For several days the little troupe of Time Travellers remained on the TARDIS just doing their own things, like exploring the TARDIS and anything in-between. Or in Rose's case, getting the Doctor to help her learn to fly the TARDIS, continuing to learn Gallifreyan or even training with Jaime and Jenny as Bad Wolf in the training room. But then The Doctor received a message on the Psychic Paper, a call for help by the Indian Space Agency in 2367, the 24th Century.
So now here they were, in the Space Agency building, getting all the info from the young Indian woman, Indira. "As you can see, the craft size is approximately ten million square kilometres." She said, pointing at the screen about the huge craft that seemed on the verge of entering Earth's atmosphere.
The Doctor narrowed his eyes at the screen. "Looks like the size of Canada," he stated thoughtfully.
"And it's coming in at a very fast rate." J.D added, worried. "Any signs of life?" He asked Indira.
"We sent up a drone craft," the young Indian replied. "It took these readings." She pointed at another part of the screen.
"Woah! That doesn't look like any ship I've ever seen before!" Rose said from beside the Doctor.
"What kind of ship do you think it might be?" Amy inquired as she leaned on Rory.
Meanwhile, while the discussion of the weird spacecraft was going on, Jaime, Jenny and Alexia had hung back from the conversation.
"This is so wrong," Alexia said. "This should be taking place with a different incarnation, at a later date. For the love of Sanity, this is from the first half of Series Seven. We should be in Series Six."
Jaime rolled her eyes at her mum's words. "I did say things were different in this universe," she said. "That includes the 'running order' of the Series. It won't always be the same."
"It's Dinosaurs on a Spaceship though!" Jenny exclaimed in a excited manner. "I get to see real life dinosaurs!"
Alexia groaned. "Bloody Solomon and his robots." She muttered.
"Remember," Jaime turned to her sister and mother. "You cannae tell them anythin' 'bout what's goin' to happen. They have to work it out for themselves."
Alexia rolled her eyes. "Says the one who decided to blow up the Cloudbelt machine."
"MOTHER!" Jaime hissed.
"Alright, alright!" Alexia held her hands up. "I'll play by the rules."
Once The Doctors had gotten enough info from Indira, the troupe returned back to the TARDIS and the co-ordinates were set. They were now heading towards the ship and Jaime was beginning to feel a tad agitated.
John felt it and looked at Jaime. "What's wrong?" He asked when Jaime began to pace about.
"It's dangerous!" The Scots-girl uttered. "Very dangerous."
Everyone else looked up at her once she'd uttered the words.
"In another episode are we?" The Doctor asked.
"Aye," Jaime replied, still pacing. "I cannae even mention the episode title." She added, glaring at Jenny before she could say anything.
The Doctor nodded in understanding, a grim expression on his face, and looked at Rose when he sensed that she was worried. The TARDIS finally landed at their destination, but before they could exit into their next adventure The Doctor gave a warning. "Okay everybody, be on your toes and be aware of your surroundings, because this sounds like a tricky one."
Jaime smiled, relieved as both Doctors put on their coats, that he was taking the situation very serious.
Once they were all ready, the Time Travellers exited the TARDIS into what looked like a system of rocky caves.
"Blimey, it's a bit dark in here isn't it!" Rose exclaimed as she tried to get her bearings. "We need light!" The only light they had was from the TARDIS windows.
"I've got it." Jenny called out, activating the use of Photokinesis and scattering several balls of light everywhere.
It certainly brightened the place up and now everybody could see what they were doing.
"Is that a cobweb?" Rory commented at the spiderweb he'd just spotted and turned to John. "Can you get spiders in space?" He asked.
The Half-Time Lord grimaced at the web. He really hoped there wasn't any. "Wellll…that depends." He said.
The Doctor was heard to groan. "I really hope this isn't another Sycorax ship." He said.
That got Rose really worried. "They wouldn't really try to take over Earth a second time would they, Doctor?" She asked the Time Lord.
"I wouldn't put it past them!" The Doctor replied with a scowl.
"If it was the Sycorax wouldn't we have come across them by now?" John asked. "Where is everybody?"
Alexia shook her head as she listened to the chatting. She wondered where the idea of the Sycorax had come from considering this was a Silurian ship and they'd all been murdered.
John turned to Jaime. "Can you feel if anybody is on board?" He requested.
She was about to reply when all of a sudden her intuition sky rocketed and she gasped, eyes widening.
"What was that?" A scared Jenny asked, for she had also felt it.
"Danger!" Jaime hissed, forever hating the feeling of impending doom when it came to Earthquakes. Seconds later the whole cave shook and it took all her might not to fall into a protective crouch or even flee.
Jenny was hanging onto the closest person, who happened to be Alexia.
"Doctor? What's happening?" Amy asked.
"It's just the ship," the Doctor replied. "It's currently orbiting around the Earth, getting ready to crash."
"So it's pre-crashing?" Rose picked up and The Doctor nodded with a grin.
He took her hand and after a short walk along the corridor they came across a cargo hold. At the far end of the hold was a door with red lights and it was humming.
