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"Where's Mo? Is he with you?" Ambrose asked as Tony and Nasreen approached the church's front door as they were carrying equipment in their hands.

"This flaming' door! Always sticking! I thought you were having it fixed!" Tony muttered, ignoring Ambrose's question.

"Dad!" Ambrose yelled as she knew that he wasn't answering her question.

"Something's happened to him, hasn't it?" Elliot asked his grandfather.

The church was in a severe state of disrepair with disuse with boxes, crates and junk everywhere as the Doctor, Rose, Nasreen and Tony were setting up the equipment.

"So we can't get out, we can't contact anyone. And something, the something that took my husband, is coming up through the Earth," Ambrose said with disbelief after everyone explained what was happening to her.

"Yes," the Doctor confirmed, "If we move quickly enough, we can be ready."

"No, stop. This has gone far enough," Ambrose said, still in disbelief, "What is this?"

"He's telling the truth, love," Tony told his daughter.

"Come on! It's not the first time we've had no mobile or phone signals," Ambrose told him, "Reception's always rubbish."

"Look, Ambrose, we saw the Doctor and Rose's friend get taken, OK?" Nasreen told her, "You saw the lightning in the sky. I have seen the impossible today, and the only people who can make any sense of it, for me, are the Doctor and Rose."

"Them?!" asked with disbelief.

"Us!" The Doctor and Rose both said, happily at the same time.

"Can you both get my dad back?" Elliot asked both Gallifreyans as everyone turned to look at both Gallifreyans.

"Yes," the Doctor answered before he walked towards Ambrose, "But I need you to trust both me and Rose and do exactly as we say from this second onwards because we're running out of time."

"So tell us what to do," Ambrose told him.

"Thank you," he told her, "We have eight minutes to set up a line of defence. Bring me every phone from this village, camera, every piece of recording or transmitting equipment you can find. Every burglar alarm, every movement sensor, every security light. I want the whole area covered with sensors," the Doctor went on as he and Rose left the church as Rory went through all the electronics that he could collect as he and Ambrose hooked up cameras at ideal positions before the Doctor used his Sonic Screwdriver on them.

Inside the church the monitor shows that whatever it is that is coming up is getting closer to the surface.

"Right, we need to be ready for whatever's coming up," the Doctor said before touching Elliot on the shoulder as he walked past him, "Me and Rose need a map of the village, marking where the cameras are going."

"I can't do the words. I'm dyslexic," Elliot told him.

"That's all right, Elliot, you can draw the locations of where the cameras are instead," Rose told him.

"Draw like your life depends on it, Elliot," the Doctor told him, agreeing with his wife as Elliot ran off to draw the locations of where the cameras were located.

"How much longer till they come up, Theta?" Rose asked the Doctor.

"6 minutes 40, Arkytior," the Doctor answered as he checked the time on one of the monitors.

Rory put up one of the cameras near Elliot as the Dyslexic child drew the locations of the cameras on a piece of paper as he sat next to a building as Rory and Ambrose continued to put up the cameras.

Nasreen watched as the time counted down from 05:05 as Tony pulled up an overlay of the village.

"Works in quadrants, every movement sensor and triplight we've got. If anything moves, we'll know," Tony told the Doctor

"Good lad!" The Doctor said as he slapped Tony on the back.

The Doctor was looking through Ambrose's van with Rose by his side when she walked past them with her arms full of gardening implements and anything else that could be used as a weapon, "Oi! What're you doing, Doctor?!"

"Resources! Every little helps! Meals on wheels," the Doctor explained, "What've you got here then? Warmer in the front, refrigerated in the back."

"Bit chilly for a hideout, mind," Ambrose told him as she placed the items in the front of the van.

"What are those?" The Doctor asked Ambrose as he and Rose noticed that the items Ambrose was carrying were guns with a few of them being muskets from the 1800s.

"Like you say, Doctor, every little helps," Ambrose told both Gallifreyans.

"No! No weapons. It's not the way we do things," the Doctor told them.

