Chapter 5
The Doctor and Darius flew down the hallways towards the others. Darius had been able to keep up with the Doctor because of his double hearts, but unlike all the others times, the Doctor didn't notice because he didn't care. He left his friends unprotected as the Weeping Angels rushed towards them. Even though he knew there was nothing he could if he was there, he felt he could have done something. The truth was that the Angels are incredibly dangerous and when the lights go out, nothing can stop them. He would have just been another victim, but he would have felt better about it all. The Weeping Angels technically didn't kill you. They just sent you back in time and fed off the life you could have had. They in essence just killed your future you were supposed to have but they did give you another one. They were the only psychopaths to kill you nicely. That didn't help the Doctor feel about himself. He just hoped that no one had looked into the eyes of the Weeping Angels.
Darius didn't know that much about the Weeping Angels. He knew they were dangerous and faster than he ever thought possible. They were the scariest things that he had ever seen or been around. They were creatures that only moved when no one was looking at them and they froze whenever you saw them. That was creepy and unsettling. He didn't understand how something that's alive could turn to stone when someone would look at it. If he hadn't have been dealing with the Weeping Angels personally he would not have believed the whole thing about the Angels.
The two of them finally made it the corridor where the room was located. The whole area was filled with debris. There was stone, metal, guns and even a couple bodies of people who were shot in the chaos. They went into the room and saw several Weeping Angels frozen in place. The Doctor walked up to one and touched it. He looked and said, "What happened the Angels?"
"They were killed by an explosion of time energy," said 476.
"476, you're still working," said Darius, "What about the other two robots?"
"Destroyed by the Weeping Angels," 476 said.
The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and scanned the dead Weeping Angel statues. The Doctor looked at the sonic and he was deep in thought. He looked at 476 and asked, "When did they turn to stone permanently?"
"After the female you brought with you used her time energy," said 476.
The Doctor looked at 476 and asked, "Alex is alive?"
"That is correct," 476 asked.
"Any other survivors?" asked Darius.
"There were three other survivors," said 476, "There were Cyrus, Jezzika and the other female that the Doctor brought."
"Harper's still alive too," said the Doctor, "That's great, but what happened exactly to turn these Weeping Angels to stone?"
"I don't know, but the event is recorded in my memory banks," said 476.
"Show us," said Darius.
"Yes, sir," said 476. His mechanical eyes glowed red and projected a hologram in the room of Alex, Harper, Cyrus and Jezzika all huddled together surrounded by several Angels. It showed Alex taking out her wand and she said her spell and the magic came out and surrounded them and then they vanished.
There was no sound coming from the hologram and the Doctor asked, "Where's the sound?"
"The audio recorder was damaged in the fighting," 476 replied, "But I know what she said. She said, 'My powers I continue to hone, get us away from the Angels of Stone!'"
"What is that?" asked Darius.
"It's complicated and a long story," said the Doctor. He looked at his watch and said, "We have thirty minutes. We have to find them in thirty minutes. We have to stop the Weeping Angels in thirty minutes. We have to stop the Time Matrix from exploding in thirty minutes. I have to get the TARDIS unlocked in thirty minutes. Now we have twenty-nine minutes due to my mini speech."
"We better get going then," Darius said.
"Agreed," the Doctor said.
"How do we find them?" asked Darius.
"I have locations of every human life form on this ship. It was my design as the head security robot," 476 said.
"You know where they are?" asked Darius.
"That is correct," said 476.
"Okay, then let's go," the Doctor said.
The three of them went into the hallway and 476 led the way to the others. The Doctor was thinking about how to stop the Weeping Angels. The time energy that Alex calls her magic is lethal to the Weeping Angels. He was thinking about Alex just using a spell to kill the Angels. That would take out one of their problems, but the Time Matrix was going to be harder. He had no idea why the Matrix was overloading. He was going to stop it from destroying the Solar System and killing billions of humans.
Another Part of the Ship
Alex, Harper, Jezzika and Cyrus all appeared in the kitchen of the Aragon. Harper coughed and asked Alex, "You could have just flashed us. Why did you use a spell?"
"I don't know," said Alex, "Maybe it was because of the Weeping Angel reaching for my face and saying that spell was the only thing I could think of."
"Fair enough," said Harper.
Cyrus was leaning on one of the counters and asked, "What in the name of all that is holy was that?"
"Magic," said Alex.
