New and Ancient Wars
Author:ladykempton
Disclaimer:I don't own Doctor Who or Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
Summary:Set after the Doctor Who Seventh Doctor book LOVING THE ALIEN and set between the episode's The Girl in the Fire and the Rise of the Cybermen of the new series featuring the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Mickey Smith, takes place after Dax and Work Wedding two different versions of the Doctor arrive on DS9.
Part one
Ace looked at her reflection she kept turning this way and that the Doctor just shook his head "You are back at your correct height" he said his voice full of amusement Ace turned and looked at him "Are you sure I'm sure I'm a few inches taller" she said once again twisting to try in vain to see if she was taller still the Doctor chuckled he walked over to his companion he looked at her reflection Ace looked at his reflection that stood next to hers she could clearly see that he was once again slightly taller then her, her head coming just above his shoulder "You see back to your correct hight" he said his blue grey eyes full of amusement Ace smiled at him "I wouldn't mind being a little taller just a couple of millimetres taller nothing big" she said as she rested her head comfortable on his shoulder.
The Doctor just grinned at her Ace could see the look in his seemingly ancient eyes it was a slightly haunted look something had happened something that had scared him Ace could also feel that it was to do with her but it was like a bad dream the memory was just out of her reach the Doctor told her it was better that she didn't clearly remember and for Ace she felt that it was best that she didn't remember.
Suddenly the two of them were shook out of the thoughts when a beeping noise filled the console room the Doctor walked over to the large console "Wants up Professor" asked Ace as she joined him the Doctor was looking at a small screen in front of him Ace looked at the rotating circles "Is that Gallifreyen" she asked the Doctor gave a nod Ace could see that he had a troubled look on his face "It seems some one has been doing some questionable Time experiments in the late Twenty-fourth Century" he said Ace blinked "Are we going there" the Doctor gave a nod "Wicked" she said grinning wildly she had only been in the future twice once when she was caught up in the Time Storm and once when she went to Terra Alpha with the Doctor.
Ace could see that the Doctor still had a troubled look on his face "Professor want is it" she asked the Doctor shook his head he gave a weak laugh he sighed deeply "It's just we are going to be very close to the front lines almost a little too close" he said as he began to twist and turn nob's the powerful engines came to life "Front lines" asked Ace the Doctor nodded he sighed "Yes the front lines of the Time War" he said softly.
Ace blinked she stepped closer "Time war who's fighting this war" she asked the Doctor took a deep breath he looked at Ace sadly "The Daleks and the Time Lords it's been raging on and off for Centuries the thing is Ace no one really sees the War it's in a way hidden from race's that do not have Time Travel but some times the war does become visible sadly that's the time when worlds are destroyed many of the third zone governments have stopped taking sides as sooner or late the opposite side attacks them for siding with their enemy" he said Ace put her hand on his shoulder she gave it a squeezed the Doctor smiled at her he took a deep breath "lets go then you can meet some Bajorans a high religious people they were occupied for over Seventy years by a race called Cardassian's they stripped mined the world and over a million people were killed it took Seventy five years for the Bajoran's to remove the Cardassian's but the occupation changed their world forever" said the Doctor as he walked around the console turning dials Ace smiled she looked forward to seeing the future.
Meanwhile in the Time Vortex another Blue Police Box flew flew the swirling Vortex.
The Doctor looked at the moveable screen he heard Rose and Mickey come into the console room "so where we going Doctor" asked Mickey the Doctor looked up from the screen "Twenty fourth Century some ones doing some dangerous time experiments" he said as he looked back the screen Mickey counted on his fingers "that's about three hundred years isn't it" he said the Doctor nodded and began to twist some nob's Rose stepped closer "so where about we going then Earth" she said the Doctor looked at her "nope we're going to the Bajoran system" he said as he walked around the console Rose followed "so want do Bajoran's look like" she asked the Doctor stood straight he rammed his hands in to the pockets of his blue suit trousers "they look human except for a few small ridges on the top of their noses the woman can be a little aggressive not violent but they are very determined once they put their minds to it" he said as he gave a dial a twist.
Suddenly the TARDIS gave a jerk which caused Mickey to fall over "Want was that" asked Rose the Doctor frowned "a bit of a bump ageist my own personal time line" said the Doctor more to himself rather then to Rose as he flipped a few switches.
Meanwhile in the other TARDIS.
"Professor want was that" asked Ace as she stood up from when she had fallen the Doctor who had not fallen over was flicking switches and turning nob's "A brush ageist my future Time line" said the Doctor Ace was about to ask how he knew that when the engines announced that they were arriving at their destination.
