Zero

Kirito and Asuna's house…

"It's been a while. Since you thought of bringing us on any adventures." Silica said, looking at Jared.

"I know. Well, um, I'm sorry." Jared said, sitting on the couch. "I had to…"

"We know. You don't have to repeat yourself again. You went through hell with the Holy Quintet." Lisbeth said, angrily.

"Definitely like Sayaka."

"Just because I sound like her whenever the TARDIS translates. Doesn't mean I am actually her."

"Right. How does saving the world in 20 minutes sound?"

"So, it's our usual Saturday." Silica said, smiling.

"Yeah. I didn't want to go back to having another adventure so soon."

"Why can't you take a break?"

"Because it's been a couple of weeks. I miss it okay."

"If you get hurt." Lisbeth said, smirking. "I'll call Asuna to back us up."

"I hate you."

"No, you don't."

Corridor…

The Doctor revives with the tweeting of birds to see a young lady in a micro-skirted police uniform using her radio.

"White male, mid twenties, breaking and entering. Send me some back-up. I've got him restrained. Oi! You, sit still." Amy said, angrily.

"Cricket bat. I'm getting cricket bat." The Doctor said.

"You were breaking and entering." Amy said.

The Doctor is handcuffed to the radiator, "Well, that's much better. Brand new me. Whack on the head, just what I needed."

"Do you want to shut up now? I've got back up on the way." Amy said, as Jared entered the hallway with Keiko and Rika. "Get back in there."

"Not now, Nebula." Jared said, holding Keiko's hand. "Oh, this adventure. Right, the Eleventh Hour."

"Didn't you say we were gonna be here today?" Rika asked.

"Yes. We've traveled 18 years into the past. No big deal."

"Um, what are we doing here anyway?" Keiko asked.

"First off, I like this village. Especially this house, it brings a lot of nostalgia to me."

"You haven't been here before." Rika said.

"Six months." Amy said.

"No. No. No. No, I can't be six months late. I said five minutes. I promised. What happened to her? What happened to Amelia Pond?" The Doctor asked.

"Sarge, it's me again. Hurry it up. This guy knows something about Amelia Pond." Amy said, talking into the radio.

"Why did you call her Nebula?" Keiko asked.

"That's another role Karen Gillan plays back home. Her and the sister of Gamora." Jared said, laughing a lot. "Man, I can't wait until the Guardians of the Galaxy comes into play."

"Didn't you say it was led by Star Lord?" Rika asked.

"Yes. Well, um, he's the only reason something failed."

"What failed?" Keiko asked.

"Spoilers Silica."

"Where did you learn that word?"

"I need to speak to whoever lives in this house right now." The Doctor said.

"I live here." Amy said.

"But you're the police."

"Yes, and this is where I live. Have you got a problem with that?"

"How many rooms?"

"I'm sorry, what?"

"On this floor."

"Nebby, how many rooms are on this floor?" Jared asked, squeezing Keiko's hand. "Can you count them for us?"

"Why?" Amy asked.

"Because it will change your life." The Doctor said.

"Five. One, two, three, four, five." Amy said, counting off all of the doors.

"Um, I hate to alarm you. But there are six doors on this floor." Keiko said, frowning.

"Six?"

"Look." Rika said, staring at the door Amy can't see.

"Look where?" Amy asked.

"Exactly where you don't want to look. Where you never want to look. The corner of your eye. Look behind you." The Doctor said.

"That's, that is not possible. How's that possible?"

"There's a perception filter all round the door. Sensed it the last time I was here. And Jared here saw it with Silica and Lisbeth because they play too much VR MMORPGs. Well, I should've seen the perception filter." The Doctor said.

"But that's a whole room. That's a whole room I've never even noticed." Amy said, turning around.

"The filter stops you noticing. Something came a while ago to hide. It's still hiding, and you need to uncuff me now."

"I don't have the key. I lost it." Amy said, walking towards the door.

"How can you have lost it? Stay away from that door! Do not touch that door! Listen to me, do not open that. Why does no-one ever listen to me? Do I just have a face that nobody listens to?" The Doctor asked, when Amy goes inside the mystery room. "Again. My screwdriver, where is it?"

Room...

Dirty, boarded up window, packing boxes.

"Silver thing, blue at the end. Where did it go?" The Doctor asked, outside of the room.

"There's nothing here." Amy said, looking around the room.

"Whatever's there stopped you seeing the room."

Corridor…

"What makes you think you could see it?" Rika asked.

Room…

"Now please, just get out." Keiko said, outside the room. "It's not safe."

"Silver, blue at the end?" Amy asked.

