In a cabinet room Churchill and Bracewell were looking at a picture Bracewell was explaining that it wasn't for Churchill it was a message for him to pass along to the Doctor a true Van Gogh found behind a wall in a French village. There the picture showed the TARDIS exploding.
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In a cell in five thousand one hundred and forty five AD a phone rang, and a guard answered it announcing it was Doctor Song's phone. Winston Churchill the Prime Minister for Great Britain during world war two asked for the Doctor she demanded the phone off the guard and told the person to speak quickly it was Churchill and he did. River apologised when she found out the guard was new then she was off escaping. River was off to see Dorian Maldavar, she needed a Vortex Manipulator, Dorian wanted to know how much she was prepared to pay, and her answer was funny she would give him the remote for the micro bomb he had just swallowed. She got her Vortex Manipulator and using that was off to the next place she needed to go. River broke into spaceship UK in the thirty first century going straight for the royal archives where the pictures were stored, some frames were missing pictures some were hanging funny. River found the one she needed and cut it out of its frame only to be stopped leaving the archives by the Queen Liz Ten who was now over four hundred and fifty after a short conversation River showed her the picture of the TARDIS and the Queen let her take it.
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"Vavoom!" Spoke the Doctor.
"Va-what?" Asked Amy the Doctor and Master ran about the console flicking switches as Amy and Harry joined them.
"I can't believe I've never thought of this before, it's genius. Right! Landed, come on." Explained the Doctor.
"Where are we?" Asked Amy to the two older Time Lords.
"Planet One, the oldest planet in the universe. There's a cliff of pure diamond and, according to legend, on the cliff there's writing, letters fifty feet high, a message from the dawn of time, and no-one knows what it says, because no one's ever translated it. Till today." Spoke the Master with a smirk.
"What happens today?" Asked Amy not understanding.
"Us. The TARDIS can translate anything. All we have to do is open the doors and read the very first words in recorded history." Spoke the Doctor while poking Amy's nose. The four stepped out onto the tropical planet and looked up at the cliff-face. In large letters it read.
"HELLO SWEETIES!" with Greek looking symbols underneath.
"Vavoom!" Chuckled Amy.
"Well at least we know who sent it and we know where to go, that's kind of her, I can't believe River Song did this that's the best prank going, she is doing the family proud!" Explained Harry in humour chuckling the other two Time Lords chuckled with him.
"Come on let's go and see what River wants son!" Spoke the Master knowing he would always go to help River if she asked.
"Our past her future, okay let's go!" Spoke Harry taking a breath he could still feel the pain, the other two must have picked up on it, because suddenly he had a hand each holding his and was being guided into the TARDIS.
They arrived on the edge of a Roman settlement in the second century on a hill over looking all the legions and their tents set up ready to defend the settlement if needed while they try and invade Britain again.
"That's a Roman Legion." Asked Amy.
"Well, yeah. The Romans invaded Britain several times during this period. Never were as good as me and I was only one they had hundreds of thousands." Spoke the Master in his usual voice.
"Oh, I know. My favourite topic at school. Invasion of the hot Italians. Yeah, I did get marked down for the title." Any explained to the three of them.
"Well, were not taking over Britain my mind is clear and free now!" Explained the Master while looking at the other three.
Suddenly they saw a breathless Roman soldier nearing them and then saluting and he kneeled.
"Hail, Caesar!" He said to the Master.
"Hi." Replied the Master while looking at the other three again.
"Welcome to Britain. We are honoured by your presence." He spoke still kneeling.
"Well, you're only human. Arise... Roman person." Spoke the Master in his most snotty voice he could do which was really well.
"Why does he think you're Caesar?" Asked Amy. The soldier stood and they saw lipstick on his check Harry sniggered.
"Cleopatra will see you now." He announced and turned around and they follow him, he took them into a tent and the first thing they saw was River, dressed as Cleopatra, being waited on by two servants.
"Hello, sweeties." River said to them.
"River! Hi." Smiled Harry to her.
"You graffitied the oldest cliff-face in the universe." Exclaimed the Doctor.
"You three wouldn't answer your phone!" River replied in response to that then clapped her hands and the servants left. She then held out a canvas rolled up.
"What's this?" Asked the Doctor.
"It's a painting. Your friend Vincent." Replied River. The Doctor snatched it out of her hand and unrolled in on the table for them all to see and there it was a picture of the destruction of the TARDIS that Harry has seen in the timeline when they had taken Van Goff to the museum.
"One of his final works. He had visions, didn't he? I thought the three of you ought to know about this one." River explained to them. The three Time Lords stared at the picture not knowing what to think at that moment in time even the timeline didn't make sense to them as they looked through it.
"Why's it exploding?" Asked Amy
"I assume it's some kind of warning." Replied River. The Doctor sat down, his thoughts were very heavy.
"Something's going to happen to the TARDIS?" Asked Amy looking at the four of them.
"It might not be that literal. Anyway, this is where he wanted you. Date and map reference on the door sign, see?" River explained to the other four.
"Does it have a title?" Asked the Doctor in shock still.
"The Pandorica Opens." Replied River
"That's just a myth!" spoke the Doctor.
"Iwaswillbe. The cracks through Time and space, I still don't know the power source of a TARDIS could it destroy this universe does she have enough power if she is destroyed to destroy the universe with it?" Asked Harry deadly serious.
"I honestly don't know; I don't think so!" Spoke the Doctor looking at the Master.
"I don't either, but, if she can hold a paradox permanently, then maybe?" Spoke the Master unsure as well. They were being honest they were as worried about this picture as Harry was. Infact Harry looked more worried than them both. The warnings off his Father the picture he had seen when the others went to visit Van Gogh and was now in front of them.
"River how did you get here we are in the second century and how did you get the picture off Vincent?" Asked Harry still thinking things through.
"Vortex Manipulator, from the fifty first century got a phone call off Churchill he left the original with the Royal family on my orders picked the picture up off the spaceship UK Queen Liz Ten sends her regards and let me take it then I left a message for you to get to this time as I said Vincent left you instructions on the picture as you weren't answering your phone I used something that would interest you!" River explained everything that she had done to the three.
"I need a map. Of the area now River." Spoke the Doctor and one was provided for him it got into a discussion of how he would never find it.
"If it's real and that a big if and the TARDIS is somehow involved it will be placed somewhere you remember, somewhere you never forget, somewhere that is well known throughout Time to everyone but especially us." Spoke the Doctor pointing to Stonehenge, both the Master and Harry agreed.
"It's said to be built on the biggest ley line of Magic in the world a convergence on the druids it could be argued that it is actually Avalon just corroded away through time but like the Pandorica that has never been proven." Harry told them.
"There are only horses, but we can get there." Explained River, after she changed out of her costume for more modern clothes, then they were off on horseback riding over the countryside. They arrived at Stonehenge and dismounted the three Time Lords had their probes out scanning the area River pulled out a scanner of her own.
"How come it's not new?" Asked Amy to them all.
"Because it's already old. Been here thousands of years. No-one knows exactly how long." Explained River to Amy.
"OK, this Pandorica thing. Last time we saw you, you warned us about it, after we climbed out of the Byzantium." Answered Amy.
"Spoilers!" Explained River and placed a gentle finger against her lips.
"No, but you told the four of us you'd see us all again when the Pandorica opens." Amy tried to explain to River Song what she had told them the last time they saw her.
"Maybe I did. But I haven't yet. But I will have. Doctor, Master, I'm picking up fry particles everywhere. Energy weapon discharged on this site." River spoke to Amy then informed the two older Time Lords what she was seeing off her scanner with Harry and Amy listening in.
"If the Pandorica is here, it contains the mightiest warrior in history. Now, half the galaxy would want a piece of that. Maybe even fight over it." Explained the Doctor as he jumped off the middle stone and put an ear to it.
