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The Doctor and Rose were at a museum with Amy as the museum looked like it was based on the plans of a medieval church. The Doctor, who was wearing his blue pinstriped suit and brown overcoat strode through, pointing at the displays and giving their opinions as Rose followed as Amy was bored as she followed them.
"Wrong. Wrong," the Doctor said, talking about the artifacts in glass casing, "Bit right, mostly wrong. I love museums."
"Yeah, great. Can we go to a planet now? Big spaceship? Churchill's bunker? You and Wolf promised me a planet next," Amy told the Doctor.
"Amy, this isn't any old asteroid. It's the Delerium Archive, the final resting place of the headless monks. The biggest museum ever," the Doctor explained to Amy.
"You and Wolf both got a time machine. What do you need museums for?" Amy asked them.
"Wrong. Very wrong. Ooo, one of mine and Wolf's. Also one of mine and Wolf's," the Doctor said, pointing at some of the museum's artifacts.
"It's how he keeps score," Rose said as the Doctor noticed a square box in a glass casing, causing him to take out his brainy specs and put them on before Rose noticed the box as well, "Is that what I think it is?"
"Oh great, an old box," Amy muttered, sarcastically as she walked towards the glass casing.
"You're correct, Wolf," the Doctor said, "It's a home box.
"And, what's a Home Box?" Amy asked, confusedly.
"Like a black box on a plane, except it homes," the Doctor explained, "Anything happens to the ship, the Home Box flies home with all the flight data."
"So?" Amy asked.
"The writing, the graffiti. Old High Gallifreyan. The lost language of the Time Lords and Time Ladies," the Doctor explained, "There were days, there were many days, these words could burn stars and raise up empires, and topple gods."
"What does it say?" Amy asked him.
"Hello, Doctor and Bad Wolf," the Doctor answered as he read the writing on the Home Box as he realized who it was from as he took out his Sonic screwdriver and used it on the casing and took the home box after taking his glasses back off and put them inside one of his jacket's inside pockets.
Alarm bells rang as the Doctor and Rose ran through the museum, the home box tucked under the Doctor's arm. Amy was racing beside them. They rushed into the Tardis as two guards chased after them.
"Why are we doing this?" Amy asked as the Doctor hooked the home box to monitor.
"'cause someone on a spaceship 12,000 years ago is trying to attract our attention," the Doctor said. "Let's see if we can get the security playback working."
A grainy black and white footage of River winking at the camera appeared on the monitor. It then switched to River with her back to the camera facing a door, "The party's over, Doctor Song… yet still you're on board,"A man on the monitor said.
River turned to face the man. "Sorry, Alistair. I needed to see what was in your vault. Do you all know what's down there? Any of you? Because I'll tell you something. This ship won't reach its destination."
"Wait till she runs," Alistair said "Don't make it look like an execution."
River looked at her watch, "Triple-seven, five… slash, three, four, nine by ten." The Doctor,
Rose and Amy exchanged a look. "Zero, twelve, slash, acorn. Oh, and I could do with an air corridor."
"What was that, what did she say?" Amy asked as Rose began to type on the keyboard.
"Amy, those were Co-ordinates," Rose said.
The Doctor let out a whoop before running to open the Tardis doors. He reached out and pulled River in and they both landed on the floor, groaning as she landed on his blue pinstriped suit.
"Doctor?" Amy asked.
"River?" The Doctor said and they got up and watched the ship that River was on fly away.
"Follow that ship," River said
The Doctor Rose and River were all working the controls while Amy stood back and watched. River was barefoot. "They've gone into warp drive, we're losing them! Stay close!" River cried.
"I'm trying," the Doctor said.
"He's right, River," Rose said, "We both are trying."
"Use the stabilisers," River suggested.
"There aren't any stabilisers," the Doctor said as he pulled a lever on the console down.
"The blue switches," River explained.
"Oh, the blue ones don't do anything, they're just blue," the Doctor said.
"Yes, they're blue. Look, they're the blue stabilisers," River told him as she pressed them as the Tardis stopped shaking, "See?"
"Yeah. Well, it's just boring now, isn't it? They're boring-ers. They're blue boring-ers," the Doctor said, fidgeting with the switch that was the blue stabilizers and was frustrated at River at how she knew to pilot a Tardis.
"Doctor, Wolf, how come she can fly the Tardis?" Amy asked the Doctor and Rose.
"I was wondering the same thing," Rose said "She never mentioned that when met her in 'The Library'."
"You both call that flying the Tardis? Ha!" The Doctor scoffed at River as he walked over to the captain chair and sat down to sulk as River smiled at him.
"Okay. I've mapped the probability vectors, done a fold-back on the temporal isometry, charted the ship to its destination, and parked us right alongside," River said as she landed the Tardis.
"Parked us?" The Doctor said, confusedly, "We haven't landed."
"Of course we've landed," River said. "I just landed her."
"But it didn't make the noise," the Doctor said.
"What noise?" River asked him.
"You know, the..." He said as he tried to attempt to make the Tardis's wheezing, groaning sound as best as he could.
Rose rolled her eyes. "Oh, brother."
"It's not supposed to make that noise. You and Wolf both leave the brakes on," River told him.
"Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise. Come along, Amy, you too, Wolf. Let's have a look," the Doctor told Amy and Rose as he walked away.
"No, wait! Environment checks," River said and he stops and looks at her.
"Oh yes, sorry. Quite right," he said "Environment checks." He walks to the door and opens the door and pokes his head out "Nice out."
