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Amy is floating in space, with the Doctor holding on to her ankle from the open door of the Tardis and Rose standing next to him
'My name is Amy Pond. When I was seven, I had two imaginary friends. Last night was the night before my wedding,' Amy thought to herself
"Come on, Pond," the Doctor said.
'And my imaginary friends came back,' Amy went on thinking to herself and then the Doctor pulls Amy back inside the Tardis.
"Now do you believe us?" He asked her.
"Okay, Doctor and Rose, your box is a spaceship. It's really, really a spaceship. We are in space! whoo!" She exclaimed and laughs "What are we breathing?"
"Oxygen," Rose answered "We've made the air shell bigger around the Tardis."
"We're fine," the Doctor said.
Rose noticed a flying spaceship that looked like a city as well in space with a Union Jack on it, "Whoa, that's interesting, a flying spaceship that's a city with a Union Jack on it, in the 29th Century."
"Yeah that is interesting, Rose," he said, closing the doors as he and Rose runs back to the console, "Solar flares roast the earth, and the entire human race packs its bags and moves out till the weather improves. Whole nations. Migrating to the stars. Isn't that amazing?"
"Doctor? Rose?" Amy called out and Rose noticed that Amy wasn't with then and goes to the doors and opens the door to see that she was floating in space and holding onto the wood of the Tardis and Rose pulls her hand out and Amy grabbed hand.
"Thanks, Rose," Amy said.
"No Problem, Amy," Rose said and walks back to her husband.
"I've found us a spaceship," he said and pulled up the spaceship on one of the Tardis's relatively new monitors. "This is the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland. All of it, bolted together and floating in the sky. Starship UK. It's Britain, but metal. That's not just a ship, that's an idea. That's a whole country, living and laughing and shopping. Searching the stars for a new home."
"Can we go out and see?" Amy asked.
"Course we can," he replied. "But first, there's a thing."
"A thing?" Amy asked in confusion.
"An important thing. In fact, Thing One. We are observers only. That's the one rule we've always stuck to in all our travels. We never get involved in the affairs of other peoples or planets," the Doctor told her.
"Amy, don't listen to him on that, he says that so he can interfere anyways," Rose said.
"Do not!"
"Do too!" She said back at him smiling as she sticks her tongue in between her teeth.
The scanner shows an image of a little girl sitting alone, crying and the Doctor notices it "Ooo, that's interesting."
"So we're like a wildlife documentary, yeah?" Amy asked, watching the scanner, "'Cause if they see a wounded little cub or something, they can't just save it, they've got to keep filming and let it die. It's got to be hard. I don't think I could do that. Don't you find that hard, being all, like, detached and cold?"
Suddenly the Doctor and Rose appear on the scanner, speaking to the little girl. "Doctor? Rose?" Amy said and Rose suddenly gestures for her to join them and with a smile she ran out of the Tardis.
'Welcome to London Market. You are being monitored,' a voice said on a tannoy.
Amy looked about and saw an arched glass ceiling through which she could see the stars. The market was a series of stalls and booths very similar to a contemporary marketplace. "I'm in the future," she said in amazement. " Like hundreds of years in the future." She approaches both Gallifreyans "I've been dead for centuries."
"Oh, lovely. You're a cheery one," he said sarcastically, "Never mind dead, look at this place. Isn't it wrong? "
"What's wrong?"
"Can't you see anything out of the ordinary?" Rose asked Amy.
"Exactly what Rose said," the Doctor agreed with Rose, "Come on, use your eyes. Notice everything. What's wrong with this picture?"
"Is it the bicycles?" Amy asked. "Bit unusual on a spaceship, bicycles."
"Says the girl in the nightie," he said teasing her.
"Oh my God!" Amy said "I'm in my nightie."
"Don't tease her," Rose said to the Doctor.
"Now, come on, look around you," he said "Actually look."
'London Market is a crime-free zone,' the tannoy said.
"Life on a giant starship. Back to basics. Bicycles, washing lines, wind-up street lamps. But look closer. Secrets and shadows, lives led in fear," he said. "Society bent out of shape, on the brink of collapse. A police state. Excuse me."
He went over to a table and took a glass of water from one of the people sitting there. "What are you doing?" A man asked him. The Doctor set the glass of water gently on the floor and looked at it intensely, then sets it back on the table "Sorry. Checking all the water in this area. There's an escaped fish."
He rejoined Rose and Amy "Where was I?"
"Why did you just do that with the water?" Amy asked.
"I'm wondering the same thing," Rose said.
"Don't know. I think a lot," he replied and Rose snorts "I'll say," she muttered
"It's hard to keep track," he added. "Now, police state. Do you see it yet?"
"Where?" Amy asked.
