Queen? Pfffft!
7.11.2011
Sailor Moon - Doctor Who
Crossover
Characters: Setsuna, Minako?, Jack?, the Doctor
Sum: Setsuna is itching to get out, she's been staring at mirrors for too long, its making her eyes hurt. Then comes a curious sound.
AN: Er... this all started because of one of the only SM, Dr. Who fanfics out there, that deals with Pluto and the Doctor. Then also the fact that I've never been able to fully wrap my mind around where Pluto exists. Wouldn't the whole concept of keeping track of the time-lines be a point in time reference itself? Then when she steps out of that dimension, she becomes a fixed historical fact. Dr.'s whole point on why Time Lords never get involved... and Jack's whole thing... The whole thing hurts my brain.
AN2: Referencing back to the title... we'll get there eventually. It's not a direct reflection of the plot. More what I imagine in my head if something like this were to happen to me, though it really, really never could. I'd have known it by now, being the guardian of the time gate and all that. So since Pluto isn't me, and thank heavens, on so many levels, she's a bit more mature than to react the way I would.
Time was a curious thing. The way it moved, the way it stood still. Not one could blame her for wallowing in her thoughts about it. She had plenty of time to do so. She recognized that pun with a resolved, almost uncaring irony. Her fingers ran lightly across the time stream mirror that she had involved herself in. She had placed it in the center of the room. She needed to, for she had to keep in mind which one she entered, and when, so as not to go back in their time stream and present herself too early, creating an Einstein Bridge.
That would just cause a whole load of disasters. Thankfully, she never had to worry about crossing paths with herself. Her garnet rod was honed to the exact place in time when her previous self left to do what she was doing currently, and to return just as the past and present slipped past one another. However it only worked through these time-streams.
Her time-streams only allowed her to watch her princess's life and the generations following and before. The ones that had lived their time, were stored in another room, while the ones to come, they were laid out behind all the branches that held this current princess. She couldn't deal too much with things to come. Her princess had to get there first, but sometimes she meddled in those futures. But she didn't worry so much about the confusion of timestreams, by the time this princess got to that future, or past her future, everyone knew who Pluto was, and took it for granted that she either didn't know what had happened yet, or thought that something had. They just took it with a grain of salt, as Pluto never reveled anything life-altering. As the only time Pluto touched upon their lives, was if something major was at play, and needed a warning, or a time-slow-down.
It didn't happen too often. It was for her future self to deal with those future problems. But the problems wouldn't have gotten there yet, or would have already been dealt with by the time Pluto was in that future form. Simply put, even though time was linear, it really wasn't. If something happened in a mirror that Pluto needed to deal with, she, needed to deal with it, not some past or future version of herself. The one that saw it, had to do it. Though there were occasions where she saw problems arrise in several mirrors at once, and really, since she could not die or age, or anything else really, she was able to deal with all of them, though in essence it had been her future self who dealt with the ones that she had seen in her present form.
Mind bending? Of course it was.
Sometimes she was confused too. Though she really shouldn't have been, she'd had plenty of time to figure it all out, and store it properly. She also bent it to her reality and needs, without a princess to follow, she'd cease to exist. She was the time guardian after all. Though it often gave her a headache.
The more princesses she could follow, the more of the universe she could experience through them. So far, this princess had been about the most adventuresome princess in Pluto's long existence. She was around before the first one, but not too long before.
It would be another several princesses before they got out of the solar system. Even this one was content just to let the others come to her, rather than seek them out for herself. Even if she did have a standing invite from one very attractive, very single alien. Yeah, that's right.
Though if she'd had this princess's life too, she might not want to leave home either. Not only because of the dangerous that would love to eat her up, but also because she had a nice thing going there. Several centuries of life, with an even more attractive man,why not stay put? Not to mention all the friends and things they had to do, in running an entire solar system. Starting all of it from scratch. So what after almost 20 years of fighting, they decided to settle down and live the somewhat, over the top, (really not) peaceful life?
