The Family of Blood

Village hall…

"Make your decision, Mister Smith." Jenny said.

"Perhaps if that human heart breaks, the Time Lord will emerge." Baines said.

Out of sight, Latimer takes the watch from his pocket, and opens it. Golden energy shimmers and the Family turn their heads quickly. Kirito has his Elucidator sword pointed towards the Family as Asuna also has her rapier pointed towards them.

"Time to play a bit of this." Jared said, taking out his phone to play the song from the first town in SAO.

"That's…" Kirito said, as Latimer closes the watch.

Martha gets the gun off Jenny and uses her as a shield while she aims it at Baines, and Jared ran towards Kirito and Asuna to hide behind them.

"One of my favorite songs in SAO." Jared said, smiling.

"All right! One more move and I shoot." Martha said.

"Oh, the maid is full of fire." Baines said.

"And you can shut up!" Martha said, firing the gun at the ceiling.

"It looks like you've listened to music from the game." Kirito said, looking at Jared.

"The whole soundtrack is on my phone." Jared said, placing his phone inside his pocket. "And on YouTube too."

"Nice." Asuna said, pointing her rapier at the family. "What else do you have on your phone?"

"Oh, a lot of songs from Spotify and Amazon Music."

"Are those songs crappy?" Kirito asked.

The family lower their guns. Joan returns to the Doctor.

"Doctor, get everyone out. There's a door at the side. It's over there. Go on. Do it, Mister Smith. I mean you." Martha said.

"Do what she said. Everybody out, now. Don't argue, Mister Jackson. They're mad. That's all we need to know. Susan, Miss Cooper, outside, all of you." Joan said, while the villagers run out, screaming.

"Move yourself, boy. Back to the school, quickly." The Doctor said.

"And you. Go on. Just shift."

"What about you lot?"

"Mister Smith, I think you should escort your lady friend to safety, don't you?"

Outside the village hall…

"Mister Hicks, warn the village. Get everyone out. Latimer, get back to the school. Tell the headmaster." The Doctor said.

"Don't touch me. You're as bad as them." Latimer said, running away.

Village hall…

Jenny gets away from Martha and rejoins her Family.

"Don't try anything. I'm warning you, or Sonny boy gets it." Martha said, angrily.

"Kirito, Asuna, there's something wrong with the Moon." Jared said, taking out his phone, and loaded up a picture. "It wasn't like that when we left."

"Did another anime come into play?" Asuna asked, looking at Jared. "Besides Love Live."

"Crap. It's Symphogear." Jared said, as Martha backs away with him, Kirito, and Asuna as the Family move forward.

"And what the hell is Symphogear?" Kirito asked.

"Bad news. Very bad news. We leave our century for a couple months. And somehow Symphogear happened. Or is happening."

"She is consumed. Her body's mine." Jenny said.

"You mean she's dead." Martha said.

"Yes. And she went with precious little dignity. All that screaming." Jenny said, and a scarecrow grabs Martha from behind.

"Get the gun!" Baines said, as the scarecrow takes the gun and Martha runs out of the hall with Jared, Kirito, and Asuna. "Good work, soldier."

Outside the village hall…

"Don't just stand there, move! God, you're rubbish as a human. Come on!" Martha said, angrily.

Martha, the Doctor Joan, Jared, Kirito, and Asuna run.

"Why is Symphogear coming into play a bad thing?" Asuna asked. "Isn't that good?"

"Not if Noise now comes into play. That means it's not just witches and familiars over there." Jared said, holding Martha's hand. "Why include Symphogear? μ's and Aqours are no longer safe."

"Of course you care about your school idols." Kirito said, scoffing. "What's so great about them?"

"Their music and so much more."

"So, you want to protect them too. I don't think that's even possible."

"It is. Protecting 18 people. How hard could it be?"

(Jared's POV)

Farringham School…

The Doctor closes the main doors behind them, grabs the bell and starts ringing it.

"What are you doing?" Kirito asked.

"Maybe one man can't fight them, but this school teaches us to stand together. Take arms! Take arms!" The Doctor said, angrily.

"You can't do that!" Martha said.

"You want me to fight, don't you? Take arms! Take arms!"

"I say sir, what's the matter?" Hutchinson asked.

"Enemy at the door, Hutchinson. Enemy at the door. Take arms!"

