It's been a while and I'm sorry, there's a more detailed explanation as to what's going on and why on my profile in the conversations section but enough about that, I give you the first part to A Town Called Mercy!

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The Doctor stood in front of an old western town with a sign that had 80 residents which had been changed to 81. "Mercy." The Doctor said before noticing the sign. "Eighty-one residents."

"Look at this," Amy called standing in front a line of wood and rocks. "It's a load of stones and lumps of wood. What is it?"

The Doctor scanned it with his screwdriver. "A load of stones and lumps of wood."

The Stone snorted. "Even you could say that without scanning it."

"I wanted to make sure." He gave her a playful glare while sticking his tongue out at her.

The Doctor then stepped across the line. The Stone and Jenny following. "The sign does say Keep Out," Rory called making them turn around.

"I see 'Keep Out' signs as suggestions more than actual orders, like Dry Clean only." The Doctor shrugged.

"Please follow that suggestion." The Stone wrinkled her nose at him. "I'm not having my clothes shrink because of you."

"Yes, dear." He replied making her smile.

Amy and Rory both shrugged and stepped over the line, following the Time Lords. They walked through the small town which was quiet and almost empty. Residents stood near the building watching them blankly.

"That's not right." The Doctor pointed up at a lamp post that sparked.

"It's a street lamp." Rory pointed out.

"An electric street lamp about ten years too early."

"It's only a few years out."

"Isn't that what you said when you left your phone charger in Henry the Eighth's en-suite?" Jenny giggled.

"Doctor, er..." Amy noticed the people staring at them.

"Anachronistic electricity, Keep Out signs, aggressive stares." He chuckled. "Has someone been peeking at my Christmas list?"

"If that's your Christmas list then I've written mine wrong." Jenny frowned.

"Doctor," Amy said again.

The Doctor ignored her and started to chew on a toothpick. He walked into a Saloon making everyone grow silent. "Tea." He said in an accent. "But the strong stuff. Leave the bag in."

"What're you doing here, son?"

"Son?" The Doctor chuckled. "You can stay."

"Doctor-" the Stone warned.

"Yes, dear." He muttered.

A man stood up. "Sir, might I enquire who you is?"

"Of course." He nodded. "I'm the Doctor. This is-" everyone in the bar stood up. "No need to stand." He said but they continued. "You see that? Manners." An older man in a top hat started to measure the Doctor. "Oh, thank you but I don't need a new suit."

"I'm the undertaker, sir." The Doctor nodded before his head, shot back to look at him. The Stone grasped his hand and Jenny's eyes almost shot out of her head.

"I got a question." A young man stepped forward. "Is you an alien?"

"Well, er, bit personal." The Doctor began. "It's all relative, isn't it? I mean, I think you're the aliens, but in this context, yes. Yes, I suppose I am."

A group of men suddenly grabbed the Doctor and started to carry him outside. "Dad!" Jenny shouted trying to break free of the people who grabbed her. The Stone, Amy and also Rory followed.

"Doctor!" The Stone shouted. "Jenny!"

"Guys!"

"Doctor! Put him down!" Amy shouted.

"Don't think we won't kill you." Someone warned.

"Leave him alone." Jenny protested.

"Jenny I'm okay, everything is completely under control!" The Doctor shouted back a moment before the townsfolk threw him across the line made of wood and stone.

"Ow." He winced and stood up turning to the people who all pointed their guns at him. Jenny continued to struggle and managed to break free.

"Dad!" She cried out before the Stone grabbed her pulling her back

"shush," she tried to soothe her daughter. "It's okay."

A man who had metal parts attached to him appeared in the distance. "He's coming." Another man whispered. "Oh God, he's coming."

"Dad." Jenny sobbed breaking all four of her parent's hearts.

"Preacher, say something."

"Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name." The Doctor met the Stones eyes, swallowed and then turned around, the Cyborg approached him with dimension jumps. "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done."

There was a gunshot making them all look back at a man with a moustache. He adjusted his coat to reveal a six-pointed star with the word 'Marshal' engraved on it. "You, bow tie. Get back across that line." The Doctor pointed at himself. "Now." The Doctor stepped back across and was almost pushed back out when Jenny ran up and tackled him into a hug. Numbly not registering what was going on he raised a hand to her hair and lightly brushed it.

"Isaac, he said he was a doctor." A young man protested. "An alien doctor."

"That a reason to hand him to his death and scare his daughter?"

"Isaac, it could be him."

"You know it ain't." He shook his head then turned and headed back down the street. "Ma'am's" he nodded at the two Gingers.

The Stone ran up to the Doctor and Jenny who was still tightly hugging him. "Please-"

"Hey," He whispered into her mind trying to soothe her, "it's okay."

She swallowed and nodded. The Time Lord smiled and took her hand, kissed her forehead and linked arms with the Stone.

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They caught up with the marshal. "What was that outside?" The Time Lady asked.