"We need to get down there." Spoke the Doctor. It took another few hours but with the help of the Romans, they had lights all around the area and River used her scanner to move the stone top showing steps leading down into the Earth. The four went on down the Time Lords lighting their way with their sonics and a Lumos off Harry from his hands. They found a barred door and the Doctor looked at the Master then River the three lifted the plank and then opened the door. There in the middle of the empty cavern was a box with swirling patterns on its side all in black.
"It's the Pandorica." Spoke the Doctor shocked.
"More than just a fairy tale!" Spoke River Song also shocked. The Doctor walked towards it looking at it and walking around it he stepped on the hand and arm of a cyberman but kept going.
"There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the universe. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world." Explained the Doctor to the others there.
"How did it end up in there?" Asked Amy.
"You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it." Spoke the Master with a wink.
"I did not nor would I, I would just pull the life from them or kill them, no muss no fuss, no breaking out." Spoke Harry in indignation.
"I hate good wizards in fairy tales. They always turn out to be the Doctor." River said while pointing to the Doctor.
"So, it's kind of like Pandora's Box, then? All the same nasty stuff left in it after it had been opened sound like the same name as well." Asked then explained Amy while looking around.
"Sorry, what?" Asked the Master.
"The story. Pandora's Box, with all the worst things in the world in it. That was my favourite book when I was a kid." Explained Amy. The Doctor stopped and walked over to Amy with a concerned look upon his face.
"What's wrong?" Asked Amy.
"Your favourite school topic, your favourite story. Never ignore a coincidence, unless you're busy. In which case, always ignore a coincidence." Spoke the Doctor then walked back to the Pandorica using his Screwdriver on it.
"So, can you open it?" Asked Amy.
"Most likely. Anyone can break into a prison! I'd rather know what we are going to find first though before we do it was meant to be a myth to scare even our young tots into behaving." Spoke the Master not happy over this.
"It's already opening. There are layers and layers of security protocols in there, and they're being disabled, one by one. Like it's being unlocked from the inside." Explained River as her scanner bleeped.
"How long do we have?" Asked the Master to River while pointing his own screwdriver at it and looking at the results only to find there were none.
"Hours at the most." Answered River.
"My sonic is not getting anything from that which is more than worrying!" Explained the Master.
"What kind of security?" Asked Harry to River intrigued he knew if his dad couldn't get anything he doubted he would.
"Everything. Deadlocks, time-stops, matter-lines." She answered.
"What could need all that?" Asked the Doctor.
"What could get past all that?" Asked River in return.
"Think of the fear that went into making this box. What could inspire that level of fear?" Explained then asked the Doctor.
Hello, you. Have we met?" Asked the Doctor to the Pandorica.
"So why would it start to open now?" Asked River to the Time Lords.
"No idea I honestly thought this was a fairy tale told to kids to make them behave even we were told about it as the Master said." The Doctor answered honestly.
"Hmm, and how could Vincent have known about it? He won't even be born for centuries." Asked Amy next the Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and used it on all the stones around the Pandorica.
"The stones! These stones are great big transmitters, broadcasting a warning to everyone, everywhere, to every Time zone. The Pandorica is opening!" The Doctor explained finding the reading on his sonic screwdriver.
"Doctor... Everyone, everywhere?" Asked River worried about that statement.
"Even poor Vincent heard it in his dreams. What's in there, what could justify all this?" The Doctor carried on as though he hadn't heard still concentrating on the Pandorica.
"Doctor, everyone?" Asked River the Time Lords knew what she was getting at.
"Anything that powerful, we would know about it. Why don't we know?" Asked the Doctor still looking it over.
"Doctor, you said everyone could hear it. So, who else is coming?" Asked River in panic.
"I would imagine any space faring race out there in the galaxies that have life within them can hear that signal so most of the universe, that means they are all coming here to Earth to see it open even ones who aren't born yet but can move through Time." Explained Harry to everyone there unimpressed.
"Okay let's find out for sure, the Master and I will sort the looping message, you track what's out there River on your scanner Arbitrator the timelines you see more than us." Spoke the Doctor and he and the Master got to work.
"River hurry, what's out there?" Demanded the Master
"I'm getting the scan…. Over ten thousand ships are surrounding this planet." She spoke shocked at the end looking at the Time Lords the two older of them shut their eyes for a second. Before the Master and Doctor opened them Harry already had his closed.
"So, we can pick the transmissions up. There are daleks which means a battle fleet of around twelve thousand, four against twelve thousand daleks no we would never win." Spoke the Doctor.
"Yes, well there are also Cybermen out there." Explained Harry with his eyes still shut.
"What?" Asked all four there shocked
"No, I head dalek transmissions." Spoke the Doctor.
"Yes, well there is also Sontaran. Four battle-fleets." Spoke River going over her own scan.
"Sontaran's! Talk about cross, who stole all their handbags and refused to give them back?" Asked the Doctor shocked.
"Terileptil. Slitheen. Chelonian. Nestene. Drahvin. Sycorax. Haemo-goth. Zygon. Atraxi. Draconian. They're all here. For the Pandorica." Spoke River in true shock most of the major powers in the universe were surrounding Earth waiting for the Pandorica to open.
"We can't take all of them, even I can't take all that yes I can be precise but if I take out one fleet the others will descend on me, I would need to regenerate if they hit me and in that time it could open. And I can't take them all out in one go without being in the middle of them or the humans would go that are on this planet which would mean them entering the Earths atmosphere and while I was dealing with one then the others could take out the humans still or hit me causing me to have to regenerate, I can't pick a ley line up here if there was one it has either moved or is no longer active for me to pull power from, there is just no way I can see for me to battle them all and win!" Spoke Harry deadly serious with his eyes back open when River listed the others he was also picking up. The others looked worried then. Suddenly the ground shook and all four of them ran to the stairs and up them to see the fleets around the planet.
"What do we do?" Asked Amy.
"Doctor Master please, listen to me! Everything that ever hated you two are coming here tonight. You can't win this. You can't even fight it. Both of you, this once, just this one time, please, you have to run. Think of the Arbitrator, think of you son." River told them both.
"Run where? No, we fight." Decided the Doctor no one was getting the hands on the Pandorica not matter who was after it.
"Fight? How?" Asked River and the Doctor took out binoculars and looked back the way they came.
"The greatest military machine in the history of the universe." The Doctor answered all of them there.
"Who is? The daleks?" Asked Amy not understanding, she had seen the daleks attack the Time Lords before.
"No, no, no. The Romans!" Answered the Doctor
"Oh, come on Doctor, there is no way they can take any of them they are too primitive. Yes, they were good but not that good one shot and they will be dead they will die in droves and that would mean them actually landing it's the bloody second century energy guns haven't been invented yet the Arbitrator stands a better chance than all of them and he said he can't do it." Spoke the Master having a go at the Doctor not impressed with the Doctor or his idea.
"I'll return to the camp and get it sorted for you they can protect the Pandorica at least!" Announced River and with that she was on her horse and took off. She returned to the camp only to find the battalion commander was back from a week's mission to announce cleopatra was in Egypt and dead. They got into an argument which caused River to disintegrate a bookcase to tell them they needed to fight. It turned out that they were interrupted by an officer agreeing to assist.
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Back at the site the three Time Lords were running around trying to set up protections Harry was raising wards to protect against energy blasts the Doctor was working on a force field with the Master. Amy was down the stairs posted near the Pandorica. The Doctor left the Master and Harry to work on their own while he went to check on the Pandorica. River had managed to round up reinforcements for them and had returned, but Harry and the Master were still preoccupied in what they were doing. Amy still in the crypt with the Pandorica nearly got shot by a Cibber arm when Amy found out what it wanted, she screamed at the Doctor who got behind it and manged to destroy it. Then Amy nearly got assimilated by a Cyber head. River and a surprise Roman were making their way into the crypt doors to be let back in. as they forced their way in and entered the Doctor got zapped and Amy was attacked by a Cyber head lucky the Roman with River killed the Cyber head with his sword before Amy got knocked out. Harry and the Master hearing all the commotion followed the noise into the crypt where the Doctor was knocked out, River was checking him over and the Roman was tending to Amy who had been hit only the Roman was Rory Williams.
