The seventh Doctor paused and thought to himself. He needed to get the TARDIS moving again and fast. In order to do that, he needed to find out what exactly had a hold on the TARDIS itself. He removed one of the panels from within the console room. "Just what was I thinking? " He said as he peered inside the various bouts of circuitry in the wall.
Qui-Zell stood by him " What do you mean Doctor?" She asked "Is there something you did wrong?"
"Huh? Oh no, I was wondering what I will be thinking when I change the interior of this TARDIS!! It's like the exterior of the Great Barrier Reef!" He said cursing the current interior.
"It look's like whatever is affecting the TARDIS is connected to the main power units. That's it!" He said as he led Qui-Zell out of the console room.
"I simply need to reboot the TARDIS!" He said as he made his way through the twisting interior of the TARDISs' hallways.
Qui-Zell tried to keep up as she clumped her way in her boots that were now three sizes too big.
"It's all a matter of getting to the Eye of Harmony!" He said as he opened the massive double doors that led to the room of the main power source of the TARDIS.
The Doctor entered the room just as the TARDIS was hit with another eddy. The Doctor rocked back as he changed form to his sixth incarnation. He found he had blond curly locks and he wore his outrageously colored overcoat with yellow pants with black pinstripes.
He looked at himself, which happened to be his favorite incarnation. "I knew there had to be at least one great spot in this day, don't you agree Qui-Zell?"
He looked back to see Qui-Zell now was at age 7.
"Oh no, you've gotten shorter!!" He said rather annoyed.
Qui-Zell looked at her small smooth hands. Hands she had not seen since they were used to first wield a lightsaber.
"Doctor!!" She gasped in a tiny voice. "This, this isn't very good at all!!" She said as she realized the Doctor had now grown over her. Or was it she simply shrunk in size? She could see she was now swimming in her clothes. As she tried to walk in the room of the Eye of Harmony she could feel her pants and boots slip completely off her. All she wore now was the loose fitting outer tunic that she clung to her small frame.
The Doctor, walked back to the small child.
"You're right! At this rate you won't be tall enough to help me open the eye of Harmony!" He said rather rudely.
"Doctor!!!" She squealed. "No!! What I mean is , we keep regressing, but I seem to be regressing back five years in age! At this rate, I might become a toddler, and then an infant, and then…" She gulped.
"Qui-Zell, Never mind that!" He said rather abruptly. "I am going to need you to help me opened the Eye of Harmony, so I can reboot the TARDIS's central drives, so I can free her from whatever is keeping her hold. I would expect you as a Jedi to understand that!!"
The Doctor suddenly realized that this persona might not have been the best choice to handle the current situation with Qui-Zell, for she began to do something that was very unexpected and unforeseen. Well, at least to him.
It began as a small tremble of her lower lip, then a sniffle, then another. She could feel her eyes moisten.
Even the Doctor could see what was happening.
"Oh no, don't…" He said but it was already too late.
Qui-Zell began to cry like any normal child would after they had been brow beaten by someone larger than them. She held a hand to one eye was she began to cry uncontrollably.
"Y-you're mean!!!' She wailed.
The Doctor gritted his teeth and tried to console her. "Ahh no! Please don't do this Quizy!
"You meanie!!" She yelled as she Force-Kicked his shins. The Doctor yelp in incredible pain as he collapsed to the floor.
"I wanna cookie!!" She sobbed
The Doctor drug himself to Qui-Zell utility belt and searched feverishly. He had little time to work now. He needed her as long as she was still somewhat useful to him.
"Qui-Zell! Look look!" The Doctor said as he held in front of her lightsaber. He turned it as the light from the blue blade reflected off of her face. She stopped cringed stared at the energy blade.
"You are a Jedi Knight Qui-Zell, You are above the simple behaviors of a child. I need you to help me now, do you understand?" The Doctor said as the pain began to subside in his shins.
Qui-Zell blinked as her conscious mind took back control of her actions.
"Doctor…" She said as she forced pulled the lightsaber to her tiny hands and switched it off. "Th-Thank you. I apologize for my actions. It's not the Jedi way, I don't know what came over me."
