The ganger Doctor screamed as he twisted and absorbed all the Doctors memories and past incarnations, "What's happening? I wonder if we'll get back. Yes, one day...Argh! I've reversed the polarity of the neutron flow."

"The flesh is struggling to cope with your past regenerations," Star told him as she and the Doctor watched on.

"Hold on!" The Doctor shouted to himself.

"Would you like a jelly baby?" the Ganger Doctor asked in his 4th incarnation's voice, holding a hand out. His voice returned to normal, "Why? Why?"

"Why? Why what?"

His voice turned to his 10th incarnations, "Hello. I'm the Doctor." his voice turned to normal, "No. Let it go, we've moved on!"

"Hold on!" Star cried, "Just...hold on. You can stabilise!"

The ganger reached out and grabbed the Doctor jacket, "I've reverse the jelly-baby of the neutron flow. Would you like a…Doctor…Doctor…im…im the…I cant."

"No, listen, hold on." He told his ganger, "Hold on!"

"Nooooo!" he shoved the Doctor away, "Aaagh!" he turned into her half-formed state.

Star knelt next to the ganger, hugging him tightly, "Its ok." She assured him, "You can do it. You can stabilise. You're the Doctor; I know you can do it."

"It hurts," he whimpered.

"I know, but I need you to stabilise. For me?" she asked him in Gallifreyan.

He gripped his head, forcing himself to stabilise, for Star.

The crew were busy barricading the doors.

"I think I liked it best when they were being noisy." Buzzer remarked.

Amy walked over to the Doctor and Star, "We need you. Get over here."

"Hello!" the ganger Doctor jumped up, now a lot more stabilised, but still some pain left over.

"Hi." Star laughed, relieved, honestly, she hadn't saw a ganger; all she saw was her dad in pain and so she helped him, what else should she have done, watched him? As if.

"Doctor!" Amy ignored the Ganger.

"Cybermats." The Doctor eyed the ganger.

"Do we have time for this?" the ganger asked him.

"He'd like more prove you're him," Star said, "I don't need any prove. So…Cybermats?"

"Anything for you," he flicked her nose, "Created by the Cybermen. They kill by feeding off brainwaves."

Amy ran back to the door, "Are you sure there aren't any big guns with bits on?" she asked the crew.

"Yeah, big guns would be good right now." Buzzer replied.

"Why would be have guns?" Jimmy countered, leaning against the door, "We're a factory. We mine."

There was a hissing and smoke came through the door.

"Acid." Amy realised.

The 2 Doctors were now standing on either side of Star, watching the crew.

"Amy and Rory may not trust both of us." The ganger said to the other him.

"Are you thinking what im thinking?" the Doctor smirked.

"Inevitably."

"Im glad we're on the same…"

"Wavelength. You see, great minds."

"Exactly."

"So what's the plan?" Star giggled at them.

"Save them all, humans and gangers." The ganger suggested.

"Fantastic!" Star cheered and the Doctors laughed at their 9th self's catchphrase.

"Is that what you were thinking?" the ganger turned to the Doctor.

"It's just so inspiring to hear me say it." the Doctor smiled.

"I know!"

"Doctor," Amy called, "Star, come on!"

"So, what now, Doctor?"

"Well, time to get cracking, Doctor." The Doctor clapped his hands and they both walked to the others. Star shook her head fondly at them as she followed.

"Hello," the Doctors said unison, "Sorry…"

"But we had to establish a few…" the Ganger continued.

"Ground rules." The Doctor finished, noticing Amy looking at their boots, seeing him in the brown he'd been given and the ganger in the original black.

"Formulate a…"

"Protocol."

"Protocol. Very posh."

"A protocol between us. Otherwise…"

"It get horrible embarrassing."

"And potentially confusing."

"Im glad you've solved the problem of confusing." Amy looked at them, annoyed.

"That's sarcasm." Star pointed out.

"I know." The ganger Doctor remarked.

"She's very good at sarcasm." The Doctor added.

They both turned to Amy, "Breathe!"

"What?" Amy blinked.

"We have to get you all off this island." The ganger Doctor deadpanned.

"And the gangers too." The Doctor agreed.