"Hello, Amy." Spoke Rory, Amy fainted, lucky Rory caught her.
"Whoa, whoa!" Rory carried her to a stone table and set her down. He caressed her hair just as another soldier who had also entered the room spoke the Roman officer.
"Sir, the man's starting to come around." Explained the soldier to his commanding officer.
"Amy?! Where's Amy?" Asked the Doctor still disorientated, the Master and Harry had seen just who the Roman was they just watched him waiting for the Doctor to work it out as he woke up more.
"She's fine, Doctor, just unconscious." Spoke Rory.
"Okay... Er, she's sedated, that's all. Half an hour, she'll be fine. OK, Romans, good, I was just wishing for Romans, good old River. How many?" Asked the Doctor but it wasn't River who answered.
"Forty eight men up top and us two, all volunteers. What about that thing?" Explained then asked Rory as he pointed to the beat up Cyberman.
"Fifty men? Not exactly a legion!" Spoke the Doctor not impressed at the number, Rory nodded to the other solider with him, who left to join the other men up stairs.
"Your friend was very persuasive, but it's a tough sell." Explained Rory to the Doctor.
"Yes, I know that Rory, I'm not exactly one to miss the obvious am I. But we need everything we can get. Okay, weapons. This is basically a sentry box. So, headless wonder here was a sentry. Probably got himself duffed up by the locals. Never underestimate a Celt they can be merciless when they want to be." The Doctor spoke while looking at the dead Cyber head and arm.
"Doctor." Exclaimed Rory trying to get him to realise.
"Hush, Rory. Why leave a Cyberman on guard? Unless it's a Cyber thing in the box. But why would they lock up one of their own? Okay, no, not a Cyber thing, but what, what? No, I'm missing something obvious, Rory! Something big, something right slap in front of me, I can feel it I just can't place exactly what it is! It will come to me though!" spoke the Doctor straight in Rory's face.
"Yeah, I think you probably are." He answered the Doctor while looking at the other two who were smiling at him.
"Hello again, we really have missed you it wasn't the same without you around even if we do confuse you, I had just got you to make my coffee how I like it as well." Spoke Harry to Rory with a cheeky smile on his face.
"Hello to you three as well!" Returned Rory rolling his eyes at the youngest Time Lord there him and his coffee.
"How've you been doing on your own?" Asked Harry intrigued.
"Good. Yeah, good. I mean, I'm a Roman." Rory told the three Time Lords who were all looking at him now.
"Rory, I'm not trying to be rude, but you died." Spoke the Doctor bluntly.
"Yeah, I know, I was there it hurt." He answered the Doctor.
"You died and then you were erased from Time. You didn't just die, you were never born at all, you never existed nothing of you remained not even memories." Explained the Doctor
"Erased? What does that mean?" Asked Rory confused.
"How can you be here?" Asked the Master. Harry followed the Master so they joined the Doctor, Rory and Amy.
"I don't know. It's kind of fuzzy." Answered Rory to the three of them even though the Master had asked the question he could tell they were all interested.
"Fuzzy?" Asked the Doctor.
"Well, I died as I said which hurt and then I turned into a Roman. It's very distracting that! Did she miss me?" He asked at last lucky before any of the three could answer the chamber rumbled, the Doctor, the Master and Harry took off for the surface. When they arrived, they realised they were surrounded by all the alien spaceships.
"Please tell me at least one of you has a plan other than guarding the Pandorica?" River spoke form on top of her horse.
"Yes! Now hurry up and get the TARDIS here we left it parked just outside the settlement overlooking the camp up on that hill. we need equipment and give me your scanner!" The Doctor told River pointing to where they had left the TARDIS to her, River rolled her eyes, handed her scanner over and rode off. Then he went back down into the crypt.
"What are you? They're all here, all of them, all for you. What could you possibly be?" Asked the Doctor to the box as he was examining it. Before he also left again for the surface. He arrived in the middle of the surrounding soldiers. The Master and the Doctor had their sonic screwdrivers out while Harry also held up both his hands ready to unleash the elements or use True Magic if he had to. The Doctor jumped on the edge of the entrance to the crypt, with River's scanner he had taken off her.
"Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe. But bad news, everyone... 'Cos guess who?! Ha! Listen, you lot, you're all whizzing about, it's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute? Because. I. Am. Talking!" Shouted the Doctor at the end through the communications off River's device. The ships all around that could be seen stilled.
"The question of the hour is, who's got the Pandorica? Answer... the Master and I do. Next question, who's coming to take it from us? Come on! Look at the two of us, no plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else, we don't have, anything... To... Lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship, with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way. Remember every black day we ever stopped you. And then…. And then!... Do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first!" Spoke the Doctor the oncoming storm was in full force.
"If they call our bluff, I can't hold them off all night the wards will take the first maybe five shots but then it will be energy I will be fighting against with my own Magic and core not using my Fathers powers. We really don't do defence there is no need nor can I take them out individually even with five shots buying us time I can't take all of them out with either my Magic or using my Extra powers and as I said there is no ley line to tap to make the wards stronger than I have." Explained Harry quietly so only the other two Time Lords heard him. The Doctor turned and beckoned for them to follow him Rory tagged along a they went to check on Amy.
"She should be coming around in a minute." Explained Harry after running his hands above her to scan her medically using True magic.
"They're still all out there though. What do we do now?" Asked Rory to the three.
"If the Master as I can stop whatever's in this box getting out, then they'll go home." Explained the Doctor to Rory, while looking at it.
"Rory, I'm sorry, you're going to have to be very brave now." Spoke the Doctor full of compassion, Amy then woke up and started walking towards them rubbing her head. She walked right past Rory to the other three.
"Oh, my head!" Announced Amy rubbing her head where she had got hit, walking over to the Doctor, the Master and Harry.
"Aaaahhh." Spoke the Doctor while miming sticking his tongue out with his mouth open to Amy.
"Aaaahhh." She copied him and the Doctor gave her a cursory examination.
"Just your basic knock-out drops. Get some fresh air, you'll be fine." The Doctor explained after checking her over to make sure she was fine.
"Is it safe up there?" she asked him with a look of concern.
"Not remotely were surrounded by every space faring race in the universe, but it does have fresh air and plenty of space ships." Spoke Harry seriously knowing this was going to be bad.
"Fine!" She replied and turned and nearly bumped into Rory.
"Oh, you're the guy, yeah, the one who did the... Swordy thing to that metal head?" Amy asked the Roman soldier who had entered just as she was about to get eaten by the Cyber head.
"Yeah." Rory asked he a bit shocked, she didn't recognise him.
"Well, thanks for the swording. Nice swording!" She replied while tapping him on the shoulder and walked off.
"No problem. My men are up there. They'll look after you." Rory told her wondering what was going on.
"Good. Love a Roman!" She replied as she left to go up the stairs.
"She doesn't remember me. How can she not remember me?" Demanded Rory after he had watched her leave looking at the other three.
"Because you never existed." Explained the Doctor gently to him knowing this was going to hurt him.
"What's going on? What's wrong?" Demanded Rory.
"There are cracks. Cracks in Time and space. 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." The Master explained.
"So how does that work? What kind of explosion? What exploded?" asked Rory.