"Apparently a temper tantrum." The Doctor said as he raised himself up on the stone pillars surrounding the Eye of Harmony.
"Now what, Doctor?" Qui-Zell asked as she took in this massive room that had stone walkways in every direction and in the middle did a small square wall surround a massive oval with four poles to each side.
"This is the Eye of Harmony," The 6th Doctor began to explain. "Here is the main power source of the TARDIS. If we can access it, we could shut her down and then repower her. In doing so we just might break her free from whatever control they have over her."
He began searching for a couple of empty crates. " A few years back or in my case a few years that have yet to come, An enemy of mine will break into the TARDIS and attempt to open the Eye of Harmony to steal my lives. After that I fixed it so it would require two retinal scans to open the Eye.
"What if you have to open it and there is no one else to help you?" Qui-Zell asked as she followe dthe Doctor to one of the stone spires near the Eye.
"There is another way to open it by myself, but it's far too complicated and I simply do not have the time, Well only if I want to be changing Jedi diapers!"
"So provided we suceed, then what?" She asked as she stood on the short wall so she was at least chest level to the Doctor.
"The we run like hell!" He smirked
"Good let's get it open and fast, I may need to go potty soon!" She said.
The Doctor explained what Qui-Zell had to do. He had installed a safety mechanism so that it required two people to open the TARDIS's power source. He would be at one end to look into the beacon while Qui-Zell would be at the other end . Only when they both looked into the crystals atop the stone spires would they open the eye of harmony.
The Doctor set up Qui-Zell as best as he could on some random crates he found. He raced to the other spire and stared into the crystal eye.
"Now Qui-Zell! Hurry before the next temporal wave hits!!" He yelled. He could tell they had only seconds left.
Qui-Zell stood on her tippy toes. She was only centimeters away. She had to do something fast .
In a last effort she summoned the Force to lift her slightly in the air. Her eye connected with the crystal eye. The massive oval began to bellow and shake. It was starting to open.
The rining of the Cloister Bell could be heard through the halls of the TARDIS.
Then the next temporal wave hit throwing them to the ground.
The Doctor was tossed about and when he finally sat up he saw he was now in his 5th incarnation. He had a youthful with straight blond hair and he wore a beige crickets outfit, with red striping.
"Oh my..." He said as he got up and raced to where Qui-Zell was.
"Qui-Zell! Where are you!?" He cried out.
"Over here Doctor……" Said a tiny tiny voice.
The Doctor saw where Qui-Zell tumbled as she walked to him. The Doctor gaped as she saw his companion was now a 2 year old.
"Qui-Zell are you ok?"
"No." She said sadly. "I think I soiled myself!"
The Eye began to shake and open as the Doctor took Qui-Zell to safety
"Stay here precious," He assured. "I have a matter to attend to."
He took his sonic screwdriver and held onto the stone spire and pointed it downwards to the open eye. The empty cavern began to flash and glow green then it turned completely black.
Darkness filled the room as the Doctor could hear Qui-Zell begin to sob.
"Qui-Zell! Qui-Zell! Listen to my voice and look at the light of the screwdriver. I'm coming to get you!"
He said as he searched the darkness until he found her, standing by herself trembling and clutching her oversized tunic around her.
"Doctor? Did we do it?" She struggled to say. She had found shaping her tounge to forms the words was slightly more difficult now.
"Yes, Qui-Zell, we did it." The Doctor said scooping her up in his arms. "The TARDIS should take a few minutes to reboot."
Qui-Zell clutched the Doctor's lapel and rested her head against his shoulder. "I'm sweepy…"
The Doctor smiled a little as he held his tiny companion., he was reminded of his granddaughter Susan, when she was this small.
Suddenly a thought forced it's way into the Doctor's mind. When the Doctor was in his 5th incarnation, he had an odd habit for sensing when something was about to happen. More so than when he was in any of his other incarnations. This was evident when he realized the Time Masters were watching and they were not happy. They had decided to fire another temporal wave ahead of the twenty minutes. The Doctor knew if they got hit with this one Qui-Zell could very well disintegrate in his arms, and then not even he could bring her back.
