Star stood in the TARDIS looking at the monitor screen that was split in half, one half had the Doctor sneaking around the Cyberships planting bombs, while the other featured Rory making his why to the control one of the Cybership. She'd managed to hack into the Cyberships security, made it easier for them, keeping tabs on them and warning them of any approaching dangers, she had wanted to be the one to plant the bombs but the Doctor had insisted that they would need her in the TARDIS.

She watched as Rory walk past a lock door, his cape billowing behind him, he used the Doctors sonic on the door.

The Cybermen had finally realised they had an intruded on board.

Rory strode into the room in his centurion outfit Star had asked him to wear because 'it was more fun' and it was fun to see him in that, she had also tried to get him to wear heels, but he had refused. He spoke to the Cybermen asking them calmly where his wife was, as they knew the Cybermen monitored the entire quadrant. They had demanded to hear the Doctors message before his own so the Doctor had set of one of the bombs.

"Oh, brilliant, Rory!" Star cheered to herself, as the Doctor re-entered.

"Did it work?" he asked walking up to the console.

"I believe it did."

~.~

The TARDIS materialised in the drawing room of a Victorian house.

"Vastra!" Star gave the Silurian a hug as she and her human maid, Jenny entered the room.

"Star!" Vastra smiled, hugging her back, "You're a lot different than last time."

"Well…regeneration, but it's a good one." She winked, and turned to the human maid next to the Silurian, "And you must be Jenny."

"Please to meet you ma'am." Jenny nodded.

"Are we going to be 'sir' and 'ma'am' again?" the Doctor nearly whined from the console.

"Well…Strax will salute." Star called back to him.

He grimaced at the thought of getting the Sontaran, before walking to the doors and looked at Vastra, seriously, "We need you help…" Vastra nodded, casting a curious look at the centurion at the console.

~.~

"Doctor," Strax saluted, "Star."

"Oh don't salute," the Doctor did whine this time.

"Might I inquire…"

"Yes," Star cut him off, "Your honour will be restored."

"Don't you like being a nurse?" the Doctor frowned.

"He's a nurse?" Rory looked down at him.

"I am a soldier," Strax glared at him.

"So Strax, how do you feel about bringing down an army?" Star smirked.

"The odds?"
"We're horrible out-numbered, out-resourced and out-weaponed." The Doctor stated.

"Sounds delightful."

"I know right!" Star jumped on the balls of her feet.

~.~

River Song swayed as she walked down the halls of Stormcage, dressed in a late Victorian Styled dress, she walked to the phone rolling her eyes as the alarms blared, "Oh, turn it off," she rolled her eyes, "I'm breaking in, not out. This is River Song, back in her cell...oh, and I'll take breakfast at the usual time. Thank you!" she hung up and glided across the floor before stopping seeing someone in the shadows, "Hello."

"Hi," Star stepped out of the shadows. "Sorry, not quite sure if you recognise me. What with the time lines and everything. And the whole regeneration thing. But into a ginger, love it...! Daddy's jealous, of course, but, I don't care…"

"Star," River cut in, laughing slightly, "You're rambling."

"Yeah, I've been told I tend to do that…"

"I've just been with you and the Doctor, you two took me ice skating on the River Thames in 1914 the last of the great frost fairs, and got Stevie Wonder to sing happy birthday for me under London Bridge."

"Happy Birthday," Star smiled, though she frowned underneath. Rivers birthday was today and Rory and Amy's baby was born today. Coincidence.

"Thank you."

Star sobered quickly, "They've taken Amy and her and Rory's baby. We're getting people together, going after them, we need you."

"I can't," she whispered, "Not yet, anyway."

"Why not?" she demanded.

"This is the battle of Demons Run. The Doctors darkest hour. He'll rise higher than ever before and then fall so much further…and he's taking you with him. And...I can't be with you till the very end…because today's the day you find out who I am." She entered her cell.

Star stormed back into the TARDIS, a tantrum coming on at how unhelpful the woman was being.