"You said you didn't think she held the power, but the debris, the cracks in Time all different exits in Time and Space there is only one thing in this universe that could do that especially after seeing that painting." Spoke Harry looking at the other two Time Lords having finally worked it out it, putting together everything he knew from what his Father had said along with the picture he had seen before through the timeline and again in front of him today then seeing the actual Pandorica.
And Harry was right in a sense, River had entered the TARDIS and set her to Stonehenge, but the TARDIS didn't want to go she seemed to be fighting River, even with the new control room and the updated console unit the TARDIS still shook and toppled and moved in ways it just shouldn't and River couldn't control it.
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Back with the others they were all looking at Harry.
"Doesn't matter, the cracks are everywhere. Get too close and you can fall right out of the universe." The Doctor brushed it off telling the other two and Rory what he knew.
"So, I fell through a crack and now I was never born?" Rory asked the Time Lords.
"Basically." Agreed the Master
"How did I end up here?" Asked Rory confused again.
"I don't know, you shouldn't have. What happened? From your point of view, what physically happened?" Asked the Doctor truly curious.
"I was in the cave, with you two and Amy. I was dying as I said it hurt and then I was just here, a Roman soldier. A proper Roman. Head full of Roman... Stuff, a whole other life. Just here like I'd woken up from a painful but beautiful dream. Started to think it was a dream. You three and Amy and Leadworth. Then today, in the camp, the men were talking about the visitors, the girl with the red hair accompanied by two men and a teenager your descriptions fitted you all too well for it not to be you they described what you always wear even if they didn't know what they were and it was far to modern for this era. I thought you'd come back for me as soon as I heard the descriptions of the four of you. But she can't even remember me." Rory explained but near the end he was heartbroken he really had though they were there for him.
"Oh, shut up Rory." Spoke the Master
"What?" Asked Rory looking at the Master, the Master reached into his coat and pulled out the ring box and tossed it to Rory.
"Go get her again." Spoke the Master throwing the box at Rory.
"But I don't understand. Why am I here?" Asked Rory.
"Because you are and you're alive again and this is all that matters to us three that you're back with us Rory. The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous at times, but sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles, and that's the theory anyway. I'm one thousand one hundred years old and the Master is even older, we've only ever seen one before finding our son after his caretakers died. But this would do all three of us. Now get upstairs, she's Amy and she's surrounded by Romans. I'm not sure history can take it the Romans certainly won't cope with her and even if you think she hasn't missed you there have been signs we've had to cover up so go and keep her safe and History intact." Spoke the Doctor to him and Rory just looked at them and they smiled at him, so he nodded leaving to go to Amy.
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Back in the TARDIS it was still shaking around until it suddenly stopped and a screen fritzed which it shouldn't have River hit it a few time and saw the date, the twenty sixth of July two thousand and ten she wondered why the TARDIS had brought her there she left her and saw the house in front of her looking worn out in the front garden there were landing patterns of a space ship of some sort. She entered the house and found Amy's bedroom only there was her raggedy man, a book with a very familiar commander on the front cover and then the book on pandoras box. She worked it all out in seconds and fled to the TARDIS.
"Don't raise your voice, don't look alarmed, just listen to me and what I have found." Spoke River to the Doctor from the TARDIS.
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Outside of the crypt in one hundred and two A.D. Rory walked over to Amy.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Rory asked after seeing Amy crying.
"Nothing. It's like... It's like I'm happy. Why am I happy?" Asked Amy to the Roman in front of her.
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Back in the TARDIS River kept on speaking to the Doctor the other two could not hear what she was saying to him.
"They're not real, they can't be. They're all right here in the story book, those actual Romans, the ones I sent you, the ones you're with right now. They're all in a book in Amy's house, a children's picture book." Spoke River to the Doctor.
"What are you even doing there?" Demanded the Doctor off River.
"It doesn't matter. The TARDIS went wrong. Doctor, how is this possible?" River asked him.
"Something's using her memories, Amy's memories!" Replied the Doctor making the other two look up at the Doctor.
"But how?" Asked River still in the TARDIS.
"You said something had been there." Spoke the Doctor.
"Yes, there's burn marks on the grass outside, landing patterns by the looks of them." River told him having noticed them as she entered the house.
"If they've been to her house, they could have used her psychic residue. Structures can hold memories, that's why houses have ghosts. They could've taken a snapshot of Amy's memories. But why?" The Doctor explained then asked the last while looking at the other two who had moved closer.
"Doctor. Who are those Romans, that I sent you? What are they doing there when they are in a book I have in my hand?" Demanded River down the communications in the TARDIS.
"Projections. Or duplicates." The Doctor answered her letting the other two hear.
"But they were helping us. My lipstick even worked." River spoke again through the TARDIS communications system.
"They might think they're real. The perfect disguise. They actually believe their own cover story, right until they're activated." The Doctor explained with the other two listening in now.
"Doctor, that Centurion!" River held up a picture of Rory and Amy, Rory was dressed as a Roman soldier.
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"What's the matter?" Asked Rory to Amy after watching her cry for a minute.
"Nothing." Amy spoke as she reached out with a hand and caressed the Romans face.
"I don't know why I'm doing that." She spoke confused removing her hand from the Roman.
"It's me. Amy, please... It's me." Rory begged her to remember who he was.
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"It's a trap, it has to be. They used Amy to construct a scenario you'd believe, to get close to you three or especially you Doctor the daleks know a lot about you from the Time War! There has to be more going on that we don't know about." Explained River still in the TARDIS in two thousand and ten.
"Why? What for? It doesn't make sense the daleks won't work with others, and they are all here to see the Pandorica open, yet they aren't shooting at each other fighting over it or at us even though we have threatened them." He said to her as all three tried to look through the timeline but for some reason it seemed to be blurring on them the three looked at each other. Suddenly Harry grabbed the communicator.
"River it's the Arbitrator what date are you in?" Harry demanded off her.
"The twenty sixth of July two thousand and ten." River replied to him.
"Get out of there now any other time any place just leaves into the Time Vortex quickly!" Demanded Harry the other two looked at him.
"The engines are overheating!" She replied while trying to move the TARDIS.
"That's not possible on that console unit you've done something wrong reset the navigator and program it to bring you back to here just reverse the course it's the quickest way!" Harry said quickly back raising his voice a little.
"You taught me and it's working perfectly the engines are just going critical no matter what I do!" River shouted back through the TARDIS communications about the only thing properly working still for her.
"Then shut it all down everything even the Time rota I would have shown you how to do that shut it all down power her to off not even the shields or lighting, nothing!" Harry demanded right back to River still in the TARDIS.
"I'm no longer in control someone else is overriding it!" River told him panicking she couldn't get anything to work other than the communications.
"What? How? That shouldn't be possible on that console." Suddenly the line went quiet on Harry and the three Time Lords heard a high whining noise the two Romans in the room with them collapsed their upper body forward. The only one fighting it was Rory up on the surface.
"Listen to me River, just land her anywhere. Emergency landing, now. There are cracks in Time and space, 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! Get her back on the ground but not on that date!" Spoke Harry with urgency the two Romans with them had activated. The ones on top were making their way into stone henge and down to them without them knowing only Rory was on the surface with Amy panicking as he fought for his humanity against being plastic.
"Arbitrator, I'm down. I've landed." River told him, feeling slightly relived.
"Okay, just walk out of the doors. If there's no-one inside of her, the TARDIS engines shut down. Just get out of her and shut the doors." Spoke Harry rushing now the timelines were joining the TARDIS was going to explode if she couldn't get it shut down which meant getting through the doors.
"I'm going!" River shouted back to the communications system.
"Run River!" Harry shouted back at her to make her go faster.
The Doctor and the Master went towards the Pandorica. As they saw it start to open, they left the TARDIS for their son to sort out. Both the Doctor and Master knew he was the best one to do it.
