Be here Chapter 2!
In this chapter things should get more interesting, also,
*this author does not know how to techno babble at all*
So you won't find techno babble in here...sorry :/
Chapter 2
It was a bright and sunny day with just a few stray clouds floating in the sky and there was a nice breeze that made it neither too warm, neither too cold, just perfect.
Martha thought it was a pity that she and Mickey had to go on a mission from UNIT on this particular day. They had been picking up energy anomalies all over Great Britain for months and had finally traced it to a building in London.
'We could have gone to the park with the children today', thought Martha as she entered the backyard of a building.
Martha's thoughts went back to her two children that were going to stay for the day with her parents, there was little Zack of six who had just started grade one and little Penelope of two.
Martha was awakened of her reverie when she heard the birds sang happily while they sat on a tree of the backyard of the building, Martha and Mickey had decided that they would go inside the building from the backyard's door. They were just behind a bush as they assessed the backdoor of the building. The building seemed to be quite old, from the Victorian era perhaps.
Mickey lead the way out of the first set bushes and went to a second set of bushes that were closer to the backdoor. He and Martha hid perfectly behind the bush and Mickey was about to lead the way to finally go to the backdoor and then enter the building when Martha heard a slight rustle of leaves from the bushes that they had just been in a few minutes ago.
Martha signaled him that she had heard something from the first set bushes.
They glanced at each other, Mickey loaded his gun and nodded at Martha to do the same, and she did so and nodded back at him. Mickey slowly crept out of the bushes he was in and slowly moved towards while pointing his gun at the bushes with Martha at his heals doing the same thing.
Mickey was about to jump into the bush and catch whoever was when nobody else but Captain Jack Harkness came out of the bush pointing a gun at both Martha and Mickey. It only took a moment for Jack to change his once serious face to a wide grin as he recognized them both and lowered his gun. Martha and Mickey both did the same as well as she ran to go give Jack a hug and Mickey gave Jack a slight slap on the back.
They all moved behind the first set of bushes and greeted each other properly.
"Martha, Mickey!", he exclaimed happily in a whisper as he hugged them both, "don't tell me that UNIT has also been picking up and tracing those energy anomalies?"
"Torchwood has been doing the same then?", asked Martha also in a whisper as she broke free from Jack's bear hug.
"How did you know that that was the thing we were doing?", whispered Mickey.
"Why else would you two be here at an old building where all these energy anomalies that have been affecting us for the last few months have been traced to?", he whispered back.
"Yeah", agreed Mickey.
"Have you found out anything about it?", asked Martha.
"I don't know any more than you do", whispered Jack back, "how are the children, I hear they are two now".
Martha smiled back at him, "They have been two for quite a while now you know".
"Yea, but it has been quite a while since we last met", whispered Jack, "so, how's Zack and what is her name again? Jenny? Annie? Lily?", guessed Jack.
"It's Penny, for Penelope, Captain Cheesecake", answered Mickey.
"And they are both fine thank you", said Martha with a smile.
Jack was about to say something else when he abruptly stopped and motioned for Martha and Mickey to be quiet. They stayed quiet for a moment and then Martha said,
"The birds, they stopped singing".
"The Tree", said Mickey.
Jack got his gun ready and so did the Smith-Jones. Jack and Mickey went first as they crept from behind the bush and then rapidly rushed to the tree. As they jumped on the person that was walking near the tree she screamed and immediately pointed what looked like a lipstick at them.
"What?", said both Martha and Mickey at the same time.
"Sarah Jane?", asked Jack when he recovered from the surprise.
"Jack, Martha, Mickey!", she exclaimed happily ,"so nice to see you all again after all this time!", she said as they hugged each other.
"Yea, it has been quite a time since we last met!", said Jack happily and holstered back his gun which Martha and Mickey did as well.
"Don't tell me you have also been tracking all these energy anomalies", said Martha.
"What energy anomalies?", asked Sarah Jane.
"You mean you aren't here because of that?", asked Jack
Sarah Jane shook her head.
"Then why are you here?", asked Mickey.
"I'm tracing a small spaceship that fell near this place last week".
