Amy blinked up blearily at the dark ceiling of the maze, she had fallen hundreds of feet but she wasn't dead, or she thought she wasn't. She tried to sit up but then warm and strong hands pushed her back down on the ground gently, obviously they had a medical profession and judging by the perfume, it wasn't Rory. A warm voice cooed softly "Take it easy, you hit the ground pretty hard."
The Girl Who Waited looked up, her neck straining as she saw a woman with dark skin along with her hair pulled back into a tight pony-tail. Amy blinked, she recognized that face, she knew who this was, one of the Doctor's past companions, but she couldn't put a name on the woman. The woman helped her sit up and after a few moments she said "Who are you? One of the Doctor's companions I'd say, a lot of us are walking around."
Amy nodded as she grimaced, a wave of fiery pain tearing through her spine and chest. "Yeah, Amy Pond, I think I'm the newest regeneration's companion. You?"
"Martha Jones." She replied but then said "Well Smith now, my husband apparently wasn't transported here even though he was a companion. Do you know what regeneration your Doctor is? Mine was Tenth."
"Eleventh." Amy responded, with Martha's help she stood on wobbly legs. "He showed me a few of the past ones."
Martha blinked "He talks about me?"
She nodded in response, managing to stand on her own. She gave a sigh and blinked as a cloud of golden regeneration energy burst forth, floating into the air before evaporating. Martha grimaced as Amy continued on "Yeah, loads. He was telling Rory that he could drop him off at UNIT if he ever wanted lessons from a real expert."
She laughed, amber eyes lightening as she turned around. She yelled out one name and caused footsteps to run through the halls. "Jack!"
Amy blinked as she saw caught sight of a quite handsome man run towards them, dark blue trench coat flaring out behind him as he came to a stop next to the two women. He blinked, running a hand through his hair as he said "So Gingey is awake?"
"I have a name." Amy responded, eyes narrowing but she smiled, a playful essence in her voice and Jack smiled, catching that. "Amy, Amy Pond. And yours?"
"Jack Harkness." He said with a smile. He turned away at the exact instant a screech echoed through the air at such a loud frequency it made them cover their ears. The man looked up at the women and said "Maybe we should find somewhere else to stand around and chat. Maybe we could find the Doctor or someone to tell us what kind of trouble we're in."
There was no argument and instantly the three were off, no sound splitting the air and when a Martha spoke Amy jumped. "There's no telling where we are anyway. No scanner works here and even if we find the TARDIS, who knows what would happen if we tried to leave?"
The Girl Who Waited nodded in agreement but then she glanced back at Martha before saying "Agreed but we have to at least find some more companions. If we're lucky maybe the Doctor. We have to push on."
"Martha," Jack said "I know we've put aliens away and saw a Time Lord die together but I say we listen to Amy. There has to be a reason why we're here."
She opened her mouth to speak but instantly she was cut off as a robotic and monotone voice yelled out "Delete! Delete!"
Jack drew a gun, he motioned for the two to follow and they did. The calls of Cybermen became louder the closer they got. Another voice, a man who seemed angry cut through as he yelled "They approach. I gave you a task to lead them here and immediately, here they come. How fun, humans that's all I'm saying."
Amy blinked, she knew that voice, she knew that voice too well. Her heart was pounding in her ears as they began to see Cybermen but they were powered down and all but useless. Martha shook her head, she didn't like the hollow look she was getting from them. Jack clicked a shot into place as he made his way through the lines of hibernating Cybermen, and when they came to the center Amy gasped sharply, eyes widening in horror as she saw the familiar face of her Doctor standing clear, a silver headpiece tacked firmly on his face as he laughed happily.
"Well good news boys and girls!" He yelled, voice instantly dropping to a feral and animistic tone. "They're here!"
Donna looked up, dark eyes worried as she tried to move the limp form of the Doctor. She shook him lightly, she managed to roll the 'too-light-for-comfort' man but only managed to get him on his back, arm splayed out at an awkward angle. Rory swallowed nervously, he lightly placed to fingers on the side of his neck, four heart beats that sounded sluggish but at least he was alive.
"Who are you?" Donna asked, eyes flicking over Rory as he waited for the Doctor wake up.
Rory answered quickly "Rory Pond. You're Donna Noble, the Doctor never told me about you."
"I don't think he would being he wiped my memories of him." She said with a sigh, eyes downcast as she remembered the fateful day in the exact same TARDIS console room. "It would be too painful, don't you think?"
