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A/N: I'm backkkkk :D And I bring back with me a chapter (plus many more!), whooo! (It's amazing how inspired you can be in a different place.)
Anyhow, thank you for your reviews! I say that every chapter, I think, but honestly, I am very grateful.
Now, before I ramble anymore, here's the chapter!
Amy would have been quite happy to have kissed the Doctor till they ran out of oxygen, but the humans from the base wouldn't let that happen.
After waiting outside the entrance for Layer P for five minutes, they'd all grown worried and headed back to where they'd left Amy and the Doctor. When they saw them in their romantic embrace, Chris let out a loud whistle, causing them both to break apart.
"Jeez guys, save that for when we're safe." He joked, and Amy glared at him as she retrieved her helmet.
"That's what love looks like." She told him as she walked towards them, the Doctor following right behind her. "You're not used to it because you've never been in love. Suck it up."
"Suck what up?" He asked back cheekily, and Amy shoved him as she walked past him.
The Doctor frowned at Chris as he hurried after Amy, disliking the way he was trying to provoke her.
"Hey Samantha, could you tell him to be quiet?" The Doctor asked her. "His innuendos are getting on my wick."
"Getting on your wick?" She snorted. "You can definitely tell that you're not from around here. And in answer to your question, I can control what my team does, but I can't control what they say. Sorry."
The Doctor gave a dramatic sigh, but didn't press the matter.
~I~
The entrance to Layer P was nothing but a ladder descending down a tube into the darkness. Ronald dropped a gravity globe down, but no one would be able to see until they reached the floor and ducked out of the tube.
The Doctor sensed Amy's apprehensiveness, and he volunteered to go first. Before anyone else had given their consent, he climbed down the ladder and disappeared into the darkness.
Amy peered over the edge anxiously, though it was pointless because she couldn't see anything. "Doctor?" She called down worriedly.
"I'm here Pond!" He called back. "Hurry up and get down here, I want to explore!"
She let out a grumble at his impatience and climbed awkwardly down the ladder. Climbing wasn't easy in a space suit, though the Doctor had made it look so easy.
When she reached the bottom, something grabbed her waist, making her yelp and kick whatever had her.
She heard the Doctor groan, and she gasped in realisation. "Oh my God, I am so sorry!" She apologised, reaching out into the dark for him.
"No worries." The Doctor grumbled through gritted teeth. "I'm just suffering from a case of broken shins. A first for me, and not a first I'll be repeating again!"
"I didn't know you were going to grab me like that!" She exclaimed. "I have to be prepared, in case something does grab me in the future."
"And I think you are prepared. That bloody hurt!"
"She's got quite a kick on her Doctor." Chris commented as he reached the bottom of the tube, having caught the end of their conversation. "Watch out for her mate."
"No one asked for your input, thank you." The Doctor muttered, but Amy wasn't so polite.
"Shut your mouth and butt out of our business." She hissed; glaring at the direction his voice was coming from.
"Now now children, let's not fight!" Samantha said as she joined them. "Hurry up Ronald!"
"Coming!" He yelled back.
"That was a rubbish comeback from the both of you." Chris remarked playfully.
Amy had to smile. "I'm running out of material. What can I say?"
"That I'm amazing."
She chuckled, something the Doctor didn't like. "Don't flatter yourself. I'd have to be high to say that, or very, very drunk."
Chris laughed as well. "Nice one Pond." –The Doctor scowled at the use of his nickname for Amy, but no one could see it— "High five?"
Amy went to high five him, but she ended up whacking someone in the face. Judging from the Doctor's cry, it had been him.
Amy, Chris and Samantha burst into laughter, much to his displeasure. "If you're going to laugh, I'll go in there alone!" He threatened, and just as he expected, everyone stopped.
"Better." He approved, just as Ronald joined them.
"Right, there isn't time to joke around anymore." The Doctor continued sternly as they hovered outside of the entrance to Layer P. "What we're about to face could be dangerous, and potentially life-threatening." He reached out for Amy's hand in the dark, and she met him halfway.
Confident, the Doctor unlocked the door and stepped through, Amy right at his side.
~I~
Layer P was completely normal.
It was a large rocky space that stretched out for miles, and it was lit from the artificial lava and from the gravity globe, which allowed the five of them to see every inch of the surface. The floor was covered with rocks and there were large boulders around the edge of the area.
Chris suddenly broke into laughter, and everyone turned to look at him in confusion. "So much for this being dangerous!" He chortled. "There's nothing here!"
But Amy and the Doctor knew better.
The Doctor just sighed. "To the human eye, there is nothing here. But when you do this…" He trailed off to take out his sonic screwdriver, which he'd somehow managed to wedge into the sleeve of his space suit. "You'll see what's really here."
With the flick of a switch, the room began to glow with green light, and an alien materialised in front of them.
The alien was huge; there simply was no other way to describe it, and it dominated the majority of the space with its large green body. It had about eighty legs, all with pincers at the end, and it had three eyes and a large mouth with jagged teeth.
This was no friendly alien.
But no one was focusing on the alien. Everyone was staring at two bodies a couple of metres away from them, two bloody corpses. Thomas and Megan.
