A/N: Sorry again for the long wait for an update, life got in the way again. But I'm working hard to get ahead with my writing now.

Rose was standing by the TARDIS, laughing at the couple running towards her. They were both smiling away, clasping the others hand tightly. "Come on you two." Rose called, as they got closer to her. "What am I going to do with both of you? I let you out of my sight for one minute and just look at the trouble you get into."

"Oh, come on, Rose. You can't say that you didn't have fun. That was brilliant." Kari said, as the Doctor opened the door for them.

A smile took over Rose's face. "Fine. It wasn't all bad." She begrudgingly admitted.

"At least we know my screwdriver works." Kari told her, twirling in it her hand proudly.

The Doctor just pushed her into the TARDIS as he opened the door. "Can we please get out of here now?" He wondered, wanting to get away as quickly as they could now.

Kari span around and faced the Doctor. "Aw, come on. We're in the TARDIS now. Any suggestion of where to go next?" She asked as she started darting around the console. They had actually had a really good day, even if she did get them into some slight trouble. But the Doctor didn't actually care, he was proud of her.

She had made her own sonic screwdriver, from scratch, and it worked perfectly. Of course he always knew that she would end up with one, he just never knew she went missing for three days to make it.

"Oh, I know! How about we…" Kari stopped in her tracks when she felt a pounding in her head. She glanced down at her hands and noticed the golden glow starting to grow around her. "Or maybe not." She mumbled.

"Oh, Kari. We'll see you soon, yeah?" The Doctor said, stepping up to her, giving her a quick hug and a light kiss on the lips. "Stay out of trouble."

"Yeah, course." Kari mumbled. She didn't feel much like going anywhere, but she knew she didn't have a choice. "Catch you later, Rose." She managed to call before she was completely taken by the light.

Eventually she heard someone let out a short laugh. "Vavoom." A woman's voice said as she looked at the huge writing on the cliff face. Kari knew exactly where she was, and where they were going next.

"Come along, Pond!" She heard the Doctor call. Kari looked around the corner and saw her favourite blue box. The Doctor disappeared inside of it, followed by Amy.

Kari realised that the Doctor didn't even know she was there yet. "You better not let him leave without me." She warned the TARDIS. That was when she heard the engines grind, the Doctor was trying to leave, but the TARDIS was actually refusing to go anywhere.

She took that as her chance and went over to the box, leaning against it. She knocked on the door, before darting around the corner. "Hello?" The Doctor called, opening the door and looking out.

Kari had to hold in her giggles as the Doctor shrugged and closed the door again. She waited until he tried to make the TARDIS dematerialise again before she knocked on the door again, this time a little louder.

The door was yanked open and a rather annoyed looking Doctor stuck his head out. Kari had to admit, she was enjoying seeing him look so frustrated, but she had to quickly move as he stepped out of the TARDIS and started walking around the box. She ran around the box and jumped over the threshold, charging up to the console.

"Hi, Amy." Kari called, ducking down and out of sight. "Act like I'm not here." She called, poking her head up and then back down again.

"Umm, hey Kari." Amy said, slightly confused.

All Kari had to do now was wait for the Doctor to come back in and close the door. And she didn't have to wait too long. He came back in, grumbling to himself.

"Everything alright, Doctor?" Amy asked, trying her best not to smile.

"Fine. It's fine." He mumbled, plonking himself down in the chair.

"So? Who was outside?" She asked, going and leaning on the railings beside where he was sat.

"No idea. Someone playing pranks." The Doctor said, seeming bored and fed up. Kari reached a hand up to the console and put her hand on the lever, knowing that the Doctor had already set the coordinates. She was all ready to send them off into the time vortex.

Amy just frowned at the Doctor. "Okay, what's wrong?" She asked him, knowing that he was now having one of his many moods.

"Oh, nothing."

Amy smirked at him when she spotted Kari peek up from over the console. "You miss Kari, don't you?" She asked him.

The Doctor let out a sigh. "Yeah. That knocking on the door is just the kind of thing she would do." Kari held in her giggles as she pulled the lever she was holding. "Oh, so now she wants to leave." The Doctor grumbled, getting up from the chair and stomping over towards the console.

