I promise I'll get back to the TARDIS soon but for now it's back to Stormcage and to River for a not so successful great escape...
To be fair to the guard, he wasn't the most stupid River had ever faced, but then walking straight up to a cell and reaching out for Charlotte to calm her crying, was pretty stupid, especially when you couldn't see the other prisoner. River had hidden herself from the guard behind the concrete pillar in the corner, and knocked him clean out when Charlotte lured him in, crying her eyes out because her mother had 'escaped' and'left' her alone.
River took the keys from the groaning guard and opened the cell doors, Charlotte stood up from her crossed leg position on the floor, and wiped her eyes, "Mummy did I do good?" River nodded and hugged her daughter. "Where do we go now Mum?" River turned and grabbed her possessions from the hook. Guns holstered, she finally felt more like herself again, her vortex manipulator was strapped on her wrist and her satchel slung over her shoulder. She looked inside her trusted bag and smiled, the modified sonic was still there. "The silence must have thought it was just some old relic and left it in my bag, the Doctor, he left it there, even when he only just knew me, he had some trust in me. The silence must have found the bag hidden in the core when they found me." River thought. River spotted her hallucinogenic and sleeping draft lipsticks and quickly put them in her hiding place, "No one is ever going to find them there." she chuckled to herself. "What was that?" The two escapees turned at a clanging noise, River's hand moved instinctively to her right handed gun, it was her favourite "Guards?" Charlotte asked, her voice a whisper. River nodded again, they ran down the corridor, guards shouting for them to used the sonic to open the doors before they got to them. River felt funny all of sudden but waved the feeling off as hunger, she was starting to remember some of the old time lord abilities she'd lost when she gave her regenerations to the Doctor. Not all of them were lost, reduced aging had stuck around, much to River's liking, the others though, like the enhanced senses, brain capacity and stamina had been severely reduced or like the mind compass lost completely. The mind compass was at this moment the most important thing River had regained, she lead Charlotte through the new layout of storm cage, almost like she saw a sat nav in front of her. Charlotte started to slow down so River picked her up, "Mummy," Charlotte panted " What happened to you?" River shook her head and opened a further three doors, she saw the entrance, "So close, we're gonna make it!" River thought. Suddenly a pain shot through River's leg making her fall to the ground, she pushed Charlotte away as she fell and the young girl yelped at her mother's sudden action. River touched her leg, blood greeted her. "Mummy, the guards shot you!" River scrambled to her feet, pain shooting down her leg, "So much for an easy escape." River thought miserably. She looked at Charlotte and then knew what had to done, "At least brain capacity was back on full form." she surmised. River took off the vortex manipulator and used the sonic to pinpoint the TARDIS, "Take care of my little girl Sweetie," River thought "She is kind of your adopted daughter, since we're mar..." it was then it struck her, "I have a new name, so we're not married any more. Just one piece of bad news after another." River strapped the manipulator to Charlotte's wrist and kissed her daughter, holding her to her chest, "Mum, what's going on?" River stood up, and pointed the sonic at the device, "Mummy? Please Mummy!" Charlotte vanished, lightning marking her departure. River turned to face the on coming soldiers, and swapped the sonic for her other gun, just as she was about to shoot, a massive pain hit her tummy, pulling her to her knees and making her drop her guns, she looked down expecting blood, but there was nothing, the pain was like something beating her in the abdomen from the inside, she whimpered, the guards reached her and kicked her guns away, forced her to the floor and held her in place. The pain numbed and vanished but River couldn't move, she was held fast by the guards. A familiar voice from behind made River growl, "Why Melody, what are you doing out so late?" Kovarian...
"Just taking a stroll in the evening air." River thought, she couldn't speak, her silence must fall until she found the Doctor, suddenly Kovarian stamped down on River's back, "Where did you send Charlotte? What were you planning?" both questions made Kovarian press deeper into River's back. Suddenly Kovarian's boot was removed from River's back and Tasha Lem appeared from the River's blind spot, Lem's heels clicking on the wet, concreted floor.
"Hang her up by her wrists, just enough so she can balance on her toes, no shoes, strip her of anything she can use to escape." The guards pulled River to her feet and pushed her back to her cell. The guards stripped her of all her newly rediscovered possessions, and undid her boots before yanking them off her feet. One guard tore the hem of her dress and it caused the lower part of the only piece of clothing River currently owned to be ripped away, most of her legs were now exposed to the freezing wet climate of the planet where storm cage was situated. The guards then forced her arms above her head and clanked tight cuffs to her wrists, they were linked to a thick metal chain. Ankle cuffs were then also locked in place after River kicked two of the guards to the floor, Lem and Kovarian laughed. River's toes only just touched the floor when the guards pulled the chain tight, winding the chain up into a pulley system into the ceiling. River would gain balance for a split second then slip on the wet floor and her wrists would take the strain of her entire body, the chains would dig into her hands, finally, when River gave up struggling, she closed her eyes, "What do I do Sweetie? I have to get out, to warn you of the Master, I have to get to you!" River thought, gritting her teeth against the pain of her arms, she opened her eyes and looked up to the chains but all she see was the blood running in a lacy pattern on her arms, she looked across at Tasha Lem, Lem smiled, pleasure displayed clearly on her face.
"Melody, It's time to contact the Doctor, look lively now, I want you on your best behaviour."
River hung her head, and hid a solitary tear that ran down her cheek, "I'm sorry my love." she thought.