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Chapter 25: The Alien Army
At first, regaining my memories had been painful. It would have been a lie if I'd said I hadn't spilt any tears while remembering what I'd done out of selfishness. I really should be dead with the rest of the Time Lords, or maybe I could have saved them.
Then there was Molly. I can't believe I would have ever done something like that to her. She'd had to completely invent a life here and had known about me the whole time. Now I knew why she had loved me for all these years and I was so, so sorry.
I let the sound of the TARDIS calm me. I knew that now was not the time to be crying over my mistakes. I had to let it all go and accept it. After all, the Doctor had accepted a much worse fate, and here he was, saving worlds still. I took deep breaths in and out and my heartbeats steadied.
The TARDIS landed and I hopped to my feet. But when I reached for the door, the lock clicked shut. That could only be controlled from the main console or from the outside with a key, and anyone on the outside certainly didn't have a key.
"Doctor?" I asked, looking up at him.
"I have a plan, it's a new one, sort of. I've had it for a while now but I was waiting until I was sure enough to tell you," He started.
"Doctor, what is it?" Rory asked.
"Rory, you know exactly what it is. You just don't remember," The Doctor said.
I watched as Amy and Rory came out from somewhere behind the Doctor. But that didn't make sense. I glanced at the Rory who was standing by my side, then back up at the Rory beside the Doctor. The one beside the Doctor looked so lifeless, but he was alive for sure. I could see that the Doctor had saved Amy already and had just wanted to get us all together for something, but Rory…
"Why are we even here if she's safe?" Dean asked. "And what's up with the twins?"
The Doctor ignored Dean's comment and began to explain, "I knew that Moriarty would want to hurt the ones that I'd been closest to, because he's a cold person, and that's how he gets people to do what he wants. My two closest friends are Amy and Rory. So I went to the Leviathan's twin planet and recruited an army. They are with Moriarty now, always have been, and he doesn't even realize that they aren't Leviathan. But I let the ones I'd trusted most stay with me, and I used Moriarty's invention to clone a perfect Amy and Rory and replaced the real Amy and Rory, with them. This is real Amy, Moriarty has Ferrathan Amy, but he thinks he has real Amy."
"So, that's Leviathan me?" Rory asked.
"They're Ferrathans and no this is real you," The Doctor said, looking at the Rory beside him.
"But I'm right here, and that me looks… dead."
"Yes your consciousness has moved from your proper body to you Ferrathan one, but you're not really in control. You just think you are."
"So you basically took out his mind and put it in that body," Sam tried to clarify.
"Oh, no. Much more complicated than that!" The Doctor exclaimed, but I thought I was getting the gist of it. Rory thought that he was real in his Ferrathan body, but it was actually just his consciousness watching from his real body, making him think that it was actually him; but really, the Ferrathan was in control.
When I snapped out of my daze, everyone was trying to process what the Doctor must have just explained. Even with my Time Lord memories back, I still tuned out for long periods of time.
"So how does Rory's consciousness get back to Rory?" I asked. "And how is Amy conscious if her Ferrathan is still out there?"
"I only gain consciousness here, when the other me is unconscious. Is that right?" Amy looked to the Doctor for approval.
"Quite right," He smiled. "Very good, Pond."
"Why are you telling us this?" John asked.
"Because you are going to stay in the TARDIS while your Ferrathan clones go out," The Doctor said.
"Woah, no way. I agreed to save Amy, not have you take over again and she's not even in danger anymore. You tricked us into coming back to you!" Dean argued.
"Dean, we still have to stop Moriarty, and you need to help with that," The Doctor said as exact clones of Dean, Sam, and John stepped out into view. "I can make one for you Castiel. It's very quick."
I'd almost forgotten that our new member was still in the TARDIS. He stood wide-eyed beside Dean. I wasn't sure if it was because of the clones or because of the whole bigger-on-the-inside TARDIS thing. We'd all completely forgotten that this was only his first time inside.
I looked back over at the 3 clones plus Amy and Rory, standing by the Doctor. Then I noticed, there was no clone for me.
"Do I get one?" I asked.
"I need you to come with me. I know Moriarty won't hurt either of us until he thinks he's won, since we're Time Lords, but he might hurt everyone else to scare us. So while you, me and the Ferrathans go out to face Moriarty, everyone else will be safe here," The Doctor explained.
"But, Doctor, I think I speak for everyone when I say we want to help," Amy spoke up.
"I agree," Sam put in.
"I'm leaving the planning up to you. Another way for you to wake up to your proper bodies, is pain, which Moriarty is sure to inflict as soon as he has his hands on you. So it shouldn't take long for you all to wake up, hopefully, and from inside the TARDIS you'll be able to see what's going on outside, hopefully, and you can make a plan from that."
"So we're making it up as we go along?" Dean asked.
"Basically. But I do it brilliantly so I expect something decent from you," The Doctor said. "Everyone, except Sherlock and my Ferrathan friends, come with me. Castiel we need to get you a clone!"
Everyone followed the Doctor the way that the others had come. Suddenly all the Ferrathans started acting exactly like Rory, John, Sam and Dean would. It was almost scary.
Just as a quick test, I asked, "The Ferrathans then."