The fingers of the Roman soldiers' hands flipped downward revealing guns. They marched forward towards the Doctor, who was using the sonic on the Pandorica. Inside the TARDIS River tried to open the TARDIS doors but they wouldn't budge. She grunted in frustration and turning around ran back to the communicator.
"Arbitrator! Arbitrator! I can't open the doors!" Shouted River in panic. Harry was searching for the timeline along the TARDIS he pulled up SATURN to try to teleport to her only he couldn't. As the Doctor bent down to pick up something off the floor, he saw the Roman soldiers advancing.
"Amy!" Shouted the Doctor moving out of the plastic Romans way.
"We will take care of her you take care of that!" Spoke the Master, he pointed to Harry and himself and then at the box with that said, he grabbed his sons hand and they ran from the chamber to Amy, leaving River on her own to get out of the doors if he had taught her to use that console unit he would have been thorough and River seemed to know how to do everything on it from the time she had last used the console unit.
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"Listen to me, you have to run. You have to get as far away from here as you can! I'm a thing I'm trying." Rory told Amy as he tried to fight his programming.
"I'll kill you Amy. Just go, run! Please, no, I don't want you to go. I'm Rory! I'm... I'm." Spoke Rory fighting his programming as best he could even more.
"Williams. Rory Williams from Leadworth. My boyfriend. How could I ever forget you?" Amy announced as she jumped up and held him by the shoulders.
"Amy, you've got to run. I can't hold on the programming is taking over I'm going to kill you." Explained Rory still fighting the programming, but he was feeling a though he was losing.
"You are Rory Williams and you aren't going anywhere ever again." Amy told him. Holding him with her arms around him as Rory held his hand with the built in gun downwards with his other hand.
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Back under Stonehenge the Doctor had been caught by the two Romans and held.
"Plastic Romans. Duplicates, driven by the Nestene Consciousness, eh? Deep cover, but what for? What are you doing? What's in there, eh? What's coming out?" Asked the Doctor but the two Nestene duplicates were facing the Pandorica. The Doctor was between them, facing the opposite direction.
"The Pandorica is ready." Spoke a dalek appearing in the cave it was the while one that had gotten away from them during World War two.
"What, you mean it's open?" Asked the Doctor to the dalek looking behind him seeing the Pandorica opening.
"You have been scanned. Assessed. Understood. Doctor." Spoke the same dalek still in front of him now with the way his head and body was facing, while he was being held by the two Nestene duplicates dressed as Romans holding so him tight that he could get out of their grasp and then two more dalek materialised besides the white one a red and blue one.
"Scanned? Scanned by what, a box?" Asked the Doctor to the daleks.
"Your limits and capacities have been extrapolated." Spoke a Cyberman. The Doctor looked around for the source and Cybermen appeared followed by Judoon and Sontaran's.
"The Pandorica is ready." Spoke a Sontaran.
"Ready for what?" Demanded the Doctor still being held.
"Ready for you." Spoke the blue dalek and inside the Pandorica. Amidst the advanced technology was a chair with restraints. The Doctor tried to pull away from the Nestene soldiers holding him, but they held him even tighter. The soldiers pulled him forward. Toward the Pandorica. The Doctor was placed in the chair within the Pandorica and clamps were placed around his wrists and ankles, a large yoke came down on his shoulders. His enemies stood at the opening to gloat over his end.
"You lot, working together, an alliance... How is that possible?" Demanded the Doctor.
"The cracks in the skin of the universe. All this universe will be deleted." Explained a dalek this one in yellow that had arrived now the four daleks that had escaped were in front of him.
"What? And you've come to me for help?" Asked the Doctor already seeing the timeline but hoping for the best.
"No. We will save the universe from you!" Spoke a cyberman.
"From me?" Asked the Doctor.
"All projections correlate. All evidence concurs. The Doctor will destroy the universe." The blue dalek told him.
"No, no, no. You've got it wrong." The Doctor tried to tell them.
"The Pandorica was constructed to ensure the safety of the alliance. A scenario was devised from the memories of your companion. A trap the Doctor could not resist. The cracks in Time are the work of the Doctor. It is confirmed." Spoke again the white dalek.
"No. no, no. Not me, the TARDIS. And I'm not in the TARDIS, am I?" The Doctor told them now knowing himself what was going on.
"Only the Doctor can pilot the TARDIS." A sontaran told the Doctor.
"Please, listen to me I am not the only one who can pilot her there are three Time Lords who could pilot her as well as one of our friends and none of us are in her I didn't even put the new control room together on my own the Masters and my son did most of the work we only chose what we wanted adding to help out! All of us can control the TARIDS and none of us are in it!" Begged the Doctor to all those now surrounding him.
"That is irrelevant the TARDIS is yours and always has been. You will be prevented from using her." Spoke the white dalek again. The daleks seemed to be the leaders of this coalition.
"Total event collapse! Every sun will supernova at every moment in history every planet will be as if it was never created. The whole universe will never have existed! Please, listen to me! I'm trying to stop it not let it happen!" Begged the Doctor even though he knew it was no use.
"Seal the Pandorica." Demanded a cyberman.
"No! Please, listen to me! The TARDIS is going to explode within less than a minute, you lot are trapping me in here and I'm one of only three who can stop it! Listen to me!" the Doctor tried to tell them, but the Pandorica was slammed shut in his face while all the other races cheered on his demise.
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Back on the surface Harry and the Master had had to fight through the Roman soldiers or as they knew them to be Nestene duplicates. Harry using a lot of True Magic to kill them there were that many of them that had tried to descend into the vault housing the Pandorica, only to get to the top up the steps that led into the crypt to Amy to find her in Rory's arms he had shot her. When they got there, they were just in time to see all the stars go supernova.
"Dear Father. What happened? The TARDIS must have already exploded Dad I'll use SATURN to get us to Amy being younger" Exclaimed Harry seeing the sky then glanced a Rory and Amy. Harry had just brought SATURN up to program her to take them to when they had first met Amy as a child, his dad lay his hands on his shoulders to look at what his son was doing and they disappeared.
Only Harry didn't get to finish saying anything as he ended up in the inbetween. Null looked to see, and his dad was with him. With a wave of his had a chair appeared behind his dad without him noticing and Null put the lid down on SATURN and went to hug his Father who was there waiting for him in his human form.
"Father, I'm happy to see you but I was going to take us into the future to find Amy as a little girl to sort the Pandorica out not come to the inbetween." Null told him giving DEATH a hug which HE returned.
"Father…as in yours? As in…. Lord DEATH?" Asked the Master looking petrified.
"Hello Koschei." Spoke DEATH in a monotonous voice without any emotion whatsoever looking over Null's head causing the Master to collapse backwards right into the comfy chair Null had created.
"Be nice Father, you sound robotic like that!" Spoke Null amused.
"His reaction is funny there's my emotion if you want it!" Explained DEATH, but Null could tell his Father didn't mean it HE was detached from everything and everyone other than him for a reason.
"So not that I'm happy to see you because you know I aways am, I love you Father and spending our time together but I'm sure dad is probably having a nervous breakdown being here I was going to take us both through Time to Amy being a child to get the mess sorted out all the timelines were showing that as the best outcome as I was explaining." Null told his Father still hugging DEATH.
"I had to bring you both here, as you said you were about to travel through Time, if you had done, you would have been wiped out and there could have been a chance you were not reborn. Koschei is a Child of Time born on Gallifrey, the universe has exploded, nothing was as in there was never a Gallifrey and it would be even more complicated for you SON you weren't born in this universe and you can't die so I brought you here instead MY home or OUR home but you know I want you to live within the universes enjoying yourself doing whatever you want with Koschei and Theta there as your parents and for you to only visit ME whenever you want to. I brought Koschei with you as I thought you would want him safe, and this is a safe as it can be for the both of you at the moment!" Explained DEATH to Null hugging him back still.
