The Doctor and the Stone stood up and stared at the 'ceiling' which was really just the ground. "Up." The Doctor ordered. "Look up."

"Are you okay?" River asked Amy.

"What happened?" She frowned looking around.

"We jumped."

"Jumped where?"

"Up." The Doctor replied jumping a little to show his point. "Up. Look up."

"Where are we?" Amy frowned looking around.

"Exactly where we were." River answered.

"No, we're not."

"Move your feet." The Doctor ordered.

"Please." The Stone asked hitting the back of the Doctors head while Amy stepped off the circular hatch in the floor.

"Stone, what am I looking at?" Amy asked. "Explain."

"Oh, come on, Amy, think." The Doctor cut in making the Stone hit the back of his head again causing him to wince.

"The ship crashed with the power still on. So what else is still on?" The Stone asked Amy. "The artificial gravity."

"One good jump, and up we fell." The Doctor added. "Shot out the grav globe to give us an updraft, and here we are."

"Doctor, Stone, the statues," Octavian said. "They look more like Angels now."

"They're feeding on the radiation from the wreckage, draining all the power from the ship, restoring themselves. Within an hour, they'll be an army." He said. The hatch then opened and the lights started to spark and go bang. "They're taking out the lights." The Doctor gritted his teeth. "Look at them. Look at the Angels. Into the ship, now. Quickly, all of you."

"How?" Amy asked. The Doctor dropped through the hatch. The Stone then did the same and looked through the open doorway. "Doctor! Stone!" Amy shouted before blinking, looking down through the gap frowning at them while they looked like they were standing on the side.

"It's just a corridor." The Doctor replied wrapping an arm around the Stone. "The gravity orientates to the floor. Now, in here, all of you. Don't take your eyes off the Angels. Move, move, move." He ordered.

"Okay, men." They heard Octavian order. "Go, go, go!" The Doctor and the Stone ran over to work on the control panel, flashing it with their sonics and fiddling with the wires.

"The Angels. Presumably, they can jump up too?" Octavian asked climbing through.

"They're here, now." The Stone said shutting the hatch.

"In the dark, we're finished." The Doctor grimaced.

The bulkhead before them started to close. The Time Lords spun around running towards it shouting at the others. "Run!"

"This whole place is a death trap," Octavian said, the bulkhead then closed on the Time Lords making them groan.

"No, it's a time bomb. Well, it's a death trap and a time bomb."

"And now it's a dead end." The Stone winced lightly touching the bulkhead.

"Nobody panic." The Doctor said then glanced at the Time Lady. "Oh, just us then dear, what's through here?" He then asked.

"Secondary flight deck." River replied.

"Okay. so we've basically run up the inside of a chimney, yeah?" Amy asked. "So what if the gravity fails?"

"I've thought about that." The Doctor replied.

"And?"

"And we'll all plunge to our deaths. See? I've thought about it." He nodded.

"The security protocols are still live." The Stone groaned fiddling with wires and checking her sonic. "There's no way to override them. It's impossible."

"How impossible?" River asked working ob the lights.

"Two minutes." The Doctor answered after scanning the controls with his screwdriver.

The hatch then opened and the lights began to flicker. "The hull is breached and the power's failing," Octavian announced.

"Sir, incoming." A man answered seeing the angels arms reaching in after the lights flickered.

"Doctor, Stone? Lights." Amy said.

The lights flicker again and the hatch closed with four of the angels inside. "Clerics, keep watching them," Octavian ordered.

"And don't look at their eyes." The Doctor added. "Anywhere else. Not the eyes. We've isolated the lighting grid. They can't drain the power now."

"Good work, Doctor, Stone."

"Yes. Good, good, good. Good in many ways. Good, you like it so far." The Doctor nodded stalling.

"So far?" Amy looked at them worryingly.

"Well, there's only one way to open this door." He muttered. "I guess I'll need to route all the power in this section through the door control."

"Good. Fine." Octavian nodded. "Do it."

"Including the lights." The Stone added. "All of them. We'll need to turn out the lights."

"How long for?" Octavian asked.

"Fraction of a second." The Stone guessed. "Maybe longer."

