Doctor Who
Faces from the Past
Space – Prehistoric Era.
Adric was in the space freighter, just outside the prehistoric Earth's atmosphere, and was just about to tap in the final digits. That was until the dying Cyber-leader shot the console, missing Adric by an inch as he had leapt back. With no more power in him, the Cyber-leader died. Adric looked at the sparking console and then up at the view-screen, as the Earth was coming up close.
Adric's eyes twinkled slightly as he knew that The Doctor had no chance in saving him.
"Now I'll never know if I was right."
Meanwhile, looking at the view-screen on the TARDIS, The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan looked with fear and sadness in their eyes as the freighter exploded in space.
"Adric!!" Cried out Nyssa.
" The freighter could still crash into Earth. That doesn't have to be changed." Said Tegan. Her voice was filled with determination. "Only Adric doesn't have to be on board."
The Doctor was fed up with having to explain to the theory that you cannot cross your own time-line.
"Now, listen to me, both of you..." He calmed his voice down a little. " There are some rules that cannot be broken – even with the TARDIS." The Doctor looked at the console near the door, seeing if there was any repairable damage. He could feel the sadness and was sad himself. He placed a hand on Nyssa and Tegan's shoulder and added. " But he wouldn't want us to mourn unnecessarily."
Year: 200,100
Location: Floor 500 – Satalite 5
The doors to the TARDIS swung inwards, revealing a strong, white-yellow light. In the centre of it was Rose. The Doctor dropped to the floor, in awe.
" Rose?"
Rose's eyes were glowing with the power of the time-vortex. Everything about was Goddess-like.
" What did you do...?"
Rose looked around, camly and slowly like a Goddess. Her London accent had been replaced with a voice with reverb and infinate wisdom.
" I looked into the TARDIS. And the TARDIS looked into me."
The Doctor took no time in understanding it and a look of concern crossed his face.
" You went deeper than that. You looked into the Time Vortex. Rose, no-one's meant to see that."
On the screen behind The Doctor, the Dalek Emperor was viewing the scene.
" This is The Abomination."
One of the Daleks that were surrounding the area around The Doctor aimed its gun at Rose.
"EXTERINMATE!" It growled.
It shot a fire bolt. Rose calmly held out her hand and stopped the bolt and sent it back into the Dalek's gun. It looked down at it's gun in confusion.
" Rose, you've got to stop this. You've got to stop this now!"
" I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words..."
She raised her hand and the BAD WOLF lettering lifted itself off the wall and gently floated in the air.
" I scatter them, in time and space, a message to lead myself here."
The letters started to disappear, travelling through time and space.
" You've got the entire vortex running through your head, you're gonna burn." The Doctor sighed sympathetically. " Is that what you want?"
" I want you safe." Replied Rose, looking down at him. " My Doctor. Protected from the false God."
" You cannot hurt me." Hissed the Emperor Dalek. " I am immortal."
" You are tiny." Rose retorted. " I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence." Raising her hand once more, Rose turned elegantly to the first dalek in her eye-line with a look of determination in her eyes. " And I divide them."
Both Rose and the Dalek could sense it's end as the whole of it turned into atoms and disappeared.
" Everything must come to dust. All things..."
She gestured and three more Daleks ceased to exist.
" Everything dies."
On the Dalek spaceship, everything was beginning to disappear.
And the Emperor Dalek was not happy.
" I will not die! I cannot die!"
However many times he said it, or was about to convince himself, along with his followers, the leader turned to dust in space...along with the spaceship. ALL of them.
" The Time War ends."
Rose and The Doctor were the only ones left on Floor 500. The Doctor was still crouching, still scared. Rose, however, was smiling. Her Doctor no longer had to worry.
" That's it, Rose. " Said The Doctor. " You've done it. Now, let go, just stop -"
" How could I let this go?" Asked Rose, feeling more powerful than she had in her life. " I bring life."
She gestured once more.
Just outside the Floor 500 room, Captain Jack Harkness, who had previously reached his end by Dalek bolt, suddenly took a deep breath and his eyes snapped open. He was alive again. He took in his surroundings, still sitting on the floor.
The Doctor had had enough. First, Nyssa and Tegan – that was going back a long way – and now, Rose.
