"What's that?" the red haired woman asked the Doctor.

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

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

"Well, safe apart from, you know, incineration", the Doctor added.

Prisoner Zero left the house as the Doctor continued to try and free himself.

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

The Doctor started banging his screwdriver on the floor. "Come on, work, work, work, come on. This would be so much easier if you had one", he told Elise, "Remind me to make you one. Would you like one?"

Elise just shrugged. She didn't even know what the device was or what it was supposed to do.

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

The Doctor finally unlocked the handcuffs. "Run! Run!" He grabbed the redhead's hand and Elise's and pulled them over to the stairs.

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

They ran out into the garden, towards the TARDIS.

"Kissogram?" the Doctor asked the redhead.

"Yes, a kissogram. Work through it".

"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?"

"You broke into my house. It was this or a French maid. What's going on? Tell me. Tell me!"

"An alien convict is hiding in your spare room disguised as a man and a dog, and some other aliens are about to incinerate your house. Any questions?"

"Yes".

"Me too". The Doctor pulled out his key and tried unlocking the TARDIS, but the doors wouldn't open. "No, no, no, no! Don't do that, not now! It's still rebuilding. Not letting us in".

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

"Come on", the redhead told him, pulling him away from the TARDIS.

He pulled away from her and ran towards a shed. "No, wait, hang on. Wait, wait, wait, wait. The shed. I destroyed that shed last time I was here. Smashed it to pieces".

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

"Yeah, but the new one's got old. It's ten years old at least". The Doctor sniffed the shed and then licked his fingers. "Twelve years. I'm not six months late, I'm twelve years late".

"He's coming".

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

"We've got to go".

"This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?"

"Why did you say five minutes!"

It finally dawned on the Doctor that the woman standing in front of him was little Amelia Pond. Elise had thought she looked and sounded familiar.

"What?" the Doctor asked her.

"Come on".

"What?"

"Come on!"

"What?" Amy grabbed the Doctor by the hand and dragged him after her, Elise following behind them.

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

The three of them were walking through the village trying to get as far away as possible from Prisoner Zero.

"You're Amelia!" the Doctor said.

"And you're late".

"Amelia Pond. You're the little girl".

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

"What happened?"

"Twelve years".

"You hit me with a cricket bat".

"Twelve years".

"A cricket bat".

"Twelve years and four psychiatrists".

Elise wondered what a psychiatrist was. Earth was such a weird planet.

"Four?" the Doctor asked.

"I kept biting them".

"Why?"

"They said you weren't real".

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

The announcement was coming out of an ice cream van.

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

Ice cream? What was ice cream? Was it like custard? Elise had so many questions. Questions that would most likely be answered once they dealt with Prisoner Zero. Would it always be like this with the Doctor?

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

"What's that? Why are you playing that?" the Doctor asked the ice cream man.

"It's supposed to be Claire De Lune".

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

The announcement was coming from everything electronic.

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

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

The Doctor burst into the nearest home which happened to be the home of a Mrs. Angelo. "Hello! Sorry to burst in. We're doing a special on television faults in this area", he told her.

Amy and Elise ran in after him.

"Also crimes. Let's have a look". The Doctor ran over to the TV and messed with the remote.

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

"Well, sometimes".

"I thought you were a nurse".

"I can be a nurse".

"Or actually a nun?"

"I dabble".

"Amy, who are your friends?"

"Who's Amy? You were Amelia", the Doctor said.

"Yeah? Now I'm Amy", she told him.

"Amelia Pond. That was a great name. Like Elise". The Doctor gently ran a hand over Elise's hair as the little Timelord smiled.

"Bit fairy tale".

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

"Not me. Brand new face". The Doctor opened his mouth making a silly face that made Elise giggle. "First time on. And what sort of job's a kissogram?" he asked Amy.

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

"You were a little girl five minutes ago". "You're worse than my aunt".

"I'm the Doctor. I'm worse than everybody's aunt. And that is not how I'm introducing myself".

The Doctor soniced the radio and the message came out in various different languages.

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

"Okay, so it's everywhere, in every language. They're broadcasting to the whole world". The Doctor walked over to the window and looked out.