Deep Space Nine The Bajoran system.
The TARDIS slowly appeared in the cargo bay of DS9 the door of the TARDIS opened and the Doctor stepped out he placed his panama hat on his head and on his wrist swung his question mark umbrella followed shortly by Ace "I thought they would send some one I should have guessed they would have sent you" called an amused voice the Doctor turned around he saw a tall dark haired woman with spot running down the side of her face who he saw at once was a Trill the Doctor looked at the young woman who was wearing a black and grey star fleet uniform with a blue shirt underneath "Do I know you Lieutenant" asked the Doctor the young woman smiled she stepped forward still grinning "yes you helped me broke a peace deal with Santran over eighty years ago" she said the Doctor blinked then he realised who she was a smile spread across his face.
"Dax well this is a surprise I didn't know you were assigned to Deep Space Nine" he said as he stepped closer he held out his hand she excepted his hand and shook it "Professor" asked Ace the Doctor turned "Oh I'm sorry Ace, Ace may I introduce Lieutenant Dax, Dax this is my travailing companion and good friend Ace" he said still grinning Dax looked at the smaller woman she held out her hand Ace took it "Jadiza Dax" she said smiling at the young woman who returned her smile "Ace" she said "So you and the Professor meet before then" asked Ace Dax grinned "Yes we meet on Santra he helped me with the Santran's who are a race that speck with numbers and sums I had managed to insult their leader by doing a sum wrong he turned up and managed to explain that I was not a good mathematician he prevented a messy war" said Dax grinning Ace smiled "well you look good for some one who's almost a hundred years old" said Ace Dax laughed "Ace!" chided the Doctor "Dax is a Trill, Ace, she has a symbiont the symbiont is called Dax" he said.
Ace looked sheepishly "Sorry" she said Dax laughed "That's all right I take it as a compliment the symbiont is over two hundred years old" she said still smiling "Would you like to have a tour of the station or would like to see where the experiments" asked Dax the Doctor looked at Ace then at Dax he then pulled at his fob watch he looked at once he opened it "I think we have time for a quick tour" said the Doctor with that Ace the Doctor and Lieutenant Dax lift the cargo bay.
Another TARDIS appeared slowly in another cargo bay.
"Captain we're picking up more EM radiation" said Major Kira Nerys of the Bajoran militia "More where's is it coming from" asked Captain Benjamin Sisko as he stepped out of his office and walked down the stairs to stand next to Kira who was touching the console to show were the scanners were picking up the new radiation signature "Cargo bay four" she said Sisko looked at the reading "they look the same as the radiation spikes that Dax showed us a hour ago" said Sisko "According to these scans Captain it is the same" said Chief of Operations Miles O'Brien Sisko looked at him he then touched his comm badge "Sisko to Odo".
The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS followed by Rose and Mickey "Are we in some sort cargo hold" asked Mickey as he looked at the barrels "I guess we are" said the Doctor as he began walking towards the around door when suddenly the door opened as did a door on the far side of the cargo bay the Doctor, Rose and Mickey saw several people holding weapons at them "stay right where you are" said a deep voice all three saw a tall man with a strange face step forward the Doctor blinked "You're a Shape Shifter when did the Dominion became part of the Federation" asked the Doctor with his hands raised Rose and Mickey did the same "I think you 'll find I ask the questions you will come with us immediately" he said he stood to one side the Doctor gave a nod and walked past the Shape Shifter.
Rose stood in the cell she could clearly see the Doctor and Mickey she heard the door open she looked over and saw the Shape Shifter and a tall black man stepped in the the holding cell area she saw that the black man was wearing a black and grey uniform with a red shirt underneath following them in was a woman and a man the woman had short red hair the man had short dark brown hair Rose noticed that they both had ridges on the top's of their noses the woman was wearing a orangey red uniform the man was wearing a shirt and trousers before the black man could even open his mouth to talk the new man spoke up "they are obviously Cardassian spy's" he said the black man looked at the man then looked back at the Doctor "could you tell us who you are and how you got on to the station with out setting of any alarms" he asked calmly the Doctor put his hands in his pockets "We materialised from the Time Vortex" said the Doctor "you see they are spy's why else would they lie the Time Vortex"laughed the new man "Doctor Chanly if you will stop interrupting we can find out who they are" said the black man "now if you can tell us who you are" he asked "I'm the Doctor that's Rose Tyler over there and that's Mickey Smith next to me and you are" he asked he looked at the black man "I'm Captain Benjamin Sisko this security chief Odo and this is my first officer Major Kira Nerys this is Doctor Chanly Para" he said the Doctor gave a nod "Hello" he said.
