CHAPTER 19
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Lily had never been so angry and so scared at the same time in all of her life, and that was a very long time.
"Get out of him! If you want a body, use mine. I won't fight you anymore. Leave him!" Lily shouted to the Animus.
"No. This body is just perfect. I believe I'll keep it. It will be just what I need when I go to Earth. Earth is a much better base than Vortis. It has so many natural resources and so much water. I can draw power from all of these resources to sustain myself with. It should help keep me alive for a time at least. Then I will move out into space and take what I need from the worlds out there with the help of humanity. I will create a Great and Bountiful Human Empire in my image instead of humanity's. I will rewrite humanity's future as they master space in my name not theirs," the Animus proclaimed.
"So you want to change history. You're going to rewrite all of human history so that you are the single central force all throughout it. I can't allow that you know," Rose said.
"You can't stop me. You may have mastery over the physical laws of this universe, but I am from the previous universe that existed from before this one. You have no power over me, Bad Wolf," the Animus said with a sneer.
"Don't be so sure. I met someone from your universe not so long ago. She claimed to have been the reason that I became Bad Wolf from having seen her when I looked in the Untempered Schism when I was eight. Being exposed to her presence is supposed to have triggered my mutation into Bad Wolf, according to her. I don't know if that's true or not; but if it is, I may have more power than you think," Rose said with a sinister smile on her face.
The Animus looked at her for a moment as if studying her. Then he spouted some ancient curse and said, "Yes, I can see her taint on you. I can't tell just how much you have been influenced by her, but her presence has definitely been left on your cells. I cannot allow you to stop me. I must survive!"
The Animus started to drain power from Rose; and, to her immense surprise, she felt herself start to weaken as the Animus grew stronger off of the Vortex energy inside of her.
"The power in you is strong. Maybe I can use you to sustain myself instead of draining more planets. It will allow me to keep the Earth in pristine shape for a little while longer. That's good," the Animus said with an evil smile.
"You want power? Take mine and leave my children alone!" Lily challenged him.
She glowed with regenerative energy and directed it at the Animus in an attempt to knock him out of Ron's body.
The Animus roared in laughter as he used the Vortex energy that he stole from Rose to deflect Lily's power back at her. Lily went flying back from the backlash, and the wind was knocked out of her for a moment so that she was unable to move for a moment.
A moment was all that the Animus needed. Rose tried to fight back against him, but he just drew more power from her and made her even weaker. She fell to her knees as she suddenly felt as weak as a kitten!
Doctor! she called out to her husband through her mental link.
It was already too late though. The Animus grabbed her arm, and then both of them disappeared in a flash of blinding light. The Animus was now using Rose's power to take them both to Earth!
Lily and her friends could do nothing but look at the empty space where the two had been seconds ago in complete despair.
"No! He's taken both of them!" Lily screamed in helplessness as soon as she got her breath back.
"We'll stop him somehow. We'll bring them both back to you," Robin said as he put his arms around Lily in comfort.
"I just got both of them back after having been without them for so long. I can't be without them again! I can't! I won't survive this time," Lily said in a depressed tone.
Robin had never seen her look so beaten and defeated before. It was like someone had drained the life out of her as she looked at him with sunken and dead eyes.
"He took my babies," Lily said as if in a trance.
"We'll get them back for you I promise you that," Robin said to her with anger in his voice.
He was so angry now. Angry that Lily had been reduced to this horrible state and also angry at himself for not having been able to do anything to stop it. He felt so useless when he couldn't do anything to help the woman that he loved. He just had to stand by helpless again just like when the Monk had shot her! He was getting tired of it. He was tired of being unable to do anything to protect her! He was Robin Hood, and that was his job to protect others!
They heard the sound of the Doctor's TARDIS suddenly arriving, and they all turned toward it. It materialized within seconds, and the Doctor stepped out of it with anger written all over his face.
"Where is she? Where is my wife?" the Doctor said in full Oncoming Storm mode.
"She's gone. Something called the Animus took her. It took her and my son," Lily said with no life in her voice.
The Doctor's anger was dialed back a little as he said, "I'm sorry, Lily! I will get them both back for you though. I've met the Animus before, and I defeated him. I'll bring them both back to you!"
Lily just stared lifelessly ahead. She had lost hope.
The Doctor had seen her like this before after they had all thought that Arkytior was dead. He had hoped to never see her in this state ever again.
"Everyone get in my TARDIS. I can track her down through our mental link," the Doctor said.
Robin led Lily toward the TARDIS as she began to look disoriented. The Doctor had seen this before too. She had lost touch with reality for a while after they thought that Arkytior was dead. She loved her daughter so much that she had almost died without her. Now to have lost two children! He hoped that she would be strong enough to make it through it until he could rescue them.
Allison was so upset at the way that Lily seemed to be falling apart. She didn't know what to do. She took Lily's hand and stroked it to try to show her that she was there and that she cared. Lily looked at her and smiled for a moment before the depression settled back onto her face.
Isabella was even more quiet than usual. She was dying inside. She hadn't known Ron for that long, but she felt like someone had ripped her heart out when the Animus had taken him over!
She swore to herself that somehow someway she would get him back; and when she did, she would tell him how she felt. No more waiting!
All of them left with the Doctor, and he immediately went off in search of Rose. He successfully tracked her down for a while, but then suddenly his face fell.
"I've lost contact with her. The Animus has blocked our mental link!" the Doctor said in a mixture of surprise and anger.
Next: The Doctor wants his wife back, and not even the Animus is going to keep him from her. When he finds her, the Animus is going to wish he had stayed on Vortis! But that's nothing compared to what Lily is going to do to him!