AN: 'Ello young chaps! Here's the chapter you've all been waiting for. Sorry for the delay in updating, I'll try to keep this short, so you all can get to the good stuff. Thanks to everyone who left a review, they mean a lot. Have a great day and make the most of life. You never know what you could be missing until you do something new.

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Chapter 10: Gallifrey Falls No More

[Barn]

MOMENT: You wanted a big red button.

(A red, gem-like button stands on a stalk above the Moment box.)

Jack let out a huff of laughter despite himself and he caught a glare from at least half a dozen people.

MOMENT: One big bang, no more Time Lords. No more Daleks. Are you sure?

WAR: I was sure when I came in here. There is no other way.

MOMENT: You've seen the men you will become.

WAR: Those men. Extraordinary.

MOMENT: They were you.

WAR: No. They are the Doctor.

MOMENT: You're the Doctor, too.

WAR: No. Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame, whatever the cost.

John shook his head, no longer thinking that towards the man, and knowing that it was done for the greater good.

(His hand hesitates over the button as he recalls the sound of children's laughter.)

MOMENT: You know the sound the TARDIS makes? That wheezing, groaning. That sound brings hope wherever it goes.

They all looked at each other, not knowing where The Moment was going with that.

WAR: Yes. Yes, I like to think it does.

MOMENT: To anyone who hears it, Doctor. Anyone, however lost.

(The sound of the time rotor is heard.)

MOMENT: Even you.

(Two TARDISes park themselves in the barn. Enter The Doctors and Clara.)

John beamed at his companions, as well as The Doctor's future ones. They all returned the gesture, knowing how important this was to him. To all of them.

CLARA: I told you. He hasn't done it yet.

WAR: Go away now, all of you. This is for me.

TEN: These events should be time-locked. We shouldn't even be here.

ELEVEN: So something let us through.

MOMENT: You clever boys.

WAR: Go back. Go back to your lives. Go and be The Doctor that I could never be. Make it worthwhile.

TEN: All those years, burying you in my memory.

ELEVEN: Pretending you didn't exist. Keeping you a secret, even from myself.

TEN: Pretending you weren't The Doctor, when you were the Doctor more than anybody else.

ELEVEN: You were The Doctor on the day it wasn't possible to get it right.

TEN: But this time-

ELEVEN: You don't have to do it alone.

(They put their hands on the button together.)

WAR: Thank you.

TEN: What we do today is not out of fear or hatred. It is done because there is no other way.

ELEVEN: And it is done in the name of the many live we are failing to save.

The mood has once again turned to one of melancholy, but also full of acceptance. The companions were frowning with tears in their eyes, hardly able to believe that their Doctor was about to commit genocide, no matter how much it needed to happen.

(He looks at Clara, who shakes her head.)

ELEVEN: What? What is it? What?

CLARA: Nothing.

ELEVEN: No, it's something. Tell me.

CLARA: You told me you wiped out your own people. I just. I never pictured you doing it, that's all.

MOMENT: Take a closer look.

(It suddenly goes dark.)

CLARA: What's happening?

WAR: Nothing. It's a projection.

MOMENT: It's a reality around you.

(They are seeing Gallifrey at war. Death and destruction is all around them.)

CLARA: These are the people you're going to burn?

TEN: There isn't anything we can do.

ELEVEN: He's right. There isn't another way. There never was. Either I destroy my own people or let the universe burn.

At this point, even Jack had tear tracks down his face, knowing he could never even fully comprehend how The Doctor could feel about doing the same horrific thing technically three times throughout his life.

CLARA: Look at you. The three of you. The warrior, the hero, and you.

ELEVEN: And what am I?

CLARA: Have you really forgotten?

ELEVEN: Yes. Maybe, yes.

CLARA: We've got enough warriors. Any old idiot can be a hero.

John let out a huff of air at that.

ELEVEN: Then what do I do?

CLARA: What you've always done. Be a doctor. You told me the name you chose was a promise. What was the promise?

(The fighting seems to have stopped on Gallifrey.)

TEN: Never cruel or cowardly.

WAR: Never give up, never give in.

(The images vanish. The Eleventh Doctor looks at the others with his nonexistent eyebrows raised.)

TEN: You're not actually suggesting that we change our own personal history?

ELEVEN: We change history all the time. I'm suggesting far worse.

WAR: What, exactly?

ELEVEN: Gentlemen, I have had four hundred years to think about this. I've changed my mind.

(He sonics the big red button back into the Moment box.)

By this point everyone in the small room is thoroughly perplexed. Jack even picked up the bowl on the table and began picking at the small exploded seeds.

WAR: There's still a billion billion Daleks up there, attacking.

ELEVEN: Yeah, there is. There is.

TEN: But there's something those billion billion Daleks don't know.

ELEVEN: Because if they did, they'd probably send for reinforcements.

CLARA: What? What don't they know?

ELEVEN: This time, there's three of us.

WAR: Oh! Oh, yes, that is good. That is brilliant!

Simultaneously, John and River exclaimed, "Oh! Brilliant!" No-one knew how to react to that so sat silently, at the edge of their seats, waiting for the plan to be explained. Rose smiled at her husband's uplifted mood.

TEN: Oh, oh, oh, I'm getting that too! That is brilliant!

ELEVEN: Ha, ha, ha! I've been thinking about it for centuries.

WAR: She didn't just show me any old future, she showed me exactly the future I needed to see.

MOMENT: Now you're getting it.

ELEVEN: Eh? Who did?

