Chapter Twenty-Four:
Alex grabbed onto Alexys, helping her to stand straight when her knees had crumbled beneath her. Both blinked rapidly as if it would awaken them from a horrible nightmare but the blinking only confirmed their reality. Nick was a Dalek puppet.
The only question that came next was how long.
"Alex, I—"
WHHHHHHR.
Once again there had been that nearly vomiting expression and then it appeared from Luke's forehead beside them. The two jumped away from him as they gazed upon their loves. They suddenly recalled the dream Alexys had and wished feverishly that the two were only Zygons. To be Dalek puppets was so much worse. They gripped onto each other as hot tears fell down their face.
"How could you!" Alexys cried out to the Daleks.
It was a collective heartbreak between the Alex and Alexys that silenced the noise of the Professors shouting and River Song talking and Clara Oswald threatening and Daleks replying and Father Blackwood laughing. Alex looked to Luke beside them feeling completely gutted. The blue eye remained on Alex while his gentle blue eyes were glazed over as he looked at the center of his forehead with the expression that he too was in shock. His mouth hung open while his limbs were frozen in a half reach toward him. He seemed to be a robot that had been put on pause and it was terrifying.
Alexys was full sobbing as she looked to Nick up on the balcony. Since she had met Nick she had been going back and forth between him and the Ninth Doctor but seeing him in that way…seeing him gone? It made her feelings absolutely clear.
She let out a choked cry as her hand reached up toward him, "Nicholas…please? I love you…"
Even from the distance Alexys watched a flicker of light spark across his eyes. The man began to move into motion as if the mechanics in his body were brought to life. A wicked smirk crossed his features as he stared upward at the eyestalk.
"Nick?" she whispered the words.
"Hold…" the eyestalk grew further out of his forehead, "…that," his hands shook as his arms stretched out before him and Alex gasped to see Luke following the same motion, "…thought!"
The two men snapped their attention to Father Blackwood and as they did all the Daleks pointed toward him and fired. Professor Wardwell dropped down in time to evade the shot but Father Blackwell and the servants of the Church of Stillhet were not so lucky. Alex and Alexys gasped with joy at the sight of the two men fighting the Dalek weaponry inside of them. They looked to each other and pressed their hands to their chest and their palms to one another for their handshake.
Tap tap.
A sudden and strange buzzing sound resonated off the walls and just when the buzzing could not get any louder there was noise.
BOOM!
From the center of Nick and Luke's chest exploded a brilliant light that knocked everyone backward onto the ground except for Alex and Alexys. The only other beings still standing were the Daleks but they had clearly been turned off. Alex and Alexys blinked as they watched what looked like a mushroom cloud of kaleidoscope colors shimmer from the ceiling toward the ground. Sparkling, twinkling, golden, silver, blue, pink, yellow, purple, green, rainbow light was all anyone could see as if a firework had gone off at the center of the massive room. Alex and Alexys looked to where their respective partners had been but they were gone and in their place was a metal skeleton with a blue eyestalk staring downward at the Daleks.
Their eyes scanned the room for the men but suddenly the brilliant cloud of colors began to congregate before them in two cylinders of light. Alex and Alexys held each other's arms as they watched the air before them begin to condense into a whisper of an outline of Nick and Luke. Once again they blinked in the hopes of better understanding what they witnessed.
Once again the blinking did not help.
"What is…"
"…going on?"
Alex and Alexys spoke in unison.
The outlines of the men seemed to solidify as if made of crystal in the same shimmering colors of what had exploded into the room. Though it appeared their mouths had become solid enough to speak it did not move. Instead it came out across the minds of all present together with a chorus of voices that seemed to be gathered throughout all of time and history. Even in the minds it made the whole room shiver.
"Alexander and Alexys. We offer our humblest apologies for our deception. We are not the human beings known as Nicholas Scratch or Lucas Chalfant. We are not humans, we are not beings, and we are not of this universe."
Alex and Alexys held their breath. Across their mind went a collection of heartbreaking possibilities that had no words, only emotion and possibility. They thought of the dream Alexys had and it devastated them.
"Incorrect."
"What?" the word fell out of Alex's mouth like a stone.
