel. "Daleks don't have to blink very often."
I turned to Emily and blinked a bit. She was in full dalek getup. She still wore her crown which had a glowing dalek eye thing embedded in it. Now she wore black boots and tights with a short-ish skirt that rows of gold circles. She had a gold vertically striped shirt under a black leather jacket. She also had her own dalek whisk gun strapped to her belt. I could tell the Captain was trying to hold in her laughter and she was doing better at it than me.
"What?" Emily questioned.
"Nothing, I've just, never seen you in a skirt before," the Captain answered.
"That and you look like you're at comic-con," I added under my breath. The Captain and I burst out laughing and Emily joined us. We stopped when another angel showed up behind us.
"Fluffles number 09 report to floor 6!" Emily ordered into a com-link. Soon enough a dalek glided over and took over the statue staring contest for us. I let out a small sigh and turned back to Emily.
"What happened to your arm?" she asked.
"What? Oh uh fractured, I'm fine," I'd forgotten about that. "Anyways, weeping angels! Great."
"Yeah they just kinda, appeared," Emily explained. "It was a bit hectic at first since my daleks starting shooting them which doesn't help by the way."
"So you need our help?" the Captain inferred.
"What? No," Emily answered simply. We both gave her a look. "I've been assigning daleks to angels all morning. I'm not sure how to get rid of them but we'll figure it out. Come on gimme some credit here, this is a dalek empire we can handle a few statues."
I raised an eyebrow, "Then why'd you call us?"
"Angels, sure. But this is more of your area," she said as she walked off. We followed her to the elevator where she took us to her throne room. She led us to an angel nearer to the throne. "Ya see?" she asked as she wrapped her arms around the dalek that was watching it and rested her chin on it's head.
"What?" I questioned.
"There," she pointed to the fob watch hanging from the angels neck.
"Oh!" the Captain and I said in sync which made us exchange a childish glance.
"Great minds think alike," Cap said with a smile.
"Foolish minds seldom differ," I finished.
Emily rolled her eyes, "Why do you guys always say that?"
"Cuz it's cool, we're cool!" I answered childishly.
"Mama!" a higher pitched robotic voice called. "Scans detect two timelords have entered the atmosphere as well as their time travel technology!"
"Riboflavin they are literally right next to you!" Emily said with a sigh. I looked down at a dalek that was only a little taller than Tinny. His eyestalk rotated between Emily and us.
"Ooh he's so cute!" the Captain said in a high pitched voice. She leaned down to hug him but Emily swooped him up first.
"No!" she said firmly. "He's mine!" her voice turned soft as she pet him. "Ain't that right, Ribo? Only Mommy hugs you, not the mean timelord."
"Yes. Do you want me to exterminate them?" he asked.
"NO! I mean, no they're our friends," she explained.
I laughed to myself. I looked around at Emily's empire. She had speakers all over the place, probably for Beatles and Green Day. There was a drum set and some other percussion stuff to the right and a bunch of bird cages hung around her throne which probably contained parakeets. Yup, she was still Emily.
"So yeah, that angel is a timelord, thought you'd wanna know," Emily said.
"Yup, thanks," the Captain answered. We stood there for a while staring at it.
"Um, . . So are you gonna get it or not?" Emily asked after a while.
"Yeah, yeah," the Captain spoke up and I silently let out a sigh. "The Pilot is."
"What!" I said in surprise. "No it's your turn!"
"We don't take turns," she argued.
"Well now we do," I answered
"Alright well I got the last one that was a weeping angel," the Captain countered.
"I got my arm broken for the last one," I shot back.
"Alright, fine, you know what," she held out her hand and stacked her fist on top of it.
"What, seriously?" I questioned. She gave me a look and I held out my hands the same way. I raised my fist and lowered it back to my hand three times and held my hand out flat. She had thrown scissors which she gladly cut my paper with.
"Oh!" she exclaimed triumphantly.
"No, shut up, shut up, two out of three!" I demanded. We played again and I held out my fist and she covered it with her hand.
"Have fun," she smirked.
"Come on, how does that even work?" I complained. "A rock could totally destroy a sheet of paper!"
"I didn't make the game," she said giving me a small push towards the angel.
