Chapter 4: Saving the World
I don't own Doctor Who whatsoever BBC does, and I'm just a fan with an idea.
Avery's POV
Amy and Rory left to track down Prisoner Zero while I went with the Doctor to the Angelo home. He and I walked into the house, easily finding Jeff's bedroom. "Hello! Laptop. Gimme." The Doctor said as he crossed the room and tried to prise the laptop away from Jeff, who was trying to cover the screen, and keep it away from the Doctor. Unsuccessfully. The Doctor snatched it away from him and sits down on the edge of the bed, then looks at the screen. Jeff looked over his shoulder warily, as the Doctor's eyes widen. "...Blimey! Get a girlfriend, Jeff." I laughed as I realised what could be on that screen, looking up at the ceiling as I stood from the doorway. Mrs. Angelo entered, "Gran!" Jeff protested to the sudden audience in his room. I walked in and sat next to the Doctor to see what he was doing. He was typing hurriedly typing. "What are you doing?" Mrs. Angelo asked
"Sun's gone wibbly, so right now, somewhere out there, there's gonna be a big old video conference call. All the experts in the world, panicking at once, and d'you know what they need? Me. Ah, and here they all are. All the big boys. NASA, Jodrell Bank, Tokyo Space Center, Patrick Moore." The Doctor answered
"Oh! I like Patrick Moore!" Mrs. Angelo said excitedly
"I'll get you his number, but watch him, he's a devil." He replied, I laughed.
"You can't just hack in on a call like that!" Jeff proclaimed I gave him a look.
"Can't I?" The Doctor said as he suddenly stopped typing and held his special paper up to the webcam on top of the computer. On the screen were 6 different boxes, each with a different person representing a different place. Obviously that special paper worked somehow, because voices come out of the laptop. "Who are you? This is a secure call, what are you doing?"
"Hello. Yeah, I know, you should switch me off, but before you do, watch this." The Doctor replied as he started to type rapidly, he was showing them at the same time just what he was doing. "Fermat's Theorem, the proof, and I mean the real one, never been seen before, poor Fermat got killed in a duel before he could write it down. My fault. I slept in. Oh, and here's an oldie but a goodie, why electrons have mass, and a personal favourite of mine, faster than light travel with two diagrams and a joke." He stopped typing and added "Look at your screens. Whoever I am, I'm a genius. Look at the sun. You need all the help you can get. Fellas - pay attention."
"Sir! What are you doing?!" a random voice asked
The Doctor begun to type fast on Rory's phone and as he did so he said what he was doing. "I am writing a computer virus, very clever, super fast, and a tiny bit alive, but don't let on. And why am I writing it on a phone? Never mind. You'll find out. Okay, I'm sending this to all your computers. Get everyone who works for you sending this everywhere. Email, text, FaceBook, Bebo, Twitter, radar dish. Whatever you've got, any questions?"
"Who was your lady friend?" Patrick Moore asked, I laughed as I knew he was talking about Jeff's grandmother.
"Patrick, behave." The Doctor answered
"What does this virus do?" Another unknown voice asked
"Oh, it's a reset command, that's all, it resets counters, it gets in the wi-fi and resets every counter it can find. Clocks, calendars, anything with a chip will default at zero at exactly the same time. But yeah, I could be lying, why should you trust me? I'll let my best man explain." The Doctor answered and then there was a pause as he waited. Jeff was still staring curiously over our shoulders. The Doctor waits and then slowly turned to Jeff, whispering "Jeff. You're my best man."
"You what?" Jeff asked surprised as the Doctor closed the laptop screen turning to Jeff.
"Listen to me. In ten minutes, you're gonna be a legend. In ten minutes, everyone on that screen is gonna be offering you any job you want. But first, you have to be magnificent. You have to make them trust you and get them working. This is it, Jeff, right here, right now. This is when you fly. Today's the day you save the world." The Doctor answered Jeff, who honestly was looking a bit dumbstruck about it. He begun to think carefully before he answered "...Why me?"
"It's your bedroom. Now, go, go, go." The Doctor answered as he put the laptop on Jeff's lap, got up taking my hand quickly before we ran out.