"Last week?", said Martha
"So we can't blame it for all the energy anomalies", said Mickey
"Too bad, it would have been so much easier if it would just be a spaceship, there might be who knows what inside that building".
"What are these energy anomalies you are talking about?", asked Sarah Jane
"Both UNIT and Torchwood have been picking up energy anomalies all over Great Britain, they have been causing malfunction of all kinds of electronics, which has been causing a lot of problems to everybody", explained Jack.
"So it has been that and not the power energy failures that have been causing it as they said, I never believed it, but I have been too busy tracking fallen spaceships for two months already to investigate the energy failures", said Sarah Jane, "do you think the anomalies might be the cause of all the spaceships crashing down?".
"Yea", nodded Jack and the others, "It probably is".
"Then what are we waiting for?", she said, "Let's go inside and find out what is happening here".
"What, wait, you can't come!", said Jack.
"Of course I can and I will", said Sarah Jane.
Jack looked at Martha and Mickey and they just smiled.
"I don't see why she can't come", said Mickey making Jack look exasperated.
"Okay, but Martha will be keeping your back all the time Sarah Jane", said Jack to her as he glanced at Martha and got a nod from her.
She smiled back at him, "Sure", she said.
"Good, Martha, Mickey Mouse, get your guns ready, Sarah Jane, get your sonic lipstick ready".
They all got ready and started towards the first set of bushes; after they were there they went to the second set of bushes. When they were about to go to the backdoor Jack signaled and made sure that everyone was ready.
Then they all rushed to the door which Jack and Mickey kicked open with Sarah Jane and Martha at their heals both pointing their respective guns and sonic lipstick, which they lowered after seeing the place completely empty.
Jack signaled Mickey to go the room on the left while he went to the room on the right. As they checked the rooms out Martha and Sarah Jane looked around the room that they had rushed in, it was empty, with a thick coat of dust and lots of cob webs; it looked as if nobody had been living there for years.
After a while both Jack and Mickey came back.
"This place is empty, nobody has lived here in ages", said Mickey.
"But the tracing device is pointing us to this place", said Jack as he checked his devise.
"So is mine", said Martha as she checked hers.
"Well, here isn't anything", said Mickey.
Both Martha and Jack tried and retried with their tracing devices and every time it directed them back to the place they were. Mickey had eventually called back to UNIT to inform them that the building was empty.
"Well, I'm going to have to go and check on that spaceship before the end of the day", said Sarah Jane as she glanced at her watch and then headed for the door.
"We could go with you", offered Martha.
"No, I'm fine", said Sarah Jane.
"No", insisted Jack, "there could be anything inside that spaceship".
"For a week Captain?", said Sarah Jane with a raised eyebrow.
"It could still be lurking near it", said Mickey.
"I'm not going to be able to go alone am I?", said Sarah Jane tiredly.
"Nope", said Jack with a grin.
"You know that I've done this hundreds of time alone before, right?"
"But I wasn't anywhere near all those times", ginned Jack.
Sarah Jane only rolled her eyes and followed the signal that Mr. Smith had picked up last week to the backyard of the building just next to the one they had had been in. When they got there they found an empty backyard.
The Smith-Jones and Jack were about to say something about terrible luck for one day when Sarah Jane picked up a rock and threw in the air, it then hit what previously had seem like nothing but when the rock hit it there was a metal clank and there appeared a small spaceship.
"Mr. Smith detected an invisibility shield, he also scanned the building for any invisibility shields", she added before they could ask.
"Well, at least we know that we didn't overlook something invisible", said Martha.
"What a nice little thing", said Jack as he got near the spaceship, "it has to be able to open here somewhere", he said as he started to feel the thing. There shifted open a little door after some time.
"Be careful Jack", said Martha.
"Come on Martha, it's not like it can kill me, not permanently at any rate", he amended.
None of them could stop Jack as he climbed into it and exclaimed from within, "There's no one in here", he then tried to turn on the main computer.
Sarah Jane and the Smith-Jones came and looked in; they could see the computer's screen was already lightning up.
"I think I'm almost there", said Jack as he typed another code into the computer which then lightened up with the letter reading "Teselecta".
