CHAPTER 5
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Amy's TARDIS materialized at the usual UNIT HQ parking lot location that the Time Lords usually held all of their meetings at while she waited on Donna Noble to show up. She had agreed to meet Donna here almost thirty minutes ago, and she still hadn't shown yet. Needless to say, Amy was beginning to get very impatient.
Julia watched with amusement as Amy became more and more angry the longer that she had to wait. She liked seeing Amy this way because it made her seem more human to her. She was just like an ordinary mom at times like these instead of some godlike alien. As Julia realized what she had just called Amy in her mind, she froze and corrected herself. She reaffirmed to herself yet again that Amy was not her mother and that she shouldn't think of her that way. She liked Amy, but she would never replace her real mother.
"I thought that if you had a time machine that you would always be on time," Julia said with a grin.
"You would think so, but it seems that certain Time Lords have no concept of time," Amy said as she gritted her teeth together in anger.
Julia giggled despite herself and put her hand over her mouth in an unsuccessful attempt to get herself to stop. Amy glared at her, and Julia went inside the TARDIS because she knew that she wasn't going to stop anytime soon. Amy felt bad about showing anger to Julia when she hadn't done anything wrong and apologized to her as she said, "I'm sorry, Julia. I'm not mad at you. You can come back outside."
"It's okay. I shouldn't have been laughing. It's just that I like you this way. You seem more real," Julia admitted as she came back out.
"Rory seems to disagree with you. He always says that he prefers Happy Amy. I can't imagine why," Amy said with a grin as she put her arm around Julia.
"Maybe it's that incredible temper of yours. I remember when The Doctor used to run from you in terror whenever you'd unleash it in the old days," Selene said as she came out of the TARDIS.
"He still does that. Some things never change," Amy said with a chuckle.
Donna's TARDIS suddenly materialized out of nowhere but didn't stop. It continued to fly past them followed by an army of Daleks that suddenly materialized a moment later and started to follow them.
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE THE DOCTORDONNA!" the Daleks said together as they ignored everyone else and continued to pursue Donna.
"I guess that explains why she's so late then," Selene said.
"Why did you bring them here for?" Amy shouted at Donna's TARDIS as it sped further and further away from them.
"Well, UNIT is better equipped to deal with Daleks than anybody else on this planet, and of course, she knew that you would be here," Selene pointed out.
"I guess I'm going to have to help her out of this then if I'm ever going to get a chance to talk to her. Julia, get back inside the TARDIS. It's going to get pretty dangerous out here in a minute," Amy said.
Julia nodded and ran inside. She wanted to stay but knew that Amy would never let her. She wasn't about to try and argue with her either.
Amy pulled out her sonic screwdriver and put it on the settings that were specifically designed for the Daleks. She then started to slowly and systematically set about destroying the Daleks that were following Donna.
Selene stepped back and watched in wonder as Amy started to dismantle the army of Daleks as Donna continued to circle her TARDIS around the UNIT base over and over again. Two Daleks went down in flames when Amy caused their self-destruct sequences to go off and incinerated them. Three other Daleks started to spiral out of control as they began spinning around in mid-air until they all collided into each other and exploded.
Several more Daleks were taken over by Amy directly with her sonic, and she caused them to fire on all of the other ones against their will sending several Daleks crashing to the ground screaming in terror all around the parking lot. Somehow the falling Daleks managed to avoid hitting anyone or anything but the asphalt. That was no coincidence either. Amy was a master at what she did and was able to estimate exactly where they would fall as she shot them down.
All of the UNIT soldiers looked at Amy in awe as she continued to destroy the Daleks with almost surgical precision. They couldn't believe that any one person by themselves could do this to an entire army of Daleks at all not to mention that she was doing it so quickly and efficiently.
"IT IS THE TIME LADY KNOWN AS AMY POND. EXTERMINATE HER!" one of the Daleks began to shout as it tried to rally the others against Amy.
"You can try," Amy said with a smile.
Then she began to stop playing with them as the Daleks began to come at her in force as they recognized at last just what a threat that she was. Amy rapidly switched from one setting to another on her sonic so quickly that no one watching could even see her move and destroyed an average of four to five Daleks a minute. She became so completely absorbed in the task at hand that she didn't even realize that all of the Daleks had been completely destroyed until she could hear the sound of applause all around her.
Amy turned to see a large gathering of UNIT soldiers and personnel clapping and cheering for her, and she looked at them in disbelief. She stood there unmoving for a moment and uncertain what to do.
"Take a bow, M – Amy!" Julia whispered to her from the doorway of the TARDIS.
Amy felt ridiculous, but she followed Julia's advice anyway. The cheering grew even louder as she bowed. Amy didn't know what the big deal was. The Doctor did this sort of thing all of the time, and no one ever cheered him on like that. She had to admit though that it did feel pretty good.
