A/N: Hey guys, I am really sorry for the late update. I should have posted last week, but been so busy with Uni work. Hope you enjoy the rest of this episode.
"Who are you both?" Amy asked, looking at both Kari and the Doctor closely.
"You know who we are, Amy. Please, just look at the sky. We have twenty minutes till the end of the world." Kari told her, giving her a pleading looking, even though she knew it wasn't going to work.
"Well, better talk quickly then."
The man who owned the car was looking at the three people, and the strange confrontation that was going on. "Er, Amy, I am going to need my car back." He told her.
"Yes, in a bit. Now go and have coffee." She told him, not taking her eyes from the Doctor and Kari.
As the man walked away, Kari reached into the Doctor's pocket and pulled out an apple, tossing it to Amy. "Catch." The Doctor said, knowing exactly what she was doing. "I'm the Doctor, and this is my Kari. We're time travellers. Everything we told you twelve years ago is true. We're real. What's happening in the sky is real, and if you don't let us go right now, everything you've ever know is over."
Amy looked at the apple in her hand, the apple with the face carved into it, the one she had given him all those years ago. "I don't believe you." She said, shaking her head.
"Just twenty minutes. Just believe us for twenty minutes. Look at it. Fresh as the day you gave it to me. And you know it's the same one. Amy, believe for twenty minutes." The Doctor pleaded with her.
A moment later, the car was unlocked, setting both Kari and the Doctor free. "What do we do?"
"Stop that nurse." The Doctor called, grabbing Kari's hand and pulling her along with him as they jumped over a small hanging fence and over to the nurse that was definitely not paying any attention to the sun. "The sun's going out, and you're photographing a man and a dog. Why?" The Doctor asked him, grabbing his phone and looking at it.
The Doctor and Kari both just ignored the little interaction between Amy and the nurse. Kari already knew who he was, Rory Williams, currently Amy's boyfriend and soon to be fiancé and then husband. "Rory Williams, why were you taking a picture of a man and a dog?" Kari asked, getting everyone's attention.
"Oh, my God. It's them." Rory said, looking at the pair, Kari holding onto the Doctor's arm tightly, just because she could. "It's him though. The Doctor. The Raggedy Doctor. And Kari, his Golden Angel."
"Yeah, they came back." Amy said, the embarrassment creeping into her cheeks.
"But they were a story. It was a game."
Kari let out a groan. "Rory, focus. Man and dog, why? Explain it right now." She demanded, getting his attention.
The man in the nurses scrubs looked a little taken back. "Sorry. Because he can't be there. Because he's…"
"In a hospital, in a coma." Rory, Kari and the Doctor all said at the same time.
"Knew it. Multiform, you see? Disguise itself as anything, but it needs a live feed. A psychic link with a living, but dormant mind." The Doctor said, before a man started barking at them. "Prisoner Zero." He said, turning to look at him.
"What? There's a Prisoner Zero as well?" Rory asked, looking from the man and then to Amy, who quickly told him there was.
A moment later, an eyeball encased in what looked like a snowflake came zooming down and started scanning. "See, that spaceship up there is scanning this area for non-terrestrial technology. And nothing says non-terrestrial like a sonic screwdriver." The Doctor said, using his screwdriver to make the streetlights all explode and car alarms blare. Even a fire engine started up and went off on its own. "I think someone's going to notice, don't you?" He said, turning up the setting, as the spaceship got closer. Only as the red phone box exploded, so did his screwdriver. "No, no! No, don't do that!" He cried, looking at his burnt out screwdriver.
Rory looked up at the sky and saw the spaceship turning away from where they were. "Look, it's going."
"No, come back. He's here! Come back! He's here. Prisoner Zero is here. Come back, he's here!" The Doctor shouted, as the man and the dog just melted down the drain.
"Oh lovely. Now he's gone. Come on then, Doctor. No TARDIS, no screwdriver and seventeen minutes. Time to put that brain of yours to good use." Kari told him, tugging at his arm. "Rory, you have pictures of all the coma patients on your phone right?" he nodded at her. "Brilliant, eight comas, eight disguises for Prisoner Zero. And no, there isn't a dog in a coma, the man dreams he is walking a dog, so Prisoner Zero gets a dog."