"My screwdriver, yeah." The Doctor said, outside of the room.

"It's here."

Corridor…

"Must have rolled under the door." The Doctor said.

Room...

"Yeah. Must have. And then it must have jumped up on the table." Amy said.

Corridor…

"Get out of there." Jared said, squeezing Keiko's hand.

Room…

"Get out of there! Get out!" The Doctor said, outside of the room.

Amy picks up the screwdriver, which is nearly stuck to the table with gunk.

Corridor…

"Get out of there!" Rika said, worried about Amy. "Like geez! Get out! It's not safe."

Room…

Something snake-like with very long sharp teeth slithers down behind Amy.

"What is it? What are you doing?" The Doctor asked, outside of the room.

"There's nothing here, but…" Amy said.

Corridor…

"Corner of your eye." The Doctor said.

Room...

"What is it?" Amy asked.

"Don't try to see it. If it knows you've seen it, it will kill you. Don't look at it. Do not look." The Doctor said, outside of the room.

Amy turns and finally stares it in the face. She screams.

(Jared's POV)

Corridor…

"Get out!" The Doctor said, as Amy runs to Keiko and Rika. "Give me that."

"It looks like the sonic is no use." Rika said, and the Doctor grabs the sonic screwdriver. "And it looks disgusting."

The Doctor used the sonic to lock the door, then tries to free himself, "Come on. What's the bad alien done to you?"

"So, will that door hold it?" Keiko asked.

"Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. It's an interdimensional multiform from outer space. They're all terrified of wood." The Doctor said.

"I guess you could say, this thing is wood-y." I said, while there is a bright light in the room.

"What's that? What's it doing?" Amy asked.

"I don't know. Getting dressed? Run. Just go. Your back up's coming. We'll be fine." The Doctor said.

"There is no back up."

"We heard you on the radio. You called for back up."

"I was pretending. It's a pretend radio."

"You're a policewoman."

"I'm a kissogram!" Amy said, taking off her cap and her long red hair falls down.

"This isn't good." Keiko said, when the door falls down to reveal a workman in overalls and toolbelt, with a black dog. "Who's that?"

"Spoilers." I said, looking at Prisoner Zero who looks just like Barney the coma patient. "You'll find out soon."

"But it's just…" Amy said.

"No, it isn't a man and a dog." I said, when the man barks. "Just look at the faces, Nebby."

"What? I'm sorry, but what?"

"It's all one creature. One creature disguised as two. Clever old multi-form. A bit of a rush job, though. Got the voice a bit muddled, did you? Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a psychic link, a live feed. How did you fix that?" The Doctor asked.

"It isn't an AmuSphere." Riko said, as the man in the corridor opens his mouth to reveal the long needle-like teeth. "But where's it coming from?"

"Stay, boy! The five of us, we're safe. Want to know why? She sent for back up." The Doctor said, looking at Amy.

"I didn't send for back-up!" Amy said, angrily.

"I know. That was a clever lie to save our lives. Okay, yeah, no back up. And that's why we're safe. Alone, we're not a threat to you. If we had back up, you'd have to kill us."

"Attention, Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded. Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded." The Atraxi said, up in space.

"What's that?" Keiko asked.

"Well, that would be back up. Okay, one more time. We do have back up and that's definitely why we're safe." The Doctor said.

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The Atraxi said, up in space.

"Doctor, we're safe, except from us being incinerated." Rika said, scoffing.

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The Atraxi said, up in the sky.

The Doctor struggles with the sonic screwdriver, "Come on, work, work, work, come on."

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."

The Doctor finally frees himself from the handcuffs, "Run! Run!"

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."

Garden…

"Kissogram?" The Doctor asked.

"What are you thinking about now?" Rika asked.

"Oh, you know, other worlds." I said, sipping on some bubble tea. "Other timelines."

"What kind of timelines?" Keiko asked.

"One where Yuuki Konno is still alive."

"But isn't she dead?"

"Only in this timeline. Or world, I think."

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The Atraxi said, up in the sky.

"Come on." Amy said, angrily.

"No, wait, hang on. Wait, wait, wait, wait. The shed. I destroyed that shed last time I was here. Smashed it to pieces." The Doctor said, running towards the shed.

"So there's a new one. Let's go."

"Yeah, but the new one's got old. It's ten years old at least. Twelve years. I'm not six months late, I'm twelve years late."

"He's coming."

"You said six months. Why did you say six months?"

"We've got to go."

"This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?" The Doctor asked, looking at Amy.

"Why did you say five minutes!" Amy said, angrily.

"Come on." I said, grabbing Keiko's and Rika's hands, dragging them behind me. "We've got a world to save."

