Blink

Wester Drumlin…

On a dark wet night, a woman climbs over a lovely set of wrought iron gates with a Danger Keep Out Unsafe Structure London County Council notice on them and goes up the gravel driveway to the big house.

"Nora, I don't think we should be doing this." Ren said, walking behind the redhead.

"Why not?" Nora asked, as she and Ren are following the woman.

The blonde breaks in through a boarded up window and takes photographs of the plastic covered chandeliers resting on the floors, and other pieces of furniture.

"Oh look." Ren said, noticing the letter B peeking from underneath a piece of peeling wallpaper. "B…"

"Who are you?" Sally asked, pulling at the wallpaperto reveal the words Beware the weeping angel.

"I'm Lie Ren." Ren said, watching Sally peel more of the wallpaper to set the message Oh, and duck! Really, duck! Sally Sparrow, Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie duck, now. "And this is…"

So they duck just before the window behind them is broken by a thrown pot, which bounces off the wall and breaks on the floor.

"That was close." Nora said, as the light of Sally's torch reveals a statue outside, a winged angel with its hands covering its face. "What is that thing?"

"I don't know." Sally said, going back to the wall and pulls off more paper.

"Why didn't Jared send Madoka and the others?" Jaune asked, looking at the message that says: Love from the Doctor, Jared, Jaune, and Pyrrha (1969). "Or at least Hibiki and the rest of the Symphogear wielders."

Hallway…

"Kathy?" Sally asked.

The Doctor is on a monitor screen in a room at the far end, "Yet. They're coming. They're coming for you, but listen, your life could depend on this. Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck."

There are lots of screens in the room with the image of the Doctor on them, and one with him and Martha. And around the room are loads of sticky notes on the screens in the room that looks like clues from an escape room.

Bedroom…

The mobile phone by the bed rings.

"Hello?" Kathy asked.

Kitchen…

"Bit freaked. Need to talk. Making you a coffee." Sally said.

"Oh, those sticky notes." Ren said, as Nora is walking around the room. "What are those for?"

"They're like messages for a conversation." Nora said, as she is walking towards the coffee maker. "Can I?"

"No, you can't. We already know how you are with caffeine. Messages for what?"

"We've been separated from Jared, Jaune, and Pyrrha for a while."

"No." Sally said.

"You're about to." Kathy said, over the phone.

"Oh…" Nora said, when the door opens.

"Nora!" Ren said, when a man who is naked at least down to three inches below his navel appears. ���Don't look!"

"Okay. Not sure, but really, really hoping. Pants?" Larry asked.

"No." Sally said, sadly.

Kathy closes her phone, grabs her dressing gown and runs out of the bedroom, "Put them on! Put them on! I hate you! What're you thinking?"

Larry drifts away.

"Sorry. My useless brother. Sally? What's wrong? What's happened? And who are they?" Kathy asked.

Wester Drumlin…

Sally and Kathy climb the gates in daylight.

"Okay, let's investigate! You and me, girl investigators. Love it. Hey! Sparrow and Nightingale. That so works." Kathy said, happily.

"Bit ITV." Sally said.

"I know!"

Entrance hall…

"Why was it your idea to sneak off here at 2 AM?" Ren asked.

"I don't know." Nora said, following Sally and Kathy with Ren. "Ooo, let's follow them."

Drawing room…

"Why do you like sad things?" Ren asked.

"It's happy for deep people." Sally said, looking at the writing on the wall, then walks out into the conservatory to look at the garden.

Conservatory…

"Look at that thing." Nora said, holding Ren's hand. "The Weeping Angel. I think Jared called it."

"Not bad in my garden." Kathy said.

"I think it moved." Ren said, looking back at the Weeping Angel.

"It's what?"

"Since yesterday. We're sure of it. It's closer. It's got closer to the house." Sally said.

Drawing room…

"How can my name and their names be written here? How is that possible?" Sally asked.

"Ren!" Nora said, when the doorbell rings. She found something else scratched on another wallpaper. She peeled it to see the message: Call Mami Tomoe. "Why Mami?"

"Maybe she has knowledge of the future." Ren said, crossing his arms. "But she's from...oh."

"Oh?"

"Do you think he might have went to Japan?"

"Mitakihara City?"

"Yes."

Front door…

"I'm looking for Sally Sparrow." Malcolm said, when Sally opened the door with Ren and Nora behind her.

"How did you know I'd be here?" Sally asked.

"I was told to bring this letter on this date at this exact time to Sally Sparrow."

"Looks old."

"It is old. I'm sorry, do you have anything with a photograph on it, like a driving licence?" Malcolm asked, while Kathy hears a noise and investigates.

"Time travel?" Ren asked, looking back at Nora. "Why are we dealing with it again?"