"Laptop!" The Doctor shouted. "Your friend, what was his name? Not him, the good-looking one." He said pointing to Rory.
"Oi! Don't be rude to Rory." Kari said, whacking the Doctor on the chest.
"Jeff." Amy said, ignoring the fact that Kari was defending her boyfriend.
"He had a laptop in his bag. A laptop. Big bag, big laptop. I need Jeff's laptop. You two, get to the hospital." The Doctor said, looking at Amy and Rory. "Get everyone out of that ward. Clear the whole floor. Phone me when you're done." He said, before once again dragging Kari with him and back to the house they had barged into earlier.
"Er, word of warning, Doctor." Kari said, getting his attention. "Don't look at Jeff's laptop screen for too long." He just gave her a weird look before they once again charged into the house and to Jeff's bedroom.
"Hello. Laptop. Give me." The Doctor demanded, tugging it from Jeff even though he protested against it. "It's fine. Give it here." He said, before seeing exactly what Jeff was looking at. "Blimey. Get a girl friend, Jeff."
Kari knew that she was going to be pretty useless, and decided to go and keep an eye out, just in case Prisoner Zero decided to show up on the village in another disguise, even though she knew it would be at the hospital with Amy and Rory now.
Once she was outside, she pulled her phone out of her pocket. It was the only thing she had on her, and she was surprised that it hadn't been damaged with the amount of swimming she had done recently. Kari scrolled through the numbers and stopped when she reached the one she was looking for.
"Hey Princess, you want to explain what this force field is?" Jack asked, not even bothering to say hello.
She let out a slight groan. "Alien convict, Atraxi are getting ready to boil the planet unless the Doctor fixes it. Which he will, so no need to worry about it."
"Great, so what did you really call me for?" He knew her much better than she thought, he could just tell when something was going on.
"Uh, no real reason. Just bored while the Doctor writes his little virus and everything." She said, letting out a sigh. She had been pulled straight into the Doctor's regeneration and now everything was catching up with her. "He, uh… the Doctor just regenerated. He is really kooky now, even when he is trying to save the world."
Jack chuckled at the end of the line. "You trying to tell me that the Doctor wasn't kooky before?"
She let out a sigh. "Of course he was, he's the Doctor. I think I need a day off, Jack. I'm completely wiped out and emotionally exhausted. I love the Doctor to bits, but I think I need a day of rest, and the Doctor never rests."
"Well, maybe it's time you came and spent some time with your big brother, Jack." The American suggested. "I miss you, Princess. We all do."
Kari closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "I promise I will come and see you soon, Jack. So much has happened, since I last saw you. I need my big brother." She told him just as she noticed the Doctor charging out of the house once more. "I got to go, Jack. My mad man has a plan and is heading my way." Jack just laughed at the other end of the line before saying goodbye.
"Who were you talking to?" The Doctor asked her, dragging her over to the fire engine that had gone on the run earlier.
"Just Jack. He said hello and told me that I need to go and visit him soon." Kari told him, jumping into the vehicle and grabbing the phone from the Doctor, just as it started ringing. "Amy, look in the mirror. We're on our way." She said, before ending the call.
The Doctor glanced at Kari as he drove the fire engine towards the hospital. "Everything okay, Kari?"
She let out a sigh and nodded at him. "Yeah, I'm just a little exhausted. Oh, and Prisoner Zero is at the hospital, but don't worry, Amy works it out. So, we need to head to the first floor on the left, forth window from the end." The Doctor smiled at her as they got closer to the hospital, and Kari sent Rory a message to duck.
A moment later the window was smashed by the ladder of the engine, and Kari and the Doctor climbed through the window. "Right. Hello. Am I late?" The Doctor asked, looking up at the clock. "No, three minutes to go. So still time."
"Time for what, Time Lord?" The woman with two young girls holding onto her hands asked him.