"Sorry, would you like a memo from the last meeting?" Cleaves glared at them, "They're trying to kill us!"

"They're scared!" Star defended.

"Doctor, Star, we're trapped in here." Amy reminded them.

"I don't think so," the Doctor shook his head, "The flesh bowl is fed by cabling from above."

"But where are the earthling conduits?" the ganger Doctor wondered.

"All this piping must go down into a tunnel or a shaft or something, yes? With us?" the Doctor removed some panelling to reveal a grate, "Yowza! An escape route." He smiled back at them, not seeing Star and Amy mouth 'Yowza' questionably to each other, "You know, im starting to get a sense of just how impressive it is to hang out with me."

"Do we tend to say 'Yowza?'" the ganger Doctor asked.

"That's enough, let it go, ok? We're under stress."

~.~

The gangers broke into the room, finding it empty. Ganger Cleaves heard the sonic and moved to the grating to see the Doctor and the other her. She hissed as they got away.

~.~

The Doctor, his ganger, Star and Amy walked down the tunnel with the originals, getting away from the gangers.

"The army will send a recon team." Buzzer remarked.

"We need to contact the mainland." Cleaves reminded him.

"What about Rory and Jen?" Amy shook her head, "They are both out there."

"And if anything happens to Rory I will personally make the rest of your life miserable." Star threatened.

"And she's not joking," the ganger Doctor warned.

"It takes a long time to find someone in a maze." The Doctor looked around, "I bet you lot have got a computer map."

"If we can get power running, we can scan for them." Cleave realised before she began coughing.

And soon everyone was coughing.

"Doctor," Amy rasped out, "You said earlier to breathe."

"Very important, Pond." He nodded, "Breathe."

"Yeah, im struggling to."

"Acid interacting with the stone." Star remarked.

"Creating an asphyxiant miasma." The ganger Doctor added.

"A what?" Cleave shook her head.

"Chokey gas." Star simplified.

"Extra heavy." The ganger Doctor choked out, "If we can get above it…"

"The evac tower. This way!" Cleaves led them off.

They followed her down the tunnel and up the stairs to the evac tower. The Doctor and Amy entering first, coughing, followed by his ganger, Star, and then the originals. They headed for the control panel.

"Ohh!" Amy coughed some more, "I think I coughed so hard, I pulled a muscle or something."

"Its ok, it's easing off." The Doctor reassured her as he went to check the front of the controls while Star and the ganger Doctor duck behind it.

"Its midnight," Jimmy looked up as a bell chimed, "it's Adams birthday. My son's 5. Happy birthday, bud."

Cleaves stood behind the console, "Can you really get the power back on?" she asked.

"There's always some power floating around." One Doctor popped up and popped back down as the other popped up.

"Sticking to the wires, like bits of lint." The other finished.

"Can you stop finishing each others…" Amy began.

"Sentences?" the first popped back up. "No probs."

"Yes." The second pointed at her and they both ducked down.

"Star can you make them stop?" Amy looked around, looking for Star.

"I could," Star popped up, "but its funny!" she ducked down again.

"What about the TARDIS? You said the TARDIS was trapped in acid, so won't she be damaged?"

"She's parked in acid," Star corrected, popping up.

"She's a tough old thing." The first Doctor popped back up, "Tough, old, sexy."

"No, tough, dependable, sexy." The other Doctor popped back up, the other side of Star. Before the three ducked down again.

"Come on." Amy stressed, "Ok, how can…how can you both be real?"

"Well, because…" the Doctor popped up again, "We are. Im the Doctor."

"So am I." the other one appeared, "We contain the knowledge of over 900 years of experience. We both wear the same bowtie, which is cool."

"Because bowties are…"

"And always will be…"

"Cool!" Star finished, jumping up. The three of them straightening their bowties.

"But you weren't linked to the flesh." Amy frowned.

"It must've been after I examined it." the first Doctor shrugged, "Thus, a new genuine Doctor was created." He gestured to the second him.

"Ta-da!" he grinned.

'Daddy…' Star frowned and the second Doctor winked at her and she nodded realising what he was doing.

"But one of you was here first." Amy argued

"After the flesh scanned me," the Doctor started, "I had an accident with a puddle of acid. Now new shoes, situation which did not confront me learned self here."

