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A few weeks later, the Doctor and Rose were working the controls on the different panels of the console as Amy and Rory looked on.
"Apalapucia," the Doctor announced.
"Say it again?" Amy asked him.
"He said Apalapucia, Amy," Rose told her.
"Apalapu...?" Amy began to say.
"Cia," the Doctor and Rose finished for her.
"Apalapucia," Rory said with confusion.
"Apalapucia," the Doctor told the two humans.
"Apalapucia," Amy said, finally saying the word right, "What a beautiful word."
"You're right, Amy. It is a beautiful word," Rose told their ginger companion.
"Beautiful word, beautiful world," the Doctor said, agreeing with them before Amy exclaimed with surprise, "Apalapucia, voted number two planet in the top ten greatest destinations for the discerning intergalactic traveller."
"Why couldn't we go to number one?" Rory asked the Time Lord.
"You just had to ask that, didn't you, Rory?" The Time Lady muttered to herself.
"It's hideous. Everyone goes to number one. Planet of the coffee shops," the Doctor answered, "Apalapucia! Me and Rose both give you sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades!" He then leads them to the TARDIS doors with Rose following him, "We give you…" The Doctor then opened the doors to reveal an empty white space with a set of double grey doors.
"Doors," Rory said as he looked out the TARDIS doors.
"Doors. Yes. We give you doors," the Doctor said as he and Rose stepped out of the TARDIS with Rory following them, "But on the other side of those doors, we give you sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades."
"And we are nowhere near Earth or where Gallifrey used to be," Rose added.
"Have either of you seen my phone?" Amy asked both Gallifreyans.
"Your phone?" He inquired.
"Yeah," she answered.
"I saw it last an hour ago, Amy," Rose told her.
"Your mobile telephone?" The Doctor said with disbelief, "We bring you to a paradise planet, two billion light years away, and you want to update Twitter?"
"Sunsets. Spires. Soaring silver colonnades. It's a camera phone," Amy explained.
"On the counter, by the DVDs," the Doctor told her.
"Thank you," Amy said, thanking the Time Lord.
"How do we get in?" Rory asked as the Doctor and Rose joined him by the doors, while Amy went to get her phone from inside the TARDIS.
"I don't know. Push a button," the Doctor surmised.
"Yeah, you have to press a button," Rose confirmed, "The one with the green anchor to be precise."
As Rose said, there was a panel to the side of the door with two buttons, a green anchor on top and a red waterfall on the bottom and Rory pressed the green anchor like what Rose said before the doors slide open to reveal a plain white room with a pair of white chairs and a table with a large magnifying glass on top.
"OK, so, like what you said, Rose, rain check on the soaring silver colonnades," the Doctor told Rose and Rory as they entered the room and looked around before the doors slid close behind them.
"It's a magnifying glass," Rory said as he noticed a magnifying glass on the table in front of them as the Doctor looked through the glass.
Back outside the room, Amy flipped her phone open and began typing controls on it before she saw the closed doors and closed her phone as she input it in her pocket.
"Hey? Hey, it's locked," Amy told her husband and both Gallifreyans as she approached the door.
"Yeah, push the button," Rory stated.
Back outside the room that the Doctor, Rose and Rory were in, Amy pressed the red waterfall button before the doors opened and the room was identical to the green anchor room including the magnifying glass.
"Rory?" Amy said as she entered the room.
"Come on, Amy!" Rory muttered to himself as he placed his hands on the table as both Gallifreyans looked around, wondering what was taking Amy so long.
Inside the room with Amy, the doors closed behind her.
"Great!" She muttered, sarcastically.
As the Doctor and Rose paced around the room that they were in with Rory, the nurse opened the doors to find his wife, only to see that Amy wasn't there.
"Where is she?" Rory asked himself before reentering the room, "Where on wherever we are is my wife?"
The Doctor sat down on one of the chairs with Rose standing next to him as she placed one of her hands over her husband's right shoulder as he pressed a green button on the magnifying glass, causing a blurry picture of Amy to appear in the glass as she peers into it from the red waterfall room.
"Rory…" Rose said, calling out to the nurse, "We think we've found her."
As Rose said that, Amy saw them through the glass from the magnifying glass in the room that she was in.
