River Song nervously stroked her gun, as she waited behind a huge concrete pillar in the main part of the spaceship. She would have a window of only twenty seconds to shoot, then carry out the rest of her plan. It wasn't her aim that was worrying her, that was almost always perfect. It was the fact that there could be no second chance. If she got distracted by something, or the target was standing in the wrong place, the guards would kill her immediately.
Her plan was simple, to shoot the Master, then while he was regenerating, to tie him up. She would rescue the Doctor, and they would carry the Master back to the TARDIS, where they would hide him in one of the secure rooms. After that, they could return to Amy and Rory, and go somewhere nice for Christmas. Lapland perhaps.
The sound of footsteps startled her. She peered around the pillar, and the smiling face of the Master swam into view. Behind him, she could see the Doctor. He was being dragged into the room by the Master's guards, wrapped in chains. There was a nasty looking bruise on his left cheek. River swallowed her anger, keeping her eyes on the Master. There was a clock in the room, and she concentrated on the ticking. One minute to go before she would pull the trigger, sending a bullet rocketing towards the Master's head.
Amy slowly opened her eyes. She was laying on her back. Her whole body was aching, and she had hit her head on the concrete as she fell. She sat up, blinking in the light and rubbing her head. Rory and their new friend were discussing something quietly.
"Where are we?" She asked, her throat sore. "We were in Starbucks. Then, we went into the street." Rory and Jack rushed over to help her up.
"The street was a transmat." Jack explained. "As soon as we stepped onto it, we were teleported here."
"It looks like we're on some kind of spaceship." Rory guessed her next question, "It's made almost entirely from concrete. We have to be quiet, we don't want the aliens to find us."
"OK." She said, as her friends helped her onto her feet. "I feel awful."
"You had a bad reaction to the transmat." Jack explained.
"Oh." Amy looked around the room. It was a small storeroom, walls, ceiling and floor made of concrete. It made her feel claustrophobic. Futuristic cleaning equipment lined the shelves, and she inspected a small machine which looked like a vacuum cleaner with arms and legs. As she touched it, the vacuum cleaner lit up.
"Hello!" It said in a very loud, tinny voice, "I am the super-clean 5000!"
Amy tried to find an off switch on the cleaning device, but there didn't seem to be one.
"Where would you like me to clean today?" It continued, happily.
"Er, we don't need anything cleaned, could you turn yourself off?" Amy felt ridiculous talking to a robot, but it seemed to work. With a sigh, the robot's lights turned off, and the room was silent.
"I really hope nobody heard that." Rory whispered. After a few tense seconds, the sound of heavy footsteps pounded down the passage outside.
"Run!" Jack yelled, bolting towards a concrete knob. He turned it, and one of the walls slid backwards. Amy grabbed her husband and they ran after Jack into the main body of the spaceship. All Amy could see was concrete. There were no windows or doors anywhere, only a endless, grey expanse of hallway. A group of what looked like fluffy dinosaurs, with white faces and red eyes, were marching towards them, carrying huge black weapons.
"Stop!" One growled, "Surrender to the Master or I will shoot!"
"Look for another one if those knobs, they open the doors." Jack yelled back to her, ignoring the monsters behind him.
"There aren't any knobs." Amy shouted back, desperately feeling along the walls. There was only smooth, cold concrete. Then she felt a cold, furry hand on her shoulder, and the sharp point of a gun pressed against her back. It was too late.
Five. River blinked a few times. Four. She raised the gun. Three. She aimed it at the Master's head. Shooting a time lord in the heart was not guaranteed to make them regenerate, as they could just use their other heart. Two. River put her finger on the trigger. One.
Suddenly, the sound of heavy footsteps shook the room. More guards were approaching, and they were holding three more prisoners. From behind the pillar, it was impossible to see their faces, but River recognized a blue scarf.
"Amy." She whispered. Anger raged through her. She had told them to stay in the TARDIS. As the guards led them across the room, she looked at the other two prisoners, both men. One was Rory, but she didn't recognize the other.