"Your assumption is incorrect. We did not use you because of Greendale or the Doctor. We used Greendale and the Doctor because of you."
"What do you mea…?"
"I think I can offer some explanation," came the voice of River Song.
Somewhere in the mess Clara and River Song had come down from their balcony. Alex and Alexys looked up to find the Professors and Rose Tyler but it seemed they were on the move too. River and Clara stepped to Alex and Alexys but before they could get any closer an invisible barrier prevented them from touching the two.
The aliens known as Nick and Luke spoke in unison, "The threat has yet to be contained. No harm shall come to Alex and Alexys."
"Easy boys, we mean no harm," Clara smirked.
It was then that Alex and Alexys realized they held their own gunsticks. River lowered hers before continuing to speak, "I noticed early on that your partners had an uncanny ability to show up when you were in the most danger, to prevent you from following through on plans that would no doubt get you killed, and to find inventive ways to keep the Silents away."
"Turns out the scary monsters are a bit old fashioned," Clara smirked, "Bit prudish if you ask me."
Alexys felt her face grow incredibly hot while Alex continued to have a sinking feeling in his stomach.
"As soon as they were on my radar I searched for their species in every database, every ancient book, every old memory stashed away on the Tardis but found nothing. It wasn't until I got a chance to really look at them that I realized what they were," she pointed to her Eye Drive, "All the Artron energy was a dead giveaway yet their physical form was so substantial I almost doubted myself."
"Okay…what are they?" Alex urged.
"They are known by many names. Knights of the Time Winds, Keepers of No-Space, Masters of No-Time and when all of that gets to be a handful they are known as…"
"The Watchers."
Alex and Alexys gasped.
"We are protectors of the Time Vortex. Our sole purpose is to maintain equilibrium throughout the Vortex so as to protect all universes from destruction. We are the fabric that holds space and time together as one. We are all as one."
"Allow me to keep explaining," River smiled warmly, "They are an energy class race with no physical form. They operate as a single consciousness and communicate telepathically."
"Wait…so…" Alexys couldn't even finish her thoughts.
"Incorrect," they spoke.
"What do you mean?" Alexys found herself growing more desperate for answers.
"River Song is correct. The Watchers operate as a single consciousness yet it is far more complex. Imagine the tapestry of time and space as one imagine. We are all separate threads working in unison to achieve the same goal. But we have—"
They began to change color, size, shape until suddenly they dropped from their hovering cloud stance in the physical forms that Alex and Alexys had grown to love. Luke reached for Alex and cupped his face tenderly, "We have changed."
"Being with you has changed us," Nick continued, reaching for Alexys' hands between both of his.
"But how? Where did you come from? How did you even see us?" Alex felt his mind swimming with questions.
"We have been seeking an end to the cracks. Our own means have done nothing to close them and so we have separated through every opening in search of an answer. We followed the Doctor into your universe where we observed you from a far."
"We separated as you both separated naturally on your own adventures. We observed you and the Doctor from a distance with the single goal of uncovering the truth of the cracks."
"But that began to change."
Luke held onto Alex's face with such desperation Alex was almost sure he could taste it, "We are entirely telepathic, Alexander, which means from the moment I first observed you I have heard every thought you have and ever did have. I intended to keep you at a distance but the more I heard of your mind the more enchanted I became. We feel the emotions of the universe, we see the choices, we share every experience and yet…and yet when I fell into your mind I became lost. I tasted your pain, I heard your cries, I felt your deepest heartbreak and I watched you time and time again show kindness and love for others when you had none left for yourself. Over and over I watched you give and give and work and work and try and try harder and harder until you were empty. We followed you here to Greendale and when the opportunity presented itself to be something physical with you and protect you? I could not say no."
"I fell for your strength," Nick spoke to Alexys in soft whispers choked off by tears, "Your romanticism, your creativity, your sweetness and your hidden deviousness that you only allow the very lucky to see. I fell for your dreams and your wild imagination and your ability to see the good in everything no matter what. I fell for how many times you've been hurt for seeing only the good and how it still does not stop you from seeing just that."