"I don't think we have to worry about the Moon after all." I said, looking at Kirito and Asuna. "The wielders of Symphogear have it under control."

"How do you know for sure?" Kirito asked.

"I just do." I said, as the guns are being passed out.

"You can't do this, Doctor. Mister Smith!" Martha said.

"Who are you gonna leave to defend Japan with?" Asuna asked. "If aliens invade Earth."

"Oh, just the Symphogear wielders and the magical girls who made contracts with Kyubey." I said, laughing a little.

"Wait, you're gonna let helpless little girls take out Daleks or Cybermen?" Kirito asked, when the Headmaster entered the room.

"What was that about being helpless?" Asuna asked.

"Nothing."

"Really? Is that so? Perhaps you and I should have a word in private." Rocastle said.

"No, I promise you, sir. I was in the village with Matron. It's Baines, sir. Jeremy Baines and Mister Clark from Oakham Farm. They've gone mad, sir. They've got guns. They've already murdered people in the village. I saw it happen." The Doctor said.

"Matron, is that so?"

"I'm afraid it's true, sir." Joan said.

"Murder on our own soil?"

"I saw it. Yes."

"Perhaps you did well then, Mister Smith. What makes you think the danger's coming here?"

"Well, sir, they said…" The Doctor said.

"Baines threatened Mister Smith, sir. Said he'd follow him. We don't know why." Joan said.

"Very well. You boys, remain on guard. Mister Snell, telephone for the police. Mister Philips, with me. We shall investigate." Rocastle said.

"No! But it's not safe out there." Martha said, angrily.

"Mister Smith, it seems your favourite servant is giving me advice. You will control her, sir." Rocastle said, leaving the room with Philips.

"I've got to find that watch."

Corridor...

Joan follows Martha and Asuna. They pass Latimer, who is hiding with the watch.

"Hold me. Keep me safe. Keep me dark. Keep me closed. The time is not right. Not yet. Not while the Family is abroad. Danger!" The Doctor said, inside the watch.

Lucy sneaks into the school.

Outside the school…

"So. Baines and one of the cleaning staff. There's always a woman involved. Am I to gather that some practical joke has got out of hand?" Rocastle asked.

"Headmaster, sir. Good evening, sir. Come to give me a caning, sir? Would you like that, sir?" Baines asked.

"Keep a civil tongue, boy."

"Now come on, everyone. I suspect alcohol has played its part in this." Philips said, as the Doctor watches from a window. "Let's all just calm down. And who are these friends of yours, Baines, in fancy dress?"

"I don't like this." Kirito said, watching Baines pull the arm off a scarecrow. "This is some bullshit right there."

"I know." I said, frowning. "I don't like it at all."

"No, sir. You, sir, you will send us Mister John Smith. That's all we want, sir, Mister John Smith and whatever he's done with his Time Lord consciousness. Then we'd be very happy to leave you alone." Baines said.

"You speak with someone else's voice, Baines. Who might that be?" Rocastle asked.

"We are the Family of Blood."

"Mister Smith said there had been deaths."

"Yes, sir. And they were good, sir."

"Well, I warn you, the school is armed."

"Those are just foot soldiers." Kirito said, scoffing. "They won't last. Even in 1914."

"Tell me about it." I said, taking out the Monado. "I feel bad for them."

"How about Symphogear? That anime that has recently come into play."

"At least Japan has more people to look after it."

"1914, sir. Because the Family has travelled far and wide looking for Mister Smith and, oh, the things we have seen. War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud. Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?" Baines asked.

"Don't you forget, boy, I've been a soldier. I was in South Africa. I used my dead mates for sandbags. I fought with the butt of my rifle when the bullets ran out, and I would go back there tomorrow for King and Country!" Rocastle said, angrily.

"Et cetera, et cetera." Baines said, vaporizing Philips. "Run along with that lot, Headmaster." He looked over at Jared and Kirito. "Run back to school. And send us Mister Smith!"

(Open POV)

Farringham School…

"Mister Philips has been murdered, Mister Smith. Can you tell me why?" Rocastle asked.

"Honestly, sir, I have no idea. And the telephone line's been disconnected. We are on our own." The Doctor said.