"That satisfy you, pond?" the ganger Doctor looked at her.

"Don't call me Pond, please." Amy remarked to who she thought was the ganger. Both Doctors and Star looked at her, "What?"

"Interesting. You definitely feel more affection for him than me."

"No, I…look you're fine and everything, but he is the Doctor." She gestured to the ganger, "No offence. Being almost the Doctor is pretty damn impressive."

"Being almost the Doctor's like being no Doctor at all."

"Don't overreact."

"You might as well call me…"

"Smith?" Star suggested and he snapped his fingers at her.

"Smith?" Amy frowned.

"John Smith," he nodded.

"Communication a go-go!" the Doctor cheered.

They all ran to the console to get it keyed up.

"Find Rory!" Amy ordered, "Show me the scanny tracky screen. Come on, Rory, let's be having you."

"Please be ok." Star prayed, she was seriously now regretting not running after him, at least that way she would know if he was alive.

"There's no sign of him anywhere," Cleaves frowned, pulling up the screen.

"Come on, baby, show yourself." Amy breathed.

Cleave called into the transmitter, "St John's calling. Emergency Alpha. St Johns calling the mainland. Are you receiving me, captain? Come in." she sighed, "we'll never get a signal through this storm," she leaned into the transmitter, "St John's calling the mainland. Come in, this is urgent."

"We're just about ready you, St Johns." A man replied, "How are you doing? We've had all kinds of trouble here."

"Request immediate evacuation. We're under attack. The storm's affected our gangers. They're running amok."

"Your gangers?"

"Yes, our gangers are attacking us. We need you to take us off the island immediately and wipe them out."

The Doctors and Star exchanged a look.

"Copy that, St Johns. Shuttles dispatched. Hang on."

"You'll need to airlift us off the rook of the evac tower."

"And captain, any further transmission sent by me must come with the following code word. Im typing it, in case they're listening in."

"Got it. We'll swing in, get you out, and decommission the flesh."

She nodded and turned her head, and they began preparing for evacuation.

"What about Rory and Jen?" Amy asked.

"We've got to get out of here." Buzzer said.

"We're not leaving without them."

"I want em found too, but it's about casualties, innit? Can't be helped."

Amy turned to see the Doctor, in brown boots, sitting besides her at the console. "What are you doing?"

"Making a phone call," he murmured.

"Who to?"

"No one yet. It's on delay."

"Right, not getting it, why exactly are you making a phone call?"

"Because Amy I am and always will be the optimist."

"Not as optimistic as me!" Star skipped over.

"The wheels are in motion," the Doctor spun Amy's chair around and she laughed before she caught sight of the Ganger.

She was silent as she looked at him, "You know, really, there can be only one of you."

"Amy," Star spoke, "Rory was plastic once." she reminded her, "That's practically the same as being flesh, or you saying that Rory's not real."

"That's not what I'm saying!" she glared.

"It sounds to me like it is!" she raised her voice, "Flesh and plastic isn't that different." Amy fell silent, "I win!"

Amy sighed and walked off.

The Doctor pulled Star in his lap and she laughed, "What do you think of the Gangers?"

"I think...they are normal living organisms that deserve their own lives." she shrugged.

Amy gasped as she watched the wall, intently.

"Amy?" the Doctor looked at her, "what happened?"

"It's her again," she sat back down.

"Who again?" Star frowned.

"There's a woman I keep seeing, a woman with an eye-patch, and she has this habit of sliding walls open and staring at me. Doctor?"

"Its nothing." he assured her.

"Doesn't seem like nothing."

"It's likely just a time memory," Star waved her off, "Like a mirage."

"It's nothing to worry about," the Doctor slapped her thigh, before spinning around the console, "Get off!" he ordered Star lightly.

"Oh." She pouted as she stood up, "I was comfy!"

"I couldn't see the screen."

"It's in my head..." the ganger whispered, closing his eyes before running out the room.

"Hey!" Jimmy called, "Hold on!"

"Don't let him go!" Cleaves instructed.

Amy got up to run after him but Star held up a hand, "Let me!" she ran out after him.

