Chapter Seventeen: Going Under

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Ambrose put an armful of rifles and a cricket bat on the seat.

"Bit chilly for a hideout, mind."

"What are those?" He inquired.

"Like you say, every little helps."

"No." He refused. "No weapons. It's not the way I do things."

"You said we're supposed to be defending ourselves." She defended.

"Oh, Ambrose, you're better than this. I'm asking nicely. Put them away."

[Church]

Less than three and a half minutes. Elliot ran in with his map.

"Look at that. Perfect. Dyslexia never stopped Da Vinci or Einstein. It's not stopping you."

"I don't understand what you're going to do."

"Two phase plan." The Doctor explained. "First, the sensors and cameras will tell us when something arrives. Second, if something does arrive, I use this to send a sonic pulse through that network of devices. A pulse which would temporarily incapacitate most things in the universe."

"Knock 'em out. Cool."

"Lovely place to grow up round here."

"Suppose. I want to live in a city one day. Soon as I'm old enough, I'll be off." He said excitedly.

"I was the same where I grew up."

"Did you get away?" Elliot asked curiously.

"Yeah."

"Do you ever miss it?"

"So much." The Doctor replied nostalgically.

"Is it monsters coming? Have you met monsters before?"

"Yeah."

"You scared of them?"

He grinned. "No, they're scared of me."

"Will you really get my dad back?"

"No question."

"I left my headphones at home." Elliot said after patting his pockets. He ran outside to get them.

One minute.

[Graveyard]

"How're you doing?" The Doctor asked.

Amy and Rory were completing the sensor array.

"It's getting darker. How can it be getting dark so quickly?"

"Shutting out light from within the barricade. Trying to isolate us in the dark. Which means-"
The ground rumbled.

"-It's here."

[Church]

"They're close to the surface now." Nasreen informed.

She put her hand on Mack's and they embrace. He then kisses her, taking her by surprise.

"Tony." She breathed.

"Like you didn't know."

Zero.

The dots stopped moving.

[Church porch]

"I can't open it." Am rose complained. "It keeps sticking. The wood's warped."

"Any time you want to help." The Doctor called to Rory.

"Can't you sonic it?"

"It doesn't do wood."

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