~.~

The TARDIS materialised in the Maldovariun and the Doctor collected a large blue alien called Dorium, he had tried to find a way out of their debt but they needed him, he had contact with the Headless Monks, he would know where their base is.

Now that they had everyone they wanted they headed to Demons Run where Star and the Doctor both put on the hoods of the Headless monks and snuck in and stood with the monks.

"On this day," a man, Colonel Manton, shouted to everyone in the room, "in this place, the Doctor will fall." the soldiers all cheered. "The man who talks, the man who reasons, the man who lies, will meet the perfect answer. Some of you have wondered why we have allied ourselves wit the Headless Monks. Perhaps you should have wondered why we call them Headless. It's time you knew what these guys have sacrificed for faith. As you all know, it is a Level 1 Heresy, punishable by death, to lower the hood of a Headless Monk. But by the Devine grant of the Papal Mainframe herself, on this one and only occasion, I can show you the truth. Because these guys can never be..." he lowered the hood of one of the Monks to reveal a stump where the head should meet the neck. "Persuaded. They NEVER can be..." he lowered the hood of the second monk, "Afraid." he approached the third monk, "And they can never, ever be..." he lifted the hood of the third monk to reveal...

"Boo!" Star laughed.

"Surprise!" the Doctor grinned around lowering his own hood as he stood next to her, "Hello everyone! Guess who!" he walked to the centre of the stage, "Please point at gun at us if it helps you relax." all the soldiers aimed their guns at the Time Lords and two monks pulled out their energised swords. "You're only human."

Manton aimed his gun at them. "You will both come with me, right now!"

"I've got a bet to win here," Star smiled at him, "3 minutes and 40 seconds."

The Doctor turned and looked up to a large glass window where Amy was, "Amelia Pond! Get you coat!" and with that they put their hoods back on as the lights went out and when they turned back on, they were gone.

"We're not phantoms." The Doctor came over a speaker.

"Doctor?" Manton looked around.

"We're not tricksters." Star agreed teleporting behind the man before quickly teleporting away again.

"Star?"

"We're monks." The Doctor finished over the speaker.

"Show yourselves!"

"It's him!" a soldier yelled, aiming his gun at the monks, "He's here!" the soldiers aimed their guns at the monks, who charged their swords. "It's him!"

"Weapons down!" Manton ordered, "Do not fire!" one of the monks raised his hand and energy shot from it, killing the soldier, "No!" the monks and soldiers began fighting each other. "Doctor! Star! Nobody discharge their weapon in this room. Nobody!" the Doctor, still hidden under their robes, soniced the door open, "Do not fire! Stop, wait! Listen to me!" he snuck out the door, not noticing a young woman following, "Im disarming my weapon pack," he removed the pack from his gun, "Monks, I do this in good faith! I am now unarmed." He placed in on the floor, "all of you, discharge you weapon packs. The Doctor is trying to make fools of us…we are soldiers of god, we are not fools! We are not fools!"

"We are not fools!" the soldiers chanted, doing the same with their weapons.

"Oh, of course you're not." A mocking voice called, Manton looked to see Star, with her hood down, smirking at them all, "because only fools would discharge their weapons for an army that isn't there." Suddenly the army found themselves surrounded by Silurian's and Judoon. "Woops!"

"This base is now under our command." Strax appeared next to Manton.

"I have a fleet out there!" Manton glared at Star, knowing she was a far worse threat than the Sontaran, "If Demons Run goes down, there's an automatic distress call."

"Oh, woops! We didn't know that," she faked shocked, before calling out, "What do you think of that, old man?"

"What do I think?" the Doctor came over the speakers, and they looked up to see him standing on a raised platform overlooking them all, speaking into a microphone, "Not if we knock out your communication array." He smirked, "And you've got incoming!"

"Danny Boy to the Doctor." A pilot came over the comm. "Danny Boy to the Doctor."

"Give em hell, Danny Boy!" the Doctor replied, putting his arms out, pretending to fly a plane.

