The Beast Below

Alyssa landed in the Eleventh Doctor's Tardis and saw him standing by the Tardis doors holding Amelia Pond who was floating in space. She stayed quiet so that the Doctor wouldn't accidentally let go of Amy and make her drift off into space. She watched with a smile on her face as the Doctor pulled her back inside the Tardis "Oi Spaceman." Alyssa yelled, the Doctor turned to her beaming and ran to her taking her into a hug

"Where did you just come from?" He said,

"The year that never was." His face fell and said,

"So you know..."

"Yes." She said before turning to Amelia and said: "Hello Amelia Pond."

"But how..." She said, confused about how Alyssa got into the Tardis. "I jump through time sometimes on time, or Right on time or in the Tardis. Right when something is about to happen." She gestured to the still open Tardis door and the two ran to it to see a spaceship with a Britain flag painted on the side of it. The Doctor ran back to the console and started flipping levers,

"Now that's interesting. Twenty-ninth century. Solar flares roast the earth, and the entire human race packs its bags and moves out till the weather improves. Whole nations." The Doctor said, Alyssa who was watching Amy who had moved outside the Tardis and was now dangling off the side. Walked over, held her hand out for Amelia to grab

"Now what are you doing out there." Alyssa said, Amy just glared at her and took Alyssa's hand who pulled her inside and the Doctor obvious to what just happened ran over to them

"well, come on. I've found us a spaceship." The Doctor said, Alyssa smiled at how daft the man was but still followed him back to the console where he brought up and image of the spaceship "This is the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland. All of it bolted together and floating in the sky. Starship UK. It's Britain, but metal. That's not just a ship, that's an idea. That's a whole country, living and laughing and shopping. Searching the stars for a new home." Amy laughed

"Can we go out and see?" Amy asked, Alyssa smiled

"The Doctor would never not want to go to on a spaceship. If he didn't he would miss an adventure." Alyssa said, The Doctor pointed at Alyssa, motioning that she was right

"Course we can. But first, there's a thing." The Doctor said,

"A thing?" Amy asked, confused as the Doctor walked back to Console getting ready to pilot the Tardis onto the spaceship.

"An important thing. In fact, Thing One. We are observers only. That's the one rule I've always stuck to in all my travels. I never get involved in the affairs of other peoples or planets."

"That is such a lie Doctor and you know it. No matter where you go you always get involved in the affairs." Alyssa said, The Doctor pointed at her once more gaping at her for outing him like that. "Unless you want to prove me wrong of course."

"Shut up." The Doctor said, looking at a screen and saw a little girl sitting alone and crying. "Ooo, that's interesting." He said before grabbing Alyssa's hand and racing out the Doors of the Tardis which was now on the spaceship. They walked over to the crying child and tried to ask what was wrong but the girl just got up and left. He looks up at a camera that had a live feed in the Tardis and gestured for Amy to join them. Which she soon did, and the first thing she said was

"I'm in the future. Like hundreds of years in the future. I've been dead for centuries." Amy said, Alyssa sighed as The Doctor walked up to her,

"Oh, lovely. You're a cheery one. Never mind dead, look at this place. Isn't it wrong?" The Doctor said, He then put his hand on her best pushing her away from the Tardis, Alyssa following them

"What's wrong?" Amy said

"Come on, use your eyes. Notice everything. What's wrong with this picture?" The Doctor said right when a man drove a woman around on a bicycle passed them which was the first thing Amy thought was unusual

"Is it the bicycles? Bit unusual on a spaceship, bicycles." Amy said

"Says the girl in the nightie." The Doctor said looking down at what Amy was wearing

"Oh my God, I'm in my nightie." She said like she had just remembered what she was wearing

"Now, come on, look around you. Actually look." They stopped for a second before walking again and the Doctor continued "Life on a giant starship. Back to basics. Bicycles, washing lines, wind-up street lamps. But look closer. Secrets and shadows lives led in fear. Society bent out of shape, on the brink of collapse. A police state. Excuse me." Before walking off and grabbed a glass and put it on the floor watching as the glass was still. Even Alyssa knew that if this was a spaceship with engines the water would move. The Doctor then picked it up and put it back on the table and came up with an excuse on why he did that

"Sorry. Checking all the water in this area. There's an escaped fish." Before turning around and walking back to Amy. "Where was I?"

