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In Destiny we write. (II)
Martha was sitting on her bed holding a wooden box. She couldn't sleep.
She was in a lot of pain lately. Her baby was restless and made her tired.
Her back hurt, her feet hurt, she could barely stand up.
She didn't go home anymore. One day she passed out and they got her a room there. In Atrusan.
To keep an eye on her and the baby.
She opened the small box. There were many things inside it. A cross her mother had given her, her spare key of TARDIS, photos taken way back, in 1969, and a letter.
His letter.
She would read it every night. It gave her strength and courage to go on. He hadn't abandoned her. He simply ran away, for the greater good. And she needed to fight for the same cause.
But it was not easy.
She read once more:
"Dear Martha,
I've been told I talk too much but right now words seem to escape me. I wish Shakespeare was here to write another beautiful sonnet for you.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Though art more lovely and more tempered …
But the words I wish to say do not deserve such beauty.
I run away once more and I hate me for that. But I did it for you, to keep you safe.
Things in Mercia were not as innocent as you thought.
Just as I suspected, Kuun was experimenting on you. He was making you a Time Lord. Well, with some of my, unwilled, help.
Oh, I just had to put my stupid hand in the Mont jar, didn't I?
I know it sounds crazy but it is the truth and there is more to that.
The reason the Mercians approached you was because they wanted your help.
They knew that if humans had their knowledge and their technology the first thing they would do was build an army.
Imagine such an army. Almost invincible.
That's what they wanted. A powerful army of Human Time Lords to rule the world. And then they would make you slaves. Time Lords doomed to live only one life while they will live for thousands of years.
Hard to believe it, hah? Here comes the best part.
There is a prophecy about all these. They didn't choose you randomly. They chose you because they thought you were perfect to be their first soldier. The one who would pass the knowledge down, the first of this new race and the one… who would bring me to Mercia.
The prophecy says I will lead this army to war.
It is a war the universe cannot bare. It is a change your body cannot bare.
It will kill you!
There was no alternative. I had to go and never return to Mercia. Destiny has its own wicked ways.
Don't say any of these to Unit. They will just start the war on their own.
I'm not telling you not to return to Mercia, but I'm not telling you to go either.
Kuun told me that he'll find a way to bring you back, no matter the cost. He is capable of everything, Martha!
I must disappear so they won't find me. Ever.
I hope you understand. I would do anything to keep you safe.
I love you,
The Doctor."
She put the letter back in the box and took a picture. They were so happy that day. Just the two of them.
She closed the box and hid it. She was really tired. She needed to sleep.
She put a weird device on her wrist and lied down. She didn't drink Mont any more.
She wore this device. Two soldiers were guarding her, outside her door and a security camera was watching her from the top of the room.
The TARDIS stopped trembling. They had arrived. Both the Doctor and Bush reached the door.
"No, matter what happens outside this door, I want you know it was an honour to meet you." Bush told the Doctor.
"I have that effect on people." The Doctor said and opened the door.
Pitch black. Silence. There was not a single Mercian.
"That was not what I had in mind." Bush said and got out. His blue skin glowed in the dark.
"We are in Gemmin, in Mercia's heart. A place suns cannot reach and Narayan are afraid to visit." The Doctor said joining him.
"Why?" Bush asked.
"Because these people are pure, and they can't affect them." He answered and walked away.
"Wait for me!" Bush said and followed him.
A few minutes later they saw a fire.
"Here we are." The Doctor said and approached them.
They weren't singing, nor dancing.
Men, women and children were sitting around the fire hearing to an old Man's stories. He wasn't Lord Zora.
The Doctor and Bush stood behind them, silently.
When the old man saw them, he stopped talking and stood up.
"Doctor." He said.
He had seen him before. He was sitting next to Zora at the fest.
"We were waiting for you." The old man added. "Mika, shall continue the story. Percy and Mantal, with me." He said and entered the hut behind him. The doctor and Bush followed him.
"Please take a seat." He said.
"No, thanks. What's going on? Where's Lord Zora?" the Doctor asked. Stupid question. He had already figured it out. Lord Zora was very old. He had died and this was the new Gemmin Lord.