A moment later Danny Boy reported back, "Target destroyed."

The Doctor laughed and winked down at Star who beamed up at him.

Manton hung his head in defeat.

"Don't slump; it's bad for your spine!" Strax remarked.

~.~

Strax escorted Manton at gunpoint to one of the control rooms where Vastra and Jenny had cut the lights for them. Star sat in the chair, the Doctor standing behind her as Vastra, Jenny and Dorium stood to the side.

"All airlocks sealed, resistance neutralised!" Strax reported.

"Looks like I lost the bet," Star pouted, "3 minutes, 42 seconds."

"Colonel Manton, you will give the order for you men to withdraw."

"No, Colonel Manton...I want you to tell your men to run away." the Doctor remarked, darkly.

"You what?" Manton blinked.

"Those words. Run away. I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Run-Away. I want children laughing outside your door, cos they've found the house of Colonel Run-Away." he stood and pointed a finger at him, "And when people come to you and ask if trying to get to me though people I love...is any way a good idea...I want you to tell them your name." he took a breath, calming down, "Oh, look! I'm angry. That's new. Im not sure what's going to happen now."

"It's me who normally gets angry." Star added.

"The anger of a good man is not a problem," the eye patch woman, Kovarian, remarked as two Silurian's led her in, "Goodman have too many rules."

The Doctor slowly turned to her, "Good men done need rules," he walked over to her, "Today is not the day to find out why I have so many."

"Give the order," Kovarian turned to Manton, as the Doctor pulled back, surprised, "Give the order Colonel Run-Away."

The Doctor smiled crookedly and headed out the room, Star skipped out after him, sticking her tongue out at Kovarian and Colonel Run-Away as she past.

~.~

The strolled through the base and towards the nursery where Amy had been locked up. They were just about to walk in when they spotted the humans kissing, Rory holding their baby girl.

"Urg, kissing and crying." The Doctor grimaced, "We'll be back in a bit."

"Oi!" Rory called back to them, "you two! Get in here. Now."

They ran over and joined them. The Doctor smiled and pointed at their baby.

"My daughter. What do you think?" Rory smiled down at his baby.

"Hello," Star cooed, "Oh, you are a beautiful girl, aren't you?"

"Hello," the Doctor smiled, "Hello, baby."

"Melody," Amy corrected.

"Melody! Hello, Melody Pond!"

"Melody Williams." Rory corrected this time.

"…is a geography teacher." Amy finished, "Melody Pond is a superhero!"

The Doctor leaned over, listening to Melody gurgle, "well, yes, I suppose she does smell nice. Never really sniffed her, maybe I should give it a go. Amelia Pond, c'mere!" he pulled her into a hug.

"Doctor!" Amy laughed.

"We're sorry we were so long." Star added as the Doctor sniffed her.

"It's ok. I knew you were coming. The three of you. My boys and my…my girl."

Melody squealed and Star giggled, "Don't worry, Melody, she's still all yours. And I think its best to call her mummy, not big milk thing."

"And she would know." The Doctor added in a whisper.

"Ok, what are you doing?" Amy eyed them.

"We speak baby."

"No, you don't."

"We speak everything…don't we, Melody Pond?"

Melody gurgled and the Doctor and Star straightened their bow ties, "It's cool!"

Vastra entered the room, leaning on the railing, "Doctor! Star! Take a look. They're leaving." The Doctor walked to the window and watched as the soldiers marched away, "Demons Run is ours without a drop of blood spilled. My friend, you have never risen higher!"

Star stiffened at her words, recalling what River had said, but she kept quiet.

~.~

Amy exited the TARIDS, comforting Melody.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Rory asked as she walked over to where he and Star stood.

"She doesn't like the TARDIS noise," she remarked, "I asked him to turn something off, but he was all…"

'I don't want to punch a hole in the space-time continuum?'" Star guessed.

"Yup."

