The Pandorica Opens
We were all hanging out in the control room. Amy was sitting in the swing under the console, when The Doctor poked his head over the side and looked at her, "Vavoom!" he said.
"Va-what?" asked Amy
The Doctor ran to the console and started flicking switches as Amy walked back up. "I can't believe I've never thought of this before, it's genius. Right! Landed, come on." Then he headed for the door.
"Where are we?" I asked, as us females followed.
"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 50 feet high, a message from the dawn of time, and no-one knows what it says, 'cos no-one's ever translated it. Till today."
"What happens today?" asked Amy.
The Doctor tapped Amy's nose, "Us. The TARDIS can translate anything. All we have to do is open the doors and read the very first words in recorded history."
The Doctor took Amy's hand and he opened the doors. We were on a tropical planet and there was a cliff with letters 50 feet high. Annabelle and I couldn't contain our laughter when we saw the writing because apparently the very first words in recorded history were "HELLO SWEETIES" there was also time-space coordinates underneath that.
"Vavoom!" said Amy with a chuckle.
Once Annabelle and I were able to regain our composure, we helped our uncle set the coordinates. Soon we were at our destination, "Right place?" asked Amy.
"We should be," said Annabelle, "We followed the coordinates on the cliff-face."
"Earth. Britain." said the doctor as he checked his watch, "1:02am. No, pm…No, AD."
We walked and saw a large Roman encampment, in front of us.
"That's a Roman Legion." said Amy.
"The Romans invaded Britain several times during this period," I said.
"Oh, I know. My favorite topic at school. Invasion of the hot Italians," we all looked at Amy and she said, "Yeah, I did get marked down for the title."
Just then a breathless Roman soldier ran up to us. He saluted with a fist to his chest, "Hail, Caesar!" then he fell to his knees.
"Hi," said The Doctor.
"Welcome to Britain. We are honored by your presence."
"Well, you're only human. Arise... Roman person."
"Why does he think you're Caesar?" asked Amy.
The soldier stood and we saw smudges of lipstick on his face, "Hallucinogenic Lipstick." I said, "It makes the person kissed susceptible to hypnotic suggestion."
"Cleopatra will see you now," said the soldier.
He took us to a tent in the middle of the encampment and inside we saw River dressed as Cleopatra, being waited on by two servants, "Hello, sweeties." she said.
"River! Hi," said Amy.
"You graffitied the oldest cliff-face in the universe," said The Doctor.
"Your phone was busy." said River.
"Sorry about that," I said, "Mom and I were finalizing our Christmas plans."
River then clapped her hands and the servants left. She then held out a scroll, "What's this?" asked Annabelle.
"It's a painting," said River, "Your friend Vincent." The Doctor took the rolled up painting and unrolled it. River stood up and continued. "One of his final works. He had visions, didn't he? I thought you ought to know about this one."
When the painting was unrolled I gasped, "Teddy?" asked Amy, "Doctor, what is this?"
The Doctor showed her the painting, it was the TARDIS exploding.
The painting is that of the TARDIS exploding, "Why's it exploding?" asked Amy.
"I assume it's some kind of warning," said River.
Us Time Lords sat down and looked over the painting. Trying to see if we could make any sense of it, "Something's going to happen to the TARDIS?" asked Amy.
"It might not be that literal." said River, "Anyway this is where he wanted you. Date and map reference on the door sign, see?"
I looked and sure enough. Where the instruction panel was date and map coordinates, "Does it have a title?" I asked.
"The Pandorica Opens," said River.
"The Pandorica? What is it?" asked Amy
"A box," said River, "A cage. A prison. It was built to contain the most feared thing in all the universe."
The Doctor started to pace, "And it's a fairy tale, a legend. It can't be real."
"If it is real, it's here and it's opening. And it's got something to do with your TARDIS exploding." The Doctor started to pull out maps and open them. Us Time Lords started to study them, "Hidden, obviously. Buried for centuries. You won't find it on a map." said River.
"No," I said, "But if you buried the most dangerous thing in the universe, you'd want to remember where you put it."