"If we have to make a fight of it, then make a fight we shall. Hutchinson, we'll build a barricade within the courtyards. Fortify the entrances, build our defences. Gentlemen, in the name of the King, we shall stand against them."

"Yes, sir! Right, come on. Let's get moving." The boys said.

"This will totally work." Kirito said, when a wooden beam is put across the main doors.

"Hurry, get back." A boy said.

"Barricade the kitchens. Secure the passageway to the stables." Hutchinson said, as he drags Latimer out of his hiding place. "You coward. You'll do your duty, Latimer, with the rest of us."

Courtyard…

"Sandbags to the north and west." Rocastle said.

"Stables in case of…" The Doctor said.

"Pemberton, load the spare magazines with bullets."

"Quickly, now. Take the magazine cut-off out." Hutchinson said, as Lucy watches from a window.

"We have an army." Jared said, leaning against the wall of sandbags.

"We have a Hu…" Kirito said, as Jared laughed a little. "Wait, he isn't a thing yet."

"Nope."

"Lockley, when firing commences, you're in charge of the gallery." The Doctor said.

"Peterson, that is not acceptable. Report to your senior officer." Rocastle said.

"I don't like this." Jared said, pacing back and forth. "I wish we could talk things out without fighting."

"Don't you like to fight?" Kirito asked.

"Not really. But I'll do it to protect the people I love."

Doctor's study…

Martha is searching while Joan and Asuna just stand there.

"I know it sounds mad, but when the Doctor became human, he took the alien part of himself and he stored it inside the watch. It's not really a watch, it just looks like a watch." Martha said.

"And alien means not from abroad, I take it." Joan said.

"The man you call John Smith, he was born on another world."

"A different species."

"Yeah."Asuna said, happily. "He's an entirely different species. He's a Time Lord. The last of them."

"Then tell me. In this fairy tale, who are you lot?" Joan asked.

"Just friends. I'm not. I mean, you haven't got a rival, as much as I might. Just his friends." Martha said.

"And human, I take it?"

"We're human." Asuna said, smiling. "Don't worry about that. Okay. I have Kirito around, he's my boyfriend."

"And more than that, we just don't follow him around. I'm training to be a doctor. Not an alien doctor, a proper doctor. A doctor of medicine." Martha said.

"Well that certainly is nonsense. Women might train to be doctors, but hardly a skivvy and hardly one of your colour." Joan said, angrily.

"Oh, do you think? Bones of the hand. Carpal bones, proximal row. Scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform. Distal row. Trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate. Then the metacarpal bones extending in three distinct phalanges. Proximal, middle, distal." Martha said, showing off.

"You read that in a book."

"Yes, to pass my exams. Can't you see this is true?'

"I must go."

"If we find that watch, then we can stop them."

"Those boys are going to fight. I might not be a doctor, but I'm still their nurse. They need me."

Asuna then took out her Augma and put it around her head to see one missed call from Jared. She proceeded to call the fanboy quickly.

"What's up?" Asuna asked.

"They found it." Jared said, his voice coming out of the augmented reality headset.

"Found what?"

"The TARDIS. But Karen and Miyu are safe inside."

Farringham School…

Joan has changed into her uniform.

"You're with Armitage and Thwaites. They know the drill. Joan, it's not safe." The Doctor said.

Just then a motorcycle, powered by vibranium appeared in a flash of light and hopping off of it is a sight that shocked Jared to the max, it's Hibiki and Yukine.

"Oh, my god." Jared said, shocked as Kirito and Asuna hopped onto the vehicle and drove off. "Who else is with you two?"

Another motorcycle appeared with the Bumblebee colors with Yang and Blake on it, and Jared laughed a lot at the sight of who came.

"This could work." Jared said, smiling, looking at his friends. "How did you four come?"

"Thank the Black Swordsman and Lightning Flash Asuna." Yukine said, smirking. "That's how we know how to come."

"And don't worry about LLENN and Fukaziroh." Hibiki said, smiling. "We brought them home."

"That's where you were brought up. Tell me about it." Joan said.

"Well, it lies on the River Leen, its southern boundary following the course of the River Trent which flows from Stoke to the Humber." The Doctor said.

"That sounds like an encyclopaedia. Where did you live?"

"Where's Tsubasa?" Jared asked, looking at the two Symphogear wielders.

