Deep in the furthest reaches of space, beyond the boundaries of knowledge and reasoning themselves, where no human could ever have dream of finding themselves there stood a man. A man that, while peace and sanity were always the first port of call, could always be counted on to make the hard call. And right now he was faced with a choice that was so daring, so dangerous that he had spent the past few days motionless, unsure which way to go.

"What do you think, Sexy?" He pondered. Above all the noise that the TARDIS was constantly churning out a definite change in rhythm could be heard. When he had heard his answer (or as close to it as possible as in the early days of construction it was decided that a TARDIS should not really have a choice in where they go in case of rebellion against their creators), the man's indiscernible features flickered briefly in to a smile before reverting back their pensive state.

"I'm well aware of the risks, dear, but this may be my one and only opportunity to see life in a whole new dimension". He said placing emphasis on his last three words in particular.

"Hell I knew it was a risk to wear only holographic clothes to Jack's stag do." He exclaimed, rubbing the back of his head at the memories that were resurfacing. "How was I supposed to know that he'd gotten his hands on his own sonic screwdriver? Blimey what a night that was. No no no no I keep getting distracted from the issue at hand." He suddenly shouted, leaping round the dimly lit console to the zig-zag plotter.

"I've decided I'm going through. I've wasted enough time, even though you should waste time when you don't have any." He smiled when he remembered that he said that exact same thing to River and Amy. Amy. It had been so long since he had seen her and Rory but he knew he could never see them again. "You're selfish you old fool! They would still be alive if you hadn't ruined everything. You kept bringing them along despite knowing you'd eventually be the cause of their…"

"Gah I got distracted again." He yelled, pulling his dark mop of hair in frustration. "Right, Sexy, I want the technical run down of this wormhole". The wormhole in question had appeared a few days ago as if from nowhere when the Doctor was passing on his way to the Maldovarium and his curiosity had instantly been piqued.

"All right then let's find out what you are then, eh", he said with a grin as he pulled down the monitor to eye level. "A basic 7-dimensional wormhole imprinted onto the fabric of the universe through a quantum dispersion of Raxon waves. Well that's just boring". He sighed, flinging the monitor away from him and turning his back on the console.

"Wait hold on a minute, Sexy" he said, slowly turning back towards the main unit. "Bring up the scan again." After spending another few minutes carefully sifting through the readings on the screen, he yelled "Bingo! Oh that's rubbish I am never saying that again", he said, looking around the room for Amy, then remembering. Thank God that Amy wasn't around to hear that.

"No stop putting this off. This is a once in life time opportunity and with your lifespan that's saying something. What did I see? I saw the readings for localized oscillations on the reality plane. Or rather, I didn't." He scratched his face of indescribable age thoughtfully. "No oscillations, no movement, nothing, which could only mean that…". The realization dawned on him. "The wormhole is completely stable. It's not possible. All trans-dimensional occurrences of this magnitude have at least some tell-tale vibration but here it's still as a weeping angel." Which can only meeeaaann…"

He visibly jumped as the second wave of realization hit him. "It's artificial. This wormhole was created by someone…. for a purpose. But who and why. Why build something and not use it? Look at these readings. No one has even used it yet otherwise there would be entry scarring. And who could do this.? No one I know has this kind of tech and believe my I've checked all the usual places including down the back of the sofa." All the questions the Doctor was thinking were swimming about in his brain and making him dizzy.

"NO! ENOUGH" He yelled into the darkness. "Who cares about the dangers? If I stopped at the first sign of danger I'd miss all the best parts of an adventure. And that's what this is now. A journey into the unknown. Do you remember when we first set out together?" He said while stroking the console. A mechanical whirring seemed to answer. "Yes, to have the best of times, have an adventure among the stars and to witness the wonders of space. And we've got the bumper family package." He smiled, looking down at the wormhole on the TARDIS monitor.

"Right, every cell in my body says I shouldn't be doing this." The Doctor remarked as he appeared to dance around the main console, now full of life, pushing seemingly random buttons and throwing levers with a blasé attitude. "But hey, the rules were meant to be broken, eh, Sexy?" The whirring increased in pitch as the time rotor on the central column began to rise and fall, making the wheezing noise the Doctor had grown to love.

"Yes I suppose it is brilliant. I'll add "the rules are meant to be broken" to my list. Sort of negates the point of having a list but who's counting." He grinned.

"Geronimo!" He yelled, still grinning as the old man and the even older box flew straight into the gaping mouth of the wormhole. "GERONIMO!"