The Doctor snapped his fingers and points at the same little girl who is crying on a red bench, "There." he said. The Doctor, Rose and Amywalked towards her and sat on a bench facing her.
"One little girl crying. So?" Amy asked
"Crying silently," Rose said. That's what wrong because, children cry 'cause they want attention, 'cause they're hurt or afraid. But when they cry silently, it's 'cause they just can't stop. Any parent knows that."
"Are you both parents?" Amy asked.
"We were," Rose said "as well as grandparents,"
"You both look too young to be grandparents," Amy said, with confusion.
"We don't age as fast as humans it takes decades or centuries till age starts to appear on our faces," Rose explained. "I'm 235, while he is 907, we were childhood sweethearts but something happened, I'll explain the rest later."
"Anyway, there are hundreds of parents walking past this spot and not one of them's asking her what's wrong, which means they already know, and it's something they don't talk about," the Doctor said, "Secrets. They're not helping her, so it's something they're afraid of. Shadows, whatever they're afraid of, it's nowhere to be seen, which means it's everywhere. Police state."
The little girl got up as the lift bell rang and the figure in the nearby booth turned to watch her.
"Where'd she go?" Amy asked.
"Deck two oh seven. Apple Sesame block, dwelling 54A. You're looking for Mandy Tanner. Oh, er, this fell out of her pocket when I accidentally bumped into her. Took me four goes. Ask her about those things. The smiling fellows in the booths. They're everywhere," he said and gives Amy a colourful wallet.
"But they're just things," Amy said with confusion.
"They're clean. Everything else here is all battered and filthy. Look at this place. But no one's laid a finger on those booths. Not a footprint within two feet of them," he explained. "Look. Ask Mandy, why are people scared of the things in the booths?"
"They're also creepy looking," Rose said.
"No, hang on. What do I do?" Amy asked. "I don't know what I'm doing here and I'm not even dressed."
"It's this or Leadworth," he said, "What do you think? Let's see. What will Amy Pond choose? Ha ha, gotcha. Meet us back here in half an hour."
"What are you and Rose going to do?"
"What we always do. Stay out of trouble. Badly."
They leapt over the bench and walked away, hand in hand.
The Doctor and Rose both climbs down a ladder and he starts feeling the walls, places his ear on it "Can't be," he muttered.
"What is it, Theta?" Rose asked him.
"I think this spaceship is moving without any engines, 'cause I don't feel any vibration from an engine."
"But that's impossible," Rose said and he scans it with his new screwdriver and the readings confirmed his suspicions "It seems that I was correct."
"But how's that possible?" Rose asked and she notices That there was a glass of water on the floor and she goes to it and sees that the water in the cup wasn't moving.
"The impossible truth in a glass of water. Not many people see it," a woman wearing a mask said. "But both of you do, don't you, Doctor, how about you, Rose?"
"You know us?" The Doctor asked.
"Keep your voice down," she said, "They're everywhere. Tell me what you both see in the glass."
"Who says we see anything?" The Doctor asked.
"Don't waste time, Doctor," the woman said "At the marketplace, you placed a glass of water on the floor, looked at it, then you both came straight here to the engine room and Rose looked at a glass of water on the floor, here. Why?"
"No engine vibration on deck," he explained.
"I saw the same thing, nothing causing the water in the glass of water to move," Rose said.
"Ship this size, engine this big, you'd feel it. The water would move. So, I thought we'd take a look. It doesn't make sense." He added and goes over to a power box on the wall "These power couplings, they're not connected. Look. Look, they're dummies, see?"
He then goes to the wall behind him and knocks on it and said "And behind this wall, nothing It's hollow. If I didn't know better, I'd say there was..." "No engine at all." The Doctor Rose, and the mysterious woman said at the same time.
"But it's working. This ship is travelling through space. We saw it," the Doctor said, confusedly approaching her.
"The impossible truth, Doctor," the woman said "We're travelling among the stars in a spaceship that could never fly."
"How?" Rose asked.
"I don't know," the woman answered. "There's a darkness at the heart of this nation. It threatens every one of us. Help us, Doctor, you too Rose You both are our only hope. Your friend is safe. This will take you to her." The woman hands the Doctor a tracking device "Now go, quickly!" The woman walks away and the Doctor looks at the device
"Who are you? How do we find you again?" Rose asked the woman.
"I am Liz 10, and I will find the two of you," was all the woman said before they heard a crashing sound, they looked around, when they turned, the woman was gone.
They went in search for Amy using the device that Liz 10 have them and as they approached a booth that Amy was in and saw Mandy sitting on a bench outside the booth, nearby.
Both Gallifreyans went in as a door opens, 'Listen to me. This isn't a trick. This is for real,' they heard Amy's voice on a TV monitor say.
"Amy?"