The Doctor felt the wave come and quickly ran to the one place he knew Qui-Zell would be safe. He raced against the clock through the corridors of the TARDIS. He could feel the wave coming and coming fast.
He still had some ways to go and hoped against all hope he would make it in time for her sake.
The wave hit as he leaped and sailed into the Zero Room.
The wave finished its course through the TARDIS just as he slammed the doors. He looked down to see Qui-Zell was affected by the wave just a little.
Now she was a five-month-old baby. She slept peacefully in his arms.
Here he knew she would be safe. The Zero Room was made to keep out any and all residual energies of the Universe. It was literally sealed off from everything. He first brought Qui-Zell here when she was brought aboard the TARDIS, after Clone Troopers attacked her and the Jedi.
He made a place for her on the bed and laid her down. As long as she was in here, the wave would not affect her anymore. Now the Doctor was on his own.
"Come now, I can't just leave you here alone.." He said " Computer,begin hard light simulations 20 and 21!"
In front the Doctor two holograms simulations of humans appeared. One was a young girl about 16. She had curly born hair and an impish face. She wore a burgundy felt dress. The other was older and slightly taller with short cut brown hair and wore a purple flight attendants uniform.
They were old friends of the Doctor.
"Hello Nyssa, Tegan!" He said. "I have a favor to ask you."
"Yes, of course. Doctor! What is it?" Nyssa asked.
" I need you two to watch over Qui-Zell for a few minutes. She appears to be sleeping, but alert me if she wakes up."
"Crimminey Doctor! You want us to baby-sit!?" Tegan argued, in her obvious Australian accent.
"It's only for a few minuets" He pleaded with the hard light simulations.
Nyssa sat on the bed and stroked Qui-Zell's head softly. "My hard light refractors are working fine Doctor. If I need to I will be able to hold her."
The Doctor smiled. He had hard light simulators of all his companions to be used in case of severe emergencies. They had the ability to hold and touch things like any normal human could, only they had the memories and personalities of the Doctor's old companions in them.
" I have work to do." He said as he stepped out of the Zero room.
As soon as he closed the doors behind him, another wave hit. And he soon found himself in his 4th incarnation. Tall with a big grin and long brown curly locks. He wore a brown coat and long long multicolored scarf.
"Time to reboot the TARDIS before I am too old to help myself!" He said as he popped a jelly baby in his mouth.
He reached the console area as he kicked started the TARDIS. And like he predicted the center column began to turn and bounce. The TARDIS was now in flight.
The cloud reappeared over him
"Doctor!! Halt now or we will hunt you down!!" It roared
"Oh really now!!!" He mocked. "Can't imagine why!"
He piloted the TARDIS away from the vortex and he led the Time Masters on a massive chase.
"Try to catch me now!" He chortled
The Time Masters fired another temporal wave at the TARDIS. The console room rocked as The Doctor was regressed back to his 3rd regeneration. He was older with grey and white curley hair
"Great balls of fire!" He shouted with an air of debonair to his voice. "I say old chap could you do that just one more time?" He asked in a bold dare to the Time Masters.
"Doctor! We will destroy you!!" They threatened.
Another Temporal wave rocked the TARDIS as the 2nd incarnation of the Doctor was now at the helm of the TARDIS.
He looked at his reading and saw exactly what he wanted to see. " Oh my giddy ard!" He said, . This Doctor was older and had a mop of black hair He wore a black over coat with plaid pants. He looked like a cosmic hobo. "This place has been redecorated" He said commenting on the interior of the TARDIS "Hmm, don't; like it!!"
"You Time Masters think you're so clever now don't you!" the Doctor yelled as he punched in the coordinates he got from the reading from the last temporal wave.
" I outwitted my own people for several millenia!, You are just rank amateurs!" He said as he piloted the TARDIS toward its final destination. Another wave shook the TARDIS as the Doctor could see himself revert back to his first incarnation.
He looked at his thin bony hands and saw the reflection from the computer screen of an old aged man with white hair. He wore a black overcoat with plaid back and white pants, and a string bow tie.