We looked at the maps and we knew were it had to be. But it was a ways away. We got some horses while River changed into something a little more "modern." Then we headed out. Our destination: Salisbury Plain. To be specific; Stonehenge.
Once we got there and the horses were secure Us Time Lords took our sonics and started to scan the stones. River took out her scanner and started to type some information. "How come it's not new?" asked Amy.
"Because it's already old.," said River, "Been here thousands of years. No-one knows exactly how long."
"OK, this Pandorica thing. Last time we saw you, you warned us about it, after we climbed out of the Byzantium."
"Spoilers!"
"No, but you told the Doctor you'd see him again when the Pandorica opens."
"Maybe I did. But I haven't yet. But I will have. I'm picking up fry particles everywhere. Energy weapons discharged on this site."
The Doctor stood on a large stone, "If the Pandorica is here, it contains the mightiest warriors in history."
"Half the galaxy would want a piece of that, they would even fight over it," I said.
The Doctor jumped off the stone and put an ear to it, "We need to get down there."
A little while later, we set up some lights around Stonehenge and River placed a device on the large stone he was standing on earlier, "Right then. Ready," said River. She pressed a button on her scanner and the rock slid to the side to reveal stone steps underneath. The Doctor stepped toward the steps while River took a flashlight from her jacket and turned it on.
Us Time Lords used our sonics as flashlights as we walked down the steps. We reached the bottom of the steps. The Doctor used his sonic to light a torch on the wall. While River brought a torch off of an opposite wall and lit it off the other torch. Annabelle and I lifted up a large board that was acting as lock across a huge set of doors. Then, Us Time Lords and River pushed the doors open. We found ourselves in a cavernous room. In the center stood a large black box with an intricate circular pattern on each side.
"It's the Pandorica," I said
"More than just a fairy tale," said River.
The Doctor walks forward and stepped on something, I looked down and saw the arm of a Cyberman. I didn't say anything. The Doctor continued walking toward the Pandorica and placed a hand on it. Then he said, "There was a group of goblins, or tricksters, or warriors. A group of nameless, terrible things, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared beings in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop them, or hold them, or reason with them. One day, they would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world."
"How did they end up in there?" asked Amy.
"You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it."
Us Time Lords walked around to the other side of the Pandorica, "I hate good wizards in fairy tales. They always turn out to be one of them…" she said pointing to us.
Amy started looking around, "So it's kind of like Pandora's Box, then? Almost the same name."
"Sorry, what?" said The Doctor.
"The story. Pandora's Box, with all the worst things in the world in it." The Doctor put his torch into a holder then we all took our sonics and started to scan the Pandorica. "That was my favorite book when I was a kid," said Amy.
The Doctor stopped and walked over to Amy, "What's wrong?"
"Your favorite school topic, your favorite story. Never ignore a coincidence," said The Doctor, "unless you're busy. In which case, always ignore a coincidence." then he walked back to the Pandorica.
"So can you open it?"
"Of course," said Annabelle, "Anyone can break INTO a prison, but we'd rather know what we're going to find first."
River looked at her scanner, "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."
"How long do we have?" I asked.
"Hours at the most."
"What kind of security?" asked Annabelle
"Everything. Deadlocks, time-stops, matter-lines."
"What could need all that?" asked The Doctor.
"What could get past all that?"
"Think of the fear that went into making this box."
"What could inspire that level of fear?" I asked.
The Doctor walked up to the box "Hello, you. Have we met?"
"So why would it start to open now?" asked River.
"No idea."
"Hmm, and how could Vincent have known about it?" asked Amy, "He won't even be born for centuries."
I took out my sonic and scanned the stone pillars, "It's the stones. These stones are great big transmitters, broadcasting a warning to everyone, everywhere, to every time zone. And the warning is, 'The Pandorica is opening!'"
Everyone, everywhere?" asked River.
The Doctor nodded, "Even poor Vincent heard it in his dreams. What's in there, what could justify all this?"
"Doctor, everyone?"
"Anything that powerful, I'd know about it. Why don't I know?"