"Whatever that is, it's coming down." The Doctor uttered, curious.
Jaime stared at the door with narrowed eyes. *Get ready to run.* She mentally spoke to Jenny and she received a rush of acknowledgement from her sister. Then she took a hold of John's hand as he too waited for the door to open.
"Any ideas?" He asked Jaime.
"It's dangerous," the Scots-girl replied. "Very dangerous."
Hearing this, the Doctor glanced over at her, nodded slightly and then pulled Rose towards him so that she was behind him, protected. His attention went back to the door. The door in question turned out to be a cargo lift. For when the doors opened The Doctors, Rose and the Ponds were all surprised when two heavily armoured creatures stepped out.
"It can't be!" Rose exclaimed.
"But that's not possible!" Rory said.
"But it is…," Amy argued. "They're two living, breathing dinosaurs."
The Doctor stared in amazement at the dinosaurs and Rose could feel his wonder. "Oh, this is beautiful!" He said in complete awe as he stared at the pair of creatures. One of the Ankylosaurs roared and everyone took off running. Apart from the Doctor who was grinning like a loon.
Rose noticed the Doctor hadn't moved and turned back for him. "Doctor!" She shouted.
"But Rose, look! Dinosaurs! On a spaceship!" The Doctor replied, grinning like a complete loon.
Exasperated, Rose returned to The Doctor and grabbed his hand. "Run, you idiot!" She shouted and pulled him away from the dinosaurs.
"Oi!" The Doctor exclaimed as he ran with her, the two dinosaurs deciding to follow them.
Rose and The Doctor joined the troupe and they ran until J.D and Jaime found an alcove they could hide in. They watched as the pair of Ankylosaurs stormed past their hidey hole. Once they knew it was safe they stepped out.
"Okay, so how and whose ship?" Rory asked when he turned to The Doctors.
"Well it's definitely not a Sycorax ship." John stated. "Sycorax wouldn't keep dinosaurs." He noticed Jaime had stopped walking and was glaring at something. "Jaime? What are you looking at?" He asked.
"Nobody!" She growled and turned away from the Closed Circuit camera.
John found that to be a strange answer. "Nobody? As in somebody's here?" He tried to get a look at what Jaime might have seen, but it was far too dark in the corridors to see.
"Does that mean the dinosaurs are piloting the ship?" Amy questioned.
The Doctor laughed. "As if! They're just the passengers." He told her.
"Need I remind you all that we have six hours to figure out what's happening here, barring accidents, until Indira decides to blast this ship out of the sky. And I really don't want that to happen." J.D rudely interrupted.
"So you said!" Rose replied, going off with Amy to inspect some gouges in the rock wall.
Alexia noticed Rory was stood with The Doctor, who was swiping another cobweb aside to get a better look at a computer terminal. Knowing it might just be less dangerous with The Doctor she stood beside him and Rory.
"How many dinosaurs do you think might be on here?" J.D was heard to ask.
"That depends on who put them on here," the Doctor answered his brother and put his glasses on, followed by his Sonic, in order to use it on the blank computer. It came to life instantly. "Brilliant!" The Doctor exclaimed. "Now all we need to find is the engine room." He frowned. "It seems different sections have engines, but these are the primary clusters. What part of the ship are we in? Because we need to get to these engines." The Doctor said, pointing at the screen. Suddenly he, Rory and Alexia disappeared in a blue flash.
"DOCTOR!" Rose shouted, watching as J.D rushed to the computer. "What just happened?" She demanded and turned to Jaime. "Where's the Doctor?"
"And Rory!" A worried Amy added.
"Dinnae worry. Mum, Rory and The Doctor are just in the engine room." She sighed in disbelief because she hadn't expected her mum to tag along with Rory and The Doctor. Technically she was taking Brian's place.
"The engine room?" Rose sounded shocked.
"Looks like they were teleported." John stated, stepping back from the computer. "I can just about sense The Doctor so they're still on board."
"Great! What do we do now?" Amy asked.
Rose didn't reply straight away as she was mentally speaking with The Doctor. She turned to everyone else after awhile. "The Doctor says that they're okay and to just get on with what we're doing."
J.D grinned. "Then in that case we need to find out where everybody is and whose ship this belongs too." He said, taking charge. "This way!" He pointed down the corridor and the others followed him.
The Doctor, Rory and Alexia found themselves standing on a beach. A very cold and windy beach. Alexia shivered and folded her arms across her chest.
"What?" A bewildered Doctor exclaimed, looking around as his coat flapped around in the wind.
"We're on a beach!" Rory uttered, also looking around at his surroundings. "How are we on a beach?" He then queried.
"Ah, teleport." The Doctor muttered thoughtfully, taking his glasses off and rubbing the back of his neck. He looked pre-occupied for the moment. "I hate teleports," he moaned. "The computer must be voice activated."
"Well that's just brilliant! How do we teleport back?" Rory asked and the Doctor shrugged his shoulders because he honestly didn't know how to get back.
