When we reached the great stone structure we dismounted and made our way inside it. The Doctor circled around taking the whole thing in and sonicing everything. River began to press buttons and I leaned down and touched the earth below me. I tried to feel something, anything, but my head hurt too much and so I gave up.

"How come it's not new?" I smiled at Amy. She was always asking questions,

"Because it's already old. Been here thousands of years. No-one knows exactly how long."

"Twenty thousand years, five months and two days." River gave me a surprised look and the Doctor grinned, "I'm not young you know. Born only four years after this place was built. But I do not know who built it either." The Doctor laughed,

"You are cheeky today you know?" I shrugged,

"Okay, what is this Pandorica thing? Last time we saw you, or rather last time the Doctor and I saw you, you warned us about it, after we climbed out of the Byzantium."

"Spoilers!" she held up her finer to her lips,

"No, but you told the Doctor you'd see him again when the Pandorica opens…" Amy's face revealed shock, "Then you said that he needed the help of stars! That was the Phoenix!" The Doctor stopped for a moment and looked at us,

"Why didn't I think of that before?" I rolled my eyes and smirked.

"Maybe I did. But I haven't yet. But I will have. Doctor, I'm picking up fry particles everywhere." The Doctor checked his screw driver, "Energy weapons discharged on his site." The Doctor jumped up on a rock,

"If the Pandorica is here, it contains the mightiest warrior in history. Now, half the galaxy would want a piece of that. Maybe even fight over it." he got down and pressed his ear to the rock. "We need to get down there." Amy gave me look that was filled with worry. I squeezed her shoulder before going over and sitting on the ground with my back against the rock. The cool air felt good and I shut my eyes. Before I knew it I was asleep.

When I woke again I found that I was lying on the ground and that the Doctor's jacket was laid over me like a blanket. There were lights set up surrounding the perimeter and the Doctor, Amy, and River were standing in the middle. I stood up and stretched before heading over to them. I handed the Doctor his jacket then kissed his cheek,

"Thank you." He smiled at me before River spoke,

"Right then…ready." She pressed a button and a low clanking sound was heard. I looked at the Doctor who only looked at the huge rock that was emanating the sound. The sound was like the turning of gears and cogs. Slowly the rock slid to its right reveling a staircase that lead down into the earth. We all took a few steps closer to the hole in the earth. River shown her light down into it while the Doctor sighed,

"The underhenge." I shook my head. He pulled out his screwdriver and soniced it as he walked down the stairs with me behind him followed by Amy then River. He looked around the room before heading to his right where he soniced a torch and lit it. He lit Rivers torch with his and then we could see that there was a massive door in front of us. The Doctor lifted the piece of wood that was laid across it and it fell to the floor. I stood in front of the doors while the Doctor stood to my right and River to my left. He looked at each of us before he looked at Amy. He ginned with excitement before we pushed the doors open. When we opened them an old dull room was revealed with a big stone box with markings along the exterior. My heart sped up. Fear was coursing through me but I didn't know why. I felt like I had seen this before but I didn't where. Surely I would have remembered this. "It's a Pandorica."

"More than just a fairy tale." He looked at River with disbelief who smirked at him. He moved closer to it but stopped when he stepped on something metal. We looked down and my eyes widened at the sight. It was a robotic arm. And it belonged to a Cyberman. He gave me a concerned look before continuing towards the box. He put his hand on the box,

"There was a goblin, or a trickster or warrior," The happiness and energy that was always present in his voice was replaced by a seriousness and warning that I had never heard before, "A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos." He ran his hands down the intricate designs of the box, "And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world." Amy stepped closer,

"How did it end up in there?"

"You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it."

"I hate good wizards in fairy tales. They always turn out to be him." I laughed. It was true. He was usually always the good wizard. She handed Amy her torch and went up to the box with her scanner. Amy held the torch and shook a bit,

"So it's kind of Pandora's Box, then? Almost the same name."

"Sorry, what?"

"The story. Pandora's Box, with all the worst things in the world in it." Amy was starting to get more comfortable and her sarcasm came back full swing. "That as my favorite book when I was a kid." The Doctor stopped sonicing the box and walked over to us with a very concerned look, "What's wrong?"

"Your favorite school topic, your favorite story. Never ignore a coincidence, unless you're busy. In which case, always ignore a coincidence."

"So can you open it?" River was just as curious as he was and so was Amy. But I wasn't. I hadn't even gone near it yet.

"Easily. Anyone can break into a prison. But I'd rather know what I'm going find first." River's communicator started to make a lot of noise,

"You won't have long to wait. It's already opening." My heart was pounding so hard I thought my ribcage was going to bruise, "There are layers and layers of security protocol in there, and they're being disabled, one by one. Like it's being unlocked from the inside." River pressed her ear to the box,

"How long do we have?"

"Phoenix…" I whipped my head around but saw nothing.

"Hours at the most."

"Phoenix…" I heard that voice before. I knew I had. But where?

"What kind of security?"

"Phoenix." My pounding even harder now if that were possible.

"Everything. Deadlocks, time-stops, matter-lines."

"What could need all that?"

