12. The Tale of Pandorica
"Once upon a time, there was a goblin. Some said a trickster. Others claimed a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, that 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.
"No one knows exactly why the being ever want to do that. Some people though it wanted to rule over the entire universe. Some people considered it wants nothing but a total destruction. Whatever that is, the entire cosmos believed the creature is indeed dangerous to stay wandering. So, they devised a plan.
"A group called the Alliance step in. The Alliance was made from various species across the galaxy who shared a same goal: stopped the being from roaming. In order to made it happen, they landed a trap. They made a hidden box named Pandorica, in order to locked the being forever. Because they knew the being will tempted to fall into such a trap.
"To this day, nobody ever know what happened to the being, or the whereabout of Pandorica. It remains hidden. But the day shall come, the day Pandorica will shows itself, and the world shall step into a deep slumber."
"Vavoom!" Tory shouted happily all of sudden.
"Va-what?" Amy frowns as the Doctor and Tory run about the console flicking switches. The ginger soon joins them.
"I can't believe I've never thought of this before, it's genius," the Doctor mused.
"I know, right!?" Tory replied and heads for the door.
"Where are we?" Amy asked.
"Planet One, the oldest planet in the universe. There's a cliff of pure diamond. According to a legend, on the cliff there's writing, letters 50 feet high, a message from the dawn of time. Nobody knows what it says because nobody's ever translated it." She smirks. "Until today."
"What happens today?"
The Doctor taps her nos. "Us. The TARDIS can translate anything. All we have to do is open the doors and read the very first words in recorded history."
The DOCTOR reaches out and Amy and Tory placing their hand in his and they exit the TARDIS. They step out onto the tropical planet and look up at the cliff-face. In large letters it read "HELLO SWEETIE" with Greek looking symbols underneath.
"Vavoom!" Amy chuckles while the Doctor looks not amused.
"Now that's awesome," Tory giggles in excitement.
Using the coordinate River left on the cliff, the TARDIS materializes and they step out into their destination.
"Right place?" Amy asked.
"Just followed the co-ordinates on the cliff-face. Earth. Britain," the Doctor checks his watch. "1:02 AM. No, PM. No, AD."
They look out over a large Roman encampment.
"That's a Roman Legion," Amy noticed.
"The Romans invaded Britain several times during this period," Tory mentioned.
"Oh, I know. My favourite topic at school. Invasion of the hot Italians," the ginger shared, which make both Time Lords staring at her. "Yeah, I did get marked down for the title."
A breathless Roman soldier runs up to them. He salutes with a fist to his chest. "Hail, Caesar!" He shouted before kneels.
"Hi," the Doctor responded, had no idea what to say.
"Welcome to Britain. We are honoured by your presence."
"Well, you're only human. Arise... Roman person."
"Why does he think you're Caesar?" Amy whispered.
"I think I know why," Tory realized a smudgers of lipstick on the soldier's face.
"Cleopatra will see you now," he said, making them follow him into a tent.
They walk into the tent and the first thing Tory spots is River, dressed as Cleopatra, being waited on by two servants. "Hello, sweetie. Hiya, cupcake."
"River!" Amy gaped. "Hi."
"You graffitied the oldest cliff-face in the universe," the Doctor denoted.
"Which I'm loving it, by the way," Tory added.
River smiles. "Thank you. As for your question," she looks back at the Doctor. "You wouldn't answer your phone." She claps her hands and the servants leave. She then holds out the scrolled canvas.
"What's this?" The Doctor asked.
"It's a painting. Your friend Vincent."
Tory begins to tense up. She immediately takes the painting and unroll it. "Oh my goodness."
"You know this?" River inquired as she stands up.
"Accidentally saw it during my scroll on TARDIS' databank," she began, tense. "I did some research here and there regarding the painting. Vincent had visions before his death. He drew it... and soon fell into despair after finished it. Some suggested that... this painting is the reason why he ended his life."
The Doctor gently hold her hands. He can understand why Tory won't tell him that. It's too much for her to tell, especially what the painting is showing.
"Doctor? Tory? What is this?" Amy asked. Tory quietly showing Amy the painting. The ginger gasps. "Why is it exploding?"
"I assume it's some kind of warning," River guessed.
