Aura spent the next few days with the Doctor learning about Time Lords and regeneration. She learned quite a lot and was able to reconcile with the fact she had no memory, wasn't quite human nor time lord, and everything else she had been told earlier. And there was a lot between Psychic paper and translation matrices and fully explained Fobwatches. That one was the most upsetting since it was confirmed that she had no such device on her so there was no way to retrieve her memories that they hadn't tried yet.

He promised her that he would find a way to get her memories back. But she was getting restless being confined to this bed. She wanted to go and do something. Her freshly unbandaged skin itched to do anything as if she had been sitting for centuries. The itching sensation drove her up the wall as it got worse and worse.

She blinked only to find that the world was different from how it had been before she closed her eyes. No more beds or white walls. Where once there were walls and a ceiling there was now blue sky and green grass. Well blue and green grass.

Was the sky wrong? It felt odd to see such a color and the grass was red last she checked. She blinked. Red grass? The thought itched at the back of her skull. She had nothing but the small white purse that River had given her, which up until a second ago she had been digging for to find out what was inside.

"Aura!" The girl turned to see another redhead dressed too skantaily for the chilly air. Speaking of air, the tank top and sweater she was sporting did little to protect her from the sharp winds rolling over the hill. She was just thankful Donna had helped her into a pair of sweatpants before she had left that time. The new red head stamped over to her clearly in a huff followed by a tall man with floppy hair. "Aura, tell him we are going to Rio and not whatever place this mining thing will take us." Oh, was she sitting on the ground? Well, it would make sense since she was sitting on the bed she wouldn't just be standing.

Aura swallowed and fished in her purse for the wallet River gave her as she moved to stand. The man came up as Aura unfolded pictures until she spotted a picture of the floppy haired man. She looked at the man, who looked like he was losing all the blood in his face, and said. "It's nice to meet you Doctor."

"So is this the first time we've met in this face?" He asked moving past Amy as the situation seemed to dawn on her.

"Yes. It's my first time meeting both of you." She nodded to the girl behind him. "River has pictures of all your regenerations and the companions you have in order. This must be…" She looked down at the back of the picture. "Amelia Pond."

"Cheating on your first day?" Amy chuckled. "And It's just Amy."

"Oh but...Amelia is beautiful." Aura smiled and looked back at the Doctor. "What's this about a mining thing?"

"Oh, no. Not you too." Amy moaned, knowing full well that with Aura on board there was no way she would be going to Rio today.

The Doctor gently picked up her newly unbandaged arm and stared at the scars that had not quite lost that deep red color. "You are new. Really very new." He said. "How new though?"

"I just woke up." Aura gave the man a sad smile. "I visited the Library and now I'm here."

The Doctor said nothing but he looked a bit sad. "Well, I guess welcome to your second adventure with us." He threw his arms wide. "Want to check out the mining drill?" Aura looked between his hand to the drill.

"I mean I've never seen one in real life before." The words stopped her short. Had she never seen a drill before? Strange how had she known that?

"Don't freak out." The floppy haired alien spoke softly. "You can't access your memories but sometimes you say things that let us know that they are there somewhere. Like now. So if you have never seen a drill before, why not now?" He seemed excited and that excitement was very contagious for Aura.

He held her hand and the three of them swiftly made it down the hill. There was a tall gate that surrounded the drilling complex with a lock closing it. The Doctor whipped out his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the lock.

"That is breaking and entering." Amy scolded the Doctor, still a bit bitter about the failed Rio trip.

"What did I break?" The Doctor looked at the woman slightly offended. "Sonicking and entering. Totally different." Aura looked over to the smoking lock on the ground.

"Can you relock it?" it was a question filled with curiosity but the look the Doctor had made her feel like it just might be breaking and entering.

"Possibly." He said quickly, tugging her forward. "Where is Rory? Shouldn't he have caught up by now?"

"He's probably enjoying the view. You know where else we could have enjoyed the view. RIO!" Amy called after the speed walking time lord. "Doctor!" Aura looked over her shoulder with a shrug and followed him into the building that was built near the drill.

"Do you feel that?" He asked, suddenly stopping to shift his weight from foot to foot. He looked at Aura and she felt around with her bare feet. "Wait, how long have you not been wearing shoes? No, hang on. I've got some…" He started to dig in his pockets.

"You just carry around shoes?" Aura asked, perplexed.

