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It was silent inside the TARDIS as she flew through the Vortex.
When River had revealed that she could pilot the TARDIS, everybody, aside from Amy and Rory, hadn't believed her, but as she now moved around the console as she piloted her nobody could deny that she had undoubtedly spoken the truth.
Amy and Rory stood near her and spoke with her every time she came near them as she piloted the TARDIS in whispers.
Jack stood as far as he dared from the controls glaring at River, trusting her less than ever, the Smith-Jones had also come to stand by him to pay him company and Sarah Jane was walking towards them coming along with Clara.
"She doesn't trust River either", stated Sarah Jane as she went to stand beside Martha.
"You seemed to know her", remarked Martha.
"I only met her once and-", she breathed, "and I thought she died."
Martha furrowed her eyebrows, "how did that happen?"
"Did you see her pilot the TARDIS when you met?", asked Jack.
"Never", she said and Jack was about to say something but she added, "but the Doctor trusted her, but this-", she sighed, "I'm not sure if she is actually River."
They all raised their eyebrows, "are you saying that the real River died and this is an imposter?", asked Martha.
Clara hesitantly nodded and they all turned slowly to look at River.
"But how would she know how to pilot the TARDIS if she was an imposter", said Sarah Jane.
"How does she know how to pilot her even if she isn't an imposter?", said Jack.
The TARDIS' motion came to a halt before Clara could say anything.
"We've landed", announced River and Clara went running for the door, completely ignoring the others, who were expectantly waiting Clara's answer.
"Wait Clara there could be anything out there", warned River as she run after her, the others did so as well.
"Where are we?", asked Mickey as he stepped out of the TARDIS into what looked like an old town.
"It seems that we are somewhere in the 19th century", said Jack as he looked around.
"We are in Victorian London!", announced Clara happily, "now I know where he went!"
"Are you sure Clara?", said Sarah Jane excitedly.
"With Vastra and Jenny", breathed River.
Amy furrowed her brow, "the lizard woman?", she asked.
"Yes!", exclaimed Clara and started to pace hastily down the street.
River and Jack were the first to run after her as she gained speed down the street.
"Shouldn't we change to something more appropriate?", asked Sarah Jane as she, the Smith-Jonas and the Ponds ran after and got stares from all the people in the streets.
"We are going to get arrested if a policeman sees us!", exclaimed Mickey as he ran.
"The house isn't far", exclaimed River from ahead of them.
As Clara arrived she immediately started to knock the door, River and Jack were almost immediately at her side and after a few moments the others catched up with them.
Strax opened the door, earning a gasp from Martha and River stepped forward.
She spoke before Strax could say anything, "We need to see Madame Vasta now, its urgent."
"Very well", he agreed not too happily, but knew that River always brought about urgent matters, "You may come in", he stepped aside to let them through.
River and Clara went through immediately followed by the Ponds, Sarah Jane, Jack and the Smith-Jones hesitated for a moment and then entered the house.
When Strax closed the door and excused himself to go fetch Vastra, Jack asked Amy almost in a whisper, "What are we doing in the house of a Sontaran?"
"He is one our side", said River as she paced around.
"Oh, really?", asked Jack snidely with a sneer.
Before River could answer Jack Madame Vastra came into the room and stared for a moment at everyone, she then took off her veil, "What has happened?", she asked looking at River.
"Where is the Doctor?", asked Jenny coming from behind Vastra.
River proceeded, with the help of Clara and of the others to tell her what had happened with the TARDIS, her call to River, how she had appeared in Amy and Rory's backyard and how the Doctor hadn't come the day he had promised to Clara.
They also told her about the energy anomalies that had been plaguing Great Britain in the 21st Century and how the Doctor was needed to help as soon as possible.
"The Doctor came here a month ago, he said he was following a trace of something or someone, he wasn't very specific", began Vastra.
"And soon after that the TARDIS just disappeared so we thought he had sorted out whatever he came for", supplied Jenny.
"A month?!", exclaimed Jack indignantly.