Observing nearby and unseen by anyone else thanks to her Vortex powers making her invisible was Jessica Baker, who was Jenny Tyler's future daughter and Amy's biggest fan. She looked on in amazement as she watched Amy receive the appreciation that to her was long overdue to her hero. Having watched Amy in action just now was simply amazing to her. It was just like watching Beethoven playing his Ninth Symphony for the first time except more awesome she thought to herself.
"Well, someone's got a big head," Donna said with a big grin as she walked up to Amy.
"What was that all about?" Amy asked with a trace of anger still left in her voice after being kept waiting for so long and then caught up in a miniature war on top of that.
"I found some Daleks about to destroy another planet about a thousand years from now. The people there had no way to defend themselves so I loudly said who I was to them, and they started to follow me away from there. I saved the planet alright, but then I couldn't get rid of the bloody pepper pots. I tried and tried to shake them, and I couldn't. Then I remembered you and how you basically destroyed an entire Dalek fleet by yourself that time. So I led them here. Problem solved," Donna said happily.
"Oh, thanks so much. I'm always happy when people just dump a ton of Daleks on top of me," Amy said still angry.
"Oh, come on. You loved it. You know you did," Donna said.
Amy's face stayed angry for a moment, and then she began to grin despite herself as she said, "Yeah!"
"I knew it," Donna said laughing.
Rory poked his head out of the TARDIS then as he said, "I stopped hearing loud explosions and screaming so I assume that it's all over with."
"Yeah, it's done. Come on out, Mr. Pond," Amy said teasing him.
"What were you doing hiding in there?" Donna asked him as she laughed.
"I learned shortly after she opened that fob watch that it was best just to let Amy handle things like an entire horde of Daleks by herself. She starts to worry about me if I start trying to fight alongside her, and it just takes her that much longer to finish them off. It's just best if I stay out of the way," Rory said.
"I never wanted you to feel that way. I like it when you fight alongside me," Amy said looking at him sadly.
"Well, I just wanted you to finish them off quickly. I didn't want to take a chance of anything happening to Julia. She kept peeking out the door to watch you," Rory admitted.
"That's sweet. Julia, we're going to have a talk about what stay in the TARDIS means later," Amy said firmly.
"I just wanted to see you in action. It was amazing!" Julia said in a reverent tone.
Amy's hearts softened towards her as she laughed. She was already starting to think of Julia as her own child, and it made her feel far better to have her compliment her than it did when all of UNIT had done so earlier. It just simply meant more to her coming from Julia.
"Stay in the TARDIS from now on when I tell you to. If anything were to happen to you, I'd never forgive myself," Amy said sternly after she fought the smile off of her face.
Julia smiled in appreciation of the affection that Amy was showing her and said, "I'm sorry, Amy. I won't do it again."
"Good. I just hope that you remember that promise in the future. I just want you to be safe, Julia," Amy said.
Julia ran out and hugged Amy then. Then she went back inside of the TARDIS.
"She's so sweet. She's yours?" Donna asked in surprise.
"Yes, I adopted her. She didn't have anywhere else to go," Amy said.
"Well, I could have taken care of her, but then again I think you're a better mother than I am. Besides, I'm her sister not her mom," Selene said.
"Who is she?" Donna asked about Selene.
"She's the other kid I adopted," Amy joked.
"Hey, let's get this straight right now. You did not adopt me! I'm your sister not your child," Selene said in an angry voice.
"Sometimes it seems like you're both," Amy said giggling.
Rory started to laugh because it was so true and earned himself a venomous glare from Selene as a result.
"Laugh it up, Brother-In-Law. Just remember that I'll get you back later on. You do like vinegar and hot sauce in your tea, don't you?" Selene asked ominously and made Rory shut up very quickly.
"I like her," Donna said grinning.
"She's quite a character alright," Amy said with a sigh.
"You like hot pepper and tabasco sauce in your soup, don't you?" Selene asked her.
"You wouldn't dare!" Amy said.
"Try me," Selene said.
"She'd definitely do it!" Julia shouted through the TARDIS doors.
"You have quite the group here, Ames. I thought that I had it rough hanging out with a werewolf and two vampires. I'll take them any day over your lot though," Donna said laughing.
"Hey! I represent that remark," Selene said as she began to laugh herself.
"So what did you want?" Donna asked as she finally got down to the point.
"I need to find K'anpo Rimpoche. I've heard from Jenny that you know exactly where to find him. Could you give me the coordinates to Iceworld?" Amy asked.
"Better yet I can take you there. Just follow me," Donna said as she headed toward her TARDIS.
