Never once had the regeneration cycle come as such a relief. The Doctor watched the energy radiate from his body as his life built in war passed into a life of infinite possibility. The Doctor lurched forward onto the console of his TARDIS. He looked around. Everything had a hazy look to it, and the Doctor felt the formation of a headache, a common side of a rough regeneration. Black fluid began to fill his eyesight, and the Doctor collapsed to the ground.