"Okay so that would be bad for dad. Thank you Farther I really appreciate it as I know you only care for me." Null thanked his Father and then squeezed HIM again in the hug knowing HE had saved his dad for him.
"Can it be sorted out saving Pere as well as Amy and Rory and how long will that take? Asked Null next, DEATH left the hug and waving his hand two more chairs appeared well more like thrones one smaller than the other.
"Yes SON it can be sorted, sit while I explain it all." DEATH told him so Null did as he was told.
"Now Koschei as I'm sure MY SON has explained time does not have to pass here, we make of it what we want we could be here for a microsecond in the universe but a million years could pass here or the other way around we would be here a second and a million years could have passed in the universe." Spoke DEATH directly talking to the Master.
"Yes, my Lord he has." Spoke the Master the wariest he had ever been he couldn't see Time he couldn't feel the bond with his son it was like he was on his own.
"So don't panic then when I explain. In natural terms it will take one thousand eight hundred and ninety four years for Theta to sort it all out and you both will be here until I release you. However, Theta will have it sorted in about three hours of running around in Time." DEATH told them.
"Hold on Father if Pere can travel in Time why couldn't we?" Asked Null confused.
"Theta has his connection to the TARDIS which while she still exploded you ensured that the control room would remain intact and as Theta was in the Pandorica when the universe was wiped out It will keep him safe and allow him to do what he needs to do. Once he's out of the Pandorica he will be able to use a Vortex Manipulator to travel in Time to and from the different Times he needs to on Earth it is the only planet left and will last just long enough for him to sort it all out. Amelia Pond was shot by Rory Arthur Williams as you saw, but he will come out human and she will be placed in the Pandorica, the plastic centurion will care for the box throughout time as plastic until Amelia Pond is rejuvenated by the younger version of her who will be born. Then Theta will use the Pandorica to hit the TARDIS and reboot the universe time will alter and Amelia Pond with the help of you two and the woman you know as River Song will bring Theta back from the void where he will end up sealing the breaches throughout Time and space." DEATH explained to them and told Null that he and the Master would need to help.
"What do we need to do to help Pere Father?" Asked Null next.
"Both of you need to change you clothing which you can transfigure SON ready for high end church so you stand out at the wedding you will be going to of Amelia Pond and Rory Arthur Williams and although they will be classed as Williams it will still be the Ponds that name holds more power, you are to go to the wedding but stay in the back so you aren't really noticed there, you don't get taken in the photos but sit at the back of the reception that will be organised in the right hand corner looking from the high table. Then when you see the woman you know as River Song walk past the window she will have left her diary for Amelia Pond to look at. Amelia pond will stand up to look at her then she will sit down and will look at the blue diary and then she will look around the room finally landing on looking at you two and notice how well dressed you are, you need your bond to wink at her at the same time when she looks over at you, you need to loosen the memories of her raggedy man, it's him she remembers most, he invited her to travel with you and interacted more with her as both a child and at other times and Koschei and Theta helping Amy to make peace with the settlers under the Earth will knock more memories lose, looking out the window will do even more and then you two should finish it off for Amelia Pond to put it all together. Something old, something new, something borrowed something blue he told her that, Koschei was there when he was telling her but it was his tale to tell." Explained DEATH
"So, we can get him back? Pere will be okay?" Asked Null just for clarification.
"If you do as I've told you yes, but I wanted to talk to both you and Koschei together." Explained DEATH.
"Me my Lord?" Asked the Master worried.
"You are worried about MY SON giving you regeneration energy because of what you have done in the past with it. He will be giving you energy like the High Council of Gallifrey could authorise to give extra lives to Time Lords and Ladies, just like he did when you created your watches and then once the drums were removed he made you making a new one again giving it twelve lives, so if you are ever hurt, he can top you back up and as an elemental he can grab your soul if you are ever truly killed and build you a new body around it then just recharge you so that you have another twelve lives on top of that one to live. You will be with him for as long as you want your minds can cope with long life and immortality as a higher race you mind can hold your memories of everything you have done for time you cannot imagine. It what it means to be a higher race, you will be safe with MY SON for as long as you want to be so will Theta. He is back to his full regeneration now of thirteen lives and is fine as will you be, stealing the energy will always twist it on you and send you mad but this would be freely and willingly given, you will be as you are now only as you know with different quirks on the outside just as MY SON told you when you made the second watch." DEATH explained to the Master.
"I can't go back to that my Lord not after my mind has been clear now for a time, I have realised everything I did wrong even accepting freely given energy I'm worried what it will do to me I can't go mad again." Spoke the Master worried.
"You will be fine you will not go mad as you no longer are! Some of that energy you stole and that twisted you, stolen energy is never clean energy as you should always have! You were twisted more coming out of the matrix to fight in The Last Great Time War. What it actually happening is you are finally settling being an adult now when you last were fully coherent you were a tot of eight looking into the untempered schism on Gallifrey where the drums were placed into your mind by Rassilon and the High Council of Gallifrey to try and help them escape from The Moment knowing that Theta would use it. Hence MY SON making you create a new watch once the drums were removed so you are totally safe to accept the energy off him I know you agreed to make the watch but you felt you would never need it but if you need to regenerate again or when you do I should say you can accept the freely given energy off him to bring you up to the same amount of lives as Theta has now, thirteen!" Spoke DEATH with conviction that you couldn't deny if you tried.
"Now Theta and you are doing a good job bring up and loving MY SON for which I am happy for his sake, I arranged for you all three to meet so he could be left in your care while living within a universe you are his biological dad so it was only fair to leave him with you. When you and Theta ever decide to really give up and pass on to the beyond which is where you both are going for all you have done to support MY SON then he will join ME full time going around reality being able to do whatever he wants he will have learnt all you can teach him. He may want to enslave a race by then or even an entire universe it will all be up to you and your teachings." DEATH explained to the Master knowing exactly what HE was doing.
"You don't care My Lord; you would really let him take over a universe?" Asked the Master shocked, the Master never thought his son would, but DEATH seemed unconcerned if he did.
"No, I only care for MY SON, nothing else, his happiness is MINE, his sorrow is MINE, if he breaks, I will be there to pick him back up, if he needs a rest, I will be there to provide it. There is nothing I would not do for MY SON or let him get away with. It should be fun for ME watching him he always brings ME joy!... I never have been attached to anything until MY SON came along you do not know just what true immortality is, I have lost count of the beginnings and endings of realty I have taken and seen be born anew, I do not even notice a universe's end, I just put it to death it is all I do other than watching MY SON and keeping the other Deities in line. For all of the whole of reality there is more than a trillion mainline universes in reality still left all different not even counting the clusters of universes and parallel worlds that surround a mainline universe and I will take them all. That is all I do while I am here when reality starts again, there is at least ten times that amount of just mainline universes compared to what there is now never mind the clusters of universes and the parallel universes that surround a mainline universe and I take them all over and over again until I take the whole of reality. I was always there at the beginning and the end of realty I was the first and I am the last there will ever be other than MY SON now. And yet MY little one sits next to me and all I feel Is love for him as a parent…... The bond you have with him what is it like?" DEATH explained then asked at the end out of the blue or so it seemed. The Master thought about it.
"Comforting, reassuring, pure love off another and knowing you feel the same the tot is yours to take care of he will always love me it's all I have ever felt from the bond other than when he thought we would give him up. With Muklo in my life I am the happiest I have ever been and Theta is there to help me show he is always loved that is all I feel for him love of a parent to his own child." The Master replied after thinking about it.