"Doctor, Teddy said everyone could hear it. So who else is coming?"
Us Time Lords looked at each other, "Oh," said the Doctor.
"Oh? Oh, what?" asked Amy
River pressed her scanner against the a pillar, "OK, if it is basically a transmitter, we should be able to fold back the signal."
"Doing it," said The Doctor as we all used our sonics on all the pillars.
"Doing what?" asked Amy.
"Stonehenge is transmitting," said River, "it's been transmitting for a while...so who heard?"
"It should be feeding back to you now," I said, "River, what's out there? Are you getting anything?"
"Give me a moment."
"River, quickly, anything?" asked the Doctor.
"Around this planet, there are at least 10,000 starships.
My jaw dropped, "At least?" said Amy.
"10,000, 100,000, 1 million, I don't know. There's too many readings."
I couldn't believe it, "What kind of starships?" I asked.
Just then we heard Daleks talking and my heart's fell. "Maintaining orbit," said one Dalek.
"I obey. Shield cover compromised on ion sectors," said a second.
"Daleks. Those are Daleks," said Amy.
"Scan detects no temporal activity," said the first Dalek
"Soft grid scan commencing.," said the second.
"Reverse thrust for compensatory stabilization."
"Daleks, Doctor," said River.
"Launch preliminary armaments protocol."
"Yes, OK. OK, OK, OK," said The Doctor, "Dalek fleet. Minimum, 12,000 battleships, armed to the teeth. But we've got surprise on our side! They'll never expect three people to attack 12,000 Dalek battleships, 'cos we'd be killed instantly. So it would be a fairly short surprise. Forget surprise."
"Doctor, Cyber-ships," said River
"No, Dalek ships, listen to them, those are Dalek ships."
"Yes. Dalek ships AND Cyber-ships."
"Well, we need to start a fight," said Annabelle, "and turn them on each other."
"Sontaran," said River, "Four battle-fleets.
"Sontarans!" said River, "Talk about cross, who stole all their handbags?"
River read from the scanner, "Terileptil. Slitheen. Chelonian. Nestene. Drahvin. Sycorax. Haemo-goth. Zygon. Atraxi. Draconian. They're all here. For the Pandorica."
I looked at my daughter and my uncle and then at the Pandorica, "What are you?"
Just then the ground started to shake and we all ran up the steps. We looked up in the sky and saw the lights from a lot of ships flying above us..
"What do we do?" asked Amy.
"Doctor, Teddy, Annabelle listen to me!" pleaded River, "Everything that's ever hated you three is coming here tonight. None of you can't win this, not even Annabelle. You can't even fight it. Doctor, this once, just this one time, please, you have to run."
"Run to where?" I asked.
"Fight how?"
Annabelle took a set of binoculars out from in side her blazer and looked back the way we came, "With the greatest military machine in the history of the universe."
"What is?" asked Amy, "The Daleks?"
"No, The Romans!" said Annabelle with a smile.
Annabelle and River went back to the Roman encampment while The Doctor, Amy and I went back down into the underhenge. Amy lit some more torches while The Doctor and I examined the Pandorica.
"So what's this got to do with the TARDIS?" asked Amy.
"Nothing, as far as I know," said The Doctor.
"But Vincent's painting... the TARDIS was exploding, is that going to happen?"
"One problem at a time," I said, "There's force field technology inside this box. If I can enhance the signal, I could extend it all over Stonehenge. It could buy us half an hour."
"What good is half an hour?" asked Amy.
"There are fruit flies live on Hoppledom 6 that live for 20 minutes and they don't even mate for life," said The Doctor, "There was going to be a point to that. I'll get back to you."
I rolled my eyes and then Amy pulled the box with her engagement ring from Rory out from her pocket, "So... Are you proposing to someone?" she asked The Doctor.
"I'm sorry?" he asked.
"I found this in your pocket."
He looked at the box and said, "No. No, no, that's, uh...a memory. A friend of mine, someone I lost." he reached for the box but Amy pulled it back, "Do you mind?"
