Alyssa landed in the Tardis the exact position she left the tenth doctor, she was taken into a hug as soon she landed.
"Hey Doc," She said, laughing as the Eleventh Doctor hugged her.
"Where did you just come from?" he asked,
"Messaline and 1926 England." Alyssa said, and the Doctor's face fell a bit
"you just regenerated." The Doctor said, Alyssa nodded and turned to Amy who was staring at her with confusion
"Who are you?" Amy said, but Alyssa just smiled at her,
"It's me Alyssa, and before you get more confused, me and the Doctor has a way of cheating death," Alyssa said, Amy just looked more confused as she stared at the new girl, that the doctor obviously knew. "I got shot, and in order to keep myself alive, I changed everything about myself, my face, my body and even my voice. But I promise you I'm Alyssa."
"Yeah, I got that bit," Amy said, before walking over to her and taking her into a hug and continued
"I knew it was you when you appeared in a flash of golden light." Amy said, Alyssa smiled and pulled away "I'm gonna go change out of this dress and then we can go on another adventure." She said, before walking down to the wardrobe. she changed out of the light pink dress and into a normal outfit, a blue top, and normal jeans, and a new jacket which she had managed to stuff everything the Doctor gave her. She then strapped her gun to her hip. She smiled at her new look and left the Wardrobe
She then walked back to the console room and already saw the Doctor was running around the Tardis piloting it. He came to a stop in front of her and said, "Want to go to a Museum." Amy who was watching them said, "Doctor you promised me a planet." but the Doctor ignored her and piloted the Tardis to a Museum.
They soon got to the museum and started going through it. Amy following along a bit annoyed.
"Wrong. Wrong. Bit right, mostly wrong. I love museums." The Doctor said as he walked around the museum looking at everything. Alyssa taking interest in everything,
"Yeah, great. Can we go to a planet now? Big Spaceship? Churchill's bunker? You promised me a planet next." Amy said,
"Amy, this isn't any old asteroid. It's the Delerium Archive, the final resting place of the headless monks. The biggest museum ever." The Doctor said as he looked at everything in glass boxes
"You've got a time machine. What do you need museums for?"
"It's how he keeps score, Amy." Alyssa said, making Amy laugh,
"Wrong. Very wrong. Ooo, one of mine. Also one of mine." The Doctor said, before taking great interest in a glass case that had a box in. Alyssa looked at it with great interest as well, because of the words on the top of it.
"Oh great, an old box," Amy said,
"It's from one of the old starliners. A Home Box." The Doctor said,
"What's a Home Box?" Amy asked,
"Like a black box on a plane, except it homes. Anything happens to the ship, the Home Box flies home with all the flight data."
"So?"
"The writing, the graffiti. Old High Gallifreyan. The lost language of the Time Lords." the Doctor said, "There were days, there were many days, these words could burn stars and raise up empires, and topple gods."
"What does it say?" Amy asked, and the Doctor was about to answer only for him to be cut off when Alyssa said: " Hello, sweeties." shocking both herself and the Doctor. The Doctor looked through his jacket for his Sonic Screwdriver, but Alyssa immediately took out her gun and shot the case grabbing the box as it shattered. Alarms shattered as the group ran back to the Tardis. As soon as they got into the Tardis. Alyssa threw the box to the Doctor who immediately started connecting it to the Tardis
"Why are we doing this?" Amy asked,
"Because someone on a spaceship twelve thousand years ago is trying to attract my attention. Let's see if we can get the security playback working." the Doctor said, a video started playing of a female who looked at the camera and winked. Alyssa smiled as she immediately knew that she would meet River Song.
"The party's over, Doctor Song," someone from the video said, "Yet still you're on board."
"Sorry, Alistair. I needed to see what was in your vault. Do you all know what's down there? Any of you? Because I'll tell you something. This ship won't reach its destination." River said,
"Wait till she runs. Don't make it look like an execution." Alistair said, River looked down at her watch,
"Triple seven five Slash three four nine by ten. Zero twelve slash acorn." River said, The Doctor ran over and began putting in the Coordinates into the Tardis and River continued "Oh, and I could do with an air corridor."
