"Really? Is it some terrible destructive power like the validium?" she asked.
"No Ace. Much worse then that. Listen...."
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rassilon stared intently at the loom before him. He knew that the product of this loom would be the greatest Time Lord that Gallifrey would ever know. Omega had left his sample before he made the fateful journey. Lost to the supernova. Rassilon sighed. The Keeper of the Loom stepped over to Rassilon.
"It is time, sir. If you'll just follow me, we can begin the procedure."
Rassilon nodded. He followed the Keeper into a small lab where they were working on a gene to prevent unauthorised use of a time machine. This too, he thought to himself, must be incorporated into the sequence. Rassilon stood still as the technician scanned his DNA patterns.
"When the time comes, load the prototype of that..." he said pointing to the prototype symbiotic nuclei experiment, "into the Loom as well." The technician nodded. Rassilon smiled.
"Have you also scanned the Other?" asked Rassilon. "He knows that he is the all important key to the plan."
"Yes, Lord Rassilon. He has been scanned. All is ready." the technician had completed the scan. Rassilon nodded and gave the order to begin the process.
He smiled as the gene strands wove themselves together into an intricate pattern of DNA.
"Yes...he will be the greatest of us all..."
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"So you see Ace. Somewhere out there exists a being comprised of the DNA sequences of the 3 greatest Time Lords in history. And now, they want to know what happened to him. Although I have a strong suspicion he knows what he is doing."
"And it's going to be some hideous menace to the universe, right? After all, that's all we come to see nowadays." Ace sighed.
"On the contrary Ace..He's the sum total of all that was the glory of the Time Lords. Our 3 greatest minds."
"But didn't you tell me that that Omega bloke tried to off you twice?"
"Yes, Ace. He did. But for very different reasons then revenge. He just wanted to live again. And I suppose, in a unique way..he does......."
The Doctor stared at the console for a few seconds as his words trailed off.
Ace looked at him and smiled. Though she could hear the pain in his voice, she knew that he knew exactly what he was doing.
The TARDIS spun on through the vortex, to some exciting new destination.
THE END