CHAPTER 48

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A FINAL GOOD BYE PART 2

As Jennifer fought a desperate battle with the Cyber Amy, the true Amy could already feel her own will starting to weaken. She was now perilously close to listening to that nagging coldly unemotional voice in the back of her mind that constantly kept telling her to attack and kill Jennifer.

She could already see that the Fourth Cliodna had been fully converted now as the effects of her first self's transformation had finally reached her at last. She was currently standing there silent and unmoving right beside the First Cliodna. Both of them were nothing more than puppets for the Cybermen now.

As she looked down at her own rapidly changing body, Amy knew that she was only minutes away from a full conversion herself. Soon there would be no more Amy Pond. In fact, she would never have even existed in the first place.

Even worse than that was the fact that she was starting not to care . . . about that or anything else anymore.

"Amy, fight it! I know you can do this. Fight them," Rory pleaded as he realized that he could actually see through his body now.

He could also see something else with his rapidly improving senses as a Time Lord. This version of him was very, very close to being completely erased from existence at that moment. He could now see his life unfolding before him in a very different way if the current chain of events wasn't changed soon. It would be a sad and lonely life he knew because it would have no Amy in it and so he would wind up completely alone at the end of it.

He would never be able to find anyone else like her after all, and he knew somehow that part of him would still remember her long after she was gone and never marry again as a result.

As she fought with the Cyber Amy, Jennifer saw this look of complete and utter loss on his face and immediately felt terrible for everything that she had ever done to try to tear them apart. She could truly see for the first time in that moment just how much that he loved Amy. She could only hope that someone would ever be able to love her like that someday.

She now knew for sure that that someone would never be Rory though.

That thought didn't bother her as much as it once would have however. Now it simply spurred her on instead because she wasn't about to let something that precious be stolen away so easily. In that moment, the formerly mad ganger finally regained her humanity and became Jennifer Lucas once more.

Now she instantly started to gain the upper hand in the battle between her and the Cyber Amy as she began to start delivering one devastating blow after another against her despite the other Ganger doing her best to hold her off. She couldn't be stopped however because she was much older and therefore far more experienced than her in the use of her abilities as one of the Flesh.

The Cyber Amy quickly learned this the hard way as she gasped in pain when Jennifer suddenly impaled her through the heart and said, "Well, there's a surprise. I didn't think that you even still had one of those."

Cyber Amy smiled malevolently as she said, "I don't. Unfortunately for you, it was removed from me both physically and emotionally right after I was created. I can still feel pain though so let me return the favor. Amy, rip this annoying little pest's stupid face off for me, will you?"

"What?" Jennifer said as she suddenly realized that Amy was right behind her.

Unfortunately for her, this realization came just one moment too late. The now completely mentally controlled Amy hit her so hard with her new much stronger metal fists that the hapless Ganger was instantly sent flying across the room and into the nearest wall. Amy showed no emotion whatsoever as she watched her lie there completely motionless on the ground.

The irony was that even as Jennifer had started to regain her humanity Amy was so very close to completely losing hers.

"We have to stop her before she's completely under their control. We're the only ones left who can now," Cassiopeia said to Charlotte.

The Cyber Amy laughed derisively now as she said, "Nope, never going to happen. Not today, girls. It's far too late to save Amy now. She's mine. All of her. Get rid of them."

That was when the First and Fourth Cliodna finally moved forward and joined Amy as the three of them started to attack Cassiopeia and Charlotte. The three Time Ladies combined proved more than a match for the two of them. Partially this was because they were both subconsciously holding back against their friend. The Amys had no such weakness however.

"Charlotte, while I'm holding back the others try to use the power of your Heart to undo the changes that were made to the First Cliodna. Maybe that will fix all of the other ones," Cassiopeia suggested.

"There's only one thing wrong with that plan, Time Lady. It's the fact that you actually think that you can handle the three of us by yourself. Unfortunately for you though, I've been completely Vortex shielded. It's a part of my design thanks to the Trickster," Cyber Amy said with a smirk as she, the Fourth Cliodna, and Amy instantly surrounded Cassiopeia and started to deliver a punishing electrical attack to her that made her cry out in agonizing pain.

