New chapter for you! :) Just to clear things up for you, Alice, Aria and Rory have been in the Stormcage for 12 years. Alice is now 18 and Aria is 14. This is set roughly May-ish time between the girls birthdays, Alice's birthday is the 21st March and Aria's is the 29th June. So Alice has just turned 18 and Aria is about to turn 15. i know this detail is pretty irrelevant but I thought it to be important. Any hoo, on with the story! Thank you sooooo much for all the reviews they are much apreciated and a great incentive to continue writing, blah, blah, blah...
"Who's exactly coming to get us?" Rory asked jogging slightly to keep up with the Doctor's fast pace.
"Very good question, so good I can't actually answer it." The Doctor said darting around the corridor, searching for a way out. Rory chuckled and rolled his eyes.
"Something's never change." Rory joked. Amy whacked him on the arm. Her eyes widened in shock as she realised what she'd done.
"I'm so sorry." Amy said hand over her mouth. Rory simply smiled in response.
"Just like old times eh! " Rory said.
"Yeah." Amy said and chuckled nervously.
They both caught up with the Doctor who had run further down the corridor. "Finally, the exit. I swear they've made this door impossible to find." The Doctor said jogging over to the doors that clearly said `EXIT` above it.
"Well this is a prison, or soon to be prison. What did you expect?" Amy said, slightly breathless. Rory was also slightly out of breath. They trio may now all be Timelords but the Doctor had the muscular endurance of an athlete.
"Good point. Come along Pond." The Doctor said and opened the door.
On the other side was a person the Doctor honestly didn't expect to see. They hadn't exactly seen each other last in the best of terms.
"Jack?"
Alice landed very awkwardly on the glass floor. Aria landed next to her in the same awkward position. "Ah, girls. So nice of you to join us!" The Madams voice jested. Neither of the girls thought the remark deserved a response. They both got to their feet and brushed themselves down, neither of them catching the others eye. It was then they realised where they were. They were home and it hadn't changed at all since that left.
"Now girls, you know what you must do!" The Madam said breaking the girl's train of thought.
"What do you want to gain from this? The entire universe will be destroyed, including yourselves. You're crazy!" Alice exclaimed, shouting to the booming voice of the Madam.
"Me crazy? Well dear it took you a while to figure that one out. And what will we gain? Well I think you little sister can answer that." The Madam said, her insanity becoming more evident as she said each word. Alice turned to her sister in disbelief.
"Silence will fall." Aria said in her monotone voice, the voice she had when she said a mantra that the Madam had forcibly ingrained in her from childhood.
"Aria you don't seriously believe that?" Alice asked, shocked at her sisters response.
"Silence will fall." Aria repeated, her gaze falling to the ground, her tone this time more of a question than a mantra.
"Aria, you've got to listen to me. I know you annoyed with the Doctor and Amy and believe me I am too. But this isn't the answer." This time Alice received no response out of her younger sibling. "Aria please." Alice begged.
"Alice dear, it doesn't matter if you get you sister to change her mind. You still have to do it, because of the simple fact that this is a fixed point in space and time. It has to happen dear, whether you like it or not!" Kovarian spat. Alice features instantly dropped. Her belief that maybe she could stop this extinguished and she could see no other way out of this.
This is when she felt something. Something inside her mind. Something she hadn't felt in a very long time. It was the Tardis and oh how she had missed her girls.
Alice welcomed the presence, recognising that it was the Tardis. Aria on the other hand was terrified, her memories of life before the Stormcage were much less vivid than Alice's and the Tardis telepathic presence was almost completely alien to her.
The Tardis showered the girls (as much as she could) with love and understanding. Urging them to continue to do what they are being told. As the Tardis in all her magnificence knew that the Kovarian woman is correct. Herself exploding is a fixed point, but that doesn't mean it can't be saved.
"What am I to do Madam?" Alice resigned glumly.
"Excellent you have seen sense. No doubt the Tardis matrix has reformed its pilot bond with you. All you need to do is widen it. Make it bigger and then punch holes in it. Ruin its defences. Let it become weak and prone to damage." The Madam said, her pace increasing with every word, her voice straining and her insanity becoming more and more prominent.
Alice hand curled into a fist as the Madam spoke. How dare she call the Tardis it! The Tardis is a she, a living being or consciousness or whatever! Not an it! But she held her tongue. "Yes Madam." Alice said with gritted teeth.
"Excellent, now Aria dear, once your sister is done you must pilot the machine into the supernova. It'll cause it to explode." The Madam finished.
"Yes Madam." Aria replied in a dreary tone. Then silence fell.
Alice could feel the Tardis tug on her mind and she let herself be enveloped by it. She was amazed. She could feel the link, it was huge. Like a tunnel in her mind that connected her to the Tardis. But its walls were weak, bubbles in fact. Alice seemed to appear at them (she had no memory of walking over to it) and she lifted her finger and prodded one of the bubbles. It burst with a comical pop and a small hole formed in the side of the tunnel. Alice giggled at the sound. For someone who had been robbed of their childhood, the simplest things could be funny.
She hesitated at popping another bubble, as she realised what she was doing. Each bubble she popped caused the Tardis mental defences to weaken. But in her doubt she felt a small nudge from behind her causing her finger to jolt and pop the bubble. She turned to find a young woman standing behind her and childish grin on her face. Alice opened her mouth to say something but before she could the woman exploded into a cloud of gold dust, starting the bubbles to pop in a chain reaction. The tunnel slowly disappeared, as the popping continued until all but one remained. The last bubble floated freely in front of Alice's face. She reached out her hand and popped it and instantly Alice found herself back in the Tardis next to Aria.
Aria bounded up to the console and ran her fingers along its surface. It was time.
"Doctor!" Jack exclaimed pulling the very confused Timelord into a bear hug. "Amy, Rory! Good to see you!" Jack continued. The Doctor staggered out of the hug, deeply confused.
"Err... not to be rude but...who are you?" Amy asked her brow knitted in confusion. Jack's grin faltered a little.
"She might have mentioned this may happen." Jack said.
"Who? Who mentioned what?" The Doctor asked impatiently.
"Wow, calm down. Patients is a virtue. God you're annoying young. Anyway hand on, better be going." Jack said holding up his wrist, a now working Vortex Manipulator sat upon it. He got 3 blank looks.
"Going where?" Rory asked taking a step towards the Captain.
"Well unless you 3 plan on waiting for the next 2000 years, I'd suggest you hold on." Jack said one eyebrow raised. They all cautiously raised their hands and placed it on the vortex manipulator. They disappeared in a technological crack and flash.
Alice and Aria held on for dear life as the Tardis jolted in flight, trying to reach it's destination of a supernova. "Alice, I wanted to tell you something!" Aria yelled as sparks flew from the Tardis console.
"What?" Alice yelled back, her arm wrapped around one of the railings as her body was flopped around like a rag doll.
"I'm..." Aria yelled, another explosion from the console drowned her out.
"What?" Alice responded.
"I'm sorry!" Aria yelled. Then they were both engulfed by the white light.
Okay, you now know who gave them a lift! None other than Captain Jack Harkness. Yes he will be coming back, but the question is who sent him? First for reviews blah, blah, blah, spoiler, etc. etc. etc... You know the score! :) x