"When don't we deal with time travel? When we're not at Remnant." Nora said, smiling.

"I'm sorry, I feel really stupid, but I was told to make absolutely sure. It's so hard to tell with these little photographs, isn't it?" Malcolm asked.

"Apparently." Sally said.

"So, why do we need to call Mami?" Nora asked, while the statue is inside the conservatory.

"Maybe it's for the information Jared left her." Ren said. "Or that he left behind in 1969."

"Well, that's a long story, actually." Malcolm said.

"Give me a name." Sally said.

Drawing room…

"Katherine Wainwright." Malcolm said, while the statue is behind Kathy, reaching for her. "But she specified I should tell you that prior to marriage…"

Front door…

"She was called Kathy Nightingale." Malcolm said.

"This isn't possible!" Ren said, hearing a loud noise upstairs.

"Kathy?" Sally asked.

"Kathy, yes. Katherine Costello Nightingale." Malcolm said.

"This is the first time we're meeting the Weeping Angels after all." Ren said.

"I know. But how we do we beat them?"

"He did say that they're similar to a Boo in Mario."

Drawing room…

"Kathy?" Sally asked, as the statue is outside again, hands over its eyes. Kathy gets to her feet in a field near a herd of grazing cows. "Kathy? Kathy!"

��Please, you need to take this. I promised." Malcolm said.

"Mami." Ren said, taking out his Scroll to call the magical girl. "Can you do something for me?"

"What is it?" Mami asked, her voice coming out of the Scroll.

"Jared said for us to call you. Something to do with those statues."

"Oh. You mean those Weeping Angels. He said to not blink, look away."

"What else?" Nora asked, taking out some pancakes to eat them. "Did he say something specific?"

"Wait, you said that you wanted me to do something." Mami said, her voice coming out the Scroll.

"Yes, I did. Where is Katherine Nightingale." Ren said, running out of the room with Sally and Nora.

Entrance hall...

"Who are you? Why are you here?" Sally asked.

"I made a promise." Malcolm said.

"Who to?"

"My grandmother. Katherine Costello Nightingale."

"When do you think we'll save the day?" Nora asked, as Ren ended the call with Mami.

"I don't know." Ren said, looking back at Nora. "This is the most vague Jared has ever been."

"Your grandmother?" Sally asked.

"Yes. She died twenty years ago." Malcolm said.

Sally opens the envelope. It contains old photographs of a woman, "So they're related?"

"I'm sorry?"

"My Kathy, your grandmother. They're practically identical."

"It's the same woman." Ren said, looking at Sally. "I think. But I'm not really sure."

"What do you mean that they're the same person?" Sally asked, reading the letter aloud with the photographs. "My dearest Sally Sparrow. If my grandson has done as he promises he will, then as you read these words it has been mere minutes since we last spoke. For you, Ren, and Nora. For me, it has been over sixty years. The third of the photographs is of my children. The youngest is Sally. I named her after you, of course."

"Aww, that's sweet." Nora said, happily.

"No, it's not sweet. This is sick. This is totally sick." Sally said, throwing down the photographs and letter, and runs up the staircase. "Kathy? Kathy! Kathy?"

Stairs…

"Why are we doing this?" Ren asked, as he entered a room with Nora and Sally to see three statues each hiding its eyes in different ways. "Following her."

"It's because Jared told us too." Nora said, looking down at a message written on the floor. It says:Follow Sally. And protect her. Four minds are better than two. Jared (1969). "See."

"Oh." Ren said, seeing one of the statues holding a Yale key on a chain. "A TARDIS key."

"A what key?" Sally asked, crouching to look at the statue, the one behind her reveals its eyes.

"Come on Ren, I want to go." Nora said, pulling Ren away. "We can break them later."

"Fine." Ren said, as Sally takes the key and turns. "Now I see what he means by a Boo."

"Same." Nora said, and the Weeping Angel hides its eyes again.

Sally hears the sound of the front door closes and runs downstairs with Ren and Nora, just before the statue that had the key can touch them, "No, wait! Hang on!"

Entrance hall...

Malcolm is heading down the driveway. Sally picks up the photographs and letters that he has collected and put on the bottom of the banister rail, and runs outside with the two students from Beacon Academy. The statues watch her from the windows.

Cafe…

Sally reads the rest of the letter aloud, "I suppose, unless I live to a really exceptional old age, I will be long gone as you read this. Don't feel sorry for me. I have led a good and full life. I've loved a good man and been well loved in return. You would have liked Ben. He was the very first person I met in 1920."

"I'm sorry about your friend." Ren said, looking at Sally.

"I know." Sally said, sadly. "Why are you two here?"

"A friend wanted us to help." Nora said, placing her hand on the table. "So we're helping."

"Thanks. I really appreciate it."

