Rose's mouth fell open as a TARDIS materialized into thin air. It spun around in place before moving forward… and hitting Calcon in the back of the head. 10 was, luckily, already on the ground, as Calcon had been threatening him with a gun. Rose cried out in surprise, and jumped backwards, colliding with Maria. This sent them both sprawling onto the floor.
Several green men dove to the floor to avoid the TARDIS spinning above their heads. Rory, River, Donna, and 11 hit the floor. It looked as if the bottom of the blue box brushed the top of River's hair.
The TARDIS landed on the floor with a thunk, barely a foot away from the TARDIS Rose, 10, and Maria had come out of.
There was a moment of silence, in which Rose was too shocked to get up. She saw Donna hurry over to 10, helping him away from the unconscious form of Calcon.
After a few minutes, the doors opened, and a few faces, some familiar, peered out.
Several things happened at once.
The TARDIS pitched to the side once again, sending Amy spiraling across the room. She landed on the grated ground, barely avoiding colliding with the coral (she was grateful for that but that didn't stop her from angrily shouting out as she landed). She groaned as she slowly sat up.
"Doctor," she mumbled. "Learn how to control this blasted machine!"
"I can!" countered the Doctor ("No you can't," Martha, who landed next to Amy, grumbled). Amy turned towards his voice and burst out laughing; the Doctor glared at her, his head stuck through one of the holes in the coral. Martha glanced in the direction Amy was and was suddenly struggling to suppress a giggle. The Doctor scowled at her as Martha went to help a slightly dazed Sarah Jane to her feet. Sarah Jane was quick to notice the Doctor, and covered her mouth.
"Oh, Doctor," she said with a large grin, a hint of laughter in her voice.
"Knock off the laughter!" growled the Doctor, attempting to get his head unstuck.
"Stop laughing at what?" Mickey asked from nearby, pulling himself to his feet. He froze for a second and began laughing.
"Shut it, Mickey the Idiot!" the Doctor hissed. Mickey raised his eyebrows.
"Oh, I'm the idiot?" he replied. "This coming from the man with his melon head stuck in coral!" This Mickey a death stare. Amy, however, tilted her head to the side.
"His head does look a bit like a melon..."
She and Martha exchanged glances and burst out laughing. The Doctor's anger seemed close to boiling over. "Just get me the hell out of this thing!" he shouted.
After a few amusing minutes of tugging on his 'melon head' as Mickey had so delicately put it, they got the Doctor free, who grumpily smoothed out his jacket once he was on his feet. He tried to get their attention away from his mishap (and failing, as the girls and Mickey kept laughing about it) by asking aloud what was laying outside that door.
"Let's find out," Sarah Jane said, a smile still on her lips as she walked towards the door. Amy was quick to follow. She wanted to know what the mystery coordinates from SEC lead to. It crossed her mind once or twice that it could be a trap, but you never know until you've tried (she had learned to think like that during her travels with the Doctor).
The Doctor hurried pass Sarah Jane, who was a few inches from the door.
"Excuse me," he murmured as an afterthought. Sarah Jane rolled her eyes.
"You always have to be first, don't you," she muttered.
The Doctor flashed a smile. "You never know what's out there."
When he opened the door, Amy saw that he was right. A room full of unarmed Silurians, surrounding eight people (one of which looked as if she was unconscious) was not at the top of the list of her guesses.
A smile spread across Amy's lips as she realized she was right back where she started. And then she saw him.
Amy cried out Rory's name. After a moment of shock, he jumped up in time for him to catch Amy as she threw herself into his arms. The tears immediately began flowing as Rory hugged her, reassuring himself that she was really there.
"I thought you died," Rory whispered.
"I thought I'd never see you again," Amy said before giving him a kiss. She hugged him again, forgetting about her surroundings. She didn't want to let go again.
Rose saw him immediately and jumped to her feet. She ran as fast as she could into 9's arms.
"Rose!" he exclaimed. "You're okay!" Despite the fact that he had spoken to her earlier, he was relieved she had survived until he reached her. Rose buried her face into his leather jacket, relieved that the Doctor, her Doctor had made it.
Rose had jumped to her feet really quickly, and Maria knew she had seen something. She would have joined her, but she was too busy trying to recover from the shock of the TARDIS. That is, until she heard a familiar voice.
"You alright, Maria?" Sarah Jane Smith asked her, reaching her hand down. A smile spread across Maria's face as she gripped Sarah Jane's fingers and pulled herself to her feet. Sarah Jane enveloped her in a hug.
"Did you beat the Daleks?" Maria asked.
"The Doctor blew them up," Sarah Jane said. "I'll explain later. What about the Cybermen?"
Maria grinned. "We fried 'em."
"You are brilliant," Sarah Jane replied.
Martha instinctively hurried over to the young girl who was lying limp on the ground. A skinny man moved aside, letting Martha through. She looked up at the skinny man, a man with a large nose, a woman with poufy hair.
"Let me see her. I'm a Doctor. Is she alright?" Martha asked, her fingers fumbling to find a pulse on her neck. The man with a big nose (who quickly introduced himself as Rory) shook his head.
"She's dead," Rory said grimly. "I'm a nurse," he added as an afterthought. Martha nodded, slowly sitting back. She glanced up as Mickey put a hand on her shoulder. Martha noticed the girl`s eyes were still open, reached over, and carefully closed them.
"What was her name?" Mickey asked.
"She was called Clara," said the woman with poufy hair.
Mickey suddenly tapped Martha's shoulder and motioned in the opposite direction. Martha jumped up, noticing a familiar face for the first time. She dashed over to ten and threw her arms around him.
"Long time, no see," 10 laughed.
"Way too long," Martha replied.
Mickey must have come up behind her, because 10 cried out, "Mickey! Nice to see you again." 10 let Martha go, and gave Mickey a quick hug.
"Good to see you, Doctor."
There was a woman behind the Doctor, but before Martha could get a good look at her, there was a sound behind them.
"THAT IS ENOUGH!"
Martha spun around in time to see a green figure standing up. She looked slightly dazed, and was rubbing her head, but she held a gun up. She aimed it at the nearest person, which happened to be Sarah Jane (and Maria, who had been on the monitor when Sarah Jane called home). Sarah Jane instinctively shoved Maria behind her and stared back at the lizard lady, fear and determination showing on her face.
"Calcon, stop!" another green man, this one wearing a long robe, shouted. Calcon hissed at him.
"Go to hell, Eldane," she thundered, firing a quick shot in his direction. Eldane dove to the floor, the shot narrowly missing him. The shot hit the wall, causing it to crack. A few pebbles rained down.
Calcon aimed her gun at Sarah Jane and Maria once more. 10 took a step forward, but froze when Calcon hissed, "If you do anything, I will kill this woman."
Like 10, nobody knew what to do. A sick little smile arose onto Calcon's face as she fingered the trigger.
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Sorry this chapter is so short.
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