"Unfortunately, Lord Zora left us before Omaha. I am Neutron, the new Lord of the tribe." He answered.
"Before Zora passed away he told us something extremely bad was about to happen and that you would come to save us." Neutron said.
The Doctor didn't react. He was thinking. He had come here to ask for help. He trusted Zora, but what about this guy?
"Do you know about the new prophecy in the Book of Destiny?" the Doctor asked the Tribe Lord.
"Yes, Lord Zora told me about it." he answered.
"What do you think about it?" the Doctor asked.
"Doctor, I am not Zora. I am much younger and I can't see the greater picture like he did. After all he was a Myst.
I saw Edans treating us like garbage, I saw my dear friend, a Humble, dying because the Atruses refused to treat him and I saw Mysts taking my baby sister from my mother's arms.
If they get as powerful as Zora told me, imagine what we will become.
Her Majesty, your friend, made us see what it was like to live like equals.
We decided that was how we wanted things to be from now on." Neutron said.
The Doctor looked at him.
He had seen many people talking like this. Rebels.
Ok, maybe he didn't care much about the universe, Martha's life and Earth.
Why should he? It was none of his concern. He cared about his tribe, and that was enough.
"Lord Neutron of the Gemmin Tribe, will you help me?" the Doctor asked him.
"I have already done it." he said and opened the back door.
There stood another Mercian. A female in a blue suit.
"Fatima?" the Doctor said surprised. He believed she was a part of this conspiracy.
"Oh, Doctor, you are alive! We've heard they killed you. Oh, but she never believed it." Fatima said.
"Me? Dead? That would take a whole army! How is she?" he asked her and Fatima start crying.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. All I wanted was to be an Atrusan. She was so kind with me and I … I betrayed her!" she said.
"Fatima, please calm down and tell me what is going on." The doctor said trying to calm her down.
"Let me." Bush said and touched her head. He looked her in the eyes and said.
"Fatima, there is nothing you should be sorry for. Now you will calm down and tell us what is happening."
The Mercian stopped crying and looked at him charmed.
"How did you do that? Will you tech me?" the doctor said.
"Maybe." Bush smiled.
"Ok, Fatima, tell me where is Martha?" the Time Lord asked her.
"In Atrusan. Last floor." She answered.
"Well, this is expected." He said.
"I didn't want this to happen. Oh, Doctor, I'm sorry." Fatima said.
"What do you mean?" the Doctor asked her.
"I … I …."
"What's going on, Fatima?" the Doctor yelled.
"When her Majesty returned she had a fight with Lord Kuun. Soldiers were guarding the house and I was told to make her take some pills. I knew they made her feel bad but he told me I would leave Atrusan!
She wears a device; it helps her bare the baby. I was in the team that made it. Oh, Doctor, she is in a lot of pain when she wears it.
And I heard…Oh, I heard…." Fatima couldn't continue.
"What?" the Doctor screamed.
"Calm down, Doctor." Neutron said and helped him sit down.
"It is said that once the baby is born Kuun will take it away, in the Myst Lake." The tribe Lord said.
"He will baptize it a Myst?" the Doctor said.
"As soon as this happens, there will be no turning back." Lord neutron added.
"What do you mean?" Bush asked.
"When someone is baptized in that lake, he connects to the spirits of this world. Half spirit, half man he can go in and out of the future, past, the end of the universe. All Mysts baptized in that lake are connected, if you fight one, you fight all of them. If you kill one, you kill all of them." The Doctor explained.
"That's not good." Bush said.
"No, it's not. As soon as Humans build them an Army, Martha will die and our son…
He will no longer be our son." The Doctor said.
Silence fall across the room.
"Ok, then, what are we waiting for? Let's go take them before it's too late." Bush said smiling.
"Fatima, how can we approach Martha's room?" Bush asked her.
Fatima looked at Bush and then the Doctor.
"It's almost impossible. Narayan sent Humbles to be trained as soldiers, now there are hundreds of them in Atrusan." She said.
"Ok, tell us exactly what's going on in that bloody hospital." The Doctor said finding his strength again.
