CHAPTER 38

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Allison had taken to leadership like she was born to it. Ivy couldn't help but smile. Lily would be so proud of her if she were in her right mind at the moment. Ivy thought that she would make a good replacement leader until Lily was better again, and she should know since she used to be Cleopatra in what seemed to be another lifetime now.

Ivy looked at Lily with ever increasing worry. She wasn't sure if Lily would ever come out of her catatonic state again as long as Robin was gone.

She wished that she could save Lily the way that she had once saved her. Then it hit her. She had a way to bring her back that just might work. She had to call on the one person that she knew would know Lily even better than she did.

She got onto the monitor on Lily's TARDIS and made a private call to Gallifrey. She just hoped that she could find her. She wasn't even sure of where she was anymore.

Ron had been watching her; and as she switched off the monitor, he asked, "What were you doing, Aunt Ivy? Were you calling Rose?"

Ivy smiled at the way that he addressed her. It always touched her that he called her Aunt even though they weren't related. She had always felt like Lily was her sister after all.

"No, not yet, Ron. If Lily doesn't get better soon then I will. I don't want to worry her right now though. I still keep hoping that she'll snap out of it on her own," Ivy said.

"I don't think so. I think that we're going to need Rose to fix her. If you didn't call her then who did you call?" Ron asked.

"I called the one person in the universe who knows Lily the best. She knows her better than anyone even Rose," Ivy said.

"What's with the mystery? Just tell me," Ron said.

"I'm not sure if the person I'm trying to reach will even come or not. I had to leave her a message. I don't want to raise your hopes up," Ivy said.

"I hope that whoever it is does come. I want her back," Ron said in an emotional voice.

"I'll find some way to bring her back to you. I promise," Ivy said as she gave him a quick hug.

Isabella watched the two of them with such sadness. She couldn't stand to watch it anymore so she went into Lily's bedroom. Lily was lying there now where Ron had brought her. He had hoped that maybe she would go to sleep and then snap out of her shock. It hadn't happened yet though. Her eyes were still wide open, and her face was expressionless.

Isabella took her hand and held it. It was limp and lifeless. There was nothing there.

"Lily, I need you to come back! Don't you dare leave me! I want you at my wedding. It won't be the same without you. You've become very important to me, don't you understand that? You come back right now, or I won't go through with the wedding at all. Do you hear me? I'll just cancel it. You'd better give me some kind of sign right now that you're still in there or no wedding!" Isabella threatened Lily.

Isabella smiled when Lily lightly squeezed her hand but otherwise did nothing. She was still there. She wasn't gone! That was what she needed to keep going.

"The wedding's still on then. I want to see you there alright?" Isabella said with a grin as she continued to hold Lily's hand. She decided to stay with her and talk to her further for a while. It seemed to work.

Ron smiled as he peeked in the doorway and saw her sitting there talking away to his mother. He had really hit the jackpot with her. He didn't know how he had gotten so lucky. He walked back to the console room where Allison was trying to come up with a plan of attack with Romana and Ivy.

"One of us will carry these explosive arrows that Mum made for Robin. It's a good thing that we have some extra ones left over. They did well against the Racnoss before. Can anyone shoot a bow?" Allison asked.

"I can. I can use a sword and a bow," Ivy volunteered.

"Good. You're just a formidable opponent no matter what weapon that you use, aren't you?" Allison asked her with a smile.

"I've been fighting for over two thousand years with just about every weapon in the universe, Ally. I ought to be," Ivy said with a small smile.

"Okay, so Ivy is going to be our biggest asset then. We can't just rely on her though. We have stasers for the rest of us to use, but what else do we have? What can we come up with to really nail them?" Allison asked.

"I have an idea. It was something that was done to me once. I'll need a little time to set it up though. I can use Lily's TARDIS to carry it out," Romana said.

She then went on to explain her idea to Allison. Allison loved it and promised her that she would give her the time that she needed to carry it out.

That left Allison, Ron, Ivy, Skaren, Holly, and Isabella to fight the Racnoss by themselves. They were also joined by several of the Zygons who were determined to protect their home.