"A month being here alone", breathed River.
"Do you know where did he go?", asked Martha concerned.
"He didn't mention anything", said Vastra grimly.
"Then we should start searching for him", said Amy and went for the door.
"You can't walk like that out there", said Jenny as she pointed at Amy's clothing, "You'll get arrested."
"Told you", said Mickey smugly.
"We have spare clothes", said Vastra, "Please feel free to use some of them, Strax will show you around."
They nodded and followed Strax as he grumbled something about his grenades as he lead them through the hallway to a spare room.
Vastra stopped River before she could go, wanting a word in private with her.
"How?", was the only word she said, "Clara told me how she saw you go at Trenzalore, you shouldn't be here and how are Amy and Rory here?"
"Those are both long stories", River tried to dismiss.
Strax came back into the room and Madame Vastra told him to prepare the carriage for a ride.
"Do you have any idea how he is going to react when he sees them?", said Jenny accusingly.
"Of course I know, but how was I going to leave them behind?", said River, fully knowing what the Doctor had gone through after he had lost his beloved Ponds.
Jack, Mickey and Rory came into the room, being the first to finish dressing themselves up.
"So, how do you know the Doctor?", asked Jack to Vastra.
"And how come you have a Sontaran as your butler?", asked Mickey.
"We met Strax at the Battle of Demons Run, both under the Doctor's leadership", said Vastra, put back on her veil and made for the door to go outside, followed by Jenny and River, to wait for the woman to finish dressing.
"Wait, what battle", asked Jack perplexed, "The Doctor doesn't go to battles".
"Ask Rory", said Vastra and finally went through the door with the others.
Jack and Mickey turned at Rory, "What did she mean with that?", asked Jack.
"I-I was there", he said nervously, "We fought against the same people that made him fake his death."
"But why was potato face and lizard woman there?", asked Mickey.
Rory just stood there, how could he possibly explain to them what had happened with Amy and baby Melody?
Seeing how Rory stared at nothing and didn't say a word Jack said, "Look if you don't want to talk about it-"
"They kidnapped Amy", said Rory, but both Jack and Mickey could sense that he was holding something to himself, probably most of the reason of why the Doctor would go to a battle and lead people into it.
Before Jack or Mickey could question Rory further the women finally came back from dressing up.
"They are waiting outside", supplied Mickey before they could ask.
They all went outside, found Strax waiting for them in the carriage and Vastra, River and Jenny chatting with each other.
"River!", began Amy, "You haven't changed, they will arrest you like that", she motioned at River's usual clothing.
"I'd like see them try", she smirked.
Amy rolled her eyes and was about the argue further with River when Strax opened the carriage door for them and Madame Vastra said, "We should decide now into how many search groups are we going to be divided into."
Jack was about to explain his plans for the search parties when Martha exclaimed, "Look!", as she held her energy analyzer and walked over to Jack and showed him.
"Impossible", he said, got out his own energy analyzer and compared it with Martha's.
"What is it?", asked Sarah Jane.
"You remember that old building these machines led us to?", he began and Sarah Jane nodded, "It is leading us there again."
"And the signal is stronger this time", supplied Martha.
"But we are more than a hundred years in the past", said Mickey perplexed.
"Then these energy anomalies might originate from our present", said Vastra, took one of the machines and started to check it out.
She handed the device to Strax and said, "Can you take us to this direction?"
"Absolutely, Madame Vastra", he said joyously.
"Good,", began Vasta and motioned towards the carriage, "We woman will go inside, the men can hold on or sit outside."
Amy and Clara glanced at each other, "Isn't there another way of getting there?", asked Amy.
"I'm afraid not", said Vasta as she climbed in, followed immediately by River.
Sarah Jane sighed and climbed in, followed by a hesitant Martha. Rory went to sit at Strax's side in front of the carriage since neither Jack nor Mickey seemed willing to share their space with the Sontaran.
After Jack and Mickey had settled themselves on the back side of the carriage only Amy and Clara needed to get inside.
