"What's going on?" Graham asked the trio as they stepped out of the TARDIS, quizzical looks on their faces. Graham pointed at the TARDIS behind them and accused them.

"Whatever you fancy is all fine and dandy, but I have rules for a reason!" Graham wagged his finger at them.

Graham misconstrued the whole thing and completely annoyed that there's a police box in the room.

Matt quickly explained to him that's a misunderstanding and whatever he's thinking, isn't true, and he's forced to show Graham he's telling the truth, by showing him the interior of the TARDIS.

Graham's eyes widened when he saw the interior and even stepped outside to look around the TARDIS before stepping back inside. He's floored by it and asked, "What is this thing?"

Matt pushed his tongue against his cheek as he pondered how to tell Graham. He finally replied, "A time machine."

Graham couldn't believe his eyes when Matt told him this, but he affirmed that it's in fact, a time machine. He asked numerous questions about it, but Matt could hardly answer them all. He's not that versed in it as much as he'd like.

"You came at the right time, actually," Ripley got an idea.

Graham looked at her as she told him that they needed his help. When he asked, she innocently said, "Possibly risk your life to send back potentially dangerous creatures whence they came."

Eying her, Graham's flabbergasted at the request until Matt asked if he'd ever gone up to the old cemetery since the relocation.

"No, not that I have," Graham replied.

He wasn't from around here, didn't have any family here, so he didn't have a reason to go up to the old cemetery. It's then Matt asked if he noticed something odd going on, specifically, out of place angel statues.

"Angel statues?" Graham looked between the trio confusingly.

He responded that the village didn't have the coin for those, even at it's peak, and Matt asked if he'd at least feel something off after the big storm that tore through the area.

"The only thing I've noticed since after the storm, Ottis going mad about the village relocating the old cemetery and going on about disappearances," Graham told Matt.

Ripley inquired about an old woman that might've died recently and Graham mentioned that Nana Harley passed away in her sleep from heart failure. He didn't see the connection, saying that Nana's health hasn't been good in a long time. When he's told she went up to the cemetery, Graham said he never talked to her that week. She didn't like him much and he rather not start confrontations if he can help it.

He knew she died because the village talked and that's about it.

Jenna asked Graham if he rented to a man and woman not too long ago and Graham explained that they're the only ones who rented from him in a while. Nobody fitting the descriptions provided ever came to him looking for rooms to rent.

"Look, you might not believe us, but trust me when I tell you. They're coming for this machine and they're going to do everything in their power to get it. Killing anyone they come across, if they have to," Ripley warned Graham about the dangers of the angels.

Even if he didn't believe or want to believe them, he should know about them, and she advised him, "If you want to stay alive, working with us is your best bet. This is your store, they're going to associate you with us, anyway. So, you might as well come along for the ride."

Ripley tells Graham that because the angels knew where the machine was, they'll likely to think Graham knows too, and they're going to come after him if they think he can lead them to it. If not outright kill him if they catch him.

"W-what do I have to do?" Graham asked.

Ripley replied, "Don't blink."

She meant it.

While she's not sure how fast the angels were, it's no secret they have mileage on them, and they'll kill Graham the moment he slips up and blinks while they're around him. It's guaranteed.

"We need to get them into the centre of the cemetery, can you do that, Graham?" Matt asked Graham's help in luring the angels.

Graham's reasonably upset with the request, but Ripley gave a heartfelt response.

"Graham, we can't let the angels get this machine, and we don't know what they'll do if they stay here. Believe me, we'd want to do it differently, but we can't. This is our chance. I promise you, as long as you do as we tell you, you'll be fine," Ripley assured Graham that they'll do whatever it took to keep him safe until they can get the angels in the centre.

Graham asked what's the plan and Matt told him.

Matt said, "They're feeding off the energy from a rift that formed in the cemetery. If we can overcharge it and cause it to open, it's as simple as vacuuming them through it, and sealing it."

One of the benefits of being the Doctor and going on countless adventures, plans naturally formed in Matt's mind as he thought about a way to deal with the angels.

