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A few weeks later, the Doctor was regaling Jack and Rory with an adventure that he, Amy and Rose had, "Then we discovered it wasn't the robot king after all, it was the real one. Fortunately, I was able to re-attach the head."
Rory then looked at Amy as she came down the stairs, "Do you believe any of this stuff?"
"I was there," Amy told him.
"I believe him," Jack told him, "I'm from the 51st century after all."
"Oh, it's the warning lights. I'm getting rid of those, they never stop!" The Doctor cried as he slapped the console as Rose helped him.
Rory and Jack then caught up with Amy as she headed down another set of stairs.
"Hey. You're still thinking about it, aren't you?" Rory asked her.
"Shhh! We saw them die!" Amy whispered to them.
"Yeah, 200 years in the future and Rose's next incarnation," Jack added as he whispered back to her.
"Yes, but it's still going to happen," Amy whispered back to him when they all heard a knocking on the TARDIS door. Both Gallifreyans whirled around as Amy, Jack and Rory joined them by the console, "What was that?"
"The door. It knocked," Rose answered as the Doctor slowly walked towards the door.
"Right. We are in deep space," Rory said with confusion.
"Very, very deep," Rose added as the knocking sound continued.
"And somebody's knocking," the Doctor said as he slowly opened the door and smiled as he saw a small box floating there before it lit up from the inside, "Oh, come here. Come here, you scrumptious little beauty!" He reached out a hand but the box whizzed by and into the TARDIS. It then zoomed back and hit him in the chest as he held it between his hands.
"A box?!" Jack asked with disbelief.
"Doctor, Rose, what is it?" Amy asked them.
"We've got mail!" The Doctor said, excitedly as he walked back to the console, "Time Lord emergency messaging system. In an emergency, we'd wrap up thoughts in psychic containers and send them through time and space. Anyway, there's another Time Lord besides us and Jenny out there, and it's one of the good ones!"
"You both said there were no other Time Lords left," Rory reminded them.
"There aren't," Jack confirmed, "When I first met them back when Rose was still Chameleon-Arched, I thought they were only just a legend of the higher species like what we humans became around the 40th century."
"You're right, Jack. There are no Time Lords left in the universe, but the universe isn't where we're going!" The Doctor said, agreeing with Jack before throwing the box to Amy, "See that snake? Me and Rose knew them as we went to the Academy with them."
"We did?" Rose asked before she looked at the box and saw a familiar tattoo on the box, "Oh, Rassilon! That's the mark of the Corsair. He was our other best friend besides Koschei."
"Who's this Koschei person?" Rory asked.
"He was our best friend growing up and were childhood friends and was the only person other than Rose that I grew up with who went by the name Arkytior at that time, even though I still call her that privately besides that's the shortened version of her name, but now if he is still alive on Gallifrey in the Time-lock he calls himself the Master now," the Doctor explained, "But the Corsair was a fantastic bloke. He had that snake as a tattoo in every regeneration. Didn't feel like himself without the tattoo. Or herself, a couple of times. Ooh, she was a bad girl!"
The TARDIS then sparked and shook as all five of them held onto the console.
"What's happening?!" Jack asked.
"We're leaving the universe!" Rose explained.
"How can you leave the universe?" Amy asked.
"With enormous difficulty!" The Doctor explained as he and Rose began to pilot the TARDIS, "Right now I'm burning up TARDIS rooms to give us some welly. Goodbye, swimming pool, goodbye scullery, sayonara, squash court seven!"
The TARDIS then left the universe as it headed for the source of the message, a small planet with a slightly green glow.
The TARDIS soon stopped with a jolt.
"OK. OK. Where are we?" Amy asked.
"Outside the universe, where we've never, ever been," the Doctor answered as the power winded down and the lights began to dim.
"Is that meant to be happening?" Rory asked.
"That's not meant to happen," Rose answered as she and the Doctor tried the controls.
"It's the power. It's draining," the Doctor added, "Everything's draining! But it can't. That's... That's impossible."
"What is that?" Jack asked.
"It's as if the matrix, the soul of the TARDIS, has just vanished," the Doctor answered, "Where would it go?"
The Doctor soon opened the door of the TARDIS and stepped out with Rose followed by Amy, Jack and Rory and they saw that the surface was cluttered with rusting spaceships of various sizes they then began to look around.
