NEW INTRODUCTION.
Hi! 2018 me here to say that this has been rewritten from it's original version back in 2015. A lot of lines have been redone in places as they were ripped straight from the episode without any sort of Tennant changes. This will be done for this episode and the next two before we get into the new episodes for this fanfic.

Thank you,
The Phantom Rising – January 25th, 2018

A/N - So, this takes place in an alternative universe where the Tenth incarnation never regenerated in The End of Time and has a final season with Amy/Amelia Pond.

BUT THE REGENERATION SEQUENCE!

Oh and this episode is titled by the original title that Steven Moffat was going to call The Eleventh Hour until some arse told him that the Doctor never returned from anything before this episode. Unless you really want me to call this episode ~ The Tenth Hour.

The Doctor's Return - Part One

In the night.

A pinwheel rattles in the overgrown garden of an old house. A little red-haired Scottish girl is saying her prayers.

"Dear Santa. Thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you, but honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know it's not, because at night there's voices, so please, please, could you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman. Or a..."

She hears the Tardis materializing outside, then a crash.

"Back in a moment." The little girl says. She grabs a torch and looks outside. The Tardis has crash-landed on the garden shed. "Thank you, Santa."

-!-

The Doctor sits on the edge of the Tardis.

"Hello! Sorry that I've broke your shed. It's all my fault. I wanted to find someone but I landed here instead." The Doctor introduces himself.

"Are you okay?" The little girl asks him as she is pointing to the scars that he gathered from the Naismith Mansion.

"Give me a second." The Doctor tells her as he touches his face with regeneration energy that sparkles, his face becomes clean again.

"Who are you?" The little girl inquires.

"The Doctor. Now I must come back to my ti- police box." The Doctor tells her. "Do you mind asking me who you are?"

"Amelia Pond and I've got a problem about a crack in my wall." The little girl complains.

"Does it scare you?" The Doctor asks her.

"Yes." Amelia agrees.

"Well then, no time to lose, Allonsy! That's French." The Doctor says as he rushes into the house and into the bedroom with the little girl trying to keep up with him.

-!-

The crack is about three to four feet long, and slightly w shaped.

"You've had some cowboys breaking in here. Not actual cowboys, though that can happen." The Doctor comments.

"I used to hate apples, so my mum put faces on them." Amelia tells him about apples as she gives him an apple with a smiley face cut into it.

"Love an apple, hate pears however. The wall is solid and the crack doesn't go all the way through it. So! Here's a thing. Where's the wind blowing in from?" The Doctor explains before he scans it with the sonic screwdriver. "Do you want to know what the crack is?"

"What?" Amelia inquires.

"Something colossal on the other side, but if you knocked this wall down, the crack would stay put, because the crack isn't in the wall." The Doctor explains her inquiry.

"Where is it then?" Amelia asks.

"Try and think of somewhere and then multiply by a million, that's where it is. It can leave stuff in and out, do you hear someone on the other side?" The Doctor tells her where the crack has gone.

"A voice. Yes." Amelia agrees as there is a vague growling from somewhere. The Doctor empties Amelia's night-time glass of water and uses it to listen to the crack.

"Prisoner Zero has escaped."

"Prisoner Zero? He must have been a prisoner on the other side of this crack and Prisoner Zero has escaped. It means that the wall... is a breach that is a prison that is closed and that's the only way to close the breach the whole way or.. I don't want to ruin that for you." The Doctor explains.

"Prisoner Zero has escaped. That's what I heard. What does it mean?" Amelia still asks about the Prisoner Zero as the Doctor takes little Amelia's hand and aims the sonic screwdriver at the crack. It widens, flooding the bedroom with bright light.

"Prisoner Zero has escaped. Prisoner Zero has escaped."

"Hello? Show yourself!" The Doctor asks the Atraxi as it is a giant blue eye looks at them through the crack. A bolt of light goes to the Doctor, and he doubles over, then the crack closes again. "Well… that was something, but it's kaput."

"What's that thing? Was that Prisoner Zero?" Amelia inquires.

"Hmm… I don't think so, Amelia. I think he might be a governor or something… but he's left me something on the psychic paper. Takes a lovely little message." The Doctor explains to Amelia as he reads the message. "Prisoner Zero has escaped. But why tell us? Unless it's so important to remind us."

"Unless what?" Amelia asks him.