River, Rose and Amy we're looking at the scanner "We're somewhere in the Garn Belt," River said "There's an atmosphere. Early indications suggest that…"
"We're on Alfava Metraxis, the seventh planet of the Dundra System," the Doctor said "Oxygen-rich atmosphere, toxins in the soft band, 11-hour day, and..." He put his head out the door. "-chances of rain later."
"He thinks he's so hot when he does that," River muttered.
"Tell me about it," Rose said "and he is hot when he does that." The Doctor blushes as Rose said that and he joined them at the console and sat back down in the captain chair.
"How come you can fly the Tardis?" Amy asked River.
"I was wondering the same thing," Rose said.
"Oh, I had lessons from the very best," River said.
"Well, yeah," the Doctor said, smugly.
"It's a shame you and Wolf were both busy that day," River said and took her red high heels off the scanner and walked towards the door "Right then, why did they land here?"
"They didn't land," the Doctor said from the Captain's chair.
"Sorry?" River asked.
"You should've checked the Home Box," the Doctor said as he got up and followed her "It crashed."
River walks out the Tardis as the Doctor closes the door behind her and he walks back to the console and Amy follows him.
"One of you better explain," Amy said "Who is that and how did she do that museum thing?"
"It's a long story and we don't know most of it," the Doctor said. "Off we go."
The Doctor sets the co-ordinates "Doctor, what are you doing?" Amy asked the Time Lord.
"Leaving," he explained, "She's got where she wants to go, let's go where we want to go."
"Are you basically running away?" Amy asked.
"Yep, he is Amy," Rose said.
"Why?"
"Because she's the future," he explained "Someone that's important in our future."
"Can you both run away from that?" Amy said.
"We can run away from anything I like," he said. "Time is not the boss of me."
Rose cleared her throat, "12 months late!" Rose cried.
"You're never gonna let that go are you," Wolf?" He asked.
"Nope!" She smirked as she stuck her tongue out.
"Hang on, is that a planet out there?" Amy asked.
"Yes, of course it's a planet," he said.
"Doctor, we did promise her planet," Rose said.
"Okay," he said, giving in, "Only because I love you, Wolf and it will be only five minutes." He kissed her on the lips.
"Yes!" Amy said excitedly as the two gallifreyans kissed each other.
"But that's all," he said as he starts to follow them out as he took off his overcoat and threw it on one of the Tardis's coral struts, "because I'm telling you both now, that woman is not dragging me into anything!"
The ship they were following had crashed on top of a very large and very old stone structure. It was burning in areas and bits of debris had fallen to the ground around the Tardis. Rose, the Doctor, Amy and River stood there, looking up at it. "What caused it to crash?" River asked, "Not me."
"Nah, the airlock would've sealed seconds after you blew it," the Doctor said "According to the Home Box, the warp engines had a phase-shift. No survivors."
"A phase-shift would have to be sabotage," River said, "I did warn them."
"About what?" Rose asked
River shrugged, "Well, at least the building was empty," River answered, "Aplan temple. Unoccupied for centuries." She began to key something into a handheld device.
Rose walked back to Amy, who asked, "Aren't either of you going to introduce us?"
"Amy Pond," he gestured from Amy and then to River "Professor River Song."
River faced them and gasps in surprise "I'm going to be a Professor some day, am I?" The Doctor winced at the slip while Rose had a facepalm expression. "How exciting!" River chuckled. "Spoilers!" She said as she turned her attention back to what she was doing.
Amy whispered, "Yeah, but who is she and how did she do that? She just left you two a note in a museum!"
The Doctor walked off while Rose walked to River, who explained, "Two things always guaranteed to show up in a museum: The Home Box of category four starliner and, sooner or later, and him. It's how he keeps score."
"I already told her, River," Rose said.
"I know," Amy said, laughing at the same time.
"It's hilarious, isn't it?" River asked.
The Doctor sulked walking around and he approached them, laughing sarcastically "We're nobody's taxi service!" She turned to River. "I'm not gonna be there to catch you every time you feel like jumping out of a spaceship."
River sighed, "And you are so wrong," River said "There's one survivor. There's a thing in the belly of that ship that can't ever die. Now he's listening!" She spoke into the device. "You lot in orbit yet? Yeah, I saw it land. I'm at the crash site. Try and home in on my signal." She held up her device. "Doctor, Wolf, can one of you sonic me? I need to boost the signal so we can use it as a beacon."
The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and used it on River's communication device. She dropped a small curtsey. "Ooh, Doctor! You sonicked her," Amy teased.
"Shut up, Amy," he said, "She's just a friend of mine and as well as a friend of Wolf's."
"We have a minute," River said as she took out her diary, "Shall we?" She opened her diary.
"Where were we up to? Have we done the Bone Meadows?"
"What's the book?" Amy asked, approaching River.
"Stay away from it," the Doctor warned.
"What is it though?" Amy persisted.
"Her diary," he said.
"Our diary," River corrected.
"Her past, our...future friend. Time travel," he explained, "Me and Wolf both keep meeting in the wrong order."
Four columns of swirling 'dust' then suddenly appeared and turned into four Cleric soldiers in desert camouflage uniforms.
One of the soldiers approached River. "You promised me an army, Doctor Song."
"No. I promised you the equivalent of an army. I'm giving you the equivalent of an army," River said "This is the Doctor and his wife, the Bad Wolf." The Doctor gave them a lighthearted salute.