"The Gunslinger." He stated. "Showed up three weeks back. We've been prisoners ever since. See that borderline stretching round the town? Woke up one morning, there it was. Nothing gets past it, in or out. No supply wagons, no reinforcements. Pretty soon the whole town's going to starve to death."

"But you let us in." Rory frowned.

"You ain't carrying any food." He replied. "Just five more mouths to feed. We'll all die even sooner now."

"What happens if someone crosses the line?" The man tossed him a stetson with a very neat hole through it.

"Ah, well, he wasn't a very good shot, then."

"Sweetheart I think he was aiming for the hat."

"He shoots people's hats?" He raised a brow.

"It was a warning shot," Amy added.

"Ah, no, yes." He corrected himself. "I see. Hmm."

"What does he want?" Jenny asked feeling for safe now that the Doctor wasn't going to get shot. "Has he issued some kind of demand?"

"Says he wants us to give him the alien doctor."

They all looked to the Time Lord. "But that's you, dad." Jenny frowned. "Why would he want to kill you?"

"Unless he's met you." Amy muttered.

"And how could he know that we'd be here?" Rory frowned and quietly muttered. "We didn't even know we'd be here."

"We were aiming for Mexico." Amy smiled. "The Doctor and the Stone were taking us to see the Day of the Dead Festival."

"Mexico's two hundred miles due south." Isaac looked at them confused.

"Well, that's what happens when people get toast crumbs on the console." The Doctor narrowed his eyes at the Stone.

"Hey you suggested it sweetheart, plus I was hungry."

"Anyway," he shook his head, "I think it's about time I met him, don't you?"

"Who?"

"The chap outside said I could be the alien doctor, but you said I wasn't, so you already know who it is." He chuckled slightly. "Two alien doctors. We're like buses."

"Resident eighty one," the Stone added.

"We presume, so beloved by the townsfolk he warranted an alteration to the sign. Probably because he rigged up these electrics, and I'm guessing he's in here, because if half the town suddenly wanted to throw me to my death, this is where I'd want to be."

"I don't know what you-" the man tried to lie before getting cut off when a man threw a blanket off of himself and stood up. A green curved mark ran down one side of his head.

"Isaac, I think the time for subterfuge has passed. Good afternoon. My name is Kahler-Jex. I'm the doctor."

"The Kahler." He nodded. "I love the Kahler. They're one of the most ingenious races in the galaxy. Seriously, they could build a spaceship out of Tupperware and moss."

"All right." Amy nodded. "How did you get here?"

"My craft crashed about a mile or so out of town. I would have died if Isaac and the others hadn't pulled me from the wreckage."

"And you stayed, as their doctor." The Stone nodded understanding.

"On my world I was a surgeon, so it seemed logical. And it gave me an opportunity to repay my debt to them."

"Listen to him." Isaac chuckled. "Talking like it was nothing. Tell them about the cholera."

"Now, Isaac, I'm sure our guests are-"

"Two years after he arrived, there was an outbreak of cholera." Isaac cut him off. "Thanks to the doc here, not a single person died."

"A minor infection we'd found a treatment for centuries ago." Jex shrugged.

"No, no, what, what do you call them? The electrics?"

"Using my ship as a generator, I was able to rig up some rudimentary heating and lighting for the town."

"So why does the Gunslinger want you?" Jenny frowned.

"It don't matter."

"No." Jenny cut in. "It does because my dad could've been shot today."

"America's the land of second chances," Isaac replied. "We called this town Mercy for a reason. Others, some round here, don't feel that way."

"Now, Isaac, we've discussed this."

"People whose lives you've saved are suddenly saying we should hand you over."

"They're scared," Jex said glancing at the blonde, "that's all. You can hardly blame them."

"Them being scared scares me." Isaac protested. "War only ended five years back. That old violence is still under the surface. We give up Doc Jex, then we hand the keys of the town over to chaos."

The Stone raised a brow. "Did you try to repair your craft? Surely someone with your skills-"

"It really was very badly damaged." She didn't believe him that much.

"We evacuate the town." The Doctor clapped his hands together. "Our ship's just over the hills, room for everyone. We'll pop out, bring it back here, Robert's your uncle."

"Really?" Amy raised a brow. "Simple as that. No crazy schemes, no negotiations."

"I've matured." The Doctor replied.

"We're both twelve hundred years old now." The Stone explained.

"Plus I don't want to miss The Archers."

"Oh, so you're not even a tiny bit curious?" She eyed them.

"Why would we be curious?" He asked. "It's a mysterious space cowboy assassin. Curious? Of course, we're not curious."

"Son? You've still got to get past the Gunslinger. How you going to do that?"

The Doctor put the Stetson on his head. "With a little sleight of hand."

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The plan they had created was put into action with the Time Lords walking up to the preacher. "Can we borrow your horse, please?" The Doctor asked. "It's official Marshal business."

"He's called Joshua." The Preacher informed them."It's from the Bible. It means the Deliverer."

"No, he isn't." He denied. "I speak horse. He's called Susan, and he wants you to respect his life choices." He jumped on the horses back, the Stone behind him and they galloped off.