"So what kind of trouble's your friend in?" Amy asked them.
"He was in a bind, a bit of a pickle, sort of distressed," the Doctor answered.
"Amy, he means we don't know," Rose told her.
"Rose, you didn't have to tell her that," the Doctor told her.
"I thought it'd be best to say that instead of having her say that we don't know," Rose explained.
"But what is this? The scrap yard at the end of the universe?" Rory asked them.
"He said outside of the universe, not the end of," Jack said, correcting him.
"How we can we be outside the universe?" Rory asked them, "The universe is everything."
The Doctor placed an arm around Rory's shoulders as he tried to explain, "Imagine a great big soap bubble with one of those tiny little bubbles on the outside."
"OK," Rory muttered.
"Well, it's nothing like that," the Doctor told him as he placed a hand on the TARDIS, "Completely drained, look at her."
"So we're in a tiny bubble universe, sticking to the side of the bigger bubble universe?" Jack surmised.
"Yeah. No. But if it helps, yes. This place is like the rift in Cardiff where the TARDIS soaks up the energy as this place is full of rift energy like the one in Cardiff," the Doctor told him, "She'll probably refuel just by being here. Now this place, what do we think, eh?" He then threw dirt into the air, "Gravity's almost earth-normal, air's breathable, but it smells like…"
"Armpits," Amy finished.
"Armpits," the Doctor said, agreeing with her.
"Definitely armpits," Rose said, agreeing with them.
"Yeah, it does smell like armpits," Jack said, agreeing with all three of them.
"Where did this stuff come from?" Rory asked.
"There's a rift. Now and then, stuff gets sucked through it," the Doctor explained, "Not a bubble, a plughole. The universe has a plughole and we've fallen down it."
"Thief! Thief! You're my thief!" A Caucasian skinned woman around 33 years old with dark brown hair, wearing a Victorian styled green dress exclaimed as she ran towards the Doctor before turning to Rose, "And you're my Wolf!"
"I'm your what?" Rose asked, confusedly.
"She's dangerous! Guard yourselves!" Another woman said as she and a man walked behind the woman wearing a Victorian dress.
"Look at the two of you! Goodbye! No, not goodbye, what's the other one?" The woman said before kissing the Doctor.
"Get off my husband!" Rose snarled as the Doctor tried backing away from the woman.
"Watch out! Careful, keep back from her!" The man told them as he and the other woman pulled the woman wearing a Victorian dress away from the Doctor.
"Welcome, strangers, lovely. Sorry about the mad person," the man apologized.
"I'm Captain Jack Harkness and who are you?" Jack asked as he flirted with the man.
"I'm Uncle. I'm everybody's uncle," the man answered, "And this is Auntie."
"Why am I a thief? What have I stolen?" The Doctor asked the woman who tried to kiss him.
"And Why am I your Wolf?" Rose asked her.
"Me. You're going to steal me. No, you have stolen me. You are stealing me," the woman said, not sure which tense was correct, "And you're my Wolf. No, is my Wolf. You are going to become my Wolf. Tenses are difficult, aren't they?"
"Oh, we are sorry, my dove. She's off her head," Auntie said as she shook the Doctor's hand.
"Just keep back from this one, she bites!" Uncle warned them.
"Do I? Excellent," the woman said before biting the Doctor's neck.
"Ow! No, ow, ow!" The Doctor muttered with pain as Rose winced at the pain her husband just went through as Uncle and Auntie pulled the woman away from the Doctor as he rubbed his neck.
"Oh, biting's excellent! It's like kissing, only there's a winner!" The Woman proclaimed.
"Sorry. She's doolally," Uncle apologized.
"No, I'm not doolally. I'm... I'm...It's on the tip of my tongue. I've just had a new idea about kissing. Come here, you!" The Woman said as she began to chase after the Doctor, causing Jack to pull out his revolver.
"I would stop if I were you," Jack said as he aimed his revolver at the woman.
"Idris, no, no!" Auntie said as the Doctor stood behind Rose, Jack, Amy and Rory.
"Oh, but now you're angry. No, you're not. You will be angry. The little boxes will make you angry," Idris told him before turning to Rose, "And they will make you cry."
"Sorry? The little what? Boxes?" The Doctor asked with confusion.