"It's weird, I feel... I don't know. Something."
I looked at her, "People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces. Little things we can't quite account for. Faces in photographs, luggage, half eaten meals... rings... Nothing is ever forgotten, not completely. And if something can be remembered, it can come back."
Amy snapped the box closed and gave it back to The Doctor, "So, was she nice, your friend?"
The Doctor put the ring back in his pocket then he turned is atteion back to the Pandorica. Then he stopped and looked at Amy, "Remember that night you flew away with us?"
"Of course I do." said Amy.
"And you asked us why we were taking you and I told you there wasn't a reason," I said, "I was lying."
"What, so you did have a reason?"
"Your house," said The Doctor.
"My house."
"It was too big, too many empty rooms. Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn't make any sense?"
Just then there a laser fired. Amy screamed and ran to the other side of the Pandorica.
"OK, What was that?" asked Amy.
"I don't know.," I said, " We need a good look. We got to draw its fire by giving it a target."
"How?"
"You know how sometimes I have really brilliant ideas?" asked The Doctor.
"Yes…"
"Sorry!" The Doctor ran out sand stood in the open with his arms spread high, "Look at me, I'm a target!" The laser fires again and The Doctor ducked behind a pillar.
"What is that?" asked Amy.
"Cyber-arm. Arm of a Cyberman." said The Doctor.
"And what's a Cyberman?"
"It's part man, part robot," I said, "The organic part must have died off years ago, now the robot part is looking for fresh meat."
"What, us?"
"It's just like being an organ donor, except you're alive and sort of screaming. I need to get round behind it, could one of you draw its fire?"
"Like you did?" asked Amyl.
"You'll be fine if you're quick, it's only got one arm. Literally," said The Doctor. He smiled and gave us two thumbs up.
"I'll do it," I said, "You stay here..."
I ran screaming across the room toward the pillar where The Doctor had been hiding. The Cyberarm fired at me but missed. Then, The Doctor came up behind it and grabbed it. Then he used his sonic on it once it appered to be neutralized I walked up to the Doctor and knelt down next to him.
"Doctor?" asked Amy.
"Scrambled its circuits, but stay where you are," said The Doctor," It could be bluffing."
"Bluffing? It's an arm!"
"I said stay where you are!" said The Doctor as he stood.
With an angry look Amy stepped back and crossed her arms against her chest. The Doctor and I continued to examine the arm. Then we heard Amy call out, "Doctor?" then she fell to the ground, "Teddy!"
"Amy!" said The Doctor and I together. Then, Cyberarm came back to life and gave the Doctor and I a shock and knocked us unconscious.
I came to a few moments later to the sight of my daughter looking over me, "Have a nice nap?" she asked with a smile.
"Oh, yeah…" I said as I moved to a sitting position. I looked around, "Where's Amy?"
"She's in the next room with Rory…"
I looked at my daughter, "My 197 year old ears are playing tricks on me. It sounded like you sad Amy was in the next room with Rory."
"I did…" She said with a smile.
She helped me to my feet and took me in the next room and sure enough Amy was laying on a stone table with Rory standing next to her. I was flabbergasted, "Rory?"
Rory smiled and looked at me, "Hi Teddy…"
My jaw dropped, "How on earth are you here?"
Before he could answer a soldier came into the room, "Sir, the man's coming round."
Then we heard my uncle call out, "Amy?! Where's Amy?" Then he ran into the room.
"She's fine, Doctor, just unconscious." said Rory.
The Doctor rushed over to her, "OK…" he checked her with his sonic, "Yes, 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?"
"50 men up top, all volunteers," said Annabelle.
"What about that thing?" said Rory as he pointed at a Cyberman laying on the floor.
"50? Not exactly a legion," said The Doctor.
Rory nodded to the solider who left then Rory said, "Your friend and your niece were very persuasive, but it's a tough sell."
"Yes, I know that, Rory, I'm not exactly one to miss the obvious."
"Wanna bet?" I whispered to Annabelle, who giggle a little.
"But we need everything we can get," said The Doctor as he pulled two large out of a chest, "OK, Cyber-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."
