"Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe." The Doctor's voice echoed around the famous stone monument.
Terry blinked rapidly, clearing her vision.
'What was that?' She wondered as River's computer led her to the bookshelf. She stopped and started looking over it while Terry's attention was caught by something white hanging off Amy's wardrobe.
Terry walked over to stand in front of the wardrobe where Amy's wedding dress was hanging over the door. She frowned.
"When are we?" Terry wondered aloud when River suddenly called her softly.
"Angel, look at this."
Terry turned as River picked up one of the books. Terry's eyes widened and she quickly joined River by the shelf.
"Impossible." Terry breathed as she stared down at the copy of 'The Story of Roman Britain' that River held.
"My favourite topic at school. 'Invasion of the hot Italians'." Amy had said.
Terry's eyes quickly moved to the rest of the books on display and instantly they landed on the book sitting innocently in front of all the others. 'The Legend of Pandora's box'
"So, it's kinda like Pandora's box then. That was my favorite book when I was a kid."
"Amy." Terry whispered, her blood going cold.
"We need to call the Doctor." River said grimly. Terry didn't even pause to breathe. She pulled her phone and dialed in the space of three seconds.
He answered on the first ring.
"Angel, where are you?" The Doctor whined. "You and the Tardis were supposed to be here two seconds ago. Or was it two hours?"
"Doctor."
He went quiet at once at her tone. Terry explained quickly while she and River flipped through Amy's book.
"Don't raise your voice, don't look alarmed, just listen. Those Romans? The ones River sent to you, the ones you're with right now? They're not real. They can't be. They're all right here in the story book in Amy's house. A children's picture book. And River and I found signs that something was here before us."
"Why are you at Amy's anyway?" The Doctor asked in a puzzled tone.
"I don't know exactly, the Tardis was acting up. But the real question is, how is this possible? How can they be the same?"
The Doctor hummed in her ear. "Something's using Amy's memories."
"But how?" River demanded, leaning over Terry's shoulder to speak into the phone.
"Angel, you said something had been there?" The Doctor checked and Terry nodded.
"Yes. There are burn marks on the grass outside - landing patterns."
"If they've been to her house, they could have used her psychic residue." The Doctor murmured thoughtfully. "Structures can hold memories, that's why houses have ghosts. They could've taken a snapshot of Amy's memories."
Terry looked around uneasily while River started to flip through the rest of Amy's book.
"But why?" Terry asked aloud.
"I don't know yet." The Doctor admitted slowly. River leaned back over Terry to speak into the phone.
"Okay, so, who are those Romans?"
"Projections, or… duplicates." The Doctor answered in a low voice.
"But they were helping us." River protested. "My lipstick even worked."
"They might think they're real." Terry answered tersely as she reached for the Pandorica story book and started flipping through it.
"It would be the perfect disguise." The Doctor agreed, speaking his thoughts aloud slowly. "They actually believe their own cover story… right until they're activated."
Terry looked sharply at that.
"Doctor, the Pandorica." She said and the Doctor agreed, "Probably."
"Oh, my God."
Terry looked over at River's whispered exclamation. The blonde was staring at something in Amy's book and she appeared to have frozen in her shock.
"River? What is it?" Terry asked as she looked over River's shoulder. She frowned as she saw a picture of Amy and Rory from maybe a year or so ago, clearly dressed up for Halloween. It appeared Amy's love of Romans had pushed Rory into dressing up as one for that year although he didn't look like he hated it too much as he grinned happily from beside Amy.
"That's Rory." Terry pointed out, not understanding what the issue was.
But River raised horrified eyes to meet the Time Lady's.
"He was the Centurion who volunteered." River whispered. "I don't know why I didn't know it at the time, but... but..."
Terry's eyes widened in shock. And just like that, she was hit by a memory; no, a vision.
"Two thousand years, Rory." The Doctor warned his friend, trying to dissuade him. "You won't even sleep. you'd be conscious every second. It would drive you mad."
"Will she be safer if I stay?" Rory countered grimly. "Look me in the eye and tell me she wouldn't be safer."
The Doctor sighed. "Rory, you-"
"Answer me!" Rory bellowed. The Doctor stared at his friend in a mix of frustration and understanding.
"Yes. Obviously." He finally admitted. All the fight left Rory and he turned back to stare at the Pandorica.
"Then how could I leave her?" He asked.
