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"Behold... the Doctor began as he opened the Tardis door as Amy, Rory, Rose and the Doctor left the Tardis, "Rio!"
"Nuh-uh," Amy said as the sight that she and the others saw was a graveyard as they left the Tardis.
"Not really getting the sunshine carnival vibe," Rory added as he agreed with Amy.
"No," the Doctor said as he walked forward, "Ooh, feel that, though, what's that?" he then began to bounce in place," Ground feels strange... Just me."
"I feel it too, Doctor," Rose told her husband.
"So I'm guessing that this is just a Gallifreyan thing, as both of you can feel it while me and Rory cannot," Amy surmised.
"It's possible, Amy, as we have more senses than you do," Rose told her, "With one of them being that we can feel the Earth spin at 1,000 miles an hour and move around the sun at 67 miles an hour."
"Rose, did you just tell her what I told your Chameleon-arched self when I was in my 9th incarnation?" The Doctor asked his wife.
"Basically, yes," Rose answered.
"Wait... That's weird," the Doctor suddenly said.
"What's weird?" Rory asked the Time Lord.
"Doctor, stop trying to distract us. We're in the wrong place," Amy told the Doctor as he ran around to the other side of a nearby church as Rose, Amy and Rory followed him, "Doctor, it's freezing and I've dressed for Rio. We are not stopping here," the Doctor then plucks some grass from the ground next to the church, "Doctor! Are you listening to me? It's a graveyard! You promised me a beach."
"Blue grass. Patches of it all round the graveyard," the Doctor said as he examined the grass that he plucked from the ground next to the church.
"That grass looks prehistoric," Rose said as she joined her husband and looked at the blue grass, "From when Amy and Rory's ancestors were still apes."
"You're right, Rose, this grass shouldn't be here as it went extinct millions of years ago," the Doctor said, agreeing with his wife as Amy and Rory joined them, "So, Earth, 2020-ish, ten years in your future, wrong continent for Rio, I'll admit, but it's not a massive overshoot."
"Why are those people waving at us?" Amy asked as she notices two people on the other side of the valley waving at them
"Can't be," the Doctor muttered.
"Yeah, it can't be," Rose said, agreeing with the Doctor as she knew what it was as well as Rory began to wave back only for Amy to stop him as the Doctor took out a pair of binoculars and looked through them.
"It is!" The Doctor said, confirming his and Rose's suspicions as he saw a future version of Amy and Rory, "It's you two."
"No, we're here. How can we be up there?!" Rory asked with confusion.
"Ten years in your future," the Doctor explained, "Come to relive past glories, I'd imagine. Humans, you're so nostalgic."
"He's right, your species is so nostalgic," Rose told both Amy and Rory as she agreed with the Doctor.
"We're still together in ten years?" Amy told Rory with surprise.
"No need to sound so surprised!" Rory told her.
"Hey, let's go and talk to them!" Amy told Rory, "We can say hi to Future Us! How cool is that?"
"You both really shouldn't talk to yourselves from another point in time," Rose told tem as Amy took Rory by the arm and began to head off to meet their future selves, "It could get complicated very quickly."
"She's right and...oh, look! Big mining thing. Oh, I love a big mining thing. Don't you, Rose?" The Doctor asked Rose after he saw a huge minning facility in the valley below them.
"Yea, I do," Rose said, answering her husband's question.
"See, way better than Rio! Rio doesn't have a big mining thing," the Doctor told them.
"We're not going to have a look, are we?" Amy asked him.
"Knowing my husband, we're definitely going to," Rose told her.
"Let's go and have a look!" The Doctor said as he headed down into the valley, "Come on, let's see what they're doing."
"Told you," Rose told them as she followed her husband down into the valley.
"If they can't get us to Rio, how are they ever going to get us back home?" Rory asked Amy.
"Did you not see, over there? It all works out fine," Amy told him, "Besides Rose is a better pilot than he is."
"And how do you know that Rose is a better pilot?" Rory asked her.
"'Cause she told me that she passed her pilot's exam back on her and the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey," Amy answered.
"After everything we've seen, we just drop back into our old lives, the nurse and the kissogram?" Rory asked her.
