"Right you are going to tell us exactly why we didn't go to the mainframe" said Amy striding to the Doctor.
The Doctor turned to face Amy like a wounded dog, his eyes looking at Rory who was staring back at him.
"I could whip us all up some chocolate fondue, how's that sound? Does it sound good? I think it sounds good" said the Doctor cheerily and he clapped his hands and started to walk but Amy blocked his path. "I guess that's a no to chocolate fondue. And I was really hoping for some chocolate fondue. Maybe some custa-
"Oh will you stop going on about the fondue Doctor and answer the question!" said Amy and she put her slender arms around the Doctors waist.
The Doctor's eyes widened and his arms flailed into the air. He looked over to Rory who was looking at Amy with confusion. The Doctor put his hands on Amy's shoulders and tried pushing her away gently.
"Umm, okay, not the move I was expecting but you can let him go now Amy" said Rory walking towards them, his arms crossed over his chest.
"Yes, you can let me go now Amy because I am about to tell you why we didn't go there, just let go of me please?" said the Doctor looking at Rory with confusion.
As Amy reluctantly let go of the Doctor's waist, she wiped a tear from her cheek and looked into the Doctor's eyes. The Doctor stared at Amy for a minute before shifting his gaze to the TARDIS control panel and walked towards it, moving around a stunned Rory who was looking at Amy.
"The chocolate fondue is important Amy; I can't believe you wouldn't think that it was important. Remember when I said that the ship was springy, yet gooey" he paused and pressed a round purple button.
"Uhh, yes, but what does that have to do with anything, you were just acting like . . . well you" said Amy looking at the Doctor, her left hand reaching for Rory's right.
"I do not act like that!" said the Doctor in a surprised tone and glanced up at Amy who gave him a face that looked like 'Yeah, you do'. "Okay I do that sometimes but that's not the point, the point is that we were standing on something that I thought was a cloaking mechanism but I was wrong, hard to believe isn't it? Me, wrong? Perish the thought! But I was. What we were standing on was them!"
"Them?" retorted Rory.
"Yes them" said the Doctor and he pressed two red buttons. "I've always wondered what happens to the bodies of the Nageshi and now I know. Quite disgusting really" The Doctor paused and looked at Rory. "When one of the Nageshi die, the other Nageshi bring it back to the ship and use their body to camouflage it"
"Hence why the one you touched started to shift, because it was trying to blend in" said Rory.
"Exactly" Said the Doctor and he clicked his fingers.
"But why did the others . . . eat that Nageshi?" asked Amy, concern in her voice.
"They weren't eating the Nageshi, although it did sound like it, but no they weren't eating it, they were merging with it.
The Nageshi like to stick together, if one was to fall, the others would fall with it. Now in this case, because I touched one of them and it started to blend, the others crowded it and because they thought of us as a threat, they probably thought that I was attacking it and decided to protect it by doing the only thing they know how to do and that is to merge and become part of the ship. Thus bringing me as to why we didn't go to the mainframe" The Doctor walked down from the TARDIS control panel and sat on one of the steps. "Their mainframe is like the human brain. It controls everything that happens to the ship, but who do you think is controlling the mainframe?" the Doctor paused to let what he had just said sink in.
Rory and Amy looked at the Doctor with raised eyebrows. The Doctor got up abruptly from the steps and went back to the TARDIS control panel and pulled a handle shaped like the end of an umbrella.
The TARDIS started to shake violently and the buttons the Doctor had pressed started to light up. The TARDIS made a noise like someone was playing a Kazoo and suddenly it was up in the Air, flying through space towards Tawengay.
"Wait, we've only now just got off the ship?" said Amy, her eyebrows disappearing into her hair.
The Doctor raised his eyebrows and looked at Amy.
"Well of course. You asked me to explain to you why we didn't go to the mainframe and then when I tried to go you stopped me from moving and then you put your arms around my waist, which, even now I don't understand why you did that, why did you do that?" said the Doctor looking at Amy fondly.
"To get you to tell me about the mainframe" Amy said and she started to fidget.
The Doctor only stared at her for a minute until he clapped once. "So I ask you again. Who do you think is controlling the mainframe?"
Rory looked disgruntled and scratched the back of his head. "I'm guessing the fallen Nageshi"
"Shibashi!" said the Doctor excitedly. When he got disturbed looks from Rory and Amy, the Doctor smiled. "Shibashi, a word the Tawengay people use to say correct. Oh that's right! The Tawengay people have their own language which meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeans" the Doctor ran to the east side of the control panel and felt under it. His eyebrows furrowed until finally he felt what he was looking for. He pulled out what looked like a violet nerf gun and jogged towards Amy and Rory.
When he reached them he waved the gun in the air and twirled it.
"Put out your right hands please and thank you" he said cooly.
Rory and Amy looked at each other briefly and without hesitation, they put their right hands out.
They trusted the Doctor (Amy more so), they were sure he knew what he was doing.
The Doctor grinned and turned their right hands over so that their palms were facing upwards.
He looked at Amy, then pushed the barrel of the gun into her palm and pulled the trigger. Amy felt a sharp prick in her palm and she gasped, her face going red.