"Why did you just do that with the water?"

"Don't know. I think a lot. It's hard to keep track. Now, police state. Do you see it yet?" Alyssa looked up and saw the little girl who was still crying. She started forward, the Doctor any Amy watching her as she went she sat by her

"I know why you are upset Mandy." Alyssa said, the Girl looked up at her startled

"how do you know who I am." Mandy said, Alyssa smiled

"because I'm psychic. And I can tell you. Your friend Timmy is alright." Alyssa said, Alyssa looked up and saw the Doctor sitting across from her watching her as Amy talked to her. Alyssa put her arm around Mandy but she just got up and ran away. Alyssa sighed and walked over to the Doctor.

"Where did she go?" Amy asked,

"Deck two oh seven. Apple Sesame block, dwelling 54A. You're looking for Mandy Tanner." The Doctor said taking out a colorful wallet and continued "Oh, er, this fell out of her pocket when I accidentally bumped into her. Took me four goes. Ask her about those things. The smiling fellows in the booths. They're everywhere." He handed Amy the wallet who just was confused about why he cared so much about the smilers.

"But they're just things." Amy said,

"They're clean. Everything else here is all battered and filthy. Look at this place. But no one's laid a finger on those booths. Not a footprint within two feet of them. Look. Ask Mandy, why are people scared of the things in the booths?"

"No, hang on. What do I do? I don't know what I'm doing here and I'm not even dressed."

"It's this or Leadworth. What do you think? Let's see. What will Amy Pond choose?" The Doctor said and Amy relented and the Doctor continued "gotcha. Meet me back here in half an hour." looking at his watch about to stand up,

"What are you two going to do." Amy asked

"What we always do. Stay out of trouble badly." The Doctor said, grabbing Alyssa's hand and pulled her up with him and with him in the opposite direction

"Doctor!" She hissed and the Doctor turned back to Alyssa who took her hand out of his and said "I'm going with Amy." he pouted and was about to say something when Amy came up

"So is this how it works, Doctor? You never interfere in the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?" Amy said, Alyssa smiled and nodded

"Yes, it is." Alyssa said, Before walking away from the Doctor and looping her arms with Amy, "Now let's go find Mandy." before they walked off together. The Doctor pouting as she left but soon he turned around and went on his own way.

The two followed Mandy down until they heard a voice

"you two are following me. I saw you watching me at the Marketplace." Mandy said, looking at Amy who handed her, her wallet

"You dropped this." Amy said handing it to her who took it only to say

"Yeah when your friend kept bumping into me." before walking off and stopping. Amy and Alyssa saw that she had stopped in front of a tent. Alyssa immediately went forward and opened the gate and turned back to Amy

"You coming?" She said, Amy soon joined her only to turn back

"What are you doing?" Mandy said,

"Oh, don't mind us. Never could resist a keep out sign. What's through there? What's so scary about a hole? Something under the road?" Amy said walking over to the lock where Alyssa already was trying to unlock it with a hairpin.

"Nobody knows. We're not supposed to talk about it."

"About what?" Amy asked watching Alyssa struggle, before shaking her head and taking the lock from her. Taking up the task,

"Below." Mandy said

"And because you're not supposed to, you don't?" Amy said, turning back to her before turning back to unlock the lock

"You sound Scottish," Mandy said, referencing Amy

"I am Scottish. What's wrong with that? Scotland's got to be here somewhere." Amy said looking up and at the ceiling.

