The Eleventh Hour
In all my travels with The Doctor, I had never had so much trouble controlling the TARDIS. All I knew was we were flying over London, The console sparked every time Annabelle and I did something. The Doctor wasn't much help because at some point the had been knocked out of the door and was currently hanging on by his hands. I looked at the monitor and saw we were getting dangerously close to Big Ben. "HANG ON!" I shouted to the doctor as I threw a lever and increased our altitude high enough to clear the tower. Once The Doctor was back inside, he closed the doors, fell against them, and sat on the floor. Annabelle and I ran over to him, "Are you alright?" she asked.
"Oh, yeah…" he said with panting, "Never better…" Just then there was an explosion and we started to hurdled out of control. The next thing we knew there was a jolt and we were flung out of the console room and down the corridors and landed in the swimming pool that some how ended up in the library.
Wherever we landed the TARDIS was on it side and the ordination compensator was out so we had to climb from the library to the console room. Once we made it to the console room. We found it shambles with the console smoking. We made it to the condole and I opened a door on the side of it and took out a grappling hook. I pulled a lever on the side of the console and the front doors flew open the opposite way. Then I stood on the side of the console and threw the grappling hook out the doors. I tugged on it, and when it hit something solid I started to climb.
When I got to the doors I looked out and saw we landed in someone's backyard. I looked down and saw a little red-haired girl looking up at me… "Oh Hi…" I said as I pulled myself out of the TARDIS and down on the ground.
"Hi," said the little girl with a Scotch accent.
I looked up at the box and said, "Annabelle… Watch that first step…"
"OK, Mom," said Annabelle, as she climbed up out of the box.
"She's your daughter?" asked the little girl.
"I moisturize…" I said as Annabelle jumped down.
Then, The Doctor poked his head out of the box, "Can I have an apple? All I can think about - apples. I love apples. Maybe I'm having a craving. That's new - never had cravings before." I rolled my eyes as he straddled the TARDIS and looked down at our climb up, "Whoa! Look at that!"
"Are you all OK?" asked the little girl.
He put both of his legs over the side and sat on the edge, "Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Hell of a climb back up."
"You're soaking wet."
"We were in the swimming pool," said Annabelle.
"He said you were in the library," said the little girl.
"So was the swimming pool," I said.
"Are you the police?"
"Why? Did you call police?" asked The Doctor.
"Did you come about the crack in my wall?" asked the little girl.
"What cra...?" said my uncle as he fell to the ground with a twitch, "Agh!"
"Are you all right, mister?"
The Doctor got on his knees, "No, I'm fine, it's OK. This is all perfectly norm…" he opened his mouth and some excess regeneration energy came out.
"Who are you?"
The Doctor held his hands out and was saw he was sill brisling with regeneration energy, "I don't know yet. I'm still cooking. Does it scare you?"
"No, it just looks a bit weird," said the girl.
I laughed, "No, He was asking about the crack in your wall. Does it scare you?"
"Yes."
The Doctor jumped up to his feet, "Well, then, no time to lose. I'm the Doctor." he pointed at me, "That's my niece, Teddy." I waved a little. Then the Doctor pointed at Annabelle, "That's her daughter, Annabelle. Do everything we tell you, don't ask stupid questions and don't wander off." He turned around and stalked of and walked right into a tree. I put my right hand to my forehead and crossed my left arm across my chest.
"You all right?" asked the little girl.
"Early days. Steering's a bit off."
The little girl took us into her house and we went into the kitchen while she got The Doctor an apple, "If you're a doctor, why does your box say "Police"?" asked the little girl.
The Doctor took a bite of the apple, chewed it, and spit it out, "That's disgusting. What is that?"
"An apple."
"Apples are rubbish. I hate apples."
"You said you loved them," said the girl.
"No, no, I love yogurt. Yogurt's my favorite. Give me yogurt." The girl ran to the fridge and got him a container of yogurt. He opened it, poured it into his mouth, and spit it out. I rolled my eyes at the mess he was making, "I hate yogurt, it's just stuff with bits in."
"You said it was your favorite."
"New mouth, new rules," said The Doctor, as wiped back of hand across his mouth, "It's like eating after cleaning your teeth, everything tastes wro-agh!" he twitched.
"What is it? What's wrong with you?"
"Wrong with me? It's not my fault. Why can't you give me decent food? You're Scottish - fry something." I smacked him on the shoulder, he looked at me, "What? I thought you gotten over smacking me?"
"I did," I said, "But that was crossing the line…"
The girl then turned on the stove and began to fry up some bacon. I got us some towels and us Time Lords were drying our hair, "Ah! Bacon!" said The Doctor. Once it was cooked The Doctor sat down at the table and she put the plate of bacon in front of him. He at some and the girl watched with a laugh. But my uncle made a face and spit it out, "Bacon. That's bacon. Are you trying to poison me?"
The girl went back to the stove and started to cook some baked beans while The Doctor watched, "Ah, you see, beans, " said the Doctor. He sat back down at the table ans she put the plate of beans in front of him. He tried a forkful then ran over to the sink and spit it out, "Beans are evil. Bad, bad beans," He said.
We decide to try something simple. So, the girl spread some butter on a slice of bread, "Bread and butter. Now you're talking," he said. A few moments later he ran to the front door with the plate he threw it like a Frisbee out the door. We heard a crash and a cat screeching, "And stay out!" he closed the door behind him and walked back into the kitchen.
The girl looked into fridge while Annabelle and I sat at the table. The Doctor paced back and forth, "We've got some carrots." said the little girl.
"Carrots? Are you insane?"
I stood up from the table, "All right… Neither one of you have found anything he likes… now it's my turn." I walked over to the fridge and looked over what was inside. Then I took out a box of frozen fish fingers out of the freezer and a box of custard out of the fridge.
A short time later, the four of us were sitting at the table the Doctor and I on one side, Annabelle and the girl were on the other. The Doctor dipped a fish finger into a bowl of custard. I tried some and it was pretty good. Annabelle thought it was good too. The girl was eating some ice cream straight from the container. Once, the fish fingers were gone The Doctor picked up the bowl and drank the remain custard from it. I just shook my head, as he wiped away his custard mustache.
"Funny," said the girl.
"Am I? Good. Funny's good. What's your name?" asked The Doctor.
"Amelia Pond."
