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Madame Kovarian smiled when her associate carried in an unconscious red haired woman. "Good work Mark", she said "get her set up", Kovarian instructed.
"Yes, mam", Mark said placing Alyssa in the chair. He strapped her wrists down tightly before lowering a band around her head. "We're ready mam"
Madame Kovarian smiled again "then let the games begin", she said flicking a switch.
"Ugh my head", Alyssa groaned opening her eyes and sitting up. What the heck? I'm in a maze? She thought when she finally took in her surroundings. She was sitting in the middle of a cross with hedges stretching out in four directions. She got to her feet "ok I'm in a maze. Right, don't panic Ali. Just figure out which way it is to get out", she muttered.
Alyssa started walking straight ahead hoping it wasn't going to take long to find the exit. She stopped walking when an all too familiar pain flared up on the back of her hand. "No. no. no. no", she breathed, panicked as she glanced at her hand seeing the same symbol that was there the day the creature had tried to kill her.
She slowly looked up and let out a scream seeing the hooded figure before her. Alyssa spun around on the spot and ran. She sprinted down narrow corridors of hedges turning left, right multiple times. She didn't know if she was going around in circles but she wasn't going to stop running. Alyssa rounded a corner, yelping when she almost ran smack into a Dalek!
The young woman stumbled back, her heart pounding. Then she spotted something that would've made her laugh in relief if she wasn't so terrified of being shot by the metal death machine. She took several breaths before she took off towards the stairs, yelping when a beam flew over her head, narrowly missing her.
Alyssa bounded up the marble steps and didn't stop running until she was around the other side of a large fountain. "Giant salt shaker stuck by stairs. Ha!" she said to it as it stopped at the base of the steps. Her heart plummeted when the Dalek said
"Elevate!" and lifted up off the ground. Alyssa stared wide eyed as it hovered up over the steps. "You will be exterminated!" it screeched when it reached the top. Before she could run, the Dalek fired at her. Alyssa screamed throwing her hands out as if that would protect her. Instead of the blue bolt hitting her, it hovered it mid-air.
The 21 year old stared at it, hands still up. Gazing shifting to the Dalek, her face hardened. She made a pushing motion, sending the bolt back at the Dalek destroying it. She cried out in pain that she got in her head and sank to the floor.
"Come on Ali you need to get up", a soft voice said.
"Gran?" Alyssa asked looking up.
"Hello dear", Elizabeth said smiling at her granddaughter.
"My head hurts", Alyssa whimpered. Her head felt like it was going to explode after destroying that Dalek.
"I know Ali", Elizabeth said hugging her "You have to be strong ok?"
"Ok Gran. I'll try", Alyssa said getting up.
"You know where you need to go?" Elizabeth asked.
"No", Alyssa answered.
"You need to get to the centre of the maze. It's the only way out of here", Elizabeth told her.
"How do I get there?" Alyssa questioned.
"It's quite easy, all you have to do is listen", Elizabeth said.
"Listen for what?" Alyssa asked.
"You'll know it when you hear it. Close your eyes", Elizabeth instructed.
Alyssa did so "Gran I'm sorry but I don't hear anything", she said opening her eyes. "Gran?" she said seeing that the elderly woman wasn't there. "Listen. What the heck am I supposed to listen for?"
She continued to walk around the maze getting really sick of being surrounded by oversized hedges, she just wanted to get to the centre. She paused when she heard faint singing. Maybe that's what my gran meant by listen Alyssa thought quickly following it. She stopped when she saw a woman standing under a stone arch. "Hello sweetie", she said smiling.
"TARDIS? Is that you?" Alyssa asked surprised but also relieved to see another friendly face, so to speak.
The woman smiled "Yes, it is", she confirmed "I'd love to hang around and chat but we don't have much time. We need to get you to the centre of this maze", she said. She looked at her surroundings "why a maze?"
"What?" Alyssa asked.
"Why a maze Ali?" the TARDIS questioned.