"Oh, I know." Yang said, happily. "She's at Wakanda with Shuri."

"So, this is me at work here, huh. Planning things in advance."

"Pretty much." Blake said, looking away. "Yeah."

"So, what are we waiting for?" Hibiki asked. "We can talk it out with them."

"I'm not sure that's the right answer."

"Mister Smith, if you please!" Rocastle said, from inside the building.

"What choice do I have?" The Doctor asked, kissing Joan.

"So, we're letting these kids fight." Hibiki said, looking at Jared. "Why aren't we stopping them?"

"Because this is the year before World War I." Jared said, frowning. "Goddamnit. I wish we were in the present day."

"How the hell do you even know about us?" Yukine asked. "We haven't met yet."

"This was during the time when I watched you guys on TV. This is my first time meeting you."

"Our first time…" Hibiki said, sadly. "You don't know what happened to us."

"What happened?"

"The word you're looking for is spoilers." Yukine said.

"Crap." Jared said, annoyed.

Farringham School…

Martha gives a little scream, throws papers into the air and leaves the Doctor's study. Latimer is hiding, talking to the watch.

"What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?" Latimer asked.

"Beware." Some voices said, inside the watch.

"Beware of what?"

"Her."

Latimer looks up and sees Lucy standing in the corridor, holding her balloon. She sniffs.

"Keep away." Latimer said.

"Who are you?" Lucy asked.

"I saw you at the dance. You were with that family. You're one of them." Latimer said, as Hibiki entered the room.

"Tim, right?" Hibiki asked, wearing her Gungnir outfit. "Jared sent me to protect you."

"He sent you?"

"Yeah. I suppose he thought you needed looking after."

"Okay." Latimer said, now looking at Lucy. "I reckon whatever you are, you're still in the shape of a girl. How strong is she, do you think? Does she really want to see this?"

Latimer aims the watch at Lucy and the golden energy shows her an explosion, and the Doctor. She runs away.

"That looked cool." Hibiki said, running off with Tim. "Come on! There's no need for a fight right now."

"So, you're that Hibiki Jared keeps mentioning." Tim said, looking at the Symphogear wielder.

"Yeah. I am."

(Jared's POV)

Courtyard…

"Stand to!" Rocastle said, the scarecrows hammer at the main gate. "At post!"

"Now." I said, as everyone else takes aim.

"Killter ichaival tron." Yukine said, with the Symphogear Gem in her hand and she transformed into her battle outfit. "Okay what do we do?"

"We do what we usually do when taking down bad guys." Yang said, as the scarecrows break in.

"Fire!" Rocastle said, as the boys, Yukine Chris, Yang Xiao Long, and Blake Belladonna open fire and take down scarecrows as they advance.

"I'm not in the mood for fighting." I said, watching the Doctor not squeeze his trigger. "It's been a long day."

"What the hell are these scarecrows?" Yukine asked, hearing the automatic gunfire nearby.

"That was a waste of ammo." Blake said, and all the scarecrows are down.

"Cease fire!" Rocastle said, when he walks over to the scarecrows. "They're straw. Like he said, straw."

"Then no one's dead, sir? We killed no one?" Hutchinson asked, as I'm hearing footsteps on the gravel.

"Talk about It on a whole other level." I said, extending my sword. "This is why I don't like creepy kids with balloons."

"You, child. Come out of the way. Come into the school. You don't know who's out there. It's the Cartwright girl, isn't it? Come here. Come to me." Rocastle said.

Martha runs out of the school, "Mister Rocastle! Please, don't go near her."

"You were told to be quiet."

"Just listen to me. She's part of it. Matron, tell him." Martha said.

"Where's Hibiki?" Yang asked.

"I think she's still in the school." Blake said, holding her Gambol Shroud.

"We should go in there."

"No, she can handle it." Yukine said, looking at the two huntresses. "I know her."

"You really do remind me of Kyoko." I said, laughing a little. "How about we eat some ice cream after we save the day?"

"I never noticed but you do act like her."

"Really?" I asked, as Lucy produces a ray gun and vapourises the Headmaster.

"Now who's going to shoot me. Any of you, really?" Lucy asked.

"Girls, lower your weapons." I said, looking at Yukine, Blake, and Yang.

