So, if this sounds familiar to you, this is a rewrite of my old story, "A TARDIS family reunion". I am a major Doctor and Rose shipper, so keep that in mind. Other ships may transpire, but only Rose gets shipped with the Doctor.
Anyway, please review and let me know what you think! If you haven't figured it out from the speech the Doctor makes in the very beginning, this takes place at the very end of the Time of the Doctor, immediately before Matt Smith regenerates into Peter Capaldi. Capaldi's Doctor does not appear in the first few chapters, but he does come in to play early on and plays a major role.
Oh yeah, I don't own Doctor Who or any of the characters.
Chapter 1
CLARA: You, you are the Doctor.
ELEVEN: Yep. And I always will be. But times change and so must I…We all change when you think about it, we're all different people, all through our lives, and that's okay, that's good you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this, not one day, I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.
The Doctor sighed, and removed his bowtie, letting it fall to the ground. As it hit, the TARDIS began to rumble and shake.
"Doctor! What's happening?!" Clara shrieked as she was thrown across the room.
"Something's wrong... I'm...degenerating?!" The Doctor doubled over in pain and breathed heavily. As he exhaled, a strange gold mist escaped from his mouth and swirled around like a tornado.
The gold mist suddenly solidified into the shape of a man, a man wearing a brown striped suit with white trainers.
"Blimey!" He exclaimed. "That's weird."
The Doctor, no longer in pain, slipped on his glasses for a better look as he approached and examined the strange new arrival on the TARDIS from all angles. "Oy! So it's you again, is it? That's what I call proper skinny! Clara, may I introduce you to, well... myself!"
Clara promptly picked herself up from the corner where she had landed and held out her hand to the Tenth Doctor. "Hello again, Doctor! I'm Clara Oswald." she said.
"Right. Pleasure." said Ten, shaking her hand and turning to Eleven. "Um, so, I take it that you are the future me?"
Eleven nodded. "And, no, I have no idea of how you got here. I was supposed to be regenerating, and well, you... happened."
"Well... that's highly unusual. Wait, you were regenerating? How could you be regenerating? I mean... you know. Unless... the meta crisis didn't count?"
"Nope. He counted. So did the one we like to ignore. Gallifrey is in another pocket universe. Cracks in space and time. Long story, really, but we've been given a new set..." Eleven's thoughts were interrupted by a very loud beeping noise emitting from the console. He checked her readings. "Oh this is bad, this is very bad."
"What?" Asked Clara and Ten as they crowded around the screen. Suddenly Ten doubled over in pain much as Eleven had earlier and another figure appeared. This man was wearing a black leather jacket and had unusually large ears.
"Another face of The Doctor, I presume?" Clara asked introducing herself to The Ninth Doctor.
"I am" Nine said. "And you all are..."
The other Doctors didn't even look up from the console but waved their sonics at him in greeting. "Oh. You're both me? Fantastic." Clara couldn't tell if he really thought it was fantastic, or if he was being sarcastic.
"Things are far from fantastic if we degenerate any further!" Eleven retorted.
"Right. We don't need him to appear." Nine and Ten both remarked with the exact same inflection and facial expression. Clara could tell that though they appeared different, it was obvious that they were the same person. But she was confused. Didn't they remember that he saved Gallifrey?
"They don't remember, Clara." Eleven, who had been tinkering under the console, had seemed to read her mind. "And it's best that you don't bring it up. The last thing we need are these two learning too much and inviting reapers on board. Now I think I stopped more past selves from appearing, but the TARDIS seems determined that I am going to have a family reunion."
"What do you mean?" Came the stereo response.
"It looks like everyone who has ever been a companion for the last 3 of my faces is invited to appear."
No sooner had he spoken when a beautiful blonde woman with very curly hair suddenly appeared. It was River Song, beamed on board straight from the library.
She looked around, surprised, and when her eyes landed upon Ten and Eleven, she broke into a wide grin. "Hello, Sweetie!"
"Hello, River!" The two doctors that she had met replied. Eleven was completely surprised that she had come, because technically, she was not a companion. And she was a hologram in the Library.
Ten was finding it a bit disconcerting that he had apparently lost the ability to speak by himself. Nine just stood there, grinning. Clara just laughed. This could be a lot of fun! Introductions and chit chat commenced.