"Take the disguise off. They'll find you in a heartbeat. Nobody dies." The Doctor told her, making sure to keep a tight grip on Kari's hand.
The woman, or Prisoner Zero, just looked at him. "The Atraxi will kill me this time. If I am to die, let there be fire."
Kari let out a groan, she knew what was coming next and that it was something that was going to bother the Doctor for a while. "Okay. You came to this world by opening a crack in space and time. Do it again. Just leave." He suggested.
"I did not open the crack." Prisoner Zero told him, a smile on the face of the woman he was disguised as.
"Somebody did."
Her smile grew wider as it dawned on her. "The cracks in the skin of the universe, don't you know where they came from?" The Doctor just looked at her blankly while Kari shifted uncomfortably. "You don't, do you? She does." She said, nodding at Kari who was now gazing at the ground. "The Doctor in the TARDIS doesn't know. Doesn't know. Doesn't know." The woman sang, in a little girls voice. "The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall." The woman told him.
The Doctor just ignored her and looked up at the clock on the wall behind her. "And we're off!" He announced, cheerfully. "Look at that. Look at that!" He said, pointing to the clock that was now just full of zeros. "Yeah, I know, just a clock. Whatever. But do you know what's happening right now? In one little bedroom, my team are working. Jeff and the world. And do you know what they're doing? They're spreading the word all over the world, quantum fast. The word is out. And do you know what that word is?" The Doctor asked.
"The word is Zero." Kari said along with the Doctor, getting him to beam at her.
"Now, me, if I was up in the sky in a battleship, monitoring all Earth communications, I'd probably take that as a hint. And if I had a whole battle fleet surrounding the planet, I'd be able to track a simple old computer virus to its source in, what, under a minute?" The Doctor said, getting a nod from Kari. "The source, by the way, is right here." He said holding up the phone. The moment he did, a light shone through the window. "Oh, and I think they just found us."
Prisoner Zero scoffed at the Doctor and his confidence. "The Atraxi are limited. While I'm in this form, they'll still be unable to detect me. They've tracked a phone, not me."
"Yeah, but this is the good bit. I mean, this is my favourite bit." The Doctor told her, still smiling away. "Do you know what this phone is full of? Pictures of you. Every form you've learned to take, right here. Ooh, and being uploaded about now." He said, uploading the most current form. "And the final score is, no TARDIS, no screwdriver, two minutes to spare. Who da man?" He asked, clearly pleased with himself.
Kari shook her head, while Amy, Rory and Prisoner Zero looked at him like he was mad. "Sorry dear, not good." Kari whispered to him.
"Oh, I'm never saying that again. Fine." He said, a tiny bit upset that he hadn't impressed anyone.
"Then I shall take a new form." Prisoner Zero announced, before Kari pulled away from the Doctor and rushed over to Amy, catching her just before she hit the ground, completely unconscious.
"Amy, I know you can hear me." Kari whispered to her. "That's why your dreaming of the Doctor and I, because you can hear me, you know we're here." She said, while the Doctor focused on the image of himself, Kari and a young Amelia Pond. "Listen to me, Amy. Remember what you saw in that spare room, the room that you had missed for so many years. Think of what you saw in there, the ugly sharp teeth. Dream about it and end this." She whispered. "You can save the world, Amelia Jessica Pond."
"No. No! No!" Prisoner Zero cried, as the form changed into what Amy saw in her spare room.
"Well done, Prisoner Zero. A perfect impersonation of yourself." The Doctor announced, as the Atraxi located the convict and trapped it.
"Silence, Doctor. Silence will fall." It hissed, before being beamed up to the Atraxi ship.
"Right, Doctor, you need to make a call." Kari told him, handing him the phone as Rory dealt with a waking up Amy.
He smiled at her, giving her a quick peck on the lips before working away on the phone. "Oi, I didn't say you could go!" He shouted down the phone. "Article fifty seven of the Shadow Proclamation. This is a fully established level five planet, and you were going to burn it? What? Did you think no-one was watching? You lot, back here, now." He said, before ending the call and passing the phone to Rory. "Okay, now I've done it."