Amy heaved a longsuffering sigh and climbed into the already full carriage, found a small place for herself and was followed by Clara who did the same.
"Good, we thought you weren't coming anymore", said Jenny as she closed the door.
"Move you useless scum!", exclaimed Strax as he made the horse go forward.
"Are you sure the Sontaran can ride this carriage properly?", asked Martha nervously after it had began to move and was now gaining speed down the streets.
"Of course", said Madame Vastra calmly, as if having a Sontaron ride your carriage around the streets of London was perfectly normal.
'It probably is for her', thought Martha.
The carriage stopped after a while, Strax looked around disappointedly, having expected a whole army waiting for them or a building highly fortified and ready to ambush them.
"Horse!", he began angrily, "You have disgraced your duty, your punishment will be execution", he got out his laser gun startling Rory.
"W-wait", he tried to stop Strax.
"Strax!", exclaimed Vastra from within the carriage, stopping him, "We are at the right place."
"Are you sure?", asked Mickey as he looked around, it looked just as ordinary as it had looked in the 21st century.
"It looks pretty normal", said Jenny as she peered out of the window.
"I don't care anymore if it looks normal or not", said Amy and opened the door and got out as soon as she could, it was way too cramped inside that carriage.
Clara was next to get out of the carriage, the other women followed after a moment.
"Madame", began Strax eagerly, "What shall be our proceedings?"
"Go park the carriage", she said, he remained there looking at her as if waiting for something else.
"Then you may report back to us here", she added, he nodded eagerly and went to park the carriage.
Jack just stared after Strax, choosing not to say anything, instead he went with Vastra to begin with a plan to enter the place.
"Any ideas?", he asked.
"Of course", she smiled.
Jenny walked to the front door of the, at this time, new Victorian styled building.
She knocked at the door and waited till somebody opened the door.
A big man opened the door and asked rudely, "What do you want?!"
"I am from the local orphanage, we are collecting money for our poor children", she gave him her best smile.
"We don't give donations", he answered even more rudely, "Go away!"
He tried to close the door in her face, but she placed her foot in the way and pushed the door open.
"I'm afraid I must insist", she kept smiling at him as he kept trying to close the door, he eventually placed all his weigh on the door and it still didn't budge.
"Fine!", he finally exclaimed, "I'll go for some money, you wai-"
He was cut off by Jenny as she stormed inside, "I will wait here inside", she smiled at him.
"Wha-, fine then", he said disgruntled and exited the room to go fetch the money.
Jenny waited till she couldn't hear his footsteps and then proceeded to pick a corridor and went along it.
After a short while she began to hear what sounded like heavy machinery, as she approached the end of the corridor the noise became louder and louder. She looked around the corner when she came at the end of it and saw a whole operation going on.
There were electric machinery there not belonging to this age or planet.
Jenny moved her arm slowly towards her handbag, opened it and got out a communicator that River had given her.
She typed a few words in it and slowly put it back into her handbag.
She suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around rabidly and saw the rude man, looking very angry. She turned round quickly, trying a path of escape, but was surprised by another three huge, angry looking men.
"Where do you think you are going Missy?", asked the guy from behind Jenny.
She slowly turned around, "Excuse me Mr., I got lost", she smiled apologetically.
"Sure Missy", he grabbed her arm and manhandled her away.
When they arrived at the front door and he was about to open the door she said, "But Mr., I have no intension of leaving."
"What do you-", he began as he turned around but stopped when he saw that Jenny wasn't wearing her usual dress, but a skin tight black suit.
"Who are you?", he asked her, but never got his answer as he was knocked unconscious the next moment.
Jenny ran and took the keys from the man and went to unlock the door, then ran down the corridor she had gone through moments ago.
As she ran down the corridor another guy appeared and was knocked out sooner than he could make a noise.
She came to the end of the corridor and could see from where she stood Jack slipping behind one of the big machines. She made sure he could see her where she was and signaled him that everything was going according to plan.