As they waited for the Racnoss to arrive, Allison came upon the still unconscious body of the Monk. He was still in a healing coma as he attempted to repair the damage done to him by the explosion of the osmic projector. She began to grow furious as she looked at him lying there. No one was watching her. She could easily finish him right now. He deserved it for trying to kill her mother and for sending Robin back in time.

She pulled out her staser and pointed it at the Monk. She set it to a kill setting, and then she hesitated. Lily wouldn't want her to do this. She would be disappointed in her.

She changed the setting on the staser back to stun and put it away. She wasn't going to go down that road. She didn't want to wind up like the Monk.

She turned to see Ivy watching her. She had seen the whole thing. Allison felt terrible that she had seen her.

"I wanted to, but I didn't. Mum wouldn't like it," Allison said to Ivy.

"You don't have it in you to kill in cold blood. You're becoming more like Lily all of the time. You have no idea how much you really are like her," Ivy said.

"What are you talking about?" Allison asked.

"It doesn't matter. You'll find out someday. Hopefully not for a long time," Ivy said.

Allison let the matter drop because she was afraid of what Ivy's answer would be. She knew deep down that she had always been different even when she was a child in the orphanage. She didn't want to dwell on it anymore and pushed it out of her mind as she quickly changed the subject.

"What should we do with him?" Allison asked as she nodded toward the Monk.

"I'll put him in a holding cell in Lily's TARDIS. Even a Time Lord won't be able to get out of it," Ivy said as she picked the Monk up and slung him over her shoulder. Allison was surprised at how strong Ivy was and stared at her in shock.

"It's a leftover from my days as a vampire. My muscles are very well developed. I'm in peak physical shape. My body was left that way when I became human again, and I've worked hard ever since to make sure that I stay that way through constant exercise," Ivy explained.

The Racnoss finally attacked a few hours later. They began to attack by aerial bombardment first, and then they started transmatting soldiers down to the surface.

Allison and the others started to tear through the invading Racnoss once more as they shot them down with their stasers. Ivy was doing more damage than anyone with her sword and her explosive arrows. She was cutting down dozens of Racnoss every couple of minutes. She was just wounding them enough to take them out of the battle though instead of killing them. Allison wondered what Ivy could do if she had really been going all out.

After nearly an hour of grueling battle, the Racnoss began to suddenly start repeating the same actions over and over again. Then they all disappeared completely from sight. Minutes later, the Racnoss ships disappeared as well.

The Zygons cheered with joy. Their planet was free at last. Allison sighed in relief, and Ivy winked at her. Romana had done it. She had put all of the invading Racnoss into a time loop! They would be trapped in the loop for the rest of eternity.

Allison and the others left the Zygon colony world to great cheers and praise, and then proceeded to liberate each and every other Zygon planet from the Racnoss as well with the same method. Finally all of the Racnoss had been time looped, and the Zygons had all of their territory returned to them.

When the last of the Racnoss had been sent away forever, Skaren knew that he should go. He looked at Holly with great sadness as he said, "I guess that it's time for me to go then. My father will probably need me to help him rebuild our colonies."

"Please, don't," Holly said.

"You don't need me. You'll be fine here with the others until Lily wakes up. She will wake up I'm sure of that. She's a fighter. Nothing's going to stop her," Skaren said with false cheerfulness.

"You're lying to me to make me feel better. Don't do that. It doesn't work," Holly berated him.

"You're married anyway. I shouldn't be constantly being around you. Your husband might not appreciate it," Skaren said.

"About that," Holly started with a shamed look on her face.

"It was a lie. Yes, I know. You panicked at the thought of marrying me," Skaren said with a hurt tone in his voice.

"I panicked at the thought of marriage period. I also don't feel that way about you. I do care about you but only as a friend. I don't love you. I hate to say that to you because I don't want to hurt you, but it's true. I don't want to lead you on," Holly said.

"I understand. You're human, and I'm an ugly alien," Skaren said.

Holly ran forward and stood right in front of him as she said, "No, you're not ugly! It has nothing to do with your appearance or the fact that you're an alien. I just don't feel anything like that towards you. I value you as a friend though. Would you stay with me and help me through this as a friend?"