"No. They wanted their own ship." Mandy said, Alyssa smiled and shook her head before taking the pin back from Amy and fiddling with the lock some more

"Hmm. Good for them. Nothing changes."Amy said,

"So, how did you get here?" Mandy said, Alyssa looked back at Mandy but her eyes were caught on one of the smilers in a booth but it wasn't smiling any more it was frowning. She shook her head and went back to trying to pick the lock

"Oh, just passing through, you know, with a guy." Amy said, Amy looked at Alyssa and continued "And her but she somehow just manages to pop in."

"Your boyfriend?"

"No, I am not a home wrecker he has a wife." Alyssa looked at Amy with shock before turning back to the lock. Amy trailed off and said "Oh."

"What?"

"Nothing. It's just, I'm getting married. Funny how things slip your mind."

"Shame on you Amelia Pond forgetting Rory like that," Alyssa said, as the lock finally clicked and she smiled "Ah ha!" She said and Amy laughed

"Results!" Alyssa said, She turned back to Mandy and said "Coming?" but Mandy refused and Amy and Alyssa crawled in to see a tentacle. "Oh I'm Sorry, I am so sorry," Alyssa said, remembering exactly what the tentacle belonged to, A star whale. She turned around when she heard Amy shout for her only to get a face full of mist and fell unconscious.

She woke up in a room full of four screens and a forget and protest on it and said: "Oh you have got to be kidding me." and a voice from the computer said

"Welcome to voting cubicle three thirty-one C. Please leave this installation as you would wish to find it. The United Kingdom recognizes the right to know of all its citizens. A presentation concerning the history of Starship UK will begin shortly. Your identity is being verified on our electoral roll. Name, Alyssa last name unknown, age: 2,107" Alyssa shook her head and did the math in her head 800 when she was sent away from this universe to her new one and 20 years there. Because she thought she was 20 in the other universe so her real age was 820 and adding all the years that have passed since the year was 3295. She sat back in her seat as the computer was right about how she would be if she took the long way around. "Marital status: Unknown." then the video started playing

"You are here because you want to know the truth about this starship, and I am talking to you because you're entitled to know. When this presentation has finished, you will have a choice. You may either protest. or forget. If you choose to protest, understand this. If just one percent of the population of this ship do likewise, the programme will be discontinued with consequences for you all. If you choose to accept the situation, and we hope that you will, then press the Forget button. All the information I'm about to give you will be erased from your memory. You will continue to enjoy the safety and amenities of Starship UK, unburdened by the knowledge of what has been done to save you. Here then, is the truth about Starship UK, and the price that has been paid for the safety of the British people. May God have mercy on our souls." An old man said as the video continued to play, and then the presentation ended. She didn't press any of the buttons as tears rolled down her eyes about all the suffering the human race suffered and how much suffering the Star whale was going through. The door opened and the Doctor came in and soniced the computer turning it off

"Alyssa are you alright." The Doctor said, she nodded and stood up walking to him

"Amelia is in the next capsule number 30." Alyssa said, The Doctor nodded and the two left the capsule and was about to open the door next to hers but it opened automatically. Amy was already standing up and she looked confused about why she was there.

"Amy, what have you done?" The Doctor asked, but she didn't say anything. The Doctor went in and scanned the light

"Yeah, your basic memory wipe job. Must have erased about twenty minutes."

"But why would I choose to forget?" Amy asked confused

"Because everyone does. Everyone chooses the Forget button." Mandy said who was waiting for the two. " I didn't," Alyssa said, looking at the Doctor who looked at her wanting her to explain what she saw but she just shook her head trying to keep the tears down. The Doctor turned to Mandy and said: "Did you?"

"I'm not eligible to vote yet. I'm twelve. Any time after you're sixteen, you're allowed to the see the film and make your choice. And then once every five years."

"And once every five years, everyone chooses to forget what they've learned. Democracy in action."

"How do you not know about this? Are you Scottish too?" Mandy asked the Doctor who ran back to the four screens and said laughing a bit "Oh, I'm way worse than Scottish. I can't even see the movie. Won't play for me."