"Doctor…" said Rory.
"Hush, Rory. Why leave a Cyberman on guard? Unless it's a Cyberthing in the box. But why would they lock up one of their own? OK, no, not a Cyberthing, but what, what? No, I'm missing something obvious, Rory!" he stood face to face to Rory and said, "Something big, something right slap in front of me, I can feel it!"
"Yeah, I think you probably are."
"I'll get it in a minute." The Doctor walked out of the room with the guns.
I looked at my watch, "Three… Two… One…"
Then there was a loud clatter as The Doctor dropped the guns he was carrying and slowly re-entered the room. He walked up to Rory and stared at him. He poked Rory in the chest and Rory swayed. "Hello again." said The Doctor.
"Hello," said Rory.
"How've you been?"
"Good. Yeah, good. I mean, Roman."
"Rory," I said, "I'm not trying to be rude, but you died."
"Yeah, I know, I was there." said Rory.
"You died and then you were erased from time," said The Doctor, "You didn't just die, you were never born at all, you never existed."
"Erased? What does that mean?"
"How can you be here?"
"I don't know. It's kind of fuzzy."
"Fuzzy?"
"Well, I died and turned into a Roman. It's very distracting!" said Rory as he ran a hand across Amy's cheek, "Did she miss me?"
Before we could answer the was loud whoosh and rumbling coming from the other room. Us Time Lords and Rory ran out of the room. The symbols on the Pandorica were glowing green. Us Time Lords used our screwdrivers on the it. "What is it? What's happening?" asked Rory.
"The final phase," I said, "It's opening." I put a hand on the turning gears on the front of the box.
Rory went back up to the surface. The Doctor laid on the ground next to the Pandorica and aa beeping came from The Doctor's jacket pocket and he pulled out a communicator.
"Yes?" he said into it.
"You're surrounded. Have you got a plan?" asked River through the communicator.
"Yes! Now hurry up and get the TARDIS here. I need equipment!" The Doctor turned off the communicator. He stood up and looked at the Pandorica. "What are you? They're all here, all of them, all for you. What could you possibly be?"
He then turned the communicator back and dropped it. I could hear the feedback from above ground as he picked it up, "Sorry, sorry, dropped it. Hello, Stonehenge!" the walked up the stairs, "Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe. But bad news, everyone…"us Time Lords climbed up on to the flat stone that once covered the steps to the underhenge, "'Cos guess who?! Ha!" We looked up in the sky and saw all kind of ships and probes flying around, "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!"
The ships and probes stopped moving, "Thank you," I said as I took the communicator from my uncle, "Now, The $64,000 Question is, who's got the Pandorica? Answer... We do. Next question, who's coming to take it from us?"
I waited a moment to see of any of the ships were going to make a move toward us then I handed the communicator back to my uncle. "Come on! Look at us, no plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else, we don't have, anything... to... Lose!"
He handed the communicator to Annabelle, " So if you're sitting up there in your spaceship 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."
The Doctor held his arms outstretched, daring one of them to try, then the ships took off. Rory took a deep breath. Annabelle threw the communicator to Rory we jumped off the rock, "That'll keep 'em squabbling for half an hour!" said The Doctor, "Romans!" then he went out to talk with the soldiers.
We went back down in the underhenge with Rory and some of the Roman soldiers. While and while we continued to examine the Pandorica. "They're still out there. What do we do now?" asked Rory.
"If we can stop whatever's in this box getting out, then they'll go home," said The Doctor.
"Right."
I looked behind Rory and saw Amy walking toward us rubbing her head. I looked at him and said, "Rory, I'm sorry, but you're going to have to be very brave now."
Amy walked right past Rory to the Doctor, "Oh, my head" she said
"Go, ahha," he said as he opened his mouth.
"Aaaahhh." The Doctor gave her a quick examination, "Just your basic knock-out drops. Get some fresh air, you'll be fine."
"Is it safe up there?" asked Amy.
"Not remotely, but it's fresh."
