CHAPTER 51

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IS THIS THE END OF THE CYBERMEN?

"This isn't fair. River's the one who blew the stupid yard up. Why are we the ones having to replant it?" Amy complained to Rory for at least the tenth time that hour alone as she finished digging up and removing what was left of yet another of the many completely shattered sunflowers that had been in Brian's yard before the Cybermen had attacked.

"Probably because River and everyone else including your other selves quickly found an excuse to be somewhere else after they saw Dad's reaction to the garden," Rory said as he winced at the memory of the furious look on his father's face when he had first seen the carnage there.

It was the first time in his life that his father had actually been scarier to him than Amy.

"Yeah, and of course we were left holding the bag because we live here in Leadworth so we didn't have anywhere else to go. Traitors! " Amy spat out in disgust.

"Well, we could have used the TARDIS to make a quick exit in if someone hadn't already run off in it. I never should have given the TARDIS remote to Sirona," Rory said with a sigh.

"It was her revenge for all of that talk about how much trouble that she gets in. Don't worry though, Rory. She'll get hers. They'll all get theirs. I'm already thinking of the best way to get my revenge even as we speak," Amy said with an evil smile that made Rory shiver.

Any other time she'd love being around sunflowers and working with them in the garden. After having dug up the twentieth extremely dead sunflower in a row in order to replace it with a new seed however, even she was getting sick of them for once.

That was why when she heard the familiar sound of a TARDIS materializing somewhere in the background she immediately smiled in relief and said, "I knew Sirona couldn't hold a grudge for long. I guess I'll let the horrible, horrible vengeance that I had planned against her go . . . just this once."

"You were never going to do anything to her anyway. You love her too much," Rory said with a warm smile.

Amy laughed and nodded as she said, "Yeah, I know and unfortunately so does she. Don't think that she didn't take constant advantage of that growing up either. I could just never find it in me to be angry at her for long."

"Lucky her," Rory muttered to himself.

"What?" Amy said as she eyed him suspiciously.

"Nothing," Rory quickly answered.

"You know I have exceptional hearing even for a Time Lord, Mr. Pond," Amy warned as she gave him a dirty look while rushing in the direction that the dematerialization sound had come from earlier.

"Too bad you weren't given a warm and loving disposition to go along with it, Legs. Maybe in the next regeneration Rory will finally hit the jackpot, eh?" The unmistakable voice of Clara Oswald said from somewhere up ahead.

"Shorty? What are you doing here? I didn't know that you and Sirona even knew each other," Amy called out in confusion.

Then all of her questions were answered as she finally saw the Doctor's familiar blue box standing nearby instead of her own TARDIS.

"Scratch what I said earlier, Rory. Sirona's still dead," Amy said in anger as soon as she realized this.

"You can practice being a bad parent later, Amelia. Right now I need you to come along with me on a trip to Telos. I have a feeling that Rose is going to need all of the back-up that she can get," The Doctor said as he came out of the TARDIS.

"I am not a bad parent! I'll have you know that even Sirona looked like an angel compared to Cassiopeia back in the day. She was getting into huge trouble long before she ever became the Thorn. Then again she is your daughter so I suppose it's not really her fault is it?" Amy complained.

Then the full impact of the Doctor's words finally hit her at last as she quickly said in surprise, "Wait a minute. Rose is going to Telos? Is she finally doing what I hope she's doing?"

The Doctor frowned as he said "You know better than that, Amelia. She's already told you several times that she's not going to use her power to wipe out the Cybermen no matter how much you think that she should."

Amy's mouth scrunched up disapprovingly as she said, "Yeah, I know. Rose thinks it's wrong. I just don't get that myself. If I had the kind of power that she has, the Cybermen would have all been metal filings a long time ago. She could do so much more good in the universe if she was just a little more proactive with her power."

The Doctor looked at her intently as he said in a slightly skeptical tone, "Really? You could actually do that, Pond? Just completely wipe out an entire species with a snap of your fingers with no hesitation whatsoever? It's not quite as easy as it sounds."

"Wouldn't you if it was the pre-Oswin version of the Daleks?" Amy said with a challenging look on her face.

"I tried but it didn't take," The Doctor said as he looked away from her with a troubled look on his face.