As Charlotte watched Cassiopeia fall before them, she instantly abandoned her friend's plan and charged in to save her instead. Unfortunately she too met the same fate as Cassiopeia had because her power had no more effect on Cyber Amy than hers had.

It seemed that the Cybermen had finally won at last.

"Amy," Rory said in a tone filled with sorrow for her as he now faded to an almost ghost-like figure nearby along with the rest of Amy's family.

This version of them would completely fade into non-existence in a matter of moments now, and their futures would be either instantly rewritten or completely wiped out altogether. Nothing could stop that now.

Nothing save perhaps except for one little girl who had been all but forgotten about in the middle of all of this. At that moment, Melody was the only one in the family who had not started to fade for some unknown reason that she herself had never even thought to question. Her mind was far too filled with thoughts of concern for her parents after all at that moment.

She had no way of knowing of course that she was still there because she was a part of a fixed moment in time in her own distant future and therefore could not be erased quite so easily. She still had to shoot the Doctor after all.

Melody Pond simply had to exist even if who she was as a person might about to be completely changed in the next few minutes.

As Melody watched her mother becoming rapidly transformed into a Cyberman right in front of her eyes and the rest of her family started to fade from existence, both of her hearts began to become filled with absolute terror. Part of her still refused to believe that this was actually happening. She couldn't have found her way back to her parents once again only to lose them like this.

Never like this.

She wasn't about to let that happen even if it meant that she would have to wind up doing something that she had desperately hoped that she would never have to do again. She still had a small hope that she wouldn't have to take an action this drastic, but that hope continued to dwindle more and more by the moment as she watched the lives of everyone that she loved along with the happy life that she could have had with them being rapidly ripped apart in front of her.

Watching this suddenly made everything become extremely simple and clear for her. She now knew exactly what she had to do even if the very thought of it filled her with indescribable horror.

"I don't want to go," Melody said in a voice filled with pain and fear.

And then she took a deep breath and a look of inner strength that didn't belong on a face so young instantly came over her as she pulled a miniature device out of her pocket. She had had it with her all along and had never been able to bring herself to destroy it. She couldn't say why. Maybe it was because she always knew deep down in her heart that this day would come somehow whether she wanted it to or not.

With a sudden sinking feeling in her chest, she switched back on the homing beacon that the Silence had once implanted in her arm in order to track her down if she ever became lost. She had long ago found it, removed it, and learned how to deactivate it. It had therefore been long gone by the time that she had finally made her escape from them. Now however she had no choice but to use it to lead them right back to her once again because they were the only way that she could think of to save her family from the Cybermen.

After all if Amy's past was altered then she would never come into existence in the first place would she? What good was your ultimate weapon against the Doctor if it didn't even exist?

She didn't understand of course that she would have still existed in some form no matter what the outcome of this day was since she was part of a fixed point in time. That was part of the irony of this whole thing. Melody had just become a part of ensuring her own future by acting as she was.

It was an irony that had completely escaped Melody at that moment, but someone else was all too aware of it even as she had long since accepted that Melody would have always been found by the Silence sooner or later. It was far better that it was done this way however then for it to be done much later after the others had all been wiped out.

Even after all of this time however that still didn't sit well with her.

That was why just as Melody had finally come to a decision at last she felt a gentle hand press itself down on her shoulder. She looked up to see the future version of her mother giving her a reassuring smile. Apparently the effects of the conversion process hadn't reached her yet because there was still a whirlwind of emotion behind those eyes that was a mixture of so many feelings at once including love, comfort, sympathy, regret, fear, and anger.

Cyber Amy however was far from moved by this display of love between a mother and her daughter as she laughed and said, "Just look at the anguish on your faces. It's a wonder to me that you don't welcome being changed, Amelia. I can take all of that away from you. In fact, I can make sure that you never feel anything ever again. It sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Why are you fighting it so much?"

The present day Amy turned to give her future self a questioning look as she too saw the look on her face. The two of them didn't even have to link telepathically for Amy to realize that there was only one thing that would bring that much pain to her.