Another day had dawned on the land of which of Ooo and the sun was bathing the all the kingdoms in a glorious ocean of sunlight. One of these kingdoms was the candy Kingdom, known for its spiralling sugary colonnades and its hardworking but carefree attitude. And on this day (and it was a beautiful day at that) every man and his candy coated dog were relaxing and enjoying the sunshine. Everyone except for one.

"No I was so close this time! Why why why won't these chemicals combine properly? I've got all the right ingredients and followed the instructions down to a microscopic level and yet… NOTHING!"

The owner of the now frustrated voice was none other than the candy kingdoms very own princess Bubblegum, who had spent the past few days (she thought it was days) cooped up in her laboratory working on something vital for the residents of her beloved kingdom. Though it annoyed her to spend so much time in the darkness of the room and longed to feel the glow of the sun on her pale pink skin she knew her Subjects came first. In fact she was so wrapped in her work she didn't hear the door to her lab slowly open behind her and a figure creep silently across the floor to where she now stood.

"Hello my princess." The whisper sounding like flakes of ice drifting across the valley beyond the kingdom walls. "Surprised to see me."

"What the..?" The princess whirled around, nearly knocking over her precious experiment in the process. "Ice King? How did you get in here? Banana guards get this man away from me! Guards?!"

"Oh I'm sorry my love but I thought it was best if we weren't disturbed for the next few minutes." He smiled with his broken teeth at her.

"First of all I AM NOT YOUR LOVE, UNDERSTAND!? She yelled at him, causing him to cower slightly in childlike shame. "Secondly". Her shrill voice rising in pitch. "I am very busy right now on something that will benefit everyone in the candy kingdom so if you want to stand in the way of progress you can BUT NOT RIGHT NOW, I'M BUSY! Her voice was now practically a scream and her cheeks had turned red from her usual pink from the exertion. The Ice king's however remained pale blue and he merely replied:

"Yeah well I'm on a schedule as well so without further ado." He snapped his fingers and the princesses' wrists and ankles became instantly encased in a layer of ice.

"Hey let me go right now you fiend there are lives at stake here!" She half pleaded half screamed at the icy figure.

"Sorry princess but I have waited long enough for you so I want your answer right now." He said with his almost nasally voice.

"Ans…answer to what?" Bubblegum was now feeling slightly scared of the frozen wizard's intentions.

"Well it's quite simple really." A childish grin had appeared on his wizened face. "Either you agree to marry me right now or I'll…." But the ice kings' proposition was cut short as a grinding, whirring noise was quickly getting louder and drowning his words out. "What in Glob….?"


"Ok slight miscalculation on my part, sexy, but I seem to have misjudged the distance between us and the planet below. Not to worry though because it'll be fixed shortly. Yes I do mean when we crash into it, dear." Over the din of the rapidly phasing TARDIS engines the cloister bell was now ringing which brought the Doctor back to his senses.

"Ok I can still fix this. Just got to alter our trajectory enough so that…" But his important plan was halted when he was thrown across the console to the railings as the now alarmingly fast ship hit the atmosphere. Sparks erupted from the central column and noxious smoke was now billowing from the time circuits, its tendrils encircling the Timelord.

"Arrghh! Why is there always, ALWAYS smoke?! I really need to something about that, though the list is pretty short right now considering the impact on the ground below will almost certainly kill me. But I'm not dead yet. Fancy that. I'm doing the Silence's job for them."

The impish grin was wiped from his face when he realised that the TARDIS was now out of the upper atmosphere and in freefall towards, what appeared to be, a city made entirely out of pink and yellow bricks. But he didn't have time to marvel at the way the light danced across the roofs of the pinky purple houses and instead assumed the standard crash position (which he had in fact just made up because he thought it was about time he had at least some form of order in the rapidly plummeting time capsule.)

"Right this isn't going to be big on dignity now but I'd like to have at least some before I go." And with that the TARDIS promptly crashed through the roof of the tallest building in the city and sent up an enormous cloud of dust and debris in its wake. Several moments passed before the doctor realised a) the totally made up emergency position had worked and he wasn't dead B) the TARDIS was still in basic working order, much to his delight and c) he had probably inconvenienced a lot of people by crashing into their home.

"I suppose I better apologize to the residents here for all the fuss." Understatement of the year he pondered. Probably more than a fuss, more like a big fat mess but before all that let's do some checks. Legs yes." He smiled and kissed both of them. "Sonic, yes". He threw the instrument up in the air before catching it expertly in his pocket. "Bowtie, cool. I wonder if they have fezzes here?" He remarked as he placed his hand on top of his now unruly hair. "I'm missing something though. Hm. Oh that's right, smoke. SMOKE!" He yelled as the thick, black smoke that was oozing from every available orifice was now almost too dense to see through, even for the Doctors keen eyes.