"Who or what are the "Teselecta"?", asked Mickey.
"Never heard before of them", said Martha.
"Nor have I", said Sarah Jane.
"Same here", said Jack as he typed further, "let's see if I can find out something about them".
"Here", he said as the screen changed, "it says that this spaceship was on its path to go to Germany right before WWII to go receive a report of a team whose mission had been interrupted by, listen to this", said Jack with a wide grin, "by nobody else, but the Doctor".
Martha just had to smile while shaking her head, "Typical".
"Yea, I can already see him foiling another alien's plan", said Mickey.
"Actually it says that he helped them with a dangerous criminal named River Song", he said as there appeared a photo of River on the screen.
"She doesn't look like a criminal", said Martha.
"Here it says she was in Stormcage for murder", said Jack.
"What is Stormcage?", asked Sarah Jane.
"It's the most high security prison in the universe, only the most dangerous criminals go there", answered Jack as he typed more into the computer.
"Good to know the Doctor was there to save the day then", said Martha, "last time we saw him he", she paused there and Mickey gave her a hug.
"His face was sad and that look in his eyes, he was saying goodbye, I know it", said Mickey.
"He also went to you?", said Sarah Jane.
"He also went to say goodbye to you?", asked Martha.
Sarah Jane nodded, "He saved Luke from being run over by a car".
"And saved us from a Sontaran", said Mickey.
"And you Jack, did he-", Martha stopped mid-sentence when she saw his face, it was pale and it looked as if he had soon a ghost, "What is it?", she asked concerned.
"She was imprisoned because of murder", he rasped through his suddenly dry throat.
"Yes, so you said, what about it?", she asked perplexed.
"The person she killed", he started
"What about it?", asked Mickey.
"It says she killed the Doctor", he finally got out.
After a moment of silence Sarah Jane was the first to speak, "But that's the same the Sansheen said when they said he was dead!".
"The what, who are you talking about?!", asked Martha
"But that was confirmed to be a lie Sarah Jane, they also said he had died in an accident on some planet during a chase or something-"
"They said he died?!", exclaimed Martha.
"Some time ago there were these aliens that said they had the body of the Doctor but he turned up there and cleared it all up", explained Sarah Jane.
"Why didn't anybody tell us?", asked Mickey, "even Jack knows!".
"UNIT tried to contact you but failed and when it was cleared, I-I think they just didn't bother to tell you", tried to explain Sarah Jane.
"But this is something entirely different Sarah Jane!", exclaimed Jack exasperated, "it says he was killed in 2011 in U.S.A. near some place called Lake Silencio by this woman".
Sarah Jane was the first to get her voice back, "Are you sure Jack?".
"This is a sort of legal punishment organization, look", the screen changed and now showed a list of sorts, "they have a list of all the people they have to punish for their horrible deeds, on the list are people as evil as Hitler, why else would they place River Song on this list if she hadn't killed the Doctor?"
"So he's dead then?", asked Martha as there rolled a tear across her cheek. Mickey hugged her, trying to console her.
"But I saw him some time ago", said Sarah Jane still denying to believe that the Doctor could be dead.
"It must have been before this happened", Jack said with his face downcast.
The screen changed again and now showed a smiling Doctor with a bow-tie and a tweed jacket.
"Whose that", asked Mickey.
"That's the Doctor", said Sarah Jane with a smile wiping a tear.
"He regenerated?", asked Martha.
"Again?", added Mickey.
"This is how I saw him when he turned up with the Sansheen", she said wiping another tear.
"Didn't he regenerate when she-", Martha couldn't finish her sentence.
"She shot him during his regeneration cycle so it couldn't be completed", said a downcast Jack.
Martha hugged Mickey tighter, 'Such a great loss to the universe, why would she do it?', thought Martha.
"What's with the bow-tie?", asked Jack with a laugh as he tried to mask his tears.
"He has always had a unique sense of fashion", said Sarah Jane with a sad smile.
They stood in silence for a moment, Mickey hugging Martha, Sarah Jane standing still, just where she was and Jack seated silently in the little spaceship. Suddenly the spaceship's energy started to fail, the screen became static and then went black as well as everything else in the ship.