Suddenly the door slid back open and Dax came walking in followed by a short man and a young woman "Benjamin it's all right he here because of the experiments the same as him" she said indicating to the the short man who now raised his hat "Captain" he said with a Scottish accent he then walked over to the Doctor and the pair of them looked at each other Dax smiled and just stood there watching the pair of them "Who are they" asked Sisko Dax still smiled as the Doctor and the smaller man still looked at each other "Remember when I mentioned that the Time Lords would not like the experiments" said Dax, Sisko nodded Dax raised an eyebrow and looked at the two men who still had not said a word to each other they just stood there examining each other Sisko then looked at the two men "Time Lords" he whispered Dax gave a nod Sisko was a little surprised when the smaller man reached over and touched the door lock the force field turned off the taller man stepped out "Why are you here" they both said at the same time Sisko raised an eyebrow as the two men just stared at each other Dax giggled "Come guy's don't start to argue you're bending the laws of Time as it is" laughed Dax both men turned and looked at the Trill.
"Oi want about us" yelled Rose the Doctor walked over to the holding cells and released the force fields that were up on Rose and Mickeys cell's the Doctor then turned and looked at the smaller man who was still standing by the cell that the Doctor had formally inhabited "Professor who is this bloke" asked the young woman the Doctor turned around a sad smile spread over his face "Ace you look great" he said the young woman now revealed to be called Ace looked at him with an unsure look on her young face "It's been a few centuries" he said Ace looked at the man she called Professor then back at the Doctor "Sorry mate I've never seen you before"she said taking a unconscious step closer to the shorter man the Doctor's sad smile slowly fell off his face "Yes you have Ace" said the Scottish man with a small smile on his face Ace looked at the man she called Professor "I'm sure I'd remember a good looking bloke like that Professor" she said the Scottish man grinned even more "Why thank you Ace I can't remember ever being called a good looking bloke before something for me to look forward to" he said his eyes laughing Ace blinked then looked at the Doctor then at the smaller man then back at the Doctor "Gordon Bennet" she whispered.
Ace stared at the Doctor trying to see a bit of her "Professor" the Doctor stepped closer "It's me Ace the one who took you off Ice world, built you a new tape deck after the Dalek's blew up the one you had the one who always said we were going to seat down and have a nice long talk about expectable safety standards" he said softly Ace swallowed "Professor" she whispered a huge grin spread over his face "Hello" he said softly Ace blinked she then looked back at the other Doctor tears filling her eyes the shorter Doctor walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder she then looked at the taller Doctor "Do I see you Regenerate" she asked softly her voice breaking the taller Doctor smiled at her "No you stay with me a very long time in fact you stay the longest then any other companion I've ever had before or since" he said softly "Good" she said as she roughly rubbed her eyes the smaller Doctor gave her shoulder a soft squeeze she stepped away from the taller Doctor and buried her face in to the shoulder of her Professor who wrapped his arms around and rubbed her back softly the taller Doctor stepped away to give his former self and his companion a little privacy he knew Ace never liked to show any kind of weakness it had taken her years to allow him to see it.
Sisko listened to Dax as she explained about the ancient race of people who were called Gallifreyan's who's higher echelons of power were called Time Lords and they were called that rightly so because they were the Lords of Time or as some race called them the Masters of Time this race have the knowledge and power of Time Travel and used their vast powers to observe the younger races but they never interfered unless some one mess's with the Time line that was already established and fixed they had laws and rules that they reinforce to the letter if any one miss uses their Time travel facilitates then the Time Lords would punish them severely by removing their ability to travel threw the corridors of Time safely.
Doctor Chanly Para blinked as he heard want Lieutenant Dax said he had heard about Time Lords from some of the race's who had shared their theory's with him he had just thought this was just a myth but now he grew a little worried as Dax explained that the Time Lords did not approve of people interfering with established events but he swallowed his fear as far as he was concerned Bajor should never been invaded it was mistake a mistake he fully intended to rectify want ever the cost.
Rose looked at the young woman who was now being hugged by a short Scott's man "So who are they" asked Rose the Doctor looked at her and Mickey "Me a few hundred years ago" he said "Sixth Regeneration Seventh persona I'm about 954 and the young woman with me is Ace" he said his eyes drifted over to to Ace and his younger self who was now looking at her she gave a little laugh at want he said he gave her nose a tweak the Doctor gave a sad smile he'd missed Ace his Seventh persona had never really recovered from Ace's death.
