The Littlest Timelord: Cracks in Time

Chapter 33

"What, us?"

"It's just like being an organ donor, except you're alive and sort of screaming. I need to get round behind it. Could you draw its fire?"

"What, like you did?"

"You'll be fine if you're quick. It's only got one arm, literally."

Amy reluctantly ran out into the open and the Doctor pounced on the arm. He managed to sonic it.

"Doctor?" Amy asked.

"Scrambled its circuits, but stay where you are, it could be bluffing."

"Bluffing? It's an arm."

"I said stay where you are!"

Amy looked down and saw a cable winding around her ankle. "Doctor?" she asked. The cable pulled her to floor.

"Amy!" the Doctor yelled.

The Cyberman arm shocked the Doctor, effectively knocking him out.

"Doctor!" Amy yelled as Elise ran over to the Doctor.

She put her head on his chest, hearing both his hearts beating. Elise heard Amy scream.

She was being attacked by a Cyberman head.

Elise ran over to her and pulled out her sonic screwdriver. She pointed it at the Cyberman head, but it wasn't doing anything.

Amy managed to bash it against a pillar until it let her go. She threw it to the floor and it crawled away. "Doctor?" Amy asked. A dart hit Amy in the neck.

"You will be assimilated."

"Yeah? You and whose body?" Amy quipped.

A headless, armless Cyberman entered the chamber. It placed its head back on as Amy and Elise backed up through the big door.

The door slammed shut.

"Doctor!" Amy yelled.

A roman sword pierced the door. It swung open to reveal the Cyberman stuck to the door.

"Who, who are you?" Amy asked the Roman.

He took off his helmet. "Hello, Amy."

It was Rory!

Amy passed out and Rory caught her, gently laying her on a stone.

Elise hugged Rory's legs.

"Hey Elise," he said, patting her head.

"Sir, the man's coming round," a soldier said.

"Amy? Where's Amy? Elise?" the Doctor said, running towards them.

"She's fine, Doctor. Just unconscious. Elise is fine too," Rory told him.

The Doctor quickly soniced her. "Okay. Yes, she's sedated, that's all. Half an hour, she'll be fine. Okay, Romans. Good. I was just wishing for Romans. Good old River. How many?"

"Fifty men up top, volunteers. What about that thing?" Rory pointed to the Cyberman stuck to the door.

"Fifty? You're not exactly a legion."

"Your friend was very persuasive, but it's a tough sell."

"Yes, I know that, Rory. I'm not exactly one to miss the obvious. But we need everything we can get." The Doctor picked up two guns. "Okay, Cyberweapons. This is basically a sentry box, so headless wonder here was a sentry. Probably got himself duffed up by the locals. Never underestimate a Celt."