Cemetery…

Sally visits Ben and Kathy's grave with Ren and Nora, and lays flowers.

"To take one breath in 2007 and the next in 1920 is a strange way to start a new life, but a new life is exactly what I've always wanted." Nora said, reading the letter aloud.

"1902? You told him you were eighteen? You lying cow." Sally said, laughing a lot.

"My mum and dad are gone by your time, so really there's only Lawrence to tell. He works at the DVD store on Queen Street. I don't know what you're going to say to him, but I know you'll think of something. Just tell him I love him."

"You were right, Nora, even if I just met you and Ren." Sally said, walking away with Ren and Nora. "This is sweet. Kathy got to start her life over. And she met someone she loved."

DVD Store…

Banto's DVD Store - new, second hand and rare. A bearded man at the counter is watching a shoot out on a film on the television fastened to the wall.

"Excuse me, we're looking for Lawrence Nightingale." Sally said.

"Through the back." Banto said.

Back room…

"Hello?" Sally asked.

Ren and Nora look around to see a TV and a laptop out. The Doctor and Martha on the TV, and Jared on the laptop with Jaune and Pyrrha.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha said, on the screen.

"Sorry. I was trying to not mess up on my stance." Jaune said, on the screen.

"How about you do it somewhere else?" Jared asked, on the screen. "I'm busy."

Larry enters from even further back in the premises, "Oh. Hello. Can I help you?"

"Hi." Sally said.

"Thirty eight." The Doctor said, on the screen.

"Er, just a mo." Larry said, pausing the two playbacks. "Hang on. We've met, haven't we."

"It'll come to you." Sally said.

"Oh, my God." Larry said, and he crosses his hands in front of his groin.

"There it is."

"Sorry. Sorry again about the whole…"

"A way to make this less awkward." Nora said, eating some pancakes. "You've got a message from your sister."

"Oh! Okay. What? What is it? What's the message?" Larry asked.

"She'll be away for a while."

"Where?"

"It's something to do with her job." Ren said, leaning against the wall. "Everything's fine."

"Okay."

"And…" Sally said.

"And what?" Larry asked.

"She loves you."

"She what?"

"She said to say. She just sort of mentioned it. She loves you. There, that's nice, isn't it?"

"Is she ill?"

"So, what did Jared leave behind here?" Ren asked, walking around to see something carved into the wall. It says:Keep the TARDIS key safe. It's the key to all this. "Right."

"Where's the TARDIS?" Nora asked. "If we have the key."

"I don't know."

"Is this a trick?" Larry asked.

"No. She loves you." Sally said.

"Yeah. Yeah, people don't understand time. It's not what you think it is." The Doctor said, on the TV screen.

Larry pauses it again.

"Who is this guy?" Sally asked.

"Sorry, the pause thing keeps slipping. Stupid thing." Larry said.

"Last night at Kathy's, you had him on all those screens. That same guy. Talking about, I don't know, blinking or something."

"Yeah, the bit about the blinking's great. I was just checking to see if they were all the same."

"And there's these messages written all over this part of London." Sally said, looking over at Larry. "By another guy. For these two. He also left a message for them. Anyway, what were the same? What are those? Who are they?"

"I think Jared became an Easter egg." Nora said, smirking. "After all this time, he does something so smart. Yet so stupid at the same time."

"Like you." Ren said, rolling his eyes.

"And sending us texts like that. Couldn't he call us?"

"If he had his phone on him."

"Sorry. It's interesting, actually. They are on seventeen different DVDs. There are seventeen totally unrelated DVDs, all with them on. Always hidden away, always a secret. Not even the publishers know how he got there. I've talked to the manufacturers, right? They don't even know. They're like they're ghost DVD extras. Just shows up where they're not supposed to be. But only on those. Those seventeen." Larry said.

"Well, what do they do?" Sally asked.

"Just sits there, making random remarks. It's like we're hearing two different halves of two conversations. Me and the guys are always trying to work out the two other halves."

"When you say you and the guys, you mean the internet, don't you?"

"How'd you know?"

"Spooky, isn't it?"

"So, what are we gonna do about Jared, Jaune, and Pyrrha?" Ren asked.

"He's usually the one with a plan." Nora said, taking out more pancakes from inside her pocket.

"How did you…" Ren said, as Larry goes forward to the shop.

"Jaune! I said for you to train somewhere else!" Jared said, on the screen.

"It's not my fault that you found this crappy apartment." Jaune said, on the screen.

"Guys, guys. We can figure this out without fighting." Pyrrha said, on the screen.

"Fine."

"Fine." Jared said, looking straight ahead. "Ren, Nora, this is what…"

"Yeah, great. Thanks." Sally said, leaving the shop with Ren and Nora.