"What do you mean you both have found her, Rose?" Rory asked the Time Lady before noticing his wife in the magnifying glass from the room that they were in, "Whoa!"
Rory then ran across the table in the room he, Rose and the Doctor were in, "No, but, she's not... she's not here!" The Doctor then looked over the magnifying glass with Amy doing the same thing from the room that she was in, while Rose looked on in confusion before the Doctor sat back down in the seat he was in with Amy sitting down in the seat from the room that she was in before he looked over the side of the magnifying glass as Amy did the same.
"I can see her, but she's not here," Rory stated from the magnifying glass in the room that Amy was in.
"Where am I? In fact, where are you?" Amy asked them.
"Whoa!" Rory said with surprise when the door to the green anchor room suddenly slid open with a white robot standing there. It had a blank head and real hands. The Doctor, Rose and Rory all put their hands up as they faced the robot.
"Hands, Hello, Hands," the Doctor said, greeting the robot before explaining what the robot was to Rory, "Handbot with hands, Rory."
"Welcome to the Twostreams Facility," the Handbot greeted them, "Will you be visiting long?"
"Uh, Doctor, Rose, something's happening," Amy told both Gallifreyans, causing the Doctor to rush back towards the magnifying glass.
"Amy?" The Doctor said as he pulled out his sonic screwdriver as he tried to get the picture back, "Stay calm! Stay still! Ah, time's gone wobbly." He then began to use his sonic screwdriver on the magnifying glass, "I hate it when it does that."
"Will you be visiting long?" The Handbot asked as it reached its hand out towards Rose and Rory.
"Good question, bit sinister," Rory noted before turning to Rose as they backed away, "What's the answer to not get us killed?"
"I'm not sure, Rory," Rose answered, "I've never encountered them or been to Apalapucia but have only read about them back when I lived on Gallifrey."
As Rose said that, the Doctor got Amy back and saw that she was sitting curled up in a corner.
"It's OK, I've got you, you're fine," the Doctor assured Amy as he closed his sonic screwdriver and put it back in his jacket's pocket.
"Will you be visiting long?" Amy heard the Handbot say on the magnifying glass in the room that she was in.
"Doctor, a little help. Doctor," Rory said, calling out to the Time Lord on the magnifying glass.
"And where have you and Rose been?" Amy asked the Doctor.
"Will you be visiting long?" The Handbot asked again in the room that the Doctor, Rose and Rory were in.
"What do we tell it?" Rory asked the Doctor.
"I've been here a week!" Amy told the Doctor and Rose.
"A week?!" The Doctor, Rose and Rory all said at the same time with shock, surprise and confusion.
"I'm so sorry!" The Doctor apologised before realising what happened, "Aha! Same room, different times. Two timestreams running parallel but at different speeds. Amy, you're in a faster timestream."
"Doctor, it's going again!" Amy told the Doctor from the room that she was in.
"Doctor!" Rory yelled as the handbot reached its hand closer to him and Rose.
"Theta!" Rose said, calling out her husband's nickname from the Academy on Gallifreyat the same time.
"AMY!" The Doctor yelled as the connection between both rooms were going on and off again.
"DOCTOR!" Amy said, yelling the Time Lord's name at the same time and soon Amy was sitting in one of the chairs with her feet up on the table.
"Come on. Gotcha!" The Doctor said when he suddenly reconnected and reappeared in the magnifying glass, "There. Stabilised, settled, shh!"
"Why has this got hands?" Rory asked as he and Rose continued to be cornered by the Handbot in the room that they were in with the Doctor.
"Organic skin, ultimate universal interface, grown and grafted, not born. It's actually seeing with its fingers, scanning the room," the Doctor explained to Rory as he walked over to him and his wife, "But why not just give it eyes?"
"Will you be visiting long?" The Handbot asked yet again.
"As long as it takes," the Doctor answered before peering through the magnifying glass at Amy, "Amy, what exactly did you do?"
"I just, I came in, and I pressed the door button," Amy answered.
"Ah... Amy, there are two buttons. Green anchor, red waterfall," Rory told his wife, "Which one did you push?"
"I pushed the red waterfall," Amy answered.
"Great," Rory muttered, sarcastically as he opened the door and walked out of the room with the door sliding shut behind him before pushing the button for the red waterfall, causing the door to the room that Amy was in, only to see that the room was empty, "Amy?" He then stepped back out and groaned as the door slid back shut before pressing the green anchor yet again and returned to the Doctor and Rose, "I pressed Red Waterfall, and she wasn't there!"