"It played for me," Amy said,

"The difference being the computer doesn't accept me as human." The Doctor said,

"But it played for me." Alyssa said, the Doctor turned to her

"It picked up on the memories of you being human and got confused so it played it for you." The Doctor said, Before turning back to the screens

"Why not? You look human." Amy said

"No, you look Time Lord. We came first." The Doctor said,

"So there are other Time Lords, yeah?"

"No. There were, but there aren't. Just us now. Long story. There was a bad day. Bad stuff happened. And you know what? I'd love to forget it all, every last bit of it, but I don't. Not ever. Because this is what I do, every time, every day, every second. This. Hold tight. We're bringing down the government." The Doctor said and hit the Protest button. The Door closed and the floor began to open revealing a large pit. Alyssa grabbed the Doctor's hand who said: "Say wheee!" But Amy screamed as they fell.

The three landed in what seemed to be organic waste and the Doctor quickly shot to his feet and looked around, trying to decipher where they were.

"Where are we?" Amy asked as she picked up some of the waste and threw it down.

"Six hundred feet down, twenty miles laterally, puts us at the heart of the ship. I'd say Lancashire. What's this then, a cave? Can't be a cave. Looks like a cave." The Doctor said,

"It's a rubbish dump, and it's minging!" Amy said, finally managing to get to her feet

"Yes, but only food refuse. Organic, coming through feeder tubes from all over the ship."

"The floor's all squidgy, like a water bed," Amy said getting to her knees and feeling the floor. Alyssa was looking around

"I am so sorry." Alyssa whispered,

"But feeding what, though?"

"A big creature, maybe, " Alyssa said, loud enough for the two to hear her they looked at her and Amy had a disgusted look on her face,

"Ah So not a floor then." The Doctor said Alyssa nodded

"Amy you are not going to like this but we are standing on a tongue." Amy said, The Doctor got all excited

"A tongue. A great big tongue." The Doctor said,

"This is a mouth. This whole place is a mouth? We're in a mouth?" Amy asked in disbelief,

"Yes, yes, yes. But on the plus side, roomy." The doctor said, turning around scanning everything with his screwdriver

"How do we get out?" Amy asked,

"How big is this beastie? It's gorgeous. Blimey, if this is just the mouth, I'd love to see the stomach. Though not right now." The Doctor said,

"Doctor, how do we get out?" Amy said trying to get the Doctor to see the picture.

"Okay, it's being fed through surgically implanted feeder tubes, so the normal entrance is closed for business." The Doctor said shining his screwdriver at what would be the entrance to the mouth only for there to be a big wall of teeth.

"We could try, though," Amy said, beginning to walk towards the teeth,

"No, stop, don't move." the Doctor said, but the floor started vibrating and they struggled to keep standing and the Doctor continued "Too late. It's started."

"What has?" Amy asked confused, Alyssa snatched the Screwdriver from the Doctor

"Point and think right?" she saidand pressed the button

"What are you doing?" Amy yelled,

"Sorry Amy, you are not going to like this, I'm trying to make it vomit." Alyssa said and she succeeded

"Right, then. This isn't going to be big on dignity. Geronimo!" The Doctor said,

The group landed in some sort of round hallway, and Amy was knocked unconscious. The Doctor snatched the Screwdriver back from Alyssa and said: "Mine, Use your own!"

"I haven't gotten one yet!" She said, the Doctor sighed and looked at her

"you're kidding." She smiled and said, "I get my own screwdriver?"

"Well, it's more like a pen but anyway!" He said turning to the door and trying to get it open. Alyssa smiled as she remembered that the only one that she knew who had a sonic pen was an old enemy for the Doctor

"Do I get Miss Foster's sonic pen?"

"Spoilers!" The doctor said

"oh no, you can't say something like that and pass it off as Spoilers! Do I really...." She was cut off by the doctor kissing her and she gaped at him.