"Maybe quite a bit longer." The Doctor winced.

"Maybe?"

"We're guessing." The Doctor answered. "We're being attacked by statues in a crashed ship. There isn't a manual for this."

"Doctor, we lost the torches. We'll be in total darkness." Amy protested.

"No other way. Bishop."

"Doctor Song, I've lost good Clerics today. You trust this man and woman?" Octavian asked.

"I absolutely trust her and she trusts him."

"They're not some kind of mad people then?"

"I absolutely trust her and she trusts him." She repeated.

"Excuse me." The Doctor blinked looking offended while the Stone rolled her eyes.

"You do wear a bowtie sweetheart." She reminded him.

"Bowties are cool!"

"Of course they are." She chuckled patting his back.

"I'm taking your word because you're the only one who can manage these two," Octavian whispered to River. "But that only works so long as they don't know who you are. You cost me any more men, and I might just tell her." Octavian threatened. "Understood?"

"Understood." River nodded.

"Okay, Doctor, Stone." He nodded at the Time Lords. "We've got your back."

"Bless you. Bishop." The Doctor patted his arm in thanks.

"Combat distance, ten feet," Octavian informed the clerics, pointing his gun at the angels as they did. "As soon as the lights go down, continuous fire. Full spread over the hostiles. Do not stop firing while the lights are out. Shotgun protocol. We don't have bullets to waste."

"Amy, when the lights go down, the wheel should release." The Stone informed. "I need you to help me spin it clockwise four turns."

"Ten."

"No, four." The Stone said frowning at her. "Four turns.

"Yeah, four." She nodded. "I heard you."

"Ready!" The Doctor called squeezing the Stones hand before plugging his sonic screwdriver into the console unit.

"On my count, then," Octavian whispered. "God be with us all." He swallowed thickly. "Three, two, one, fire!" He shouted as the lights went out. The clerics started to shoot at the approaching angels.

"Turn!" The Doctor shouted. The Stone and Amy pulled with all their strength allowing the door to slightly open.

"It's open!" The Stone shouted.

"Fall back!" The Doctor shouted as the others scrambled through. The Stone met the Doctors eyes quickly nodding then slipped through just before he did. The two of them running through a corridor before they came to another set of bulk doors. The Stone quickly opened the door with her sonic allowing everyone through.

"Stone, quickly." River called.

"Stone!" Amy shouted just as the Stone squeezed through. She ran over to the controls where the Doctor stood the two of then sharing a quick kiss before looking up seeing the wheel on the centre door start to turn.

"Doctor, Stone!" Amy shouted at them why they started to press buttons and flick switched. "What are you doing?"

Octavian placed a small device in the shape of a disk and stuck it on the wall. The wheel on the door then stopped spinning. "Magnetized the door." He stated. "Nothing could turn that wheel now."

"Yeah?" The Doctor raised a brow at him the moment the wheel started to turn again, at a much slower pace than before.

"Dear God!" Octavian gasped wide-eyed.

"Ah, now you're getting it." The Doctor nodded looking down at the controls again. "You've bought us time though. That's good. I am good with time."

"Well, you are a Time Lord." The Stone shrugged.

"Ah but I also believe you are also good with time, Time Lady." He grinned.

"So I am." She smirked.

"Doctor, Stone," Amy said sounding worried, they looked at her and followed her gaze seeing the wheel on the door to the right had started to spin.

"Seal that door," Octavian ordered. "Seal it now." The cleric obeyed sticking a disk identical to Octavians onto the door slowing down the turning of the wheel.

"We're surrounded." River said looking between the doors.

Just as River said that the door on the left began to spin around unlocking the door. "Seal it. Seal that door." Octavian ordered. The cleric did so and just like the others the turn of the wheel slowed down. "Doctor, Stone, how long have we got?"

"Five minutes, max." The Time Lord replied.

"Nine." Amy blurted out.

"Five." The Time Lords corrected the redhead, the Stone frowned not understanding how Amy misheard them back at the corridor of the ship and now.

"Five." Amy nodded as if it was what she said. "Right. Yeah."

"Why'd you say nine?" The Stone frowned.

"I didn't." Amy's brows furrowed in confusion.