Her plan was in ruins, there was no way that she could shoot, grab the Doctor and run with this many guards in the room. And now she also had to rescue her parents. Before River could even start to formulate a new plan, she heard somebody cough behind her. River Song held up her hands in a gesture of surrender, and turned around to face the ring of armed guards surrounding her.
The Doctor stood, swaying a little. He felt dizzy and the chains around his hands and feet were rubbing against his skin. He watched as River Song was lead out from behind a pillar. Now there was no hope of rescue. Amy, Rory, River and even Captain Jack Harkness, whom he hadn't seen since his last regeneration, had all been captured. The Doctor and River shared a look. Sorry, River mouthed. The Doctor smiled sadly. He concentrated on his friends, suddenly feeling that he was about to faint. He could hear arguing.
Amy looked up as another group of guards marched towards her, holding a familiar figure.
"River!" She exclaimed, partly surprised and partly happy to see her daughter. River Song however, did not look happy to see her.
"I can't believe you left the TARDIS," She snapped. "I told you to stay in the Christmas room. I was about to rescue the Doctor, capture the Master and-"
"You didn't really expect us to wait in the TARDIS for hours when the Doctor had been kidnapped." Amy replied hotly. "You could at least have told us what was going on!"
"Silence!" Boomed the Master from the other side of the room. He suddenly smiled, and walked towards Amy and the other captives. "As much as I love a good family argument, especially at Christmas, I have more important things to attend to."
A huge bang shook the room and the Master took out a remote control, which was full of multicolored buttons. He pressed one, and the wall behind him began to rise up, slowly revealing two gigantic feet.
"What is that?" Rory said slowly, watching as a stomach and two smaller arms came into view.
"Ladies, gentlemen, guards and captives," The Master was obviously enjoying himself. "Please welcome, the one, the only, the Magic Furgle!"
The wall clicked into place at ceiling level, to reveal a massive... Dinosaur. Amy thought it looked exactly like one of the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park. In fact, she remembered seeing more than a few dinosaurs in this spaceship. Amy took a closer look at her captors, the Master's guards. They resembled the huge dinosaur creature, but were much smaller and had wispy, white fur between hard scales.
As soon as the guards saw the dinosaur they dropped to the ground, as if worshipping the creature. Since Amy, Rory, River and Jack were attached to the guards, they toppled over, landing in a heap on the floor.
"Ow!" Jack grumbled, sitting up. "You guys OK?"
Amy nodded, and then felt a tap on her shoulder.
"Didn't the Doctor say something about furgles this morning?" Rory whispered. The Master interrupted him.
"Quick history lesson. The furgles are a race of primitive, yet powerful dinosaurs who worship the largest dinosaur of their tribe. When that one dies, they choose the next largest dinosaur to be their God and so on. So I went back to prehistoric earth, and stole a T-Rex. Since these are larger than the furgles, they obeyed it's every command."
"He's crazy." Rory whispered again. "Why would he tell us all of this?"
"You're wondering why I'm telling you all this." The Master said gleefully. "It's because I want you all to know about the creature I'm going to feed you to."
"OK, not good. This is not good at all." Rory bit his lip. The Master was still talking.
"Anyway, I had entered into a little deal with the T-Rex, we agreed to wage war on the universe and destroy every planet in the four largest solar systems. Ever since I got trapped in the time lock, I've wanted revenge on the universe, and now I will have it. I have a thousand ships full of furgles ready to blow up every planet from here to Klom. That includes Earth, by the way."
"You can't do this!" Amy shouted across the room. "We'll stop you!"
"I don't think so." The Master replied. Then he spoke directly to the guards. "I'm bored of the prisoners. Lock them up, all in separate cells. Then, feed them to the T-Rex, one by one."
Sorry for a long wait... And if everything doesn't quite make sense yet, it will soon! This chapter is dedicated to the Badger, thank you for the reviews! :)