Hi everyone! Okay, this is a quite weird idea I had while I was playing Doctor Who: Legacy, because that is where the basis of this story is from. Great game, if you haven't tried it yet, do so! So I took the liberty to write a fanfiction with that basis. I would love to know what people think about this. New characters will be added to the plot as they drop in the game and all the dialogue in the game will be in here so let's see what happens and what you think.
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who and the basic storyline belong to Tiny Rebel Games.
Cardiff and Paternoster Couple
St. Mary Street in Cardiff was empty. Uncomfortably so. It was October and quite gloomy but not enough to keep all the people from the streets like this. A figure suddenly emerged from a side street and looked around warily as she pulled her jacket tighter around her. Seeing only the empty street she bit her lip and frowned. It was as if she was looking for something. She hitched up her backpack better on her shoulder, stepped out from the side street and started to walk along the bigger street when a wheezing sound echoed through the silence. Slightly panicked and ducked down behind some dustbins. She peered between two bins as an old, blue phone box materialized a couple of meters off and two people stepped out. If you could call the female people that is. She looked more like some kind of humanoid lizard in an old dress. The man, who was dressed in a tweed jacket and a bowtie, was talking about something the girl only heard the end of.
"…And that is why you never play chess with a Time Lord." he said and the girl kept intensive blue eyes at him after the last two words. "Ah… Late 1970s Cardiff. A lovely time in a lovely place. What adventure awaits us here, I wonder?" the man continued.
"Is this what the humans call the Dark Ages, Doctor?" the lizard woman asked looking around at the deserted street.
"No that was over 1000 years ago, but it is unusually dim, isn't it?" the man, the Doctor, said with a frown taking out a metal device of some sort with a green light on the end and waving it around.
The strange woman meanwhile looked up at the sky. The girl chose to ignore what the woman was looking at because she already knew what was there so she kept her gaze at the strange man instead.
"Gloomy at mid-day, high levels of radiation, the smell of boiled cabbage…" the Doctor said looking at his device and the girl grimaced at his last words when the smell she had adapted to once more reached her nostrils as she thought about it.
"A Sontaran battle fleet! Doctor, is the Earth being invaded?" the woman asked and the girl tensed, it had begun.
"The Sontarans have sent a battle fleet to Earth?" the Doctor asked looking up at the sky as well. "This isn't good. In fact this is very, very, ridiculously bad. Not all Sontarans are as friendly as your butler. Well, I say friendly…"
He interrupted himself as the girl accidently shook one of the dustbins as she stumbled and fell out from behind them.
"Hello!" the Doctor said friendly in the dire situation.
"Hiding behind those bins won't save you from Sontaran pulse beams! Let me help you up" the lizard woman said and the girl let her do so without question, not at all bothered by the fact that she wasn't human.
"Look out" she said pointing to a side street where three fully armed Sontaran troopers emerged.
"Right. Here comes our welcoming committee." the Doctor said as the Sontarans came towards them. "Vastra, help me outsmart these armoured potato men"
"Sontaran Invaders! I strongly suggest you stand down!" the lizard woman said stepping before the girl looking quite terrifying.
"Three of them against two of us. I'm not sure I like these odds." the Doctor said as the girl zipped her backpack open and started to look for something.
"They have guns, but we have something far more deadly." Vastra said to the Doctor whose almost non-existent eyebrows rose.
"And what would that be?" he asked not seeing how the girl pulled out two devices that looked like watches and what might have been a remote control.
"Our vastly superior intelligence!" Vastra said and the Doctor sent her a grin.
"Plus, I just changed the rules" the girl said pressing the two watch-like devices to the other two's wrists where they snapped shut and pressed a button on the remote.
"Oh, where did you get these?" the man asked as his turned blue and gems of some sort showed up before them.
"Long story, I'll explain later, do you know the rules?" she asked and the man nodded.
"Vastra, just look how I do. What colour do you have?" the Doctor asked and the woman held up her wrist where the device gave off a yellow light. "Good, here we go"
The Doctor focused for a second and one of the virtual blue gems moved creating a row of three and causing the device on his wrist to light up brighter for a second as energy fired from it. The Doctor winced as the Sontarans fired at them but the main thing that happened was that a virtual 'health bar' was lowered. Quickly repairing the damage by creating a row of pink gems the Doctor soon moved another gem and caused a line of five yellows causing Vastra's device to light up instead.
"You understand how it's done?" the Doctor asked Vastra as the Sontarans disappeared and the woman nodded.
Another group of Sontarans approached and with a few swift movements they, and the next wave that came after them, were easily taken care off. The Doctor looked at the spot where the Sontarans had been with a frown, this was not good.
"None of this makes sense. The Sontarans don't invade Earth until much later in the 20th century. I was there when it happened." he said looking up at the ships again.