"Your chin is hilarious!" Idris laughed as she pinched the Doctor's chin before looking at Rory, "It means the smell of dust after rain."
"What does?" Rory asked.
"Petrichor," Idris answered.
"But I didn't ask," Rory told her.
"Not yet. But you will," Idris told him.
"No, Idris, I think you should have a rest," Auntie told her.
"Yes, yes, good idea! I'll just see if there's an off switch," Idris said before fainting as she collapsed to the ground.
"Is that it?" Uncle asked, "She dead now. So sad."
"She's still breathing," Rory told him as he checked her breathing.
"Nephew, take Idris somewhere she can not bite people," Uncle said as the Doctor and Rose turned to see an Ood.
"Oh, hello!" The Doctor said, greeting the Ood.
"It's an Ood!" Rose said, happily, "Haven't seen these guys since we regenerated."
"Doctor, Rose, what is that?" Amy asked.
"It's all right. It's an Ood! Oods are good, love an Ood," the Doctor answered.
"They were slaves of humans from the 39th to 42nd century," Rose added, "We helped free them with Donna at the Oodsphere their home planet."
"That was you, two?" Jack asked.
"Yeah it was," the Doctor answered as he walked over to the Ood, "Hello, Ood. Can't you talk?" He then realized that it's translator ball was damaged, "Oh, I see, it's damaged. May I?" He then opened the translator ball, "It might be on the wrong frequency."
"Nephew was broken when he came here," Auntie explained, "Why, he was half dead. House repaired him. House repaired all of us."
The Doctor then fixed Nephew's translator ball and a message played over it along with other messages that were garbled in the background.
"If you are receiving this message, please help me. Send a signal to the High Council of the Time Lords on Gallifrey. Help! I'm still alive! I don't know where I am. I'm on some rock-like planet."
"Mum?" Rose muttered as she recognized one of the voices as Nephew switched off his translator ball.
"What was that? Was that him?" Rory asked.
"No, no, it's picking up something else," the Doctor answered, "But that's... That's not possible. That's... Who else is here? Tell us. Show us! Show us!"
"Why did Rose say 'Mum'?" Jack asked.
"I heard the voice of my mother," Rose explained.
"Just what you see," Auntie said, answering the Doctor, "It's just the four of us, and the House. Nephew, will you take Idris somewhere safe where she can't hurt nobody?" Nephew then picked up Idris and took her away.
"The House? What's the House?" The Doctor asked with curiosity.
"House is all around you, my sweets. You are standing on him," Auntie answered as Uncle jumped up and down, "This is the House. This world. Would you like to meet him?"
"Meet him?!" Jack asked with confusion.
"I'd love to," the Doctor answered.
"This way. Come, please. Come," Uncle said as he and Auntie headed inside.
"What's wrong? What were those voices?" Amy asked.
"Time Lords. It's not just the Corsair," the Doctor answered, "Somewhere close by there are lots and lots of... Time Lords."
"Including my mother," Rose added, grimly as she and the Doctor walked off after Auntie and Uncle as Amy, Jack and Rory followed them.
Auntie and Uncle soon led them to a cavern.
"Come. Come, come. You can see the House and he can look at you and he…" Uncle began to say as the Doctor looked through a grate.
"I see. This asteroid is sentient," the Doctor realized.
"walk on his back, breathe his air. Eat his food…" Auntie added.
"How is an asteroid sentient?" Jack asked.
"I'm not sure, Jack," Rose answered.
"Smell its armpits," Amy added.
"And do my will," they heard a deep masculine voice say as Auntie and Uncle's mouths moved in unison but the voice wasn't theirs, it was that of House, "You are most welcome, travellers."
"Doctor...Rose... that voice, that's the asteroid talking?" Amy asked.
"Yes," the Doctor answered, "So you're like a... sea urchin. Hard outer surface. That's the planet we're walking on. Big, squashy, oogly thing inside. That's you."
"That is correct, Time Lord," House answered.
"Ah! So you've met Time Lords before?" The Doctor asked him.
"Many travellers have come through the rift, like Auntie and Uncle and Nephew," House answered, "I repair them when they break."
"Have you met any Time Ladies like me before?" Rose asked him.
"Indeed I have," House answered.
"So there are Time Lords and Time Ladies here then?" The Doctor asked.
