So, I'm going to take a moment to talk about something I read that I'm hoping other people would be interested in knowing. If you don't care about how Peter Capaldi's previous 2 appearances in DW universe, feel free to skip ahead. :) Okay, so apparently, RTD had come up with a great scheme to explain how Capaldi's face appeared twice about 1900 year apart. So, when Capaldi was casted Moffat remembered there had been some plan, so he called RTD up and asked if it would still work. Can I just say I'm super excited that they are addressing his past appearances and not just ignoring them? (*cough* Karen Gillan *cough*) I can't wait to see how they explain that one. :)
Also thanks for everyone who reviewed. My email decided that the notifications from fanfiction were spam, so I don't have an easy way to look and see who all you wonderful people are. But thank you.
Okay, back to this. I own nothing, like always. I used transcripts and the show as previously stated. However any mess ups are mine. And I hope you enjoy the chapter.
When the Doctor went to get the horses, I changed into a different outfit, one with pants. I had to explain to Amy where I had found the outfit, seeing as she was curious why I randomly had a Cleopatra outfit. About the time I finished explaining it, the Doctor had returned with the three horses, one black and two white. "These are Umbra, Flumen, and Alba. The soldiers had some weird names for them. But they're supposed to be some of the fastest horses here."
We got on the horses and quickly began to ride towards Stonehenge, still not sure what we were going to find. Amy and I followed the Doctor to the ancient monument, and I could feel that I was missing something. When we got there, we dismounted and I immediately pulled out my scanner, and the Doctor had done his same with his sonic screwdriver. He began running around scanning everything, while did it from a single position.
"How come it's not new?" Amy asked.
"Because it's already old," I responded her. "It's been here thousands of years. No one knows exactly how long." I had that feeling that whoever built it had a good reason for building it when they did.
"Okay, this Pandorica thing, last time we saw you, you warned us about it, after we climbed out of the Byzantium." Clearly this was very early for my mother.
"Spoilers," I told her, putting my finger to my lips.
"No, but you told the Doctor you'd see him again when the Pandorica opens," Amy told me, and I made a mental note to do that after the Byzantium, whatever that was.
"Maybe I did, but I haven't yet. But I will have," I said cryptically. I then turned to the Doctor, "Doctor, I'm picking up fry particles everywhere. Energy weapons discharged on this site."
He was standing on top of a stone when I looked over at him. "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 jumped off the rock and listened to it. One of these days I was going to need to talk to him about that. "We need to get down there."
"What do we need?" I asked, already prepared to go look get it from the future.
"I hear gears. I think there's a way to open this."
I moved closer to it looking for the sign that the Doctor was correct and it was a mechanical rock. Not surprisingly, he was correct. The Doctor began to use his sonic screwdriver trying to get the rock to open.
After about five minutes of watching him fail, I suggested that I could shoot it open.
"You want to shoot a rock?" he asked me, a little surprised. "You would destroy the hardwiring before you would open it."
"Okay, so we need to find a way of opening it," Amy supplied.
"I remember seeing a device that was supposed to be able to decode anything," I said, recalling my search for something valuable.
"Yes, it's called a sonic screwdriver!" the Doctor said, and I just rolled my eyes.
"Amy, could you look after him and make sure he doesn't do anything too stupid?" I asked, ignoring the shock look on the Doctor's face.
Amy just smiled a little, "No guarantees."
I shook my head with a slight grin as well, before returning the future shop. Yes, I was going to get used to my new vortex manipulator very quickly. It wasn't very difficult to find the item in question, and I picked up a few light rods. Then I got back to the Stonehenge. I could see that I had been gone a little longer than I had anticipated, and Amy was having a hard time controlling the Doctor.
"So, what is taking River so long? I could have been there and come back to hundreds of places by now. We sent her on a simple errand."
"Doctor, I'm sure she'll be back soon."
"You've been saying that for hours! How long can it possibly take to go get some mysterious device?"
"Not as long if you land on the right date," I informed him. "And I do that more often than you do."
"You do drive the TARDIS better," Amy muttered loud enough for us to hear. I smirked as I strapped the device to rock. The Doctor didn't look happy.
After I had the rock move, it revealed a passage way. None of the three of us could resist going down. I was smart enough to pull out my torch, and the Doctor led the way with his sonic. I was in the back, offering the light source for our group.
When we got to the bottom, we were in an open room. The Doctor lit a torch, and I found one and he passed the light on to me. And of course there was an enormous, iron door right by us. The Doctor unlocked the door and we pushed it open to reveal something I was not expecting. It was another large room, but in the center was a cube, larger than any of us. It had some form of pattern on the front.
"It's the Pandorica."
"More than a fairy tale," I told him, happy just to have proven him wrong. The Pandorica was very real.
The Doctor began to move towards it, while I looked around the room. I wasn't expecting it when he began to tell the story of the Pandorica. "There was a goblin or a trickster or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. 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."
I had that feeling that I had was forgetting something again as he spoke, and it was bothering me more and more. I'd figure it out later. It was probably something from my diary.