"They have guns!" Yukine said, angrily. "We could easily…"

"No. We're not taking them down like this. Plus Hibiki has him safe and sound, I hope."

"But sir." Hutchinson said.

"I said, lead the way." The Doctor said.

"Well, go on, then. Run!" Baines said, firing his gun into the air.

"Come on!" Martha said, annoyed.

���Reanimate!"

Stable block…

The boys scatter through the buildings, followed by the reanimated scarecrows. Latimer runs upstairs with Hibiki.

"Why are we running away?" Yukine asked, looking at me.

"Jared, Blake and I were scooped up by Homura." Yang said.

"Wait, scooped up from the Amity Colosseum." I said, my eyes widening. "After you…"

"Yeah. After I broke Mercury's leg."

"But I was in that moment of time too."

"This doesn't add up." Blake said, crossing her arms. "How can Homura be at two places at once?"

"Why are you three talking about it now?" Yukine asked.

"Because this is important! Blake and Yang being here is breaking RWBY continuity."

"What's the problem with that? You break time all the time!"

"This is different!"

"How is this different?"

"It just is."

"Guys, we don't have time for this." Yang said, looking between Yukine and I.

"She's right." Yukine said, looking away. "But I want answers later."

In the dormitory, Latimer opens the watch. As Hibiki keeps watch on the schoolboy.

"I'm more comfortable with Blake and Yang around." I said, leaning against the wall.

"Is this because Hibiki and I are new to you?" Yukine asked.

"Yes."

"You and I both know that Blake and Yang won't…"

"Spoilers." I said, watching the Doctor open the door. "Crap."

"More scarecrows." Yang said, looking at the scarecrows on the other side of the door. "Great."

The Doctor slams the door shut and locks it, "I think, retreat."

School grounds…

Latimer and Hibiki are running for the woods when Baines and Jenny get to the dormitory. Clark stands outside the building, shouting, as the Doctor, Joan, Martha, Blake, Yang, Yukine, and I hide in the bushes.

"Doctor! Doctor!" Clark said, and he has the Tardis with him. "Come back, Doctor. Come home. Come and claim your prize."

"Out you come, Doctor. There's a good boy. Come to the Family." Baines said.

"Time to end it now." Jenny said.

"You recognise it, don't you?" Martha asked.

"The TARDIS." I said, holding Yang's hand.

"Why did they bring it out in the open?" Yukine asked.

"To lure him in. Like a cat."

"Obviously."

"I'm not. I'm John Smith. That's all I want to be. John Smith, with his life, and his job, and his love. Why can't I be John Smith? Isn't he a good man?" The Doctor asked.

"Yes. Yes, he is." Joan said.

"Why can't I stay?"

"But we need the Doctor." Martha said.

"What am I, then? Nothing. I'm just a story." The Doctor said, running away and the rest of us followed him.

"One more phase and we won't have to hunt. The Doctor, Mister Smith, the boy, the watch, they will come to us. Soldiers, guard this thing." Baines said.

Country lane…

"This way. I think I know somewhere we can hide." Joan said.

"We've got to keep going." The Doctor said.

"Just listen to me for once, John. Now, follow me."

"I can't believe we're running away from the action. We should be facing it head on and take them out." Yukine said, annoyed.

Outside a cottage...

"Oh, here we are. It should be empty. Oh, it's a long time since I've run that far." Joan said.

"But who lives here?" Martha asked.

"If I'm right, no one."

Cottage...

It is dark inside. The table is laid for tea.

"Hello? No one home. We should be safe here." Joan said.

"Whose house is it, though?" Martha asked.

"Er, the Cartwrights. That little girl at the school, she's Lucy Cartwright, or she's taken Lucy Cartwright's form. If she came home this afternoon and if the parents tried to stop their little girl, then they were vanished." Joan said, touching the teapot. "Stone cold. How easily I accept these ideas."

"Why do I have a feeling that we're stuck in a time loop?" Yukine asked.

"What are you talking about?" Blake asked.

"I don't know. It's just this feeling I have. That someone rebooted the universe again. And now we're stuck in a time loop."

"Ben Tennyson." I said, pacing back and forth. "I knew it. No wonder the Symphogear wielders like you and Hibiki are here now."

"What's that supposed to me?"

"You guys aren't supposed to be here. Not yet at least. Until the Ponds come around." I said, hearing a knock on the door.