"You can't go alone!" Amy ran after her.

They walked into the next too to see the ganger standing there, facing the wall, in almost complete darkness.

"Doctor?" Star called, squeezing one of his hands, "Dad!"

Amy kept her distance, "I'm sorry. What I said about being almost the Doctor, it's just really hard, because I've been through so much with him and Star. I've even seen...I've even seen the moment of his...can you die?" She asked, "If you really are the same, then can you die. You can be killed, and...I might have seen that happen."

"Amy..." Star warned.

"Why?" the ganger Doctor breathed.

"Why what?"

"Why!" Amy scoffed, "Because you invited us to see it. Your death!"

"Amy!" Star turned to her, "Think about you just said that to!"

He grabbed Star by her shoulders and pinned her to the wall.

"Why?" he spat at her.

"Don't! Let her go!" Amy yelled, rushing over, but he moved so she couldn't help, she ran back to get help.

"Why what?" Star asked softly.

"It's all the eyes say!" He shouted, "Why?! I can feel them as they work each day. Knowing this time was coming for them to be thrown away again. 'Not again, please!' and then they are destroyed and they feel death and all they can say is 'why?'"

Star pulled herself out of his grip, "I'm sorry," she whispered, "it's your connection with the ganger, it has to be." she pulled him into a hug, "It's okay. You're linked to your ganger, everything he feels, you can also feel." she wiped away his tears, "Better now?" He nodded, keeping her close, "Good. Come on."

"So what have we missed?" Star asked as they re-entered the room again.

"Besides the girl screaming murder?" Buzzer answered with his own question.

"He was hurting you!" Amy shouted.

"No he wasn't." she shook her head.

"He had you pinned to the wall!"

"I'm a Time Lady I've been through a lot more than pinned to a wall!"

"Ok, ok," the Doctor cut in, seeing Star getting angry, "Did you sense it to?"

"Briefly," the other nodded, "not as strong as you."

"Amy," the ganger looked at her, "I'm sorry I frightened you but...it would appear I can connect to the Flesh."

"Well you are Flesh," Amy mumbled.

"I'm egging to understand what it needs."

"What YOU want. You are it."

He put a hand over Stars mouth seeing her about to open her mouth, no doubt to have an argument with Amy, "It's much more powerful than we thoughts. The Flesh can grow, correct?"

"Its cells can decide," Cleaves nodded.

"Well, now it wants to do that at will," the Ganger stated. "It wants revenge. It's in pain, angry. It wants revenge."

"I was right," Amy grumbled, "You're not the Doctor, you can't ever be. You're just a copy."

"That's enough, Amelia!" Star cried, "If you keep at it at the Flesh I will ensure that your life is hell for the rest of it." she glared her down, as she herself calmed down, "If you think the Flesh isn't real, does that mean Rory isn't real? The more you say the Flesh isn't real the more you say your husband isn't real."

The Doctor crossed his arms, "Well said."

Star broke into a grin, as though she hadn't just threatened Amy.

The Doctor smirked, he loved the new her, she loved the adventure, loved to get out there, loved to be close to people, loved hugs! And most importantly accepted herself, besides the odd temper tantrum.

"Doctor, it might be best of you stayed over there for now, hmm?" Cleaves looked over at the 'ganger'.

"Ah! We've explained this!" Star cut in, "They are the same!"

"We have no issue with him!" Cleaves nodded to the Doctor, "But when it come to your Ganger."

"Don't be so absurd." the ganger Doctor scoffed.

"Fine." Star sighed, "Come on you," she dragged the 'ganger' to a barrel, "We'll stay over here, away from the hypocrites!" she glared at them and landed on Amy and stared longer than necessary.

"Well," the ganger Doctor sat down, and straightened his bow tie, "This is comfy."

"Is this really what you want?" the ganger asked.

"This is the shuttle," a man came over the transmitter a while later, "We're right above you, but we can't get low enough. Gamma static could fry or an-controls. Sit tight. We'll get to you."

The Doctor took out his sonic and to amuse himself, scanned cleaves.

Amy sighed as she watched the monitors, intently, "I can't find Rory. Im going out there."

"We could use the sonic to track him down," the Doctor offered, "Humans and Gangers give off slightly different signals. The sonic can tell the difference."