"So you can't follow her directly," the Doctor surmised, "You know, it's never simple! Hear that, Handbot? She just pressed the wrong button. We're aliens, we didn't know."
"Statement... rejected," the Handbot said as a red light on its chest brightened, "Apalapucia is under planet-wide quarantine. This is a kindness facility for those infected with Chen7."
"What?" The Doctor and Rose both asked at the same time as they covered their mouth and nose with their jackets.
"Chen7, hmm?" Rory inquired as he also covered his mouth and nose with his jacket.
"The one day plague," the Doctor explained.
"What, you get it for a day?" Rory asked him.
"No, that's ridiculous, Rory," Rose told the nurse, "You get it, and you die within a day."
"There are 40,000 residents in the Twostreams Facility," the Handbot stated as Amy had her mouth covered with her hands within the magnifying glass, "Please remain in the sterile areas. Visiting hours are now." The handbot then puts its hands together before it transported away as the Doctor, Rose and Rory lowered their jackets from their mouths and noses.
"Sterile area, I'm safe," the Doctor said as he sat back down in the chair around the table.
"Me too," Rose told them with relief.
"What about me?!" Amy asked as she smacked the magnifying glass with her hand.
"Chen7 only affects two-hearted races like Apalapucians," the Doctor explained.
"And Gallifreyan," Rory added.
"Yeah, like me and Rose," the Doctor said, agreeing with Rory, "In that facility, I'm dead in a day. Time moves faster on Amy's side of the glass. Amy, you said you'd been here a week. What did you eat?"
"Nothing. I wasn't hungry," Amy answered.
"No, because Red Waterfall time is compressed. That's the point. The Time Glass syncs up the timestreams for visits. You could be here for a day, watch them live out their entire lives," the Doctor explained.
"And watch them grow old in front of your eyes?" Rory said with shock and disgust, "That's horrible."
"No, Rory, it's kind," the Doctor argued, "You've got a choice. Sit by their bedside for 24 hours and watch them die, or sit in here for 24 hours and watch them live."
"He's right, Rory," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "Which would you choose?" The Doctor then suddenly picked up the glass, causing it to disappear from the red waterfall room.
"Doctor?!" Amy yelled as she felt the space where the magnifying glass was, "Doctor, Rose, don't either of you leave me!" She then buries her head in her hands as the Doctor moves the magnifying glass to the side of the room as he began to look at Amy in profile.
"I'm here, Amy," the Doctor told her, "I'm right here."
"Where are you, Doctor?" Amy asked the Time Lord, "Am I looking at you?"
"Turn left, just a fraction," the Doctor instructed, causing her to move left, "Bit more, stop." SHe then looked at him, Rose and Rory in the eye, "That's it."
"Eye to eye?" She asked him.
"Eye to eye to eye," the Doctor confirmed.
"Hello," Rory said, greeting his wife.
"Amy, we're taking the Time Glass back to the TARDIS. Like satnav, I'll use it to get a lock, then smash through, using the TARDIS to get you out. Until then, you're on your own," the Doctor told Amy before taking his sonic screwdriver back out and used it on the magnifying glass.
"What are you doing, Doctor?" Rory asked the Time Lord.
"Rory, he's locking onto Amy. Small act of vandalism, no-one'll mind," Rose answered the nurse before an alarm went off as the Doctor put his sonic screwdriver back in his jacket's pocket.
"Ah, that will be the small act of vandalism alarm," the Doctor stated before telling Amy what she needs to do, "Amy, I need you to go into the facility just for a bit. Find somewhere safe and leave me a sign. Remember, you're immune to Chen7, but don't let them give you anything. They don't know you're alien. Their kindness will kill you. Now go!" Amy then pressed the 'check-in' button, causing the door to slide open before she turned around to face them.
"Rory, I love you. Now, save me. Go on," Amy told her husband before the doors slid back shut.
In the twostream's facility's check-in, Amy was being sprayed with a decontaminate as she began to be decontaminated.
Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor carried the time glass to the console and inserted it into the TARDIS' console.