"For the first time in our history we have completely separated into our own beings," Luke sighed as he looked back and forth between Alex and Alexys and Nick, "This is uncommon territory but it is territory we want to cross. Alex, you allowed me to try things and to be things and to experience things and you loved me. Each word in my direction chipped me away from the consciousness like a statue chipped away from a block of stone. I am a separate entity now with thoughts and feelings and sensations all my own."
"Wait…," Alexys frowned, recalling what Clara had explained, "So when we did stuff…you were only doing that to make the Silents go away?"
"Absolutely not! Though part of it was to make sure they did not continue watching you, it was our first time in physical bodies. Everything we did…everything I did—"
Luke agreed, "Everything I did."
"—was purely out of love and desire to be one with you. Please, forgive us for our deception and know everything we did was to protect you and to preserve the uniqueness your affections have given us. We did not intend to fall in love but here we are…beyond that."
Alex looked to Alexys who looked back to Alex who continued to look at Alexys.
Alexys let out a deep shaking breath, "I need to confer with my associate in privacy."
"Of course."
The force field that surrounded them lifted so that they could step away. Alexys pulled Alex to the side and began to whisper, "Honestly, I'm sold. I just want to play hard to get and make Nick sweat a little."
"Honestly...I'm sold too," Alex expressed the same level of joy. They paused with their hands extended in the form of their shake, "Incredibly attractive, telepathic space creatures that are in love with us?"
Tap tap.
"Incredibly attractive, telepathic space creatures that are in love with us and protect us constantly?"
Tap tap.
"Incredibly attractive, telepathic space creatures that are in love with us and protect us constantly and defeated the Daleks?"
Tap tap.
"Incredibly attractive, telepathic space creatures that are in love with us and protect us constantly and defeated the Daleks and are amazing in bed?"
Tap tap.
A small cough came from the two men, "You know we can hear you, right?"
Alex and Alexys blushed wildly.
"Do you want to see another perk of forgiving us?" Luke questioned.
Alex and Alexys nodded their head.
"We can shift our shape."
The two men exploded into clouds again but quickly took shape into two women…that looked exactly like Jenny from the League and Tahani Al-Jamil from the Good Place.
Alex and Alexys screamed with joy as they looked to each other.
"Are we?"
"Yeah we are!"
The two completed their handshake once again—tap tap—but the excitement of the news took over them and they did again—tap tap—and the joy of everything coming together consumed them until they could not stop doing their handshake—tap tap—even when they wanted to—tap tap.
The Professors, the Weatherman, and Rose Tyler joined them in the room but Alex and Alexys could not greet them. Their loves returned to their first form but still it did not change a thing. They were caught in a cycle of their handshake. Hand tapping against chest tapping against palm.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
"You think this is over?" came the shaking voice of Professor Wardwell. She stood against the crack as she shouted, "This is all according to plan!"
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
"We can't stop!" Alex shouted, feeling aching pain coursing through his forearms.
"Help!" Alexys cried out.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
The group split in half and grabbed hold of Alex and Alexys and tried to pull them apart but their hands were connected in an unshaking rhythm. Every time they had done their handshake played across their mind until each separate one formed an orchestra of horror. Together the four beats played again and again as they were locked in the continual cycle.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
Tap tap. Tap. Tap.
"Your music shall call and I shall pull forward!" Professor Wardwell jammed her arm through the crack.
River ran toward the Professor, "Stop that! You're killing yourself!"
Smoke lifted from the woman's body as her skin began to burn, "The Beast will rise!"
Professor Wardwell pulled until suddenly an arm reached out of the crack from the other side. The Professor pulled and pulled until out came another arm and then a leg and then a body and then a whole entity. Professor Wardwell collapsed to the ground, gone, but in her place was a horrifying being of the same size and shape.
"Did you miss me?"
It was Missy.
BLAST!
Blinding light flashed across Alex and Alexys' eyes and they collapsed for a moment into the arms of their friends.
"Sorry about the forced suggestion there. I needed something familiar to call me through to right moment," Missy smirked as she fixed her dress and hair.