"He's right, Ambrose, me and my husband would never carry guns," Rose said, agreeing with the Doctor.

"You said we're supposed to defend ourselves," Ambrose reminded him.

"Oh, Ambrose, you're better than this. I'm asking nicely. Put them away," the Doctor told her before he and Rose walked away as Ambrose gave a last look into the cab of the vehicle.

The countdown on the monitor showed 03:23 as Elliot ran into the church with his map in his hand and gave it to the Doctor.

"Look at that! Perfect!" The Doctor said as he examined the map.

"Yeah, that looks amazing," Rose said, agreeing with the Doctor.

"Dyslexia never stopped Da Vinci or Einstein, it's not stopping you," the Doctor added.

"Or Churchill," Rose told him, "He was Dyslexic as well."

"I don't understand what you both are going to do," Elliot admitted.

"Two phase plan. First, the sensors and cameras will tell us when something arrives. Second, if something does arrive, we both could use these to send a sonic pulse through that network of devices, a pulse which would temporarily incapacitate most things in the universe," the Doctor explained as he and Rose took out their Sonic Screwdrivers.

"Knock 'em out. Cool," Elliot complimented.

"Lovely place to grow up, round here," the Doctor told Elliot as the monitor he was standing in front of showed a diagram of the church they were inside of.

"Suppose. I want to live in a city one day," Elliot told him as the Doctor shook his Sonic Screwdriver as it extended into it's claw mode, "Soon as I'm old enough, I'll be off."

"We were the same, where we grew up," the Doctor told him.

"Yeah we were, we lived close together when we were children and were Childhood sweethearts," Rose said, agreeing with her husband as she remembered her childhood on Gallifrey.

"Did you both get away?" Elliot asked them.

"Yeah," the Doctor answered.

"Yep," Rose answered at the same time.

"Do either of you ever miss it?" Elliot asked them.

"So much," the Doctor answered.

"Yeah," Rose answered at the same time.

"Is it monsters coming? Have you two met monsters before?" Elliot asked them.

"Yeah," the Doctor answered as he walked up to him.

"You scared of them?" Elliot asked them.

No. They're scared of me," the Doctor answered.

"Yeah, Daleks are scared of you, Doctor," Rose told her husband as she remembered when the Cult of Skaro backed away from her when they alongside Cybermen were invading Earth from Torchwood back when her stepmother was still in this universe and when she was still in her second incarnation and first regeneration.

"Will you two really get my dad back?" Elliot asked both Gallifreyans.

"No question," the Doctor answered as he went back to work on the computer.

"We'll try," Rose told Elliot, sympathetically, "We both lost our parents, we're not letting the same happen to you."

"I left my headphones at home," Elliot told them as he left the room.

"Are you sure, it's alright to let him go and go back to his home when the creatures could arrive any minute, Theta?" Rose asked her husband.

"I'm sure he'll be quick, Arkytior," the Doctor told Rose as the countdown on the monitor with the timer showed that they had just over a minute till whatever that was coming up from below the surface.

"How are you doing?" The Doctor asked Rory as he was setting up one of the cameras on one of the gravestones.

"It's getting darker," Rory said as he looked up at the sky to see the light was being blocked through the force field, "How can it be getting dark so quickly?"

"They're shutting out light from within the barricade. Trying to isolate us in the dark," Rose explained, "Which means…" They then heard a rumbling sound in the distance, "It's here."

"I can't open it! It keeps sticking! The wood's warped," Ambrose said as the Doctor, Rose and Rory followed her back into the church as she was having trouble opening the door.

"Any time you want to help!" The Doctor told Rory as he and Rose helped Ambrose open the door.

"Can't either of you sonic it?" Rory asked both Gallifreyans.

"They don't work on wood," Rose told Rory.

"That is rubbish," Rory told them.

"Oi! Don't diss our sonics!" The Doctor told him as Rory joined them as the four of them opened the door.

The Doctor, Rose, Rory and Ambrose joined Tony and Nasreen as they slammed the church door shut behind them as the ground started to shake due to the imminent arrival of the creatures from below the Earth's surface.