"Unless Prisoner Zero escaped through here. No, he can't have." The Doctor realises as he rushes out to the hallway. There is a door across the way and two at the far end where the staircase goes down again. "But there's something I'm missing and I can't quite…"

The Tardis Cloister Bell tolls.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!" The Doctor shouts. "Shouldn't leave the engines overheating!"

"But it's just a box. How can a box have engines?" Amelia asks him.

"Amelia, it's not a box. To be frank, it's actually a big time machine." The Doctor tells her.

"What, a real one? You've got a real-time machine?" Amelia inquires.

"Well, yeah… but not for much longer if I can't get her to cool down! Five minutes will do the job." The Doctor explains.

"Can I come?" Amelia asks.

"Well, sorry… It's not safe for you. When I've fixed it… yeah, sure. But I'll come back." The Doctor tells her.

"People always say that." Amelia tells him.

"I know Amelia. But seriously… I will come back, but… before then." The Doctor promises her as he jumps down into the Tardis. "All-onsy!"

The doors close and the Tardis dematerialises. Amelia runs back to her room, gets a suitcase from underneath her bed and packs. The door across from hers is the bathroom. She doesn't notice that one of the doors at the end is now open. Dressed in duffel coat and wooly hat, Amelia sits on her suitcase in the garden and waits.

12 YEARS LATER...

When the Tardis finally materialises, still steaming, it is day and Amelia is not there. The Doctor stumbles out.

"Amelia! Amelia Pond! I know where it is… I think I've worked it out." The Doctor tries to tell her as he runs upstairs. "Amelia? C'mon… where are you?"

He runs up to her bedroom door as a floorboard creaks behind him. He turns and gets knocked out by a cricket bat.

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." The young lady named Amy explains to the person on her radio.

"Cricket bat. I'm getting cricket bat. And serious dated memories of playing the Gallifrey cricket team." The Doctor mummers to himself.

"You were breaking and entering." Amy reminds him as the Doctor is handcuffed to the radiator.

"Well, I wasn't. Amelia knows me. She must have…" The Doctor tells her.

"Do you want to shut up now? I've got back up on the way." Amy says.

"Are you police? Because I met some police before and they weren't even human." The Doctor says.

"Yes, I am part of the police and you're breaking and entering. You see how this works?" Amy asks.

"I think… sometimes I get mixed up. Where's Amelia Pond?" The Doctor inquires.

"Amelia Pond?" Amy remembers.

"Yeah, Amelia. She was the little red-head Scottish girl. Where is she? I promised her that five minutes but the engines needed more time to cool down. I suppose I must have gone a bit far. Has something happened to her?" The Doctor asks about Amelia.

"Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time." Amy pronounces to him.

"No… how long?" The Doctor inquires.

"Six months." Amy lies to her.

"Six months? This certainly doesn't look like six months." The Doctor asks properly what happened.

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

"You, whoever you are. Do you know the person who owns the house?" The Doctor orders.

"Yes, 'cause I live here." Amy says.

"But you're the police... Shouldn't you be out and about?" The Doctor reminds her.

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

"No no… Good and sturdy place, but I wanna ask a question for you. How many rooms?" The Doctor questions her.

"I'm sorry, what?"

"On this floor. How many rooms on this floor? Count them for me now." The Doctor says as he orders her to count.

"Why?"

"Because hopefully I'll be right with this." He promises to her.

"Five. One, two, three, four, five." Amy counts them.

"Six." The Doctor corrects her.

"Six?" Amy asks why he corrected her.

"One extra one, in the place where you never want to look for it." The Doctor says.

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

"Lucky little perception filter, missed it the last time I was here. Amelia distracted me." The Doctor explains.

"But that's a whole room. That's a whole room I've never even noticed." Amy says.

"It's the filter. Stops you from noticing the whole room… Can you get me out of these cuffs please?" The Doctor continues to explain.

"I don't have the key. I lost it." Amy says.

"I think there might be something behind the door, don't go in..." The Doctor warns her as Amy goes inside the mystery room. "By the way, is there something in there like silver and blue at the end?"

"There's nothing here." Amy tells him.

"Yeah, because something's stopped you from seeing the room. Get out of there." The Doctor asks about the room.

"Silver, blue at the end?" Amy asks about the colour.

"Yeah... that's my screwdriver." The Doctor says.

"It's here." Amy tells him.

"Must have rolled under after you knocked me out." The Doctor tells her.