"Yeah." Keiko said, smiling.

"How are we gonna save it?" Rika asked.

"We're gonna save it like we know how." I said, happily. "Let's go!"

"Yeah!" Rika and Keiko said at the same time, with me still pulling them.

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The Atraxi said, up in the sky.

Village lane…

"I have the Doctor, I have the TARDIS." I said, looking back at Keiko and Rika. "I can change history again. I know I can."

"Um, how will you do that?" Keiko asked.

"If I can time travel, I can save her in this world."

"But wouldn't that change history?" Rika asked.

"The future will become the past. That's all that matters." I said, smiling.

"That means…" Keiko said, her eyes widening.

"Yeah. I can bring her back. And Kanade and Serena."

"Like that would ever work." Rika said, clenching her first. "What will you do to change it?"

"I don't know. I honestly don't know yet. But I can't stand a world where you guys are dead. If you guys died, one of you. I'll...I'll kill myself."

"Twelve years and four psychiatrists." Amy said.

"Four?" The Doctor asked.

"I kept biting them."

"Why?"

"They said you weren't real."

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat." The Atraxi said, while it's coming from the Ice cream van speakers.

"No, no, no, come on. What? We're being staked out by an ice-cream van." Amy said.

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."

"What's that? Why are you playing that?" Rika asked.

"It's supposed to be Claire De Lune." The ice cream man said.

It is also on the radio.

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat. Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The Atraxi said.

It is also on a jogger's iPod and a woman's mobile phone.

"Doctor, Jared, what's happening?" Amy asked.

"Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."

Mrs Angelo's home...

The big eyeball is on every channel on the television. An elderly lady keeps jabbing at the remote control.

"Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The Atraxi said, on TV.

"Hello! Sorry to burst in. We're doing a special on television faults in this area. Also crimes. Let's have a look." The Doctor said, while I got a phone call from Kyoko Sakura.

"Kyoko?" I asked, placing my iPhone X near my ear.

"Jared?" Kyoko asked, her voice coming out of my phone. "There's something wrong with the DDR machine. It keeps talking about something called Prisoner Zero."

"I know. We're dealing with it right now."

"We? Who are you with?"

"Silica, Lisbeth, the Doctor, and Amy." I said, pacing back and forth around the room.

"Is that Kyoko?" Keiko asked, looking over at me.

"Yes."

"Tell her I said hi."

"Silica said hi." I said, placing my phone back near my phone. "How's things going over there?"

"Pretty decent. Prisoner Zero? And who's Amy?"

"Oh, this smoking hot ginger. She has amazing legs. She's as feisty as you."

"What did you say?!" Kyoko exclaimed, and I ended the call with her.

"I know you, don't I? I've seen you somewhere before." Mrs Angelo said.

"Not me. Brand new face First time on. And what sort of job's a kissogram?" The Doctor asked.

"I go to parties and I kiss people. With outfits. It's a laugh." Amy said, angrily.

"You were a little girl five minutes ago."

"You're worse than my aunt."

The Doctor speaks to Mrs Angelo rather than Amy, "I'm the Doctor. I'm worse than everybody's aunt. And that is not how I'm introducing myself."

"Repetez. Le Prisonnier. Zero wird der menschliche." The Atraxi said, on the radio.

"Okay, so it's everywhere, in every language. They're broadcasting to the whole world." The Doctor said, looking out of the window.

"What's up there? What are you looking for?" Amy asked.

"Okay. Planet this size, two poles, your basic molten core? They're going to need a forty percent fission blast." The Doctor said, while a young man comes in.

"Wait, if they're doing what you said." Rika said, walking towards the Doctor. "Wouldn't they have to power it up first?"

"Yeah, they would. So assuming a medium sized starship, that's 20 minutes. What do you think, twenty minutes?"

"Yeah, I think it should take twenty minutes." I said, crossing my arms

"We've got twenty minutes." The Doctor said.

"Twenty minutes to what?" Amy asked.

"Are you the Doctor?" Jeff asked, looking at the Doctor.

"He is, isn't he? He's the Doctor! The Raggedy Doctor. All those cartoons you did when you were little. The Raggedy Doctor. It's him." Mrs Angelo said, happily.

"Shut up." Amy said, annoyed.

"Cartoons?" The Doctor asked.

"Gran, it's him, isn't it? It's really him!" Jeff said, happily.

"Jeff, shut up. Twenty minutes to what?" Amy asked.

"The human residence will be incinerated. Repeat." The Atraxi said, on TV.