According to legend, wherever the Pandorica was taken, throughout its long history, the Centurion would be there, guarding it.
River didn't dare say anything as she and Terry hurried back to the Tardis, not while they were still so exposed. But the second they were inside the Tardis doors, River started speaking rapidfire.
"It's a trap. It has to be. They used Amy to construct a scenario you'd believe, to get close to you."
Terry was staring numbly ahead while the Doctor questioned, "Why? Who'd do that? What for? It doesn't make sense. "
But River was distracted as she saw Terry's face.
"Angel? What is it?" River asked and Terry stared at River with wide eyes.
"I knew this." She said numbly. River was confused until Terry continued in a gradually agitated tone.
"I knew this, before. I think I even called Rory the Centurion before. I knew he waited for her. Because that's just who Rory is. I knew it but how did I know it if I couldn't remember this adventure until just a second ago? I knew it before it happened, why did I just forget?"
"Angel, calm down-" River started placatingly when something went bang behind them. They jumped as the Tardis suddenly started going out of control.
"Angel? River?" The Doctor called urgently.
Terry suddenly gasped as an image of the Doctor standing atop Stonehenge flashed through her mind.
"Could you all just stay still a minute because I am talking!" The Doctor bellowed and instantly, the world went still at his command.
Terry clutched her head and blinked rapidly as the vision disappeared while River ran about the console, calling back to the Doctor as she tried to figure out what was wrong.
"I don't know. It's the engines. Doctor, there's something wrong with the Tardis, like something else is controlling it."
"You're flying it wrong." The Doctor said and River glared at the phone.
"I'm flying it perfectly." River snapped at him while Terry joined her at the console. She started trying to look for the issue but stopped when she saw the date on the scanner.
"Doctor." Terry breathed. Somehow, he heard her.
"Terry?" The Doctor asked warily while River looked over at Terry questioningly, both hearing the fear in Terry's voice. "What is it?"
"We're at Amy's house on the 26th of June, 2010." Terry whispered.
There was a second of dead silence and then the Doctor was shouting.
"Get out of there, now! Any other time zone, just go!"
"We can't break free!" River shouted back as none of the controls responded to either her or Terry.
"Well, then, shut down the Tardis. Shut down everything!" The Doctor ordered frantically.
"We can't!" Terry called back just as panicked, when suddenly, a menacing voice hissed through the Tardis speakers.
"Silence will fall."
Terry froze while River stared around the Tardis in alarm as the voice repeated, its words echoing a little this time.
"Silence will fall."
As soon as she heard the words the second time, Terry gripped her head as another vision slammed into her head.
"The question of the hour is, who's got the Pandorica?" The Doctor asked as he stood on Stonehenge, lit up by the lights of all the spaceships of his enemies. "Answer, I do."
Terry shook her head, clearing it.
But a dull pain still throbbed in her temple as River reported to the Doctor urgently, "Someone else is flying the Tardis. An external force. I've lost control."
"But how? Why?" The Doctor demanded, before he suddenly paused.
Terry lifted her head in worry, fighting off the pain in her head. She exchanged a glance with River before they both became alarmed as the Doctor spoke again but in a much more urgent tone.
"Listen to me, just land her anywhere. Emergency landing, now. There are cracks in time. I've seen them everywhere, and they're getting wider. The Tardis exploding is what causes them, but we can stop the cracks ever happening if you just land her.
"It's not safe." River protested although she started pressing buttons on the console quickly to do as the Doctor said.
Terry started to help her when she grimaced as another vision hit her like a hammer hitting an anvil
"Come on! Look at me." The Doctor taunted up at the army high up in the sky. "No plan, no back up, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else. I don't have anything to lose!"
The console banged and sparked but finally River managed to land the Tardis. With a shudder, the old girl stopped moving and River slumped in relief.
"Doctor? I'm down. I've landed." She called although she glanced in concern over at Terry as Terry shook her head again, trying to clear it of the growing ache building in her temples.
"Angel, are you okay?" River asked in a low tone so the Doctor wouldn't hear and Terry nodded.
"Just… headaches. I think it's the Tardis affecting my visions." She answered. River frowned but was distracted as the Doctor called out to them.
"Okay, just walk out of the doors. If there's no one inside, the Tardis engines shut down automatically. Just get out of there."
"We're going." River agreed as she took Terry's hand and pulled her along.