"This is locked onto Amy permanently," the Doctor explained to Rory, "Play the signal into the console, the TARDIS'll follow it." Rose then attached a cable to the glass that set off some smoke before the Doctor walked over to the other side of the console and began looking through a tool chest of odds and ends, "Now then, I know you're in here. Um... erm.. Haha!" He then pulled out a pair of black-rimmed glasses and put them on as he faced Rose and Rory, "How do I look?"
"Sexy," Rose answered.
"Ridiculous," Rory said at the same time.
"Glasses are cool. See?" The Doctor stated as he put them on Rory, "Oh, yes. Hello, handsome man."
"Oh, hello," Rory said, greeting the Time Lord, causing Rose to giggle.
"Hello, Rorycam, huh?" The Doctor muttered as he pointed at the glasses that Rory was wearing.
"Oh, you and Rose can both see what I see," Rory said as he looked behind him at the TARDIS' monitors and saw what he sees appears on the monitors.
"We're breaking into Twostreams. Now, me and Rose can't go in, the Chen7'll kill us, no regeneration," the Doctor told Rory, "You will be our eyes and ears."
"Rory-cam," Rory said as he nodded, "Rescue Amy. Got it."
"That's the spirit!" The Doctor told him, "Now, smashing through a timewall could get a bit hairy."
"Is it safe?" Rory asked them.
"Rory, is anything safe with us?" Rose asked him, rhetorically.
"She's right and we don't know," the Doctor said, agreeing with his wife, "Never tried. Best hold onto something."
Meanwhile in the Twostreams facility's check-in, Amy walked through a monochromatic welcome area that looked like it could hold many people but was empty when suddenly a beam of light singled out towards Amy.
"Welcome to the Twostreams Facility," Amy heard a voice say when the light suddenly disappeared.
"Erm, who are you and why can't I see you?" Amy asked the voice.
"I am the Interface, between yourself and the systems of the Twostreams Facility," the voice answered as the light reappeared, "I will be your guide, your teacher, your friend." The light then shut back off as a hologram of a woman appeared behind the counter.
"Welcome to Twostreams," the hologram greeted Amy, "What is your name, please?"
"Amy," Amy answered, "Amy Pond."
"Welcome, Amy Pond," the hologram greeted her, "I see you're travelling alone. As a resident you will now have access to all of the entertainment zones inside. For a taste of adventure, why not try the mountain zone, and explore Apalapucia's famous Glasmir Mountains." An image of a mountain-like structure suddenly appeared next to her before it disappeared and was replaced by another image, "Or try our roller-coaster zone, authentically modelled on the famous Warpspeed Death Ride at Disneyland, Clom." She then made a motion with her hand, "All that you could wish for and more is through the Departure Gate, provided for you with kindness."
A while later, Amy walked up steps to another area filled with rooms to one side as one of the handbots was patrolling.
"Unexpected visitor. Welcome. Please seek assistance," a computerised voice throughout the area.
"Hello? Hey! Oi, wait!" Amy called out to the handbot before it turned around and scanned her.
"You are carrying unregistered bacteria. Please let me help you," the handbot told her as its
chest panel opened up as it removed a syringe.
"No, I'm not from this world," Amy protested, "Your medicine'll kill me!"
"Statement... rejected. Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness," the handbot said as it held out the syringe.
"No, no, please, I hate you," Amy told the handbot as she ran past it and hid.
"Secondary delivery system engaged," the handbot stated as it's head slid open to reveal a large gun surrounded by needles as it turned towards Amy before firing the needles with one of the needles landing right by where she was hiding, "Unauthorised infection on check-in, version 223." Two more handbots suddenly transmatted beside the first one as Amy turned to go the other way but found that it was blocked by two more handbots before she jumped over the counter and ducked inside as she ran down a stairwell to an open maintenance area.
"Unauthorised resident detected," the same computer voice announced.
"Come on," Amy muttered as she ducked around a corner.
"This is a kindness. Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness," she suddenly heard a handbot say as it stuck its hand into the room, scanning for her before she ran across the room and hid behind a large piece of equipment when she suddenly heard the handbot stop and peered under the equipment, causing her to shriek when its hand turned in her direction before she run away from it.
"Unauthorised resident detected. Unauthorised resident detected," the same computer voice announced yet again when three handbots suddenly transmatted in front of Amy, blocking her way.