DVD store…

Banto is talking to the film, "Go to the police, you stupid woman. Why does nobody ever just go to the police?"

Police station…

"Why do we get the boring adventure?" Ren asked.

"Maybe he wants us to do whatever we want." Nora said, coming up with a theory.

"But we're following a linear path."

"You don't get it, do you? We're doing a treasure hunt."

"How is this a treasure hunt?"

"He left clues for us." Nora said, as the sergeant leaves them.

Sally turns around to see two statues on the church opposite. She blinks, and they have disappeared, "Okay, cracking up now."

"The Weeping Angels are stalking us." Nora said, and the Weeping Angels are on either side of the window she is looking out of.

"Hi. DI Billy Shipton. Wester Drumlins, that's mine. Can't talk to you now, got a thing I can't be late for, so if you could just…hello." Billy said, looking at Sally.

"Hello." Sally said.

"Eh, Marcie, can you tell them I'm going to be late for that thing?"

Underground car park…

"All of the cars?" Nora asked. "You're kidding. How did something like that happen?"

"Over the last two years, yeah. They all still have personal items in them and a couple still had the motor running." Billy said.

"So over the last two years, the owners of all of these vehicles have driven up to Wester Drumlins House, parked outside and just disappeared." Ren said. "That's sad. We don't know where they ended up."

"What's that?" Sally asked, looking at a 1960's style police box in the corner.

"Ah! The pride of the Wester Drumlins collection. We found that there, too. Somebody's idea of a joke, I suppose." Billy said, happily.

"But what is it? What's a police box?"

"Well, it's a special kind of phone box for policemen. They used to have them all over. But this isn't a real one. The phone's just a dummy, and the windows are the wrong size. We can't even get in it. Ordinary Yale lock, but nothing fits. But that's not the big question. See, you're missing the big question."

"So, what will we do now?" Nora asked, walking towards Ren. "Can we just leave them?"

"No." Ren said. "We can't."

"Why not?"

"Because Jared said not to."

"Why do we have to follow him?"

"Since he's the one who lets us travel wherever, whenever we want."

"Fair point."

"Because life is short and you are hot. Drink?" Billy asked.

"No." Sally said.

"Ever?"

"Maybe."

"Phone number?"

"Moving kinda fast, DI Shipton."

"Billy. I'm off duty."

"Aren't you just…" Sally said, writing in a notebook.

"Is that your phone number?" Billy asked.

"Just my phone number. Not a promise. Not a guarantee. Not an IOU. Just a phone number."

"And that's Sally?"

"Sally Shipton. Sparrow! Sally Sparrow. I'm going now. Come on Ren, Nora. Don't look at me." Sally said, walking away with Ren and Nora.

Ren looked down at the ground and noticed another message from 1969 by Jared. It says: Call Kazuto Kirigaya or Asuna Yuuki if things go bad.

"Of course he wants us to call them." Ren said, frowning.

"But isn't Kirito stuck in a virtual world?" Nora asked.

"He is. Alicization is happening. Or it will happen. Death Gun and the Laughing Coffin is happening right now."

"Yeah. What can we do to help him?"

"Nothing. He is on his own. With Eugeo and Alice by his side."

"Don't look at me!" Sally said, angrily.

"Definitely going to phone you, gorgeous girl!" Billy said, happily.

"You definitely better!" Sally said, leaving the parking lot with Ren and Nora.

There are four angel statues around the Tardis. One has its hand up to the lock. He walks around, looking at them, then blinks.

Street…

"So, what do we do now?" Nora asked.

"I don't know." Ren said, crossing the street from the police station with Sally and Nora.

"This is usually the part of the adventure when Jared gives us more hints." Nora said, while Sally stops in the middle of the street.

"The key is the thing." Sally said, taking the Yale key from her coat pocket.

"Ordinary Yale lock, but nothing fits." Ren said, recalling what Billy said. "Let's go."

Sally, Ren, and Nora run back to the car park, but the Tardis, Billy and the statues are gone.

Alleyway…

Billy slides down a wall.

"Hello." Jaune said, looking down at Billy. "Welcome to our little group."

"Where am I?" Billy asked.

"You're in the year 1969. You have a lot to look forward to. Such as the moon landing." Jared said, drinking a cup of tea.

"Oh, the moon landing's brilliant. We went four times, back when we had transport." Martha said, annoyed.

"Working on it." The Doctor said.

"How did I get here?" Billy asked.

"I think you got here the same way as us." Pyrrha said, holding Jaune's hand. "By the touch of a Weeping Angel. It might be the same one. Since you ended up in the same year as us. 2007 or 2008 to 1969."

"No, no. No, no, no, don't get up. Time travel without a capsule. Nasty. Catch your breath. Don't go swimming for half an hour." The Doctor said, looking at Billy.