"I guess," Amy answered, "They're getting away."
"Hang on," Rory said as she grabbed him by the arm before he noticed that there was a ring on her finger, "What are you doing with that?"
"Engagement ring!" Amy answered, "I thought you liked me wearing it."
"Amy! You could lose it! Cost...a lot of money, that!" Rory told her.
"Hm," Amy said as she took her engagement ring off and gave it to him, "Spoilsport."
"Go on. I'll catch the three of you up," Rory told her as he headed back into the Tardis.
"Doctor! Rose!" Amy called as she ran to catch up with both Gallifreyans.
Rory placed Amy's engagement ring back in its red box and placed it back into a compartment on the Tardis's console before stepping back outside, where a woman around the age of 38 with auburn hair and a young boy around the age of 10 was waiting for him.
"Well, that was quick!" The woman told him.
"Was it?" Rory asked her with confusion.
"It's great that you came," the woman added.
"Bit retro," the young boy told him as he looked at the Tardis, "What is it, portable crime lab?"
"Oh. Er, sort of," Rory answered.
"Ambrose Northover," the woman said, introducing herself as she shook Rory's hand, "I was the one who called. I run the meals on wheels for the whole valley. This is my son, Elliot."
"Where's your uniform?" Elliot asked Rory.
"Don't be cheeky, Elliot, he's plain clothes," Ambrose told her son, "CID, is it? Anyway, it's over here." She then walked off as Rory, who was unsure of what to do, followed her and Elliot.
"Restricted access. No unauthorised personnel. Mm," the Doctor said, reading the sign of the gate of the drill site's entrance as he, Rose and Amy arrived at the drill site before he took out his sonic screwdriver and used it as he aimed it at the gate's lock as it unlocks itself.
"That is breaking and entering," Amy told the Doctor.
"She's right, Doctor. That is breaking and entering," Rose said as she agreed with Amy.
"What did I break?! Sonicing and entering, totally different," the Doctor said as he opened the gate.
"Come on, then," Amy said, calling out to the Doctor and Rose as she walked through the gate.
"You're sure Rory'll catch us up?" The Doctor asked Amy as he and Rose looked back at the way they came from.
"Yeah, he would've showed up by now," Rose said, agreeing with him before they followed Amy into the drill site.
"It's a family plot, see. My aunt Gladys died six years ago. Her husband, Alun, died a few weeks back. He lived in the house two doors down. There's not many of us left up here now," Ambrose told Rory as she, Rory and Elliot stood in front of an open grave and looked into it.
"Mum, he doesn't care about that! He wants to know about the dead bodies," Elliot told his mother.
"Yes. Sorry. Well, they always wanted to be buried in the same plot, together. But when we went to bury Uncle Alun, Gladys wasn't there. Gone. Body, coffin, everything," Ambrose explained.
"What?" Rory said with confusion.
"The mad thing is, on the surface, the grave was untouched. No signs of it having been messed with," Ambrose added.
"I'm sorry, I don't understand," Rory admitted.
"Nobody has touched the grave since my aunt was buried," Ambrose told him, "But when they dug it open, the body was gone. How is that possible?"
"What about now, Amy, can you feel it now?" The Doctor asked Amy as he, Amy and Rose walked through the halls of the drill site's monitoring station.
"Honestly, I've got no idea what you're on about. Because I can't feel what's wrong but you and Rose could," Amy told both Gallifreyans.
"The ground doesn't feel like it should," the Doctor explained to Amy.
"It's ten years in the future, maybe how this ground feels is how it always feels," Amy suggested.
"Good thought! But no. It doesn't," the Doctor told her as a whirring sound began as he took his sonic screwdriver back out and shook it as it extended into it's claw mode, "Hear that, drill in start-up mode. After-waves of a recent seismological shift and blue grass," he then placed his sonic screwdriver back in his tweed jacket as he put the blue grass in his mouth and makes a face as he pulled it from his tongue.
"Oh, please! Have you always been this disgusting?" Amy asked him in disgust.
"He always does that Amy as I remember him doing the same thing to sand on the planet of San Helios, a while back before we regenerated," Rose told Amy.