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

"What? Get out of there!" The Doctor shouts as Amy picks up the screwdriver, which is nearly stuck to the table with snake-like with very long sharp teeth slithers down behind Amy. "What's happening in there?"

"There's nothing here, but..." Amy says.

"Try where you don't want to look." The Doctor reminds her.

"What is it?" Amy asks him.

"Something, can't figure out yet. But it will KILL you." The Doctor tells her as Amy turns and finally stares it in the face. She screams. Amy runs to the Doctor.

"Give me here." The Doctor says as he grabs the sonic screwdriver and locks the door, then tries to free himself. "What's the alien done to you?"

"Will that door hold it?" Amy asks.

"I'm sure because it's an interdimensional multiform from outer space. They're all terrified of wood. I wish..." The Doctor explains as there is a bright light in the room.

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

"Don't get involved anymore with this and run. I'm sure with the back up coming…" The Doctor tells her.

"There is no back up." Amy reveals.

"I did see you broadcast yourself on the radio." The Doctor reminds Amy.

"I was pretending. It's a pretend radio." Amy continues to reveal to him.

"How? You're part of the police!" The Doctor says.

"I'm a kissogram!" Amy corrects him as she takes off her cap and her long red hair falls down. The door falls down to reveal a workman in overalls and toolbelt, with a black dog, "But it's just..."

"No, you might not notice it, but I do. It's the faces." The Doctor tells her as the man barks.

"What? I'm sorry, but what?" Amy disagrees.

"If you carefully look at it, 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's the original person?." The Doctor explains what it really is. The man in the corridor opens his mouth to reveal the long needle-like teeth. "Stay there. She's called for back-up, so we're fine."

"I didn't send for back-up!" Amy reminds her.

"Thanks for ruining my plan. Well, we don't have any back up, but we're not going to kill you. I promise." The Doctor warns him.

"Attention, Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded. Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded."

"What's that?" Amy asks.

"Err... backup? I think." The Doctor continues to warn him.

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

"Oh. Right, we'll get incinerated from our back-up. But still… we're safe for the moment." The Doctor comments.

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

The Doctor struggles with the sonic screwdriver.

"Come on, work, work, work, come on." The Doctor complains.

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

The Doctor finally frees himself from the handcuffs.

"Ha! Run!" The Doctor shouts as he runs downstairs and outside with Amy.

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

"Kissogram, what's that then?" The Doctor asks her. "And why would you want to dress up as a policewoman?"

"You broke into my house. It was this or a French maid. What's going on? Tell me. Tell me!" Amy explains to him before requesting his help.

"Basically, an alien is in your house because my ship arrived late and I'm looking for a little girl called Amelia Pond, Any more questions?" The Doctor explains to her to keep her up.

"Yes."

"Me too. No, no, no, no! Don't do that, not now! It's not letting me in for some reason!" The Doctor complains.

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

"Come on." Amy asks.

"I've just realised something, that shed was destroyed the last time I was here. It looks too old to be built six months ago." The Doctor realises.

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

"It's ten years old at least. Actually, twelve years. I'm not six months late, I'm twelve years late." The Doctor examines the new shed as he licks it. "Now, why did you say six months?"

"We've got to go." Amy tells him.

"This matters right now. This is important. Now, why did you say six months?" The Doctor inquires.

"Why did you say five minutes!" Amy shouts.

"What? What? What?" The Doctor asks her.

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

The Doctor and Amy walk along the village lane.

"You're Amelia Pond." The Doctor asks to confirm.

"And you're late." Amy comments.

"Amelia Pond. That lovely Scottish girl." The Doctor remembers.

"I'm Amelia and you're late." Amy repeats.

"What happened to you?" The Doctor asks her.

"Twelve years." Amy counts the years.

"And then you hit me with a cricket bat!" The Doctor says.

"Twelve years and four psychiatrists." Amy tells him.

"Four of them?" The Doctor asks about the psychiatrists.

"I kept biting them." Amy tells him. "They said you weren't real."

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

It is coming from the Ice cream van speakers.

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

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

"Did you put that message on?" The Doctor inquires.

"It's supposed to be Claire De Lune." The ice-cream man tells the Doctor as the message is also on the radio. It is also on a jogger's iPod and a woman's mobile phone.

"Doctor, what's happening?" Amy inquires.

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

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."

"Hello there. I'm John Smith, me and my associate are doing interviews with people in homes." The Doctor tells the elderly lady, whose name is Mrs Angelo.