"See if we can get a fix," the Doctor said as he rushes over to a computer as items began to fall off the shelves in the room including children chairs as he narrows down the area with the program that Tony set up earlier, only for the computer to spark with electricity as the power soon went out.

"No power," Tony told the Doctor as the Time Lord went to check the power.

"It's deliberate," the Doctor explained to him.

"What do we do now?" Rory asked them as Tony turned on a bright torch.

"I don't think there's anything we can do, Rory," Rose told the nurse.

"Rose is right, there's nothing we can do. We've got nothing! They sent an energy surge to wreck our systems," the Doctor said, agreeing with Rose.

"Is everyone OK? Is anyone hurt?" Rory asked everyone who was in the room.

"I'm fine," Nasreen answered.

"I'm good," Tony answered at the same time.

"Me too," Ambrose answered at the same time as well.

"Doctor, Rose, what was that?" Rory asked the Doctor and Rose when they all suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound all around them.

"It's like the holes at the drill station," Tony told them.

"Is this how they happened?" Nasreen asked them.

"It's coming through the final layer of Earth," the Doctor told them as he kneeled before bending over to the ground with his ear on the floor as he listened to the ground.

"What is?!" Nasreen asked him.

"The banging's stopped," Tony noted as the Doctor quickly stood up as the banging sound stopped as it became silent.

"Where's Elliot? Has...has anyone seen Elliot? Did he come in? Was he in when the door was shut? Who counted him back in? Who saw him last?" Ambrose asked as she looked around and saw that Elliot was nowhere to be seen.

"We did," the Doctor and Rose both said at the same time.

"Where is he?" Ambrose asked both Gallifreyans.

"He said he was going to get headphones," the Doctor answered.

"And you let him go? He was out there on his own?" Ambrose asked them with disbelief as Tony put one of his hands on one of her shoulders.

"I said it was a bad idea as well, Ambrose," Rose told her, "But my husband said that he'll be quick as I told him that the creatures could come up any minute."

"Mum! Grandpa Tony! Let me in!" Elliot yelled as he pounded on the church doors as he ran up to the doors as one of the creatures that came from below the Earth's surface was chasing him.

"Elliot!" Ambrose cried as she heard her son as she ran over to the church's door.

"Let me in!" Elliot cried as he continued to pound on the door from the outside.

"He's out there! Help me," Ambrose said as she and Tony tried opening the door.

"Open the door!" Elliot yelled as he pounded on the Church's door before looking back at the graveyard and saw the creature chasing him, "Mum! There's something out here!"

"Push, Elliot! Push, Elliot, give it a shove!" Ambrose yelled as everyone was now working on opening the door.

"Mum!" Elliot cried as something ran past him.

"Push! Hurry up!" Ambrose yelled.

Elliot soon stopped pushing as if he was sensing that something was behind him and turned around and saw the creature as it scanned him, "Mum…"

"Come on!" Tony yelled as the door suddenly opened.

"Elliot!" Ambrose said as she ran out of the church only to see that her son had vanished, "Where is he?" She then ran out into the graveyard, "He was here! He was here! Elliot."

"Ambrose, don't go running off!" The Doctor told Ambrose.

"Ambrose!" Tony yelled as he ran after his daughter.

"Elliot! It's Mum!" Ambrose said as she arrived at the graveyard before seeing her son's headphones on the ground, beeping before crying out with anger, "No-o-o-o-o-o!" A creature then suddenly knocked her down on the ground which she saw that looked like a humanoid reptilian as if it was a human that was a reptile, "Aaargh! Get off me!" The creature began to scan her like it did with Elliot when Tony suddenly appeared and knocked the creature away from his daughter before It lashed out with its tongue, hitting Tony in the neck with it before running away as Tony was in pain as Ambrose turned to him, "Dad!"

"What happened?" The Doctor asked as he, Rose and Rory came running up to them.

"My dad's hurt," Ambrose answered.

"Let's get him into the church now!" Rose told her.

"Elliot's gone," Ambrose told both Gallifreyans, "They've killed him, haven't they?"

