Chapter 12 - The Amazon and Timelord's Daughter pt. 2

-Hath camp-

One Hath has stayed behind with Cortana.

Cortana:
I need to charge it up. I need power. Do you understand?

The Hath rotates the map into 3 dimensions. The circular Temple now has a pointed roof and goes down a very long way.

Cortana:
There's even more? In 3D. Oh, you're a clever Hath. So this is where everybody's headed? But look, those tunnels sort of zig-zag. If I went up and over the surface in a straight line, I'd get there first.

Bubble, bubble.

Cortana:
Why not?

He brings up a graph.

Cortana:
Are these readings for the surface? Well, it doesn't look too bad. Nitrogen and oxygen about eighty twenty. That's fine. Ozone levels are high, and some big radiation spikes. But as long as I'm not out there too long. 

Bubble.

Cortana:
I have to find my friends. 

Bubble.

Cortana:
Come on, then.

-Cell-

Jenny:
Hey.

Cline:
I'm not supposed to talk to you. I'm on duty.

Jenny:
I know. Guarding me. So, does that mean I'm dangerous, or that I need protecting?

Cline:
Protecting from what?

Jenny:
Oh, I don't know. Men like you?

Jenny kisses Cline through the bars whilst taking his pistol.

Jenny:
Keep quiet and open the door.

Diana:
*to you* I'd like to see you try that.

-Stairs-

There is a guard on the lower flight of metal stairs.

You:
That's the way out.

Jenny raises the pistol.

You:
Don't you dare.

Diana:
Let me distract this one. I have picked up a few womanly wiles over the years.

You:
Let's save your wiles for later. In case of emergency. [Like after we go back to Earth.]

Diana nods.

The Doctor rummages in his coat pockets, and a few moments later a clockwork mouse grinds to a halt behind the guard. He picks it up and Jenny karate chops him from behind.

You:
I was going to distract him, not clobber him.

Jenny:
Well, it worked, didn't it?

You:
They must all have a copy of that new map. Just stay there. Don't hurt anyone.

-Staircase-

The Hath start to batter down a doorway as Cortana and her friend arrive at a brick-build set of stairs up to a hatch in the roof.

Cortana:
You can stay down here and live your whole life in the shadows, or come with me and stand in the open air. Feel the wind on your face. What's it going to be? It's up to you. But nothing's going to stop me.

-Planet surface-

Cortana pushes open the heavy hatch and climbs out onto a cold, dark, windswept planet lit by the reflected light of three moons. The Hath follows her.

Cortana:
I knew you couldn't resist it. 

Bubble.

Cortana:
Er, language. Come on.

-Cell-

Cline has been tied up with rope, and gagged. A soldier removes it.

Cline:
It was the girl. She tricked me. They, they got away. I'm sorry.

Cobb:
I've waited all my life for this moment. No one's going to get in my way. Certainly not this Doctor. At arms! We march to war.

-Tunnel-

The Doctor checks the map he took from the guard.

You:
Wait. This is it. The hidden tunnel. There must be a control panel.

You:
It's another one of those numbers. They're everywhere.

60120714.

You:
The original builders must have left them. Some old cataloguing system.

Jenny:
You got a pen? Bit of paper? Because, do you see, the numbers are counting down. This one ends in one four. The prison cell said one six. 

Jenny:
Always thinking, both of you. Who are you people?

You:
I told you. I'm the Doctor.

Jenny:
The Doctor. That's it?

Diana:
That's all he ever says.

Jenny:
So, you don't have a name either? Are you an anomaly, too?

You:
No.

Diana:
Oh, come on. You're the most anomalous man I've ever met. 

The Doctor gets into the control panel. 

You:
Here it is.

Jenny:
And Time Lords. What are they for, exactly?

You:
For? They're not, they're not for anything.

Jenny:
So what do you do?

You:
I travel through time and space.

Diana:
He saves planets, rescues civilisations, defeats terrible creatures. And runs a lot. Seriously, there's an outrageous amount of running involved.

Jenny:
And what about you, mum?

Diana:
I'm Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of Amazons. And I travel with him. *points to you*

The door opens.

You:
Got it!

Cobb:
Squad five, with me! *off in the distance*

You:
Now, what were you saying about running?

-Passageway-

The Doctor stops running just before the array of laser beams criss-crossing the passage.

Diana:
That's not mood lighting, is it? 

The Doctor tosses the clockwork mouse into the lasers. It gets disintegrated.

Diana:
No, I didn't think so.

You:
Arming device.

He works on a blue box nearby.

Diana:
There's more of these. Always eight numbers, counting down the closer we get.

60120713.

You:
Right, here we go.

Diana:
You'd better be quick. 

Cobb:
*in the distance* Corridor. 