"Right then, back in a minute, Sexy". He said as he flung open the doors and readied himself to face whatever challenges this strange new planet had to offer.


Both princess Bubblegum and the ice king stared in shock at, what appeared to be, a large rectangular crate that had smashed through the ceiling and was now settled the corner of the room. What was even more surprising to the pink princess was the condition the box was in. Although small quantities of smoke were seeping out of it seemed to be largely undamaged. Immediately the princess's sciency side took over as she examined the situation.

"Any ordinary object at that kind of velocity would definitely have shattered on impact. And where did it fall from because we're currently at the highest point in the kingdom and for miles around. Is this another one of Finn and Jakes' pranks? Could it have fallen through the rif…"

But before she could ponder any longer the door on the mysterious box opened and a young man walked out, or rather fell out and landed next to princess Bubblegum's long forgotten precious experiment which lay broken on the floor along with the rest of her work. A large cloud of gas also emerged from the box and smothered the figure in a thick black swirling mass. The cloud now started forward towards her and the ice king, who had now recovered, readied his ice powers to blow it away from himself. But before he could use his icy wind a voice yelled through the cloud:

"Extractor fans on!"

And as quickly as it had come the fog was sucked back into the box which was now revealed to be deep blue in colour. When the smoke cleared the figure who had been on the floor until now was suddenly upright and taking in his surroundings

"Sorry was I interrupting something?" The figure asked them.

"No-Yes" Was the answer that followed and was the result of a joint venture by both the princess (who had said yes in the hope of getting the strangers help in escaping) and the ice king (who had provided the negative in order to beat a hasty retreat).

"Well it can't be both now can it?" The figure said quizzically.

"Yes, this man is trying to kidn- mph" Bubblegum's words were cut off by the ice king hastily placing his hand over her mouth.

"Nope everything is completely fine here, in fact we were just leaving weren't we darling?"

"Mpphhh…mmppphhh"

"See all is fine here. N- Nothing suspicious at all." Stammered the ice king. After all, this was supposed to be a routine job that had quickly spiralled out of control. He picked the now kicking princess up and turned to leave.

"O.K this all seems in order to me but mind if I ask one quick question before you depart?"

"S, s, sure. G, go ahead." The ice king had begun to sweat nervously under the scrutiny of the stranger who had not once broken his gaze to him.

"What is your purpose with her?" He was now focused on, what looked like to him, a humanoid figure clad in an ankle length pink dress with a purple sash around the waist that complemented her pink flowing hair beautifully.

"Mmmphh!"

"I, I, er, if you must know we're going to get married. We're just so in love aren't we?" The pink clad figure was wildly shaking her head at the idea.

"Well you see that's very interesting on a number of levels." Although the figure had not raised his voice there was now an unmistakable edge to it that scared the ice king and caused Bubblegum to stop struggling entirely.

"You see although your voice said yes and I'm not exactly familiar with the social customs of this area I know true love when I see it. Your body language completely gives you away. Sorry but I've been playing this game for a long time and you just can't fool me with that kind of act. And it wasn't even a particularly good act either I might add."

The ice king's resolution hardened and he spat. "Who are you to judge me, stranger?" I am the king of ice and snow and you are no one to stand in the way of what I want." During this outburst the princess was surprised to see the figure not back down or even flinch at the ice kings rage. Who was this man?

"I'm not no one and I'm not a stranger. I'm the Doctor." His voice carried a resolute power that his audience on both sides couldn't help but admire.

"Well prepare yourself Doctor for the power of winter's harshness," the ice king laughed as he summoned his frozen energy into a ball ice and fired it at the still unflinching figure.

"One warning, that's all."

The man went from calm and collected to battle stance in matter of micro seconds and quickly flipped out ,what looked like to Bubblegum, a long silver stick which he then proceed to press. The stick let out a noise which shattered the ice ball before it was even half way across the room. The resulting shards showered the ice king and blinded him and in that second the stranger was across the room in a flash and positioned himself between the princess and the king.

"What magic is this?" The stunned ice king asked, pointing to the screwdriver.

"Science not magic. Magic is just science that you're just too lazy to understand." The Doctor retorted. This last sentence sent shivers up Bubblegum's spine as she had said the same thing to the Grand master wizard of wizards' town and yet this man who she had never even met before had said the exact same thing. Clearly this is a man of knowledge and learning.

"Now, if you don't leave this instant I'll be forced to use my deadly glow stick of power again understand?" The ice king nodded slowly.

"Great!" Beamed the man, all his darkness from earlier was now replaced with a cheerful demeanour that couldn't help but make you feel happy as well. The frosty wizard turned to go before saying:

"This isn't over yet." Then he was gone in a flurry of snowflakes.


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