A minute later it all came back on, including the gang's electronics which had also went out.
"This can't be sign of anything good", said Jack.
At that moment Mickey's phone rang.
"Its UNIT", he said as he excused himself and walked away to answer the phone.
"Why would she do it?", asked Martha.
"The Doctor has many enemies", said Sarah Jane, "Any one of them could have gotten her to-", she stopped mid-sentence unable to say it.
"What?!", they heard Mickey scream, "You can't do that!", he screamed again, he than hanged up the phone and turned to the gang, "They hanged up on me!".
"What happened", asked Jack as he got out of the spaceship.
"They want to call in the Doctor", he said.
"But you told them what", he paused, "what we just find out", he choked.
"Yes, I did", he started, "and you know what they want to do now? They want to get a Doctor before Lake Silencio."he finished.
"They can't do that", said Martha.
"I know", said Mickey.
"But it might actually work", said Jack.
"Excuse me?", said Martha.
"Think about it", said Jack, "it might be the only way we have to solve this problem and-and see him for the last time", he added sadly.
"He's right", said Sarah Jane.
"Yea", agreed Martha and Mickey reconsidering it.
"Are they going to contact him now?", asked Jack to Mickey.
"Yes, they already send a car to come fetch us to go to the Tower of London".
"Can we also come?", asked Sarah Jane.
"Sure", said Martha and gave Sarah Jane a hug.
They all went to wait by the road after reactivating the invisibility shield and closing the door, after some time a black car came to pick them up. The ride was silent and uneventful, the sun had stopped to shine since the clouds had covered them, everything had turned somber and dark. Martha thought it almost looked as if the universe had also just found out that its greatest defender had died.
When they arrived at the Tower of London Kate Steward was standing in the entrance waiting for them.
"I hope the ride was pleasant", she greeted them.
"Kate Steward, we finally meet", said Jack with his usual grin in place.
"Captain Harkness, I have heard very much of you and your work at Torchwood", she shook his hand, "as well as of you Miss Sarah Jane Smith", she smiled and shook her hand.
"What is the plan Miss Steward?", asked Martha.
"Could you follow me please", she said as she began to lead to way inside.
"We have been keeping a close eye on the Doctor's previous companions for a time now"", she started while walking on, "we believe that if we talked with them we could contact the Doctor".
"You know them?", asked Sarah Jane.
"I believe we all remember the Year of the Slowly Invasion with the Cubes?", said Kate.
"Yes", said Sarah Jane and the other nodded.
"The Doctor was here when it all started and he helped us when all those people had those heart arrests", she answered.
"So he was here", said Jack smiling, "should have known".
"Yes, not only was he here but he also suffered of a heart attack in one of his hearts".
"He what?", said Martha shocked.
"What happened then?", asked Jack concerned.
"Oh, everything turned out fine, his companion saved him, she never said how though".
The gang walked along silently after that till they arrived to a room with computers and their operators. On a wide screen at the end of the room were the images of Amy and Rory.
"These are Amelia Pond-Williams and Rory Williams", introduced Kate.
"I take it that they are married", said Sarah Jane to which Kate nodded.
"Where do they live?", asked Jack.
"Do you wish to go to speak with them Captain?"
"If it's possible", he said.
"It can be arranged", she agreed.
"We also would like to go", said Mickey.
"Well then, Captain Harkness, Mrs. and Mr. Smith-Jones will lead the team, I will place some men under your order for when you go, Miss Smith and I will be at your heals giving you directions once we arrive in Leadworth, we will enter the house once everything is cleared out", she glanced at Sarah Jane who nodded in agreement.
"We better get going then", said Jack with a grin.
Amy sat at the table in her kitchen boringly reading a magazine of travel; Rory was up in their bedroom preparing his clothes for the next day at his work at the hospital.
Amy glanced at the calendar and wondered when River would come visit them again, it had been a really long time since the last one and she was really missing her.
She tossed the magazine away and gave up on it, none of the destinations got even close to what she had seen when she traveled with the Doctor, she'd rather go upstairs to help Rory with the clothes.
