The war of words between River and the Doctor was immediately forgotten as they all stood in shocked silence looking up. Evie raised a hand to brush her wet hair, looking at her fingers carefully before sniffing them gingerly to see what the liquid was.

"The pyramid above us. How many Silents do you have trapped inside it?" The Doctor asked slowly, glancing around.

"None. They're not trapped, they never have been. They've been waiting for this, Doctor... For you." Kovarian told him with a horrible smile. Evie, Amy and River looked horrified.

Then the door burst open and Rory appeared, looking wild-eyed and panicked. "They're out! All of them."

He slammed he heavy door behind him as everyone whirled around to face him. They could hear the distant sounds of gunfire and screaming and didn't need to see what was happening to know that things were bad.

"Barricade the doors!" Rory ordered his men, taking charge effortlessly. He strode around, giving orders while the soldiers did as he said. They slid heavy bars across the doors and stood ready, their rifles aimed at the space.

"No-one gets in here!" One of the soldiers shouted to the others and there was a general shout of agreement amongst them.

"Ma'am, my men out there, should be able to lock this down we have them outnumbered." Rory said, retreating to the bottom of the steps and joining his men in aiming at the doors.

Kovarian smiled a nastily again. "And you're wearing eye drives based on mine, I think. Oops!"

As one, the Doctor, River, Amy and Evie turned to face her, their eyes wide and their expressions horrified. River put out a hand to hold her daughter back, but the young woman pushed her away, stepping nearer to Kovarian.

"What are you talking about?" She demanded furiously.

"What do you mean?" The Doctor asked dangerously at the same time.

"Oh… you can tell you're related." Kovarian mocked, her eyes flicking between the two outraged faces that were bearing down on her.

There was no time for anyone to respond as an electrical whirring started up behind them and Evie whirled around on the spot in time to see Doctor Kent's eye drive crackling and sparking with bright blue electrical waves. She leapt towards her immediately, doing her best to wrench the device from the woman's face as she screamed and collapsed to the ground.

"Help her! Help her!" The Doctor shouted.

"I'm trying!" Evie snapped back, freeing the woman of the device as Amy joined her on the ground. One of the soldiers began groaning as his own eye drive began to spark and crackle.

"She's dead." Amy muttered, horrified as the realisation hit the young women.

She and Evie looked at each other, before staring up at River and the Doctor. Kovarian smiled smugly, apparently pleased with herself. Evie felt a sudden rush of rage crashing over her and had to restrain herself from punching the odious woman in the face.

The Doctor screamed and groaned, contorting in pain as his device began to malfunction. "Eye drives off, now! Remove them!"

Amy ripped it off him, screaming as her own eye drive began to spark. River pulled it off quickly, dropping it to the ground. Evie screamed as a terrible pain shot through her head, unable to breathe until she felt the device being torn from her face. Blinking, she saw her mother doubled up in agony as the electricity played about her eye drive. Grabbing it, Evie ripped it off, flinging it across the room.

"Are you alright?" She demanded, sinking to her knees in front of her mother who was still breathing heavily and clutching her head. "Mum! Are you alright?"

River nodded weakly, putting a hand on Evie's cheek and smiling weakly at her. The girl returned it quickly, before standing up and turning to glare at Kovarian once more.

"The Silence would never allow an advantage, without taking one themselves. The effects will vary from person to person... either death or debilitating agony. But they will take you all, one by one."

"Wanna bet?" Evie snapped, stepping forwards threateningly. The Doctor grabbed her arm, pulling her back and stopping her getting any closer to the woman. No sooner had he done so that Kovarian's eye drive began to spark. River, Amy and Evie stood together, watching in morbid fascination as the sparking got more intense.

"What are you doing?" She demanded in confusion. "No, it's me... Don't be stupid, you need me. Stop it, stop that!"

The Doctor moved to face River. "We could stop this right now, you and I."

"Get it off me!" Kovarian pleaded. They ignored her.

"Amy, tell her!"

"We've been working on something. Just let us show you." She replied quickly, looking at him pleadingly.

"That's my point." He snapped. "There's nothing you can do. My time is up."

"We're doing this for you!"