Use the TARDIS to lent it's energy to the rift, enough to charge it enough that it'll open, and calculating properly, send the angels through it and bring the man and woman back through, before having the TARDIS reabsorb its energy and whatever remaining energy left in the rift.

Effectively sealing the rift from ever reappearing again.

"What if it doesn't work?" Graham brought up.

Matt chewed on the bottom of his lip before saying, "Then back to the drawing board."

Jenna spoke up and reminded them of another problem.

"Ottis had the most contact with them," Jenna pointed out.

He's the first one to notice the angels and the first to realize their hidden nature, there's no possible reason to think the angels wouldn't go after him.

It's surprising that they've left him alone for the most part, considering he'd be in the cemetery constantly to remove the caskets and headstones, alone.

"Yeah, you're right," Matt furrowed his brows.

It's a miracle that Ottis' even alive, considering his proximity to the angels. They didn't go after him like one did with them.

Ripley turned her head to Graham and asked questions about Ottis.

"I mean, I don't know him that well," Graham admitted as he finished answering Ripley's myriads of questions.

"Um, why were there boulders on the path?" Jenna inquired about the boulders she and the others discovered on their walk to Ottis' home.

Graham's surprised and said the path should've been cleared. Ottis always tended it.

"Well, we had to go through the back to get here," Jenna told him.

Graham's even more surprised.

He replied, "No, you're mistaken, there's only one path to Ottis' cabin and it's that one path. All of it's woods in the back."

Hearing this, Jenna shared a look with Matt and Ripley.

Matt turned his head lightly to Ripley and asked her, "Is this something they do?"

Going by her knowledge, Ripley shook her head.

She replied, "No, this is something else."

Graham stared at them confusingly before he's told that the path, they took to Ottis' riffed with issues, holes, and other unseemly things that made it nearly dangerous for them to cross.

"I've been on that path more than once, there's no other paths but the one," Graham's in disbelief about the trio walking onto another path to Ottis' because of the large boulders preventing them from continuing and returning to the village through a path in the back of Ottis' cabin.

"Graham, did Ottis talk about the angel statues?" Matt asked him.

Graham remembered Ottis talking about it when he saw the old man taking the caskets to the new cemetery.

He mentioned innocently, "Yeah, he said there were seven of them."

He watched as there's a look that came over Matt and Ripley's faces.

"Seven?" Ripley echoed.

Graham nodded.

"Yeah, that's what I said, seven angel statues, how's that even possible?" Graham gestured. "I thought he was crazy!"

"Did you see them?" Ripley pointed at him.

Graham shook his head.

He never went up to the cemetery, ever, no reason since he didn't know anyone personally that died in the village. Not to mention, cemeteries always creeped him out.

The trio counted six when they went to the cemetery the first time.

"Um, wh-what does that mean?" Jenna asked Matt and Ripley.

Matt didn't have a good answer and Ripley suggested, "I don't think Ottis' with us anymore."

She didn't know how, but it's evident that the angels done something to the real Ottis.

Considering one grabbed Jenna's hair, it's probably a good chance that the real Ottis died sometime after he cleared the cemetery and the angels' used him as their avatar.

For what?

"He was the one we met first," Ripley recalled Ottis dragging them out of the cemetery the first time they went there. The angel that grabbed Jenna's hair forced them to flee… directly towards Ottis' cabin.

The disappearances, that nobody in the village believed in, he's the only one who knew what happened to the man and woman who came to the village. He also knew about the key.

It's peculiar that they found the key on the path to Ottis, the uneven terrain that Graham argued that Ottis maintained even though the village didn't have the money to do it anymore.

"Why do I get the feeling we're in big trouble?" Jenna caught on as she noticed the looks in Matt and Ripley's eyes.

Ripley responded, "I think they drew us here."

It's not far fetched that the TARDIS caught the rift, but since it's waning, it would've naturally gone away, and that'd be it.

Yet, the angels appeared and the man and woman disappeared.

Didn't make any sense until Ripley put it into perspective.

"Graham, did anyone see Ottis after he moved the cemetery?" Matt asked him.

Graham gestured, "No, not really, but he's a hermit. He didn't like many people here."