The female Mercian took a deep breath.
There are ten soldiers guarding the teleportation chambers. If you pass them, there are five of them in each floor except from the last.
The last floor has no patients, she is alone. Two soldiers guard the stairs and two guard the elevator. You will find four of them outside her room.
The teleportation chamber in her house has been shielded.
There are security cameras in every floor and a DNA tracker connected to the Eye of Ca'an.
"Ok, this will be fun!" the Doctor said grinning. Fatima looked at him weird.
"Let's make a plan." he said.
Tamahna was treating a Janmin child on the first floor. She had had an accident while making a sculpture.
It was nice, treating children, she liked it.
Even though she was an Atrus, now, she loved being with her little patients, giving them their medicines and telling them stories.
She used to do that. Her Majesty, the Doctor.
Now she was a prisoner in the last floor, waiting for her child to be born.
She was in the team that treated her. It was nice they could talk once in a while.
She walked down the stairs to the ground floor. Soldiers! She hated them. There were never soldiers in Mercia.
She took a look around the room, searching for someone that needed her help most.
And then she saw him. That blue guy the Doctor was treating. She walked towards him but something else caught her attention.
There was a fight in the area of the teleportation chambers. She took a step or two and looked.
Dozens of Humbles were screaming trying to pass, while Gemmins were fighting with the soldiers.
Let us in! We will die! Give us some medicine! Leave Mercia! Stupid Soldiers!
They were screaming as more and more were getting out of the chambers.
"Step aside!" someone yelled and the crowed escaped the soldiers running in the ground floor screaming and breaking everything.
Chairs, tables, boards… anything they would find.
They were breaking the walls with their tools while fighting soldiers.
It was like watching a storm. Thunders and lightings everywhere.
"Oh, my god…" she said stepping back, protecting herself.
And then she saw a man in a blue suit and red trainers running away.
"It's him!" she yelled but someone close her mouth.
They lifted her up and took her inside a room. She would fight, kicking and biting but nothing would work.
"Don't scream. Whatever you do, don't scream. Scream and we are dead." The man told her as his partner was leaving her.
She recognized him. He was the Doctor's friend, the one they had treated almost a year ago, and the other one was the Melathron, Bush.
"What do you want? What is the meaning of this?" Tamahna asked.
"We don't have much time; Fatima said you would help us." The Doctor said.
"Fatima?" she asked.
"We need to take Martha out of here." He said.
Fatima looked at him not understanding.
"Her Majesty, the Doctor!" he yelled. He didn't have time for this.
"Will you help us?" Bush asked.
The Mercian nodded.
"Come with me." She said and walked down an empty corridor.
"This is the experimentation area, soldiers are not allowed here. We have less than five minutes. The eye of Ca'an will track you." She said getting inside a lab.
"There is a uniform there put it on." She told the Doctor.
"What about me?" Bush asked.
"I don't think you'll pass for an Atrus." She said mixing a few herbs in a bottle.
"It will be easy to reach the fourth floor like this but we have to be careful. One mistake and a thousand soldiers will flood the Atrusan." She said putting the bottle on fire.
"They keep a good eye on my girl." The Doctor said.
"Come, rub this around your face and hands." She said giving the mixture to the Doctor.
"How long until I'm back to normal?" he asked.
"An hour." She answered.
"What do you mean?" Bush asked.
"Well, this is a mixture of… oh, basically I will transform to a Mercian for an hour. I always wanted to see how I would look as an ape." He said and received a vicious look by Tamahna.
"Sorry." He said.
It didn't take long for the Doctor to become a furry Narayan. His face changed, he grew brown fur and his fingers became big.
"Bush, take my sonic screw driver from my pocket. It won't be easy to handle it this way." He said.
Atrus Tamahna, Atrus Sm'th and their, seriously ill, patient, reached the elevator for the fifth floor without getting caught.
The elevator door opened and two soldiers blocked the entrance.
"No one is to enter the floor." One of them said pointing a gun at them.
"We are t here to treat her Majesty." Tamahna said.
"No patient is allowed in the floor." The other one said.
