The Adventures of Mercy Song

Rinse and Repeat

WARNING: MENTIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOOD AND NEEDLES

[RIVER'S POV]

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    Her worst nightmares were coming to life. Just as Kovarian had seemed to win again, Martha had come through, doing the dirty work for River. With Kovarian paralyzed and their little family trapped, they had to think of something fast. Mercy was screaming into her chest, wailing from the commotion. No child should have such a traumatic thing happen so young. Hopefully, all this would just dissolve into a blurry nightmare she'd never quite be able to remember or grasp.

"River, as soon as I get this down, I need you to get into the Tardis immediately," Her husband said, "This energy field won't hold forever, but if we can get behind the Tardis's shields, at least we'll be safe from bullets and blasts!"

River nodded vigorously. In front of her, River's parents held hands, standing with no gap between them to protect the life none refused to give up. Martha was handing the Doctor everything in her pockets, hoping that they might contain something to help. Luckly, Amy had kicked the Kleptoneasion fusion barrier onto the inside, and she picked it up, passing it to the Doctor. "Think you could figure this out?" She asked.

His eyes lit up as he took it, looking it over, "Amelia Pond, I could bloody kiss you!"

"Woah there, raggedy man. You're my son-in-law now! Things are a bit different," Amy replied, and turned back around to River, holding her shoulders, "You doing alright? How's Mercy?" She asked.

River looked up at her, tearing her eyes away from her baby, "Yeah, I got her."

The Purple energy was getting thinner by the second, and Monks and Silence were closing in, ready to steal the child the second it was down. The Doctor worked while Martha held the Kleptoneasion fusion barrier, the buzzing of his sonic doubling it's work to sustain the energy disk and figure out how to permanently disengage the Kleptoneasion fusion barrier.

"Give us the child! You will be deleted!" A multitude of robotic voices said through the smoke, the metallic bodies coming through the door to join the struggle. Cybermen.

As they got closer and closer to exposure, the group of six were backed further and further against the Tardis, and River handed Amy her Tardis key, the redhead ready to unlock the doors the second the disk's energy field failed.

As if on cue, a terribly American accent yelled over the commotion, "Just hold out a little longer!"

"Thank you, Jack!" The Doctor acknowledged, and worked frantically, River desperately trying to hush her daughter, and Amy and Rory's free hands were clasped as they prepared to defend their family. Martha suddenly had an idea.

"What if we turned off the power completely? Rebooted the system?" Martha shouted, and The Doctor looked at her with wide eyes, a grin forming on his face.

"What, turn it off then back on again ?" Amy simplified, and the three looked between each other before the Doctor reacted, grabbing the bloodied scalpel from Martha's grasp and with careful hands pried off a panel from the barrier and he soniced it. As expected, the Tardis began to glow behind them as it was released from the time travel limiting tech, and Martha high-fived Amy.

"All of you, get in at the same time!" The Doctor snapped his fingers, and the door opened behind them. Dropping the disk, the Doctor stepped back, and Martha crushed it under the heel of her shoe. The Energy field went down, and they were under fire once again.