"No. No, no…" Amy muttered in a pleadingly manner.
"This is a kindness. Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness. This is a kindness. Do not be alarmed," the handbots chanted before Amy ran for the vent in the centre of the room and pulled the grating off hoping to use it as an escape route.
"Come on, please…" Amy muttered to herself when the handbots suddenly stopped as they scanned the room.
"No residents detected," one of the handbots stated, "No residents detected."
"They didn't see me, they didn't see me," Amy muttered as the handbots walked away.
Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor laughed as he and Rose both held onto the console as the TARDIS knocked them and Rory about as they were crossing the timestream.
"Red Waterfall! We made it," Rory announced as he stepped out of the TARDIS as it materialised as he was wearing the glasses and had the time glass attached to a belt worn across his body.
"Good old us!" The Doctor said, happily as he ran over to the console and began watching the monitors.
"Yeah, good old Time Lord, Lady and Rory," Rose muttered, agreeing with her husband.
"How do we know that we're in the same Red Waterfall as Amy?" Rory asked both Gallifreyans.
"Focus on the positive," the Doctor urged the nurse, "We locked onto Amy's timestream."
"Yeah, just focus on the task at hand, Rory," Rose said, agreeing with her husband as Rory's eyes drifted to the breasts of a statue of Venus de Milo that was in front of him.
"Eyes front, soldier!" The Doctor ordered Rory.
"Yeah, Rory," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "And what do you think Amy would think if she saw you looking at that statue's breasts right now?"
"Right, yes, sorry," Rory apologised as he clapped his hands.
"Apalapucians are the great cultural scavengers, Rory, this gallery's a scrapbook of their favourite places," the Doctor explained to the nurse.
"Bit of Earth," Rory muttered as he walked through the gallery as he looked at a painting of the Mona Lisa before looking at a piece of alien culture, "Bit of alien," he then turned to some something that looked like a slime-like statue, "Bit of... whatever the hell that is."
"Interface?" Amy said, calling out to the Interface as she ran into a room after she watched the doors behind her slide shut and turned around to see six apparent doorways to nowhere as in the centre, there was a small pedestal with buttons on it; one for each doorway.
"I am here, Amy Pond," the Interface told her as a light shined down on her.
"Shh, shh. Turn that light off!" Amy requested before the Interface switched the light off, "So I'm... what is this? How does it work?"
"This is the Gate. From here you may depart to any of Twostreams' entertainment zones," the Interface answered before Amy pressed a button on the small pedestal.
"Cinema," she heard a computerised voice say before she pressed another button, "Aquarium." She then pressed yet another button, "Garden."
"Garden?" Amy muttered before pressing the garden button again, "Why not?"
"Garden," the computerised voice repeated itself before the lights flashed through one of the doorways, like something passing at a high-speed and when it stopped, Amy ran through the doorway.
The garden was formal in nature with very high and strangely trimmed topiary hedges.
"It's... beautiful," Amy said, admiring the garden, "I mean, freaky hedges."
"The perfect replica of a Shill Governor's Mansion on Shallanna," the Interface explained.
"You really could spend a lifetime in here," Amy stated, "Not that I'm going to." She then began to explore the garden and found a covered terrace with columns and statues, "Interface?"
"Amy Pond?" The Interface said as it shined it's light over Amy yet again.
"I need somewhere safe to hide and wait for my friends," Amy told the Interface, "Where in Twostreams is safe?"
"Twostreams is a safe, nurturing environment," the Interface stated.
"You know what I mean. Where can I go so the Handbots can't find me?" Amy said, rephrasing her question, "Before, I was stood by a sort of vent, and there was light and smoke and the Handbots couldn't see me. Why not?" She didn't get a response, "OK, I'll put it another way. What were those vent thingies?"
"The vents channel the exhaust fumes from the temporal engines that hold the multiple time streams in place," the Interface answered.
"And these temporal engines mess up the Handbots' sensors," Amy realised, "So where's the temporal engines?"
"Temporal engines held within," the Interface explained as it showed an image of the area with the rooms that she walked past earlier.
"OK…" Amy muttered when two handbots suddenly transmatted on either side of Amy with their hands out.
"Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness," one of the handbots assured Amy as they approached her as she backed away before she forced them to touch the other's hand, causing them to short circuit.