"Oh, that's too bad!" Bush said jumping off the bed, kicking them.
"No, bush what are you doing? No, violence!" the Doctor screamed as four more soldiers were approaching, really angry.
"Right, I have your screw driver!" he said and ran to the soldiers putting them to sleep.
"That's not what I meant but…" the Doctor said and joined him.
Two remaining soldiers start firing and the alarm went off.
"Oh, no, now the whole army will gather here!" Tamahna said.
"Then we need to hurry." The Doctor said grinning.
"Hei! Bomb heads! " He screamed and they shot him. Not losing time he grabbed a disc and mirrored the lasers towards them.
"Come on!" he yelled to his partners and got into Martha's room.
"Tamahna! Bush! What is going on? I heard noise outside." Martha said.
"That was more than just noise." The Doctor said.
"Who are you?" Martha asked him.
"Martha, it's me the Doctor don't you recognize me?" he said approaching the bed.
She touched him, looking deep inside his eyes.
"You need to be more careful when you are regenerating." She said.
"Oh, no, it's not permanent, it will pass, come on we need to go." He said and helped her stand.
"No! She can't walk; do you want to kill her?" Tamahna screamed and stopped him.
She pushed a few buttons under the bed and it was set free.
"Ok, let's go now, because our friends are coming." Bush said opening the door.
"Tamahna, you take Martha and follow us." The Doctor said.
The Doctor was sitting on a chair, next to Martha's bed. She was really exhausted. She went through a lot for one day.
He looked down in his arms and smiled. A baby.
A tiny, innocent and beautiful baby, sleeping in his arms. A baby Time Lord, his son.
His skin was like milk with just a drop of chocolate, his hair brown, just like his, he had his mother's eyes.
The little one grabbed his finger and hold it tight.
How could this baby be destined to start a war? No way.
He was looking at him and everything they had gone through to get him, seemed like a bad dream.
Lasers everywhere, people screaming, explosions. They ran, Tamahna with Martha following them. Hundreds of soldiers arrived in the hospital. The Gemmins and the Humbles fought on their side.
They fought with their brothers and sisters. He would never forgive himself for that.
And then he changed back. He became a Time Lord again, looking like a swordsman every time he used his sonic screwdriver.
Bush was fighting like a lion.
Tamahna was protecting Martha and the Gemmins were distracting the soldiers.
And then it came. A scream.
"What happened?" he asked.
"Oh, no." Tamahna said.
"What's going on?" he asked again while messing with a few cables blowing up a few soldiers.
"The waters broke!" she said.
"Really?" the Doctor said grinning from ear to ear.
"Doctor, that's not the right time for you to be a happy father!" Bush yelled from across the room fighting a soldier.
"Right, hold on Martha!" he said and everything happened so fast.
He could barely see faces, he could barely hear voices. The whole world was the teleportation chamber.
Suddenly someone grabbed him. It was Neutron.
He took a look around. Atrusan had become a battlefield. Terror was drawn all around his face.
"Go Doctor, run! We will be alright." Lord Neutron said.
And he ran. He ran away, inside the forest, with a laboring Martha in his arms and hundreds of soldiers on his back.
Bush was keeping them away; the remaining Gemmins helped them reach the TARDIS.
And they left. Bush made it the last moment; Tamahna dragged him in.
And so their son was born. A blinding light came out of Martha while the baby was coming into this world. He had a burning light all over him. Normally it would take a week for him to become normal, but the light had disappeared within the hour.
He heard his hearts. Two hearts. A big one and a small one. He didn't have only one life, but he wouldn't live as much as a Time Lord was supposed to live, either.
"Part Time Lord, Part Human." He whispered.
He looked at Martha. She was sleeping with a smile on her face.
Two weeks later, when Martha recovered they returned to London.
The Universal Court of Justice had found out about what had happened in Mercia and the Narayans along with the Mysts were going under trial.
"We can't take the baby to the court." Martha said holding her son.
"I agree but where are we supposed to leave him? We must go to the trial, all of us!" the Doctor said.
"How about my mum?" Martha said.
The Doctor looked at her worried.
