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of fan fiction using characters from Doctor
Who which is owned by the BBC
and not me. This writer has no claim of ownership to any of the characters or
concepts used in Doctor Who. This
story is not a part of any official Doctor
Who canon; this story is my own invention (really, who else would want to
take credit for this?) and created for my entertainment only. (I would be most
surprised if anyone else was entertained by this.) I do not profit financially from the creation
and publication of this story. I am grateful to all the actors, writers and
producers who have made Doctor Who
an inspiring and imaginative series for fifty years.
I especially want to state my appreciation to Steven Moffat whom I consider a creative genius so please don’t have me killed.
Thank you.
Part One
(Takes a deep breath)
Theuniverseisindagnerfromaforceofultimate
destructioncalledTheGreatNegationTheDoctor
&ClaraaretryingtostopitbuttheDoctorkeeps
experiencingreverseregenerationsandsofarhe
hasgonebacktonumbersixbutitturnsoutDoctors11
through7areOkandhangingoutatSarahJanes
housetryingtofigureoutwhatsgoingandthey
madeabreakthroughandcontactedthe6thDoctor
whointurnassentRiverSongonamissiontofind
the4thDoctorandohdidwementiontheMaster
isinvolvedtoo?
Whew!
By the way, did you enjoy how funny last week's installment was?
That's nice.
Don't get used to it.
Part 9
The Nemesis Who Stole Time
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Scene opens: a dimly lit study where saw the Master at the end of Part 4. The Master strides across the room towards an ornate door. He raises a hand as if to knock but hesitates. Then a voice is heard, low, guttural, distorted.
Voice: Enter…Master.
The Master takes a deep breath and opens the door. He enters
a room with wires and pipes and machinery along the walls and ceiling. In a
corner is complete darkness. Nothing can be seen. The voice comes from this
darkness.
Voice: You sought…an audience…with me.
The Master (still hesitant but trying to assert himself): As
your…partner…I thought it wise to…consult with you. There is the matter of the
Doctor.
Voice: The Doctor…continues…his regression.
The Master: Yes, but…
Voice: Then the Doctor…continues to do…as I will.
The Master: But the Doctor is not to be underestimated.
Voice: The Doctor is…indeed clever. Even now…he reaches…across
time…to link his different...personas.
The Master (a bit alarmed): The Doctor is aware of what’s
truly happening to him? He’ll be more of a threat!
Voice: He is…already defeated.
The Master: What?
Voice: The Doctor is alone…powerless…drifting through…the
dying stars.
The Master: When did this happen?
Voice: I see through…the web of time…differently than
you…Time Lord. The moment of the Doctor’s defeat…is done…even as his
efforts…are just...beginning…
Fade to black. While the screen is still black, we hear
another voice.
1st Doctor (voice): To win is to lose and to lose
is to win.
Scene change to Gallifrey, specifically inside the catacombs
of the Great Citadel. We see the 1st, 2nd, 3rd
and 5th Doctors just moments after President Barusa’s defeat.
2nd Doctor: Yes, yes, yes. A brilliant piece of
deduction, good fellow. Now, stop going on about it!
5th Doctor: Please, can’t I…we…just get along?
The effects of the Time Scoop will eventually begin to fade and you three can
return to the proper places in our time line.
3rd Doctor: Well, of course, that’s fairly
obvious, isn’t it?
1st Doctor: The Dandy is correct, young man.
3rd Doctor: “Dandy”?
5th Doctor: I am feel I must remind you I’m the
oldest one here. To me, YOU are the young man.
2nd Doctor: Ooh, good one!
1st Doctor: Nobody asked you, Clown.
3rd Doctor: I am NOT a “Dandy”!
2nd Doctor: You know, everyone is so on edge. I
think a tune on my recorder will sooth things.
1st, 3rd and 5th Doctor:
No!
Voice off screen: Gentlemen! Gentlemen!
Stepping out of the shadows is the form of the 4th Doctor.
4th Doctor: Really, is this any way for me to
behave?
1st Doctor: Is this..?
5th Doctor (sighs): Yes, this our 4th
self.
2nd Doctor: Well, your sense of timing leaves
something to be desired. I’ve already defeated the threat.
1st, 3rd and 5th Doctors: Ahem!
2nd Doctor: With some help, of course.
1st Doctor (looking over the 4th
Doctor): Oh, this one’s no better. Where did I go wrong?
4th Doctor: I’m afraid that the true threat is
just beginning.
3rd Doctor: What kind of a…threat?
4th Doctor: Oh, you know, the usual. The end of the
universe. The death of space and time, that sort of thing.
5th Doctor: And what, may I ask, is the source of
this threat?