"It would definitely take if I had my shot at wiping out the Cybermen. I can promise you that," Amy said without hesitation.

"We don't have time to play who's the bigger Dalek today, Red. The Cybermen are up to something involving some weird clone of me, and Rose needs our help to find out what exactly. Are you in or what?" Clara said in a gruff voice as she tried to end this conversation quickly after seeing just how much that it was disturbing the Doctor.

"Yeah, I'm in. I wouldn't miss it," Amy said in a much lighter far less aggressive tone as she immediately gave Clara an apologetic look.

She didn't like upsetting the Doctor either of course. It was just that the Cybermen always had a way of getting under her skin that no one else did especially after the rather large role that they had played in helping her lose Melody lately.

She didn't care what the Doctor said. After everything that they had cost her in her life, she could easily see herself wiping them all out once and for all without a second thought.

Or even a first one.

"What about Dad's garden though? We can't go anywhere right now. We promised him that we'd replant it," Rory complained.

"I see you still haven't started thinking fourth-dimensionally quite yet, Rory. The TARDIS will easily bring us back to five seconds after we leave so that Brian won't even notice that you've gone. Then you can do all of the gardening that you want to your heart's content. I'm not sure why you'd want to though," The Doctor said with a look of disgust.

Clara immediately gave him a warning look as she said in a stern tone, "Don't even think about going into a long rant about the tyrannies of gardening, Old Man, or I will end you right here and now."

"But it's just so wrong, Clara. It's yet another form of organized oppression of the highest order," The Doctor lamented.

"I'm warning you. Don't do it, Old Man," Clara said in a hard voice.

Amy sighed as she said, "I think I'd better hurry up and go, Mr. Pond, before Clara winds up standing trial for the Doctor's murder."

"Only you? What about me?" Rory asked looking just a bit left out.

"You should stay here just in case of the very likely event that the Doctor doesn't quite bring us back here in time. Then you can make up an excuse for why I'm not here if Brian comes by. Otherwise we might not come back until three months from now, and I don't even want to imagine how angry Brian would be by then. I don't know why but he's the nicest man in the world until you start messing with his garden. Just touch one of his precious flowers, and then he'll even give Jackie Tyler a good run for her money in the very scary things department," Amy said with a shudder.

"I already told you. It's all of the gardening. It's inherently evil. It must be stopped," The Doctor said in a determined voice.

"Doctor," Clara said in a warning tone.

"Yeah, I really think that I'd better go now before it's too late," Amy said to Rory with a grin.

"You're worried about something happening to me if I go there aren't you?" Rory said as he looked at Amy intently.

Amy suddenly became completely serious now as she said, "I'm sorry. It's not because I don't think that you're up to it or anything. I know better than that. It's just that they're always taking things away from me, Rory. It's all that they've ever done to me my whole life. That's why I'd gladly destroy them if I could so that I would never have to worry about that happening again. Maybe I'm being overly protective and paranoid but I just can't take that chance. Not so soon after losing Melody because of them."

"I understand, Amy. I really do. I'd just feel better about you going if I could go along to keep an eye on you," Rory said as he kissed her.

"You act like I'm going to get myself involved in something dangerous," Amy said with an evil smile as she eagerly returned his kiss.

"Yeah, because that would never happen," Clara said sarcastically.

"It's not like I won't just come back to life again even if something did happen to me," Rory said to Amy as they both ignored Clara.

"True. He's like Kenny from South Park. 'Oh, my God! They killed Rory!'" Clara said with a chuckle.

"Yeah, that's not funny," Rory said with a deep frown.

"You should talk considering how many times your echoes have died, Clara," The Doctor said with a snort of derision.

As Clara began to give him yet another dirty look, Amy said, "Okay, it's definitely time to go now. See you . . . when I see you, Rory. Hopefully Anthony and Julia won't be fully grown by the time that I come back," Amy said only half-joking.

Now it was the Doctor's turn to give out dirty looks as Amy stuck out her tongue at him before giving Rory one last kiss good bye. Then she joined the Doctor and Clara in the TARDIS, and they all left as Rory immediately went back to the grueling work in the garden.

It turned out he didn't have to wait quite as long as Amy thought that he would though.