"I was just about to phone. It's on every channel. Oh, hello, Amy dear. Are you a policewoman now?" Mrs Angelo says.

"Well, sometimes." Amy tells her.

"I thought you were a nurse." Mrs Angelo says.

"I can be a nurse." Amy lies.

"Or actually a nun?" Mrs Angelo asks her.

"I dabble." Amy reveals to her.

"Amy, who is your friend?" Mrs Angelo inquires.

"Amy? Nice name. Amelia fits better though." The Doctor asks her.

"Yeah? Now I'm Amy." Amy reminds him.

"Amelia Pond was a great name. Sounded brilliant." The Doctor reminds her.

"Bit fairy tale." Amy says.

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

"Possibly, I've been around other places and what's a kissogram?" The Doctor inquires.

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

"To me, Amy. You were a little girl only five minutes ago. Now you're a kissogram." The Doctor complains.

"You're worse than my aunt." Amy complains to him as the Doctor speaks to Mrs Angelo rather than Amy.

"I don't have an aunt, I think. Usually I'm worse than everyone's aunt. Sorry, forgot to introduce myself – I'm also known as the Doctor." The Doctor introduces himself.

"Repetez. Le Prisonnier. Zero wird der menschliche."

"So… it's everywhere. Well… there goes ITV for a while." The Doctor explains as the Doctor looks out of the window.

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

"Okay. You see about a planet this size, it has two poles, your basic molten core? They're going to need a forty percent fission blast." The Doctor explains what they are going to do as a young man comes in and the Doctor speaks to him. "But they'll have to power up first, won't they? So I'd say 20 minutes."

"Twenty minutes to what?" Amy asks.

"Are you the Doctor?" Jeff inquires.

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

"Shut up." Amy silently complains.

"Cartoons?" The Doctor inquires. "I hope they were good."

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

"Jeff, shut up. Twenty minutes to what?" Amy asks about the time limit.

"The human residence will be incinerated. Repeat."

"When they meant the human residence, they meant the whole planet." The Doctor says to her.

"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." The Doctor tells them.

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

The Doctor and Amy walk down the middle of the road.

"Sorry to ask, where am I? Haven't been here before." The Doctor asks Amy.

"Leadworth." Amy names it..

"Is this it? A bit small." He inquires.

"This is it." Amy says.

"What about airports?"

"No."

"What's the nearest city?"

"Gloucester. Half an hour by car." Amy says.

"Unfortunately, half an hour's past our time limit." The Doctor finally stops asking. "Well, that's good. Brilliant, that is. Twenty minutes to save the world and there's a post office, now shut. What is that?" The Doctor complains about the town.

"It's a duck pond." Amy tells him.

"Where's the ducks?" The Doctor inquires.

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

"So, why do you call it a duck pond then?" The Doctor asks her.

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

"Yes. It shows that this town is wrong." The Doctor explains as a black disc covers the sun, like a total eclipse.

"So what's wrong with the sun?" Amy inquires

"Force field. They've shut us from the other parts of the world." The Doctor explains the sun to her.

"This isn't real, is it? This is some kind of big wind up." Amy says.

"Amy, I wouldn't wind you up." The Doctor tells her.

"You told me you had a time machine." Amy says.

"I do, you did believe what I said." The Doctor agrees with that.

"Then I grew up." Amy tells him.

"Everyone has to. No wait, I think I saw something and you've made me miss it." The Doctor says as people all over the village green taking photographs of the sun, except for Rory and Prisoner Zero. "Twenty minutes. I can do it. Twenty minutes, the planet burns."

"No." Amy disagrees.

"I'm sorry?" The Doctor asks.

"No!" Amy shouts at him.

"Amy, no, no, what are you doing?" The Doctor asks her as Amy drags the Doctor 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 inquires.

"I've already told you, I am the Doctor." The Doctor says.

"No, really. Who are you?" Amy asks who he REALLY is.

"Amy, twenty minutes. We don't have time for this." The Doctor reminds her.

"Well, better talk quickly, then." Amy reminds him.

"Amy, I am going to need my car back." Mr Henderson, the owner of the car complains about the Doctor on his car.

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

"Right, yes." Mr Henderson agrees as he does as he is told.

"I'm the Doctor. I'm a time traveller. Everything that I told you twelve years ago is still real. 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." The Doctor explains to her. "It will only be twenty minutes."

Amy unlocks Mister Henderson's car.

"What do we do?" Amy asks him.

