The Doctor woke with a start. Groaning, he attempted to sit up. To his right, he heard Amy say, "Oh no you don't!" And he felt warm hands lowering him back onto the couch.

"Amy?"

"Hello there raggedy man, I was afraid I was going to lose you for a second there."

"And why is that?" Then the pain hit him. It had been there before, he just hadn't noticed it. He looked down to see a blanket covering his body. The Doctor pulled it away to find bandages covering him from his waist to just below his armpits, and an extra wrapped around his left arm. He groaned again, letting his head rest on a pillow behind him. "I should be dead" he muttered.

"And why is that?" asked Amy

"Well I got shot about three times and-"

"Four actually"

"Well alright, four times, and I probably should have bled out and regenerated by now."

Amy decided to ignore the last part due to the fact that she didn't understand what he meant by "regenerating."

"It was some weird laser blast. It didn't go too deep, just a really bad burn. I took care of the little blood there was."

"Well, that's a relief."

"I cleaned them and bandaged them, but that's all I knew how to do. Rory taught me-"

"Rory...RORY where is he?!" asked the Doctor.

"Kronos took him and tried to shoot me. Don't you remember?"

"Not very well. Did you see where he was taken? How about who took him?" questioned the Doctor.

"No, I was too busy freaking out after you jumped in front of me like that!"

"No matter, I assume I had a plan." The Doctor thought for a minute.

"Typical. The man with the plan. Yep, that's the Doctor." ranted Amy.

The Doctor ignored this as Amy started pacing back and forth, talking about how much she needed Rory back and how much of an idiot he was for getting himself hurt.

"Oh I remember now! I had you sonic them right?" exclaimed the Doctor.

"Kind of, Rory actually threw it to me."

"Point is, you sonic-ed Kronos right?"

"Ya, his helmet started smoking."

"Well if we're really lucky, the sonic scanned or damaged his navigation and main control systems. If you did that, the navigation one I mean, I can probably track them on my TARDIS." As he said this, he sat up, grimacing, but Amy didn't notice.

"Oh thank god...Do you think he's okay?"asked Amy

"I'm sure he's fine." replied the Doctor.

Amy didn't seem too convinced.

"Alright let's go." said the Doctor. He sprang up from his seated position and tried to take a step forward. He immediately regretted as his legs gave out. Luckily, Amy was there to catch him.

"Doctor..."

"I'm alright!" exclaimed the Doctor with a smile. Amy wasn't convinced. With Amy's help, he steadily got to his feet, hiding the pain from the movements. The Doctor then clasped his hands and spun around to face Amy, still smiling. "Where's my shirt?" he asked.

Amy handed the beige button-up shirt to him.

"Bowtie?"

Amy carefully handed it to him. She knew how he was with them.

After his bowtie was secure, he found his tweed jacket hanging on the back of a chair, put it on, and headed for the back door. Amy followed.

The TARDIS stood, old and blue as ever. The Doctor and Amy entered.

"Do you have my screwdriver?" asked the Doctor.

"Ya, here." Amy handed the contraption to him.

"Thank you." The Doctor took the screwdriver started fiddling with the console, occasionally buzzing the screwdriver. He found various readings and this and that and eventually put the trace from the screwdriver transferred onto the console.

Amy walked over to the pilot's seat and sat down, the whole day's events finally crashing down on her.

"Are you alright?" asked the Doctor, still busy with his piloting.

"Ya, thanks to you." admitted Amy.

"Well I couldn't have you getting killed now could I?" he smiled as he worked, and Amy did as well. Neither of them looked at each other and silence came over the two. The only sound in the room was the TARDIS and the sound of various console instruments being operated.

Sara was in the control room when the transmission came in. At first, it was Kronos.

"Rip!" she yelled. "Come here I think you want to see this!" When she looked back at the screen, Kronos was no longer there. Instead, in his place was...Rip?

"Rip?" asked Sara, "Rip what are you doing there?"

Right then, Ray, Kendra and Leonard ran in, who were all wondering what was going on.

The Rip on the screen started speaking. "Hello...all. You will hand over all of yourselves along with the..tide rider-" Kronos punched Rory across the face, drawing blood from his nose which then started trickling down his face. Something was said off screen, and Rory looked back to the camera.

"Right, w-waverider...immediately otherwise he will probably kill me."

"You idiot. Move aside." Kronos proceeded to wrap a hand around Rory's arm, point his gun at his head and looked into the camera. I will shoot your captain if you don't hand over the waverider and your entire crew of freaks to myself and the time masters at the coordinates I will send to you. Be there at 0500, otherwise he dies."

The screen went black after that.

Rip jogged into the room, coat flapping behind him.

"I'm here, what is it?" asked Rip.

"You were just on the screen, and Kronos had you and punched you and demanded we hand ourselves and the Waverider over to the time masters otherwise you will die! Is that your younger self? Future self? Twin? Another family member? He looked exactly like you! How is that even possible?" said Ray.

"Ray, slow down. What's happening? Was I on the screen?"

"Yes, but I assume since your standing here that it probably wasn't you." stated Snart.

"Well that's complicated, me being a time traveler and all that."

Rip was interrupted when Gideon spoke.

"I have received coordinates from Kronos, Mr. Hunter. Would you like for me to enter them?" asked Gideon.

"Yes." said Rip.

"What?" exclaimed Sara. "You're just going to hand us over?"

"Of course not, we board his ship, rescue myself, and leave. The Time Masters wouldn't give kronos any assistance, otherwise he would have attacked this ship already. He's on his own."

Jax and Stein walked into the control room.

"Well he clearly knows where we are. That's how he got the coordinates sent to us. He's on his own, and we should easily be able to overtake him. But if we're not careful he could attack the waverider." said Rip.

"I'm sorry, what's happening?" asked Jax.

"Long story short, Rip just appeared on the screen and through him, Kronos wants us to hand over the waverider and ourselves, which is definately not happening. So we're planning on taking Kronos's ship and rescuing Rip." summarized Sara.

"But then we're risking losing you." said Kendra

"That's not really me. Time can change." said Rip.

"But if that you dies, will you cease to exist?"

"Not necessarily."

"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Snart

"It doesn't matter because that's not happening. We need to go. Now."

"C'mon Rip, why act dumb in this situation? There is no reason for that! They'll come either way."

"Sir, I have absolutely no idea who 'they' or even you, for that matter, are. I don't know what a 'waverider' is. Why am I here? And how do they supposedly know who I am?"

"Don't play stupid." Kronos yanked on Rory's collar to get him standing, and started walking back to his holding cell.

"My name isn't even Rip!"

Kronos ignored this and kept walking down the hall, still dragging Rory. His side still stung from getting shot. He looked down to see that some blood was seeping through his collared shirt.

Finally, they reached the cell. Kronons pushed him in. Afterwards, he reenabled the door of electricity to ensure that Rory would not escape. He sat down on the cold metal floor and started thinking. 'Where are you doctor?'. Yes, the Doctor would come to save him. He always did.

Alright so not my best, but hey, at least I posted :)

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