The soldier then shook their hands as he went to introduce himself to both Gallifreyans, "Father Octavian, sir. Bishop, second class. 20 clerics at my command. The troops are already in the drop ship and landing shortly. Doctor Song was helping us with a covert investigation. Has Doctor Song explained what we're dealing with?"
"Doctor, Wolf, what do you both know of the Weeping Angels?" River suddenly asked as both the Doctor and Rose faced her immediately, tense.
A transport ship had arrived and the soldiers had already set up camp. Octavian strode across the ground followed by the Doctor, Rose and Amy.
"The Angel, as far as we know, is still trapped in the ship, Octavian said "Our mission is to get inside and neutralise it. We can't get through up top, we'd be too close to the drives. According to this-" He showed them a device "-behind the cliff face, there's a network of catacombs leading right up to the temple. We can blow through the base of the cliffs, get into the entrance chamber, then make our way up."
"Oh, good," the Doctor said sarcastically.
"Good, sir?" Octavian asked, confused.
"He was being sarcastic about the catacombs. 'Cause they're probably dark. Dark catacombs."
"Technically, I think it's called a maze of the dead," Octavian told them.
"You can stop any time you like," the Doctor told Octavian.
"Father Octavian?" A cleric called
"Excuse me, sir, ma'am," Octavian said and the Doctor waved off Octavian as he left the three of them. He then used the screwdriver on some of the equipment set up on the table.
"Both of you are letting people call you sir and ma'am," Amy said "You both never do that. So, whatever a Weeping Angel is, it's really bad, yeah?"
"Now that's interesting... You're still here. Which part of 'Wait in the Tardis till we tell you it's safe' was so confusing?" He asked her.
"Ooh, Doctor, are you all Mr Grumpy Face today?" Amy asked.
"A Weeping Angel, Amy, is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life form evolution has ever produced, and right now one of them is trapped inside that wreckage and both me and Wolf are supposed to climb in after it with two screwdrivers and a torch, and assuming me and Wolf survive the radiation long enough and assuming the whole ship doesn't explode in our faces, do something incredibly clever which neither of us haven't actually thought of yet. That's our day. That's what we're up to. Any questions?" The Doctor explained.
"Who is River song? Is she related to one of you 'cause she's someone from your future, and the way she talks to you both, I've never seen anyone do that to you both besides each other. She looks at you both kinda like, you know, 'I love you both but only 'cause I have to.' She's a future relative of one of you in the future, isn't she? Is she going to be one of your relatives?" Amy asked.
"Yes, you're right," the Doctor said ignoring what Amy asked "I am definitely Mister Grumpy Face today."
"Amy, she isn't a relative of ours," Rose said, "She's the future wife of a friend of ours named Captain Jack Harkness, he's an immortal that I accidentally brought back to life forever and he flirts with everyone, we might take you to meet him after all this is over."
"Doctor! Wolf!" River called from the dropship and was now wearing a camouflage uniform Army clothes.
"Oops. River and Jack sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g," Amy teased.
"Father Octavian," River called Octavian.
As, the four of them walked to the transport. "Why do they call him Father?" Amy asked.
"He's their Bishop, they're his clerics," he explained "It's the 51st Century, the Church has moved on."
On a screen there was a black and white footage of a Weeping Angel, its body at an angle, hands over its eyes. River was controlling the video with a remote. "What do you think? It's from the security cameras in the Byzantium vault. I ripped it when I was on board. Sorry about the quality. It's four seconds. I've put it on loop."
"Yeah, it's an Angel. Hands covering its face," the Doctor said.
"The lonely assassins," Rose said.
"You both encountered the Angels before," Octavian asked them.
"Once, on Earth, a long time ago," the Doctor confirmed, "But those were scavengers, barely surviving."
"And we were zapped back in time from 2007 to 1969 with our companion at the time named Martha Jones, a medical student and we had to use DVDs to help us get our Tardis back with the help of a woman named Sally Sparrow," Rose added.
"But it's just a statue," Amy said in confusion.
"It's a statue when you see it," River explained.
"Where did it come from?" The Doctor asked.
"Oh, pulled from the ruins of Razbahan, end of last century," River explained "It's been in private hands ever since. Dormant all that time."
"There's a difference between dormant and patient," the Doctor said.
"What's that mean, it's a statue when you see it?" Amy asked.
"The Weeping Angels can only move if they're unseen," River said "So legend has it."
"No, it's not legend, it's a quantum lock. In the sight of any living creature the Angels literally cease to exist. They're just stone. The ultimate defence mechanism," the Doctor said.
"What, being a stone?" Amy asked.
"Being a stone until you turn your back," the Doctor said.
The Doctor led the others out of the dropship. "The hyperdrive would've split on impact," he said, "The whole ship will be flooded with radiation, cracked electrons, gravity storms, deadly to almost any living thing."
"Deadly to an Angel?" Octavian asked.
"Dinner to an Angel. The longer we leave it there, the stronger it will grow," he said "Who built that temple? Are they still around?"
"The Aplans. Indigenous life form," River answered "They died out four hundred years ago."
"Two hundred years later, the planet was terraformed," Octavian added "Currently there are six billion human colonists."
"Whoo! You lot, you're everywhere. You're like rabbits. Me and Wolf will never get done saving you," the Doctor said.
"Doctor, to me it's more like bacteria than rabbits," Rose said "As bacteria reproduce every 20 minutes and every living thing evolved out of some form of bacteria."
"Sir, if there is a clear and present danger to the local population…" Octavian starts.
"Oh, there is," the Doctor said, interrupting him. "Bad as it gets. Bishop, lock and load."