WAR: Oh, Bad Wolf girl, I could kiss you.

MOMENT: Yeah, that's going to happen.

TEN: Sorry, did you just say Bad Wolf?

Rose and John laughed at the younger Doctor's reaction to the unseen Moment, understanding why The War Doctor's remark would cause such an outburst.

CLARA: So what are we doing? What's the plan?

WAR: The Dalek fleets are surrounding Gallifrey, firing on it constantly.

TEN: The Sky Trench is holding, but what if the whole planet just disappeared?

CLARA: Tiny bit of an ask.

TEN: The Daleks would be firing on each other. They'd destroy themselves in their own crossfire.

WAR: Gallifrey would be gone, the Daleks would be destroyed, and it would look to the rest of the universe as if they'd annihilated each other.

CLARA: But where would Gallifrey be?

TEN: Frozen. Frozen in an instant of time, safe and hidden away.

ELEVEN: Exactly-

WAR: Like a painting.

The room echoed with cheers and whoops of joy at the prospect of saving the once-thought-to-be-lost planet.

[War room]

ANDROGAR: Another one.

GENERAL: Are you sure the message is from him?

ANDROGAR: Oh, yes.

GENERAL: Why would he do that?

(The message reads - Gallifrey Stands.)

GENERAL: What's the mad fool talking about now?

(Holo-monitors appear as The Doctors introduce themselves.)

ELEVEN [on monitor]: Hello, hello, Gallifrey High Command, this is The Doctor speaking.

TEN [on monitor]: Hello! Also The Doctor. Can you hear me?

WAR [on monitor]: Also The Doctor, standing ready.

GENERAL: Dear God, three of them. All my worst nightmares at once.

They all chortled at that remark, while River replied, "Tell me about it." Which only caused the room to double over in glee.

TEN [on monitor]: General, we have a plan.

[TARDIS]

ELEVEN: We should point at this moment, it is a fairly terrible plan-

[War room]

TEN [on monitor]: And almost certainly won't work.

ELEVEN [on monitor]: I was happy with fairly terrible.

TEN [on monitor]: Sorry, just thinking out loud.

[TARDIS]

DOCTOR: We're flying our three TARDISes into your lower atmosphere.

[TARDIS 10]

TEN: We're positioned at equidistant intervals around the globe. Equidistant. So grown up.

[TARDIS 8.5]

WAR: We're just about ready to do it.

GENERAL [OC]: Ready to do what?

[TARDIS]

ELEVEN: We're going to freeze Gallifrey.

[War room]

GENERAL: I'm sorry, what?

[TARDIS 10]

TEN: Using our TARDISes, we're going to freeze Gallifrey in a single moment in time.

[War room]

WAR [on monitor]: You know, like those stasis cubes? A single moment in time, held in a parallel pocket universe.

[TARDIS]

ELEVEN: Except we're going to do it to a whole planet.

[TARDIS 10]

TEN: And all the people on it.

John hugged Rose, a huge smile on his face, and she returned it in a double heartbeat.

[War room]

GENERAL: What? Even if that were possible

[TARDIS]

GENERAL [OC]: Which it isn't, why would you do such a thing?

ELEVEN: Because the alternative is burning.

[TARDIS 10]

TEN: And I've seen that.

[TARDIS]

ELEVEN: And I never want to see it again.

[War room]

GENERAL: We'd be lost in another universe, frozen in a single moment. We'd have nothing.

[TARDIS]

ELEVEN: You would have hope. And right now, that is exactly what you don't have.

[War room]

GENERAL: It's delusional. The calculations alone would take hundreds of years.

[TARDISes]

(Each TARDIS has a stasis cube on the console.)

ELEVEN: Oh, hundreds and hundreds.

TEN: But don't worry, I started a very long time ago.

John actually squealed with glee, gaining strange looks from his counterparts, who all gasped at what came up.

ONE: Calling the War Council of Gallifrey. This is the Doctor.

ELEVEN: You might say I've been doing this all my lives.

[War room]

TWO [on monitor]: Good luck.

THREE [on monitor]: Standing by.

FOUR [on monitor]: Ready.

EIGHT [on monitor]: Commencing calculations.

FIVE [on monitor]: Soon be there.

SEVEN [on monitor]: Across the boundaries that divide one universe from another.

SIX [on monitor]: Just got to lock on to his coordinates.

[TARDIS 9]

NINE: And for my next trick.

[War room]

GENERAL: I didn't know when I was well off. All twelve of them!

ANDROGAR :No, sir. All thirteen!

(A new pair of grey eyebrows is seen.)

"Is that all of you?" Amy asked John, recalling the holograms on the day he saved the planet in twenty minutes.

"Yes," John frowned at the screen however, "But the last one should have been impossible, 'cause I still counted as a regeneration, so that would make fourteen Doctors impossible. I wonder how I managed it..." They left it at that, if Jack was confused then they figured they shouldn't get into it. River gave him a knowing look though, which he dutifully ignored. He didn't want to know how she happened to know everything and decided to simply accept it.

ANDROGAR: Sir! The Daleks know that something is happening. They're increasing their fire power.

GENERAL: Do it, Doctor. Just do it.

[TARDISes]

GENERAL [OC]: Just do it.

DOCTOR: Okay. Gentlemen, we're ready. Geronimo!

DOCTOR 10: Allons-y!

WARRIOR: Oh, for God's sake. Gallifrey stands!

(TARDISes rush towards the planet and surround it, then whiteout!)