"That's a wonderful name," I said, "Amelia Pond, sounds like a name in a fairy tale. Are we in Scotland, Amelia?"
"No. We had to move to England. It's rubbish," said Amelia.
"So what about your mom and dad?" asked Annabelle, "Are they upstairs? We should have woken them up by now."
"I don't have a mum and dad. Just an aunt."
"I don't even have an aunt," said The Doctor.
"You're lucky." said Amelia.
"I know. So, your aunt. Where is she?"
"She's out."
"And she left you all alone?" I asked.
"I'm not scared."
"'Course you're not," said The Doctor, "You're not scared of anything! Box falls out of the sky, man and two women fall out of box, man and women eats fish custard, and look at you, just sitting there. So you know what I think?"
"What?" asked Amelia.
"Must be a hell of a scary crack in your wall."
Amelia took us up to her room and The Doctor and I started to examine the crack, "You've had some cowboys in here," I said, "Not actual cowboys, though that can happen."
Amelia stood with Annabelle in the doorway with a apple in her hand, "I used to hate apples," she said, "so my mum put faces on them." She handed The Doctor an apple with a smiley face carved into it."
"Your mom sounds wonderful," said Annabelle, "kind of like my mom…" I smiled at that.
The Doctor tossed the apple into the air and caught it, "I'll keep it for later." Then he walked back joined me back at the crack and we continued to examine it, "This wall is solid and the crack doesn't go all the way through it," he said, "So here's a thing - where's the draft coming from?" he ran his sonic along the crack and checked the readings, "Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. You know what the crack is?"
"What?" asked Amelia.
"It's a crack," he said, as he ran my fingers along the crack, "I'll tell you something funny. If you knocked this wall down, the crack would stay put, 'cos the crack isn't in the wall."
"Where is it, then?"
"Everywhere," I said, "In everything. It's a split in the skin of the world. Two parts of space and time that should never have touched, pressed together...right here in the wall of your bedroom." I pressed my ear against the wall, "Sometimes, can you hear…"
"A voice? Yes," said Amelia.
Then I heard an echoing voice. I took the water glass from her nightstand, dumped the water out, pressed it against the wall, and then my ear against the other end, "Prisoner Zero has escaped." said the voice.
I let my uncle listen to the wall "Prisoner Zero?" he said.
"Prisoner Zero has escaped," said Amelia, "That's what I heard. What does it mean?"
Then, he stepped back from the wall, "It means that, on the other side of this wall, there's a prison and they've lost a prisoner," said The Doctor, "Do you know what that means?"
"What?" asked Amelia.
"You need a better wall," said my uncle. The Doctor and I moved her desk out of the way, "The only way to close the breach is to open it all the way. The forces will invert and it'll snap itself shut. Or…"
"What?"
Annabelle looked at the little girl, "You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?"
"Yes." said Amelia.
Annabelle smiled, "Everything's going to be fine." Annabelle held out her hand and Amelia took it.
The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver on the crack. Then a bright light started to shine through the crack as it widened. Through the dim light we could see what looked to be cells and we heard the voice much clearer, "Prisoner Zero has escaped."
The Doctor and I took a step closer to the crack.
"Prisoner Zero has escaped," said the voice again.
"Hello?" said The Doctor, "Hello?"
Just then a giant blue eye peered at us through the crack.
"What's that?" asked Amelia.
Then a small ball of light shot out from the crack and hit the Doctor's pocket, knocking him backwards against the bed. Then, the crack sealed shut.
"There," said The Doctor, "You see, told you it would close. Good as new."
"What was that thing? Was that Prisoner Zero?" asked Amelia.
"No. I think that was Prisoner Zero's guard," I said.
"Whatever it was, it sent me a message," said The Doctor, as he took his psychic paper out of his pocket, "Psychic paper, takes a lovely little message. 'Prisoner Zero has escaped.' But why tell us? Unless…" The Doctor stood.
"Unless what?"
The Doctor looked around, "Unless Prisoner Zero escaped through here."
"But he couldn't have," I said, "We'd know."
The Doctor ran out of the room, with Amelia, Annabelle and I following him. He looked around, "It's difficult. Brand-new me, nothing works yet. But there's something I'm missing… in the corner…" He turned and looked at the doors at the end of the hall, "of my eye."
I looked at the door down the hall… Some thing didn't look right, we were going to check it out when we heard the cloister bell! The Doctor, Annabelle, Amelia and I ran downstairs, "No, no, no, no, no, no!" said The Doctor.
We ran out the door and I said, "We've got to get back in there! The engines are phasing, it's going to burn!"
"But... it's just a box! How can a box have engines?" asked Amelia.
The Doctor freed the grappling hook and gathered up the rope, "It's not a box. It's a time machine."
"What, a real one? You've got a real time machine?"
"Not for much longer if we can't get her stabilized," said Annabelle as she climbed up on the ledge, "Five-minute hop into the future should do it." She jumped into the TARDIS while The Doctor looped the rope through the door handles.
"Can I come?" asked Amelia.
"Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give us five minutes, we'll be right back," I said.
The Doctor and I hoped onto the ledge and got ready to drop inside, when Amelia asked, "People always say that."
The Doctor jumped back down, crouched down in front of her and said, "Am I people? Do I even look like people? Trust me, I'm the Doctor."
Amelia smiled and The Doctor climbed back onto the ledge. He took a hold of the rope and gave her one last look before jumping. "Geronimo!" he shouted as we jumped. As we jumped the doors slammed shut behind us and we were off.
Five minutes later, the three of us ran out of the TARDIS, "Amelia! Amelia!" shouted The Doctor as we ran towards Amelia's house, "We worked out what it was. We know what we were missing! You've got to get out of there!"
The door was locked so the Doctor used his sonic on the door and after a couple tries it opened and we ran inside, "Amelia?" called Annabelle as we ran upstairs, "Amelia, are you all right? Are you here?"
The Doctor went to the door that he was looking at before we left. He scanned it with his screwdriver, and we looked at the results, "Prisoner Zero is here," I said, "Prisoner Zero is here! Prisoner Zero is here! Do you understand us? Prisoner Zero is…" And then everything went dark.
When I came to I hear a female voice with a British accent say, "White male, mid-20s. Two white females, one early 20s, the other late teens, breaking and entering. Send me some back-up, I've got them restrained." As my vision started to clear, I saw a female police office in a very short skirt. Then I realized that I was handcuffed to a radiator with my left hand, "Oi, you! Sit still."