Kari slowly crept around the console as the Doctor approached, pulling out her sonic screwdriver as she did. She managed to get around to the other side without the Doctor spotting her, she flashed Amy a grin as she went and put a finger up to her lips.

She turned on her screwdriver, and instantly the Doctor's head shot up. "What was that?" He quickly asked Amy.

The red head just shrugged her shoulders. "What was what?"

"I thought I heard something." He said, frowning.

Kari waited a few minutes before changing the pitch on her screwdriver and flicking it on again. "What is that noise?" The Doctor asked, creeping around the console, trying to find the noise.

Luckily Amy sent a warning to Kari, and she managed to sneak out of the way. "Doctor, are you sure you're okay? You're acting a little more weird than normal." Amy asked, trying to act normal.

"Are you telling me you really didn't hear that noise?" He asked, frowning. She just shrugged her shoulders at him and he let out a sigh. "I must be missing Kari more than I thought. I swear I keep hearing her screwdriver."

Kari couldn't take it anymore, it was fun at first, but now she knew it was getting to the Doctor. It was upsetting him, and that wasn't what she wanted to do. She crawled out from where she was hiding and sat down in the chair that the Doctor had been in. Once she was sitting down, she turned her screwdriver on again.

She heard the Doctor let out a sigh, but he didn't bother to look up this time. Kari rolled her eyes and put her sonic screwdriver back in her pocket, knowing that her fun was over. "Oh well, how you doing Amy?" She asked, looking at her friend.

"I'm okay. What about you? What have you been up to?" Amy asked her, glancing at the Doctor who hadn't seemed to notice she was talking to anyone.

"The usual, running, saving the universe. I finally got myself a sonic screwdriver, I actually had to make it myself." She said, waiting for the Doctor to actually notice her.

The TARDIS landed and the Doctor finally looked up at Amy. "We've land…" He trailed off when he spotted Kari sitting in the chair. "Kari?" She just grinned at him and nodded. "Oh, it was you, you little sneak." He said, bounding over to her and yanking her out of the chair and into a hug.

"Well really, Doctor, who else was it going to be?" Kari asked him, knowing that he really couldn't answer her. "Nice to know you recognise the sound of my screwdriver though."

The Doctor let a huge grin take over the whole of his face. "Well come on then. Let's go and see what Doctor Song wants." He said, grabbing Kari's hand and Amy's arm, pulling them outside of the TARDIS.

"Right place?" Amy asked, looking around at where they had landed. They seemed to be on the outskirts of a wood.

"Just followed the coordinates on the cliff face. Earth, Britain. 1.02 am." The Doctor said, looking down at his watch. "No, pm."

Kari giggled a little and looked down the hill and across the field. "My dear Doctor, I believe the correct term you are looking for is AD." She corrected him, looking at the Roman camp before them.

"That's a Roman Legion." Amy said, a little lost for words. Kari just grinned at her, she knew what was coming next.

"Well, yeah. The Romans invaded Britain several times during this period." The Doctor told her, taking a better hold of Kari's hand.

Oh, I know. My favourite topic at school." Amy said, a smirk on her face.

"Invasion of the hot Italians." Both Amy and Kari said, causing them both to laugh.

When they eventually stopped Amy let a frown set on her face. "Yeah, I did get marked down for the title."

"I think it's the perfect title. Amy, I think we have made it to heaven. We are surrounded by hot Italians." Kari said, causing the Doctor to tug on her hand and get her attention.

She turned to him, confusion in her eyes. "So what am I then?" He asked her.

"Well, you're not Italian." Kari told him, knowing exactly what he was thinking. It was similar to what happened with Rose and the Doctor back in 1941. "So I can't really call you a hot Italian, because you're not." She noticed his face fall a little. "But I can call you something else." Kari pulled the Doctor down and whispered into his ear. "A hot Time Lord."

When the Doctor stood back up, his face was red and he was adjusting his bow tie. Amy was in a fit of laughter. "What did you say to him?" She asked when she could finally breath.

Kari just grinned. "Spoilers."

"Hail, Caesar!" A soldier called as he ran up to the trio. "Welcome to Britain. We are honoured by your presence." He said, bowing.