Roughly five seconds later just as the Doctor had promised, Amy appeared right next to Rory in a burst of golden energy as she said, "Thankfully Rose at least can actually tell time unlike some people."

Then she suddenly became oddly quiet for several moments as she started silently working in the garden again alongside Rory. Rory knew right away that something was wrong but wasn't quite sure whether to ask her about it or not.

After several seconds of internal deliberation, he finally decided just to let her tell him about whatever it was in her own time. It was probably better for both of them that way and definitely a lot safer for him in case Amy wasn't exactly in the mood to talk about things just yet.

He had learned a long time ago that it wasn't a good idea to press her on things that she wasn't quite ready to discuss just yet. Very bad things could happen.

Yet again he didn't have long to wait as it turned out.

After several moments of silence, she finally turned to him and said, "She actually did it, Rory. Rose completely wiped out all of the Cybermen. She killed every last one of them on Telos."

Rory looked at her in stunned silence for a moment as he let that sink in and then he finally said, "How? How is that possible even for her?"

"It's because they finally pushed her too far at last by creating a way to convert everyone even me. They created nanotech that could forcibly convert the entire universe and was covered in Vortex shielding so that she couldn't affect it. Then they covered the entire planet of Telos in it. We were all being converted and the rest of the universe would have soon followed. They pushed her against the wall so that she had no other choice but to stop holding back her full power for once. That was when she finally got rid of the nanotech the only way that she could: by causing Telos' sun to go supernova and completely wipe it out," Amy said in a solemn voice.

Rory's jaw dropped as he said in disbelief, "How did you ever survive something like that?"

Amy actually smiled now as she said, "She's Rose Tyler that's why. She can pretty much do whatever she bloody well pleases from what I've just seen. The laws of physics mean nothing to her. The sun went supernova and destroyed everything and she still kept me and the others from being affected by it somehow. She protected us in some way that I'm still not sure that I completely understand. The point is that she had finally gotten rid of most of them at last and wiped out their home base, Rory, and then . . . she brought them all back again."

Rory's jaw dropped even more now as he said, "Why would she do that? Why would anyone bring back the Cybermen?"

"She thought it was wrong. That's why. She thought that she had finally gone too far and immediately fixed it all back like it was minus the nanotech. You have to understand something about her, Rory. She's always been afraid of letting her power corrupt her and make her into something horrible. I think it goes back to that old legend of the Hybrid that would someday destroy Gallifrey that we were all taught as Time Tots. She's always been completely terrified that she was this Hybrid because of her powers especially since until recently she never knew who her father was thanks to Lily not telling her so it could have been anyone for all that she knew. Plus basically it's because Rose is a good person who hates to hurt anyone so it goes against her nature to wipe out a whole planet even if it is just a bunch of Cybermen. She should have made an exception just this once though, Rory," Amy said in a troubled voice.

Then she kicked the nearest dead sunflower as she shouted, "Just this once she should have let someone die! Why couldn't she just let them stay dead?! Why?!"

"It's because she's a hero, Amy. That's what heroes do. They save lives. They don't take them unless there's no other choice. That's Rose's definition of a hero anyway," Rory said.

"Admit it. It's yours too really. I guess I'm not a hero then because I almost wiped that whole planet out once, and I still regret not being able to finish the job . . . especially now," Amy said in a voice filled with emotion.

"Amy, there's really nothing that you can do about it anyway so what's the point of tearing yourself apart over it? Just let it go," Rory advised as he saw her shake with fury.

"Yes, let it go so that they can just keep coming back over and over again and continue trying to take one thing after another away from me. I don't think so, Rory. Enough is enough. I have to do something about the Cybermen once and for all so that they're never a threat to me or anyone else ever again," Amy said in a determined voice.

"Like what? What could you possibly do to stop them?" Rory asked in an almost frightened voice.

"I'm going to do something that I should have done a long time ago. The only reason that I didn't was because I was afraid of the possible consequences of it," Amy said.

"You're not . . . You can't possibly be talking about going back to Telos again?" Rory asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, I'm afraid that I am. I have to, Rory. Don't you see that? I have to end this somehow either one way or another. If I don't, they'll never leave me alone," Amy said.