"Oh that does shut you up," he whispered, mentally thanking the older version of her, Alyssa heard him and glared at him and turned towards Amy. Alyssa held her hand up asking for his screwdriver, the Doctor, saw it from the corner of his eye, sighed and walked over and scanned her

"she's fine." She said, before walking back to the door and trying to get it unlocked. Amy soon woke up and Alyssa smiled at her and said " There's nothing broken, there's no sign of concussion"

"and yes, you are covered in sick." The doctor added,

"Where are we?" Amy asked

"Overspill pipe, at a guess." The doctor said, Amy sniffed around

"Oh, God, it stinks." Amy said,

"Oh, that's not the pipe." The Doctor said, meaning that it was her and Amy sniffed herself and made a sound of disgust

"Can we get out?" Amy said,

"One door, one door switch, one condition. We forget everything we saw. Look familiar?" He said, and a forget button lit up. "That's the carrot." Then some lights at the end of the tunnel turned on and two Smilers were visible "That's the stick." the Doctor said before walking over and continuing "There's a creature living in the heart of this ship. What's it doing there?" The Smilers face rotated around and became frowners,

"Oh I know that you can stand but honestly that is not as threatening." Alyssa said,

"No, that's not going to work on me, so come on. Big old beast below decks and everyone who protests gets shoved down its throat. That how it works?" The Doctor said, The frowners head rotated around and became scowlers "Oh, stop it. I'm not leaving and I'm not forgetting, and what are you fellows going to do about it? Stick out your tongues, huh?""Doctor!" Alyssa said, and the booths opened and the Smilers step out, the group began to back up but a woman stepped in between the three and shot the two smilers. she spun around her gun and stuck it back into the holster before turning to the group,

"Look who it is. You look a lot better without your mask." The Doctor said the women ignored him and walked over to Amy and Alyssa

"You must be Amy and Alyssa. Liz. Liz Ten." she said offering her hand for them to shake Amy did first and but the women quickly took her hand back when she felt the sliminess of it. "Lovely hair, Amy. Shame about the sick." She said before Mandy joined her and Liz wrapped her arm around her shoulders "You know Mandy, yeah? She's very brave."

"How did you find us?" The Doctor asked

"Stuck my gizmo on you. Been listening in." She said throwing a device at the Doctor and turned to Alyssa and said "Nice moves on the hurl escape." Alyssa smiled at the phrase and Liz turned back to the Doctor "So, what's the big fella doing here?"

"You're over sixteen, you've voted. Whatever this is, you've chosen to forget about it." The Doctor said

"No. Never forgot, never voted, not technically a British subject." Liz said,

"Then who and what are you, and how do you know me?"

"You're a bit hard to miss, love. Mysterious stranger, M O consistent with higher alien intelligence, hair of an idiot. I've been brought up on the stories. My whole family was." Liz said

"Your family?" The Doctor asked Liz was about to respond only for a sound of the smilers repairing to start

"They're repairing. Doesn't take them long. Let's move." Liz said, before turning around and left the hallway the group following her. Soon they reached a big open room and Liz said "The Doctor. Old drinking buddy of Henry Twelve. Tea and scones with Liz Two. Vicky was a bit on the fence about you, wasn't she? Knighted and exiled you on the same day. And so much for the Virgin Queen, you bad, bad boy."

"Liz Ten." The Doctor who finally realized who she was said

"Liz Ten, yeah. Elizabeth the Tenth. And down!" Everyone ducked and Liz shot the two smilers that had repaired themselves. "I'm the bloody Queen, mate. Basically, I rule." Alyssa smiled at her

"Impressive, is there a way I can get one of those guns?" Alyssa said, Liz looked at her and smiled slightly,

"I'll see what I can do." Liz Ten said,

The group made their way through the Starship and soon entered a Corridor where some tentacles were beating some bars. Alyssa looked at them and said, "I'm so, so sorry." This time the Doctor looked at her and was about to comment only to be interrupted

"There's a high-speed Vator through there." Liz said But seeing the Doctor, Alyssa and Amy looking at the tentacles "Oh, yeah. There are these things. Any ideas?"