"Ha! Don't like that, do you?!" Amy said, laughing at the two handbots that she stunned.
Amy soon arrived back at the area filled with rooms and pushed one of the doors open and went inside as she walked up to the massive industrial engines.
"Temporal engines," Amy muttered, "Somewhere to hide." She then ran back out of the room as she wrote the words 'Doctor, Rose, I'm waiting' on the door in red lipstick before she drew an arrow pointing to the handle before going back inside.
"Where... is everyone?" Rory asked the Doctor and Rose as he walked through the gallery's rooms.
"Right, Rory, switch the Time Glass on and sonic it," the Doctor ordered the nurse as he and Rose were at the console as they were still watching the monitors, "We'll send a command to my screwdriver. Amy's here somewhere. If we can just get a lock on her. I wonder what happens if we mix the filters?" Rory then used the Doctor's sonic screwdriver on the time glass, causing lots of people to appear on one of the TARDIS' monitors, all out of focus as he and Rose walked over to the monitor, "And there they are. 40,000 time streams overlapping. Red Waterfall isn't one time stream. It's thousands."
"Are they happy?" Rory asked both Gallifreyans.
"I'm pretty sure they are, Rory," Rose answered him.
"Oh, Rory. Trust you to think of that. I think they're happy to be alive," the Doctor told him, "Better than the alternative."
"The Doctor's right, Rory," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "It definitely better than the alternative."
"I come in peace!" Rory said as he lowered the time glass in time to see someone in pieced-together armour that looked like a warrior's charging at him, "Peace, peace, peace, peace!" He then fell to his back on the floor with the sword aimed at his throat and saw that the person had long red hair and green eyes.
"I waited," the warrior told him as they spoke with a computer enhanced voice.
"Sorry, what?" Rory asked the person with confusion.
"I waited for you," the warrior explained as they pulled their sword away, "I waited!" They then lifted their visor to reveal an older Amy, who looked like she was about 30-40 years older.
"Amy," Rory muttered, "Doctor, Rose, what's going on?"
"Er…" The Doctor began to say as he and Rose both stared at the feed of Amy in shock.
"We've gone a bit too far," Rose stated.
"Amy," Rory said as he stood back up.
"Like Rose said, we think the time stream lock might be a bit wobbly," the Doctor explained over Rory's comms.
"No, please. Please!" Rory pleaded with Amy as she drew her sword back to strike.
"Duck," Amy ordered Rory before he ducked as Amy put her sword through the head of a handbot that suddenly appeared before it fell backwards to the floor with the Doctor, Rose nor Rory knowing what to say before she began to replace a black box installed in the handbot, "Handbots carry a black box in case they go offline. I've changed the cause of termination from hostile to accidental. Easy to re-programme. Using my sonic probe."
"Amy," Rory said with shock.
"Rory," Amy replied.
"Why?" Rory asked her.
"I've survived this long by making the Handbots think I don't exist," she answered, "Don't touch the hands. Anaesthetic transfer - if they touch you, you go to sleep."
"But you're still here?" Rory said with confusion.
"You didn't save me," Amy explained as she strided away.
"This is the saving!" Rory told her as he caught up with her, "This is the us saving you! The Doctor and Rose just got the timing a bit out!"
"Sorry," the Doctor and Rose both mouthed at the same time.
"I've been on my own here a long, long time," Amy stated as she didn't make eye contact with her husband, "I've had decades to think nice thoughts about them. Got a bit harder to stay charitable once I entered decade four."
"40 years? Alone?" Rory said with surprise.
"36 years. Thanks," Amy corrected as she pushed back her hair.
"No. Right, I mean... you look great," he complimented her, "Really. Really."
"Eyes front, soldier," Amy told him.
"Still can't win then," Rory muttered.
"In fact, I think I can now definitely say I hate them," Amy stated, "I hate the Doctor and Rose. I hate them more than I've ever hated anyone in my life." She then approached him, "You two can hear every word of this through those ridiculous glasses, can't you, Raggedy Man and Rose?"
"Ah. Yes. Putting the speaker phone on," the Doctor said as he put the TARDIS' speakerphone on.
"Doctor, you told me to wait," Amy reminded the Time Lord, "And I did. A lifetime."
"Amy…" the Doctor and Rose began to say at the same time.