"What about the newspaper, was he printing it at the time he did that?" Matt continued.

Graham mentioned that Ottis stopped producing newspapers for a while. Only when he moved the bodies out of the cemetary did he start to talk about the disappearances.

Concluding the man, they met wasn't Ottis at all, Matt and Ripley feared that the angels' planned the TARDIS' visit. They knew it existed and they knew it would've detected the rift.

It's a mystery how they knew it's existence.

"Aren't we jumping the gun?" Jenna spoke up.

She's green to this as any, but it sounded peculiar that Ottis would've died and become an avatar of sorts for the angels. It could've been coincidental that the one chased them towards his cabin.

"Jenna, there was seven angels," Ripley said. "We only saw six!"

Matt grimly added, "The only one to see them's Ottis and the old lady."

Nobody saw the angels except for two people.

One died of fright.

The other… they didn't know.

The conversation never finished because there's knocking at the door… not the general store's front door.

"What on earth?" Graham's confused as he heard knocking coming from the room door.

He attempted to go answer, but Matt and Ripley grabbed his arms and pulled him back.

"Trust me, you don't want to open that," Ripley warned him.

Graham's eyes moved towards the door as he heard knocking.

"It could be one of my customers!" Graham reasoned.

He reasoned that one of his customers came into the store, didn't see him, gone up to the second floor to check for him, and that the duo's overreacting.

Punch!

There's a hole in the door.

It sent Graham and the trio backwards in fright.

None of them saw the fist or the arm, just the hole.

"One of them grannies the sort to get aggressive over a can of yams?" Ripley asked Graham if he still thought it's one of his customers looking for him.

"Everyone, in the TARDIS, now!" Matt ordered them to enter the safety of the TARDIS.

Obliging, Graham ran inside with the women as Matt hurried to the console. Ripley locked the door from the inside as she fled to the inner area.

"Ah, okay, what to do…. What to do…" Matt mumbled as he stared at the console.

They should've expected that it wouldn't be easy.

Call it a bad habit.

"Go the cemetery," Ripley suggested as she stood nearby.

The angels would've followed them there and they can try to send the angels back to wherever they came from.

Nodding, Matt quickly pushed buttons and waited for the TARDIS to spring to life.

Knock… knock…

There's knocking coming from the TARDIS door and the four huddled close together.

"They can't get in, can they?" Jenna worryingly asked Matt and Ripley.

Matt sheepishly looked towards Ripley and she replied, her voice wavering, "I wouldn't think so."

The knocking suddenly stopped and the four stared nervously at the door. Matt held his arms outstretched, keeping Jenna and Ripley behind him as Graham stepped backwards.

Tap… tap….

There's tapping on the other side of the TARDIS and the four turned their heads to corner. As they did, the tapping stopped before it started up at another corner. This happened rapidly as the four tried to keep up with the tapping, until it too suddenly stopped.

Then, the TARDIS started moving, but not on its own.

"Oomph!" Graham fell to the ground as the TARDIS shook back and forth.

Matt nearly tripped over himself.

The women slammed into each other.

The TARDIS continued to shake back and forth.

"Can they do that?" Matt asked Ripley as she attempted to right herself.

"Yes!" Ripley struggled to say.

Matt steadied himself as he tried the console once again.

He pushed buttons, pulled levers, but nothing happened.

Getting an idea, Matt grabbed his Sonic Screwdriver and used it.

There's a low rumble but nothing's happening.

Ripley bumped into his shoulder as she stood next to him.

Matt attempted to stop her, but the TARDIS shaking sent him on his bum and Ripley put her right hand on the console.

The TARDIS sprung to life within moments as Ripley sauntered away from the console, holding her twitching hand.

The shaking stopped as the TARDIS dematerialized and materialized at the cemetery.

There's a problem.

Something went wrong during the process that sent the four astray.

They arrived at the cemetery, but none of them were in the TARDIS, it turned translucent midway and sent them in corners of the cemetery.

"Ow," Jenna groaned as she pushed herself up from the ground as she looked around. She's in a corner of the cemetery and there, she sees the TARDIS, corporeal, in the distance.