"Well, time can be rewritten." Yang said, smirking. "We all know that."

"But…" I said, looking over to see Hibiki and Latimer there.

"I brought you this." Latimer said, taking out the watch.

"Hold it." Martha said.

"Hey." I said, walking up to Hibiki for a hug. "How are you?"

"I'm fine." Hibiki said, as I noticed some cuts on her.

"No you're not."

"Really. I'm fine."

"Why don't we get something to eat later? My treat."

"I'm fine."

"Because I've seen him. And he's like this girl I see now and again, Madoka Kaname. He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun." Latimer said.

"Stop it." The Doctor said, angrily.

"He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe."

"Stop it! I said stop it."

"And he's wonderful."

"I've still got this. The journal." Joan said, taking out the book.

"Those are just stories." The Doctor said.

"Now we know that's not true. Perhaps there's something in here."

Big bang. The cottage shakes.

"What the hell?" Yukine asked, looking outside to see fireballs are falling to earth a little way away.

"What are they doing?" Hibiki asked, also running towards the window.

"They're destroying the village." Blake said, sadly.

"The watch." The Doctor said.

"John, don't." Joan said.

"Closer." The voice said, inside the watch.

"Can you hear it?" Latimer asked.

"Closer."

"I think he's asleep. Waiting to awaken." The Doctor said.

"Little man."

"Why did he speak to me?" Latimer asked, and the Doctor picked up the watch.

"Oh, low level telepathic field. You were born with it. Just an extra synaptic engram causing. Is that how he talks?" The Doctor asked.

"That's him." I said, happily. "That's the Doctor. The Doctor of War. Not Doctor Strange or Professor Paradox."

"All you have to do is open the watch." Hibiki said, grabbing my hand. "And the Doctor's back to do the talking."

"Martha, you and him knew this all along and yet you watched while Nurse Redfern and I…" The Doctor said.

"I didn't know how to stop you, and Jared didn't want to stop you. The Doctor gave us a list of things to watch out, for but that wasn't included." Martha said, while Joan looks in the journal by moonlight through the window.

"Falling in love? That didn't even occur to him?" The Doctor asked.

"No."

"Then what sort of man is that? And now you expect me to die?"

"It was always going to end, though! The Doctor said the Family's got a limited lifespan, and that's why they need to consume a Time Lord. Otherwise, three months and they die. Like mayflies, he said."

"So your job was to execute me."

"People are dying out there. They need him and I need him. Because you've got no idea of what he's like. I've only just met him. It wasn't even that long ago. But he is everything. He's just everything to me and he doesn't even look at me, but I don't care, because I love him to bits. And I hope to God he won't remember me saying this."

"We should talk some sense into them." Yukine said, as there is an explosion close by. "Even if we'll be idiots by the end of it."

"It's getting closer." Latimer said.

"I should have thought of it before. I can give them this. Just the watch. Then they can leave and I can stay as I am." The Doctor said.

"You can't do that!" Martha said, angrily.

"If they want the Doctor, they can have him."

"He'll never let you do it."

"If they get what they want, then, then…" The Doctor said.

"Then it all ends in destruction. I never read to the end, but those creatures would live forever to breed and conquer, for war across the stars for every child. Martha, Timothy, Jared, Blake, Yang, Yukine, Hibiki, would you leave us alone, please?" Joan asked.

Martha, Latimer, Blake, Yang, Yukine, Hibiki, and I leave. Joan hugs a sobbing Doctor. The bombardment on the village continues as Martha and Latimer sit outside with me and the superpowered humans, then Martha hugs Latimer.

Outside the cottage…

"Why can't we stop them ourselves?" Yang asked.

"Maybe we can change their minds." Hibiki said, happily.

"That plan won't work in so many levels." Blake said, crossing her arms.

"You won't know until you try!" I said, giving Hibiki a hug. "Like, we could do anything."

"Great, I'm now dealing with two idiots." Yukine said. "Those two don't want to fight unless they have to."

(Open POV)

Vision…

John Smith kisses his bride as the bells ring. He holds his first-born child. They take two children for a walk in the woods. He lies on his death bed, an old man.

"They're all safe, aren't they? The children, the grandchildren. Everyone's safe?" The Doctor asked.