She only would have wanted her princess to follow the boy because that would have gotten them several galaxies away, not just planets or even solar systems, but galaxies. Pluto dealt with different dimensions and realities and universes, but she'd never been out of this solar system with the Earth and Moon and very narrow view on what existed out there. Human really were self-centered, entitled children who thought they were the only ones to have sentient life. Pluto shrugged though as she watched a previous mirror unfold just how she'd seen it before, the meeting of the one she would have followed if she could have gotten away with it. But a future mirror from that point, but in her past, showed her interfering with what should have been, again. She couldn't help it though, she needed to meddle. Make the world a bit better. Entertain herself, you know, that kind of thing. Purely for the good of others, nothing selfish.
One thing was true though, whatever happened to this princess, at this time, changed the futures, all Pluto could see were the future ones. She couldn't go back and alter the past if she'd already been there and failed, so she couldn't fail. So if she saw something happen, that was the only time she could interfere. It would pointless to interfere otherwise, and then she might miss what would happen and then would have to go back to the time and place she'd just been and then rip a massive hole in the universe that she'd have to unravel. If her princess died, then she'd never get out of this galaxy. She'd be forever stuck here, staring at the other events that lead up to that one, and watching the future ones all disappear. It was easier to follow one princess and one time stream and keep an eye on the others. It wasn't to say that any of those were wrong or right, this is just the one she chose to monitor and mentor.
This was her project, she was fate this time around. Though the players had a tendency to go against what she had planned and carefully cultivated. Like Endymion's reincarnation, opening his big mouth and choosing something stupid to say instead of what he really wanted to. Or Serenity's being so lazy. She had to let them, she couldn't undue it. She could only stop it, and sometimes she couldn't see their future. It was too impulsive, too many variables, a quick synapse in the brain that misfired and the words that escaped were something completely different.
Her monarchs were starting to give her a headache. They really were. Her eyes were dancing around the room like quicksilver as a lot of events were unfolding just as she sat there. Then she disappeared. She reappeared just as she left, but now noticeably more tired. She leaned on her staff and watched as all the time-lines straightened themselves out. She had held time for all of them, to do so was to break the ancient laws and she'd done it for all of them. But she had to, if they failed just then in any time line, something would have happened that she didn't want to fix. Man, even though she sat alone and had all the time in the world to herself, she was really just so tired. She needed a vacation.
That's when she heard a strange noise, like something revving and grinding against the breaks, fighting with its own commands.
EAN: Let me assure you right now that any connections that you've made with another story of mine that I just posted with a similar title, are purely coincidence. I started this one before that one, and with a completely different motivation. I'm just really a fan of Dr. Who and a lot of things get stuck in my brain. This one will have only slight, slight references to that one and vice-versa, just because I'm writing them at the same time but they're completely different feels and stories. The other one had Dr. Who influences only in the summary and the first author's note because I really like it when he apologizes and whenever I hear anyone apologize these days I automatically think of the 10th doctor and all of the different reasons why he apologized and ways he did it, and whether or not he meant them.
EAN2: As for the title, again, I started this one before that, and I forgot I had styled it the same way. With the question mark after Queen, but the Question marks after Queen are completely different implications, as you'll see in future chapters of both stories. Also, this is a crossover so it doesn't fit in my own personal project. (Having a title for SM stories that fit the stories but also as a collection having a story that starts with every letter of the alphabet, not including "the"s "A"s and "in"s or "it"s I guess too.) I noticed it when I got a little heavy handed on the Is and Ss. I decided it was time that I start being more creative with the chapter titles, and I started seeing the gaps in the alphabet, which were only a few as the creative titles were already filling in where I might have missed. Do you know how hard it is to create a title starting with Q, Y, X, Z? I've taken care of a few of them. So this one doesn't count, but Queen? Her? does. Hahaha... did you want to know all that? Well you do now!