"I don't. I can't." Billy said.

"Fascinating race, the Weeping Angels. The only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely. No mess, no fuss, they just zap you into the past and let you live to death. The rest of your life used up and blown away in the blink of an eye. You die in the past, and in the present they consume the energy of all the days you might have had. All your stolen moments. They're creatures of the abstract. They live off potential energy."

"What in God's name are you talking about?"

"Trust me. Just nod when he stops for breath." Martha said.

"Tracked you down with this. This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at thirty paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow." The Doctor said, taking out a device.

"I don't understand. Where am I?" Billy asked.

"1969, like they say." Martha said.

"Normally, I'd offer you a lift home, the same applies to Jared, but somebody nicked our motors. So I need you to take a message to Sally Sparrow. And I'm sorry, Billy. I am very, very sorry. It's going to take you a while." The Doctor said.

Underground car park...

Sally's mobile rings, "Hello? Billy, where are you? Where?"

Geriatric ward…

Just one bed is occupied, by the window.

"Billy?" Sally asked.

"So, do you think Kirito will be okay?" Nora asked, as the old man in the bed wakes up.

"It was raining when we met." Billy said.

"It's the same rain." Sally said, sadly.

"After that. No. Asuna and him will do so much in the Underworld. It's kinda sad." Ren said, walking over to Nora. "They even got older while in there. And then some nonsense with Alice happened."

"Wait. Are you spoiling what happens in the anime?" Nora asked.

"No. Because the light novels already came out. And that war. I get why Kirito and Asuna wanted their memories suppressed of that time."

"So, you think the Kirito and Asuna we'll encounter again…"

"Yeah. It'll be the ones after the Underworld. One where it was just a dream."

"Oh."

A little later, Sally looks at Billy's wedding photograph with Ren and Nora.

"She looks nice." Sally said, happily.

"Her name was Sally, too." Billy said, smiling.

"Sally Shipton."

"Sally Shipton. I often thought about looking for you before tonight, but apparently it would've torn a hole in the fabric of space and time, and destroyed two thirds of the universe. Also, I'd lost my hair."

"Aww, it's okay." Nora said, feeling bad for Billy. "At least you lived a long life."

"Yeah. I like your fighting spirit, Nora Valkyrie."

"Thank you."

"Two thirds of the universe. Where'd you get that from?" Sally asked.

"There are men in 1969. One of them sent me with a message for you. And two more sent a message for you two." Billy said.

��Who sent a message to me?" Sally asked.

"The Doctor."

"And what was the message?"

"Just this. Look at the list."

"What does that mean? Is that it? Look at the list?"

"And what about us?" Ren asked. "Anything from Jared? From Jaune?"

"Jared said to watch all four, at all costs." Billy said. "And Jaune said that he and Pyrrha are okay."

"That's good to know." Nora said, smirking.

"The Doctor and Jared said you'd have it by now. A list of seventeen DVDs. I didn't stay a policeman back then. Got into publishing. Then video publishing. Then DVDs, of course." Billy said.

"You put the Easter Eggs on." Sally said, her eyes widening.

"Have you noticed what all seventeen DVDs have in common yet? I suppose it's hard for you, in a way."

"How could the Doctor and Jared have even known we had a list? We only just got this."

"I asked them how, but they said they couldn't tell me. They said you'd understand it one day, but that I never would."

"Soon as we understand it, we'll come and tell you."

"No, gorgeous girl, you and your friends can't. There's only tonight. They told me all those years ago that we'll only meet again this one time. On the night I die." Billy said.

"Oh, Billy." Sally said, frowning.

"It's kept me going. I'm an old, sick man. But I've had something to look forward to. Ah, life is long, and you are hot. Oh, look at my hands. They're old man's hands. How did that happen?"

"We'll stay. All of us. We're going to stay with you, okay?"

"Thank you, Sally Sparrow. I have till the rain stops."

Later, the rain has stopped and the bed is empty. Sally leaves the hospital with Ren and Nora.

Back room…

Larry answers the phone, "Banto's."

"They're mine." Sally said, her voice over the phone.

"What?" Larry asked.

Street...

"The DVDs on the list. The seventeen DVDs. What they've got in common is me. They're all the DVDs I own. The Doctor Easter Egg was intended for me and the Jared Easter Egg was intended for Ren and Nora." Sally said.

Back room…

"You've only got seventeen DVDs?" Larry asked.

Street…

"Finally we get to get this over with." Nora said, annoyed.

"It's not that bad." Ren said, looking at Nora.

"We've got most of it done, didn't we?"

Back room...

"Where?" Larry asked.

"Wester Drumlins." Sally said, her voice over the phone.

Entrance hall...