"What was that? What did she say?" Amy asked
"Coordinates." The Doctor said, and the Tardis flew to where River was
"Like I said on the dance floor, you might want to find something to hang on to." River said, before blowing Alistair and his soldiers a kiss and the airlock opened and Alyssa ran to the Tardis door and opened it and held out her hand to River she grabbed it and they both fell to the floor. Alyssa smiled up at River
"Hello Sweetie." Alyssa said, River laughed and got off her and looked at the Doctor who had run over, River looked at him,
"River?" the Doctor said River looked back out the Tardis door and saw the ship
"Follow that ship." River said, and the Doctor ran back to the Tardis and did what she asked. River and Alyssa followed him and River said "They've gone into warp drive. We're losing them. Stay close." Watching the ship on the monitor.
"I'm trying." The Doctor said,
"Use the stabilizers." River said and began flipping some switches
"There aren't any stabilizers." The Doctor said,
"The blue switches." River said,
"Oh, the blue ones don't do anything, they're just blue."
"Yes, they're blue. Look, they're the blue stabilizers." River said, walking over to press them only for Alyssa to walk up as well and pressed it. The Tardis then stopped shaking and River said, "See?"
"Yeah. Well, it's just boring now, isn't it? They're boring-ers. They're blue boring-ers." The Doctor said, mad that River, Amy walked over
"Doctor, how come she can fly the Tardis?" She asked,
"You call that flying the Tardis? Ha!" The Doctor said,
"Doctor, dear are you upset because someone besides you can fly the Tardis?" Alyssa said, as the Doctor walked over to the Pilot seat and sat down. He shot Alyssa a glare but Alyssa just smiled at him brightly.
"Okay." River said, "I've mapped the probability vectors, done a fold-back on the temporal isometry, charted the ship to its destination, and parked us right alongside." As she did stuff with the Tardis.
"Parked us? We haven't landed." The Doctor said, getting up and walking over to River, "Of course we've landed. I just landed her." River said as the Doctor reached her,
"But, it didn't make the noise." The Doctor said,
"What noise?" River asked,
"You know, the." The Doctor said, and then did a bad imitation of the Wheezing sound whenever the Tardis landed.
"Doctor dear, It is a brilliant noise but it's not supposed to. You leave the brakes on." Alyssa said,
"Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise. Come along, Pond, Alyssa. Let's have a look." The Doctor said, before running to the door, only for River to call after them
"No, wait. Environment checks." River said, Alyssa shook her head and still walked over and opened the door and looked out
"Oh yes, sorry. Quite right. Environment checks." The Doctor said then joined Alyssa in looking out of the Tardis and said "Nice out."
"We're somewhere in the Garn Belt. There's an atmosphere. Early indications suggest that" River said only to be interrupted by the Doctor
"We're on Alfava Metraxis, the seventh planet of the Dundra System. Oxygen-rich atmosphere, all toxins in the soft band, eleven hour day and chances of rain later." He said,
"He thinks he's so hot when he does that." River said,
"He is so hot when he does that," Alyssa said, before knowing what she had said, making the Doctor beam at her, before the two joined them by the Console
"How come you can fly the Tardis?" Amy asked,
"Oh, I had lessons from the very best." River said,
"Well, yeah." the Doctor said,
"It's a shame you were busy that day. Thanks Alyssa."
"I learn how to pilot the Tardis? Spoilers River." Alyssa said but smiled nonetheless
"Right then, why did they land here?" River said, and grabbed her heels and began to leave,
"They didn't land." The Doctor said,
"Sorry?"
"You should've checked the Home Box. It crashed." The Doctor said, and River left the Tardis, the Doctor closed the Tardis doors behind her.
"Explain Who is that and how did she do that museum thing?" Amy said as the Doctor walked back to the Tardis Console and said "It's a long story and I don't know most of it. Off we go."
"What are you doing?" Amy asked as the Doctor started to get ready to pilot the Tardis away. Alyssa smiled slightly before moving towards the door.
"Leaving. She's got where she wants to go, let's go where we want to go." The Doctor said,
"Are you basically running away?"
"Yep, "The Doctor said,
"Nope, Unless you plan to leave me behind Doc," Alyssa said, before running out of the Tardis and joining River who was staring at the ship that had crashed inside a Temple. Soon the Doctor and Amy joined them. The Doctor following reluctantly. Alyssa smiled at the two
"What caused it to crash? Not me." River said,
"Nah, the airlock would've sealed seconds after you blew it. According to the Home Box, the warp engines had a phase shift. No survivors." The Doctor said,
"A phase shift would have to be sabotage. I did warn them." River said,
"About what?" The Doctor asked,
"Well, at least the building was empty. Aplan temple. Unoccupied for centuries." River said, about the building the ship crashed into, the Doctor turned around and went back to Amy who said,
"Aren't you going to introduce us?"