" But this is wrong! You can't control life and death -"
" But I can. The sun and the moon and the light and the dark..." Her voice suddenly became child-like and sad. "But why do they hurt?"
The Doctor noticed that the power was dimming...and so was Rose's life. His voice became caring and compassionate.
" It's eating you alive. The power's going to kill you..." His voice almost broke with sadness. " And it's all my fault."
" But I can see everything." Replied Rose. She couldn't let go now. " All that is. All that was..."
A vision of a young lad, no younger than 18, was looking at something that she couldn't see, with terror and realization in his eyes. " All that ever could be."
" That's what I see." Said The Doctor, if only he could bring her around. " All the time. And doesn't it drive you mad...?"
Tears were starting to fill her eyes and her voice was becoming human again.
" My head..."
" Come here..."
The Doctor held her shaking hand and looked into her eyes.
" I think you need a Doctor."
And, carefully, he leant in and placed his lips against hers. The power from the time vortex left her body and entered his. It filled his entire body and made his shine. Rose dropped to the ground, unconscious. The Doctor, looking more Godly than before – with the Time Vortex in his eyes – took a deep breath and blew the essence back into the TARDIS.
He smiled, all of the power, back where it was and he saved the girl.
Captain Jack stood, shaking his head. Turns out death is like one big headache. Just walk it off. Suddenly, he remembered and headed to the doors of Floor 500, hearing the groans and wheezes of a familiar machine.
" Doctor, what the hell...?"
Jack stopped. The last of the TARDIS had vanished and there was dust everywhere. Captain Jack Harkness is ankle-deep in Dalek dust. He looks down at his wrist.
On his wrist is his Vortex Manipulator. One problem: he hasn't used it in ages.
"Hope this thing still works."
Pressing the desired buttons, Jack shimmered, turning white and vanished.
Year: 23rd December 2006 – 9: 34PM
Location: Henrik's Department Store, London
Just outside Henrik's department store – once a career for Rose Tyler – a familiar figure shimmered and landed in front of it. He looked as if he was 18-years-old and wore a yellow vest with a green long-sleeved shirt underneath and a red shirt, which was sticking out and khaki trousers with green boots.
Year: 2008
Location: Trafalgar Square, London
It was midday as a familiar whooisng noise became louder. A light appeared out of nowhere, which was shortly followed by a blue box. It was the TARDIS. It finished materializing with a resounding thunk.
The Doctor and Martha came out of the TARDIS, laughing.
Well, Martha was mostly.
" Well, I'm glad you think its's funny, Martha. I had to fight the blooming things."
" Yeah, but come on, figures made out of water. And...you slipped."
After a moment, reliving the image in his mind, The Doctor started to chuckle and took Martha by the arm.
" Come on, Martha. Why don't I treat you to a nice big bag of fish and chips? Or chicken in a basket?"
As The Doctor was leading Martha off, he could swear he had this tingling feeling...as if someone was watching him.
Life had changed for The Doctor. After absorbing the time vortex, The Doctor had died from the damage done to the cells in his body, caused by the time-vortex. He regenerated into his current incarnation, right in front of Rose. He had spent some time unconscious, due to the regeneration, and woke up, only to get involved in a fight with a Sycorx (and lose his right hand in the process) but, since he was only in the first 15 minutes of his regeneration, he could grow another one.
Although orginally freaked, Rose decided to rejoin The Doctor on his travels and met the Face of Boe (again), Queen Victoria, who, unbeknownst to The Doctor, started up the Torchwood Institute, fell into an alternative universe where The Doctor discovered that Cybermen were being made and a fight between Daleks – who were a cult called Cult of Skaro – and Cybermen. This fight cost The Doctor the most important thing in his life...Rose. She didn't die. Well, not in her new reality.
While mourning for Rose ( 'cause TARDISes can't go through Parallel dimensions and the trip to the Cybermen reality was just a fluke), The Doctor got an unexpected passenger, in the shape of Donna Noble – a bride-to-be. But, due to the fact that her husband-to-be was in league with the monster of the week – the Empress of the Rachnoss – and also due to the fact that he was now dead made Donna think of how she was going to live her life. She did warn The Doctor to find someone to watch out for him.
