A/n:This chapter is short but needs its space before everything else... now to answer the questions I've been asked in reviews: Time will tell, it always does inside a TARDIS... and that's all I can say without spoiling anything.

Chapter 3

TARDIS

Awaking to a steady humming noise she sat up slowly, gazing around at the massive room she was in, white walls with orange discs and a mushroom shaped console in the centre of the room.

She was alone in the room but the voice that had reached into her mind and had called to her spoke again saying: 'No young one, you aren't alone... I am with you.' The voice was soft and pleasant, cooing in her mind in an very motherly voice.

'But where are you?' Link asked looking around again for some sign of the person.

This seemed to amuse the voice and it replied: 'I am all around you, Link, you are inside me.'

'Who are you?' Link asked as she stood picking up the sword instinctively as she did.

'It's not so much a question of "Who" but of "What"... I am a Time-Space Capsule, the last of the original TARDISes...'

'What happened to the others?' Link asked as she walked slowly around the room taking in everything she could.

'Decommissioned.' The TARDIS replied bitterly. 'The Time Lord's destroyed all of my sisters as they sought to make a more dependant version of us... I fled before they managed to do the same to me, since then I have been drifting alone.'

'I'm so sorry.'

'But now I have you, Link!' The TARDIS replied enthusiastically.

'What do you want with me?' Link asked wondering what she could possibly offer such a creature as this TARDIS.

'Your company, let's travel together! To anywhere and everywhere in the multiverse!' The TARDIS said her voice full of energy and excitement.

Link remembered that she couldn't go back and there was no where else she could hide, and together they could run away, to the farthest corners of creation.

Link gave a nod and stepped up to the console. 'I don't know how to do anything.' She admitted. 'All I know is: how to run, how to hide, how to lie and how to fight.'

There was a moment of silence between them and then the TARDIS replied just as happily as before 'I'll teach you.'

A smile spread across Link's face, this was her adventure, this was in her blood, she wanted to explore, to learn and to save, time and space, the entire multiverse, it was all meant for her.

Link walked through the endless corridors considering what had happened to her earlier, the sword had opened up whole pieces of her being that she hadn't even known were there, one thing was clear though, she wasn't the same any more.

For starters her senses were heightened, they'd been improved on the Cheetah Planet but now she could hear, see, taste and even smell things she couldn't before.

Like as they were drifting through the space between universes Link was aware of the lack of time around them, she was aware of all the things in the air she was breathing, but she didn't have names for any of it.

'Not yet little one.' The TARDIS said patiently. 'But you will... next door on the left.'

Link opened the door and gazed in awe at the incredible library. 'Wow!'

'On the left side is the basic historical information of a number of species in the multiverse, incomplete though, I haven't really travelled to many universes just yet, on the right wall are all the sciences from those different universes, again not complete, and between them is engineering and cybernetics.

'And up there?' Link asked gazing at the second story of the library.

Fiction.

Link smiled and gazed around properly getting to know the room, it was oval in shape, with the walls covered in bookshelves, on the opposite side of the room from her was an elegant staircase that went up behind the bookshelves leading to the (most likely extensive) fiction section.

She smiled, and looked around at the rather comfy set up in the middle of the room, the chairs were elegantly spread out around the mat with a coffee table in the middle of them and each with footstools and their own personal lamp.

'Where did you get all this stuff?' She asked as she headed for the history section.

'I had it in my archives, I put it all together for you on your way here.'

'You can do that?' Link asked in surprise.

'Yes... wise move picking history first.'

'Well I figured I'd get to know the species before I got to know their technology.'

'A wise choice always... this'll be good for you. You were always meant to learn.'

Link frowned at the rather bitter memory of being forced into the military because school was too expensive, but she'd make up for it now.

Link wiped her eyes and yawned. History was complete, science was gone and she was now coming tackling engineering, she'd worked out cybernetics was a bit too ambitious to start on.

'You've been at this for ages, I think you should get some sleep.'

'No arguments here.' She agreed she shut the book and put it down on the footstool, she'd come back when she'd had some sleep. 'So which way to a bedroom?' She asked getting to a stand.