"The human residence. They're not talking about your house, they're talking about the planet. Somewhere up there, there's a spaceship, and it's going to incinerate the planet." The Doctor said.

"...will be incinerated. Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."

"Twenty minutes to the end of the world." I said, when I got a phone call from Tsubasa.

"Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate 'the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated."

Leadworth…

"Jared, there's this eyeball thing on TV." Tsubasa said, her voice over the phone. "Should we do something about it?"

"No. I can handle it with Silica and Lisbeth. I need you girls to do something for me."

The Doctor, Amy, Keiko, Rika, and I walk down the middle of the road.

"What is this place? Where are we?" The Doctor asked.

"Leadworth." Amy said.

"Where's the rest of it?" The Doctor asked.

"This is it."

"Doctor, there's no airport, no nuclear power plant." I said, dragging Keiko and Rika behind me. "And the nearest city from here is Gloucester. It takes half an hour by car to get there, Spaceman."

"We don't have half an hour. Do we have a car?" The Doctor asked.

"No." Amy said.

"Well, that's good. Fantastic, that is. Twenty minutes to save the world and we've got a post office. And it's shut. What is that?" The Doctor asked, running towards a water structure.

"It's a duck pond."

"Why aren't there any ducks?" Rika asked.

"I don't know. There's never any ducks."

"Then how do you know it's a duck pond?" The Doctor asked.

"It just is. Is it important, the duck pond?" Amy asked.

The Doctor clutches his chest, "I don't know. Why would I know? This is too soon. I'm not ready, I'm not done yet."

"What's happening? Why's it going dark?" Amy asked, when a black disc covers the sun, like a total eclipse. "So what's wrong with the sun?"

"Jared, there's something covering the sun." Tsubasa said, her voice coming out of my phone.

"I know." I said, placing my phone near my ear. "I know. We'll have this resolved in twenty minutes. Tell Hibiki and the others to hang in there."

"Do we go out there and save the day?"

"No. There's no need to. The Doctor's got this."

"Okay." Tsubasa said, ending the call with me.

"Then I grew up." Amy said, sadly.

"Oh, you never want to do that. No. Hang on. Shut up. Wait. I missed it. I saw it and I missed it. What did I see? I saw. What did I see? I saw, I saw, I saw…" The Doctor said, looking at people all over the village green taking photographs of the sun, except duplicate Barney and his dog, and Rory photographing the people. The time is 11:30. "Twenty minutes. We can do it. Twenty minutes, the planet burns. Run to your loved ones and say goodbye, or stay and help us."

"No."

"I'm sorry?"

"No!"

"Amy, no, no, what are you doing?" The Doctor asked, while Amy drags him to a car that has just pulled up and slams his tie in the door, then takes the keys from the driver and locks it. "Are you out of your mind?"

"Who are you?" Amy asked.

"You know who I am."

"No, really. Who are you?"

"Look at the sky. End of the world, twenty minutes."

"Well, better talk quickly, then."

"Amy, I am going to need my car back." Henderson said.

"Yes, in a bit. Now go and have coffee." Amy said.

"Right, yes."

Mister Henderson does as he is told.

"Catch." The Doctor said, tossing Amy the apple with the face carved in it. It is still fresh. "I'm the Doctor. This is Jared, Silica, and Lisbeth. We're time travellers. Everything I told you twelve years ago is true. I'm real. What's happening in the sky is real, and if you don't let me go right now, everything you've ever known is over."

"I don't believe you." Amy said, sadly.

"Just twenty minutes. Just believe us for twenty minutes. Look at it. Fresh as the day you gave it to me. And you know it's the same one. Amy, believe for twenty minutes."

Amy unlocks Mister Henderson's car, "What do we do?"

"First off, we stop that nurse." Keiko said, happily. "He's, um, doing something wrong. I think. But that doesn't matter right now."

The Doctor runs onto the village green and grabs Rory's phone, "The sun's going out, and you're photographing a man and a dog. Why?"

"What will we do later?" Keiko asked.

"After we save the world?" I asked, looking over at Keiko.

"Yeah."

"We should go to the beach."

"Why the beach?" Rika asked.

"Because I want to go swimming."

"Out of all the places you want to go to, you choose the beach."

"Yup."

"It's him, though. The Doctor. The Raggedy Doctor." Rory said, happily.

"Yeah, he came back." Amy said.

"But he was a story. He was a game."

"Man and dog. Why? Tell me now." The Doctor said, grabbing Rory.

"Sorry. Because he can't be there. Because he's…" Rory said.

"In a hospital, in a coma." The Doctor and Rory said, at the same time.

"Yeah."