"Yeah, you don't always have shoes when you jump." He gave a 'ha' cry and brandished the slip on shoes at her with triumph. They were smushed and must have been in the man's pockets for a while. She looked from the shoes to his pockets a couple of times before he said. "Time lord technology."

"Bigger on the inside, right?" The Doctor had only ever explained it that way. Well he said that was the easiest way to explain it. "But the ground, do you feel it?"

"You mean the buzzy kinda electric feel to it?" Aura replied while tugging the shoes on her feet, keeping a free hand on his shoulder to keep balanced as she did so.

"Yes, it's electric." He sang the words when a woman called from the doorway.

"Who are you? How did you even get in here?" She was a bit irate and was coming over, but the Doctor ignored her. He grabbed a piece of grass that had sprouted in one of the nearby holes. He turned it over for a moment and then placed it in his mouth. Aura wrinkled her nose and looked at Amy, who didn't look surprised.

"Is this a common habit?" She asked, gesturing towards her mouth. "Picking things up and…"

"Yes, I think it is."

He looked at the new woman. "Hello." He pulled out the psychic wallet and flashed it to them. "Ministry of Drills, Earth, and Science. New ministry, very big, just merged." He moved around them to the next room that had even more holes in it. "It's a lot of responsibility on our shoulders. Don't like to talk about it. What are you doing?" He rounded back on the non-companion. The woman moved to answer but he moved past her to see the screens. "Where are these readings from?"

"Under the soil." The frustrated woman finally got a word in as another older man tottered into the room.

"What's going on? Who are these people?"

"Amy, the Doctor, Aura." Amy pointed to each person in turn. She seemed to accept that they wouldn't be leaving anytime soon as Aura squatted to look closer at the holes in the floor. She squinted and that caused the other red head to come over. "What do you see?"

Aura looked over at Amy before pointing at the soil. "Drills way over there right? So why is the soil moving?" The short clad woman glanced down to see little specks of dirt falling slightly.

"Doctor." she called. If Aura noticed something it was rule number two to let him know. Steam began rising from the dirt and the two redheads shuffled backwards. "Doctor!"

"Oh very not good." He said, pulling Aura to her feet. "The ground is moving. But why and how?

"Is it an earthquake?" Amy said, speaking over the flustered old man who had no idea why three people that shouldn't be here were just standing around looking at a hole in the floor that hadn't been there yesterday.

"Oh, I doubt it. Whatever's causing it is only happening under this room. As if to respond to his sentence the floor gave way in two more spots. He pulled Aura away from the holes. "It knows we are here. It's attacking. The ground's attacking us."
"That's not possible." The woman said a bit fearfully.

"Might I suggest, RUN." They all moved towards the exit. More holes began to open up as they ran and the older man wasn't quite agile enough to move around one that opened in front of him. He fell and his leg was engulfed in sand.

"Tony!"

Amy hurried over to the old man, leaping over the hole but the edge crumbled beneath her still unsteady feet. A cry left her lips as her foot became engulfed in sand. "Amy!" The Doctor cried rushing over to her. Aura had taken only a few steps forward when the Doctor's sharp voice shouted at her. "Don't!" He brandished his finger at her. "You stay over there."

Startled, the younger woman froze in place. He hadn't even yelled at her when the shadows had taken her so she found that she really didn't like him yelling at her.

The old man pulled free as Amy became dragged further down. Tony had no idea what to do to help the poor girl. He didn't want to fall back in and make an even more dire situation. "Turn off the drill." The Doctor yelled at him. Aura was having a hard time sitting still. Her lip was caught between her teeth as she worried it viciously. All the while, Amy just slipped further in despite the timelord's grip on her.

Aura grabbed the older man's arm, sick of sitting on the sidelines. She spun him to her and grabbed his jacket firmly in her hands, giving him a stern shake.

'No more.' A deep voice echoed in her head repeating over and over driving her forward. It thrummed in her very soul. She could help the red head. "Where are the controls?" She asked him in a hurried manner. "We need to shut off the drill." She wasn't sure if this would fix the problem but the Doctor had told them to do it and he was probably the smartest person in the vicinity and doing nothing wouldn't solve anything anyway.

The old man pointed shakily to the other room, both scared and confused by not only the situation but also by the girl. "Just through there." He muttered.