Rory just looked at him as he took Kari's hand and led her out of the room. "Did he just bring them back? Did he just save the world from aliens and them bring all the aliens back again?"
"Yes, he did!" Kari shouted while she was being dragged. "And now we're heading for the roof!"
Amy and Rory were quick to catch up to them on their way to the roof. But the Doctor stopped and dragged Kari into a locker room with him. "What's in here?" Amy asked, looking at the Doctor as he started pick up shirts and other clothing, before tossing them around.
"I'm saving the world, I need a decent shirt." The Doctor announced. "To hell with the raggedy. Time to put on a show."
"You just summoned aliens back to Earth." Rory pointed out, as the Doctor picked up yet another shirt. "Actual aliens, deadly aliens, aliens of death, and now you're taking your clothes off." He said, as the Doctor took his torn and scorched shirt off. "Amy, he's taking his clothes off."
"Turn your back if it embarrasses you." The Doctor said, as Kari picked out a shirt for him.
"Are you stealing clothes now? Those clothes belong to people, you know." Rory said, before turning around, glancing at Amy, who was still watching. "Are you not going to turn your back?"
Amy just stood there with her arms folded in front of her chest and a smirk on her face. "Nope."
That was when Kari turned to look at her. "Oh, I think you are Miss Pond. Rory, take her outside." She said. A moment later, it was just Kari and the Doctor left in the locker room. "You know, I think I have the perfect outfit for you." She told him, quickly picking through everything and gathering together what she knew he would end up wearing.
All the Doctor could do was smile at her. "What would I do without you, my Kari?" He said, making her chuckle a little.
"So this was a good idea, was it? They were leaving." Amy asked, following the Doctor and Kari onto the roof now that he was pretty much dressed. The only think missing was a tie around his neck, but Kari was already picking through them, trying to find the one she liked the most.
"Leaving is good. Never coming back is better." The Doctor told her, before looking up at the spaceship that was looking at them, the one with the eyeball. "Come on, then! The Doctor will see you now!" He shouted, getting the ship to drop onto the roof.
The eye scanned the Doctor and Kari, since she was standing right next to him. "You are not of this world." The Atraxi announced once it had finished it scan.
"No, but we've put a lot of work into it." He said, plucking one of the ties from Kari's hand. "Hmm, I don't know. What do you think?" He was answered with her yanking it out of his hand and tossing it to Rory.
"Is this world important?"
"Important? What's that mean, important? Six billion people live here. Is that important?" The Doctor asked the eyeball. "Here's a better question. Is this world a threat to the Atraxi? Well, come on. You're monitoring the whole planet. Is this world a threat?"
"No." It replied, after scanning through the world's history.
The Doctor smiled a little. "Are the peoples of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi?" Once again, the reply was a no. "Okay, one more. Just one." The Doctor said, gaining his confidence. "Is this world protected? Because you're not the first lot to come here. Oh, there have been so many. And what you've got to ask is, what happened to them?"
A projection came up of so many of the Doctor's enemies, the Daleks, Cybermen, Autons, too many for Kari to name. And then came the images of the Doctor, and Kari noticed that in each one, she was there beside him as well. The whole time, she was there, and that made her smile.
"Hello, I'm the Doctor." He said, stepping forward after having picked a bow tie and letting Kari fix it for him. "Basically, run." As soon as he had said that, the ship zoomed off, Amy and Rory watching it leave in awe.
Kari looked up at the Doctor as she saw him reaching in his pocket for something. Both their eyes lit up as they realised the TARDIS key was burning, telling them she was ready and waiting for them. Without a second thought, they took off, forgetting all about Amy and Rory. Kari felt a little bad about this again, because the Doctor was just dragging her and she didn't have a chance to warn her that they were going to be late once more.
"Okay, what have you got for us this time?" The Doctor asked, stroking the side of the TARDIS before looking at Kari. "You ready?"
She smirked at him. "Oh, I'm already ready." She told him, as he opened the door and they stepped inside.