"See the nurse, stop him." The Doctor says as he runs onto the village green and grabs Rory's phone. "Hello, the sun seems to be going out and you want to take photographs of something else, why?"

"Amy." Rory says.

"Hi! Oh, this is Rory, he's a friend." Amy introduces Rory.

"Boyfriend." Rory corrects her.

"Kind of boyfriend." Amy tries to agree with him.

"Amy." Rory moans.

"Okay then congratulations on that, but back to the point. It's a man and dog. Why?" The Doctor asks him.

"Oh my God, it's him." Rory realises as the Doctor starts to sigh at him.

"Just answer his question, please." Amy tells him.

"Sorry. Because he can't be there. Because he's..." Rory finally tells him as the Doctor then joins him in for the next bit. "In a hospital, in a coma."

"Yeah." Rory agrees.

"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 explains what Prisoner Zero is as the man barks at them. "Prisoner Zero."

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

"Yes." Amy agrees as a eyeball spaceship comes down.

"See, that ship up there is scanning for technology from out of this world. And nothing says out of this world like my sonic screwdriver." The Doctor explains as he makes all the streetlights explode, the car alarms go off and a poor woman's mobility scooter zoom off down the road. A fire engine goes past on its own, two tone blaring. "All this commotion, someone's going to have to notice it!"

He then blows up a red telephone box, then the screwdriver explodes.

"No, no! No, don't do that!" The Doctor shouts at it.

"Look, it's going." Rory says about the eyeball spaceship.

"No, please come back. Prisoner Zero was here!" The Doctor tries to tell them as Prisoner Zero disappears down a drain cover.

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

"Well, it had to." The Doctor agrees.

"What do we do now?" Amy asks him.

"Well… it's hiding, but it will have to change thanks to us now." The Doctor says.

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

"Usually they stay there for thousands and thousands of years. But twelve years can still matter to them." The Doctor says.

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

"They're looking for him and decided to wait until new technology came in and it's all because of me." The Doctor explains.

"What's he on about?" Rory asks him.

"Rory. Do you have a phone?" The Doctor requests.

"How can he be real? He was never real." Rory tries not to believe the Doctor.

"Rory, please give me the phone." The Doctor requests again.

"He was just a game. We were kids. You made me dress up as him." Rory tells her as The Doctor flicks through the images on the iPhone.

"These photos, are they coma patients?" The Doctor inquires.

"Yeah." Rory agrees.

"No, that's where you're wrong, they're all the multiform. Eight comas, eight disguises for Prisoner Zero." The Doctor disagrees with Rory.

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

"Well, the coma patient might have had a dog, so Prisoner Zero gets an extra bit with a dog. Laptop! Your friend, what was his name? Jeff?" The Doctor tells her as he asks for Jeff and his laptop. "He had a laptop in his bag. A laptop. I'm going to need it. You two, get to the hospital. Get everyone out of that ward. Clear the whole floor. Phone me when you're done." The Doctor explains what they need to do.

"Your car. Come on." Amy says.

"But how can he be here? How can the Doctor be here?" Rory inquires as Amy and Rory get into a Mini.

Jeff is lounging on his bed, using his laptop as the Doctor rushes into his room.

"Hello again. I need the laptop." The Doctor requests.

"No, no, no, no, wait." Jeff tries not to give it to him as the Doctor takes the laptop and sees what Jeff was browsing. He then stares at him as Mrs Angelo enters.

"What are you doing?" Mrs Angelo asks the Doctor.

"You see how the sun is different. 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. NASA, Jodrell Bank, Tokyo Space Centre, Patrick Moore." The Doctor explains what is happening.

"You can't just hack in on a call like that." Jeff tells him.

"Yeah, I can." The Doctor disagrees as six faces come up on the screen, all labelled as above plus ESA and CSIRO. He shows them his psychic paper.

"Who are you?" Patrick Moore asks the Doctor.

"This is a secure call, what are you doing here?"

"Hello. You would shut me off but I can show you something." The Doctor explains. "Fermat's Theorem, the proof. And 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 when I shouldn't have. 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." The Doctor explains as Rory and Amy run into the hospital

"Sir, what are you doing?"

"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 continues to explain to the others.

"Who was your lady friend?" Patrick inquires.

"Patrick..." The Doctor groans.

"What does this virus do?"

"It's a reset command, that's all. It resets counters. It gets in the Wi-Fi 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 explains the virus. "Jeff, you're my best man."

