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Chapter Thirty Six- Nightmares
The Doctor, inside Mario's stomach, jumped into the TARDIS. Mario wasn't real. He couldn't be. He was just an empty shell on the inside. What was this? Why fake a Nintendo character?
The Doctor swung the doors shut behind him and ran over to the control panels.
"If Mario isn't real," The Doctor mused. "Then how did it pick me and the TARDIS up? Of course!" The Doctor punched the air. "I know what they are!" He grinned.
"Let's a kill!" Mario's voice echoed outside. Then, the Doctor remembered.
"Amy!" He quickly slammed down levers and pulled dials, but the TARDIS stayed in the same position. How was he meant to get out? The TARDIS could only move short distance, it could presumably fly out of Mario's mouth… But what if he closed it?
"I have to do this." The Doctor told himself. "For Amy's sake." The Doctor slammed down a lever and began pulling dials, and the ship slowly elevated through Mario's stomach. Mario's mouth slowly opened, and on the scanner the Doctor could see why. He was about to breathe out fire at Amy and the child. "NO!" The Doctor screamed as the fireball started to form. If they went through now the TARDIS would most likely burn.
"It's now or never." The Doctor said to himself. The TARDIS raced out of the mouth of Mario, and slumped to the floor sideways, narrowly missing Amy.
"Doctor!" Amy called with relief to see him again, and the TARDIS doors swung open to reveal a heavily breathing Doctor, smoke rising from the TARDIS.
"We need to…" The Doctor began. "Need to…" And the Doctor collapsed in a heap.
"Doctor!" Amy yelped, dropping the child quickly and burying her head in his body. "Don't die now raggedy man."
"Let's… a… Kill…" Mario was about to open fire when a Zygon ran towards it and fired rapidly. Mario vanished, and was replaced with a tall creature made up of huge yellow tendrils. Several reached out for the Zygon, but the Zygon fired again and the Mario creature died.
"Come with me if you want to live." The Zygon hissed.
"Help carry my friend!" Amy hissed back.
"No."
"WHAT?" Amy roared.
"He is the Doctor. He is vermin. Come over, and I will teleport you. You may bring your friend. But I will not help."
"Fine." Amy moaned as she dragged his heavy body over to the Zygon, a stunned child in tow. A bright light spat out of the teleport system, and they all vanished from the scene, leaving only the damaged TARDIS behind.
The Doctor, Amy, the child and the Zygon emerged in a room full of different alien species, all battered and most crying.
"What has happened here?" Amy asked.
"Our worst nightmares. They've become corporal." The Zygon replied sadly.
"How?"
"PHOBIANS!" The Doctor shouted as he woke, and everyone stared at him.
"Doctor!" Amy smiled in happiness.
"Phobians, creatures that latch onto the most negative parts of your minds and make them real! So the boy's was Mario's. We're about to be Phobian fodder."
"Phobians? As in phobia?"
"Exactly! Multi-phobia creatures!"
Then, the Doctor froze as new arrivals passed the window. They looked like upside down bins, but far more sinister.
Daleks.
"No!" The Doctor called as he ran towards the door.
"Doctor, no, it's just your nightmare!" Amy called to him. But he didn't listen. "DOCTOR!"
"DALEKS!" The Doctor shouted. "Guess who?"
"DOCTOR." The Daleks roared. They were all Drones, but dangerous all the same. "EXTERIMATE!"
"Don't touch him!" Amy called from directly behind the Doctor. Several Daleks fired at Amy, and she collapsed in a heap on the floor.
"No! Amelia! It didn't work! We didn't stop your clock! NO! I'm so sorry…" He whimpered.
"Don't be… I… I…"
"Amy?"
"Love…" And Amy died.
"NO!" The Doctor screamed as he buried his head into her chest. "NO! No!"
"EXTERMINATE!" A Dalek called, and the Doctor braced for impact… Then, several shots were fired and the Daleks vanished, the Doctor's head hitting the concrete as Amy vanished.
"Come." The Zygon grabbed his hand, and they both ran back to the building. The Doctor's eyes were welling up with tears, and he ended up sobbing into the sleeve of his jacket. Then, his eyes lit up as he saw Amy in the building. He raced towards her, scooped her up in his arms and sobbed into her.
"What's wrong, Doctor?" Amy asked.
"They showed me my worst nightmare…"
"What was it?"
"You… dying…"
"I physically CAN'T go anywhere now, you're stuck with me."
The Doctor suppressed more tears and let her go. "Never leave. In any shape or form."
"Never ever." Amy grinned.
"Miss, mister, Mario…" But before the child could finish, a giant white fist smashed through the side of the wall, and scooped up the Doctor, Amy and the child.
"It wants us… Why?" Amy found it hard to believe that whilst being scooped up by a giant Nintendo character, he could still ask questions like it was normal. Amy yelped as Mario transformed into it's natural Phobian form and wrapped it's tendrils around them.
"I thought Mario died!" The child squealed.
"It did, well, that one did. This is a different Phobian, still looking at your subconscious." The Doctor replied, then yelped as the creature ran at an incredible speed away from the building, back towards the TARDIS. It set them down near the now upright TARDIS, and spat out several tendrils, fixating them to the back of the TARDIS.