Then his eyes fell on a still shivering Alexia. "You stood beside me, knowing this would happen," he said to the woman. "Why would you do that?"
Alexia smiled sheepishly as she pushed her hair from her face. "Somebody has to keep you two company!" She replied. "Not to mention there's less trouble here."
Rory narrowed his eyes at her words. "What do you mean? What trouble is Amy getting into?" He asked Alexia. It was a question he knew fine well she couldn't answer.
"You shouldn't worry. Amy will be okay." She answered.
"Fine, whatever. Can you at least tell us where we might be?" Rory asked next.
A worried expression appeared on Alexia's face as she looked from Rory to The Doctor. Maybe a little hint would help them, after all, what trouble would it cause?. She opened her mouth to tell them where they were…until she was beaten by The Doctor.
"Rose said we've been teleported into the engine room." He answered Rory's question and stuck his tongue out to test the air.
Alexia laughed before covering her mouth. It just looked so funny.
The Time Lord stuck his tongue back in with a disgusted expression. "Well that definitely proves it. The air is metallic which means we really are in the engine room."
They heard the sound of faint squawking and Rory looked up at the sky, spotting something small in the distance. "Are those birds?" The nurse wondered aloud.
"Hopefully!" The Doctor muttered. "In the meantime the beach is humming." Rory looked down to find the Doctor crouched down with his hand on the sand.
"So what does that mean?" He asked.
"It means," the Doctor replied, standing up. "There is something hiding underneath." He dug about in his pockets and produced a trowel. "Get digging!" He gave it to Alexia. "I'm going to find out where the computers are."
The two humans watched The Doctor saunter away, then Alexia sighed, crouched on the beach and started digging into the sand. At least it gave her something to do.
To her surprise, Rory had produced his own trowel and joined her in digging up the sand. "Since when did you start carrying a trowel?" She asked Rory.
"Since my dad gave me one as a wedding present." He answered and looked at Alexia when she chuckled.
"Weird gift for a wedding." She said.
"I know," he replied. "I said so myself. Then Kyt told me to keep it on me at all times as it might come in handy."
Frowning as she dug she had no idea who this 'Keet' was, nor did she care to ask. She looked over at the part of the sky where the creatures were seen flying. They were a bit more closer and still flying towards them. She returned to her task of digging. "By the way, they're not birds." She told Rory.
"Oh?" Rory stopped, looked at the flying creatures in the distance before looking back at Alexia. "If they're not birds, then what are they?" He asked. If he was expecting a proper answer from the woman, then he would be very disappointed.
"Just be aware and ready to run." She answered and Rory groaned. Luckily he didn't push her for more.
The two humans continued to dig and in no time at all they reached the actual ground. "It seems we've reached our goal!" Alexia muttered.
"It's metal." Rory said and jumped to his feet. "DOCTOR!" He shouted and ran after the Time Lord.
Alexia stood up too and put the trowel in her pocket before looking over at the dinosaurs in the sky. They were gaining and it wouldn't be long 'til they were on top of them. And then there was Solomon. Alexia turned tail and quickly hurried after Rory and The Doctor.
Hearing his name being shouted, The Doctor turned to Rory with a grin. "I found another computer," he told the nurse. "And you're never going to believe this, but this whole ship is powered by waves." He nodded his head towards the stormy sea. "Brilliant, eh!"
Surprised, Rory glanced towards the sea before looking back at the Doctor. "Wave power?" He said.
"Yep!" The Doctor popped the 'p'. "Should be completely impossible, yet here it is. We could learn a lot from this ship…" He frowned in thought. "If we can stop it from being shot down by missiles." He added.
"Plus not dying." Rory worried and The Doctor looked grim.
"Bad news though. I can't turn the wave system off, it would take too long."
They were joined by Alexia who was breathing heavily from her short run, not used to it.
"Okay, so if this is the engine room then there must be a control room." Rory said.
Grinning at the nurse, The Doctor nodded in agreement. "Good thinking, Rory. That's exactly what we need to find." The grin fell off his face when he looked off into the distance. "As for the birds that are not birds…what do we do about them?"
Confused, Rory looked around at what the Doctor was seeing and his eyes widened. "Oh, god! Are they Pterodactyls?" He asked, turning back to the Doctor, fear in his eyes.
"Yes, yes they are!" The Doctor replied. "Any other time I'd be thrilled at the sight of them. But we're currently on a beach, out in the open." He watched them flying closer. "We should get going!"
"Where?" Rory panicked.
"Away from them, obviously!" The Doctor rudely fired back.
"That's the plan?" Rory argued.
"Yes, that's the plan. To get away from the Pterodactyls!"
The Doctor was at the end of his tether until Alexia groaned out in annoyance. She couldn't stand here listening to them arguing over where to run from the Pterodactyl. "There's a cave over there," Alexia pointed. "In the rock wall."
The Doctor smiled at the woman's helpfulness. "Thank you!" He said. "This way is it?" He queried and Alexia nodded. "Well in that case, allons-y."
"That's good, because they've noticed us!" Rory exclaimed.