Sally lets Larry into the house.

"You live in Scooby Doo's house." Larry said.

"For God's sake, I don't live here." Sally said.

Drawing room…

Larry puts a DVD into his portable player, "Okay, this is the one with the clearest sound. Slightly better picture quality on this one, but I don't know…"

An email with a link appeared on Ren's Scroll when the huntsman took out the device, and he loaded up the video.

"Hi." Ren said, looking at the video.

"Hello again!" Pyrrha said, on the screen.

"How are you guys?" Nora asked.

"We can't really hear you." Pyrrha said, leaving the screen. "This is one way. But we know exactly what you're gonna say."

"How do you know what the two of us are gonna say?"

"I've got a finished transcript." Jared said, appearing on the screen. "It's on my phone."

"Okay, so you're having a finished transcript of what we're gonna say." Ren said.

"Yeah. I do."

"Jaune!" Pyrrha said, on the screen.

"Sorry. I was trying to not mess up on my stance." Jaune said, on the screen.

"How about you do it somewhere else?" Jared asked, on the screen. "I'm busy."

"He can hear us. Oh, my God, you can really hear us? And Jared can hear Ren and Nora?" Sally asked.

"Of course the Doctor can't hear us. Look, I've got a transcript. See? Everything he says. Yup, that's me. Yes, I do. Yup, and this. Next it's…" Larry said.

"Are you going to read out the whole thing?" Larry asked, along with the Doctor and Jared on the two separate conversations.

"Sorry."

"Who are you?" Sally asked.

"I'm a time traveller. Or I was. I'm stuck in 1969." The Doctor said, on screen.

"We're stuck. All of space and time, he promised all of us. Now Jared and I got jobs in a shop. We've got to support the Doctor, Jaune, and Pyrrha!" Martha said, on screen.

"Martha."

"Sorry."

"Jaune! I said for you to train somewhere else!" Jared said, on the screen.

"It's not my fault that you found this crappy apartment." Jaune said, on the screen.

"Guys, guys. We can figure this out without fighting." Pyrrha said, on the screen.

"Fine."

"Fine." Jared said, looking straight ahead. "Ren, Nora, this is what…"

"Wait, you're in the same room as them." Ren said.

"Yeah. I am."

"Why didn't you go into another room?" Nora asked.

"That's because we couldn't afford it." Pyrrha said, on screen.

"Really. We couldn't." Jaune said, on screen.

"Five of us in a house." Jared said, on screen. "It's pretty hard. Especially in 1969."

"Complicated." The Doctor said, on screen.

"Tell me." Sally said.

"Very complicated."

"I'm clever and I'm listening. And don't patronise me because people have died, and I'm not happy. Tell me."

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."

"Yeah, I've seen this bit before. You said that sentence got away from you."

"It got away from me, yeah."

"Next thing you're going to say is, well I can hear you."

"Well, I can hear you."

"So, you left all of these clues for us." Ren said.

"I did." Jared said, on the screen. "Or I will."

"Why did you go through all the trouble in doing so?"

"I didn't leave you anything."

"You obviously did." Nora said. "Maybe it was Jaune and Pyrrha. They were the only ones who didn't get jobs."

"The Doctor didn't get a job too." Jaune said, on screen.

"How about the time we did duels in front of Big Ben?" Pyrrha asked, on screen.

"One. That was a show. Two. We embarrassed ourselves."

"It wasn't that bad."

"So who left the messages for us?" Ren asked.

"I really think I did. But maybe I did it after this." Jared said, on screen. "With the help of Homura."

"That would possibly explain why there was a massive time gap between 42 and the Family of Blood." Ren said, his eyes widening. "When you skipped out on us during the fight between Yang and Mercury."

"True. I did feel out of place."

"Yeah. Wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey." The Doctor said, on screen.

"Never mind that. You can do shorthand?" Sally asked.

"So?" Larry asked.

"What matters is, we can communicate. We have got big problems now. They have taken the blue box, haven't they? The angels have the phone box." The Doctor said, on screen.

"The angels have the phone box. That's my favourite, I've got it on a t-shirt."

"What do you mean, angels? You mean those statue things?" Sally asked.

"They're creatures from another world." Jared said, appearing on the Doctor's screen.

"But they're just statues."

"They're only statues when you see them."

"What does that mean?"

"The lonely assassins, they used to be called. No one quite knows where they came from, but they're as old as the universe, or very nearly, and they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defence system ever evolved. They are quantum-locked. They don't exist when they're being observed. The moment they are seen by any other living creature, they freeze into rock. No choice. It's a fact of their biology. In the sight of any living thing, they literally turn to stone. And you can't kill a stone. Of course, a stone can't kill you either. But then you turn your head away, then you blink, and oh yes it can." The Doctor said, on the screen when Jared re-appeared on his screen.