Somehow in some way despite her secret hope that she could still save her she now knew with a sense of grim certainty that she was just about to lose Melody. She had been given a second chance with her only to have it all cruelly taken away from her again without warning. If only she could have had just a little more time with her. Just a little bit more.

Now she knew exactly why Rose hadn't altered the events of this day. Rose knew that this had to happen. It had always happened after all and always would.

It was the closest that she had ever come to hating her.

She knew that she shouldn't feel that way because Rose would have wanted to change this with all of her heart. Even the Bad Wolf had her limits though. The rational part of her realized this, but the emotional part was now far too filled with raw, unreasoning anger to care anymore.

"It's not fair!" Amy said in a voice that was now far more human than Cyberman.

She turned to look at her Cyber counterpart in open defiance as she said, "Yes, you'll take away our ability to feel fear, pain, and regret but you'll also take away our feelings of love, compassion, and friendship too. Those things are far too important to ever lose no matter what we have to put up with in order to have them. They're what make us who we are. That's something that you could never understand though, and I think that's why I've always hated all of you so much. You don't just steal our lives. You also try to take away who we are. In a way, you're far worse than the Daleks could ever even hope to be because you don't just destroy people you also destroy who they are. That's one of the worst crimes that I can think of honestly. Despite all of your power to erase a person's identity though, you still always wind up losing in the end. Do you know why that is?"

Amy now started to move forward with a dangerous gleam in her eyes as the Cyber Amy looked at her in surprise and said, "This is impossible. You were almost under our complete control a moment ago."

Amy grabbed her counterpart by the shoulders and began to start electrocuting her with her now completely metallic hands even as she said, "You're just not listening are you? It's because of those very emotions that you hate so very much. That's what freed me from you. They're the same emotions that have just made sure that one girl's life will be torn apart in order to save so many others. The same emotions that make me want to tear you in two with my bare hands for what you just condemned my baby to today."

She had said this in a tone filled with pure undiluted hatred that seemed completely out of place in her otherwise near mechanical voice. The future Amy now smiled as she realized that her current self had been freed from their control after realizing that she was just about to lose Melody again. Her anger and despair at that had finally broken the Cybermen's hold on her at last just as they had before in her own personal past.

There was no way that they could ever finish converting her now, and the future Amy's timeline was safe once more. If only it hadn't had to be done at such a terrible cost.

"Melody Pond has finally been located at last," A Silent said as several Silents now appeared out of nowhere and started to move towards an extremely frightened Melody.

Despite her fear however, Melody somehow calmed herself and said in a voice oozing with confidence, "Wait just a moment, boys. Listen to me. Do you see that woman over there? She's trying to completely alter my timeline. If you still want me back in one piece, you'll have to get rid of her first. Otherwise I have no idea what could happen to me next. Do you? If you don't, then I suggest that you take care of her first and undo what she did to my mother. Don't you?"

The Silents now all turned to look at the clearly struggling Cyber Amy fighting for her life against her completely out of control counterpart and immediately realized that Melody was correct. This did need to be changed as soon as possible or they might lose their one chance to stop the Time Lords from returning at Trenzalore.

That was when they too joined in on the attack against the Cyber Amy and started firing their own bolts of electricity at her. Under this now completely reinvigorated onslaught, the Cyber Amy instantly started to break apart as minute cracks developed all over the metal parts of her body. Melody would have smiled at the sight if she hadn't felt such complete and utter despair at that moment.

Even as the Cyber Amy finally exploded and turned to ashes before the devastating attack of the Silents, a now newly reawakened Charlotte took advantage of this sudden change of fortune to carry out Cassiopeia's plan and use the power of her Heart on the First Cliodna. The energy of the Vortex instantly undid her Cyber conversion and completely reversed it even as it destroyed every last trace of their technology.

The effects of this were immediately apparent as the Fourth Cliodna and the current Amy were both returned back to normal once again. Rory and the rest of Amy's family were also fully restored as well in that moment and stopped fading away as their timelines were brought back to their normal states.