"Well, you're only human. Arise, Roman person." The Doctor said, waving his hand and pretending to be important.

"Why does he think you're Caesar?" Amy whispered to him.

"I really need to get me some hallucinogenic lipstick." Kari said, pointing at the smudged lipstick on the man's face.

"Cleopatra will see you now." The soldier said, before leading them through the camp and towards a certain tent. He bowed before leading us inside.

"Hello, sweetie, darling." River said, lounging about like she owned the place.

"River. Hi." Amy said, looking at the woman, a little in shock.

"You graffitied the oldest cliff face in the universe." The Doctor said, wagging a finger at River.

"You wouldn't answer your phone." She told him, before looking over at Kari. "And you, well, I couldn't even find you anywhere."

Kari looked at the floor a little sheepishly. "Yeah, sorry. Been here there and everywhere, if you know what I mean. You should have tried the psychic paper."

River just frowned at her. "I did. None of my messages got through to you?" She asked curiously. Kari just shook her head. If she had heard something from River, she would have acted on it if it were important. "Well, you're here now." She said, before clapping her hands.

The slaves that had been in the tent left and River held out a roll of paper to the Doctor. "What is this?" He asked her.

"It's a painting. Your friend Vincent. One of his final works." River told him as he started to unroll it. "He had visions, didn't he? I thought you ought to know about this one."

"Doctor? Doctor, what is this?" Amy asked, looking at the painting. Kari just let out a sigh as she saw Vincent's interpretation of the TARDIS exploding. "Why is it exploding?"

"I assume it's some kind of warning." River told her, while Kari and the Doctor just carried on looking at the painting.

"What, something's going to happen to the TARDIS?" It was clear that Amy was shaken up, and a little scared.

"It might not be that literal." Kari said, the same time as River, only a lit quieter than anyone would have liked.

"Anyway, this is where he wanted you. Date and map reference on the door sign, see?" River said, pointing to the door of the TARDIS in the painting.

"Does it have a title?" He asked, a bad feeling washing over him.

"The Pandorica Opens." Kari said, just before River had the chance to open her mouth. "And before you ask, Amy, it's a box, or a cage, or a prison. It was built to hold the most feared thing in all the universe."

"And it's a fairy tale, a legend. It can't be real." The Doctor protested, pulling Kari closer to him and wrapping his arms around her.

"If it is real, its here and it's opening, and it's got something to do with your TARDIS exploding." River said, looking at the Doctor and Kari. Kari just shook her head and grabbed hold of a map and spread it out on the table. "Hidden, obviously. Buried for centuries. You won't find it on a map." River protested.

Kari just turned and grinned at her when the Doctor searched he map. "No, but if you buried the most dangerous thing in the universe, you'd want to remember where you put it." She knew where they would be heading next, and she was actually looking forward to it.

"We need to go right… there." Kari said, pointing to the place where Stonehenge was located.

"All knowing?" The Doctor asked her. All Kari could do was nod at him, she knew where they were going, she knew what was going to happen, and part of it, she really wasn't looking forward to. "Right, come on then, we need to get going."

The four of them rode across the fields and towards the monument. The Doctor and River were both worried about how quiet Kari was being. She was just staring ahead, like she was lost in her own little world.

As soon as they arrived, the Doctor was helping Kari off her horse. That was when she finally came back to her senses and realised where they were.

"How come it's not new?" Amy asked, as Kari, the Doctor and River all started scanning the stones.

"Because it's already old. It's been here thousands of years. No one knows exactly how long." River told her as she checked back down at her handheld computer.

"Okay, this Pandorica thing. Last time we saw you, the Doctor and I, you warned us about it, after we climbed out of the Byzantium." The red head told her, trying to understand.

"Spoilers." River and Kari both called.

"Seriously, Amy? Have you honestly not figured out how this all works yet?" Kari asked, as she frowned at her friend.

"No, but you told the Doctor you'd see him again when the Pandorica opens." Amy pressed.

River stopped and looked at her. "Maybe I did, but I haven't yet. But I will have." She turned and looked at the Doctor and Kari. "I'm picking up fry particles everywhere. Energy weapons discharged on this site." She told them.