"Amy Pond, Professor River Song." The Doctor said,
"Ah, I'm going to be a Professor someday, am I? How exciting. Spoilers." River said, before looking at Alyssa said: "At least you know who I am, where have you come from?" Alyssa sighed sadly,
"Yeah about that," Alyssa said, that made River turn towards her
"This is your first time meeting me." River said,
"Yeah sorry," Alyssa said River sighed but turned back to the wreak
"Yeah, but who is she and how did she do that? She just left you a note in a museum." Amy said asking the Doctor,
"Two things always guaranteed to show up in a museum. The Home Box of category four starliner and sooner or later, him. It's how he keeps score."
"I know. Alyssa told me." Amy said, walking towards River who said: "It's hilarious, isn't it?" Alyssa smiled at the two, it was shocking that Amy didn't notice her relationship with River sooner they were so alike. The Doctor then joined the three
"I'm nobody's taxi service. I'm not going to be there to catch you every time you feel like jumping out of a spaceship." The Doctor said,
"And you are so wrong. There's one survivor. There's a thing in the belly of that ship that can't ever die." River said looking back at him, the Doctor gave her a look,
"Now he's listening." Alyssa said, River said, then used her communicator to talk to someone who was coming to the planet
"You lot in orbit yet? Yeah, I saw it land. I'm at the crash site. Try and home in on my signal." River said, then held her communicator up and said "Doctor, can you sonic me? I need to boost the signal so we can use it as a beacon." The Doctor did then and Amy and Alyssa went over to him
"Ooo, Doctor, you sonicked her." Amy said,
"We have a minute. Shall we?" River said and took out her blue Dairy and River walked over to him and said "Where are we up to? Have we done the Bone Meadows?"
"What's the book?" Amy said, about to walk over to it but Alyssa grabbed her arm and said: "Best not."
"What is it though?"
"Her diary." The Doctor said,
"Our diary."
"Her past, my future."
"Our Future, Doctor, some things in that book haven't even happened to me yet." Alyssa said and the Doctor pointed at her signifying that she was right,
"Time travel. We keep meeting in the wrong order." The Doctor said, then four tornado's kick up and four soldiers appeared,
"You promised me an army, Doctor Song." one of them said
"No, I promised you the equivalent of an army. This is the Doctor and Alyssa." River said, and the man walked over to where the Doctor, Alyssa, and Amy were standing and said
"Father Octavian, Sir. Bishop, second class. Twenty clerics at my command. The troops are already in the dropship and landing shortly. Doctor Song was helping us with a covert investigation. Has Doctor Song explained what we're dealing with?"
"Doctor, what do you know of the Weeping Angels?" River said,
Nighttime rolled around and more of Octavian's soldiers arrived and they set up a camp
"The Angel, as far as we know, is still trapped in the ship. Our mission is to get inside and neutralize it. We can't get through up top, we'd be too close to the drives." Octavian said, he then took out his communicator and showed them a map and continued "According to this, behind the cliff face, there's a network of catacombs leading right up to the temple. We can blow through the base of the cliffs, get into the entrance chamber, then make our way up." as they stopped in front of a crate and some pieces of machinery.
"Oh, good." The Doctor said,
"Good, sir?"
"Catacombs. Probably dark ones. Dark catacombs. Great."
"Technically, I think it's called a maze of the dead." Octavian said Alyssa shook her head
"Maze of the Dead, Yay." She said sarcastically the group looked at her and she continued, "You can stop whenever you want."
"Father Octavian?" a soldier said, taking Octavian's attention away from the group,
"Excuse me, sir Ma'am." Octavian said before he turned around and went to the soldier
"You're letting people call you sir. You never do that. So, whatever a Weeping Angel is, it's really bad, yeah?" Amy said,
"Now that's interesting. You're still here. Which part of wait in the Tardis till I tell you it's safe was so confusing?"
"The part where she wants to be apart of the adventure and you won't let her, Doc." Alyssa said and Amy nodded "you are all Mister Grumpy face today." Alyssa said,
"A Weeping Angel, Amy Alyssa, is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life-form evolution has ever produced, and right now one of them is trapped inside that wreckage and I'm supposed to climb in after it with a screwdriver and a torch, and assuming I survive the radiation long enough and assuming the whole ship doesn't explode in my face, do something incredibly clever which I haven't actually thought of yet. That's my day. That's what I'm up to. Any questions?"
