AN: hi everyone- in spite of my greediness, I've already gotten all 10 reviews- that's incredible, thankyou!
Ok, and well done to NinjaGirlRebecca, Katy-Alice-Cullen, JasperWhitlockHale'sMan and missprofessorwho all of you correctly said it was Emanuel Teney- and that puts you ALL on 3 points- which is mad for me. I will contact each of you ASAP- but as you can tell- there are lots of prizes to sort and I am only human, so please bear with me!
This chap's quote:
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Ok, so last chap, Amy and the Doc jumped off a sixty foot high parapet on nothing but a rope and bow to try and stop a thief falling into the minefield outside the city and setting off interference level 2- the one before the last which makes the whole moon go bang. So they kinda need to stop him right now.
Enjoy!
They crashed into the thief faster than Amy would have expected, knocking him off balance and causing the contents of his bag to crunch metallically and swing towards the wall, ripping the cheap material.
Even as they pushed the thief down, Amy and the Doctor's focus shifted to his bag, which- having ripped from its straps -swung out and over the wall.
There was a moment of silence, and then a crashing boom as a mine set off in the field below. The explosion ripped through the surface of the planet- causing a weird metallic screech as what Amy knew was the bomb was torn into.
The thief disappeared back to wherever he'd been before- but the change had happened now, and lying on the walkway, Amy and the Doctor waited for the little column to come up. It did, and the screen read:
INTERFERENCE LEVEL 2: ACTIVATED
The Doctor swore in Gallifreyan and Amy stroked his hair. "It's ok- it's alright, we'll get to the next one in time, ok?"
The Doctor pulled away with a jerk, sitting up and waiting for their teleport. "No, it's not." He snapped shortly.
Amy flinched a little- he wasn't normally this way, the only time she'd known him like it was with the angels- when she'd heard him yelling at River.
"W-why? What's so bad about it? It's more than just the planet, isn't it?"
"Just the planet." The Doctor scoffed, his fingers beating a racing rhythm on the marble.
The blue light washed over them whilst Amy stared at the Doctor- hurt in spite of herself.
When they rematerialized they were outside the city. Remembering what the Doctor had said about mines, Amy jumped as she touched the dusty, rocky surface. However, after a few seconds of not blowing up, she relaxed a little.
The Doctor scanned their surroundings before moving himself- towards something gleaming on the barren surface a few hundred metres away.
"No mines here. We're on the other side of the planet- the Citizens have never been before."
Amy jogged a little to catch up- looking around. He was right, barren grey dust and rock stretched flat and featureless to both horizons. The Medusa Cascade was at a slightly different place in the sky, and Amy allowed herself to stare at it for a moment.
It truly was entrancing- she'd once heard the Doctor mention it, and still remembered the soft awe that had come into his voice as he'd described one of his favorite places in the universe. Now she understood why.
Suddenly- ahead of her, a column of blue light enveloped the Time Lord, and he disappeared, right before he reached the gleaming patch on the planet's surface. Amy cried out and sprinted to where he'd gone, bending to the dirt and searching through the dust- crushing her nails as she clawed against the rock.
"Come on- come on, there has to be a switch or a groove or something!"
Amy choked and held back sobs as she tried desperately not to let herself panic, finding it harder and harder to breathe. Because she barely had fifteen minutes before the planet she was standing on exploded and she didn't know what to do and she didn't care because he wasn't there. She couldn't possibly let herself face the fact that he'd just been snatched away from her, even as tears began to stream down her face.
Giving up on where he'd disappeared, she moved to the gleaming patch. As it turned out there was a huge glass window traced in bronze and gold, at least twenty metres in diameter.
Amy felt her mouth drop slightly, and carefully tiptoed onto the glass, looking down through it- the elegant gold and bronze made the same circular patterns she'd seen all over the city. Far below, a high tech looking control centre- with enormous touch screen monitors in the same pattern as the clock face spread across the floor, glowing softly and covered in bright red warning messages.
Suddenly, stumbling inside in the half dark, carefully creeping round the edges of the screens was a tall, broad shouldered, tweed clad figure. Amy let out a half laughing gasp, her hands flying to her mouth.
"Doctor!"
He didn't hear her, still examining the room he was in. Cautiously he crouched to reach down and touch the screens, pulling windows in and out of the displays ridiculously fast- as if he knew this system better than any other. Starting to panic, still stuck outside- stuck away from him, Amy got to her knees and began pounding on the glass.
"Doctor! Doctor! DOC-TOR!"
But he didn't hear her. Worried and at a loss on what to do next, Amy sat on the glass, watching him move around at a run, occasionally running his hands through his hair or using the sonic. Finally, apparently at a loss, he crouched next to one of the largest screens.