River took aim with the gunstick while Clara jumped into position to protect the Doctors and Rose. Luke and Nick stood with their hands extended toward the metal skeletons they left behind and those skeletons looked to the Daleks that suddenly came to life to point at Missy.
"Well, this certainly is not the warm welcome I was expecting."
Luke and Nick stepped before Alex and Alexys while Clara and River stood before them. Rose Tyler stood before the Professors and the Weatherman. Every weapon aimed at Missy.
"I have to admit. I'm rather confused by your hostility."
"What did you do to us!" Alex snapped, his arms still stinging from when they operated beyond his control.
"I did nothing. Just had some dear friends of mine use mild suggestion to amplify an already solid impulse," she smiled.
"Are you the Beast?" Alexys questioned in amazement.
"I'm a beast. Yes. Mostly I am the master mind behind this realm that you have enjoyed so much," she smirked. She took careful steps forward and it was only then that they realized the table still stood with the three boxes beneath a sheet.
"Don't make another move," River declared.
"River Song, after all that we have been through?" Missy frowned. "Well…I think you'll find I have a way around this hostility."
Missy snapped her fingers and from each doorway came the Church of Stillhet with knives at their own throat. Alexys gasped as she saw Aunt Hilda and Aunt Zelda at the forefront with smiles on their face. Alex tried to step toward them but Luke stopped him, "Aunties! What are you doing?"
"As I told Alexys before, the Beast needs a sacrifice and we shall be humble martyrs," Zelda beamed.
"Zelda, this isn't you," Professor Smith sounded as though he were on the verge of tears.
"I think it's quite best we let this all…sort itself out," Professor Schmidt mumbled.
"Right, yes, Doctors. Or…not Doctors. It really is disappointing not to see that nasty scowl at the hands of defeat. Everything I say will just be gibberish to you. Might as well not even reveal my brilliant plan," she pouted as if a child that had just been told she could not have a cookie before dinner.
"We're all still ears," Rose perked up.
Alex looked behind him, finally finding enough courage to make eye contact with her and when they did a wave of red washed over his features that made Alexys giggle despite the current circumstance.
"Is that Rose Tyler?" Missy questioned.
"Yeah, is me…"
She paused a moment in thought, "I thought you'd be taller…"
"Now you hold it there!"
"You bitch!"
"How dare you!"
"Leave her alone!"
River, Clara, Alex, and Alexys all spoke at once.
"Alright, alright, alright," Missy waved away the shouting, "Drop your weapons or I'll leave everything in a terrible mess."
No one moved but Alex and Alexys shouted, "Do it! Drop them!"
Reluctantly the four that were armed lowered their aim.
"Ah, ah, ah," Missy pointed behind them and when they looked Professor Smythe and the James Robert McCrimmon were attempting to sneak away. More members of Stillhet grasped each of them to keep them in place, "Where do you think you are going?"
"There has clearly been a miss understanding," the weather man spoke, "I'm not part of this. I'm not even British!"
"You lot are an integral part of my plan and even if you don't remember who you are…I'd still like to gloat. Bring them closer!"
River, Clara, Luke, and Nick pointed their weapons at her again.
The citizens of Greendales pushed the points of their knives into their throat deep enough to have a blood flow. Alexys cried out, "Stop! Stop hurting them!"
"Why are you doing this!" Alex shouted.
Missy let out a little huff then motioned for something behind the curtain. A young man in black rushed forward with a stool that she promptly sat upon, "Well…it all began once upon a time on the small planet of Carnathon. A gentleman named Rafando sought to kill me however to activate the device that would carry out the means of death he needed another Time Lord."
Alex and Alexys looked to each other as memories of the events unfolded in their mind.
"This is where you come in," she shout-whispered to Professor Smith, "The goodie-good he is, the Doctor decided to spare my life and allow me to live the rest of my days. Happy ending correct?"
She did not wait for a reply.
"WRONG! I was trapped inside a Vault meant to hold me for one thousand years. You can see how a girl can get a little," she did an odd shake of her head, "Nutty. All I had to keep me entertained was a single piano and the constant drabble of this man here. What's your name, love?"
"Professor Smith," he whispered.