The three of them got running towards the cliff face in order to avoid the Pterodactyls. Alexia ran, trying to keep up with the Doctor and Rory, but because she hadn't ran in a long time she was falling behind…so she sped up, only to end up tripping and falling with a heavy thud. She groaned, stunned by the fall, until her eyes widened when she heard the loud screech.
Neither the Doctor or Rory had even noticed Alexia had fallen until they got to the cave. "That was close!" Rory gasped out, doubled over.
The Doctor would have agreed, until he noticed Alexia was missing. "Where's Alexia?" A wide-eyed Doctor panicked and looked out of the cave entrance to find the woman lying on the sand several feet away, the Pterodactyls almost upon her. "No, no, no!" The Doctor uttered, fearful as he ran his hands through his hair. "ALEXIA!" He shouted.
"Oh, good going, Lexie!" Alexia muttered to herself sarcastically and rolled onto her back after the Doctor shouted for her to watch out. A very sharp beak pierced the sand where her head would have been. She screamed as they began to swarm around her and attack with sharp claws. Then in her panic, Alexia suddenly screeched at the Pterodactyls. The ancient flying dinosaurs seemed to hover over her for a moment until they suddenly flapped away in a gust of stinky wind. Alexia breathed a sigh of relief once they were no longer near her.
The thundering of trainers on sand was heard next and before she knew it she was being pulled up off the sand by The Doctor. "Are you okay?" He asked, brown eyes big and fearful. He didn't give her a chance to say so because he suddenly pulled her in for a hug, feeling her quick heartbeat.
Feeling a tad uncomfortable, Alexia quickly pushed him away from her. "Get off me, you soppy sod!" She snapped at the Time Lord and ignored his bewildered expression. "I'm fine, just a bit bruised is all."
"What was that? What just happened? Why did the Pterodactyls just fly away like that?" Rory fired off his questions.
"Nothing happened, okay, just bloody leave it!" Alexia snapped before stomping over to cave.
Rory looked over at the Doctor, expecting him to answer, but the Doctor just shrugged his shoulders and followed after Alexia. Rory sighed, exasperated, and followed after the Doctor and Alexia.
Alexia scowled as she walked into the cave, now looking a little worse for wear. Why she thought it would safer, she just didn't know. Of course it wouldn't be safer! Who was she bloody kidding! She would have been safer with her two super-powered daughters. She was still seething away when she heard thundering footsteps ahead.
"What was that?" Rory asked.
"No idea!" A curious Doctor replied. What was making such a noise like that?
"It must be something!" Rory continued. "Should we leave the cave? Go back to the beach?"
The Doctor shook his head. "I'd rather not risk it. Those Pterodactyls might come back." Yet he highly doubted that. Alexia had done something to them with her Zoolinguism. "We press on ahead."
A look of serious worry appeared on Rory's face. "You mean you you actually want to come into contact with whatever that is?" He questioned.
"Yep!" The Doctor nodded and pulled Alexia behind him, out of more possible danger. She rolled her eyes at him.
"Doctor, whatever it is down there, it sounds huge." Rory continued to worry.
"Yes, I gathered that," the Doctor replied. "Stay behind me." He warned as the heavy stomping got louder.
Rory did as he was told. They all waited in trepidation for whatever it was to come into view. The footsteps were heavy, causing the ground to shake. Finally two huge robots appeared from around the corner. One was red, the other was yellow.
"We're very cross with you!" One of the robots said.
Rory relaxed when it spoke. The Doctor and Alexia didn't. Nothing ever good came from robots.
The robots ordered them to walk and the huge machines lumbered behind them until the cave exited out into a corridor. For a while they continued on walking down the corridor until the same robot randomly spoke up. "You're going on the naughty step!" It said.
The Doctor barely gave it a glance.
"So how do we escape them?" Rory asked the Time Lord who frowned.
"Why would you want to escape?" The Doctor questioned, looking at his companion.
"Uhh, because they have us hostage!" Rory hissed.
Alexia shook her head and found herself speaking up. "They're taking us somewhere. We might learn from it." She narrowed her eyes, realising she had just uttered Rory's line. That was odd!
"Point well made, Alexia." The Doctor said. "You should listen to her, Rory."
A pink blush appeared on Alexia's face at the Doctor's compliment.
"They might kill us!" Rory continued to worry.
"Oh, I doubt that," the Doctor replied and looked back at the robots. "You're not going to kill us, are you, Rusty?" He asked.
The robot took great offence to this. "Who are you calling rusty?" It said.
A snort came from the Doctor. "Have you seen yourselves lately?" He mocked.
"You try being on this ship for two millienia," the robot moaned. "See how your paintwork does."
"Don't listen to him," the second robot spoke. "He's just being mean because we captured him."
The Doctor ignored them with a shake of his head.
A short time later they were all halted in their steps when a Triceratops approached them, and Alexia chuckled at the Doctor when he went completely gags over the herbivore. He even went as far as patting it on the head. "Who's a nice Tricey!" The Doctor baby talked to the dinosaur.