"Verger, how are we doing with those explosives?" Octavian called out to one of his Clerics "Doctor Song, with me."
"Two minutes," she said to Octavian "Oncoming Storm, Bad Wolf, I need you both."
The Doctor and Rose went with River and Amy stood at the Dropship "Anybody need me? Nobody?" Amy asked as she crossed her arms. A hand reached out from behind her and touched her shoulder. Amy yelped and jumped.
"Oh Rassilon! Your face!" Rose laughed.
"What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be with your husband and the future wife of your friend Jack?" Amy asked her.
"No, she needs at least one of us," Rose said "Come on in, live a little." She ducked inside and Amy followed.
Amy slowly moved forward, entranced by the Angel on the screen, Rose beside her. Since the last time they looked, it had now moved its hands away from its face.
River showed the Doctor a book. "I found this. Definitive work on the Angels. Well, the only one. Written by a madman, it's barely readable, but I've marked a few passages."
The Doctor finished the book. "Not bad, bit slow in the middle, didn't you hate his girlfriend? No, hang on, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!" He sniffed the book.
Rose and Amy popped their heads out of the transport. "Hey River? Did you have more than one clip of the Angel?" Rose asked.
"No, just the four seconds," River replied and both Rose and Amy went back inside the dropship.
"This book is wrong," He said "What's wrong with this book? It's wrong."
Rose and Amy looked at the video again and now the Angel was now facing forward, hands down at its side. Amy bent over and peered closely at the time code. It looped from 11:24 to 11:28 yet the position of the Angel changed. Engrossed, neither Rose nor Amy noticed the door close and lock behind them.
"It's so strange when you go like that," River said to the Doctor as he observes the book
"How early is this for you and Wolf?"
"Very early," he said, "We only met you twice before Wolf regenerated for the first time, which was recently."
"So neither you or Wolf know who I am yet?" River asked.
"How do you know who me and Wolf?" He asked her, "We don't always look the same."
"I've got pictures of all the faces that you and Wolf have had so far," River explained "You both never show up in the right order, though. I need the spotter's guide."
"Pictures," he said "Why aren't there pictures?" He asked, talking about the book.
Amy picked up the remote for the video and tried to turn it off but it kept coming back on. She set the remote down and peered at the screen. "You're just a recording. You can't move."
"Amy, have you tried the plug to it?" Rose asked her as she bends down to find the plug and pull it out but it wouldn't budge and when they both looked back up, the Angel is up close to the camera, but the time stamp is still running through the same four seconds.
"Wolf, please tell me that the angel hasn't moved?" Amy asked her.
"So, it's not just me then," Rose said as they backed away.
"Doctor?" Amy called as Rose went to the door and tried to open it but it wouldn't open and saw that the angel had it's mouth open and was now in full predatory mode.
"Theta!" Rose shouted but got no answer.
"Doctor!" Amy shouted at the same time.
"This whole book, it's a warning, about the Weeping Angels," the Doctor said "So why no pictures? Why not show us what to look out for?"
"There was a bit about images," River said.
"Yes! Hang on..." The Doctor as he flipped through the book. "'That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel.'"
River asked, "What does that mean?" River asked "'An image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel.'"
The Doctor and River looked at each other and realized what it meant as they heard Rose and Amy shouting from the dropship "Wolf and Amy!" They both shouted at the same time and ran to the dropship.
"Doctor!" Amy shouted as she and Rose pounded on the door.
Rose looked to see an image of the Angel becoming solid in the center of the transport. "Amy, keep looking at the Angel," Rose said to Amy in a quiet voice
Amy looked up and her heart sped faster than ever before. "Doctor! It's in the room!"
"Theta!" Rose shouted as she punched numbers into the dropship's keypad.
"Are you all right? What's happening?" The Doctor asked as he ran up to the door.
"Doctor! Doctor, it's coming out of the television," Amy said "The Angel is here."
"Don't take your eyes off it!" He said as he took out his sonic and used it on the keypad. "It can't move if you're looking. What's wrong? It's deadlocked."
"There is no deadlock," River said as she tries to override the controls.
"Don't blink! Both of you, don't even blink! "The Doctor said,
"Theta!" Rose shouted through the door.
"What are you doing?" River asked the Doctor.
"Cutting the power," he said "It's using the screen, I'm turning the screen off. It's no good, it's deadlocked the whole system."
"There's no deadlock," River said repeating herself.
The Doctor growled, "There is now," the Doctor said.
"Help us!" Amy shouted "Doctor!"
"Wolf! Amy! Can you turn it off? The screen, can you turn it off?" The Doctor asked them.
"Yes and we tried," Rose said "And it switched back on immediately."
"Try again," he said "but don't take your eyes off the Angel."
"We're not!" Rose snapped.
The Doctor and River tried harder to override the controls. "Each time it moves, it'll move faster," the Doctor said "Don't even blink."
"I'm not blinking! Have you ever tried not blinking?" Amy said.
"Amy. You blink, I'll watch the Angel," Rose whispered to Amy and Amy blinked and Rose kept her eyes on the Angel. She fumbled for the remote without taking her eyes off it. She grabbed it and backed away to the door, pulling Amy with her, and tried to switch it off again. It turned itself back on.
"Just as I said, It just keeps switching back on!" Rose said.
"Yeah, it's the Angel," the Doctor told her.
"But it's just a recording," Amy said in confusion.