"And MY bond with him is no different. We are one together like you feel. He is a part of ME and I am a part of him he just lives within the universe exploring I stay here monitoring MY responsibilities and watching him. I was there with him as a true tot, I helped him grow I supported him I helped him develop into who he is and that led to MY love for him as well the same as you it is why you got to start over with him again so you could watch your tot grow up. I will never lose MY SON and he will never lose his parents unless they want to pass over. But there is one thing you must always remember…. All of this reality, even each universe is only underpinned by one truth and one truth only for it to work this time all life must be given free will. They can decide just like you have in the past and can in the future to be good or bad all sentient races do have it even evil races choose to be that through their free will…. You must always remember that and you must remind Theta of the same. Your race had it even though you now as you are act as free emissaries for the Deity TIME in this universe." DEATH told the Master.
"Emissaries father? What is an emissary?" Asked Null.
"They work for ME, they do as they are told they have no free will and are only left with their emotions, I have two types of people working for ME. Agents like you were meant to be, they are left with their free will and emotions a bit like Koschei and Theta they can do what they want at other times they must sort problems out for ME although Theta and Koschei are called free emissaries of the Deity TIME instead of agents the emissaries that work for ME do as they are told and have no free will they do as they are told constantly and that is all there is to it. They are given duties in each reality cluster or just in a universe it depends on the emissary. I am normally the only one with agents though. All the other Deities have emissaries doing as they are told by their Deity but not agents normally. The Deity TIME in your universe chose a whole higher race for HERSELF as agents something that is not normally done that is why you were originally called children of Time. SHE wanted you to look over this universe keeping your eye on the timeline it is the only race in this universe SHE has ever got involved in personally. I had never taken note of your race Koschei before the Deity TIME asked me to make MY SON one of HER children of Time as well, I looked and found out why. MY SON would become a cluster agent and would be able to cope with the long life going around the different clusters investigating them and preventing to much death while he was in each different universe if it was not for MY intervention and realising I had the emotion of love for him causing him to become MY SON. He is the only one SHE has ever chosen to get involved with personally after she created her children of Time and asked ME if SHE could make him one of HER Magical children of Time, because you SON were marked from before your birth to be an agent for ME she needed to ask if SHE could get involved before you were born knowing what I intended you to be born to do. SHE will have known even more than ME we are completely different Deities and have different strengths I can look through Time yes, but she can do it and understand it all throughout the whole of reality something I cannot do as I don't need to, SHE looks over the whole of reality and understands it all from start to end. Eventually I will take even HER." DEATH explained to the two but mainly to Null.
"You will Father? I thought you were equal!" Null asked shocked.
"No SON you and HER may be equal once you reach past your tot age but I stand above all others you do as well in a sense because of ME, you can draw on MY full domain if you want to even though you have your own powers but as you know you must grow into them once you are an adult and mature in MY eyes, you could fight HER and pull out the power off the Deity TIME from the whole of reality and it would end it, all life would be killed. The same with the Deity LIFE you can take all life out of reality, and the dead universes will just shrivel up time will be meaningless it would cause you to kill THEM and you would be able to easily. when you are old enough, all the Deities that are left winthin a reality will stay away from you and let you do what you want because THEY know THEY will not beat you, you will be able to kill THEM all and wait for a new reality to form, we are the only two that are truly immortal all the others will be taken by either you or ME to end this reality and watch a new one form it is why I taught you how to do it, it is why I told you not to go on that adventure when you originally lost Rory Arthur Williams you would have won in the fight against the Deity TIME in that universe by pulling on MY domain but the destruction would have caused the planet Earth to blow up while you were fighting against HER before you removed all time from the universe causing it to end as you were on the planet at the time!" DEATH was explaining the truth to Null, but he had other reasons as well.
"My Lord, I know what you are trying to do please don't, we have promised to stay by him, we will love him and keep him level headed knowing the importance of life even though he has the same powers as YOU. I promise YOU I will love him, guide him and support him properly no matter what. I swear to YOU." As the Master said this nearly begging he was enveloped in a black aura.
"Agreed Koschei." Spoke DEATH. With a smirk on his face.
"What was that, Father?!" Asked Null for his dad shocked.
"That was an agreement between the second free emissary of the Deity TIME in this universe and ME. Koschei will now have to stand by you always, loving you, supporting you and guiding you as you live within a universe unless you and I say otherwise. He will be there to guide you throughout your life. What he guides you in is his and Theta's business they can teach you what they want, free will. But he had not made an agreement with ME to look after you. No one can kill him and so he will be with you as long as you need him not as long as he feels he has to be with you. It will be your decision SON if you are to collect his soul and let it pass over. Even killed, his soul will seek you out to rebuild life around him again and then give him his twelve lives back to carry on loving you, guiding you and supporting you. No one will take Koschei from you now. You have been worrying about it SON, only having ME all alone well even now Koschei will only pass on if you let him have permanent Death even then I will have to decide if you are ready for him to leave you or not." DEATH told Null in no uncertain terms his dad was now tied to him forever something he had been worried about being left all on his own with just his Father.
"You've just stopped dad from ever being able to die? For me?" Asked a shocked Null again.
"Yes nothing can kill him now his role will always be to support you, love you and guide you throughout your life until you are ready to let him go then as I said I will decide if you are really ready to let him go it is the only way he will be taken from your side so you know he is always there with you…. But I warn you now Koschei! If you upset MY SON in any way! You will find I am not even as kind as the Deity TIME letting you and Theta live after what you did to HER and SHE did let you live. Upset MY SON in a major way and you will find out why I am the first and the last. Am I Clear?" Demanded DEATH shouting the last.
"Cr….Cry…Crystal clear my lord." Spoke the Master scared, really scared he knew he didn't really want to die this meeting was nerve wracking as it was but to find out DEATH had a grip on his life if he lived or died and his son was his ultimate decider if he loved him or not he was scared, he would always stay with him and support him he was happy to do that but he would have to ensure he kept his head on straight and not let him get arrogant because of who his Father was.
"That is something you will never be able to do Koschei. Your race has to have that arrogance as a higher form of life you all have it, you need it to be one, in a sense you are born with it, but you also have free will on how to use that arrogance! Here SON, come sit." Spoke DEATH patting his knee when addressing Null. The Master thought DEATH could easily read his mind even with the lessons and teachings off his son to the Doctor and him that he had given them in occlumency as he had been thinking it not talking out loud, he was a bit too scared for that. Null got up and sat on his Fathers knees with his back to HIS chest knowing his Father must be reading his dads soul to ensure he didn't lie to HIM but he couldn't tell his dad that the information hadn't been released for him to speak about it to others.
"This may upset Koschei a bit, but this was the original Gallifrey when they looked through Time and about a million years after they had built their first Magical Reality Traveling Time Ships they also had TARDIS's it is how they started off but they mainly used the Reality Traveling Time Ships as they were better and allowed them to explore more of reality the world was at peace with both the Magicals and the ordinary living side by side supporting each other." There in front of them they could see all of Gallifrey it really was beautiful.
"It was one of a kind, this planet in this universe, nothing like it should have been able to grow as it did but all life worked on that world. The people rejoiced. It had taken a long time for them to reach their peak which is when this is being shown they had now become a full higher race their evolution was complete. The final sanction would have sort of worked actually. A higher race can take on pure energy forms and become that energy climbing up the planes of the universe but the Children of the Deity TIME, no they wanted to stay in solid form but had reached immortality and so energy but in a different way it was not meant to be restricted, the High Council imposed rules which they should not have then because it had been done for so long it set in. They wanted to remain humble still. Anyway, the final sanction, they could have become energy and reached the stage they wanted but they would need the time to live in the universe hence the flaw kill time you kill life to live it which brings around ME to end it…. This is when Gallifrey had regeneration, but the rule was there, you were given thirteen lives before going to the matrix. That is when you become energy when you finally end your life after living the thirteen you are given, but the ordinary Time Lords didn't understand that. As I said arrogant. They thought they knew it all because they could see Time and travel in it. The Magical Time Lords were actually more advanced once their evolution was complete none of them ended up in the matrix." DEATH smirked again at the last announcement. The Master looked at DEATH shocked he didn't know any of this.