"What, something's going to happen to the TARDIS?"
"It might not be that literal. Anyway, this is where he wanted you. Date and map reference on the door sign, see?"
Tory looks at River's direction. Indeed, she can see date and map on the door sign of the painting.
"Does it have a title?" The Doctor looks at Tory.
"The Pandorica Opens," the Time Lady replied.
"The Pandorica?" Amy frowns. "What is it?"
"A box, a cage, a prison. It was built to contain the most feared thing in all the universe," River shared.
"And it's a fairy tale, a legend. It can't be real," the Doctor insisted as he's pacing around.
"But what if it's real?" Tory proposed, recalling the Pandorica story her father, Andred, read to her a long time ago.
"If it is real, it's here and it's opening, and it's got something to do with your TARDIS exploding," River concluded. "Hidden, obviously. Buried for centuries. You won't find it on a map."
"No, but if you buried the most dangerous thing in the universe, you'd want to remember where you put it," the Doctor noted.
"Stonehenge," Tory suddenly said as the Doctor, Amy, and River looks at her in confusion. "Look at the symbols on the door sign."
"Looks like pi."
"But it's not," the young girl disagreed. "When we visited Vincent, I mentioned Stonehenge to him, rambled about how peculiar Stonehenge is and how it's simply do nothing at all. Vincent might knew immediately the location since I mentioned it and made those symbols that looks like pi, but not pi at all, to tell us."
After that, River orders some soldiers to preparing three horse for a ride. Amy takes one, River takes one as well, and the Doctor and Tory take the last one. Tory initially wants to ride a horse by herself, but the Doctor disagree with that notion, afraid that she's going wild while riding it, which is stupid itself, but Tory admit, the idea is quite amazing to try.
Soon, they reach Stonehenge. As they stepping dowm from their horses, the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver on some of the stones lying on the ground while River takes out a scanner and types in some information.
"How come it's not new?" Amy womdered.
"Because it's already old. Stonehenge has been here thousands of years, more or less. No-one knows exactly how long," Tory informed, looking around.
"Okay, this Pandorica thing. Last time we saw you, you warned us about it, after we climbed out of the Byzantium," Amy mentioned, looking at River.
"Spoilers!" The woman simply said and puts a finger to her lips.
"No, but you told the Doctor you'd see him again when the Pandorica opens."
"Maybe I did. But I haven't yet. But I will have. Doctor, Tory, I'm picking up fry particles everywhere. Energy weapons discharged on this site."
The Doctor stands on a large stone. "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." He jumps off stone and puts an ear to it. "We need to get down there."
"Oooh. Dark places. I like it!" Tory cheered.
As night arrives, River places a device on the corner of the large stone. There are large standing lights placed around the area. "Right then. Ready," she said and presses a button on her scanner and the rock slides to the side revealing stone steps underneath.
Tory steps forward as River takes a torch from her pocket and switches it on. "The underhenge," the Time Lady murmured in excitement as the Doctor stands beside her, takes out his sonic screwdriver and uses it as a torch as they enter.
The Doctor steps out of a narrow passage and uses the screwdriver to light a torch. River and Tory go to the opposite wall and bringing a torch over to light it. He lifts up a large board that was acting as a lock across a huge set of doors. With a nod to River and a smile to Tory, they push open the doors and find themselves in a cavernous room. In the center stands a large box with an intricate circular pattern on each side.
"Look at that," Tory breathed with a smile. "Pandorica."
"More than just a fairy tale," River added.
The Doctor walks forward and steps on something, he looks down to see something, which he ignores and continues towards the Pandorica, places a hand on 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.
"A group called the Alliance made the Pandorica as a trap," Tory denoted as she walks around to the other side of the Pandorica, "Knowing very well the nameless being will fallen into the trap."
"So it's kind of like Pandora's Box, then? Almost the same name."
"Sorry, what?" The Doctor asked.
"The story. Pandora's Box, with all the worst things in the world in it."
"Sort of," Tory shrugged, looking at Amy in wonder while the Doctor puts his torch in a holder then uses the screwdriver on the Pandorica.
"That was my favourite book when I was a kid."
"Your favourite school topic, now your favourite story? The Universe is certainly small enough to have coincidence happen twice in a row."
"Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy. In which case, always ignore a coincidence," the Doctor said and walks back to Pandorica.
"So can you open it?" River asked.
"Easily. Anyone can break into a prison, but I'd rather know what I'm going to find first."
"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," River informed as she's looking at her scanner.
"How long do we have?" Tory inquired.
"Hours at the most."
"What sort of security?"
"Everything. Deadlocks, time-stops, matter-lines."
"Talk about trouble," she mumbled.
"What could get past all that?" River wondered.
"Think of the fear that went into making this box," the Doctor simply stated. "What could inspire that level of fear? Hello, you. Have we met?"
"So why would it start to open now?"
"Beats me," Tory shrugged. "And also, how could Vincent have known about it? He hasn't born yet."
The Doctor takes out the sonic screwdriver once again and uses them on the stone pillars. "The stones! These stones are great big transmitters, broadcasting a warning to everyone, everywhere, to every time zone. The Pandorica is opening!"
"Doctor... everyone, everywhere?"
"Even poor Vincent heard it in his dreams. What's in there, what could justify all this?"
"Doctor, everyone?" River asked again, which starts to concern Tory.
"Anything that powerful, I'd know about it. Why don't I know?"
"Doctor, you said everyone could hear it. So who else is coming?"
"Ah," Tory mumbled, now understand River's point.
"Ah? Ah what?" Amy asked
River presses her scanner against pillar. "Okay, if it is basically a transmitter, we should be able to fold back the signal."
"Doing it," the Doctor agreed and uses sonic on all pillars.
"Doing what?" Amy asked.
"Stonehenge is transmitting, it's been transmitting for a while," Tory explained. Now than she think of it, maybe that's also how Prisoner Zero knows about the Pandorica being opens. "So who else heard the signal? That's the question."
"Okay, should be feeding back to you now," the Doctor denoted. "River, what's out there? Getting anything?"
"Give me a moment," River replied.
"River, quickly, anything?"
"Around this planet, there are at least 10.000 starships."
"At least?" Amy gaped.
"10.000, 100.000, 1 million, I don't know. There's too many readings."
"Ohoho, this is wild," Tory beamed. "River, can you tell what kind of spaceships?"
"Maintaining orbit," a voice speaked that they know as the Daleks.
"I obey. Shield cover compromised on ion sectors."
"Daleks. Those are Daleks," Amy realized.
"Scan detects no temporal activity."
"Soft grid scan commencing."
"Reverse thrust for compensatory stabilisation."
"Daleks, Doctor," River clarified.
"Launch preliminary armaments protocol."
"Yes, Okay. Okay, okay, okay. Dalek fleet. Minimum, 12.000 battleships, armed to the teeth. But we've got surprise on our side!" The Doctor remarked. "They'll never expect three people to attack 12.000 Dalek battleships, 'cos we'd be killed instantly. So it would be a fairly short surprise. Forget surprise."
"Doctor, Tory, Cyber-ships," River interjected.
"Cybermen also here?" Tory inquired, cannot help herself being this excited. Sure their enemies are on large scale numbers, but this sort of thrill is just too tempting to not be excited. "Easy peasy. Knowing their interaction in Canary Wharf, I'm sure it's just a matter of time to make them fight againts each other."
"Sontaran. Four battle-fleets."
"Again, simple. They loooove battle. Just make them fight with those stupid Daleks and boring Cybermens."
"Terileptil. Slitheen. Chelonian. Nestene. Drahvin. Sycorax. Haemo-goth. Zygon. Atraxi. Draconian," River keep read. "They're all here. For the Pandorica."
"Oh, man. Christmas is coming way faster than I'm hoping," Tory smirks.
"What are you?" The Doctor wondered, looking at the giant box while the ground begins to shake and they all run to the stairs, look up to the sky and see lights from a number of ships flying above them.
Amy looks around, nervous. "What do we do?"
"Doctor, Tory, listen to me! Everything that ever hated you two is coming here tonight. You can't win this. You can't even fight it. Doctor, Tory, this once, just this one time, please, you have to run," River begged.
"Run where?" Tory asked her.
"Fight how?"
The Doctor takes out binoculars and looks back the way they came. "The greatest military machine in the history of the universe."