"You both have got nothing to say to me," Amy told them.
"Yes, we do, Amelia!" Rose argued with regret in her voice, "With all of our hearts, we're so, so sorry."
"Don't either of you call me Amelia," Amy told her.
"Behind you!" The Doctor warned Amy.
Two handbots suddenly appeared behind Amy and Rory as Amy tossed her staff to Rory before she ducked and pressed the handbots' hands together, stunning them.
"Feedback. Knocks them out. Learned that trick on my first day," Amy explained as she left the room.
"OK, so we just take the TARDIS back to the right time stream, yeah?" Rory asked the Doctor and Rose as Amy strided along the outer corridor as he followed her, "We can stop any of this happening."
"Sorry, Rory, but we can't," Rose apologised from the glasses' comms.
"Rose is right, Rory," the Doctor said, agreeing with his wife on the glasses' comms, "We locked on to a time stream, Rory. This is it."
"This is so wrong," Rory stated.
"I got old, Rory," Amy retorted, "What did you think was going to happen?"
"Hey, I don't care that you got old," Rory told her as he grabbed her by the arm, "I care that we didn't grow old together. Amy, come on, please."
"Don't touch me," Amy said as she pulled her arm away, "Don't do that."
"It's like you're not even her," Rory stated as she continued walking.
"36 years, three months, four days of solitary confinement," Amy told him as she stopped in front of the door to the room with the temporal engines as she looked at the glasses, "This facility was built to give people the chance to live. I walked in here and I died. Do you have anything to say? Anything, Doctor? How about you, Rose?"
"Where did you get a sonic screwdriver?" The Doctor asked her as he noticed that she had a sonic device.
"Yeah, where did you get it from, Amy?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband as they walked over to the TARDIS monitor that was showing what the glasses that the Doctor gave Rory showed, which was Amy's face.
"I made it," Amy answered, "And it's a sonic probe."
"You made a sonic screwdriver?" Rory asked his wife with disbelief.
"Probe," Amy corrected her husband before she used her probe on the door and walking through the door to the temporal engine room before he followed her as she went through a curtain made from miscellaneous materials, while in a corner, there was a standing handbot.
"Oh!" Rory exclaimed with surprise as the handbot turned and saw that there was a smiley face drawn on the handbot's face.
"Don't worry about him," Amy assured Rory, "Sit down, Rory."
Rory and the handbot then both sat down at the same time before Rory stared at the handbot before turning back to his wife, "You named him after me?"
"Needed a bit of company," Amy stated.
"So, he's like your…" Rory began to say.
"Pet," Amy said, finishing her husband's train of thought.
"Is it safe?" Rory asked her as he looked at the handbot, while Amy pulled out some lipstick and twisted it open.
"Yep. I disarmed it," Amy answered.
"How?" Rory asked her before he saw that the handbot's hands had been cut off, "Oh, you... disarmed it."
"Oh, don't get sentimental, it's just a robot," Amy told him after lifting the lipstick up to her mouth before lowering it as she changed her mind and turned back around to look at her husband, "You'd have done the same."
"I don't know that I would've," the Doctor stated.
"Nor me," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"And there they are - the voices of God and his wife," Amy muttered with distaste over the TARDIS' comms as she walked towards Rory, "Survive. Cos no-one's going to come for you. Number one lesson. You both taught me that."
"Is that really all I taught you?" The Doctor asked Amy.
"Yeah, is that all we've taught you, Amy?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Don't either of you lecture me, blue-box man and woman flying through time and space on whimsy. All I've got - all I've had for 36 years - is cold, hard reality," Amy told them, "So, no, I don't have a sonic screwdriver because I'm not off on a romp. I call it what it is - a probe. And I call my life what it is... Hell."
"Amy Pond, I am going to put this right," the Doctor told her as she walked away from Rory, "You said you learned from an Interface. Can we speak with it?"
"Yeah, Amy, can we speak to the Interface that you learned from?" Rose asked Amy, agreeing with her husband.
"Doesn't work in here," Amy told them as she checked her watch, "2:23, the garden'll be clear now." She then turned to her husband, "Stay or go?"
"Sorry, me? No, I'm coming with you," Rory answered her.
"Then try not to get killed, or do, whatever," she told him before she left the room with Rory following her as the handbot did the same.
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