"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. We need to get down there." The Doctor said, looking at Kari carefully.

"What?" She said. "Why are you looking at me like that?" Kari backed away from him a little.

"Kari, I want you to be honest with me. Do you know what is in there?" His tone was very serious, and Kari knew she couldn't lie to him.

She nodded. "Yes. But there is no way I am ever going to tell you, so don't even ask." Kari said, making sure he understood from the look in her eyes that she did not want to talk about it any further.

"Hey, Kari, darling, I need your help." River called to her. After a few more moments of having a staring competition with the Doctor, she walked over to River.

"What's up, River? What do you need me to do?" Kari asked, stuffing her hands into her rather large pockets. Yes, they were bigger on the inside, all of her pockets were now, thanks to the TARDIS.

"I have something to give you." She said, pulling a leather strap out from her own pocket. "You always said you wanted one, and well, I was going to give it to you as a birthday present." River told her.

Kari looked at it, she knew exactly what it was. "This better not have come of the wrist of my handsome Jack." She mumbled.

"Who?" River asked.

"My friend, Jack. He was a time agent." Kari said, inspecting it. "Well, it's not Jack's by the looks of it, and it looks nothing like John's either." She turned it over in her hand and flipped the cover over. "Nope. Definitely not Jacks. That's a relief."

"How many time agents do you know?" River asked her, slight astonished that she knew even one.

"Oh, not that many. I take it you still have your one?" River nodded and pulled another one out form her pocket. Kari took it off her and looked it over. "Nah, you're fine. Not his either. I don't like the thought of someone chopping his hand off to get his vortex manipulator."

"Oh, I've missed your weirdness, Kari." River said, randomly hugging her.

"I've… miss you as well River." She said hugging her back. "Hey! Did you just call me weird?" She called, pushing her away a little. River just grinned at her. "Oh, okay. Fine. Yes, I am weird." She relented. "And thank you, River. This is going to come in pretty handy."

"Kari, you have to be careful. Don't let the Doctor know that you have it." River warned her.

"Oh, believe me, I won't. He'd probably take it off me. Or break it, like he did with Jack's." Kari rambled, going off into her own little world. She had been thinking about Jack a lot recently. Ever since New Earth and the whole business with Cassandra.

She couldn't really explain why. Maybe it was because of what he had said to her, about dark days to come. Kari knew that life with the Doctor was never easy, and always full of danger. But she had accepted that, and she wouldn't want it any other way.

"Kari? Everything okay?" River asked her in concern. She had been standing still and staring into space for almost ten minutes.

She shook herself out of her thoughts. "Me? I'm fine, just thinking of an old friend. Not sure when I'm going to see him again. You know how complicated my life is." River just nodded at her and set about getting down to the Pandorica.

Kari looked over at the Doctor, and saw he was staring at her as well, looking worried. "One day, Doctor. One day…" She trailed off.

"One day what?" She heard him call back into her mind.

She just shook her head. "Nothing, never mind."

"Kari, talk to me. I'm worried about you." He told her, not taking his eye away from her.

"Really, Doctor, it's nothing." That was when she realised what she had been doing. "Hang on, since when could I talk to you in your mind? And how the hell did you get into mine?" She asked him, panicking a little. She knew things she didn't want him to see, things that he couldn't ever know.

"One of my tawdry quirks." He told her, flashing her a grin. "You'll understand one day." Kari just rolled her eyes at him and went and stood with Amy while he and River got to work.

It was already dark by the time they had finished and everything was set. "Right then, ready?" River asked, before the large stone on the ground began to shift to the side.

"The Underhenge." Kari and the Doctor said together, before heading down. They both had their sonic screwdrivers in their hands to help them light the way. Kari was actually rather proud that hers was producing more light than the Doctor's.

At the bottom of the stairs, they were faced with a large set of doors. The Doctor used his screwdriver to light one of the torchers, while Kari lit the one on the other side. She then helped River and the Doctor remove the long wooden plank that barred the door.

They pushed the doors open, holding the torches, and stepped into the room. What they saw was a large and strange looking box in the room. "The Pandorica." Kari announced as she stepped closer to it.