The Doctor suddenly remembered something as he turned back opening up Jeff's bedroom door and said "Oh. And. Delete your internet history." He waggled a finger off of the hand that wasn't holding mine at Jeff, all the while seeming to think better of it before we left again.
We ran up the garden path, we reached the gate. He looked around and saw the fire engine that had previously decided to wander off from its owners. I laughed as he dragged me towards it. We hopped into the fire engine, he was like a big kid. We drove off towards the hospital that Rory worked at. Rory's phone rang and the Doctor answered, and I was pretty sure it was Amy. He told her "Look in the mirror. Don't worry! I've comandeered a vehicle." He hung up the phone, putting in back in his pocket.
He looked at me before slamming the siren like a kid. I laughed and whooped with joy as we sped down the road. The phone rang again a few minutes later, we were closer to the hospital almost there. "Are you in?!" The Doctor asked and then replied "You need to get out of there." We kept driving as he asked Amy "Amy? Amy, what's happening? Amy! Talk to me!" He then got a reply, which relieved me slightly. At least they weren't dead yet. "Which window are you?" The Doctor asked and then asked again irritated "Which window?!" He really wasn't having an easy day, and probably not used to the lack of straight answers.
He hung up as he got an answer and handed the phone to me as he aimed for the window. He said to me "Avery, text Amy and Rory to duck." I nodded and texted them to duck. The ladder crashed into the room. We got out and he helped me up onto the ladder, which I quickly climbed up and leaped into the room as the Doctor followed more agilely and draped his hands across Rory and Amy's shoulders as I smirked at Prisoner Zero. "Right! Hello! Am I late? No!" The Doctor said as he looked at the clock "Three minutes to go. There's still time."
"Time for what, Time Lord?" replied Prisoner Zero and I widened my eyes as I remembered what Jack had told me. I grabbed my phone and quickly texted Jack's phone about the whole situation.
"Take the disguise off, they'll find you in a heartbeat. Nobody dies." The Doctor said stepping forward.
"The Atraxi will kill me this time. If I am to die, let there be fire." Prisoner Zero replied as a woman with two little girls. I felt bad for the comatose woman's kids. To lose their mother to a coma and then this monster to use her mind for this.
"Ha ha, oookay. You came to this world by opening a crack in space and time. Do it again. Just leave." The Doctor said
"...I did not open the crack."
"Somebody did."
"The cracks in the skin of the universe - don't you know where they came from?" Prisoner Zero told the Doctor, and from the look on his face showed he obviously had no idea, and Prisoner Zero picked up on it. "You don't, do you?" Suddenly a little girl's voice starts to talk through the mother almost singsong like."The Doctor in the TARDIS doesn't know. Doesn't know, doesn't know!" The woman's voice took over again "The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall." I knew that was important, and quickly jotted it down on my hand and into my phone as a memo.
Suddenly there was a noise from behind Prisoner Zero, and the Doctor's eyes flick to it. His expression lightened and he relaxed slightly as he exclaimed "Aaaand, we're off. Look at that. Look, at that." He raised a hand to point at it. We all turned to see, turned to see that the thud had been the clock. It looked like the Doctor's computer virus worked as the clock had reset itself, now showing 0:00.
I grinned as I looked at the Doctor as he continued "Yeah, I know, just a clock, whatever, but d'you know what's happening right now? In one little bedroom, my team are working. Jeff and the world. And, d'you know what they're doing? They're spreading the word. All over the world. Quantum fast. The word is out. And do you know what the word is?" Amy and Rory stared at him, Amy was looking full of pride in our Raggedy Doctor. "The word is zero. Now, me, if I was up in the sky in a battleship, monitoring all Earth communications, I'd probably take that as a hint. And if I had a whole battlefleet surrounding the planet, I'd be able to track a simple old computer virus to its source in... what, under a minute? The source, by the way... is right here." He pulled out Rory's phone from his pocket and held it out. Suddenly there was a blinding white light flashing through the windows. "Ooooohhhhh, and I think they just found us!" Amy, Rory and I rushed over to the window to see. One of the Atraxi ships were back and was flying to hover above the hospital, shining a spotlight directly of the eye's pupil to rest on the windows where we all were.