"Fine," said Amy. Shte turned to leave and nearly bumped into Rory. "Oh, you're the guy, yeah, the one who did the...swordy thing."
"Yeah," said Rory.
"Well, thanks for the swording. Nice swording." Amy tapped him on the shoulder and walked off.
"No problem," said Rory, "My men are up there. They'll look after you."
"Good. Love a Roman!" Amy then went up the stairs.
Rory watched her leave, "She doesn't remember me," He looked at me, "How can she not remember me?"
"Because you never existed," I said, "You see, there are cracks in time. There's going to be a huge explosion in the future. And every other moment in history is cracking around it."
"So how does that work? What kind of explosion? What exploded?"
"It doesn't matter," said Annabelle, "The cracks are everywhere. If you get too close to one, you can fall right out of the universe."
"So I fell through a crack and now I was never born?"
"Yeah…"
"How did I end up here?"
"I don't know," I said, "You shouldn't have. From your point of view, what physically happened?"
"I was in the cave, with you, Amy, Annabelle and the Doctor. I was dying 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 dream. Started to think it was a dream. You, your family, Amy and Leadworth. Then today, in the camp, the men were talking about the visitors, the girl with the red hair. I thought you'd come back for me. But she can't even remember me."
"Oh, shut up," said The Doctor.
"What?" said Rory, Annabelle and I together.
The Doctor reached into his pocket and took out the box with Amy's engagement ring in it and tossed it to Rory, "Go get her."
"But I don't understand. Why am I here?"
"Because you are," aid The Doctor, "The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous, and sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles, and that's the theory. 900 years, never seen one yet. But this would do me. Now get upstairs, she's Amy and she's surrounded by Romans. I'm not sure history can take it."
Rory nodded and The Doctor slapped him on the back as he heads back to the surface. The Doctor took out the communicator, "The TARDIS, where is it? Hurry up!"
"Don't raise your voice, don't look alarmed, just listen," said River, through the communicator, "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."
"What are you doing in Amy's house?" I asked.
"It doesn't matter. The TARDIS went wrong. How is this possible?"
"Something's using her memories, Amy's memories," said The Doctor.
"But how?" asked River.
"You said something had been there?" asked Annabelle.
"Yes, there's burn marks on the grass outside, landing patterns."
"If they've been to her house, they could have used her psychic residue."
"Structures can hold memories, that's why houses have ghosts," said The Doctor.
"They could've taken a snapshot of Amy's memories. But why?" I asked.
"Who are those Romans?" asked River.
"Projections," said The Doctor, "Or duplicates."
"But they were helping us. My lipstick even worked."
"They might think they're real," I said, "It's the perfect disguise. They actually believe their own cover story, right until they're activated."
"Doctor, that Centurion... It's a trap, it has to be. They used Amy to construct a scenario you'd believe, to get close to you all."
"Why?" asked Annabelle, "Who'd do that? What for? It doesn't make sense."
Just then we heard noised coming from River's end, ""River? River?" asked The Doctor, "River, what's happening?!"
"I don't know," she replied, "it's the engines. Doctor, there's something wrong with the TARDIS, like something else is controlling it."
"You're flying it wrong."
"I'm flying it perfectly," said River, "You helped teach me.
"Where are you?" I asked, "What's the date reading?"
"It's the 26th June, 2017."
We all looked at each other, "You need to get out of there now! Any other time zone, just go."
"I can't break free."
"Well, then, shut down the TARDIS," said The Doctor, "Shut down everything!"
"I can't! Someone else is flying it. An external force. I've lost control."
"But how? Why?" asked The Doctor.
Just then there was a high-picthed whine. We all covered our ears and once it was done I said to River into the communicator, "Listen , just land her anywhere. Do an emergency landing, now. There are cracks in time, we've seen them everywhere, and they're getting wider. The TARDIS exploding is what causes them, but we can stop the cracks ever happening if you just land her!"
"It's not safe," said River.
Just then, the Pandorica started to open. The two sides facing the entrance to the underhenge started to slide open. A light from inside the Pandorica started to shine onto us, "Well, now. Ready to come out, are we?" asked The Doctor.
