As Cameca and I walked into the throne room, I saw the Doctor messing with a wooden wheel that I assume he had made as he wrapped the rope around it.
Susan glanced at me and smiled, "Acacia", she exclaimed and the Doctor looked up, "Ah! Acacia my dear girl! You're safe", he said happily.
"Yeah…" I said and looked down guiltily, they glanced at me confused and I shook my head, "Sorry…so is that the pulley", I asked walking up to the Doctor.
"Yes! I shall have it working in no time", he told me as Susan left to go check on Barbara.
Cameca came up beside me and bowed lightly to the Doctor as she said, "I honor the Doctor, I bring Acacia back to you", "That was a very brave thing to do, Cameca. But you can't stay here", the Doctor told her.
"I thought that I might stay by your side, to see the two of you wed", Cameca said as she glanced at the two of us, my cheeks blushed a light pink as we stared wide eyed at her.
The Doctor and I stayed silent, I didn't know what to say and by the look of it neither did the Doctor; finally, she sighed, "Goodbye", she told us and walked away.
I watched as she left as the Doctor turned away, "You didn't say goodbye", I commented, "Neither did you", he pointed out, "Come on let's get this pulley finished", the Doctor told me, I nodded as I turned towards him, helping with the pulley and the rope.
After a while the guards from before came up the temple; the Doctor, Susan, and I hid behind the throne.
We watched as they escorted Barbara outside of the temple, then Tlotoxl ran up yelling, "False Goddess! You have betrayed us!"
Then I heard Ian yell, "Run Barbara", she then ran towards us as we began to use the pulley too open the door to the tomb.
"Ixta! Ixta", we heard Tlotoxl yell as the guards ran away, Ian guarded the entrance to the throne room as we worked on pulling the rope to open the door.
I glanced back to see the two men fighting each other, both had equally armor and weapons; after a while of fighting and then throwing their weapons away so they could fight with brute force, Ixta pushed Ian to the ground and was about to make the final blow.
For a moment, I got scared and screamed, "Ian", then he promptly placed his the bottom of his foot on Ixta's stomach and pushed him off which caused the man to fall over the ledge of the temple.
I heard screams outside of the temple as Ixta fell and I turned sharply away shutting my eyes tightly, "Back to the task at hand, my dear", the Doctor told me and I nodded as we continued pulling on the rope to get the door open.
As the door slowly opened, Ian came running up to us saying, "It's opening", exclaiming happily and I shook my head, and almost smiled as Ian sated the obvious but didn't since Ixta's death weighed on my mind. Even if he was cruel he was still a man…was I to be okay for someone dying?
Once there was enough room for all of us to fit through, we all rushed in as Tlotoxl and the guards came running into the throne room. Luckily the door was shut before he could reach it, Barbara sighed and placed Yetaxa's braclet back where it came from back on his skeleton as Ian and Susan went into the Tardis.
"We failed", she exclaimed, "Yes, we had to", the Doctor told her, "What is the point of traveling in time, if you can't change anything", she asked, I glanced at her noticing she was talking to both the Doctor and I.
The Doctor glanced at me before looking back at Barbara, "Tlotoxl won and the man I trusted…I deceived…he lost his faith", she said sadly.
"He found a new one, a better one", the Doctor said and then walked up to her, "That's the good you've done, you failed to save a civilization, but at least you helped one man", the Doctor told her and then patted her shoulder comfortingly.
I smiled as Barbara walked into the Tardis and soon followed after her after taking one last look around the tomb, then I stopped to glance back at the Doctor as he placed the coin Cameca had given him next to the skeleton of Yetaxa.
"Coming Doctor", I asked, "Yes, yes….and goodbye", the Doctor told me as I walked into the Tardis confused. Suddenly there was a bright light that flashed before my eyes and I quickly shut them as my body felt like it was being pulled forward through the air.
Then I felt my feet land on solid ground before I had slipped sideways as the gravity inside of the Tardis changed, I was falling until someone had grabbed my hand before I landed on the wall.
"Ah, Acacia! Good to see you…you've appeared at an awkward time…the Tardis…seemed to have landed on its side", I heard a stranger's, the one who kept me from falling, voice say.
Before I could look at him, he threw a coat over my head, "Put that on, once we get outside. Come on, up we go", the strange me told me as he pulled me up, the grabbed me by the waist to hoist me up even further.
"Try to push onto the Tardis's doors", he told me and I pushed forward, my mind confused as to what gravity of the situation we were facing.
"Up! Up! The doors are above your head! Here", he told me and held me up even higher
I couldn't see anything, but the top of my head had bumped into…something? Doing as was instructed I lifted my hands in an awkward position and pushed up, looking up I saw the opening of the Tardis.
"It's opened", I called looking below me and quickly looking back up getting dizzy, shaking my head, "Remind me not to do that again", I said.
"Will do", the man below me said in amusement, "Ah", another man yelled, "What's wrong", asked the man that was holding me up, "Do you have to stand on my head", the other man complained as I climbed out.
I shivered, it was freezing, very quickly I slipped my coat on and turned around to see that the Tardis had fallen on its side.