"Doctor, Me and Alyssa saw one of these up tops. There was a hole in the road like it had burst through like a root." Amy said, shocked that there were more of them

"Exactly like a root. It's all one creature, the same one we were inside, reaching out. It must be growing through the mechanisms of the entire ship." The Doctor said,

"What, like an infestation? Someone's helping it. Feeding it. Feeding my subjects to it. Come on. Got to keep moving." Liz who was now mad about the whole situation left with Mandy. but the three stayed behind.

"Doctor?" Amy said

"Oh, Amy. We should never have come here." The Doctor said, looking at the tentacles with a bit of sadness. The three left and followed Liz to her room where a bunch of glasses of water were on the floor. "Why all the glasses?" The Doctor asked

"To remind me every single day that my government is up to something, and it's my duty to find out what," Liz said as the Doctor walked over and picked up the Mask he saw her wear

"A queen going undercover to investigate her own kingdom?" The Doctor said,

"Secrets are being kept from me. I don't have a choice. Ten years I've been at this. My entire reign. And you've achieved more in one afternoon." Liz said,

"How old were you when you came to the throne?" The Doctor said, still examining the mask like it was some great puzzle "Forty. Why?"

"What, you're fifty now? No way." Amy said, turning around from looking in a mirror and walked over

"Yeah, they slowed my body clock. Keeps me looking like the stamps." Liz said,

"And you always wear this in public?" The Doctor said, holding up the mask

"Undercover's not easy when you're me. The autographs, the bunting." Liz said,

"Air-balanced porcelain. Stays on by itself, because it's perfectly sculpted to your face," he said holding up the mask showing that it did, in fact, look like it fit her face perfectly. Alyssa took the mask from the Doctor and examined it herself.

"Yeah? So what?" Liz saidm

"The smallest little detail can mean everything," Alyssa said, handing the mask back the mask to the Doctor, knowing what the mask really did. The door opened and a bunch of people entered all in black hoods that seemed to reach their feet.

"What are you doing? How dare you come in here?" Liz said,

"Ma'am, you have expressed interest in the interior workings of Starship UK. You will come with us now." The leader of the group said and Liz got off her bed and walked forward

"Why would I do that?" She said, only for the peoples head turned around and into a Scowler.

"How can they be Smilers?" Amy asked shocked about the group's head turning around "Half Smiler, half human." The Doctor said, Liz got the closest she could to the leader and said "Whatever you creatures are, I am still your queen. On whose authority is this done?"

"The highest authority, Ma'am." The Leader said

"I am the highest authority."

"Yes, ma'am. You must go now, Ma'am."

"Where?" Liz asked

"The Tower, Ma'am."

Liz didn't order with the Half-human, half Smiler thing, and the group headed to the tower where more tentacles were in bars. Alyssa sighed as she looked at something that looked like a laser shooting something she knew to be a brain of the Starwhale, and children who were walking around Alyssa watching them sadly

"Doctor, where are we?" Amy asked as she walked around herself,

"The lowest point of Starship UK. The dungeon." The Doctor said as a man came up to Liz and greeted her

"Hawthorne. So this is where you hid yourself away. I think you've got some explaining to do." Liz said

"There's children down here. What's all that about?" The Doctor asked Hawthorne just now noticing the Children that were walking around

"Protesters and citizens of limited value are fed to the beast. For some reason, it won't eat the children. You're the first adults it's spared. You're very lucky." Hawthorne said,

"Yeah, look at us. Torture chamber of the Tower of London. Lucky, lucky, lucky. Except it's not a torture chamber, is it? Well, except it is. Except it isn't. Depends on your angle." The Doctor said, noticing the brain and the Torture device which Alyssa was standing at looking at the creature whispering to it

"I'm so sorry," She whispered,

"What's that?" Liz said, joining the Doctor and Alyssa in looking at the brain

"Well, like I say, it depends on the angle. It's either the exposed pain center of big fella's brain, being tortured relentlessly." now knowing why Alyssa constantly apologized when she saw the creature. She knew all along what was happening to the creature being in the voting booth and her foreknowledge.