"Cricket bat. I'm getting cricket bat," said The Doctor.
"You were breaking and entering," said the officer
The Doctor tired to stand but he found out that he was handcuffed to the radiator. I looked and saw that Annabelle and I were handcuffed to the radiator as well, "Well, that's much better. Brand-new me, whack on the head. Just what it needed."
"Do you want to shut up now? I've got back-up on the way!"
"Hang on, no, wait - you're a policewoman."
"Thank you, Doctor Obvious…" I rolled my eyes at him.
"And you're breaking and entering," said the officer, "You see how this works?"
"But what are you doing here?" asked Annabelle, "Where's Amelia?"
"Amelia Pond?"
"Yes," I said, "Little Scottish girl. Where is she? We promised her we'd be back in five minutes but the engines were phasing. I suppose we must gone a bit farther in the future than we intended. Has something happened to her?"
"Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time," said the officer.
"How long?" asked Annabelle.
The officer paused for a moment, "Six months."
"No, no, no! We can't be six months late!" said The Doctor, "I said five minutes. I promised." he sniffed then asked, "What happened to her? What happened to Amelia Pond?"
The officer spoke into her radio, "Sarge, it's me again. Hurry it up, this lot knows something about Amelia Pond."
"We need to speak to whoever lives in this house now," said The Doctor.
"I live here," said the officer.
"But you're the police."
"Yes, and this is where I live. You got a problem with that?!"
"How many rooms?" I asked.
She looked at me, "I'm sorry, what?"
"On this floor. How many rooms on this floor? Count them for me now."
"Why?"
"Because it will change your life."
"Five." then she counted off pointing to each one, "One, two, three, four, five."
"Six," said Annabelle.
"Six?"
"Look."
"Look where?"
"Exactly where you don't want to look. Where you never want to look, the corner of your eye. Look behind you."
She slowly turned and looked at the door that the Doctor scanned before, "That's... That is not possible. How's that possible?"
"There's a perception filter round the door," said The Doctor, "Sensed it the last time we were here. Should've seen it."
"But that's a whole room. That's a whole room I've never even noticed."
"The filter stops you," said Annabelle, "Something came here a while ago to hide and it's still hiding. You need to uncuff us now!"
The officer slowy started to walk down the hall towards the room., "I don't have the key. I lost it.:
"How can you have lost it?!" said The Doctor, "Stay away from that door!" She just kept walking.
"Do not touch that door!" said Annabelle. The officer put her hand on the doorknob.
"Listen to us!" I shouted, "Do not open that…" She turned the knob.
"Why does no-one ever listen to us?" said The Doctor, "Do we just have faces that nobody listens to?" Then she walked into the room. The Doctor frantically searched his pockets, "My screwdriver, where is it?" he called to the officer. Annabelle and I would have used our sonics to unlock ourselves but we left them in the console to recharge, "Silver thing, blue at the end. Where did it go?" he asked.
"There's nothing here," called the officer.
"Whatever's there stopped you seeing the whole room. What makes you think you could see it? Now, please, just get out!"
"Silver, blue at the end?"
"My screwdriver, yeah."
"It's here."
"Must have rolled under the door."
"Yeah. Must have. And then it must have jumped up on the table…"
"Get out of there!" I shouted.
"Get out of there!" the Doctor shouted, "Get out!
"Get out of there!" shouted Annabelle.
"What is it? What are you doing?" asked The Doctor.
"There's nothing here, but…" said the officer.
"Corner of your eye."
"What is it?"
"Don't try to see it," said Annabelle, "If it knows you've seen it, it will kill you. Don't look at it. Do not... Look. "
Just then the officer screamed, "GET OUT!" The three of us screamed together.
The officer ran out of the room and back down the hall to us, "Give me that!" said The Doctor. He took his sonic back and used it to lock the door. Then, he tried to unlock his handcuffs but nothing happened. I could tell it was covered in some sort of goo, "What's the bad alien done to you?"
"Will that door hold it?" asked the officer.
"Oh, yeah, yeah, course!" said The Doctor, sarcastically, "It's an inter-dimensional multi-form from outer-space - they're all terrified of wood."
Then a bright light started to shine from around the edges of the door. "What's that? What's it doing?" asked the officer.
The Doctor tried to the screwdriver wipe some of the goo off his sonic, "I don't know," I said, "Getting dressed? Run. Just go. Your back-up's coming, We'll be fine."
"There is no back-up," said the officer.
"We heard you on the radio," said Annabelle, "You called for back-up."
"I was pretending. It's a pretend radio."
"You're a policewoman," said The Doctor.
"I'm a kissogram!" said the officer. She removed her bower hat and her red hair fell free.
Then, the door at the end of the hall fell off its hinges and there stood a man in blue coveralls with a large Rottweiler on a leash. "But it's just…" said the woman.
"No, it isn't. Look at the faces," I said.
The man growled and barked like a dog while the dog just sat there.
"What?" said the woman, "I'm sorry, but what?" she looked at us.
"It's all one creature. One creature disguised as two," I said. The man and the dog turned their heads in unison.
"Clever old multi-form. A bit of a rush job, though. Got the voice a bit muddled, did you?" asked The Doctor. Then they looked right at him, "Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a psychic link, a live feed. How did you fix that?" The multi-form walked toward us and opened it mouth and revealed it extremely sharp looking teeth. The Doctor handed me the sonic and I worked on trying to getting working again. "Stay, boy!" the creature stopped, "The four of us, we're safe. Want to know why? She sent for back-up." The Doctor pointed up at the woman.
"I didn't send for back-up!" said the woman.
The Doctor looked at the woman, "I know, that was a clever lie to save our lives." Then he looked at the creature, "OK, yeah, NO back-up! And that's why we're safe. Alone, we're not a threat to you. If we HAD back-up, then you'd have to kill us!"
Just then we heard the voice we first herd when we opened the crack in Amelia's room, "Attention, Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded. Attention Prisoner Zero. 'The human residence is surrounded."
"What's that?" asked the woman.
"That would be back-up," The Doctor looked at the creature, "OK, one more time. We do have back-up and that's definitely why we're safe."
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated," said the voice.
"Well, safe apart from, you know, incineration." I said.