"Right then, who's next?" Ten asked, relieved to be the only one speaking.
"The Ponds." Eleven replied. And no sooner had he spoken when Rory Williams appeared, followed closely behind by his wife, Amy. Introductions all around.
"Uh oh, Ten we have a problem." Eleven intoned. "She seems to be bringing back companions in reverse order, and Amy was the first face this face saw. Who was your last companion?"
"Oh my! DONNA!" Ten shrieked. "But she can't remember or she'll die!"
"What did you idiots do?" Nine remarked. "Why can't she remember?"
"I...Kind of... turned her into a meta crisis." Ten said sadly.
"Fantastic. Forget about me calling you an idiot. You're a moron." Still, he eagerly joined the tinkering on the console because it sounded like his future selves needed him if his future companion would be saved. He couldn't help but wonder at Ten's idiocy. If he couldn't be trusted with this Donna person, whatever happened to...
His thoughts were interrupted when another Doctor came on board. It was the human Doctor, the meta crisis himself. Nine rolled his eyes. He really did turn into a moron. Tentoo, however, was oblivious to all of this and smiled happily when he discovered that he was back on the TARDIS. "Oh. Hello" he said to everyone gathered.
The older two Doctors were too busy tinkering under the console trying to figure out how to save Donna to notice his arrival. Nine just choose to ignore him. Clara, realizing that she was the current companion of the Doctor and that with that honor comes responsibility, took it upon herself to welcome Tentoo and introduce him to the others. "Most people just call me John Smith," he said. "Only my wife and her family call me Doctor. But you can call me Tentoo if you wish. You're kind of family."
Ten heard the voice of his meta crisis and groaned. "Of all people to come on board, it had to be him" he thought. When Tentoo mentioned his wife, Ten felt his blood begin to boil. But at the same time, he had a rush of hope. Tentoo was pulled straight out of a parallel world. Maybe... But he dared not hope. Luckily, he and his other selves were now prepared for Donna' s arrival.
It was none too soon, either, for Donna Noble appeared just then. The Doctors pounced on her immediately and Nine placed a helmet on her head as Ten caught her as she passed out. Eleven fiddled with some dials on the console as she came to. Brain explosion averted, introductions began again in earnest.
"Oi! Space man! What's the big idea? Attacking me as soon as I come on board?!" Donna was not too pleased.
Ten was suddenly a little afraid of his best mate. Her temper was legendary. "Believe me, it's for your own good!" He said. She slapped him playfully. "I know." Tentoo was very happy to see his crisis twin.
The arrivals of Martha Jones and Mickey Smith, happily married to each other for several years, happened without much fanfare. Nine did make some kind of comment along the lines of "who invited Mickey the Idiot on board?" and sulked a bit though.
They were followed by Jack Harkness who greeted everyone, male and female, with a sloppy kiss and much sexual innuendo. "Hello. Captain Jack Harkness! How do you do?!" Martha slapped him. Mickey rolled his eyes. Donna scoffed. The Doctors and Tentoo each rubbed their temples with their hands. Jack always brought a headache. Amy was disgusted. Rory wanted to strangle him. Clara carefully sidestepped out of his way. River, however, seemed interested. "Well, hello Sweetie!" Now Rory really wanted to kill him!
Then came the arrival of Rose Tyler.
All three Doctors found themselves grinning like schoolboys when she appeared, and they widened even more when she looked at Nine and Ten and flashed them her trademark tongue in between the teeth grin. Those grins, however, were destroyed when she ran, not to the Doctors, but to her husband, Tentoo. "I was so worried about you sweetheart!" She exclaimed, jumping into his arms.
Nine turned to the others. "What. Did. You. Do?!" He exclaimed to the other two through gritted teeth.
Both Ten and Eleven looked away, running their hands frantically through their hair with matching guilty expressions on their faces. "Well... I... kind of..." Ten started.
"No. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear how I'm going to lose the love of my life to a meta crisis!" Nine angrily whispered to them as he stormed out.
Jack, Mickey, Martha, and Donna watched this exchange sympathetically. Things were suddenly very uncomfortable on the TARDIS, and though they knew why, they didn't know what to do about it.