"We need another way out of here." River said looking between the Time Lords.

"There isn't one," Octavian replied.

"Yeah, there is. Course there is." The Doctor nodded. "This is a galaxy class ship. Goes for years between planet falls." He then clicked his fingers spinning round and leaned again the chair. "So, what do they need?"

"Of course." River breathed.

"Of course what?" Amy frowned not understanding what River noticed. "What do they need?"

"Can we get in there?" Octavian asked making the redhead even more confused.

"Well, it's a sealed unit, but they must have installed it somehow." The Doctor muttered. "This whole wall should slide up." He pressed his ear against the door in thought.

"There's clamps." The Stone pushing one of the small containers on wheels aside while the Doctor pushed the other. "Release the clamps."

"What's through there?" Amy questioned while the Doctor and the Stone both flashed their sonics at the clamps unlocking them. "What do they need?"

"They need to breathe." River replied while the rear wall of the flight deck slide up making Amy's eyes widen and a broad grin formed on her face.

"But that's... That's a..."

"It's an oxygen factory."

"It's a forest." Amy quietly muttered looking in awe at the tall trees behind where the wall once was.

"Yeah, it's a forest." River nodded. "It's an oxygen factory."

"And if we're lucky an escape route." The Doctor nodded.

"Eight." Amy blurted making the Time Lords dart their eyes at her the Stone standing in front of Amy looking at her flashing her sonic at her before frowning at it not understanding, why was she saying that.

"What did you say?" River asked.

"Nothing." Amy shrugged.

"Is there another exit?" The Stone asked dismissing Amy randomly blurting out numbers for now. "Scan the architecture, we don't have time to get lost in there."

"On it." Octavian ran into the forest. "Stay where you are until I've checked the Rad levels."

"But trees, on a spaceship?" Amy gaped.

"The TARDIS has a lot more than trees on a spaceship." The Stone grinned. But this is more than trees. Way better than trees."

"You're going to love this." The Doctor said running up to a tree close by and opening the bark showing a long string of wires inside the hollow trunk. "Treeborgs. Trees plus technology. Branches become cables become sensors on the hull. A forest sucking in starlight, breathing out air." He said looking up. "It even rains. There's a whole mini-climate. This vault is an ecopod running right through the heart of the ship. A forest in a bottle on a spaceship in a maze. Have we impressed you yet, Amy Pond?" He smirked.

"Seven." She breathed out.

"Seven?" The Doctor frowned running over and standing beside the blonde looking at the redhead.

"Sorry, what?" Amy raised a brow.

"You said seven." The Stone frowned at her pursing her lips in a fine line trying to understand what was going on.

"No. I didn't."

"Yes. you did." River backed the blonde up.

"Doctor, Stone, there's an exit, far end of the ship, into the Primary Flight Deck," Octavian called returning to them.

"Oh, good." The Doctor nodded. "That's where we need to go."

"Plotting a safe path now."

"Quick as you like."

"Doctor?" Angel Bon came through on the walkie-talkie. "Excuse me? Hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir."

"Ah. There you are, Angel Bob." The Doctor said sinking into the spinning chair. "How's life?" He joked smirking at the Stone. "Sorry, bad subject."

"The Angels are wondering what you hope to achieve."

"Achieve?" He scoffed. "We're not achieving anything. We're just hanging. It's nice in here. Consoles, comfy chairs, a forest. How's things with you?"

"The Angels are feasting, sir. Soon we will be able to absorb enough power to consume this vessel, this world. and all the stars and worlds beyond."

"Well, we've got comfy chairs." He repeated spinning on it for effect. "Did I mention?"

"We have no need of comfy chairs."

"I made him say comfy chairs." The Doctor said to the Stone making her burst out in a laugh.

"Six." The redhead blurted.

The Doctor jumped up from his seat in alarm standing beside the Time Lady the two of them exchanging worried glances. "Okay, Bob, enough chat. Here's what I want to know. What have you done to Amy?"

"There is something in her eye."

"What's in her eye?" He questioned."

"We are."

"What's he talking about?" Amy looked up worryingly. She frowned when the Time Lords shared glances and then stared into Amy's eyes. "Doctor, I'm five." She protested then blinked. "I mean, five. Fine!" She said louder. "I'm fine."