"You what?" Jeff inquires.

"Listen to me here. Ten minutes from now. One or more of those people will give you the job of a lifetime. All you have to do is tell them and guide them to what they need to do to save the world." The Doctor tells him about how this is Jeff's time.

"Why me?" Jeff asks.

"Your bedroom, your laptop. Didn't really have any leeway to ask someone else." The Doctor says as he runs out.

"Okay, guys, let's do this." Jeff tells them.

"Oh, and Jeff… please delete the history." The Doctor asks him as he runs out of the house and finds a fire engine parked near the house.

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

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

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

"I'm phoning him. Doctor? We're at the hospital, but we can't get through." Amy explains.

"What did he say?" Rory inquires.

"Look in the mirror. Ha ha! Uniform. Are you on your way? You're going to need a car." Amy asks if he's coming.

"Don't worry, I've got a way in." The Doctor comments as Rory and Amy in the hospital run up the stairs. The coma ward floor is a mess.

"Oh god." Amy exclaims as a woman with two girls meets them in the corridor.

"Officer."

"What happened?" Amy inquires.

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

Amy makes a phone call.

"Amy! Are you inside?" The Doctor asks.

"Yep. But so's Prisoner Zero." Amy tells him.

"Get out then..." The Doctor says.

"He was so angry. He kept shouting and shouting. And that dog. The size of that dog."

"I swear it was rabid. And he just went mad, attacking everyone."

Rory and Amy back away.

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

"Oh, I'm getting it wrong again, aren't I? I'm always doing that. So many mouths."

Prisoner Zero opens her mouth to reveal the needle teeth.

"Oh, my God!" Rory exclaims.

"Amy? You dropped out there, what happened?" The Doctor asks.

Amy and Rory run into the ward and bar the doors with a broom through the handles.

"Amy, please talk to me about this!" The Doctor shouts on the phone.

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

"Which window are you at?" He asks her.

"First floor, on the left, fourth from the end." Amy says as 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."

Amy gets a text from Rory's phone. Duck! They do, and the fire engine ladder comes crashing through the window. Enter the Doctor.

"Hello you two, deviated somewhere. How long have I got left?" The Doctor says about the remaining time. "Three minutes, still I've got time."

"Time for what, Time Lord?"

"Take it off and the world keeps on going." The Doctor tells Prisoner Zero.

"The Atraxi will kill me this time. If I am to die, let there be fire."

"Okay. You came from a crack in this world, hopefully you can get through again." The Doctor says.

"I did not open the crack."

"Somebody must have." The Doctor tells it.

"The cracks in the skin of the universe, don't you know where they came from? You don't, do you? The Doctor in the Tardis doesn't know. Doesn't know. Doesn't know! The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall."

"Thank you Jeff." The Doctor says as the clock says 0:00. "Yeah, I know, just a clock. Whatever. But do you wanna know what's happening right now? In one little bedroom, my team are working. Jeff and his world. 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."

There is a bright light outside.

"And there's the reinforcements." The Doctor shouts.

"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."

"Yes, but you may have not noticed that I have this phone with pictures of you and all your victims. They're sending now to the Atraxi. Hopefully they'll receive instantly and with just a couple of seconds left to spare… The Doctor explains.

"Then I shall take a new form."

"It takes months to do that, unless you knew the person all their life." The Doctor says.

"And I've had years."

Amy collapses.

"Amy? It's stolen the image out of your mind, try and concentrate on something else." The Doctor tells her as Prisoner Zero has transformed into a gangly man with a pinstriped shirt and spiked hair. "Yes, it's me again. Good. I don't want anyone else copying me."

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."

"She's dreaming about me as she knows about you because I told her about you. The Doctor tells her.

"No. No. No!"

It transforms.

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

"Prisoner Zero is located. Prisoner Zero is restrained."

"Silence, Doctor. Silence will fall."

Prisoner Zero disappears 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 says to Amy as she wakes up. "Amy. Are you okay? Are you with us?"

"What happened?" Amy asks Rory.

"He did it. The Doctor did it." Rory tells her.

"Haven't finished Rory. I've only started." The Doctor disagrees.

"What are you doing?" Rory asks him.

"Gonna trace the signal, need to call someone. Sorry…" The Doctor says.

"About what?" Rory inquires.

"The bill. Don't worry… I'll pay for it." The Doctor comments as he phones the Atraxi. "Hey, did I say for you to leave! 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 going to watch you guys. 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?" Rory complains.