The creature then walked into one of the other rooms. We heard the voice repeats warning. I started banging the sonic on the floor to get it to work, "Work, work, work. C'mon." I kept banging it and trying to unlock my cuffs after several attempts my cuffs popped opened then I quickly unlocked The Doctor and Annabelle. "Run." I said as we stood up, "Run!" I said as we ran down the stairs and out the front door.
The Doctor locked the door with the sonic and he looked at the woman, "Kissogram?"
"Yes!" she said.
"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?" asked Annabelle.
"You broke into my house! It was this or a French maid!" We started to head to the TARDIS and the woman followed, "What's going on? Tell me! Tell me!"
"An alien convict is hiding in your spare room disguised as a man and a dog," said The Doctor, "and some other aliens are about to incinerate your house. Any questions?"
"Yes."
"Me too," The Doctor tried to unlock the TARDIS but it wouldn't open, "No, no, don't do that, not now! It's still rebuilding, not letting us in!"
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated," said the voice.
The woman grabbed The Doctor by the arm and started to pull him away from the TARDIS. I turned and looked at a shed in the yard, "Wait a minute, hang on," I said, "The shed," I ran to the shed, "We destroyed that shed last time were here, smashed it to pieces."
"So there's a new one. Let's go," said the woman.
"But the new one's got old," said The Doctor, "It's ten years old at least." he sniffed wood before rubbing his finger along the wood and tasting it. "12 years. We're not six months late, we're 12 years late."
Us three Time Lords walked toward the woman who's eyes had gotten big, "He's coming." she said.
"You said six months," said Annabelle, "Why did you say six months?"
"We've got to go."
"This matters," I said, "This is important. Why did you say six months?."
"Why did you say five minutes?!" said the woman in a Scottish accent.
The three of us were flabbergasted all I could say was, "What?"
"Come on."
"What?" said Annabelle and I
"Come on!" said grown up Amelia as she pulled The Doctor by his arm.
"What?" said The Doctor, Annabelle and I together.
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated," said the Voice.
We then started down a road, "You're Amelia," said The Doctor.
"You're late," said Amelia.
"Amelia Pond, you're the little girl," I said.
"I'm Amelia and you're late."
"What happened?" asked Annabelle.
"12 years," said Amelia.
"You hit us with a cricket bat," I said.
"12 years."
"A cricket bat," said The Doctor.
"12 years and four psychiatrists," said Amelia.
"Four?" said Annabelle, "Why four?"
"I kept biting them."
"Why did you bit them?" I asked.
"They said you weren't real," said Amelia.
Then we heard the voice coming from the sound system of an ice cream truck, "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
"No, no, no, come on… What? We're being staked out by an ice-cream van?"
We ran up to the ice cream truck and The Doctor asked, "What's that? Why are you playing that?"
"It's supposed to be Claire De Lune," said the guy who ran the truck.
The Doctor picked up the player and listed as the voice continued, "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated. "
The Doctor stepped away from the truck and we saw a woman jog past with an MP3 player in her ears. She took her ear buds out of her ears and we could hear she was receiving the message as well. We saw a woman walking by on a cell phone, she could hear it as well.
"What's happening?" asked Amelia.
We didn't answer. The Doctor just jumped over the fence of a nearby house and walked right through the front door. We saw an elderly woman trying to watch TV but the only thing on was the blue eye and the Voice. "Hello! Sorry to burst in, we're doing a special on television faults in this area," said The Doctor, then he caught a glimpse of Amelia's costume, "Also, crimes. Let's have a look," he took the remote from the lady.
"I was just about to phone. It's on every channel," said the lady. Then, she looked at Amelia, "Hello, Amy, dear. Are you a policewoman now?"
"Well, sometimes," said Amelia.
"I thought you were a nurse."
"I can be a nurse."
"Or, actually, a nun."
"I dabble."
"Amy, who is your friend?"
"Who's Amy?" asked The Doctor, "You were Amelia."
"Yeah, now I'm Amy."
"Amelia Pond," said Annabelle, "that was a great name."
"Bit fairy tale."
The woman looked at my uncle, "I know you, don't I? I've seen you somewhere before."
"Not me. Brand-new face…" said The Doctor, as he made a face at her, "First time on." Then, he looked at Amy, "And what sort of job's a kissogram?"
"I go to parties and I kiss people," she cleared her throat, "With outfits. It's a laugh."
"You were a little girl five minutes ago."
"You're worse than my aunt."
"I'm the Doctor, I'm worse than everybody's aunt." then he looked at the woman, "And that is not how I'm introducing myself." The Doctor picked up a radio and used the sonic screwdriver on it. We heard the same message about Prisoner Zero in French and German before he turn it off.
"OK, so it's everywhere, in every language. They're broadcasting to the whole world," said The Doctor. Then he ran over to the window opened it and looked up. Annabelle and I joined him at the window when we realized what he had figured out.
"What's up there? What are you looking for?" asked Amy.
The sky was a clear blue with a few white clouds. Then we stuck our heads back in the window. "OK, planet this size, two poles, your basic molten core…" said The Doctor.
"They're going to need a 40% fission blast." I said.
Just then a young man entered the room and The Doctor walked up to him and started to look him over, "But they'll have to power up first, won't they?" asked Annabelle. I nodded The Doctor just kept looking at the man. Then, Annabelle continued, "So assuming a medium-sized starship, that's 20 minutes."
The man was tall and The Doctor stood on his tip-toes and then back down, then he said, "What do you think, 20 minutes? Yeah, 20 minutes. We've got 20 minutes."
"20 minutes to what?" asked Amy.
"Are you The Doctor?" asked the man
"He is, isn't he?" asked the lady, "He's The Doctor! The Raggedy Doctor." Then, she looked at Annabelle and I, "And you're his nieces! All those cartoons you did when you were little. The Raggedy Doctor and His Nieces, it's them."
"I know," said Amy, softly.
I was flabbergasted. I had never seen these people before and they knew us.
"Cartoons?" said The Doctor, as we sat down on the couch.
"Gran, it's him, isn't it? It's really him!" said the man.
"Jeff, shut up!" said Amy she looked at us, "20 minutes to what?"
I looked at the TV and the eye was sill on the TV and still broadcasting its warning. Then I looked at Amy, "The human residence. They're not talking about your house, they're talking about the planet. Somewhere up there, there's a spaceship and it's going to incinerate the planet… 20 minutes to the end of the world."