"Look at you. Oh, you sexy thing! Look at you!" The Doctor said, wandering around the brand new console.
Kari couldn't help but smile. The way the Doctor was so excited over the new desktop of the TARDIS, well she just couldn't help but smile at it. She liked it when she saw him happy, and he was definitely happy. "Doctor, you know we really should go back for Amy." She reminded him, as he pulled the lever and everything started shaking.
"Just a quick hop to the moon. She won't even know we were missing." The Doctor told her, clinging onto the console, beaming away.
"I wouldn't be too sure of that." Kari mumbled, knowing what was going to happen next.
It didn't take her long to convince the Doctor to go back for her, although he had other ideas of just running off and taking Kari somewhere. Although she would have loved that, she knew better, she knew that they needed to go back for Amy.
She waited in the TARDIS while the Doctor convinced Amy to go with them. Soon enough the door opened and a red haired woman in her nightdress stepped inside. "Ah, so you decided to join us, have you, Amy? Good choice." Kari said, getting up from where she was sitting and bouncing around the console a little.
"Well? Anything you want to say? Any passing remarks?" The Doctor asked the woman who was looking around in awe. "We've heard them all."
Amy suddenly realised what she was dressed in. "I'm in my nighty."
"Oh, don't worry. Plenty of clothes in the wardrobe, Kari should know. And possibly a swimming pool." He said, strolling to the console and kissing Kari's temple as she worked on the console herself. "So, all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will. Where do you want to start?"
The woman span around and faced the pair. "You are so sure that I'm coming."
Kari couldn't help but chuckled a little. "Yeah, we are. Want to know what? Because you are the Scottish girl in the English village, and the Doctor and I know how that feels. Plus, you still got that accent. So yes, you're coming." Kari told her confidently.
"Can you get me back for tomorrow morning?" Amy asked, following the pair around the console.
"It's a time machine. I can get you back five minutes ago. Why what's tomorrow?" The Doctor asked, not really paying much attention. Kari knew the truth, she knew exactly why Amy was asking that question.
"Nothing. Nothing. Just you know, stuff." Amy said, causing Kari to raise an eyebrow at her.
All right, then. Back in time for stuff." The Doctor told her before a brand new sonic screwdriver came out from the console. "Oh, a new one! Lovely. Thanks, dear." He said, testing it out and then patting the console.
"Why me?" The woman asked, trying to understand the pair a little better.
Kari just smiled at her. "Well, he says for fun. I'd say because I like you, plus I told you when you were little that you could come with us. So now you can come with us, anywhere in the whole of time and space."
"So, are you okay, then? Because this place… sometimes it can make people feel a bit, you know…" The Doctor said, not really knowing how to finish it off.
"I'm fine." Amy said, nodding a little. "It's just, there's a whole world in here, just like you said. It's all true. I though… well, I started to think that maybe you were just like a madman with a box." She said, making Kari laugh a little.
"Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me, because it's important, and one day your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box." The Doctor replied, making Kari laugh a little bit more. "Ha! Yeah. Goodbye Leadworth, hello everything!" He called, pulling down the lever to send them into the time vortex, putting Kari's hand on it first so that they both pulled at it.
"Why is it a phone box?" Amy asked, as the Doctor started to do a little exploring of his new console room.
"Sorry, what?" He asked, his head popping up from under the console. Kari had managed to dash off to her room and get changed, as well as grab the things she had missed the most all day, her sonic screwdriver, psychic paper, and her vortex manipulator. Oh, she had definitely missed them during that adventure.
"On the outside, it said police box. Why have you labelled a time machine, 'police box'? Why not 'time machine'? Is that too obvious?" Amy rattled on, following the Doctor and Kari around the console. "And what is a police box? Do policemen come in boxes? How many do you get? Are you a policeman? No. Look at your hair. Actually, just look at your hair!"
"Oi, leave his hair alone." Kari said, running her hand through the Doctor's floppy hair and making him smile at her.