Skaren looked at her and smiled as he said, "I'd do anything for you. Of course I will if the others want me here."

Allison started to speak for them but hesitated. This wasn't her ship or her role. She looked to Ivy for an answer.

"Of course you can stay. Lily would love to have you here. Why do you think she gave you a time ring? She trusts you. She doesn't just give those away you know," Ivy said with a grin.

Holly beamed forth with a huge smile as she said, "Thank you, Ivy. I really appreciate it."

"You're welcome. It's always good to have a friend around in a time like this," Ivy said in a somber tone.

It was all over. Everything was restored to as normal as such a situation could be. They could never restore things back to the way that they were before because they couldn't bring back the lives that had been lost, and Lily was still catatonic even after an entire day had passed. It was a pyrrhic victory in so many ways.

When the Shadow found out about Lily's reaction to Robin's disappearance through his mental connection to the Monk, he laughed in triumph. The Monk had woken up and had found out that he was being taken to Gallifrey for trial. He had contacted the Shadow for help, but the Shadow had refused at first. He had no intention of wasting time and resources on a failed ally. He had decided to just let the Monk rot.

Then he changed his mind as he had one last idea to permanently get rid of Lily. He decided to use the Monk one final time after all.

"I will free you from your cell and help you to escape if you complete your mission for me. It should be easy for you now with her in a catatonic state. Kill Sekhmet!" the Shadow commanded.

The Monk moved quickly once the cell was opened and soon found his way to Lily's bedroom. She was in there alone except for the one that he knew as Allison. The Monk wasn't going to let her stand in his way. Nothing was going to stop him from getting his revenge on Persephone!

Allison felt a presence behind her and turned just in time to see the Monk fire a staser at her. She crumpled to the floor without having uttered a sound. The Monk then smiled as he aimed the gun at Lily and pulled the trigger!

Meanwhile back in the distant past, Sekhmet had helped give Robin a new identity so that her fellow Gallifreyans didn't find out that he was an alien. He was calling himself Autolycus now and pretending to be Sekhmet's cousin. This gave him an excuse to stay with Sekhmet without causing any suspicion.

He didn't get to stay with her long though before she was being called away to the front lines of the war with the Great Vampires.

"You don't have to go, John. This isn't your war. It isn't even your planet. Just stay here, and you'll be safe," Sekhmet said.

Robin smiled. She didn't know him, and she was still trying to protect him. It was such a Lily thing to do. His smile faded as he realized that while she was in many ways his Lily, she wasn't yet the woman that he loved.

He kept worrying about the present Lily, and how she was taking his absence. He knew what had happened when Ron and Rose had been taken from her, and he didn't want Allison and the others to have to deal with the aftermath of Sekhmet's return. He then imagined an even worse fate for Lily as he knew that she had initially gone into a state of shock when her children had been kidnapped. He was afraid that Lily would now go into a permanent state of shock.

"I can't do that, my lady. I mean Sekhmet. I cannot allow you to go into battle without me by your side. It's the least that I can do for you after what you've done to help me adjust to life here," Robin said.

"There you go again. Why do you keep calling me 'my lady'? Sekhmet asked him with a tone that was a cross between irritation and amusement.

"I'm sorry. It's just that you remind me of someone in my own time. You're similar to her in many ways. It makes me slip sometimes and call you that. It's what I call her," Robin said in a tone of great sadness.

"Is she your wife?" Sekhmet asked in a sympathetic tone.

"She was going to be. I was going to propose to her," Robin said.

Sekhmet started getting emotional and had to fight back tears as she said, "I'm so sorry! I'll do my best to get you back home then. Now I have an added reason to perfect my time travel experiments. I'm working with another scientist called Omega to create a time machine for my people to use. We need to find an energy source first, however. Omega's working on a stellar manipulator to accomplish that. It will turn a star into a singularity, and that will give us limitless energy to power all of our equipment with. It may take us a while to accomplish that though. I can tell that you miss her. I wish that I could do it faster."

"It's okay, Sekhmet. At least you care, and you're trying. That's all that I can ask for," Robin said with a smile.