She stood up and looked outside the kitchen window, it had promised to be a nice day till before afternoon when it got all cloudy, it was probably going to rain later.
Amy was about to move away from the window when she saw a shadow moving in the bushes.
A normal person would have probably just ignored it, but when you live a life with the Doctor you learn to pay attention to everything, she gave it another look and stared at the bushes and saw it again.
"Rory!", she yelled.
Then she heard a loud thumbing at the door and somebody burst in from the backdoor and the front door that had just been thrown down.
"RORY!", she screamed again and grabbed her frying pan and held it in front of her as a weapon.
Some people with guns ran into the kitchen and pointed them at her making her raise her hands with frying pan and all.
"What are you doing here?!", she said angrily.
"Wait, wait!", yelled a guy that then came running into the kitchen, "I told them that no guns, sorry gorgeous", he said with a wink.
"Stop it Jack", said a woman that entered the kitchen at that moment, "down with the guns guys".
The armed men then lowered their guns, much to Amy's content who lowered her hands, but still held her pan. Some of the men came down holding Rory at his arms while another one of them held Rory's sword.
"What's that", said another guy that came into the kitchen.
"That", said Amy pointing at the sword, "is Rory's sword, he's a Centurion", she said trying to sound as dangerous as possible to these strangers, another thing that she had learned from the Doctor, make your enemy believe you are stronger than him.
"Uh-", tried Rory.
"And if you weren't holding him he would be dealing with all of you", she said looking pointedly into Jack's eyes.
"Uh, I wouldn't-", began Rory.
"A Centurion?", said the woman with a quizzical look.
"A real one?", asked the other guy.
They all turned to get a good look at Rory.
"W-well, n-n-o, well, yes, no", he stuttered.
"Are you or are you not?", asked Jack interestingly.
"Yes"
"No"
They said at the same time.
"No"
"Yes"
They said again at the same time.
"Well, lets us escort our Centurion and the gorgeous ", said Jack as he started to turn around.
"Wait, where are you taking us, who are you anyways?", asked Amy.
"Well done Captain Cheesecake, you didn't even tell them we come from UNIT", said the guy.
"Because I don't come from UNIT", he turned to Amy, "I come from Torchwood", he flashed a grin at her.
"We are not coming", said Amy as she crossed her arms.
"I don't think we have much of an option Amy", said Rory as he tried to move his arms.
"Free him", said the woman and they let Rory free, "we are friends, and we are here because of the Doctor".
"The Doctor?", said Amy unfolding her arms, "what happened with him?"
"We need him", she said.
"And we are only taking you to your own living room, Kate Stewart, director of UNIT is waiting there for us", said Jack.
"Good, let's go then", said Amy nervously and went to stand next to Rory who nodded.
In their living room stood Kate with another older woman whom Amy did not recognize.
"I am sorry for all the inconveniences you experienced, we will arrange for somebody to fix both your doors", she said at which they nodded.
Rory glanced at the window and saw that there were more than one black vans parked in front of his house.
"Let me go to the point then", she started, "for the last three months we have been picking up energy anomalies all across Great Britain, these anomalies have been traced to a building which turned out to be empty and abandoned, nobody has lived there for years."
"Yet the situation is dire, we are about to experience a total failure of anything electronic in Great Britain if we don't find the cause of this and deal with it, we need the Doctor."
"We were thinking that you could call him or something", said Jack.
"We haven't been traveling with him for a time now", said Rory.
"But we still have the TARDIS' phone number", added Amy hastily.
"If you could please", motioned Kate to one of the workers that came out of nowhere with a pencil and a piece of paper.
"The Doctor modified you house phone didn't he?", she asked
"Yes, he did", confirmed Rory, "why?"
"Because we believe that we will have better possibilities to reach him if we used a phone he modified not too long ago", she explained, "if we could borrow you living room phone for a temporary while?"
"Temporary, okay", said Amy and went with the worker with the worker with the pencil and paper.
After giving the worker the TARDIS' number Amy strolled around the living room as workers came in and installed a screen, connected cables to their phone and installed their own computers everywhere. Rory was kept busy helping and showing them around where they could place all their equipment and saving some of their ornaments before they fell down on the floor.