The Doctor recited, "No, anything that takes the image of an Angel is an Angel," he said reciting the quote from the book and noticed that River was cutting the metal of the dropship with a blowtorch "What are you doing?" he asked her.
"I'm trying to cut through," River said "It's not even warm."
"There is no way in, it's not physically possible," the Doctor said.
"Doctor! What's it gonna do to us?" Amy asked terrified.
"Both of you! Just keep looking at it," the Doctor said "Don't stop looking!"
"Wolf. Just tell me," Amy asked Rose and she shrugged as she didn't know "Just tell me. Doctor, tell me!"
The Doctor ran for the book and brought it back to just outside the door of the dropship where he sat. "Wolf, Amy, not the eyes," he said "Look anywhere but don't look at the eyes."
"Why?" Amy asked as she looks at the eyes of the weeping angel.
"Doctor?" Rose asked as she looks at the wings of the weeping angel.
"What is it?" River asked.
"'The eyes are not the windows of the soul, they are the doors. Beware what may enter there,'" the Doctor said, reading a quote from the book.
"Amy, it's looping," Rose said as she saw that it was looping.
"Doctor, what did you say?" Amy asked,
"Don't look at the eyes!" He said.
"No, she's talking about the images," Rose said "what did you say about images?"
"Whatever holds the image of an angel, is an angel," River said.
"Amy, it's worth a shot," Rose said "We have to try."
Rose gave Amy the remote "OK... Hold this," Amy said as she held the remote out, pointing it at the weeping angel "One, two, three, four..." She hit the pause button while there was static. The image of the Angel froze before turning off, the door suddenly opened and both the Doctor and River came in and the Doctor unplugged the screen.
"I froze it. There was a sort of blip on the tape and I froze it on the blip. It wasn't the image of an Angel any more. That was good, yeah?" Amy asked, "It was, wasn't it? That was pretty good.
"It was brilliant," Amy," Rose said.
That was both Brilliant and amazing," River said.
"River, hug Amy and Wolf," the Doctor said as he uses his sonic screwdriver on a device.
"Why?" Rose and Amy both asked at the same time.
"'cause I'm busy," he said.
"We're fine," Amy said.
"Amy is right, we're both fine," Rose said.
"You both were brilliant," River said as she hugs Amy.
"Thanks," Amy said "Yeah, I kind of creamed it, didn't I?"
"So it was here? That was the Angel?" River asked.
"That was a projection of the Angel," he said as he puts his sonic back in the pocket of his jacket
"It's reaching out, getting a good look at us. It's no longer dormant." They suddenly heard an explosion coming from outside and they ran towards the door.
"Last one positive," a cleric reported to Octavian as both Gallifreyans stood in the doorway.
"Doctor? Wolf?" Octavian said "We're through."
The Doctor and Rose looked at Amy and River "Okay, now it starts," he told them before he and Rose went outside holding each other's hand.
Amy felt something in her left eye and rubbed her left eye "Coming?" River asked.
"Yeah, coming," Amy answered "There's just something in my eye."
The Doctor climbs down a rope ladder and he joined Octavian at the bottom, they both turned on their torches and looked around. Rose, Amy and River joined them and the other cleric soldiers "Do we have a gravity globe?" The Doctor asked.
"Grav globe," Octavian said and one of the cleric took out a sphere from his pack and handed it to the Doctor.
"Where are we? What is this?" Amy asked.
"It's an Aplan Mortarium, sometimes called a Maze of the Dead," River explained.
"What's that?" Amy asked.
"Well, if you happen to be a creature of living stone…" The Doctor starts and he suddenly kicks the globe into the air, where it illuminates a vast array of mausoleums and statuary, "The perfect hiding place."
"I guess this makes it a bit trickier," Octavian said as he saw statues that didn't look like weeping angels.
"A bit, yeah," the Doctor said.
"Definitely," Rose said at the same time.
"A stone Angel on the loose amongst stone statues. A lot harder than I'd prayed for," Octavian said.
"A needle in a haystack," River said.
"A needle that looks like hay. A hay-like needle of death," the Doctor said "A hay-like needle of death in a haystack of, er, statues. No, yours was fine."
"Right. Check every single statue in this chamber," Octavian said "You know what you're looking for. Complete visual inspection. One question. How do we fight it?"
"We find it, and hope," the Doctor said as Rose and Amy went to follow him.
River went to follow them but Octavian grabbed her by the arm, "They don't know yet, do they? Who and what you are."
"It's too early in their time stream," she replied.
"Well, make sure they don't work it out, or they're not going to help us," he said.
"I won't let you down. Believe you me, I have no intention of going back to prison," River said.
The Doctor and Rose shone their torches in every direction. Amy followed. She stopped and looked at the many levels above them and all the statues lining the way. She rubbed the corner of her eye with one finger and found a little grit. Amy then used her full hand and sand and grit came out through her fingers. Scared, she stopped and looked at her hand but saw nothing.
River came up beside her "You all right?" She asked Amy.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Amy answered "So, what's a Maze of the Dead?"
"Oh, it's not as bad as it sounds," River said "It's just a labyrinth with dead people buried in the walls. Okay, that was fairly bad." She took out a syringe "Right give me your arm. This won't hurt a bit." She then injects the syringe into Amy's arm.
"Ow!" Amy cried.
"There, you see. I lied," River admitted "It's a viro-stabiliser. Stabilises your metabolism against radiation, drive burn, anything. You're going to need it when we get up to that ship."
"So what's he like? Your husband Jack and what are the Doctor and Wolf like as well in the future, I mean. Because you know them in the future, don't you?" Amy asked.