"You're counting." River said.

"Counting?" Amy repeated.

"You're counting down from ten." The Stone said. "You have been for a couple of minutes."

"Why?"

"We don't know." The Doctor muttered.

"Well, counting down to what?"

"We don't know." The Stone said putting an arm on the redheads shoulder trying to calm her.

"We shall take her. We shall take all of you. We shall have dominion over all time and space." Angel Bob said through the walkie.

"Get a life, Bob. Oops, sorry again." He smirked at the Time Lady. "There's power on this ship, but nowhere near that much."

"With respect, sir, there's more power on this ship than you yet understand." He said before there was a screeching sound.

"What's that?" River said wincing at the noise. "Dear God, what is it?"

"They're back," Octavian said pointing his gun around.

"It's hard to put in your terms, Doctor Song, but as best I understand it, the Angels are laughing." He answered.

"Laughing?" The Time Lords repeated.

"Because you haven't noticed yet, sir, ma'am. The Doctor and the Stone in the TARDIS haven't noticed." He said.

"Doctor, Stone," Octavian said.

"No. Wait." He held up a hand frowning. "There's something we've missed."

"Something we should have seen..." the Stone frowned before slowly turning around with the Doctor seeing the crack that was in Amy's house when she was a child, the crack that was now widening. "Oh dear..."

"That's, that's, that's like the crack from my bedroom wall from when I was a little girl." Amy stared at it eyes wide.

"Yes. Two parts of space and time that should never have touched." The Doctor said.

"Okay, enough." Octavian nodded. "We're moving out."

"Agreed." River nodded while the Time Lords jumped on one of the containers. "Doctor, Stone?"

"Yeah, fine." The Doctor muttered.

"What are you doing?"

"We'll be right with you." The Stone said glancing at River.

"We're not leaving without you." She protested.

"River." She glanced at the woman. "You're going, Bishop?"

"Miss Pond, Doctor Song, now!" He ordered.

"Doctor, Stone?" Amy said glancing at them."

"Come on!" River shouted.

"So, what are you?" The Doctor muttered scanning the gap of the crack with his screwdriver before looking at it. "Oh, that's bad. Ah, that's extremely very not good."

"Oh dear..." the Stone muttered looking at it before she gasped looking at the exit which was blocked by angels.

"Do not blink." The Doctor breathed entwining his fingers with hers. "You take the left I'll take the right?"

"Of course." She replied keeping herself against him as they stepped off the container. "Don't blink..." she repeated to herself. They quickly moved past the controls the Stone wincing as she hit her foot against it misjudging where the controls were, squeezing her eyes shut and mentally slapping herself she quickly darted her eyes to the angels again.

"Dear... did you blink." The Doctor whispered desperately wishing he could look at her.

"Hit my foot... bloody reflexes."

"Almost there." He reminded squeezing her hand. They then made it past all the angels backing up slowly before spinning around to make a sprint only to yelp while getting pulled back by the back of their collars.

They blinked after a moment glancing at each other. "Why are we not dead then?" The Doctor asked.

"That's not good..." the Stone muttered looking in the corner of her eye to see the angels reaching for the crack.

"Good, and not so good." The Doctor slowly nodded. Oh, this isn't even a little bit good. I mean, is that it? Is that the power that brought you here? That's pure Time Energy."

"But you can't feed on that." The Stone said raising a brow. "That's now power, that's the fire at the end of the universe."

"I'll tell you something else." The Doctor said slipping off his tweed blazer. The Stone doing the same with her own blazer.

"Never let us talk!" They both called running into the forest without either of their blazers, the Stone wincing remembering just how many packets of ready salted Crisps she had in her pocket.

"I am going to miss that jacket." The Stone winced as they ran.

"You'll get another." The Doctor chuckled.

"I wasn't talking about my blazer sweetheart." She laughed. "I liked the tweed."

"Then I'll get another tweed blazer for myself and another black blazer for you dear." He grinned.

----------------------------------------------------------------

"Amy, what's wrong?" River asked the redhead who looked completely out of it, staring into the forest looking at nothing in particular, not changing her gaze as River stood before her.

