"So, two thousand. How did you do?" The Doctor asks Rory as we enter a different room and he blocks the door shut.
"Kept out of trouble." Rory promises.
"Oh. How?" The Doctor asks, as I put his fez back on his head that he'd given me when he started going towards the Dalek. He rummages around for a few minutes until he find a mop, to barricade the door shut.
"Unsuccessfully. The mop!" Rory announces loudly, taking the Doctor by surprise. "That's how you looked all those years ago when you gave me the sonic, you were with Kenzie."
"Ah. Well, no time to lose, then." The Doctor says offering his hand And as I take the Doctor's hand he presses the watch and we appear in front of Rory who has Amy laid across her lap.
"Rory! Listen, she's not dead." I tell him. "Well, she is dead, but it's not the end of the world. Well, it is the end of the world." I start to stutter on my words.
"Actually, it's the end of the universe. Oh, no. Hang on." The Doctor takes my hand again zapping us back to modern time as he realises he's still holding the mop and he puts it through the handles on the door, never letting go of my hand as he zaps us back, this time without the mop.
"You need to get us out of the Pandorica. Well, not me, him, leave me there." I instruct Rory.
"But you're not in the Pandorica." Rory argues, very confused.
"Yes, we are. Well, we're now, but we were back then. Well, back now from your point of view, which is back then from our point of view. Time travel, you can't keep it straight in your head. It's easy to open from the outside. Just point and press." The Doctor says chucking him the screwdriver.
"Now, go. And you need to keep reassuring him that I'm ok, alright Rory, you keep telling him, even when he doesn't bring it up, it's important, and then remind him when he denies it that I was the one who told you that and that technically I'm like two hundred years older than him, ok?" I say.
"Yeah, ok." And as Rory says that the Doctor zaps us back to modern time.
"Right, let's go then. Wait! Now I don't have the sonic. I just gave it Rory two thousand years ago." The Doctor says, keeping a hold of my hand as we zap once again back to Stonehenge "And when you're done, leave my screwdriver in her top pocket. Good luck." The Doctor says, finally zapping us back to modern time permanently. Once we finally get back I feel my legs weaken and collapse beneath me. "I got you." The Doctor says as he catches me before I can fall. "You're running out of energy quicker than I thought." He says studying my face.
"I'm fine." I assure him as I stumble to my feet. "Just a bit of a head rush." He looks from eye to eye, obviously not believing me, but accepting that I want to carry on.
"Right then." The Doctor says going over to Amy and taking his screwdriver out of her jacket pocket. "Off we go! No, hang on. How did you know to come here?" He asks approaching mini Amy and me. Amelia shows him a leaflet and post-it note from her pocket. "Ah, my handwriting. Okay." He surveys the two pieces of paper before he grabs a new leaflet and post-it note from the information desk and vanishes, returning second later with the two drinks he must have taken from Mackenzie and Amelia, earlier. "There you go. Drink up." He hands the two small girls their drinks.
"What is that? How are you doing that?" Amy asks.
"Vortex manipulator. Cheap and nasty time travel. Very bad for you. I'm trying to give it up." He tells us, then a thought comes to my mind.
"Doctor, where did Ryan go?" I ask.
"Ryan?" Amy questions not having met him.
"He got a call from a friend, had to leave, he had his own vortex manipulator, he did tell me to apologise to you for not being able to help any longer, I can't decide if I like him or not, he's too smart." The Doctor says. "He did say that we'd meet again, so, you could ask him yourself when we next see him." The Doctor says as he begins to run up the stairs.
"Where are we going?" I ask him leaning against the banister for support, before Rory comes up behind me, holding me up. I smile to him thankfully as the Doctor replies.
"The roof." He smiles but then at the top of the stairs another Doctor appears, smoking slightly I watch terrified as the ruffed up man collapses down the stairs, I cry out as he lands on the floor in between the Doctor and I. I hurry over to him as does the Doctor as he starts to scan him. I check his pulse to find he's still alive, and his pulse isn't too weak, I glance up at the healthy Doctor deciding to keep my mouth shut on my findings.
