alright, it's been what, 4 days since my last update? i've had major writers block and I went to go see Toy Story 3 last night, not only that, but I've been playing Kingdom Hearts a lot, and haven't been writing. sorry

not only that, but also, I do realize that this episode and the previous have been a bit different, and full of magic. I promise that it will all be less magical as soon as this episode is done, and therefore it will end up more like the Doctor Who you're used to. though if you like the way things have been going, then let me know in a review!

also, I'd like to claim rights to Darian and Star

"Not again!" someone cried. This cry was ignored though, because it just happened to be young Arnold screaming because he lost another game to Lenny. Lenny laughed insanely and shuffled the cards and started dealing them out again.

"I am so bored" Alice muttered

"Then do something" the Doctor told her absent-mindedly as he fiddled with some odd device. He adjusted a few things with the sonic screwdriver and the device sparked a bit. He pulled back his hand and blew on the device.

"Like what?" she asked, eying the device with a worried expression.

"I don't know"

She let out an exasperated sigh. The boredom was killing her. And she was starting worry, because this felt like the calm before the storm. Which meant something was coming. Something big.

Bang!

And there it was.

Everyone paused in the middle of what they were doing and looked around. It took a minute for whatever it was to come into sight. It turned out to be a few soldiers that had survived Samantha's attack.

There was a moment of silence before all, umm, heck broke loose. The soldiers were skilled in hand to hand combat, and thankfully hadn't pulled out the guns yet. The camp broke out in flying fists and magic, leaving Alice and the Doctor out of the loop.

Most of the wolf kids had gone wolf, and were attacking in that form. The foxes were resorting to punching, kicking, and the occasional spell shooting. Lenny though, was using the playing cards as weapons and seemed to be doing a lot of damage. Amy was doing a lot of odd fairy things, ranging from kicking people in the face to shooting random bolts of multicolored magic at people. Keith was also one for kicking people in the face, and his wings gave him a good advantage.

"What are we supposed to do?" Alice asked a nearby person. Said person happened to be Rachel.

"I don't know!" Rachel called, taking out one of the soldiers "do you have any combat skills?"

"Only with a sword" Alice replied

"Well then, you can think of something" Rachel was caught up in the battle again.

Alice glanced over at the Doctor, who was still tinkering with his device. "Is that going to do us any good?"

"Don't know" he replied.

"You're no help"

It was then that a gun was pointed to the Doctor's head. He immediately stopped what he was doing and said very calmly: "There's no need for that." He turned slowly to the person holding the gun. "Just put the gun down, you don't have to kill anyone."

The Doctor turned to Alice, smiled, and then looked back at the soldier with the gun. He pushed himself to his feet and looked the soldier in the eye. "Listen, I'm the one you want"

"DON'T!" Alice screamed, getting the attention of quite a few people.

"Call off your troops" the Doctor said "and I'll-"

He never did finish that sentence, because Samuel ran over and punched him in the face. "Sorry Doctor, you aren't going to be the hero today" Samuel said, then turned and punched the soldier even harder in the face and began attacking.

"What was that for!" the Doctor asked

"There just clones" Samuel said "they won't listen to reason, and even if they did, I'm not letting you go off and try to save everyone. Everyone here is my responsibility, not yours. You can take care of yourself and make it a heck of a lot easier for me, or you can be an idiot and get punched in the face each time. Your choice."

Samuel didn't give anyone a chance to say anything though, he transformed into a wolf and ran off to take care of more of the soldiers.

"He's insane!" the Doctor shouted, rubbing where Samuel had punched him.

"He just saved your life" Alice said

"By punching me!"

"It worked didn't it?"

There was a silence that passed between the two of them, and it also seemed to echo throughout the rest of the camp. The fighting had stopped, and at the moment everyone seemed to be inspecting damage.

"We lose anyone?" Samuel asked

"I can't find Amy" someone said

"Mark went down on our way back" Matt said, causing everyone to realize that he had shown up.

"Everyone else still here?" Samuel called

"Yeah" came the nearly unanimous cry.

"Right" Samuel turned to Matt "Matt, did you find it?"

Matt nodded

"Then we should get going" Samuel said

"We need to be careful" Allie said "there are more coming. Tons of them. We must hurry and leave this place, or we shall be slaughtered."

"Noted" Samuel muttered. And then everyone began trudging off deeper into the forest in search of the TARDIS. Of course, their travel didn't last all that long, because as soon as they reached another clearing of the forest they were surrounded by more of the soldiers.

"This is ridiculous!"

"We'll get slaughtered!"

Despite cries that they were never going to make it, the children wearily hopped into battle.

"I hate not doing anything!" Alice said

"You're not the only one" the Doctor told her "though, I'm not so big on fighting..."

"You didn't complain back in Hyrule"

"Those were dark creatures, you don't have to feel guilty about killing them, they just come back to life eventually. Even if these soldiers are clones, they're still technically people."

Their conversation was cut off, as young Arnold was thrown into a tree right in front of them. They both winced, but he was on his feet and back into the fray in no time. It didn't last long though, Arnold was thrown into the tree again, and didn't get back up this time.

Over at another part of the fight…

"Samuel! I don't think we're going to make it, there are too many of them!" Juli said

"I'd rather go down in a fight than surrender!" he called back

The moment was short-lived though, because suddenly all the soldiers froze. Mid-movement, mid-battle, mid-air even, they all froze.

"Okay, I'm officially confused" Juli said

Then two figures appeared in the middle of it all, and everyone that could still move instantly formed a crowd.

"Hi!" the older of the two said with a grin, "my name's Darian Richten, and this is Star" she pointed at her collogue, "and we're here to save your lives."