"The Atraxi are limited. While I'm in this form, they'll still be unable to detect me. They've tracked a phone. Not me." Prisoner Zero replied thinking it still outsmarted the Doctor.
"Yeah! But this is the good bit, I mean, this is my favourite bit. Do you know what this phone is full of? Pictures of you. Every form you've learned to take, right here. Oh, and, being uploaded, about... now. And the final score is, no TARDIS, no screwdriver, two minutes to spare... Who da man?!" The Doctor said though we all looked unimpressed at him. I gave him a sympathetic smile. "...Oh. Well. I'm just, never saying that again. Fine." He added
"Then I shall take a new form." Prisoner Zero said
"Oh, stop it, you know you can't. Takes months to form that kind of psychic link." The Doctor said
"And I've had years." Prisoner Zero replied, and suddenly it started to glow orange again. The Doctor stared at it unnerved, and I closed my eyes waiting to pass out when I hear a thud behind me. I opened my eyes and quickly turned around looking at where Amy would be. She had collapsed and I shrieked "AMY!" I slid over to her, putting her head on my lap. The Doctor ran over and crouched beside us. "No! Amy! "He put his hands against her face "You've gotta hold on! Amy! Don't sleep! You've gotta stay awake, please!"
"Doctor!" Rory said as he pointed at Prisoner Zero, we looked up to see The Doctor. The real Doctor sat up somewhat bemused. "...Well that's rubbish. Who's that supposed to be?" I laughed.
"It's you." Rory and I said together.
"Me? Is that what I look like?"
"You don't know?" Rory replied
"Busy day." He said as he got up to face the Prisoner Zero version of him. "Why me, though? You're linked with her! Why are you copying me?"
"I'm not." Prisoner Zero replied as a young Amy Pond was revealed wandering around the taller figure of the fake Doctor, holding his hand. "Poor Amy Pond. Still such a child inside. Dreaming of the magic Doctor she knows will return to save her. What a disappointment you've been."
After a long pause the Doctor replied "No, she's dreaming about me cause she can hear me." He turned running back over to us, crouching next to Amy once more. "Amy. Don't just hear me, listen. Remember the room, the room in your house you couldn't see. Remember you went inside, I tried to stop you but you did. You went in the room. You went inside. Amy... dream about what you saw."
"No. No. No! " Prisoner Zero shrieked as it started to fade orange, the Doctor looked up then stood walking over to face it. As it turned into this weird worm thing, and then it roars at him like a lion would.
"Well done, Prisoner Zero. A perfect impersonation of yourself." The Doctor said as the light suddenly intensifies on the window beside Prisoner Zero, who started thrashing around, hissing, as the Atraxi spoke "Prisoner Zero is located. Prisoner Zero is restrained." The Doctor stared at Prisoner Zero who faced him a final time and said "Silence, Doctor. Silence will fall." It faded away into nothing, as the Atraxi ship powered up its engines and leaves. The Doctor ran to the window to make sure, he looked satisfied but not exactly pleased about. He took out the phone again and starts dialling rapidly again.
"The- the Sun, is back to normal, right? That's... That's good, yeah? That means its over." Rory said as the Doctor ruffles Rory's hair as he walked past him still dialling. Amy started to wake up slowly as Rory leaned over her. "Amy? Are you okay? Are you with us?" He asked
"What happened?" Amy asked
"He did it. The Doctor did it." Rory replied as I helped her up. Then I walked over to the Doctor who replied "No I didn't."
"What are you doing?"Rory asked the Doctor
"Tracking the signal back. Sorry, in advance." The Doctor said as he looked at Rory.
"About what?"
"The bill."