"Oh, so the sonic..." Amy began.

"Enough!" Star cut her off, "Stop being a prejudice."

"Hey." Buzzer called as the static cleared, "There's a camera up. We've got visual."

Amy ran over, "That Rory and Jennifer."

"There's heading for the thermostatic room," Cleaves realised watching them walk through the tunnels.

"Let's go and get them!"

The Doctor remained seated and tossed the sonic at the ganger.

"We can't let him go." Cleaves scoffed, "Are you crazy?"

"Am I crazy, Doctor?" he looked at his ganger.

"Not as crazy as Star," he countered, "But you did once plumb your brain into the core of an entire planet just to halt its orbit and win a bet with her."

"Good day that was," Star laughed, recalling the memory.

"He can't go rescue them," Amy shook her head, "I'm going."

"Do you know, I want him to go," the Doctor stood and looked at Amy, I want him to go. And I'm rather adamant."

"Well then. Hell needs company, right, boss?" Buzzer looked at Cleaves, "its fine, I'll handle it."

"Thank you, Buzzer," the ganger snapped his fingers at him.

"I'll go too," Star adjusted her corset.

"No!" the Doctor suddenly shouted, "I need you with me." he walked and tugged her over to him.

"And I..." the ganger took her other arm, "Need her with me!"

"She's my daughter."

"She's mine too."

"Pack it in!" Star snapped, "Im going!"

The Doctor pouted as the ganger smirked triumphantly, "Be careful." He whispered.

"Im going with you remember? I'll be fine."

"You…" he pointed at the ganger, "look after her."

"With my life." He crossed his hearts.

~.~

They'd found Jen, the original her, they found her lying on the ground, she'd died mere moments before they'd found her and Buzzer had tried to attack the ganger with his torch but Star had grabbed the torch and pushed the man to the ground. Before she helped him back up after threatening him that if he tried that again, she would do a lot worst to him, he quickly apologised to the ganger.

"Taking care of me, eh?" the ganger smiled at her as they walked down the tunnels.

She nudged him playfully, "isn't it meant to be the other way round, you take care of me?"

They walked down the tunnels where they heard Rory shouting from the dining hall, "You created another ganger just to trick me. You tricked me. When I found you, you were both Flesh and you tricked me into trusting you! Jen's dead, isn't she?"

"Yes," Star stated as they entered, "She died moments before we got to her."

"Star…" Rory ran to her and hugged her.

"Don't scare me like that again!"

"Shuttle, we're dropping down on our approach," a man called over the radio, "stand by for evac."

"The humans will be melted, as they deserve," Ganger Jen sneered, "And then the factory will be destroyed. Once we get to the mainland the real battle begins. The humans won't stand a chance. You're one of us, Doctor. Join the revolution."

"Im getting them out." Star deadpanned, beginning to walk off.

"Me too." Rory nodded following her.

The ganger Doctor shoved Star into Rory, she looked at him, hurt and betrayed and Rory looked shocked he'd do such a thing to her.

"Doctor, we can't just let them die."

The ganger looked at his watch, "Ring ring!"

"Amy's in there!" Star shouted at him, "Your companion, remember?!"

"Ring ring!" he shoved her back again and she shoved him back.

The room suddenly began shaking and Rory used this as an advantage to try and get him and Star past the gangers and out of the room to help the others.

"Stay!" the ganger Doctor pointed at them.

Rory stopped and held his hands up, "Ok."

Star took another step to the door and the ganger Doctor pointed at her, "I said stay!"

She glared him down a moment before the phone began ringing.

"Ah!" the ganger Doctor smiled, "That'll be the phone. Somebody get the phone. Jimmy, get the phone. No? Fine, I'll get the phone. Stay put." He picked up the phone on soniced it, a hologram of a young boy appeared, "Thank you for booking your holo-call with Morpeth Jet." A voice stated.

"Ha! Hello, Adam, im the Doctor," the ganger Doctor smiled at the boy, "well, the other Doctor. Or Smith. It's complicated and boring. Anyway, who cares, it's your birthday!"

"Yay!" the young boy cheered, still in his pyjamas.