"Does your mum know we had a baby?" he asked her.
"No." Martha said.
"Does your mum know you had a baby?" he asked her.
"No." Martha said smiling picturing her mum's reaction.
"Then I believe it's too risky, for me." He said.
"Oh, come on, what can she possibly do to you?" Martha said.
The Doctor looked at her.
"Ok, I'll protect you." She said and they both laughed.
They stood outside Francine's door, together, with their son on Martha's arms.
"Are you ready?" Martha asked ready to ring the bell.
"Yes… no, wait." The Doctor said trying to straighten his hair.
"Stop trying, there is no use. Besides I like it that way." She said and ruffled his hair.
"Mum, stop worrying!" Tish yelled opening the door.
"Tish!" Both Martha and the Doctor said.
"Martha! Doctor! Baby!" Tish said shocked.
"Tish, is someone on the door?" Francine's voice was heard from the inside.
"Oh, I don't know what to say." The girl said stepping aside, giving her place to her mother.
"Martha!" Francine said smiling seeing her daughter's face as she was approaching the door.
Then, she froze. She stood there, perfectly steel, not making a move.
"Mum? Mum, are you ok?" Martha asked worried but the old woman did not reply.
"Let me." The Doctor said getting his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket.
He stepped in and pointed to Francine's face.
"Tell me you have nothing to do with this!" Martha's mother yelled slapping the Doctor really hard.
"Every time!" he said touching his face.
"Mum, what are you doing?" Martha yelled making the baby cry.
"ssss." She whispered to her baby.
The Doctor stood next to her and caressed the baby's head, calming him down.
"May we come in?" Martha asked.
The couple along with Francine and Tish sit in the living room.
"So, you have a child…" Francine said but the Doctor interrupted her.
"Fascinating, isn't it?" he said taking the baby in his arms.
"… With him." She finished making the Doctor's face fall.
"Mum!" Martha said.
"Why didn't you tell me anything?" she asked.
"Things were a little bit… complicated." Martha said looking the Doctor.
"What complicated means exactly?" Francine said looking at him severely.
"It would be better if you didn't know." Martha said.
"Better for whom?" she asked.
"For all of us." The Doctor said playing with his son.
"Come on, mum, you should be happy. Martha has a family." Tish said.
"With a man that might leave and never come back? Like he did before?" Francine said.
The Doctor gave the baby to Martha and kneeled before Francine.
"Mrs. Jones, I know you don't have a good opinion about me, even though after saving the world a couple of hundreds of times I thought this would have changed…"
"Doctor!" Martha said.
"Ok, I know you don't like me and that I've made some mistakes, but it just took me too long to understand it. Martha and this child are my life and if you don't believe it then slap me. Right here, on the face. Come on." He said.
Francine didn't move.
"Do you love her?" she asked him.
"The Doctor looked at Martha.
"With both my hearts." He said smiling.
"Hearts?" Tish said surprised.
"He got confused, come on Doctor, get up." Martha said.
"Do you want to hold him?" Martha said giving the baby to her mother.
As soon as Francine took hold of him, the small baby opened his eyes and smiled at her.
"Oh my god, he has your eyes." She told Martha.
"Beautiful, isn't he?" the Doctor said grinning goofily.
Martha looked at him. He was so excited.
"What's his name?" Tish asked.
"John." Martha said and the Doctor smiled.
"Well, he is going to choose his own name one day." He whispered in her ear.
"It suits him." Martha's mother said.
"Mum, we were wondering if you could keep him, for a while." Martha said.
"Excuse me?" she replied.
"We have to go somewhere, a trial, it's very important and we can't take him with us." The Doctor explained.
"A trial?" Francine asked.
"Classified." Martha said. It was the only word that would keep her mother away.
"When will you be back?" she asked them.
Martha looked at the Doctor.
"Midnight." He said.
Martha approached the baby and kissed him.
"Oh, I don't believe I'm leaving you. Mommy and daddy will be back before you know it." Martha gave Tish a bag.
"Everything you need is in here. He eats every three hours, two bottles of milk." She said.
"Two?" Tish said surprised.