She was unfastening her gun when she felt something hard and cold press against her neck.
"Don't make a noise "Missy"", he snarled, "Move."
She moved forward as he guided her towards the machinery.
The guy that was pointing the gun at her signaled another one. He in turn came forward and stood right in front of Jenny.
"Give her what she came for", snarled the guy behind Jenny.
The one in front of her walked to one of the machinery, opened it and retrieved a cable.
One end of the cable still emitted sparks as it was still live. The guy walked toward her and neared the cable to her face.
Just when Jenny was sure that she was going to be electrocuted Jack jumped out of his hiding place exclaiming, "Let her go!"
The guy that had been pointing the gun at Jenny threw her with force against one of the machinery, leaving her unconscious. He stepped forward, now pointing his gun at Jack.
"Put down your gun", snarled the guy.
Jack stayed put, pointing his gun steadily at both the men.
"Or I'll shoot her", he added with a snarl, now pointing his gun back at Jenny.
Jack could see from the corner of his eye how more and more men came near, all of them holding guns.
Tensions were running high, Jack knew it was going to explode at any moment.
And when it finally exploded, he would never know who was the first one to shoot, but before he knew it he had been shot at least three times in the chest, but as his last moments before he died once more he had shot the one that had been threatening Jenny.
River stood gaping at what she was witnessing, in the blink of an eye Jack was shot at least three times and before collapsing on the floor he shot that other guy who…exploded?
The man had exploded as soon as it had been hit by the bullet…this man…wasn't actually a man.
"Shoot them!", yelled Mickey, being the first to react, "They're robots!"
River jumped out of her hiding place as well as Mickey, Strax, Vastra, and Martha, who had convinced Mickey to be part of the mission.
They all shot the robots as fast as they could, fortunately for them the robots weren't good shooters and were rather slow.
When they had all finished off all the robots Amy, Rory, Clara and Sarah Jane came in from the door that Jenny had unlocked before.
The first thing Amy saw was Vastra reanimating Jenny and checking if she had any concussion, as she walked on she saw Jack sprawled on the floor, looking dead.
"Oh my", Amy covered her mouth with her hands, Rory was by his side the next moment, checking for his pulse.
"Rory", began River as she approached him and placed her hands on his shoulders and tried the coax him away.
"He's-", he began, but his throat had suddenly gone dry.
"Yes, yes, I know", she had managed to move him away a bit.
Jack suddenly sat forward and gasped dramatically for air, causing Clara to scream.
"What?!", exclaimed Amy.
"He's alive", smiled Martha.
"But I felt that he didn't have pulse, he was dead", said Rory, who was beyond perplexed.
"That was how I reacted the first time I saw it as well", said Martha with a smile.
"Oh, yes, end of the world, impossible to forget", said Jack as he got up and brushed himself as if nothing out of the normal had happened.
"You knew", accused Amy as she looked at River.
"Of course I knew", said River with a smile, "The Doctor himself told me."
"What?!", said Jack as he looked up from the robot who still had it's head intact he was examining.
"Can we leave this for later?", said Vastra as she knelt beside the robot, "Strax we need to reanimate this robot for a brief interrogation, could do it?"
"Not a problem at all Madame", he said as he got out his medical analyzer and began to reanimate the robot.
Jack glared at River, but let the matter drop for now, he was going to corner her eventually.
They all gathered around the robot as it began to reanimate.
"Where is the Doctor?", asked Vastra, he didn't answer, "Where is the Doctor?", she repeated.
"C-C-Ce-Ce-Cell-Cell-o-one-se-se-sev-seven", he said and he finally stopped, broken without remedy.
River and Jack were the first to get up and start running down the second corridor, after a few moments they began to see doors with numbers on them.
It didn't take them long before they arrived at the door marked seventeen.
"Clear!", exclaimed Jack and kicked the door open only to find…an empty cell.
cliffhanger!
Hope you enjoyed this chapter with Jenny, Vastra and Strax!
Next chapter will have the Doctor in it.
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