Alexia had expected the Triceratops to come sniffing around her, except it didn't. Instead it went sniffing around Rory, who was practically panicking.
"Interesting!" The Doctor muttered. "What have you got in your pockets that has got Tricey all curious?" He asked.
Rory was about to answer when the Triceratops licked him. "Oh, ewww…" He groaned, wiping his face of dino saliva, then dug into his pockets. "Just this!" Rory showed the Doctor and Alexia.
The Doctor narrowed his eyes at the nurse. "What are you doing keeping grass balls in your pocket?" He inquired.
"It wasn't my idea!" Rory protested. "Our friend back home gave me them and told me they would come in handy."
Alexia wondered if it was the same friend who told him to keep the trowel on him.
"Well then," the Doctor grinned knowingly. "You best throw one."
Rory looked unsure. "Are you sure?" He asked.
Groaning in annoyance, Alexia reached over, took a grass ball and threw it as far as she could. The Triceratops went running after it, causing the whole corridor to shake.
"Nice over-arm!" The Doctor complimented her on her throw.
"Thanks!" The woman muttered, her face red again.
"Now…" The Doctor turned to the previously arguing robots. "…take us to your leader!" Alexia silently shook her head.
"Really?" Rory groaned.
"Too good to resist." A grinning Doctor replied.
They were soon moving again and it wasn't long 'til they came across what appeared to be a smaller room with Schubert playing out. "Hmm, this is different!" The Doctor muttered thoughtfully.
"Let him in," a voice called out from inside the room. "Open the gate."
Alexia watched the gate opening, remembering something about the scene in the room. "Oh no!" She uttered, eyes widening. "Doctor, wait!" She grabbed his arm to make him stop and he looked back at her with a frown. "When he asks, don't tell him you're the last one!" She saw sadness creep into his eyes but he nodded his understanding, so she let him go.
The two humans watched as the Doctor walked not the room but they were locked out as the gate closed. The Doctor narrowed his eyes at this. "It's okay," he told his two companions. "It's fine." And he went off to talk to the person in the room.
"He's not interested in you." One of the robots snidely said to the two humans.
At the end of his tether with the robots, Rory turned to them. "Look, you need to learn some manners." He snapped at them.
"No, you need to learn some manners." A robot argued back.
"No, you do." Rory snapped back.
"No, you do, mister manners." The other robot argued.
Leaning against the gate with her arms folded, Alexia watched warily as Rory and the robots argued back and forth. To be honest it was getting really annoying as she was trying to listen to what was being said in the room. She grunted and shook her head. "For the love of Sanity, Rory. Stop it already!" Alexia snapped at him. "They're not worth the bother."
Rory took on a guilty expression. "Sorry." He apologised.
The robots, however, were not done and they carried on their incessant chatting and snidely comments towards the two humans.
Alexia sighed and closed her eyes, feeling a headache coming on.
Walking further into the little room the Doctor spotted the figure of a man lying on a life support bed. Schubert was playing on the audio system. "Hmm…Fantasia in F Minor." He commented, approaching the man on the bed.
"You know it?" The man asked and the Doctor shook his head.
"I'm aware of it." He replied, looking over at the man and his life support. "Well this is cosy!" He then stated.
"It's fate you came." The man said to the Doctor's surprise.
"Is it?" He asked with a raised brow. "I'm The Doctor." He introduced himself.
"Yes, I know. I'm Solomon." The man known as Solomon introduced.
A laser suddenly scanned over the Doctor and the Time Lord was quick to notice it. "What was that?" He asked.
"Nothing, system malfunction." Solomon dismissed.
The Doctor didn't believe that one bit. "What happened to you?" He now asked, glancing over the worst of the injuries.
"I was attacked by three Raptors," Solomon answered his question. "They cornered me. The robots rescued me but it was nearly too late."
"Hmm, yes. The robots. They're unusual." The Doctor commented.
"I got them cheap on Alryia Seven. The robots did the best they could but you could help me so much more."
Now the Doctor understood why he was here. "Ohh, I see! A DOCTOR doctor. Well then, let's have a look." Putting his glasses on once again he stepped over to Solomon's legs to have a proper look. He grimaced when he saw how much damage there was. He had no idea how long Solomon had been lying here, but it was enough for his injuries to be life changing. Not to mention there was an awful smell coming from them.
"They chewed through part of the bone in my legs." Solomon told him and the Doctor nodded in a very distracted manner.
"Yes, very nasty!" He said.
"But you can repair them." Solomon all but ordered.
"If you tell me how you came across so many dinosaurs." Questioned the Doctor.
Though Solomon didn't like the change in conversation and spoke in a raised voice: "Injure the woman." He ordered.
"What?" The Doctor looked up and his eyes widened as he looked over towards the locked door.