"More than just a fairy tale." River commented, taking a good look at the box.

The Doctor stepped up to the box and began to inspect it closely, putting his hand against it. "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."

"How did it end up in there?" Amy asked, watching as Kari leaned against the box.

"You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it." Kari said, before the Doctor had the chance to open his mouth.

River just smirked at her. "I hate good wizards in fairy tales."

"They always turn out to be him." Kari said at the same time as River.

"You can talk, darling. You're always the fair maiden that's with him." Kari just shrugged at her, not really caring if that was what she was known as.

"So, it's kind of like Pandora's Box, then?" Amy asked. "Almost the same name." She pointed out.

"Sorry, what?" The Doctor asked, trying not to get too distracted with what Amy was saying.

"The story, Pandora's Box, with all the worst things in the world in it. That was my favourite book when I was a kid." She told him, earning a strange look from him. "What's wrong?"

"Your favourite school topic. Your favourite story. Never ignore a coincidence, unless you're busy. In which case, always ignore a coincidence." The Doctor said, turning his attention back to the strange box.

"So can you open it?" River asked him.

"Course he can, River." Kari told her. "He is the Doctor after all. Anyone can break into a prison. But he'd rather know what he's going to find first. And my guess is we won't have to wait long, right?"

River nodded at her. "It's already opening. There are layers and layers of security protocols in there, and they're being disabled, one by one."

"Like it's being unlocked from the inside?" Kari asked her. River nodded back at her.

"How long do we have?" The Doctor asked Kari, knowing that she knew so much more than she was going to let on.

"Hours if you're lucky. But don't count on it." She told him.

The Doctor let out a sigh. He just wanted her to tell him everything, but he knew she couldn't. "What kind of security?" He asked.

"Everything." River answered for Kari, seeing her look a little uncomfortable. "Deadlocks, time stops, matter lines."

"What could need all that?" the Doctor wondered.

"What could get past all that?" River said, a slight hint of panic in her tone.

"Think of the fear that went into making this box. What could inspire that level of fear?" He asked, looking directly at Kari. She couldn't look him in the eyes, and that just told him that she knew what was in there. "Hello, you. Have we met?" He asked, resting his head against the box.

"So why would it start to open now?" River asked the Doctor.

"No idea."

"And how could Vincent have known about it? He won't even be born for centuries." Amy asked, as Kari went and stood next to her. Kari had now put her torch in one of the holders while Amy had been forced to take the one the Doctor had lit.

"The stones." Kari told her. "The stones are great big transmitters, broadcasting a warning to everyone, everywhere, to every time zone. The Pandorica is opening." Both River and the Doctor turned and looked at her with wide eyes.

The Doctor started scanning the stones with his screwdriver, only to find out that she was right.

"Kari, everyone everywhere?" River asked. Kari just nodded back to her, a grim look on her face as she did.

"Even poor Vincent heard it, in his dreams. But what's in there? What could justify all this?" The Doctor wondered out loud.

"Doctor, everyone?" River asked him, trying to get his attention as well as confirmation of what Kari had said.

"Anything that powerful, I'd know about it. Why don't I know?" He moaned, started to get very frustrated.

"Doctor, calm down." Kari said, walking over to him and placing a hand on his arm. "Everything… everything will be fine." She told him, but actually struggling to believe her own words. There was so much about this that was worrying her. She didn't know what part she was going to play, and that scared her more than facing a fleet of Daleks.

"Doctor, Kari said everyone could hear it. So who else is coming?" River asked, her voice breaking a little as she did. She was trying to stay strong, but even she could see it was worrying Kari. And she knew from experience that if Kari was worried, then everyone else should be petrified.

Kari pulled herself away from the Doctor and started doing something to the stones with her screwdriver.

"Oh." He said, realising what was really going on.

"Oh? Oh, what?" Amy asked, still having no clue as to what the trio had been talking about.

"Okay. If it is basically a transmitter, we should be able to fold back the signal." River said, looking at her scanner in her hand.

"Doing it now, River." Kari called, running from one stone pillar to the next.

"Doing what?" Amy asked, getting annoyed that she was the only one who didn't know what was happening.