"Jack is an immortal human from the 51st century and former Time Agent that is omnisexual and flirts with anything that is a living being," River said "The Doctor? Well, the Doctor's the Doctor. And Wolf, she's the same person as she's now."
"Oh. Well, that's very helpful," Amy said sarcastically "Mind if I write that down?"
"Yes, we are," River agreed.
"Sorry, what?" The Doctor asked as checks the readings with River's portable computer.
"What were you two talking about?" Rose asked Amy and River.
"Talking about you both and Jack," River answered.
"I wasn't listening," the Doctor said "I'm busy."
"I wasn't listening as well," Rose said "I was just watching my husband."
"Ah. The other way up," River told him and the Doctor rotates River's portable computer around.
"Yeah," he muttered.
"You're so someone very important to them," Amy realized
"Oh, Amy, Amy, Amy! This is the Doctor and Wolf we're talking about," River sighed "The last two Gallifreyans in existence and Wolf was a goddess for a brief moment once. The most complicated event in Time and Space. Do you really think it could be anything that simple? Other than being someone important to them in the future as well as Jack's wife."
"Yep."
"You're good," River said after a brief moment and aims her flashlight upwards at the statues
"I'm not saying you're right... but you are very good."
The Doctor, Amy and River were examining the statues when they heard gunfire. They ran back down to the main chamber. A young cleric had fired his weapon at one of the statues. The Doctor stopped to look at it. "Sorry," the cleric apologised, "Sorry, I thought... I thought it looked at me."
"We know what the Angel looks like," Octavian told the cleric "Is that the Angel?"
"No, sir," the cleric answered.
"No, sir, it is not!" Octavian snapped "According to the Doctor, and Wolf, we are facing an enemy of unknowable power and infinite evil, so it would be good, it would be very good, if we could all remain calm in the presence of decor."
"What's your name?" The Doctor asked the cleric.
"Bob, sir," the cleric said.
"Ah, that's a great name," the Doctor said "I love Bob."
"I love the name as well," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"It's a Sacred Name," Octavian explained "We all have Sacred Names. They're given to us in the service of the Church."
"Sacred Bob," the Doctor said "More like Scared Bob now, eh?"
"Oh, brother," Rose muttered as she facepalmed herself.
"Yes, sir," Bob said.
"Ah, good," the Doctor said as he put his hand on Bob's shoulder and the other on Octavian's shoulder "Scared keeps you fast. Anyone in this room who isn't scared is a moron. Carry on."
"We'll be moving into the maze in two minutes," Octavian told Bob "You stay with Christian and Angelo. Guard the approach."
"Isn't there a chance this lot's just going to collapse?" Amy asked as they explored the tunnel "There's a whole ship up there."
"Incredible builders, the Aplans," River said.
"Had dinner with their Chief Architect once," the Doctor said "Two heads are better than one."
"What, you mean you helped him?" Amy asked him.
"No, I mean he had two heads," he explained "That book, the very end, what did it say?"
"Hang on," River said as she took out the book.
"Read it to me," he said.
"What if we had ideas that could think for themselves?" River starts to read "What if one day our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us. The time of Angels."
"Are we there yet?" Amy asked, "It's a hell of a climb."
"The Maze is on six levels, representing the ascent of the soul," River answered "Only two levels to go."
"Lovely species, the Aplans," the Doctor said "We should visit them some time. Wolf, remind me to visit them one day."
"Doctor, now is not the time for that," Rose told him.
"I thought they were all dead?" Amy asked confusedly.
"So is Virginia Woolf," he said "I'm on her bowling team. Very relaxed, sort of cheerful. Well, that's having two heads, of course. You're never short of a snog with an extra head."
"Doctor, Wolf, there's something," River said " I don't know what it is."
"Yeah, there's something wrong. Don't know what it is yet, either. Working on it," he said "Of course, then they started having laws against self-marrying. I mean, what was that about? But that's the Church for you. Er, no offence, Bishop."
"Quite a lot taken, if that's all right, Doctor," Octavian said and walk forward and the others followed were now in a narrow passage lined with statues. "Lowest point in the wreckage is only about fifty feet up from here. That way."
"The Church had a point, if you think about it," Amy said "The divorces must have been messy."
"Oh," the Doctor said as he aimed his flashlight on the face of one of the statues and saw that they had one head instead of two and were coming back to life.
"What's wrong?" Amy asked.
Rose aimed her flashlight at the same statue "Oh Rassilon," she said
River aims her flashlight at the same statue and. Realized the same thing that the Doctor and Rose saw "Oh," she said.
"Exactly," the Doctor said.
"How could we have not noticed that?" River asked the Doctor and Rose.
"Low level perception filter, or maybe we're thick," the Doctor said.
"I think that it was because of a low level perception filter," Rose said.
"What's wrong?" Octavian asked the two gallifreyans.
"Nobody move. Nobody move. Everyone stay exactly where they are," the Doctor said "Bishop,
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Me and Wolf have made a mistake and we are all in terrible danger."
"What danger?" Octavian aaked
"The Aplans," River answered.
"The Aplans?" Octavian asked.
"They've got two heads," River explained.
"Yes, I get that," Octavian said "So?"
"So why don't the statues have two heads?" Rose explained.
"Everyone, over there," the Doctor said as he points his flashlight in an area of the tunnel with no statues "Just move. Don't ask questions, don't speak."
Everyone goes to the area with no statues "Okay, I want you all to switch off your torches," the Doctor said.