The rambling chatter of the robots had long since quietened down, so Alexia could hear what the Doctor and Solomon were talking about. So when she heard Solomon threaten harm on her, her eyes widened and she turned her attention towards the robots. They wouldn't really hurt her, would they? One of them raised its arm towards her. Oh no! They would, they really would. "NOOOO!" She cried out before the sound of a laser blast was heard and she was slammed against the closed fence. Alexia yowled in pain as she slid to the floor, pain blossoming throughout her left shoulder and down her arm. It felt like she was bleeding but she probably wasn't. "Fuck!" She spat out, tears coming to her eyes because the pain was so bad. Now she really did wish she'd stayed with the others.
"Oh god…Alexia!" Rory immediately went to her aid, pulling out a portable MedKit from his pocket. "I've got you, don't you worry!" He soothed the groaning Alexia.
Back inside the little room, the Doctor angrily glared at Solomon with an Oncoming Storm expression. "I don't respond well with violence, Solomon." He growled out.
"And I don't like questions, Doctor." Solomon snapped back. "You boarded without my permission. Now fix me, or the next bolt will be fatal." The trader demanded.
Alexia moaned in pain while Rory threatened to disassemble the robots.
Turning his attention back to Alexia, Rory pulled her top and t-shirt away from her injured shoulder. He grimaced at the sight of it. "It's just a small burn, that's all." He soothed the woman. Though it was quite extensive and there was only do much he could do. He dug into his MedKit and pulled out a large patch.
"What's that?" Alexia gasped out.
"Ice patch," Rory answered her. "I tend to collect interesting Medical supplies wherever we go." As he set it up he asked; "So what did you do to those Pterodactyls to make them go away?"
She glared at Rory through damp eyes. "You wouldn't want to know." She groaned out, wincing at the dull thudding pain in her shoulder.
"I really would." He spoke up and Alexia moaned painfully.
"I can talk to animals!" She ground out much to Rory's surprise.
"What? Like Jaime?" He asked.
"She inherited it from me!" Alexia growled out.
Rory nodded. They were mother and daughter, it would make sense.
Once he had the Ice Patch sorted, Rory managed to place it over the majority of the burn. The patch was so cold that it caused Alexia to yowl out painfully. "There," the nurse said. "Now for the painkiller." It was a futuristic painkiller and Alexia whimpered as the little device hissed. "Not bad, huh!" The nurse said while packing away his kit.
Alexia could already feel the pain fading to a dull ache. "Not bad considering it was your dad who got shot!" She mumbled, not thinking. The painkiller was making her feel weird.
"What? Why would my dad travel with the Doctor?" Rory asked. "He hates travelling."
"He didn't," Alexia muttered. "It's just The Doctor materialised around the three of you when you were fixing a lightbulb."
"Oh, so it was an accident?" Rory queried. "And you took dad's place." Alexia nodded faintly but Rory suddenly realised something. "Wait! You knew this would happen!" He said.
Alexia didn't answer him this time, so Rory helped her to her feet. Only her legs were wobbly, which meant Rory had to hold her up. He wasn't sure what was happening with her, but now she was mumbling incoherently.
"Rinng, ring…get your phone, Rory…it's ringing!" Alexia mumbled and Rory frowned at her, puzzled.
"No it's not!" He said, yet seconds later his mobile began to ring.
"See!" The woman mumbled.
"What's that?" One of the robots asked.
"It's my phone!" Rory said, glancing at Alexia while he struggled to pull the mobile from his pocket. "And it's the Wife. I have to take this." He pressed 'Accept' on the phone. "Hello Wife."
Amy's voice came over the phone. "Where are you?" Amy asked, worried.
"Still on board, met some Pterodactyls…and robots I'm going to melt down." Rory answered Amy and glared at said robots.
"Rory, this is a Silurian ship." Amy told her husband.
"Silurians?" Rory looked around his surroundings, remembering their time in a Welsh village. "Really?"
"Yeah. This is an ark built by Silurians. They were trying to find another planet." Amy told him and Rory sighed.
"Hence the dinosaurs." He stated and peered into the little room. "Do you want me to to pass the phone onto the Doctor?" He asked. "Let him know?"
"No, Rose is already telling him via their Mind thing." Amy replied. "I just wanted to warn you, if you see Jaime, be very aware. She is apoplectic!"
Rory frowned, confused. "What? Why?" He asked.
"Because she had a vision her mum was in danger, became very angry and disappeared into the computer."
"What?" You mean she was teleported?" He asked.
"No, no. This was different. Doctor Smith said it had something to do with Electrokinesis."
Rory shook his head in disbelief. "Right, thanks. I'll keep an eye out." He said. Amy disconnected the call and Rory looked around the place, feeling like he was being watched.
The Doctor was busy trying to fix Solomon's legs while talking to the man. He found out the man was a trader who was transporting the ship to the Roxborne Peninsula. Solomon actually managed to spread himself across nine Galaxies. And then he found out the weird light that had scanned over him was part of an I.V system. Solomon was trying to find out how much he was worth. The Doctor didn't know whether to be worried or disgusted.
"Would you like to know?" Solomon asked him and the Doctor just shrugged his shoulders, remembering what Alexia had said to him.
Before Solomon could get the results, the lights in the room dimmed a little before going back to normal. "Problem with your lights?" The Doctor asked, only Solomon just dismissed it as a power surge. The Time Lord sensed the man was lying.