"Star!" Jenny called as she Star and Strax walked over, "the Judoon have escorted the clerics out of the quadrant, Spitfires have returned to their own time and Captain Avery and his men…" she caught sight of Melody crying, "is she alright?"

"Yes, she's just crying." Amy said.

"Give her to me, human fool." Strax reached for the baby, "she needs changing."

"I just changed her. I think she might need a feed."
"She's tired." Star corrected.

"A feed, of course." Strax nodded, "I'll take care of everything," he stepped forwards.

"I really don't think you will, actually." Rory frowned.

"I have gen-spliced myself for all nursing duties. I can produce magnificent quantities of lactic fluid."

Star stomped her foot on the ground and they all looked at her, "She's just tired."

At that moment the Doctor came out of the TARDIS carrying an old-fashioned cot. "Sorry Melody." He apologised to the baby, "They're just not listening."

"No one listens to me," Star huffed.

"What's this?" Amy smiled as she looked at the cot.

"Very pretty, according to your daughter." The Doctor said.

"It's a…it's a cot." Rory observed.

"No flies on the Roman. Give her here. Hey!"

Amy handed Melody over, "There we go."

"But where would you get a cot?" Rory shook his head as the Doctor placed Melody in the cot.

"It's old." Amy looked at it, "Really old. Doctor…? Star?"

"No, it's real." The Doctor spoke to Melody. "It's my hair."
"Who slept in here?"

"Doctor!" Vastra called over the speakers, "We need you in the main control room."

"Be right there!" the Doctor replied, "things to do…ive still got to work out what this base is for. We can't leave till we know." He walked off.

Amy followed him, as Star cooed over Melody who gurgled at her, "But this is where I was? The whole time I though I was on the TARDIS, I was really here?"

"Centurion," The Doctor called to him, "Permission to hug?"

"Be aware, I do have a sword." Rory warned.

"At all times," he hugged Amy and saluted to Rory, "You were on the TARDIS too…your heart, your mind, your soul. But physically, yes, you were still in this place."

"And when I saw that face looking through the hatch…that woman looking at me…"

"Reality bleeding though. They must have taken you quite a while back. Just before America…"

"That's probably enough hugging now." Rory cut in.

"Aw is Rory feeling left out?" Star laughed, "Come on, Roman." She pulled him into a hug.

He turned to the Doctor as he broke away from his hug with Star, "So her flesh avatar was with us all that time. But that means there were projecting a control signal right into the TARDIS. Wherever we were in time and space."

"They're very clever."

"Who are?" Amy asked.

"Whoever wants our baby." Rory answered.

"But why do they want her?"

"Exactly!" the Doctor snapped his fingers at her.

"Is there anything you're not telling us?" Rory frowned at them, "you knew Amy wasn't real, you never said."
"Well, we couldn't be sure that weren't listening."

"But you always hold out on us. Please, not this time." Amy begged, "It's our baby. Tell is something. One little thing."

"It's mine." Star admitted.

"What is?" Rory asked

"The cot. It's my cot. I slept in there."
They looked over at the cot, looking at the mobile hanging over it.

"Oh, my god." Amy smiled "Stars first stars."

"Im amazed you've still got it." Star leaned into the Doctor chest.

"Yeah, well," he shrugged her off, "you never know if a cots gonna be needed. Are you going to stay here?" he asked her quietly.

"Just in case." She nodded.

"Be careful." He warned.

"You too."

~.~

"Drop your weapons." The heard Strax a few minutes later, "State your name rank and intent!" he marched a young girl over to them, "I found it listening at the door!"

"I heard her talking…this is a trap." The girl, Lorna, Star recognised her, told them, "Why would I lie to you?"
Rory stepped forwards, "Well, you might want to take a look at your uniform."

"The only reason I joined the cleric was to meet the Doctor again."

"You want to meet him, so you joined an army to fight him?" Jenny asked, sceptical.

"Well, how else do you meet a great warrior?"