"Run!" The Doctor ordered.
"Wait, hang on. You go ahead, I just need a second, my head's killing me." Terry murmured, pushing River ahead.
River went reluctantly to the doors and she tried to pull the handle. But it wouldn't open. The doors wouldn't open no matter how hard she shoved.
"What the-?" River gasped while Terry suddenly bent over like she'd been punched in the stomach as she was suddenly hit by vision after vision, each one blurring into each other.
"Remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and THEN!" The Doctor stared at his enemies, his usually light manner gone as the Oncoming Storm swirled in his eyes. "Do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first."
"There are cracks." The Doctor explained to Rory the Centurion. "Cracks in time. There's going to be a huge explosion in the future, on one particular day. And every other moment in history is cracking around it."
"They're Autons." The Doctor realized at last and then a horrible realization followed. "Amy!"
"Terry?" River panicked as she saw Terry's brows furrow in pain while her eyes squeezed shut. "Terry!"
As Terry didn't respond, River called for the Doctor instead in a panic.
"Doctor! Doctor, I can't open the doors!"
"The Pandorica is ready." One of the Romans - one of the Autons - holding the Doctor said in an emotionless voice.
"Ready for what?" The Doctor asked slowly, only for the White Dalek to reply.
"Ready for you."
"Doctor?" River yelled as she got no response either from the Time Lord or from the Time Lady who was starting to curl in on herself as she clutched her head tightly in pain.
"Doctor, please, we've got seconds and angel's getting overwhelmed by something! Doctor?!"
"No." Stark the Sontaran retorted. "We will save the universe from you!"
"From me?" The Doctor asked, stunned.
As the Doctor continued not to respond, River gave up shouting for his help. Instead, she left Terry in a corner by the console as she ran around trying to get the Tardis doors open. River hooked the Tardis engine wires to the main door handles determinedly even as the console sparked and shuddered, getting ready to explode.
All while Terry's head felt like it had already exploded.
"All projections correlate." The Cyberleader explained. "All evidence concurs. The Doctor will destroy the universe. The Pandorica was constructed to ensure the safety of the Alliance."
"A scenario was devised from the memories of your companion." The White Dalek explained and Stark added, "A trap the Doctor could not resist."
A button exploded as River leapt over the console, fighting with some pipes. She heaved a leaver while Terry clutched her head and moaned as more and more visions flipped by faster and faster.
"The cracks in time are the work of the Doctor." The White Dalek stated. "It is confirmed."
"Total event collapse!" The Doctor cried desperately, his voice breaking as he was shut into the Pandorica. "Every sun will supernova at every moment in history. The whole universe will never have existed. Please, listen to me! Listen to me!"
At Terry's moan, River grit her teeth but she ran for the doors… only to find herself staring at a rock wall.
"Oh, no..." She whispered.
Terry barely heard her as the Doctor's voice rang in her head.
"The Tardis is exploding right now and I'm the only one who can stop it! Listen to me!" The Doctor bellowed at the top of his lungs as the Pandorica slammed shut.
And then, the Minotaur's familiar roar echoed in Terry's head.
"Daemon, born of fire, of ash, of last glimmering hope."
Terry's eyes rolled back and she collapsed; only to somehow manage to stumble back upright on her feet just as the Tardis exploded and every star in the universe imploded with a massive boom.
And then River was running again.
A button exploded as River leapt over the console, fighting with some pipes. She was so focused on her task to find an escape, so worried about Terry's headaches growing out of control, that she didn't even notice the brunette woman standing quietly in the corner of the console room. Instead, she heaved a leaver and ran for the doors… only to find herself staring at a rock wall.
"Oh, no..." River whispered just as the console began to explode behind her.
And then River was running again.
A button exploded as River leapt over the console, fighting with some pipes. She heaved a leaver and ran for the doors… only to find herself staring at a rock wall.
"Oh, no..." River whispered just as the console began to explode behind her.
And then River was running again.
A button exploded as River leapt over the console, fighting with some pipes. She heaved a leaver and ran for the doors… only to find the Doctor casually leaning against the Tardis doors as he played with the vortex manipulator on his wrist.
"Hi, honey." The Doctor greeted with a smirk, looking past the stunned River and right at the Time Lady standing in the corner although the smile never reached his hard green eyes.
"I'm home."
Gold eyes glared back at him as Daemon answered coldly.
"We don't have a home."