"Goodness gracious, looks like I have gone and done it again!" The first Doctor said as he realized where the TARDIS was.
The Time Masters had caught up with the TARDIS.
At the very opening of a Black Hole.
Not just any Black Hole. It was the Black Hole the Time Masters used to power their science for time travel.
"Doctor, we don't know why you came here to the very core of our power. Yet it will yield fruitless results. What do you hope to accomplish? Surrender to us now…"
The Doctor began to chuckle,My dear Time Masters, You forget the technology you use for your grand time travels is stolen technology. It was technology first crafted by my people, the Time Lords!, And what came be made can also be unmade!!" He said as he piloted the TARDIS into the Black hole .
"Are you insane Doctor!? Do you wish to commit suicide!?" The Cloud roared.
The Doctor however, led the Time Masters into his trap.
The Doctor used the TARDIS and discharged the built up energies from the Eye of Harmony. The resulting effect formed a Time Eddy from within the Black Hole.
The Black Hole then began to regress and compress into itself.
"All this time you thought you were clever, bullying me with your powers! When all along you gave me what I needed to put a stop to your nonsense!" He said as he materialised the TARDIS from out of the collapsing black hole.
It began to constrict and shrink until it started to become a star again.
"Doctor!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"The Cloud of the Time Masters cried out, as their one power source was stripped of them. Now the Time Masters had no domain over anything anymore.
Least of all the TARDIS.
Their power snapped back like a rubber band.. The Cloud within the TARDIS was now gone, and the Doctor saw he was back in his tenth body again.
"Blimey that was inconvenient!" He said running his fingers through his hair. Then he remembered something ghastly important.
"Qui-Zell!" He called out as he raced to the Zero Room.
Throwing open the doors to the Zero Room, He saw the Hard light simulators had deactivated.
In the middle of the room on the side of the bed on the floor laid Qui-Zell, Naked and sleeping peacefully her thumb halfway into her mouth.
She was back in her regular body.The Doctor breathes a sigh of relif to see she would be ok.
He watched as her eyes began to flutter open,"Doctor!!" She shouted as she stood up.
The Doctor's eyes widen at the sight of her naked body. He put a hand over his eyes and turned his head slightly.
"Quizy!,don't you feel a slight draft?" He said staring at the Picasso painting at the far wall.
Qui-Zell looked down to see her nude form and quickly grabbed a sheet to wrap around her as she could feel warmth spread to her cheeks, She was clearly embarresed.
Moments later they were in the wardrobe room and Qui-Zell got dressed behind a Chinese blind.
"Just what did you do?" She asked in disbelief
The Doctor grinned as he gazed at himself in the mirror. "Ahh I just showed them who's who that's all!"
"And that was?" she asked pulling her green blouse over her chest. She observed the full form of her breasts and realised just how much she missed them untill she didn't have them any more.
"They kept hitting us with temporal waves, Problem with that is temporal waves leave energy signatures that led me to the source of their power. I just sent the TARDIS deep into it and fired my own temporal wave.
I took their black hole and regressed it back to a white dwarf star. Now the Time Masters have to wait for a their star to go supernova before they'll have any further chance of time traveling.
"And to think all this for over 40 Quaraine" She said as she fastened her skirt. "Doctor, just how much is 40 Quarine?"
"Ohh about maybe 2 of your Republic Daktari." He said.
Qui-Zell stepped from behind the divider, and looked at him. "You mean we went through all of this for the price of a simple Binka Sandwich!?"
The Doctor looked sheepishly."Well you see its the principle actually!"
Qui-Zell could feel a vein pop in her forehead and she sank to her knees and started another emergency meditation.
"Right well you want to be alone…" The Doctor meekly said as he exited the wardrobe room. He poked his head back through the door, "I guess I'll set coordinates back to the Eye of Orion?"
As miffed as Qui-Zell was, she opened one eye to see The Doctor, HER Doctor leave.
She had seen most of his other lives and she had to admit, this one was certainly her favorite.
"Time and tides wait for no man," She whispered as she continued her meditation.