"One," Amy said and turned to Alyssa "Is River Song your sister? You and her are similar with all your spoilers and your teasing of the Doctor. So is she your sister?" Alyssa froze for a second and looked at River, that conversation changed so much. In her old universe, Amy asked if River was the Doctor's wife. She shook her head and the Doctor noticing her confusion
"Yes, you're right. I am definitely Mister Grumpy Face today." The Doctor said, River then called for the group from the Dropship,
"Doctor, Alyssa!" She shouted, having changed into her combat uniform and the group began walking to the dropship where River was and she called "Father Octavian."
"Why do they call him Father?" Amy asked,
"He's their Bishop, they're his Clerics. It's the fifty-first Century. The Church has moved on." The Doctor said as they entered the dropship
Octavian soon joined them and River played a video of the Weeping Angel. Which was looking away and had its face in its hands. and when Octavian joined them River said "What do you think? It's from the security cameras in the Byzantium vault. I ripped it when I was on board. Sorry about the quality. It's four seconds. I've put it on loop."
"Yeah, it's an Angel. Hands covering its face." The Doctor said,
"You've encountered the Angels before?" Octavian asked,
"Once, on Earth, a long time ago. But those were scavengers, barely surviving."
"But it's just a statue," Amy said, who was looking at the Angel with great interest
"That is what makes them so dangerous, it's a statue when you look at it but the moment you look away," Alyssa said, before shuddering.
"Where did it come from?" The Doctor asked, asking about the angel
"Oh, pulled from the ruins of Razbahan, end of last century. It's been in private hands ever since. Dormant all that time." River said,
"There's a difference between dormant and patient." The Doctor said,
"What's that mean, it's a statue when you see it?" Amy asked
"The Weeping Angels can only move if they're unseen. So legend has it." Octavian said,
"Oh, it's not a legend," Alyssa said,
"it's a quantum lock. In the sight of any living creature, the Angels literally cease to exist. They're just stone. The ultimate defense mechanism." The Doctor added,
"What, being a stone?"
"Like Alyssa said, being stone until you look away." The Doctor said, smiling at the group before running out of the ship, Alyssa and Amy, however, stayed behind
"The hyperdrive would've split on impact. That whole ship's going to be flooded with drive burn radiation, cracked electrons, gravity storms. Deadly to almost any living thing." The Doctor said,
"Deadly to an Angel?" Octavian asked,
"Dinner to an Angel. The longer we leave it there, the stronger it will grow. Who built that temple? Are they still around?"
"The Aplans. Indigenous life form. They died out four hundred years ago." River said,
"Two hundred years later, the planet was terraformed. Currently, there are six billion human colonists." Octavian said,
"Whoo! You lot, you're everywhere. You're like rabbits. I'll never get done saving you." The Doctor said,
"Sir if there is a clear and present danger to the local population." Octavian said,
"Oh, there is. Bad as it gets. Bishop, lock, and load." The Doctor said,
"Verger, how are we doing with those explosives? Doctor Song, with me.
"Two minutes. Doctor, Amy I need you." River said, and Amy went out of the dropship and followed the Doctor and River.
"Anybody need me? Nobody?" When no one answered she said "Great, I'm the one left with the Angel." Alyssa said, and walked back into the dropship and sighed when she was the angel had raised its face from its hands. "Hey River do you have more clips of the angel?" she called out poking her head out of the dropship,
"no only that one clip." River called back
"Thought so, well at least it's me and not Amy." She said walking back to the screen, the angel was now facing her directly. She looked back at the door which slid closed and locked. "Well it's just you and me, you don't scare me you know," she said speaking directly to the angel she looked up at the ceiling and continued "nothing really scares me in this universe except for." She shuddered and looked back down at the angel which was now close up to the camera looking like it was screaming at her. She backed up a bit "But I just got this body and I don't want to lose it so soon." She then turned to the door and tried it "yep locked." she looked back at the angel which was now a holograph inside the room. She moved forward again and grabbed the remote and tried turning off the screen but it just turned back on. "Yeah thought so."
"Alyssa!" She heard the Doctor through the door she ran to the door and the Doctor said, "Are you all right? What's happening?"
"It's coming out of the television." She said, shocking everyone who was outside, she sounded so calm. "Don't take your eyes off it. Keep looking. It can't move if you're looking."