"Daddy's not a warrior," Star shook her head, "The chose the Doctor because a doctor helps people. He didn't chose it from the Gamma Forest language."

The lights went out and Lorna looked around, "It's starting. Please listen to me."

"Confirmed. No life forms registering on this base," Strax reported, "Except us and the Silurian's."

"The headless monks aren't alive." Lorna stressed, "They don't register as life forms."

"We need to go," Star led Amy to the TARDIS with Melody when a glowing light appeared around it.

"What's that?" Amy asked as Vastra and Dorium joined them.

Star walked and reached out to touch it, "Force field."

"Can you break though it?" Rory asked, now on alert.

"Not without a sonic device," She shook her head, "Although..." she flung her hands out and caused a few ripples in it, "No. No, it can't."

A loud click echoed around them.

"And those are the doors...locking." Lorna glared at them.

"Apparently were not leaving," Vastra remarked.

And then they heard chanting.

"Is that the monks?" Rory frowned.

"Oh, dear lord..." Dorium breathed, "That's the attack prayer."

"Rory, get Amy and Melody out of her." Star commanded.

"Quick," Rory turned and led them away, "Come with me."

"Commander Strax!" Vastra called to him.

"I'm trying to seal off this area of the lighting grid," he replied and the lights came back on.

"This is where we'll make our stand. Clear line of sight on all approaches."

The monks approached swords out as charged.

"Centurion, you're needed!" Vastra shouted to Rory as he kept Amy safe.

Lorna ran to a nearby crate and looked though it, "There should be some plasma pistols somewhere. They left everything."

"Then find them, boy!" Strax instructed.

"She's definitely a girl," Vastra commented to Jenny.

"Oh, stop it!" Jenny rolled her eyes.

Dorium walked toward the monks, "We don't have to fight. I'm friends to the monks, they know me."

"And they know you just sold them out to the Doctor." Rory reminded him as he came back.

"Oh, they'll understand. It's only me, only silly old me." he held his arms out wide, "You understand, don't you?"

"Mr Maldovariun, get back here!" Vastra shouted.

"Dorium, come back!" Star cried.

"Arm yourself, fool!" Strax shouted to him.

"Dorium!" Rory yelled.

But it was too late.

There was a slicing noise and something hit the floor.

"Mr Maldovar?" Vastra asked, hesitantly.

"Dorium?" Rory tried.

Lorna returned, handing them plasma pistols. They watched as the monks walked closer, a headless Dorium before them.

"The child!" Vastra cried, "At all costs, protect the child!"

Rory drew his sword in one hand an a pistol in the other as Star stood next to him, a dark glare in her red eyes, as she pulled her dagger out of her boot.

They fought valiantly against the monks.

Star taking out as many monks as she could with her small dagger, jabbing it in their chests. She threw it at one of the monks, distracting it enough for her to teleport directly behind it, grabbing its sword and slicing it into it.

'Nova!' she heard the Doctor call in her mind.

'What?' she gritted her teeth, trying to focus equally on the fight and on him.

'It's not Melody!'

'What do you mean?' she tensed, taking out another monk with its own sword, hearing Lorna scream in pain and Strax get stabbed from behind.

'She's a flesh avatar!' he yelled.

Her now green again, eyes widened as she turned to where Rory had taken Amy and was about to go after her, when...

"Rory!" Amy screamed, heartbroken. "RORY!"

She was too late.

She watched Rory run to his wife before she closed her eyes and hung her head...

She slowly looked back up and snapped her eyes open again. Red and full of hatred and anger. She dropped the weapons. No longer needing them.

"Star...?" Vastra asked, cautiously, watching as Star stood perfectly still, the last of the monks drawing all their attention on her, as though realising she was more of a threat.

She waited until they were a few feet away from her, still far enough away that their swords couldn't hit her.

"There's an old saying, Vastra, such a good saying, and that saying is...Let it go!" She let out a small scream and blasted the monks to smithereens as the power emerged from her chest. The first time that had ever happened, she didn't even know how she knew she could do it. She just...knew.