Amy quickly got into hers and then she dematerialized her TARDIS right after Donna left in hers and began to follow her to Iceworld. The UNIT soldiers were then left behind to clean up the Dalek debris that was now all over their base.
As they started to clean up though, Jessica appeared in front of them and snapped her fingers. All of the debris disintegrated instantly.
"I couldn't leave you guys just holding the bag like that. That's the least that I could do for Amy Pond was to clean up her mess for her," Jessica said happily.
"Who are you?" one of the UNIT soldiers asked her.
"I'm her number one fan," Jessica said before leaving in a burst of golden energy.
"Another Time Lord?! How do all of you cope with all of them suddenly just appearing and disappearing at any moment like that?" one of the newer soldiers to the base said.
"You get used to it. It could be worse. It could have been the Doctor," another soldier responded.
"Don't say that. You'll jinx us. He'll probably show up now," one of the older soldiers said in apprehension.
As if on cue, the Doctor's blue police box suddenly materialized, and all of the older UNIT soldiers groaned.
"Hello, I'm the Doctor. You wouldn't have happened to see Amy Pond anywhere around here, would you?" the Doctor said as he poked his head out of the TARDIS.
"She just left. She said something about going to Iceworld wherever that is," one of the soldiers said.
"Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it. Be sure to check your mail in the morning. If you find a lottery ticket in it, don't throw it away. It'll be worth something I guarantee it," the Doctor said happily.
"I don't play the lottery," the soldier said.
"Trust me. It won't matter. Just cash the ticket in when you get it. Consider it my way of thanking you for the information," the Doctor said as he got back into his TARDIS and dematerialized.
"Well, that wasn't so bad," one of the younger soldiers said.
"We got lucky. Usually when he shows up, everything goes downhill quickly," one of the older veterans said.
The Thorn then suddenly appeared on the base as she shouted out, "Where is Amy Pond?"
"Looks like you both spoke too soon," a middle-aged soldier said in a hushed tone.
Meanwhile Amy had followed Donna successfully to Iceworld, and the two of them materialized their TARDISes right in the middle of the massive spaceship. Their arrival hardly raised an eyebrow in this place. The local clientele were used to having all kinds of aliens and their spacecraft go in and out of here all of the time.
Donna, Amy, and Rory got out of their TARDISes and were greeted by K'anpo immediately. Donna had called ahead and told him to be expecting them.
"K'anpo, it's been a long time," Amy said as she embraced the venerable old Time Lord.
"Cliodna? It's been ages since I've seen you. What have you been up to?" K'anpo said with a huge smile.
"Oh, you know. I made myself into a human and lived as one of them, got married, had a child, and then I found out that I was a Time Lady. The usual," Amy said.
"Sounds like an interesting story. You'll have to tell me all about it sometime. What brings you to see me now though?" K'anpo said.
I want to link with that husband that I told you about, and he's a human. I was told by Leela to come to you so that our linking wouldn't make him insane," Amy said.
"You came to the right place. I'll be glad to help. You and Selene were always two of my best students after all," K'anpo said.
"Glad to hear you say that, old man, because I'm here too. Lucky you, you get to spend time with me too as well as her free of charge. You get two sisters for the price of one," Selene said merrily as she ran up to K'anpo and hugged him.
"I think that someone missed you, K'anpo," Amy said.
"Shut up!" Selene said.
"I see neither of you have changed," K'anpo said with a sigh.
"You mean that they were both like this in the old days too?" Rory asked.
"Worse actually. They seem to be getting along much better than they used to," K'anpo said.
"It's a wonder Gallifrey survived to get to the Time War," Rory said.
Both sisters turned and glared at him as Selene said with a wicked grin, "I think I'll go with hot tar in your tea now."
Everyone turned then to see the Doctor's TARDIS materializing nearby as the Doctor ran out shouting, "Amy, I came here to warn you. I almost didn't find the place, but luckily I got here just in time. You really should look into making this place easier to find, K'anpo."
"What did you come here to warn me about, Doctor?" Amy asked him impatiently.
The Thorn suddenly appeared then and shouted, "Bring me Cassie Tyler, or I'll destroy this ship and everyone on it!"
"I came to warn you about her actually," the Doctor said.
"Nice job," Amy said sarcastically.
Jessica then appeared in a burst of light and said to the Thorn, "You leave Amy alone. If you want her or Aunt Cassie, you're going to have to go through me first."
"Wonderful. This just keeps getting better and better," Amy said with a sigh.
Next: Part 2 of this story will be continued in Jenny Tyler, Time's Angel Chapter 40 coming soon. Next time in this title, Amy and Rory start to undergo K'anpo's training as they prepare themselves to link. Will it be more than they bargained for?
