Doctor Who:
Time Traveller
The Missing Link Ark
Episode 1:
The Missing Link
The Doctor pulled down the lever and the TARDIS started. He sat down silently on the single chair inside the control room. A lot had happened in the past year. Rose had come back from the parallel universe, Martha calling him. Donna gone. He was beaten down by this. Once again he was alone.
He sighed. He stood up quickly and walked around the console in the control room.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! The alarm beeped loudly.
"Oh, what now?" He stood up quickly and whizzed the computer screen around to him. Then all was silence. "Oh, no," The Doctor says.
"What's happened?" The Doctor yelled and started pressing buttons and pulling levers all around the console. Then suddenly everything stopped. "Now what?"
Everything seemed to have stopped in time except for him. Then everything seemed to go backwards. The TARDIS started to fall apart "NO! NO!" The Doctor screamed in fear.
After that everything disappeared and the Doctor was falling. And as he fell, flashes from his life from present back, went across his view in darkness.
Donna…
Martha…
Rose…
Jack Harkness…
Jenny…
The other Doctors…
His wife and kids…
His grand daughter, Susan Foreman…
With each snippet buried memories of tragedies and war bubbled up inside him. Why is this happening? He cried out but no voice came. Each snippet made him weaker with sadness until after he had seen his whole life, he cried out loud-and collapse and continue to fall in the darkness.
The Doctor woke up for a start-in a hospital bed-London. He turned to his surroundings. The hospital was very busy. It was about five or six in the morning.
Through the hustle, a familiar face came along.
"Martha?" the Doctor said in surprise.
Martha checked her clipboard.."Yes, it's me , Mr.Smith. Dr.Jones .How are you feeling?"
"Aah, a bit groggy and my head's killing me but why am I on earth?" the Doctor asked.
"Probably because we're humans and we've not worked out how to live on other planets in the solar system", Martha answered cynically and started to write notes on her clipboard.
The Doctor was confused, "Wh-I know humans have not found a way to travel and live at other planets yet but they will. What I'm talking about is why am I here and where is my TARDIS?"
"What's a TARDIS?" Martha asked as she wrote notes on the clipboard.
"You know-you mean…you don't know what I'm talking about?" the Doctor asked her.
"No, I don't know what you're talking about" Martha said.
The Doctor paused for a moment then noticed the stethoscope hanging around Martha's neck.
"Here," the Doctor said and took the stethoscope from around her head, "listen."
He placed the stethoscope onto his left heart and told Martha to listen, "see?".
"Yes, Mr. Smith, it's your heart. What's your point?" Martha asked him.
The Doctor moved the stethoscope to his right and Martha listened silently. He looked hopefully at her but all she did was sigh, wrote a few notes on her clipboard and took the stethoscope off him. "I'm sorry Mr Smith, I don't see the point. There was nothing there."
As Martha left, the Doctor slumped on his hospital bed. I can't believe it. Was it all a dream?No! It can't be. And I'll prove it.
The Doctor was attacked by a sudden feeling of tiredness. With that he lay on his side, slid the blanket up over his shoulders and snuggled to sleep.
After sleeping for what seemed like hours, the Doctor finally woke up. There was a nurse there and when she saw him awake, "oh, he's finally awake!" and left.
The same nurse came back after with a few guests. The Doctor gasped. They were Rose and Jenny.
"Rose… Jenny?" The Doctor murmured.
Rose smiled and sobbed as she ran to the bed and hugged the Doctor. "I've missed you so much darling, the house was so dull without you." Then she kissed him.
The Doctor was surprised and pulled back.
"What's wrong?" Rose asked. The Doctor noticed the ring on her left hand and looked at his left hand and saw he had the matching ring on his left hand.
"What?" the Doctor said, looking at the ring.
"What's wrong with him Dr Jones? Doesn't he remember that he's married to me?" Rose asked Martha.
"It's only the concussion. It will go away, hopefully." Martha said.
As Rose moved away, Jenny came up and hugged the Doctor.
"He will have to stay in the hospital for a couple of days to do some tests but I'm sure that he will be alright." Martha said and smiled sweetly at Rose and Jenny.
"Thank you Dr Jones." Rose said and kissed the Doctor on the cheek, "see you soon."
Rose was crying, tears over-flowing with happiness when she saw the Doctor-John-coming out of the taxi in front of the house.
Rose and Jenny have been cleaning up the house. She remembers the small conversation that she had with Martha.
"Mrs. Smith," Martha started.
"Please, call me Rose," Rose interrupted.
"Right. When he comes back home, you might need to tell him his history and try to rebuild his memory. He might fight about it and ramble about time and space and…a TARDIS. Please take a note of it and if it gets too much, call me."
"Yes,-can I call you Martha?" Rose asked.
"Yes."
Rose opened the door as John reached it.
She hugged him and Jenny did the same. John felt awkward because the last thing that he knew before the hospital bed was being in the TARDIS traveling and feeling incredibly sad and tired.
They let him through, Jenny was getting a drink for all of them as Rose led him to the sitting room and set him down next to him. "Would you like to look at some photos?" Rose asked. John felt uncomfortable. The last thing he knew was that he was on the TARDIS and that he was feeling miserable until the TARDIS had a problem. Then he remembered that he was surrounded in darkness and that he felt like he was falling.
He has no idea what was happening. Or if this is the product of one of his enemies' schemes, he has no idea how to get out of it.