"Why did you think they despatched every TARDIS, they had when the Magicals left and Agusteen told you what they had done? Did you never think there had been Magical deaths after you reached your pinnacle and your bodies went to what you called the matrix, there had been billions that had died but instead of being directed to the matrix they reached their higher form and climbed up the planes of understanding that a universe has and made different rules. They know a lot more than the others did and as they are energy, they know what is to come they are prepared for it most of them will be back when Theta is. They know there are only two absolutes ME and MY SON, but they know reality travel again and those that left for you previous universe SON who ascended followed you when you travelled to this Universe to meet up with the others that had also ascended before them they all want to see how well you co-exist with ordinary Time Lords again, they watch over you three but have rules about not interfering only watching they never interfere in the lower plane as they call it not even with their own race they will not interfere with any civilisation but they are surprised that both Koschei and Theta love you as a son and are not even the slightest bit jealous even though they are ordinary Time Lords and you are now a Magical Time Lord tot they are shocked at how much love the three of you hold for each other. They will all move on to another universe once this one ends a younger universe they have rules guiding them one of them is there, so they don't go to another universe with another higher race in it that has ascended so they don't cause problems for each other and as I said another rule is that they don't interfere in any civilisation that is still in solid form, it is why they did not get involved in the Time War and why they did not invite their cousins to join them although if they did they would be on a plane lower than theirs because as I said they were more advanced in their final evolution and so climbed higher…. But look at those cities, marvels of technology and True Magic of their time. you could see and Travel in Time but wanted to study it more closely looking for the answers to the whole of reality. Just as most higher races look for the answers of the universe they are in and know more as the universe imparts information to them as they ascend…. It's so peaceful on Gallifrey at this moment in time all free and happy the whole world rejoicing in the completion of their evolution, wanting to know more understand more and see more. The TARDIS came about because of what the Magical Time Lords and ladies did to the ordinary Time Lords and Ladies to stop the war between the two it left them only with TARDIS's. You could no longer travel reality and so you travelled in Time and space throughout only this universe using them. Then arrogance set into the ordinary Time Lords and Ladies as I said it was always there but from that time on it was your downfall. You were children of Time able to look into it and interpret it, then to travel in it but you became more arrogant the Magicals didn't actually that was why there was a divide arrogance of the ordinary to take a subset of them more advanced in their evolution but try to war with them anyway, I see lots of races doing it in this reality not just the higher race's, but their fall outs tend to be big, higher race's tend to split in two I never understood why but in all I have seen in this reality they do. The aways split just in two never more than that. Yet they all do it because of free will. It's why all the other Deities have emissaries they don't unfortunately get to have it they do as they are told by their Deity and that is it. As I said Theta and Koschei are free emissaries of the Deity TIME MY agents are sort of like that but a full emissary is more restricted as I said they must do as they are ordered to by their Deity constantly they only have their emotions left to use." Explained DEATH to them showing the beautiful cities in Gallifrey of old.
"Are all emissaries like that and where is the one for YOU in our universe?" Asked Null still on his Father's lap back to HIS chest resting against HIM intrigued by the information he was getting off his Father and looking over the beauty of Gallifrey it was so different to what he had seen in his parents heads more beautiful without the wastelands or anything. It was how they had described it just much more vibrant Null wouldn't have been surprised to find out that Gallifrey was starting to die when his parents were born on it and no one noticed.
"Yes, they are there is only me with agents all the other Deities have full emissaries other than Theta and Koschei working for the Deity TIME as free emissaries as for MINE she is overseeing the soul collectors doing as she is told by ME all the emissaries have jobs off their Deities that that have to do MINE are all in charge of the soul collectors and ensuring when it is time for someone to die there is a soul collector there who they think of as ME, to bring their soul to the afterlife unless there are problems and then they collect the soul personally and send it on to the afterlife, even the Deity TIME has one in your universe even though Koschei and Theta as well as you are there. The Moment that was created by the scientists on Gallifrey was controlled by the emissary of the Deity TIME. When The Moment developed the capacity to burn everything within it the Deity TIME decided it needed to be more controlled and so it was by HER emissary, that is what the conscience is it is the judgment off the emissary Theta was only allowed to use The Moment because the emissary was told by her Deity to let him but for him to use it as you know he had to live on and keep the timeline intact. Koschei and Theta though are as I said free emissaries something that is normally not done, they normally either are an emissary for the Deity doing as they are told not how Koschei and Theta are. The Deity TIME only got away with it because they are HER children the TARDIS acts as their controller it is why you basically have to go somewhere and sort the timeline out the TARDIS makes you hence Theta and Koschei being free emissaries at times they can use the TARDIS to do whatever they want at others the TARDIS will take them somewhere that there is a problem. The other emissaries are all doing what they are told by their Deities overlooking the universes or carrying out their orders off their Deity. However, you SON stand above them all and are to do as you wish with guidance. It is only because you live with both Koschei and Theta that you are restricted and help them out in their duties, but as you know they both can still give you an order and you have to follow it normally it is only until you become an adult from being a tot but with you they will be able to give you an order well into your own adulthood then you will find as you age what you call your extra powers will be able to block it off from them if you want it to. But once you do that there is no going back, they can't pull you away from doing anything then and you could and can, you are MY SON and I will let you do whatever you want." DEATH told Null.
"I think that will be open for a long time then it's nice to know it can be blocked but it is also there to support me if I need it and as you know Father there are times, I need to feel the love I get off the both of them." Null answered his Father honestly.
"It is your decision, but you know I will always be here for you no matter what to show you, you are loved! In future, I will let you have access to here with both Koschei and Theta as you know you can move along the timeline from here or go into another universe, but don't expect ME to be here unless you need or want ME there really is only you who is not scared of ME SON, all others fear ME as you well know. Even though Koschei is hiding it well, I believe you've all seen Theta's memories of Casandra O'Brian Delta Seventeen well now Koschei's own chest is beating a Samba all on its own with two hearts to work with. So back into the universe you two they timeline and area you need is here just drop back into the universe and you will arrive around the side of the church. Change into your best outfits for a church wedding, she's bringing Theta back to you. Enjoy the wedding and remember no photos always stay in the back and when Amelia Pond looks at you both use the bond to wink. I love you SON!" Explained DEATH and with one final squeeze DEATH lifted Null to his feet and DEATH was gone.
"You okay dad?" Asked Null once the room turned into its normal grey background without the two thrones his Father had created.
"Your Father saved me then HE ensures I know it is safe to accept regeneration energy off you, so I am always with you no matter what for as long as you need me even if that is more time than I can imagine. Yes, I'm okay let's go get Theta and out of here." The Master replied but Null could see his eyes. Laughing he motioned for him to stand up and he transfigured their outfits for a high end church wedding and hugging his dad returned them to the Earth from the inbetween to the day of the wedding just around the side of the church so they weren't seen by anyone as his Father had told him to.
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Harry and the Master did as they were told and sat in the back of the church watching the wedding. Amy and Rory had written their own vows for the wedding it was a lovely service and both Harry and the Master noticed River was there watching as well, they followed behind the others to the reception and sat in the back right hand corner as they had been told to do. They watched Amy and Rory throughout it all and after Amy had stood up and seen River through the window then sat down again and looked at the blue book she had been given by Rory. When she looked at them Harry heard in his head 'Now' and they both winked and then Amy interrupted her father and started to explain about the Doctor and they felt it and stood up, they waited until the TARDIS started to appear as an outline Harry then teleported them both using True Magic so they didn't have to hold on to each other his Magic guided the process they went to either side of the TARDIS as it came in to full materialisation so that they appeared at the same time from the feet up appearing in full as the TARDIS did with Amy banging on the doors for the Doctor once the TARDIS was there.