"I don't know", Alyssa answered "I thought you said we didn't have much time?"
"Right. Sorry I got distracted", the TARDIS apologised. She took Alyssa's hand "let's go. Geronimo", she added.
"Geronimo?" Alyssa asked as the woman started to lead her straight ahead.
"Isn't that what the Doctor often says?" the brunette asked.
"No. it's normally Allonsy", Alyssa told her.
"Ah. Oops that was a bit of a spoiler. Sorry", the TARDIS said.
"Uh that's ok I suppose", Alyssa said, not too bothered by the spoiler. They stopped at a junction. "Which way now?" Alyssa asked. The TARDIS was about to say reply when she spotted something behind the red head.
"What?" Alyssa asked glancing behind her "not that thing again", she whispered seeing the hood figure slowly approach the pair.
"Run!" the TARDIS shouted, grabbing her hand again. The two woman sprinted around corners hand in hand.
"Wrong way!" Alyssa shouted when they almost collided with a Dalek. They ran to the shouts and shots being fired from the metal machine. "Wait why are we stopping?" she asked.
"Because we're near the centre", the TARDIS replied.
"Great let's go", Alyssa said.
"You have to do this on your own", the TARDIS said before putting her hands on Alyssa's temples. The young woman gasped at the images the flooded her mind.
"What was that?" Alyssa demanded.
"Directions. Just follow them and you'll get to the centre. Now run Ali"
"But…" Alyssa started when the TARDIS cut in with
"We'll talk again soon. Now run, you brilliant girl"
Alyssa did what the TARDIS said and started running, following the directions in her head. "You've got to be kidding me", she said seeing what was sitting on a stone pedestal in front of her. It was the Triwizard cup. Can this get any more Harry Potter? She thought slowly approaching it. "I really hope I don't end up in a graveyard with you-know-who", she murmured. Before she could touch it someone called her name. "James!" she cried, overjoyed to see the blonde.
He ran over to her and hugged her. Then he did something very surprising. He kissed her! "I love you", he declared.
Alyssa opened her mouth to say something when she heard the Doctor say her name. She turned around to see him walking towards her. The young woman was rather taken aback when he kissed her as well. "I love you, Ali", he whispered when he pulled back.
The empath looked between the two men not quite understanding what was happening. She did like both of them, cared for them even. But that was only as friends, right? Before she could say anything, James suddenly shouted "Look out!"
He pushed her out of the way just before being shot by a Dalek. "No!" Alyssa exclaimed as he fell to the ground, the Doctor also being shot a second later. She crawled over to where they lay. "No. no. no", she said tears once again forming. Alyssa touched their faces tenderly, tears rolling down her cheeks.
"The Doctor is deceased!" the Dalek said sounding smug or as smug as that species could. Alyssa looked up and saw that she, James and the Doctor where slowly being surrounded by Daleks and the Dementory thing. Her heart shattered even more when she also saw the bodies of the TARDIS, Elizabeth even her mother, lying on the ground around her dead.
"This isn't real. This is just in my head", Alyssa said tears starting to run down her face.
"Aw poor little Alyssa. All alone. No family, No friends and No Doctor", the hooded figure taunted, its voice very distorted. The red head looked down at the two males, wiping her tears away before standing.
"You think killing the people I love is going to break me?" she asked, her green eyes shifting gold "Then you're very wrong. This isn't real, this is all happening inside my head".
"Is this supposed to scare me?" the Industria Lamia asked.
"Yes. You want to know why? Because I'm not afraid of you", Alyssa replied. "I'm not afraid of any of you!" she said pointing at each of the Daleks in front of her "This is in my head. This is some twisted head game and it stops right now!" she shouted, her head starting to pound once more. "Do you hear me? It ends NOW!" Alyssa shouted. She could feel something building up inside of herself.
Her red hair turned gold as she released all the energy within. The resulting shockwave hit the Daleks, Industria Lamia and the Triwizard cup, destroying all of them.