'You've got to find the Doctor and Rose,' the Amy on the TV went on and suddenly Amy pressed a button and the TV switched off.
"What have you done?" The Doctor asked her.
"I don't know," she said.
"Yes you do," he said.
"I literally have no idea what I just did," Amy said.
"Doctor, I think, Amy just had a memory wipe," Rose said.
"I have a feeling that she did as well," he said and he took his screwdriver out and he
scans a device on the ceiling and found out that he and Rose were correct.
"Yeah, your basic memory wipe job," he said, "Must have erased about twenty minutes."
"But why would I choose to forget?" Amy asked.
"I'm wondering the same thing," Rose said.
"Because everyone does," Mandy suddenly said. "Everyone chooses the Forget button."
"Did you?" The Doctor asked her.
"I'm not eligible to vote yet," Mandy answered "I'm twelve. Any time after you're sixteen, you're allowed to see the film and make your choice. And then once every five years."
"And once every five years, everyone chooses to forget what they've learned," the Doctor said. "Democracy in action."
"I agree with you, Doctor," Rose said "This is so absurd and against everything that is democratic."
"How do you both not know about this?" Mandy asked "Are you both Scottish too?"
"Oh, we're way worse than Scottish. I can't even see the movie," he chuckles as he tries to play the video and Rose tries as well. "Won't play for us."
"It played for me," Amy said.
"The difference being the computer doesn't accept me and Rose as human," he explained.
"Why not?" Amy asked, going over to them. "You both look human."
"No, you look Time Lord also known as a Time Lady to females," he said. "We came first."
"He is correct, Amy," Rose said "Our species is over a billion years old."
"So there are other Time Lords and Time Ladies, yeah?" Amy asked.
"No. There were, but there aren't. Just usnow. Long story. There was a bad day. Bad stuff happened," he said.
Rose snorts at that statement that her husband just made, "You call the biggest war in the history of the universe 'a bad day,'" she said.
He ignored what she just said "And you know what? I'd love to forget it all, every last bit of it, but I don't. Not ever. 'cause this is what we do, every time, every day, every second. This. Hold tight. We're bringing down the government." He said and he slams his hand on a button labeled
'Protest' and they backed up against the wall as the door suddenly slammed shut, trapping him, Rose and Amy inside and the floor beneath them opens up to reveal a long drop with red lights.
"Say wheee!" The Doctor said with a grin.
"Argh!" Amy screamed as they fell into the whole.
The Doctor drops down a chute into what appears to be organic waste. Followed by Rose and Amy follows a few moments later with a scream.
"Argh! High speed air cannon," the Doctor explained as he scans the area with his screwdriver. "Lousy way to travel."
"Where are we?" Amy asked.
"Six hundred feet down, twenty miles laterally, puts us at the heart of the ship," the Doctor answered. "I'd say Lancashire."
"Doctor, it looks more like a cave to me," Rose said
"I agree with Rose," Amy said "plus it's a rubbish dump, and it's minging!"
"Yes, but only food refuse," he agreed, smelling something that he picked up and then drops it. "Organic, coming through feeder tubes from all over the ship."
"The floor's all squidgy, like a water bed,"'Amy said as she got down on her hands and knees.
"But feeding what, though?"
"I'm wondering the same thing," Ros said.
"It's sort of rubbery, feel it," Amy added. "Wet and slimy."
Suddenly they all heard a distant moaning from some kind of animal and both the Doctor and Rose stood up as they realized where they were.
"Er, it's not a floor, it's a. So…" The Doctor said trying explain where they were to Amy.
"It's a what?" She asked.
"The next word is kind of a scary word," he told her. "You probably want to take a moment, get yourself in a calm place. Go omm."
"Omm."
"Oh, for Rassilon's sake!" Rose cried at the Doctor in annoyance "Amy, we're on a tongue."
"Rose is correct," the Doctor said. "It's a tongue."
"A tongue?" Amy asked in confusion.
"A tongue," he confirmed. "A great big tongue."
"This is a mouth," Amy went on, looking around. "This whole place is a mouth? We're in a mouth?!"
"Yes, yes, yes," he said "But on the plus side, roomy."
"Maybe to you Doctor," Rose said, "but to me it's not roomy at all, it's disgusting."
"How do we get out?" Amy asked them.
"How big is this beastie?" He said, scanning the area again with screwdriver and Rose took hers out and does the same. "It's gorgeous. Blimey, if this is just the mouth, I'd love to see the stomach. Though not right now."
"Focus, Doctor," Rose cried.
"Doctor, Rose how do we get out?" Amy asked them.
"Okay, it's being fed through surgically implanted feeder tubes, so the normal entrance is closed for business," the Doctor said pointing his screwdriver at a giant wall of big teeth.