"Or?" Liz asked hoping for a better situation than a creature being tortured,

"it's nothing else, this is just a torture chamber." Alyssa said, glaring at Hawthorne.

"I don't understand," Liz said staring at Alyssa who had walked over to the Doctor who was holding his Screwdriver up willingly so Alyssa could take it. She did exactly that,

"This really is a spaceship that could never fly, but there is a creature that makes it fly, but you think that it's okay to torture a creature an completely innocent creature just with the thought that if you didn't it wouldn't keep moving. This is one of the moments where I despised that I once thought I was human because you always go to torture no matter what because you simply don't know what would happen if you didn't, this time I'm going to let you hear the creature scream," Alyssa said, running over to a vat and opening and a tentacle flared up. She pointed the screwdriver at it and pressed the button. Suddenly a scream sounded like it was in pain.

"Stop it," Liz said, who actually looked ashamed. Alyssa unpressed the button and the screaming stopped. Liz then looked at Hawthorne and said: "Who did this."

" We act on instructions from the highest authority."

"I am the highest authority. The creature will be released, now. I said now!" Liz said but no one moved "Is anyone listening to me?" The Doctor then walked forward

"Liz. Your mask." He said,

"What about my mask?" Liz asked turning to the Doctor who threw it over to her

"Look at it. It's old. At least two hundred years old, I'd say." The Doctor said,

"Yeah? It's an antique. So?" Liz said not fully getting what the doctor was saying

"Yeah, an antique made by craftsmen over two hundred years ago and perfectly sculpted to your face. They slowed your body clock, all right, but you're not fifty. Nearer three hundred. And it's been a long old reign."

"Nah, it's ten years. I've been on this throne ten years." Liz said not believing a single thing he was saying

"Ten years. And the same ten years, over and over again," The Doctor said before grabbing Liz's hand and said, "always leading you here." Leading her to a computer that had the two buttons Forget and Abdicate

"What have you done?" Liz asked looking at Hawthorne.

"Only what you have ordered. We work for you, Ma'am. The Winders, the Smilers, all of us." He said flipping a switch and a video came one of Liz.

"If you are watching this. If I am watching this, then I have found my way to the Tower Of London." Liz sat down to watch and the screen changed from Liz and to the creature that they were currently torturing "The creature you are looking at is called a Star Whale. Once, there were millions of them. They lived in the depths of space and, according to legend, guided the early space travelers through the asteroid belts." The screen flipped back to Liz and the video continued "This one, as far as we are aware, is the last of its kind. And what we have done to it breaks my heart. The Earth was burning. Our sun had turned on us and every other nation had fled to the skies. Our children screamed as the skies grew hotter. And then it came, like a miracle. The last of the Star Whales. We trapped it, we built our ship around it, and we rode on its back to safety. If you wish our voyage to continue, then you must press the Forget button. Be again the heart of this nation, untainted. If not, press the other button. Your reign will end, the Star Whale will be released, and our ship will disintegrate. I hope I keep the strength to make the right decision." The video ended

"I voted for this. Why would I do that?" Amy said,

"Because you knew if we stayed here, I'd be faced with an impossible choice. Humanity or the alien. You took it upon yourself to save me from that. And that was wrong. You don't ever decide what I need to know." The Doctor said slowly growing with anger

"I don't even remember doing it."

"You did it. That's what counts."

"I'm, I'm sorry," Amy said, actually sorry that she had chosen the forget button

"Oh, I don't care. When I'm done here, you're going home." The Doctor said walking over to a machine and flipping some buttons Amy followed him

"Why? Because I made a mistake? One mistake? I don't even remember doing it. Doctor!" Amy said, Alyssa walked over to the Doctor and handed him back his screwdriver and the Doctor motioned for her to do something, but she didn't. The Doctor glared at her before looking up at Amy

"Yeah, I know. You're only human." he said,

"What are you doing?" Liz said, who had come up behind Amy

"The worst thing I'll ever do. I'm going to pass a massive electrical charge through the Star Whale's brain. Should knock out all its higher functions, leave it a vegetable. The ship will still fly, but the whale won't feel it." The Doctor said, pushing Alyssa out of the way and continued to press some buttons ignoring the sad look Alyssa was giving him

"That'll be like killing it." Amy said,

"Look, three options. One, I let the Star Whale continue in unendurable agony for hundreds more years. Two, I kill everyone on this ship. Three, I murder a beautiful, innocent creature as painlessly as I can. And then I find a new name because I won't be the Doctor anymore."