"Oh my God!" Samantha choked, her voice hoarse with grief.
Ronald began to make his way over to them, but the Doctor reached out and yanked him back. "What are you doing?" He hissed. "They're dead!"
"I have to make sure, I'm a Nurse. Just let me do my job!" Ronald snapped back.
At his loud tone, the alien turned its head and stared straight at them, before it let out a loud roar and began edging towards them. Amy was relieved that it couldn't move very fast.
"And I'm the Doctor. I can tell if they're alive by their heartbeats, and I can't hear their pulses. They're gone, and I'm sorry." The Doctor said quietly, resting his hand on Ronald's shoulder, unaware of the danger looming up before him.
"Doctor!" Amy yelled, tugging at his hand to pull him backwards. "What is that thing?"
"That thing is a Cryotonicslam." He replied back, backing away from the alien with the others. "And it's not the friendliest of aliens. It feasts on humans about once every century. But this one is clearly a lot greedier."
"What do we do?" Ronald yelled, his voice high-pitched with fear.
"We get the hell out of here!" The Doctor cried, shoving Amy to the exit. "Go!"
Amy refused to go first, wanting to wait for the Doctor, so Samantha pushed through the door and began to climb up the ladder, Ronald right behind her.
Chris however, was still standing in Layer P.
"Doctor, if this thing lives here, that means our excavation can't continue!" He said to him, his voice hysterical from loss of work, not from the danger in front of them.
"Of course it can't! Your work would endanger this alien, and it's extinct." The Doctor replied, grabbing his arm and hauling him to the exit. "Get up that ladder now!"
Just as Chris and Amy began to ascend, the Doctor walked to the door of the exit to seal it with his screwdriver, so that no one else would be able to enter.
But one of the alien's legs shot out and knocked the Doctor against the wall, and the screwdriver flew out of his hand.
"Doctor!" Amy screamed, immediately jumping down from the ladder and hurrying out of the exit.
As the alien's head moved closer and closer to the Doctor, she picked up a rock from the floor. "Oi!" She bellowed, distracting the alien so the Doctor could get to his feet. "Look over here fatty!"
She threw the rock with as much force as she could, and she cheered when it hit the alien in the eye. It gave a loud cry of pain, and the tremor of its body was enough to shake the volcano, sending everyone to the floor.
"Amy Jessica Pond, you are fantastic, but recklessness is your only fault!" The Doctor yelled as the alien turned away from him to advance on her.
"Recklessness? Hey, I just saved your life!" She yelled back, crawling behind a boulder to hide from the alien.
"What are you two doing?" Chris bellowed, darting into Layer P to join them. "Get out of here now!"
"Not without my screw driver!" The Doctor cried from his position on the ground. "I need to find it!"
"Can't the TARDIS make you another one?" Amy called to him, just as the Cryotonicslam smashed the boulder next to her. She gave a small scream and quickly crawled forward to the next set of rocks.
"I can see it!" Chris exclaimed, rushing forward to retrieve the screwdriver, which was lying a few feet away from him.
"Chris!" The Doctor shouted. "Keep to the edge or—"" Suddenly Chris was knocked over by one of the alien's legs, and he crashed to the floor, "—or that will happen." The Doctor finished weakly.
He hurried over to help Chris to his feet, causing Amy to grumble, "Do I have to do everything myself?" as she climbed to her feet to retrieve the screwdriver. "Men!"
But the Cryotonicslam used another one of its legs to throw her into the wall.
"Amy!" The Doctor screamed, leaving Chris's side. "Amy!"
"I'm okay!" She called to him, but he rushed to her side to help her up anyway.
"Just this once, I think we should forgo the screwdriver! It's a pesky thing anyway!" He yelled over the roars of the alien. "Let's get out of here!"
Amy quickly nodded her agreement, and together, they raced to the exit, forgetting about Chris.
~I~
Chris watched Amy and the Doctor leave, before scooping up the Doctor's screwdriver. He glared at the alien hatefully as he ran to the exit, knowing its presence on the volcano was going to make a fool out of him when he returned to England.
He had bragged to everyone that he was guaranteed a knighthood when he returned, but without the minerals, he wouldn't get it.
There was only one solution in his mind: kill the alien.
He wasn't equipped with a weapon, but every layer of the volcano had a self-destruct button, a button that he'd placed there himself.
Grinning, he rushed over to the exit and pressed the self-destruct button on the way, thinking his problems were over.
The alien would be dead, his team would be able to gather their minerals, and he'd get his knighthood.
Finally.
Uh-oh! Something tells me Chris has just made a very big mistake.
Next chapter is veryyyyyy long, as it's the climax and end of this little mini-story. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you think will happen!
Hayley x
p.s Jessica, thank you for explaining your point! I can see what you mean, and I was trying to write it like Doctor Who. There's always something happening in an episode, so I tried to write my fic like it :) x
p.p.s Nolalmorris, thank you for your review! I will try and keep that point in mind, but as Rory doesn't love Amy in this fic, then it may be a bit hard haha!
p.p.p.s Jammy5928, aw thank you! I hope you enjoyed this chapter :)