"PROFESSOR SMITH!" she cried out, "Hilarious. Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes. One thousand years I was meant to live out my days in absolute boredom until…"
Alex understood immediately, "You found a crack."
"I found a crack! Gold star for this one!" she clapped her hands excitedly.
"How did the crack not destroy you?" River questioned.
"It was a tiny, tiny thing really. At first, all I could do was listen. I heard voices that spun tales that kept me entertained for decades! It wasn't until the crack widened just a fraction that I was able to see where I had been connected to. Can you guess?"
Alexys felt herself shaking with understanding, "The Land of Fiction."
"Gold star for you too!" Missy squealed, "The Land of Fiction. You would be amazed how many worlds exist. Everything that had ever been written in novels, in comics, in screenplays, in the edges of notebooks! I began to find that I could whisper into it and as I whispered I could call upon images that I desired. I could watch Hercule Poirot have a tea party with Achilles, Elinor Dashwood, and Beowulf! It was incredible."
She looked off into the distance with fond memories.
"But even that began to grow tiresome. I spoke into the crack 'show me something I will really enjoy' and do you know what I found?"
Alex and Alexys spoke in unison, "Professor Wardwell."
Missy pointed at them with joyful pleasure, "I just love how interactive you both are."
"I don't get it still. Is everything here fake?" Alex wondered.
"I wouldn't use the term fake. These are real beings that really exist with real emotion. If I were to kill them now they would be no more and everyone around would feel that loss. But are they susceptible to the mildest for of persuasion? Yes," she laughed, "Imagine my surprise to see my own eyes staring back at me. I could have kissed myself if I had been able to! Instead I made her queen. The only trouble was that I was limited with only speaking and hearing and seeing. The crack refused to grow. And just when I had given up hope…lovely Mary Wardwell reported something new in the Land of Fiction. Can you guess?"
River answered this time, "Another crack."
"Yes, another crack. This one was much larger, much scarier, much easier to manipulate. I got to work. Being stuck in the Vault for so long gave me the time to imagine how I could get my greatest revenge and at the same time get my own freedom. I had the creatures here send out messages into the crack travelling far and wide. I had them shout into the universe a simple message: Doctor who?"
Alex and Alexys looked to each other. Alexys made the motion of her sucking on the hookah which looked far too suggestive in the atmosphere. She quickly returned to her attention to Missy.
"Immediately the Silents came. They were a bit tough to convince but once I informed them of my plan they were on board. Next came the Daleks which were very easy to manipulate. I gave them secrets to Time Lord Technology and they crafted the devices that fell from the sky. I promised both these races the one thing they desired most—the death of the Doctor. The next part of the plan was rather tricky."
She took to standing from the stool and began to pace.
"I had Mary Wardwell speak into the crack necessity of two beings both incredibly hopeful and incredibly hopeless. I needed two beings that were simultaneously at their weakest and their strongest. I needed two beings that had reached incredible highs and incredible lows. I needed to creatures that had walked both through heaven and hell—two creatures that had lived through death. That was when the universes brought me both of you."
Alex felt his chest sink in at the words. Alexys held in a shaky breath.
"Enough of this," Luke began but Alex gripped his arm to listen.
"What did you need with us?" Alex felt his curiosity pull him though the memory of the events that had nearly taken their lives was clear in his mind.
"I needed you for multiple reasons. Your presence in the universe is very significant. Your attempted death left an echo throughout the time vortex and so the choices you make echo throughout it as well. I needed you both to be a beacon for me when I eventually fit through the crack and could travel here. Your handshake tappy tap resounded throughout the Land of Fiction and grew the cracks tenfold. I simply had to wait and use the Silent to imprint a suggestion…a beat for you to play at the right time so that I could follow the sound to the here and now. Beyond that you two were bait, of course. How could the Doctor resist either of you?" she let out a warm sigh, "How could anyone resist either of you?"
"But the Doctor said we had met before!" Alexys shouted.
"Oh, this is where I really shine. You lead me to this," she grasped the edge of the sheet over the table and pulled it to reveal three boxes, "I had the Daleks and the Silents work together to steal the greatest treasures of the Time Lords. Of course they found them in the junkyard of Gallifrey but I talked them through a few tinkers. Does anyone recognize this?"
