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In an '''[[alternate timeline]]''', [[Amy Pond (The Girl Who Waited)|Amy Pond]] was trapped for thirty-six years in the [[Two Streams Facility]] on [[Apalapucia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'')

On an adventure with his [[companion]]s [[Rory Williams]] and [[Amy Pond]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] decided to take them to [[Apalapucia]], the No. 2 destination for the discerning intergalactic traveller. However, the Doctor was unaware that the planet had become infected with the [[Chen-7]] [[virus]], a deadly disease that killed those that got infected in one day. In an act of kindness, the [[Two Streams Facility]] was set up on the planet where those infected would be put into compressed time streams to live out their lives while only a single day of absolute time would progress outside.

When the Doctor and his companions arrived, Amy went back to get her [[superphone|phone]] from [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and as a result, was not with the Doctor and Rory when they entered the Green Anchor time stream which was the regular time stream of the facility. As a result, when Amy attempted to follow them, she accidentally entered the Red Waterfall compressed time stream. While the three attempted to figure out what was happening, a week passed for Amy in Red Waterfall. Finally, the Doctor and Rory learned about Chen-7 from a [[Handbot]], a disease that was fatal to two-hearted beings such as [[Time Lord]]s like the Doctor. With an understanding of what was going on, the Doctor ordered Amy go deeper into the facility to find a safe place while he took the [[time glass]] to lock onto her time stream and rescue her. As [[human]]s and thus beings with only one heart, both Rory and Amy were immune to the virus, but the Doctor was not and so could not enter the deeper areas of the facility. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'')

Following the Doctor's instructions, Amy made her way deeper into the facility and began exploring. However, she was found by [[Handbot]]s who detected her unregistered [[human]] bacteria and attempted to apply their medicine to her. As the medicine was designed for [[Apalapucian]]s, it would kill Amy as a human. Amy managed to avoid the Handbots by hiding in the exhaust from the [[temporal engine]]s and continued her explorations, meeting the facility's [[Interface]]. With the Interface's help, Amy found a safe hideout by the temporal engines themselves where the Handbots could not detect her. As requested by the Doctor, Amy left him a message pointing to her location with lipstick on the door to the temporal engine room.

Trapped and waiting for rescue, [[Amy Pond (The Girl Who Waited)|Amy]] began to adapt to life in the [[Two Streams Facility]]. Amy managed to reprogram the Interface to answer any question she wished, but could not get it to tell her how to escape. Amy adapted fighting techniques for the Handbots, eventually managing to fashion armour out of a destroyed Handbot and obtained a sword and club. She created a [[sonic probe]] to help with her tasks. As time passed and the Doctor failed to arrive to rescue her, Amy grew bitter and began to hate the Doctor. Needing company, Amy "disarmed" a Handbot that she named [[Rory (Handbot)|Rory]] and turned it into her pet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'')

After thirty-six years, the Doctor and Rory finally arrived in Amy's time stream due to [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] locking onto Amy at the wrong point in the time stream and causing them to arrive when she was old instead of young. After Amy and Rory were reunited, the Doctor devised a plan to use the [[temporal engine]]s to fold the two parts of Amy's time stream and bring her younger self into the present. The old Amy refused to help them as it would mean that she would be erased from existence. Though Rory was able to use the [[time glass]] to allow the two Amys to communicate, the old Amy steadfastly refused to help rescue her younger self, ultimately forcing the Doctor and Rory to leave with the aged Amy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'')

As in the original timeline, [[Amy Pond (The Girl Who Waited)|the older Amy]] refused to help the Doctor and Rory rescue her younger self from the past as it meant that she would never exist. However, this time when Rory used the [[time glass]] to enable the two Amys to communicate, the older Amy remembered the conversation and the fact that it was her own future self's fault that she had gotten trapped, not the Doctor and Rory's. The two Amys, who both loved Rory deeply, reminisced on their love for him. This time, the younger Amy managed to convince her future self to help save her.

After her conversation with her younger self, the older Amy agreed to help the Doctor change history and save the younger Amy. The Doctor suggested that Amy witnessing the way things went the first time allowed her the chance to change her own future. The older Amy's one demand was that the Doctor bring her with them in the TARDIS so that she could continue to exist after the rescue was over. Though the Doctor admitted that it would be difficult, he claimed that the TARDIS could sustain the [[paradox]] of two Amys existing at once. With the two Amys working together, the Doctor and Rory managed to use the facility's temporal engines to bring the younger Amy forward to their current point in time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'')

After the group succeeded in bringing the young Amy forward in time, the [[Handbot]]s attacked them. After disabling three, the two Amys and Rory attempted to flee to the gallery section of the facility where the TARDIS was parked, but were forced to fight off more Handbots along the way. During the fight, a Handbot knocked the younger Amy unconscious before Rory could disable it which forced Rory to carry Amy back to the TARDIS. At the same time, the older Amy stayed back to fight off more Handbots.

With the Handbots approaching, [[Amy Pond (The Girl Who Waited)|the older Amy]] had the [[Interface]] show her an image of the [[Earth]] and accepted her fate, allowing the Handbots to sedate her and give her their deadly medicine. As the Handbots moved to kill the older Amy, the TARDIS dematerialised. With the younger Amy having been rescued, the timeline where she spent thirty-six years trapped in the [[Two Streams Facility]] ceased to exist as did the older Amy Pond. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'')

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