"Doctor, is that you?" Amy asks from behind us.
"Yeah, it's me. Me from the future." The Doctor replies thoughtfully as he also sees that his heartbeat isn't too bad. Suddenly the future Doctor gasps waking up and pulling himself up to whisper in the Doctor's ear and then falls back down again.
"Are you? I mean, is he, is he dead?" Amy asks hesitantly, I'm still holding his wrist and feel his pulse and as I'm about to deny it, saying he's still alive the Doctor speaks up.
"What? Dead? Yes, yes. Of course he's dead. Right, I've got twelve minutes. That's good." The Doctor says standing up as if shaking himself out of a stance and starting to run up the stairs.
"Twelve minutes to live? How is that good?" I ask him deciding to play along, considering I don't know what the older Doctor said to him.
"Oh, you can do loads in twelve minutes. Suck a mint, buy a sledge, have a fast bath. Come on, the roof." He says stopping at the top of the steps.
"We can't leave you here dead." Rory asks.
"Yes we can, and we are come on." I say climbing up the stairs after the Doctor and he gives me a grateful look.
"You can't be serious, Kenz." Rory says.
"Oh, good. Are you in charge now? So tell me, what are we going to do about Amelia and mini me?" I say noticing Amelia and Mackenzie had disappeared a while ago.
"Where'd they go?" Amy asks as they both spot the two discarded drinks. "Amelia!?" She calls out.
"Mackenzie?" Rory echoes.
"There is no Amelia or mini Mackenzie. From now on, there never was. History is still collapsing." The Doctor explains.
"But how can we still be here if they're not?" Asks Amy as she climbs the steps.
"You're an anomaly. We all are. We're all just hanging on at the eye of the storm. But the eye is closing, and if we don't do something fast, reality will never have happened. Today, just dying is a result. Now, come on!" The Doctor says running off as I follow after him.
"Doctor, you don't die." I say quietly.
"I know." He replies continuing to run up another flight of stairs.
"So why did you say you do?" I ask him and he stops for a second facing me.
"It will all make sense I promise, but right now we need to get to the roof." He says brushing my messy short hair away from my face, kissing me on the lips and then my forehead before taking off again.
When we reach the roof we see that it's morning. "What, it's morning already? How did that happen?" Amy asks as she an Rory finally catch up with us.
"History is shrinking. Is anybody listening to me?" The Doctor asks exasperatedly.
"I am!" I pipe as I stand beside the Doctor helping him to get the satellite receiver dish off of the pole. "Guys, just all you need to know is the universe is collapsing. We don't have much time left." I tell them as the Doctor takes it off he runs over to the wall and jumps up onto it as I copy him.
"What are you doing?" Rory asks sceptically.
"Looking for the Tardis." I reply simply, staring into the 'sun'.
"But the Tardis exploded." Rory disputes.
"Okay then, we're looking for an exploding Tardis." The Doctor corrects me.
"I don't understand. So, the Tardis blew up and took the universe with it. But why would it do that? How?" Amy asks.
"Good question for another day. The question for now is, total event collapse means that every star in the universe never happened." The Doctor says.
"Not one single one of them ever shone. So, if all the stars that ever were are gone, then what is that?" I ask rhetorically, pointing to the sun.
"Like I said, we're looking for an exploding Tardis." The Doctor looks to me smiling that is until a sharp pain comes to the pit of my stomach and I lose balance the Doctor having to keep me from falling off the edge of the wall. He helps me down off of the wall, holding me up until he gets me seated down my back to the wall. "Just breathe, it won't be long." The Doctor promises me.
"What's wrong with her?" Rory asks as he crouches down beside me.
"I just need a moment to collect my strength, I'm running out of energy with the Tardis exploded in the sky." I explain to Rory. "I'm fine, just need to breathe." I explain, he nods, unsure, but turns to the Doctor.
"But that's the sun."
"Is it? Well, here's the noise that sun is making right now." The Doctor says sonicing the satellite. The sound of the Tardis is plain and I feel very sad all of a sudden.
"That's out Tardis burning up." I say to the Doctor, not really realising I'd said 'our'. "That's what's been keeping the Earth warm." I continue.