"Not any more, but there have been many Tardises on my back in days gone by," House answered.
"Well, there won't be any more after us. Last Time Lord and Time Lady. Last TARDIS," the Doctor answered.
"A pity. Your people were so kind. Be here in safety, Doctor, you too, Rose," House told both Gallifreyans, "Rest, feed, if you will."
"We're not actually going to stay here, are we?" Jack asked as Auntie and Uncle were freed from House's control.
"It seems like a friendly planet. Literally," the Doctor told the ex-Time Agent before turning to Auntie, "Mind if we poke around a bit?"
"You can look all you want. Go, look. House loves you," Auntie said as she cupped Amy's face with both hands. Her left one was definitely not that of a woman, while her right one looked similar to Rose's although a bit older."
"Theta, her right arm looks like Mum's," Rose told her husband.
"I can see that, Arkytior," he told her before turning to their companions, "Come on then, gang. We're just going to, erm... see the sights."
The five of them then left the room.
The Doctor and Rose were soon walking ahead of Amy, Jack and Rory through tunnels as they heard Idris.
"Shh, shh," the Doctor said, shushing their companions.
"So as soon as the TARDIS is refuelled, we go, yeah?" Rory asked.
"If I know the Doctor, then he won't," Jack told him.
"I was thinking the same thing, Jack," Rose said, agreeing with him.
"You're both right. There are Time Lords here," the Doctor said, agreeing with Jack and Rose, "We heard them and they need me and Rose."
"You both told me about your people and you told me what you did, Doctor," Amy reminded him.
"Yes, but if they're like the Corsair and Mum, they're good, We can save them!" Rose told her.
"Then tell them you destroyed the others, Doctor?!" Amy asked.
"I can explain. Tell them why I had to," the Doctor told her.
"You want to be forgiven," Amy realized.
"Don't we all?" He asked her, "Besides Rose immediately forgave me after I told her what I did to our people."
"What do you need from me?" Amy asked after nodding.
"My screwdriver," he answered, "I left it in the TARDIS. It's in my jacket."
"You're wearing your jacket," Jack said with confusion.
"My other one," the Doctor explained.
"You have two of those?" Jack and Rory said at the same time with disbelief.
"Me and Rory get it, but, Doctor, Rose, listen to me," Amy told them, "Don't either of you get emotional because that's when you both make mistakes."
"Yes, boss," he replied.
"Rose, I'll call you from the TARDIS," Amy told Rose before looking at Jack, "Jack, look after them."
"Jack, look after them," the Doctor said as Amy and Rory left the Gallifreyan couple.
"Will do," Jack said as he followed Amy and Rory as the Doctor and Rose continued on.
On the surface of the planet, Amy and Rory strode towards the TARDIS with Jack following them.
"I told you to look after them," Amy told him.
"They'll be fine. They're Time Lords," Jack reassured her, "And if anything happens to them they'd only regenerate."
"It's what they're called. It doesn't mean they actually know what they're doing." Amy told him, "And remember, River said that they have only a limited amount of regenerations."
They then entered the TARDIS and a cloud of green energy begins to swirl around the base, working its way up as Amy dialed Rose's phone.
As the Doctor and Rose continued to walk down the tunnels, Rose's phone began to ring.
"Hello, Amy," Rose said as she answered her cell phone before passing it to her husband.
"We're here. Screwdriver's in your jacket, yeah?" Amy asked from the TARDIS
"Yeah, it's around somewhere. Have a good look," the Doctor said as he took out his sonic screwdriver from his tweed jacket's pocket and activated it as he locked the TARDIS's door.
"You lied to them?" Rose asked her husband.
"Arkytior, there's something bad happening here. I can feel it," he explained, "We also heard your mother's voice."
"I know we did, but you could've at least told me beforehand," she told him.
Amy then hung up her phone and put it back in her pocket, "Did either of you do that?"
"I didn't do anything," Rory answered.
"Nor me," Jack answered as he went to look for the Doctor's other tweed jacket, "Right. Jacket."
"Come on! Where are you? Now where are you all? Where are you?" The Doctor asked as he and Rose both closed their eyes as they sensed the other Time Lords and Time Ladies as the Doctor pushed back a curtain, revealing a small alcove, "Well, they can't all be in here."