"Knew it. Multiform, you see? Disguise itself as anything, but it needs a life feed. A psychic link with a living but dormant mind." The Doctor said, as the man barks at us.

"Prisoner Zero." I said, letting go of Keiko's hand.

"What? There's a Prisoner Zero too?" Rory asked.

"Yes." Amy said, while one of the pretty eyeball spaceships comes down.

"See, that ship up there is scanning this area for non-terrestrial technology. And nothing says non-terrestrial like a sonic screwdriver." The Doctor said, making all the streetlights explode, the car alarms go off and a poor woman's mobility scooter zoom off down the road.

"That'll take him a while to get it back." Rika said, watching a fire engine goes past on its own, two tone blaring.

"Oi, come back here! Come back!" A fireman said, annoyed.

"I think someone's going to notice, don't you?" The Doctor asked, blowing up a red telephone box, then the screwdriver explodes. "No, no! No, don't do that!"

"Look up, it's going somewhere." Keiko said, looking up at the sky.

"No, come back. He's here! Come back! He's here. Prisoner Zero is here. Come back, he's here! Prisoner Zero is…" The Doctor said.

Prisoner Zero goes squidgy and disappears down a drain cover.

"Doctor! Jared! The drain. It just sort of melted and went down the drain." Amy said.

"Well, of course it did." I said, taking out a box of Pocky to eat it. "It needs somewhere to hide."

"What do we do now?" Keiko asked.

"It's hiding in human form." The Doctor said.

"Simple, we just have to drive it out into the open." Rika said, smirking.

"Good plan, but we have to think. No Tardis, no screwdriver, seventeen minutes. Come on, think. Think!" The Doctor said, looking back at Rika.

(Open POV)

Coma ward...

Patient Barney is shaking.

"Barney? Barney? Barney? Can you hear me, Barney? Barney? Barney?" Ramsden asked.

The multiform slithers through an air vent above Barney's bed.

Leadworth...

"So that thing, that hid in my house for twelve years?" Amy asked.

"Multiforms can live for millennia. Twelve years is a pit-stop." The Doctor said.

"So how come you show up again on the same day that lot do? The same minute!"

"They're looking for him, but they followed me. They saw me through the crack, got a fix, they're only late because I am."

"What's he on about?" Rory asked.

"It's kinda sad how the world is ending in seventeen minutes." Keiko said, frowning.

"I think I got the saying wrong." Jared said, kicking his foot back and forth. "It's the present becomes the past."

"Oh. So that's how you're gonna save Yuuki and the others." Rika said, placing a hand on her hip.

"Yup. None of them deserved to die."

The Doctor flicks through the images on the iPhone, "These photos, they're are all coma patients?"

"Yeah." Rory said.

"No, they're all the multiform. Eight comas, eight disguises for Prisoner Zero." The Doctor said.

"He had a dog, though. There's a dog in a coma?" Amy asked.

"Well, the coma patient dreams he's walking a dog, Prisoner Zero gets a dog. Laptop! Your friend, what was his name? Not him, the good-looking one."

"Thanks." Rory said.

"Jeff." Amy said.

"Oh, thanks."

"He had a laptop in his bag. A laptop. Big bag, big laptop. I need Jeff's laptop. You three, get to the hospital. Get everyone out of that ward. Clear the whole floor. Phone me, Silica, and Lisbeth when you're done." The Doctor said, running off with Silica and Lisbeth.

"Let's go Centurion!" Jared said, running off with the Ponds. "Come on! We have a long day ahead of us."

"But how can he be here? How can the Doctor be here?" Rory asked.

"Finally a Mini Cooper." Jared said, getting into the car with the Ponds. "A classic."

Jeff's bedroom…

Jeff is lounging on his bed, using his laptop.

"So, why are we here?" Keiko asked, looking at Rika.

"How am I supposed to know?" Rika asked.

"Do you, um, think it's for convenience sake?"

"I think this is to keep the Doctor in line."

The Doctor takes the laptop and sees what Jeff was browsing, "Blimey. Get a girlfriend, Jeff."

Mrs Angelo enters.

"Gran." Jeff said, looking up at his grandmother.

"What are you doing?" Mrs Angelo asked.

"The sun's gone wibbly, so right now, somewhere out there, there's going to be a big old video conference call. All the experts in the world panicking at once, and do you know what they need? Me. Ah, and here they all are. All the big boys." The Doctor said, looking at the computer screen.

"Wow." Keiko said, in awe. "He's as good as Kirito. NASA, Jodrell Bank, Tokyo Space Centre, Patrick Moore are all in one call."

"I like Patrick Moore." Mrs Angelo said, happily.