Amy and Jenny stayed with Jex in the Marshals office. "When this is all done, do you want us to take you home?"

"Thank you, but I've already given everything I have to the Kahler," Jex informed them. "My skills, energy, all that was good in me. Here, I could start afresh. I could remember myself and help people. That's all I ever wanted to do, end suffering."

"Here." She placed Isaac's coat over the man.

"You're a mother, aren't you?"

Some pain flashed through Amy's eyes. "How did you know?" She asked forcing a smile.

"There's kindness in your eyes," Jex answered. "And sadness, but a ferocity too."

Amy sighed and glanced at Jenny for a moment. The blonde smiled in understanding. It was hard to technically be older than your grandmother. Especially after it always being the grandmother who is way older than the grandchild. "Life's not exactly straight forward."

"It seldom is."

"And what about you?" Amy questioned, "are you a father?"

"Yes," Jex nodded, "in a way, I suppose I am."

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The horse continued to gallop through the desert with the Time Lords on its back. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." The Doctor forced him to slow down. "Yes, I know we're in a hurry." He answered after it huffed. "I just want to check something out. Two ticks." He dismounted with the Stone. "There's something niggling me." He muttered glancing at the Stone, "dear?"

"Yeah..." she frowned reaching down to rub at the dust. Finding a silver power cable she held it up and frowned. The Doctor raised a brow then shot a look at the horse. "Oi, don't swear." The Time Lady sighed and got back on the horse with him. They both followed the power cable before arriving at what they guessed was Jex's ship with a cover on it.

"Well then." The Doctor muttered jumping off the horse and uncovering the ship. The horse nayed. "Yes, a good point, Susan." He nodded. "Where is the damage?"

The Stone scanned the ship, a loud alarm blared making them both cover their ears and wince before the hatch opened. The Doctor jumped in first and moved sitting on half the seat and waved a hand up allowing the Stone to follow. The two of them squished up against each other.

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Jex looked up frowning after the sound of the alarm travelled into town, "That's the alarm on my ship."

"Maybe the Doctor wants to get it working again?" Amy shrugged.

"But that wasn't the plan." Jex frowned. "They're not following the plan."

Jenny snorted. "That's my parents for you."

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"Security breach." The computer on Jex's ship stated. "You have ten seconds to enter the passcode." They both swallowed and scanned the ship with their sonics trying to get it to work. "Or this vehicle will self-destruct. Thank you for choosing Abarakas Security software. Incinerating intruders for three centuries. Nine, eight, seven. Self-destruct overridden."

"This is an awful lot of security for a titchy spacecraft." The Doctor muttered after they stopped the ship from exploading.

"Awaiting command."

"Tell us everything you can about the Gunslinger."

"File not found." They frowned. "Please choose from Technical Specifications, Flight Recorder, Personal Files, Maps and Charts."

"Personal files of Doctor Kahler-Jex." The Stone ordered. Her eyes widened in horror when hundreds of names flew past the screen, agonising cries for help filled the ship. The Doctor gripped the Stones hand almost too tight.

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Jenny frowned having been trying to find Amy for the past ten minutes, she opened the door to the Marshal office and closed the door before turning around a revolver right in her face.

"I'm sorry, Jenny." Jex apologised. "They really should have followed the plan."

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The Stone gritted her teeth in anger at what she had just seen. Innocent lives were taken at a lie. The Doctor was angry, if not more than as she was. "Jenny." They both muttered wide-eyed realising where the blonde was and who she was with. They hoped Amy and Rory were with her and they were all safe for everyone's sake

The Doctor went to get out the spaceship first and instantly shot back in. "Don't shoot," he cried raising his hands seeing the gunslinger pointing his weapon at them, "don't shoot, don't shoot." He slowly made his way back up. The Stone looked out as well. "We know who you are, and who Jex is, too."

He powered down his gun. "Now, what we don't understand is why you haven't just walked into town and killed him."

"People will get in the way." He replied on a slightly robotic voice.

"You want justice, you deserve justice, but this isn't the way." The Doctor stated. "We can put him on trial-"

The gunslinger pointed his weapon at him again. "When he starts killing your people, you can use your justice."

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"Isaac says he doesn't care about my past, but things may have been uncovered that even he might struggle to forgive, so it's best we beat a hasty retreat," Jex said placing items into a bag and still pointing the revolver at Jenny.

"We?" She frowned. "I'm coming with you?"

"It's unlikely the Gunslinger will shoot if I'm with you. As far as I can tell, he's programmed to take innocent lives only if absolutely necessary."

Jenny narrowed her eyes. "Just you wait until my parents find out what you've done and what you're doing." She warned. "You'll wish that you were back on your own planet then."

"I'm sure I will." He remarked, opening the door only to have Isaac pointing a gun to the back of Jex's neck.

"Doc?" Isaac frowned while Amy and Rory's eyes widened. "What are you doing?"

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"No more warning shots." The Gunslinger informed the Time Lords. "I'll kill the next person to step over that line. Make sure it's Jex."