The trader activated the system and to the Doctor's complete surprise he found he didn't exist. This was the complete opposite of what Alexia had been thinking.
"You don't exist," a stunned Solomon stated. "It's never done that before."
The Doctor grinned, thankful to whoever was looking out for him. It also felt like somebody was watching him. "That's me, worthless!" He smirked. "Unlike these creatures you have on board. Very valuable, given they're extinct." He stepped back from Solomon's legs, knowing he did as much as he could to fix them. "Done, sit up. Very slowly." He said to the trader.
It was then that The Doctor received a telepathic call from Rose and he closed his eyes, listening to her explaining about the ship being Silurian, yet none where on board. Then she told him about Jaime disappearing. Getting a feeling he knew where his daughter was, he told Rose not to worry and that he'd see her soon.
Opening his eyes, the Doctor glared at Solomon. "Where are the Silurians?" He demanded.
Solomon seemed surprised about the question at first, until he smirked. "We sold them. Humanoid Lizard Slaves make a hefty profit these days. So the robots had them transported, still in their Cryochambers."
The Doctor felt nothing but disgust for this man and once again the lights dimmed angrily, the prickle of static electricity could be felt prickling across his skin. "Calm down!" The Doctor muttered under his breath.
The lights returned back to normal but it didn't go un-noticed by a suspicious Solomon. "And the one's that were already wake," he continued. "They tried to fight me so I had the robots throw them out of the air-locks."
Anger bubbled away within the Doctor at Solomon's admission and he wondered when the idea of Silurian's being enslaved started, because this was just wrong, plain and simply wrong. "All because you wanted the dinosaurs!" He ground out.
"Their ship crossed my path. I sent out a distress signal and they let me board. When I saw the cargo, things became a bit more complex." Solomon explained in such a casual manner that it irked The Doctor.
"Piracy," he ground out. "Nothing but piracy and slavery."
Solomon peered curiously at the Doctor. "Very emotive words, Doctor." He said.
"I'm a very emotive man." The Doctor replied, very carefully keeping his anger in check.
"The Lizards wouldn't negotiate, even after I made a generous offer." Solomon continued and the Doctor's patience just about snapped.
"The creatures on board this ship are not objects to be sold or traded." He bit out.
"I feel like you're judging me." Solomon said, glaring at the Doctor.
Considering that Solomon was supposed to be going to the Roxborne Peninsula, but was heading for Earth instead, the Doctor figured out that Solomon was stuck because the Silurian ship was going back to its original destination. Solomon tried to rope the Doctor into helping him, but the Doctor refused, telling him the ship was going to be subject of a missile strike, even though it meant the death of the dinosaurs on board.
"You think I believe that?" Solomon growled. "You just want them for yourself! You won't profit from me, Doctor."
"Don't ever judge me by your sick standards!" The Doctor sniped back. He jumped in surprise when the gate suddenly clanged open in a shower of sparks.
"How did that happen?" Solomon uttered in dismay.
Silently thanking a certain Omni-Psychic, the Doctor took his chance and ran. Out of the little ship the Doctor was greeted by Rory and a still loopy Alexia. "Well, what are you waiting for?" He asked, before turning his attention to the robots. "He's asking for you!" He told the robots and the stupid machines lumbered towards Solomon's ship. Rory hurried after the Doctor, but because he was holding onto an incoherent Alexia, he couldn't go fast enough. Luckily the Doctor came back for them and he looked at the state of the woman. "Blimey, Rory. What did you do to her?" He asked, checking on her.
"All I did was give her a mild painkiller," the nurse defended. "For some reason it sent her loopy."
In the end the Time Lord had to help Rory carry Alexia between them. It was hard work and it slowed them down. Not to mention the robots would have been sent after them.
Ahead of the trio was the Triceratops they'd seen earlier. "Look, a getaway motor!" The Doctor pointed and Rory groaned when he saw it.
"Oh no!" He said.
"Oh, yes!" The Doctor contradicted. "Allons-y!" They rushed to the dinosaur and the Doctor climbed it first, had Rory help him pull Alexia up next, plonking her in front of him, followed by Rory, who sat behind him. "Go on, run like the wind!" The Doctor shouted but the dinosaur didn't move.
"Throw a golf ball!" Alexia mumbled loudly, slurring her words. "They like fetch!"
The Doctor raised a brow at her. "I don't have any golf balls in my pockets." He replied, puzzled.
"No, but my dad does," Rory said. "He'd have likely thrown it to get this dinosaur moving."
Now the Doctor was even more puzzled. "Is there something you're not telling me, Rory?" He asked, looking back at the nurse.
Rory shrugged. "Only that you originally brought dad along for the trip!" He answered.
A derisive snort came from the Time Lord. "Why would I want to travel with your dad?"
"You didn't. You apparently materialised around us while he was fixing a light bulb."
The Doctor shook his head. "I would never do something as reckless as that!" Unless it was an urgent matter.
"Well you did, just ask Alexia." Rory added.