"Don't take your eyes off that." Sally said, and there is an Angel close by.

"That's why they cover their eyes. They're not weeping. They can't risk looking at each other. Their greatest asset is their greatest curse. They can never be seen. The loneliest creatures in the universe. And I'm sorry. I am very, very sorry. It's up to you now."

"What am I supposed to do?"

"The blue box, it's my time machine. There is a world of time energy in there they could feast on forever, but the damage they could do could switch off the sun. You have got to send it back to me."

"How? How?"

"And that's it, I'm afraid. There's no more from you on the transcript, that's the last I've got."

"And that's the last I've got of Ren and Nora's on my iPad!" Jared said, on his screen.

"Okay, so Ren and Nora have gotten quiet but why?" The Doctor asked, on the screen. "Sally Sparrow, I don't know what stopped you talking, but I can guess. They're coming. The angels are coming for you. But listen, your life could depend on this. Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck."

The pictures on both screens freeze.

"Damn." Ren said, annoyed.

"Just when I thought we helped them." Nora said, sadly.

"When do you think we'll see them again?"

"See who?" Ren asked, while the Angel is towering over the four them, reaching out, mouth wide open.

"Crap." Nora said, as they four back away.

"Keep looking at it. Keep looking at it." Sally said.

"There's just one, right, there's just this one. We're okay if we just keep staring at this one statue. Everything's going to be fine." Larry said.

"Um, actually. There are three more roaming around here." Ren said, frowning.

"Three?"

"I think they were upstairs." Nora said, sadly. "They're moving."

"Moving where? Three of them? Moving where?" Larry asked.

"Nora, we're going to look around. We're going to check." Sally said.

"Right." Nora said, happily. "Nice plan."

"Larry, you and Ren keep looking at this one. Don't blink. Remember what he said. Don't even blink." Sally said, leaving the room with Nora.

"Nora, this is really stupid." Ren said, staring at the Weeping Angel with Larry.

"I know." Nora said, as she guided Ren backwards towards the doorway and Sally did the same with Larry. "But we can't get sent back in time."

"Okay. The four of us can't get to the front door without taking our eyes off that thing, so you and Ren stay here." Sally said.

"What?" Larry asked.

"We'll be just round the corner. You stay here." Sally said, running around the floor with Nora.

"Crap. They locked the front door. They locked us in." Nora said, looking back at Sally. "And I don't want to break this with my hammer!"

"Why?" Larry asked.

"I've got something they want." Sally said.

"What?"

"The key. I took it last time I was here with Ren and Nora. They followed me to get it back. We led them to the blue box. Now they've got that."

"Well, give them the key."

"Nora, let's going check the back door. Both of you wait here." Sally said, running towards the door with Nora.

"Give them the key! Give them what they want! Sally, Nora, no. What if they come behind us?" Larry asked.

"Hang on!"

"What's going on out there?" Ren asked, still staring at the Weeping Angel.

"I don't know." Nora said, taking out her Magnhild. "Maybe I should break our way out of here."

Larry looks behind him briefly to check where the doorway is, with Ren turning his back too towards the doorway to check on Nora, and when they turn back the Angel is inches from their faces, "Sally! Sally!"

"No. You shouldn't..." Ren said, sadly. "...have done that too."

"It won't open!" Sally said, annoyed.

"Sally, Nora, please, we can't do this! Sally, Nora, hurry up! Where are you?" Larry asked, backing away with Ren through the doorway.

"Larry? They've blocked off the back door, but there's a cellar."

"It might be a way out!" Nora said, happily.

"You're right. It might be a delivery hatch or something." Sally said.

"Coming! We can't stay here." Larry said, backing away around the corner with Ren.

Cellar...

The Tardis is here, with its three guardian Angels.

"Okay, boys, I know how this works. You can't move so long as I can see you. Whole world in the box, the Doctor says. Hope he's not lying, because I don't see how else we're getting out." Sally said.

"Come on, let's find a way out of here." Ren said, running past Nora and Sally with Larry. "We can't stay here."

"Nope." Nora said, while the Angel from upstairs is now behind them. "And there's the fourth Weeping Angel."

"Why's it pointing at the light?" Larry asked, as the light bulb flickers as they go to the Tardis, back to back.

"Crap, it's turning out the lights." Ren said, frowning.

"Quickly!"

"I can't find the lock!" Sally said, looking around the TARDIS door.

"Sally, hurry up! Get it open! They're getting closer. Sally, come on!" Larry said, angrily.

"We don't have much time." Nora said, in the flickering light. "Come on!"

"Yeah." Ren said, and the snarling Angels are getting nearer.

"It won't turn!" Sally said.

"Sally!" Larry said.