The Last Centurion blinked, the Doctor had told him of a few companions and their leavings but he never told them how Donna left. He blinked, this was worse than him leaving them when he went to Utah to 'die'. Rory bit back something to say but eventually he said "That's horrible. Please tell me there was a life or death reason for this. That would be terrible if there wasn't."
"There was." Donna said with a nod, a sad smile playing at her lips as she continued on. "Apparently, I was or am the most important woman in all of creation. There was an accident with the Daleks and I ended up getting the Doctor's mind and apparently...that doesn't mix well. My mind was going to burn so he did it to save me."
Rory nodded but then he said "So you're a Time Lady?"
Donna shook her head, a smile playing at her lips as she said "No, not even close. I still don't have any Time Lord memories, something is letting me have all of mine while keeping the Doctor's separate. No clue what it is, but all I know it's strong."
Suddenly the Doctor twitched, Donna jumped as he did so. The Doctor winced in a painful manner as he breathed out a cloud of regeneration energy. It stayed in the air around his face before he blew it away. He placed a hand on his ribs and winced due to the fact they weren't fixed as of yet. He then turned around and his eyes widened in shock, his jaw dropped as he saw Donna who was smiling a mile wide, making the maze look small in comparison.
"Donna?" He whispered, the word wasn't exactly a question but as Donna nodded, tears in her eyes but before anyone could do anything he threw himself at her, arms around her neck as he whispered her name again and again in a verbally stunning language as Rory watched on.
"Oi, Spaceman, you're crushing me here!" She said with a choked laugh, she was forcing herself not to cry as she pried the Doctor off of her. "Come on let go."
The Doctor let go, a ridiculous smile on his face as he jumped up, green eyes glittering. Donna stood with a smile and said "You sure changed your look, regeneration sure caused a big change. Where's the spiky hair? Now it's all floppy."
"Eh, luck of the draw." He said with a shrug, Rory blinked, absolutely confused at the whole conversation the two were having. "Anyway, old console room, not correct one. We need to find the others and get out of here. God know what would happen if we found ourselves at the center."
"What's at the center?" Rory asked, he cocked his head to the side with a raised eyebrow, Donna had a similar look on her face. "We're here but you're not telling us what's going on and I think we have the right to now."
The Doctor stopped mid-stride as he glanced back at his two past companions, he drew a long sigh as he said "Fine, fine, I guess you're right but I need more information to see if I'm right and I really hope I'm not because if I am...oh Rassilon help us."
Donna opened her mouth to say something but then a cold voice screamed "Well good news boys and girls! They're here!" The Doctor took of running with the two following, no one saw the young girl sitting in the chair by the console, she was laughing as she disappeared.
Rose shook her head at Clara's shocked face as the Impossible Girl blinked and said "Then what could that girl possibly be? Don't tell me she's Father, or in this case, Mother Time. She couldn't be, could she?"
"I have a bad feeling she's Time," Rose said with a heavy sigh, she let her shoulders sag as she continued on "we have recieved old stories from Gallifrey that told of a never ending maze that held Time and I'm afraid that this may be who is controlling it."
Clara shrugged "Who knows? But we need to keep moving if we want to find anyone else in this place."
"Agreed." Rose said as Clara walked ahead, the Bad Wolf caught up easily with longer strides. After a few moments of silence Rose said "Clara, why is you sleeve pushed up?"
The Impossible Girl cocked her head to the side in a confused manner as she glanced at her forearm, long red marks had made their way down the pale flesh as if she had scratched her arm just enough to bleed. Clara rubbed her hand across the lines and winced in pain, flakes of dried blood clung to her fingers as she pulled her hand away. "What?"
Rose blinked and took Clara's arm to see in a better light, Clara saw gold energy swell at Rose's arm, blood running freely down her arm only to drip on the floor. "Oh my god. Rose, your arm."
The first companion after the Time War glanced at her arm and her eyes widened. Rose sniffed the air "Energy blast residue."
Clara glanced down at her hand, her newly given gun within her grasp, the screen was at three instead of four. She heard her heart pounding in her ears. Rose blinked "We've been fighting."
"What do you think is-" Clara's sentence was cut off by a scream as a large hand grabbed her by the throat, lifting her off of the floor.
"Clara!" Rose yelled as she fired a shot, the creature absorbed it easily but then Clara felt herself scratch her nails across the pale flesh of her forearm, blood welled at the wounds as she crossed them like tally marks. Why didn't she have a marker on her?
The creature snarled "Silence will fall."