Rory Williams


 * For the human the Auton was based on, see Rory Williams

Rory Williams was an Auton based duplicate of the real Rory Williams who was killed in 21st century Earth at the hands of the Silurian, Restac.

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Following that incident, an Alliance of races ranging from the Daleks to the Cybermen, Judoon, Sontarans and Nestene Consciousness along with a myriad of other races came to the conclusion that the Time Field forming was the end of the universe itself. They later pooled their resources in stopping it as they uncovered that the Doctor was going to be responsible for this event. To that end, they created an elaborate plan involving the Pandorica in Stonehenge that would serve as his prison. To complete the plan, the Nestene Consciousness was responsible for the deployment of Autons in the region where they were dressed up as Roman soldiers camped out near the area. This was based on the psychic residue left behind at Amy Pond's home which the Alliance managed to acquire as they believed it to be the perfect trap to ensnare The Doctor and save the universe. The analysis of her home time period allowed for the creation of a duplicate version of Rory Williams in the process.

This duplicate was placed with the other Auton Roman soldiers where they were all led to believe that they were actual members of the Roman Empire. The Auton Rory Williams was led to believe that he had died and had somehow ended up in an earlier time period where he awaited the Doctor to rescue him. However, part of him believed that his early life was all a dream. When news came at the Roman encampment of strange visitors, Auton Rory decided to volunteer to help the Doctor fight armies of alien invaders that had come to claim the Pandorica when Doctor River Song sought the Romans aid. Take a contingent of volunteer soldiers, they journeyed to beneath Stonehenge where Auton Rory saved the life of Amy Pond when she was being attacked by a Cyberman by destroying it with a sword plunged through its chest. Later, he explained his situation to the Doctor with neither knowing how Rory came to this time period. The Doctor managed to convince Auton Rory to meet Amy and confess his love since she had forgotten him due to his removal from the time line. As he did so, she cried and began to remember him but at that point the Alliance struck where they captured the Doctor. The Nestene Consciousness had activated its signal that turned the Roman soldiers back to their Auton selves with the Auton version of Rory attempting to fight the program. He urged for Amy to run whilst attempting to assert his own personality over the programming. As he called out his name, Amy remembered and said that he was her boyfriend. Just as she hugged him, the Auton programming activated and the duplicate Rory's hand opened up into a blaster which shot Amy Pond, seemingly killing her. 

A version of the Doctor from the future came to the Auton Rory, instructing him to place Amy's body in the Pandorica, which had the ability to keep its occupants alive. Rory watched over Amy for nearly two thousand years, following the box wherever it went and creating the myth of 'The Lone Centurion'. In the National Museum, where the Pandorica was on display in 1996, The Doctor's machinations caused Amy's younger self to release her, fully recovered. Amy caught sight of a video documentary about the Centurion's appearances throughout time, ending with a dramatic artist's rendition based on witness accounts of him single-handedly dragging the Pandorica away from danger in 1941 during the London Blitz, which the video speculated was a final act of self-sacrifice by the legendary protector. When a Stone Dalek, revitalised by the Pandorica's restorative energies, attacked, Rory revealed himself as still watching over the Pandorica in the guise of a security guard, blasting the Dalek with his hand laser. He then reunited with Amy, and joined the Doctor and River Song in attempting to avert the destruction of creation. The Doctor succeeded by throwing the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion that caused the cracks undoing it and sealing the cracks. This meant that the real Rory was never erased, and the Alliance was never formed, thus the Auton Rory never existed, although it was implied that the now-restored original Rory retained some of his duplicate's memories, as he can be heard muttering "I was plastic!" when the Doctor appears at his wedding. (DW: The Big Bang)