"I know that!" Alyssa said,
"Can you turn the screen off?"
"No, I tried," Alyssa said,
"Try again but don't take your eyes off the Angel."
"I'm not," Alysa yelled, as she went forward to grab the remote. "Each time it moves, it'll move faster. Don't even blink." The Doctor said,
"I'm not blinking. Have you ever tried not blinking?" She felt for the remote and grabbed it and tried once again to turn off the screen "It just keeps switching back on." She said,
"Yeah, it's the Angel."
"Anything that takes the image of an angel is an angel," Alyssa said, remembering what they were just reading before they ran over. "Doctor, what's it going to do to me?" Alyssa said,
"Just keep looking at it. Don't stop looking." the Doctor said,
"Just tell me."
"Alyssa, not the eyes. Look at the Angel but don't look at the eyes." the Doctor said, Alyssa looked down at the chest of the angel but she already knew it was too late.
"What is it?" River asked
"The eyes are not the windows of the soul. They are the doors. Beware what may enter there."
"Oh honestly this is getting ridiculous," Alyssa said, she rose the remote and started counting when she saw the screen turn black for a second. "One two three four." she then paused it right when it blipped again and heard the door unlock and the Doctor, River, and Amy rushed in. "I froze it. There's a blip in the video where the screen turns black. I paused it when that happened."
"Brilliant." River said, before hugging her,
"In all honesty, it was getting a bit ridiculous, I knew how to deal with it and did."
"So it was here? That was the Angel?" River asked,
"That was a projection of the Angel. It's reaching out, getting a good look at us. It's no longer dormant." The Doctor said, and there was an explosion outside,
"Doctor? We're through." Octavian yelled,
The Doctor then left, Amy following and Alyssa rubbed her eye feeling something inside it and River said: "coming?"
"Yeah, coming. There's just something in my eye." Alyssa said and then followed her out of the dropship.
The group then climbed down into a big room that was pitch black, "Do we have a gravity globe?" The Doctor said,
"Grav globe," Octavian said and one of his Clerics handed Alyssa a gravity globe because she was right beside him,
"Where are we? What is this?" Amy asked
"It's an Aplan Mortarium, sometimes called a Maze of the Dead." River said,
"What's that?"
"Well, if you happen to be a creature of living stone." The Doctor said, and Alyssa threw the gravity globe up in the air and everything was illuminating the room where many statues were and the Doctor said "The perfect hiding place."
"I guess this makes it a bit trickier." Octavian said,
"Definitely a bit trickier." Alyssa said, looking at all the statues.
"A stone Angel on the loose amongst stone statues. A lot harder than I'd prayed for." Octavian said
"A needle in a haystack." River said,
"A needle that looks like hay. A hay-like needle of death. A hay-like needle of death in a haystack of, er, statues. No, yours was fine." The Doctor said,
"Right. Check every single statue in this chamber. You know what you're looking for. Complete visual inspection. One question. How do we fight it?" Octavian said to his soldiers who walked off to do what he said.
"We find it, and hope." The Doctor said, before rushing off after him, only to stop when she felt something in her eye. She rubbed it and River came up behind her,
"You all right?" She asked,
"Yeah, I'm fine. So what is our relationship in the future?" Alyssa said,
"Spoilers." She turned to Amy who said, "what's a Maze of the Dead?"
"Oh, it's not as bad as it sounds. It's just a labyrinth with dead people buried in the walls. Okay, that was fairly bad. Right, give me your arm. This won't hurt a bit." River said then injected Amy with something,
"Ow!" Amy said,
"There, you see. I lied. It's a viro-stabilizer. Stabilizes your metabolism against radiation, drive burn, anything. You're going to need it when we get up to that ship."
"So what are they like? In the future, I mean. Because you know them in the future, don't you?" Amy said as Alyssa ran up to the Doctor.
"The Doctor and Alyssa? Well, the Doctor's the Doctor. And Alyssa, well tomorrow might be the next time she meets me for her so the same."
"Oh. Well, that's very helpful. Mind if I write that down?" Amy said, and Alyssa was reading The Doctor's device over his shoulder. Alyssa glanced at them from the corner of her eye.
"Yes, we are." River called out to her,
"Sorry, what?" Alyssa said,
"Talking about you two."
"Yeah, I know." She then looked back at the device in the Doctor's hand and smacked him on the back of his head and said with River "The other way up." The Doctor looked at the two
"Yeah." He said before turning it the right way up.
