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The Four Doctors
Prologue
Time: Unknown
Location: Necros
The 10th Doctor scrambled around the center console in the Tardis. Rose watched as he quickly flipped a number of switches only stopping to hit the console hard with a hammer. Soon Rose could hear the familiar sound of the time ship's engines as the ship dematerialized.
"There we are, off to Vila 7. Beautiful waterfalls, all different colors." The Doctor explained.
"You promise when we get there we can have a break and relax?"
"Everyone wants a holiday. What can't take the stressful life of traveling with me?"
"I'm not saying that, it's just that the last place we went I did get my face sucked into a telly." Rose shot back at the Doctor.
"Right, it's unfortunate what television's become. You'll love the channels on Vila 7; they have over seven thousand of them, most of them are fitness channels mind you. Not to mention the spas, they're all about health there. You can get a massage by a six handed Vermidian, oh that was a good day." The Doctor drifted away in thought.
"Did you say massage? How long till we get there?"
"Oh any minute now." The Doctor said as the Tardis came to a stop.
He opened the doors and stepped out into the world that awaited them. Rose followed closing the doors behind her. A snow-covered world greeted them both.
"This isn't Vila 7, I could have sworn I had set the coordinates for Vila 7." The Doctor was confused.
"If this isn't Vila 7, then where are we?"
"I've been here before. This is Necros." The Doctor said taking of his jacket and putting it over Rose's shoulders.
"Necros? Well can we unwind here, it looks pretty peaceful?" Rose wondered
"It ought to be, it's a funeral planet. People come here to be put into suspended animation: Some dead, most are alive."
"Being frozen, neither dead or alive, I'd never want that. Why would people do that?" Rose said confounded.
"A number of reasons: Incurable diseases or just hope that someday they can revive the dead. But now the question to ask is did the Tardis bring us here by accident or was it deliberate." The Doctor tried to figure out.
"What's this place over here?" Rose said as she began walking away from the Tardis.
"That's the Garden of Fond Memories, it's where you go to pay your last respects for the dead." The Doctor then bent over in pain as Rose came to his aide.
"Doctor, are you ok?"
"There's something wrong, a change is in that air."
The Doctor walked onward while Rose was confused by what he meant.
"What do you mean?"
"I can feel it with every fiber of my being someone has changed history." The Doctor finally managed to explain.
They soon reached a crowd of people all dressed in blue. Surrounding a stone statue that displayed the face of a man. Rose couldn't place the face.
"Why are they all dressed in blue?" She asked looking over the crowd.
"It's a funeral, blue is the color of mourning here."
"It's a large crowd he must have been someone important." Rose said as they moved closer to hear who had died.
A man dressed from head to toe in blue was standing at a pedestal in front of his audience. He rustled around pieces of paper until finally he began to speak.
"We are gathered here today to commemorate the life of a man who has touched countless lives. His sense of justice was only outweighed by the good in his heart. Today we say goodbye to our friend, The Doctor." The Funeral Director said.
"The Doctor, what does he mean? He can't be talking about you." Rose said not realizing the Doctor had fallen over.
Helping him up she began to see that he did not look well at all. Beads of sweat were rolling down his face and she could feel his two hearts beating faster then normal.
"I don't know how but someone has killed one of my previous incarnations. We must get back to the Tardis, the Web of Time is in danger; we all are." The Doctor mumbled.
"I don't understand, if someone killed you then how are you here now?" Rose asked as she struggled to carry his weight back to the Tardis.
"Temporal protection from the Tardis, it won't last long, soon I'll fade from existence."
"That can't happen!!!"
"It will and then you'll be back home, having never met me." The Doctor said as they entered his time ship.
Rose sat him down in a chair, took out a cloth and began to wipe off his forehead. She then touched his cheek and looked into his eyes.
"There has to be something we can do?" Rose pleaded.
"There is. We can go to the only place in the universe where they can help me prolong my life. Capital Station." The Doctor said barely managing to input the coordinates. Soon the Tardis dematerialized and Rose was beginning to fear the same thing would happen to The Doctor.
Time: 2006
Location: Deep Space
The 8th Doctor was in the Library of the Tardis carefully going over the books on the shelves. He was looking for one in particular which he was having a trouble finding. As he continued his pursuit he began to hear his companion Charley yelling.
"Doctor!!! Doctor, where are you?" Charley's voice echoed through the corridors of the Tardis.
"Charley, I'm in the Library!" The Doctor yelled back not wanting to be distracted from his search.
"Well where is the Library? It's very easy to get lost in this place you know."
"Quite well where are you now? I'll direct you."
"I'm in what looks like a wine cellar. I really can't tell you how I got here."
"Ok then Charley, to get from the wine cellar to the Library its very simple. Take the stairs two floors down then take a right at the kitchen, then take another right when you reach the Eye of Harmony and please don't look through it this time. Next you'll want to take a left at the statue of Rassilon then take the stairs one floor up and enter through the door on you right. Then you should be at the Library." The Doctor easily said from memory.
About a half and hour passed before Charley joined the Doctor. She was dripping sweat and dragging her feet. She had a sour expression on her face.
"Simple, Doctor? That was not simple. This place is a labyrinth!!!"
"Indeed it is but you have to admit the acoustics are stunning!" The Doctor vibrantly explained.
Soon the Doctor forgot about Charley and began his search once again.
"Now it must be here somewhere?" The Doctor began talking to himself.
"Doctor? Doctor? What are you looking for?"
"A present for Grace, The First Edition of The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson signed it. I was sure it was here. I've looked over every shelf and can't seem to find it."
"I'm sure you just misplaced it Doctor, you'll probably find it before we reached San Francisco." Charley did not seem very concerned.
"I don't misplace things Charley, well not in this incarnation anyway. I don't believe it's in the Tardis at all."
"That's too bad Doctor I'm sure Grace would have loved it. What was she like?"
"Grace? She was a lovely woman, a doctor, and quite the kisser."
"Doctor!!!" Charley yelled.
"Honestly Charley jealousy doesn't suit you." The Doctor stated.
"Jealous, I'm not jealous!!! I'm simply saying that if I'm going to meet her I would like to know more about her. I would at least like to carry on a conversation with her."
"I'm sorry there's not much more to tell. We were saving the world at the time." The Doctor said as the Tardis began to shake violently.
"What's happening?" Charley yelled falling to the floor.
"We must get back to the control room." The Doctor yelled.
Charley got to her feet and starting running back the way she came. She felt someone grab her from behind. The Doctor pulled her away from what she thought was the only exit.
"I know another way. This door leads to where ever you want to go in the Tardis. I probably should have mentioned there is one in the wine cellar." The Doctor said as he guided his companion through the door and back into the control room.
The Doctor scanned the monitor trying to figure out what has happening. The Tardis console began sounding an alarm.
"Doctor!" Charley yelled in fear.
"There is a strong gravitational force pulling the Tardis inside…"
"Inside what?" Charley questioned.
"A black hole."