She closed her eyes again and let out a breath, calming down and turned to see everyone staring at her, eyes wide and in fear, and she realised, that was the first time she had actually shown just how strong she was, and it was growing, she was growing stronger everyday, "Amy…" She whispered the ginger, "I am so sorry."

~.~

The Doctor ran in, shouting, "Amy, she's not real! Melody, she's a flesh avatar. Amy! Amy." he stopped at the sight surrounding him, Rory tending to a dying Strax, he walked over to where Amy sat on a crate, pale and heartbroken as Jenny sat on one side, trying to calm her down, Star on the other, staring at nothingness.

"So they took her anyway." Amy whispered, "All this was for nothing."

"I am so…sorry." The Doctor breathed moving to hug her but she backed away.

"Amy…it's not his fault." Jenny told her softly.

"I know, I know." She sobbed. Rory put his armed around his wife, doing his best to comfort her.

"Doctor," Vastra called, "there's someone who wants to speak to you. Her name is Lorna, she came to warn us." He walked over and scanned her with the sonic, squatting down next to her, rubbing his face in frustration, "hey, hello." He offered a smile as she opened her eyes.

"Doctor!" she breathed.

"You helped my friends, thank you."

"I met you one. In the Gamma Forests. You don't remember me."

"Hey, of course I remember," he held her face in his hands, "I remember everyone. Hey, we ran, you, me and Star! Didn't we run, Lorna?"

Her eyes fluttered closed as she died.

"Who was she?" the Doctor turned the Vastra.

"I don't know but she was very brave." Vastra told him.

"They're always brave."

"So, what now? They'd almost certainly have taken her to Earth, raise her in the correct environment."

"It's too late." Star called over, speaking for the first time since the battle.

"You're giving up?" Vastra blinked, looking between them both, "you never do that."

"No. really it's too late." Star walked over and looked over where they're was a bright flash and River appeared.

"Well, then, soldiers, how goes the day?" she asked them.

"Where the hell have you been?" the Doctor demanded, storming over, "Every time you've asked, we have been there. Where the hell were you today?"

"I couldn't have prevented this." She shook her head.

"You could've tried!"

"And so, my love, could you." she looked at Amy and Rory, "I know you're not alright. But hold tight, Amy, because you're going to be."

"You think I wanted this?" the Doctor pointed generally, "I didn't do this. This…this wasn't me!"
"This was exactly you." she scoffed, "all this, all of it. you make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name? Doctor? The word for healer and wise man, throughout the universe we get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forest, the word 'Doctor' means mighty warrior. How far you've come. and now they've taken a child…the child of your best friends…and they're going to turn her into a weapon, just to bring you down. And all this, my love…in fear of you."

"Who are you?" the Doctor eyed her.

"Oh, look, Star it's your cot!" she laughed lightly, "haven't seen that in a very long while."

"River, tell them or I will," Star threatened.
River smiled slightly at her, "How long have you know?"

"Since I came to ask for your help."

River took the Doctors hand and placed it on the cot, "Can't you read?"

The Doctor looked at the Gallifreyan on the cot and then and River and smiled, "Hello."

"Hello." She smiled back.

He laughed nervously, "But…but that means…"

"Im afraid it does."

"So, how do we look?" Star asked her, as she and the Doctor both straightened their bow ties in sync with each other.

"Amazing."

"We'd better." The Doctor laughed.

"Yes, you'd better."

The Doctor spun around, "Vastra and Jenny, till the next time. Rory and Amy, we'll find your daughter and on our lifes, she will be safe. River, get them all home." He and Star walked to the TARDIS.

"Doctor?" Rory frowned at them, "Star?"

"No!" Amy shouted, "Where are you going? No!"

The Doctor used the sonic to lift the force field and they entered the TARDIS. Star paused at the doorway, laughing as she pointed at River before shaking her head and closing the door behind her, they quickly dematerialised as River told Amy and Rory who she was…and who she was to them.