"I'll get you his number. But watch him, he's a devil." The Doctor said.

"Wait, Silica, don't be amazed. You can't just hack in on a call like that." Rika said, scoffing.

"Can't I?" The Doctor asked.

Six faces come up on the screen, all labelled as above plus ESA and CSIRO. The Doctor shows them his psychic paper.

"Who are you?" Patrick Moore asked, on screen.

"This is a secure call, what are you doing here?" A man asked, his voice coming from the call.

"Hello. Yeah, I know you should switch me off, but before you do, watch this." The Doctor said, typing away on the keyboard.

"It's here too, I'm getting it." Patrick Moore said, on screen.

"Fermat's Theorem, the proof. And I mean the real one. Never been seen before. Poor old Fermat, got killed in a duel before he could write it down. My fault. I slept in. Oh, and here's an oldie but a goodie. Why electrons have mass. And a personal favourite of mine, faster than light travel with two diagrams and a joke. Look at your screens. Whoever I am, I'm a genius. Look at the sun. You need all the help you can get. Fellas, pay attention."

"Jared?" Hibiki asked, her voice coming from the call.

"Jared's kinda busy." Keiko said, walking towards the laptop. "Hi."

"Where is he?"

"With the Ponds."

"Who's that? Tell me. I have time."

Rory, Amy, and Jared ran into the hospital.

"Sir, what are you doing?" Someone at NASA asked, his voice coming from the call.

"I'm writing a computer virus. Very clever, super fast, and a tiny bit alive, but don't let on. And why am I writing it on a phone? Never mind, you'll find out. Okay, I'm sending this to all your computers. Get everyone who works for you sending this everywhere. Email, text, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, radar dish, whatever you've got. Any questions?" The Doctor asked, typing away on a cell phone.

"Who was your lady friend?" Patrick Moore asked, on screen.

"Patrick, behave." The Doctor said.

"What does this virus do?" A man asked, his voice coming from the call.

"It's a reset command, that's all. It resets counters. It gets in the wifi and resets every counter it can find. Clocks, calendars, anything with a chip will default at zero at exactly the same time. But yeah, I could be lying, why should you trust me? I'll let my best man explain." The Doctor said, looking back at Jeff.

"Jeff. That's your cue." Rika said, smirking. "You're his best man."

"You what?" Jeff asked.

"Listen to me. In ten minutes, you're going to be a legend. In ten minutes, everyone on that screen is going to be offering you any job you want. But first, you have to be magnificent. You have to make them trust you and get them working. This is it, Jeff, right here, right now. This is when you fly. Today's the day you save the world." The Doctor said.

"Why me?"

"Um, it's your bedroom." Keiko said, frowning. "That makes you the leader here."

"Silica's right. Now go, go, go." The Doctor said, running out of the room with Keiko and Rika.

"Okay, guys, let's do this." Jeff said.

"Hey, I think you should delete your internet history." Rika said, annoyed. "Saw some things Silica shouldn't see."

Hospital…

"Something's happened up there. We can't get through." Rory said.

"Yes, but what's happened?" Amy asked.

"I don't know. No one knows. Phone him."

"I'm phoning him. Doctor? We're at the hospital, but we can't get through." Amy said, her phone near her ear.

"Um, Pond." Jared said, peeling a banana. "You didn't have to call him yet. All you had to do was look in the mirror."

"Oh, that's why you said not to call him yet, but I did it anyway." Amy said, looking in the mirror. "Ha ha! Uniform. Are you on your way with the other girls? You're going to need a car."

Fire engine…

"Don't worry, we've commandeered a vehicle." The Doctor said, as Keiko turned on the siren.

Hospital corridor…

Rory, Amy, and Jared run up the stairs.

"Damn." Jared said, looking around to see that the coma ward floor is a mess. "It looked like a hurricane hit."

"Oh god." Amy said.

A woman with two girls meets them in the corridor.

"Officer." The mother said.

"What happened?" Jared asked.

"There was a man. A man with a dog. I think Doctor Ramsden's dead. And the nurses."

Amy makes a phone call.

Fire engine...

"Are you in?" The Doctor asked.

"Yep." Amy said, her voice coming out of the phone.

Hospital corridor...

"But so's Prisoner Zero." Amy said.

Fire engine...

"You need to get out of there." The Doctor said.

Hospital corridor...

"He was so angry. He kept shouting and shouting. And that dog. The size of that dog." The mother said, but it is not the mother who is speaking.

"I swear it was rabid. And he just went mad, attacking everyone." The child said, and I pressed a button on my watch for the nanotechnology super suit to wrap around my whole body.