Tardis…

An image appears on an upper catwalk.

"This is security protocol seven one two. This time capsule has detected the presence of an authorised control disc, valid one journey." The Doctor said, as a hologram.

"Finally, we're safe and sound in here." Ren said, grabbing onto the TARDIS console.

"Yup." Nora said, while Larry takes out the DVD case he put in his pocket and opens it. The DVD glows. "Jaune and Pyrrha needs us."

"Please insert the disc and prepare for departure." The Doctor said, as a hologram.

"Looks like a DVD player. There's a slot." Sally said, when the Angels attack the Tardis.

"They're trying to get in!" Nora said, also grabbing onto the TARDIS console.

"Well, hurry up then!" Sally said, looking back at Larry.

"Hang on, Nora." Ren said, as the Tardis rocks to and fro, Larry gets the DVD into the slot.

"I am." Nora said, and the time rotor starts up.

"What's happening?" Larry asked.

Just the Tardis itself dematerialises.

"Oh, my God, they're leaving us behind. Doctor, Ren, Nora, no! You can't!" Sally said, terrified.

Sally and Larry can see the Angels that are around the Tardis, arms and mouths wide and not covering their eyes.

"Doctor!" Sally said, as the Tardis is gone, along with Ren and Nora. "Look at them! Quick, look at them!"

"I don't think we need to. He tricked them, The Doctor tricked them. They're looking at each other. They're never going to move again." Larry said.

Taxi #1…

"You barely survived that alien that said 'Burn with me.'" Pyrrha said, looking at Jared.

"I know. It was the other day." Jared said, drinking a cup of tea. "I didn't like it though."

"So, how about the Vytal Tournament?" Jaune asked. "Are we ever gonna get back to that?"

"We will. Someday. I just…"

"You just...what."

"I don't want to see Team JNPR broken up."

"Spoilers." Pyrrha said, frowning.

"Right. I shouldn't have said that."

"But we're friends. Family."

Taxi #2…

"Nora, no more coffee!" Ren said, looking at Nora drink Black Coffee from Starbucks. "Why did I ever bother on bringing you here?"

"You didn't." Nora said. "Jared did."

"So, bringing you to a city filled with coffee shops. That was a bad idea. We shouldn't have stopped in front of a Starbucks."

"One cup! I only wanted one."

London street...

The Doctor, Jared, Martha, and Team JNPR stopped the taxis in front of the DVD store. The seven get out and start to go down the street. Sally runs outside.

Outside the DVD store…

"Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!" Sally said, happily.

"You know, bringing the Holy Quintet makes a lot more sense." Jaune said, looking back at Jared.

"I know. But Madoka Kaname has a lot on her plate as the Law of Cycles." Jared said, smiling. "It's not like I can rely on her all the time."

Martha is carrying a quiver of arrows, and the Doctor has a long bow.

"While you technically rely on super powered humans." Ren said, crossing his arms. "Like us, Team RWBY, the Holy Quintet and the Symphogear Wielders."

"Look, sorry, we've got complex lives. Things don't always happen to us in quite the right order. Gets a bit confusing at times, especially at weddings. I'm rubbish at weddings, especially my own." The Doctor said.

"Oh, my God, of course. You're time travellers. It hasn't happened to you and Jared yet. None of it. It's still in your future." Sally said, smiling.

"Um, what hasn't happened yet?" Jared asked, still drinking his cup of tea. "And I rely on others since I lost my Aura."

"Wait, how did you lose it?" Jaune asked. "How did you lose your Aura?"

"It was me. Oh, for God's sake, it was me all along. Both of you got it all from me." Sally said, her eyes widening.

"Got what?" The Doctor asked.

"Okay, listen. One day you're going to get stuck in 1969. Make sure you've got this with you. You're going to need it." Sally said, handing her file of documents to the Doctor.

"Doctor!" Martha said, angrily. "Jared!"

"Team JNPR, I think we should be going." Jared said, looking back at his friends from Beacon. "We should be taking care of it."

��Yeah!" Nora said, smirking.

"How do we do that?" Ren asked.

"We'll figure something out." Pyrrha said.

"Of course we will." Jaune said.

Larry returns with the milk. Sally takes his hand, "Goodbye, Doctor, Jared."

Sally and Larry go back into the DVD store, now retitled Sparrow and Nightingale, Antiquarian Books and Rare DVDs.

"Blink." Jared said, looking over at a building to see a grotesque sitting on the roof. "One of the adventures I'm not looking forward to. Hell, I'm not looking forward to the Family of Blood."

"Don't blink." The Doctor said, on screen.

"If I could meet Hibiki Tachibana someday." Jared said, holding Nora's hand. "That would be…"

Montage of public statuary.

"Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink. Good luck." The Doctor said, on screen.