"Amy, you can't do this! It's completely insane!" Rory protested.

"Don't worry. I know exactly what I'm doing. This time I'm not going on a suicide run. I've got it all perfectly planned out. I'll be back in a few minutes," Amy said as she gave him a reassuring smile.

"Amy!" Rory shouted as she suddenly revealed a Vortex Manipulator on her arm and began rapidly pushing buttons on it.

"I started planning all of this right after Rose brought the Cybermen back because I knew that I couldn't just let this go. That's why I took this from a storage room on the Doctor's TARDIS when he wasn't looking on the way back from Telos. I think it was one of Jack's. I'll have to give it back to him later. Hopefully," Amy said as she started to vanish.

She had completely disappeared just as Rory was about to try to grab ahold of her so that he could go along too. Now he could do nothing but stand there in his father's yard and silently hope that she would be coming back to him again soon.

Amy immediately reappeared on Telos within seconds of leaving Earth and smiled as she realized that she was exactly where she needed to be. She had gotten the coordinates exactly right in order to carry out her plan quickly.

"Alert! Alert! Intruder detected in Cyber Controller's main headquarters. Eradicate them as soon as possible," A mechanized voice called out over what passed for an intercom on this world.

"Sorry, boys, but you're not going to have the time. I have this much too well thought out. You see I've had this all planned out to the very last detail for a very long time now," Amy said as she began to rapidly punch buttons on the hidden interface to the Cyberiad that existed in this area.

No one outside of the Cybermen was even supposed to know of such a thing but Amy did because she had been studying the layout of Telos ever since she had first visited it. On every subsequent visit, she had learned a little bit more and added that information to a rapidly growing plan that she had come up with as a final solution to the threat of the Cybermen.

Until now, she had never been desperate enough to try carrying the plan out however.

Just as she was about to enter the final commands however, she briefly hesitated as the Doctor's earlier words reverberated through her mind. Could she really do this? Was this really who she had become . . . or was there another way?

Perhaps it was a way that might wind up being even scarier in its own way than her original plan, but it might be the only real way of dealing with them short of completely betraying herself and what she now stood for as Amy Pond.

Now with her mind finally made up at last as to her final course of action, Amy was just entering the last few commands into the Cyberiad as the first of the Cybermen entered the room to stop her. She didn't even move to try to stop them. She just activated a personal force field generator that she was carrying and continued to enter in information into the console instead.

Win or fail it would all depend on what she did in the next few moments anyway so why even bother to fight back?

"The intruder has been identified as Amelia Pond. Eradicate her before she can finish her attempted sabotage," The Cyber Leader with them commanded as they began to fire on her.

Then Amy finally finished her task at last and stood back to watch as the Cybermen nearest to her began to cry out in agony while they held their heads. She heard several other Cybermen nearby began to scream as well.

"Well, what do you know? It's actually working. I just hope that I haven't made things even worse somehow. Do you still not understand what I was doing just yet? I bet you thought I was ordering all of you to self-destruct or something. I admit that I was going to do that originally when I first came here, but I ultimately decided not to go through with it. Do you want to know why? It's because my past selves reminded me of just how violent that I had become. That's not who I want to be anymore. I'm not that same suicidal person who almost died trying to destroy Telos after I thought that I had lost Oisin. I'm Amy Pond now and that means that I always try to find a better way. I guess it helps that I met another one of you once who was able to hold onto his sense of self and stay true to who he was. I figured if Oisin could do it then the rest of you could too. So I changed plans and entered a command to every Cyberman connected to the Cyberiad that completely switches off their emotional inhibitors. I've just set all of you free by giving you your emotions back again!" Amy said in a proud but uncertain voice as she watched the Cybermen nearest to her continue to scream in agony.

She could only hope that the entire universe didn't wind up regretting what she had just set into motion she thought with growing trepidation as she finally used her Vortex Manipulator to return to Rory at last.

Next: What will be the final result of Amy's actions? Will giving the Cybermen back their emotions wind up making them less hostile or more dangerous than ever? Has Amy brought about the Cybermen's ultimate doom, their salvation, or something in-between? We'll find out in the next chapter as Amy's plan possibly changes what it means to be a Cyberman forever.