"What is? The Daleks?" Amy asked.
"No, no, no. The Romans!"
Tory looks around the Stonehenge, waiting for River as she's going to get some help with the Romans. To be fair, Tory had no idea what those silly soldiers will do to help their situation, but then again, it's better having some helps rather than nothing at all.
She heard Amy's scream from below. "Amy? Brother dear?" Tory called, taking her sword.
Don't come! The Doctor warned using telepathic.
What's wrong?
"Look at me, I'm a target!" The Doctor yelled as she hears a laser fires again that eerily closes to Cybermen.
Tory rolls her eyes. Is that all you've got?
Well, what else should I do?!, the Doctor grumbled.
Uh. Let me help, for instance?
Nu-uh. No way. Stay outside.
Tory huffed. This is getting boring.
Don't care. Just keep an eye outside. I'll take care the trouble inside while you're on the outside.
...You better buy me more ice creams after this.
Deal. Now, I'm gonna focus with that Cybermen's head, so you better be...
Tory frowns. Doctor? Still no respond. Doctor?
"Tory, help!" Amy cried, following by a scream as Tory soon steps back inside, not caring the Doctor's words before.
"You will be assimilated," a Cybermen voice stated.
"Yeah? You and whose body?" Amy demanded.
Tory hears a sound of heavy footsteps, both from underhenge and stonehenge. She looks up, find some Roman soldiers already arrive. Among them, she spots someone that she never thought she will see again. "Rory!"
"Tory!" Rory called and hugs her. "Where's Amy?"
"Down there. And better be quick. Because if I'm right, she's in absolute danger."
Rory nods as they all walking down to the underhenge. Tory finds the Doctor's unconscious while a nasty Cybermen is pounding on the door where, Tory guess, Amy's currently is. Both she and Rory waste no time to use their sword to stab the Cybermen on its chest, making it sparking. They both open the door, finding Amy's inside.
"Who...? Who are you...?" Amy asked, seems tired.
Rory removes his helmet. "Hello, Amy," he greeted, which Amy respond with a faints. Rory and Tory catch her. "Whoa, whoa!"
"Here," Tory offered as they both carrying her to a stone table and set her down. Rory caresses her hair just as another soldier enters the small room.
"Sir, the man's coming round," he announced.
"Amy?! Where's Amy?" The Doctor asked and runs into the room. He sighs gladly when sees Tory. "What did I told you before?"
"You're seriously going to talk about that? Now?" Tory raises her eyebrown.
"She's fine, Doctor, just unconscious," Rory informed as the Doctor rushes over to Amy's side.
"Okay." He checks her with his sonic screwdriver. "Yes, she's sedated, that's all. Half an hour, she'll be fine. Okay, Romans, good, I was just wishing for Romans, good old River. How many?"
"50 men up top, volunteers. What about that thing?"
"Don't worry. It won't attack," Tory assured Rory and takes back their sword.
"50? Not exactly a legion," the Doctor complained.
Rory nods to the other solider, who leaves, while takes his sword from Tory's hand. "Your friend was very persuasive, but it's a tough sell."
"Yes, I know that, Rory, I'm not exactly one to miss the obvious. But we need everything we can get," the Doctor said and pulls out two large guns from a chest. "Okay, Cyber-weapons. This is basically a sentry box. So, headless wonder here was a sentry. Probably got himself duffed up by the locals. Never underestimate a Celt."
"Doctor..."
"Hush, Rory. Why leave a Cyberman on guard? Unless it's a Cyberthing in the box. But why would they lock up one of their own? Okay, no, not a Cyberthing, but what, what? No, I'm missing something obvious, Rory!" He stands face-to-face with him. "Something big, something right slap in front of me, I can feel it!"
"Yeah, you clearly are oblivious," Tory mocked, tilts her head while crossing both arms. "Quite amusing, I must say."
"I'll get it in a minute," he replied, still not getting it as he strides out of the room with the guns, leaving Rory and Tory.
"Wait for it," Tory gestures to Rory as they heard a loud clatter. They witness the Doctor slowly enters the room back without any weapons on his hands. He walks up to Rory, stares at him, pokes him in the chest and Rory sways.
"Hello again," the Doctor greeted, shock.