"Phoenix!" Where was it coming from? I looked toward the box and I felt something dark grow in my heart I began to back up slowly towards the wall.

"What could get past all that?" Is shut my eyes and forced myself to focus. Then the voice fell silent. I opened my eyes to find Amy was wondering the room and glanced at me. I remained silent my eyes glued to the box and I'm sure that the fear was very evident in my eyes. "Think of the fear that wet into making this box. Amy whipped around and my attention was drawn towards here, "What could inspire that level of fear?" Amy shook it off and headed towards me while the Doctor put his hands on the box, "Hello you…have we met?" Amy was beside me now and simply stared at me. River's device was beeping again,

"So why would it start to open now?"

"No idea." Amy turned to them,

"And how could Vincent have know about it? He won't even be born for centuries." The Doctor walked away from the box and soniced everything around him,

"The stones! These stones are great big transmitters, broadcasting a warning to everyone, everywhere, to every time zone. The Pandorica is opening!"

"Doctor- everyone, everywhere?"

"Even poor Vincent heard it in his dreams. But what's in there, what could justify all this?"

"Doctor, everyone?"

"Anything that powerful, I'd know about it. Why don't I know?" The Doctor turned to face me. I hadn't moved from the wall. I was paralyzed by my own fear.

"Doctor, you said everyone could hear it. So who else is coming?" The Doctor stopped and turned to them.

"Oh." Amy paled a bit,

"Oh? Oh, what?" river's face showed fear but not as much as the fear that was forever growing in me. She ran around the room with her scanner and pressed it to every stone,

"Ok, if it is basically a transmitter, we should be able to fold back the signal"

"Doing it." The Doctor ran around the room but Amy was still confused,

"Doing what?" River answered her since the Doctor was too busy sonicing everything,

"Stonehenge is transmitting, it's been transmitting for a while… so who heard?" once the Doctor was done he headed toward me,

"Ok, should be feeding back to you now. River, what's out there? Getting anything?" He came over to me and had fear in his eyes as well. He pressed his finger to my neck and my pulse was racing. He took my face and looked into my eyes and assuming my the worried look on his face they were probably dilated,

"Give me a moment."

"River, quickly, anything?"

"Around this planet, there are at least ten thousand starships." Amy scoffed,

"At least?"

"Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, one million, I don't know. There's too many readings."

"What kind of starships?" The Doctor pulled my hand and headed toward them. I pulled away. He gave me a confused look but headed back towards the others. But new voices filled the air. Ones of ancient foes,

"MAINTAINING ORBIT."

"I OBEY."

"SHIELD COVER COMPROMISED ON ION SECTORS."

Amy was the first to recover from the shock, "Daleks. Those are Daleks.

"SCAN DETECTS NO TEMPORAL ACTIVITY."

"SOFT GRID SCAN COMMENCING."

"REVERSE THROUST FOR COMPENSATORY STABILISATION." Then it was River who recovered,

"Daleks, Doctor." The Doctor looked at me and the fear in his eyes matched my own now. I was less worried about the box now and ran to the Doctor and gripped his hand in my own. He held it tightly.

"LAUNCH PRELIMINARY ARMEMENTS PROTOCOL." The Doctor was the last to recover,

"Yes, Ok. Ok, ok, ok. Dalek fleet." He let go and started pacing, "Minimum, twelve thousand battleships, armed to the teeth. Ahhh! But we've got surprise on our side! They'll never expect four people to attack twelve thousand Dalek battleships. Cos we'd be killed instantly. So it would be a fairly short surprise." He hit himself in the head with his screwdriver, "Forget surprise." Amy was scarred and rightfully so. But River just added to the fear,

"Doctor, Cyber-ships."

"No, Dalek ships, listen to them, those are Dalek ships."

"Yes. Dalek ship and Cyberships." The voices were mixed and it was hard to distinguish between the two,

"Well, we need to start a fight, turn them on each other. That's easy. It's the Daleks- they're so cross…"

"Sontaran. Four battle fleets." This was not going to end well."

"Sontarans! Talk about cross, who stole all their handbags?"

"Terileptil. Slitheen. Chelonian. Nestene. Drahvin. Sycorax. Haemo-goth. Zygon. Atraxi. Draconian." The Doctor came back to me and stared into my eyes. I could see that he was scared, but not for himself. No. He was scared for his friends. He didn't want to loose us in a bloody battle. He turned towards the Pandorica, "They're all here. For the Pandorica."

"What are you? What could you possibly be? He touched the box again just as we heard the ships up above. The Doctor took off running with me and the others behind him. When we got outside we saw ships flying about the place. Amy's face showed so much fear,

"What do we do?" River looked towards the Doctor,

"Doctor, listen to me! Everything that ever hated you is coming here tonight. You can't win this. You can't even fight it. Doctor, this once, just this one time, please, you have to run." Her voice was filled worry and her plead was sincere.

"Run where?" She shot back,

"Fight how?" He pulled out his binoculars,

"The greatest military machine in the history of the universe."

"What is?" Amy hadn't caught one yet.

"The Daleks." River hadn't either,

"No. No, no, no, no." I smiled and he looked at me,

"The Romans."