"I don't think so. They've taken three people, when they could've just killed them up here," the Doctor told her, "There's still hope, Ambrose. There is always hope."

"Then why have they taken him?" Ambrose asked him as she cried.

"I don't know. me and Rose will find Elliot, we promise," the Doctor answered, "But first we've gotta stop this attack. Please, get inside the church."

"Come on, Dad," Ambrose said as she helped her father as they headed back to the church.

"So, what now?" Rory asked both Gallifreyans.

"Me and the Doctor will see what those creatures are," Rose answered, "You head into the van near the church, after we find out what they are, we'll need you to help us capture it."

The Doctor and Rose walked down the street wearing sunglasses over their eyes and looked at their hands for a second to see their body temperature that was 15 degrees Celsius and 59 degrees Fahrenheit and smiled at each other for a second before walking around as they soon heard a hissing sound in the distance and saw something move in the bushes, something that doesn't give off any heat as the Doctor lowered his sunglasses.

"Cold blood. I know who they are," the Doctor said in a sing-song voice.

"Who are they, Theta?" Rose asked him.

"Silurians. The former rulers of the planet, Arkytior," the Doctor answered.

The Doctor stood by the meals on wheels van, whistling with Rose next to him before she handed him a fire extinguisher from the front seat as she shut the door.

"Theta, behind you!" Rose said as she saw a reflection of the Silurian in the window, behind them as it was approaching the Time Lord and Time Lady, he then spun out of the way as it went to attack them before he used the fire extinguisher on the Silurian, causing it to scream as Rory jumped out of the back of the van, yelling before the four of them pushed the Silurian into the refrigerated back and locked the door.

"We got it!" Rory exclaimed, happily.

"Defending the planet with meals on wheels!" The Doctor added as both him and Rory raised their hands to give each other a high five when the three of them suddenly heard a rumbling sound.

"What...what was that?" Rory asked them.

"Sounds like they're leaving," Rose told him.

"Without this one?" Rory asked as he pointed his thumb at the Silurian in the van as the darkness went away as the sun was allowed to shine through the village again, "Looks like we scared them off."

"I don't think so. Now both sides have hostages," the Doctor told him.

Rory was sitting on a toppled grave marker with Rose next to him as the Doctor came around from the front of the church.

"So, I think I've met these creatures before, different branch of the species, but all the same…" the Doctor said as he entered the basement door of the church as Rory and Rose followed him,

"Let's see if our friend's thawed out."

"Are you sure? By yourself?" Rory asked him as the Silurian was sitting on the floor in the shadows.

"Very sure," the Doctor answered.

"But the sting…" Rose told him, "I don't want to lose you, Doctor."

"Venom gland takes at least 24 hours to recharge," the Doctor told them as he looked at the Silurian, "Am I right?" He then turned to Rose, "I know what I'm doing, Arkytior. I'll be fine."

Rory and Rose left as the Doctor walked down the remaining steps to the floor towards the SIlurian and saw that it had large dark eyes and was wearing some sort of chainmail armor and with bound hands as they were handcuffed as it moved forward along the floor towards the Doctor.

"I'm the Doctor. I've come to talk. I'm going to remove your mask," the Doctor told the Silurian with his hands up as he approached the Silurian and squatted down and gently removed the Siluruian's mask, revealing that it was a female Silurian, "You are beautiful. Remnant of a bygone age on planet Earth. And by the way, lovely mode of travel! Geothermal currents, projecting you up through a network of tunnels. Gorgeous! Mind if I sit?" He then stood back up as he went to grab a folding chair and placed it in front of the Silurian before sitting down on the chair as he crossed his legs, "Now. Your people have a friend of mine. I want her back. Why did you come to the surface? What do you want? Oh, I do hate a monologue. Give us a bit back. How many are you?"

"I'm the last of my species," the Silurian answered.

"Really? No. 'Last of the species', the Klempari Defence," he said as he laughed a bit, "As an interrogation defence, it's a bit old hat, I'm afraid."