"Do you ever look at your hair and think, 'Whoa! It just won't stop! And my chin! Look I'm wearing a bow tie. Shoot me now!' Am I gabbling?"
Kari couldn't help but roll her eyes. "A bit, yeah."
"The question stands." Amy said, trying to get herself back to her original question and to get an answer.
"The first question?" The Doctor asked her, trying not to let everything she had just said get to him.
"Yes."
The Doctor looked at her and wrapped an arm around Kari's waist. "Well, it's not really a police box, which by the way, is a special kind of telephone box that policemen used to use." He told her.
"Right. Telephone box. There's a light on the top. Don't you need to change the bulb?" Kari just wanted to put her head in her hands and let out a long sigh. She had almost forgotten how much Amy really does start to freak out when she finally got into the TARDIS, she never realised it was going to be as bad as it was.
"Amy, stop and breathe. Okay, just breathe." Kari told her, taking a hold of her hands. "Just calm down."
Amy done as she was told, before biting her lip and letting more questions ramble out of her mouth. "Why doesn't the air get out? It is made of wood. Oh, you've got a wooden time machine. Do you feel stupid? Sorry. Back on the bow tie."
This time Kari did let out a sigh, which the Doctor did notice. "It's camouflage. It's disguised as a police telephone box from 1963." The Doctor told the non-stop talking red head. "Every time the TARDIS materialises in a new location, within the first nanosecond of landing, it analyses its surroundings, calculates a twelve dimensional data map of everything within a one thousand mile radius, and determines which outer shell would blend in best with the environment."
"Yeah, and then it disguised itself as a police box from 1963 and the circuit got stuck. Except it isn't stuck, he just doesn't know how to fix it." Kari told her, rubbing her head a little. She wasn't sure if she had a headache coming on that was going to pull her somewhere else, or if it was just from all the nonsense rambling that was going on around her.
"You mean it's a police box every time?" Amy asked, getting a nod from Kari. "How long has it been doing that?"
"Oh, you know, not long." The Doctor said, giving Kari a worried glance.
"Okay. Okay, but what about the windows? There are windows on the outside. Where do they go? Is it a cry for help?" Amy asked.
The Doctor was still looking at Kari, just knowing that something was wrong. "What?"
"The bow tie."
"Bow ties are cool." Kari and the Doctor said at the same time.
Suddenly Amy smiled and her eyes just lit up. "And you're an alien. You're both aliens."
"Yes, yes we are, Amy. But to us, you're an alien." Kari told her quietly, wishing the pain in her head would just stop and go away already.
"What kind of alien?"
"Well, you know, nice ones. Definitely the nice ones." The Doctor told her.
"No, we are not space squids or anything of the kind, Amy." Kari told her, before she had a chance to ask. "Nor are we tiny little slugs in a human suit. This is us, okay? This is what we both look like."
Amy didn't really know what to say. "Okay, well I think I'm done then."
The Doctor let out a small laugh. "Amy Pond, you've barely started." He told her, before turning to Kari. "Are you okay?"
She nodded at him a little. "Yeah, slight headache. Not sure if it's from Amy's rambling, which is the worse I have ever seen from her, or if I'm about to leave." She admitted. The moment she finished speaking, she felt the pain get worse and looked down at her hands, which had already started to glow. "Guess it's the second one then." She whispered.
"Hey, I'll see you soon, okay?" The Doctor whispered to her, giving her a hug. "I love you, Kari."
"Love you too, Doctor. Behave, and show Amy where we keep absolutely everything." She whispered to him, before he let her go. "See you around, Pond." Kari called, before letting the pain take her over. All she wanted to do was to get some rest, to think about everything that had happened and spend some time with her Jack. But Kari had a feeling that that was not going to be happening for a long time to come. Life with the Doctor was never simple, and she was more than used to it by now.
a A/N: Again I am really sorry for not posting last week. Things really have been stressful with the amount of work that I've had to do.
So I just want to thank everyone who has stuck by me and my stories through all this weirdness that comes with me. You guys are awesome. And thank you to all those who have favourited/followed. For all you lovely reviewers, a massive thank you.
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