"Awww." Rory whined as the Doctor finally stopped dialling and yelled into the phone "Oi! I didn't say you could go! Article 57 of the Shadow Proclamation. This is a fully established level five planet. And you were gonna burn it? What? Did you think no one was watching? You lot. Back here, now." He hung up the phone, tossing it back to Rory. "Okay. Now I've done it." He said to us as he started to wander off. I followed him hurriedly. "Uh, did he just bring them back?" Rory complained as Amy followed us hurriedly "Did he just save the world from aliens, and then bring all the aliens back again?!" The Doctor smashed the double doors open, impressively. I was right behind him while Amy hurried behind us while Rory was catching up to her. "Where are you going?" Amy asked
"The roof! No. Hang on." The Doctor replied as he ducked into a cloakroom and we followed. He started to ramble around the cloakroom, picking up the odd piece of clothing and holding onto some, flinging the rest over his shoulder. Rory was following, picking up the clothes the Doctor's dropping or throwing.
"What's in here?" Amy and I asked.
"I'm saving the world, I need a decent shirt! To hell with the raggedy - time to put on a show!" The Doctor said as he spun around with a coat before dropping it.
"You've just summoned aliens back to Earth! Actual aliens! Deadly aliens! Aliens... of death, and... now you're... taking your clothes off." Rory said, and the Doctor was stripping in a corner of the room trying on his new clothes. My eyes widened as I quickly covered my eyes but peeking through a crack in my fingers. Forgive me if I don't find him attractive, I have to look. I am Amy Pond's sister.
"Turn your back if it embarasses you." The Doctor replied
"Are you stealing clothes now? Those clothes belong to people.. you know!" Rory said as he gave shifty glances to Amy, obviously he was trying to impress her and turned his back to the Doctor. "...Are you not gonna turn your back?" Rory said to Amy.
"Nope." Amy replied looking particularly smug, and I elbowed her. I uncovered my eyes giving her a look, trying to remind her that she had a boyfriend. As he finally got half of his new outfit on as well about five different ties, we walked to the rooftop. He stepped out first, followed by me and Amy, and then Rory. There was an Atraxi ship already waiting for us here. "So, this was a good idea, was it? They were leaving!" Amy said
"Leaving is good. Never coming back is better." The Doctor said as he paused before starting to yell up at the Atraxi ship. "Come oooooooon then! The Doctor will see you now!" The big eye in the center of the Atraxi ship was suddenly released and zooms down to rest right in front of the Doctor, evidently examining him. A blue light flares out, and starts to scan him. The Doctor waits patiently for it to finish before he then pulls up his braces. At least he was patient for something.
The Atraxi voice declares "You are not of this world."
"No, but I've put a lot of work into it." The Doctor replied as he fiddled about with his new ties, trying to decide which one works best. "Umm... uhh... I dunno." He suddenly said as he held one up "What do you think?" He was acting casual... This was definitely a mad man.
"Is this world important?" the voice asked
"Important?! What does that mean, important? Six billion people live here, is that important? Here's a better question: is this world a threat to the Atraxi?" The Doctor said as he picked up off random ties flinging them backwards, managing to always hit Amy or Rory, but not exactly me as I ducked to avoid being hit.
"Come on, you're monitoring the whole planet. Is this world a threat?" He added as the same blue light streaked outward from the pupil of the eye once more, not scanning though. But creating a hologram of a globe, the globe flicked through different images through our history that included nuclear explosions, wars and armies. Before the voice answered "...No."
"Are the people of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi?" The Doctor asked and the Atraxi flicked through more images of street carnivals, crowds, and costumes and responded "No."
"Okay! One more, just one. Is this world protected?" The Doctor asked and the Atraxi showed images of a Cyberman smashing through a window, a group of Cybermen, The Daleks spitting outward from the Genesis Ark, The Empress of the Racnoss, The Ood, The Sycorax, The Sontarans, The Silurians, The Reapers, The Hath. All while the Doctor said "Cause you're not the first lot to have come here. Oh, there have been SO many. And what you've got to ask is... what happened to them?"
I smirked as I knew the answer, it was always the Doctor or where I worked. The Atraxi globe flicked through pictures of previous Doctors, and as it got to like the tenth one, our Doctor stepped through the hologram with a curious smile on his face and his full outfit, including a tweed jacket and bowtie. The hologram abruptly disappeared.