"Paradox Box," River, Luke, and Nick spoke in sync.
"Yes, I've had this beauty running since the Daleks signed on board" she grinned, "And if you look here…"
"The Neverwhen," they spoke in sync again.
"And last but not least…"
This time Clara was the one to answer, "The Moment."
Alex and Alexys looked to each other with shock at the mention of the Moment. But Alex had his questions, "What is the Neverwhen?"
"It's a terrifying piece of Time Lord Technology. The Neverwhen is a weapon that creates a place outside of time and space. It is why no one is able to leave Greendale," River looked behind at the Professors and the weatherman with concern.
"This must all be some sort of joke. None of this can be real!" Professor Smythe shouted.
"Oh, this is very real. And the best part is?" the members of Stillhet that held onto the Doctor pressed blades against their throats, "You four are here to witness everything!"
"I still don't get it! You're free now. What are you doing with the Moment? What do you need the essence of the Doctor for?" Alexys felt herself growing more anxious as she listened to the spiel.
"This here is the charred remains of an old box used in an old timeline," Missy motioned to the Moment that did look battered and broken, "I need the essence of the Doctor to activate it and once I activate it? I'm throwing it into through the crack to destroy everything but us cradled in the safety of the Neverwhen."
"That makes no sense! What purpose is there to destroy everything and keep us safe?" Rose Tyler questioned.
"Us? Oh no. Me. And possibly Alexander and Alexys. You…sadly remind me of the friendship I once shared with the man I intend to destroy," Missy gazed at them longingly before jumping back into action, "My goal is simply as it always is and ever was. To be the Master. Well! Enough of that! Let us get to it!"
Members of the Church of Stillhet dropped their knives to grasp Alex and Alexys. The Daleks still under Luke and Nick's control aimed at them with a furious gaze, "Don't you dare touch them!"
"Ahh!" the Professors began to bleed as the men holding them pressed holes into the flesh of their throat.
"Stop!" Alexys cried out, seeing Professor Smythe in danger. The whole time she had been focused on Missy but seeing him so helpless broke her heart.
"You heard the woman," Missy grinned.
Everyone lowered their weapons once again as the Church members dragged Alex and Alexys to the stage. Rough hands searched through their pockets until the velvet bags were pulled free. Missy walked to the edge of the stage and plucked them from the waiting hands.
BLAST!
"We cannot allow you to destroy the universe," Luke and Nick spoke in union as their eyes began to glow.
"Ugh…the Watchers," she rolled her eyes and with a flash of action grasped Alexys by the top of her head and pulled her backward so that her neck was exposed to the blade of a black-clad citizen. Shouts of discord and pleading for her safety stopped any continual action. Missy motioned toward the throbbing veins, "You know, I gave clear instructions that the both of you should be dead before I got here. How anyone could mistake the humans for you two is beyond me. I digress…any sudden movements and Alexys dies. Understood?"
They said nothing.
"It is time to say goodbye to my dearest friend."
From the position Alex and Alexys were in they could see exactly what Missy did. She placed the velvet bags on the table then one by one removed the fob watches until they were in a row beside each other. She smiled happily at the sight of them with giddy fingers eager to touch. Her eyes swelled with madness as she picked up the first one and caressed the outside of it with longing.
Click.
"What?"
She dropped it onto the ground then hurriedly picked up the next.
Click.
"No!"
She picked up the next then dropped it once again.
Click.
"What is the meaning of this!"
It fell between her trembling fingers.
Click.
"Impossible!"
She threw the last one onto the ground.
Tiny pieces of paper flew from the empty watches. Missy screamed in so much anger the Greendale collapsed to the ground incapacitated. Alexys ran to Alex as they watched the melt down and four tiny pieces of paper floated toward them in the wind of her stomping. Each one held a separate word but all together it read: "Think of something clever."
WHHHHHHHHZZZZZ.
The four men pointed their screwdrivers to Missy with a satisfied smirk, "We couldn't agree on what to write so we all just did something different."
"You told me you would write something clever," the Eleventh Doctor looked to the others with confusion.
The looked to each other with a laugh, "We did!"