"You're so her sister."Amy said,
"Oh, Amy, Amy, Amy. This is Alyssa we're talking about. Her life isn't anything near simple. Do you really think it could be anything that simple?"
"Yep." Amy said,
"You're good. I'm not saying you're right, but you are very good."River said, before walking again. Suddenly there was gunfire and The four ran back to where they saw the man who had fired at a statue.
" Sorry, sorry. I thought. I thought it looked at me." he said,
"We know what the Angel looks like. Is that the Angel?" Octavian said
"Yes actually it does, Bishop, a weeping angel can look like anything, but it's most basic form does really look like an angel," Alyssa said, getting a glare from him and looked back at the man,
"No, sir." He said,
"No, sir, it is not. According to the Doctor, we are facing an enemy of unknowable power and infinite evil, so it would be good, it would be very good if we could all remain calm in the presence of decor." Octavian said, Alyssa shook her head and walked over to the man with the Doctor,
"Hello, what's your name?" Alyssa said
"Bob, sir. Ma'am" Bob said,
"Ah, that's a great name. I love Bob." The Doctor said,
"It's a Sacred Name. We all have Sacred Names. They're given to us in the service of the Church." Octavian said,
"Sacred Bob. More like Scared Bob now, eh?" The Doctor asked,
"Yes, sir."
"Ah, good. Scared keeps you fast. Anyone in this room who isn't scared is a moron. Carry on." The Doctor said, before pulling Alyssa away from the two and further to the maze.
"We'll be moving into the maze in two minutes," Octavian said, before giving an order to Bob "You stay with Christian and Angelo. Guard the approach." Before joining the others in going into the maze
They soon got to the Maze and Amy said "Isn't there a chance this lot's just going to collapse? There's a whole ship up there."
"Incredible builders, the Aplans."
"Had dinner with their Chief Architect once. Two heads are better than one."
"What, you mean you helped him?" Amy said,
"No, I mean he had two heads. That book, the very end, what did it say?" The Doctor said to River who stopped to get a book out that was about the angels.
"Hang on." River said as she flipped through it and then reached the last page,
"Read it to me." The Doctor said
"What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if one day our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us. The time of Angels."
The group began walking again , "Are we there yet? It's a hell of a climb." Amy said
"Sorry Amy, but we are nowhere near the Spaceship." Alyssa said,
"The Maze is on six levels, representing the ascent of the soul. Only two levels to go." River said, correcting Alyssa,
"Lovely species, the Aplans. We should visit them sometime." The Doctor said,
"I thought they were all dead?" Amy asked,
"So is Virginia Woolf. I'm on her bowling team. Very relaxed, sort of cheerful. Well, that's having two heads, of course. You're never short of a snog with an extra head."
"Doctor, there's something. I don't know what it is." River said as they continued walking
"Yeah, there's something wrong. Don't know what it is yet, either. Working on it. Of course, then they started having laws against self-marrying. I mean, what was that about? But that's the Church for you. Er, no offense, Bishop."
"Quite a lot taken, if that's all right, Doctor. Lowest point in the wreckage is only about fifty feet up from here. That way." Octavian said,
"The Church had a point if you think about it. The divorces must have been messy." Amy said, and Alyssa shined her light on one of the statues,
"Question, you have been going on how the Aplans had two heads yeah?" Alyssa said, The Doctor looked back at her and nodded "So why do the statues only have one?" The Doctor then shone his light at one of the Statues
"Oh." He said, River then looked at the statues getting it as well.
"What's wrong?" Amy asked,
"Oh." River said,
"Exactly." Alyssa said as she looked around her and at all the statues.
"How could we have not noticed that?" River said,
"Low-level perception filter, or maybe we're thick. Always can count on my Clever Alyssa to realize it first."
"What's wrong, sir, ma'am?" Octavian asked
"Nobody move. Nobody move. Everyone stay exactly where they are. Bishop, I am truly sorry. I've made a mistake and we are all in terrible danger." The Doctor said,
"What danger?" Octavian said,
"The Aplans." River said,
"The Aplans?"
"The Aplan's have two heads." Alyssa said,
"So why don't the statues?" The Doctor said pointing somewhere that there were no angels " Everyone, over there. Just move. Don't ask questions, don't speak." The group did that and the Doctor did the same but he kept an eye on the angels.
"Okay, I want you all to switch off your torches." Alyssa immediately did what he asked and one of the Bishop's Clerics said "Sir?"