Her hazelnut eyes moved towards another corner as Ripley slowly pushed herself up, dazed, the key nowhere near her.

In the distance, she saw Matt and Graham in the opposite corners of each other, both dazed as they've been tossed by the TARDIS.

Slowly, Jenna pushed herself up from the ground and looked down to her muddy knees as she tried to collect herself.

Around her, there's no angels, and she couldn't move as she hadn't come out her daze completely, yet.

As she blinked, it's subtle, but some body's coming towards her and it's not one of the three.

Her eyes moved upwards to see Ottis standing in front of her with a blank expression on his face and something peculiar. His eyes closed.

"O-Ottis?" Jenna slowly stepped backwards as Ottis remained in his spot.

He didn't reply.

"O-Ottis, what happened to you?" Jenna tried to ask.

He still didn't reply.

Stepping backwards, Jenna nearly tripped as she tried to get away from Ottis, but keep her eyes on him.

Her heart started racing as she tried to keep away from Ottis, fearing what he might do.

"Oh god," Jenna whispered as she had her back pressed against the wall. She felt the feeling in her eyes as she fought against them, afraid of blinking.

"Please," Jenna whispered, pleading with Ottis as she felt the feeling growing stronger in her eyes as she tried to keep them open.

Tears slowly formed under her eyes as she felt the pressure mounting.

"Please, please," Jenna whimpered.

Unable to keep them open, Jenna closed her eyes and waited for death. She felt a presence in front of her and when she opened one eye, it's Ripley, she ran to her aide.

"Pick on someone your own size!" Ripley crossed her arms as she stood in front of Ottis.

Jenna exhaled sharply as she hid behind Ripley.

Ripley told her, "When I tell you, you run to Matt, okay?"

Jenna glanced past Ripley to see Matt, visibly disturbed, and nodded. She stopped and asked, "What about you?"
Ripley told her, "I can handle it. Ready?"

Nodding, Jenna blinked just for precaution and Ripley counted down. When she got to zero, Jenna bolted from behind her while Ripley locked eyes with Ottis.

"You know, I seen you lot somewhere," Ripley mentioned to Ottis. "Oh yes, you scared an entire continent with your dazzling performances. Difference though, they're better actors."

She poked at Ottis' deceiving act.

"So, tell me, how much of that was really fluff or something you really do?" Ripley inquired how much of their counterparts told the truth about them or not. "You both look like angel statues, well, not you in particular."

Ottis never replied.

"Oh, don't tell me you lost your voice already!" Ripley mocked him. "I was gonna give you an 'A' but you didn't stick to the music sheet, so we're gonna curve it to a 'B'!"

She waited for Ottis to speak, but he never did, and she's confused. He talked to them before, but now he's gone mute, and it got her thinking.

"So, you killed him and replayed his final moments," Ripley realized. "You just changed things around!"

The angel that took his form, somehow got a hold of a few bits of him, and used it. It seemed that it couldn't speak easily as Ripley did, only using the sentences it copied.

"What'd you do to him?" Ripley asked "Ottis."

Ripely couldn't move as she's hoisted above by a grey arm and her eyes stared down at the angel that appeared instantly in front of her. It's eyes closed. Even though she kept looking at the angel, she felt the grip tightening around her neck as she kicked the air, her body desperate to breathe.

In an instant, she saw the angel raise it's free arm above its head, directly towards Ripley and pointed two fingers at her eyes. The face changed to a hateful scowl and Ripley caught sight of burns on one of the arms, from Matt's Sonic Screwdriver.

Gurgling, Ripley struggled to breath as she felt the strong hand slowly clamping down on her throat.

Her eyes tried to remain focus on the angel as it intended to poke out her eyes the moment she blinked. It's serious about it.

Disturbingly, Ripley spotted the angel's eyelids moving slowly. She couldn't see the eyes themselves, but she saw what she thought were shadows. She hoped.

It gave her the idea of what might've happened to Ottis.