"There's something else." Rory says. "There's a voice." I strain my ears to hear but am unsuccessful.
"I can't hear anything." Amy replies.
"Trust the plastic." Rory tells her as the Doctor amplifies the sound and I hear it.
"I'm sorry, my loves." Is repeated constantly.
"Doctor, that's River." I tell him.
"How can she be up there?" Amy asks.
"It must be like a recording or something." Rory suggests incorrectly.
"No, it's not. Of course, the emergency protocols." The Doctor turns to look down at me to see if I'm following.
"The Tardis has sealed off the control room and put her into a time loop to save her. She is right at the heart of the explosion." I say carry on, proving that I understand. I stand up feeling more lively now having regained some energy and grab onto the Doctor's arm as zaps us to the Tardis. The next thing I know, the Doctor and I are on the Tardis and I feel a wave of energy burst through me as the two of us lean against the door seeing River run towards us. "Hi sweetie, we're home." I grin at my friend as she looks to her watch getting over her initial shock.
"And what sort of time do you call this?" She asks as I run up to her and hug her tightly, bursting with energy.
"We need to get out of here." The Doctor says.
"Will it hurt again?" I ask looking back at him, suddenly scared remembering the pain I felt when the Tardis exploded.
"No, we're just exiting a time loop." He assures me as I loop my arm in his River's hand in mine as we teleport back to the roof.
"Amy! And the plastic Centurion?" River asks as we land back on the roof.
"It's okay, he's on our side." I tell River.
"Really?" She asks, not too sure of his presence.
"Yep."
"I dated a Nestene duplicate once. Swappable head. It did keep things fresh." River states and I look to Rory disturbed slightly.
"Swappable head?" He simply nods at my questioning and I from in acceptance as River continues to babble.
"Right then, I have questions, but number one is this. What in the name of sanity have you got on your head?" River asks turning to the Doctor.
"It's a fez." I say simply.
"I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool." The Doctor continues smiling at the four of us, the only response that the two of us get is Amy ripping the fez off of his head tossing it in the air and River shooting it.
"But I liked the fez." I pout.
"You two are perfect for each other." River sighs shaking her head, which causes me to smile but then that awful sound once again interrupts us as a Dalek flies up from behind the wall of the roof calling, as always: "Exterminate!"
"Run, run! Move, move. Go!" The Doctor uses the dish to shield himself and me as we back away to the ladder leading down from the roof.
"Doctor, Kenzie, come on." River says.
"Shush. It's moving away, finding another way in. It needs to restore its power before it can attack again. Now, that means we've got exactly four and a half minutes before it's at lethal capacity." He says climbing down after me.
"How do you know?" Rory asks.
"Because that's when it's due to kill him." I tell her as we all begin to run down the stairs.
"Kill him? What do you mean, kill him?" River asks from behind me.
"Oh, shut up. Never mind. How can that Dalek even exist? It was erased from time and then it came back." The Doctor says. "How?"
"It's not a light, it's a restoration field. But never mind, call it a light. That light brought Amy and Mackenzie back, restored them, but how could it bring back a Dalek when the Daleks have never existed?" The Doctor asks, once again, and as always, rhetorically.
"Okay, tell us." Amy says.
"When the Tardis blew up, it caused a total event collapse. A time explosion. And that explosion blasted every atom in every moment of the universe. Except-" Amy cuts the Doctor off.
"Except inside the Pandorica."
"The perfect prison. And inside it, perfectly preserved, a few billion atoms of the universe as it was. In theory, you could extrapolate the whole universe from a single one of them, like, like cloning a body from a single cell. And we've got the bumper family pack." I say excitedly, practically bouncing up and down, exhilarated by the adventure and the new energy in my body from the being back on the Tardis for those few seconds.
"No, no. Too fast. I'm not getting it." Rory says.
"The box contains a memory of the universe, and the light transmits the memory, and that's how we're going to do it." I simplify for him.
"Do what?" Amy questions.
"Relight the fire. Reboot the universe. Come on!" The Doctor says, running ahead again.