"That's different, Rose, the sand used be people," the Doctor reminded Rose.
"Same thing," Rose muttered.
"What's in…" the Doctor began as he walked around the corner of the edge of the hall and entered a room where a middle aged Indian skinned woman was working with drilling equipment behind her, "here? Hello!"
"Who are you? What're you doing here? And what're you wearing?" Te Indian skinned woman asked them.
"I dressed for Rio!" Amy answered.
"We were planning on taking her and her boyfriend to Rio but got sidetracked," Rose said at the same time.
"Ministry of Drills, Earth and Science! New Ministry, quite big, just merged, lot of responsibility on our shoulders, don't like to talk about it," the Doctor answered as he took out his psychic paper before placing it back in his tweed jacket, "What're you doing?"
"None of your business," the Indian skinned woman answered.
"Where are you getting these readings from?" The Doctor asked as he and Rose walked up to a monitor that the Indian skinned woman was working at.
"Yeah, where are those seismograph readings coming from?" Rose asked her as she agreed with the Doctor.
"Under the soil," the Indian skinned woman answered as she removed some equipment that showed dirt beneath them.
"The drill's up and running again," an old man with hair that looked like he was balding and was around 60 said as he entered the room before noticing both Gallifreyans, "What's going on? Who are these people?"
"I'm Rose, that's the Doctor, my husband, and that's our companion, Amy," Rose answered as the Doctor kneeled by the hole and tested the soil, letting it fall from his fingers to the ground.
"We're not staying, are we, Doctor?!" Amy asked the Time Lord.
"Why's there a big patch of earth in the middle of your floor?" The Doctor asked the Indian skinned woman and the old man who was around 60 years old.
"We don't know, it just appeared overnight," the Indian skinned woman answered.
"Amy, don't approach it, the patch of earth could rupture at any moment," Rose told Amy as she walked closer to the hole and peers at it as she ignored the Time Lady's warning.
"Good, right, you all need to get out of here very fast," the Doctor told both the Indian skinned woman and the old man who was around 60 years old as he stood up and walked back over to Rose at the monitor that they were inspecting a few moments ago.
"Why?" The Indian skinned woman asked the Time Lord.
"Could you tell us your name?" Rose asked the Indian skinned woman.
"Nasreen Chaudhry," the Indian skinned woman answered.
"Look at the screens, Nasreen, your readings. It's moving," the Doctor explained as the seismograph readings slowly began to fluctuate as Amy keeled by the patch of earth.
"Hey, that's specialised equipment! Get away from it," the old man who was around 60 years old ordered both Gallifreyan as he approached them and Nasreen at the monitor.
"What is?" Nasreen asked the Doctor.
There is steam rising from the dirt in the hole.
"Doctor, Rose, this steam, is that a good thing?" Amy asked both Gallifreyans as she saw steam rising from the patch of Earth.
"Shouldn't think so," the Doctor answered as he and Rose began to walk over to the patch of earth, "It's shifting when it shouldn't be shifting."
"What shouldn't?" Narseen asked him as the ground began to shake, causing Amy to back away from the patch of earth.
"The ground, the soil, the earth, moving, but how?" The Doctor asked as he ran back to the monitor, "Why?"
"Earthquake?" Amy asked both Gallifreyans.
"What's going on?" The old man who was around 60 years old asked.
"Doubt it. Cos it's only happening under this room," the Doctor answered.
"Well, maybe it's an artificial one," Rose told the Doctor.
"Could be, Rose," the Doctor told her as more patches of earth began to form as the ground subsided underneath, before he turned to everyone else, "It knows we're here. The ground's attacking us."
"No, that's not possible!" Narseen told him with disbelief.
"Under the circumstances, I suggest... run!" The Doctor said as e grabbed Rose and Narseen by the hands as they ran for the door with the old man who was around 60 following them before getting trapped as one of his legs getting stuck in one of the patches of earth, causing Amy to pause, conflicted on whether she should help him or not.
"Tony!" Narseen yelled as she called out to the man who was around 60 years old with fear ol her face.
"Stay back, Amy! Stay away from the earth!" The Doctor ordered Amy.