She tore out of the room. She shouldn't have too much difficulty turning it off. As everyone knew a machine didn't work without power. She passed through one of the rooms they had gone through to get here and into an official looking room. Quite a few consoles and monitors told her she was in the right place.

Green eyes took in every unlabeled button and switch. She had no idea what slowed down, turned off or even sped up the machine. Though she might not have to as both operators came panting into the room. They set to work with no hesitation.

Buttons were smashed and switches thrown but it was taking too long. Amy was being dragged down and there was so much to do to turn off the stupid thing. She knew that she had met Amy less than an hour ago. But the photo in the wallet played in her head.

A floppy haired Doctor who had his arm thrown over Aura's shoulder as he pulled her tightly into his embrace. The younger redhead who was leaning against her leg with a man she had yet to meet but must have been Amy's significant other by the kiss he was planting on the woman's cheek. Every person in the photo was smiling or mid laugh. It showed a sense of comradery that she had yet to experience.

The Doctor's words about time being rewritten were hanging threateningly at the back of her mind. She wasn't sure if that moment had come for Amy or not, but she wanted it. She wanted that moment in the picture more than anything else. And she didn't want anything to taint it.

"Tony, we've got to be faster." Nazreen pleaded to the old man. Aura looked around desperately for anything to help when her eyes landed on a gray box that was hanging on the wall. Thick metal cords attached at both ends. 'That'll work.'

The pale woman hurried to it and threw it open to reveal a large switch. With a cry of success she flipped the main power breaker and the room went black. Not only the room, she was sure the whole facility might have gone dark. But as luck would have it a screech and grinding sound was heard and then silence.

"What did you do? Do you know the damage you could have done to this machine?" She heard an angry man's voice but ignored it in favor of getting back to the Doctor. The enthusiasm died as she entered the room only to see the alien digging desperately at the soil.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no," He repeated, his hands working into dirt and rock that was no longer the soft sandy texture the top was. He was illuminated only by the light coming through a window. Aura moved forward to kneel beside him and gently wrapped her arms around the man's back, pulling him away from the dirt. Her green eyes looked sadly at the ground and his hands. They were dirty and black soil was lodged deeply under his nails. She rubbed his arms soothingly and pulled a little harder. Whatever pulled her down, digging her up with his hands wasn't going to bring her back. It shocked her when he spun burying his head in her chest and wrapping his arms around her so tightly that she was pulled from her knees.

Despite her shock, she moved a hand from around him and began to gently stroke his head. She said nothing, because what could she say?

The moment didn't last much longer as the female operator ran into the room. "Where is she?" The two workers looked around but neither could find the second red head.

A dark voice came from her chest area as the man spoke. "She's gone. The ground took her." He pulled back from the girl, looking her up and down as if to find an injury. When he was pleased that she had none he pulled her face forward kissing her brow and began to pace.

Aura looked ahead of her confused but accepted the kiss nonetheless. Her grey eyes watched the alien pace around the whole as he scanned it with his sonic. The older man seemed to not be able to take the silence. "Is..is that what happened to Mo? Is he…dead?"

The pale woman looked at Tony, he looked like he was preparing himself for the worst. No doubt this 'Mo' man was a close friend, maybe even his family.

"It's not quicksand. She didn't just sink. Something pulled her in. It wanted her." The Doctor explained. "When you got here this morning, someone was gone and the drill was stopped. You turn it back on and someone gets dragged down again." He hummed dropping down beside Aura to scan the ground again. This time it began to rumble as if the screwdriver's signal had somehow awoken it. "Oh, It's bio-programming."

"What?" The older woman asked.

"Bio-programming. Oh, it's clever. You use bio-signals to resonate the internal molecular structure of natural objects. It's mainly used in engineering and construction, mostly jungle planets, but that's way in the future and not here. What's it doing here?" He looked to Aura, who shrugged. The other two began protesting the things they had just heard. Saying it made no sense. Aura ignored them to place her hand directly onto the soil. It felt…odd. Like electricity and rumbling. She dug her fingers into the sand.

"Doctor," She cut him off accidentally. Feeling a bit bad that she hadn't been paying attention as the soil had caught her attention. He turned to look at her and he panicked as he saw her hand in the hole.

"Oi," He yanked her backwards, a little surprised to find no resistance as she toppled over into him. "What were you doing?" He didn't seem mad, more concerned.

"I felt rumbling."