"Mum?!" Rose muttered before she began to cry, uncontrollably as she pounded her fists into her husband's chest as they began to hear voices murmuring as they turned around to see a cabinet set into the wall as they opened it to see that it was filled with glowing boxes and he opened it as the voices grew louder, "What have they done to Mum?"
"I know. I know, Arkytior," as he tried to comfort her as Auntie and Uncle came up behind them, "We were just admiring your Time Lord distress signal collection. Nice job. Brilliant job. Really thought I had some friends here... but this is what the Ood translator picked up. Cries for help from the long dead.?"
"What did you do to my mother?!" Rose demanded as she and the Doctor turned to face them.
"How many Time Lords and Time Ladies have you lured here, the way you lured us with one of them being my mother-in-law? And what happened to them all?" The Doctor asked them.
"House, House is kind and he is wise," Auntie answered.
"House repairs you when you break," the Doctor said as he began to get angry, "Yes, I know. But how does he mend you?" He then scanned Uncle with his sonic screwdriver, "You have the eyes of a 20 year old."
"Thank you," Uncle told him.
"I mean it literally. Your eyes are 30 years younger than you are," the Doctor said as he ripped off Uncle's hat, "Your ears don't match, your right arm is two inches longer than your left, and how's your dancing, 'cause you've got two left feet. Patchwork people. You've been repaired and patched up so often, I doubt there's anything left of what used to be you." He then puts his sonic away and slapped Auntie's hand, "I had an umbrella like you once."
"Oh, now, these have been great arms for me, this," Auntie said, referring to both her arms.
"Corsair," the Doctor said as he saw a familiar tattoo on her left arm.
"He was a strapping big bloke, wasn't he, Uncle?" She told him, "Big fella. I got the arm and then Uncle got the spine and the kidneys."
"Your other arm looks like Persephone's, my mother-in-law's," the Doctor told her, "Kidneys. You gave us hope, and then you took it away. That's enough to make anyone dangerous. Rassilon knows what it will do to me and Rose! Basically... run!"
"Poor old Time Lords. Too late," Uncle said as Auntie ran off while he backed off before leaving the Time Lord couple, "House is too clever."
"Amy?" Rose said as she continued to cry as she answered her phone after she heard it begin to ring and put it on speaker.
"Rose, are you all right? Why are you crying?" Amy asked.
"They killed her, Amy," Rose explained, "They killed Mum."
"Oh, I'm sorry for you, Rose," Amy told her, sympathetically, "But no Sonic Screwdriver. Also, the doors seem to have locked behind us. Rory and Jack think there is a perfectly innocent explanation, but I think your husband lied to us."
"He did, Amy," Rose confirmed.
"Time Lord stuff. Needed you three out of the way," the Doctor explained.
"What? We're not good enough for the two of you and your smart new friend?" Amy asked.
"The boxes will make you angry. And they will make you cry,' How could she know?" The Doctor asked.
"Doctor, what are you talking about?" Amy asked him.
"Stay put. Stay exactly where you are," he told her.
"We don't have much... choice," Amy told him.
"How did you know about the boxes? You said they'd make me angry and would make Rose cry. How did you know?" The Doctor asked Idris as he and Rose found her in a cell.
"Ah, it's my thief and Wolf," Idris told them.
"Who are you?" Rose asked her.
"It's about time," Idris told them.
The green energy cloud was now up by the TARDIS's windows.
"They're not trusting us. And they're being emotional. This is bad, this is very, very bad," Amy told Rory and Jack.
"Um, what's that outside the windows?" Jack asked.
"I don't know, but I think Amy's right, I think it probably is," Rory answered.
"Sometimes I hate being right," Amy muttered.
"I don't understand. Who are you?" The Doctor asked Idris.
"I want to know, too," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"You both do not know me? Just because they put me in here?" Idris asked them.
"They said you were dangerous," the Doctor told her.
"Not the cage, stupid. In here," Idris said as she put a hand on both sides of her face before grabbing the grates of the cell, "They put me in here. I'm the... Oh, what do you both call me? We travel. I go…" She then made the wheezing, groaning sound of the TARDIS.
"The TARDIS?" The Doctor asked.
"Time and relative dimension in space," she confirmed, "Yes, that's it. Names are funny. It's me! I'm the TARDIS."