"We could try, though," Amy said as she headed forward towards the wall of giant teeth.
"No, stop, don't move," the Doctor said as the mouth they were in started to heave and vibrate in agitation. "Too late. It's started."
"What has?" Amy asked.
"Swallow reflex," the Doctor said as they fell over and both he and Rose use their screwdrivers on the wall of teeth.
"What are you both doing?" Amy asked.
"We're vibrating the chemo-receptors," the Doctor answered.
"Chemo-what?" Amy asked.
"The eject button," he explained.
"How does a mouth have an eject button?" Amy asked.
"Think about it, Amy! What happens if you eat too much food at once," Rose explained and Amy's eyes widened as she realizes what Rose means and the vibration stops allowing them to stand up and a tidal wave of vomit comes rushing towards them.
"Right, then," the Doctor said as he readjusts his bowtie. "This isn't going to be big on dignity." He held hands with Rose and Amy "Geronimo!" He exclaimed as the water gets closer towards them and Amy screamed as the water hits them and they flew upwards back towards the surface.
A few moments later, they found themselves out of the mouth and back in the ship. "There's nothing broken, there's no sign of concussion and yes, you are covered in sick," the Doctor said, turning around at Amy as he examines a door in front of them.
"Where are we?" Amy asked.
"I think we are in an overspill pipe," Rose said.
"I agree with you, Rose," the Doctor said "I think we are in an Overspill pipe, at a guess."
"Oh, God, it stinks," Amy complained as she gets up.
"Oh, that's not the pipe," the Doctor said.
Amy smelled her arm "Whoo!. Can we get out?"
The Doctor stopped examining the door with his screwdriver and turned and looked at her. "One door, one door switch, one condition. We forget everything we saw," he said and a button lit up saying 'FORGET' " Look familiar? That's the carrot."
Suddenly the lights lit up and Rose saw another of the smilers and both she and her husband approached them "Ooo, here's the stick," he said.
"There's a creature living in the heart of this ship," he went on "What's it doing there?"
"I'm wondering as well," Rose said "What's it doing there?!"
The Smilers turns their faces to show faces that are frowning.
"No, that's not going to work on us, so come on," he told them. "Big old beast below decks, and everyone who protests gets shoved down its throat. That how it works?" He asked sarcastically and suddenly the frowners turned their faces the other way they rotated and showed faces that looked like A scowl.
"Oh, stop it," the Doctor said "We're not leaving and we're not forgetting, and what are you fellows going to do about it? Stick out your tongues, huh?"
Suddenly the booths open and the Smilers step out.
"Now look what you've done," Rose said, scowling at her husband.
"Doctor?" Amy gasped as the smilers stood up heading towards them and the three of them backed away.
Suddenly a door burst opened from to reveal a dark skinned woman with a regal appearance striding in, holding up her pistol. She shot the smilers, mercilessly in the chest. As they fell down, the woman put away her gun effortlessly.
"Look who it is," the Doctor said as he saw Liz "You look a lot better without your mask. Don't you agree, Rose?"
"Definitely," Rose said agreeing with her husband.
"You must be Amy," Liz said, approaching Amy and pulling her hand out to shake her hand "Liz. Liz 10."
"Hi," Amy said, shaking her hand.
"Eurgh!" Liz exclaimed and she wiped it on her cloak. "Lovely hair, Amy. Shame about the sick."
She headed for the door. "You know Mandy, yeah?" She asked and Mandy came in andLiz put her arm around Mandy's shoulder "She's very brave."
"How did you find us?" The Doctor asked.
"I'm wondering how you found us as well," Rose asked.
"Stuck my gizmo on one of you," Liz explained and tossed a device at the Doctor. ."Been listening in. Nice moves on the hurl escape. So, what's the big fella and his wife doing here?"
"You're over sixteen, you've voted," the Doctor said. "Whatever this is, you've chosen to forget about it."
"I agree with my husband, you've voted and chosen to forget what you've learned about this ship," Rose said.
"No. Never forgot, never voted, not technically a British subject," Liz told them.
"Then who and what are you, and how do you know me and Rose?" The Doctor asked Liz.
You both are a bit hard to miss. Mysterious strangers, MO consistent with higher alien intelligence, hair of an idiot," Liz explained and the Doctor points at her like he was about to protest and he ran his hand through his soaked hair.
"Well, Doctor, you do have hair of an idiot, but I love you for it," Rose told him and kisses him.
"I've been brought up on the stories," Liz went on. "My whole family was."
"Your family?" Both Gallifreyans asked at the same time.
One of the deactivated Smilers began to move "They're repairing," Liz said "Doesn't take them long. Let's move."
Please review and tell me if I'm making Rose sound like well… Rose Because I still don't know how to write her properly and I need a beta-reader.