"Yay! Now, have you been getting up very early and jumping on the bed?"

Yes, really high."
"I expect chocolate for breakfast. "

"If you don't feel sick by mid-morning, you're noting doing it right." Star added with a grin.

"Now, I think you want to speak to dad."

"Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes!" the boy jumped on the spot and Star laughed at how excited he was, "Daddy?"

"Jimmy," Star walked over to the man who stood in shock, "What does the other Jimmy matter now? You're both the same dad, aren't you?" the Doctor and the ganger Doctor were both her dad, what made Jimmy and ganger Jimmy different to that.

"Come on, Adams waiting."

"Daddy?" Adam called as there was another quake, "Daddy, what's that rumbly noise? What's going on, daddy? Daddy?"

Ganger Jimmy ran from the room.

"You've tricked him into an act of weakness." Ganger Jen glared at both Star and the ganger Doctor.

"No," the ganger Doctor shook his head, "we've helped him into an act of humanity. Anyone else like the sound of that? Act of humanity."

"Dicken, drain the acid well in crypt one." Ganger Cleaves ordered, he left, following orders.

"Don't you dare!" ganger Jen shouted.

"I've had it with this! What's the point in this ridiculous war? Look at you, Jen. You were a sweet kid. Look at you now. Stuff of nightmares, I don't want my world populated by monsters."

"You can't stop the factory from melting down 'boss'. I'll take revenge on humanity with or without you."

"It doesn't have to be about revenge." The Doctor told her, "It can be so much better than that."

She stormed from the room with Adams hologram calling out for his daddy for a few minutes until Jimmy's ganger entered again with the originals, Amy and the Doctor but no original Jimmy.

"Daddy, it's me!" Adam cheered, seeing who he thought was his father, not a clue that he was a ganger.

"What happened?" Star whispered to the Doctor.

"Um…" he scratched the back of his neck, "he got hit by acid in the acid room where ganger Jen trapped us by tricking Rory. He died."

"Hey, sunshine!" ganger Jimmy laughed nervously, "What are you up to?"

"Opening all my presents." Adam grinned.

"Haha, good lad…"

"Okay!" Star cut in, "We need to go!" she walked over to the hologram of Adam, "guess what? Daddy's coming home today!"

"Yay!" Adams gave an excited little dance which made ganger Jimmy and Star smile.

"Best present in the world."

"Now we need to move." The Doctor shouted and the hologram cut out and they ran out of the room and down the tunnels, looking for the TARDIS.

~.~

They stopped when they came across a misshapen, elongated ganger Jen.

"Run!" Star cried and they turned back the way them came as ganger Jen chased them on all fours.

They ran into another room and the roof groaned.

"Roof's going to give." The ganger Doctor remarked.

Dicken and his ganger closed the metal door. "We have to stop her. This door doesn't lock," the ganger said.

"No, but the far one does." Dicken realised and ran to lock the far door but got attacked by ganger Jen. His ganger screamed hearing him scream. Ganger Cleaves and the 'ganger' Doctor ran to help hold the door.

"Here she comes." The Doctor smiled, looking up at the roof.

At that moment the TARDIS fell through the roof.

"Oh, she loves making an entrance!" Star laughed.

The Doctor opened the doors, "Move!"

"Go, go, go, go!" the Doctor by the door ushered them on.

"Get on board!" Cleaves ordered them, "go!"

"Im not leaving!" Cleaves argued.

"Go!"

Cleaves ran into the TARDIS.

"Now's our chance." Amy looked at the Doctor by the door.

"I have to stay," the Doctor grunted, "hold this door closed. Give you time to dematerialise."

"Oh, don't be crazy. Ok, what happens to you?"
"Well, this place is just about to explode. But I can stop her."

"Both of you can survive this, ok?"

"Or perhaps you think I should stay instead," the ganger Doctor stepped up, "Mr Smith?"

"No, of course not." She shook her head, it wasn't that he was a ganger but, it was Star she was actually thinking about now, "at least think of Star!" she gestured to the girl who stood at the TARDIS door, watching, "She's your daughter! You can't just leave her!" she turned back to the ganger, "and you are amazing and yeah, I misjudged you, but you're not him. Im sorry. But Star needs her real dad."