In the doorway was a man who looked at me awkwardly, "Are you going to help me out", he asked, "Sooner rather than later", called the other man inside of the Tardis.
"Right", I nodded then pulled him up and out, I found it a little difficult since I was small. After that we both reached into the Tardis and pulled out a man and a woman, who both looked around the same age as me, if a little older.
The strange man closed the Tardis's doors as both the man and the woman stared at me, "Sorry it was a blind landing", the man said walking up to the three of us. I glanced at all three of them, they were all strangers…had the Doctor changed? Who was the Doctor?
"Doctor", I asked looking at all three of them, "Hm", said the man who grabbed me from inside of the Tardis.
"You've…changed", I stated as I looked at him, "You say that like it's a bad thing", he told me and I shook my head, "No…I didn't...I, um", I said a little disoriented as I looked around.
"Are you alright", the woman asked me, "Yeah, I'm fine. Change of gravity must of made me dizzy", I said rubbing my forehead as I glanced at them both in question.
"Oh! Sorry Acacia, this is Victoria and Jaime", the Doctor introduced and I smiled awkwardly as I shook their hands.
"Nice to meet you", Victoria said to me as both men whispered to each other.
"Likewise", I told her and she smiled confused, "You're polite", she told surprised, it was my turn to give her a confused look as she walked away.
"Oh! Look at this big wall of ice", Victoria exclaimed, "It's so smooth", Jaimie commented and I shook my head, "You guys act like you've never seen glass before", I told them and they both turned to look at me.
"Yes…it's a dome, a protective dome", the Doctor told us, "So big...can't see the end of it…I wander what's inside", Victoria asked, then an alarm went off and the Doctor pulled us all behind the Tardis, ducking down behind it as we hid. We watched as a bearded man with long hair walked out of the dome with another man who was holding…something?
"Don't worry, those alarms weren't meant for us. I wonder what's wrong though", said the other man who was holding…. whatever it was, "Ack, that's their problem. Come on", said the bearded man, then they both ran away.
The four of us stood as soon as the men were gone, "Doctor", I asked and he turned to look at me, "Where are Ian, Barbara, and Susan…I know this is probably an awkward time to-", "Gone…their just…gone and that's all I'm going to say", he told me as he walked up to the door where the men from before walked out.
I glanced at both Victoria and Jaimie, who both shrugged and then walked up to the Doctor as he placed his hand on the touch pad and the door opened. Walking up to them, we all looked cautiously inside before walking in after which the door closed behind us.
Looking back at the door, I glared, as I remembered the door back at the Aztec temple Then I heard the Doctor chuckle and say, "Just like old times, eh", he told me before we ventured further in.
Victoria, Jaimie, and the Doctor peeked around a corner after we had entered one of the buildings, "You guys secret agents or something", I asked amused and the Doctor shushed me making me raise a brown at him.
Both Jaimie and Victoria chuckled as the stood and we continued walking, "Oh, Doctor it's just like my home", Victoria exclaimed, "I know", the Doctor told her.
Just then we heard an alarm go off again as the intercom on the wall said, "Red state emergency. Evacuation phase three. Phase three evacuate. Transport section leaders report now. Phase three evacuation", when it was done, the alarm went off and so did the intercom.
"Seems like there's danger ahead", I said stating the obvious, "It seems safe now", Victoria told me. Then a woman, who seemed to come out of nowhere, came up to us and started putting pins on all our shirts.
"Oh…thank you", the Doctor said confused, "Thank you. Excuse me, Miss…I'm Jaimie McCrimmon, do you think you can tell us where we are", Jaimie asked the woman as she placed a pin on his shirt.
When she was done giving us all our pins she quickly walked away, "She doesn't want to know Jaimie", the Doctor told him, "Hey this says we're on flight seven", Victoria said, looking at her pin.
"She wanted us to leave", I wondered, "Yes, rather inhospitable, we've only just arrived", the Doctor shouted down the hall to the woman.
"Maybe there's a reason everyone is being evacuated", I asked them, "Then let's find out", the Doctor told me smiling and I gave him a confused look.
"Hey…and this tag, it says I'm a scavenger", Jaimie told the Doctor upset and looked at his as well, "And yours does too! Hey, we're not beggars", Jaimie shouted at the woman who was already gone.
"Hush, Jaimie", the Doctor told him as he placed his head against the wall and listened. I was looking at the Doctor even more confused than I was before, "What is it Doctor", Victoria asked, "Sounds like electric machinery, like a computer. There's something wrong with its pitch", the Doctor told us.
"It's pitch", I asked, "Sshh…I'm trying to listen", he told me, "Oh no…it might be dangerous, now let's leave it", Victoria told us to which the Doctor gave her a firm, "No." "Let's go in", he finally said as he stood to look at us.
"I'm kinda curious myself", I admitted, "See? Let's go in", the Doctor said. Before the Doctor opened the door to a room, Victoria said, "When is listening to her a good idea? I swear you both act like children", she told us.
"What is wrong with acting young", he asked her before opening the doors and we all walked in. This Doctor was very different compared to the last one, I thought to myself…but what the hell was going on…why was I time jumping?