"Hello. I'm the Doctor." He paused and gave a small breath of laughter as he said "Basically. Run." The eye widened as it looked terrified, it scooted back up into its ship and the ship leaves hurriedly. Amy and I laughed behind him, as the Doctor stared up grinning into the sky. He jerked slightly, and he pulled out a key that was glowing. I smiled, it was the TARDIS key.
"Is that it? Is that them gone for good? Who were they?" Amy asked but there was no answer. We looked around, and the door back into the building was wide open. The Doctor was already gone, and I sighed disappointed. He had left us again.
We rushed off to our house, back to where the TARDIS was originally. We ran and just as we rushed into the garden. The TARDIS dematerialised, Amy stood slightly ahead of Rory as the wind whipped around us as the TARDIS disappears Amy closed her eyes, and she let him go again. I slumped down to my knees. He had left us again, and how long would it be this time. I sighed as I let my head slump as I stared at the ground, tears forming my eyes. I covered my eyes as I squeezed them shut. I wasn't going to cry this time, he would come back. I knew he would, it would just take time.
Two Years Later
I had grown tired of taking the train back and forth and decided to get an apartment in Cardiff. Closer to work, after all I got promoted. Whenever things happened, I stayed in the hub with Ianto or went out on missions with him. We were partners and best mates. Jack finally told me who he really was, and the fact he couldn't die due to some odd alien thing that happened to him years back with the Doctor and his old companion Rose. Though Jack didn't share as many stories of his travels with the Doctor anymore. He knew it would just upset me; after all it had been two years since the Doctor came back for a day and leave us again.
But now, I was back in Leadworth for a very special day. Amelia Pond's Wedding to Rory Williams. I was so excited. It was the night before, and I woke up as I heard the sound of the TARDIS. I shot out of my bed to Amy's room that was facing the garden and looked out her window with her. We looked at each other and darted off. I ran to my room and grabbed my dressing gown on along with my shoes, phone, and vortex manipulator. Oh yeah, I got one of those, came with the promotion. I pulled my shoes on as well my dressing gown as I walked out of the door just behind Amy, closing it behind me. The Doctor was standing in front of his TARDIS. I gave him a look of slight anger, how dare he come back and look like that. "Sorry about running off earlier! Brand new TARDIS, bit exciting! Just had a quick hop to the Moon and back to run her in." He said as Amy ran slightly closer to him, stopping at the small archway. I followed tying my dressing gown closed. "She's ready for the big stuff now." He added as he patted the TARDIS.
"...It's you. You came back." Amy said
"Course I came back. I always come back. Something wrong with that?" the Doctor said, though I wasn't so sure that he always did. Not from the stories Jack told.
"And you kept the clothes?" Amy said as we walked over to Doctor, standing beside the TARDIS the same way he was.
"Well, I just saved the world. The whole planet, for about the millionth time, no charge, yeah. Shoot me. I kept the clothes."
"Including the bow-tie." Amy said
"Yeah. It's cool. Bow-ties are cool." The Doctor replied adjusting his bow-tie.
"Are you from another planet?" Amy asked
"Yeah." He replied
"'Kay..."
"So what do you think?" He asked
"What?" Amy asked
"Other planets, wanna check some out?"
"What does that mean?" I asked
"It means, well, it means... come wi' me." The Doctor said
"Where?" I asked
"Wherever either of you like." He replied
"All that stuff that happened, the hospital, the spaceships, Prisoner Zero-" Amy said looking up at the TARDIS.
"Oh, don't worry, that's just the beginning, there's loads more." The Doctor said trying to be impressive again.
"Yeah, but those things, those... amazing things, all that stuff." Amy said as the Doctor nodded happily like he knew where all this was going, but Amy suddenly stepped towards him, looking harder. "That was two YEARS ago!"
"Ooohhh. Oops." The Doctor said
"Yeah." I said staring at him
"So that's..." the Doctor said carefully
"Fourteen years!" Amy replied
"Fourteen years since fish custard. Amy Pond and Avery Pond. The girls who waited, you've waited long enough." The Doctor said
"...When I was a kid, you said there was a swimming pool. And a library, and the swimming pool was in the library." Amy said
"Yeah. Not sure where it's got to now, it'll turn up! So! Coming?" The Doctor asked us
Amy shook her head and said "No."