"If there is a Sontaran battle fleet attacking Earth, we must get this human somewhere safe." Vastra said and the girl rolled her eyes. "And we're going to need some immediate assistance. I have someone in mind." a smirk appeared on the lizard woman's face and the girl snorted softly.
"Right! Let's get back to the TARDIS." the Doctor said and all three of them hurried back to the phone box.
The girl looked around the control room with a smile and headed straight for the console.
"You're not going to say it, are you?" the Doctor asked and the girl turned her head to him while Vastra looked on confused not having understood what he said.
"How did you guess what I am?" the girl asked, electric blue eyes glinting with the answer.
"I think you already know that" the Doctor said. "You should get back to where you belong"
"Working on it, keep that" she said pointing at the bag she had put down on the floor. "Connect it to the TARDIS and you'll change the rules for the entire universe, just remember to disconnect it when this mess is over" she said turning back to the console flipping a few switches and suddenly a vortex showed up in the room.
"Guess you won't return again" the Doctor said and the girl smiled softly, Vastra couldn't understand a word but she could recognise a smile like that, though it was very toothy.
"I don't exist in this world, as you probably realised, so no I won't. You won't need me however, you are going to have everything I am without me here. Good luck" she said with a wink before running to the vortex that had appeared and jumping through it.
"Who was she?" Vastra asked as the Doctor looked after her for a second before he closed the vortex.
"A Time Lady from another dimension" he answered shortly before he started to pace around the room.
Vastra observed the Time Lord as he paced around the TARDIS mumbling something once more in the language she couldn't understand, she suspected it was Gallifreyan. The male seemed to be thinking hard about what could be going on and what he could do about it as his pacing grew faster and slightly nervous, that could not be good she decided. Finally he moved up to the console and started to flip switches and press buttons with hands that was just a blur, an anxious look on his face.
"I'm picking up multiple vortex manipulators signals. It looks like Sontaran High Command has perfected their control of time travel. They are heading back in time and changing the outcomes of every major intergalactic war. But why?" he asked just as the TARDIS shook violently causing him to having to steady himself against the console and Vastra grabbed the railing to keep upright. "Oh no! They're changing time to create a final, ultimate war, the war to end all wars. And it's happening right here, right now! Whole worlds could be wiped out! Catastrophic extinctions on one hand, reversal of fortunes of villains on the other. Daleks, Cybermen, the Master… even Gallifrey." for a second Vastra thought she heard a slight fear in his voice at the last words when he listed old enemies.
"Doctor!" she said effectively cutting off his ramble.
"Yes." he said turning his head to her.
"Stay focused." she told him and he nodded before starting to move around the console again but this time she recognised his movements, they were taking off.
"This could be tricky. Very tricky indeed." the Doctor said as he sent them into the Time Vortex and set course for Victorian London. "We can't stop this alone. We have to go back, way, way back." as far back as the beginning he thought. "Collect my bravest allies and we can reverse the damage 're stronger than any warmongering alien army." he said, he knew they were, they had to be.
The TARDIS wheezed to landing and the Doctor sent a nod to Vastra without her having to tell him who she had in mind to help them, it wasn't hard to guess.
"Jenny, darling, I'm with the Doctor and we're in need of your unique skills…" Vastra said putting her head out of the doors to check that they really was at her house before heading off in search of her wife.
While his friend went out in search for her partner the Doctor opened the backpack the mysterious girl had left behind and found the equipment she had brought. He grinned and pulled out a strange device and started working on getting it hooked up to the TARDIS. He could feel the power that the TARDIS stated to send out speeding through the universe changing the rules around them but sadly enough only to full when the TARDIS was present. It meant that he would have to find his friends before it was too late and they ended up killed or never existing due to the collapsing of the universe. He would have to rely on speed and intelligence to win this and as soon as Vastra returned with Jenny he would start running.
"What is going on? And what is this?" the familiar voice of Jenny sounded as the human entered along with her Silurian wife.
The Doctor turned and saw that she was showing him the same device that sat on his own and Vastra's arms but her glowed faintly in red. He smiled in satisfaction, more and different colours meant a better chance in this fight.
"That is what is going to save this world. Keep that on, don't know if you could take it off now actually after I started connected the Converter to the TARDIS actually" the Doctor said starting to move around the console to get started on the mission. "Where is the potato?" he added as he realised that Strax wasn't there.
"He disappeared into thin air before our eyes, Doctor. We have no idea what happened" Vastra said and the Doctor swore quietly in Gallifreyan.
"Then it's faster than I expected, he has probably been pulled to another part of the time stream. I don't know if we can track him but I'm going to try, I don't want any of my friends lost out there in this chaos" he said pulling the leaver down for take-off. "Here we go. Geronimo!"
And that is the prologue, this was a bit tricky to get a hold of the dialogue as you can't replay the levels but I managed to find it. Please tell me what you think, see you when I finished the next of these!