"Ponds, stay behind me." I said, aiming my repulsor at Prisoner Zero when Rory and Amy backed away. "I'll protect you."

"Where did he go, did you see? Has he gone? We hid in the ladies." The child said.

"Oh, I'm getting it wrong again, aren't I? I'm always doing that. So many mouths." The mother said, when she opens her mouth to reveal the needle teeth.

"Oh, my God!" Rory said, terrified.

Fire engine…

"Amy? Amy, what's happening?" The Doctor asked, as I shot some energy blasts at different objects down the hallway to delay Prisoner Zero.

I entered the ward with Amy and Rory and I barred the doors with a broom through the handles.

"Amy, talk to me!" The Doctor said, angrily.

Coma ward...

"We're in the coma ward, but it's here. It's getting in." Amy said.

"Which window are you?" The Doctor asked, over the phone.

"What, sorry?"

Fire engine...

"Which window?" The Doctor asked.

(Jared's POV)

Coma ward…

"First floor, on the left, fourth from the end." Amy said, when the broom finally gives up.

"Oh, dear little Amelia Pond. I've watched you grow up. Twelve years, and you never even knew I was there. Little Amelia Pond, waiting for her magic Doctor to return. But not this time, Amelia." The mother said.

"For me, I've been waiting to protect the Holy Quintet, the SAO survivors, and the Symphogear users." I said, when Amy gets a text from Rory's phone. "Time to suck, Amelia Jessic Pond. And Rory Arthur Williams."

"I still can't believe you know our full names." Amy said, looking down at the text message that says to duck. "Like how?!"

We do, and the fire engine ladder comes crashing through the window. Enter the Doctor, Keiko, and Rika.

"Hey girls." I said, latching the helmet behind my face and back into the super suit. "What's up?"

"Oh, you know." Rika said, crossing her arms. "You have to tell me what you used to make that."

"Some metals that are hard to find."

"Ooo, can you tell me those metals?"

"You are not making a nanotechnology super suit in ALfheim Online."

"I, um, don't think those colors really suit you." Keiko said, sadly.

"They totally suit me." Rika said, angrily.

"Are you sure you want to go with red and yellow?"

"Have you not seen my clothes in game?"

"Fair point."

"And we're off! Look at that. Look at that!" The Doctor said, when the clock says 0:00. "Yeah, I know, just a clock. Whatever. But do you know what's happening right now? In one little bedroom, my team are working. Jeff and the world. The Symphogear users included. And do you know what they're doing? They're spreading the word all over the world, quantum fast. The word is out. And do you know what the word is? The word is Zero. Now, me, if I was up in the sky in a battleship, monitoring all Earth communications, I'd probably take that as a hint. And if I had a whole battle fleet surrounding the planet, I'd be able track a simple old computer virus to its source in, what, under a minute? The source, by the way, is right here."

"Oh, I think they found us." Keiko said, while there is a bright light outside. "This is so cool."

"The Atraxi are limited. While I'm in this form, they'll still be unable to detect me. They've tracked a phone, not me." The mother said.

"Yeah, but this is the good bit."

"This is my favorite bit of this plan of his." I said, walking towards Prisoner Zero. "Want to know what this phone is full of? In terms of storage. It has pictures of you. Every single form you've learned how to take over the years. Right here on that phone."

"And he's right on the mark with knowing what happens next. I love his foreknowledge. Ooo, what's on the phone is being uploaded about now. And the final score is, no Tardis, no screwdriver, two minutes to spare. Who da man?" The Doctor asked, pressing buttons on the phone.

"I don't think that's a good catchphrase." Keiko said, playing with her hands a bit.

"Oh, I'm never saying that again. Fine." The Doctor said, annoyed.

"Then I shall take a new form." The mother said.

"Oh, stop it. You know you can't. It takes months to form that kind of psychic link."

"And I've had years." The mother said.

Amy collapses.

"No! Amy? You've got to hold on. Amy? Don't sleep! You've got to stay awake, please." The Doctor said, looking down at Amy.

"Doctor." Keiko said, and Prisoner Zero has transformed into a gangly man with a ripped shirt and floppy hair. "Look."

"Well, that's rubbish. Who's that supposed to be?"

"Doctor, that's you." I said, frowning. "I know that baby face anywhere."

"Me? Is that what I look like?"

"You don't know?" Rory asked.

"Busy day. Why me, though? You're linked with her. Why are you copying me?" The Doctor asked.

A little girl comes from around a curtain and holds the duplicate's hand, "I'm not. Poor Amy Pond. Still such a child inside. Dreaming of the magic Doctor she knows will return to save her. What a disappointment you've been."