Jenny:
The General. 

You:
Where are you going?

Jenny:
I can hold them up.

You:
No, we don't need any more dead.

Jenny:
But it's them or us.

You:
It doesn't mean you have to kill them.

Jenny:
I'm trying to save your life.

You:
Listen to me. The killing. After a while, it infects you. And once it does, you're never rid of it.

Jenny:
We don't have a choice.

You:
We always have a choice.

Jenny:
I'm sorry.

You:
Jenny.

Soldier:
This door, now.

Jenny runs around the corner and readies a machine gun at the approaching voices.

Soldier:
There she is. At arms. Fire!

Jenny exchanges gunfire with Cobb and his soldiers.

You:
I told you. Nothing but a soldier.

Diana:
She's trying to help. *as she scolds her lover*

Jenny ducks out of sight to think.

You:
Jenny, come on!

Jenny:
I'm coming.

Cobb:
Cease fire. Cease fire.

The lasers go out.

Diana:
That's it. 

You:
Jenny, leave it! Let's go. 

The Doctor and Diana run down the corridor.

Cobb:
You're a child of the machine. You're on my side. Join us. Join us in the war against the Hath. It's in your blood, girl. Don't deny it. 

Jenny stands and takes aim, then shoots a hole in a steam pipe above Cobb before running back.

You:
Jenny, come on. That's it.

Diana:
Hurry up.

The two sound like parents talking to a baby leaning how to walk. The lasers reappear.

You:
No, no, no, no, no, no. The circuit's looped back.

Diana:
Zap it back again!

You:
The controls are back there.

Jenny:
They're coming.

You:
Wait. Just. There isn't. Jenny, I can't 

Jenny:
I'll have to manage on my own. Watch and learn, Father, Mother. 

Jenny throws away the weapon and somersaults her way through the laser beams.

You:
No way. But that was impossible. 

Diana:
Not impossible. Just a bit unlikely. Brilliant! You were brilliant. Brilliant. *brings her daughter into a backbreaking hug*

Jenny:
I didn't kill him. General Cobb, I could have kill him but I didn't. You were right. I had a choice. 

Cobb and the soldiers appear at the other side of the lasers. Diana and Jenny run.

Cobb:
At arms. 

You:
I warned you, Cobb. If the Source is a weapon, I'm going to make sure you never use it.

Cobb:
One of us is going to die today and it won't be me. 

The Doctor runs away from the hail of bullets.

-Planet surface-

The ground is rough and hard going.

Cortana:
It can't be much further. 

She falls down a slope and lands with a splash in a bog. The Hoth goes to help her.

Cortana:
Help me! I'm sinking. I'm sinking. Help me, Peck. Help me. Help me, Peck. I'm sinking. I'm sinking. 

Peck cannot reach her hand, so he jumps in beside her and pushes her to solid ground before sinking below the porridge-like surface himself.

Cortana:
Oh no! No!

-Corridor-

Jenny:
So, you travel together, but you're not together?

Diana:
What? No. No. No way. No, no, we're friends, that's all. I mean, we're not even the same species. There's probably laws against it.

Jenny:
And what's it like, the travelling?

Diana:
Oh, never a dull moment. It can be terrifying, brilliant and funny, sometimes all at the same time. I've seen some amazing things though. Whole new worlds.

Jenny:
Oh, I'd love to see new worlds.

Diana:
You will. Won't she, Doctor?

You:
Hmm?

Diana:
Do you think Jenny will see any new worlds? 

You:
I suppose so.

Jenny:
You mean. You mean you'll take me with you?

You:
Well, we can't leave you here, can we?

Jenny:
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. Come on, let's get a move on. *gives you a backbreaking hug and let's go to scout ahead*

You:
Careful, there might be traps!

Diana:
Kids. They never listen. Oh, I know that look. I see it a lot round our way. Blokes with pushchairs and frowns. You've got dad-shock. 

You:
Dad-shock?

Diana:
Sudden unexpected fatherhood. Take a bit of getting used to.

You:
No, it's not that.

Diana:
Well, what is it then? Having Jenny in the Tardis, is that it? What's she going to do, cramp your style? Like you've got a sports car and she's going to turn it into a people-carrier?

You:
Diana, I've been a father before.

Diana:
What?

You:
I lost all that a long time ago, along with everything else.

Diana:
I'm sorry. I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me? You talk all the time, but you don't say anything.

You:
I know. I'm just. When I look at her now, I can see them. The hole they left, all the pain that filled it. I just don't know if I can face that every day.

Diana:
It won't stay like that. She'll help you. We both will.

You:
But when they died, that part of me died with them. It'll never come back. Not now.

Diana:
I tell you something, Doctor. Something I've never told you before. I think you're wrong.

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