Ottis came to the cemetery, saw the angels, ended up caught by one of them and killed. It took his form and with his eyes, capable of tricking Matt and the women, it made sure that it cleaned out the cemetery so nobody could've come to it.

Ripley struggled to keep her eyes opened as she saw those fingers pointed directly at them. The distress the angel caused from constricting her airflow caused her body to panic.

It could've been just the oxygen deprivation, but Ripley heard a man's voice, echoing, but it's in her ear.

"Righty-o!" Ripley heard.

It wasn't the others and she fell on her bum in a loud thud, promptly holding her neck, and coughing violently. Wheezing, her eyes moved to see the angel in front of her gone. Amid her coughing as her body grabbed every bit of oxygen it can get back, she heard shouting and felt a jolt as Matt knelt beside her, an arm around her shoulder.

"Ripley," she heard her name.

She turned her head slightly as Matt stared at her, worried.

Trying to cough, Ripley only coughed in response as Matt rubbed her back.

Her eyes moved to Jenna as she rushed over, Graham trailing behind her.

"W… wh…" Ripley wheezed. "Wh… where the an… angel go?"

She saw it.

Now, it's gone!

Matt rubbed her back as she coughed.

"It was there, but it just… disappeared!" Matt told her as he comforted her.

Jenna knelt on the opposite side and held her as she coughed.

"Um, guys," Graham called to them and they turned their heads, to see six angels in the four corners of the cemetery, all with scowls on their faces, but their eyes closed.

Matt and Jenna helped Ripley stand and led her towards the TARDIS, Graham watched the angels, afraid.

Trying to get to the TARDIS, the four stopped when they noticed the angels closer than they were before. Blipped closer, regardless if they stared at them or not.

One stood in front of the TARDIS, with arms outstretched, blocking their path, and a scowl.

"Oh god," Jenna winced.

The seventh angel's gone, but the six remained, and they're keen on keeping the four from the TARDIS.

Ripley coughed as she swore hearing the man's voice from before, "Oh, there it is!"

A faint clank and a tweak.

There's another blip and the five angels slowly converged on the four as the sixth stood in front of the TARDIS.

Suddenly, there's a bright flash that swallowed everyone whole. So bright, they closed their eyes, and when it vanished, they opened their eyes.

Looking around, all the angels disappeared from the cemetery.

Gone.

Jenna blinked several times as she tried to right them, blinded by the flash, and she nervously looked around.

"Where's the angels?" Graham asked.

Matt searched the cemetery with his green eyes but didn't see them.

Amid the confusion, they heard ringing coming from the TARDIS, and Matt left Ripley with Jenna so he'd answer the phone call. He opened the hidden door and picked up the receiver.

"Hello?" Matt asked.

He heard the Scottish in the man's voice as he said, "Ah, good, you're still alive!"

The man's jovial about them surviving.

"Um, who's this?" Matt inquired.

The man replied, "Oh, just the Doctor."

Matt froze as he echoed, "The Doctor?"

The man affirmed.

"Yep! Say, thanks for helping us!" Matt heard the Doctor thank him.

Matt sheepishly asked, "Er, what were those things?"

The Doctor replied disdainfully, "Rude buggers, that's what they are! Don't look into their eyes or you're dead!"

He warned Matt not to look into their eyes, else he'll die. The Doctor explained that they thrived on energy and sometimes disguised themselves as recently killed prey, allowing them to blend in and go after more prey. However, humans' have finite energy, less than desirable.

"They're not coming back, are they?" Matt worried.

The Doctor laughed and said, "Oh, no, they shouldn't. I gave them a bit of my mind. Don't think they'd appreciate it, though!"

The Doctor affirmed that the angels won't come back to that universe.

"Oh, could you do me a favour?" Matt heard the Doctor ask him.

Matt responded, "Er, sure, what is it?"

The Doctor replied, "Mind thanking your friend for me for finding the key, for me, one of 'em took it from me and dropped it somewhere."

He wanted Matt to thank Ripley on his behalf for finding the key for him.

"Um, I'll do that, but I have to know, something… how… how is this even possible?" Matt wanted to know how he's able to talk to this Doctor.