The Doctor furrowed his brow at the woman. With her in the current condition she was in, it wasn't a very good idea. She might just say the wrong thing.
Rory ducked when a laser bolt almost him him. "Doctor!" He cried out.
"I know, I know!" The Time Lord ground out. "Any ideas?" He suggested to Alexia.
Knowing they were in serious danger, Alexia leaned forward and roared like a Triceratops. The dinosaur roared back and started to run. The Doctor laughed, doing his best to hold onto Alexia while trying not to fall off Tricey. "I'm riding a dinosaur!" He crowed happily. "On a spaceship!" Rory was yelling out of fear. The Triceratops continued to run and The Doctor urged it to run faster until they managed to escape the robots.
Having enough of being ridden on, Tricey skidded to a halt causing the two humans and one Time Lord to tumble off the dinosaur. Rory groaned and tossed another grass ball, watching Tricey catch it and take it into a corner, then he went to the aid of a yelling Alexia.
As for the Doctor, he was looking around at where they had stopped when he spotted a computer nearby. "Looks like we have a message from Earth." He said and tapped the screen.
Indira from the Indian Space Agency appeared on the screen. "Doctor, the ship is coming through the atmosphere. We have to start the missile program."
The a Time Lord's eyes widened. "Oh no, no, no, no. You can't. I've almost sorted it anyway."
But Indira wouldn't listen. "I can't stop it." She said.
He frowned, puzzled. "Of course you can. Indira, I just need a bit more time. This ship has a lot of precious cargo."
"My only responsibility is Earth's safety," Indira argued. "I will be launch…" She seemed to halt and her eyes widened as a bolt of electricity hit her.
"Indira? Are you okay?" A concerned Doctor asked.
"Yes, I will wait for the signal!" Indira uttered in a monotone voice.
"What signal? Indira?" But she had disappeared off screen. The Doctor groaned, knowing that had Jaime written all over it. At least she'd stopped the missiles from being fired, but she clearly had her own plan in the making. "What are you up to, Jaime?" The Doctor mumbled thoughtfully.
With an exasperated sigh he turned his attention to Rory, who was once again holding onto Alexia. She was holding onto the nurse with a strong grip, despite having been sent loopy by a futuristic painkiller. "How are you, Rory?" The Time Lord enquired.
"I'm alright," Rory replied. "I'm not sure about Alexia. She fell off the Triceratops pretty hard."
Taking out his Sonic, the Doctor scanned Alexia. "A few scrapes and bruises, a serious burn, a sprained wrist and a hairline fracture in the same wrist." A grim expression appeared on his face. "You've been through it all haven't you! She must have landed wrong." He said. Her eyes were closed but she was clearly listening as she was mumbling something. It sounded like 'he's coming, he's coming' but he wasn't sure what it meant.
"Doctor, what do we do?" Rory asked. "Those robots might find us again."
The Doctor nodded. "You have a point, Rory. I suppose we can try to find the others."
Before they could get moving there was a bright flash and two robots and Solomon stood in their way.
"Oh no." The Doctor groaned.
"You were telling the truth, Doctor. Earth has launched missiles."
The Doctor was about to correct him until he realised Jaime must have done something to his ship's systems to fool him into thinking they had been launched. Just how had she managed that?
"This vessel is too clumsy to outrun them, but I have my own ship." Solomon added.
"You won't get your precious cargo on board," the Doctor argued with the trader. "Just you and your tantrum machines."
"We do not have tantrums!" A robot said.
Solomon rolled his eyes and the Doctor smirked.
"Shut up!" The trader snapped at the robot. "You're right, Doctor. I can't keep the dinosaurs and live myself. But I had the I.V system scan the entire ship, and it found something…a few things…even more valuable. Utterly unique. I don't know where you found them, or how you got them here, but I want them."
The Doctor's hearts thudded away in his chest, extremely worried. "I don't know what you're talking about." He dismissed.
"I think you do," Solomon sneered. "The three most All-Powerful beings in the entire universe. The Bad Wolf, The Omni and The Infinite. So infamous their faces are stamped across history."
The Doctor stood, wide-eyed and silent. Shocked and angry the trader could even demand such a thing.
"Give them to me," Solomon ordered. "And I'll let the rest of you live."
The Doctor managed to shake his head. "No, you can't just own somebody, Solomon." He argued.
Yet Solomon was adamant. "You think I won't punish those who get in my way, whatever they're worth?" He challenged.
It all happened so fast. As one of the robots moved in order to shoot the Triceratops, both Rory and The Doctor felt their skin tingling with electricity. Then the robot suddenly stopped, became overloaded with something, began to overheat and blew up. The same thing happened with the second robot.
"What the hell?" Solomon uttered, staring at the scattered remains of his robots. "How?" At the moment he was ignoring the crackling of static electricity.
"You wanted me?" Spoke a Scottish accented voice. "You got me! I'm right here, Solomon."
The trader turned to the voice and saw the dark haired, dark eyed girl, known as The Omni, standing between him and The Doctor. Only she looked very mad and electricity appeared to dance off her body.