"Everyone's safe, and they all send their love, John." Joan said.

"Well, it's time. Thank you."

Cottage…

"Did you see?" The Doctor asked.

"The Time Lord has such adventures, but he could never have a life like that." Joan said.

"And yet I could."

"What are you going to do?"

Spaceship…

"We'll blast them into dust, then fuse the dust into glass, then shatter them all over again." Baines said, as the spaceship door opens to the Doctor and Hibiki.

"Just…" The Doctor said, as an explosion rocks the ship.

"We don't want to fight." Hibiki said, as the Doctor lurches against a column of switches. "And stop the destruction please. We can talk things through."

"That's all we're asking. I'll do anything you want, just, just stop." The Doctor said.

"Say please." Baines said.

"Please." The Doctor said.

Jenny activates a control, "Wait a minute."

"Who are you?" Baines asked, looking at Hibiki.

"I want you to stop." Hibiki said, as Jenny sniffs.

"The Doctor's still human." Jenny said.

"Now I can't, I can't pretend to understand, not for a second, but I want you to know I'm innocent in all this. He made me John Smith. It's not like I had any control over it." The Doctor said, running his hands over more switches with Hibiki doing the same thing.

"He didn't just make himself human. He made himself an idiot." Jenny said.

"Same thing, isn't it?" Baines asked.

"I don't care about this Doctor and your family. Hibiki and I just want you to go. So I've made my choice. You can have him. Just take it, please! Take him away." The Doctor said, holding out the watch.

"At last." Baines said, taking the watch with one hand, and the Doctor's lapels by the other. "Don't think that saved both of your lives." He pushes the Doctor away. More switches get activated as the Doctor falls against the wall. "Family of Mine, now we shall have the lives of a Time Lord." Baines opens the watch and they all sniff deeply. "It's empty!"

"Where did it go?" Hibiki asked, looking at the Family of Blood. "What you are looking for."

"You tell me." Baines said, throwing the watch to the Doctor, who catches it without looking.

"Oh, I think the explanation might be you've been fooled by a simple olfactory misdirection. Little bit like ventriloquism of the nose. It's an elementary trick in certain parts of the galaxy. And you've also been fooled by a girl so similar to me, that being Hibiki Tachibana. A girl so innocent and pure, who doesn't want people or herself to fight." The Doctor said.

"He's right.��� Hibiki said, sadly. "We didn't want to fight. We wanted things to be settled by talking."

"But it has got to be said, I don't like the looks of that hydroconometer. It seems to be indicating you've got energy feedback all the way through the retrostabilisers feeding back into the primary heat converters. Oh. Because if there's one thing you shouldn't have done, you shouldn't have let me and Hibiki press all those buttons. But, in fairness, I will give you one word of advice. Run." The Doctor said, running out of the ship with Hibiki as alarms start to sound.

"Get out! Get out!" Baines said, terrified.

Coopers Field…

The Family run, then their spaceship goes KaBOOM!

"He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing. The fury of the Time Lord. And then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he'd run away from us and hidden. He was being kind." Baines said, as Clark, wearing heavy chains, falls into a pit. "He wrapped my father in unbreakable chains, forged in the heart of a dwarf star. He tricked my mother into the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy to be imprisoned there forever." Jenny is sucked out of the Tardis in deep space. "He still visits my little sister once a year every year. I wonder if one day he might forgive her, but there she is. Can you see? He trapped her inside a mirror, every mirror. If ever you look at your reflection and see something move behind you, just for a second, that's her. That's always her. As for me, I was suspended in time. And the Doctor put me to work standing over the fields of England, as their protector." Baines has become a scarecrow. "We wanted to live forever, so the Doctor made sure that we did."

Kirito and Asuna's house…

A whole day have passed and Jared is drinking a cup of tea.

"This place is getting more crowded by the minute." Weiss said, walking towards Jared. "Who the hell are they?"

The Schnee heiress looked over at the six Symphogear wielders.

"Oh…" Jared said, walking away for a moment. "Now I know how Ben Tennyson really feels."

"Ben who?" Madoka asked.

"Great, this house is getting more filled up with anime characters." Jared said, drinking his cup of tea.

"Do you have a problem with anime characters?" Yukine asked, as mad as Weiss.

"I'm into so many anime now."