Amy didn't really have any time to appreciate this however because in the very next instant she realized that the Silents who had saved her were only seconds away from taking Melody back with them to their own time. This was finally it at last. She was finally going to lose any chance that she had ever had of saving her.

"Leave her alone," Amy said in a cold voice as she gave the Silents an icy stare.

"Do not attempt to interfere, Amelia Pond, or you will join your double. We can already tell just by the fact that you know who Melody is that you've already given birth to her. We no longer need you now in order to carry out our ultimate plan against the Doctor so you are entirely expendable at this moment," A Silent threatened as his hands started to glow and sparkle with electricity.

"You're not going anywhere with her. Do you understand me? This time I'm going to change things. I don't care what the Web of Time wants and I don't care what you or Kovarian want either. This time you're not taking her. It doesn't matter what you do to me because you won't stop me. I'll just keep on coming until I beat you no matter what you do to me. Do you understand me? You can't have her!" Amy shouted as she began to move closer to them.

"Mother, don't! You can't save me. We both know that that doesn't happen. This is the way that things are supposed to be," Melody warned as she realized that the Silents were moments away from disintegrating her.

"I could never live with myself if I didn't try. I have to save you," Amy protested in an emotional voice.

Melody rushed forward and hugged her one last time now as she whispered, "Don't you understand, Mother? You already have saved me. No matter what they do to me now I'll fight them. I'll fight them and I'll win. I know I will because I'll remember. I'll remember everything that we did together and all that you taught me even in this short time that we had together. I'll remember what it means to be human. You taught me that despite their best attempts to turn me into a completely merciless killing machine. I'm not going to forget it either, Mother. I promise."

This and only this convinced Amy to back down.

"Break away from her and come with us immediately, Melody Pond, or we will kill her," A Silent threatened.

Melody's entire demeanor changed now as she smiled at them and said in a voice that was far more adult than it should be, "Of that I have no doubt, boys. Thankfully it won't come to that. Don't worry. I'll come along. That doesn't mean that you're going to get what you want out of me though. I'm not going to kill anyone for you now. Not the Doctor or anyone else."

"Your overconfidence will ultimately be proven to be immature. Soon you will have forgotten all about these events. We will have completely purged them from your memory, and you will be ours once more," A Silent said.

"Care to make a wager on that?" Melody said in a defiant tone that was very much just like River Song's as the Silents rapidly surrounded her.

"We have the girl now. Take her and let's go," One of the Silents ordered the others.

As they and Melody all began to glow and disappear, Melody gave her mother one last brave smile. Then she was finally gone at last.

That was when Amy completely dissolved into a series of powerful, plaintive sobs as she begged the universe to let her come back to her. Rory immediately put his arms around her and silently comforted her even as the others looked on with uncomfortable looks on their faces.

Jennifer Lucas, who had survived despite Amy's punishing attack, took this as her cue to leave. She knew that she didn't belong there after all and felt as if she was intruding on a private moment. At least she had tried to help make up for what she had done to her anyway even if she had ultimately failed. It was a start on the road to rediscovering who Jennifer Lucas was anyway if nothing else.

She hoped one day that she would find her way back home once again. She would always be grateful to both Amy and Rory for the chance to do that, and maybe one day she could fully repay her for that.

Yes, perhaps one day.

Meanwhile somewhere in time and space Rose Tyler mourned right along with her friend as she dissolved an entire asteroid belt the size of Earth's solar system in her rage over those things that even she couldn't undo. Not even for one of her dearest, closest friends.

That was the curse of being the Bad Wolf.

Next: The other three Amys aren't quite through with our Amy just yet because they all decide to stay a bit longer in order to help her through the loss of Melody. This probably wasn't their best idea however as they quickly start to drive Amy completely up the wall. Thankfully she won't have long to worry about them however as the four of them along with the rest of Amy's crew immediately get drawn into yet another deadly plot by the Cybermen. This time they find out exactly why the Cybermen wanted Amy out of the way so very badly, and it wasn't just because of the threat that she usually poses to them.