Amy could read what it said even from where she sat, fifteen metres above him.
INTERFERENCE LEVEL 3 PREDICTED. PRIMING BOMB.
She bit her lip, then went back to pounding on the glass so hard her knuckles began to swell, and then bleed.
"DOCTOR! DOCTOR- I'M HERE! WHAT'S GOING ON? HOW CAN I HELP YOU?"
"Oh- you can't do anything for him now little human."
The cold voice cut through the dry air like a razor. Falling silent, Amy glanced up, feeling the hairs on her arms rise slowly.
A beautiful woman stood a few feet away from her on the glass. Suddenly she disappeared and reappeared a few metres away, casting about before picking up an intricate spear hidden in one of the bars. She held it casually, walking closer to Amy, who backed up like a frightened rabbit.
The woman kept her icy blue grey gaze on the girl as she advanced. She wore some kind of bronze helmet, and wore a long red robe, beneath which molded bronze armor shifted as if it was alive. Long, white blonde hair flowed over her shoulders, and her legs and arms seemed almost too elongated to be human.
She cast a disdainful look down to the Doctor- who was racing around the room below, pulling wires from its shadowy recesses and shoving them into the screens, setting off showers of sparks and minor explosions.
"Traitor." She spat in disgust. Amy frowned- she remembered the Doctor saying this bomb belonged to the Time Lords, or at least that they'd created it- so that meant…
"You survived." Amy said, too stunned to be scared. The woman's eyes narrowed and the girl elaborated. "You- you survived the Time War."
The woman laughed. "Are you mad? The Time War still continues- rages as it always has and always will. It is not something one survives. It is something one lives."
Amy's mouth dropped open slightly- this woman thought the Time War continued- which meant she was a soldier. The scot remember the way her Doctor had referred to his people whenever he'd briefly mentioned this time- it was always as if they were mad- wild, angry and dangerous.
The spear's gleaming gold and silver tip could easily penetrate her chest, and Amy didn't doubt this woman would hesitate to kill her. Frightened, heart pounding, Amy got up, walking a little further back, nearly stumbling over another bar.
"W-what are you doing?"
The woman raised a blonde, delicate eyebrow. "Isn't it obvious? I'm activating phase three."
Amy blinked. "Y-you want to set off the bomb? But- that's suicide! And besides- whoever was originally going to do it hasn't yet- so why would you?"
The woman laughed again- it was a laugh that sent shivers down Amy's back, so unlike the Doctor's. The two were polar opposite samples of their race- and frankly this one scared the life out of her.
"I highly doubt it was choice, ape. I am the backup plan- and considering the Time Loop activated on the plant, someone knew about it and is trying to stop me. No matter- I will try, have tried- a hundred thousand million times and a hundred thousand million more to shatter the final protocol and win the war for Gallifrey!"
"Yeah- but if everyone dies, isn't it a draw?" Amy asked, perplexed, raising an eyebrow.
The woman's eyes narrowed into dagger slash slits. "Do you mock me, human?"
Her gorgeous voice was honey and poison- low and threatening.
Shaking her head, Amy scrambled backwards across the glass, though she knew she didn't need to. The woman flashed back to her starting point and she saw where she was with a scream of frustration.
Amy began to calm down- as long as she stayed where she was, the Time Lady couldn't reach her.
"Don't be so sure, girl." The woman called, hefting her spear. Amy blinked- it was like she'd read her mind. Then again, she was a Time Lady. She probably had.
Raising her hands, the Scot called back. "Look- I wasn't mocking you or anything, I was just confused. I'm human- we're…we're primitive, and savage." The words came into Amy's mind from the Doctor's moments of rage against her race. The woman raised an eyebrow and glanced down through the glass.
"Just how close are you and the traitor?"
Amy tried to suppress the rush of affection that came into her mind and heart when she looked with the woman down through the glass, but she couldn't. The gallifreyan gave a loud, disgusted gasp and then raised the spear high.
"Disgusting- you will both burn in the fire!"
Amy cried out and ran towards her, knocking her down, knowing the Time Loop was barely handling the strain of hers and the Doctor's interference- or guessing it.
Still, if she let this stranger shatter the glass, she didn't doubt the bomb would go off straightaway- and she was starting to think this was how the Gallifreyan's had planned on destroying time and space.
Ooook, so REALLY big bomb. And crazy time lady. Plus distracted Doctor and a timer. Recipe for disaster eh?
Please please comment and question- anything, I really appreciate the feedback, and yes, I know I'm mean for giving you two consecutive cliffies...
Thanks for reading!
Kat