Just then River reported in, "Doctor, I'm down. I've landed."
"OK, just walk out of the doors," said The Doctor, "If there's no-one inside, the TARDIS engines shut down. Just get out of there."
"I'm going," said River.
"Run!" said the Doctor as handed me the communicator. Then, he walked up to the Pandorica and scanned it with his sonic.
A few moments later we heard River call out, "Doctor! Teddy! Annabelle! I can't open the doors!"
I was about to answer when I felt something grab my arms forcing me to drop the communicator, "DOCTOR!" I shouted. I looked behind me and saw two Romans holding my arms.
"Mom!" said my daughter. I turned to my left and saw Annabelle being held by two Romans. Then I looked back at my uncle and saw he was being held by two Romans as well.
"Doctor, I can't open the doors!" said River, over the communicator, "Teddy, Annabelle, please, I've got seconds!"
The solders started to pull The Doctor away from the Pandorica and over to me and Annabelle, "Plastic Romans," said The Doctor, " Duplicates, driven by the Nestene Consciousness?"
"But what why?" I asked, "What's in there?"
"The Pandorica is ready," said one of the solders holding The Doctor.
"It's open?" asked Annabelle
"You have been scanned," said a Dalek, "Assessed. Understood. Time Lords."
We turned over our shoulders and saw a white Dalek. Then a red and yellow Dalek materialized beside it. The Solders turned us to face the Daleks. "Scanned?" I asked, "Scanned by what? The Pandorica?"
"Your limits and capacities have been extrapolated." said the voice of a Cyberman.
All of the sudden a Cyberman appeared, followed by Judoon and Sontarans
"The Pandorica is ready," said a Sontaran.
"Ready for what?" asked Annabelle.
"Ready for you and your family…"
We looked and we could see the inside of the Pandorica. In the middle of the box were three chairs with restraints. The solders started to pull us forward. We all struggled against our captors but it was no use. As we got closer we saw Silurians, a Hoix and Roboforms. When we got to the box, we were each placed in a chair. Clamped were placed around our wrist and ankles and a chest restraint similar to the one you would see on a roller coaster were placed over us. "You're all working together in an alliance?" asked Annabelle, "How is that even possible?"
"The cracks in the skin of the universe," said the Daleks
"All reality is threatened," said the Sontaran.
"All universes will be deleted," said the Cyberman.
"What? And you've come to us for help?" asked the Doctor.
"No. We will save the universe from you and your family!" said The Sontaran.
"From us?" I asked in disbelief.
"All projections correlate. All evidence concurs. The Doctor and his nieces will destroy the universe."
"No, no, no. You've got it wrong," said my uncle.
"The Pandorica was constructed to ensure the safety of the alliance," said the Cyberman.
"A scenario was devised from the memories of your companion," said a Dalek.
"A trap The Doctor could not resist." said the Sontaran.
"The cracks in time are the work of the Doctor and his nieces. It is confirmed."
"It's not us!" shouted Annabelle, "It's the TARDIS. We aren't even in the TARDIS right now are we?"
"Only the Doctor and his nieces can pilot the TARDIS," said a Dalek
"Please, listen to us!" I pleaded.
DALEK:
"You will all be prevented," said a Dalek
"Total event collapse!" said The Doctor, "Every sun will supernova at every moment in history. The whole universe will never have existed! Please, listen to me!"
"Seal the Pandorica," said the Cyberman.
The walls of the Pandorica started to slide close "No! Please, listen to us!" I shouted, "The TARDIS is exploding right now and we are the only one who can stop it! Listen to us!"
Then the Pandorica slammed shut.
A/N: I wanted to let all my readers know who don't follow me, that my new story is up. It's called "Liv and Maddie's Adventures in Time and Space." Liv and Maddie from the Disney Channel show of the same name are going to be taking over for ALL of the companions, from the Ninth Doctor forward, at least that's the plan for now. It might change once I get done with Rose's episodes. Go to my profile page and check it out. Also, leave your comments on the box below.