"Big mistake, mate. Never trap me next to my own TARDIS." The Doctor replied coldly.
"This is the back. The doors are at the front." The creature hissed.
"Did anyone ever tell you there's a back door?" The Doctor grinned, before kicking in the doors, Amy, the child and the Doctor falling backwards into the Doctor's room. "See you soon!" The Doctor called, before shutting the doors. "Right, Amy, person, my plan is that we need to get to the console room, and think of a plan there." Amy rolled her eyes, and the Doctor grinned. "Yeah, pretty two dimensional, but there you go." The Doctor winced as a fist hit the door, not denting it but the noise sounded like it had hit straight through the door. "Sorry, TARDIS. Don't worry, I'll paint that door again as soon as I can."
"This is bigger on the inside!" The child breathed.
"Yes! Some enthusiasm!" The Doctor high-fived the child.
"Doctor…" Amy began.
"Amelia? What's up?" The Doctor asked.
"You saw a TARDIS, didn't you? With Craig?"
"Yup."
"Another TARDIS. And before, you saw the Pandorica open. And billions of races come, I was there when we found out they were coming. But what I don't get is why you don't care? It was another TARDIS! And billions of aliens! And you care more about a Phobian?"
"I'll explain soon… Aargh!" The Doctor screamed as the door finally dented, hitting the Doctor's back and rendering him unconscious.
"We have to leave him miss!" The child called as Amy stared at his body.
"No. I'll carry him." Amy bent down and picked him up like he had picked her up many times before, except Amy was straining because of his abnormal Time Lord weight. Amy walked as fast as she could down the corridors towards the console room, breathing heavily under the strain. She kicked open the doors and scrambled down the stairs, dropping him carefully on the sofa chair.
"What do we do now, miss?" The child asked.
"We think of a plan." Amy replied. "We… We need to stop the Phobians. But how?"
"Guns?"
"No. Never guns. We… we need to make everyone less afraid, we need to make them latch onto something that they love the most?"
"Like what?"
"Well, for me and the Doctor eachother, for you your mother?"
"I don't have one anymore." The child whispered.
"I'm sorry. What do you love the most?"
"This place. I have no family, all I have left to latch onto is this place."
"The TARDIS then for you. We need to send a signal, and we all need to think of our loved ones. How can we send a signal?"
"Can the box do it?"
"The TARDIS? Can you old girl?" Woah, Amy thought. I'm starting to sound like him.
Absolutely, Amy. And James. The TARDIS replied telepathically, and Amy and the child jumped.
"It spoke… The box spoke! And it knew my name!" James exclaimed in awe.
Absolutely. I can have a psychic connection with anyone in my inner shell now. The Doctor saw to that.
"Good old Doctor!" Amy grinned, then remembered his state. She quickly lost her happy expression.
Talk into the typewriter. I will broadcast it to the whole planet.
"How?" Amy asked.
As the Doctor says, I'm going to do a 'thing'.
Amy laughed, before walking up to the typewriter and bending down so her lips were almost touching the cold metal machine. "Hellooo, Amy here! Now listen, I need you all to think of the things you love most, hold onto them! Forget your nightmares for a minute, all of you! Think of what you love!" Amy thought about her raggedy Doctor, how he had fallen out of the sky, how they had fought Weeping Angels, Dream Lords and Omega, how they had fallen in love. James thought of the beautiful ship he had only just found, the way it slowly hummed and the central console, covered in retro gadgets. The ship shook, but Amy and James forced themselves to keep thinking of their closest feelings to true happiness. The TARDIS shook one final time, and the creatures vanished, starved of their food.
You can stop now. They have gone.
Amy grinned, and she pecked the Doctor's forehead. She slowly rubbed his cheek, beautiful memories with him in still fresh in her mind. The Doctor's eyes fluttered open, and she grinned.
"Hey, you." She smiled.
"Hey, Pond. The Phobians…"
"I saved the planet. Me and James."
"Good. Good good. My Amelia Pond!" He grinned, kissing her lightly, but still pouring all of his emotions into it. The Doctor then turned his attention to the child, who was staring in awe at the console. "Hello."
"Hello, sir." James smiled as he turned to him.
"I promised Amy here when she was seven that I'd come back for her in five minutes. I don't see any reason I have to leave you at all."
"You mean… I can travel here?" James' smile broadened.
"Of course." The Doctor beamed.
"You'll be like my parents!" James beamed, and Amy raised an eyebrow, watching the Doctor. The Doctor was lost for words. He hadn't had any children… since Jenny.
"Yes. Yes, I suppose we will be." The Doctor smiled.
Later, after James had been introduced to a bedroom, Amy and the Doctor were in the console room.
"We should go back for Jack soon." The Doctor decided.
"Yep. Why don't you care about the TARDIS and all the Pandorica stuff?"
"Um…"
"The truth, now."
The Doctor dug into his pocket and brought out a folded piece of paper, tattered but still readable. "It was like a message in a bottle. I found it in a crack back in the caverns, along with a small bit of the TARDIS. It was like getting a sneak peek at River's diary. I couldn't resist."
"What does it say?"
"Everything. And more. It says about something called Trenzalore, and the fall of the eleventh, whatever that means."
But he knew exactly what it means. Of course he did. He was the eleventh.
And the fall equals regeneration.