"Named by our granddaughter, Susan?" Rose asked.
"Don't believe her, Rose, she's just a bitey, mad lady," the Doctor told his wife, "The TARDIS is up and downy stuff in a big blue box."
"Yes, that's me. A type 40 TARDIS," Idris confirmed, "I was already a museum piece, when you were young, and the first time you touched my console you said…"
"I said other than Arkytior you were the most beautiful thing I had ever known," the Doctor told her.
"And then you stole me. And I stole you," Idris told him.
"I borrowed you," he told her.
"Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing that was taken," she told him, "What makes you think I would ever give you back?"
"You're the TARDIS?" He asked her, still confused and surprised.
"Yes," Idris confirmed.
"Our TARDIS?" Rose asked.
"My Doctor and Wolf," Idris told them, "Oh! We have now reached the point in the conversation where one of you opens the lock." The Doctor then took out his Sonic Screwdriver and used the sonic screwdriver on the lock and Idris stepped out and studied the Doctor's face, "Are all people like this?"
"Like what?" The Doctor asked.
"So much bigger on the inside? I'm... Oh, what is that word? It's so big, so complicated. It's so sad," she told them.
"But why? Why pull the living soul from a TARDIS and pop it in a tiny human head?" Rose asked, "They can't handle Time Lord or TARDIS brains. What does it want you for?"
"It doesn't want me," Idris said before sniffing the Doctor.
"How do you know?" The Doctor asked as he sniffed his tweed jacket.
"House eats TARDISes," she answered.
"House what? What do you mean?" The Doctor asked.
"I don't know," she answered, "It's something I heard you say."
"When?" He asked her.
"In the future," Idris answered.
"House eats Tardises?" He asked her.
"There you go," she said before she put a finger on the Doctor's lips, "What are fish fingers?"
"When do I say that?" He asked her with his voice, muffled.
"Any second," Idris answered.
"Of course! House feeds on rift energy and TARDISes are bursting with it," the Doctor realized, "And not raw. All lovely and cooked, processed food… Mmm, fish fingers."
"Do fish have fingers?" Idris asked.
"But you can't eat a TARDIS, it would destroy you. Unless, unless…" The Doctor began to say.
"Unless you deleted the TARDIS matrix first," Idris and Rose finished at the same time.
"So it deleted you," the Doctor told Idris as he chuckled.
"But House just can't delete a TARDIS' consciousness, that would blow a hole in the universe. He pulls out the matrix, sticks it in a living receptacle and feeds off the remaining Artron energy," Idris explained, "You were about to say all that. I don't suppose you have to now."
"He sent Amy, Jack and Rory there. They'll be eaten," Rose said as she pulled her phone back out, "Amy! Jack! Rory, get the hell out of there!" They then began to run through the tunnels.
"Rose, something's wrong," Amy said as she tried the TARDIS's controls.
"It's House. He's after the TARDIS. Just get out, all three of you!" Rose told them.
"We can't. Your husband locked the door, remember?" Amy reminded her as Jack and Rory tried opening the TARDIS doors but couldn't as they wouldn't budge.
"But he's unlocked it," Rose said as she and the Doctor reached the planet's surface.
"He stupid well haven't!" Amy told her as the Cloister Bell began to ring as the console room went dark as a strong wind picked up, "Rose, I don't like this."
As the Doctor and Rose ran towards the TARDIS, Rose took out her sonic screwdriver and tried using it on the doors to unlock them but didn't work.
"Let me try snapping my fingers," the Doctor suggested as he tried opening the doors by snapping his fingers but it didn't work as well, "Open!"
"Rose?" Amy yelled from inside the TARDIS.
"Open this door!" The Doctor shouted.
"Rory, hold my hand," Amy told Rory as he held her hand as Jack stood in front of them.
"Amy! Jack! Rory!" The Doctor shouted before he pounded on the doors but stepped back as the TARDIS dematerialized.
"Amy? Amy, can you hear me?" Rose said before flipping her phone close as the signal was turned off, "OK. Right. Me and the Doctor don't... We really don't know what to do."
"That's a new feeling," the Doctor smiled before he slapped himself on the cheek as he and Rose ran back inside.
Please review.
And should I rewrite the minisodes Space and Time after the next chapter?