"Hello," Rory replied.
"How've you been?"
"Good. Yeah, good. I mean, Roman."
"Rory, I'm not trying to be rude... but you died."
"Yeah, I know, I was there."
"You died and then you were erased from time. You didn't just die, you were never born at all, you never existed."
Rory frowns. "Erased? What does that mean?"
"Exactly what he said. You never exist," Tory remarked. "Which makes me wonder, how can you be here?"
"I don't know. It's kind of fuzzy."
"Care to explain?"
"Well, I died and turned into a Roman. It's very distracting!" Rory admitted, then runs a hand across Amy's cheek. "Did she miss me?"
"Actually..."
Before Tory can brings Rory a bad news, they hear a loud whooshing and rumbling, a signal they take to run out of the smaller room into the main cavern. The symbols on the Pandorica are glowing green. The Doctor uses his screwdriver on it. The other Roman soldiers watch.
"What is it? What's happening?" Rory asked.
"The final phase. It's opening," the Doctor informed, sets a hand on the turning gears.
Rory and Tory arrives above ground and sees the ships in the sky alongside his Roman soldiers who had come. Tory instinctly takes her sword and activates her power at their enemies.
"Sorry, sorry, dropped it," the Doctor's voice speaked. "Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe. But bad news, everyone," he jumps up on flat stone, using some comm.. "'Cos guess who?! Ha! Listen, you lot, you're all whizzing about, it's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute? Because I. AM. TALKING! The question of the hour is, who's got the Pandorica? Answer, me and my sister. Next question, who's coming to take it from us? Come on! Look at us. No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else, we don't have, anything... to... lose! So if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship, with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way. Remember every black day we ever stopped you. And then, and then, do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first," he declared, holds his arms outstretched, daring someone to try.
Tory smirks happily as the ships take off. "Good job, brother dear!" Tory thumbs up.
He simply throws his communicator to her and jumps down. "That'll keep 'em squabbling for half an hour," he said to Rory. "Romans!"
"They're still out there. What do we do now?" Rory asked as they return back to underhenge.
"If I can stop whatever's in this box getting out, then they'll go home," the Doctor remarked, return to check Pandorica much deeper.
"Right."
"Rory, I'm sorry, you're going to have to be very brave now."
Tory watches Amy who has woken up and is walking towards them rubbing her head. She walks right past her and Rory to the Doctor. "Oh, my head."
"Aaaahhh," the Doctor said, opens his mouth.
"Aaaahhh," Amy replied and did what he did.
"Just your basic knock-out drops. Get some fresh air, you'll be fine."
"Is it safe up there?"
"Nah, the enemies still out there. But you'll be fine," Tory responded with a grin.
Amy rolls her eyes. "Fine," she glances Rory, "Oh, you're the guy, yeah, the one who did the... swordy thing."
"Both of us, actually."
"Yeah," Rory noted.
"Well, thanks for the swording. Nice swording. I can see why Tory likes you," Amy remarked, taps him on the shoulder and walks off.
"No problem. My men are up there. They'll look after you."
"Good. Love a Roman!"
Rory watches her leave in sadness. "She doesn't remember me," he mumbled, turns to them, "How can she not remember me?"
"Like we said before, the crack erased you," Tory reminded him while shut her eyes close. "There are cracks that keeps growing and growing, erasing people's memory... until it creates a huge explosion in the future, destroying everything we ever know."
"How does that work? What kind of explosion?"
"No idea. Which is why the Doctor and I investigate this matter. The Pandorica is the key of our problem."
"So I fell through a crack and now I was never born?"
"Basically," the Doctor corrected.
"How did I end up here?"
"I don't know, you shouldn't have. What happened? From your point of view, what physically happened?"
"I was in the cave, with you, your sister, and Amy," Rory recalled. "I was dying and then I was just here, a Roman soldier. A proper Roman. Head full of Roman... stuff, a whole other life. Just here like I'd woken up from a dream. Started to think it was a dream. You, Tory, Amy and Leadworth. Then today, in the camp, the men were talking about the visitors, the girl with the red hair. I thought you'd come back for me. But she can't even remember me."
"I don't think so," Tory disagreed, tapping her foot. "She always looks sad, cry several times, despite she doesn't know why exactly. I think deep down, she truly miss you. She's just need a push. Which is why... brother dear?"