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

"Okay. Planet this size, two poles, your basic molten core? They're going to need a forty percent fission blast".

A young man entered the house and the Doctor walked up to him as he continued talking.

"But they'll have to power up first, won't they? So assuming a medium sized starship, that's 20 minutes. What do you think, twenty minutes? Yeah, twenty minutes. We've got twenty minutes".

"Twenty minutes to what?" Amy asked him.

"Are you the Doctor?" the young man asked.

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

"Shut up", Amy whispered. "Cartoons?" the Doctor asked.

"Gran, it's him, isn't it? It's really him!" the young man said.

The Doctor walked over to the couch and sat down on it.

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

"The human residence will be incinerated. Repeat".

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

As soon as the Doctor mentioned the planet burning, Elise screamed and ran to the Doctor. She wrapped her arms around his legs as she shook her head.

"Hey, hey, it's okay", he cooed.

She shook her head again.

The Doctor placed his hand on her temple as he was transported into her mind. Gallifrey was burning. He picked her up and held her close to him, hoping his hearts beating would comfort 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 told them.

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

The Doctor, Amy, and Elise left the house and walked around the village as the Doctor tried to come up with a plan.

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

"Leadworth".

"Where's the rest of it?"

"This is it".

"Is there an airport?"

"No".

"A nuclear power station?"

"No".

"Even a little one?"

"No".

"Nearest city?"

"Gloucester. Half an hour by car".

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

"No".

"Well, that's good. Fantastic, that is. Twenty minutes to save the world and I've got a post office. And it's shut. What is that?" The Doctor ran over a pond.

"It's a duck pond".

"Why aren't there any ducks?"

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

"Then how do you know it's a duck pond?"

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

"I don't know. Why would I know?" The Doctor collapsed to the ground.

Elise sat down next to him.

"This is too soon. I'm not ready. I'm not done yet", he told them.

The sky started to go dark as a disc covered the sun.

"What's happening? Why's it going dark? So what's wrong with the sun?" Amy asked.

"Nothing. You're looking at it through a force field. They've sealed off your upper atmosphere. Now they're getting ready to boil the planet". The Doctor stood up as everyone came out of their houses to see what was going on. "Oh, and here they come. The human race. The end comes, as it was always going to, down a video phone".

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

"Why would I wind you up?"

"You told me you had a time machine".

"And you believed me".

"Then I grew up".

"Oh, you never want to do that. No. Hang on. Shut up. Wait. I missed it". The Doctor smacked himself in the forehead. "I saw it and I missed it". He smacked himself again. "What did I see? I saw. What did I see? I saw, I saw, I saw". The Doctor stood still as he racked his brain.

Could all Timelords do that? Or was that just a 'Doctor' thing?

"Twenty minutes. I can do it. Twenty minutes, the planet burns. Run to your loved ones and say goodbye, or stay and help me", he told Amy.

"No".

"I'm sorry?"

"No!" Amy grabbed the Doctor by the tie and dragged him over to a car.

"Amy, no, no, what are you doing?" the Doctor asked.

Amy slammed his tie in the door and locked the door with the keys she took from the driver.

"Are you out of your mind?" the Doctor asked her.

Elise, being so small, could do nothing but watch the adults argue.

"Who are you?" Amy asked.

"You know who I am".

"No, really. Who are you?"

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

"Well, better talk quickly, then".

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

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

"Right, yes". The man walked off.

The Doctor pulled out the apple from his pocket and tossed it to Amy. "Catch".

Amy stared down at the apple with the smiley face cut into it.

"I'm the Doctor and this is Elise, my daughter. We're time travelers. Everything I told you twelve years ago is true. I'm real. What's happening in the sky is real, and if you don't let me go right now, everything you've ever known is over", he told her.

"I don't believe you".

The Doctor grabbed Amy's wrist. "Just twenty minutes. Just believe me for twenty minutes. Look at it. Fresh as the day you gave it to me. And you know it's the same one. Look at Elise. She hasn't aged at all. Amy, believe for twenty minutes".

Amy unlocked the car. "What do we do?"

"Stop that nurse".