"So what?" Weiss asked.

"Um, I don't think we should be fighting." Madoka said, frowning.

Floor 22…

"You're just escaping the fact that you're involving way too many characters now." Kirito said, walking behind Jared. "From other shows."

"That's because I have a feeling that a big build up will happen in years to come." Jared said, smiling.

"What kind of big build up?" Asuna asked.

"How am I supposed to know what?"

"Hello? Earth to Jared? You're just like Kirito sometimes."

"So, I'm like Kirito and Hibiki. Who knew." Jared said, lying down on the grass.

"We're the only ones who knows what you're like." Asuna said.

"You're trying to steal my spotlight." Kirito said.

"How am I stealing your spotlight?" Jared asked.

"Let's see. You've been building up a harem of girls overtime."

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"A lot actually. You've hooked up with more girls within a few months."

"Says the man who hooked up within girls due to being in love with Asuna."

"We're more alike than we thought."

"We really are."

"Time for me to go." Jared said, loading the menu, before disappearing in a flash of light. "Bye."

Field…

In the pouring rain. Martha and Jared are waiting by the Tardis, which is now parked where the scarecrow that the Doctor mended used to stand.

"Okay, this adventure was really good." Jared said, drinking a bottle of Coke.

"How was this one good?" Yukine asked.

"It just is."

"You really are like Hibiki."

"I know."

"So, what will we be doing now?" Yang asked.

"I don't know. I'm in the mood for seeing you breaking Mercury's other leg!"

"Now you're in the mood for violence." Yukine said.

"Oh, no, no." The Doctor said.

"Good." Martha said.

"Fine."

"So here we are then."

"There we are, yes. And I never said. Thanks, both of you, for looking after me." The Doctor said, hugging both Jared and Martha.

"Doctor. Jared. Martha. Yukine. Yang." Latimer said.

"Tim Timothy Timber." The Doctor said, happily.

"I just wanted to say goodbye. And thank you. Because I've seen the future and I now know what must be done. It's coming, isn't it? The biggest war ever."

"You don't have to fight." Jared said, walking towards Latimer.

"I think we do." Latimer said.

"But you could get hurt." Martha said.

"Well, so could you, travelling around with him, but it's not going to stop you, Martha."

"Hibiki is right, maybe I do need to be more like her and less like Kirito." Jared said, looking back at Yukine and Yang. "Less fighting and more talking."

"You still fight, hanging around the likes of magical girls, huntresses, and Symphogear wielders."

"True."

"Tim, I'd be honoured if you'd take this." The Doctor said, giving Latimer the fob watch.

"I can't hear anything." Latimer said.

"No, it's just a watch now. But keep it with you, for good luck."

"Look after yourself." Martha said, hugging and then she kisses Latimer.

"Just be careful." Jared said, giving Latimer a cell phone. "Take this."

"What's that?" Latimer asked.

"Use that to call me. If you need it. Or as a homing beacon." Jared said, entering the TARDIS with Martha, Yukine, and Yang.

"You'll like this bit." The Doctor said, entering the Tardis, and it dematerialises.

World War…

"Incoming!" A man said.

"In June 1914, an Archduke of Austria was shot by a Serbian, and this then led, through nations having treaties with nations, like a line of dominoes falling, to some boys from England walking together in France on a terrible day." The Doctor said, his voice being played from a nearby device.

A muddy hand opens the watch, while he is wearing headphones with music playing to block out the explosions nearby.

"One minute past the hour. It's now. Hutchinson, this is the time. It's now." Latimer said, and a shell is whistling towards them. "To the right! To the right!" They leap into a ditch. The shell explodes nearby. "We made it. Thank you, Doctor, Jared. Come along, chap."

"Leave me. I'm not going to make it." Hutchinson said.

"Oh yes, you are. Didn't I promise you, all those years ago? Now, come on. And that's an order!"

By the War Memorial…

A lady vicar is reading from For The Fallen, "They have no lot in our labour of the day time.

They sleep beyond England's foam. They went with songs to the battle…" Latimer is sitting in a wheelchair, an old soldier with his medals and the watch. "They were young, straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted." He looks across the grass to where Martha is pinning a poppy to the Doctor's lapel, as Hibiki is doing the same with Jared's lapel. "They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them."