"The what?" Ferrathan Sam asked.
"Nothing. Go back to your work.
"I will still kill you," Moriarty said, trying to keep calm, "I still have your TARDIS. You will still die here. Kill them."
The Leviathans by Moriarty's sides didn't move. They simply stared at the Doctor as if waiting for a command. Sebastian Moran and Dick Roman looked around in confusion and Moriarty's face went red.
"I said kill them!" He said, louder now. He looked back and forth down the line of Leviathans, wondering why they wouldn't budge.
"The Leviathans you have been working with aren't Leviathans, Moriarty. They're with me." The Doctor said as he stepped forward and the Ferrathan holding him back let him go. The ones holding me released my arms from their awkward positioning. It was a relief to feel my blood circulating through them again.
Moriarty looked back and forth in disbelief at the ones he thought he trusted. His gaze rested on Moran.
"You," He said, the fury rising in his voice.
Moran shook his head, "No."
All the Ferrathans began to walk away from Moriarty and towards the Doctor and I. When they reached our sides, they turned around to face Moriarty, their faces emotionless.
"We are here because our planet owes the Doctor a favor, and we are willing to keep the vow our Queen made even if it cost us our lives, like it did the others," One of the larger Farrathans said, looking sadly at the dead bodies on the ground.
"Well said, Liam," The Doctor added. All that was left by Moriarty's side now were two puny Leviathans. Sebastian Moran and Dick Roman.
"Here we are, Moriarty. Now who's won," The Doctor stepped forwards. Moriarty didn't reply. "You know, we are like fire and ice, we are. You, you're the ice. You don't love, you don't feel anything. It's all about you and only you. Do you care about anyone else at all? As soon as your plan was complete, you were going to tell the Leviathans to clear off and gone on your own to terrorize planets. But us: me, Sherlock, Amy, Rory, John, Sam, Dean and even Castiel, we are fire. We do this because we care, because love is stronger than hate. Our love, even if it was just me, or just Sherlock, would be more powerful than yours and a thousand others' hate any day. And you know why that is? What happens when you put fire near ice? It melts, Moriarty. Hate to break it to you, but you are melting. You are losing."
Behind Moriarty, I saw the TARDIS door open a crack and my hearts sped up. I didn't know what their plan was, so what was I supposed to do to help? Moriarty didn't notice as Amy stepped out of the TARDIS carrying a large, flaming stick. Where did she get a stick?
"And here's our fire," The Doctor finished, looking at Amy.
"Hello there," Amy said and put her free hand on her hip. "Did you miss me?"
Moriarty turned around in shock, he glanced from her to the body on the ground and back again. Moran and Roman's reactions were the same. For the first time ever, I saw Moriarty terrified.
"Impossible," He said under his breath.
"Here's a tip: never chose a building with fire sprinklers," Amy said as she looked up at the ceiling.
The fire alarm rung in the air and the fire sprinklers soaked us in… water? Across from us, the skin of the Sebastian Moran and Dick Roman were burning and they were screaming in agony. I let some of the strange liquid fall on my and hand then licked it. It tasted awful, but I knew that it was Borax. The only liquid on Earth that could burn the Leviathans.
Behind Amy, the rest of the team stepped out of the TARDIS, including John. I sighed in relief even though I knew he had never really been dead.
"Hey, Dick," Dean said as he approached the Leviathan. It looked up at him just in time for Dean to stab him with some kind of bone covered in blood. He quickly pulled it back out and got away as fast as he could as the beast disintegrated in thin air. The Leviathans, when killed on Earth, were sent back to Purgatory until someone summoned them back up again. I had a feeling that he would be stuck down there for a very long time.
Dean then passed the stick to Sam who caught Sebastian Moran by surprise and stabbed him in the back. He too, jumped away quickly, not wanting to be pulled down into Purgatory with Moran. Just like that, the Leviathans were dealt with and Moriarty was left alone and vulnerable.
Moriarty's hands flew to his waistband. He pulled out a pistol and aimed it at his own head. It brought back so many memories of the day when I faked my death and when Moriarty faked his.
"Is this another one of your tricks? Another one of your fake bodies to make us think you're dead again? Or is this for real?" The Doctor asked.
"This is so for real, Doctor, and I know how much you hate to see people die," Moriarty sighed.
"But you wouldn't kill yourself," The Doctor said. I listened helplessly as I heard Moriarty click the safety off.
"I would."
"Do it then," I taunted.
Moriarty glared at me, then smiled manically, the same way he did on the roof that day. I knew he was going to do it, but I didn't care this time. The universe would be better off without him.
"No!" The Doctor said, and lunged forward just in time. He knocked Moriarty's arm away so that the bullet missed his head. The Doctor pinned him to the ground and kicked the pistol away. Sam picked it up and quickly emptied it of all bullets.
"Doctor," Sam said, "We need to go back in time and replace the water supply with Borax."
"Really, guys? That is a thing of chance we could have all been dead!" The Doctor scolded from where he was crouching to pin Moriarty down.
"It was this or nothing."
"Alright, alright. Help me with Moriarty," The Doctor said as he stood up, dragging Moriarty with him. Together him and Sam pulled him into the TARDIS.
"A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just."
-Pope Francis