4th Doctor: Would you believe…the Great Negation?
Doctors 1, 2, 3 and 5 stand in stunned silence. The 4th
Doctor reaches into a coat pocket and withdraws a small bag. He holds out the
bag.
4th Doctor: Jelly baby?
Scene shift: TARDIS interior with the 6th Doctor,
Clara Oswald, Jack Harness and Martha Jones-Smith. The 6th Doctor is
pacing very animatedly and Clara is doing her best to try and keep up. Jack has
his arms folded with his back to the doors while Martha is standing at the
console; she looks distracted.
6th Doctor: I still exist! I STILL EXIST!
Clara: So the message from yourself….
6th Doctor (smiling): Yes! Everytime my
regenerations reversed…
Martha: Five. Uh, five times that’s happened.
Jack gives a sideways glance at Martha and frowns.
6th Doctor: Yes, 5 regenerations, 5 future
versions of me. I thought whatever was happening to me was erasing my future
selves from my time line completely. Instead, I…I mean, they…have been shunted
to a different time line. And they are reaching out to me.
Scene shift: Sarah Jane’s house, Bannerman Road
Sarah Jane (close up on her and Luke): How are you doing
that?
Pull out to see Sarah Jane and Luke surrounded by Doctors 7,
8, 9, 10 and 11 who are in various stances of standing or sitting.
9th Doctor: With a temporal psionic matrix.
Luke (gesturing to the device the Doctors had constructed):
That device?
10th Doctor: That? Nah! That’s just a focusing
mechanism.
7th Doctor: The temporal psionic matrix allows a
Time Lord to move through time…more or less.
Sarah Jane: I thought you could only do that with your
TARDIS.
8th Doctor: Yes, that’s true. Well, no it isn’t.
OK, it is but…
9th Doctor: Allow me. Travelling through the time
vortex without a TARDIS is very dangerous AND nearly impossible to do.
11th Doctor: The operative word there, Sarah
Jane, Luke…is “nearly”.
10th Doctor: Travelling through time with a TARDIS
is Time Lord science. Using the temporal psionic matrix is time travel with
Time Lord…. (10th Doctor pauses, looks at his other selves) C’mon, I
really don’t want to say “Time Lord magic”.
7th Doctor: Essentially, we can think our way
through time.
Sarah Jane: But we’ve been stuck before without the TARDIS.
Why haven’t you used this…this..
Luke: Temporal psionic matrix, Mom.
Sarah Jane: Thanks, Luke. What he said. Why haven’t you used
it before now?
9th Doctor: Because it doesn’t work.
8th Doctor: Correction: there’s no evidence that
it works! That’s a significant difference of interpretation.
7th Doctor: In fact, the only documented use of
the temporal psionic matrix was back in the time of Rassilon. And it requires certain conditions…
11th Doctor: Very exact conditions!
7th Doctor: Yes, very VERY exact!
10th Doctor: First, you need a group of Time
Lords at one point…
Scene change: TARDIS interior.
6th Doctor: Then you need a Time Lord at a 2nd
point as a conduit.
Clara: That’s you.
Martha (looking a bit shaky): For. Er, For what purpose?
Clara: Martha, you OK?
Martha: Yeah. Not getting a lot of sleep during all this,
that’s all.
Jack (looking concerned towards Martha but speaking to the
Doctor): As a conduit, you’re channeling the matrix to somewhere else.
6th Doctor: Precisely. To another group of Time Lords of equal power and strength of the first point.
Scene shift: Gallifrey, catacombs of the Great Citadel.
4th Doctor: And that’s where we come in.
5th Doctor: So five of my future selves are at one
end of the chain and 1 more is the conduit.
3rd Doctor: And this is a point of time I…uh, WE would have known about.
2nd Doctor: Except you weren’t here.
4th Doctor: No and I’m not supposed to be here
now. Romana and I are supposed to be caught in an eddy of the time vortex when
Borusa brought the rest of you here.
1st Doctor: So this woman who you say is from our
future…
4th Doctor: River Song, yes..
1st Doctor: Brought your link to the matrix to
you…
2nd Doctor: And this woman took your place when
the Time Scoop came.
4th Doctor: Precisely. But I had to wait until
this moment to come to you.
5th Doctor: So history would proceed as we
uncovered and stopped Borusa’s plan!
4th Doctor: Oh, it’s good to know I’m still very
clever in the future. But we have to act now. The Time Lords are still busy
sorting out the mess Borusa made and what we’re doing is to going to break more
than a few Laws of Time.
3rd Doctor: Old chap, we’re not breaking the Laws
of Time. We’re pulverizing them!