"What I have injected in to your hands" the Doctor began and he moved to Rory and done the same thing he did to Amy. When Rory had gasped and started going red, the Doctor continued. "Is a translator meaning that you will be able to understand the Tawengay people, meaning whatever they say, will be translated into English" The Doctor checked his gold wrist watch and smiled at it. "The redness should be wearing off in five, four, three, two annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd one!" The Doctor looked up at Rory and Amy's faces and saw they were back to normal.
The Doctor's eyes lingered on Amy's round face and freckles until a huge BANG! Jolted him from his gazing.
He cleared his throat and ran to the TARDIS control panel. "We are about to arrive. I didn't even get any fondue"
Rory walked up the TARDIS steps and patted the Doctor on his right shoulder and looked at Amy. "Can I ask you something" he said to her, worry in his voice.
Amy looked at the Doctor and watched as he looked at her. She widened her eyes and shifted her head to the right.
"Oh right you want me to leave!" said the Doctor, his own eyes widening. "Well, I'll just leave you two alone then. But you have two minutes so I hope what you have to say isn't longer than that" the Doctor smiled. "I can make a chocolate fondue in half that so I have time. Yay" squealed the Doctor and he ran down steps that led to the kitchen.
"Where are you going to make the chocolate fondue? Wait are you telling me there's a kitchen down there?" said Amy, peering down to try and see the Doctor enter a doorway but her vision was blocked by Rory's frame.
"Why did you hug the Doctor like that?" asked Rory.
"Like what?" Amy said, turning her attention to Rory's face. He was sweating and he looked like he had aged ten more years.
"And why did you cry?" Rory asked her confused.
"I was acting. I never really thought I could be a good actress but now I'm not so sure" she said and she wrapped her arms around Rory's neck but she could feel his shoulders tense. "What's wrong?" she asked Rory, worry in her voice but Rory kept avoiding her gaze.
"It's just, I don't know, maybe I'm imagining it but it seems like you want to be with the Doctor"
"Of course I want to be with the Doctor" said Amy and she let go of Rory's neck and spun around. "Who wouldn't want to see the universe in such a wa-
"That's not what I mean Amy. I mean like you actually want to be with the Doctor" interrupted Rory and he turned his back on Amy.
Amy Snorted.
"You are a complete and total idiot. The Doctor and I are just good friends, why would I think about him that way? Why would I marry you if I felt something for the Doctor?"
Rory turned to face Amy and almost jumped when she was standing right behind him, but Amy put her hands around Rory's neck again, brought him forward and kissed him intensely. The sensation was electrifying. Rory caressed her red hair softly. To him, it felt like a piece of soft cotton candy while it smelled like strawberries.
Amy broke off the kiss and looked into Rory's light green eyes and laughed shyly. "You are an idiot, me and the Doctor? Come on Stupid face"
"It does sound silly when you put it like that" said Rory and he turned slightly red.
But Amy's head was working overtime. Did she even believe that the Doctor and her were just good friends? Something was there, she felt it in her very bones, but what was it? And how could she do that to Rory? How could she feel feelings for a person who held so many secrets?
"Time to go guys, we got a planet to save!" came the voice of the Doctor and it distracted Amy from her thoughts.
The Doctor had come up to the console room, smiling and looking at Rory. "Everything good?" he asked him, grinning.
"Uhh" Rory looked at Amy, who in turn, smiled up at him. "Y-yeah, everything's good."
"Perfect!" Said the Doctor and he walked towards the TARDIS door.
"Wait, Doctor, you have something on your cheek" said Amy running towards the Doctor.
Amy stopped when she was close to the Doctor. She looked at the brown smudge that was on his cheek and smiled.
"You're a messy eater" she said laughing.
"I'll have you know Mrs. Pond that I am the cleanest eater you will ever meet" he paused. "But that Chocolate fondue was good though" and he smiled.
Amy licked her thumb and index finger on her right hand and rubbed the chocolate smudge off the Doctors cheek. As she rubbed the chocolate off, she couldn't help but notice that his skin was smooth and that he smelled not only like chocolates (which she assumed was because he had just finished eating fondue) but something flowery, almost like roses.
Amy's chest tightened and when she saw the last remain of the chocolate fondue disappear; she cleared her throat, smiled at the Doctor and walked towards Rory.
"The main thing about the Tawengay people is that you have to know they are dangerous. Even the sanest can become suicidal. As I mentioned before, they are a depressing race and they feed off that sadness and they rarely tolerate happiness. In fact I've only met a handful of them that seem to want to be happy" Said the Doctor looking at his watch and to the TARDIS doors. "Stick with me at all times and do not, I repeat, DO NOT wonder off"
CRASH!
Rory, Amy and the Doctor wobbled but didn't fall. They each looked at each other and then to the TARDIS door.
The Doctor walked towards the TARDIS door and slowly opened it.
"Doctor, you still didn't tell us why we didn't go to the mainframe" Amy said, looking at the Doctor intensely.
"Come on pond, use your head! If the fallen Nageshi control the mainframe, what makes you think that they'd let us in? We, to them, were intruders. Do you let a burglar in to your house? No" the Doctor sighed and looked at Amy and Rory. "Any other questions can be asked later. Right now, we need to see the one thing that is in charge here" said the Doctor gleefully and he walked through the TARDIS door.
Amy and Rory looked at each other and held hands and together, they exited the TARDIS and into Tawengay.