"No, she's dreaming about me because she can hear me. Amy, don't just hear me, listen. Remember the room, the room in your house you couldn't see. Remember you went inside. I tried to stop, but you did. You went in the room. You went inside. Amy, dream about what you saw."

"No. No. No!" Amelia said, when she transforms.

"Well done, Prisoner Zero. A perfect impersonation of yourself."

"Prisoner Zero is located. Prisoner Zero is restrained." The Atraxi said, outside.

"Silence, Doctor. Silence will fall. And Thanos, Jared. Thanos is coming." Prisoner Zero said, disappearing in a rush of wind.

"The sun. It's back to normal, right? That's, that's good, yeah? That means it's over." Rory said, as Amy wakes up. "Amy. Are you okay? Are you with us?"

"Come on, you have to admit, that was fun." Rika said, smirking.

"Um, I don't know if it was fun." Keiko said, sadly. "Was he looking?"

"I don't think so. Wait, I think he was. Pervert."

"That's what I call an epic fail." I said, happily.

"Shut it, you."

"About what?" Rory asked.

"The bill." The Doctor said, phoning the Atraxi. "Oi, I didn't say you could go! Article fifty seven of the Shadow Proclamation. This is a fully established level five planet, and you were going to burn it? What? Did you think no-one was watching? The Symphogear users and the Ancient One obviously were too. You lot, back here, now." He tossed the phone back to Rory. "Okay, now I've done it."

"Did he just bring them back? Did he just save the world from aliens and then bring all the aliens back again?"

Hospital corridor…

"Where are you going?" Keiko asked.

"The roof. No, hang on." The Doctor said, walking down a hallway.

Doctor's locker room…

"Wow, is he putting on a fashion show?" Keiko asked.

"Yup." I said, holding Keiko's hand.

"Even if he saved the world." Rika said, scoffing.

"Yup."

"Are you stealing clothes now? Those clothes belong to people, you know." Rory said, looking at Amy. "Are you not going to turn your back?"

"No." Amy said, staring at the Doctor.

Roof…

The Doctor walks out in a new shirt with several ties draped around his neck. The Atraxi is hovering overhead.

"So, was this a good idea?" Rika asked. "They were leaving."

"Leaving is good. Never coming back is better. Come on, then! The Doctor will see you now." The Doctor said, while the eyeball drops onto the roof and scans him.

"You are not of this world." The Atraxi said.

"And I'll see you too." I said, walking towards the Atraxi and it scanned me too.

"You are not from this world."

"Nope, I'm not. And he is definitely an alien. But we've put a lot of work into it. Not being from here."

The Doctor looks at his selection of ties, "Oh, hmm, I don't know. What do you think?"

"Is this world important?" The Atraxi asked.

"Important? What's that mean, important? Six billion people live here. Is that important? Here's a better question. Is this world a threat to the Atraxi? Well, come on. You're monitoring the whole planet. Is this world a threat?" The Doctor asked, as there is a projection of the world between us and the Atraxi.

"No."

"Are the peoples of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi?"

"No."

"Okay. One more. Just one. Is this world protected? Because you're not the first lot to come here. Oh, there have been so many." The Doctor said, when the projection shows the Daleks et al. "And what you've got to ask is, what happened to them?"

A run through of all the previous Doctors, Ben Tennyson, the Symphogear users, Torchwood Three, and Sarah Jane Smith.

"My friends throughout all of time and space." I said, laughing a lot as the Eleventh Doctor steps through the projection with a jacket and bow tie with me alongside him. "Defending the Earth. Just as it should be. Even if I haven't met Ben yet."

"Hello. I'm the Doctor, and this is Jared. He's one of the saviors of the universe. Basically, run." The Doctor said, as I watch the eyeball zooms back to its ship and leaves, very fast.

"Mission accomplished." I said, while the Doctor takes a glowing Tardis key out of his new jacket pocket. "And there he goes."

"Is that it? Is that them gone for good? Who were they?" Amy asked.

The Doctor is already down the stairs and running out of the hospital. I'm right behind him with Keiko and Rika.

Garden...

The Tardis is waiting for the Doctor.

"Okay, what have you got for me this time?" The Doctor asked.

Tardis...

"Look at you. Oh, you sexy thing! Look at you." The Doctor said, looking inside the time machine.

Amy and Rory run up just at it dematerialises.

"What are we gonna do now?" Rika asked.

"Yeah, what are we gonna do?" Keiko asked.

"Time to bring you two home." I said, smiling. "It's been a long day. And I want to head somewhere, somewhere that isn't here."