The Doctor reaches into his pocket, pulls out the ring box and tosses it to Rory. "Go get her."
"But I don't understand," Rory argued. "Why am I here?"
"Does it matter?" Tory nudged him innocently.
"Because you are," the Doctor simply replied. "The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous, and sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles, and that's the theory. 900 years, never seen one yet. But this would do me and my sister. Now get upstairs, she's Amy and she's surrounded by Romans. I'm not sure history can take it."
Rory nods and the Doctor slaps him on the back as he heads topside.
After some time, the communicator on Tory's hand beeping. "River?" Tory called. "Where are you? Any information?"
"Don't raise your voice, don't look alarmed, just listen. The both of you," River warned. Both Time Lords look nervous at each other. "They're not real. They can't be. They're all right here in the story book. Those actual Romans. The ones I sent you, the ones you're with right now. They're all in a book in Amy's house. A children's picture book."
"What are you even doing there?" The Doctor wondered.
"It doesn't matter. The TARDIS went wrong."
"Well, it does to me," Tory disagreed. Sure, River keeps so many secret about the future, but Tory knows River cares for them and how much hurt she often looks whenever the Doctor never trusted her.
"Back to the problem, cupcake. How is this possible?"
"Something, or someone, deliberly using Amy's memories."
"But how?"
"You said something had been there," the Doctor recalled.
"Yes. There's burn marks on the grass outside. Landing patterns."
"If they've been to her house, they could have used her psychic residue. Structures can hold memories, that's why houses have ghosts. They could've taken a snapshot of Amy's memories. But why?"
"To lure us into a trap?" Tory wondered. Because why would they went into such trouble to do that, other than intend to trap two fearsome beings across the universe, the Oncoming Storm and Themis? The last of the Time Lords.
"Doctor, Tory, who are those Romans?" River asked.
"My guess? They're just projections or duplicates."
"But they were helping us. My lipstick even worked."
"They might think they're real," the Doctor denoted. "The perfect disguise. They actually believe their own cover story, right until they're activated."
"Doctor, Tory, that Centurion..."
"Yeah?" Tory replied, confused. "What about him?"
"I've found a picture of him. It's a trap. It has to be. They used Amy to construct a scenario you'd believe, to get close to you two."
"Why? Who'd do that? What for? It doesn't make sense," the Doctor argued.
"Maybe not at all," Tory added as they heard a loud noise. "River? River?"
"River, what's happening?" The Doctor asked, panic.
"I don't know. It's the engines. There's something wrong with the TARDIS, like something else is controlling it."
"You're flying it wrong."
"I'm flying it perfectly."
"Where are you? What's the date reading?"
"It's the 26th of June, 2010," River informed.
Both Time Lords look at each other, now in absolute fear. "River, you must get out of there. Move to other time zone," Tory suggested.
"Just go," the Doctor agreed.
"I can't break free."
"Well, then shut down the TARDIS. Shut down everything!"
"I can't!" River cried, following by another voice.
"Silence will fall. Silence will fall."
Tory tensed upon hearing that words. The same words that Prisoner Zero warned. Not to mention, Signora Rosanna said something about silence as well.
"Someone else is flying it," River informed. "An external force. I've lost control."
"But how? Why?" The Doctor asked as a high pitched noise fills the chamber, causing both Time Lords to cover their ears. But that doesn't stop them from warning River. "Listen to me, just land her anywhere. Emergency landing, now. There are cracks in time. We've seen them everywhere, and they're getting wider. The TARDIS exploding is what causes them, but we can stop the cracks ever happening if you just land her."
"It's not safe."
"Whoa," Tory mumbled as she and the Doctor witness the large box begins to open, two sides sliding away from the closest corner to the cavern entrance. The light illuminates the entire underhenge.
"Well, now. Ready to come out, are we?" The Doctor mused.
"Doctor? Tory? I'm down. I've landed."
"Walk out of the doors," Tory quickly told her. "If no one's inside, the old girl's engines will shut down automatically."
"Just get out of there," the Doctor warned.
"I'm going."
"Run!" He added as he and Tory go foward, to the Pandorica.