We left Jeff and his grandmother's house and headed into the village, "What is this place? Where are we?" asked The Doctor.
"Leadworth." said Amy.
"Where's the rest of it?"
"This is it."
"Is there an airport?" asked Annabelle
"No." said Amy.
"A nuclear power station?" I asked.
"No."
"Even a little one?" asked The Doctor.
"No," said Amy.
"What's the nearest city?" I asked.
"Gloucester, half an hour by car."
"We don't have half an hour," said Annabelle, "Do you have a car?"
"No," said Amy
"Well, that's good!" said The Doctor, "Fantastic, that is. 20 minutes to save the world and I've got a post office. And it's shut! WHAT is that?" The Doctor ran up to a small pond
"It's a duck pond."
"Why aren't there any ducks?" asked Annabelle
"I don't know," said Amy, "There's never any ducks."
"Then how do you know it's a duck pond?" asked The Doctor.
"It just is. Is it important, the duck pond?"
"I don't know. Why would I know?" He fell to the ground and clutched his chest. Annabelle and I ran over to him, "I'm not ready, I'm not done yet."
Then the sky started to get dark and we looked up, "What's happening? Why's it going dark?" The sun looked liked it turned gray and it flickered before it went back to normal, "So what's wrong with the sun?"
"Nothing," said Annabelle, "You're looking at it through a force-field. They've sealed off your upper atmosphere, now they're getting ready to boil the planet."
The Doctor stood up and looked at the village green where the villagers were taking photos of the sun, "Oh, and here they come, the human race," said The Doctor, "The end comes, as it was always going to - down a video phone!"
"This isn't real, is it?" asked Amy, "This is some kind of big wind-up."
"Why would we wind you up?"
"You told me you had a time machine."
"And you believed us," I said.
"Then I grew up," said Amy.
"Oh, you never want to do that."
No, hang on, shut up, wait!" said The Doctor, "I missed it." he smacked his forehead, "I saw it and I missed it." He smacked himself again, "What did I see? I saw... What did I see?" Then he looked at Amy, "20 minutes. I can do it. 20 minutes, the planet burns. Run to your loved ones and say goodbye, or stay and help us."
"No," said Amy.
"I'm sorry?"
"No!" she said, as she grabbed him by the tie.
Annabelle and I tried to stop her, "Amy! No!" I shouted.
"No! No!" said The Doctor.
"What are you doing?" asked Annabelle.
Amy pushed The Doctor against a car as the driver stepped out. She slams The Doctor's tie into the door, took the keys from the driver and locked the car with the remote. "Are you out of your mind?" asked The Doctor.
"Who are you?" asked Amy.
"You know who I am."
"No, really, who are you?"
"Look at the sky!" I said, "The world will end in 20 minutes!"
"He better talk quickly, then!" said Amy.
"Amy, I am going to need my car back," said the driver.
"Yes, in a bit. Now go and have coffee."
"Right, yes." then the driver walked away.
The Doctor reached into his pocket and tossed her the apple she gave him to her, "Catch." Amy looked at the apple and saw the smiley face still fresh, "I'm the Doctor. Those are my nieces, Teddy and Annabelle. We're time travelers. Everything we told you 12 years ago is true. We are real. What's happening in the sky is real, and if you don't let me go now, everything you've ever known is over."
"I don't believe you."
I took Amy's wrist, "Just 20 minutes. Just believe us for 20 minutes. Look at the apple. It's as fresh as the day you gave it to him. And you know it's the same one. Amy, believe for 20 minutes."
Amy unlocked the car door, "What do we do?"
"Stop that nurse!" said The Doctor. Then he ran across the green and grabbed the phone out of the hands a young man, Amy's age, who was wearing a light blue scrubs. "The sun's going out, and you're photographing a man and a dog. Why?" asked The Doctor.
"Amy?" asked the young man.
"Hi!" said Amy, "Oh, this is Rory, he's a... friend."
"Boyfriend."
"Kind of boyfriend."
"Amy!"
"Man and dog, why?" said The Doctor.
"Oh, my God, it's him." said Rory, then he looked at Annabelle and I, "Its them… It's him and them…"
"Just answer his question, please." said Amy.
"It's them, though. The doctor. The Raggedy Doctor and his nieces…"
"Yeah, they came back."
"But they were a story. They were a game."
The Doctor grabbed Rory by his shirt, "Man and dog - why? Tell me now."
"Sorry. Because he can't be there. Because he's…"
Rory and The Doctor said in unison, "in a hospital, in a coma.
"Yeah."
"Of course," I said as The Doctor let go of his shirt, "A multi-form can disguise itself as anything, but it needs a psychic link with a living but dormant mind."
The Multiform shaped man and dog snapped and snarled at us and The Doctor walked closer, "Prisoner Zero."
"What, there's a Prisoner Zero too?" asked Rory.
"Yes," said Amy.
There was a buzzing noise coming from over head we looked aud and saw a spaceship fly over the green. There was a large eye on the bottom of the ship and it began to swivel back and forth.
The Doctor took his sonic from his pocket, "See, that ship up there is scanning this area for non-terrestrial technology. And nothing says non-terrestrial like a sonic screwdriver." He held it above his head and turned it on. There was chaos all around us. Streetlights shattered, car alarms started to blare, sirens started to wail and everyone around us started shouting and running around. And a fire truck started to drive away on its own and a group of firemen started to chase after it.
"I think someone's going to notice, don't you?" I said.
Prisoner Zero just barked. The Doctor lowered his screwdriver and aimed it at a phone box, which exploded. Then the Doctor's sonic sparked and fizzled, forcing him to drop it on the ground. "No, no, no, don't do that!" said The Doctor.
"Look, it's going." said Rory, sure enough the ship headed away.
"No, come back, he's here!" shouted The Doctor, "Come back! He's here, Prisoner Zero is here. Come back, he's here! Prisoner Zero is…"
"Doctor! The drain. It just sort of melted and went down the drain," said Amy.
"Well, of course it did," said The Doctor.
"What do we do now?"
"It's hiding in human form. We need to drive it into the open. No TARDIS, no screwdrivers, 17 minutes. Come on, think. Think!"
We walked over to the drain and looked at it, "So that thing, THAT hid in my house for 12 years?" asked Amy.
"Multi-forms can live for millennia," said Annabelle, "12 years is a pit-stop."
