Chapter 9

Arcadia

I looked at Scarlet and she had a look in her eyes that said: No. I ignored it.

"Hello. That would be me." I said. "Who are you?"

"Hi Arcadia, I'm the Valeyard." She replied.

"Nice to meet you Valeyard." I said with a smile. "Now you kinda made a mistake just now."

"What do you mean?" Asked the Valeyard, cautiously.

"Vale, when you landed your Tardis, you kinda set off the alarms." I pointed out. The alarms were still going off.

"Oh." Said the Valeyard.

"Yeah, now we should hurry up and get out of hear before the Brotherhood of Steel captures us." Said Scarlet.

"We can't leave yet." I said. "We haven't found my Tardis yet."

"Halt!" Said a voice. We looked and saw a couple of guards. I pointed my Sonic at him and pushed the button. The fusion core was ejected out of the Power Armor.
"Hey!" Said guard #2, who fired at us. It didn't hit any of us, but it landed on the Valeyard's Tardis.

"Oh no." She said.

"What's wrong?" Asked Scarlet.

The Valeyard blushed. "I kinda turned on the Hostile Action Displacement System before arriving." Then suddenly her Tardis started taking off, it was making a deep wheezing noise.

"K9! Scan Valeyard's Tardis for it's signature so we can track it down later." I told my robot dog.

"Yes Mistress." He said. "Scanning." The dematerializing Tardis was almost completely gone when he said; "Scan complete."

"Good boy!" I told K9.

"Affirmative." said K9.

The 2 guards were stunned by what just happened. Taking advantage, Valeyard got out her own Sonic Screwdriver and pointed it at them and activated it. The weapons of both guards all sparked and broke, and the other guards fusion core was also ejected and then they're Power Armor suits also broke.

"Run!" Valeyard and I said at the same time.

We started running, we ran and ran.

"Arcadia! Take this!" Said the Valeyard.

She tossed me a Pip-boy. A pip-boy 4000 mk. 2 to be exact. It was smaller than the 3000 mk. 4. It was blue, had a VCR style holotape slot where you could slide the tap into it. It had two buttons next to it. One was labeled Eject and the other was labeled Lock/Unlock. It had a couple of interface knobs, and a light. It also had a small extension cord for plugin it into a computer or terminal. There was a power button as well. Finally, it had a couple of buttons labeled Communicator and another labeled Select. I put it on, and powered it on.

"Thank you." I said.

"No problem." She said. "Here's a few holotapes that'll come in handy. Put the blue one into you Tardis's console, let it calibrate, then put it in your pip-boy, it'll sinc your Pip-boy to your Tardis. The other ones have some useful info that you should upload it when you get a chance.
I put one of the holotapes in and it asked: Would you like to upload the information to the Pip-boy, Y or N? I selected Yes. It started uploading a bunch of info. It was info on Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Silence, Silurians, Weeping Angels, Jadoon, Autons, Vashta Nerada, and more.

"Wow." I said. "That's a lot of info." I noticed.

"I figured it'd help." the Valeyard said, smiling.

"Why does your Tardis look similar to the Doctor's on the outside?" Asked Scarlet.

"Well…that's a long story." Said the Valeyard, nervious. "I put that info on holotape #5, which has everything you need to know about me. I'm trusting you with that knowledge, despite that my instincts are telling me to run away from you."

"Say what?" I say, confused.

"Uh...just look at the holotape." Said the Valeyard, who was very nervous.

"Okay." I said. "Lets see who you are then. I inserted the holotape, and downloaded the info onto my pip-boy. I then saw everything about the Valeyard. "Okay...so you were originally a sort of temporal anomaly who sort of exists between the Doctor's 12th and final incarnations. You clashed with my dad a few times, before the Time Lords sent him to erase you from history using my dad's grave as punishment." I said. I was surprised by that. "That's just...cruel." I said, nervous. Then I frowned. "Okay. That's typical of him." I said, annoyed.

"What is?" Asked Scarlet.

"The Courier is involved." I grumbled. "In a way that makes me regret letting him keeping my dad's Tardis."

"How?" Asked Scarlet.

"The Courier went on Trenzalore, sacrificed 10 regenerations into the Paradox, then used the Moment to Time Lock the entire space battle above the planet." I explained. "Idiot. He didn't tell me anything about that. Now I've got to go looking for that at some point."

"The Moment?" Asked Scarlet.

"The Moment is the most powerful weapon ever created. It's so powerful, it developed a living interface, and developed a conscious." The Valeyard explained.

"Anyways," I said. "Then a few days ago the Paradox became active and ended up creating you. Your a completely new person now Valeyard. The original you no longer exists. Your more of an echo of him."

"Shadow of the Valeyard..." Scarlet said. "That's what she is?"

"In a sense, yes." I said. While he was a time anomaly, she's her own unique individual, her own person."

"I'm more than that..." The Valeyard mumbled.

"What do you mean?" Scarlet asked.

"Later," she replied. "Arcadia, can you please continue?"

"Sure." I said. "Anyways, you eventually ended up on in the Doctor's Tardis. You calmed her down and became part of the bond between the Courier and the Tardis. The Courier guided you to the Wardrobe and you got new clothing, you both went back to the control room, then when he mentioned the Time Lords, you had a panic attack the bond between the Tardis and the Courier snapped, and he fell into the Time Vortex. Eventually you found your way here." I looked at her. "The Courier...fell?

"Yes." The Valeyard said. "I'm sorry, it was an accident."

"It's okay." I said.

"How!?" Exclaimed Scarlet. "She killed him!"

"No she didn't." I said. "She panicked, and the bond caused the Tardis to react to her fear, which ended up causing him to fall into the Vortex."

"She still murdered him." Accused Scarlet.

"He could be alive" I said. "If he is, he'll eventually end up some random point in time and space."

"Seriously?" Asked Scarlet.

"Yep." I said with a smile.

"Anyways Valeyard, you said something earlier." Scarlet pointed out.

"I did." She confirmed. "I have his knowledge and memories."

"Who's?" I asked.

"The Doctor's." The Valeyard said. "I know everything he knew."

"Really?" Said Scarlet. "Prove it, what happened to him."

"Scarlet!" I complained.

"Shut up." Scarlet said. "How did the Doctor die."

"He died on Trenzalore." She replied.

"No he didn't." Said Scarlet. "He cheated death at the Battle of Trenzalore."

"Yeah, but he went back." The Valeyard said. "The Time Lords gave enough regeneration energy at the Battle of Trenzalore to rejuvenate his body back to it's youth. He could've regenerated, but he used it all to stop the Daleks."

"Valeyard?" I asked.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Why did my dad go back?" I asked. "Why did the Doctor return to Trenzalore?"

The Valeyard thought on it. Then with a sad look on her face, she looked at me. "I'm afraid that I can't tell you."

"What?" I growl, growing angry. "Why not?"

"I can't say." She said.

Why? Not? I say again.

"Arcadia, I can't…." She begins.

"WHY? NOT? I yell, on the verge of losing my temper.

"I can't tell you for very important reasons." The Valeyard explains. "Although there is a simple answer on why."

"How simple?" I demand.

"One word." I answer.

"Impossible." Said Scarlet.

"Its true." The Valeyard said.

"Than what is it?" Scarlet asks.

The Valeyard took a deep breath, than said one word:

"Spoilers."