The Doctor replied, "Well, I could tell you, but it'd get boring. So, I won't. Just know that it's not so hard once you know where to look."

He didn't tell Matt much, but Matt concluded it's as much as he can get from this particular Doctor.

"Oh, but, don't you need help getting back over here?" Matt remembered.

The Doctor thunderously laughed for a few minutes before he forced himself to stop and replied with, "Oh, don't worry about wee me, I'm fine. Your execution could've gone better, but it's a start. The key's what helped us out of our situation, innit?"

He spoke to someone beside him before he talked to Matt more.

"So, anyhow, thanks for helping us, and my condolences to, er, Ottis, and this won't make it any better, but you won't usually feel them plucking out your eyes. Usually. Just, in advisement in case you do come across them again. Mirrors, bah, staring contests, even I need to blink, getting them to stare at each other, nada. You need to send them to a black hole. They're vultures, they are, don't worry about the black and orange morality," the Doctor continued.

Matt finished their conversation with, "Um, so, suppose we'll meet, in person?"

The Doctor talked to someone for a few minutes before he turned to Matt and said, "Oh, maybe, maybe not. I'm kinda busy these days. Schedules and all. Hate them. Can't stand them. Maybe we will, maybe we won't. You can be sure I'll hit you up on the phone if I need anything. Oh, uh, I hate to be a drag, but I gotta cut this short. We're dealing with a bit of a trouble of our own."

Matt asked if he needed help but the Doctor declined and said, "Oh, don't worry about it. Tend to your friend. We can handle it, can we?"

He spoke to someone; Matt couldn't hear their conversation.

"Um, one more thing," the Doctor abruptly asked Matt.

Matt responded, "What is it?"

The Doctor asked, "Hm, nothing in particular, how would you rewire a… toy robot… yeah… toy robot."

Matt heard the quotation marks in "toy robot" and he earnestly replied what he learned from wiring toys and electronics with Ripley. When he finished, he heard someone audibly say, "I told you!"

The Doctor shushed them and thanked Matt for his help.

"Righty then, thank you, stay safe, have fun, travel responsibly, read a good book, eat well, and keep your friends close and your painfully annoying enemies closer!" Matt heard the other line click and he hung up the phone, visibly confused.

He hurried back to Ripley as she's recovered.

"Who was that?" Jenna asked Matt.

Matt replied, "Quite honestly, I don't really know."

He left it at that.

They entered the TARDIS and returned to Graham's store and there they discussed what happened. Graham's visibly disturbed by the events, but Matt assured him that they'll aid him if he asks them.

"Well, I suppose this mean you're leaving," Graham caught on.

Matt nodded.

"Yeah, I think we've overstayed our welcome and we need to get back and make sure Rip's fine," Matt replied.

The adventure's finished and Matt wanted to go back to the shop. He can talk to Ripley another time; his concern is her wellbeing.

"I'm fine!" Ripley coughed.

Matt shook his head as he sighed.

"If anything, else happens, we'll be sure to come back out," Matt told Graham that if he needed help, they're only a few universes away.

Nodding, Graham saw them off as they reentered the TARDIS.

Matt went to the console as he prepared to take them back to the shop. He'll stay back to keep an eye on Ripley.

"Alright, home sweet home," Matt said as he pushed a button to send them back.

The air shifted and cooled.

The sounds of metal sheets rubbing against each other echoed throughout the TARDIS as it sprung to life and dematerialized before Graham's very eyes.

When it stopped, Matt checked on Ripley as she sat on the steps. She waved her hand as she affirmed that she's fine. It'll take more to knock her down.

"Just let me know if something changes, alright?" Matt sighed.

Somethings never changes.

He went to the door and opened it.

He expected the backroom.

Instead, he smelled the autumn air and quizzically looked out to see the TARDIS appeared somewhere in a courtyard of a school.

Going towards the door, Jenna and Ripley looked out to see young adult men going about the school. They spot a young man and his friends smoking in the back of the school, behind the bins. He wore a black puffy jacket as he laughed with his friends and Ripley stared him in disbelief.

She exclaimed, "Headmaster Lupus?!"

THE END