"I'm the last of my species," the Silurian said yet again.

"No. You're really not. Because I thought I was the last of my species for a really, really long time and I know how it sits in a heart. So don't insult me," the Doctor told her, "Let's start again. Tell me your name."

"Alaya," the Silurian answered.

"How long has your tribe been sleeping under the Earth, Alaya? It's not difficult to work out. You're 300 million years out of your comfort zone. Question is, what woke you now?" He asked her.

"We were attacked," Alaya answered.

"The drill," the Doctor realized.

"Our sensors detected a threat to our life support systems," Alaya explained, "The warrior class was activated to prevent the assault. We will wipe the vermin from the surface and reclaim our planet."

"Do we have to say vermin?" The Doctor asked her, "They're really very nice."

"Primitive apes," Alaya told him.

"Extraordinary species. You attack them, they'll fight back," the Doctor told her, "But, there's a peace to be brokered here. me and my wife can help you with that."

"This land is ours. We lived here long before the apes," Alaya told him.

"Doesn't give you automatic rights to it now, I'm afraid," the Doctor told her, "Humans won't give up the planet."

"So we destroy them," Alaya told him.

"You underestimate them," the Doctor told her as he knew how the human race could be.

"You underestimate us," Alaya told him.

"One tribe of homo reptilia against seven billion humans, you've got your work cut out," the Doctor told her.

"We did not initiate combat. But we can still win," Alaya told him as she stood up.

"Tell me where my friend is," the Doctor told her, "Give us back the people who were taken."

"No," Alaya said, not wanting to give Amy, Mo and Elliot back.

"Me and my wife aren't going to let you provoke a war, Alaya," the Doctor told her as he sighed and stood up as he folded up the chair and put it away, "There'll be no battle here today."

"The fire of war is already lit. A massacre is due," Alaya told him as he headed for the door.

"Not while we're here," the Doctor told her as he stopped.

"I'll gladly die for my cause," Alaya told the Time Lord, "What will you sacrifice for yours?" Without a word, the Doctor turned away from Alaya and left the basement.

The Doctor, Rose, Rory and Tony were sitting down on the church's benches as Ambrose and Nasreen were leaning and standing near them.

"You're going to what?!" Rory said with disbelief.

"I'm going to go down below the surface with Rose, to find the rest of the tribe. To talk to them," the Doctor answered.

"You're going to negotiate with these aliens?" Ambrose asked the Time Lord.

"They're not aliens! They're Earth...liens. Once known as the Silurian race, or, some would argue, Eocenes, or Homo reptilia. Not monsters, not evil," the Doctor explained before standing back up, "Well, only as evil as you are. The previous owners of the planet, that's all. Look, from their point of view, you're the invaders. Your drill was threatening their settlement. Now, the creature in the crypt. Her name's Alaya. She's one of their warriors and she's our best bargaining chip. Me and Rose need her alive. If she lives, so do Elliot and Mo and Amy. Because we will find them. While we're gone, you four people, in this church, in this corner of planet Earth, you have to be the best of humanity."

"What if they come back? Shouldn't we be examining this creature, dissecting it, finding its weak points?" Tony asked the Doctor and Rose.

"You can't. That's the last thing you want to do," Rose told them.

"She's right. No dissecting! No examining! We return their hostage, they return ours. Nobody gets harmed. We can land this, together. If you are the best you can be," the Doctor told them, "You are decent, brilliant people. Nobody dies today. Understand?" Everyone nods quietly when Nasreen applauds but stops nervously when no one else joins in.

The Doctor and Rose soon left the church and headed for the Tardis as Nasreen ran up behind them.

"No, sorry, no, what're you doing?" The Doctor asked Nasreen as he approached the Tardis.

"Coming with the two of you, of course!" Nasreen answered, "What is it, some kind of transport pod?"

"Sort of, but you're not...coming with us," the Doctor told her.

"He's right, you're not," Tony told her as he approached them.

"I have spent all my life excavating the layers of this planet," Nasreen told Tony before turning to the Doctor, "And now you want me to stand back while you and your wife head down into it? I don't think so!"