"I wouldn't believe, but the fact that I actually was part of all of that, I believe you," said Cyrus.
There was a scream from Jezzika. The others looked at her and saw her staring at a Weeping Angel that was in the kitchen. Alex saw that she was looking the Angel in the eyes. Alex said, "Don't stare into the Angel's eyes."
"I can't help it. They're so mesmerizing," said Jezzika. Jezzika's hands started to turn blue and eventually black. The skin crumbled off and stone was replacing it. Her entire arms turned black and turned to stone. Her clothes even started to turn. She looked away from the Weeping Angel and she looked at the others. Her face was blackened and started to crumble away. Two wings tore out of Jezzika's back and were spread out. They were twice as long as the other Weeping Angel's wings.
"What in the hell!" asked Cyrus.
"If you look into the eyes of an Angel, you become an Angel," Alex said, "The Doctor told me that."
"I think we need to go," said Harper.
"Agreed," said Cyrus.
Jezzika stopped moving and she was frozen. Alex looked at her and said, "She's turned."
Alex and Harper turned around and walked out slowly. Cyrus looked at the Weeping Angel and the thing that used to be Jezzika. Her face was malicious, but he didn't look into her eyes. He backed up into the hallway. He shut and locked the door. He turned to the two girls and said, "Let's go."
The three of them ran down a hallway and heard the banging of the two Weeping Angels smashing on the door. They picked up the pace and they heard thumping coming from down a hallway that was intersecting with their own. The three of them leaned into the wall and Cyrus raised his gun. He lowered his gun when he heard his father's voice ask, "How much time do we have left?"
Then they heard the Doctor's voice say, "A little over twenty minutes."
Right after that, the three of them saw 476, the Doctor and Darius appear in the corridor intersection. Alex and Harper both ran to the Doctor and tackled him. "Thank God you're alive," Alex said.
"We won't be if we don't stop the Time Matrix from exploding," said the Doctor.
"What?" asked Alex.
"Tell you on the way," said the Doctor.
Cyrus was walking up to his dad when his chest exploded. Blood splattered all over 476 and Darius. Alex and Harper both screamed and the Doctor jumped. Cyrus's lifeless body was limp over a blood covered stone arm that was more feminine looking than other Weeping Angels' arms. Darius shouted, "CYRUS!"
The Doctor walked around and saw a distinctively female Weeping Angel. The Doctor then recognized it as one of the woman from the group. He noticed her larger wings and asked, "She looked into a Weeping Angel's eyes, didn't she?"
"Yes," said Alex.
"Wait a minute, that's Jezzika," said Darius, "What happened?"
"If someone looks into the eyes of a Weeping Angel, they become a Weeping Angel," the Doctor said, "476, come here."
476 came up and asked, "What do you need?"
"Do you have any plasma blasts left?" asked the Doctor.
"Just one is charged," said 476.
"When we are out of the way, blast her," said the Doctor.
"Understood," 476 said.
The four left the blast radius and 476 blasted the Jezzika Weeping Angel. Right after that, the other Weeping Angel slammed into 476 and the two thing started fighting each other and the Doctor stepped out and looked at the Angel. It turned to stone and 476 broke the Angel's arm off the was in one hand and shattered the other arm that in his other hand. The Doctor ran back to the others and told Alex, "Your magic is lethal to the Weeping Angels. A powerful enough spell could destroy them and solve one of our problems."
"We have more than one?" asked Harper.
"In fifteen minutes, the Time Matrix will explode and take the Solar System with it," said the Doctor, "So think of a spell that can stop then."
"Okay, okay," said Alex.
"Thirteen minutes," said the Doctor.
Alex thought for a minute and said, "I can't think of anything!"
"Just say something," the Doctor said, "Try to manipulate the spell you used earlier. That worked."
"But I'll kill them," said Alex.
"They'll kill us if you don't do it, and we are running out of time," said the Doctor.
"Okay, okay," said Alex. She thought for a minute and still didn't say anything.
"Ten minutes!" the Doctor said.
"Okay!" Alex snapped. She closed her eyes and took out her wand. She said, "I don't want to be left alone so destroy the Angels of stone!"
The same green light came out of her wand and shot out across the ship. From outside the ship, the green light encompassed the whole Aragon and blocked it from view. The light receded and reentered Alex's wand. She looked at her wand and said, "I did it."
"I knew you could," said the Doctor. He looked at his watch and said, "One problem down and only eight minutes to solve the other one."