Sekhmet suddenly wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly for half a minute. Then she realized what she was doing and looked at him apologetically.

"I just felt like you needed it. It was just a token of friendship that's all. That is if you want me to be your friend," Sekhmet said uncertainly.

"I would love to be able to count you as a friend, Sekhmet. I took no offense," Robin assured her.

"Good. You need someone to take care of you if you're going to be fighting against vampires. You are crazy for doing this, you know that? I've been trained, and I still wasn't totally prepared for them. Do you even know how to fight?" Sekhmet asked him.

"You'd be surprised. I know a thing or two about fighting. I even brought a weapon with me," Robin said as he pointed to his bow and quiver full of explosive arrows that were lying on the floor nearby.

"Yes, I saw those arrows. Those are expert work. I couldn't have done better myself. Who made them?" Sekhmet asked.

Robin smiled at the compliment that she was intentionally giving herself as he said, "My lady made them for me."

"So she's a genius too, huh? I bet she's devastatingly beautiful too?" Sekhmet asked with a voice tinged with jealousy.

"She's the most beautiful woman I've ever known. On the inside and the outside," Robin said with complete honesty as he looked right at Sekhmet. You're beautiful no matter how many times you change your form! Robin thought as he continued to gaze at her.

"I hope she knows how lucky she is," Sekhmet said in a low voice.

"Oh, she does. I just hope that she's okay. I don't know how she'll react to my disappearance," Robin said with worry.

"She'll be okay. I'll bring you back five minutes after you left. She won't even have time to miss you," Sekhmet said optimistically.

The two of them were quickly taken to a war torn world in less than an hour on one of Rassilon's bow ships. They were sent to the surface of the world to help fight the normal sized vampire pawns while the bow ships went on ahead to battle the Great Vampires themselves.

Sekhmet and Robin looked around them in horror at the thousands of dead and dying Gallifreyans lying all around them for as far as they could see. Most of them had been completely drained of blood, and they looked a terrible shade of ghastly pale like they were made out of chalk.

"I told you to stay at home," Sekhmet said as she saw Robin's reaction.

"I couldn't let you go off to face such a thing by yourself," Robin said.

"I can take care of myself you know," Sekhmet said defensively.

"Oh, I know that. I just wouldn't feel right if I wasn't here for you," Robin said.

"How do you know that? You've never seen me fight," Sekhmet asked suspiciously.

"I can tell how strong and independent you are just by looking at you," Robin said.

Sekhmet nodded but eyed him warily. There was much more to John Little than met the eye she had decided. She trusted him though, or she wouldn't have let him come here with her. It scared her how much she had instantly trusted him the minute that she met him. It was almost as if there was some kind of instant connection between them, and that also scared her.

Her thoughts were quickly forgotten as one of the Great Vampires appeared out of nowhere and started charging toward them and all of the other soldiers there. The huge vampire was on them in less than a minute, and a huge foot started descending down on them to crush the life out of them.

Sekhmet stood there looking at the huge foot in fear and was frozen in place. Robin now knew just how very young that she really was. She had been in battle before but obviously this was her first time being confronted by one of the gargantuan monsters that were the leaders of this attack.

Robin pulled her out of the way just in time before the giant foot would have crushed her into powder underneath it. He started dragging her along with him as the monster began to pursue them with a ferocious howl of joy as he enjoyed the chase that his prey was giving him.

"I've never done that before. I don't know what happened," Sekhmet said as she came back to her senses and started to run along with him.

"It's alright, my lady. There's no need to explain it to me. Everyone is afraid sometimes," Robin said compassionately.

Sekhmet frowned at him. He had called her that name again! Something was funny about this whole situation with him, and she was going to find out what it was before long. If she didn't die here first that is! She thought to herself as she ran for her life with her future love from the rapidly approaching Great Vampire as it mocked them with its hysterical laughter!

Next: What happens to Allison and Lily at the hands of the Monk? Will Robin and Sekhmet escape from certain death at the hands, er, feet of the Great Vampires? Also just who is the mysterious woman who Ivy is trying to get in touch with to help Lily? Find out in the next chapter!