"Four." The redhead muttered gently swaying before sitting down on a tree trunk. She then laid down on the trunk clutching her head.

"Med scanner, now," River ordered looking at Octavian.

"Doctor Song, we can't stay here." He protested handing her the scanner. "We've got to keep moving."

"We wait for the Doctor and the Stone."

"Our mission is to make this wreckage safe and neutralise the Angels. Until that is achieved-"

"Father Octavian, when the Doctor and the Stone are in the room, your one and only mission is to keep them alive long enough to get everyone else home. And trust me, it's not easy. Now, if they're dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if they are alive, I'll never forgive them. And, Stone, you and your husband are standing right behind me, aren't you?"

"Oh, yeah." The Stone laughed.

"I hate you."

"You don't." She chuckled shaking her head. "Bishop, the Angels are in the forest."

"We need visual contact on every line of approach."

"How did you get past them?" River questioned.

"We found a crack in the wall and told them it was the end of the universe." The Doctor explained.

"What was it?" Amy asked.

"The end of the universe." The Doctor answered. "Let's have a look, then."

"So, what's wrong with me?" Amy asked.

"Nothing." River tried to give her a reassuring smile. "You're fine."

"Everything." The Doctor bluntly cut in. "You're dying."

"Doctor!" Both blondes shouted at him, the Stone hitting the back of his head while River glared at him.

"Yes, you're right. If we lie to her, she'll get all better." He rolled his eyes.

"Not that bluntly though sweetheart." The Stone whispered to him.

"Sorry." He muttered then stood up. "Right. Amy, Amy, Amy. What's the matter with Amelia? Something's in her eye. What does that mean? Does it mean anything?"

"Doctor." Amy fearfully whispered.

"Busy."

"Scared."

"Course you're scared. You're dying. Shut up."

"Sweetheart..." The Stone gave him a look before she started to pace around in thought.

"Stone." Amy shakily asked.

"Amelia, I need to think okay?" She softly asked. "Please let me think."

"Okay, let them think." River nodded in agreement.

"What happened?" The Stone frowned. "She stared at the Angel. She looked into the eyes of an Angel for too long."

"Sir! Angel incoming." A cleric called.

"And here."

"Keep visual contact," Octavian ordered. "Do not let it move."

"Come on, come on, come on. Wakey, wakey." The Doctor hit his forehead. "She watched an Angel climb out of the screen. She stared at the Angel and, and..."

"The image of an Angel is an Angel," Amy added.

"A living mental image in a living human mind. But we stare at them to stop them getting closer." The Stone nodded. "We don't even blink, and that is exactly what they want."

"Because as long as our eyes are open, they can climb inside."

Both the Time Lords eyes widened and met each other. "There's an Angel in her mind." They gasped a hand flying to their mouths

"Three." Amy blurted out. "Doctor, it's coming. I can feel it. I'm going to die."

"Please just shut up. We're thinking." He called to Amy.

The Stone didn't even go to hit him, she was too worried about the redhead to do so at that moment. "Now, counting. What's that about?"

She looked over at the Doctor who nodded taking out the walkie-talkie. "Bob, why are they making her count?"

"To make her afraid, sir."

"Okay, but why? What for?"

"For fun, sir." The Doctor groaned stamped his foot and threw the device on the floor out of anger. The Stone winced and grabbed his hand rubbing her thumb over the back of his hand to try and calm him a little as well as herself.

"Doctor, Stone, what's happening to me?" Amy asked. "Explain."

"Inside your head, in the vision centres of your brain, there's an Angel." The Doctor explained.

"It's like there's a screen, a virtual screen inside your mind and the Angel is climbing out of it, and it's coming to shut you off." The Stone added wincing.

"Then what I do?"

"If it was a real screen, what would we do? We'd pull the plug. We'd kill the power. But we can't just knock her out, the Angel would just take over."

"Then what?" River asked looking at the med scanner seeing her heartbeat rise. "Quickly."

"We've got to shut down the vision centres of her brain. We've got to pull the plug. Starve the Angel." The Stone added.

"Doctor, Stone, she's got seconds."