"There must be something we can do, some other way," Liz said, not wanting to kill the beast

"Nobody talk to me. Nobody human has anything to say to me today!"

"What about me?" Alyssa said, the Doctor looked up at her and shook his head "Doctor you are going about things to fast." The Doctor then ignored her and went back to doing what he was doing. Alyssa finally had enough of the Doctor's behavior and said "Doctor stop!" The Doctor ignored her and Alyssa ran over to Liz and said "Sorry, Your Majesty. Going to need a hand." grabbing her and dragging her over to the voting buttons and slamming Liz's hand down on the Abdicate button. The whale roared and the place shook it then calmed down

"Alyssa what have you done" The Doctor said,

"Nothing," She said, smiling "nothing at all."

"We've increased speed." Hawthorne said, who was by the controls read what the starship.

"Yeah, well, you've stopped torturing the pilot. Got to help."

"It's still here. I don't understand."

"You didn't know the whole reason the star whale came. The Star Whale didn't come like a miracle all those years ago. It volunteered. You didn't have to trap it or torture it. That was all just you. It came because it couldn't stand to watch your children cry." Alyssa looked over at the Doctor and said "What if you were really old and really kind and alone? Your whole race dead. No future. What couldn't you do then? If you were that old, and that kind, and one of the last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry." Alyssa said, quoting what she remembered Amy said when she had first watched the episode.

A couple of hours later, Alyssa and the Doctor were at the Observational Deck when Amy came up behind them and said "Gifts from her majesty." holding Liz's mask and a holster. She handed the mask to the Doctor and the holster to Alyssa who smiled when she took out a gun. "She says there will be no more secrets on Starship UK." The Doctor who had said nothing the whole time that they were in the observation deck

"Alyssa you could have killed everyone on this ship." The Doctor said, Alyssa looked up at the Doctor after attaching the holster to her hip

"I wouldn't have done what I did if I knew it was going to kill everyone. But you could have killed a Star Whale." Alyssa said,

"And you saved it. I know, I know." The Doctor said relenting and sort of smiling at her.

"Amazing though, don't you think? The Star Whale. All that pain and misery and loneliness, and it just made it kind." Amy said,

"But you couldn't have known how it would react." The Doctor said, "You couldn't. But I've seen it before. Very old and very kind, and one of the very, very last. Sound a bit familiar?" Alyssa said, before wrapping her arms around the Doctor who hugged her back. Amy joined the hug,

"Hey." Amy said,

"What?"

"Gotcha."

"Huh. Gotcha." The Doctor said and hugged the two tighter.

They were soon back in the Tardis and Alyssa was watching the Doctor pilot the Tardis and said: "Doctor, I think I figured out why the Tardis brought me back." The Doctor looked up at her and said: "Why then."

"Because she saw how sad you were before you met me of course back in your ninth body and decided that it was best to bring me back. So you wouldn't be alone anymore." She stood up and walked to him and said: "And even though I jump around, I will never abandon you, nor will I allow you to lose yourself." The Doctor smiled and took her into a hug and kissed the top of her head. She pulled back and said "I'll see you soon Doc," before she disappeared in a flash of golden light.

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Author note's: I had to post this chapter twice because the format got all messed up. I really enjoyed writing this chapter because Alyssa is finally accepting her new reality. In the first two chapters, she didn't really believe what was going on. but now she has accepted it. I also wanted to say that me posting chapters might become a little weird because I am a college student and school comes first so sometimes you might get two chapters a day other times only one but really late at night. Thank you again for all the reviews and please keep them coming.