"He's right, Amy, you could get pulled in as well," Rose told Amy as she agreed with the Doctor as she leaped over one of the patches of earth to help Tony.
"It's OK," Amy told Tony when the ground beneath Amy opened up, causing both of her feet to be trapped inside one of the patches of earth.
"It's pulling me down!" Amy cried with fear on her face.
"Amy!" The Doctor yelled as he ran over to her.
"Doctor, help me, something's got me!" Amy told the Doctor.
"Take my hand!" The Doctor told her as he gets on his stomach and extends his hand out as he uses it to reach her.
"Doctor, the ground's got my legs," Amy told him as she was pulled down to her waist as the ground pulled her down like what a sinkhole does.
"I've got you," the Doctor told Amy as he gripped both of her hands.
"OK," Amy said as Narseem helped Tony get out of the Patch of earth that he was stuck in.
"Don't let go," Amy said, begging the Doctor to not let go of her hands.
"Never," the Doctor told her.
"Doctor, what is it, why is it doing this?" Amy asked him.
"Stay calm, keep hold of my hand, don't let go," the Doctor told her before turning to Narseen and Tony, "Your drill, shut it down! Go! Now!" Narseen and Tony then left to go to the control room, "Rose, go with them to make sure they don't screw this up."
"Got it, Theta," Rose told him as she followed Narseen and Tony.
"Can you get me out?" Amy asked the Doctor.
"Amy, try and stay calm. If you struggle, it'll make things worse," the Doctor told her, "Keep hold of my hand."
Rose, Nasreen and Tony soon entered the control room as both Nasreen and Tony went to try to stop the drill with their equipment.
"Shut down all drilling activity as quick as you can," Nasreen told Tony as they sat in front of their computers to turn it off.
"Reducing main unit power," Tony added as the drill slowly began to stop.
"You both better stop it soon, or else we'll lose Amy and my husband will go all Oncoming Storm on you both," Rose told them as she watched them.
"I'm not going to let you go," the Doctor told Amy as she was continuing to sink into the patch of earth.
"Doctor, it's pulling me down, something's pulling me!" Amy told the Doctor as her arm slips from his grasp as she sinks lower into the patch of earth.
"Stay calm. Hold on, if Rose can help them, they can just shut down the drill…" the Doctor told Amy as he gripped her wrist with both of his hands.
"I can't hold on!" Amy told him.
"Tony, we have got to be faster!" Nasreen told Tony as they continued to slow down the drill to stop it.
"I'm doing my best! Come on, shut down!" Tony told her as the drill was nearly finished stopping.
"You better stop it soon, or we'll lose Amy," Rose reminded them.
Soon all that was showing of Amy was her head and arms as the Doctor continued to strain to hold onto her.
"What's pulling me? What is under the earth?" Amy asked the Doctor, "I don't want to suffocate under there."
"Amy, concentrate. Don't you give up!" The Doctor told her.
"Tell Rory…" Amy told him.
"No. Amy!" The Doctor shouted as Amy sinked lower into the patch of the earth, " Amy, no!" Amy was then swallowed by the earth, "No! No!" He then digs through the dirt, only to find nothing, "No! No! No! No. No! No. No," he then pounded the ground before standing back up, "No. No!" He then pulled his sonic screwdriver out and scanned the patch of earth with it as Rose, Nasreen and Tony ran back into the room.
"Where's Amy?" Rose asked her husband.
"She's gone, Arkytior," the Doctor answered, "The ground took her."
Rory was standing in the muddy grave, jumping up and down like the Doctor was doing when they landed before putting his hand on the side of the inside of the grave.
"Do you want sugar?" Elliot asked Rory as he stood above him, outside of the grave.
"Sorry?" Rory asked with confusion as he didn't know what he was talking about.
"In your tea," Elliot explained, "Mum's asking."
"No. Just white, thanks," Rory answered.
"There's only one explanation, as far as I can see," Elliot told him.
"What's that, then?" Rory asked him.
"The graves eat people. Devour them whole, leaving no trace," Elliot answered.
"Not sure about that," Rory told him.