"Where are you going?" Amy asks.

"The roof." The Doctor says.

He enters the roof as the Atraxi is hovering overhead.

"So this was a good idea, was it? They were leaving." Amy says.

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

"You are not of this world."

"No, I've put a lot of work into saving it." The Doctor comments

"Is this world important?"

"Important? Six billion people live here. Is that important? Here's a better question. Is this world a threat? Well, come on. You're monitoring the whole planet. Is this world a threat?" The Doctor asks what is important about the Earth as there is a projection of the world between them.

"No."

"Are the peoples of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi?" The Doctor inquires.

"No."

"Okay. One more. Just one. Is this world protected? Because you are not the first to break through this planet. I've saved this planet so much that I know how many are like you. "The Doctor says as the projection shows the Daleks et al. "And what you've got to ask is, what do you think happened to them?"

A run through of all the previous Doctors, then this Doctor steps through the projection.

"Hello. I'm the Doctor. Now... run."

The eyeball zooms back to its ship and leaves, very fast.

"Is that it? Is that them gone for good? Who were they?" Amy asks as the Doctor is already down the stairs and running out of the hospital.

The Tardis is waiting for him. He rushes back in as Amy and Rory run up just at it dematerialises.

TWO MORE YEARS LATER...

The sound of the Tardis wakes Amy up. She runs outside.

"Sorry about running off earlier. I fixed a new engine on the thing. Old one must have busted. But she's back for the big stuff now." The Doctor tells her.

"It's you. You came back." Amy says.

"Course I came back. I was always going to come back Why, something wrong with it?" The Doctor asks her.

"And you kept your clothes. They must be stinking." Amy comments.

"Well, saving the world for what seems like the millionth time doesn't really require me to change my clothes. Although, I did change the tie." The Doctor tells her.

"Are you from another planet?" Amy inquires.

"A very different planet to this one.." The Doctor agrees. "But we could check some out if you wanted."

"What does that mean?" Amy asks him.

"It means, come with me." The Doctor says.

"Where?" Amy inquires.

"Wherever you like, free of charge." The Doctor says.

"All that stuff that happened. The hospital, the spaceships, Prisoner Zero." Amy recalls.

"Oh, don't worry, Amy. We'll see a lot more." The Doctor tells her.

"Yeah, but those things, those amazing things, all that stuff. That was two years ago." Amy continues to recall.

"Oh.! Oops." The Doctor gasps.

"Yeah." Amy says.

"So that's..." The Doctor starts to reliase.

"Fourteen years!" Amy tells him.

"Fourteen years since that crack in the wall. Amy Pond, the girl who waited, you've waited long enough." The Doctor explains to her. "You wanted to come fourteen years ago. Why not now?"

"I grew up." Amy says.

"Don't worry. I'll soon fix that for you." The Doctor tells her as he opens the Tardis door and follows Amy in. "Well? Anything you want to say?"

"I'm in my nightie." Amy says.

"Oh, don't worry. A nightie won't be the worst thing to wear. Unless, it gets wet So, all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will Where do you want to start?" The Doctor explains as he asks where she wants her to start.

"You are so sure that I'm coming." Amy says.

"Yeah, I want you to." The Doctor agrees.

"Why?" Amy asks.

"Cause I felt like needing someone else. Plus I know how a Scot would feel in England any day." The Doctor says.

"Oh, do you?" Amy asks him.

"All these years living here, most of your life, and you've still got that accent. Yeah, you're coming." The Doctor explains.

"Can you get me back for tomorrow morning?" Amy inquires.

"Sure. Can do, anything I need to know about tomorrow morning to be concerned about?" The Doctor say as he asks her.

"Nothing. Nothing. Just you know, stuff." Amy says.

"All right, then. Back in time for stuff." The Doctor tells her. "So, are you okay, then? Because this place, sometimes it can make people feel a bit, you know."

"I'm fine. It's just, there's a whole world in here, just like you said. It's all true. I thought. Well, I started to think that maybe you were just like a madman with a box." Amy explains.

"A madman? No, I'd rather have the Oncoming Storm. Anyways, goodbye Leadworth, hello everything." The Doctor says as he sets the Tardis in flight. We watch it dematerialise in the garden, then we go back to Amy's bedroom with the wedding dress and its veil hanging up on the back of the door.

The Imperial Phantom Menace/The Phantom Rising
~ April 29th, 2015/January 25th, 2018