"Rumbling? Yes, that is that feeling." He looked back to the woman and man. "We're not drilling right?"

"No, you girl turned off the power to the whole station." Tony said, still a little put out over it.

"If you're not drilling then who is?" The Doctor turned his head listening before laying on the ground to place his ear on the stone. He hopped up and began sonicking the computers. "Don't mind me. Just hacking into your records. Probe reports, samples, sensors. Good. Just unite the data, make it all one big conversation. Let's have a look. So, we are here and this is your drill hole. Twenty one point zero zero nine kilometers. Well done."

"Thank you." Nasreen looked a bit pleased. "It's taken us a long time."

"So why here, though?" He looked at the two workers. He had stopped mid rant to find the answer.

"Well," She began, taken aback. We found grasses in the area containing trace minerals that haven't been seen in this country for twenty million years."

"Oh, Nasreen. Those weren't X marking the spot, they were a warning. Stay away. Because while you've been drilling down, somebody else has been drilling up." He brandished his sonic at the screen, Aura watched the image on the screen expand leaving hundreds of tunnels reaching up. "Oh, beautiful. Network of tunnels all the way down." Little dots appeared on the screen moving upwards.

"What are those?" Nasreen asked.

"Heat signature. No wait, dual reading. Hot and cold. Well that doesn't make sense. And they are moving fast." The Doctor began packing up equipment and handing Aura some cords. "How many people are nearby? Grab that and follow me"

"Just my daughter and her son. The rest of the staff travel in." Tony said. "Why? What're we doing?"

"That noise isn't a drill, it's transport. Three of them, thirty kilometers down. Rate of speed looks about a hundred and fifty kilometers an hour. Should be here in ooo, quite soon. Twelve minutes. Whatever bio-programmed the Earth is on its way up, now." They had made it out of the facility with Tony pulling ahead with the second case. Aura however, fell back to assist Nasreen who was struggling with her wheelbarrow full of cords and more equipment.

Aura threw her cords in and grabbed the front of the wheelbarrow stabilizing it and helping her down the hills. Nasreen paused as they made it to the bottom. "What is that?"

Everyone looked up to see red lightning making a huge dome over the sky. The amnesiac girl's attention was grabbed by the Doctor's upset mutters. He pulled a slingshot from his pocket. "Why do you have a slingshot in your pocket?"

The Doctor took up a rock from nearby before casting her a mocking displeased look. "Why don't you have a slingshot in your pocket?"

"I guess, because I'm not weird." The Doctor said nothing to that as she shot the rock high letting it hit the barrier that had since turned invisible. Aura watched as the rock made contact and disintegrated. "Well, I guess we're trapped here, aren't we?"

"Yes, Energy barrier. Completely invisible to the eye. A no one in, no one out type deal." He concluded.

"Doctor," Aura saw the last remaining member of the group from her photo running up, just a bit out of breath. "Doctor, the graves are eating people." He looked around spotting the wrong redhead. "Hi Aura. Doctor, where is Amy at?"

A nervous energy surrounded the Doctor as he looked at Aura. "You help take the equipment inside and set everything up inside the church." He spun her to the suitcase he had laid down when when moved to shoot the rock.

"Tell me if you need help." The Doctor nodded but knew that he was not going. He had sidelined her so he wasn't about to let her get yelled at with him. "Tony, Nasreen. We need to set these up."

The equipment was set up by the time the Doctor had come back with the blonde. Neither man looked particularly thrilled and the alien moved to hug her. It didn't last long before she moved over to the blonde. He looked up to her sadly.

"Hi," He began, a kind of defeated tone in his words. "The Doctor said you don't know me?"

"Yeah, first time meeting. I'm Aura…or I guess you know that." She was nervous and uncomfortable. After all, Amy clearly had been someone special to him and she had failed to save her.

"I'm Rory." He held out a hand for her to shake. The two could hear the argument behind them but only glanced over to see the Doctor corralling the people and getting them on jobs. "This isn't my first time meeting you."

"I'm beginning to think that everyone of my 'friends' have met me way before I met them." She gave a dry laugh. "Are you okay?"

Rory looked at her for a few minutes before shaking his head sadly. "No. No, I'm not."

She used their still attached hands to pull the blonde into a tight hug. She had been giving a lot of them out lately. Rory didn't seem particularly put out by it in fact he held on to her for a moment as if his life depended on it.