1st Doctor: No more dilly-dallying!
2nd Doctor: Let’s get this underway.
4th Doctor: Link minds, everyone.
The 5 Doctors stand in a circle, they close their eyes.
1st Doctor: Contact.
2nd Doctor: Contact
3rd Doctor: Contact
4th Doctor: Contact
5th Doctor: Contact
From the 4th Doctor, energy begins to flow and
encircle the other Doctors.
6th Doctor (voice over as we still watch the 1st
five Doctors): So that was the mission River had to go on.
Scene change: TARDIS Interior.
6th Doctor: She needed to patch that hole in time
and arrange for my 4th self to join the others on Gallifrey.
Jack: That’s a big IF, Doc!
6th Doctor: A very big IF, indeed, Jack!
Clara: But what about you?
6th Doctor: Me?
Clara: Yeah! The last time this matrix thing came into you,
you didn’t do so well.
6th Doctor: No, child, I didn’t . BUT that was
the full force of the matrix from its point of origin and it had nowhere to go except
all into me. Once both points
are established, I can handle being the conduit a lot better.
Clara: Good!
6th Doctor: I think.
Martha: Three.
Clara: What?
Martha: The…the three of us, Doctor. Whatever you need, we
can…
6th Doctor: Martha? You seem ill. Are you…oh! OH!
Jack: Doc…?
6th Doctor: The answer to the very big IF, Jack!
River made it through! I’m channeling the matrix back from my 5 previous
selves! See, Clara? I told you everything would be fine!
Clara: Still, be careful, OK, Doctor?
6th Doctor: Care is always important, Clara.
(stretches his arm out dramatically) But now is the time for ACTION! The
future…AWAITS!!
The matrix energy swirls
into, around and back out of the 6th Doctor’s form.
Meanwhile Jack approaches Martha who is hunched over the
console.
Jack: Martha, maybe you need to lie down.
Martha (voice quavering): Jack…something’s…wrong.
Scene change: Sarah Jane’s house. The future five Doctors
are sitting around a table with cards in their hands.
7th Doctor: Got any three’s?
8th Doctor: Go fish.
9th Doctor: This is…boring!
10th Doctor: Perhaps Luke has one of those gaming
consoles the young people are into.
9th Doctor: He did (turning a cold stare towards
the 11th Doctor) until someone turned it into a non-functioning
anti-gravity unit!
11th Doctor: Well, technically speaking, one
could say it was already a non-functioning anti-gravity unit before I…
The Doctors’ device in the background begins to glow.
11th Doctor: Look, Bertha’s glowing.
10th Doctor: Stop calling it…oh never mind! Positions
everyone!
8th Doctor: Thanks for telling us. We wouldn’t
have known to do that.
7th Doctor: This better work! I’m not sure I can
handle being around myself much longer.
11th Doctor to 10th: She did it!
10th Doctor: Good ol’ River! (then his smile
fades) Good ol’ River.
11th Doctor (also not smiling): Yeah, I know. Good
ol’ River. (then smiles again) C’mon, all of ME! (adjusts his bowtie) Geronimo!
The Doctors close their eyes as they stand in a circle
around the device.
11th Doctor: Contact.
10th Doctor: Contact.
9th Doctor: Contact.
8th Doctor: Contact.
7th Doctor: Contact.
Once more the matrix energy moves about them.
Scene change: TARDIS interior. The 6th Doctor
spasms and cries out in pain.
Clara: Doctor!
6th Doctor: It’s…it’s all right. This process…is
untested. I guess the future..hurts…more than the past.
Over at the console, Jack has his arm around Martha who is
hunched over the console, her eyes closed.
Jack: Martha! What’s happening? Talk to me!
Martha (whispering): Two
She opens her eyes and grey dust falls on the console.
Scene change: Gallifrey
The matrix energy swirls about the first 5 Doctors as they
keep their eyes closed, mentally manipulating the energy.
5th Doctor: Excellent! The circuit is complete!
4th Doctor: A fascinating experience…my mind 10
times over.
3rd Doctor: Indeed it is but we must maintain our
focus.
2nd Doctor: Very much so. We’re in uncharted
territory.
1st Doctor: As I often…as WE often find
ourselves.
5th Doctor: Uncharted territory. That’s why I left Gallifrey.
1st Doctor: Absolutely. (grins mischievously)
Young man.
The 5th Doctor says nothing but allows a faint
smile.
Scene shift: TARDIS interior
The 6th Doctor continues as the energy conduit
as Clara watches. Behind her, at the console, Jack is still fretting over a
hunched over and shaking Martha.
Jack: Martha! Come on, we need to get you to lie down or
something. You’re not…
Martha: J-J-Jack! What’s h-happening?