Their screwdrivers lowered to the fob watches on the stage and as they did each one began to rumble until four beams of pure light shot into a point above Missy. In a second a barely visible pyramid was formed around her which effectively trapped her in place. She screamed as she punched at the walls but it did nothing. The Doctors stepped forward and looked to River and Clara and Rose with appreciation.
Clara let out a heavy sigh, "You have no idea how hard it was to stay quiet during all of that."
"Wait!" Alex shouted, "You were all you the whole time?"
Alexys walked up to the Ninth Doctor, "Hello, my lo—"
She smacked him hard across the face.
"What was that for? This was all your idea!"
"You lied to me! You made me think you were someone else!" she cried.
"You didn't seem to mind," he motioned toward Nick.
Alex motioned to the prism that held Missy in place, "What is that?"
"Force field," the Twelfth Doctor smirked, "Well…a bit more than a force field."
"It's also a transport," the Tenth Doctor continued, "We have a safe place secure for her that will make sure not even a crack can get through."
"The impregnable prison of Area 51 that is rumored to hold the Doctor still to this very day," the Eleventh Doctor smirked.
"All we need to do is," the Ninth Doctor pointed his screwdriver toward Missy and the other Doctors followed suit.
"You can send me away but consider this. Why hasn't the sign translated itself just yet?" she pointed to the sign that read Dårlig Ulvkammer, "Realize that I am simply the source. The Beast is still among yo—!"
ZAAAAAAAAPPPP!
"Enough of that talking now," the Ninth Doctor smiled happily.
"Doctor?" Clara looked to the Twelfth Doctor with a puzzled expression, "If Missy isn't the Beast…who is?"
Professor Wardwell emerged from the stage with a last bit of energy and the gunstick Nick had dropped before. She aimed the weapon at Rose Tyler as she screamed, "SHE IS!"
POW!
Everything seemed to happen in slow motion.
River and Clara shot at Professor Wardwell who fell backward into the crack.
The Doctors rushed to push Rose out of the way of the Dalek blast but it was too late.
Luke and Nick worked to pull Alex and Alexys out of the line of fire.
Rose Tyler stared in absolute horror.
And then she began to glow.
A brilliant light surrounded her and pushed everyone and everything away in an instant. Alex and Alexys looked away from the blinding light as Luke and Nick covered them from the glow. All they could see were the tendrils of brilliance that surrounded her and seeped into the air.
A haunting voice spoke, "I create myself. I protect myself. I am the Bad Wolf."
"Ro—"
All Alex and Alexys could see was a blast of radiating light emerge from the center of Rose's chest and straight into the Moment.
"No!"
"The Moment! It's drawing upon Rose's connection to it to activate!" the Eleventh Doctor shouted, "We need to stop it before consumes the energy of the Time Vortex and her consciousness!"
Luke and Nick looked to Alex and Alexys for one fleeting moment before bursting into their cloud of light and color. Their cloud flew before the Moment and seemed to solidify as if a barrier between the Time Vortex energy and the device that was known to end all things. The light from Rose ricocheted off of Luke and Nick and flew directly into the crack.
"Look at me, Rose!"
The Tenth Doctor looked to Rose Tyler and held onto her face. He looked to her with genuine love and adoration before pressing his lips to the beautiful woman's mouth just as he had done in his previous incarnation before. The energy swam into him but this time the other Doctors placed their hands onto his shoulders and the light leaked out of Rose Tyler and evenly into all the Doctors until there was nothing left and she collapsed into the Tenth Doctor's arms.
The crack blew in all direction with a wind that seemed to suck everyone toward it. The Greendale citizens began to rise in their unconsciousness toward the crack but before they could fall into it Clara jumped upward and threw the Moment inside of it. The crack sealed at once.
Everyone looked to Clara who remained breathless, "What! Complicated space-time event!"
Luke and Nick dropped into their physical form, clearly exhausted.
Alex and Alexys ran to them and held onto their respective partners. River Song asked, "Is everyone alright?"
"We're fine!"
"We did it," Rose let out breathlessly as she looked into the eyes of the Tenth Doctor. "We saved the universe."
