Amy and Rory were now anxiously looking all about the mall instead of just over their shoulders to the main entrance of the café they sat in where the Doctor had left through 10 minutes ago to go back to the TARDIS for his special straw. 'Ok seriously, what is taking him so long? Shouldn't he be back by now? It doesn't take that long to find a straw' Rory questioned as he and Amy sat at their table anxiously 'well, he is 1200 hundred years old he might be starting to go a bit funny in the head' said Amy. 'He might have forgotten or be confused about exactly where he put it, that his pockets are more "trans-dimensional" than we can imagine' making rabbit ears with her fingers as she said the word "trans-dimensional", 'you mean like he's going senile? Great, that makes for a reliable designated driver, especially when he takes us home again, or tries to' said Rory. Amy looked at him as she responded 'I did say "might" and I never said "senile"' in an almost mildly defensive tone, possibly in defence of the Doctor.
After a few more minutes of anxiously keeping an eye out for the Doctor and sipping lightly at their beverages which they had been consciously doing so as to wait for the Doctor to get back Rory rose from his seat and stood 'you know what I'm not waiting anymore I'm going to go see what's taking him so long and maybe remind him how rude it is to leave your friends waiting for five hours, are you coming?' he said. Amy looked around the cafe for a second before she sighed a bit 'yeah I'm coming, I've almost finished my shake anyway' she responded as she too rose from her seat and followed behind Rory as they both went back to the TARDIS.
Moments later Amy and Rory stood on the other side of the doors inside the TARDIS 'Doctor?' Amy called out, but when she didn't immediately hear a response from the Doctor she called out again 'hey Doctor, have you found your straw yet? We've been waiting forever'. Now Rory called out 'Doctor, are you here...still?' still no response though 'could he have gone elsewhere and forgotten to tell us?' Rory continued, 'no of course not he would've told us' said Amy. Rory turned to look at her 'you did say he might be going a bit funny in the mind, he is after all more than ten centuries old it's understandable if he'd be starting to lose his nut a bit' he commented to which Amy said back to him 'yeah well I wasn't being serious when I said that'. As they both looked over the console to see if the Doctor had left a note for them Rory saw something on the scanner screen 'uh ok, what does that mean?' he asked as pointed at the words on the screen "Temporal Anomaly Detected". Amy looked at what was on the screen 'I don't know, only the Doctor would' she said, Rory looked up at the time rotor, worry starting to creep onto his features 'is it something to do with the TARDIS?' he asked 'I don't think so' Amy replied. Both of them looked attentively over the console to see if the message on the screen was connected or related to anything in particular. When nothing caught their eye Amy began to turn on the spot 'come on, maybe he might be in his study' she said, 'in his study? Right, why would he be there?' said Rory, looking back at him Amy responded 'this the Doctor we're talking about' she said suggestively to which Rory got the point 'right true'.
Just then as they began to leave the control room the handbrake lever on the console went down on its own which made them both immediately turn where they had just treaded 'what?- ' Amy began to say before the engines started up and began working away in their groaning mechanical wheeze *vworp vworp...* they went as the central column rose and fell. Both Amy and Rory grabbed and held onto the railing as the TARDIS began to shift and shake, once Rory saw what was on the scanner screen "Emergency Protocols Active", pointing at it again Rory said as loudly as he could above the sound of the engines 'what the heck does that mean!? What's going on?!' Amy just looked around the place as she too wondered what trouble they were about to find themselves in now.