Jack: I don’t…I don’t… (looks up towards Clara and the
Doctor, calls out) Clara! Doc!
Clara: Hold on, Jack!
6th Doctor: I can feel it, Clara! Information on
the feedback loop from my future selves! It’s working!
Jack: Clara, there’s something wrong with Martha! Real bad!
Martha is still hunched over the console as more grey dust
and gravel fall from her eyes.
Martha: J-J-Jack? I’m s-s-sorry, s-so sorry. Find M-Mickey,
tell him I l-l-love…
Jack: Martha?
Martha: Luh…luh…whuh…whuh…whuh
Scene change: Sarah Jane’s house
Energy swirls around Doctors 7 through 11, their eyes still
closed as they concentrate. Then the 9th Doctor smiles.
9th Doctor: I…feel…I feel
time…changing…reasserting itself. I saved Rose! I SAVED ROSE!
10th Doctor: I feel it too! Wilf! And Donna!
They’re coming back…
11th Doctor (somber expression): Something else
is coming back.
The 8th Doctor’s appearance changes back to the black
clad short haired version.
8th Doctor: The end of the Time War…on my
shoulders…where it belongs.
7th Doctor: All my plans, all my schemes…oh, Ace,
I’m so….
Scene change: TARDIS interior
6th Doctor shouting: By thunder! This mad,
impossible plan is going to…
The scene focuses on Jack trying to comfort Martha as she
still has her head down, her body shaking and she’s still stuttering.
Martha: whuh…whuh…whuh…whuh
As the 6th Doctor seems to have things under
control, Clara turns her attention towards Jack and Martha.
Clara: Oh my God! Martha! Jack, what…?
Jack: I don’t know. She’s…
Suddenly Martha stops shaking. Her head is still bowed. Then
she mutters something.
Martha: One
She raises her head and her eyes are open, blank and grey.
Clara shrieks in fear and surprise.
Jack (backing off and reaching for his blaster): OK, hold it
right….
Martha quickly raises her arm and fires her blaster point
blank at Jack. Jack is hurled back against the TARDIS doors, unconscious.
Clara: Jack!
6th Doctor: What the devil…? Clara? What’s….
Another blast from Martha’s gun strikes the Doctor. He cries
out as the connection is broken and he falls to the floor.
Clara moving away from Martha, very frightened.
Clara: Martha! What is this? What are you doing?
Martha says nothing as she shoots another blast at Clara.
This shot only grazes her arm but it’s enough to make Clara cry out in pain.
Martha (with an expressionless face): Martha? Martha doesn’t
live here anymore. I am merely an angel.
Clara: A Weeping Angel.
Martha: More like a Sleeping Angel, biding my time in this
vehicle of flesh until The One I serve summoned me to take over.
Clara: The Master!
Martha: The Master is just another servant of..The One.
Clara, it’s time.
Clara: Time? You’re going to kill me?
Martha: Yes, yes I am. But with kindness. Be a good
girl….and blink.
Clara: No! NO!
Before Clara can stop herself, she blinks. And she vanishes.
Martha turns and walks toward Jack; she’s moving more
stiffly now and her skin looks more grey. In the foreground, we see the 6th
Doctor lying unconscious, the glow of regenerative energy surrounding his form.
Martha bends down now and places a hand on Jack’s shoulder.
Her arm is completely grey and stony in appearance. We see her face, like a
stone carving of Martha’s face. Then with no sound or light, Martha and Jack
are simply no longer there. And the Doctor lies on the floor of the TARDIS as
the regeneration takes hold and his whole body is a glow of light.
Scene shift: Exterior of the TARDIS as it floats through the
void of space, adrift against a canopy of stars, stars that are…one by
one….dying.
Scene change: The Master in the mechanical room with The One
who is still completely in darkness.
The One: The circle…is broken.
The Master: You had an angel with him…the whole time?
The One: Long enough…to suit my purpose. Are
you…disturbed…by this?
The Master: No, not at all. Excellent strategy. As long we still have
our…understanding. The universe is mine to rule!
The One: The universe…a trifling thing…take it…if you want.
I have…no use for it.
The Master turns to walk away.
The Master: Excellent! (bowing slightly towards the shadows)
I will take my leave!
The One says nothing more as the Master turns and leaves the
room. Then we hear the voice of The One coming out of the shadows.
The One: He settles…for a universe. My ambitions…are
greater.
Out from the edge of the shadows, we see the tip of a
tentacle.
The One: Far…far…greater.
------To be continued------
Next time: ????????
Part 10 of The Nemesis Who Stole Time
In TWO weeks
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