"How did it end up in there?" Amy asked. I could hear the concern in her voice. With the Doctor around and his ability to get in trouble, he could easily release whatever was locked in that box.
"You know fairy tales. A good wizard trick tricked it."
"I hate good wizards in fairy tales. They always turn out to be him." A fact that I found as I was doing my research on him. About the only one that he hadn't inspired was Merlin. I decided to get a reading on whatever was in the box. I handed the torch over to Amy.
"So, it's kind of like Pandora's Box, then? Almost the same name," Amy commented. She was right. They were very similar.
"Sorry, what?"
"The story, Pandora's Box, with all the worst things in the world in it. That was my favorite book when I was a kid." The Doctor had put down his torch and had begun to try to identify qualities of the box and its contents as well. But with Amy's comment, he approached her. She noticed something was off. "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," he finished as he walked away. I was only really half paying attention, but I knew something wasn't right. I remembered Amy pulling that book on Romans out some, even in the midst of her Doctor obsession. And she had written that one paper about the Romans invading England. I helped her with the title.
He began to look at it again, so I asked, "Can you open it?"
"Easily," he answered. "Anyone can break into a prison. But I'd rather know what I'm going to find first."
I looked at my scanner and saw something that was a little disturbing. "You won't have to wait long. It's already opening. There are layers of security protocols in there, and they're being disabled one by one. Like being unlocked form the inside."
I did not like the idea of whatever someone had trapped there being smart enough to get out.
"How long do we have?"
"Hours at most."
"What kind of security?"
"Everything. Deadlocks, time stops, matter lines," I said, knowing that we had to keep that monster in there, whatever it was.
"What could need all that?"
"What could get past all that?" I shot back at the Doctor.
"Think of the fear that went into making this box. What could inspire that level of fear?" He then proceeded to talk to the creature within, "Hello, you, have we met?"
I had the bad feeling that they might have. But I stayed focus. "So why would it start opening now?"
"No idea." That was definitely never good.
"And how could Vincent have known about it?" Amy questioned. "He won't even be born for centuries."
He began to sonic the room, before answering. "The stones. These stones are great big transmitters, broadcasting a warning to everyone, everywhere, to every time zone. The Pandorica is opening."
I looked up from that. The Doctor had so many enemies throughout the galaxy, and if they wanted to control this mighty warrior, then we were going to have a very large fleet of hostile aliens on our hands. "Doctor, everyone, everywhere?" He wasn't paying attention, questioning why he didn't know what was there. I thought my question was a little more important than the Doctor's ego. So I repeated, "Doctor, you said everyone could hear it. So who else is coming?"
He heard me this time, and looked at me, realizing my point. "Oh."
"Oh? Oh, what?" Amy was realizing something bad was about to happen.
The Doctor and I began to work. This was really not good! "Okay, if it is a basically a transmitter, we should be able to fold back the signal."
"Doing it!"
"Doing what?" Amy was still confused.
"Stonehenge is transmitting. It's been transmitting for a while. So who heard?"
"Okay, should be feeding back to you now. River, what's out there?"
"Give me a moment." I began to read as the signals began to come through. I kept waiting for the list to end, but instead of a definite answer, I saw that my scanner couldn't read above the ten thousandth ship. A lot of people had come to see this warrior.
"River, quickly. Anything?"
"Around this planet, there are at least ten thousand starships," I said carefully.
"At least?"
"Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, I don't know. There's too many readings."
"What type of starships?" the Doctor demanded. So I played transmissions. The robotic voices were familiar to us all.
Daleks.
The Doctor immediately began to plan. "Yes, okay, okay, okay, okay." He was just as nervous as I was. He never repeated the same word four times. "Dalek fleet, minimum, twelve thousand battleships, armed to the teeth. Ah! But we've got surprise on our side! They'll never expect three people to attack twelve thousand Dalek battleships." I was about to point out the stupidity of that plan, when he did it himself. "Because we'd be killed instantly. So it would be a fairly short surprise. Forget surprise."
And then I ran to another stone, seeing if I'd pick up any new transmissions. I did. Cyberman. I remembered the news when they had invaded earth my senior year of high school with Amy and Rory. Something I prevented them from coming to our town, though, but the news from London and Cardiff and basically everywhere else on earth had been a bit horrifying. "Doctor, Cyberships."
"No, Dalek ships. Listen to them. Those are Dalek ships."
That man really needed to pay attention sometimes. "Yes, Dalek and Cyberships."
"Well, we need to start a fight, turn them on each other. I mean, that's easy. It's the Daleks, they're so cross."
And then another signal. "Sontarans, four battlefleets."
"Sontarans!" the Doctor exclaimed. "Talk about cross, who stole all their handbags?"
I continued looking. "Terileptil, Slitheen, Chelonian, Nestene, Drahvin, Sycorax, Haemogoth, Zygoth, Atraxi, Draconian," I listed. They were all enemies of the Doctor. Why couldn't one, just one of the Doctor's allies be on the list? Probably because they don't need any warrior, because they had the Doctor. "They're all here for the Pandorica."
Sorry it's mostly from the show today. It's just kinda how it worked out. Hope you guys enjoyed it anyway. :)