"They didn't steal the body from above. They couldn't have got in from the sides. Only other thing is, they get in from underneath," Elliot explained.
"Not very likely, though," Rory told him.
"When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth," Elliot told him.
"Sorry?" Rory asked him with confusion.
"Sherlock Holmes," Elliot explained, telling him that he was quoting the famous fictional British detective from the late 1800s, "Got the audiobook. The graves 'round here eat people." Elliot then left as Rory shudders.
"Is that what happened to Mo? Are they dead?" Tony asked the Doctor.
"It's not quicksand. She didn't just sink – something pulled her in, it wanted her," the Doctor answered.
"So, Amy's still alive?" Rose asked her husband.
"The ground wanted her?" Nasreen asked at the same time with confusion.
"You said the ground was dormant, just a patch of earth, when you first saw it this morning. And the drill had been stopped," the Doctor reminded them.
"That's right," Tony confirmed.
"But when you re-started the drill, the ground fought back," the Doctor added.
"So what, the ground wants to stop us drilling?! Doctor, that is ridiculous," Nasreen told him with disbelief.
The Doctor then took his sonic screwdriver back out and began to use it on the patch of earth which Amy had taken from with the ground vibrating for a split second before he shook his screwdriver as it extended back into its claw mode again.
"I'm not saying that, and it's not ridiculous, I just don't think it's right. Oh! Of course! It's bio-programming!" The Doctor realized as he placed his sonic screwdriver back in his jacket after he closed it from it's claw mode.
"What?!" Nasreen asked with confusion.
"Nasreen, it's when you use bio-signals to resonate the internal molecular structure of natural objects," Rose said, explaining it to Nasreen.
"It's mainly used in engineering and construction, mostly jungle planets, but that's way in the future, and not here," the Doctor added as he stood up, "What's it doing here?"
"Sorry, did you just say jungle planets, Doctor?" Nasreen asked him with disbelief.
"You're not making any sense, man!" Tony told him, agreeing with Nasreen.
"'Scuse me, I'm making perfect sense, you're just not keeping up," the Doctor told them, "The earth, the ground beneath our feet, was bio-programmed to attack."
"Yeah, even if that were possible, which, by the way, it's not, why?" Nasreen asked him.
"Stop you drilling! We find what's doing the bio-programming, find Amy, get her back," the Doctor explained to Nasreen and Tony before hearing a vibration beneath them, "Ssh ssh ssh! Have I gone mad?! I've gone mad!"
"I feel it too, Doctor," Rose told the Doctor.
"Thank you, Rose, now I know that I haven't gone mad," the Doctor told his wife.
"Doctor. Rose," Nasreen began.
"Nasreen, can you and Tony please be quiet for a moment to let my husband think?" Rose asked them.
"Thank's Rose," the Doctor said, thanking his wife before hopping over the patch of earth over to the three of them, "You stopped the drill, right?"
"Yes!" Nasreen confirmed.
"And you've only got the one drill?" the Doctor asked.
"Yes!" Nasreen answered.
"You're sure about that?" the Doctor asked them.
"Yes!" Tony insisted.
"So, if you shut the drill down... why can I still hear drilling?" The Doctor asked as he got on his stomach, next to the patch of earth and placed his ear on the concrete floor and heard a whirring sound beneath the floor, "It's under the ground."
"That's not possible," Tony said with disbelief.
"Rose, could you use your sonic screwdriver on the computers behind us?" The Doctor asked Rose as he stood up.
"Will do," Rose answered as she turned around and pulled out her sonic screwdriver before activating it as she aimed it at the computers behind them.
"Oh, no, what, what is she doing?" Nasreen asked as the computers made a high-pitched whirring sound.
"She's hacking into your records," the Doctor answered as they approached the computers, "Reports, samples, sensors, good, just unite the data, make it all one big conversation, let's have a look. So. We are here and this is your drill hole. 21.009 kilometres. Well done!"
"Thank you. It's taken us a long time," Nasreen told him.
"How long exactly?" Rose asked her.
"Around five years," Nasreen answered.
"Why here, though? Why drill on this site?" The Doctor asked her.
"We found patches of grass in this area, containing trace minerals unseen in this country for 20 million years," Nasreen told him.