Amy tried to move away from the hassle that the workers were creating and went to the kitchen where she spotted Kate speaking with the older woman she had seen a while ago.
'Curiosity killed the cat', thought Amy as she slowly went nearer and nearer to hear what they were talking about.
"But are you sure Miss Smith?", asked Kate with concern in her voice.
"I am", answered the Smith woman, Amy could hear the sadness in her voice.
"This is bad", said Kate, concern lacing her voice.
"I wish he never would have gone to that Lake Silencio", said the Smith woman sadly and Amy's eyes widened.
"What?!", said Amy loudly, "How do you know about Lake Silencio?!", she yelled.
The noise caught everybody's attention.
"How do you know about Lake Silencio?", asked Jack.
"We were there", said Rory flatly coming from the living room.
The woman that had come first into their house gasped and the other guy warped his arm around her.
"You were there and never thought to even tell us?", said Jack angrily.
"Why would we?", said Amy angrily, "we don't even know you!"
"We all knew the Doctor!", yelled Jack.
"You stormed into our house pointing guns at us", said Rory who didn't like that Jack yelled at his wife.
"And you took Rory's sword!", added Amy angrily.
"This is about earth's safety, even with the Doctor's demise we still have to protect it ", said Kate seriously.
Amy and Rory exchanged glances.
"How did you find out about Lake Silencio?", asked Rory calmly.
"Why would we tell you?", said Jack, still angry.
"We found a fallen spaceship from people known as the Teselecta", said the woman.
"Well, that explains it", said Amy.
"We are going to contact a Doctor from before Lake Silencio", said Kate, "let us hope that everything goes well when we call him".
A worker came and whispered something in her ear.
"We will be making the call in a few minutes, for all those that want to be present when it is made please just stand by and wait a bit.", she said as she excused herself.
Amy grabbed Rory's arm and excused them from the others and took him to the backyard and spoke with him in whispers.
"They think he died at Lake Silencio", she whispered.
"We should tell them that he faked it", answered Rory whispering.
"I don't trust them", she said flatly.
"We can't keep it from them", he whispered back.
"Not even the Doctor told us why should we tell them?"
"The Doctor fails to tell people things like that, remember how you we felt when we thought he was truly dead? Besides, we had River to tell us, who do they have to tell them?"
"Let the Doctor himself tell them then when he gets here", she said stubbornly.
Rory sighed, he knew there was no use trying to argue further with his wife.
They went back inside to the kitchen and the woman that had spoken a moment ago came up to them.
"Hi", she said, "I'm Martha Smith-Jones, sorry for not introducing myself earlier, over there is my husband Mickey", she motioned at Mickey at the other side of the room, "I think you already know Jack, don't worry he's not always like that, and Sarah Jane", she motioned at them as she spoke of each respectively.
"Hi, no problem, you seemed to be much stressed."
"It hasn't been an easy day, if Sarah Jane", she motioned at Sarah Jane who was speaking again with Kate, "hadn't found that crashed spaceship we wouldn't know anything."
Amy only nodded.
"Could I ask you a question?", said Martha.
"Sure", said Amy having an idea of what was about to come.
"How did it happen?", asked Martha sadness lacing her voice.
'Knew it', thought Amy feeling bad for not telling these people the truth.
"Look Martha I-"
Amy got interrupted by a loud electronic noise coming from the entrance hall, which got followed immediately by a scream and people yelling. Amy and Martha rushed immediately into the entrance hall evading bumping over all the equipment in the living room and found River Song standing there with a Vortex Manipulator on her wrist and Jack pointing his gun at her.
"My, my, what do we have here?", she purred with a raised eyebrow.
END CHAPTER 2
So here they are, Amy and Rory after the Angels take Manhattan and River after the-well...you'll see next chapter.
As to how Amy and Rory are here and not in Manhattan, that you will find out later.
You might also be wondering why energy anomalies are a bad thing, well, imagine a world without electricity, imagine the hospitals, the airports and many other places that need stable energy to keep people save.
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