"Sir?" Octavian said in confusion.
"Just do as he says," Rose told him.
"Thanks, Wolf," he said to her as everyone except the Doctor turns their flashlights off "Okay, I'm going to turn off this one too, just for a moment."
"Are you sure about this?" River asked him
"No," he said as he turns his flashlight off and then he suddenly turns it back on and saw that the statues have moved.
"Oh, my God," Amy said, "They've moved."
"I was thinking almost the exact same thing, Amy," Rose told her and everyone turns their flashlights back on and the Doctor runs down the passage, and it is filled statues coming towards them.
"They're Angels," he said " All of them."
"But they can't be," River said.
"Clerics, keep watching them," he said as he ran back to a vantage point of the main cavern Rose, Amy and River followed. They saw that all the statues are climbing up towards them.
"Every statue in this Maze, every single one, is a Weeping Angel," he said "They're coming after us."
"But there was only one Angel on the ship," River said "Just the one, I swear."
"Could they have been here already?" Amy asked.
"The Aplans," the Doctor said "What happened? How did they die out?"
"Nobody knows," River said.
"We know," he said, telling them that the Aplans were killed by the weeping angels and were turned into weeping angels.
"They don't look like Angels," Octavian told him.
"And they're not fast," Amy said "You both said they were fast. They should have had us by now."
"Look at them," the Doctor said "They're dying, losing their form. They must have been down here for centuries, starving."
"Losing their image?" Amy asked with confusion.
"And their image is their power," he said "Power. Power!"
"Doctor?" Amy and Rose asked at the same time.
"Don't you see? All that radiation spilling out the drive burn. The crash of the Byzantium wasn't an accident, it was a rescue mission for the Angels," he said "We're in the middle of an army, and it's waking up."
"We need to get out of here fast," River suggested.
"I agree with River on this one," Rose said.
Octavian grabbed his communicator "Bob, Angelo, Christian, come in, please. Any of you, come in."
"It's Bob, sir. Sorry, sir," Bob said on the communicator.
"Bob, are Angelo and Christian with you?" Octavian asked "All the statues are active. I repeat, all the statues are active."
"I know, sir," Bob said "Angelo and Christian are dead, sir. The statues killed them, sir."
As Bob said this the Doctor grabbed the walkie-talkie from Octavian.
"Bob, Sacred Bob, it's me, the Doctor," the Doctor said into the communicator, "Where are you now?"
"I'm talking to my-" Octavian said interrupting him.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up," the Doctor snapped at Octavian.
"I'm on my way up to you, sir," Bob said, "I'm homing in on your signal."
"Ah, well done, Bob. Scared keeps you fast. Told you, didn't I," the Doctor said "Your friends, Bob. What did the Angel do to them?"
"Snapped their necks, sir," Bob said and as he said that both the Doctor and Rose looked at each other with a confused look on their faces.
"That's odd. That's not how the Angels kill you. They displace you in time," the Doctor told him, "Unless they needed the bodies for something."
Octavian took the communicator back "Bob, did you check their data packs for vital signs?" he asked, "We may be able to initiate a rescue plan."
The Doctor took the communicator back from Octavian "Oh, don't be an idiot! The Angels don't leave you alive!" He told him "Bob, keep running. But tell me, how did you escape?"
"I didn't escape, sir," Bob said, "The Angel killed me, too." As Bob said that, Everyone looked at each other with a confused look on their faces.
"What do you mean, the Angel killed you?" The Doctor asked Bob.
"Snapped my neck, sir," Bob explained "Wasn't as painless as I expected, but it was pretty quick, so that was something."
"If you're dead, how can I be talking to you?" The Doctor asked Bob.
"You're not talking to me, sir," Bob said before explaining, "The Angel has no voice. It stripped my cerebral cortex from my body and re-animated a version of my consciousness to communicate with you. Sorry about the confusion."
"So when you say you're on your way up to us…?" The Doctor asked.
"It's the Angel that's coming, sir, yes," Bob confirmed "No way out."
"Then we get out through the wreckage," Octavian said, "Go!"
"Go, go, go. All of you run!" the Doctor shouted, agreeing with Octavian.
"Doctor," Amy said as she saw that the Doctor didn't budge as everyone but him and Octavian was running.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm coming," he told her as she followed everyone else. Just go. Go, go, go."
He approached Octavian "Yeah. Called you an idiot. Sorry, Wolf hates when I call people that, but there's no way we could have rescued your men."
"I know that, sir," Octavian told him "And when you and your wife have flown away in your little blue box, I'll explain that to their families." Octavian then walked with everyone else while the Doctor took out the communicator.
"Angel Bob. Which Angel am I talking to? The one from the ship?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes, sir. And the other Angels are still restoring," Angel Bob confirmed.
"Ah, so the Angel is not in the wreckage. Thank you," he said and put the communicator away and ran along the passage and saw Amy "Don't wait for me. Go, run."
"I can't. No, really, I can't," Amy told him.
"Why not?" He asked her.
"Look at it. Look at my hand. It's stone," she answered.
Rose, River, Octavian and the clerics run down the tunnel as they hear the sound of metal creaking and saw that it was the Byzantium making the creaking sound.
"Well. There it is, the Byzantium," Octavian said.
"It's got to be thirty feet," River said "How do we get up there?"
"Check all these exits. I want them all secure," Octavian said.
"My husband will probably have an idea," Rose said.
Back with the Doctor and Amy, the Doctor aims his flashlight at Amy's eyes "You looked into the eyes of an Angel, didn't you?" He asked her.