"We saw those too," Rose told her, "They're from the time when humans were still apes."
"The blue grass? Oh, Nasreen, those trace minerals weren't X marking the spot, saying dig here," the Doctor told her, "They were a warning. Stay away. Cos while you've been drilling down... somebody else has been drilling up." He then pulled up a screen on one of the monitors showing a vertical network of tunnels, "Oh, beautiful. Network of tunnels all the way down."
"No, no, we've surveyed that area," Tony told them.
"You only saw what you went looking for," the Doctor explained.
"What are they?" Nasreen asked as she pointed at the bottom of the screen where she saw a few dots blinking as a noise began to go off.
"Heat signals. Wait, dual readings, hot and cold, doesn't make sense," the Doctor explained, "And now they're moving. Fast. How many people live nearby?"
"Just my daughter and her family. The rest of the staff travel in," Tony answered.
"Grab this equipment and follow us," the Doctor said as he and Rose headed for the door.
"Why? What're we doing?!" Nasreen asked them
"Because, Nasreen, that noise that's going off, isn't a drill. It's a transport, with three life forms on board and heading towards the surface at 150km an hour from being 30km below the surface," Rose explained before turning to her husband, "How long till they reach the surface, Doctor?"
"12 minutes, Rose," the Doctor answered as he walked back towards the computer and picked up one of them, "Whatever bio-programmed the Earth is on its way up, now." He then left the building with Rose as Nasreen and Tony packed up the other computer before following both Gallifreyans out of the building.
"The Doctor and Tony are carrying the computers while Rose and Nasreen followed them as they were pushing a wheelbarrow full of equipment.
"How can something be coming up when there's only the Earth's crust down there?" Tony asked both Gallifreyans.
"You saw the readings!" The Doctor explained.
"Who are you two, anyway?! How can you both know all this?" Nasreen asked the Doctor and Rose when suddenly there was a whirring sound and red lights streak across the sky, "Whoa, did you both see that?"
"No, no, no!" The Doctor muttered before taking out a slingshot from his jacket and picks up a rock before firing it at the sky, only for the rock to hit a force field, causing it to the ground as
red lights streak out from the impact.
"Energy signal originating from under the Earth. We're trapped," the Doctor explained to Nasreen and Tony as he took out his sonic screwdriver and aimed it at the sky, revealing a field surrounding the village and drill site.
"Oh, great, we're trapped within a force field," Rose muttered.
"Doctor! Rose! Something weird's going on here, the graves are eating people," Rory told both Gallifreyans as he ran up to them with Ambrose and Elliot.
"Not now, Rory! Energy barricade. Invisible to the naked eye," the Doctor told him, "We can't get out and no-one from the outside world can get in."
"What?! OK, what about the Tardis?" Rory asked them.
"The what?!" Nasreen asked them.
"No, those energy patterns would play havoc with the circuits. With a bit of time, maybe, but we've only got nine and a half minutes," the Doctor answered.
"Nine and a half minutes to what?" Rory asked.
"We're trapped. And something's burrowing towards the surface," Nasreen answered.
"Where's Amy?" Rory asked.
"Get everyone inside the church!" The Doctor said as picked the computer he was carrying back up, "Rory, me and Rose will get her back."
"What d'you mean, get her back? Where's she gone?" Rory asked them.
"She was taken. Into the Earth," the Doctor explained.
"How?! Why didn't either of you stop it?!" Rory asked them.
"I'll tell him, Doctor," Rose told her husband.
"Rory, he tried very, very hard from the ground taking Amy to Rassilon know's where," Rose explained to him, "But we promise you, we will get her back, cause we're not losing another companion, like we did with Donna a few years ago."
"Well, he should've tried harder!" Rory told her with anger.
"Like what Rose just said, we'll find Amy. we'll keep you all safe. I promise. Come on, please. I need you and Rose alongside me," the Doctor told him as he headed into the church.
Please review and tell me if I'm making Rose sound like well… Rose Because I still don't know how to write her properly and I need a beta-reader. And please vote the poll I just made about if River should meet Jack from Dorium Maldovar during The Pandorica Opens.