Some people said that a Time Lord only loved once in a life time and this was true his first two lives had not found their true loves but his Third life had found Jo Grant his Fourth had found Sara Jane his Fifth and Sixth had found Peri it was rare when two persona's fell in love with the same person his Seventh had found Ace who had remained with him for well over seventy years before peacefully passing on in her sleep his seventh persona holding her shrivelled old, liver spotted hand in his cooler hand he had watched her slowly grow old it seemed to go by too fast when she died he gave her a Gallifreyen funeral he had then taken her ashes and put them in the TARDIS he had lived for a another three hundred years alone he had taken a few companions but they didn't stay too long in the end he was just tired when he had died he had been glad as the darkness had come over him he could have sworn he had heard "Professor" before he regenerated the Tenth Doctor like to imagine that his Seventh persona and Ace were some were in the beyond having grand adventures.
Rose looked at the taller Doctor he was looking at his shorter self and the young woman who was with him Rose felt a surge of jealousy that there was yet another companion who knew her Doctor her eye's went over the shorter woman "Her cloths are a bit Eighty's" she sniffed the Doctor looked at Rose "Well she is from the Eighty's1987 to be exact" he said Mickey looked from the taller Doctor then back to the smaller one "So he's you then when you sounded like you were from the North" he said the Doctor nodded "Yeah" Mickey frowned "But why is he I mean you why do you sound Scottish then" asked Mickey the Doctor gave a shrug "I don't know I have no control on want I sound or look like I woke up sounding Scottish" said the Doctor he then looked at Dax he walked over to her he grinned "Hello" he said Dax smiled back "Doctor it's good to see you again" he frowned Dax smiled "Santran" she said the Doctor blinked then his face split in to a huge grin "Blimey to think when I first meet you you were a man" he said Dax grinned at him "Captain may I introduce a future incarnation of the Doctor,Doctor may I introduce Captain Benjamin Sisko" she said the Doctor shot his hand out which Sisko shook Sisko noted that the man's hand was cooler a little cooler then a Trills hand.
"We've been introduced" he said Dax raised an eyebrow the Doctors eyes travailed over to Doctor Chanly the man shifted from one foot to another the Doctor instantly knew as he was sure his younger self knew why the Bajoran Doctor was doing Time experiments he knew that they had to prevent the Bajorans from achieving Time Travel.
"So where are the Time experiments being done then" asked Seven, Ten took a sip from his tea in "one of the main labs" Ten answered Seven gave a slight nod as he sipped his own tea his grey eyes travailed over to Ace who was playing Dabo Ten followed his gaze "she never remembers being shot and dieing" he said softly Seven sighs softly "Good" he said Seven raised his eyes up to look at the upper floor where the holo suite's were "where's she from" asked Seven as he sipped his tea "London Earth early Twenty first Century the Powl estate same as Mickey" said Ten his dark eyes went over the vast amount of aliens that were in the bar he grinned "It's brilliant how far humans have come in a few thousand years isn't it they've come close to wiping them them selves more then once but they pulled threw" he said grinning Seven nodded "Yes but it is terrible that it cost them so many lives to get where they are though" said Seven Ten gave a nod he looked back at Ace "I thought the table was rigged " he whispered Seven gave him a smirk "Well it was" he said as he showed Ten his Sonic screw driver Ten laughed.
Ace walked back over to the Doctor and his regeneration she flopped down next to her Doctor she put her vast winnings on the table Seven grinned as he saw the strips of gold pressed Latinum "Finished already" he said Ace grinned "yeah I think big ears over there was going to have stroke each time I won" said Ace Seven shook his head "Ace he's not called big ears he's a Ferengi" he said trying to be serious but his lips twitched Ace just grinned at him a waitress walked over "coffee please" she said as she handed the waitress ten strips of Latinum the waitress's eyes went wide and hurried off to get the coffee "Want up with her" asked Ace in confusion Seven and Ten chuckled "You just gave her a months wage in payment of the coffee and a tip" said Seven Ace's eyes brow shot up Ten laughed as the waitress returned with the coffee Ace grinned at the waitress who smiled back she then went off to serve another table.