"How would you starve your lungs?" The Doctor asked.

"I'd stop breathing."

"Amy, close your eyes." The Time Lords ordered in unison.

"No." She sobbed. "No, I don't want to."

"Good, because that's not you, that's the Angel inside you." The Stone whispered softly stroking the redheads hair to try and calm her down. "It's afraid. Do it. Close your eyes." Amy then squeezed her eyes shut and the med scanner went from red to green. The Time Lords sighed the Doctor kissed the Stones forehead before resting his head on hers.

"She's normalising." River looked up from the device. "Oh, you two did it. You did it." She grinned.

"Sir? Two more incoming."

"Three more over here."

"Still weak." River said looking at the scanner. "Dangerous to move her."

"So, can I open my eyes now?" Amy asked.

"Amy, listen to me." The Doctor said crouching down to look at her. "If you open your eyes now for more than a second, you will die. The Angel is still inside you. We haven't stopped it, we've just sort of paused it. You've used up your countdown. You cannot open your eyes."

"Doctor, Stone, we're too exposed here. We have to move on."

"We're too exposed everywhere." He counted. "And Amy can't move. And anyway, that's not the plan."

"There's a plan?" River raised a brow.

"We don't know yet. We haven't finished talking." The Stone replied more worried about Amy at the current moment.

"Right!" The Doctor spun around clapping his hands together. "Father, you and your Clerics, you're going to stay here, look after Amy. If anything happens to her, I'll hold every single one of you personally responsible, twice."

"I'll hold them all responsible ten times over as well as then forcing them to throw themselves into an ice lake."

"Trust me she's not bluffing." The Doctor warned. "It's a little scary when she gets angry and all threatening."

"A little?" She raised a brow.

"I mostly find it hot." He winked at her.

She smiled and rolled her eyes at him. "Pay attention sweetheart."

"Yes, dear."

"Anyways," she lightly coughed. "This is Amy's life so I may just have to extend the 'angry and threatening' to all of you." She raised a brow waiting for one of then to challenge her only to hear a couple if the clerics deeply swallow.

"Now, River, you, the Stone and me, we're going to find the Primary Flight Deck which is..." He licked the tip of his finger and held it up then pointed in a direction. "A quarter of a mile straight ahead, and from there we're going to stabilise the wreckage, stop the Angels, and cure Amy."

"How?" River questioned.

"The Stone and I will do a thing." He replied.

"What thing?" She frowned.

"He doesn't know." The Stone replied. "Then again neither do I." She said in thought. "The 'thing' is a 'thing' in progress. In a sense."

"Respect the thing." The Doctor said taking the Stones hand. "Moving out!" He called heading off with the Time Lady.

"Doctor, Stone, I'm coming with you." Octavian called making the Time Lords come to a halt. "My Clerics'll look after Miss Pond. These are my best men. They'd lay down their lives in her protection."

"Did you not hear my wife's warning?" He raised a brow. "Also we don't need you."

"I don't care." He firmly replied. "Where Doctor Song goes, I go."

"What?" He raised the other brow looking better the curly haired blonde and the other man. "You two engaged or something?"

"Yes." He replied then added seeing the Time Lords eyes widen. "In a manner of speaking. Marco, you're in charge till I get back."

"Sir." The man called.

"Doctor, Stone? Please, can't I come with you?" Amy called.

"You'd slow us down, Miss Pond." Octavian said then quieting when the Stone shot him a look warning him to be quiet.

"I don't want to sound selfish, but you'd really speed me up."

"Amelia." The Stone whispered kneeling in front of her slightly to the left while the Doctor knelt on the right.

"You'll be safer here. We can't protect you on the move." The Doctor told her.

"We'll be back for you soon as we can, I promise." The Stone said.

"You always say that." She replied.

"I always keep my promises."

"And we always come back." The Doctor added before jumping up as the Stone gently rubbed Amy's back. "Good luck, everyone. Behave. Do not let that girl open her eyes. And keep watching the forest. Stop those Angels advancing. Amy, later. River, going to need your computer!" He called taking the Time Lady's hand.

"Yeah." Amy whispered hearing the Time Lords leave. "Later."