"So how come you lot show up again on the same day that lot do? The same minute?"
"They're looking for him, but followed us," said The Doctor, "They saw me through the crack, got a fix. They're only late cos I am."
"What's he on about?" asked Rory.
"Now, sport, give me your phone," said The Doctor.
"How can they be real? They were never real."
"Phone, now, give me!"
Rory gave The Doctor his phone, "He was just a game. We were kids. You made me dress up as him and you made Mels dress as Annabelle."
The Doctor looked at the pictures in Rory's phone, "These are all coma patients?"
"Yeah."
"No, they're all the multi-form," I said, "Eight comas, eight disguises for Prisoner Zero."
"He had a dog, though. There's a dog in a coma?" asked Amy.
"No," said Annabelle, "If the coma patient dreams he's walking a dog, Prisoner Zero gets a dog."
"Laptop!" shouted The Doctor. He turned toward Amy, "Your friend, what was his name? Not him, the good-looking one."
"Thanks," said Rory.
"Jeff," said Amy.
"Oh, thanks."
"He had a laptop in his bag, a laptop. Big bag, big laptop, I need Jeff's laptop," said The Doctor, "Annabelle, go with Amy and Rory, to the hospital, get everyone out, clear the whole floor. Phone me when you're done." The Doctor and I then ran off to Jeff's house.
We ran into Jeff's bedroom. Jeff was lying on his bed using his laptop, "Hello," said The Doctor, "Laptop, give me!"
The Doctor grab the laptop from Jeff, but Jeff didn't want to let it go, "No, no, no, no, wait, hang on!"
"It's fine, give it here," said The Doctor, as he took the laptop from Jeff. The Doctor and I sat at the food of the bed.
My eyes got big as I looked at the screen. I turned to Jeff and said, "Get a girlfriend, Jeff."
Just then Jeff's grandmother entered the room, "Gran." said Jeff.
"What are you doing?" asked Jeff's grandmother.
The Doctor started typing on the laptop, "The sun's gone wibbly, so right now, somewhere out there, there's going to be a big video conference call."
"All the experts in the world panicking at once, and do you know what they need?" I asked, "The Doctor and me."
"Ah, and here they all are. All the big boys. NASA, Jodrell Bank, Tokyo Space Centre, Patrick Moore."
"Ooh, I like Patrick Moore," said Jeff's Grandmother.
"I'll get you his number," I said, "but watch him, he's a devil."
"You can't just hack in on a call like that." said Jeff.
"Can't I?" said The Doctor. I looked at the screen and The Doctor had all ready hacked into the 6 way video call. Needless to say the experts were all surprised to be interrupted at a time lie this. The Doctor held his psychic paper to the web cam, "Hello. I know, you should switch us off. But before you do, watch this."
The Doctor started typing, "Fermat's Theorem, the proof, and I mean the real one, never seen before. Poor old Fermat, got killed in a duel before he could write it down. My fault, I slept in."
The Doctor passed the laptop to me and I started to type, "Here's an oldie but a goodie - why electrons have mass. And a personal favorite of mine, faster-than-light travel with two diagrams and a joke."
I passed the laptop back to my uncle, and he looked at the experts, "Look at your screens. Whoever I am, I'm a genius. Look at the sun. You need all the help you can get. Fellas, pay attention."
We talked for a little bit, while I talked to the experts, The Doctor started to type something on Rory's phone, "Sir, what are you doing?" asked one of the experts.
"I'm writing a computer virus," said The Doctor, "Very clever, super-fast, and a tiny bit alive, but don't let on. Why am I writing it on a phone? Never mind, you'll find out."
"OK," I said, "The Doctor is sending the virus to all your computers. Get everyone who works for you sending this everywhere. Email, text, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, radar dish - whatever you've got. Any questions?"
"Who was your older lady friend?" asked Patrick Moore.
"Patrick, behave!"
"What does this virus do?" asked another expert.
"It's a reset command, that's all," said The Doctor, "It resets counters, it gets in the Wi-Fi and resets every counter it can find. Clocks, calendars, anything with a chip will default at zero at exactly the same time. But, yeah, I could be lying, why should you trust me? I'll let my best man explain." There was silence. Then, The Doctor looked at Jeff, "Jeff, you're my best man."
"Your what?"
I closed the laptop partway, "Listen to me. In ten minutes, you're going to be a legend. In ten minutes, everyone on that screen is going to be offering you any job you want. But first, you have to be magnificent. You have to make them trust you and get them working. This is it, Jeff. Right here, right now. This is when you fly. Today's the day you save the world."
"Why me?" asked Jeff.
I smiled, "It's your bedroom."
" Now go, go, go." said The Doctor, as he and I ran out of the bedroom.
I thought of something and ran back in, Oh, and delete your internet history."
Don't ask me how but The Doctor commandeered a fire truck and we were on our way to the hospital. While we drove I looked for Amy's phone number in Rory's phone and dialed, when she answered I put it on speaker and said, "Amy? It's Teddy… Are you in?"
"Yep," said Amy, "Thanks to Annabelle… she reminded me that I was dressed as a police officer."
I smiled, "That's my girl…"
"But we've got a problem. Prisoner Zero's here too."
"You need to get out of there," said The Doctor.
We could here someone talking but we couldn't make out who, "Amy? Amy, what's happening?" I asked.
We could here the sound of running and doors opening and huting, "Amy, talk to us!" said The Doctor.
"We're in the coma ward. But it's here, it's getting in," said Amy.
"Which window are you?"
"What, sorry?"
"Which window?"
"First floor on the left, fourth from the end." I hung up the phone as The Doctor got the fire engine in place. When he started to raise the ladder to the window I sent a text to Amy's phone it was one word, "Duck!" Then, the ladder smashed through the window that Amy designated. The Doctor and I scrambled up the ladder and climbed through the broken window and we saw Amy, Rory, Annabelle, a woman and two little girls.
"Right! Hello! Are we late?" asked The Doctor.
I looked at the clock, "Nope, three minutes to go. There's still time."
"Time for what, Time Lords?" asked the woman who was Prisoner Zero in disguise.
"Take the disguise off," said Annabelle, "They'll find you in a heartbeat and nobody dies."
"The Atraxi will kill me this time. If I am to die, let there be fire."
"OK. You came to this world by opening a crack in space and time," I said, "Do it again - just leave."