"Oh no, you don't!" Tory declared, looking at the Roman soldiers who march forward toward them. Each soldier's hand reveals to be a gun.
"Amy!" He realized, knowing Rory still outside with Amy. But before he and Tory can do anything, some soldiers soon grabbing them from moving or fighting. Tory desperately trying to uses her power, but since five soldiers already caught her and immobilize her hands to move, she can't use her power or even her sword.
Oh, she should practise herself to uses her power with her mind.
"Plastic Romans. Duplicates, driven by the Nestene Consciousness, eh?" The Doctor guessed while being held by two soldiers, led away near his sister. "Deep cover, but what for? What are you doing? What's in there, eh? What's coming out?"
"Who's your leader?" Tory demanded.
The two Nestene duplicates are facing the Pandorica. The Doctor is between them, facing the opposite direction while Tory got immobilize beside him. "The Pandorica is ready," a soldier announced.
"Ready?" Tory wondered. "What does that mean?"
"You two have been scanned. Assessed. Understood. Doctor. Themis," a voice of a Dalek speaked. Both Time Lords look over their shoulder and sees a white Dalek, a red Dalek, and a yellow Dalek from their last encounter.
"Scanned? Scanned by what, a box?" The Doctor asked.
"Your limits and capacities have been extrapolated," a Cybermen declared. This time, they see some Cybermens appear alongside Judoon and Sontarans.
"The Pandorica is ready," a Sontaran stated.
"Ready for what?" Tory demanded, still struggling.
"Ready for you," a Dalek revealed as both Time Lords see a chair with restraints inside Pandorica.
"No! NO!" Tory yelled, resisting the soldiers who caught her as Nestene soldiers dragging the Doctor into the Pandorica despite his effort to pull away. The girl just watching hopelessly as they put the Doctor inside Pandorica while putting his restrains.
"You lot, working together. An alliance," the Doctor muttered. "How is that possible?"
"The cracks in the skin of the universe," the White Dalek stated.
"All reality is threatened," a sontaran speaked.
"All universes will be deleted," a Cybermen shared.
"So what? You people decided to trap the Doctor and restrain me for stopping it?" Tory remarked.
"All projections correlate. All evidence concurs. The Doctor and Themis will destroy the universe."
"No, no, no. You've got it wrong," the Doctor disagreed.
"The Pandorica was constructed to ensure the safety of the Alliance."
"A scenario was devised from the memories of your companion," the White Dalek revealed.
"A trap the Time Siblings could not resist," a Sontaran added.
Tory shut her eyes closed, recalling the Pandorica's story Father read to her. She remember that story mentioning about a group to stop the nameless being from moving around by created Pandorica as a trap. A group called Alliance.
She cursed herself for not realising the bigger picture.
"The cracks in time are the work of the Doctor and Themis. It is confirmed," the White Dalek concluded.
"Not us!" Tory insisted, trying to get away without result. "The TARDIS is the one who caused it. And we're not in the TARDIS, are we?"
"Only the Doctor and Themis can pilot the TARDIS."
"Please, listen to us!" The Doctor begged.
"You will be prevented."
"Total event collapse! Every sun will supernova at every moment in history. The whole universe will never have existed. Please, listen to us!"
"Seal the Pandorica," a Cybermen ordered, then glancing at Tory. "Kill her."
"NO! Please, listen to me!" The Doctor shouted, scared and fear as the door's getting close and a soldier aiming a gun at Tory. "The TARDIS is exploding right now and we're the only one who can stop it! Listen to me!"
"Fire!" A Sontaran commanded.
"NOOO!" He yelled one last time as a shot got right into Tory's chest. Her eyes looks wide, shaking and shock of the impact.
The last thing she sees is the Doctor get trap inside Pandorica and his screaming over her name.
Note: OH OW. Tory just died! Again! How she's gonna survive for next episode? Will she even regenerated? O.O I hope I can give some shock about that last moment. Originally, I intend to make Tory get stuck inside Pandorica with the Doctor. But since I read so many scenarios from many other Time Lady stories that either they stuck inside Pandorica, the TARDIS, still imprison from Nestene robots, or got frozen, I decided to try a different scenario that inspired from LizzeXX's stories. I always tries to do something's new and rare to find.