"Come on," The Doctor's voice rang out, interrupting them as they looked at the hyperactive man. "I need any and all recording devices and we need them now."

The blonde nodded and gently moved the girl to follow the Doctor's instruction.

The floppy haired man snapped his fingers and pointed at Aura. "You come with me." She looked perplexed but followed along nonetheless. He had her coming over to a corner where he grabbed her shoulders and lowly whispered. "How's your head?"

"What?!" She put a hand to her forehead trying to feel if anything was wrong. "It's fine. Is there supposed to be anything wrong?"

"No, no. Bit ahead of myself. You got your purse. Let me see." He spoke quickly, not giving her a chance to hand him the bag as he took it. He dug through the contents, coming back empty handed. "Ah Well…you are still new."

"Am I missing something?" She spoke the words slowly.

"Yes, or you will be missing something. You just don't have it yet. Already gave it to you. Older you, so it hasn't happened to you yet." Aura spent a moment trying to work out that before she got it. She probably would have got it sooner if he hadn't been speaking so fast. "Time Travel. Have to word it just right."

He grabbed her hand and started to walk back towards the others who now had a pile of cameras and other things. "Good, good."

The group had spread out to hang cameras,and motion sensors and whatever else the Doctor said to the outside of the church. They hung them with bits of wire and tape and anything they could get their hands on. It was Aura's job to connect all the devices to the main computer in the church. She had been skeptical at first but the alien had shown her how to use his sonic screwdriver and given it to her.

Movement caught her eye as she was finishing up the last camera. She had seen the boy Elliot moving around the church with a drawing but he seemed to be finished and was moving away from the church now. "Rory," She called to the blonde. "Could you take this to the Doctor for me." She tossed him the sonic screwdriver which he struggled to catch without dropping on the ground. He looked at her confused and she shewed him away. "Go on. He's gonna need that."

Rory protested as she took off after the little boy. "I'll meet you at the church." She didn't hear his reply and she moved quickly through the trees. "Elliot." She had heard the name being called occasionally so she supposed that was his name. The boy rounded on her. "Where you running off to?"

"I'm Just going to get my headphones." He spoke shily.

"Alright," She held out her hand to him. "It's not safe to be going alone right now. Can I come with you?"

He nodded and grabbed her hand leading her to the final stretch of the house. Just as they got to the house, the sky began to darken. At first it was like a cloud had passed over the sun, but soon it fell into the darkness of a moonless night. "Elliot, let's hurry back." She led him back towards the church.

It was an eventless journey up until they could see the church in the distance. The ground beneath them rumbled then shook violently. Aura was knocked off balance and fell.

"Elliot. Run to the church now." She didn't know what was happening but she was pretty sure whatever the Doctor had been warning them about had just arrived. She got to her feet and ran after the little boy. They just had to get to the church.

The Doctor turned to get a head count. So much had happened in the last few seconds. "Elliot?" A cold feeling entered the Doctor's stomach. "Has anyone seen Elliot? Did he come in? Was he in when the door was shut? Who counted him back in? Who saw him last?"

Guilt was beginning to form in his stomach. "I did." He spoke up. He shouldn't have let the child go so close to the end of the count down.

"Well, where is he?" The mother asked impatiently.

"He said he was going to get his headphones." The words tasted like dirt on his tongue. An excuse for letting him leave. He had been preoccupied with setting everything up, he hadn't asked how long it would take to get to the house.

The mother's desperate face was morphing into tearful anger. "And you let him go? He was out there on his own?"

The alien wasn't sure what to say for himself, nothing would make up for what had occurred under his watch.

"No," Rory stood holding back the mother who was advancing on the Doctor. "No, he wasn't alone. Aura went with him." The blonde man looked back at the Doctor. "She's out there too."

Banging interrupted them. "Mum! Grandpa! Let me in. Please open the door. Somethings out here." The adults rushed to the door, only for it to be jammed again. Everyone pulled and yanked but the door was not giving way. A scream cut off the boy's cry for help and there was no sound from the other side.

The mother desperately began banging on the door with loud tearful screams. "Elliot!" As soon as the door gave way she was out looking around. "Elliot!" Her eyes were attracted to a glowing light just a few feet from the door. She bent down and a sob racked her throat. In her hands were the little headphones her son had gone back for. No sign of him or Aura. They were gone.