"Just do it." and one by one all the torches were turned off. "okay. I'm going to turn off this one too, just for a moment."
"Are you sure about this?" River said,
"No." The Doctor said and turned off his torch only to immediately turn it on and all the statues moved,
"Oh, my God. They've moved." Amy said, and the Doctor ran forward, Alyssa following as they checked every statue. Which were all in a new position
"They're Angels. All of them." The Doctor said when the others joined them
"We've been surrounded by angels this whole time," Alyssa said, hitting her head "I knew I forgot something."
"But they can't be." River said,
"Clerics, keep watching them." The Doctor said, before running back to the main chamber, and seeing that a bunch of angels were following them. Alyssa, Amy, and River joined them,
"Every statue in this Maze, every single one, is a Weeping Angel. They're coming after us." the doctor said
Everyone regrouped and River said "But there was only one Angel on the ship. Just the one, I swear."
"They've been here the whole time," Alyssa said, before looking at River and continued "The Aplans how did they die out?"
"Nobody knows." River said,
"Well now we know."
"They don't look like Angels."
"I said it before Bishop weeping angels can look like many things but the angel figure is its main form."
"But the Doctor said they were fast. They should have had us by now." Amy said,
"Look at them. They're dying, losing their form. They must have been down here for centuries, starving." The Doctor said,
"Losing their image?" Amy asked,
"And their image is their power. Power. Power!" The Doctor said,
"Doctor?" Amy asked,
"Don't you see? All that radiation spilling out the drive burn. The crash of the Byzantium wasn't an accident, it was a rescue mission for the Angels. We're in the middle of an army, and it's waking up."
"We need to get out of here fast." River said,
"Bob, Angelo, Christian, come in, please. Any of you, come in." Octavian said into his walkie talkie
"It's Bob, sir. Sorry, sir." Bob said, answering him,
"Bob, are Angelo and Christian with you? All the statues are active. I repeat, all the statues are active." Octavian said
"I know, sir. Angelo and Christian are dead, sir. The statues killed them, sir." Bob said, and the Doctor grabbed the walkie-talkie
"Bob, Sacred Bob, it's me, the Doctor." He said
"I'm talking to," Octavian said in protest, but the Doctor interrupted him
"Where are you now?" He said
"I'm talking to my," Octavian said, trying to get the walkie-talkie again only for the Doctor to interrupt him again
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up."
"I'm on my way up to you, sir. I'm homing in on your signal." Bob said,
"Ah, well done, Bob. Scared keeps you fast. Told you, didn't I. Your friends, Bob. What did the Angel do to them?" The Doctor said,
"Snapped their necks, sir." Bob said,
"That's odd. That's not how the Angels kill you. They displace you in time. Unless they needed the bodies for something." The Doctor said, and Octavian snatched the Walkie-Talkie
"Bob, did you check their data packs for vital signs? We may be able to initiate a rescue plan." Octavian said The Doctor grabbed the walkie-talkie from him again,
"Oh, don't be an idiot. The Angels don't leave you alive." The Doctor said Before saying to Bob "Bob, keep running. But tell me, how did you escape?"
"I didn't escape, sir. The Angel killed me, too." Bob said,
"What do you mean, the Angel killed you?" The Doctor said,
"Snapped my neck, sir. Wasn't as painless as I expected, but it was pretty quick, so that was something." Bob said,
"If you're dead, how can I be talking to you?" The Doctor asked,
"You're not talking to me, sir. The Angel has no voice. It stripped my cerebral cortex from my body and re-animated a version of my consciousness to communicate with you. Sorry about the confusion."
"So when you say you're on your way up to us," The Doctor said,
"It's the Angel that's coming, sir, yes. No way out."
"Then we get out through the wreckage. Go! Go, go, go. All of you run." Octavian said the group did what he said but Alyssa walked over to him and said "Doctor."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm coming. Just go. Go, go, go." He said, and Alyssa did what he said, only when she got to a tunnel she stopped and put her hand on the wall. She was about to turn around only for her to realize that her hand was stuck to the wall. She looked down at it and said: "Oh you have got to be kidding." She looked up and watched as the Doctor ran past her.
"Don't wait for me. Go, run," he said,
"I can't." She said and the Doctor stopped and turned around and she continued "No, really, I can't."
"Why not?"
"Look at it. Look at my hand. It's stone." Alyssa said, and the Doctor looked at only to see a normal hand. He looked back up at her
"You looked into the eyes of an Angel, didn't you?" The Doctor said, shining the light from a torch into her eyes.