"Stonehenge is transmitting. It's been transmitting for a while, so who heard?" River informed her.

"Okay, should be feeding back to you now." Kari called, turning her screwdriver off and holding onto it tightly.

"River, what's out there?" The Doctor called, getting more and more worried.

"Give me a moment."

Kari let out a sigh. "At least ten thousand starships. River, you're computer won't even be able to handle the amount that's up there. There's too many readings, too many ships around this planet."

"What kind of starships?" The Doctor asked her.

Before Kari had the chance to tell him, a sound came through River's handheld computer. "MAINTANING ORBIT" A familiar voice called through it, echoing slightly in the room.

Amy tensed up in fear. "Daleks. Those are Daleks."

The Daleks kept on talking, while Kari went and stood next to him. She knew just how much he hated them, and why. "Daleks, Doctor." River called, trying to get him out of his little trance.

"Doctor…" Kari called softly, getting him to look at her.

"Yes. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Dalek fleet, minimum twelve thousand battleships, armed to the teeth. Ah! But we've got surprise on our side. They'll never expect four people to attack twelve thousand Dalek battleships." The Doctor said, trying to get his brain to work

Kari just rolled her eyes at him. "Because we'd be killed instantly. So it would be a fairly short surprise."

"Forget surprise." He said, before something else came through on the scanner. It was a different sound to that of the Daleks.

"Doctor, Cyberships." River told him, looking over at Kari who nodded at her.

"No, Dalek ships. Listen to them. Those are Dalek ships." The Doctor told her.

"Yeah, those are Dalek ships. But these are Cyberships. Daleks and Cybermen, that's the least of our worries." Kari mumbled the last past to herself.

"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."

"Hmm, yeah, because that worked so well last time didn't it? Four Daleks, a whole arm of Cybermen all across the world. We know it wouldn't take long for that fight to be over." Kari said, earning a very fierce glare from the Doctor. "River, what else is out there?"

"Sontaran. Four battle fleets."

"Sontarans! Talk about cross, who stole all their handbags?" The Doctor called, turning on the spot. He was getting more and more agitated now.

River continued to look at her scanner and began to read out the other readings she was getting. "Terileptil, Slitheen, Chelonian, Nesteen, Drahin, Sycorax, Haemogoth, Zygon, Atraxi, Draconian. They're all here for the Pandorica."

"What are you? What could you possibly be?" The Doctor asked, getting close up to the box again.

"Come on, outside. Now." Kari ordered. River was the first to follow her, Amy right behind. It took the Doctor a little longer to join them, but eventually he came.

"What do we do?" Amy asked, looking at the amount of ships lighting up the night sky.

"Doctor, listen to me. Everything that ever hated you and Kari is coming here tonight. You can't win this. You can't even fight it. Doctor, this once, just this one time, please, you have to run." River begged him.

"Run where?" The Doctor asked her.

"Fight how?" She hissed at him, knowing he had no chance against everything that was up there waiting for him.

"Oh, shut up the pair of you. We have something better than the Daleks. Mightier than the Cybermen and frankly a lot more good looking than the Sontarans." Kari called, resulting in everyone looking at her strangely. "Romans."

River couldn't help but let out a little laugh. "Brilliant. I'll take care of that."

"Course you will, River. But just… be careful. Not everything is what it seems. Remember that." She warned her.

River rode off and back to the army of Romans while Kari, the Doctor and Amy headed back inside and down to the Pandorica. "What did you tell River that for?" The Doctor whispered to her.

She shrugged at him. "Just a little bit of advice. Don't worry, it wasn't a spoiler." She assured him.

A/N: Okay, so I had fun writing this one, and it will be different with what happened with Summer in my other story. And we're finally getting to the big secret. In about another 3 chapters, ish.

Again, I am sorry for my lack of updates, and the time between them, I"m not so ill any more but I'm back at uni.

Now, you all know how much I love your reviews, they really do make me smile. Especially when I check my email in the middle of a lecture and read them. Sure, it gets me into trouble some times, but it makes me smile.

I have got the next chapter written, so it will be up at the weekend. Love you all lots and lots!

Pippa.