"He gets very hungry." Martha said.
"If he starts crying sing a song, it calms him down." She added.
The Doctor approached and put his finger in John's hand.
"I'm still fascinated every time it happens!" he said grinning.
Mrs. Jones looked at him.
"Right, uhm, if his eyes turn gold, don't worry it's normal. If he starts to glow, don't be surprised to see another baby a few moments later." He said and joined Martha.
"What?" Francine said terrified.
"He can do that?" Martha asked him.
"Oh, yes, he's exploring the world." The Doctor said grinning goofily.
Martha looked at her mother. "Don't worry mum, everything will be alright." She said and they disappeared behind the door.
And so, the adventure ended and justice prevailed. The eyes of Mercia, Ca'an and Albatron were destroyed.
The Lords that participated were sentenced to life prison and considering most Mercians died at 2000 years old, it was a lot of time.
The power of prophecies was taken from the Mysts and the Tribes of the Dark came into the light.
Fatima and Tamahna became headmasters of Atrusan helping the planet in its new days.
There was only one thing left for Doctor and Martha to do.
To help Bush return home.
TARDIS materialized in a forest in Melathron.
"So, Bush, here we are, Melathron." The Doctor said.
"Thank you, for everything." He said approaching the door.
"No, thank you. If it wasn't for you and your story I wouldn't have this." The Doctor said hugging Martha.
"Story? What Story?" Martha asked.
"Oh, a beautiful story about a god and a mortal, which, to be honest I hadn't heard." The Doctor said.
"There is something you haven't heard". Martha said.
"Well," Bush said opening the door.
"Let's say I am ahead of my time." He said and stepped out.
The Doctor and Martha followed him.
A strong light appeared out of nowhere and a blue box materialized behind him.
"I should have known. You are not from this world." The Doctor said.
"When you said I was Bush, you were right, but you didn't say which one. I am Bush Melathron the 13th, and I am from the future." He said as the door of the blue police box behind him opened.
"Hardly, my friend. Now we are from a parallel world." A voice was heard and a young man, around 25 years old, appeared.
He was tall and thin with brown messy hair. He wore an old suit, of 1930's.
.
He approached them, locking his eyes on Martha.
The Doctor scanned him. It wasn't him; no it was not one of his regenerated selves.
This meant only one thing.
"Hello, I'm the Professor." He said shaking his hand.
"Unbelievable." The Doctor said grinning.
"Another Time Lord?" Martha wondered.
The young man took her hand.
"You are exactly as he had described you." He said.
Martha looked at him deep in the eyes.
"John?" she asked. "No one has called me this way for years." The young man replied.
It was their son.
"I never met, my mother. She died trying to get me back from the Mercians. I barely knew my father, when he finally rescued me." He said looking at the Doctor.
"We come from a destroyed world. The Mercians destroyed everything to build their empire. That's why the Professor sent me here. To change the future." Bush said.
"But you created a parallel universe." The Doctor said.
"I knew that, but at least I saved one world. I fought for Mercia for many years until you took me. I changed but no matter how hard I try I can't undo what I've done." The Professor said.
"You are one, magnificent creature. Child of true love you can do no harm. My John became a Professor to teach the world how to live in peace." Martha said and hugged him.
"Oh, mother." He said hugging her back.
"I'm sure you'll do a better job than us, kid." The Doctor said.
"You always say that. You used to tell me that I can be the professor but as long as I keep John inside me I will always be a better man." The young man said.
"Really? Wise words." The Doctor said.
"You became a little wise when you reached 1300." The Professor said making his parents laugh.
"May I hug you?" he asked and hugged them both.
"I love you." He said.
"We love you too." Martha and the Doctor said. "We are very proud of you." Martha said.
The young man opened the door of the TARDIS and waved one last time.
"So I suppose destiny doesn't get to choose you." The Doctor said.
"No, you choose your destiny." Martha said.
The Doctor nodded.
"How about some ice cream next to the Themes? John's first walk?" the Doctor asked Martha as they were getting in the TARDIS.
"I would loved to." She said kissing him softly on his lips.
The end.
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