"I don't have time to argue!" The Doctor told her as he checked his watch.

"I thought we were in a rush," Nasreen told them.

"It'll be dangerous," the Doctor told her.

"Oh, so's crossing the road," Nasreen told him.

"Oh, for goodness' sake, all right, then! Come on!" The Doctor told her as he unlocked the Tardis doors and entered the Tardis.

"Come back safe," Tony told Nasreen as he stopped her as she went to enter the Tardis.

"Of course," Nasreen told him before following the Doctor into the Tardis.

"Don't worry, Tony, me and my husband will keep her safe," Rose told Tony before entering the Tardis as well.

"Welcome aboard the Tardis. Now don't touch anything! Very precious," the Doctor said as Nasreen did a double take upon entering the Tardis as he stood at the console as Rose walked past her and approached the console as they began to use the console.

"No way! But that's... this is…" Nasreen said as she walked towards the console and slapped him on the arm, on the arm, playfully, "fantastic! What does it do?"

"Everything! I'm hoping, if we're going down, that barricade won't interfere," the Doctor answered.

"If you're wondering how the inside is bigger than the outside, the Tardis is Dimensional transcendentalism," Rose explained.

"What now?" Nasreen asked, not knowing what the science that she explained was.

"Basically it means the object is bigger on the inside than the outside as it's another dimension," Rose explained as the Tardis pitches drastically, causing the Doctor, Rose and Nasreen clinged onto the console.

"Did you touch something?!" the Doctor asked Nasreen.

"No! Isn't this what it does?!" Nasreen asked them.

"No it's not, Rose told her, "We've been hijacked! I can't stop it! They must've sensed the electro-magnetic field!" She then looked at the monitor on the other side of the console after the three of them slowly walked around it as they clinged onto the console, "They're pulling the Tardis down into the Earth!"

The Doctor, Rose and Nasreen held onto the console, yelling as the Tardis landed as the Doctor, Rose and Nasreen fell to the floor as Nasreen snapped the Doctor's braces/suspenders while Rose laid on the other side of the Doctor.

"Oi," the Doctor said as Nasreen fixed his brace's/suspenders

"Where are we?" Nasreen asked both Gallifreyans as they got up and ran for the door with Nasreen following them.

The Doctor held one of his hands outside the door before stepping out with Rose following him as they saw roots and fungus covering the walls before Nasreen stepped out as water dripped on her, causing the Doctor to whistle in amazement as he looked up the way they fell.

"Looks like we fell through the bottom of their tunnel system," the Doctor explained to Nasreen, "Don't suppose it was designed for handling something like this."

"How far down are we?" Nasreen asked them.

"A lot more than 21km," the Doctor answered.

"Definitely more than 21 km, more like a few miles under the Earth," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.

"So why aren't we burning alive?" Nasreen asked them.

"Don't know," the Doctor answered, "Interesting, isn't it?"

"I don't know either, Nasreen, but I think it's interesting as well," Rose said, agreeing with the Doctor.

"It's like this is everyday to both of you!" Nasreen told them.

"Not every day. Every other day," the Doctor said, correcting her as he and Rose began to head down one of the tunnels and Nasreen began to follow them, a few seconds later.

"We're looking for a small tribal settlement. Probably housing around a dozen homo reptilia. Maybe less," the Doctor told Nasreen as he and Rose walked past an opening with her as Rose and Nasreen looked out a balconette, next to them.

"Yeah, are you sure about one small tribe?" Rose asked her husband.

"Yeah," the Doctor answered as he walked back towards the opening.

"Maybe a dozen?" Nasreen asked as the Doctor approaches her and Rose at the balconette and sees the same thing.

"Ah," the Doctor said as they saw a large community, verging on a city with buildings and monuments below them, "Maybe more than a dozen. Maybe more like an entire civilization living beneath the Earth."

To be continued

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 during the episode The Big Bang, should Rose stay in 102 AD/CE till 773 AD/CE when she and the Doctor will once again be the same age?