That 'someone' came in the form of medical student Martha Jones. The Doctor had placed himself at her hospital because of a disturbance. Sure enough, the whole hospital was transported to the Moon where the Judoon were looking for a murderer in the current shape of Florence Finnegan, who in reality, was a shape-shifting Plasmavore (a alien that could blend in with humans if it sucked their blood). However, The Doctor tricked her and she was killed by the rhino-faced law-enforcers. After a party thar had gone wrong, The Doctor offered Martha one trip to say thanks. Martha had accepted and was taken to see Shakespeare. After helping The Doctor defeat Richard Lazarus, a professor that had been altered by dormant genes in his body, The Doctor had offered to make Martha a companion (since she was 'never really a passenger') Recently, before the incident with the water beings, Martha had helped him hide himself from the Family of Blood, who were after immortality.
This all may seem impossible but, due to the TARDIS, it only took a few months (give or take).
" So, what're we doing in London, then?"
The Doctor and Martha were sitting on the fountain in Trafalgar Square. They had decided on chips with salt and vinegar. The Doctor was preoccupied, looking around Trafalgar Square, only just noticing Martha's mouth move out of the corner of his eye.
" Sorry, what did you say?" Before Martha could repeat herself, The Doctor answered. " Well, I thought it would be a nice break from Families looking for immortality and professors looking for a shortcut to evolution."
After they had finished with their chips, they took a walk through Covent Gardens. A club was beating out a four-beat tune, which sounded almost hypnotic.
From inside, someone shouted at the DJ.
" Wicked. Is that the new Noxas tune?"
" Kids and their music, today." Sighed The Doctor. " I'll never understand it. Although the music from the 80's was alright."
As he was saying that, a woman of 35 knocked into The Doctor by accident.
" Sorry." Replied the woman.
" Not to worry. No harm done."
The woman smiled and walked away. As she was leaving, The Doctor noticed her jacket, which was oddly familiar. But he couldn't, for the life of him, figure out why. The jacket had letters that had come off in places. Just the A and C remained. And the jacket itself looked 80's in originality. And it had badges and insignias stuck on and stitched into it.
Marta noticed the enquiring look on The Doctor's features.
" Anything the matter, Doctor?"
" No, not really." The Doctor shrugged the thought off. " Just one of those faces that you think you've seen before but can't put a time to. And I'm a Time-Lord."
And, with that notion in his head, he started to laugh. After a while, Martha joined in with him.
What The Doctor and Martha didn't see was a young man, around 19 – 20 in a white hoodie, watching the both of them.
After buying himself a couple of pizzas and a burger from McDonald's, the lad returned to his apartment. It resembled many college students apartments. He hadn't tidied most of the old McDonald's wrappers away and most of the coke cans were near the bin.
What was interesting was the walls. Here and there, on either side of the wall, were newspaper clippings dating back to when he had returned.
' Huge Ship Over London – Torchwood Called By Prime Minister Harriet Jones'. On the clipping was a picture of the Sycorax ship, with an article of what happened. There was also a picture of Prime Minister Harriet Jones with the caption ' Is This Harriet's Final Year?'.
Then, along the way, another article said 'Deffrey High School Called Into Question. How Did It Explode?' and 'Mysterious Giant Bats Around Deffrey High School'. This story was written by Sarah Jane Smith, an old aquaintence of The Doctor's.
On the other side of the wall, near the doorway to the kitchen, another article wrote 'Odd Disappearances in Dame Kelly Holmes Close' while another one wrote 'Saviour Takes The Torch', which had a picture of a familar figure, which had a red felt-tipped circle around it.
Many other articles scattered on different parts of the room included 'Battle Of Canary Warf', 'Carnage At Christmas', which detailed the web-star's attack on London and the disappearance of the Thames, 'Royal Hope Hospital Vanishes...And Reappears', which told of the odd disappearance of the medical facility, along with a quote from one of the medical staff saying about Mr. Saxon being right about not being alone in the universe and, most recently, 'Professor Lazarus To Change What It Means To Be Human', which was followed by a picture someone managed to take of the result.
The figure smiled as he looked at the picture of the figure holding the Olympic Torch.
" He's back."