"You wanted to come fourteen years ago." The Doctor said
"I grew up."Amy said "We grew up." She corrected looking at me.
"Don't worry. I'll soon fix that" He said as he clicked his fingers, the TARDIS door opens and a deep orange glow spills out as we stared inside. Amy glanced briefly to the Doctor who was looking just a little smug, and then laughs, before slowly stepping inside. I followed carefully, and the Doctor stepped in behind us closing the door. He moved around us to head up to the console as we took our time. I stared around, wide-eyed.
"Well? Anything you wanna say? Any passing remarks? I've heard them all." The Doctor said, as we were completely lost for words. He ran up to the console doing a little bounce as he reached it. The TARDIS on the inside was so beautiful and complex, and I could never describe it. Amy said " ...I'm in my nightie."
I whispered loudly "Finally..." not in reply to Amy of course.
"Oh, don't worry! Plenty of clothes in the wardrobe. And, possibly, a swimming pool. So! All of time, and space, everything that ever happened or that ever will. Where do you wanna start?" He asked us. Amy and I stopped staring around to look at the Doctor. I skipped up to him while Amy stalked up to him.
"You are so sure that I'm coming." Amy said
"Yeah. I am" The Doctor said
"Why?"
"Cause you're the Scottish girl, in the English village, and I know how that feels." He replied, as they wandered around the console both prodding things they probably shouldn't.
"Oh, do you?" She said
"Well, all these years living here, most of your life, and you've still got that accent. Yeah, you're coming." He said as he dings a little bell on the console.
"Can you get me back for tomorrow morning?" Amy asked
"It's a time machine. I can get you back for five minutes ago. Why? What's tomorrow?" The Doctor asked
" Nothing. Nothing! Just, you know. Stuff." Amy replied and I gave her a hard look before turning my back on her walking over to the other side of the Doctor.
"All right, then. Back in time for 'stuff'." He said and suddenly there was a new sonic screwdriver raising itself out of the console which the Doctor snatched up gleefully "Oh, a new one! Lovely." He whispered to the TARDIS something I couldn't hear. He then started musing around the console.
"Why me?" Amy asked suddenly in the silence
"Why not?"
"No, seriously. You are asking me to run away with you in the middle of the night, it's a fair question. Why me?" Amy said, I knew she didn't ask about us. I was the one who still dreamt about travelling with him.
"Dunno! Fun! Do I have to have a reason?"
"People always have a reason."
"Do I look like people?"
"Yes!" Amy replied
"Been knocking around on my own for a while, my choice, but I've started talking to myself, all the time, it's giving me earache." The Doctor replied
"You're lonely. That's it. Just that." Amy answered, and they both wandered around to face each other.
"Just that. Promise." The Doctor said
"Okay." Amy said
"So you're okay then? Cause this place. Sometimes it can make people feel a bit... you know." The Doctor said carefully.
"I'm fine. Fine. It's just... there's a whole world in here, just like you said. It's all true. I thought, well, I'd, I'd started to think that maybe you were just like a... madman with a box." Amy said
"Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, cause it's important, and one day, your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box." The Doctor said as he grinned broadly at her until she does, then he laughs and she laughs too. He turned and started to dart around the console. I grinned wider than the both of them. He jams down a lever and we cling to the console as the TARDIS began to dematerialise, we were all laughing the whole time. And soon enough, we were off. We were off onto our next adventure!
To Be Continued in The Beast Below!
I plan on taking a small break from this before I start writing the next Doctor Who episode. I wasn't sure if I should have Avery go with the Doctor and Amy, or if I have her wake up in the middle of the night to discover Amy gone and have Amy leave Avery a note about. Make her more angry at them. But I decided not, since there's a plotline that I want to have there by the end of Flesh and Stone. Which fans would get, if you remember what happens at the end of that episode with Amy and the Doctor. I'm thinking that I won't do some episodes from Doctor Who season 5, but do a few episodes from Torchwood time to time. Maybe some timetravel. OoOoOo. So WOO! And it's almost midnight, so thank me for staying up. Goodnight all!