"I couldn't stop myself." Alyssa said,
"Listen to me. It's messing with your head. Your hand is not made of stone." The Doctor said,
"It is. Look at it." Alyssa said, looking down at it and still seeing a stone hand.
"It's in your mind, I promise you. You can move that hand. You can let go." The Doctor said, Alyssa tried moving it only to fail,
"I can't. It's stone." Alyssa said The torchlight flickered and the Doctor
"The Angel is going to come and it's going to turn this light off, and then there's nothing I can do to stop it, so do it. Concentrate. Move your hand." He said
"I can't." Alyssa yelled, "Bite it." the Doctor looked up at her in shock but then grinned and bit her hand hard making it fly off the wall and the Doctor grabbed her and pulled her with him to the group who were staring at the Byzantium.
"The statues are advancing along all corridors. And, sir, my torch keeps flickering." One of the Clerics said,
"They all do." Octavian said,
"So does the gravity globe." River said,
"Clerics, we're down to four men. Expect incoming." Octavian said,
"Yeah, it's the Angels. They're coming. And they're draining the power for themselves." The Doctor said, talking about the torches flickering.
"Which means we won't be able to see them." Octavian said,
"Which means we can't stay here."
"Two more incoming," Octavian said, seeing more angels coming.
"Any suggestions?" River asked the Doctor,
"The statues are advancing on all sides. We don't have the climbing equipment to reach the Byzantium." Octavian said,
"There's no way up, no way back, no way out. No pressure, but this is usually when you have a really good idea." River said, to the Doctor
"There's always a way out." The Doctor said before saying again "There's always a way out."
"Doctor? Can I speak to the Doctor, please?" Bob said, on the Walkie-Talkie, grabbed the Walkie-Talkie,
"Hello, Angels. What's your problem?" The Doctor said
"Your power will not last much longer, and the Angels will be with you shortly. Sorry, sir." Bob said,
"Why are you telling me this?"
"There's something the Angels are very keen you should know before the end."
"Which is," The Doctor asked,
"I died in fear." Bob said,
"I'm sorry?"
"You told me my fear would keep me alive, but I died afraid, in pain and alone. You made me trust you, and when it mattered, you let me down. And the angel knows about Alyssa's foreknowledge, she knew I was going to die and she just let it happen." Alyssa froze and the Doctor looked at her out of the corner of his eye, seeing the upset look on her face, and he gripped the Talkie harder.
"What are they doing?" Amy asked River,
"They're trying to make him angry and the best way to do it is by upsetting Alyssa." River said,
"I'm sorry, sir. The Angels were very keen for you to know that."
"Well then, the Angels have made their second mistake because I'm not going to let that pass. I'm sorry you're dead, Bob, but I swear to whatever is left of you, they will be sorrier." The Doctor said, making Alyssa smile at him as he looked up at the Gravity globe.
"But you're trapped, sir, and about to die." Bob said
"Yeah. I'm trapped. And you know what? Speaking of traps, this trap has got a great big mistake in it. A great big, whopping mistake."
"What mistake, sir?" Bob said, and The Doctor looked at Amy and said: "Trust me."
"Yeah." Amy said, The Doctor looked at Alyssa
"Trust me?"
"Do you even have to ask me that?" She said, making the Doctor grin at her, He turned to River
"Trust me?" He asked,
"Always." River answered,
"You lot, trust me?" The Doctor said, to the Bishop and his clerics.
"Sir, two more incoming." one of the Clerics said,
"We have faith, sir," Octavian said,
"Then give me your gun." The Doctor said and Octavian did give him his gun and the Doctor continued
" I'm about to do something incredibly stupid and dangerous. When I do, jump!" jumping himself.
"Jump where?" Octavian asked,
"Just jump, high as you can. Come on, leap of faith, Bishop. On my signal." The Doctor said,
"What signal?"
"You won't miss it." The Doctor said,
"Sorry, can I ask again? You mentioned a mistake we made." Bob said The Doctor pointed his gun up at the Byzantium.
"Oh, big mistake. Huge. Didn't anyone ever tell you there's one thing you never put in a trap? If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never, ever put in a trap." The Doctor said, making Alyssa smile at him,
"And what would that be, sir?" Bob asked,
"Me." The Doctor said, and he pulled the trigger shooting the Gravity Globe and everyone jumped.