Rose lift the holo suite it was strange seeing some of the alien worlds that humans had visited "maybe we can get the Doctor to install one" said Mickey with a grin Rose smiled she walked over to the balcony she peered over the edge she frowned as she saw Ace seating near her Doctor she quickly went down the winding stairs and came to their table "Rose did you enjoy the holo suite then" asked Ten as he sipped his tea she gave a nodded and sat next to him "yeah it was weird but great" she said Mickey found them and pulled a chair up "you should really put one of those on the TARDIS" he said Seven looked at him as did Ten "I do have one" the two Time Lords said at the same time "The old girl likes to hide it she doesn't see the reason for one if she can take you to the real thing why bother with a trick of the light" said Seven Ace's eyes went wide "we have a holo deck" she said Seven nodded "Wicked I'll have to go looking for it when all this is over" she said grinning Seven just shook his head "Make sure you pack plenty of food you'll be looking for days if the old girl is in a playful mood" said Seven Ten chuckled "yeah she still has her playful moods even nowadays" grinned Ten.
Dax worked along side the two Time Lords it seemed strange to her that she was dealing with the same person but who had very different personalties the younger looking one was very hyper always seemed to be moving while the older one seemed a little more reserved yet he too seemed to be constantly moving Dax kept looking at the two men's companions Mickey and Rose were roughly the same age and Dax could tell that Rose was in love with the taller Time Lord and the young woman didn't seem to like the idea that before her the Time Lord had been close to another woman Dax could also see something was developing between Ace and the shorter Time Lord a deep and lasting, a once in a life time love Dax though it must have really hurt the shorter Time lord when his Human love succumbed to extreme old age while he had not aged at all, the curse of the Time Lords as it was called.
Time Lords had very long life spans even longer then symbiont's Dax figured the taller Time lord must be well in to his first Millennium or at least early in to.
Ace looked a the machine "So this is a Time Machine looks a bit naff if you ask me" she said as she helped Seven strip the wires of the machine "well it is primitive technology Ace you can't expect high technology in the late twenty fourth century" said Seven rolling his R's with his Scottish bur Ace just grinned she superposed want she would call high technology a Time Lord would call primitive "This is state of the art" blustered Doctor Chanly from off to one side Seven who was half buried in the bowls of the time machine just peered over his shoulder before he continued striping wires.
Ten who on the other side of the room was also surrounded by want any one could call chaos wires and panels were every were Mickey was helping out as was Rose but she had never been really technically minded she lift all the technical stuff to Mickey so here she was just standing there holding two bits of wire while the Doctor moved back in to the guts of the computer which he was now bent over he was balanced on the tips of his toes where was buzzing coming from with in it's deeps.
Seven finale stood and brushed his hands together Ace smiled at him as she saw that he had grease on his face from were he had been buried in the guts of the machine that had never been cleaned out since it was first put together over twenty years ago Ace reached over and wiped the grease off his check softly Seven smiled at her and wiped off some grease that had gotten on to her face as well Ace blushed softly at his soft touch.
Chanly walked over and blinked the inside of his Time Machine was completely rewired it had taken him and his team a whole day to wire it up in the first place but this little man and the girl with him had done it in three hours only taken a break once for tea he then walked over to the taller man who had also finished and again Chanly was surprised that that too had been rewired in the same amount of time he was speechless.
Ten looked at Chanly as he gaped at want he and Seven had done his machine it would work once and only once but it would not go very far in to the past in fact it would only go in to the Time Vortex then return then it would become nothing more the a pile of melted metal history could not be changed Bajor was invaded it was a fixed point it had made the Bajorans stronger but want Chanly wanted to do would do irreparable damage and the Time Lords could not allow that suddenly the klaxon sounded.
Sisko glared up in the face of Legate Damar who looked like he just wanted to rip Weyoun's head clear off his shoulders "Captain Sisko we have heard disturbing news that some one on your station is performing Time experiments that could interfere with Cardassia and Dominion interests in the Alpha quadrant" said Weyoun his voice oily as every Sisko just looked at the Vorta before he spoke "As far as I can recall the Dominion as well as Cardassia have no say on want sort of experiments can take place with in Bajoran territory so I can not see why any one should inform you of any kind of experiments that take place here" said Sisko before Vorta could respond Damar spoke "Captain you will stop these experiments or we will I will not have Cardassia threaten by some one experimenting with time" he said before he cut the link to the station Sisko looked at the now black screen despite ever thing Damar was loyal to Cardassia first and fore most Sisko took a deep breath it was going to be along day "Captain the Cardassian's are calling for enforcements looks like they are not going to give us a chance to stop the experiments" called Kira from her console her face was full of contempt for her former oppressors "Raise shield's" ordered Sisko.
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