"I did not open the crack," said Prisoner Zero.
"Somebody did," said The Doctor.
"The cracks in the skin of the universe - don't you know where they came from? You don't, do you?" Prisoner Zero's voice changed from a woman to a little girls voice, "The Time Lords in the TARDIS don't know." Then in a sing song tone, "Don't know, don't know!" Prisoner Zero's voice changed back to a woman's voice, "The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall."
Just then there was a click, and The Doctor grinned, "And we're off! Look at that." He pointed at the clock on the wall, "Look at that!" The clock now read 0:00 "Yeah, I know, just a clock, whatever. But do you know what's happening right now?"
"In one little bedroom, our team is working," I said, "Jeff and the world. And do you know what they're doing? They're spreading the word all over the world, quantum fast. The word is out. And do you know what the word is?"
"The word is zero. Now, me, if I was up in the sky in a battleship, monitoring all Earth communications, I'd take that as a hint. And if I had a whole battle fleet surrounding the planet, I'd be able track a simple old computer virus to its source in, what, under a minute?"
I nodded and took Rory's phone out of my pocket, "The source, by the way, is right here." then a bright light started to shine through the windows, "And I think they just found us!"
"The Atraxi are limited. While I'm in this form, they'll still be unable to detect me," said Prisoner Zero, "They've tracked a phone, not me."
I handed the phone to my uncle and he said, "Yeah, but this is the good bit. I mean, this is my favorite bit. Do you know what this phone is full of? Pictures of you. Every form you've learned to take, right here. Oh, and being uploaded about now. And the final score is - no TARDIS, no screwdriver - two minutes to spare." He held out his arms in success, "Who da man?" No one said anything, I put my right hand to my forehead and cross my left arm across my chest. "Oh, I'm never saying that again! Fine." said The Doctor.
"Then I shall take a new form."
"Oh, stop it, you know you can't," I said, "It takes months to form that kind of psychic link."
"And I've had years," Prisoner Zero started to glow.
Then Prisoner Zero started to glow and Amy fell to the floor. The Doctor and I ran over to her, "No! Amy?" said The Doctor. He put his hands on Amy's face, "You've got to hold on. Amy! Don't sleep! You've got to stay awake, please."
"Doctor?" said Rory.
We looked and Prisoner Zero had taken the form of my uncle. "Well, that's rubbish," Said The Doctor, "Who's that supposed to be?"
I rolled my eyes and said, "It's you."
"Me? Is that what I look like?"
"You don't know?" asked Rory.
"Busy day," said The Doctor. He stood and looked at Prisoner Zero, "Why me, though? You're linked with her. Why are you copying me?"
"I'm not," said the voice of young Amelia Pond. Then she stepped out from behind the copy of The Doctor, holding it's hand, "Poor Amy Pond. Still such a child inside. Dreaming of the magic Doctor she knows will return to save her. What a disappointment you've been."
"No, she's dreaming about me cos she can hear me," said The Doctor, and ran back to Amy, "Amy, don't just hear me, listen. Remember the room, the room in your house you couldn't see? Remember you went inside. I tried to stop, but you did. You went in the room. You went inside. Amy…dream about what you saw."
"No... no... No!" said Prisoner Zero as it transformed into it's original form. A large eel-like creacture with sharp teeth.
"Well done, Prisoner Zero. A perfect impersonation of yourself," I said.
Just then a light entered the window, "Prisoner Zero is located. Prisoner Zero is restrained."
"Silence, Doctor," hissed Prisoner Zero, "Silence will fall." then it disappeared.
Us three Time Lords ran to the window and watched the Atraxi ship leave. The Doctor handed me the phone and I started dialing
"The sun - it's back to normal, right?" asked Rory, "That's... That's good, yeah? That means it's over. Amy? Are you OK? Are you with us?"
"What happened?" asked Amy.
"They did it. The Doctor, Teddy, and Annabelle did it."
"No, we didn't." I said.
"What are you doing?" asked Rory.
"Tracking the signal back. Sorry, in advance."
"About what?"
"The bill."
The I passed the phone to my uncle, "Oi, I didn't say you could go! Article 57 of the Shadow Proclamation. This is a fully established, level 5 planet, and you were going to burn it? What...? Did you think no-one was watching? You lot, back here. Now!" Then he tossed the phone to Rory, "OK. Now we've done it." The Doctor walked out of the coma ward with Annabelle and I close behind.
"Did he just bring them back?" asked Rory, "Did he just save the world from aliens and then bring all the aliens back again?"
We walked down the corridor with Amy and Rory following us, "Where are you going?" asked Amy
"The roof," said The Doctor, "No, hang on." We walked into a changing room and he started looking through the clothes.
"What's in here?"
"I'm saving the world - I need a decent shirt. To hell with the raggedy. Time to put on a show!"
"You just summoned aliens back to Earth. Actual aliens," said Rory, as The Doctor started taking his old clothes off, "deadly aliens, aliens of death, and now you're taking your clothes off... Amy, he's taking his clothes off."
"Turn your back if it embarrasses you," said The Doctor.
"Are you stealing clothes now? Those clothes belong to people, you know." Rory turned his back, and looked at Amy, "Are you not you going to turn your back?"
"Nope."
I rolled my eyes. A short time later we were on the roof of the hospital. The Doctor had selected a pink long-sleeved shirt, brown pants with suspenders, brown boots and a tweed jacket that I was carrying. But he couldn't pick a tie so he had several of them draped around his neck. The Doctor, Annabelle and I waked to where the Atraxi ship is waiting. Amy and Rory stood back a bit.
"So this was a good idea, was it?" asked Amy, "They were leaving."
"Leaving is good. Never coming back is better." I said.
"Come on, then!" said my uncle, "The Doctor will see you now."
The "eye" disconnected from the ship and scanned the three of us, "You are not of this world." said the Atraxi.
"No, but we've put a lot of work into it," I said.
The Doctor examined a tie, "I don't know. What do you think?"
"Is this world important?" asked Atraxi.
"Important? What's that mean, important?" The Doctor threw the tie over his shoulder, "6 billion people live here - is that important?"
"Here's a better question. Is this world a threat to the Atraxi?" asked Annabelle.
The Doctor threw another tie over his shoulder, "Well, come on," he said, "You're monitoring the whole planet. IS this world a threat?"