"Dad!" Evie pleaded, laying a hand on his arm. "Please just let us –"

"Then people are dying for me. I won't thank you for that, Amelia Pond. Evie Song! For once in your life just do as you're told!"

"Get it..." Kovarian screeched. Still no one paid her any attention.

"Just let us show you!" River begged.

"Please." The Doctor seemed to be wavering so Amy pressed her advantage. "Captain Williams, how long do we have?"

"A couple of minutes."

"That's enough." River decided as the doors began to shake. They were being rammed from the outside, signalling the arrival of the Silence. "We're going to the Receptor Room right at the top of the pyramid. I hope you're ready for a climb."

The Doctor nodded and followed as River led the way from the control room. Evie and Amy began to follow, the brunette pulling a handgun out of the waistband of her skirt as she did so and cocking it expertly.

"I'll wait down here, Ma'am, buy you as much time as I can." Captain Williams told their retreating figures. They both stopped, hesitating in the doorway.

"You have to take your eye drive off."

Rory shook his head. "Can't do that, Ma'am… might forget what's coming."

"But it could activate any second."

"It has activated, Ma'am." He told her bravely. The two women exchanged a horrified glance, spotting his hand clenching tightly as the eye drive sent pain throughout his head. "But I'm no use to you if I can't remember. You have to go NOW, Ma'am."

"Yes. Yes, thank you, Captain Williams." Amy said, turning and pulling Evie out of the room as the pounding on the door grew more insistent.

"What are you doing?" Evie demanded as soon as they were in the passage which led up to the Receptor Room. "You can't just leave him to die, Gran!"

"Sweetie… he's a soldier. He knows what he's doing."

"Gran! No!"

"Evie, listen to me." Amy snapped, grabbing her granddaughter firmly by the shoulder. "Captain Williams is a big boy. He is perfectly capable of tak–"

"Rory!" Evie shouted, cutting her off. "Rory Williams! It's Gramps! You have to remember!"

Amy's face went pale, what little colour there was in it dropping quickly. She stared in horror at Evie, clutching her arms painfully tightly.

"Rory… Rory, Rory, Rory… My husband… Rory Williams."

"YES!"

Nodding as a steely determination swept over her, Amy grabbed a gun from the rack just inside a door to their left and marched back into the control room. She opened fire, hitting her mark time and time again and causing her granddaughter to nod in approval. Ducking under Amy's arm, Evie dropped to the floor beside her grandfather and cradled his head gently, starting to remove the eye drive.

"Come on, you... up you get! You all right?" Amy asked, hauling him roughly to his feet and ripping the eye drive off completely. There was a split second where they looked at each other, before Evie tugged on her grandmother's arm, signalling that they had to leave.

"Amy... help me." Kovarian called in a weak voice.

The red-head stopped dead. She turned slowly to face her, a look of disgust twisting her pretty features. "You took my baby from me. And hurt her. And now she's all grown up and she's fine, but I'll never see my baby again."

"But you'll still save me though. Because HE would, and you'd never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor."

Evie felt the bile rise in her throat at Kovarian's words and stepped forwards to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Amy, glaring angrily at the woman in the chair. Her eye drive was half off, hanging limply from her face.

"Ma'am, we have to go... now!"

"The Doctor is very precious to me, you're right." Amy agreed coldly. "But do you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? Not here." Amy pushed the eye drive back onto the woman's face viciously, pressing it into position."River Song didn't get it all from you... sweetie."

Amy stepped back, linking her arm with Rory's and walking quickly from the room. Evie shot Kovarian a venomous look and pushed the eye drive into her face, just to make sure it was properly attached.

"You kidnapped my Mum, tried to murder my Dad, upset my Gran and almost got my Gramps' brain fried." She snapped in a low hiss. "I take that as a personal attack." Then she stepped back and smiled brightly, a cold glint in her eyes. "Laters, sweetie. Good luck."

"So, you and me, we should get a drink some time." Amy was suggesting to Rory as Evie caught up with them in the passageway outside the control room.

"OK."

"And married."

"Fine."

"Thank god for that!" Evie muttered, grinning and shaking her head with relief.