Author's Note: This was written by me (Nathan Caldwell) and Wade
DeClue. It's a combined effort for this GREAT and continuing tale.
RIDE TO THE OTHER SIDE
The Doctor walked around the console, smiling from ear to ear. "yes!
I remember now! This is the control for the coordinates, and this
device here..." he spins it forward "Is the time control!"
"Careful, Doctor," HARMONY cautioned. "You don't want to go too
far.."
The TARDIS shook, "What happened!"
"We are moving too far, too fast, Doctor. We may have created a minor
temporal disturbance. Just slow down, it should pass."
"I don't remember that happening before." he said, slowing the
acceleration in time. "Where are we, anyhow?"
HARMONY looked to the Doctor, "Don't you know?"
"I thought I did, but look..." he motioned at the viewscreen. "I
simply do not recognize it."
"It looks like we've popped out of the time vortex for sure...but
where...that is a question. It's definitely a place even I don't
remember being."
The Doctor whistled, "That's saying something for sure."
The Doctor looked out. "This is why I miss my companions."
"What do you mean, Doctor?"
"Well, I realize that you are sentient, but still..represented by a
hologram, I can't very well reach out and feel your hand...what not.
You don't joke much, so I can't make fun of the current
situation...look at this..it's absolutely bland..there's nothing out
there for light years..not even a star!"
"Wait a moment, Doctor. I think you've hit on something there..."
The Doctor looked to HARMONY, "What?"
"No stars...since when have there been no stars in space, Doctor?
There are always stars in space..."
"Are you saying we're not in space?"
"No, Doctor. It's far worse then that..." The TARDIS shook.
"What was that!"
HARMONY looked concerned, "It's just as I feared, Doctor! Check the
viewscreen. We've landed inside A BLACK HOLE!"
The earthquake inside the TARDIS wasn't halting. In fact it was
getting worse. The Doctor had to hold to the TARDIS console and fight
to remain standing.
HARMONY stood perfectly still, searching her databanks for a
solution. "Of course! We can't dematerialize, but we CAN accelerate.
Let's try to go through the black hole!"
The Doctor looked at her. "You're mad."
"I know a few who've said the same of you, Doctor, but you get the
job done."
His face turned red. "Well...true enough."
The Doctor threw a lever and the TARDIS accelerated through the
black hole, making any sight of it from outside the phenomenon
impossible.
The TARDIS shook now harder than ever! But they were doing it...they
were going through the black hole. "I wonder...there's always been
speculation about what lies on the other side of one of these..."
HARMONY shook her head. "I never really wanted to find out..."
"where's your sense of adventure, old girl!" The Doctor smiled,
straightened his jacket. "We might very well discover a new species!"
"Highly unlikely, Doctor."
"Er...rediscover an old species?"
"That ..." she paused. "That's more along the lines of what we could
find yes..."
"What..what..you see something?"
"Yes...I think I do..."
Incoming Transmission. Viewscreen switched automatically. "YOU ARE
THE DOCTOR! YOU ARE THE ENEMY OF THE DALEKS! EXTERMINATE!
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
The Doctor looks to HARMONY, "No...not again. This is terrible. Just
when you think you are rid of a pest like the Daleks, they
return...and in the strangest places."
"I have to agree with you, Doctor. I'm not certain what we're going
to do now, though."
"Simple, we don't engage them. We time warp out the other way..."
"We have to stop them, Doctor." HARMONY stated.
"We do? Oh alright, I suppose you're right after all. You usually
are..."
The Doctor moans and answers the comm, responding to the Daleks. "Oh,
Great Salt Shakers of Doom, be warned. I am indeed the Doctor..and
you haven't beaten me yet!"
"You will not escape us this time, Doctor!" The Daleks responded
back. "you will be Exterminated!"
"Yes Yes. It's always the extermination with you things, isn't it.
Why can't you just get by with a cup of tea and some crumpets...but
no...no not even a cricket match with you is it? You have to
EXTERMINATE." he mocks. "Exterminate exterminate...my ears ache!"
There was silence.
The Doctor whispers to HARMONY, "I think I've confused them!"
The TARDIS was hit by something and it shook.
HARMONY shook her head. "or you just made them madder."
The Daleks command, "YOU WILL OPEN VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS! WE WILL
SEE YOU BEFORE WE EXTERMINATE!"
The Doctor sighed, "fine...very well."
The Dalek commander and the Doctor could now see each other. "YOU
ARE NOT THE DOCTOR!"
"Yes I am! I am just regenerated! You've seen new me's before!"
"NOT POSSIBLE. TIMELORDS ONLY HAVE 13 LIVES. YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THE
DOCTOR'S 13 INCARNATIONS!"
"Yes..I am. I am the 13th!"
"YOU ARE NOT THE 13TH DOCTOR! YOU ARE NOT! YOU ARE NOT!"
"Yes, I AM!"
"YOU ARE NOT! YOU ARE NOT!"
"Doctor," Harmony finally intervened. "I don't think now's the time
to argue with them!"
"Fine..." The Doctor sighed.
The Daleks responded. "We cannot in good conscience destroy you. You
are not the Doctor." the ship left.
Silence.
Finally HARMONY spoke, "Doctor, did you hear that?"
"Yes. I'm not good enough for them."
"DOCTOR!" She scolded. "they said they can't do something...in good
CONSCIENCE."
"Not possible, the Daleks do not have a concience."
"One of them Did," She recalled.
"Yes, yes! Rose's pet...but he was destroyed."
"Maybe," She said. "But what if..."
"What are you suggesting?" The Doctor said, shocked.
"That maybe..just maybe..something beautiful has happened."
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He watched from afar. He rode now in that old familiar type 40
TARDIS that he had so often ridden in back when he was that wretched
do gooder. And now...
..now some alternate timeline quack comes after him!
"Oh no, my friend." he says angrily. "You may have thought I was in
between regenerations when I appeared to you...but I've made sure
that in THIS world of my creation, The Valeyard IS the Thirteenth
Doctor!"
He stood and slammed his fist on the control panel, causing his
TARDIS to dematerialize and begin moving again.
"And if that means eliminating you, Doctor...well then, it will be my
pleasure!"
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The Dalek voice rang loud and clear. "You will be sent assistance
while you are in this sector. Await transport of Emperor Crodoc."
"Emperor!" The Doctor looked to Harmony, this didn't look good at
all! "Really, that's alright. We don't need your help. We'll be
fine on our own. Kind of you to offer though."
"YOU WILL OBEY! YOU WILL OBEY!" The Dalek sounded very upset.
"ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT!" The Doctor shouted over the din of the Dalek's
voice. "This is going to be bad," he muttered.
Harmony stated no argument.
The Doctor paced back and forth, and all around the TARDIS for that
matter. "This is terrible! A DALEK on my ship! They're sending a
DALEK on my TARDIS!"
"Calm down, Doctor." HARMONY said. "you'll only get yourself in a
cold frazzle."
"Oh pish posh! I haven't felt cold in ages, since you repaired the
time freeze!"
"It's a figure of speech, Doctor."
"ah..yes of course." The Doctor stood at the console. The sound of
a TARDIS materializing inside the TARDIS could be heard. "NO! What
kind of idiot materializes a TARDIS inside another TARDIS! Everyone
knows that's akin to suicide!" He looked around, and saw no TARDIS.
"Where is that blasted Crodoc, anyhow!"
Something tapped the Doctor on the back. He slowly turned to look at
the Dalek staring back at him. "AAAAAH! Don't do that!"
"Why not?" Came the voice of the Dalek called Crodoc, but the voice
was an identical copy of his own.