The Atraxi projected a hologram of the Earth and showed various scenes from Earth's history both good and bad, "No." said the Atraxi.
"Are the peoples of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi?" I asked.
The projection shifted to various historical events, "No."
"OK. One more. Just one. Is this world protected? Because you're not the first lot to come here." said The Doctor, as she projection showed, "Cybermen and Daleks, the Queen of the Racnoss, Ood, Sycorax, Sontarans, Sea Devils, Reapers, the Hath and the Vashta Nerada in the spacesuit.
"There have been so many!" I said, "And what you've got to ask is... what happened to them?"
The projection showed both of Annabelle's incarnations, then both of my incarnations, then The Doctor's ten incarnations. When it reached the tenth, the three of us walked through the projection. The Doctor had selected a tie a nice maroon bow tie and he was wearing the tweed jacket. "Hello. I'm The Doctor, these are my nieces Teddy and Annabelle. Basically... Run!"
The Atraxi looked quickly at the three of us. The eye returned to the ship and the ship disappeared a half second later. We could hear Amy laugh in the background. I felt something hot in my pocket. I took the object out and saw my TARDIS key glowing. The Doctor and Annabelle had taken their keys out as well and they were doing the same thing. The three of us looked at each other and smiled then we ran off.
We reached the TARDIS we saw that she hadn't just fixed up her inside but the outside was looking new as well, "OK! What have you got for us this time?" said The Doctor as he unlocked the door. The console room was now multi-leveled with a glass floor around the console and steps that led to the underside. There were steps that led to the hallways and another set of steps that led to an upper deck "Oh, you sexy thing! Look at you!"
The three of us then ran inside and headed off for a quick trip around the moon. We stepped out of the TARDIS and saw it was night time. Then Amy ran out of he back door in a robe and slippers. "Sorry about running off earlier. Brand-new TARDIS - bit exciting," said The Doctor, "Just had a quick hop to the moon and back to run her in. She's ready for the big stuff now."
"It's you," said Amy, "You came back."
"Of course we came back," I said, "We always come back."
"Something wrong with that?" said The Doctor.
"And you kept the clothes," said Amy.
"Well, I just saved the world, the whole planet, for about the millionth time, no charge. Yeah, shoot me! I kept the clothes."
"Including the bow tie."
"Yeah, it's cool. Bow ties are cool."
I smiled, "I'll ways thought so…"
"Me too," said Annabelle.
"Are you from another planet?" asked Amy.
"Yeah." said The Doctor.
"OK…"
"So what do you think?"
"Of what?"
"Other planets. Want to check some out?"
"What does that mean?"
"It means come with us," I said.
"Where?" asked Amy.
"Wherever you like," said Annabelle.
"All that stuff, the hospital, the spaceships, Prisoner Zero…"
"Oh, don't worry. That's just the beginning. There's loads more." said The Doctor.
"Yeah, but those things, amazing things, all that stuff... " said Amy, then she got angry, "That was two years ago!"
Annabelle and I both whacked The Doctor upside the head, "You touched the time coordinates didn't you!?" shouted Annabelle.
"I told you Annabelle had the time set for just a few hours after we left but no… You just had to touch it!" I shouted.
"It didn't look right," said The Doctor.
I rolled my eyes, "Whatever…"
The Doctor looked at Amy, "So… Two more years… That makes… "
"14 years!" said Amy.
"14 years since fish custard," I said, "Amy Pond, the girl who waited, you've waited long enough."
"When I was a kid, you said there was a swimming pool and a library, and the swimming pool was IN the library."
"Yeah. Not sure where it's got to now. It'll turn up." said The Doctor.
"I'll tell you this much," I said, "The swimming pool is NOT in the library now…"
The Doctor looked at Amy, "So... Coming?"
"No!" said Amy.
"You wanted to come 14 years ago." said Annabelle.
"I grew up."
"Don't worry. I'll soon fix that." said The Doctor. He snapped his fingers and the door to the TARDIS opened. We let Amy walk in first and take in the console room, "Well...? Anything you want to say? Any passing remarks? we've heard them all."
"I'm in my nightie." said Amy.
"Oh, don't worry," I said, "We have plenty of clothes in the wardrobe."
"AND possibly a swimming pool," said The Doctor, "So... all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will... Where do you want to start?"
"You are so sure that I'm coming." said Amy.
"Yeah, I am."
"Why?"
"Cos you're the Scottish girl in the English village, and I know how that feels."
"Oh, do you?"
"All these years living here most of your life," I said, "and you've still got that accent. Yeah, you're coming."
"Can you get me back for tomorrow morning?" asked Amy.
"It's a time machine," said The Doctor, "We can get you back five minutes ago."
"Why, what's tomorrow?" asked Annabelle.
"Nothing. Nothing. Just... you know, stuff."
"All right, then. Back in time for stuff," said The Doctor. Then three new sonic screwdrivers appeared out of the console. They all looked the same except The Doctor's had a green light at the end, mine had a blue light, and Annabelle's had a purple light. "Oh! A new one!" said The Doctor as he tested his.
"Lovely," said Annabelle as she tried hers.
I smiled and patted the console, "Thanks, dear." Then, us three Time Lords started to set the controls.
"Why me?" asked Amy.
"Why not?" asked Annabelle.
"No, seriously. You are asking me to run away with you in the middle of the night. It's a fair question. Why me?"
"I don't know," said The Doctor, "Fun. Do we have to have a reason?"
"People always have a reason."
"Do we look like people?"
"Yes."
"We've been our own for a while," I said, "But, we've missed having a human around to show them all the wonders of time and space."
"You're all lonely. That's it? Just that?"
"In a nutshell," I said. I looked on the monitor and saw a line that looked like the crack from Amy's bedroom
"OK," said Amy.
I turned off the monitor and Annabelle asked, "So, are you OK? Because this place, sometimes it can make people feel a bit... you know."
"I'm fine. It's just... There's a whole world in here, just like you all said. It's all true. I thought...well, I started to think that maybe you lot were just like a madman and his nieces with a box.
"Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand," said The Doctor as he walked up to her, "It's important, and one day your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box. Ha-ha! Yeah." Amy laughed and The Doctor said, "Goodbye, Leadworth. Hello, everything!" The Doctor threw the lever and put the TARDIS in motion…
A/N: Hey everyone. Thanks for all the nice reviews. Please keep them up it gives me the inspiration to keep going with this story.