"Well who ever did has a poor sense of logic, paper can't beat anything," I muttered to myself. I slowly crouched under the weeping angel's raised arm and slipped between it and the dalek watch dog. I slowly stood up while twisting around the angel's wing while eying the angels behind it. I held my breath as I gingerly grabbed hold of the chain without touching the stone. I lifted my arms higher and twisted the chain in my fingers until the watch was clear of the angel. I ducked under it's other wing and, for the heck of it, did a tumbler roll and jumped to my feet. I let out a breath. "Whoo! I'm a ninja!" I cheered. The Captain laughed and Emily rolled her eyes again.
"Alright kid, time to wake up," I whispered as I opened the watch in the direction of the statue. The cloud of swirling gold light trailed out of the watch and engulfed the angel. It vanished leaving a small boy with dark hair wearing grey jeans and t-shirt. His eyes widened at the dalek and when he turned and saw the weeping angel he whimpered.
"Hey buddy it's okay, they're not gonna hurt you just come towards me, okay?" I said softly. He ran over and hugged me. "Oh, okay." I said with a shrug.
"Aww, he's cute! Are they all like that?" Emily exclaimed.
"Ask Sarah," the Captain answered, she crouched down, "Hey, you gotta name?" He shook his head. She looked up at me, "You wanna take this one?"
"Heck yeah!" I knelt down so I was at eye level with the kid. "Hey, I'm gonna call you Castiel, okay?" He nodded.
"Wait, you guys just name them whatever you want?" Emily questioned. We nodded. "Isn't that from that show you watch? What other names do you have? Clark Kent? Who wants to be named after a character?"
"It's temporary," Cap defended.
"You're one to talk, Fluffles, Riboflavin?" I pointed out with a laugh.
"Hey you try naming a whole planet of robots!" she countered. We all laughed again. Cap and I each took one of Castiel's hands as we followed Emily back to the elevator. As it took us back to the floor we'd left the Tardis I noticed Cas eying Riboflavin cautiously. "It's okay," Emily said sweetly. "He looks kinda scary but he's just like a big teddy bear!"
Cas gave Ribo a small wave as we walked out to the Tardis.
"You sure you'll be okay?" Cap asked. I looked around at the room full of stone angels being stared down by an army of daleks.
"We're fine," Emily insisted.
"It was good to see you again," I said and grabbed her in a hug. Cap was next.
"Good luck!" she smiled.
"Have fun ruling the planet," I answered as we walked back into the Tardis. I let out a sigh, "Do you realize how awesome it is that the ruler of the most evil and deadly race ever to walk the universe happens to be our old eighth grade friend." I pulled a few levers and set the Tardis drifting in the vortex.
"Yeah," the Captain agreed. "If it wasn't for her we'd be dead a few times over and our entire planet would be endangered again. Not to mention there'd be armies of daleks conquering the universe."
"Another one!" Sarah said with a sigh as Angel ran over for the usual hug.
"This is Castiel," I said. "He was a weeping angel just like you."
"Really? Hi," Angel said with a small wave and a smile. Cas waved back and turned a little red.
"I so ship them!" Sarah whispered which made us laugh.
"Hey Cas, you hungry?" I asked, He nodded. "Alright let's go." I led him to the kitchen and Angel tagged along. I made him some oatmeal and poured myself some Cheerios. I sat across from him as we ate and made some faces which he giggled at. The Captain came in holding a crying Cyrus and got some formula from the fridge.
"What if it turns out Cy is actually your long lost little cousin," I put out there sort of jokingly.
Cap sighed and looked down at him as he cuddled up in her arms, "Well, that would explain a few things."
I snuck the peanut butter cookies out of the new hiding spot and passed them out. I started the dishwasher and wiped down the counter.
I glanced at my watch, "Alright. time for bed."
We walked down the hall and helped Sarah finish up getting the kids to bed. We found an empty hammock for Cas after Sarah read them a few picture books. I found a sharpie and got Cas to sign my cast.
"Welcome to the family Castiel," I whispered. "Good night everyone."
"Sweet dreams," the Captain whispered.
"And stay in bed," Sarah added as she flicked off the light and closed the door behind us. "Alright, I'm going to bed, wake me in a week." she reported and walked down another hall. The Captain wandered off, probably going to the library. I wandered the halls a bit myself. It's weird how some nights you're really tired but you can't fall asleep at all. I ended up in the planetarium for a while looking at familiar or new star systems. I walked back into the control room and ran my hand along the rail as I slowly circled the console a few times. I took the winding staircase to the lower part and sat in the swing-ish thing hanging from the ceiling. I rocked back and forth a bit and closed my eyes, I drifted off listening to the hum of the engines.