"I couldn't stop myself," Amy told him "I tried."
"Listen to me. It's messing with your head," he told her "Your hand is not made of stone."
"It is. Look at it," she told him.
"It's in your mind, I promise you," he said "You can move that hand. You can let go."
"I can't, okay? I've tried and I can't. It's stone," she told him.
"The Angel is going to come and it's going to turn this light off, and then there's nothing I can do to stop it, so do it," he said "Concentrate. Move your hand."
"I can't."
"Then we're both going to die," he said.
"You're not going to die," she told him.
"They'll kill the lights," he explained.
"You've got to go. You know you have," Amy said "You and Wolf have got all that stuff with River and this Jack whoever he is, so that's all got to happen. You know you can't die here."
"Time can be re-written, it doesn't work like that," he said and the statues suddenly arrived.
"Keep your eyes on it," he told her "Don't blink."
"Run!" Amy told him as she looked at the statues.
"You see, I'm not going," he said "I'm not leaving you here."
"I don't need you to die for me, Doctor," Amy said "Do I look that clingy? And You are married to Wolf."
"You can move your hand," he told her
"It's stone," she told him.
"It's not stone," he told her.
"You've got to go. Wolf and those people up there will die without you," Amy told him "If you stay here with me, you'll have as good as killed them."
"Amy Pond, you are magnificent, and I'm sorry," he said as he knew what he had to do.
"It's okay. I understand," she said, "You've got to leave me."
"Oh, no, I'm not leaving you, never," he said, "I'm sorry about this." He suddenly bit her hand.
"Ow!" She screamed.
"See? Not stone," he said, "Now run."
"You bit me," Amy said.
"Yeah, and you're alive," he said.
"Look, I've got a mark. Look at my hand," Amy told him
"Yes, and you're alive," he said "Did I mention?"
"Blimey, your teeth," she said "Have you got space teeth?"
"Yeah. Alive. All I'm saying," he said as he grabbed Amy's hand as they ran
The Doctor and Amy burst through to the cavern where Rose, River and the clerics were. "The statues are advancing along all corridors. And, sir, my torch keeps flickering," one of the clerics reported.
"They all do," Octavian told him.
"So does the gravity globe," River said.
"Clerics, we're down to four men. Expect incoming," Octavian said.
"Yeah, it's the Angels. They're coming. And they're draining the power for themselves," the Doctor told him.
"Which means we won't be able to see them," Octavian said.
"Which means we can't stay here," Rose added.
"Two more incoming," Octavian said.
"Any suggestions?" River asked.
"The statues are advancing on all sides," Octavian said, "We don't have the climbing equipment to reach the Byzantium."
"There's no way up, no way back, no way out," River said, "No pressure, but this is usually when you have a really good idea."
"There's always a way out," he said as his voice echoed through the tunnel, "There's always a way out," he suddenly said, repeating himself.
"Doctor? Can I speak to the Doctor, please?" They suddenly heard Angel Bob say.
"Hello, Angels. What's your problem?" the Doctor said as he took out the communicator.
"Your power will not last much longer, and the Angels will be with you shortly. Sorry, sir," Angel Bob said.
"Why are you telling me this?" He asked.
"There's something the Angels are very keen you should know before the end," Angel Bob said.
"Which is?"
"I died in fear," Angel Bob answered.
"I'm sorry?" He asked with confusion.
"You told me my fear would keep me alive, but I died afraid, in pain and alone," Angel Bob said, "You made me trust you, and when it mattered, you let me down."
"What are they doing?" Amy asked.
"They're trying to make him angry," Rose told her.
"I'm sorry, sir. The Angels were very keen for you to know that," Angel Bob told him.
"Well then, the Angels have made their second mistake because I'm not going to let that pass," the Doctor said, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry that you're dead, Bob, but I swear to whatever is left of you, they will be sorrier."
"But you're trapped, sir, and about to die," Angel Bob told him.
"Yeah. I'm trapped. And you know what?" the Doctor said "Speaking of traps, this trap has got a great big mistake in it. A great big, whopping mistake."
"What mistake, sir?" Angel Bob asked.
"Wolf, do you Trust me?" He asked his wife.
"I will always trust you, Doctor," Rose answered.
"Trust me," he said to Amy.
"Yeah," Amy answered
"Trust me?" He asked River.
"Always," River answered
"You lot, trust me?" He asked Octavian and the clerics.
"Sir, two more incoming," one of the clerics said.
"We have faith, sir," Octavian said.
"Then give me your gun," the Doctor said as Octavian gives the Time Lord his gun, which reminded Rose what the Doctor did with the Master and the Time Lords before she regenerated for the first time, "I'm about to do something incredibly stupid and dangerous. When I do, jump!"
"Jump where?" Octavian asked him.
"Just jump, high as you can," the Doctor told him "Come on, leap of faith, Bishop. On my signal."
"What signal?" Octavian asked him.
"You won't miss it," the Doctor told him.
"Sorry, can I ask again?" Angel Bob asked him as the Doctor points the gun at the hull of the Byzantium, "You mentioned a mistake we made."
"Oh, big mistake. really Huge," the Doctor told Angel Bob "Didn't anyone ever tell you there's one thing you never put in a trap? If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never, ever put in a trap."
"And what would that be, sir?" Angel Bob asked him.
"Me," the Doctor said as he fired at the gravity glove and it exploded.
To be continued
And please tell me if I'm making the Doctor sound like the Tenth Doctor or not.