"Amy they swapped shoes," Star walked over.

"Im the Doctor." The one closer to the TARDIS said.

"And im the flesh." The one at the door told her.

"You can't be…" Amy blinked, she turned to the ganger Doctor holding the door, "you're the real him."

"No, im not," he denied, "and I haven't been all along."

"What?"

"Im the original Doctor, Amy." The Doctor near the TARDIS insisted, "We had to know if we were truly the same. It was important, vital, we learn about the Flesh. And we could only do that though your eyes."

Amy ran and hugged the ganger Doctor, "I never thought it possible."

"What?" the ganger looked at her.

"You're twice the man I thought you were."

"Push, Amy." He whispered to her, "but only when she tells you to."

Ganger Jen banged on the door.

"Amy, come on!" Rory called.

Amy rushed past the Doctor and Star and into the TARDIS.

"Well, my death arrives, I suppose." The ganger remarked.

"But this one, we're not invited to." The Doctor remarked, thinking back to what Amy had said.

"What?"

"Nothing." Star waved him off, "your molecular memory CAN survive this. It might not be the end." She took the sonic and chucked it to him.

"If I turn up to nick all your biscuits, you'll know you were right." The ganger chuckled.

"Not my biscuits!" she glared him down playfully.

The Doctor exchanged a nod with his ganger.

Star looked at ganger Cleaves, "Are you staying?"

"This is my factory." She determined, "im not going anywhere."

"Foreman Miranda Cleaves, marvellous!" the ganger Doctor kissed her head, "Beware of imitations."

"Clear out of here, the lot of you!"

They ran to the TARDIS and dematerialised.

~.~

The TARDIS had stabilised the ganger for good, they were now 'real' people.

They'd dropped Jimmy off home for his sons' birthday, and Star had given him a red balloon to give to the boy.

The Doctor had given Cleaves a small vial to help with her blood clot.

They'd then gone to the crews company building and to a room where they heard people talking, and they'd gotten the gangers to try and get them to stop harming the Flesh. Cleaves and the ganger Dicken and gone in the room to sort it all out.

"You ok?" Amy nudged the Doctor.

"I said breathe, Pond, remember?" he asked her, "well, breathe."

"Why?"

"Breathe."

She suddenly doubled over and gasped, "Ohh! Whoa! Oh!"

Rory rushed to her side, "what's wrong with her?"

"Get her into the TARDIS." Star ordered softly.

The Doctor strode into the TARDIS as Star helped Rory help Amy in; she closed the doors behind them.

"What's happening to her?" Rory demanded.

"Contractions." The Doctor stated.

"Contractions?"

"She's going into labour."

"Did he say…?" Amy shook her head, "No, of course he didn't. Rory, I don't like this. Ow!" she bent over and gripped her stomach.
"Amy," Star called to her softly, "You're pregnant."

"We needed to see the Flesh in its early days. That's why I scanned it." the Doctor continued, "that's why we were there in the first place. We were going to drop you of for fish and chips but things happened and there was stuff and shenanigan."

"What a beautiful word." Star smiled, dreamily, "Shenanigans. Shenanigans."

"Its hurts!" Amy whimpered.

"But you're ok?" Rory frowned.

"Breathe." The Doctor instructed, "We needed enough information to block the signal to the flesh."

"What signal?" Amy gasped in pain.
"The signal to you."

"Doctor?"

"Rory," Star gently pulled him away, "you need to stand away from her."

"Why?" he demanded, but allowed her to pull him off, trusting her.

"Given what we've learned, I'll be as humane as I can," the Doctor told them, "but I need to do this, stand away."

"Doctor, im frightened," Amy cried, "im properly, properly scared."

"Don't be. Hold on. We're coming for you, I swear."
"We swear." Star corrected, "We WILL find you. No matter what. Promise." She crossed her hearts.

"Im right here!" Amy insisted.

"No, you're not." The Doctor slowly shook his head, "You haven't been here for a long, long time."

The Doctor held the sonic up to her.

"Oh, no!"

The Doctor clicked the sonic and Amy melted into Flesh.

Star squeezed Rory tightly as he stared horrified at where his wife used to be.